Motorola DROID FAQ & Tips-and-Tricks. Post your questions and tip here.

**white_2kgt** · 11-06-2009, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by mattg

go into settings, applications, development, and check stay awake

Thank you!

As a side note, I got PDANet working on XP32 bit. You need to download the drivers from motorola, http://www.motorola.com/consumers/v/...008806b00aRCRD I got the mobile phone USB Drivers. Install that first then install PDANet. I found my phone and I was able to connect after launching PDANet on the phone.

-chad

**stnkyminky** · 11-06-2009, 02:09 PM

how do I play movie files on the droid and can they be played from the SD card?

**jjd** · 11-06-2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Smuuth

You cannot use WiFi by itself.

No, you can disable the cellular radio and continue to use wifi and bluetooth, if that's what you want. It's just not obvious.

Download an application called AnyCut. It allows you to make shortcuts. Click on "New Shortcut", select "Activity", and then select "Phone Info".

A new shortcut on your desktop will appear to the Phone Info application. Phone Info is a built-in application, but it doesn't show up in the app list.

Then, when you click on the "Phone Info" shortcut, scroll down to the bottom and there is a "Turn off radio" button. That will turn off the cellular radio and allow you to continue using wifi and bluetooth. I found this useful on an airplane that had Wifi.

I should note that I've done this in Android 1.6 on an Google ADP1 phone, but I haven't done it on a Droid yet. I suspect that it should work fine.

--Jim--

**$ahil** · 11-06-2009, 02:40 PM

If you use the lock pattern, you can't access the Slide to Silence or slide to Loud feature?

EDIT:

Also how do you make it so when you tap E-Mail it refreshes all the e-mail instead of going to each mailbox and manually refreshing it? I click refresh now and it says long tap to refresh a mailbox. Is there anyway to make it so like the iPhone when you press E-Mail it refreshes all your mailboxes. And I don't want to set it to auto-check it since that will drain battery life.

Thanks

**jseah** · 11-06-2009, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by v!nce

So I'm not able to sync my the phone with my yahoo mail account. I'm able to sync it with my hotmail and school email addresses, but not my yahoo. It says I have either an incorrect email name or password. I know i am putting it in correctly. Any reason why yahoo won't work?

This is the settings I used to connect to yahoo:

INCOMING
Imap server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
port - 143
security type - none

OUTGOING
SMTP Server- smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com
port - 25
security type - none

* check Require sign-in

NOTE: If your email is xxx@yahoo.com, simply entering the xxx in the username is sufficient. If your email is xxx@ymail.com, then you need to enter your entire email address.

What settings are you using to set up your hotmail account? I am going to need this info to set up my g/f's phone when I get her the Droid to replace her Blackberry.

**jiholl** · 11-06-2009, 02:48 PM

Anyone know if this works or how to do...a pause would seem to not be possible as what key do you then hit (typically you hit "send" again) and the phone does not have that key when in call mode??????

**cheesehead007** · 11-06-2009, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by jiholl

Anyone know if this works or how to do...a pause would seem to not be possible as what key do you then hit (typically you hit "send" again) and the phone does not have that key when in call mode??????

Tap the "menu" key while in the dialpad, you can add a 2-sec pause or a wait.

**SlowMotionKarma** · 11-06-2009, 02:59 PM

Regarding media files:
-To play audio open up your application panel and go to "Music". To play video OR view pictures, open up app panel and go to "Gallery".
-Media formats supported: AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA, eAAC+, OGG, AMR WB, AMR NB, AAC+, MIDI.
-Yes you can play video from the SD card. In fact, it would be pretty hard to play from the phone memory because it only has 512MB. Just stick 'em in a folder and they'll be automagically found.

Something I'm trying to figure out is how to view my media in a folder-tree view. Right now all my pictures are being jumbled together (I want to separate my wallpaper images from my personal images and then organize the personal images, etc.). I get a long list of bottom level folders, so I end up with a wallpaper folder named (friend's name) and a picture folder named (friend's name) so it gets confusing...

Also, I can't figure out how to add/select personal notification tones. Ringtones are easy, just go to the media player and it has an option to select as ringtone, but I can't seem to figure out how/if you do that for e-mail/SMS/MMS notifications. I REALLY hope there's a way.

**jiholl** · 11-06-2009, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by cheesehead007

Tap the "menu" key while in the dialpad, you can add a 2-sec pause or a wait.

Ok...so I figured out how to do it in the edit contacts screen...BUT..when I make the call how do I "activate" the sequence after the wait...I guess a pause is automatic, but the "wait" typically requires you push a button????? Thanks

**davemanster** · 11-06-2009, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by davemanster

Thank you for answering the youtube quality question.

Next thing is the location based search just died on me. I double checked my settings, GPS is turned on, and I have the option checked to allow location based services. if I open up the maps application it nails my location perfectly. If I do a google search it says y location is unavailable. I click retry or refresh or whatever the link is for that and it waits like half a second and still says location unavailable.

Any ideas?

Did anyone figure this out by any chance?

**cheesehead007** · 11-06-2009, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by jiholl

Ok...so I figured out how to do it in the edit contacts screen...BUT..when I make the call how do I "activate" the sequence after the wait...I guess a pause is automatic, but the "wait" typically requires you push a button????? Thanks

EDIT - whoops, read that wrong..

Yes, you have to press an on-screen button if using a "wait" as opposed to a "pause."

**ginigma** · 11-06-2009, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by SlowMotionKarma

Also, I can't figure out how to add/select personal notification tones. Ringtones are easy, just go to the media player and it has an option to select as ringtone, but I can't seem to figure out how/if you do that for e-mail/SMS/MMS notifications. I REALLY hope there's a way.

Do you mean setting ringtones for specific contacts? That can be done from clicking the Menu key when the contact is open, then selecting Options. You can set a ringtone there.

**v!nce** · 11-06-2009, 03:22 PM

Is it possible to email a ringtone to the phone a save it?

**jiholl** · 11-06-2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by cheesehead007

EDIT - whoops, read that wrong..

Yes, you have to press an on-screen button if using a "wait" as opposed to a "pause."

Thanks ..I finally figuered it out..wow..that was not user friendly though, I ended up having to delete the contact and recreate it and then you get this blurred call screen with a pop up asking if you want to send the sequence after the wait...not straight forward, but it does work...BUT how would anyone figure that out on their own??????

**Baturro** · 11-06-2009, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Smuuth

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.0; en-us; Droid Build/ESD20) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

A tip:

If you aren't using all of the 3 home screens for shortcuts, you can hold down on one until you get the "Add to Home screen" popup...

Dude, you posted that tip just as I was trying to figure out a faster way to text. Thanks!!