User manual GOOGLE ANDROID 2.2.1

[. . . ] Android 2. 2. 1 User's Guide October 23, 2010 AUG-2. 2. 1-101 AndroidTM mobile technology platform 2. 2. 1 2 Legal Copyright © 2010 Google Inc. Google, the stylized Google logo, Android, the stylized Android logo, Nexus One, the stylized Nexus One logo, Android Market, the stylized Android Market logo, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Calendar, Google Checkout, Google Earth, Google Goggles, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Talk, Picasa, SafeSearch, and YouTube are trademarks of Google Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. Availability of Google applications, services, and features may vary by country, carrier, phone model, and manufacturer. [. . . ] The Google Talk Friends list is sorted by your friends' online status: active chats, online, busy, and offline. Within each status group, friends are listed alphabetically. To add a friend to your Friends list You can invite anyone with a Google Account to become your friend in Google Talk, so you can chat with each other and view each others' online status. Your friend's address in Google Talk is a Gmail or other email address that is configured to connect to Google Talk. To view and accept an invitation to become a friend When a contact invites you to become a friend in Google Talk, you receive a notification in the Status bar and the invitation appears in your Friends list. Or touch Cancel if you don't want to chat with and share your Google Talk status with the sender. 2 Touch Accept in the menu that opens. To view a list of pending invitations to friends S In the Friends list, press Menu and touch More > Invites. All the friends to whom you've extended invitations to become friends on Google Talk appear in the list until they accept or cancel your invitation. AUG-2. 2. 1-101 Android User's Guide Google Talk 180 To view all friends or only those most popular with you By default, only the friends that you frequently chat with--the most popular with you-- are shown in the Friends list. To switch back to just the friends with whom you chat most frequently, touch Most popular in the menu. To make a friend popular You can set a friend to appear always in your Friends list. If you don't see the friend's name, press Menu and touch All friends. 2 Touch Always show friend in the menu that opens. To remove a friend from this list, touch & hold the friend's name in the Friends list. In the menu that opens, touch Auto show friend. To block a friend You can block a friend from sending you messages. If you don't see the friend, press Menu and touch All friends. 2 Touch Block friend in the menu that opens. You can view a list of your blocked friends by opening your Friends list, pressing Menu , and touching More > Blocked. You can unblock a friend by touching the friend's name in the blocked list and then touching OK in the dialog that opens. AUG-2. 2. 1-101 Android User's Guide Google Talk 181 Changing Google Talk settings You can configure Google Talk to send you a notification with the contents of each message that you receive in a chat, and also to sound a ringtone or vibrate the phone. You can also configure Google Talk to sign you in automatically when you turn on your phone, and you can set whether the mobile indicator is displayed next to your name in other people's Friends lists. To configure notifications for new Google Talk messages 1 In the Friends list, press Menu and touch Settings. 2 Check or uncheck IM notifications to set whether you receive a notification in the Status bar when a new chat message arrives. 3 Touch Select ringtone to open a list of the ringtones that you can choose to sound when you receive notification of a new chat. 4 Touch Vibrate to set whether the phone vibrates whenever you receive notification of a new message, only when the phone is in Silent mode, or never. To show or hide the mobile indicator to friends 1 In the Friends list, press Menu and then touch Settings. If Mobile indicator is checked, your friends see an outline of an android next to your name in their Friends list when you're signed into Google Talk on the phone. Your friend is signed into Google Talk on his phone. To set whether you sign into Google Talk automatically 1 In the Friends list, press Menu and then touch Settings. When Automatically sign-in is checked, you are signed into Google Talk when you turn on your phone. Signing in and out of Google Talk is described in "Signing in and opening your Friends list" on page 172. AUG-2. 2. 1-101 Android User's Guide Google Talk 182 AUG-2. 2. 1-101 Android User's Guide 183 Email You use the Email application to read and send email from services other than Gmail. Email includes a wizard that makes it easy to configure it for several popular email service providers. In this section "Opening Email and the Accounts screen" on page 184 "Reading your messages" on page 187 "Responding to a message" on page 188 "Starring messages" on page 189 "Working with message in batches" on page 190 "Composing and sending email" on page 191 "Working with account folders" on page 192 "Appending a signature to your messages" on page 193 "Adding and editing email accounts" on page 194 "Changing email account settings" on page 197 AUG-2. 2. 1-101 Android User's Guide Email 184 Opening Email and the Accounts screen You use the Email application to read email from services other than Gmail. To open Email S Touch the Email icon on the Home screen or in the Launcher. See "Opening and switching applications" on page 38 to learn more about opening and switching applications. [. . . ] ) when you press the Space key twice in a row. AUG-2. 2. 1-101 Android User's Guide Settings 350 Voice input & output settings You use the Voice Input & Output settings to configure the Android voice input feature, described in "Entering text by speaking" on page 34, and the text-to-speech synthesizer, for applications that can take advantage of it, such as TalkBack, which is described in "Accessibility settings" on page 351. Google Voice Recognition settings screen Language Opens a screen where you can set the language you use when entering text by speaking. SafeSearch Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want Google SafeSearch filtering to block some results when you use Google search by voice: Block no search results (off), only explicit or offensive images (moderate), or both explicit or offensive text and images (strict). Block offensive words When unchecked, Google voice recognition will recognize and transcribe words many people consider offensive, when you enter text by speaking. When checked, Google voice recognition replaces those words in transcriptions with a placeholder comprised of hash symbols ( # ). Text-to-Speech settings screen If you don't have speech synthesizer data installed, only the Install voice data setting is available. Listen to an example Plays a brief sample of the speech synthesizer, using your current settings. Always use my settings Check to use the settings on this screen in place of speech synthesizer settings available in other applications. Default engine Opens a dialog where you can set the text-to-speech application you want to use, if you have more than one installed. Install voice data If your phone does not have speech synthesizer data installed, connects to Android Market and guides you through the process of downloading and installing the data. Speech rate Opens a dialog where you can select how quickly you want the synthesizer to speak. Language Opens a dialog where you can select the language of the text you want the synthesizer to read. [. . . ]