If you’re running out of memory space on your Motorola Droid smartphone because you have so many apps installed, you can move the apps to the SD card.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Applications.
4. Tap Manage applications.
5. Select an app you wish to move.
6. Tap Move to SD card.
Dial a contact right from your Home screen by creating a direct dial icon.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Tap Add.
3. Tap Direct dial.
4. Choose the contact you wish to add.
If you’ve downloaded music from the Amazon MP3 store using your Motorola Droid smartphone, you may want to eventually copy them to your computer and listen to the files there. Here’s how to transfer them over.
1. Attach the Droid to your computer with the USB cable.
2. Open the Notifications panel at the top of the screen by sliding it down with your finger.
3. Tap USB connected.
4. Tap Mount.
5. On the computer, open the drive that represents your device. It should be in My Computer/Computer for Windows users or the Finder for Mac users.
6. Open the amazonmp3 folder. Your music files will be located in there where you can drag and drop them to a location on your computer.
7. After copying music, swipe the Notification panel down, tap USB storage, then tap Unmount.
If for some reason, you need to locate the ESN/MEID numbers for your Verizon Motorola Droid 2 smartphone, here’s how.
Method 1
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Select About phone.
4. Select Status.
5. The ESN is located on this screen.
Method 2
1. Power off the Droid 2.
2. Remove the battery and the ESN/MEID is located in the battery compartment.
Setup your Verizon Motorola Droid X with Outlook/Exchange Email (Activesync).
1. Select My Accounts from the application slider.
2. Tap Add account.
3. Select Corporate Sync.
4. Enter the following information:
5. Tap Next.
6. Tap Done.
Set a photo to a contact and have the photo display whenever you’re texting or calling the person.
Option 1
1. Open the Contacts app.
2. Select the contact.
3. Press Menu.
4. Select Edit contact.
5. Tap the empty picture with the plus sign.
6. Navigate to the photo you wish to add. Tap it to select it.
7. Crop the photo as desired.
8. Tap Done.
Option 2
1. Open the Gallery app.
2. Tap and hold a photo.
3. Press Menu.
4. Tap More.
5. Tap Set as.
If you have a person you have to call often, create a Contact Shortcut icon for the person right on the Home screen of your Droid smartphone. Just follow these steps:
1. Tap and hold an open space on the Home screen.
2. Select Shortcut.
3. Choose Contact. (Use Direct dial if you want the icon to just dial the phone number directly.)
4. Select the Contact you wish to add to the Home screen.
5. The shortcut icon is created.
Is your Droid 2 smartphone failing to turn on? Here are a few things to try.
1. Plug the Droid in using the wall power cord. (Plugging it to a PC or other USB powering device doesn’t provide that much juice.)
2. Try pressing ALT + Shift + Delete simultaneously a few times. This should soft reset the device.
3. Pull the battery from the device and replace it.
If none of these options work, you may want to try a hard reset. If that doesn’t work, you may want to take the Droid 2 back to where you purchased it for a replacement.
Q: How do you clear the Navigation and Search History in Google Maps for the Droid line of smartphones?
A: Follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Applications.
4. Tap Manage Applications.
5. Select Maps (You may have to press Menu > Filter > All to see it.)
6. Select Clear data.
I recently started getting Download unsuccessful errors on my Motorola Droid whenever I tried to upgrade an app. Luckily, the fix was easy.
1. Open Settings.
2. Select Applications.
3. Select Manage Applications.
4. Select Market (You may have to press Menu > Filter > All to see it)
5. Select Clear cache.
6. Back out of the screen and select Download Manager.
7. Select Clear data.
8. Also clear data for Google Apps, Google Talk, and Checkin Service.
See if downloading from the Android Market works now.
Of course, this works with any Android phone (Evo, Droid X, Samsung Moment, etc.)
The Motorola Droid line of smartphones can be stingy when you connect them to a PC at times. On certain computers, the phone won’t mount and just goes right back to saying USB Connected. Here are a couple of things to try to get the connection to work:
Usually one of these two items or both will get your Droid to mount just fine.
So you want to have Adobe Flash Player on your Verizon Motorola Droid? If you’ve upgraded to Android 2.2, you can grab it.
1. Ensure you are on version 2.2 or higher by checking under Settings > About phone > Android version.
2. Open the Market app.
3. Search for Adobe Flash Player. (It will only show up if you have Android 2.2 or higher.)
4. Download and install the Adobe Flash Player.
5. Open the Browser.
6. Tap Menu > More > Settings.
7. Tap Enable plug-ins.
8. Choose Always on or On demand.
Now the Adobe Flash Player will display Flash content within the Droid Browser.
I finally completed rooting my Motorola Droid with CyanogenMod. I thought I would create a post on how I did it. These instructions are for Windows users.
Note:These steps will void the warranty of your phone. I am not responsible if you break your phone somehow during this process. I recommend you backup all of your data on the phone if you wish to keep it as this process will wipe all app data off the phone. SD card data should be preserved, but you never know what may go wrong. I also recommend you fully charge the Droid before doing these steps.
1. Download and install RSDLite. Alt link.
2. Download and install the drivers for the Motorola Droid.
3. Download the SPRecovery file.
4. Attach Droid to the PC while it is powered on.
5. Power the Droid off.
6. Press and hold the Power button and the Up button on the D-pad located on the keyboard.
7. Open the RSDLite program.
8. Click the … button and browse to the SPRecovery (.sbf) file you downloaded in step 3.
9. Click Start to begin flashing the phone with SPRecovery. Be patient! The phone should eventually reboot.
10. Now that you have SPRecovery installed, you can install a rooted Android 2.1 to the device. Download the image.
11. Rename the file downloaded in step 10 to update.zip.
12. Mount the Droid to your computer and copy the update.zip file to the root of the SD card.
13. Power the Droid off.
14. Hold down the X key on the keyboard and press the Power button. Keep holding X until you see the yellow exclamation mark or the M (Motorola) logo.
15. Press the Camera and Volume Down buttons simultaneously to access the recovery screen. (You may have to press them several times).
16. Using the D-pad next to the keyboard, select Wipe data/factory reset.
17. Once that completes, select Wipe cache partition. (Use the center button on the D-pad next to the keyboard to make selections.)
18. Once that completes, select Install.
19. Select Allow update.zip installation.
20. Select Install /sdcard/update.zip (deprecated).
21. The rooted version of Android 2.1 will be flashed to the Droid.
You can reboot and use the phone as is for now, but flashing the phone with a custom image is preferable. You can obtain various custom images from various sites. One of the most popular is Cyanogen like I used. To flash your Droid with a custom image, peform the following steps.
22. Download the image file. (The one I used was located here.)
23. Rename the image file you downloaded in step 22 to update.zip.
24. Mount the Droid to your computer and copy the update.zip file to the root of the SD card.
25. Power the Droid off.
26. Hold down the X key on the keyboard and press the Power button. Keep holding X until you see the yellow exclamation mark or the M (Motorola) logo.
27. Press the Camera and Volume Down buttons simultaneously to access the recovery screen. (You may have to press them several times).
28. Using the D-pad next to the keyboard, select Wipe data/factory reset.
29. Once that completes, select Wipe cache partition.
30. Once that completes, select Install.
31. Select Allow update.zip installation.
32. Select Install /sdcard/update.zip (deprecated).
The custom ROM will then be installed. Time to reboot and enjoy your work. Don’t like the ROM? You can flash and reflash the Droid all you want.
If you make your own wallpaper for the Droid X, you’ll need to know the size to make the image.
Once you make an image 854 x 480 in size, you can copy it over to your Droid and set the image as your wallpaper under Home > Menu > Wallpaper > Gallery.
It’s becoming more and more common for people to have their computer handle the viewing of audio and video files. The Internet is quickly replacing cable TV. One of the struggles for users with an Internet TV setup is having a portable way of controlling the computer remotely. A keyboard and mouse are just too big. There are many solutions on the market, but my favorite is the Gmote app for Android. With this app, I can launch video and audio files right from my Motorola Droid or other Android powered smartphone.
Note that this is not a way to remotely see what’s on your computer screen from an Android device. Gmote simply allows you to launch files and control the PC from an Android device.
To get started, perform the following steps:
1. Download and install the Gmote Server application on the computer.
2. Download and install the Gmote Android app. It can be obtained in the Android Market, or here.
3. Launch Gmote Server. Provide it with a password you wish to use to access the PC.
4. Select the directories you wish to be able to access. I left mine to the entire C: drive.
5. Unblock any firewall access if prompted.
6. Launch the Gmote app on the Android device.
7. Tap the server name listed.
8. Browse to the file you wish to open. The file should then open on the computer using the default app.
From your Android device you can also control the Volume Up/Down, Pause, Stop, etc. You can even press Menu > Touchpad to use your Android device as a computer PC keyboard and mouse.
Disable 3G on your Motorola Droid X smartphone. You may want to do this to improve battery power or connectivity in certain areas.
1. Open the Phone application.
2. Dial *#*#INFO#*#*
3. The phone is now in Test Mode. Scroll down to the Set preferred network type setting and change it from CDMA auto (PRL) to CDMA only.
I always wondered why the Listen app for Android always failed to automatically download my podcasts at night. I discovered that once the screen on the Motorola Droid goes into sleep mode, Wi-Fi is disconnected. You can prevent Wi-Fi from disconnecting though with these steps.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Select Wireless & networks.
4. Tap Wi-Fi settings.
5. Press Menu.
6. Tap Advanced.
7. Tap Wi-Fi sleep policy.
8. Set it to Never.
Now your networked apps will do their job while you are away from your Droid.
Find the local IP address that your Motorola Droid smartphone is using with these simple steps.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Wi-Fi settings.
4. Tap the wireless network you are connected to.
5. The IP address will be displayed in the dialog box that appears.
Need additional home screens for the icons on your Motorola Droid? You’ll need an application from the Market called HelixLauncher.
1. Download and install HelixLauncher.
2. Once the app installs, press Home.
3. Check the box to Use by default for this action and tap HelixLauncher.
4. To setup Helix with more home screens, press Menu > Configure.
5. Tap and tap the plus (+) to add up to 7 Home screens.
Enhanced Privacy Mode on the Motorola Droid adds an extra layer of encryption to your voice conversations. Here’s how to turn it on or off.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Call settings.
4. Scroll to the bottom, and check Voice privacy to enable Enhanced Privacy Mode, uncheck it to disable it.
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