- First you have to enable USB debugging on your Android device from Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging.
- Now you need to download and install the Android SDK on your computer from http://developer.android.com/sdk/. Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the package to the folder of your choice, run SDK Setup.exe and click on Available Packages to the left. If you get an error message at this point, enable “Force https://…” in the Settings. From the list of available packages, select “Usb Driver package”, click on the Install Selected button in the bottom right corner and follow the prompts.
- Connect your phone to your computer with a USB-cable. Your OS will prompt you to install new drivers. Choose to install them from the android-sdk/usb_driver folder. Do not mount your device; you only need to plug-in the cable. If you are running Windows 7, UNPLUG your phone from PC, d/l the Android SDK kit but entirely skip the part with installing USB driver, instead just go to HTC page ( http://www.htc.com -> Support and find your product ) and d/l HTC Sync application, install it. Plug in the phone now, set connection type to synchronize and check if HTC Sync recognizes the phone, if yes, you are set (HTC Sync installs the needed ADB drivers under Win 7). All you need to do now is to enable the USB Debugging in your phone and set connection type to “Charge only” (tho it worked also with sync setting) and follow up rest of the tutorial.
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This tips was tested on the HTC Desire, but it should work for all other models and most likely all other Android phones. The process was identical for my old Sony Ericsson C905 and my girlfriends SE W580i.
1. First you need to download a freeware program called mp3tag. Install it and run the program. You may donate to mp3tag if you like the software.
2. Secondly, drag and drop all the music that does not have album art stored within the file. Highlight a number of tracks, best to do this an album at a time. Now you can either right click in the empty album art box like the image below and find the album art on your computer.
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You can also try various setting that will help extend the battery life.
- Traditionally WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and display brightness all greatly impact battery performance.
- With Android 2.1 another feature that can kill your battery are the Live Wallpapers. If you’re using Live Wallpaper just turn if off.
- Adjust the Brightness of the display (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Brightness). By default it is set to auto adjust but you can manually adjust it down. Consider adjusting the display timeout (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Screen Timeout). The default value is 1 minute but you can reduce it to as low as 15 sec but 30 seconds.
- By default your HTC Incredible vibrates every time you press a key. Turn it off by un-checking the box ‘Vibrate when typing’. Menu | Settings | Language & Keyboards | Touch Input | Text Input | Vibrate when typing.
- If Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Email, App Updates, or many other things are constantly popping notifications, consider turning some of them off as notifications do impact battery performance; This is done in each app
So in this topic, you’ll get several hidden secret codes which can be used in HTC Desire and any Google Android mobile phone to access things which are not accessible by default.
FYI These codes have been obtained by decoding various .apk files present in the phone firmware. To enter the code, just input them on the phone dialer.
*#*#4636#*#*This code can be used to get some interesting information about your phone and battery. It shows following 4 menus on screen:
- Phone information
- Battery information
- Battery history
- Usage statistics
*#*#7780#*#*This code can be used for a factory data reset. It’ll remove following things:
- Google account settings stored in your phone
- System and application data and settings
- Downloaded applications
swipe to call-in the contacts app, – swipe to the left on a contact, and the phone will call that specific contact
swipe to text -in the contacts app -, swipe to the right on a contact, and the phone will oppen the text message app for that specific contact
profile -all in the the contacts app, just press menue/more/my profile, and there you can setup your profile (picture/emails/phones/address, etc)
reorder apps –on the app drawer press menu/view type, there you can arrange the order of your apps
delete a screen -on the main screen or home screen, press menu/edit, there youll be able to delet or add home screen or arrange their order
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