No problem; you can easily add them. Want to change the location of apps, or move around widgets and add new ones to each of your panes and the Home screen? The rest of this section shows you how. The Home screen is practically a blank canvas, waiting for your Picasso-like touches. Instead of paint, you can add widgets, shortcuts, and folders to it, and even change its wallpaper. To do any of the above, the first step is the same: Press and hold your finger anywhere on the Home screen.
Alternatively, press the Menu key and select Add. Motorola widgets. A widget is an applet that performs a small, specific task, often grabbing and displaying information from the Droid X or the Internet. When you select this option, you see a list of all the Motorola widgets you can add—anything from toggling into Airplane mode to displaying your status on social networking sites, the current weather, your favorite photos, and more.
Tap the widget you want to add and follow its instructions. Android widgets. Android widgets tend to be a bit plain-vanilla and not as nifty as Motorola widgets.
Still, there are good ones to choose from, such as an analog clock and a music player. If you hold your finger on it, nothing happens. A shortcut is a quick link to an app or specific task. You can add widgets, shortcuts, and folders to the Social Networking, Settings, Calling, and News panes. If you hold your finger on the Productivity pane or the Media pane, no menu appears. And if you press the Menu key, the Add button is grayed out.
Folders hold information and files, the same way they do on computers. When you install apps, they may create their own folders as well—the Pandora Internet radio app, for example, creates a folder of your radio stations. You can add a wallpaper to the background of your Home screen, just as you can add wallpaper to your computer. There are three choices here: Live wallpapers, Media gallery, or Wallpapers.
So the Galaxy live wallpaper, for example, shows an animated galaxy made up of swirling stars, while the Maps live wallpaper displays your current location on Google Maps.
The Wallpaper choice lets you use a static wallpaper. No matter what you choose, you get to preview the wallpaper first. When you add wallpaper to your Home screen, it also shows up as the background on all your panes. To move a widget, folder, or shortcut, press your finger on it and hold it for a second or two. A box will appear behind it and turn red for just an instant, and then turn turquoise, and the sides of the Home screen will be outlined in white.
Drag it to its new location and take your finger off of it. To delete a widget, folder, or shortcut, also press your finger on it and hold it for a second or two until a turquoise box appears behind it and the sides of the Home screen are outlined in white.
Drag what you want to delete to the trash can. The app will remain installed in the Application Tray. If you want to delete the app itself, you have to delete it from the Application Tray. Got a widget that you wish was larger or smaller, or had different dimensions? You can resize it—although not always. Remember that the Droid X has two kinds of widgets, Motorola widgets and Android widgets?
To resize a Motorola widget, press and hold it until the now-familiar turquoise box appears. Then take your finger off. The widget will be outlined, and on each of its corners appear indicators that the corner can be dragged.
Drag a corner and reposition it until the widget is the size you want, and then let go. Life, though, is not always so simple. Some widgets are built to have certain dimensions or length-to-width ratios. A widget designed to be wide but short, for example, may not allow itself to be resized to be tall and narrow.
It just says no. How can you know ahead of time whether a widget on your Home screen or one of your panes is an Android widget or a Motorola widget? The only way to find out is to try resizing it.
The Droid X, despite its large screen and considerable capabilities, can go a reasonably long time on one battery charge. But if you use a lot of power-sucking features, you may not even be able to get through whole day without having to recharge. Be smart about email fetching. The more often the Droid X checks email, the faster the battery runs down. Either check email manually only when you need to, or increase the interval at which the Droid X checks. You can choose from intervals between 15 minutes and 4 hours, or manually.
Use the right battery profile. See Battery Manager for details. They use up tons of power. Go to the Settings page and launch the Power Control widget; there you can turn any of these three antennas on or off. Watch out for power-sapping apps. Some, such as 3D games, can use serious amounts of juice. If, after installing an app, you notice your battery running low quickly, consider deleting it, or running it only when necessary.
With the Droid X, your fingers do the walking. They do all the work that you do on a computer with a mouse or keyboard. Tapping is as basic to the Droid X as clicking is to a mouse.
This one simple gesture is how you press onscreen buttons, place the cursor for text entry, and choose from menus. For example, when you touch and hold the Home screen, a menu appears that lets you add an object such as a widget, change your wallpaper, and so on.
You also touch and hold an object as a way to grab onto it if you then want to drag the object somewhere. Think of the flick as a faster slide, done vertically when scrolling through a list, such as a list of your contacts. The faster you make the flicking motion, the faster your screen scrolls—sometimes too fast. You can stop the motion, though, by touching the screen again. Flicks seem to actually obey the laws of physics, or at least as much as virtual movement can.
When you flick a list, it starts off scrolling very quickly, and then gradually slows down, as if it were a ball set in motion that gradually loses momentum. In many apps, such as Google Maps, Mail, the Web, and Photos, you can zoom in by spreading your fingers—placing your thumb and forefinger on the screen and spreading them.
The amount you spread your fingers will determine the amount you zoom in. To zoom out, put your thumb and forefinger on the screen and pinch them together. The more you pinch, the more you zoom out. Another way to zoom out in Google Maps is to tap with two fingers at once. This trick is unique to Google Maps. Skip to main content.
Start your free trial. Chapter 1. The Guided Tour. Note Pressing the Home button near the bottom of your phone covered later in this chapter also wakes your Droid X from Sleep mode. Locking the Screen. Note The button on the right side of the screen in Locked mode provides a useful piece of information: It tells you if the Droid X is in Silent mode.
Tip You can adjust the amount of time it takes for the Droid X to lock itself. Headset Jack. About the Screen. Built-in Sensors.
Status Bar Icons. Note Many applications have their own icons that alert you to news, information, and updates. Note When you see a notification on the left side of the status bar, drag down the Notification bar to see more details. Notification Light. The Four Keys. Menu Key. Note Holding your finger on the Home screen also launches the Add screen. Home Key.
Back Key. Search Key. Micro USB Port. HDMI Port. Ringer Volume. The icon has dots in a conversation bubble. Tap it again to deselect it if you marked the wrong message. Tap it again to add Facebook messages back to the list. Step 2: Tap and hold on the first message you want to delete. A checkmark should appear to its left.
If you accidentally deleted texts and need to restore them, immediately put the Android device into Airplane mode. After that, you have two options. One way to restore deleted messages is to reset the phone to its factory defaults and then restore it with a backup saved on Google Drive. On this screen, you should see an SMS entry. This is an extreme option, however, but the only one outside using third-party software.
This is one of the more popular tools in recovering data from an Android phone, including text messages. Available for Windows 10 and MacOS, this desktop software will scan all deleted items and present a list of data you can pick and choose to recover. It even retrieves deleted photos, videos, messages, and photos delivered through WhatsApp. Android Recovery. This restoration tool supports the most modern Android devices. You can also download and install the application on both MacOS and Windows-based devices.
This program will enable you to promptly retrieve text messages, images, videos, and even information from third-party apps like WhatsApp and others. In addition, it can help you to collect lost files from your device, resulting from a system failure, rooting error, and many more unfortunate situations.
This specific software will allow you to recover information from machines operating on the latest version of Android, all the way back to the ancient Android 2.
I just read something else like this today. Your texts will also show up on the contacts app even if u deleted them in the messaging app. We need to find a solution to this issue. Joined Jul 16, Messages 15 Reaction score 0. There's another thread about the clearing messages problem on this forum too. As far as I can tell there's no workaround yet. A search on Motorola's site says they're aware and "working on it" Hope that means a fix soon.
If they want businesses to use this phone they need to fix this ASAP. Does nothing for security Maybe one of the dev can fix it now that we have root. I think they should name the app or fix the "Tiger woods" lol no seriously..
I too found it by accident by adding a shortcut to my home screen and said oh my all my texts are vulnerable and exposed with a simple long press on the home screen been trying to erase for 2 days.
Go into the contact of the person you are trying to remove data from. This brings you to the history folder, press the options or menu button 4. Choose clear history This will only clear information within the recent folder of that single contact.
You will have to go into each contact to clear them out of your recent folder. WesBone New Member. Joined Jan 11, Messages 1 Reaction score 0. Look Up WesBone said:. Click to expand WesBone said:. BodyBagz Active Member. The 2 of you have both been here long enough that you should have already figured this out
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