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Having recently discovered these myself, and seeing that others aren't aware of them, we need a list here.

The majority of these shortcuts require a hardware keyboard to function - and make having one that much more valuable beyond the other obvious benefits.

These will make your life a whole lot easier - no longer will you have to do things the hard way through the touch interface.

Let's start:

Holding the hardware menu button and pressing other characters does stuff.

First of all, you can find out menu shortcuts on your own. Hit menu once to open it, then hold it and it will show them on the menu options.

General Android:

In a text field:

Menu + X: Cut

Menu + C: Copy

Menu + V: Paste

Menu + A: Select All

Also:

Alt + Trackpad Up: Top of page

Alt + Trackpad Down: Bottom of page

Alt + Trackpad Left: Beginning of line

Alt + Trackpad Right: End of line

(when the keyboard is slid out, the trackpad orientation changes to be proper for the way you are holding it, so left really is left and so forth)

Holding shift and using the trackpad to scroll around highlights from where the cursor is when you start.

Spacebar works as page down in a document (or browser)

Shift + Spacebar works as page up in the same fashion.

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On your home screen:

Menu + W: Select Wallpaper

Menu + P: Personalize Menu

Menu + N: Show Quicklaunch

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Long press of the Search button brings up a menu of apps you have installed that can use it. The genius button replaced the search button on this device, so you will have to remap the key to use this functionality.

See this thread for remapping the genius to search:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1285244

If you do not have more then one app that uses this long-press search shortcut menu, it will default to the only one that can (google voice - or nothing if none are installed)

The ability to use this menu has to be programmed into the individual app itself - so it's a crapshoot if you can find any to do so. Soundhound is one, QR Droid Private 3 is another - and i'm sure you will find more.

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Launch Apps

Search + A: (User Selectable)

All the way down to...

Search + Z: (User Selectable)

...are keys you can pick the apps that pressing the key combo launches.

Search + any letter from A to Z is user selectable in settings. Go to:

Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch.

This will allow you to launch any app you set by using the hotkey combination assigned to it.

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Individual apps may have their own shortcuts that override or change what the standard ones are depending on the app you are in.

They may change or ignore some of these shortcuts, so you may have to experiment on a per app basis.

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Stock Apps:

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Stock Browser App:

Menu + I: Zoom in

Menu + J: Back

Menu + K: Forward

Menu + A: Add bookmarks

Menu + B: Open bookmarks

Menu + T: Windows

Menu + Space: Home

Menu + F: Find on page

Menu + E: Select Text

Menu + G: Page info

Menu + S: Share Page

Menu + D: Downloads

Menu + H: History

Menu + R: Print

Menu + P: Settings

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Stock Calendar App:

Menu + T: Today

Menu + S: Refresh

Menu + G: Go To

Menu + P: Settings

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Google Gmail App:

Alt + Trackpad Up: Scroll To Top (In message)

Alt + Trackpad Down: Scroll To Bottom (In message)

Menu + S: Add Star (In message)

Menu + F: Forward (In message)

Menu + R: Reply (In message)

Menu + A: Reply-all (In message)

Menu + Y: Archive message (In message | Inbox)

Menu + U: Refresh (Inbox)

Menu + C: Compose (Inbox)

Enter | Press trackpad: Open Selected (Inbox)

Alt + Trackpad Up: Go To Top (Inbox)

Alt + Trackpad Down: Go To Bottom (Inbox)

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Stock Quick Lookup App:

Google Search & YouTube:

Menu + J: Back

Menu + K: Forward

Wikipedia & Google Dictionary:

Menu + J: Back

Menu + K: Forward

Menu + L: Language

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Google Maps:

Alt + Trackpad Up: Go To Top (In lists)

Alt + Trackpad Down: Go To Bottom (In lists)

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Note: Menu + (whatever) shortcuts will NOT work with a soft keyboard, you must have the physical keys to press to make it happen. If a device does not have a hardware keyboard, you cannot use the menu shortcuts.

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Dialer Codes

Dialer codes are a sequence of characters you enter in to the phone app on your device, just like you were dialing a number to call.

Dialer Codes:

*#06# - imei number
*#61# - Call forwarding status
##002# - Erase forwarding number
*43# - Activate call waiting
#43# - Deactivate call waiting
*#*#4636#*#* - Testing Menu
*#*#8255#*#* - Gtalk

( If anyone has found any others please share. Thanks! )

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If anyone finds any post them below and i'll copy them up to the top.