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I don't take credit for all these.

How to Increase Battery Life

Turn off GPS

Lower screen brightness

Turn off Wi-fi when you are not around any wifi networks

If you are not in a 3g area do the following to save battery life!

Settings--->Wireless Controls--->Mobile Networks and check the box that says "Use Only 2G Networks"

General

Holding down the home key will bring up your programs running in the background.

Adjusting the volume will adjust volume all the way to muting sound.

Clicking down the End key will place your phone in sleep mode.

Holding down the End key while bring up the "reset" feature.

Turning off the GPS saves battery life to do so go to Menu, Settings, Security and Location.

To rename a folder on the homescreen click and hold the dock at the top of the folders name. *AnyCut is needed*

Long press the phone key for voice dial.

Press the menu button once to bring up the menu, then press and hold the menu button down to view the shortcut.

To make ringtones, alerts, and notifications make a folder inside your memory card each one containing there own name such as "ringtones" "alarms" "notifications"

To forward picture and text messages: Press and hold the message.

When Typing, If you want to delete a word at the time press menu and delete and will erase a word at the time instead of one character at the time...

Pressing alt+del it deletes everything

Reboot

Press the Green Call Button + Menu + Off (Red) Key

Hard Reset

(THIS WILL REMOVE ALL APPS BUT NOT YOUR PICS AND MUSIC!!)

Turn the G1 off. If it’s frozen on, take the battery out and put it back in the unit.

Hold the Home and Power keys down at same time for about 25 seconds. You will see a yellow triangle screen with exclamation point in the middle.

Now to wipe the device clean:

Press Alt+L.

Press Alt+W for a factory reset.

Press the Home and Back keys again for about 25 seconds. Let go of the keys.

The device should then reset again and the hard reset is complete.

This will wipe your device to factory reset. You will need to log in to your gmail account like you initially did.

Browser

To Copy All, press Menu and A or Highlight text, press and hold TRACKBALL, select Select all

To Cut, press Menu and X.

To Copy, press Menu and C.

To Paste, press Menu and V or Press and hold TRACKBALL, select Paste

Saving pictures from the web:

Press and hold the image for 3 seconds, a selection will pop-up either to save image or view image. It may contain more selections if the image contains a link.

Faster scrolling in the browser:

Hold down ALT key and roll trackball for fast scrolling.

Press space bar for a fast scroll down.

Shift+Space goes up

Browser General

Long press trackball on image to bring up "save image/view image"

Long press trackball over url to bring up "open/open in new window/bookmark link/save link/share link/copy link url"

Press menu to bring up browser menu (go to url/search/bookmarks/...etc); long-press menu to temporarily flash the shortcuts.

To activate the magnify glass on the browser click the trackball twice.

Clear your Cache!

If you’ve been using streetview or the browser alot, the cache can quickly get big. I’ve only had the phone for two days and got 20MB back by clearing the cache on these two.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Browser > Clear Data

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Streetview > Clear Data