Official: Tips and Tricks Thread for G1

Awesome! I just checked the market and there it was. I guess it was just uploaded cuz theres a couple other programs that werent there earlier today. Thanks for your quick help!! 

If you are a Facebook user you can use http://iphone.facebook.com to access Facebook on the G1. This is not as nice as the app that runs on Facebook, but is a very usable way to access Facebook from the G1 until some 3rd party creates a Facebook app.

Do you guys know if there is a way to save pics that were sent over via text? I tried finding it and searched the forum but wasnt able to find anything. Wondering if anyone has figured it out or if its even possible

Do you guys know if there is a way to save pics that were sent over via text? I tried finding it and searched the forum but wasnt able to find anything. Wondering if anyone has figured it out or if its even possible

I think about your only solution at this point is to text them to '222', which will save them to your online picture album.

Here are more Android Tips for this site: http://android-tips.com
I did want to copy paste more tips, but am not sure what the rules are regarding that in this forum.

Conserve battery:
Reduce brightness of the screen in settings.
Limit internet connection to use only 2G networks.
Use wifi, bluetooth, gps only when needed.
Disable autosync.
Setup shortcuts to the setting enable page using anycut to do it easily.


Keep your droid clean and organized:
Long press on the dashboard to add widgets, icons and folders.
Long press on icons and drag them to the trash can that appears.
Long press on icon and drag it to the next screen. You might need to hold the icon at the edge for a sec to go to the next screen.

Long live the long press!

Has anyone seen this yet:

http://www.wdsglobal.com/android08/demos/G1/G1/main.html

On any screen:

[SEARCH] button and the following letters will quickly jump from one app to another:

L - Calender
P - Music Player
I - Instant Messengers
E - E-Mail
G - G-Mail
Y - YouTube
S - SMS/MMS
M - Maps
B - Browser

These are the defaults, and can be changed by going to [MENU] -> Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch

Has anyone seen this yet:

http://www.wdsglobal.com/android08/demos/G1/G1/main.html

Shawn what is this before I "agree" to run it on my computer??

Has anyone seen this yet:

http://www.wdsglobal.com/android08/demos/G1/G1/main.html

Shawn what is this before I "agree" to run it on my computer??

Ditto here, I have no idea what that is.

It's a Flash-based site showing you step-by-step how to do various things on your G1 (with animated screenshots of menu options, etc.)

I'm from WDSGlobal - we created the simulator, the 'I Agree' was just our T&C's page.

However, here's a link that skips that and take you direct to the simulator

http://www.wdsglobal.com/android08/G1

Does anyone know how to send messages without knowing exactly who you want to send it to? (Selecting names from a list,then sending it all)

I dont know if this has been said yet but OMG i love this phone here is a trick, DO NOT LET TEXT THREADS GET TO FULL, I had like 6 threads with like 1400 txts in 2 and my messeging app was really slow and I had to do the factory reset thing to ,right again but when you do that all your numbers stay the same beacuse they are on the sim it onl clears all apps and al app data ( fav 5 refreshes it self after about 5 min so dont freak out)

Hey guys. When using an MP3 as a ringtone... is there a way you can set it to use only a certain part of the song instead of using the whole song?

I just want to use the chorus.

Thanks for your help

Use Ringdroid to cut it down. 

You can get it from the marketplace if it's available.

it's available.....and it's an awesome app!!

  Hello everyone! First of all just wanted to say this forum rocks!!

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but, Does anyone know if G1 is going to have a radio app comp. to iphone's pandora radio? because for some reason pandora won't play on my phone when I go to their website.
Thanks!

New tip that I haven't seen yet.

 If you click the wrong link in browser, while its still loading.. click menu and then press stop.

it's called imeem Music in the Market.

Hello everyone! First of all just wanted to say this forum rocks!!

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but, Does anyone know if G1 is going to have a radio app comp. to iphone's pandora radio? because for some reason pandora won't play on my phone when I go to their website.
Thanks!

 ????I was unable to find this post anywhere but does anybody know how to save a picture from an MMS or any file from an MMS 

????I was unable to find this post anywhere but does anybody know how to save a picture from an MMS or any file from an MMS 

The only way that I know of currently would be to text it to shortcode '222', which will save it to your online album.

This has been answered before by the way. 

http://forums.tmonews.com/index.php?topic=3664.0

Thx knytphal right after I posted it I saw ur answer at the top but thx again