I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but I discovered that while in contacts if you slide your finger from the bottom of the screen up (on the alphabet list on the right of the screen) the first contact for the letter that you stopped on appears at the top of the screen. But if you scroll from the top down the contact letter you stoped on starts at the bottom of the screen. This is in refference to #8 on the list.
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Cool! I hadn't realized that. Thanks for the tip.
I think a lot people will be glad to read that.EDIT: I added it to the Wiki list. (Tip Nr. 44)
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When I received my HD it clearly stated on the screen that when you are sitting down to not have the phone in your front pocket to avoid constant pressure against the screen.
I guess it depends how tight you wear your pants.
LOL
When people come up to me and say, "How you doin'? Please, have a seat" - I always answer, "Oh no..... thank you..... but... uh.... I have an HD in my pocket"
AllTheWay
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When people come up to me and say, "How you doin'? Please, have a seat" - I always answer, "Oh no..... thank you..... but... uh.... I have an HD in my pocket"
Or...is that an HD in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Or...is that an HD in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
They are happy to see me (or I need to take the Blackberry out of the same pocket)
I should clarify myself and mean inside jacket pocket or jacket pocket - not pants pocket. Will alter the entry soon However having said that I do sometime put my HD in my back trouser pocket and sit down. Guess I am lucky
However having said that I do sometime put my HD in my back trouser pocket and sit down. Guess I am lucky here are to on changing the splash screen
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452551
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3038384
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452551
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3038384
I don't know if this has been asked/discussed but when in a call and you get another, is there a way to drop active call and answer incoming call?
Not sure if this has been mentioned in this thread but to get 5MP instead of 4MP you must switch off Widescreen in Advanced Menu.
I assume there are other ways of doing it, but I always make sure that cover art is embedded into every single mp3 file I have. That way, no matter where that file goes, every media player will recognize the cover art automatically (not just for your Touch HD).
I use the free AudioShell right-menu extension. There are lots of other programs to do this. Just google "embed cover art in mp3". But make sure that it actually embeds the picture into each file. Some programs simply associate the picture to a file, but if you use the file somewhere else, you don't have the picture any more.
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Also, keep in mind that when you embed the cover art into an mp3 file, you will increase the size of that file by the amount of the picture. I usually have pictures no larger than 100 KB or so. Some people don't want anything bigger than about 20 KB. Also a pixel size of 500x500 is a good all-around size and often descent enough to view on your PC too. Of course for a mobile device a much smaller picture would suffice.
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Cool! I hadn't realized that. Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: I added it to the Wiki list. (Tip Nr. 44)
Pls clarify for my stupidity - if I go to people in tf3d and click All People I get taken to "Contacts". But I do not have a vertical alphabetical list at the side - I have a horizontal "#bc | cde | fgh" etc list at the top. Same if I go >Programs > Contacts.
I do recall seeing the contacts list you describe at some point (though can't recall if on this device) can you help me get back to it? Tnx.
I posted some pictures of what it should look like. You can also see that when I slide in an upward direction on that bar and stop on "M" then the "M" appears in the middle (until I let go) and the first contact starting with "M" is at the top of the list. If I slide downward and stop at "M", then the first contact starting with "M" will be at the bottom of the list.
If you don't have that bar, I don't know how you can get it back (other than the obvious hard reset). Maybe someone else here knows how or what might have caused it. Or if not, then start a new thread in the Blackstone section and call it something like "I lost the alphabet bar in my contacts list".
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Hi,
In your contacts-list click on <Menu> then <Options>. The first option there is called "Show alphabetical index". When this option is DISabled you get the bar on the right side of the screen, when it is ENabled you get an index at the top of the screen ("old style").
Hope this helps
Regards,
Rolf
In your contacts-list click on <Menu> then <Options>. The first option there is called "Show alphabetical index". When this option is DISabled you get the bar on the right side of the screen, when it is ENabled you get an index at the top of the screen ("old style").
Hope this helps
Regards,
Rolf
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