Motorola Droid X User manual

User Guide

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1Congratulations

Congratulations

DROID X by Motorola

DROID X by Motorola gives you a high quality imaging,

video, and multimedia sharing experience. With its

ultra-thin design and its gorgeous 4.3 inch, high

resolution display, DROID X by Motorola stands out

from the crowd.

• Capture life’s moments in HD video.

• Download BLOCKBUSTER videos, straight to your

handset.

• Stream and store multimedia on any DLNA™

Certified device in your home network. No memory

cards to swap, no cables to attach.

• Choose from thousands of cool apps—including

apps for downloading your favorite movies and TV

shows to watch on you phone.

Caution: Before assembling, charging or using your

phone for the first time, please read “Safety,

Regulatory & Legal” on page 59. Once your phone

is up and running, press Menu >

Settings

>

About phone

>

Safety & regulatory

to read the full

information.

More

•Answers: Touch

Launcher icon

>

Help Center

.

You can also flick your home screen left or right to

see the Getting Started and Tips & Tricks widgets.

•Updates: Phone updates, PC software, online help

and more at www.motorola.com/mydroidx

.

• Accessories: Find accessories for your phone at

www.motorola.com/products

.

Notes:

• All screens in this guide are simulated. Actual

displays may vary.

• This phone supports data-intensive apps and

services. It is strongly recommended that you

purchase a data plan that meets your needs.

Contact your service provider for details.

• Instructions to perform tasks in this guide may

change depending on the software version on

your phone.

• Unless specified otherwise, all instructions to

perform tasks in this guide assume that you are

starting from the home screen.

2 Your phone

Your phone

Note: Your phone might look a little different.

Press to put the

display to sleep,

or hold to turn off.

3.5mm

Headset

Jack

Back Key

Menu Key

Microphone

Home Key

To u chscreen

Camera

Key

Power/

Lock Key

Volume

Zoom Keys

Press to open

menu options.

Search Key

Press for text

search or hold

for voice search.

Micro USB

Port

Charge or

connect to PC.

HDMI Port

/

Contents

Let’s go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Touchscreen & keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Home screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Apps & updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Text entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Tips & tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Digital living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Photos & videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

YouTube™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Social networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Personalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Google Maps™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Google Latitude™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Apps for all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Bluetooth® wireless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Wi-Fi™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Memory card & file management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Safety, Regulatory & Legal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

3Let’s go

Let’s go

let’s get you up and running

Assemble & charge

1 remove cover 2 insert microSD (may

already be done)

3 insert battery

4 replace cover 5 charge up

Gold

Contacts

Battery

removal

tab

3H

Caution: Please read the battery use and safety text in

the important legal and safety information packaged

with your phone.

Tip: To save battery life, see “Battery tips” on page 21.

Set up & go

The first time you turn on your phone, a setup wizard

guides you through signing in to your Gmail™ account.

If you don’t have one, don’t worry, the wizard will help

you create one.

After you log in to Gmail, you can set up social

networking, or you can do it later.

Note: This phone supports data-intensive apps and

services. It is strongly recommended that you

purchase a data plan that meets your needs. Contact

your service provider for details.

1 Press and hold Power/Lock

on top of your phone to turn it

on.

2 Select a language.

3 Follow the setup wizard to

create or log in to your Gmail account.

Note: If you have an existing Gmail account, your

contacts from that account are synced to your phone.

Whenever you choose to select all contacts for the one

4 Touchscreen & keys

you want, your phone shows every contact, in every

groups.

Wi-Fi™ connect

If you want to use a Wi-Fi network for even faster

Internet access, press Menu >

Settings

>

Wireless & networks

>

Wi-Fi settings

. Touch

Wi-Fi

to

search for and connect to wireless networks. There’s

more in “Wi-Fi™” on page 47.

Cool content & more

Browse and download thousands of the coolest apps

on the planet from Android Market™.

Your phone comes with a microSD memory card

installed—you can load it up with photos, videos, and

music from your computer using “Memory card” on

page 49.

Touchscreen & keys

a few essentials

Touch tips

Here are some tips on how to navigate around your

phone.

Touch

To choose an icon or

option, touch it.

Touch & hold

To open special options,

touch and hold an icon or

other item. Try it: In the

home screen, touch

Contacts

, then touch

and hold a contact to

open options.

Contacts: A-Z

Arthur Bando

Barry Smyth

Cheyenne Medina

Christine Fanning

Contacts: All contacts

Arthur Bando

View contact

Call contact

Send text message

5Touchscreen & keys

Drag

To scroll through a list or

move slowly, drag across

the touchscreen. Try it: In

the home screen, touch

Contacts

, then drag

your

Contacts

list up or

down.

Tip: When you drag or

flick a list, a scroll bar

appears on the right.

Drag the scroll bar to

move the list to a letter

A-Z.

Flick

To scroll through a list or move quickly, flick across the

touchscreen (drag quickly and release).

Tip: When you flick a long list, touch the screen to stop

it from scrolling.

Zoom

Get a closer look at Google Maps™ or web pages. To

zoom in, double-touch (tap twice, quickly) the screen.

To zoom out, double touch the screen again.

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Contacts: A-Z

Arthur Baudo

Barry Smyth

Cheyenne Medina

Christine Fanning

Jim Somers

Kat Bleser

Kristin Cullen

Contacts: All contacts

You can also zoom in or out by pinching your fingers

together or moving them apart on the screen.

To z oo m, touch

with two fingers,

then move them

apart.

6 Touchscreen & keys

Key tips

Menu, home, & back

Press Home to close any menu or app and return

to the home screen. In the home screen, press and

hold Home to show the last eight apps you used,

then touch an app to open it.

Press Search for text search, or press and hold for

voice search.

Press Menu to open menu options, or press

Back to go back.

Power/Lock & sleep key

Press and hold Power/Lock to open the

Power/Lock key menu, where you can turn

Airplane

mode

or

Silent mode

on or off, or turn off the phone

(

Power off

).

To save your battery, prevent accidental touches. or

when you want to wipe smudges off your

Back Key

Menu Key

Home Key

Search Key

touchscreen, put the touchscreen to sleep by pressing

Power/Lock . To wake up the touchscreen, just

press Power/Lock again.

To change how long your phone waits before the

screen goes to sleep automatically, press Menu

>

Settings

>

Display

>

Screen timeout

.

Tip: To make the screen lock when it goes to sleep,

use “Screen lock” on page 53. To unlock the screen,

drag to the right.

Adjust volume

Press the volume keys to change

the ring volume or the earpiece

volume (during a call).

Rotate the screen

In many apps, the touchscreen

adjusts to display in landscape mode when you turn

the phone sideways:

Find it: Menu >

Settings

>

Display

>

Auto-rotate

screen

Quick tips

If ever you’re not sure what to do next, try one of

these:

7Home screen

To...

Get the details—Open a

text message, see details

for a contact, or open items

in other lists.

Touch the message,

contact, or item.

See screen menu—Open a

menu for the current

screen.

Press Menu

See item options—Open

an options menu (if

available) for an item on the

screen.

Touch & hold the

item.

Start again—Go back to

the home screen.

Press Home

Wake up your

phone—Turn on a sleeping

touchscreen.

Press

Power/Lock or

Menu .

Home screen

quick access to the things you need most

Quick start: Home screen

The home screen gives you all your latest information

in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on the

phone or press Home from a menu. It’s basically

like this:

8 Home screen

Note: Your home screen might look a little different.

The home screen extends left and right to give you

more room for adding shortcuts, widgets, and more.

Flick the home screen left and right to see more panels

or to add widgets or shortcuts.

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Status Indicators

Flick left or right to

see more screens.

Shortcuts

Touch to open.

Open the App tray.

Press Back to close.

Notifications

Flick this bar down to see

details.

Use & change your home screen

On your home screen, shortcuts are icons that open

your favorite apps, Web bookmarks, contacts, mail

labels, or music playlists. Widgets show you news,

weather, messages, and other updates.

Flick the home screen left or right to open other panels

of shortcuts and widgets.

• To open something, touch it. Press Home to

return to the home screen.

Tip: When you open a widget, touch Menu to

see any options or settings (you can choose

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See all your apps.

Touch the Launcher icon.

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Browser

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9Home screen

accounts for

Messages

,

Happenings

, or

Calendar

widgets).

There’s more about social networking widgets in

“Your social networking account” on page 36.

• To resize

Motorola

widgets

, touch and hold a

corner until you feel a

vibration, then drag.

• To add something or

change your wallpaper,

touch and hold an empty

spot until you see the

Add

to Home screen

menu.

You can add a folder to organize your shortcuts.

• To move or delete something, touch and hold it

until you feel a vibration, then drag it to another

spot, another panel, or the trash at the bottom of

the screen.

Search

To search, press Search , then use the search

window that appears.

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To search by voice, touch , then speak your

keyword(s) when prompted.

To type your search, touch the search window, then

enter your keyword(s) and touch .

Phone status & notifications

The status bar at the top of the screen contains icons

that tell you about messages and phone status. To

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Search

All Web Apps

Search by voice.

For a text search, touch

the text box & type

using the touch keyboard

or the slide-out keyboard.

Then, touch the icon for

a text search.

Touch to select

search location.

10 Home screen

view your notifications, touch the status bar and drag it

down.

Tip: To see today’s date, touch and hold the status bar

at the top of the screen.

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2:47 PM

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Copy Revisions

New email

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Notifications

Meeting

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Mary Morgan

Copy Revisions

New email

3:00 PM

July 15, 2010

Notifications

Verizon Wireless

Clear

Meeting

Tip: To see today’s date, touch and hold the status bar

at the top of the screen.

Bluetooth® active network (full signal)

GPS active network (roaming)

Wi-Fi™ active 3G (fastest data)

downloading airplane mode

vibrate sync active

silent alarm set

mute call battery (charging)

speakerphone active battery (full charge)

11Apps & updates

Apps & updates

get the app you want

Quick start: Apps & updates

You can find all of your apps in one place. From the

home screen, just touch

Launcher icon

to open the

app tray.

To close the app tray, touch at the bottom of the

screen, or press Home or Back .

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Hotspot

Alarm &

Timer

Amazon MP3 Backup

Assistant

Calculator

Calendar

BrowserBlockbuster

Camcorder

Camera CarDock City ID

DLNADialerContacts Email

MP3

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Touch to return to

home screen.

Want more? No problem: To download more apps,

touch

Launcher icon

>

Market

.

Your phone can tell you when there’s an updated app

or other phone software. To install the update, just

follow the instructions on your screen.

Browse & install apps

Get all the fun games and cool apps you want! Android

Market™ provides access to applications developed by

developers worldwide, so you can find the app you

want. If you need help or have questions about

Android Market, press Menu >

Help

.

Find it:

Launcher icon

>

Market

Scroll to and touch the app you want to install. Then,

touch

Install

(if app is free) or

Buy

.

Recent apps

Your phone remembers up to eight apps that you used

most recently. Just press and hold Home to see

your recent apps, then touch the app you want.

Press Home to return to the home screen.

Manage & restore apps

Find it: Menu >

Settings

>

Applications

>

Manage

applications

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Touch an app in the list, then touch

Uninstall

(for apps

you downloaded),

Clear cache

, or other options.

To reinstall apps from Android Market, touch

Launcher

icon

>

Market

>

My downloads

. Previously

installed apps are listed and available for download.

Update my phone

You can check, download, and install phone software

updates using your phone, or using your computer:

• Using your phone:

You may get an automatic notification of an available

update on your phone. Simply follow the

instructions to download and install.

To manually check for updates, press Menu

>

Settings

>

About phone

>

System updates

.

Your phone downloads any updates over your

mobile network. Remember, these updates can be

quite large (25MB or more) and may not be available

in all countries. If you don’t have an unlimited data

plan, or mobile network updates are not available in

your country, you can update using a computer.

• Using your computer:

On your computer, go to

www.motorola.com/mydroidx

and check the

“Software” links. If an update is available, simply

follow the installation instructions.

Calls

it’s good to talk

Quick start: Calls

Dialing options

From the home screen, touch

Phone

.

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Contacts

Recent Favorites

Dialer

Backspace

Touch to delete

digits you

entered.

Recent

Calls List

Touch to open,

then touch an

entry to call.

Call

Enter a phone

number &

touch here to

call it.

Call Voicemail

Voice Dial

13Calls

In-call options

During a call:

• To use a Bluetooth® device, touch

Bluetooth

. (The

device must be turned on and previously

paired—see “Connect new devices” on page 46.)

Active Call

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Add call

Bluetooth Mute

DialpadEnd call

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Speaker

Call Timer

Mute

Touch to mute or

unmute the call.

End Call

Touch to hang up.

Speakerphone

Touch to turn the

speakerphone on or

off.

Dial Pad

Touch to enter

numbers during a call.

• To mute a call, touch

Mute

.

• To use the speakerphone, touch

Speaker

.

Note: Using a mobile device or accessory while

driving may cause distraction and may be illegal.

Always obey the laws and drive safely.

Tip: You can press Home or Back to leave the

active call display. To reopen it, press Home

>

Phone

>

Return to call in progress

.

Make & answer calls

To make a call, touch

Phone

, enter a number, then

touch .

Tip: If the screen is locked, drag to the right.

To answer a call while the display is active, touch

Answer

. When the display is not active, answer by

dragging to the right.

To end a call, touch .

To ignore a call, touch

Ignore

.

End call

14 Calls

End calls

Touch .

Note: Your phone

includes a proximity

sensor. When you hold

the phone to your ear,

the display goes dark to

prevent accidental

touches. When you move your phone away from your

ear, the display lights up again.

Recent calls

Find it:

Phone

>

Recent

• To call a number, touch it.

• To send a text message, create a contact, view a

contact, or other options, touch and hold an entry.

• To clear the list, press Menu >

Clear list

.

Frequent calls

Find it:

Phone

>

Favorites

• To call a number, touch it.

• To send a text message, view a contact, or other

options, touch and hold an entry.

Add call

Bluetooth Mute Speaker

DialpadEnd call

End call

Conference calls

To start a conference call, call the first number. After

the call connects, touch

Add Call

. Dial the next

number, or select it from contacts or favorites. When

the next number answers, touch

Merge calls

.

Your phone number

Find it: Menu >

Settings

>

About phone

>

Status

>

My Phone number

Emergency calls

Note: Your service provider programs one or more

emergency phone numbers (such as 911 or 112) that

you can call under any circumstances, even when your

phone is locked. Emergency numbers vary by country.

Your pre-programmed emergency number(s) may not

work in all locations, and sometimes an emergency

call cannot be placed due to network, environmental,

or interference issues.

4 Touch

Phone

(if your phone is locked, touch

Emergency Call

).

5 Enter the emergency number.

6 Touch to call the emergency number.

Note: Your mobile device can use GPS and AGPS

signals to help emergency services find you. See

”GPS & AGPS” in your legal and safety information.

15Contacts

Contacts

contacts like you’ve never had before

Quick start: Contacts

Find it:

Contacts

Tip: To search the list, press and hold Menu to

open a touchscreen keyboard, then type a name.

When you flick or drag the list, drag the scroll bar that

appears to move the list faster.

Contacts: A-Z

Arthur Baudo

Barry Smyth

Cheyenne Medina

Christine Fanning

Jim Somers

Kat Bleser

Kristin Cullen

Contacts: All contacts

Group

Press Menu to choose

which group to show (like

All or Favorites).

Create Contacts

Contacts List

Touch to view contact

information. Touch & hold

to call, send a text

message, & more.

Call or email contacts

Find it:

Contacts

For

View contact

,

Call contact, Send text message,

Send email

, or other options, touch and hold the

contact.

View & use contacts

When you set up a social networking account (see

“Social networking” on page 36), you’ll know what

everybody’s up to and when. Every time you pick up a

call, check a message, or look up a friend’s contact

info, sure, you’ll see their name and number, but you

can see their social network status and smiling face,

too.

Find it:

Contacts

• To find a contact, type the contact name.

Touch a contact to open its details. While viewing

details, you can start a call or message by touching a

phone number or other info. Flick the screen left or

right to see

Social Networking

updates or

History

.

Tip: To change which account provides the pictures

for your

Contacts

, from the home screen touch

Launcher icon

>

My Accounts

>Menu

>

Picture source

.

16 Contacts

• To change which group of contacts is shown (

All

,

Facebook

, and so on) touch the filter name at the

top.

• To change how you view the list of contacts, flick

left or right at the bottom of the screen to select

History

(recently used),

A-Z

(list without status), or

Status

(list with status).

Edit or delete contacts

Find it:

Contacts

Touch the contact, then press Menu >

Edit

or

Delete

.

Link contacts

You might have two

Contacts

for the same person,

such as a friend with two email addresses. To combine

these two contacts:

Find it:

Contacts

Touch a contact to open it, then press Menu

>

Link contact

and touch the second entry. Your social

networking account remembers this connection.

Create contacts

Find it:

Contacts

>Menu >

Add contact

Touch any entry area to open the touchscreen

keyboard.

When you’re finished, touch

Save

.

Where are contacts saved? Your phone saves new

contacts in its memory and in the Google Server or the

subscription-only Backup Assistant, if you have a

subscription. It also updates your social networking

account.

Synchronize contacts

When you change one of your

Contacts

, your phone

automatically updates your other social networking

accounts. Also, your phone updates your

Contacts

and

social networking account whenever you change a

friend in your social networking accounts.

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Discard changes

17Text entry

Groups

Find it:

Contacts

>Menu >

Display group

You can put your

Contacts

into groups that you create

(like “friends”, “family”, or “work”). Then, you can find

contacts faster by showing one group at a time.

Text entry

keys when you need them

Touchscreen keyboard

You can open a keyboard on your screen by touching a

text field, or pressing and holding Menu . To close

the keyboard, press Back .

Different keyboards open for different text entry

screens. For example, this keyboard opens when you

create an email message:

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Return/

Line Feed

Space

Letters/Numbers

Touch to open a keypad for

symbols or numbers.

Shift

Microphone

Touch for voice

input.

18 Text entry

Input methods

To select an input method, touch and hold a text entry

area on the screen to open the

Edit text

menu. Touch

Input method

, then touch the method you want:

Swype™ text entry

Swype lets you enter a word with one continuous

motion. To enter a word, just drag your finger over the

letters in the word.

Tips:

• To enter apostrophes in common words (like “I’ll”),

drag through the

n

as though it was an apostrophe.

• To enter several symbols, touch

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