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HTC Droid Incredible is one of the most Incredible Droid phone on the market. Manufactured by HTC, this Verizon-locked device sporting a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 8GB of internal storage, 748MB of ROM, an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and autofocus, 480 x 800 AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, a microSD slot (with support for up to 32GB cards), and most importantly, Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI on-board. To optimize the Incredible functions and performance, we have collected some cool tips and trick that you should know as the Droid Incredible owner. Here they are:

- Pressing the search button on the face of the phone opens a search dialog box but did you also know that pressing and holding the search button opens the voice search dialog box? And saying “navigate to” followed by an address, business or landmark opens the navigator and gets you on your way.

Swype Tips:
- If anyone needs tutorials on it there is a youtube channel here: YouTube – MySwype’s Channel
- Switch keyboards. You have to touch+hold the input text field and choose swype.
- Holding down the Home button shows you the last 6 programs you used, not which programs are open. Click on the app to jump to it.
- Menu>Settings>Sound & Display>Animation. Set it to Animations Off. There are 3 settings: Show All Animations, Show Some Animations, and Turn Off Animations, the off options is the best for overall performance. Heres another tip to bypass the lockscreen swipe. Just hit the menu button and you don’t need to swipe your finger to unlock the phone.

Disable Mobile Web Pages
Open Internet Browser, Hit Menu, More, Settings, Untick “Mobile View”

Long Press
- Pressing and holding the menu key on a screen hides or reopens the keyboard. Long press is a big player. It usually brings up a separate menu and when you long press on an email or a contact one of the menu options is delete which i prefer to opening the list and needing to select the X to delete.

Changing the preferred method for contacting
- So up under each favorite’s picture (or icon) is a small box that has their name in it. If you have already established a default contact type (small phone, envelope, message or contact card should appear in the bottom right hand corner of the icon) and want to change it, click on that small name button and it brings up the list of all possible contact methods. You can pick another contact method just for that one instance, but the contact type you set up originally will remain. Once in that same list screen you can click Menu>More>Set Widget Action and choose the new contact type. It even has an option to view the contact which is what I like so that I can pick from the list every time without accidentally calling them if I don’t hit the little button just right.

Special Characters
- A set of special characters (including > and <) can be found by clicking the "12#" key to the right of the space, then the "1/2" to the left of the space.

Assigning mp3 as a ringtone/alert
- Connect the phone to your computer as a disk drive. Two volumes showed up; one for the phone internal memory and one for the SD card. On the internal memory drive is a folder called MP3. Under this folder, create a ringtones folder and put your mp3 ringtones in there. Once disconnected the phone from the computer, the ringtones were automatically listed in the ringtone list. Works great with not problems to far!
- As far as assigning individual ringtones, each app typically has a setup to assign ringtones. For example, under the stock messages app, set to view all messages, tap menu and go to setup and you’ll find setting for both incoming and outgoing sounds.

How to remove a contact from the Favorites widget
- Accidentally added a person to your Favorites widget? Go to People> Groups. Long press on Favorites>Edit group. Press the ‘X’ to remove the person from favorites. This can work with other groups as well.

Add Custom Notifications
- To add custom ringtones you need to load them in a folder named “ringtones” on the device (or SD card) to add custom notifications …this is where i was getting lost … the files should be loaded on the device in a folder named “notifications” now i can rest =)

Camera Tips
- If you tap for focus with the camera and hold the tap for a couple seconds, it takes the picture without having to press the optical mouse button. Much better stability this way. It’s even less prone to camera shake than the double tap method on the iPhone.

LANDSCAPE and PORTRAIT
If anyone’s having issues with their phone not accurately or slowly switch back and forth between LANDSCAPE and PORTRAIT mode you may want to try this: Go to: Menu -> Settings -> Sound & Display -> G-sensor Calibration (all the way at the bottom). Calibrating the sensor on a flat surface should help.

Deleting saved scenes
The way scenes currently works is that it asks you to create a new scene every time you edit a current scene. Before long you end up with tons of unwanted “Custom” scenes. To delete these unwanted scenes, go to Settings > Personalize > Scenes long-press the scene to get options to edit or delete.

Create folders on home screen
- Click Add or + to add a Folder. Once it shows up on the home screen select it to open up then long press the folder to rename it what you will. You can create Social Sites Folder or a Mail folder to organize things better. To add files to a folder on the homescreen add the files to the homescreen then drag and drop them into the folder.

Battery tips
- Want to know exactly what program or component is using your precious battery? From the home screen, press the Menu button and select “Settings”. Click on “About Phone”, then click “Battery” and “Battery use”. A graphical display of what is using how much power is displayed.

Downloading and installing apps tips
- Instead downloading the app, then exiting to home screen, then accessing app drawer, find the newly downloaded app and then launching it, it is much quicker to download the app, wait for the notice at the top of the screen to tell you that the download is complete, then just pull down the notification tray and tap the notification for the newly downloaded app. It only works the first time of course, but it takes the process of accessing a newly downloaded app from a 4 step process to a 2 step process.

Browser text
- While browsing, a long tap will bring up a window to copy / share /etc. whatever it is you clicked. To include more text to be quoted, simply drag and reposition the highlighted frame around your selection.

Alarm Clock (pre-installed)
- If you like to sleep in a little longer you can change the Snooze duration on the pre-installed alarm clock. Click on the clock then go to the alarm. At these point where it shows the different alarms that you have, press the menu pointing then settings. Right there you’ll find the snooze durations. Time are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 minutes snooze times. You can also change the way the alarm works when the phone is locked. You can set the slider to either stop the alarm and make it snooze.

*IMPORTANT* If you have Advance Task Killer make sure you have it ignore closing the clock because this will cause the alarm clock NOT to go off. (I was late to work because i did this.

Contact links to Facebook
If you mistaking link someone to the wrong facebook account you can just go to the contact then click the little link icon at the top next to the person’s name. Where it has “Linked Contracts” you can just click the link icon again and it will break the link and remove the link between your contact and facebook.

Also when when you link an account the phone automatically pull the facebook picture as your contact image. If you click on the picture you can change it from Facebook, phone, camera, gmail, or photo. This is good if you don’t like the picture the person has on their facebook.

From the People (contacts) if you click on hold on the person’s picture you get a option to call them, send a text, or lookup their address on google maps.

Delete Widget, apps or File tips
- Instead of deleting a widget, app or file from one screen and then adding it to another, long tap the item you want to move to a different screen, then place that item over the top of another widget, app, etc. so that it can’t drop into place. Instead the item is held suspended until you place it properly. At this point just swipe to the appropriate screen and your “suspended” item will stay suspended in the forefront. Then just drag the item to an open space on the new screen and presto you have quickly and easily rearranged your home screen.

Speed up access to your voicemail
- Speed-Dial #1 is reserved for VM. For Verizon, it’s *86. You can modify this via –> Settings/Call/VM Settings/VM Number.

If you add a “p” after “*86″, it’ll pause for 3 seconds. Add your VM password followed by “#” allows you to long-press 1 from the dialer & it’ll dial your VM, pause for 3 seconds, dial your VM password & start playing your VM without you having to input the pswd & “#”.

Eg: *86p1234#

If you set it to *86p1234#1 it will start playing your new voicemail automatically.

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