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going to start a new thread, hopefully we can get some users to come here with their fav settings, tricks and apps
so far my fav setting for android is in the native gps
set a destination, go to settings, layers and click satalite, you get actual road pics taken from satalite imaging so no cartoon route, this is my fav android setting to date
how to increase font size in the android gmail app;
great tweak, impossible to find, even with the huge screen I now have on my galaxy the font size is way too small in gmail and you can't increase font size with the pinch method (I wonder why that is?)
also, increasing system font does nothing for the gamil app either (I wonder why that is?)...btw, I changed system font to choco and increased system font size and I LOVE it, try that too
anyway, although it's hard to figure the gmail font increase out it's simple to do so here it is;
open gmail, hit menu, hit more, then settings, then hit your account, that's where you;ll find the text size setting
next, once you get that going on your gps you're going to have to set some destination favorites
go to a new screen that should be empty except for these if you have a bunch, long press, shortcuts, directions and navigation, set your address, name it and bing, you have a list of gps address shortcuts
another gps, you really have to change the text to speech engine, I payed for the pico classic and it was worth every penny, really natural, there is a free program that does a pretty good job too, I think that one is called ivona, not quite as good but free
another absolutely favorite paid for program for me it will be for you too if you're a car performance buff
get "torque", this is a real time obd2 display and you're gonna be able to monitor real time information that's invaluable for a performance car
I paid 500 bucks for the "dash daq" before this android program, the android program is better by far and only a few bucks, they have a free version too so check that out, incredible value for the pro version
I think everyone knows about pandora, the most used app I have on the phone, you can't go wrong with either the free or the paid version, get that pronto
I have to admit, adroid interface still has issues but for the most part can be resolved with an app
for instance, I need immediate toggle for screen brightness so I can get best use from my battery at various levels, to that end there are quite a few free brightness apps on the market, go get one of those and set it up, pretty handy
talking about brightness, another must have is one of the flashlight apps, take your pick they are all pretty good
here's something very useful that seems undocumented till you find out it's there;
I thought I had to stop speaking and insert punctuation manually, this is not true, you can speak the punctuation and google cloud will insert it right there
for instance, if you speak into voice recognition;
"I wanted to know coma did you go to the flea market question mark" google cloud will type;
"I wanted to know, did you go to the flea market?"
kewl stuff there
so far my fav setting for android is in the native gps
set a destination, go to settings, layers and click satalite, you get actual road pics taken from satalite imaging so no cartoon route, this is my fav android setting to date
how to increase font size in the android gmail app;
great tweak, impossible to find, even with the huge screen I now have on my galaxy the font size is way too small in gmail and you can't increase font size with the pinch method (I wonder why that is?)
also, increasing system font does nothing for the gamil app either (I wonder why that is?)...btw, I changed system font to choco and increased system font size and I LOVE it, try that too
anyway, although it's hard to figure the gmail font increase out it's simple to do so here it is;
open gmail, hit menu, hit more, then settings, then hit your account, that's where you;ll find the text size setting
next, once you get that going on your gps you're going to have to set some destination favorites
go to a new screen that should be empty except for these if you have a bunch, long press, shortcuts, directions and navigation, set your address, name it and bing, you have a list of gps address shortcuts
another gps, you really have to change the text to speech engine, I payed for the pico classic and it was worth every penny, really natural, there is a free program that does a pretty good job too, I think that one is called ivona, not quite as good but free
another absolutely favorite paid for program for me it will be for you too if you're a car performance buff
get "torque", this is a real time obd2 display and you're gonna be able to monitor real time information that's invaluable for a performance car
I paid 500 bucks for the "dash daq" before this android program, the android program is better by far and only a few bucks, they have a free version too so check that out, incredible value for the pro version
I think everyone knows about pandora, the most used app I have on the phone, you can't go wrong with either the free or the paid version, get that pronto
I have to admit, adroid interface still has issues but for the most part can be resolved with an app
for instance, I need immediate toggle for screen brightness so I can get best use from my battery at various levels, to that end there are quite a few free brightness apps on the market, go get one of those and set it up, pretty handy
talking about brightness, another must have is one of the flashlight apps, take your pick they are all pretty good
here's something very useful that seems undocumented till you find out it's there;
I thought I had to stop speaking and insert punctuation manually, this is not true, you can speak the punctuation and google cloud will insert it right there
for instance, if you speak into voice recognition;
"I wanted to know coma did you go to the flea market question mark" google cloud will type;
"I wanted to know, did you go to the flea market?"
kewl stuff there
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