this is a demonstration of the general
settings of the HTC droid incredible
these general settings include
personalizations ringtones desktop
background widgets pin and password
settings etc to start let's look at some
of the personalization settings
available to change the sound and
notification settings on the phone in
fact most of the settings it will be
under settings on the phone so if you
press the menu button and go to settings
this will allow you to change the
different options so if we go to
personalize in a list of settings we can
choose our home default or our home
wallpaper in our default ringtone so if
we choose home wallpaper this will allow
us to either choose from the gallery
which is just the gallery of photos who
have taken on this particular phone or
we can choose a listing of HTC
wallpapers so if you scroll through
these you can you'll find different
stock wallpapers that you can set at any
point in time if you want to set a
wallpaper you can just hit set wallpaper
and then now that'll be your wallpaper
on the desktop to go back there you hit
menu and then settings and then
personalize and then you can also choose
live wallpapers live wallpapers or
animated wallpapers that you can choose
I wouldn't recommend these as much
mainly because while they they do look
pretty neat when you open up the phone
they do wear on your battery a little
bit more so it's just important to keep
that in mind if you want to choose one
of these there's some pretty neat ones
like galaxy they set that now you have
the galaxy in the background on your
desktop
and then there are other ones as well
there's magic smoke which makes a blurry
cloud in the background maps will show
your current position on maps or
whatever map you choose that Nexus will
just have some beams of light etc etc so
we'll go ahead and put it back to a
stock wallpaper here set wallpaper the
other option is the default ringtone
default ringtone will be the default
ringtone when you receive calls so it'll
give you a full list of different
ringtones here that you can set to you
can also set this setting under sound
settings so if you go into settings and
go to sound you can not only you'll you
not only have the option to set the
default ringtone but you the phone
ringtone but you could also set your
notification sound from the list of
notification sounds and there are all
sorts of different ones to choose from
there there are other options to set
from in here as well you can create
sound profiles you can choose your
volume settings so this will give you
toggles for all the volume settings for
the phone you can choose your audible
touch tones which will basically allow
you to change the touch tones not only
for your dialer but also if you want to
put in key touch tones as well whenever
you touch a key for in a particular menu
and whatnot screen lock sounds that's
kind of like the iPhone where you would
unlock the phone and it makes a click
noise or something like that and of
course you can always go in here and
choose to turn off all sounds
another important setting in here of
note is a display setting so if you tap
display you'll notice a couple of key
options in here such as brightness if
you want to change the brightness on
your phone you can toggle the brightness
normally this is set to automatic
brightness and it adjusts it accordingly
but you can also specify a manual
brightness if you want a brighter than
it normally displays it as you can see i
have it on the lowest setting as this
document camera doesn't like too bright
of images another setting a screen
timeout so right now I have it set to 10
minutes but I can also set it to 15
minutes this is to keep the display
active so it doesn't go the display
doesn't turn off if I am in the middle
of a presentation but you can specify
any any time out you want so this is it
if you have the display still turned on
and you set the phone down what it'll do
is after this timer runs out it'll turn
off the display and put it into a locked
mode I think the default timer on that
is a minute notification flash it's
pretty useful if you want various
applications and whatnot to display a
notification flash the standard one is
green but the LED will also change
colors based on the notification and if
you have a red indicator flash that
usually means your battery is low so if
you don't want a particular application
to notify you when it has a new message
via LED flash or if you don't want any
LED flashes this is where you would turn
that off any time you can press the
return key to go back to the previous
menu the animation section is useful
useful if you want to turn off
animations it's helpful if you want to
save battery life
and then if we go hit the return key
here and go back to the main settings
menu we'll have more options if we go
into wireless and networks you'll notice
there are some different options
available to us here airplane mode is is
exactly the airplane mode we discussed
in the first module which basically
turns off all radio on the phone
including 3G and any wireless and
bluetooth if you're on an airplane Wi-Fi
if you enable this and turn on Wi-Fi
it's recommended you leave this off if
you don't need it as that will also
drain your battery and then go to Wi-Fi
settings you can then even either choose
from a list of available networks or you
can tap add Wi-Fi network and type in
the name of the SSID and put in a key if
you need to if you hit save then it will
automatically connect up with that Wi-Fi
access point there's also a Bluetooth
option under here this is useful if you
want to hook up a Bluetooth headset all
Bluetooth Bluetooth is a standard so any
bluetooth headset will connect to this
phone as long as you have the
appropriate key information to turn that
on you just tap this it says turning on
and then again you go to Bluetooth
settings and you can scan for devices
and synchronize with the like a headset
or another Bluetooth device that way
accounts in sync is useful if you want
to go in here and adjust account
settings or add a new account you can
also choose to sync all here which will
sink all accounts including your email
account so if we go down here and we hit
add account you can actually add another
account a google account any account you
want I highly recommend that you don't
add a social networking account and the
reason for that is actually two reasons
one is it will basically tie the phone
with your social networking account and
then incorporate all contacts and merge
them all together the second reason is
which can be really annoying the second
reason is you cannot remove it once you
add it so you would actually have to do
a factory reset on the phone in order to
get rid of it instead of you doing this
I explain a later module how to add
applications go out to the market and
get it that way