Nexus One Tips And Tricks

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Here is a list of Best Nexus One Tips And Tricks , Thanks To Xda-Developer members .

1-Hold down home button you get a list of the most used applications
2- Typing *#*#4636#*#* into the phone will bring up a screen titled “Testing”, with four other child screens:
Phone Information: details on the phone radio, data status and ip address, and options to turn on/off 3g.
Battery Information: the current status of the battery; level, health etc
Battery History: battery/cpu/network usage stats
Usage Statistics: Stats on usage time/launch count/application name .
3 – Pressing and holding the “Grey Dots” brings up all of the home screens for you to select…instead of scrolling to them.
4- Pressing Power + Volume Down + Trackball at the same time will restart the phone.
5- Holding down trackball AFTER the non animated splash logo shows up will boot your phone into SAFE MODE.
6- Tap the menu button while on home screen will give you shortcut to settings .
7- If you’re using Dolphin Browser, kinetic screen scrolling is additive, meaning scrolling multiple times (while moving) makes it scroll faster and faster.
8- To boot into Fast boot rather than Hboot, hold volume down and hit the power button while the phone is off. Makes for easier transition into recovery if you don’t adb or term into it.
9- Hold down the magnifying glass (or search button) and the voice search will activate, rather than the typed search.
10- Type about:debug in the browser, then press the menu button, more, settings. You’ll see some extra debug options.
11- Long press on the back button while in the browser takes you to your history .
12- If you are using swype, press on the sym button, then long press on it again, this will bring up a fat, numpad, good for numerical passwords. also if you swype these sym button, you will get a keypad page navigator.
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How To Root Nexus One 2 Ways (Bootloader Unlock + Flash A New Recovery Image)

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Are you bored Already With Your Nexus One ? Then It’s Time To Root it :)

In this Tutorial You will learn How to Root Nexus One and Have Custom ROM’s or Multitoch if you don’t have it already or maybe Sense UI on your Nexus One . Rooting Your Nexus One will Give you FULL access to the File system so please Be Very careful becoause you will be enable to edit the Nexus One Firmware as you like , Also Rooting you Nexus One Will allow you to add themes or Some Apps and Even Custom ROM’s as i said before .

I can Say that there is 2 ways to  Root Your Nexus One First One is by Downloading Superboot From Here And Follow these Instructions :

  1. Download Superboot
  2. You Should Put your device in BootLoader Mode By Turning your  Nexus One Off and Remove the battery
  3. Plug your USB Cable . Of course make sure that you Have already  Installed the USB drivers
  4. Now Put The Battery Back and Turn Your Nexus One On   And Hold Down the Trackball In same time ( You Will see FastBoot Screen Comes Up)
  5. Now You will see your Nexus One Serial Number
  6. Now Type fastboot-windows oem unlock
  7. Now Follow the screen On your Nexus One ( Select Yes) “If you got an error Just Ignore it Don’t Freak Out!)
  8. For Windows Users Click On ‘install-superboot-windows.bat’.
  9. That’s It !!! All done Your Nexus One Have Been Rooted .

If you ask me I don’t Like the First Way :/  , Second way is better but it take some time To Root Your Nexus One

Ok Lets Start :

  1. Make Sure Is Your USB Drivers is installed Correctly and Confirm  your Nexus One is recognized by ADB
  2. Back Up All your Important data from Your Nexus One
  3. Reboot Your Nexus One into FastBoot As we Did Before
  4. Open a command prompt And Go  to your Android SDK tools folder and Type ” fastboot  devices ” To Check that Nexus One Is Recognized.
  5. Now Unlock Nexus One Bootloader By Typing this Command ” fastboot oem unlock”
  6. Click on (Yes) and press Power button To confirm .
  7. You Should Download New Recovery Image For Nexus One
  8. Go To Amon_RA’s recovery image to  Download
  9. Ok Now Copy the File that you downloaded to your Android SDK tools folder
  10. Now open Command prompt and go to Android SDK tools folder
  11. Type  ” fastboot flash recovery NameOfTheFileYouDownloaded.img
  12. Now Reboot Your Nexus One
  13. In this Step You Should Enable USB debugging
  14. Go to Settings > Application settings > Development > USB debugging (enable)
  15. Now Go here and download any Custom .zip File That you want to flash
  16. Copy the .zip file that you downloaded to Your Root Directory if your Nexus One SD Card
  17. Now Open a command prompt and Go to Android SDK tools folder
  18. Type “adb reboot recovery” To reboot Your Nexus One into Recovery mode
  19. Now Use Trackball and Go to ” Flash zip from Sd Card” and then select the .zip File that you already downloaded
  20. Follow the Screen Instructions
  21. After Flash is Complete Reboot Your Nexus One
  22. That’s It !!!  Congratulations Your Nexus One Has Been Rooted
  23. Have Fun with Your Nexus One
  24. Share This Post With Friends By Clicking on Facebook Icon or twitter or even Google Buzz !

I Hope Instructions was easy for you and i didn’t make any mistakes :)

Enjoy Your Nexus One .

How To Use YouTube With Nexus One

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Nexus One Allows You to View Videos from Youtube with high quality and share them with friends or search for Videos bu typing or even use Invoice Input , Also You Will learn how record a video and publish it on Youtube , One More thing you can do with Google Nexus One Youtube is you can subscribe to your favorite users on Youtube and Get the latest updates So easy . Enjoy The video and Share it with friends .

How To Use Nexus One Camera and 3D Gallery

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New Video From  Google Nexus One Team On Youtube that will show you how to sue Nexus One Camera and how to customize it , Also This Video Will show you how to use 3d Gallery and share your photos or save them on Picasa and share it with your friends , Also You will learn how to set any picture as wallpaper and resize it as you like  . Enjoy the video and share it with your friends.

How To Use Nexus One Voice Input

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Another Small Video That Will show how to use Voice Input in Google Nexus One , Nexus One Allows You to speak and Let the Nexus One Type For you or Even search the Internet or Navigate to any place you want . and Of course   you can use Voice input to chat with friends or write  a message . Also Nexus One Voice Input allows you to change your Facebook states easily . Enjoy The Video and Don’t Forget to share it with Friends .

How To Set Up Your Nexus One

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If you Just Got Your Nexus One Then You Need To watch this Video , This Video From Nexus One Team On Youtube will show you how to use your Nexus One First Time and how to setup your Account with Gmail and Start Sync with you PC . Also You Will Learn How Create New Gmail Account If you don’t have one . And You Will learn how setup a password on your screen so only you can use the phone . Enjoy the Video and Share it With Friends .

Getting Started With Your Nexus One

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In this Video You will learn How start Using you Nexus One , Like Making Calls , Sending A message , Adding Contacts , How to dial and learn More about Call log , Also  you will learn how to Adding Numbers or Emails to your  Contracts  , Also  You will learn how to use In-Call-Options  , One More Thing in Nexus One Is that you can search In messages . Enjoy The Video And Share it With Your Friends .

How To Customize Nexus One Home Screen

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With This Video You Will learn how to Learn how to personalize the Nexus One home screen By adding Live wallpapers or widgets and shortcuts or even add folders to your Nexus One Home Screen , Thanks To Google Nexus One Team On youtube For This Video . Enjoy And Share it With Friends.

Here is an Extra Video

How To Use Google Maps On Nexus One

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Great Video From Google Nexus One Team on Youtube That explain you how to use Google Maps On Nexus One and what can you do with it,Google Maps On nexus One Lets  you View Maps or Search For Local businesses   and even view satellite images and much more .Great New Feature On Nexus One Google Map Is Turn-By-Turn driving direction . Enjoy The Video And Share it With Friends .