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Nexus S™ 4G from Google
Personalize Your Phone
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The home screen extends horizontally to five home screens that are fully customizable with apps, widgets and shortcuts to contacts, direct dial, bookmarks, directions and more. Please note that shortcuts are now part of the Widgets menu.
To add a widget or app to your home screen:
- From your home screen, tap
to access your All Apps screen.
- Find the app or widget you'd like to add. Swipe your finger from right to left to access additional pages of apps. If you continue to swipe past your last page of apps, you'll get to your widgets list. You can also tap the Widgets tab at the top of the screen to go directly to widgets.
- Once you've found the item you'd like to add, touch and hold it. This will bring up a shrunken version of your home screens. Drag the item to the screen and location where you'd like to add it.
Some widgets are now resizable so you can adjust them to fit your needs.
- Touch and hold a widget on your home screen until the Google search bar at the top of the screen becomes Remove, and then let go.
- If the widget is resizable, there will be a blue outline with a blue diamond on each side of the widget. Touch a side and drag it to where you'd like it. It will snap to the nearest grid line.
- When you're done resizing, simply tap the screen.
- From your home screen, touch and hold an app icon and drag it on top of another app icon to create a folder. A circle containing the two icons will replace the single app icon.
- A circle with the two icons on top of each other will replace the single app icon. You now have a folder.
- To add an additional item to the folder, simply touch and hold it, and then drag it to the folder.
- To access items in the folder, tap the folder to open it.
- To give the folder a name, tap the folder to open it, tap Unnamed Folder at the bottom of the box, type a name, and then tap Done.
If you'd like to remove an item from a folder, open the folder, touch and hold the item, and then drag it out of the folder to a new location.
- Touch and hold the item you'd like to move or delete.
- Drag it to a new location or up to Remove at the top of the screen.
- Press
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> System settings > Sound > Phone ringtone.
- Tap a ringtone to hear what it sounds like.
- When you've chosen your ringtone, select it and tap OK.