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About Motorola Droid X
Tips & tricks – A few handy hints
General tips
Battery tips
Digital living – Connect and enjoy
*Blockbuster videos
*Media Share
How to use Media Share?
*DLNA
How to use DLNA?
*HDMI
How to use HDMI?
*Wi-Fi
How to search & connect Wi-Fi?
Wi-Fi hotspot
How to modify the settings to add encryption to your Wi-Fi hotspot?
How to activate hotspot?

 

About Motorola Droid X.
Droid X by motorola gives us a high quality imaging, video and multimedia sharing experience. With its ultra-thin design and porgeous 4.3 inch, high resolution display, the Motorola Droid X stands out from the crowd.

  • Capture/record life’s moments in HD video.
  • Download Blockbuster videos, straight to your handset.
  • Stream and store multimedia on any DLNA Certified device in your home network. (No memory cards to swap, no cables to attach.)
  • Choose from thousands of cool apps, including apps to download your favorite movies/videos and TV shows for watching on your phone.
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    Tips & tricks – A few handy hints.
    General tips:

  • If you aren’t able to see the screen while wearing sunglasses, please take them off. (Screen brightness changes as your phone senses the current lighting conditions. )
  • Press home_key to return to home screen. 
  • Press Search search_key to search. 
  • Touch phone_key Phone - > Recent to see recently dialed numbers. 
  • Press Power/Lock power_lock_key to sleep/wake your phone. 
  • Press Menu Menu key - > Settings - > Sound & display - > Screen timeout.
  • Press and hold Home home_key to show last few apps.
  • Press and hold Power/Lock power_lock_key - > Silent mode to turn sound on/off.
  • Press and hold Power/Lock power_lock_key - > Airplane mode to turn airplane mode on/off.
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    Battery tips:.
    How to extend your battery life? Try these as below:

  • Select a battery profile that suits your phone use via the way: Press Menu Menu key - > Settings - > Battery Manager.
  • Turn off automatic applications sync via the way: Press Menu Menu key - > Settings - > Data Manager - > Data Delivery.
  • Turn off Bluetooth power via the way: Press Menu Menu key - > Settings - > Wireless & networks - > Bluetooth.
  • Turn off Wi-Fi via the way: Press Menu Menu key - > Settings - > Wireless & networks - > Wi-Fi.
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    Digital living – Connect and enjoy.
    Blockbuster videos .
    Blockbutter On Demand is a service allowing you to purchase or rent and download video assets from the Droid X phone. After purchase or rental, you can play the video content back on your Droid X or on PCs or TVs connected to a TiVo DVR, a Blu-ray player or 2Wire media platform.
    Once an upgrade procedure of the app is completed, you will be prompted to activate the Blockbuster device by signing up (if you have no Blockbuster account) or signing in (if you already have a Blockbuster account). After adding in their credit information for your payment option, you are able to browse a vast array of Blockbuster video assets for purchase or rent. This service hasn’t monthly fee.

     

    Media Share.
    Media Share provides an easy and fast solution to share your media content – photos, videos and tunes – with friends and family.

  • Share/stream your media via DLNA devices: The Media Share wizard helps you through the easiest setup steps.
  • Swap photos & videos: Share any photo or video on your Droid X phone, even the ones you created. Or, if you like, you could see photos/videos in HD quality on an HDTV or monitor.
  • More tunes: Enjoy your favorite movies or videos from your Droid X playlist on your sound system at home. Or get music from your portable music player and transfer or copy it to your Droid X’s music library.
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    If you want to use the Media Share to enjoy photos, videos and music, you must be connected to a network or another device:

  • Connect Droid X to your computer with a USB cable.
  • Connect Droid X to a Wi-Fi network or use your own Wi-Fi hotspot.
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    Then, Media Share will lead you the rest of the way.

     

    Note: If you want to use a Wi-Fi connection, you need allow access to other devices to download media from your phone and to share your videos or movies. If you hope to access media files on your computer, phone, network drive, video game console or television, you must allow access.

     

    How to use Media Share?
    Touch the launcher icon launcher_icon - > Media Share and then select the Media Share feature you plan to use.

  • Play media – Select media (videos, movies or music) files for playback on another device in a Wi-Fi network.
  • Upload media – Select videos/movies or other media files on your Droid X to copy or move to another devices.
  • Download media – Select music/videos or other media files on another device to download to your Droid X.
  • Share media – Support other devices to access media files on your Droid X. No downloading or transferring any media from your Droid X, other people can view your photos or videos or play your music and movies on their own devices.
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    DLNA.
    DLNA makes it possible to expand the ways you are able to enjoy photos, videos and music on a DLNA Certified HDTV or monitor by using your own Wi-Fi network.


    Note: Before streaming videos/movies to your DLNA certified devices, please ensure that your Droid X is connected to an active Wi-Fi network and has access to the DLNA certified device.


    How to use DLNA?


    dlna_menu


    1) Touch Launcher icon launcher_icon - > DLNA.
    2) Touch Play media, Copy media to server, copy media to phone or Share media.
    3) Follow the instructions you see on the Droid X.

     

    HDMI.
    Note: By using HDMI, you can’t view commercial media content – photos or videos purchased and downloaded but only user-generated content – your own pictures and recorded videos.


    How to use HDMI?
    1) Press Menu Menu key - > Settings - > HDMI to select an HDMI format.
    2) Connect an HDMI cable from the HDMI port on the Droid X to an HDMI port on the TV monitor.
    3) Touch Launcher icon launcher_icon - > Home Sync Wizard - > Start - > Television - > Play.

     

    Wi-Fi.
    Wi-Fi helps you use a wireless network for fast Internet access and to download data.


    How to search & connect Wi-Fi?
    1) Press Menu key - > Settings - > Wireless & networks - > Wi-Fi setttings.
    2) Touch Wi-Fi to turn or scan. After Wi-Fi is already on, you can press Menu Menu key - > Scan. And then the Droid X will lists the networks it finds within range. If you want to see the Droid X’s Mac address or other Wi-Fi details, just press Menu Menu key - > Advanced.
    3) Touch a network to connect. If necessary, you need to enter Network SSID, Security and Wireless password and then touch Connect. Once the Droid X is connected to the network, the wireless indicator appears in the status bar.
    Generally, you will automatically reconnect to available networks you’ve connected to before when you are in range and Wi-Fi is on.


    Wi-Fi hotspot.
    To set up your Droid X as a Wi-Fi hospot to provide portable, convenient internet access to other Wi-Fi enabled devices is available. Since risks may be associated with connecting to the public internet, it is highly recommended to protect your Wi-Fi enabled devices from unauthorized access.


    How to modify the settings to add encryption to your Wi-Fi hotspot?
    Launcher icon launcher_icon - > 3G Mobile Hotspot - > Menu key - > Advanced - > WiFi AP mode Settings.

    SSID – Enter a unique name for your hotspot and touch Next.
    Security – Choose the type of security you like, and touch Save: WEP, WPA or WPA2. Enter a unique password. Only if other users enter the correct password, they can access your Wi-Fi hotspot.
    Please note that WEP is the weakest option because it is highly vulnerable to hacking. Therefore, WPA2 is recommended by IEEE.
    Channel – Select a channel to minimize potential interface. Once your hotspot is active for a time you may need to try different channels.

     

    How to activate hotspot?
    Launcher icon launcher_icon - > 3G Mobile Hotspot - > Tap to start Mobile Hotspot service.
    Once the Wi-Fi hotspot of the Droid X is active, other Wi-Fi enabled devices can connect only if you enter your hotspot’s SSID, select a security type and enter the correct Wireless password.

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