Friday, August 22, 2014

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD Tips and Tricks

How to Factory Reset Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD

Performing factory reset on smartphones are often the last resort when worst comes to worst. When you do factory reset, all downloaded apps and phone settings will be deleted. Then youll have a clean phone just like the first time you opened it from its box. Make sure that you back up important files before you perform this. All data saved on your memory card will not be deleted though. Heres how you do a factory reset on Motorola Droid Razr HD.

1. On your devices screen, tap on Appsand go to Settings menu.

2. Then go to Privacy.

3. Select on Factory Reset and choose Reset Phone.



How to Extend Battery Life of Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD

Battery Life depends on how you use your device. For Motorola Droid Razr HD device, if you want to save your battery to last longer hours, you may need to adjust your settings. Follow these suggestions:

• To see whats using your battery more, go to Settings > Battery. If you want to set an automatic rules of saving more battery, tap on Apps, and select Smartactions.

• Turn down your device volume with the volume keys.

• Close any apps or features when you are done using it so they will not continuously running in the background.

• Turn off the network connection if you are out of range so that your device will stop searching for a network signal.

• You should use the latest version of the software update. Software updates improves some features and fixes some bugs on the previous software version.

• Turn off the camera flash.

• The camera viewfinder can be a power drain, so after youve finished taking photos, press the left arrow key.



How to Update Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD

There will come a time that Motorola will give a software update for your Motorola Droid Razr HD device. The update is needed to fix some bugs and for you to experience the newly added features. It may come by batch, but if you have not receive the update for a while, then you may need to manually check for the updates.

1. On your devices screen, tap on Appsand go to Settings menu.

2. Then select About phone..

3. Then tap System updates.

Make sure that your phone is connected to the Internet to install the update successfully.



How to Uninstall and Reinstall Apps on Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD

There will come a time that you no longer want to play the app that you have downloaded and want to remove it from your phone (Motorola Droid Razr HD). If this time will come, you just need to uninstall or disable the app so it will be removed on your phone.

Follow these steps on how to uninstall and reinstall your apps.

To uninstall an app:
  • Tap on Apps, then select the Gear icon or Settings.
  • Select Apps, then tap All.
  • Tap on the app you want to Disable or Uninstall.

Disabling the app will remove it from your menu. If you want to Enable it again, just reopen the window and tap Enable.

In case the app locks up your phone as you turn it on, just restart your phone in Safe Mode. Turn off your phone and turn it back after a minute. If you see a Motorola logo during the power up, press and hold both volume keys until you see the home screen, with Safe Mode in the lower left. Then you may try removing the app.


To reinstall an app:

If the app is from Google play store, simply go to Apps Play Store > My apps. From there you can see your apps ready to download again.


How to Add/Remove/Resize Widgets and Shortcuts on Motorola Droid Razr HD/Maxx HD

Adding Widgets on your Homescreen will help you improve your productivity in using your Droid Razr HD/Droid Razr Maxx HD. If you dont know what widgets means, Widgets are small applications that you can directly use on your Homescreen. These will serve as your shortcut icon so will no longer need to access the Menu.

To add a Widgets and Shortcuts:
  • Go to Apps.
  • Tap and hold on the app or widget.
  • Drag it to one of your home screen pages.
  • If you want to see all your apps and widgets, swipe the app screen to the left.
  • Or you may also tap Apps or Widgets at the top.
  • If you want to see all your favorite apps, just tap on the Star icon or Favorites.
  • Tap on Add/Remove to edit your favorite apps.

There are also app that include special widgets. If you want to download apps, just tap on Apps, then select Play Store.


To resize widgets:

  • Some widgets are resizeable, simply tap and hold on a widget you want to resize until it vibrates.
  • Then drage the blue diamonds at the edges to change the size.

To move or delete widgets and shortcuts:

  • Tap and hold on a widget you want to delete/move until it vibrates.
  • Then drag it to another spot/page, you simply Remove at the top of the screen.

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