TIP: Be certain to remember your PASSWORD if you enable the phone lock feature. Without your password, your phone will need to be reset at the place of purchase, which will result in the loss of your personalized settings and all content stored in phone memory.

2. Bookmark mobile-friendly websites

Many websites support ‘Mobile friendly editions’ (e.g. www.CNN.com/togo/) or ‘lo-fi’ versions. Choosing to bookmark these sites will provide a more efficient mobile web experience.

3. Save pictures and videos to storage card by default

TIP: To set storage card as the default location to save pictures and videos, in Thumbnail view go to Menu > Options > Camera. If you will have the option “Save files to: Storage Card”.

4. Customize the time limit for your videos

To change time limit for videos, in Thumbnail view, go to Menu > Options > Video. If you will have the option set video length to 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or no limit.

5. Synchronize Notes on your Motorola Q

Notes created in Outlook are not directly supported in Microsoft® Windows Mobile 5.0, Smartphone edition, and cannot be synchronized directly to the Motorola Q. Notes may be used with third party applications or alternative sync solutions such as GoodLink™.

NOTE: Alternatively, users may find it useful to utilize Tasks to synchronize personal notes and/or to-do’s.

6. Navigate Contacts by Category

Make it easier to navigate large Contact lists by using the Category field to differentiate ‘Business’ and ‘Personal’ contacts, for example. When searching Contacts, choose Menu > Filter by.

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1. Call Forwarding

Dial *72 + the number you wish to forward to. Press “SEND”. To deactivate call forwarding, dial*720 “SEND”. Listen for confirmation, then press “END”.

2. Conference Call

Place your first call as usual, then dial the second number and press “SEND” again. When your second call connects press send again to connect both calls.

Power Saving Tips and Tricks:

1. Set your synchronization schedule

You can set your Motorola Q to automatically synchronize with your PC at time intervals that you specify, so that auto-synch doesn’t interfere with your peak usage time.

2. Use your screen dimmer

Set your screen to automatically dim after your Motorola Q is idle for a certain period.

3. Disable Bluetooth® connectivity when not in use

When you’re not using your Bluetooth® headset and accessories, you can easily turn this function off.

1. Press Start.
2. Scroll to and select Bluetooth.
3. Select Bluetooth Manager.
4. Scroll to and select Settings.
5. Scroll left to deactivate Bluetooth on your device.
6. Press Done.

4. Control the number of applications running

You can minimize the number of applications that run at one time.

1. Press Start.
2. Scroll to and select System Tools.
3. Scroll to Task Manager.
4. Scroll to the application you’d like to end.
5. Press Menu.
6. Select Kill for that single application or Kill All to end all running applications.

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You can respond to an email quickly by placing a phone call to an existing Contact. Simply highlight and select the name or address and the contact will appear on the screen, including phone number(s).

2. Toggle between email accounts

If you have two email accounts (personal and business) and frequently get text messages, you can easily toggle between the various accounts without going to Home screen each time. When you are viewing any account, you may arrow Left or Right on the Nav Key to navigate your accounts

3. Auto-sync one email account

If you have two email accounts assigned to your device, only select one to automatically sync. Set your Exchange server Active Sync (business email ) peak times so they don’t conflict with your peak personal email usage times. This will also improve your overall battery life performance. See Power Saving Tips and Tricks for instructions on how to Set your synchronization schedule.

4. Sync items in your Sent Folder

In order to sync Sent items (personal or business email ) select Folders, then Menu > Manage Folders > choose the Sent folder and select Sync (Right softkey).

5. Send an email from a calendar notice

You can send an email from a calendar notice when any email or contact information is provided in the meeting notice.

1. Open up your Outlook Calendar.
2. Scroll down and open the appropriate appointment.
3. Scroll down to the email address underlined in the body of the appointment using the navigation key or the thumb wheel.
4. Press the action button in the middle of the navigation key.
5. Select the email account from which you wish to send the email
6. Press the action button in the middle of the navigation key.
7. Type out your email and press Send.

6. Send a URL from Explorer

While in Explorer, you can send a URL directly to somebody via email by selecting Menu > Tools > Send link via email

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Download the 0032_0001 Seem
-Open p2kman
-Above the Download seems button in the FROM box type 0032 & in the TO box also type 0032.
-Click download and save the file to a location but do NOT rename it, just leave as xxxx_yyyy
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Hacking the Seem
-Open XVI32

-File>Open> locate the  0032_0001 seem that we saved in the previous step
-When you open the file the main screen will have two different sides, the left side is the HEX side and the right side is the TEXT representation of the seem file.
-All of the work on the 0032_0001 seem will be done on the HEX side of the screen
-We need to find Offset 34 to disable the roaming triangle feature. You will know when you have found offset 34 because in the bottom left hand corner of the screen you will see Adr.hex: 34.
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-Once you have located and highlighted the offset go to the tools menu and select bit manipulation
-Make sure that bit 3 is unchecked and press the “set” button
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-Now that the roaming triangle has been disabled lets fix the ^@ VM Indicator SMS problem.
-We need to find Offset 2 to fix the ^@ VM Indicator SMS problem. You will know when you have found offset 2 because in the bottom left hand corner of the screen you will see Adr.hex: 2.
-Once you have located and highlighted the offset go to the tools menu and select bit manipulation
-Make sure bit 1 is checked and press the “set” button
-Now all we need to do is save the edited seem
-File>save as> save the file to a different location then the original just incase you made a mistake you still have your backup, save the file as 0032_0001

Loading the Hacked Seems back to Phone
-Open P2kman
-To upload the modded  seem back to the phone we  need to fill out the “seem” and “rec”  boxes within p2kman, these boxes are located above the upload seems button
-To upload  0032_0001 using p2kman put 0032 in the “seem box” and 0001 in the “rec box”
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-If all is well p2kman will display N 0032 record N0001 ok
-Click on the restart phone button
-Soon as P2kman says that the phone is disconnected, remove data cable and the roaming triangle and ^@ VM Indicator SMS problem will now be gone.

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First open /Applications -> iSync.app -> (Control-click and choose Show Package Contents) -> Contents -> Plugins -> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice -> Contents -> Plugins -> PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin -> Contents -> Resources -> MetaClasses.plist and find the entry for the RAZR V3. Duplicate this section and modify all instances of V3 to read V3i (except in the icon name).

Now plug your phone into the USB cable, open iSync and select Add Device; you should see the RAZR V3i pop-up. Double-click to add, and you are sorted.

You may receive the message “service cannot be started,” especially if you’ve been playing with Bluetooth prior to testing the USB cable. If you restart the phone, this will go away.