New User - Couple of Questions

[BigCTM]

I just received a Trophy off of Ebay and am really really liking it. I immediately updated it to Mango so I would experience it from the start. Coming from Android, I have a couple of questions on a couple of things that are pretty basic but I am not seeing how to do it.

1. How you can you change the homepage of the browser? Is there an alternative browser worth using? Not from what I can see...

2. Is there a quick way to silence all sounds on the phone, like toggle on/off?

This is a solid phone and well made in the typical HTC style. No force closes so far either like is normal with Android.

 

[Seeker27]

Welcome to the forums and hope you keep enjoying your trophy!

As for the homepage I'm not too sure. I browse a lot but I just either go off a Bing search or from the last page I was on. I do know that you can pin a site to the home screen to form a tile. Don't know if that could be a substitute for your browser icon or not. Hopefully someone else with more experience can elaborate...

The way I silence things quickly is to tap the volume rocker and then tap the small circle icon that has ring with a little bell picture. It will either toggle it between silence and ring quickly or vibrate and ring.
(you have to go into settings, then ringtones/sounds and toggle the vibrate on/off option in order to use the volume rocker method tho...)

Hope this helped. Need anything else let us know. We're a pretty good group on WPCentral.

 

[BigCTM]

Thanks for the tip using the volume rocker. That works great.

One other thing - if I relied on Verizon, I would never have purchased this phone. Verizon basically does not even hardly know that this phone exists. I have used 2 Android phones recently (Fascinate and Xperia Play) and really like Mango MUCH better. I think others would too if they would be willing to give it a shot. It's not always about specs and dual core processors.

Welcome to the forums and hope you keep enjoying your trophy!

As for the homepage I'm not too sure. I browse a lot but I just either go off a Bing search or from the last page I was on. I do know that you can pin a site to the home screen to form a tile. Don't know if that could be a substitute for your browser icon or not. Hopefully someone else with more experience can elaborate...

The way I silence things quickly is to tap the volume rocker and then tap the small circle icon that has ring with a little bell picture. It will either toggle it between silence and ring quickly or vibrate and ring.
(you have to go into settings, then ringtones/sounds and toggle the vibrate on/off option in order to use the volume rocker method tho...)

Hope this helped. Need anything else let us know. We're a pretty good group on WPCentral.

 

[dakranii]

No homepage, you just open and browse or do as seeker said and start from a bing search.

I agree about Verizon. I have a Trophy that I ended up buying on Verizon online because I had trouble getting it locally at launch. The Verizon stores didn't really know what it was, when it was coming, etc. My friend, who owns a Verizon store, tried to talk me into an Android. Believe me, I went years without owning an Android not because I didn't know they existed, but because I didn't want one.

 

[dakranii]

I actually forgot about homepages. I used to set homepages on my browsers, but I no longer do. With Chrome I have it open to my most used pages and apps (sort of like a start screen), but when I did choose homepages, I usually went with a search engine as my homepage. Which would be like pushing the Bing search button now, I suppose.

 

[scottcraft]

When I had a droid I had a homepage on my browser but not on my trophy.

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[Coffee]

If you want a 'homepage', I'd just pin a website to my start screen.

 

[BigCTM]

That's what I did. I still like Google better than Bing.

If you want a 'homepage', I'd just pin a website to my start screen.