LG Lucid User Guide

39The Basics
Your Home screen
Customizing an application icon from the Home screen
You can further personalize the Home screen by editing application icons 
using the images in your Gallery.
1. Touch and hold an icon until the canvas grid is displayed, then release the 
icon. An editing icon 
 appears at the upper right side of the application 
icon.
2. Touch the icon and select the desired icon design.
 
OR
 Touch the Create photo icon button and select Take photo to open the 
Camera application and...

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Customizing the Applications screen 
The phone includes a wide variety of applications and you can download 
even more applications to your device. You can customize these items on 
the Applications screen for faster access (less scrolling) to the applications 
you use most often. 
Rearranging the Applications screen icons
1. From the Home Screen, tap the Apps Key .
2. Touch  the Apps tab (if necessary), then touch Settings
  at the top right 
of the tab bar. The Settings icon changes to a...

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Opening and Switching Applications 
Multi-tasking is easy with Android™ because open applications keep 
running even when you open another application. There’s no need to quit an 
application before opening another. You can use and switch among several 
open applications. Android manages each application, stopping and starting 
them as needed, to ensure that idle applications don’t consume resources 
unnecessarily.
Opening an application
 
 Open an application simply by tapping its icon on...

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Adding application icons to the Home screen
Customize your Home screen with the applications you use most often.
1.  Open the Applications screen.
2.  Tap and hold the application icon you want to add to your Home screen. 
Your Applications screen will close so that you can place the icon on the 
Home screen.
3.  Lift your finger to place it or drag the icon to where you want it on the 
screen, then lift your finger.
Moving applications to other Home screen panels
You can place application...

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Working With Menus
There are two kinds of Android menus: Options menus and Context menus.
Options menus
Options menus contain tools that apply to the activities of the current 
screen or application, not to any specific item on the screen. To open the 
available Options menu, tap the Menu Key 
. Not all applications have 
Options menus; if you tap the Menu Key  on a screen that has no 
Options menu, nothing will happen.
Some applications have more Options menu items than can fit in the...

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Managing Notifications
Notification icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, 
alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as when you are on a call. 
When you receive a notification, the notification icon will be displayed in the 
Status Bar. You can open the Notifications panel to view a list of all recent 
notifications. Depending on your settings, you may hear a notification sound 
and/or the phone may vibrate.
To open the Notifications panel
 
 Tap and drag the Status Bar to the...

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2. Tap Clear .
All event-based notifications will be cleared; ongoing notifications will 
remain in the list.
  TIP   You can also swipe the notifications to the left or right to remove them.
To close the Notifications panel
Tap and drag the tab at the bottom of the Notifications panel to the top of 
the screen or just tap the Back Key .
The panel will also close when you tap a notification.
  NOTE  The tab at the bottom of the Notifications panel is sensitive to the drag motion so just 
beginning...

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Searching Your Phone and the Web
You can search for information on your phone and on the web using the 
Search application. Some applications, such as Gmail, Contacts, and Browser 
have the ability to search contents within those specific applications. 
You can conduct the search by typing in the search terms or saying what you’re 
looking for. Typing can be useful because the search application can provide 
suggestions so you don’t necessarily have to type out your full request.
Phone and...

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  You can use the Search preferences to configure some aspects of web 
search (for example, whether it makes suggestions below the Quick 
Search Box as you type), and what phone features you want to include in 
searches. To access these settings,tap the Search Key 
 to open the 
Search application and tap the Menu Key  > Settings.
Locking the Screen
Your phone automatically uses a default Lock Screen to simply prevent 
unintentional function activation. You can choose to secure your phone so...

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 PIN: Locks the screen with a number sequence. Enter a PIN (at least 4 
digits) and tap Continue. Reenter your PIN and tap OK to confirm it.
 Password: Locks the screen with an alphanumeric sequence. Enter 
a password (at least 4 characters) and tap Continue. Reenter your 
password and tap OK to confirm it.
  From then on, any time you want to turn the phone on or unlock the 
screen, you will need to draw your unlock pattern or enter your PIN or 
password to unlock the screen.
Disabling the...