What I found by snooping around…

My jour­ney started by ask­ing a sim­ple ques­tion — How the heck do you update the Phone? A few Google searches got me to the descrip­tion of the process at Motorola:

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Business/Corporate/US-EN/legal/security-vulnerability-android-software.html

The end of the doc­u­ment talks to going to   Set­tings | About Phone  - and I found a few inter­est­ing utilities.

1. Sys­tem Update — (Does what you think it does! — Updates the Phone’s Oper­at­ing System)
2. Sta­tus — Bat­tery Sta­tus, Your Phone Num­ber and some other “Techie” fields
3. Bat­tery Use — A very nice “debug­ging” tool which pro­vides some infor­ma­tion as to what is mak­ing the most use of the battery.

Related read­ing

An arti­cle I tripped over today talks to how users need to change their “charg­ing habits” for smart phones:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181684/droid_battery_life_requires_new_charging_habits.html

Instal­la­tion Caveats (relates to Bat­tery Life)

When you install a pro­gram on the Droid, you need to be care­ful to review any warn­ings you receive dur­ing the instal­la­tion. From my read­ing and exper­i­ment­ing — what I think hap­pened was that the instal­la­tion of a Bar­Code scan­ning pro­gram set a trig­ger that would at some point acti­vate the Wi-Fi. Since unin­stalling the Bar­Code scan­ning pro­gram, I am no longer expe­ri­enc­ing the problem.

A solu­tion to an  annoy­ing problem

One thing I noticed shortly after get­ting the phone — when the front screen turned off, it wasn’t imme­di­ately obvi­ous how to turn it back on. I tried touch­ing the screen (that doesn’t work), then I slid out the key­board (that worked). I thought that was kind of silly until I found that tap­ping the power but­ton was the tog­gle to turn­ing the screen on / off.

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