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1. TUE 10 012 37 JULY 2012 PM Version 2 5 User Manual Setup Wizard Language selection Choose your preferred language You can choose different language than in the rest of the phone Some special characters or more non standard languages may not be present in your device See the Text size selection Choose your preferred text size You can choose from 3 different text sizes Default Bigger Biggest documentation of your phone or tablet for information on supported some of the texts may not fit the Automatic X languages Default screen with larger fonts selected In that case you can always scroll them to see the rest of them Text size Select language os A x 4 Color theme selection EO Security f ri DEE EB te Choose your preferred color Choose whether the user can theme You can choose from the 3 delete certain items call history basic color schemes at first messages and contacts Light default Do you want to allow It is better to disable deleting of Dark the deletion of items these items for security reasons Blue call history messages and You can setup these settings in Select theme You can download additional contacts dividually later in the Preferences Light default x themes later in the Preferences Don t allow v dialogue dialogue X A os Vo Please note that you can download more themes and icon packs in the Preferences Setup wizard complete Thank you2. Continue to Home screen v X Vo Setup wizard complete After the initial setup you can choose to go directly to the Home screen or you can continue cus tomizing BIG Launcher in the Pref erences dialogue Home Screen Phone This button enters the telephony section of the BIG Launcher The icon blinks when there is a missed call Camera This button runs the default camera app You can change this under the Home screen setup in the Pref erences SOS This button enters the SOS screen In order to use the SOS function numbers for SOS call and SOS SMS must be configured in the preferences TUE 16 OCTOBER 2012 11 25 Date amp time This area shows the actual date and time It can also show en larged battery and mobile network strength These options must be enabled under Appearance in the Preferences When tapped the common alarm application is launched and you can set the alarm You can change the alarm application under the Home screen setup in the Prefer ences When the alarm is active the alarm icon is displayed next to the clock Messages This button enters the messaging section of the BIG Launcher The icon blinks when there is an unread Gallery This button runs the default gallery app You can change this under the Home screen setup in the Pref erences All applications list This button shows the list of all ap plications installed in the phone
3. Menu Button Portrait Landscape Mode Preferences You can configure BIG Launcher options in the Preferences dia logue To reach it you have to push your device s Menu button on S9 Set buttons the BIG Launcher s Home screen The pop up menu will appear OCTOBER 2012 SS Preferences amp System Some phone models don t have settings the menu button In this case you have to press the three dots be side the clock in the top bar of the Home screen By default BIG Launcher will automat ically rotate based on the orientation of the phone You can turn off this behav ior in the Appearance section of the The Preferences can be also pass Preferences word protected to disallow any changes to be made to the BIG Launcher settings You can set up the password protection in the Preferences System settings This will show the default system settings of the device This item can be also password protected or completely hidden This can be done in the Preferences Set buttons This will allow you to quickly change the functionality of any button More customization options are available in the Preferences Different layouts You can choose different button layout for each screen in the Preferences Customize buttons and screens section Warning Layouts 2x2 and 1x1 don t include the menu top info bar with menu button If your device doesn t have the hardware menu button you won t be able to get i
4. every 5 15 30 60 minutes When you receive a new SMS message it is possible that you haven t heard the no tification sound With this option enabled the notification sound will play again after a period of time until you read the message Default messaging app dialogue Ask to be the default messaging app upon entering the messages Applicable only on devices with Android 4 4 or newer SOS Send SMS Automatically send SMS after pressing SOS button When enabled SOS SMS sending will be active Please note you have to enter the number of at least one recipient to the op tion below otherwise it won t work SMS phone Phone numbers to send SOS to separated by comma You can define more numbers to send SOS SMS to If you don t enter correct number SOS SMS will not work SMS text SMS text to send It is recommended to keep this text short Along with GPS coordinates it should fit into 160 characters limit of SMS SMS wait Seconds to wait before sending SMS Enables countdown between entering the SOS screen and sending the message This countdown allows the user to cancel the SOS SMS and return back to previous screen to avoid false alarm Add GPS location Add GPS location to end of SMS if avail able This option will add a direct link to Google Maps with geolocation of the device to the SOS SMS There are several conditions that can affect the accuracy of the loca tion the phone must have GPS e
5. options Customize buttons and screens This section allows you to add modify and delete the screens and buttons of BIG Launcher Please see the Customize But tons and Screens section of this manual for detailed info Screens options gt gt This section allows you to configure the settings related to the multiple screens with buttons Phone gt gt This section allows you to configure op tions related to the telephony features of BIG Launcher Messages gt gt This section allows you to configure op tions related to the messaging features of BIG Launcher SOS gt gt This section allows you to configure op tions related to the SOS features of BIG Launcher Applications gt gt This section allows you to configure op tions related to the application list of BIG Launcher Compatibility Fixes gt gt If your device has some issues try to fix them here This section allows you to solve the prob lems related to incompatibility of some devices Clear BIG Launcher as a default launch er Next time you press home button you can select another default launcher This allows the quick unregistering of BIG Launcher as a default launcher After se lecting this option and pressing the Home button on your device a menu with all the installed launchers will appear and you can choose a different one Check for updates This will take you to the BIG Launcher page on the Google Play Store or other a
6. 4 3 and newer Applications This will create the shortcut to the All applications list SOS This will create the shortcut to the SOS screen External Shortcut This will allow to use a short cut to a special functions of installed Apps bookmarks switches etc External Widget This allows you to insert a sys tem widget on a button Not all widgets are suitable for this Please note if you choose cus tom icon for a button it will be overwritten by the widget so it won t be visible Adding a New Screen Do you want to link new screen to the last button of previous screen f Yes Screens setup Add screen Screens list D Home 20 Second screen When adding a new screen you have the option to automatically link the screen to the last button of the previous screen This way you can create multiple screens very quickly The new screen will be linked to the lower right button of the previous screen If there is any functionality already present on this button it will automatically move to the bottom right button of the newly created screen Please note that if you choose not to create this automatic link you have to link any button of the existing screen as a shortcut to the new screen Otherwise you won t be able to reach this newly created screen You can also turn on the swipe option in the Preferences When enabled you don t need to link screens through buttons as they are accessi
7. Thread 3 Jane Smith lt Reply E 16 07 2012 15 55 Hi baby how are you doing I m in your town do you want to meet Me 16 07 2012 15 55 Hi Jane that would be great Come to my place this afternoon VEC Nave TO Te The SMS messages are sorted in threads separately for each contact The messages are color coded outgoing messages have green border incoming messages have yellow border Outgoing mes sage status is indicated by the icon in its top left corner mm the message was sent but not delivered yet the message was sent and it is reported as delivered D the delivery information is not available You can quickly write back to the recipient by tapping the Reply button SMS message editor will appear with pre filled number of the contact If you tap the contact name at the top of this screen you can see the Contact detail screen so you can quickly call the contact or edit it If you tap any of the messages the Message detail screen will show up Message Detail GSMA MWC Call now e Reply BD Resend BD Forward Delete E 16 02 2014 23 21 Attendee Stop by Networking Gardens tonight 17 30 21 00 for complimentary food The message detail screen allows you the interaction with the mes sage and the contact If you tap the contact name at the top of this screen you can see the Contact detail screen so you can quickly call the contact or edit it Call now This w
8. also in the system editor instead of the BIG Launcher editor Add contact delete option Add Delete contact to the end of contact detail This allows the deleting of the contact from the Contact detail screen Show add remove star Add the ability to set the contact as starred in contact details This allows to remove the option to set or unset the contact as starred Starred contacts can be accessed quickly from the Phone section No menu when calling the contact Directly dial the number instead of showing the options When enabled you can choose whether you want to call a contact or send hima message Show message option in call dialog You can hide the Send message option in the dialog after tapping contact s phone number Normally after tapping the contact in the Phone section you can choose between calling and sending a message With this option you can remove the messaging op tion from this dialogue to allow calling only Call with speaker phone on Set speaker on during outgoing call Due to Android updated security features this option enables the speaker phone for outgoing calls only If you want to use this feature also for incoming calls your phone has to support this and you have to do this in the system preferences Allow deleting call log items Add new screen to call log with delete option When enabled you can tap any item in the call log and delete that entry No menu in the dial
9. assword with the option below Password This allows you to setup the password Password can be also blank in that case user is still asked for password but press ing OK is enough as the password is blank Warning if you enable Protect menu and forget your password there is no way you can Clear it In this case you have to rein stall BIG Launcher or clear all the settings via the Applications setup in System pref erences Screens options Use swipe to navigate screens Caution memory intensive When active buttons are not accessible by keyboard This allows you to turn on the alternative navigation between the screens Know as swiping When enabled you don t need to assign the Go to screen action to the buttons When enabled a new item Remove from swipe in each screen s preferences shows up which allows you to remove that screen from the swipe Remove from swipe at position This way you can create function related screens which can act as sub menu and aren t included in the main swipe set Once removed you can include screen again in swipe by selecting Add to swipe Add to swipe at position 3 oF Please note that swiping is really memory intensive and the requirements grow with every screen widget icon and background used If BIG Launcher becomes unstable try to remove some screens from swipe Swipe type from home to right loop Allows you to enable the in
10. ble by simple swiping to left and right directly on the home screen Please note that this op tion is memory intensive and could cause problems on older devices Example of a New Screen Tap here to set an alarm application During the creation of the Second screen the user has selected to automatically link this screen to the last button of previous screen As there was only one screen pres ent Home the lower right button of this screen which was the All applications list was replaced with the shortcut to the new Second screen The icon can be changed to something else in the Second screen config On the Second screen there are empty buttons ready for customiz ing In the lower right corner there is All applications list button which was moved there automatically from the Home screen Preferences Run setup wizard This will run the setup wizard to setup the basic options of BIG Launcher Select language This allows you to select the language used in BIG Launcher Some special char acters or more non standard languages may not be present in your device See the documentation of your phone or tablet for information on supported languages Appearance gt gt This section allows you to configure the look and feel of BIG Launcher Accessibility gt gt This section allows you to set the options related to accessibility Preferences menu gt gt This section allows you to setup the Pref erences menu
11. e number included This option is useful when you want to have quick access to all your contacts and not only the ones with phone number Then you can quickly send them e mail simply by clicking their e mail address in their Contact detail Sort by surname This alternative sorting may not work on all phones This option enables you to sort your con tacts by surname instead of the first name Please note that you can always use the quick search function to search in all parts of the contact name Show Add contact button When disabled you won t be able to ass new contact This controls the visibility of the Add con tact item in the phone section Use system contact detail If you want system contact detail because of its special functions This option disables the internal Contact detail screen When you click any con tact a default system contact app will be launched Add system contact detail Add access to system contact detail to the end of contact detail This is useful if you want to use the internal Contact detail screen but sometimes you need the functionality of the system con tact app When enabled you can quickly open the system contact details of the contact you re currently viewing Add edit Add access to BIG Launcher contact edi tor If you disable this you won t be able to edit contacts Add system edit Add access to the system contact editor This will add an option to edit the contact
12. en They are sorted alphabeti cally You can hide unwanted apps from this list in the Applications section of the Preferences Search You can tap this box and begin typing the name of the app you want to search for it will appear below You can turn this box of in the Preferences Most recent This is constantly updated short list of the apps most recently launched You can change the number of the items in this list in the Applications section of the Preferences Customize Buttons and Screens Screens setup i Add screen Screens list Cj Home Home O0 Set buttons Appearance Set name fl Set icon Set background All the buttons can be customized in the Preferences You can also add unlimited number of screens To access the screen from anoth er screen you have to link one of its button as a shortcut to another screen This way you can create non linear structures of screens like the folders on a computer It allows you to make completely custom UI suited just for you To modify any screen just select it from the Screens list Set buttons This allows you to customize the buttons on the selected screen Set name This allows you to rename the screen Set icon This allows you to change the icon of the screen It is displayed on the buttons leading to this screen Set Remove background Allows you to choose custom background from your gallery of images Example of the Screens H
13. en the selected button is pressed A contact photo will be used as a button icon Direct call SMS This allows to directly call or send SMS to selected number of one of your contacts when the selected button is pressed A contact photo will be used as a button icon Go to screen This creates a shortcut to an other custom screen You can choose from existing screens or you Can create a new one A screen s icon will be used as a button icon You can change this by the Change icon option or by changing the screen s icon in its settings lt Revert Change Icon f Set label O Application 0 Contact details f Direct call SMS i Go to screen Wi Fi toggle Bluetooth toggle Wi Applications 8 External Shortcut External Widget Wi Fi toggle This creates an active widget for turning on off the Wi Fi of the device The button will change the color of its icon green means Wi Fi is on red means Wi Fi Is off Bluetooth toggle This creates an active widget for turning on off the Bluetooth of the device The button will change the color of its icon green means Bluetooth is on red means Bluetooth is off Airplane mode This creates an active widget for turning on off the Airplane mode all radio devices off The button will change the col or of its icon green means Air plane mode is on red means Airplane mode off Please note that Airplane mode isn t available on devices with Android
14. er Directly dial the number instead of showing the options When enabled the number will be dialed directly after pushing the phone button in the dialer Messages Use system message editor Disables internal message editor Use when you need special functions or MMS editing Copy text to system message applica tion Instead of sending SMS text is transfered to system message application This is useful when you write a lot of MMS or have any SMS problem When activated you can normally create new SMS message in the internal SMS editor When pressed the Send button a default system messaging app is launched and the text you ve created in BIG Launch er is pasted into the edit window so you just send or attach some multimedia data to create MMS Sticky layout Send button stays at the bottom of the screen It is more useful on large screen devices Request delivery notification Request information about SMS delivery May be taxed by some operators When the delivery notification is disabled you can t track whether the recipient have received the message or not Show delete button Allow deletion of any message This option adds the delete button to the Message detail screen Internal SMS notification Show message detail upon receiving May not work on all phones When enabled BIG Launcher will show the message detail when a message is received The message detail will pop up even when you re i
15. finite loop of all screens in swipe Please note that loop op tion requires more memory and is slower Use menu button on all screens The preferences menu can be accessible on all screens instead of home screen only This doesn t apply to devices without the hardware menu button Activate button around widgets Usable for keyboard control only When en abled pressing a button will give focus on the widget This option makes sense only if you use hardware keyboard to control BIG Launch er and you also use some External Widgets on buttons When disabled you aren t able to interact with widgets Enabling this option doesn t mean that the widget will support the hardware keyboard control Enable automatic text labels Automatically add text labels to newly cre ated buttons If you assign a new function to a button a text label will be automatically created based on the function you ve chosen Invert text label colors Enable white text with black outline Phone Set My contacts button This allows you to select a custom app from your installed apps This app will be used instead of internal list of contacts Set Dialer button This allows you to select a custom app from your installed apps This app will be used as a dialer instead of the BIG dialer Set phone ring tone sound This allows you to choose a phone ring tone Show contacts with phone only Show only contacts which have phon
16. ierarchy La L a a TUE 16 22 54 OCTOBER 2012 Search Most recent Customize Buttons Revert Change icon E Set label O Application 0 Contact details WA Direct call SMS A Go to screen Wi Fi toggle Bluetooth toggle uu Applications External Shortcut External Widget Clear This clears the selected button On the Home screen it returns the default function of the but ton Revert only on Home screen This reverts the function of the button to the original Phone Messages etc Change icon This allows you to change the icon of the selected button You can choose from internal icons installed icon packs or themes You can download additional icon packs online You can also choose from icon packs from other launchers Nova Apex etc Set label You can set a text label which will be displayed on in the lower part of the button It uses big letters so we recommend to use only short words You can invert the label colors in the Preferences Screens options section a Internal BL Kennedy BL Pink Theme krom icons pac Voxel amp Download more Application This creates a shortcut to the selected app in your device App s internal icon will be used as a button icon This can be changed by Change icon op tion Contact details This opens the Contact detail screen of selected contact in your phone wh
17. ill call the number the mes sage was sent from Reply This will open the SMS message editor with pre filled number of the contact Forward This will open the SMS message editor without contact and with the SMS pasted into the editor Resend Similar as forward but the recipient will be pre filled Useful for failed messages Delete For the safety reasons the option to delete the message is disabled by default If you want this option you have to turn it on in the Mes sages section of the Preferences SOS screen allows automatic sending the emergency SMS with device geolocation and or calling the predefined number with loud speaker turned on To avoid activating of this option by mistake you can define the amount of seconds to wait before calling and or sending the SMS All the configuration is done in the Preferences Before using you have to turn on the SOS option and configure the numbers for calling and or sending the SMS Without this SOS will not work Please note that due to limitation of the Android system you can t set common emergency numbers 911 112 etc as an SOS number All Applications List Search Applications D AccuWeather Adobe Reader 8 Angry Birds ize Angry Birds Apollo im BIG Launcher Search Most recent gt Dropbox Applications wr AccuWeather Adobe Reader You can launch all the applications installed in your device from this scre
18. is will show the recently used apps at the top of the Applications list This is useful when you constantly use the same apps but you don t want to create extra screens for them Recent applications count Number of recently used applications dis played Allowed applications You can disable some applications on ap plication list This will bring you the Applications list You can tap any app to enable disable it from appearing in this list This way you can hide unwanted or dangerous apps Show search on top Show hide can be toggled by pressing the search button on your device This allows you to hide the quick search box at the top of the Applications list Show the Preferences item don t show above apps below apps Some devices don t have the menu button or you don t want to use it for example in combination with Tecla wheelchair inter face In that case you can display the Preferences shortcut at the top or bottom of the Apps list Note that you can also use BIG Launcher Preferences standalone app listed in the apps list Better app search Search for the app name also in the middle of it When you start typing in the apps search field normally apps which are starting with these characters are selected With this option turned on also apps which has these characters in the middle of their names will also be shown Compatibility Fixes Fix show missing messages Enable this when you can t see all
19. long press When enabled you can long press any item of the interface to show a pop up box with the item description This is useful if you can t remember the meaning of every icon on the BIG Launcher screens Talkback don t read launcher name Speed up reading the title of every screen When TalkBack is enabled the Android system will read the hidden title of every screen entered By default every screen has its name and BIG Launcher name also included so blind person can t get lost and Knows that he s still in the launcher and not anywhere else If you enable this op tion only plain screen title is read on entry without the BIG Launcher name Preferences menu Buttons edit in menu Add quick access to screen editor to menu When enabled you can quickly edit the functions of buttons of the current screen System settings in menu Add quick access to system settings to menu When enabled you can quickly get to the System settings from the Preferences menu When disabled only the Preferenc es option will be shown Protect menu Protect preferences menu to avoid un wanted changes When enabled if the user wants to go to the Preferences he is asked for a pass word You can setup the password with the option below Protect system settings Protect system settings menu to avoid un wanted changes When enabled if the user wants to go to the System settings he is asked for a password You can setup the p
20. n another app However on some low end devices with low amount of memory it is not 100 reliable OK closes the window marks the mes sage as read and you will return to your previous activity Reply opens the Message editor so you can quickly reply to the message Call now allows you to quickly call the sender of the message Delete will delete this message lf you press Back button on your device the message will be kept unread and you will return to your previous activity E Jane Smith E 18 10 2012 10 47 This is a test SMS message W OK lt Reply amp Call now Delete When notifications are active you may want to turn the system notifications off You have to do this manually in the system SMS messaging app It is different on ev ery device but mostly this can be done by launching it pressing Menu button going to Settings and finding the option related to notifications Notification sound Select custom SMS notification sound The sound will be played when a message is received Please note that if you don t turn the system notifications off both sounds will be played the system noti fication sound along with BIG Launcher notification sound The solution is either disabling the system notifications or se lecting None as a notification sound Vibration duration none 0 5s 1s 2S This affects the length of the vibration when a new SMS is received Repeat notification never
21. nabled in ideal situation the phone must be located outside and there should be some time be tween entering the SOS screen and send ing the message to locate the GPS satel lites When used in buildings it helps when the phone s Wi Fi is turned on In the worst case the phone will use the location based on the mobile network which can work well in cities but may be not very precise in the low population areas Send GPS SMS Send another SMS when sure about loca tion This option will increase the probability of sending a more accurate position once it is acquired If the first SOS SMS was sent only with coarse location and the GPS will get more accurate position later BIG Launcher will send another SOS SMS with this more accurate position Call Automatically call after pressing SOS but ton When enabled SOS call will be active Please note you have to enter the number of the recipient to the option below other wise it won t work Call phone Phone number to call to You can define the SOS number here Please note that due to Android securi ty you can t set the common emergency numbers like 911 or 112 as an SOS num ber Call wait Seconds to wait before call after SMS sent Enables countdown between sending the SOS SMS and calling the SOS number This countdown allows the user to cancel the SOS SMS and return back to previous screen to avoid false alarm Applications Show recent applications Th
22. nto Preferences as usual The shortcut for settings will be created automatically when choosing these layouts However if you change it or remove it the only way of getting to Preferences again is to hold the first top left button on the Home screen for 30 seconds TUE 16 11 25 OCTOBER 2012 Set layout 2x4 default Layout settings Phone ar My contacts Jg Starred aa Dial number qt Add contact Recent calls amp Jane Smith amp Jane Smith Jim Wright My contacts This button shows the list of all contacts in the device Starred This button shows the list of starred contacts You can add re move star from the contact in the Contact detail screen Dial number This button opens the dialer for dialing an unsaved phone number Add contact This button opens the Contacts editor for creating a new contact Recent calls There is a complete list of call history in this section You can tap each item to bring up the Call detail screen The calls are classified by different icons RS Received call Rx Missed call amp Outgoing call My Contacts S earch FE Charlie Hall Chris Black D Daniel Jackson gt David Miller 2 Helen Perez Jane Smith Search You can tap this box and begin typing of the name If present the contact will appear below Contacts All the contacts with at least one phone number will show in this list If you want to show also the contact
23. o only visible when a contact already includes a photo Gallery Opens the system gallery of im ages You can choose any image from your phone May not work on some non standard devices Camera Opens the system camera app You can take a photo May not work on some non standard devic es May require the presence of a SD card After choosing the photo a crop di alogue will appear Drag the orange arrows to change size of the area used for contact photo You can use the yellow button to rotate the image Use green button to save the image Use red button to cancel the operation and return to the previous menu Dialer Dialer is pretty straightforward Press the buttons with numbers and the number will appear in the top row You can erase the last entered number by tapping the top row Special characters can be entered by the button To initiate a call press the button with green telephone A dialogue will appear You can turn off this dialogue in the Preferences and enable the direct calling after pushing the green phone button Call This will dial the number Call This will open a SMS message editor with pre filled the recipient number Add contact This allows you to save the number to a new or existing contact Messages Recent messages Lisa Moore Mary Wilson Linda Adams Charlie Hall ae Select contact phone number message text Write new This will show
24. pp store you ve purchased BIG Launch er from to check for new updates Online connectivity is required for this Appearance Select theme Light default Dark Blue Download more This allows you to select different color theme You can choose from 3 basic in ternal themes or you can download more themes from the Internet Online connec tivity is required for this Text size Default Bigger Biggest You can choose between 3 different text sizes Some of the texts may not fit the screen with larger fonts selected In that case you can always scroll them to see the rest of them Select screen orientation Automatic default Horizontal Vertical This allows you to force the orientation of the launcher so it doesn t automatically ro tate when changing the phone orientation This is useful to keep the interface more constant Apply text size for preferences Show preferences also in selected text size This is useful when you have selected Big gest font size but you need smaller texts in the Preferences Full screen Hide Android notification bar at the top of the screen This is useful to avoid accidental dragging of the top status bar As this hides the bat tery and signal indicator it is good prac tice to use this feature in combination of options below Please note that full screen mode applies only for BIG Launcher other apps won t go full screen if you turn on this option If you have device without ph
25. s without assigned phone number you can enable this option in the Preferences You can tap any contact to show the Contact detail screen Contact photos will be shown if you assign the photo in the system contact editor or you have your contacts synchronized with Face book LinkedIn Google or any other social network application Contact Detail fe Carol Baker Mobile 800110100 Home carol nowhere org sk Add star Carol Baker Mobile 800110100 Home carol nowhere org yz Add star J Edit You can see various contact in formation in the Contact Detail screen Every contact can have multiple phone numbers e mails and other data included Phone number When you tap the phone number you can choose between calling or writing a new SMS to this number Add star Remove star You can mark your favorite con tacts with a star If you star a contact it can be quickly accessed in the Starred list of the Phone section Edit This will run the Contact editor so you can make changes to this con tact or add new data Delete For the safety reasons the option to delete the contact is disabled by default If you want this option you have to turn it on in the Phone section of the Preferences Call Detail a Jane Smith amp Call now Recent calls amp MON 7 16 12 6 00 PM Q MON 7 16 12 5 52 PM V MON 7 16 12 5 35 PM Jane Smith amp MON 7 16 12 6 00 PM When you tap an
26. the Message editor which will allow you to write a new SMS message If you don t like it you can disable the internal message editor in the Messages section of the Preferenc es Recent messages This is a history of a message con versations You can tap any item to open the Conversation thread Select contact This will allow you to choose a contact from the My contacts list Phone number If you want to send the SMS to the number not saved in your contact you can write it directly here Message text Enter you message text here Send Tap this button to send the mes sage Message Editor 800110100 message text Carol Baker Mobile 800110100 Hi Carol How are you today We had sucha great weekend We were in the amusement park with kids and we had a wonderful time Please call me Send 19 1SMS When you select the contact with more than one phone number you can swap them by tapping the but ton with the selected phone num ber Then you can select a different one The maximum length of the SMS message is 160 characters with common alphabet or 70 characters if an alphabet with special char acter is used When you ll be near this limit a character countdown will appear on the Send button Once you reach zero in the remain ing characters counter you can continue writing your text will be split into two or more SMS mes sages as showed also on the Send button Conversation
27. the mes sage threads May be slower This happens mostly on older phones with broken indexing of the messages Fix limit total number of messages How many messages will be read to cre ate messaging threads Lower number will make reading faster but will show less messages This option can help when you have too many messages Fix missing icons in menus When you see empty squares instead of icons in lists This makes scrolling slower This happens on some of the Sony Erics son phones from 2011 after updating to ICS Android 4 0 Talkback image buttons Remove talkback text image button from big buttons This is not needed for ICS Only useful when you use TalkBack ona device with Android 2 x Clear cache upon pressing the Home key Memory intensive Can help when you have problems with external themes General advice don t install BIG Launch er s external themes or icon packs on a SD card Then you won t need this option at all DPI of icons This will force BIG Launcher to load high er quality app icons Can help with blurry icons on tablets and low dpi devices but use with caution May not work on some devices Restart application Restart BIG Launcher and clear cache Use only if everything other fails If this option doesn t work and BIG Launcher is acting strange try restarting your phone If it still doesn t help try un installing and installing it again If this also fails let write
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29. y item in the Call log a Call detail screen will appear Here you can see the complete history of calls with this contact Deleting of the call history item For the safety reasons the option to delete the call from the history is disabled by default If you want this option you have to turn it on in the Phone section of the Preferences Contact Editor i Phones Add phone More Set photo sk Add star J Edit in system app call all mie ee ca ca 5551123 ee ee f Change type Delete When creating a new contact you can choose the location of the con tact You can choose between the Phone callbook and your Google account We recommend storing all the contact in the Google account Clear Add name Gallery Add the full name of the contact including surname Camera Add phone This button allows adding a phone number to the contact Contact can have more numbers assigned Once entered you can change the type of the number after tapping it In this dialogue you can also Delete the number from the contact Add star Remove star You can mark your favorite con tacts with a star Edit in system app This button allows you to edit the contact in the system contacts editor This allows you to use more options or assign a photo toa contact Delete This button will delete the contact Set photo Allows you to change or remove the contact photo A dialogue will appear Clear Clears the phot
30. ysical buttons and Android 3 2 or higher there will always be a bottom black bar with soft keys even if you enable this option Show big signal indicator Useful when using full screen option Doesn t work on most of the Samsung phones Show big battery indicator Useful when using full screen option Safe borders size Solves accidental touches at the edges of the screen This option will add the black bars to the sides of the screen and render the inter face of BIG Launcher more narrow This is useful on devices with large displays and small borders around them The user may have the problem with holding such a device and may need more grip and more space for his fingers Accessibility Enable haptic feedback Vibrate when touching the menu buttons This gives you better feeling when using the BIG Launcher interface as you can feel the vibration on each touch Speak on long press Read the item description on long press TalkBack must be installed When enabled you can long press any item of the interface and the phone will read aloud the item or its description This allows blind people with older phones without Touch to explore feature to use the whole interface only by touchscreen It is also useful for reading SMS messag es while driving a car Or you can use this feature if you can t remember the meaning of every icon on the BIG Launcher screens Pop up on long press Show the item description on
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