When you are listening to music on your phone, did you know that you can control certain aspects of playback using your wired headset? Many headsets–including the one from Palm that comes with your phones–have a button on them that you use to hang up a phone conversation, but that is not the only use you will find for that button. From the stock music app to homebrew apps like Music Player (Remix) or other audio apps like DrPodder, you can control the audio playback using that button. Just load up an audio file and click once to pause/play that current track, or quickly click twice to fast forward to the next track.

 Thanks to RagaR for suggesting this tip

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With synergy, you can have up to 16 different email accounts loaded in your email account. Each of those inboxes will be displayed individually for you to search through, although by default they will all show up in the "Favorites" section at the top of your main account/folder view. You can use Email folder favorites to add or remove them from the "Favorites" section, and you can also use the "All Inbox" view to consolidate the messages from all your inboxes into one single folder. Keep reading after the break to learn how to set this up

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Throughout webOS, there are many data entry fields that provide you a long list to scroll through to find the specific data you need, such as the Date and Time selections of a calendar event. While the list may be easy enough to scroll through in most cases, you can actually type in your selection as well. As you can see in the screenshot, selecting the "minutes" box to choose the start time of the calendar entry pops up the long list of times, but you can then just start typing to get the time you want. So, to get an entry that starts at 4:25, just type "2" then "5" on the keyboard. No visual indication will be given other than the changing numbers on the screen. You can also use this for text fields, such as the month. To get July, tap on the Month field and start typing "jul". You will initially see "Jun" in there (as that is the first selection that starts with "J"), but it will change to "Jul" as soon as you type the "l" key

A few notes:

• To get numbers, you do not need to hold down the Option (Orange/Silver) key for numbers. In the example above, to type in "25", just press the  key then the key
• You are only able to type in selections that are available. So, if you tried to type in "23", the "3" would cause the selection to become a "30" since that is the first available option that starts with a 3

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By default, webOS adds the Inbox of each email account to the "Favorites" section at the top of your main account/folder view in the Email app. However, did you realize that you are able to remove any of those inboxes, as well as add any other folder from any of your accounts? In order to do this, you just need to tap the star next to the desired folder name that you want to add or remove from your favorites.

For example, in the attached screenshot, if you wanted to remove the Yahoo Inbox from the Favorites section, you would just tap the gold star () on the right of Inbox row (under the Yahoo section, not in the Favorites section, as there is no star there for you to toggle) and it would turn to a gray star (). Or, if you wanted to add the "Outbox" to your favorites, just tap on the gray star and it will turn gold and the folder will then appear in the favorites section.

The listing of the Favorites will first be sorted by the order of your email accounts (e.g. all Yahoo folders first, then all Gmail folders), then will be sorted with the Inbox first, Outbox last, and all other folders listed alphabetically.

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If you are in an area where you do not get good service from your carrier, you have the ability to roam on other carrier’s networks for both voice and data. Depending on your level of service, roaming might be included in your monthly bill (e.g. Sprint gets "unlimited" roaming included) or it might be an extra charge, so be careful about how you set your Roaming options. To toggle these options:

• Open up the Phone app (), swipe down from the top-left corner to bring up the Phone application drop-down and select "Preferences". A new card will open with your Phone preferences options
• Scroll down to the "NETWORK" section
• To toggle Voice roaming, tap the "VOICE NETWORK" line and choose between "Carrier Only" or "Automatic".
• If you select "Automatic" for voice, you then get an option for "DATA ROAMING" where you can either be "Enabled" or "Disabled" data roaming
• Note that you can also turn off your Data Usage entirely here, if you are trying to conserve your plan’s data allowance.

Thanks to brendu for suggesting this tip
 

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Want to check to see if you have any dead spots on your touchscreen? Worried that your accelerometer isn’t functioning any more? Think your proximity sensor is busted? Instead of trekking into a repair center to check on these or trying to find a specific app that has the feature you want to test, there are actually some built-in tests that you can run yourself.  Just open up the Device Info app () and swipe down from the top-left corner to bring down the Device Info application drop-down menu, choose Tests, and then either "Quick Tests…" or "Interactive Tests…"

• If you choose "Quick Tests", the device will run some automated tests to check your phone’s memory, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and the modem.
• If you choose "Interactive Tests", you can choose from six categories of tests to check various aspects of the hardware, and even send your results to Palm if necessary.

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When you are reading an email and want to read the next or previous message, most people probably back-swipe back to your mailbox and then tap on the next email. However, you can save a step by just using the little arrows on the right or left side of the subject bar, all without having to go back to your mailbox view of your messages.

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As we have reviewed in the past, searching for a contact throughout webOS is pretty easy to do with Universal Search, the ability to use wild cards, and using a contact’s initials to narrow down search results. However, there are times when using a person’s first initial and last name doesn’t yield the proper results. Typically, this is a result of the person’s name details (i.e. first name, middle name, last name) being incorrectly tagged in webOS, especially if their last name has a space in it. So, let’s assume you are friends with The Count from Sesame Street. You add a new contact with a name of "Count von Count". Unfortunately, while his last name is "von Count", webOS will actually assume that his middle name is "von" and last name is "Count", and may therefore not find his when you perform your contact searches. Luckily, fixing this is relatively easy and all you need to do is continue reading after the break

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With Synergy on webOS, you can bring multiple calendars from various sources together and display them all at once, show only certain calendars, or focus on just a single calendar. You can even have more than one calendar for a single source (e.g. multiple personal or shared Google calendars). However, each calendar appointment can only be tied to a single calendar account, which is initially set to your Default Calendar (as determined in the Calendar’s "Preferences & Accounts"). So what happens if you want to create your calendar entry in a different account, or if you want to move an existing entry from one account to another? Simple. Just open up the calendar entry, click on the button in the top right of the screen that indicates the current Calendar account (the "PALM" button in the screenshot above), and select the calendar you want to move the entry to. Once selected, the header of the entry will change colors to match the color of that Calendar Account.

• Note that all of your calendars may not be shown in the selection drop-down. Only those calendar you have edit-access to will be available.

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Ensuring that you always have backups of your contact list is extremely important, in case you ever lose your phone or something goes wrong with a Profile restore after a webOS Doctor or device swap. Keeping your contacts in a cloud-based solution like Google or Yahoo is one solution to ensure you maintain a backup somewhere, but even then it would be a good idea to have a local backup. Unlike Palm OS, webOS does not have any local sync solution to pull your contacts from your phone, and you can only send the details of one contact at a time with the built-in functionality (without patching your phone, that is). Luckily, there is some hidden functionality in webOS that the carriers utilize to transfer your contacts off your phone and on to another (even a non-webOS phone). Keep reading after the break to learn how to take advantage of this functionality.

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