Here are some tips and tricks that I have come across for the Motorola Droid.


When typing on the virtual keyboard you can swipe down to make the keyboard go away.

From home screen, press menu> settings>About phone:
--> Status: shows you how much battery life you have left in percentage
--> Battery use: Nicel way to keep track of what is killing your battery

Settings >Applications >Development >Stay Awake (keeps screen on while charging)

Home and Search Button: 
long press on Home gives you a list of running Apps
long press on Search brings up your voice search

The Droid doesn't have a speed dial list. Instead it has a favorites list. To add a contact to the favorites list:
Go to contacts and touch the star in the upper right hand corner. When it is lit up, the contact is now part of your favorites list.
You can add the contact on your home screen by touching on the home screen and hold then a menu will pop up click shortcuts then pick a contact from there.
You can also set it up to dial a contact directly. Long touch on the home screen. A menu will pop up, click shortcuts and choose "direct dial" then pick a contact.
Add custom notification ringtones for your emails, sms/mms, ect., plug your Droid into your computer, access the SD card, create a new folder on the card called "notifications", and drop the ringtones you want to use into the folder. When the phone is unplugged from the computer, the Droid will be able to use the new tones.
It's been suggested to set-up the card with the following structure:
/DCIM  *Added Automatically*
/Media
Alarms (Folder in Media)
Ringtones (Folder in Media)
Notifications (Folder in Media)
/Music
/Pictures
/Videos

While on the web, if you wanna save a picture, hold your finger over the picture and the "save picture" message will come up.


On the virtual keyboards if you long press any button with "..." next to the letter or number it will bring up another list of options.

Save album art images for music as folder.jpg to keep them from showing up in your gallery. also store mp3 ringtones in: /sdcard/media/ringtones to keep them from showing up in your music database.

Keyboard shortcuts:
go to Settings > Applications > Quick Launch to view and set keyboard shortcuts.

To forward a text message press and hold the screen on the text message to bring up options lock message, forward, delete, copy, or call contact.

In your contacts list, if you click the person's picture, or where the picture should be, a menu pops up that lets you either call that person, send them a text or email, view their Facebook page, or just look at their full contact profile.

To get into the programming menu, from the call screen, enter ##PROGRAM and press send. Enter code 000000.

In option 04, you can change the vocode option to EVRC-B, or 13K, it made my in-call audio sound better. I'm currently using the 13K setting. Your phone will reset after you exit and apply the new setting.
Warning: Be careful what options you change in the programming menu, you could potentially brick your phone.

How to make direction shortcuts:
Long Press on an empty spot on your home >create a new folder..
Open "Folder" > Long Press on the top frame of that window. Rename it name it to whatever you wish.
Go back to home and Long Press on an empty space. Select Shortcuts. Scroll down to Directions. Fill out the boxes with your destination address, choose mode of transit, give it a name, select an icon, and press Save.
A new icon will appear on your desktop.. named whatever you called it in the previous menu... Just move it to your new folder.. one touch directions.

When you're using the physical keyboard you can hold alt+dpad to jump all the way to the left/right/etc.
Alt+del = delete all text you've written.
Press Shift then alt+dpad to highlight all text


To lock the screen rather than turning it off, keep touching the screen and press the top button.

Camera Tips:
Switch the focus mode to infinity. Because of the size of the lens and image receptor, you can get away with most shots except for real close up.
Clean the lens. For some reason Droid's camera is very sensitive to the oil and dirt from fingerprints. This will eliminate the fog effect around areas of bright contrast.
Turn down the resolution. Unless you plan on printing your pictures or cropping them (very handy at times), the added resolution is not needed for a Facebook post.
Turn off the flash. Although there are times to use it, leaving it off makes it more responsive.

Instead of having the "Google Search" bar take up space on your screen, you can simply press the search button on the bottom right..... the search bar will pop up and you can search as usual.

Save your website to Favorites, then open Favorites in your browser. Longpress on the website icon and select Add Shortcut to Homescreen.