Missing icon

Moons

I just got this phone and I was moving things around on main screen and "lost"

my tools icon. Instead of moving it I think I put it in the recycle bin. NOW ITS
GONE. I can not find it anywhere.

Can someone please help me?? I have searched thru everything with no luck.

Also, how do I clear the browser and cache?

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B33

It was with the Gingerbread OS as a small Square in-side of a Big one: When ICS Came along it was re-placed what i'm going to show below is what the Razr's Home screen looked like with the Gingerbread OS and the Squares::.. And what it Currently looks like when it was updated to ICS and continued with Jelly Bean..

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/77279

The home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on the smartphone or touch Home key from a menu. It’s basically like this:

Note: Your home screen might look a little different.

Use and change your home screen

On your home screen, shortcuts are icons that open your favorite apps, web bookmarks, contacts, mail labels, or music playlists. Widgets show you news, weather, messages, and other updates.

To see other panels of shortcuts and widgets, flick the home screen left or right. Or, touch Home key and touch a thumbnail to go to the panel.

To open something, touch it. Touch Home key to return to the home screen.Tip: When you open a widget, touch Menu key to see any options or settings (you can choose accounts for Calendar, Social Networking, Social Status, or Universal Inbox widgets).
To resize widgets, touch and hold a corner until you feel a vibration, then drag.
To add something or change your wallpaper, touch and hold an empty spot until you see the Add to Home screen menu.You can add a folder to organize your shortcuts.
To move or delete something, touch and hold it until you feel a vibration, then drag it to another spot, another panel, or the trash at the top of the screen.

Shortcuts in the dock row at the bottom of the home screen always appear in all panel views. You can change the dock shortcuts (except for the launcher icon that opens the app menu). Touch and hold a dock shortcut, then select the shortcut you want to replace it. Change the wallpaperNeed a change of scenery? Change your wallpaper whenever you like. You can select from Live (animated) wallpapers, standard wallpapers, or pictures from your Gallery.

From the Home screen, touch the menu key> Wallpaper.
Browse through the choices, touch the picture to use, and then touch Set wallpaper.

Another way to access this option is to touch and hold a blank area on your Home screen, then touchWallpapers.

Note: If your battery is low, temporarily change animated wallpaper to a static image to save power.

Touch Search , then use the window that appears.

Smartphone status & notifications

Icons at the top of the screen notify you about messages and smartphone status. To see your notifications, touch the status bar and drag it down. Touch a notification to select it.

To dismiss a single notification, touch . To dismiss all notifications, touch .

For Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich) users.

The DROID RAZR MAXX home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on your phone or touch Home from a menu. It’s basically like this:

Note: Your home screen might look a little different.

Use & change your home screen

On your home screen, shortcuts are icons that open your favorite apps, web bookmarks, contacts, mail labels, playlists, and more. Widgets are live apps or tools that provide news, weather, messages, and other updates.

To see other panels of shortcuts and widgets, flick the home screen left or right.

• To open something, touch it. Touch Home or Back to return to the home screen.
Tip: When you open a widget, touch Menu to see any options or settings. You can choose accounts for Calendar, Email, Facebook, Gmail, Google+, and Twitter widgets.

• To resize widgets, touch and hold a side until you feel a vibration, then drag.

• To add shortcuts to the home screen, touch , touch and hold an app, then drag it to a spot on the home screen panels.
To create a shortcut folder, drag one shortcut onto another to put them both in a folder. To add othershortcuts, drag them onto the folder icon. To name
the folder, touch it and enter a name at the bottom.

• To add widgets, touch , touch Widgets at the top, then touch and hold a widget (or flick left to see more widgets).

• To move widgets or shortcuts, touch and hold them, then drag to a new location.

• To remove shortcuts or widgets from the home screen, touch and hold them, then drag to Remove at the top.

• To change wallpaper, touch and hold a blank spot on the home screen.
Shortcuts in the favorites tray at the bottom of the home screen always appear in all home screen views. You can drag shortcuts or folders in or out of the favorites tray (except the all apps button ) for instant access from any home screen.

Touch Search , touch the Google text box that appears, then start typing your search text.

As you type, suggestions appear below the search field:

• To search for a suggestion, touch it.
• To add a suggestion to the search field, touch the arrow beside it.
• To search for the text in the search field, touch the search key at the bottom right of the keyboard.

The browser shows a list of search results.
To set where Google™ Search looks on your phone, touch Menu > Settings > Searchable items. To adjust Google Search privacy settings, touch Menu > Settings > Google Search.

Phone status & notifications

Icons at the top right of the screen show status information like signal strength, battery level, and time.
Icons at the top left show messages and app notifications. To see your notifications, touch the status bar and drag it down.

Touch a notification to select it.

Tip: To remove a notification from the list, flick it left or right.

To clear all notifications, touch .

Tip: Blue connection icons (network, data, Wi-Fi) appear when your phone is connected to your Google™ account. White connection icons mean your phone is not communicating with the Google servers.

Note: Apps you download from Google Play™ may show other icons in the status bar to alert you to specific events.

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NuDroidUsrr

Moons wrote:
I just got this phone and I was moving things around on main screen and "lost"
my tools icon. Instead of moving it I think I put it in the recycle bin. NOW ITS
GONE. I can not find it anywhere.
Can someone please help me?? I have searched thru everything with no luck.
Also, how do I clear the browser and cache?

What "tools" icon, and what do you mean by "recycle bin"? There is no "recycle bin". Are you talking about an icon on your Home Screen? You can put any icon on your home screens by clicking on APPS, and then find the app icon there, press and hold until the Home Screen appears, and then you can move it where you want.

B33

Are you Referring to the Settings icon the one that Looks like a Gear if So all you have to do is Tap the Apps Icon it will take you to the App Drawer and you can again find the Settings Icon when you do long Press it and then move it to your Main Screen) Now you have one other option to get the into the Setting menu what i think your calling Tools by Taking your finger and going to the top of you phone pull the shade down and the Settings will be in there One Way to learning your New phone is Go to the Link i provide for Ya right here and Download the online Manual it's in PDF format

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/product_page/faqs/p_country_code/US/p/30,6720,8417

Here is the Manual Link Make sure to Look at it as it will help answer allot of Questions if need more Help give us a shout on here i'll try to help as Much as i can..

https://www.motorola.com/moto_care/manuals/RAZR_RAZRMAXX_UG_JB.pdf >> The Razr / Razr Maxx Manual For Jelly Bean

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get/452160/1340835508/redirect/1/filename/RAZR_Maxx_GSG_Vzw_ICS_68017140001A.pdf

This is the Guide for ICS

breezex

I believe the "Tools" icon that you removed was a folder that contained some icons of useful tools. Nothing is lost. Just create a new folder on your home screen (or another screen), name it Tools, and put useful things from the App drawer in the folder. When you put things in a folder they are not moved just "short-cuts" are created like a PC. It's been a while since I had a Tools folder and I no longer remember what it contained.

Moons

Thank you all. Its not the little wheel icon thing...I am thinking now that it was a folder. How do I get that back? Just re create it? Im kinda lost with this phone. Thanks...

B33

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/77279

The home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on the smartphone or touch Home key from a menu. It’s basically like this:

Note: Your home screen might look a little different.

Use and change your home screen

On your home screen, shortcuts are icons that open your favorite apps, web bookmarks, contacts, mail labels, or music playlists. Widgets show you news, weather, messages, and other updates.

To see other panels of shortcuts and widgets, flick the home screen left or right. Or, touch Home key and touch a thumbnail to go to the panel.

To open something, touch it. Touch Home key to return to the home screen.Tip: When you open a widget, touch Menu key to see any options or settings (you can choose accounts for Calendar, Social Networking, Social Status, or Universal Inbox widgets).
To resize widgets, touch and hold a corner until you feel a vibration, then drag.
To add something or change your wallpaper, touch and hold an empty spot until you see the Add to Home screen menu.You can add a folder to organize your shortcuts.
To move or delete something, touch and hold it until you feel a vibration, then drag it to another spot, another panel, or the trash at the top of the screen.

From the Home screen, touch the menu key> Wallpaper.
Browse through the choices, touch the picture to use, and then touch Set wallpaper.

Another way to access this option is to touch and hold a blank area on your Home screen, then touchWallpapers.

Note: If your battery is low, temporarily change animated wallpaper to a static image to save power.

Touch Search , then use the window that appears.

Smartphone status & notifications

Icons at the top of the screen notify you about messages and smartphone status. To see your notifications, touch the status bar and drag it down. Touch a notification to select it.

To dismiss a single notification, touch . To dismiss all notifications, touch .

For Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich) users.

The DROID RAZR MAXX home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on your phone or touch Home from a menu. It’s basically like this:

Note: Your home screen might look a little different.

Use & change your home screen

To see other panels of shortcuts and widgets, flick the home screen left or right.

• To resize widgets, touch and hold a side until you feel a vibration, then drag.

• To add widgets, touch , touch Widgets at the top, then touch and hold a widget (or flick left to see more widgets).

• To move widgets or shortcuts, touch and hold them, then drag to a new location.

• To remove shortcuts or widgets from the home screen, touch and hold them, then drag to Remove at the top.

Touch Search , touch the Google text box that appears, then start typing your search text.

As you type, suggestions appear below the search field:

• To search for a suggestion, touch it.
• To add a suggestion to the search field, touch the arrow beside it.
• To search for the text in the search field, touch the search key at the bottom right of the keyboard.

Phone status & notifications

Touch a notification to select it.

Tip: To remove a notification from the list, flick it left or right.

To clear all notifications, touch .

Tip: Blue connection icons (network, data, Wi-Fi) appear when your phone is connected to your Google™ account. White connection icons mean your phone is not communicating with the Google servers.

Note: Apps you download from Google Play™ may show other icons in the status bar to alert you to specific events.

breezex

Moons wrote:
Thank you all. Its not the little wheel icon thing...I am thinking now that it was a folder. How do I get that back? Just re create it? Im kinda lost with this phone. Thanks...

Here's how it works on my RAZR M. Go to a screen with some room, from the App Drawer add an app to the screen by touching the icon and holding down, move it to a screen of your choice. Go back to the App Drawer, get another app icon and move it to the same screen and put it on top of the previous icon, a folder is created. You can also just drag icons from the screen to the folder and vice versa. Add more icons until you have everything you want in the folder. The folder will probably be named "Unnamed Folder". To change that touch the folder and then touch the text at the bottom. A keyboard will open allowing you to name the folder.

Moons

Thank you...for your help.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

B33

Moons did the Info that i posted help explain the switch i do remember the boxes as well but i had gotten so use to the new format that like most stuff it was starting to Fade in my memory till you asked about it..

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