Sony SGP311, SGP312 manual Rearranging your Home screen, Customization options

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Rearranging your Home screen

Customize the appearance of your Home screen and change the features you can access from it. Change the screen background, move items around, create folders, and add shortcuts and widgets.

Customization options

When you touch and hold an empty area of your Home screen, the following customization options appear:

Add widgets to your Home screen.

Add applications and shortcuts.

Set a wallpaper for your Home screen.

Set a background theme.

To view customization options from the Home screen

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen and customization options appear on the screen.

To add a shortcut to your Home screen

1Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen.

2In the customization menu, tap Apps.

3Scroll through the list of applications and select an application. The selected application gets added to the Home screen.

In step 3, alternatively, you can tap Shortcuts and then select an application from the list available. If you use this method to add shortcuts, some of the applications available allow you to add specific functionality to the shortcut.

To move an item on the Home screen

Touch and hold the item until it magnifies, then drag the item to the new location.

To delete an item from the Home screen

Touch and hold an item until it magnifies, then drag the item to .

To create a folder on the Home screen

Touch and hold an application icon or a shortcut until it magnifies, then drag and drop it on top of another application icon or shortcut.

To add items to a folder on the Home screen

Touch and hold an item until it magnifies, then drag the item to the folder.

To rename a folder on the Home screen

1Tap the folder to open it.

2Tap the folder's title bar to show the Folder name field.

3Enter the new folder name and tap Done.

Changing the background of your Home screen

Adapt the Home screen to your own style using wallpapers and different themes.

To change your Home screen wallpaper

1Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen.

2Tap Wallpapers and select an option.

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