Sony Xperia SP - Home screen

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Home screen

The Home screen is the starting point for using your device. You can customize it with

applications, widgets, shortcuts, folders, themes, and wallpaper. You can also add

extra panes.
The Home screen extends beyond the regular screen display width, so you need to

flick left or right to view content in all of the Home screen's panes.

shows which part of the Home screen you are in. You can

set a pane as the main Home screen pane, and add or delete panes.

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To go to the Home screen

Press .

To browse the Home screen

Flick right or left.

To set a pane as the main Home screen pane

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.

2

Flick left or right to browse to the pane that you want to set as your main Home

screen pane, then tap .

To add a pane to your Home screen

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.

2

Flick left or right to browse the panes, then tap .

To delete a pane from your Home screen

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.

2

Flick left or right to browse to the pane that you want to delete, then tap .

Widgets

Widgets are small applications that you can use directly on your Home screen. For

example, the “WALKMAN” widget allows you to start playing music directly.
Some widgets are resizable, so you can expand them to view more content or shrink

them to save space on your Home screen.

To add a widget to the Home screen

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates,

then tap Widgets.

2

Find and tap the widget that you want to add.

To resize a widget

1

Touch and hold a widget until it magnifies and the device vibrates, then release

the widget. If the widget can be resized, for example, the Calendar widget, then

a highlighted frame and resizing dots appear.

2

Drag the dots inward or outward to shrink or expand the widget.

3

To confirm the new size of the widget, tap anywhere on the Home screen.

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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 until the device vibrates

and customization options appear at the bottom of the screen.

To add a shortcut to your Home screen

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates

and the customization menu appears.

2

In the customization menu, tap Apps.

3

Scroll 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 and the device vibrates, then drag the

item to the new location.

To delete an item from the Home screen

Touch and hold an item until it magnifies and the device vibrates, 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 and the

device vibrates, 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 and the device vibrates, then drag the

item to the folder.

To rename a folder on the Home screen

1

Tap the folder to open it.

2

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

3

Enter 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

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.

2

Tap Wallpapers and select an option.

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To set a theme for your Home screen

1

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.

2

Tap Themes, then select a theme.

When you change a theme, the background also changes in some applications.