Hints and Tips

Check out these hints and tips on using DreamLife. If you have any hints and tips of your own and you'd like to share them, why not post them on the forum?

Access DreamLife and DreamLife Contacts from the standby screen

The standby screen on your phone has a bunch of icons on it, which you can change to access the operations and applications that you use most frequently. We recommend changing your calendar and contacts icons to the DreamLife and DreamLife Contacts icons. On Sony Ericsson phones, scroll to the icon you want to replace and go to More > Replace > Application. Find DreamLife, or DreamLife Contacts in the list to create the schortcut on your standby screen.

Use the back key more effectively

By holding down the back key on your phone, you will return to the standby screen, no matter how far into an application you are. This is great news for those who have both DreamLife and DreamLife contacts shortcuts on the standby screen. If for example you want to exit an application and go straight to DreamLife contacts, simply hold in the back key until you return to the standby screen, and tap on the shortcut.

Finding contacts faster using the key pad

For fewer key presses and shorter input time when searching a contact, try key match instead of the normal multi-tap key in method. You can activate it in the Contact view by choosing More > Find > Key match. Key match is like predictive text, and will match each letter represented by each keypress, so pressing "2" will search for "a,b and c" and so forth. For example, to search for "Simon," you would only need to press "7, 4, 6, 6 and 6" once each instead of having to press each key multiple times to select the correct letter.

Access contacts quickly from DreamLife

Did you know that you can access contact details quickly from the DreamLife icon in the calendar view? Simply touch the DreamLife icon in the top left corner and select Contact view to see your contacts.

Always showing activity details

If you prefer activity details to display automatically each time you scroll to an activity, simply choose More > Settings > Settings Dialog. In the Details tab, select Auto popup and set how long and how fast you want the details to be shown. Once set, details will be shown every time you scroll to an activity without the need to press view.

Setting calendar core hours

If your work and lifestyle involves a different schedule from the normal 9 to 5 work day, you can change the core hours so that activities of your day or week are always shown in the centre of the screen rather than having to scroll up and down. The exception is when your first activity of the day is outside of your core starting hour. In this case, DreamLife will always show the first event of the day. To change your core hours, from More choose Settings > Settings Dialog. In the Planner tab, choose Core hours start time to change to desired start time. Then press Done and Save.

Quickly jump to the date you want

If you need to jump to a date that is not in the next few days or weeks, you can quickly jump there by tapping on the date displayed at the top of the screen, between the 2 arrows. Tapping here will popup a calendar which lets you quickly enter the date you want to jump to.