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Table Of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Safety precautions
Preparations
- Your phone at a glance
- Inserting or removing a micro-SIM card
- Inserting or removing a microSD card
- Charging the battery
  - Battery indicator
  - Important information about the battery
- Powering your phone on and off
- Setting up your phone for the first time
Getting started
- Gestures
- Locking and unlocking the screen
  - Locking the screen
  - Unlocking the screen
- Getting to know your home screen
- Using the notification panel
- Accessing applications
  - Starting applications and switching between them
  - Viewing recently used applications
- Texting
- Turning on gloves mode
Personalizing your phone
- Setting the theme
  - Changing the theme
  - Customizing a theme
- Changing the wallpaper
- Setting the home screen transition effect
- Organizing home screen widgets and application icons
- Organizing home screen icons using folders
  - Creating a folder on the home screen
  - Removing an item from a folder
- Customizing Me Widget
- Customizing your home screens
- Customizing switch shortcuts on the notification panel
- Managing profiles
- Setting tones
  - Setting the ringtone
  - Setting notification tones
- Changing the font size
- Setting the screen unlock method
- Adjusting the screen brightness
Calls
- Smart dialing
- Answering or rejecting a call
- Viewing the call log
- What you can do during a call
- Making a conference call
- Answering a third-party call
- Making emergency calls
- Other call services
People
- Creating a contact
- Searching for a contact
- Copying contacts
- Importing or exporting contacts
- Adding a contact to your favorites
- Deleting contacts
- Merging contacts
- Sharing contacts
- Contact groups
Messaging
- Sending a text message
- Sending a multimedia message
- Replying to a message
- Searching for a message
- Managing messages
- Modifying message settings
Browser
- Browsing web pages
- Managing bookmarks
- Setting the home page
- Clearing your browsing history
- Modifying browser settings
Email
- Adding a POP3 or IMAP email account
- Adding an Exchange account
- Switching between email accounts
- Sending emails
- Checking your emails
- Removing an email account
- Modifying email account settings
Multimedia
- Camera
- Gallery
- Music
Internet connection
- Mobile data connection
  - Checking the network connection
  - Enabling the data service
- Setting up a Wi-Fi connection
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Sharing your phone's mobile data connection
- Controlling your data usage
Sharing data
- Bluetooth
- Using DLNA
- Connecting your phone to a computer
- Connecting your phone to a USB storage device
File Manager
- Creating a folder
- Searching for a file
- Copying, cutting, and pasting a file
- Compressing or decompressing files
- Renaming a file
- Deleting a file
- Creating a shortcut for a file or folder
- Checking the memory status
Managing applications
- Downloading applications
- Installing an application
- Viewing applications
- Uninstalling an application
- Clearing the application cache
Huawei applications
- Backup
- Cloud Sync
- Phone Finder
Google services
- Gmail
  - Sending emails
  - Checking your emails
- Talk
  - Adding a friend
  - Starting a conversation
- Maps
- YouTube
  - Searching for a video
  - Sharing a video
- Play Store
  - Installing an application
  - Uninstalling an application
Basic utilities
- Calendar
- Clock
- Calculator
- Notes
- Weather
- FM radio
  - Searching for stations
  - Listening to FM radio
Accounts and sync
- Adding an account
- Deleting an account
- Turning on data synchronization
- Modifying account synchronization settings
Settings
- Turning on or off airplane mode
- Tone settings
- Display settings
- Turning on the power manager
- Setting the date and time
- Changing the system language
- Modifying location service settings
- Setting the PIN of your SIM card
- Restoring factory settings
- Online update
- Accessibility
FAQs
- What are some ways I can save battery power?
- How can I free up additional phone memory?
- How do I use a microSD card to import contacts from another phone?
- How do I set a song as my ringtone?
- How do I disable the Auto-rotate screen function?
- How do I set a screen unlock pattern?
- How do I switch the text input method?
- How do I stop the song playing in the background?
- How do I return to the call screen?
- How do I move an application icon on the home screen?
- How do I hide the onscreen keyboard?
- How do I forward a message?
- How do I restart my phone?
Legal Notice
- Copyright © Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 2013. All rights reserved.
- Trademarks and Permissions
- Notice
- Third-Party Software Statement
- DISCLAIMER
- Import and Export Regulations
- Privacy Policy
Index

Index

Sharing an event 77

Sharing contacts

Sharing files using Bluetooth

Sharing weather information

Shooting a video

Smart dialing

Starting applications and switching between them

Status icons

Switching between email accounts

Switching between home screens

Synchronizing and viewing events

Taking a panoramic photo

Taking a photo

Taking a photo in beauty mode

Taking a screenshot

third-party software statement

Tone settings

trademarks

Turning on Bluetooth

Turning on data synchronization

Turning on gloves mode

Turning on or off airplane mode

Turning on the power manager

Uninstalling an application

Unlocking the screen

Unlocking the screen with a password

Unlocking the screen with a pattern

Updating weather

USB tethering

Using Bluetooth

Using DLNA

Using HDR

Using the notification panel

Viewfinder

Viewing applications