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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

Preparations

Charging the battery

Your phone's built-in battery is not user-removable. To replace the battery,

contact an authorized service center. Do not attempt to remove it yourself.

Use the provided USB cable and power adapter to connect your phone to a power outlet,

or use the USB cable itself to connect your phone to a computer.

Battery indicator

The battery indicator shows your phone's battery level.

• Blinking red: The battery level is lower than 10%.

• Steady red (when charging): The battery level is lower than 10%.

• Steady yellow (when charging): The battery level is higher than 10%.

• Steady green (when charging): The battery is almost or already full.

Important information about the battery

• If the battery power is depleted, you may not be able to power on your phone

immediately after you begin charging the battery. This is normal. Allow the

battery to charge for a few minutes before attempting to power on your phone.

• Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may

eventually need to be replaced. When the battery life becomes noticeably

shorter, replace the battery.

• The time required to fully charge the battery depends on the ambient

temperature and age of the battery.

• If your phone is very low on power, it plays an alert tone and displays a

message. If the battery level is extremely low, your phone automatically powers

off.