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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

Google services

4. Touch in the lower right corner of the keyboard.

The search results are marked on the map by letters.

5. Touch a mark to see how to get there and view more details about the

location.

Getting somewhere

When you browse a map, touch .

2. Touch the first text box to enter the start point. Then, touch the second text

box to enter the destination.

3. Select a transportation method: by car, public transportation, or foot.

4. Touch

GET DIRECTIONS

Available routes are then shown in a list.

5. Touch the route you prefer to display on the map.

6. To start a new search, touch >

Clear Map

to clear the search results.

YouTube

is Google's online video-sharing website, where you can search for,

watch, and upload videos.

Searching for a video

On the home screen, touch

Google apps

> .

2. Touch .

3. Enter the keywords for the video you want to find.

4. Touch in the lower right corner of the keyboard.

5. From the search results, touch a video to watch it.

Sharing a video

From the video list, select the video you want to share. Then, touch and select a

sharing method.