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• If you select an open network, you will be automatically connected to the network. • If you select a network that is secured with Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and connect to it for the first time, enter the password, and then touch Connect. If you connect to a secured wireless network that you have already used, you will not be prompted to enter the password again unless you reset your mobile phone to its default settings. On the Wi-Fi settings screen, touch Add Wi-Fi network to add a new Wi-Fi network. 7.3 Sharing Your Phone's Data Connection You can share your mobile phone's data connection with a single computer via a USB cable: USB tethering. You can share your mobile phone's data connection with devices at the same time, by turning your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. 7.3.1 Sharing Your Phone's Data Connection via USB To use USB tethering in different operating systems, you may need to prepare your computer to establish a network connection via USB. You can not share your mobile phone's data connection and SD card via USB at the same time. A Tethering Plan from your service provider is required to use this service. 1. Touch > Settings. 2. Touch Wireless & networks > Tethering & portable hotspot. 3. Select the USB tethering check box to share your data connection. 34

Section	Page
1 Reading Before Proceeding	5
1.1 Safety Precautions	5
1.2 Personal Information and Data Security	6
1.3 Legal Notice	7
Copyright © Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 2011. All rights reserved.	7
Trademarks and Permissions	8
Notice	8
Third-Party Software Statement	8
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES	9
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY	9
Import and Export Regulations	9
2 Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone	10
2.1 Mobile Phone View	10
2.1.1 Phone at a Glance	10
2.1.2 Key Functions at Your Fingertips	11
2.2 Installing Your Mobile Phone	12
2.2.1 Installing the Battery and the microSD Card	12
2.2.2 Charging the Battery	12
2.2.3 Important Information About the Battery	13
2.2.4 Battery Saving Tips	13
2.3 Power On or Off Your Mobile Phone	14
2.3.1 Powering On Your Mobile Phone	14
2.3.2 Setting Up Your Mobile Phone	14
2.3.3 Powering Off Your Mobile Phone	14
2.4 Using the Touchscreen	14
2.4.1 Touchscreen Actions	14
2.4.2 Rotating Your Mobile Phone Screen	15
2.5 Locking and Unlocking the Screen	15
2.5.1 Locking the Screen	15
2.5.2 Unlocking the Screen	15
2.6 Home Screen	16
2.6.1 Notification and Status Icons	16
2.6.2 Notifications Panel	17
Opening the Notifications Panel	17
Closing the Notification Panel	17
2.6.3 Viewing Other Parts of the Home Screen	18
2.6.4 Customizing the Home Screen	18
Adding a New Screen Item	18
Moving a Screen Item	18
Removing a Screen Item	19
2.6.5 Service Shortcuts	19
2.6.6 Setting Home Screen Animations	19
2.6.7 Changing the Wallpaper	19
2.6.8 Changing the Theme	19
2.6.9 Editing a Screen Item	20
2.7 Application List	20
2.7.1 Moving Icons in the Application List	20
2.8 Using a microSD Card	20
2.8.1 Using the microSD Card as USB Mass Storage	20
2.8.2 Removing the microSD Card	21
3 Calling	21
3.1 Making a Call	21
3.1.1 Making a Call with the Dialer Application	21
3.1.2 Making a Call from Contacts	22
3.1.3 Making a Call from Call log	22
3.2 Answering or Rejecting a Call	22
3.2.1 Answering an Incoming Call	22
3.2.2 Ending a Call	23
3.2.3 Rejecting an Incoming Call	23
3.3 Other Operations During a Call	23
3.3.1 Making a Conference Call	23
3.3.2 Switching Between Calls	24
3.4 Using Call log	24
3.4.1 Adding an entry to Contacts	24
3.5 Using Airplane Mode	24
3.6 TTY Operation	24
3.6.1 Using the TTY Device	24
3.6.2 Setting the TTY Mode	25
3.7 Setting Hearing Aid Compatibility	25
4 Contacts	25
4.1 Opening the Contacts Application	25
4.2 Adding a Contact	26
4.2.1 Adding a Contact to Your Favorites	26
4.3 Indexing Contacts	26
4.4 Searching for a Contact	26
4.5 Editing a Contact	26
4.6 Communicating with Your Contacts	27
4.6.1 Connecting Through Quick Contact for Android	27
4.6.2 Communicating with a Contact	27
4.7 Deleting a Contact	27
4.8 Managing Groups	27
4.8.1 Creating a Group	28
4.8.2 Editing a Group	28
4.8.3 Adding a Contact to Your Groups	28
4.9 Joining and Separating Contacts	28
4.9.1 Joining Contacts	29
4.9.2 Separating Contacts	29
4.10 Staying Close to Your Friends	29
5 Using the Onscreen Keyboard	30
5.1 Displaying the Keyboard Panel	30
5.1.1 Choosing an Input Method	30
5.1.2 Using the Android Keyboard	30
5.1.3 Using the Swype Keyboard	31
5.1.4 Using the Landscape Keyboard	32
5.2 Customizing Keyboard Settings	32
6 Messaging	32
6.1 SMS and MMS	32
6.1.1 Opening Messaging	32
6.1.2 Creating and Sending a Text Message	32
6.1.3 Creating and Sending a Multimedia Message	33
Adding a Slideshow	33
6.1.4 Opening and Viewing a Multimedia Message	34
6.1.5 Replying to a Message	34
6.1.6 Copying a Text Message to Calendar	34
6.1.7 Customizing the Message Settings	34
6.2 Email	34
6.2.1 Adding an Email Account	35
Adding Other Email Accounts	35
6.2.2 Viewing an Email Message	35
6.2.3 Creating and Sending an Email Message	36
6.2.4 Replying to an Email Message	36
6.2.5 Saving an Email Attachment	36
6.2.6 Deleting an Email Account	36
6.2.7 Changing Email Account Settings	36
7 Getting Connected	37
7.1 Turning on the Data Service	37
7.2 Wi-Fi	37
7.2.1 Turning On Wi-Fi	37
7.2.2 Connecting to a Wireless Network	37
7.3 Sharing Your Phone’s Data Connection	38
7.3.1 Sharing Your Phone’s Data Connection via USB	38
7.3.2 Sharing Your Phone’s Data Connection as a Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot	39
7.4 Browser	39
7.4.1 Opening the Browser	39
7.4.2 Opening a Web Page	40
7.4.3 Setting a Home Page	40
7.4.4 Managing Bookmarks	40
Adding a Bookmark	40
Opening a Bookmark	40
7.4.5 Customizing the Browser Settings	40
7.5 Bluetooth	41
7.5.1 Turning On Bluetooth	41
7.5.2 Pairing and Connecting a Bluetooth Device	41
7.5.3 Sending Files via Bluetooth	42
7.5.4 Disconnecting or Unpairing a Bluetooth Device	42
8 Entertainment	42
8.1 Taking Photos and Recording Videos	42
8.1.1 Opening Your Camera	42
Capture Screen	43
8.1.2 Taking a Photo	43
8.1.3 Viewing Your Photos	43
8.1.4 Recording a Video	44
8.1.5 Viewing Your Videos	44
8.2 Using the Gallery	44
8.2.1 Opening the Gallery	44
8.2.2 Viewing a Picture	44
8.2.3 Rotating a Picture	45
8.2.4 Cropping a Picture	45
8.3 Enjoying Music	45
8.3.1 Copying Music to the microSD Card	45
8.3.2 Opening the Media Library	46
8.3.3 Playing Music	46
8.3.4 Adding Music to a Playlist	46
8.3.5 Playing a Playlist	46
9 Google Services	47
9.1 Creating a Google Account	47
9.2 Using Gmail	48
9.2.1 Opening Gmail	48
9.2.2 Switching Between Accounts	48
9.2.3 Creating and Sending an Email	48
9.2.4 Replying To or Forwarding an Email	48
9.2.5 Searching for an Email	49
9.2.6 Customizing Your Gmail Settings	49
9.3 Using Talk	49
9.3.1 Opening Talk	49
9.3.2 Adding a Friend	49
9.3.3 Accepting an Invitation	49
9.3.4 Starting a Chat	50
9.3.5 Setting Notifications for New Instant Messages	50
9.3.6 Signing Out of Talk	50
9.4 Using Maps	50
9.4.1 Enabling Location Source	50
9.4.2 Opening Maps	51
9.4.3 Searching for Places of Interest	51
9.4.4 Getting Directions	51
9.5 Using YouTube	51
9.5.1 Opening YouTube	51
9.5.2 Searching for a Video	52
9.5.3 Sharing a Video	52
9.6 Using Market	52
9.6.1 Opening Market	52
9.6.2 Searching for Applications	52
9.6.3 Installing an Application	53
9.6.4 Uninstalling an Application	53
10 Synchronizing Information	54
10.1 Managing Your Accounts	54
10.1.1 Adding an Account	54
10.1.2 Removing an Account	55
10.2 Customizing Your Account Synchronization	55
10.2.1 Configuring General Sync Settings	56
10.2.2 Changing an Account’s Synchronization Settings	56
11 Using Other Applications	56
11.1 Using All Backup	56
11.1.1 Backing up data by using Backup to SD	56
11.2 Using the Calendar	57
11.2.1 Opening the Calendar	57
11.2.2 Creating an Event	57
11.2.3 Setting an Event Reminder	58
11.2.4 Setting the synchronize and display	58
11.2.5 Customizing the Calendar Settings	58
11.3 Using the Clock	59
11.3.1 Opening the Clock	59
11.3.2 Opening the Alarms	59
Adding an Alarm	59
Setting an Alarm	59
Customizing Alarm Settings	59
11.4 Using the File Manager	60
11.4.1 Opening the File Manager	60
11.4.2 Creating a Folder	60
11.4.3 Moving or Copying a File	60
11.4.4 Doing a Quick Search for a File	60
11.4.5 Compressing or Extracting Files	61
Compressing Files	61
Extracting a File	61
11.4.6 Viewing Your Memory Status	61
11.5 Using the Calculator	62
11.5.1 Opening the Calculator	62
11.5.2 Switching to the Advanced panel	62
11.6 Using the Richpad	62
12 Managing Your Mobile Phone	63
12.1 Setting the Date and Time	63
12.2 Setting the Display	63
12.2.1 Adjusting the Screen Brightness	63
12.2.2 Adjusting the Time Before the Screen Turns Off	63
12.3 Setting Ringers	63
12.3.1 Turning On Silent Mode	63
12.3.2 Adjusting the Volume	64
12.3.3 Changing the Phone Ringtone	64
12.3.4 Changing the Message Ringtone	64
12.3.5 Setting Your Phone to Vibrate for Incoming Calls	64
12.4 Setting Phone Services	64
12.4.1 Customizing Call Settings	64
12.4.2 Turning on Data Roaming	65
12.4.3 Switching off the Data Service	65
12.5 Setting Text-to-Speech	65
12.5.1 Installing Voice Data	65
12.5.2 Adjusting the Speech Rate	65
12.6 Protecting Your Mobile Phone	66
12.6.1 Protecting Your Mobile Phone with a Screen Lock Pattern	66
12.6.2 Protecting Your Mobile Phone with a numeric PIN	66
12.6.3 Unlocking Your mobile phone if you forget the lock pattern	66
12.7 Managing Applications	67
12.7.1 Viewing an Installed Application	67
12.7.2 Uninstalling an Application	67
12.7.3 Moving an Application to microSD card	67
12.7.4 Ways to Free Up Your Mobile Phone Memory	68
12.8 Resetting Your Mobile Phone	68
12.8.1 Backing Up My Data	68
12.8.2 Restoring Factory Data	68
12.9 Online Update	69
13 Appendix	70
13.1 Warnings and Precautions	70
Electronic Device	70
Medical Device	70
Potentially Explosive Atmosphere	70
Traffic Security	71
Operating Environment	71
Prevention of Hearing Damage	72
Safety of Children	72
Accessories	72
Battery and Charger	72
Cleaning and Maintenance	73
Emergency Call	74
Certification Information (SAR)	74
FCC Statement	75
Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) regulations for Mobile phones	76
13.2 FAQ	77
How do I set a song as phone ringtone?	77
How do I prevent automatic switching of orientation when rotating phone?	77
How do I set the unlock pattern?	77
How can I change the keyboard mode?	77
How do I stop the song playing in the background?	77
How do I return to the calling screen?	77
How do I create an application shortcut on the Home screen?	77
How do I hide the keyboard?	77
How do I forward a message?	77