Huawei Ascend G7 User manual

G7
User Guide

Contents
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New features
1 Read before use
1Safe
2 All focus mode
2 Taking photos from the timeline album screen
4 Scanning a QR code
4 Protecting your privacy
Getting started
6 Basic screen features
9 Personalizing your phone
10 Basic operations
11 Calling, contacts and messaging
13 Email
14 Internet connection
14 Browser
Entertainment
15 Camera
17 Gallery
18 Music
18 Playing a video
Transferring data
19 Bluetooth
19 Wi-Fi Direct
20 Multi-screen display
20 Huawei Beam
20 Connecting your phone to a computer
21 Connecting your phone to a USB storage device
Managing your phone
22 Managing applications
23 File Manager
25 Phone Manager
26 Backup, restoration, and update
Tools
28 Weather
28 Alarms
29 Mirror
Legal Notice

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New features
New features
Read before use
This guide only applies to phones that run EMUI 3.0.
Features in this guide are for your reference only. Some features may not be
supported by all phones.
Safe
Encrypt important and private files to prevent others from viewing them.
Enabling the Safe
1. Open Files .
2. Touch Safe .
3. If your phone supports and has a microSD card inserted, you can choose to
create the Safe in
SD card or Internal .
4. Enable Safe and follow the onscreen instructions to set a password and
security question answer.
Adding files to the Safe
1. Open Files .
2. Touch Safe and enter your password.
3. Touch . Then add some files to Safe .
You can then view the encrypted files in Safe .

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All focus mode
All focus mode lets you change the focus point on a photo after it's been
taken.
This function may not be supported by all models.
1. Open Camera .
2. Touch >
3. Touch to take a photo.
4. Touch to find the photo you've just taken, and touch to adjust the
focus point.
Taking photos from the timeline album
screen
You can take photos directly from Gallery .
1. Open Gallery .
2. Touch the view switching button at the bottom of the screen to switch to
the timeline album view.

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3. On the timeline album screen, drag down on a blank area to launch the
camera in half-screen mode. Touch to take photos.
4. Drag the viewfinder further down to enter full-screen capture mode.
When you are done, touch to return to the timeline album screen.

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Scanning a QR code
Scanning a QR code using Gallery
1. Open Gallery .
2. Choose a QR code photo. Gallery will automatically scan the QR code.
3. Touch View details to view the QR code details.
Scanning a QR code using Camera
1. Open Camera .
2. Frame the QR code with the camera. Camera will automatically scan the QR
code.
3. Touch View details to view the QR code details.
Protecting your privacy
What's Privacy protection?
If you have content on your phone that you want to keep private, you can set
two different unlock passwords, one for yourself, and the other for visitors. If
your phone is unlocked using the visitor password, all your private content
will be hidden.
Your contacts, albums, and applications are all able to be set as private.
Setting a privacy protection password
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Security > Privacy protection > Let's start .
3. Choose a password style, and set your owner password and the visitor
password.
If you have set a screen unlock password, the password will be used as
the owner password by default.

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Setting private information
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Security > Privacy protection .
3. Enter your owner password to access the Privacy protection screen.
4. Select the contacts, albums, or applications you want to set as private.

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Getting started
Basic screen features
Magazine screen unlock
Flick up from the bottom of the screen to display the magazine unlock control
panel.
This function may not be supported by all models.
Magazine control area: Stop shuffling magazine covers, go to
the next page, add the current cover to favorites, and more.
Shortcut buttons: Access common tools, such as Calendar,
Calculator, and Flashlight.
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Managing the home screen
Adding a widget
1. Touch and hold a blank area on the home screen.
2. Touch Widgets .
3. Choose a widget and drag it to the home screen.
Creating a folder
On the home screen, drag one application on top of another to create a folder
containing both of them.
Adding or removing a home screen
Pinch three fingers together on the home screen to display the home screen
thumbnails. Touch to add a home screen or touch on the upper right
corner of a blank home screen to remove it.
Notification panel
Flick down from the status bar to open the notification panel. Flick left or
right to switch between the
Notifications and Shortcuts tabs.
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Auto-rotate screen
Open the notification panel, go to the Shortcuts tab, and touch to turn on
or turn off auto-rotate.
Taking a screenshot
Press the power and volume down buttons simultaneously to take a
screenshot. To view your screenshots, open
Gallery , switch to the list view,
and touch
Screenshots .
Suspend button
Open Settings . Under Smart assistance , touch More > Suspend button to
enable
Suspend button . When this feature is enabled, the suspend button will
be displayed on most screens. You can move it around by dragging it.
View detailed information about push notifications. Flick left or
right across a notification to dismiss it.
Clear all push notifications.
Expand or collapse the shortcut switches. (This feature may not
be supported by all models.)
Adjust the screen brightness.
Turn on or turn off common functions. Touch to customize
the shortcut switch list.
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Touch the suspend button to expand the suspend button menu for the
following actions:
• Touch to return to the previous screen.
• Touch to go to the home screen.
• Touch to view the list of recently used applications.
• Touch to lock the screen.
• Touch to optimize the system.
Personalizing your phone
Changing the wallpaper
1. Touch and hold a blank area on the home screen.
2. Touch Wallpapers .
3. Set the wallpapers displayed on the phone lock screen and home screen.
You can also choose whether to have the home screen wallpaper change
randomly at timed intervals.
Using the simple home screen
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Home screen style .
3. Select Simple .
To switch back to the standard home screen, touch Settings > Home
screen style
> Standard on the simple home screen.

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Changing the theme
Touch Themes to browse through and apply different themes. You can also
customize the themes.
Setting notification tones
1. Open the notification panel and go to the Shortcuts tab.
2. Touch and hold from the shortcut switches to enter the tone settings
screen.
3. Set your notification tones, such as the ringtone.
Changing the font size
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Display .
3. Touch Font size to select a font size.
Basic operations
Displaying or hiding the onscreen keyboard
• Touch a text box to display the onscreen keyboard.
• To hide the onscreen keyboard, touch .
Selecting an input method
Open the notification panel, switch to the Notifications tab, and touch
Choose input method to select an input method.

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Getting started
Editing text
• Touch and hold the text to display . Then, drag and to select
more or less text.
• Touch where you want to insert the text and drag to move the insertion
point. You can then paste the text you copied or cut.
Calling, contacts and messaging
Placing a call
Placing a call
Open Dialer .
• Enter the initials or first few letters of a contact's name, or part of the
contact's phone number. Then, select the contact you want to call from
the search results.
• Touch Contacts , and select the contact you want to call from the contacts list.
• Touch the contact you want to call from the call log.

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Answering a call
• Drag right to answer the call.
• Drag left to reject the call.
• Drag up to reject the call and send the caller a message. To edit the
message that will be sent, touch > Call settings > Reject calls with SMS .
When there is an incoming call, you can press the volume button to mute
the ringtone.
Turning on pocket mode
1. Open Dialer .
2. Touch > Call settings .
3. Turn on Pocket mode .
Creating a contact
1. Open Contacts .
2. Touch .
3. Choose the save location for the contact.
4. Enter the contact name, phone number, and other details. Then, save the
contact.

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Importing or exporting contacts
1. Open Contacts .
2. In the contacts list, touch > Import/Export . You can then:
• Choose a method to import contacts.
• Export contacts to a storage device or SIM card.
• Share your contacts.
Messaging
1. Open Messaging .
2. On the message thread screen, touch .
3. Touch to choose a contact.
4. Write a message, touch to add attachments, and send the message.
Email
Adding a POP3 or IMAP email account
1. Open Email .
2. Choose an email account type.
3. Enter your email address and password, and touch Next .
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to set up the email account.
Sending an email
1. Open Email .
2. On the inbox screen, touch to create an email.
• Touch From: to choose an email account.
• Enter the recipient and subject, and compose your email.
• Touch to upload attachments.
3. When you are done, touch to send the email.

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Internet connection
Turning on the mobile network
To quickly turn on or turn off your mobile network, open the notification
panel, go to the
Shortcuts tab, and touch .
When you don't need to access the Internet, turn off the mobile network
to save battery power and reduce mobile data usage.
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network
1. Open the notification panel and go to the Shortcuts tab.
2. Touch and hold from the shortcut switches to enter the Wi-Fi settings
screen.
3. Turn on Wi-Fi. Your phone then scans for available Wi-Fi networks and
displays them.
4. Touch a Wi-Fi network to connect to.
• If the network is open, you will directly connect to it.
• If the network is encrypted, enter the password when prompted.
Browser
With Browser , you can:
• Browse web pages: Enter a web address in the address box.
• Edit bookmarks: To add a bookmark, touch next to the address bar. To
view or delete a bookmark, touch > Bookmarks & history .
• Clear the browsing history: Touch > Settings > Privacy & security > Clear
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Entertainment
Entertainment
Camera
Capture screen
Turn on the flash.
Flick left or right to switch between common capture modes.
View photos and videos in Gallery .
Take a photo or shoot a video.
Apply a special effect.
Switch between the rear and front cameras.
Choose a capture mode and set the camera parameters.
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Taking a photo
1. Open Camera .
2. Frame the scene you want to capture. Let your camera focus automatically
or touch the screen to focus the camera.
3. Touch to take a single photo, or touch and hold to take several
photos in rapid succession.
Capture mode
Not all models support the following capture modes:
• Beauty : Your phone automatically beautifies your skin and gives your
portraits a more professional touch-up. For some device models, you can
flick left or right on the capture screen to switch to beauty mode.
• Panorama : Your phone takes several photos as you pan and stitches them
into one stunning panoramic shot.
• HDR : High dynamic range imaging (HDR) helps improve the photo quality
when ambient light is unbalanced.
• Audio note : Your phone records a brief audio clip after you take a photo.
• Best photo : Your phone takes several photos in rapid succession and
automatically picks the best.
• Watermark : Add the time, location, weather, and other information to a
photo as watermarks.
Shooting a video
1. Open Camera .
2. Flick left or right to switch to video mode.

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3. Frame the scene you want to record.
4. Touch to start recording.
Setting the preferred save location for photos and videos
This section only applies to phones that support microSD cards.
After a microSD card is properly inserted into your phone, you can change the
preferred save location for photos and videos.
1. Open Camera .
2. Touch > Settings > Preferred save location .
3. Set the preferred save location for your photos and videos.
Gallery
Playing a slideshow
1. Open Gallery .
2. On the timeline album screen, touch > Slideshow to play a slideshow
of the photos in the album.
3. Touch the screen to stop the slideshow.
Applying a special effect
1. Open Gallery .
2. Touch the photo you want to edit, and touch .
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to apply beauty mode, crop the photo,
rotate the photo, or perform other operations.
Sharing a photo or video
1. Open Gallery .
2. Touch the photo or video you want to share.

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3. Flick up on the photo or video, and touch START to turn on Transfer . Your
phone then automatically enables Bluetooth and searches for nearby
Bluetooth devices.
Make sure Bluetooth is enabled on the receiving device and the device
is set to discoverable.
4. From the search results, touch the receiving device's name.
After the two devices are paired for the first time, flick up on a photo or video
to quickly share it.
Music
Creating a playlist
1. Open Music .
2. Touch Playlists > Create new playlist .
3. Name and save the playlist.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to add songs to the playlist.
Playing a playlist
1. Open Music .
2. Touch Playlists .
3. Touch the playlist you want to play.
Playing a video
1. Open Videos .
2. Touch the video you want to play.
3. Touch the onscreen control buttons to fast forward, rewind, stop, or
perform other operations.