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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New features
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.

Getting started
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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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