Huawei Ascend Mate7 User manual

User Guide

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

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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.
Unlocking with fingerprint
Adding your fingerprint
You can unlock the screen or access encrypted data with your fingerprint. To
protect your privacy, this feature is only available when the screen lock
method is
PIN or Password .
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Fingerprint ID .
3. Choose PIN or Password , then follow the onscreen instructions to set a
password.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to add your fingerprint.
Unlocking the screen with your fingerprint
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your
password.
3. Touch Unlock screen .
Then place your finger on the fingerprint scanner on the back of your phone
to unlock the screen.

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Unlocking the Safe with your fingerprint
After enabling Safe in Files and setting your password, you will be prompted
to enable fingerprint unlocking. Touch
Associate to access the Safe and
associate your fingerprint. If you skip this step, you can enable fingerprint
unlocking at a later date as follows:
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your
password.
3. Touch Access safe .
Then open Files , touch Safe , and place your finger on the fingerprint sensor
on the back of your phone to access the Safe.
Accessing App lock with your fingerprint
After enabling App lock in Phone Manager and setting your password, you
will be prompted to enable fingerprint unlocking. Touch
Associate to access
App lock and associate your fingerprint. If you skip this step, you can enable
fingerprint unlocking at a later date as follows:
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your
password.
3. Touch Access app lock and lock/unlock apps .
Then open Phone Manager , touch App lock , and place your finger on the
fingerprint sensor on the back of your phone to access App lock.
Safe
Encrypt important and private files to prevent others from viewing them.
Enabling the Safe
1. Open Files .
2. Touch Safe .

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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 .
All focus mode
All focus mode lets you change the focal point of a photo after it's been
taken.
This function may not be supported by all models.
1. Open Camera .
2. Touch > to switch to all-focus mode.
3. Touch to take a photo.
4. Touch to find the photo you've just taken, then touch to adjust
the focal point.

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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.
3. On the timeline album screen, drag down on a blank area to launch the
camera in half-screen mode. Touch to take photos.
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4. Drag the viewfinder further down to enter full-screen capture mode.
When you are done, touch Return to return to the timeline album
screen.
Scanning a QR code
Scanning a QR code using Gallery
1. Open Gallery .
2. Choose a QR code image. 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.
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Protecting your privacy
What's Privacy protection?
If your phone contains content that you want to keep private, you can set two
different unlock passwords, one for yourself and one for guests. If your phone
is unlocked using the guest password, all your private content will be hidden.
Your contacts, albums, and applications can all 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, then set your owner password and the guest
password.
If you have set a screen unlock password, the password will be used as
the owner password by default.
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 favourites, and more.
Shortcut buttons: Access common tools, such as Calendar,
Calculator, and Torch.
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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.