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
3 Taking photos from the timeline album screen
5 Scanning a QR code
6 Protecting your privacy
Getting started
7 Dual-card settings
8 Basic screen features
11 Personalizing your phone
12 Basic operations
13 Calling, contacts and messaging
15 Email
15 Internet connection
16 Browser
Entertainment
17 Camera
19 Gallery
20 Music
20 Playing a video
Transferring data
21 Bluetooth
21 Wi-Fi Direct
22 Multi-screen display
22 Huawei Beam
22 Connecting your phone to a computer
23 Connecting your phone to a USB storage device
Managing your phone
24 Managing applications
25 File Manager
27 Phone Manager
28 Backup, restoration, and update
Tools
30 Weather

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30 Alarms
30 Mirror

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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
Enrolling 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 , and follow the onscreen instructions to set a
password.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to enroll 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 File Manager 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 also enable this
feature as follows:
1. Open Settings .
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your
password.
3. Touch Access safe .
Then open File Manager , 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 also
enable this feature 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 File Manager .
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 File Manager .
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 focus point on a photo after it's been
taken.
1. Open Camera .
2. Touch > All-focus .
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 .

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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 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.

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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.
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
Dual-card settings
Enabling or disabling a SIM card
You can install two SIM cards to your phone and use one or both of them at
the same time. When you do not need to use a SIM card, disable it.
1. On the home screen, touch Settings .
2. Under All , touch SIM card management .
3. Select or deselect the check box next to Card 1 or Card 2 to enable or
disable a SIM card.
The settings displayed may vary according to your service provider and
phone model.
Setting the default SIM card for data services
You can set a default SIM card for data services.
1. On the home screen, touch Settings
2. Under All , touch SIM card management .
3. Touch Card 1 or Card 2 next to Default data network .
The settings displayed may vary according to your service provider and
phone model.
Setting the default SIM card for calling and messaging
You can set the default SIM card for calling or messaging.
1. On the home screen, touch Settings .
2. Under All , touch SIM card management .
3. Touch Card 1 or Card 2 next to Default calls/messages .