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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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 .

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This function may not be supported by some service providers.
Basic screen features
Magazine screen unlock
Flick up from the bottom of the screen to display the magazine unlock control
panel.
Managing the home screen
Adding a widget
1. Touch and hold a blank area on the home screen.
2. Touch Widgets .
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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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.
View detailed information about push notifications. Flick left or
right across a notification to dismiss it.
Clear all push notifications.
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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.
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.
Expand or collapse the shortcut switches.
Adjust the screen brightness.
Turn on or turn off common functions. Touch to customize
the shortcut switch list.
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• 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.
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.
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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 Return .
Selecting an input method
Open the notification panel, switch to the Notifications tab, and touch
Choose input method to select an input method.
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.

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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.
Answering a call
• Drag right to answer the call.
• Drag left to reject the call.

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• 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.
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 .

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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.
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.

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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.
• Add a bookmark: Touch > Bookmarks & history to view or add
bookmarks.
• Clear the browsing history: Touch > Settings > Privacy & security > Clear
history .

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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.
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