Huawei U8220 User manual

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Notice
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No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or
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The product described in this manual may include copyrighted software of
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Notice
Some features of the product and its accessories described herein rely on
the software installed, capacities and settings of local network, and may
not be activated or may be limited by local network operators or network
service providers. Thus the descriptions herein may not exactly match the
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Safety Precautions
Safety Precautions
2 Safety Precautions
Please read the safety precautions carefully to ensure the correct and use
of your wireless device. For detailed information, refer to the
section"Warnings and Precautions".
Do not switch on your phone when it is prohibited to
use mobile phones or when the phone may cause
interference or danger.
Do not use your phone while driving.
Follow any rules or regulations in hospitals and health
care facilities. Switch off your phone near medical
apparatus.
Switch off your phone in aircraft. The phone may cause
interference to control signals of the aircraft.
Switch off your phone near high-precision electronic
devices. The phone may affect the performance of these
devices.
Do not attempt to disassemble your phone or its
accessories. Only qualified personnel are allowed to
service or repair the phone.
Do not place your phone or its accessories in containers
with strong electromagnetic field.
Do not place magnetic storage media near your phone.
Radiation from the phone may erase the information
stored on them.
Do not put your phone in a high temperature place or
use it in a place with flammable gas such as a gas
station.

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Safety Precautions
Keep your phone and its accessories away from children.
Do not allow children to use your phone without
guidance.
Use only approved batteries and chargers to avoid the
risk of explosions.
Observe any laws or regulations on the use of wireless
device. Respect others’ privacy and legal rights when
using your wireless device.
Strictly follow the relevant instructions of this manual
while using the USB cable. Otherwise your phone or PC
may be damaged.
Do not use your mobile phone in a moist environment,
such as the bathroom. Prevent your mobile phone from
being soaked or washed in liquid.
Do not crash, throw, or puncture your mobile phone.
Avoid the falling, squeezing, and bending of your mobile
phone.

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Getting to Know Your Mobile
Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone
3 Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone
Packing List
The package of your mobile phone contains the following items:
• Mobile phone
• Battery
•Charger
• Data cable
• CD-ROM including the User Guide
• Quick Start Guide
• Warranty card
•Pouch

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Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone
Mobile Phone View
Appearance
1Earpiece 2 Secondary camera
3 Volume control 4 Capture
5End 6Home/Back
7Trackball 8MENU
9Send 10 Connectors on the top
11 3.2 megapixel camera 12 Power
13 MicroSD card slot 14 Charging/Data interface
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Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone
Key Functions
15 Earphone jack
Key Function
Power Press or press and hold to power on your mobile
phone. Press and hold the Power key to open the
phone options menu. When your mobile phone is on,
press to lock the screen.
Send Press to go to the dialing screen.
MENU Press to open the menu of an active screen. While on
the text editing screen, press and hold to open or
close the keyboard.While on the locked screen, press
to unlock the screen.
Trackball To press or press and hold the trackball is similar to
perform operations on the screen with your
fingertips. While on the Home screen, press to zoom
out or zoom in on the screen.
Home/Back Press to return to the upper-level screen or exit from
the running application. Press and hold to return to
the Home screen.
End While on a call, press to hang up. While on other
screens, press to return to the Home screen.

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Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone
Installing and Removing the USIM
Card or SIM Card, and the
MicroSD Card
Installing the USIM Card or SIM Card, MicroSD
Card, and Battery
You can install your UMTS Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) card or SIM card,
MicroSD card, and battery according to the following figure.
Note: The MicroSD card is an optional accessory.
1) Remove the battery cover.
2) Insert the USIM card or SIM card.
3) Insert the MicroSD card in the correct direction.
4) Insert the battery from a to b.
Note:
• Insert the MicroSD card with the gold contacts facing up.
• During normal usage, do not randomly insert or remove the MicroSD
card.

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Getting to Know Your Mobile Phone
Charging Your Mobile Phone
Before you charge the battery, read the following instructions:
Note:
If your mobile phone battery is not in use for a long time or wears
out, you may not be able to switch on your mobile phone when
recharging the battery. This is normal. Charge the battery for a
while. Then, your mobile phone can be switched on for use.
The battery can be charged for many times; however, the battery
is easy to wear out. Therefore, if the standby duration of your
mobile phone significantly decreases after normal charging,
replace the battery with a new one.
The charging duration of the battery varies with the temperature
and the aging degree of the battery.
When the battery level is low, your mobile phone generates low
power alarm tones at a certain interval and displays a prompt. If
the battery level is too low to support the operations on your
mobile phone, your mobile phone is automatically switched off.
Before using the travel charger for charging, make sure that the battery is correctly
installed in your mobile phone.
1) Connect the USB cable that is delivered with your mobile phone to the
charger, as shown in a
2) Connect the USB cable to your mobile phone, as shown in b. Then, plug in
the connector of the charger to a power socket.

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Using the Touch Screen
Using the Touch Screen
4 Using the Touch Screen
Action Description
Your mobile phone supports the following actions. Through these actions,
you can perform operations on your mobile phone.
Note: If you tap and hold certain screens, menu options
are displayed.
Icon Description
Touch: Touch a desired item with your fingertip to
confirm your selection or start an application.
Touch twice: Touch a desired item, for example, a
widcard, you can touch twice to expand it.
Touch and hold: Touch and hold the screen until
your mobile phone responds. For example, while
on any screen, you can touch and hold the screen
to open the shortcut menu on the active screen in
most circumstances.
Flick: To flick means to drag your finger vertically
or horizontally across the screen. For example, you
can flick your finger left and right to switch
between pictures.
Drag: Touch and hold your desired item with your
finger. Then, drag your finger to any part of the
screen to move the item. For example, you can
drag to move or delete an icon on the screen.

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Using the Touch Screen
Rotating Your Mobile Phone
When you rotate your mobile phone, the screen adjusts itself to the rotation.
Tips: You can only rotate your mobile phone counterclockwise.

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Home Screen
Home Screen
5 Home Screen
After you power on your mobile phone and access the system, the Home
screen is displayed.
Note: If the Community function is enabled on your mobile phone,
the default screen is changed from the Home screen to the
Community screen. Contact your network operator for details.
Knowing the Home Screen
1Notification bar: displays the reminders and status icons
of your mobile phone.
2Display area: displays the operation and display areas of
your mobile phone.
3Icons at the bottom of the screen: displays the
Community icon and main menu icon.
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Home Screen
Status Icons
Call in progress Call via Bluetooth device
Call forwarding on Call on hold
Missed call New instant message
New voicemail Memory card is full
Problem with
sign-in/sync
More undisplayed
notifications
Downloading data Uploading data
Roaming Signal strength
No signal Airplane mode
Data is syncing Sync is error
Bluetooth is on Connected to another
Bluetooth device
Wi-Fi is on Connected to a Wi-Fi
network
Connected to PC No SIM card
GPS is on GPS is connected
Sound off Speakerphone on
Vibrate mode Phone is mute

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Home Screen
Switching the Home Screen
There are two shortcut icons at the bottom of the Home screen of your mobile
phone. You can touch either of these icons to go to different screens.
Community Screen
Touch to open the Community screen.
GPRS connected GPRS in use
EDGE connected EDGE in use
3G connected 3G in use
Battery is full Battery is very low
Battery is charging Alarm is set

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Home Screen
Main Menu Screen
Touch to open the Main Menu screen.
Canvas
The Canvas is an easily customizable space that allows you to create and arrange
applications, widgets and widcards.
Creating an Icon
Touch and hold the screen. Then, a options menu with the following options is
displayed. You can add one of the following options to the main menu.
• Application
•Widcard
•Shortcut
• Widget
•Wallpaper
Touch to expand your desired icon type, and then touch the related icon to create an
icon on the desktop.

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Home Screen
Deleting an Icon
1) Touch and hold the icon to be deleted until your mobile phone vibrates and
displays the Trash button on the toolbar in the lower part of the screen.
2) Then, drag the icon to the Trash button to delete it.
Setting the Icon Background
You can customize a background color for an icon.
While on the Home screen, press the Menu key to open the options menu. Then,
choose More > Main Menu Style to use Grey or Colorful as the background.
Widcard
Widcard function provides a shortcut to or the preview of your desired application.
A widcard can be displayed as an icon or a preview window.
You can create the widcards of Calendar, Email, Music, Notepad, Picture, Video, and
Web, and display these widcards on the desktop. With the widcard function, you can
conveniently view the files and information stored in your mobile phone on the
desktop.
After creating a widcard on the desktop, you can perform the following operations
on the widcard of the Home screen:
• Touch the widcard icon twice to zoom out the widcard and display the detailed
information. Touch the widcard title bar to zoom in the widcard.
• Touch the widcard icon to open the widcard.
• Touch the widcard title to display the options related to the widcard.

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Home Screen
• Touch and hold the widcard, and then drag your finger to move the widcard.
Note: The Calendar you create is shown on the Canvas as My
events. The Calendar function requires the support from the
network. If the support is unavailable, you cannot create events.
Browsing the Canvas
The desktop can be expanded unlimitedly.To expand the desktop, drag an icon to
the edge of the desktop and release it
If there are lots of items on the screen, you can browse them by clicking the
trackball.
On the zoom-in screen, you can slide the screen, and then tap twice or click the
trackball again to zoom out the selected area.
Note:
• During the browsing of the Canvas, you can press the Home/Back key to quickly
return to the default screen.
• On the Home screen, press the Menu key and choose More > Reset Canvas. The
Home screen is restored to the factory state.

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Community
Community
6 Communit y
Your mobile phone supports the Community function. You can take the full
benefit of this function using the following features.
Note: Not all operator networks support the Community
function. Contact your network operator for details.
Creating a contact
1) Choose > Contacts to access contacts.
2) Press the Menu key to open the contacts menu. Then, touch
Create contact to create a contact. You can add information such as
the name, telephone number, address, email address, IM, and birthday
for the contact. In addition, you can set a ringing tone for the contact.
Note: When creating a contact, you can choose Ringtone
to customize the ringtone for the contact. Select a
ringtone stored on your mobile phone by touching Select
ringtone or download a ringtone from the Internet by
touching Download ringtone. After a ringtone is
downloaded, you need to select it from your mobile
phone, and then use it as the ringtone for the contact.
Creating a Contact Group
1) Choose > Contacts to access contacts.
2) On the All Contacts tab, press the MENU key.
3) Choose Create group to create a contact group.
4) You can define the group name, ringtone of the incoming calls
from the group, and group members.
Managing Contact Groups
1) Choose > Contacts to access contacts.
2) Touch the tab of the contact group to be operated, and then press
the MENU key.
•Choose
Search to search for the desired contact in the group.

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Community
•ChooseShow on home screen to display the contact group in the
community desktop application.
•Choose
Group SMS/MMS to send short messages or multimedia messages to
group members.
•Choose
Group e-mail to send email messages to group members.
•Choose
edit group to edit the contact group.
• Choose More to sort group members, delete a contact group, or create a contact
group.
Viewing the Event List
1) Choose > Contacts to access contacts.
2) Touch the Event List tab. You can view the activity logs, anniversaries,
and birthday of a contact in the event list.
Updating MyProfile
You can update your personal information in MyProfile. Your personal information is
displayed in the community contacts on the devices of your friends.
1) Choose > Contacts to access contacts.
2) Touch the MyProfile tab.
3) Press the Menu key, and then you can perform one of the following options:
Choose Edit MyProfile to edit your personal information. Choose Send MyProfile
to send your personal information to your friends. Choose Settings to set the
contact synchronisation options.
Using the Desktop Community Application
If you choose Show on home screen for a contact group, the contact group is
displayed in the community desktop application.
You can touch Community on the standby screen to access the desktop
community application.
• You can flick the contact images left and right to switch major contacts and drag
contacts to change the order of the contacts.
• You can touch the icon of a major contact to open the related options menu.
Then, you can call the contact, send messages and email messages to the contact,
start a chat with the contact, and view the activity logs of the contact.

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Community
Note: You can chat with your friend only when both of you have
a chat ID. Apply for a chat ID from Google Talk and save it to
Contacts.
Locking and Unlocking Your
Mobile Phone
Locking Your Mobile Phone
If you do not use your mobile phone for a while, press the Power key or End key to
switch off the screen and lock your mobile phone.
After a period of inactivity, your mobile phone is automatically locked. You can
choose Settings > Sound & display > Screen timeout to define the time before your
mobile phone is automatically locked.
Unlocking Your Mobile Phone
If your mobile phone is locked, you can press any key to activate the screen and
unlock your mobile phone by:
•PressingtheMenukey.
• Flicking the red spot upwards according to the prompt.