Huawei MediaPad M5 User manual

User Guide

Contents
Exciting Features
Featured Usage Tips 1
Camera Tips 1
New Device
New Device Conguration 5
Home Screen
Navigation Bar 6
Notication Panel and Status Bar 7
Set a Lock Screen Password to Protect Your Privacy 8
Home Screen Management 9
Contacts
Managing Business Cards 12
Merging Third-party App Contacts 13
Dialling
Make Emergency Calls 15
Message
Basic Messaging Functions 16
Camera
Basic Camera Functions 17
Use Panorama Mode to Take Panoramic Photos 19
Light Painting Mode 20
Take Moving Pictures 24
Gallery
Organise Photo Albums 26
Tablet Manager
Enable Storage cleaner 27
Email
Manage Email Accounts 28
Import Important Events to Calendar 28
HUAWEI ID and Multiple Users
Set and Use Multiple Users 29
Device Connection
Connect Your Tablet to Bluetooth Devices 31
Connecting USB Device 32
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Security and Privacy
Fingerprint 34
Enable or Disable Location Services 34
PrivateSpace 35
Enable App Lock 37
Password Vault 37
Backup and Restoration
Reset Your Tablet 39
Wi-Fi and Network
Wi-Fi 40
Share Your Mobile Network with Other Devices 41
Apps and Notications
App Twin: Log in to Two Social Media Accounts at Once 43
Sound and Display
Congure Do Not Disturb Mode 44
Congure Your Sound Settings 44
System
Change the Input Method 46
Accessibility 46
General Settings 47
System Update
Update Your Tablet Using HiSuite 49
Use eRecovery to Restore Your Tablet 49
Legal Notice
Legal Notice 50
Personal Information and Data Security 51
For More Information 52
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Exciting Features
Featured Usage Tips
Use Shortcuts to Access Frequently Used Features
Touch and hold an app icon to display a menu of frequently used features for quick access. You can
also touch and hold a feature and drag it to your home screen to create a shortcut.
If you touch and hold an app icon and a shortcut is not created, the app does not support home
screen shortcuts.
Quickly access frequently used app features: Touch and hold an app icon on your home screen,
and then touch a frequently used feature to access it. Each app supports up to four frequently used
features. These are preset by the app and cannot be changed. For example, to take a sele, touch and
hold the camera icon, and then touch Sele in the pop-up menu.
Add shortcuts to your home screen: Touch and hold an app icon on your home screen to bring up
the menu. Touch and hold the desired feature, and then drag it to your home screen to create a
shortcut. For example, you can add a shortcut for the camera's sele feature for quick access to the
sele camera.
Camera Tips
Use Panorama Mode to Take Panoramic Photos
Panoramas provide a wider viewing angle than ordinary photos, letting you take sweeping landscape
shots.
To capture a panorama shot, the camera takes multiple photos of objects within our visual eld and
stitches them together into a single photo.
When taking a panorama, nd a wide, open space that is some distance away from the subject
and try to avoid backgrounds that are all in one colour.
1Go to Camera > More > Panorama.
2Touch at the bottom of the screen to congure the shooting direction.
3Hold your Tablet steady, and then touch to start shooting. Slowly move the Tablet in the
direction indicated, holding the device steady and ensuring that the arrow stays level with the
centre line.
4Touch when you are nished. The camera will automatically stitch the photos together to
create a panorama.
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Use Assistive Grid to Compose Your Photos
Ever get annoyed that your photos turn out looking skewed or the subject always seems to be off-
center? You can use your camera's assistive grid feature to help you line up the perfect shot.
To select an assistive grid, open Camera and touch to enter Settings. Then touch Assistive
grid and select the type of grid or lines you want to use.
Rule of thirds composition method: Use either Grid or Phi grid. The four intersection points in the
grid are the focus areas of the picture. Place the subject of your photo on one of the intersection
points to achieve a good composition.
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Spiral composition method: Use either Fibonacci spiral (left) or Fibonacci spiral (right). Place
the subject of your photo within the centre of the spiral.
Take Moving Pictures
Want to make your photos more interesting and dynamic? Take a moving picture and prolong life's
wonderful moments.
With moving pictures, you can record a scene approximately one second before and after the shutter
button is pressed. When browsing these pictures in Gallery, you can not only view the static picture
taken the moment you press the shutter button, but also play the dynamic picture and sound.
Take moving pictures: Open Camera, touch on the top of your screen, then touch to
capture.
View moving pictures: The captured moving picture will be saved to Gallery in JPG format. Go to
Gallery > Albums > Camera. Touch pictures with icon, and touch on the top of the
picture to view the dynamic effect. The moving picture automatically stops after a complete playback.
You can also touch the screen to stop the playback.
Share Moving pictures: Go to Gallery > Albums, touch the moving photo you want to share,
then touch , select a sharing method and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the
sharing.
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Moving pictures can be shared directly through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Huawei Share, and more. The
receiving device must be a Huawei device that supports the capture of moving pictures in order to
play the moving photo effects. When you share moving pictures to third-party apps or
unsupported devices, the moving pictures will be displayed as static images.
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New Device
New Device Conguration
Connect to Wi-Fi
By connecting your device to a Wi-Fi network, you can effectively save mobile data.
To avoid potential security risks (such as unauthorised access to your personal data and nancial
information), please exercise caution when connecting to a public Wi-Fi network.
Connect to a Wi-Fi Network: Open Settings, go to Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi, and enable
Wi-Fi. Touch a Wi-Fi network to access it, and enter the network password or complete the
authentication if required. Alternatively, you can scroll to the bottom of the menu, touch Add
network, and follow the onscreen instructions to add a network hotspot by entering its name and
password.
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Home Screen
Navigation Bar
Congure Your Navigation Bar Layout
Using the navigation bar, you can conveniently access the home screen, return to the previous page,
exit an app, or view recent apps used.
To congure your navigation bar layout, go to Settings, then go to System > System
navigation > Three-key navigation > Settings, and select the navigation key combination and
enable or disable Hide navigation keys based on your usage habits.
l Back key: Touch to return to the previous page or exit an app. Touch to close the onscreen
keyboard when inputting text.
l Home key: Touch to return to the home screen. Touch and hold to display the HiVoice icon
and swipe upwards on the icon to enable HiVoice features.
l Recent key: Touch to open a list of recently used apps. Touch and hold to enable split screen
mode.
l Downward swipe notication key: Touch to open the notication panel.
Use the Recent Key to Manage Background Apps
If you want to quickly switch to a recently used app, you might try using the Recent key. The Recent
key can help you quickly switch between several recently used apps. You can also use it to close your
background apps to increase your Tablet's operating speed.
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For Tablets that feature a front navigation button, the virtual navigation bar is disabled by default.
If you want to enable the navigation bar, go to Settings > System > System navigation >
Virtual navigation bar. After you enable the virtual navigation bar, the front navigation button
will be disabled. There will be no response from your Tablet if you touch and hold, or swipe the
front navigation button.
Touch . You can view, switch to, close, or lock recently used background apps:
lView recently used apps: Recently used apps will be displayed on the screen and you can switch
between them by swiping up or down.
lSwitch to a recently used app: Swipe up or down on the screen to nd the app you want to use,
and touch the app tab to open it.
lClose an app: Swipe left or right on the app tab or touch in the upper right corner of the app
tab to close the corresponding app.
lClose all apps: Touch to close all apps.
lLock an app: If you want an app to continue running in the background and not be closed, you
can lock the app. After an app is locked by touching , it cannot be closed. Touch in the
upper right corner of the app tab. When an app is locked, you can unlock it by touching in the
upper right corner of the app tab.
Notication Panel and Status Bar
Disable Disruptive App Notications
Find it annoying to receive so many different types of app notications? You can set and disable app
notications to prevent this from happening.
Open Settings, and go to Notications. You can:
lPrevent all apps from pushing notications: Touch Batch management, and then turn off All.
Customise Notications
Not a fan of the default notication reminders? You can customise your notication reminders so that
you get your notications the way you want them.
Open Settings, then go to Notications > More notication settings. From here you can:
lEnable Notications turn on screen: Enable Notications turn on screen. When your Tablet
screen is off, it will turn on when a notication is received.
lSet Pulse notications light: Turn on Pulse notication light, and the notication light will ash
whenever you receive new notications.
lSet notication method: Touch Notication method. Depending on your preferences, you can
select Icons, Numbers, or None.
Home Screen
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