Motorola Moto G User manual

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a quick look
First look
Your new Moto G has pretty much everything—
camera, Internet, email and more. You can even change the
back cover for a new look with optional covers.
Note: Your phone may look a little different.
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Headphone
jack
Volume keys
Power key
Micro USB/
charger
Microphone
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Front
camera
Back
Home
Recent
apps
Second
micro SIM
(on some
phones)
Micro SIM
(under back
cover)
Tips & tricks
•Start:Back cover off, SIM in, charge up and sign in.
See “Start”.
• Top topics: Just want a quick list of what your phone can
do? See “To p t o p i cs ”.
• Help: All your questions about your new phone answered
right on your phone. Touch Apps > Moto Care .
Want even more? See “Get help”.
Note: Certain apps and features may not be available in all
countries.
This product meets the applicable national or
international RF exposure guidance (SAR guideline)
when used normally against your head or, when worn
or carried, at a distance of 1.5 cm from the body. The SAR
guideline includes a considerable safety margin designed to
assure the safety of all persons, regardless of age and health.
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Check out what your phone can do.
•Customise your phone: see “Redecorate your home”.
•Make a quick change: see “Quick settings”.
•Go online: see “Browse”.
•Explore: see “Google Play™”.
•Find apps: see “Download apps”.
•Be social: see “Socialise”.
•Find it yourself: see “Locate & navigate”.
•Take a photo: see “Take photos”.
•Connect to Wi-Fi: see “Wi-Fi networks”.
•Watch a movie: see “Watch on Google Play”.
•Protect your phone: see “Screen lock”.
•Watch interactive guided tutorials: see “Moto Care help &
more”.
•Get all the help you need: see “Get help”.
Tips & tricks
•Intuitive:To get started quickly, touch Apps >
Moto Care for interactive tutorials.
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let's get up & running
SIM in
Your SIM may already be in your phone. But if not, take off the
back cover and put in the SIM.
Caution: Before using your phone, please read the safety,
regulatory and legal information provided with your
product.
2Put the SIM in.
(If your phone supports it,
push in the second SIM on
the lower, opposite side.)
SIM 1
SIM 2
2
1Take o the back cover to see if your SIM is in.
If it is, you can replace the cover and get started.
Press the
centre and
grip the
bottom
edge. Lift up
from the
bottom.
With the gold contacts facing
down, push in the rst micro SIM
until it clicks.
Activate your SIM cards
In some countries, you can use a second SIM. If there’s only
one SIM in the phone, it’s ready to use. With two, you can use
either or both.
Touch Apps > Settings > Dual SIM settings and select
settings, such as which SIM to use for calls, texts and more.
Also, during setup, you’ll be asked which SIM to use for data.
Power on
Press and hold the Power key until the screen turns on. Then
charge up the battery when you need to.
2
3 H
1Power on.
Press & hold
Power until the
screen lights
up.
Charge up, if you need to.
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
Sign in
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Tips & tricks
•Powerkey:to make the screen sleep or wake up, press the
Power key. To turn your phone on or off, press and hold it.
• Battery: Squeeze every bit of juice out of your battery. See
“Battery life”.
Warning: Don't try to remove or replace the battery
yourself—doing so may damage the battery and may cause
burning and injury. If your phone becomes unresponsive, try a
reboot—press and hold the Power key until the screen goes
dark and your phone restarts.
Battery life
Your phone is like a small computer, giving you tons of
information and apps, at lightning fast speed. Depending on
what you use, that can take a lot of power.
To see what's using up battery power, touch Apps >
Settings > Battery. To set automatic rules to save power,
touch Apps > Assist. See “Motorola Assist”.
Tips & tricks
To save even more battery life between charges, you could
reduce:
•Recording or watching videos, listening to music or taking
pictures.
•Widgets that stream information to your Home screen, like
news or weather.
•Unused online accounts that you registered: Touch
Apps > Settings. Under Accounts, touch the one you
want to remove, then touch Menu > Remove account.
•Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® use: Touch Apps > Settings,
then touch the switch next to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to turn them
when you don’t need them.
•GPS use: touch Apps > Settings > Location access,
and deselect GPS satellites.
•Display brightness: Touch Apps > Settings > Display
> Brightness > (slide dimmer setting left).
•Display timeout delay: Touch Apps > Settings >
Display > Sleep > (shorter setting).
•Screen use by setting a screen saver when docked or
charging: Touch Apps > Settings > Display >
Daydream.
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SIM in
Power on
Battery life
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Sign in
If you use Gmail™, you already have a Google™ account. If
not, you can create an account now. Sign in to your Google
account to see your contacts, appointments, photos and more.
Just select your language and follow the screen prompts to get
started.
Yes
No
If you use Gmail, answer Yes.
Do you have a Google Account?
Got Google?
Mail, contacts,
appointments,
photos and
more — sign
in to see it all.
Or create a
new account.
Tips & tricks
•Wi-Finetwork:For faster Internet access, flick the status bar
down and touch > Wi-Fi.
• Reboot: In the unlikely event that your phone becomes
unresponsive, try a reboot—press and hold the Power key
until the screen goes dark and your phone restarts. It may
take a couple of minutes.
•Accounts:To add, edit or delete accounts, touch Apps >
Settings. Under Accounts, touch + Add account to add
one. Or, touch an account > Menu > Remove account to
delete one from your phone, if allowed. To set up email
accounts, see “Email”.
For help with your Google account, visit
www.google.com/accounts .
•Contacts:To get your contacts from your old phone, you
have options. If your old phone was also Android™ and you
used the Android Backup and Restore feature, your contacts
automatically appear on your new phone. Otherwise, use
the Motorola Migrate app in “Old phone to new phone”.
Or, visit www.motorola.com/transfercontacts .
Note: This phone supports apps and services that may use a lot
of data, so make sure your data plan meets your needs.
Contact your service provider for details.
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
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Old phone to new phone
Moving your photos, music, text and call history, contacts and
more from your previous Android™ phone is easy—we
promise.
On your previous Android phone, download the Motorola
Migrate app on Google Play™ to get started. Then on your
new phone, touch Apps > Motorola Migrate and follow
the instructions on your screen.
Note: Music has to be non-DRM to migrate. Signing in to your
Google account migrates your apps.
Don’t want to start from scratch?
Copy your stuff from your old
phone to this one.
Motorola Migrate
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Messaging
Call history
SIM contacts
Media
Messaging
Volume & screen brightness
Touch here to
get started.
Tip: If you
don’t migrate
straight after
setting up your
new phone,
you can always
do it later.
Tips & tricks
•While you’re migrating, you can keep using your phone.
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
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Google Play™
Google Play is a digital content experience from Google
where you can find and enjoy your favourite music, videos, TV
programmes, books, magazines and Android apps and games.
It’s your entertainment hub: you can access it online or from
your Android device, and all your content is instantly available
across your devices.
Note: Content varies depending on your service provider and
region.
•Find more about Google products: See
www.google.com/about/products .
•Log in or open a Google account: Visit
www.google.com/accounts .
• Google help: See www.google.com/support .
• Download Android apps: To u c h A pp s > Play Store.
•Access all of your files in the cloud: Check out “Yo u r
cloud”.
Note: This phone supports apps and services that may use a lot
of data, so make sure your data plan meets your needs.
Contact your service provider for details.
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Power on
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you have quick access
Quick start: Home screen & apps
You’ll see the Home screen when you turn on your phone or
touch Home .
• Touch: Touch to choose something. Touch and hold to see
options. Drag around or flick to move faster. Or, pinch to
zoom some screens.
• Search: Type text in the Google Search box at the top of
your Home screen or touch to search by voice.
• App & widget list: To see your apps and widgets, touch
Apps . (To see widgets, touch Widgets at the top.)
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Flick left or right to see
more panels.
Shortcuts
Touch to open.
Favourites
Touch to see all
your apps & widgets.
Flick down to see
settings and
notications.
Search by typing
or speaking.
Tips & tricks
• Panels: To add or show other panels of shortcuts and
widgets, flick the Home screen left or right.
• Settings: To quickly open settings, flick the status bar down
and touch > .
• Uninstall: To uninstall apps, touch Apps , touch and hold
an app, then drag it to Uninstall (if available).
Home screen & apps
Quick start: Home screen & apps
Redecorate your home
Moto Care help & more
Search
Status & notifications
Download apps
Take care of your apps
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Redecorate your home
For quick access to your favourite things, customise your Home
screen the way you want.
• Change wallpaper: touch and hold an empty spot on your
Home screen to choose your wallpaper.
• Create shortcut groups: You can group app shortcuts
together on your Home screen to organise them.
To create a shortcut group on your Home screen, drag one
shortcut onto another. Add more shortcuts by dragging
them onto the first shortcut. To name the group, touch it and
enter a name below the apps.
• Add widgets & shortcuts: touch Apps , touch and hold
the app or widget, then drag it to one of your Home screen
pages. To see all your apps and widgets, touch Apps and
flick the menu to the left, or touch Apps or Widgets at the
top.
Tip: Some apps include widgets. To download apps, touch
Apps > Play Store.
• Resize widgets: You can resize some widgets—touch and
hold a widget until you feel a vibration, then release. Drag
the blue circles at the edges to resize.
• Move or delete widgets & shortcuts: touch and hold a
widget or shortcut until you feel a vibration, then drag it to
another spot, another page or Remove at the top of the
screen.
• Ringtones and more: for more about customising, see
“Control & customise”.
Moto Care help & more
How do you do it? Watch a tutorial. Read a how-to. Talk to
someone. Find out anything about your phone.
Find it: Apps > Moto Care
Search
At the top of the Home screen, touch the Google Search
widget for a text search, or touch for Google Voice
Search™.
As you type, suggestions appear below the search field:
•To search for a suggestion, touch it.
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Take care of your apps
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