Motorola Moto Maxx User manual

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At a glance
a quick look
First look
Your new Moto Maxx has it all—a big, bright, ultra
high-definition display, blazing speed and performance, and a
high-capacity long lasting battery. Use the included Moto
Turbo Charger for a lightning fast recharge.
Note: Your phone may look a little different.
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Micro USB/
Charger
3.5mm
Headset Jack
Front Camera
Volume Keys
(Pull out to
access the
nano SIM
card tray.)
Power Key
Microphones
NFC Antenna
(on back)
21 MP Camera
with Dual LED
Flash (on back)
Speaker
Recent
Apps
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Tips & tri c ks
•Start:Ready to start? See “Start”.
•Toptopics:Just want a quick list of what your phone can
do? See “Top topics”.
• Help: All your questions about your new phone answered
right on your phone. Touch Apps >
Help . Want even
more? See “Get help & more”.
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.
Caution: Before using your phone, please read the safety,
regulatory, and legal information provided with your
product.
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Top topics

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At a glance
Top topics
Check out what your phone can do.
•Personalize your home screen: see “Redecorate your
home screen”.
•Make a quick change: see “Quick settings”.
•Go online: see “Browse”.
•Explore: see “Google Play™”.
•Find apps: see “Download apps”.
•Be social: see “Socialize”.
•Play it safe: see “Protect”.
•Find it yourself: see “Locate & navigate”.
•Take a photo: see “Take photos”.
•Connect to Wi-Fi: see “Wi-Fi Networks”.
•Watch a movie: see “Play Movies & TV”.
•Protect your phone: see “Screen lock”.
•Walk through interactive tutorials: see “Help & more”.
•Get all the help you need: see “Get help & more”.
Tips & tri c ks
•Interactive:To get started quickly, touch Apps
>
Help for interactive tutorials.
• Google™ help: In Google Mobile, you can touch Menu
>
Help . You can also view the Google Help Centers online at
www.google.com/support.
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Start
let’s get up & running
Put in the SIM
Put in the nano SIM, charge up, and power on.
Caution: Make sure you use the correct size SIM card, and
don’t use adapters with your SIM card.
1Put in the nano SIM card.
Pull out the volume
keys/SIM tray with
your ngernail.
Push the tray back
into your phone.
Put the nano SIM
card into the tray.
2Power on.
Press & hold
Power until
the screen
lights up.
3Charge up, when you
need to.
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Tips & tri c ks
•SIMtray:The SIM tray is integrated with the volume keys. To
remove the SIM tray, slide your fingernail under the volume
keys on the side of your phone and pull out. Put your
nano SIM into the tray. (Make sure the angled corner of the
SIM card matches the angled corner of the SIM tray.) Align
the tray and gently push it back into the phone.
•Powerkey:To make the screen sleep or wake up, press the
Power key. To turn your phone on or off, press and hold the
Power key.
• 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 could 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.
Start
Put in the SIM
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
Wireless charging

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Start
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 .
Tips & tri c ks
To save even more battery life between charges, you could
reduce:
•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 > Mode
>
Battery saving to turn off GPS tracking.
•Display brightness: Touch Apps >
Settings > Display
>
Brightness > (slide dimmer setting left), if you don’t want
to use the automatic light sensor.
•Display timeout delay: Touch Apps >
Settings
>
Display > Sleep > (shorter setting).
•Widgets that stream information to your home screen, like
news or weather.
•Unused online accounts that you registered: Touch Apps
>
Settings . Go to the ACCOUNTS section, and touch the
one you want to remove. Touch it again, then touch
Menu >
Remove account .
•Recording or watching videos, listening to music, or taking
pictures.
OFF
Start
Put in the SIM
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
Wireless charging

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Start
Sign in
If you use Gmail™, you already have a Google™ account—if
not, you can create an account now. Signing into your Google
account lets you use Google apps, see your contacts,
appointments, photos, and more.
Just select your language and follow the screen prompts to get
started.
Yes
No
Got Google?
Do you have a Google Account?
If you use Gmail or Google Apps, answer
Yes.
Contacts, appointments,
photos, & more—sign in
to see it all.
Or, touch here to create
a new Google account.
Tips & tri c ks
•Wi-Finetwork:For faster Internet access or to conserve
data use, flick the status bar down, touch , then touch and
hold
Wi-Fi . There’s more in “Wi-Fi Networks”.
• Accounts: To add, edit, or delete accounts, touch Apps
>
Settings . Go to the ACCOUNTS section, and touch
Add account . Or, touch an account > Menu > Remove
account
to delete it 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
Put in the SIM
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
Wireless charging

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Start
Old phone to new phone
Copying your personal stuff from your old phone to your new
phone with Motorola Migrate is easy.
•FromAndroid™:On your old phone, download the
Motorola Migrate app from Google Play™. Then on your
new phone, touch Apps >
Motorola Migrate
>
Android to get started.
• From iPhone: On your new phone, touch Apps
>
Motorola Migrate > iPhone to get started.
StartExit
Migrate your stuff
Want to transfer from this phone instead?
A ndroid
Photos, videos, messages and more
Copy your stuff from your old phone to this
one in just a few minutes.
Depending on your old phone, you can
transfer photos, videos, music, call history,
messages, contacts and more.
Select your old phone type from the list
below, then press Start:
Tip: If you don’t copy your
content right after setting up
your phone, you can always
do it later.
Select your old phone.
Tips & tri c ks
•While you’re migrating to your phone, you can keep using
the phone.
•If you didn’t migrate when setting up your new phone, you
can always do it later.
•Signing into your Google account copies your apps if they
are backed up to the cloud.
•For phones that support copying music, not all music can be
copied. (If you want to know more, you can search online to
learn about digital rights management or DRM-protected
files.)
Start
Put in the SIM
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
Wireless charging

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Start
Google Play™
Google Play is a digital content experience from Google
where you can find and enjoy your favorite movies, books,
magazines, and Android apps and games.
Note: Content may not be available in all countries.
Apps
Play Store
Play Games
Pl G
Play Movies & TV
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&
Play Books
Tips & tri c ks
• Download Android apps: To u c h A p p s > Play Store .
•Find out 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.
•Access all of your files in the cloud: Check out “Yo u r
cloud”.
Wireless charging
Charge your phone without wires. Just place it on an optional
Qi (pronounced “chee”) charging pad accessory. Inductive
charging coils in the phone receive electricity wirelessly from
the charging pad.
For best results, follow the instructions on your phone to align
the phone with the charging pad. Your phone shows battery
charging status as it charges.
Start
Put in the SIM
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
Wireless charging

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Home screen & apps
you have quick access
Quick start: Home screen & apps
The home screen is what you see when you first turn on your
phone. From here, you can explore apps and more.
•Search:Type text in the Google™ Search box at the top of
your home screen, or touch to search by voice.
• Apps & widgets: To see your apps, touch Apps . To see
widgets, touch and hold an empty spot on the home screen,
then touch
WIDGETS .
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Search by typing, or
touch for a voice search.
Flick down to see
notications & settings.
Shortcut
Quick access to an app.
Favorites
Touch Apps to
see all your apps.
Touch & hold an empty
spot to add widgets or
change wallpaper.
Tips & tri c ks
•Return:To return to the home screen from any location,
touch Home .
•Pages:To see more pages of shortcuts and widgets
(if available), swipe the home screen left.
• Settings: To quickly open settings, flick the status bar down
and touch >
Settings .
• 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 screen
Help & more
Search
Google Now™
Status & notifications
Discover Your Moto Maxx
Motorola Connect
Download apps
Take care of your apps
Update your phone

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Home screen & apps
Redecorate your home screen
For quick access to your favorite things, customize your home
screen the way you want.
• Change wallpaper: Touch and hold an empty spot on your
home screen, then touch
WALLPAPERS to choose your
wallpaper.
• Add shortcuts: Touch Apps , touch and hold an app,
then drag it to one of your home screen pages. To see all
your apps, touch Apps .
Tip: To download apps, touch Apps >
Play Store .
• Add widgets: Touch and hold an empty spot on the home
screen, touch
WIDGETS , touch and hold a widget, then drag
it to your home screen.
Tip: Some apps include widgets.
•Createshortcutgroups:You can group app shortcuts
together on your home screen to organize 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.
• Resize widgets: You can resize some widgets—touch and
hold a widget until you feel a vibration, then release. Drag
the white 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.
Note: Removing a shortcut from your home screen doesn’t
uninstall the app from your phone.
For more about personalizing your phone, like setting
individual ringtones for your contacts, see “Control &
customize”.
Help & more
How do you do it? Watch a tutorial. Read a how-to. Find out
anything about your phone.
Find it: Apps >
Help
Help
Getting started
Explore
First things first
Optimize battery life
Discover apps
Personalize your device
Learn about Motorola features
How-to videos
Show me how (step-by-step)
New to Android?
Browse all help
Find tutorials, FAQs,
videos, & more.
Set up help tips & notications.
Search for help.
Home screen & apps
Quick start: Home screen & apps
Redecorate your home screen
Help & more
Search
Google Now™
Status & notifications
Discover Your Moto Maxx
Motorola Connect
Download apps
Take care of your apps
Update your phone