Samsung Galaxy S III Specification sheet

Get
Started
All you need to know to get going.
Android 4.4

Thanks for choosing Sprint. This booklet helps you get started with
your Sprint Spark™ and HD Voice capable*Samsung Galaxy S®III,
Android™ 4.4.
ReadyNow – For more help in getting up and running with your
new phone, take advantage of exclusive Ready Now resources at
sprint.com/readynow. You can even schedule a one-on-one
appointment at a Sprint Store near you.
For ongoing support and resources, visit sprint.com/support.
There, you’ll ind guides, tutorials, and more to help you get the
most out of your phone.
Note: Available applications and services are subject to change at any time.
* The Sprint Spark enhanced LTE network and HD Voice capability are available in select markets.
Visit sprint.com/coverage for more information.
Welcome!

Using This Guide
3
This Get Started guide is designed to help you set up and use your
new Samsung Galaxy S® III. It’s divided into four sections to help you
nd the information you need quickly and easily.
Using This Guide
Get Ready − page 5 − Find out what
you need to do before you use your
phone the rst time, including inserting
a battery and activating Sprint service
on your phone.
Android Basics − page 8 − Learn some
basics about how to move around on
your phone, use the home screen, and
enter text. If you’re familiar with Android™
phones, you can probably skip these
pages (although a refresher course
never hurt anyone).
Use Your Phone − page 15 − Take
advantage of your phone’s features
and Sprint services, from the basics
(making calls) to the more advanced
(using Google Play™, Wi-Fi™, and more).
Tools & Resources − page 31 − Find
useful tips for your phone and discover
resources and other helpful Sprint
information. For additional information
including the full User Guide, videos,
tutorials, and community forums, visit
sprint.com/support.

4
Your Samsung Galaxy S III
Power/Lock
Button
Speaker
Charger/Accessory Jack
Flash
Microphone
3.5mm Headset Jack
Volume
Buttons
Camera
Proximity Sensor
Earpiece
Touchscreen
Menu
Key
Back
Key
Self Camera
Lens
Home Button
Status Light

Get Ready
visit sprint.com/readynow for more information to get your phone up and running 5
Get Your Phone Ready
Before you start: Visit sprint.com/readynow
to learn about transferring contacts,
calendars, and more from your old phone.
Install the Battery
1. Insert a coin or other lat object into the
slot at the top of the battery compartment
cover to remove the cover.
2. Align the battery’s contacts with those
inside the battery compartment and gently
press down until the battery is seated.
3. Replace the back cover.
Charge the Battery
1. Insert the USB cable into the charging head.
2. Insert the small end of the USB cable into
the charger/accessory jack at the bottom
of the phone.
3. Plug the charging head into a standard AC
power outlet.
Turn the Phone On
• Press and hold the Power/Lock button.
Unlock the Screen
• Swipe the screen with your inger to unlock it.
Turn the Screen On and O
• To quickly turn the display screen o, press
the Power/Lock button on the right side of
the phone.
• To turn the screen on and display the unlock
screen, press the Power/Lock button.
Turn the Phone O
• Press and hold the Power/Lock button
and then tap Power o > OK to turn the
phone o.

6
Activate Your Phone
Activate Your Phone
If you purchased your phone at a
Sprint Store, it is probably
activated and ready to use.
If you received your phone in the
mail, and it is a new Sprint account
or a new phone number, your
phone is designed to activate
automatically when you irst turn it
on. You will see a Hands Free
Activation screen at startup. When
it’s inished, tap OK to continue. To
conirm your activation, make a
phone call.
If you received your phone in
the mail and it is going to be
activated on an existing number
(you’re swapping phones), go to
sprint.com/activate and follow the
instructions. When you have
inished, make a phone call to
conirm your activation.
If your phone is still not activated, visit
sprint.com/support for assistance. If you do
not have access to the Internet, call Sprint
Customer Service at 1-888-211-4727 from
another phone.

Get Ready
visit sprint.com/readynow for more information to get your phone up and running 7
The setup application helps you set up
various options and applications, including
setting up your Google™ Account.*
Sprint Connections Optimizer
Following phone activation, you may see a
Sprint Connections Optimizer notice. Read
the notice and tap I Agree to allow your
phone to connect automatically to the best
available data network, including Wi-Fi.
Note: You can turn o Sprint Connections
Optimizer at any time. Tap > Settings >
More networks >Mobile networks >
Connections optimizer.
Complete the Setup Application
1. When you see the Welcome screen, select
a language and tap to begin.
2. You’ll see a Wi-Fi setup screen. Follow the
prompts to sign in to an available Wi-Fi
network, or tap Skip to continue.
3. Follow the prompts on the next few
screens to get your phone set up.
• Got Google? –Create or sign in to a
Google Account. Select additional
Google preferences, including Google
Location options, as prompted.
• This phone belongs to... –Enter your
name to personalize your phone
experience.
• Dropbox - Create or sign in to a Dropbox
cloud storage account.
* You do not need to sign up for a Google
Account to use your phone; however, to
download content from the Google Play™
Store app, you must link your phone to a
Google Account.
Set Up Your Phone

8
Android Basics: Getting Around Your Phone
Move Around Your Phone’s Menus
and Screens
Your phone’s touchscreen lets you control
everything through various types of
touches, or gestures.
Tap: When you want to type using the
onscreen keyboard, select items such as
application and settings icons, or press
onscreen buttons, simply tap them with
your inger. A light touch works best.
Touch and hold: To display the available
options for an item simply touch and hold
the item.
Flick: Move your inger in lighter, quicker
strokes than swiping. This inger gesture is
always used in a vertical motion, such as
when licking through contacts or a
message list.
Swipe or slide: Quickly drag your inger
vertically or horizontally across the screen.
Drag: Press and hold your inger with some
pressure before you start to move it. Do not
release your inger until you have reached
the target position.
Rotate: Activate the auto-rotate feature to
automatically change the screen orientation
from portrait to landscape by turning the
phone sideways.
Swype: This unique feature allows you to
enter a word by sliding a inger from letter
to letter, lifting only between words. See
page 12 for instructions on using this text
input method.

visit sprint.com/support for guides, tutorials and more 9
Android Basics
Your Home Screen
Viewing Your Home Screen
Your phone’s Home screen extends horizontally
to seven full screens. This gives you room to
customize your phone and put the things
you need front and center, just a swipe away.
• To display the main (center) Home screen,
press from any screen.
• To view extended screens, swipe the screen
left or right. There are three additional screens
on each side of the main Home screen.
• To display thumbnails of all seven screens,
pinch any home screen. Tap a thumbnail to
display the screen.
Status Bar
The status bar at the top of the Home
screen lets you quickly see both your phone
status (connections, signal strength, battery,
GPS) and any current notiications.
Notiications Panel
You can expand the notiication area to
provide more detailed information about
the current onscreen notiication icons.
1. Drag down the notiications panel to see
your notiications.
2. Tap a notiication entry to open the
associated application.
Add Items to Your Home Screen
1. Touch and hold an empty area on a
home screen.
2. Follow these steps to add an app or
widget shortcut:
• Apps and widgets: Tap Apps and
widgets and then touch and hold an app
icon and drag it to the home screen.
• Folders: Tap Folder and then enter a
name for the folder and tap OK to create
the folder.

10
Buttons and Keys
The bottom front of your phone contains a
Home Button and two static keys that let
you perform speciic functions. Above this
row is a row of program icons that are
available from every Home screen.
• Home Button ( ) – Press to return to the
main Home screen.
• Menu Key ( ) – Tap to open context-
speciic menus.
• Back Key ( ) – Tap to return to the
previous
screen view.
• Phone icon ( ) – Tap to open the
phone screen.
• Contacts icon ( ) – Tap to open your
Contacts list.
• Messaging icon ( ) – Tap to open the
Messaging app.
• Internet icon ( ) – Tap to launch the
Web browser.
• Apps icon ( ) – Tap to display the
applications list.
Buttons and Keys
Phone
Contacts Internet
Messaging
Back
Key
Home
Button
Menu
Key
Apps

visit sprint.com/support for guides, tutorials and more 11
Android Basics
Open Apps
• If an app is on one of your Home screens,
just tap it to open it.
• If an app is not available
from your Home screen,
press (if you’re not
already on the Home
screen), tap to display
the apps list, and then tap
the app icon from the
alphabetical list. You may
have to scroll right or left
to ind the app you’re
looking for.
Access Recently-Used Apps
Your phone keeps a running list of your
most recently used apps.
1. Press and hold to open the recently-
used apps window.
2. Tap an icon to open an app.
Open Apps

12
Your QWERTY Keyboards
There are three ways to use the QWERTY
keyboard on your Galaxy S III: Google voice
typing, Samsung keyboard (default) and
Swype which uses a unique gliding method
to let you enter whole words quickly. When
you select a ield that requires text or
numbers, an onscreen keyboard will appear
so you can enter the information, or type
your message. (If you don’t see the keyboard
when, for instance, you’re entering contact
information, just touch the ield you’re
working on to bring it up.) The phone’s
onscreen QWERTY keyboards can be used in
either portrait or landscape mode.
Text Entry with Swype
1. Touch an onscreen character, and then,
while maintaining your inger onscreen, drag
to the next character in the desired word.
2. Repeat this process until the desired
characters have been drawn over. Select
from an onscreen list of possible word
matches (if prompted). This occurs if your
current action has generated more than
one possible word match.
Enter
recipient
Enter
message
Delete
Caps
Numbers and symbols
Entering Text With the Onscreen Keyboard

visit sprint.com/support for guides, tutorials and more 13
Android Basics
Entering Text With the Onscreen Keyboard
Samsung Keyboard (Typing)
Note: To switch from Swype to regular typing,
drag down the Status Bar and tap Choose
input method > Samsung keyboard.
Entering text using the traditional QWERTY
keyboard is easy: just tap the letters to type
the words.
1. From a screen where you can enter text,
tap the input ield to reveal the onscreen
keyboard.
2. If needed, select one of the following text
mode options:
• ABC to use alphabetic characters from
the onscreen keyboard.
• 123 Sym to enter numbers or symbols on
the onscreen keyboard.
3. Tap the corresponding onscreen keys to
begin typing your word.
If you make a mistake, tap to erase a
single character. Touch and hold to erase
all previously entered words.
Note: For additional text entry options,
including Auto punctuate and T9 trace,
touch and hold and tap and
select an option.

14
Your Keyboard Settings
You can customize your onscreen keyboard
settings to suit your needs:
Tap > Settings > My Device tab >
Language and input, and tap the Settings
icon next to Samsung keyboard. Select
from the following options:
• Input languages: Select an input language.
Default is English.
• Smart typing: Predictive text, Auto
replacement, Auto capitalization, Auto
spacing, Auto punctuate.
• Keyboard swipe: None, Continuous input,
Cursor control.
• Key-tap feedback: Sound, Vibration,
Character preview.
• More settings: Tutorial, Reset settings.
Entering Text With the Onscreen Keyboard

visit sprint.com/support for guides, tutorials and more 15
Use Your Phone
Use Your Phone: Make and Answer Calls
Make a Phone Call
1. If the screen is locked, swipe the screen to
unlock it.
2. Press and tap Phone.
3. Tap the digits of the number you want to
call on the phone keypad. (The number will
appear just above the keypad as you enter
it. Tap to delete one or more digits.)
4. Tap .
Answer an Incoming Call
• Drag to the right on the screen.
• Drag Reject call with message to respond
to the call with a text message.
Send a Call Directly to Voicemail
• Drag to the left.
Mute the Ringer on a Call
• Press the volume button on the left side
of the phone to mute the ringer.

16
Voicemail
Set Up Your Voicemail
All unanswered calls are automatically
transferred to your voicemail, even if your
phone is in use or turned o. You should set
up your voicemail and personal greeting as
soon as your phone is activated:
1. Press and tap Phone.
2. Touch and hold to dial your
voicemail number.
3. Follow the voice prompts to create your
password and record your name and
greeting.
Sprint strongly recommends setting a
voicemail password. Without a password,
anyone who has access to your phone can
access your messages.
Retrieve Your Voicemail
1. Press and tap Phone.
2. Touch and hold and follow the prompts.
From any other phone:
1. Dial your wireless phone number.
2. When your voicemail answers, tap *.
3. Enter your password.

visit sprint.com/support for guides, tutorials and more 17
Use Your Phone
Messaging
Send a Text Message
1. Press and tap Messaging.
2. Tap .
3. Enter a phone number, email address, or
contact name in the Enter recipient ield. (If
the phone recognizes a contact, you’ll see a
list. Tap the contact to complete the address.)
4. Tap Enter message and then type your message.
5. When you are inished, tap .
Send a Picture or Video Message
(Multimedia Messaging)
1. Follow steps 1 – 4 for sending a text message.
2. Tap .
3. Tap a media type (such as Images, Videos,
Audio, etc.) and then tap an available album.
4. Tap a picture or clip to select it. (For Audio,
tap OK.)
5. If you are satisied with your message, tap .
Note: For information on taking pictures and
videos with your phone, see “Camera & Video”
on page 23.
Access Messages
1. Press and tap Messaging.
2. From the Messaging screen, tap the
message you want to view.
–or–
1. Open the Notiications panel.
2. Tap the message you want to view.
All your of text and MMS messages for a
contact are collected in an ongoing
“conversation,” so when you view a message,
you can scroll through the entire history of
your messages with that person.
Be a hero. Don’t
drive distracted.
sprint.com/focusondriving

18
Contacts
Save a Phone Number
1. Press and tap Phone.
2. Enter a phone number using the onscreen
keypad.
3. Tap > Add to contacts > Create contact.
4. Select an account for the contact. Select
Google to save the contact to your Google
Account, which will update automatically
across all your Google devices. Select Phone
to save the contact to your phone only.
5. Tap Name and enter a name for the new entry.
6. Tap Mobile (default) to select a label such
as Mobile,Home,Work,Work Fax,Home
Fax,Pager,Other,Callback,or Custom.
7. Tap Save to complete and save the entry.
Retrieve a Phone Number
1. Press > Contacts, and then tap Search.
2. Enter the irst letter or letters of an entry.
3. Tap the contact to display the contact’s
phone number(s).
Add a New Entry to Contacts
1. Press and tap Contacts.
2. Tap .
3. Tap any ield and use the onscreen
keyboard to enter the name, phone
number, and other contact details.
4. Add more data ields or a picture if desired,
and tap Save.
Your phone’s Contacts function lets you access and manage contacts from a variety of
sources, including Google and Corporate email accounts (such as Gmail™, Yahoo™, and
Outlook®), contacts synced from your computer, and old-fashioned contacts entered by hand.

visit sprint.com/support for guides, tutorials and more 19
Use Your Phone
Contacts
Edit a Contact Entry
1. Press and tap Contacts > [contact
you’d like to edit].
2. Press and tap Edit.
3. Tap an option:
• [image icon] to assign a picture to the
entry.
• Name to edit the current name.
• Phone to add or delete a phone number.
• Email to add the contact’s email address.
• Groups to assign the contact to a group.
• Ringtone to assign the contact a
ringtone.
• Message alert to assign the contact a
message alert.
• Vibration pattern to assign a vibrate
pattern.
4. Tap Save to save your updates.
Note: To add a phone number, email
address, or other ield to an existing contact,
tap Add another ield at the bottom of the
entry and select a data type (such as
Phonetic name, Organization, Address, etc.).

20
Email
Your phone’s Email applications let you
access and manage multiple email
accounts simultaneously in one convenient
location. Although there is a separate
Gmail™ application, the main email
application can manage both Internet-
based email services (Gmail™ and Yahoo™)
and Corporate Work Email (Outlook®). The
phone can also be manually conigured to
connect to other email systems.
Set Up a Gmail Account
1. Press and tap > Gmail .
2. Follow the instructions to set up or sign in
to a Gmail account.
Note: Although you need a Gmail account to
use certain features such as Google Play™,
you do not have to use Gmail as the default
account for your phone.
Set Up a Email Account
1. Press and tap > Email .
2. If another email account is already set up,
tap > Settings > Add account.
3. Enter the Email address and Password for
the email account.
4. Tap Next and follow on the onscreen
instructions.