Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Manual

							User Guide 
						

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Contents
New features
1 Read before use
1 Unlocking with fingerprint
3Safe
3 All focus mode
4 Taking photos from the timeline album screen
5 Scanning a QR code
6 Protecting your privacy
Getting started
7 Basic screen features
10 Personalizing your phone
11 Basic operations
12 Calling, contacts and messaging
14 Email
15 Internet connection
15 Browser
Entertainment
16 Camera
18 Gallery
19 Music
19 Playing a video
Transferring data
21 Bluetooth
21 Wi-Fi Direct
22 Multi-screen display
22 Huawei Beam
23 Connecting your phone to a computer
23 Connecting your phone to a USB storage device
Managing your phone
24 Managing applications
25 File Manager
27 Phone Manager
28 Backup, restoration, and update
Tools
30 Weather
30 Alarms 
						

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New features
Read before use
This guide only applies to phones that run EMUI 3.0.
Features in this guide are for your reference only. Some features may not be 
supported by all phones. 
Unlocking with fingerprint
Enrolling your fingerprint
 You can unlock the screen or access encrypted data with your fingerprint. To 
protect your privacy, this feature is only available when the screen lock 
method is 
PIN or Password. 
1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Fingerprint ID. 
3. Choose PIN or Password, and follow the onscreen instructions to set a 
password.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to enroll your fingerprint.
Unlocking the screen with your fingerprint
 
1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your 
password.
3. Touch Unlock screen.
Then place your finger on the fingerprint scanner on the back of your phone 
to unlock the screen. 
						

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Unlocking the Safe with your fingerprint
 After enabling Safe in File Manager and setting your password, you will be 
prompted to enable fingerprint unlocking. Touch 
Associate to access the Safe 
and associate your fingerprint. If you skip this step, you can also enable this 
feature as follows: 
1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your 
password.
3. Touch Access safe. 
Then open File Manager, touch Safe, and place your finger on the fingerprint 
sensor on the back of your phone to access the Safe. 
Accessing App lock with your fingerprint
 After enabling App lock in Phone Manager and setting your password, you 
will be prompted to enable fingerprint unlocking. Touch 
Associate to access 
App lock and associate your fingerprint. If you skip this step, you can also 
enable this feature as follows: 
1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Fingerprint ID and follow the onscreen instructions to enter your 
password.
3. Touch Access app lock and lock/unlock apps. 
Then open Phone Manager, touch App lock, and place your finger on the 
fingerprint sensor on the back of your phone to access App lock.  
						

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Safe
 Encrypt important and private files to prevent others from viewing them. 
Enabling the Safe
1. Open File Manager.
2. Touch Safe. 
3. If your phone supports and has a microSD card inserted, you can choose to 
create the Safe in 
SD card or Internal. 
4. Enable Safe and follow the onscreen instructions to set a password and 
security question answer. 
Adding files to the Safe
1. Open File Manager.
2. Touch Safe and enter your password.
3. Touch . Then add some files to Safe. 
You can then view the encrypted files in Safe.
All focus mode
 All focus mode lets you change the focus point on a photo after its been 
taken. 
 
This function may not be supported by all models. 
1. Open Camera.
2. Touch  > All-focus.
3. Touch to take a photo. 
4. Touch to find the photo youve just taken, and touch to adjust the 
focus point. 
						

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Taking photos from the timeline album 
screen
 You can take photos directly from Gallery.
1. Open Gallery.
2. Touch the view switching button at the bottom of the screen to switch to 
the timeline album view.
3. On the timeline album screen, drag down on a blank area to launch the 
camera in half-screen mode. Touch 
to take photos. 
						

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4. Drag the viewfinder further down to enter full-screen capture mode. 
When you are done, touch Return to return to the timeline album 
screen.
Scanning a QR code
 
Scanning a QR code using Gallery
1. Open Gallery.
2. Choose a QR code photo. Gallery will automatically scan the QR code.
3. Touch View details to view the QR code details.
Scanning a QR code using Camera
1. Open Camera.
2. Frame the QR code with the camera. Camera will automatically scan the QR 
code. 
3. Touch View details to view the QR code details.  
						

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Protecting your privacy
 
Whats Privacy protection?
If you have content on your phone that you want to keep private, you can set 
two different unlock passwords, one for yourself, and the other for visitors. If 
your phone is unlocked using the visitor password, all your private content 
will be hidden. 
Your contacts, albums, and applications are all able to be set as private.
Setting a privacy protection password
1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Security > Privacy protection > Lets start. 
3. Choose a password style, and set your owner password and the visitor 
password.
 
If you have set a screen unlock password, the password will be used as 
the owner password by default.
Setting private information
1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Security > Privacy protection. 
3. Enter your owner password to access the Privacy protection screen.
4. Select the contacts, albums, or applications you want to set as private. 
						

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Getting started
Basic screen features
Magazine screen unlock
 Flick up from the bottom of the screen to display the magazine unlock control 
panel.
 
This function may not be supported by all models. 
Managing the home screen
 
Magazine control area: Stop shuffling magazine covers, go to 
the next page, add the current cover to favorites, and more. 
Shortcut buttons: Access common tools, such as Calendar, 
Calculator, and Flashlight.


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