Huawei Ascend P6 User Manual

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Play Store
Play Store is an application market provided by Google, where you can download 
applications and games.
Installing an application
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Find the desired application.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to download and install it.
Uninstalling an application
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch  > My Apps.
3. From the application list, touch the application you want to uninstall.
4. Touch Uninstall > OK to uninstall the application. 
						

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Basic utilities
Your phone comes with a variety of useful tools, such as Calendar, Clock, and 
Calculator, helping you keep yourself organized.
Calendar
Calendar is your personal assistant that helps you manage, arrange, and keep track of all 
important events.
Creating an event
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch .
3. Enter event details, such as the event name, time, and location.
4. Touch Save.
Viewing events
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch the date in the upper left corner to switch between the year, month, 
week, day, and agenda views. The agenda view displays all your calendar 
events.
Sharing an event
You can share an event with your family and friends in a number ways, such as 
Bluetooth.
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Open an event you want to share.
3. Touch  > Send event.
4. Select a sharing method and follow the onscreen instructions.
Synchronizing and viewing events
Calendar events in your accounts (such as an email account) can be synchronized 
to and viewed on 
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1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch  > Calendars to display.
3. Select the account whose calendar you want to display.
4. Touch  > Calendars to sync.
5. Select the account from which you want to synchronize calendar events.
6. Touch OK.
Modifying calendar settings
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch  > Settings.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to configure the calendar settings.
Clock
Clock lets you view the time around the world, use stopwatch or timer to keep 
track of time, or set alarms to wake you up in the morning.
Adding an alarm
1. On the home screen, touch then the Alarm tab.
2. From the alarm list, touch .
3. Set the alarm time, ringtone, how often it repeats, and more.
4. Touch DONE.
 Alarms will go off even when your phone is powered off. 
Deleting an alarm
1. On the home screen, touch then the Alarm tab.
2. From the alarm list, touch and hold the alarm you want to delete.
3. From the displayed option menu, choose Delete alarm.
4. Touch OK. 
						

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Configuring alarm settings
1. On the home screen, touch then the Alarm tab.
2. From the alarm list, touch  > Settings.
3. On the alarm settings screen, set the ring mode, snooze duration, and the 
volume buttons function when an alarm sounds. 
Calculator
Calculator lets you perform basic arithmetic operations.
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. On the Calculator screen, flick left or right to switch between the basic and 
scientific calculators. 
Notes
Notes is a handy application that lets you record quick thoughts or important 
information.
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Touch Add note.
3. Enter what you want to record.
4. When you are done, touch . 
On the Notes screen, you can touch  and select one or more notes you 
want to delete, or select 
All to delete all notes. 
Weather
Weather provides you with the latest weather information for any city around 
the world. You can share weather information with your family and friends.
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Adding a city
Add cities of your concern to Weather to check their real-time weather 
information. 
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Touch  > . In addition to your current city, you can add up to nine cities. 
3. Enter a city name.
Matching cities are then displayed.
4. Select the city you want to add.
Setting the default city
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Touch .
3. Touch the icon next to the city you want to set as the default city. 
Deleting cities
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Touch  > .
3. Select the cities you want to delete, and touch DELETE (%d).
Updating weather
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Flick left or right to find the city whose weather you want to update.
3. Touch to update the weather. 
You can also set Weather to automatic update mode. Touch   >  , 
select 
Auto update, and set Update interval. Your phone will then update 
the weather at the interval you set.
Sharing weather information
Your phone lets you send weather information as a text message to remind your 
family and friends of weather changes.
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > . 
						

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2. Flick left or right to find the city whose weather you want to share.
3. Touch to display the messaging screen.
4. You can then:
•  Enter a phone number.
• Touch to select a contact.
5. Touch to send the weather information to the recipient.
FM radio
Want to listen to your favorite broadcast programs? Open FM Radio anytime 
anywhere you like.
 Connect a headset to the phone. FM Radio utilizes the headset as an 
antenna.
Searching for stations
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Touch  > to search for and save available stations. 
 Your phone will automatically search for and save stations the first time you 
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Listening to FM radio
From the FM Radio screen, you can:
Touch to view the station list. 
Touch to enable or disable the speaker. 
Touch to go to the next station. 
Touch to turn the FM radio on or off.
Touch to add the current station to your favorites. 
Touch to return to the previous station. 
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Accounts and sync
You can synchronize data on your phone, such as contacts, emails, and events, to and from 
the Internet.
Adding an account
1. On the home screen, touch then the All tab.
2. Under ACCOUNTS, touch Add account.
3. Select an account type.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions and enter your account information.
5. Configure the account and set the type of data you want to synchronize.
When an account is set up, it will be shown in the ACCOUNTS section. The types of data you can synchronize to your phone vary with account 
type.
Deleting an account
1. On the home screen, touch then the All tab.
2. Under ACCOUNTS, select an account type.
3. Select the account you want to delete.
4. Touch  > Remove account.
5. In the displayed dialog box, touch Remove account.
Turning on data synchronization
1. On the home screen, touch then the All tab.
2. Under ACCOUNTS, select an account type.
3. Select the account you want to synchronize from.
4. Touch the data you want to synchronize.
 
You can touch   > Sync now to have the data synchronization run in the 
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Modifying account synchronization settings
1. On the home screen, touch then the All tab.
2. Under ACCOUNTS, select an account type.
3. Select the account whose synchronization settings you want to modify.
4. Under Sync settings, select the data you want to synchronize. 
						

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Settings
Turning on or off airplane mode
Always comply with all airline rules and regulations. If allowed by the aircraft operator, you 
may switch on your phone and enable airplane mode in flight.
In airplane mode, your phones wireless features are disabled, but you can still listen to 
music or play games.
Use either of the following methods to turn on or off 
Airplane mode:
• Press and hold the power button. From the displayed option menu, choose 
Airplane mode.
• On the home screen, touch then the All tab. Under WIRELESS & 
NETWORKS, touch Airplane mode.
When airplane mode is on,  appears in the status bar.
Tone settings
1. On the home screen, touch then the All tab.
2. Under DEVICE, touch Sound.
3. From the settings screen, you can: 
• Touch Volume and drag the sliders to set the volume of music, ringtones, 
message tones, and more.
• Touch Vibration to set whether your phone vibrates when you have an 
incoming call, message, email, event, and more.
• Touch Silent mode to turn on or off silent mode.
• Touch Phone ringtone to select a ringtone.
• Touch Notification tone to select a tone for messages, emails, events, and 
more.
• Touch Dolby Digital Plus to turn on or off the Dolby sound effect. 
• Touch SYSTEM to turn the notification tone or vibration on or off when you 
touch or lock the screen, take a screenshot, dial a number, and more.