Huawei Honor 5 Manual

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• Setting the default home screen: Touch at the bottom of the screen to set the 
current home screen as the default home screen.
• Moving a home screen: Touch and hold the home screen until your phone vibrates. 
Drag the home screens to adjust their positions.
• Adding a home screen: Touch to add a home screen.
• Deleting a home screen: Touch to delete a blank home screen.
Notifications
Status indicator
The status indicator on your phone indicates the following status information:
• Blinking red: The battery level is low.
• Steady red (when charging): The battery level is low.
• Steady yellow (when charging): The battery level is medium.
• Steady green (when charging): The battery is almost full or already full.
• Blinking green: There are unread messages or notifications.
Notification panel
Swipe down from the status bar to open the notification panel. Swipe left or right to 
switch between the notification and shortcut tabs.



 
						

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Lock screen notifications
Use the lock screen notifications feature to place new messages, missed calls, and other 
notifications on the lock screen.
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under General, touch Screen lock & passwords.
3 Touch the Notification panel switch to enable lock screen notifications.
Accessing applications
Opening and switching between applications
On the home screen, touch an icon to open the corresponding application.
To switch to another application, touch 
Home to return to the home screen, and 
touch the icon of the application you want to open.
 If you have installed many applications on your phone and you cant find the 
application you want quickly on the home screen, swipe down and search for the 
application in the search bar.
Viewing recently used applications
Touch Recent to display the list of recently used applications. Then you can:
Touch to view the notification details and swipe left or right across a 
notification to dismiss it.
Clear all notifications.
Enable or disable automatic screen brightness.
Touch the shortcut switches to enable or disable the corresponding 
functions.
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• Touch a thumbnail to open the corresponding application.
• Swipe left or right to view recently used applications.
• Swipe up on a thumbnail to close the corresponding application.
• Swipe down on a thumbnail to display at the top of the thumbnail and lock the 
corresponding application. Swipe down on the thumbnail again to unlock the 
application.
• Swipe up from the bottom of the screen until is displayed to close all applications 
in the list. Locked applications will not be closed.
Personalizing your phone
Changing the home screen style
You can choose from the standard and simple home screen styles as desired.
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under All, touch Home screen style.
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 Touch Standard home to switch from the simple home screen to the standard home 
screen.
Changing the wallpaper
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under General, touch Wallpapers.
3 On the Wallpapers screen, you can:
• Touch Lock screen wallpaper to set the lock screen wallpaper.
• Touch Home screen wallpaper to set the home screen wallpaper.
• Touch the Shake to change switch to make the home screen wallpaper change when 
you shake your phone.
• Touch the Random change switch to make the home screen wallpaper change 
automatically at periodic intervals.
Changing the ringtone
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under General, touch Sound.
3 Touch Phone ringtone or Default notification tone, and then choose one of the 
following tabs:
• Ringtone: Choose from the preset ringtones.
• Music: Choose from the audio files stored on your phone.
 If your phone has dual SIM support, you can set different ringtones for each SIM 
card.
4 Touch .
Changing the font size
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under General, touch Font. 
						

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3 Touch Font size.
4 Follow the onscreen instructions to select the font size.
Entering text
Touch a text input box to bring up the onscreen keyboard. To hide the keyboard, touch 
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Switching between input methods
Your phone comes with multiple text input methods. You can choose one of them to 
input text.
1 On the text input screen, swipe down from the status bar to open the notification 
panel.
2 Under Notifications, touch Select input method.
3 Select an input method.
 
To change your phones default input method, touch Settings on the home 
screen. Under 
All, touch Language & input > Default keyboard, and then select an 
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Huawei Swype input method
Slide across letters to enter a word.
Switch between lowercase and uppercase letters.
Touch and hold to access input method settings.
Enter numbers and symbols.
Touch and hold to view more language input options.
Switch to voice input.
•Touch to delete the character to the left of the cursor.
•Touch and hold to delete multiple characters to the left of the cursor.
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Android input method
 The Android input method may not be available on all phones.
•Touch to switch between lowercase and uppercase letters.
•Touch and hold or quickly touch twice to enable caps lock.
Enter numbers and symbols.
•Touch to enter a comma.
•Touch and hold to open the input options menu.
•Touch to enter a space.
•Touch and hold to choose another input method.
•Touch to enter a period.
•Touch and hold to enter symbols.
•Touch to delete the character to the left of the cursor.
•Touch and hold to delete multiple characters to the left of the cursor.
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Editing text
You can select, cut, copy, and paste text on your phone.
• Select text: Touch and hold the text to bring up . Then drag or to select 
more or less text, or touch Select all to select all text in a text box.
• Copy text: Select text and touch Copy.
• Cut text: Select text and touch Cut.
• Paste text: Touch and hold where you want to insert the text and then touch Paste. 
						

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Calls and contacts
Making a call
Smart dialing
Smart dialing lets you quickly find contacts by entering parts of their names or numbers.
1 On the home screen, touch Dialer.
2 Under Dialer, enter the initials or first few letters of a contacts name, or part of the 
contacts phone number. Any matches in your contacts list or call log are then 
displayed above the dialer.
3 From the list, select the contact you want to call. If your phone has dual SIM support, 
touch 
or to make a call.
4 To end the call, touch .
Making a call from Contacts
1 On the home screen, touch Dialer.
2 Under Contacts, touch the contact you want to call.
3 Touch the contact number. If your phone has dual SIM support, touch or to 
make a call.
Making a call from the call log
1 On the home screen, touch Dialer.
2 Under Dialer, from the call log, select the contact or number you want to call. If your 
phone has dual SIM support, touch 
or to make a call.
Making an emergency call
In the event of an emergency, you can make emergency calls from your phone, even 
without a SIM card. However, you must be in an area with cellular coverage.
1 On the home screen, touch Dialer.
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2 Under Dialer, enter your local emergency number, and then touch .
 The ability to make emergency calls depends on local regulations and carriers in your 
region. Poor network usability or environmental interference may prevent your call 
from being connected. Never rely solely on your phone for essential communication 
during emergencies.
Speed-dialing
1 On the home screen, touch Dialer.
2 Under Dialer, touch  > Speed dial settings.
3 Touch . Choose a contact from the list and assign a number key to the contact.
 The number key 1 is the default key for voicemail. It cant be set as a speed-dial 
number.
4 On the dialer, touch and hold the number key assigned to a contact to quickly call the 
contact.
 If your phone has dual SIM support, on the dialer, touch and hold a number key 
assigned to a contact, and then touch  or  to quickly call the contact.
Making an international call
1 On the home screen, touch Dialer.
2 On the dialer, touch and hold 0 to enter +.
3 Enter the country or region code, area code, and phone number in sequence.
4 Touch . If your phone has dual SIM support, touch or .
 When roaming, you can select the phone number of a stored contact to call the 
contact directly.
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