Huawei Honor 6 User Manual

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Phone Manager 
Notification manager
Some applications may push all kinds of notifications to your phone. 
Notification manager lets you set restriction rules on notifications to avoid 
receiving unnecessary information. 
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Flick left and touch Notification manager. 
3. On the Notification manager screen, you can: 
•Touch Rules to view applications that may send notifications to the 
notification panel and set push rights for your applications. 
•Touch Log to view blocked notifications. 
						

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Backup, restoration, and 
update
Backing up data to the local storage
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Select or clear the Encrypt your backup check box. Once the backup file is 
encrypted, you need to enter the password to access it. 
3. Touch New backup. 
4. Select the data you want to back up, and follow the onscreen instructions 
to ba ck  i t u p. 
By default, backup files are saved to the HuaweiBackup folder in File 
Manager
. 
 
Encrypted backup files can only be restored by Backup version 3.2.26 or 
later. To check the version you have, open 
Backup, and touch   > 
Settings > About.
Backing up data to a USB storage device
Connect the USB storage device to your phone using a USB OTG cable. Make 
sure your phone can detect the USB storage device. 
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > .
2. Touch  > Back up to external USB storage. 
3. Select or clear the Encrypt your backup check box. 
4. Touch New backup. 
5. Select the data you want to back up, and follow the onscreen instructions 
to ba ck  i t u p.  
						

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Backup, restoration, and update   
 
For details about how to connect your phone to a USB storage device, 
see Connecting your phone to a USB storage device. 
Restoring data from the local storage
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > . 
2. Select the backup file you want to restore. You can use the files backup 
time as a reference. 
3. If the backup file has been encrypted, enter the password when prompted, 
and touch 
OK. 
4. Select the data you want to restore, and touch RESTORE. 
Restoring data from a USB storage device
Connect the USB storage device to your phone using a USB OTG cable. Make 
sure your phone can detect the USB storage device. 
1. On the home screen, touch Tools > . 
2. Touch  > Back up to external USB storage. 
3. Select the backup file you want to restore. You can use the files backup 
time as a reference. 
4. If the backup file has been encrypted, enter the password when prompted, 
and touch 
OK. 
5. Select the data you want to restore, and touch RESTORE. 
 
For details about how to connect your phone to a USB storage device, 
see Connecting your phone to a USB storage device.  
						

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Restoring factory settings
 
Restoring your phone to the factory settings erases all your personal 
data from the phone storage, including information about your 
accounts, your system and application settings, and downloaded 
applications. Back up important data on your phone before you restore 
factory settings. 
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Under All, touch Backup & reset. 
3. Touch Factory data reset > Reset phone > Reset phone. The phone will 
restore its factory settings and restart.
Online update
Once in a while, new updates for your phone will be available online. You will 
receive a notification when updates are available. Before updating, make sure 
your phone has enough storage space for the update package.
 
•Using unauthorized third-party software to update your phone may 
damage your phone or put your personal information at risk. It is 
recommended that you update through your phones online update 
feature or download official update packages from Huaweis official 
website.
•All your data may be erased during a system update. It is 
recommended that you back up important data before updating your 
phone.
To update your phone manually, go to the home screen, touch   > 
Updates 
> 
System updates > Online update to check for updates, and follow the 
onscreen instructions to update your phone online.  
						

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Tools
Calendar
Calendar is your personal assistant that helps you manage, arrange, and keep 
track of all important events. If you have saved the birthday information for 
your contacts, Calendar automatically creates birthday reminders. 
Creating an event
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch . 
3. Enter event details, such as the event name, time, location, and how often 
it repeats.
4. Touch SAVE. 
Viewing events
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch the tabs at the top of the screen to switch between the year, month, 
week, day, and agenda views. The agenda view displays all your calendar 
events. 
Sharing an event
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Select the event you want to share. 
3. Touch to share the event using Bluetooth, email, or other methods. 
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. 
						

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Alarm
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Under Alarm, you can: 
•Add an alarm: Touch , and set the alarm time, ringtone, how often it 
repeats, and more. Then touch DONE. 
•Turn on or turn off an alarm: Touch the switch button to the right of an 
alarm to turn it on or off. 
•Configure alarm settings: Touch , and set the snooze duration, 
whether the alarm rings in silent mode, and what the volume buttons do 
when pressed. 
•Delete an alarm: Touch , select the alarm you want to delete, and 
touch DELETE. 
World clock
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Under World clock, you can: 
•Add a city: Touch , enter a city name or choose a city from the city 
list, and touch the city you want to add. 
•Set your time zone: Touch to set your home time zone and system 
date and time. 
•Delete a city: Touch , select the city you want to delete, and touch 
REMOVE. 
Stopwatch
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. On the Stopwatch tab, touch Start to start timing. 
3. Touch Lap to record multiple times. 
4. Touch Stop to stop the stopwatch.  
						

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Tools
Touch Reset to clear all stopwatch records. 
Timer
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. On the Timer tab, rotate the dial to set the timer duration, or touch an 
option to quickly select a time duration. 
 
Touch  to set a tone for the timer.
3. When you are done, touch Start to start the timer. 
4. When the timer ends, the phone plays a tone and starts overtime timing. 
Touch 
Close to stop the tone and reset the timer. 
 
When the timer is running, touch Reset to reset it. 
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. 
 
Before you use Weather, turn on your phones GPS and data service. 
Adding a city
Add cities to check their real-time weather information. 
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Touch  > . 
3. Enter a city name. Matching cities are then displayed. 
4. Select the city you want to add.
 
In addition to your current city, you can add up to nine cities. 
Setting the default city
1. On the home screen, touch . 
						

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2. Touch . 
3. Touch to the right of the city you want to set as the default city.
 
To rearrange the cities, in the city list, touch   > Rearrange cities.
Updating the weather
1. On the home screen, touch .
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   >   
> 
Settings, select Auto update, and set Update interval. Your phone will 
then update the weather at the interval you set. 
						

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Phone settings
Turning on or turning off airplane mode
 
Your phones signal reception or transmission may interfere with an 
airplanes flight system. Power off your phone or switch to airplane 
mode as required when you are on a 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 turn off 
Airplane mode: 
• Press and hold the power button, and touch Airplane mode. 
• On the home screen, touch . Under All, touch Airplane mode. 
When airplane mode is on,  is displayed on the status bar.
Adjusting the screen brightness
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Under All, touch Display. 
3. Touch Brightness. 
4. Drag the slider left or right to adjust the screen brightness.
 
You can also flick down from the status bar to open the notification 
panel and adjust the screen brightness using the shortcut switch. 
Modifying tone settings
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Under All, touch Sound. 
3. On the Sound screen, you can:  
						

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•Touch Volume and drag the sliders to set the volume of music, ringtones, 
notification tones, alarms, calls, and more. 
•Touch Silent mode to turn on or turn off silence mode. 
•Select or clear the Vibrate in silent mode check box to set whether your 
phone vibrates when it is in silence mode. 
•Select or clear the Vibrate when ringing check box to set whether your 
phone vibrates when you have an incoming call.
•Touch Phone ringtone to select a ringtone.
•Touch Default notification tone to set a notification tone. 
•Select or clear the DTS mode to turn on or turn off DTS audio. 
•Touch or clear the check box under SYSTEM to turn on or turn off the 
notification tone or vibration when you touch or lock the screen, take a 
screenshot, dial a number, and more.
Modifying display settings
1. On the home screen, touch .
2. Under All, touch Display. 
3. On the Display screen, you can: 
•Touch Brightness to adjust the screen brightness. 
•Touch Color temperature to adjust the screen color temperature. To 
manually adjust the color temperature, clear the 
Default check box. 
•Touch Wallpaper to set the lock screen and home screen wallpapers.
•Select or clear the Auto-rotate screen check box to enable or disable the 
screen auto-rotate function. If this function is enabled, your screens 
orientation will automatically change with the way you hold your phone 
when you perform certain operations, such as browsing a web page, 
viewing a picture, or writing a message. 
•Touch Sleep to set a screen timeout period. If idle for the specified period, 
your phone automatically locks its screen to save battery power.