Huawei Honor 7 Owners Manual

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Motion control
Motion control lets you control your phone using simple motions and gest\
ures. For 
example, mute the phone by turning it over or raise the phone to your ea\
r to answer and 
make calls quickly.
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under All, touch Motion control.
3 On the Motion control screen, select an option and select a motion to enable it.
• Flip: Mute sounds and stop vibration from incoming calls, alarms and timers.\
• Pick up: Pick up your phone to reduce the ring volume of incoming calls, alarms\
 and 
timers.
• Raise to ear: When a call comes in, answer the call by raising your phone to your ear. Similarly, from the call or contact details screen, raise your phon\
e to your ear 
to call the corresponding number. 
						

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• Shake: Touch and hold a blank area on the home screen to enter editing mode. \
Shake your phone to organise your icons.
• Tilt: In home screen editing mode, touch and hold an icon or widget and tilt\
 your phone to the left or right to move the icon or widget to the next screen\
.
Status icons
Status icons may vary according to your region or carrier.
Signal strength
No signal
GPRS network connected3G network connected
Enhanced Data Rates for 
GSM Evolution (EDGE) 
network connectedHigh Speed Packet Access 
(HSPA) network 
connected
Evolved High-Speed 
Packet Access (HSPA+) 
network connected
Roaming
Long Term Evolution (LTE) 
network connectedBluetooth on
Aeroplane mode enabledVibration mode enabled 
						

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Navigation bar settings
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 Under All, touch Navigation bar .
3 Select one of the virtual navigation bars to customise your navigation b\
ar. If you select 
a navigation bar containing 
, you can touch to quickly open your notification 
panel. Receiving location data 
from GPS
Alarms enabled
Silent mode enabledBattery full
ChargingCall in progress
Battery lowNew messages
Missed callsNew voicemail
New emailsWi-Fi network available
Selecting an input methodUploading data
Connected to a Wi-Fi 
networkPhone memory full
Downloading dataNo SIM card found
Upcoming eventsSynchronising data
Sign-in or synchronisation 
problemPortable Wi-Fi hotspot on
Synchronisation failedConnected to a VPN
More notificationsUSB debugging mode 
enabled
Headset plugged inUSB tethering on 
						

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1Status bar: displays notifications and icons. Swipe down from 
the status bar to open the notification panel.
2Display area: displays application icons, folders and widgets.
3Screen position indicator: indicates which home screen is 
displayed.
4Dock: displays frequently used applications.
5Navigation bar: displays virtual keys (only applicable to phones 
with virtual navigation keys).
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Home screen
Your home screens are where you can find your favourite widgets and all \
your 
applications. We did away with the application list to give you a more c\
onvenient and 
direct path to your applications. 
						

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Switching between home screens
Swipe left or right to view the extended home screen. Touch Home to return to the 
default home screen.
Swipe left or right to view all home screens. 
Automatic screen rotation
If you rotate your phone when browsing a web page or viewing a photo, th\
e screen 
orientation changes automatically between landscape and portrait mode. T\
his feature 
allows you to enjoy tilt-controlled applications, such as racing games.
1 Swipe down from the status bar to open the notification panel.
2 Under  Shortcuts , touch Auto Rotate to enable or disable screen rotation.
Organising applications and widgets on the home screen
The following operations allow you to organise your applications, widget\
s or folders:
• Adding a widget: On the home screen, pinch two fingers together to enter home 
screen editing mode. Touch  Widgets and select a widget. The widget will be added to 
a blank area on the home screen.
 You must have enough space on the home screen to add the widget. If ther\
e is not 
enough space, add another home screen or free up some space on the curre\
nt 
screen.
• Moving an application or widget : On the home screen, touch and hold an 
application icon or widget until your phone vibrates. You can then drag \
the 
application icon or widget to the desired location. 
						

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• Deleting an application or widget: On the home screen, touch and hold the application icon or widget you want to delete until 
is displayed. Drag the 
unwanted application icon or widget to 
.
• Creating a folder: On the home screen, drag an icon on top of another icon to create  a folder containing both applications. To rename the folder, open the fo\
lder and then 
touch and hold the folder name.
• Hiding application icons : Place two fingers on the home  screen and pinch out. Touch 
, select the application icons you want to hide and then touch  OK. Applications 
will not appear on the home screen after they have been hidden.
Managing home screens
On the home screen, pinch three fingers together to display the home scr\
een thumbnails.
• 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. 
						

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Notifications
Status indicator
The status indicator on your phone indicates the following status inform\
ation:
• 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 fu\
ll.
• Blinking green: There are unread messages or notifications.




1Touch to view the notification details and swipe left or right 
across a notification to dismiss it.
2Clear all notifications.
3Enable or disable automatic screen brightness.
4Touch the shortcut switches to enable or disable the functions.
Notification panel
Swipe down from the status bar to open the notification panel. Swipe lef\
t or right to 
switch between the notification and shortcut tabs. 
						

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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 from the top\
 of the 
screen 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 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 t\
he 
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• Swipe up from the bottom of the screen until is displayed to close all applications 
in the list. Locked applications will not be closed.
Personalising your phone
Changing the home screen style
You can choose from the standard and simple home screen styles as desire\
d.
1 On the home screen, touch  Settings.
2 Under All, touch Home screen style .
3 Select Simple and then touch  .
 Touch Standard home  to switch from the simple home screen to the standard home 
screen.
Changing the theme
1 On the home screen, touch  Themes.
2 You can:
• Select a theme.
• Touch  and customise the theme style, wallpaper, font and more.
3 Touch .
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 
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• 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.
• Touch SIM card 1 phone ringtone / SIM card 2 phone ringtone or Notification 
ringtone  and then choose one of the following tabs:
• Ringtone : Choose from the preset ringtones.
• Music: Choose from the audio files stored on your phone.
3 Touch  .
Changing the font size
1 On the home screen, touch  Settings.
2 Under General, touch  Font.
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 ke\
yboard, touch 
.
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 not\
ification panel.
2 Under  Notifications, touch  Select input method.