Huawei P8 Manual

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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 customize your navigation bar. If you select 
a navigation bar containing 
, you can touch to quickly open your notification 
panel. This feature is only available on phones with virtual navigation keys.
Airplane mode enabledBluetooth on
Receiving location data 
from GPSVibration mode enabled
Silent mode enabledAlarms enabled
ChargingBattery...

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Home screen
Your home screens are where you can find your favorite widgets and all your 
applications. We did away with the application list to give you a more convenient and 
direct path to your applications.
Status bar: displays notifications and icons. Swipe down from 
the status bar to open the notification panel.
Display area: displays application icons, folders, and widgets.
Screen position indicator: indicates which home screen is 
displayed.
Dock: displays frequently used...

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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, the screen 
orientation changes automatically between landscape and portrait mode. This feature 
allows you to enjoy tilt-controlled applications, such as racing games.
1 Swipe down from the status bar to open...

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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 folder and then 
touch and hold the folder name.
• Hiding application icons: Place two fingers on the home screen and pinch out. Touch...

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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....

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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 Show detailed notification info 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...

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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 the 
application.
• Swipe up from the...

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Changing the theme
1 On the home screen, touch Themes.
2 Swipe left or right to browse themes. You can:
• Select a theme.
• Touch and customize the theme style, wallpaper, font, and more.
3 Touch .
 You can update your themes or download new ones online by turning on mobile data 
or connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
Changing the wallpaper
1 On the home screen, touch Settings.
2 On the General tab, touch Wallpaper.
3 On the Wallpapers screen, you can:
• Touch Lock screen wallpaper to set...

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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
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...

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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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