LG G4 User Guide

70Settings
• Help – Displays help information for the Home screen.
Lock screen
• Select screen lock – Allows you to set the screen lock for your phone.
• Smart Lock – Allows you to set to keep your phone unlocked when you have a 
trusted Bluetooth device connected to it, when it's in a familiar location like your 
home or work, or when it recognizes your face.
• Screen swipe effect – Sets the effect used when swiping across the lock screen.
• Wallpaper – Allows you to set your Lock screen wallpaper....

71Settings
< BASIC SETTINGS >
Brightness
Adjusts the brightness of the screen. For best battery performance, use the dimmest 
comfortable brightness.
Auto-rotate screen
Allows you to set to switch the screen orientation automatically when you physically 
rotate the phone. 
Screen timeout
Allows you to set the amount of time before the screen times out.
< ADVANCED SETTINGS >
More
• Daydream – Tap  to toggle it On or Off. On allows you to set a screensaver to 
be displayed when the phone is sleeping while...

72Settings
• Voice Search – Allows you to set the same voice options available for Google voice 
typing.
• Text-to-speech output – Sets the preferred speech engine and speech rate (slow 
vs. fast). Also plays a short demonstration of speech synthesis.
• Pointer speed – Allows you to set the pointer speed using a slide bar.
Location
Allows you to manage location services to determine your approximate location using 
GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile networks.
• Mode – Allows you to choose a location mode from High...

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 -Message/call voice notifications  – Tap  to toggle it On or Off. On allows 
you to hear automatic spoken alerts for incoming calls and messages.
 - Screen shade – Enable to set the screen to a darker contrast.
 - Font size – Sets the font size.
 - Touch zoom – Allows you to zoom in and out by triple-tapping the screen.
 - Screen color inversion – Enable to invert the colors of the screen and content.
 - Screen color adjustment – Allows you to adjust the colors of screen and 
content.
 -...

74Settings
• Accessibility features shortcut Allow you to access selected features quickly when triple-tapping the Ho\
me button.
• Auto-rotate screen Enable to allow the phone to rotate the screen depending on the physical\
 phone 
orientation (portrait or landscape)..
•  Switch Access
Allows you to interact with your device using one or more switches that \
work like 
keyboard keys. This menu can be helpful for users with mobility limitations that 
prevent them from interacting directly with the your...

75Settings
• Storage type – Displays the storage type for credentials.
• Certificate management
  -Trusted credentials – Enable to allow applications to access your phone's 
encrypted store of secure certificates and related passwords and other 
credentials. You use credential storage to establish some types of VPN and Wi-Fi 
connections. If you have not set a password for the secure credential storage, 
this setting is dimmed.
  -Install from storage – Tap to install a secure certificate.
  -Clear...

76Settings
< PHONE MANAGEMENT >
Date & time
Use the Date & time settings to set how dates will be displayed. You can also use these 
settings to set your own time and time zone rather than obtaining the cu\
rrent time from 
the mobile network.
Storage
• Internal Storage – Allows you to view information about the internal storage 
usage. 
• SD Card – Allows you to view information about storage use on the SD card. You 
can also mount and unmount an SD card or erase its contents.
Battery & power saving
•...

77Settings
Default message app
This menu allows you to set your default messaging app as desired.
Backup & reset
This menu allows you to back-up your data, automatically restore data, and erase all 
the data on your phone.
• LG Backup – Backs up all information on the device and restores it in the event\
 of 
data loss or replacement.
• Back up my data – Allows you to back up your app data, Wi-Fi passwords, and 
other settings to Google servers.
• Backup account – Allows you to set the account to which...

78Phone software update
Phone software update
LG Mobile phone software update from the Internet
For more information about using this function, please visit http://www.lg.com/common/
index.jsp 
 select your country and language. 
This feature allows you to conveniently update the firmware on your phone to a newer 
version from the Internet without needing to visit a service center. This feature will only 
be available if and when LG makes a newer firmware version available for your device.
Because the...

79Phone software update
NOTE: Your personal data from internal phone storage—including 
information about your Google account and any other accounts, your 
system/application data and settings, any downloaded applications and 
your DRM licence—might be lost in the process of updating your phone's 
software. Therefore, LG recommends that you backup your personal data 
before updating your phone's software. LG does not take responsibility for 
any loss of personal data.
NOTE: This feature depends...