Samsung 6 Edge User Manual
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Accessibility Accessibility services are special features that make using the device easier for those with certain physical disabilities. Note : You can download additional accessibility applications from the Google Play Store. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Sett ings. 2. Tap Ac c essibility for options: Vision • Galaxy TalkBack: Speak feedback aloud to help blind and low-vision users. -TalkBack can collect all of the text you enter, except passwords, including personal data and credit card numbers. It may also log your user interface interactions with the device. • Galaxy TalkBack help: Tap for help on using Galaxy TalkBack. • Dark screen: Keep the screen turned o at all times for privacy. • Rapid key input: Release your nger to enter selection instead of double tapping. • Speak passwords: Read the characters aloud as you enter your passwords. • Voice Label: Write voice recordings to NFC tags to provide information about nearby objects. • Font size: Move the slider to select a font size. • Magnication gestures: Use exaggerated gestures such as triple-tapping, double pinching, and dragging two ngers across the screen. • Magnier window: Magnify content shown on the screen. • Grayscale: Change all colors to gray. • Negative colors: Reverse the display of onscreen colors from White text on a Black background to Black text on a White background. • Color adjustment: Adjust the color of the screen if you are color blind or have diculty reading the display because of the screen color. Tap Color adjustment for options. • Accessibility shortcut: Quickly enable accessibility features in two quick steps. Tap ON/OFF to turn the feature on. • Text-to-speech options: Set your preferred TTS engine and options. For more information, see Text-To-Speech Options . Hearing • Sound detectors: Alert when baby crying or the doorbell is detected. • Flash notication: Set your camera light to blink whenever you receive a notication. • Turn o all sounds: For privacy, turn o all notications and audio. • Hearing aids: Improve the sound quality of your device for use with hearing aids. • Samsung subtitles (CC): Use Samsung subtitles with multimedia les when available Tap Samsung subtitles (CC) for options. • Google subtitles (CC): Use Google subtitles with multimedia les when available. Tap Google subtitles (CC) for options. • Left/right sound balance: Use the slider to set the Left and Right balance when using a stereo device. • Mono audio: Switch audio from stereo to mono for use with one earphone. Settings 96 Accessibility
• Auto haptic: The device will vibrate in time to the sound when listening to music, watching videos, or playing games. It will also vibrate when buttons are tapped in supported apps. This may consume battery power, and not all applications will support this feature. Dexterity and Interaction • Universal switch: Control your phone with your customized switches. • Assistant menu: Improve the device accessibility for users with reduced dexterity. • Gesture wake up: Use hand movement to turn on the screen. • Press and hold delay: Select a time interval for this tap gesture. • Interaction control: Block areas of the screen from touch interaction. Disable Auto rotate screen and hard key functions. Only show application notications in the Notication Panel and the Status Bar. More Settings • Direction lock: Unlock the screen by swiping in a series of four to eight directions. • Direct access: Open your accessibility settings by pressing the Home Key three times in quick succession. • Notication reminder: Beep at set intervals to remind you of any unread notications. • Answering and ending calls: Choose alternative ways to answer and end calls. • Single tap mode: Tap to stop/snooze alarms and calendar events. • Manage accessibility: Export your accessibility settings and share them with another device. Services Additional accessibility apps may be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Certain accessibility services you install may be congured here. Settings 97 Accessibility
Accounts Set up and manage accounts, including your Google Account, Samsung account, email, and social networking accounts. Depending on the account, you can choose to synchronize your calendar, contacts, and other types of content. Add an Account 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settings . 2. Tap Account s > Add account. 3. Tap one of the account types. 4. Follow the prompts to enter your credentials and set up the account. Synchronize Accounts 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settings . 2. Tap Account s > [Account type]. 3. Tap an account to view the sync settings for that account. 4. Check individual data items to sync. 5. Tap MORE > Sync now to synchronize the account. Note : Sync options and the location of the sync command dier depending on the account type. Account Settings Each account has its own set of settings. In addition, you can congure common settings for all accounts of the same type. Note : Account settings and available features vary between account types and service providers. Contact your service provider for more information on your account’s settings. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settings . 2. Tap Acc ount s > [Account type]. • Tap an account to congure that account’s settings. • Tap Settings or other available options to congure common settings for all accounts of this type. • Tap other available options for the account. Delete an Account 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settings . 2. Tap Account s > [Account type]. 3. Tap the account, and then tap MORE > Remove account. Settings 98 Accounts
Backup and Reset Back up your data to Google servers. You can also reset your device to its factory defaults. Backup and Restore Enable backup of your information to Google servers. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap Bac k up and reset for options: • Samsung account: Congure backup and restore options using a Samsung account. -Back up my data: Enable back up of your phone log, messages, and more through your Samsung account. -Restore : Use your Samsung account to restore your backup data. • Google account: Congure backup and restore options using a Google account. -Backup account: Select a Google account to be used as your backup account. -Back up my data: Enable back up of application data, Wi-Fi passwords, and other settings to Google servers. -Automatic restore: Enable automatic restoration of settings from Google servers. When enabled, backed-up settings are restored when you reinstall an application. Factory Data Reset Return your device to its factory defaults. Warning: This action permanently erases ALL data from the device, including Google or other account settings, system and application data and settings, downloaded applications, as well as your music, photos, videos, and other les. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap Back up and reset > Factory data reset. 3. Tap RESET DEVICE and follow the prompts to perform the reset. Collect Diagnostics Collect diagnostics data for troubleshooting. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap Back up and reset > Collect diagnostics. 3. Tap Diagnostics and read the onscreen information. Choose to enable or disable the feature by checking Allow Diagnostics. Tap More info to display additional information or tap Next to display the Connection Assistant screen. 4. Tap Connection Assistant and read the onscreen information. Tap Accept or Decline. 5. Tap Special Oers and read the onscreen information. Tap Accept or Decline. Settings 99 Backup and Reset
Language and Input Settings Congure your device’s language and input settings. Set Your Default Language 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settin gs. 2. Tap Language and in put > Language. 3. Select a language from the list. Select Your Default Keyboard or Input Method 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settin gs. 2. Tap Language and in put > Default keyboard. 3. Select a keyboard. Note : Additional keyboards can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Samsung Keyboard Settings Congure options for using the Samsung keyboard. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settin gs. 2. Tap Languag e and in put. 3. Tap Samsung keyboard for options: • English(US): Set the keyboard type to Qwerty keyboard or 3x4 keyboard. • Select input languages: Choose which languages are available on the keyboard. To switch between languages, slide the space bar sideways. • Predictive text: Allow Predictive text to suggest words matching your text entries, and, optionally, complete common words automatically. Predictive text can learn your personal writing style from your contacts, messages, Gmail, and social networking sites — improving its accuracy of predicting your text entries. • Additional keyboard settings provide assistance with capitalization, punctuation, and much more. Google Voice Typing Settings Speak rather than type your text entries using Google Voice Typing. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settin gs. 2. Tap Languag e and in put. 3. Tap Google voice typing for options: • Choose input languages: Select languages for Google voice typing. • Block oensive words: Hide words many people nd oensive are in results of Google voice searches. Oensive words are replaced in results with a placeholder (####) . • Oine speech recognition: Manage downloaded languages. Settings 100 Language and Input Settings
Voice Input Use Google voice recognition to perform Google searches using spoken commands. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Sett ings. 2. Tap Lan gua ge and input > Voice input for options. • Tap Enhanced Google services for full voice interaction. • Tap Basic Google recognition for simple voice recognition. 3. Tap Settings beside the recognition service to customize. Text-To-Speech Options Congure your Text-To-Speech (TTS) options. TTS is used for various accessibility features, such as TalkBack. For more information, see Accessibility . 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Settings . 2. Tap Lan guage and input > Text-to-speech options for options: • Tap Settings next to the Samsung text-to-speech engine for options. • Speech rate: Set the speed at which the text is spoken. • Default language status: Display the default language in use. Mouse/Trackpad Settings Congure settings for using an optional mouse or trackpad (not included) . 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Sett ings. 2. Tap Lan gua ge and input > Pointer speed. 3. Drag the slider to the right to go faster or to the left to go slower. 4. Tap OK to save your setting. Settings 101 Language and Input Settings
Battery View how battery power is used for device activities. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap Bat tery for the following options: • Tap BATTERY USAGE to view a battery chart and a list of processes and the amount of battery power they are using. • Tap Power saving mode to congure this feature, which helps save battery power by reducing the power usage by many phone features and apps. -Tap ON/OFF to turn on Power saving mode. -Tap Start power saving to select a remaining battery percentage at which Power saving mode will automatically be enabled. • Ta p Ultra power saving mode to congure this feature, which applies a simplied grayscale theme to your Home screen and limits the number of usable apps. -Tap ON/OFF to turn the feature on. -To turn o Ultra power saving mode, from the Home screen, tap MORE > Turn o Ultra power saving mode. • If any apps use an abnormal amount of battery power while the screen is turned o, the apps are logged for your review. Tap DETAIL to view such apps. • Ta p MORE for the following options: -Ta p Hide/Show battery percentage to hide or show the battery charge percentage next to the battery icon on the Status Bar. Settings 102 Battery
Storage View the device memory and application usage. Device Memory View and manage the memory used by the device. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap S t orage . • The Device memory displays Total space used. • The amounts of memory used are further divided into System memory, Used space, Cached data, Miscellaneous les, and Available space. To increase available memory: 1. Tap Cached data to clear all cached data for all apps. Tap DELETE to conrm. 2. Tap Miscellaneous les, select unnecessary les individually, or tap SELECT ALL, and then tap DELETE. Settings 103 Storage
Date and Time Settings By default, your device receives date and time information from the wireless network. When you are outside network coverage, you may want to set date and time information manually using the date and time settings. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap Da te and time. 3. Set the date, time, time zone, time format, and date format. Settings 104 Date and Time Settings
Help View tips and guidelines for using your device. 1. From a Home screen, tap Apps > Set tings. 2. Tap Help for information about new features, applications, settings, and so on. 3. Tap SEARCH to search for a topic. Settings 105 Help