Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Owners Manual

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without worrying about surrounding noise.  
						

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Table of Contents
Section 1:  Getting Started  ............................ 6
Setting Up Your Phone   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Charging a Battery   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Switching the Phone On or Off   . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Locking and Unlocking the Touch Screen   . . . . . 12
Setting up your Phone with Ready2Go . . . . . . . . 12
Creating a Samsung Account   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Creating a New Google Account   . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Retrieving your Google Account Password . . . . . 13
Setting Up Your Voice Mail   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 2:  Understanding Your Phone  ....... 15
Features of Your Phone  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Front View of Your Phone   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Side Views of Your Phone  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Rear View of Your Phone  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
S Pen   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Display Layout   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Menu Navigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Multi Window   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Customizing Your Home Screen   . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Notification Bar  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Memory Card   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Section 3:  Call Functions  ............................ 54
Displaying Your Phone Number  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Making a Call   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Making Emergency Calls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Making a Call Using Speed Dial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Making a Call from the Address Book   . . . . . . . . 57
Answering a Call  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Dialing Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Call Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Call Duration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Options During a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Call Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 4:  Entering Text  ............................. 72
Text Input Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Entering Text Using the Samsung Keyboard   . . . 72
Changing the Text Input Mode - Keypad   . . . . . . 73
Using ABC Mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using Symbol/Numeric Mode   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 
						

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Predictive Text  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Entering Text Using Handwriting   . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Samsung Keyboard Settings   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Using the Google Voice Typing Feature   . . . . . . .75
Entering Text Using Swype   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Section 5:  Contacts and Your Address 
    Book .......................................................... 78
AT&T Address Book Activation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Adding a New Contact  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Editing an Existing Contact   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Using Contacts   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Joining Contacts   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Synchronizing Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Address Book Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Address Book Favorites  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Managing Address Book Contacts  . . . . . . . . . . .88
Section 6:  Multimedia  ................................. 91
AT&T Locker   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Media Hub  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Music Hub  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Music Player   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94Using Playlists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  96
Google Play Music  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  97
Video Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  98
Play Movies & TV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  99
Gallery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  99
Camera  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  102
Using the Camera   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  102
Camera Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  103
Using the Camcorder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  107
Camcorder Options   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  108
Section 7:  Messaging  ................................ 111
Types of Messages   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  111
Creating and Sending Messages   . . . . . . . . . .  111
Message Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  112
Viewing New Received Messages   . . . . . . . . .  114
Deleting Messages   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  115
Message Search   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  116
Messaging Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  116
Using Email  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  118
Using Gmail  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  120
Google Talk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  121
Google +  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  122 
						

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Messenger   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Messages App   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
ChatON  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Section 8:  Changing Your Settings  .......... 126
Accessing Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Wi-Fi Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Bluetooth settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Data Usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
More Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Home screen mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Blocking Mode   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Sound Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Display Settings   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Storage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Power Saving Mode   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Battery   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Application Manager  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Location Services  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Lock Screen Settings   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Security   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
One-handed operation   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Language and input   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Back up and reset  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Add Account  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Motion   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
S Pen Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Accessory Settings   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Date and time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Accessibility   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Developer options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
About Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Section 9:  Connections  ............................. 163
Internet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Wi-Fi  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
NFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Bluetooth   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
PC Connections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
NFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Section 10:  Applications ........................... 180
AllShare Play  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
AT&T Code Scanner   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
AT&T FamilyMap  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
AT&T Locker  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
AT&T Navigator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185