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The Factory data reset screen displays reset 
information.
3. Ta p  
Reset device, then follow the prompts to perform 
the reset.
Warning! Performing a Factory data reset will erase all data  from your phone and internal SD card, including your 
Google account, system and application data and 
settings, and downloaded applications. It will not 
erase current system software, bundled 
applications, and external SD card files such as 
music and photos.
Add Account
This menu allows you to set  up, manage, and synchronize 
accounts, including your  Google and email accounts.
Adding an Account
1.From a Home screen, tap    ➔ Settings ➔ Add 
account
.
2. Tap one of the account types.
3. Use the keyboard and follow the prompts to enter your 
credentials and set up the account. A green circle will appear next to the account type once 
you have created an account. Your email account will 
also be displayed in the 
Accounts section of the main 
Settings menu.
Removing an Account
Important! Removing an account also deletes all of its  messages, contacts, and other data from the 
device.
1. From a Home screen, tap    ➔ Settings.
2. Tap the account which is located in the 
Accounts 
section.
3. Tap the account name.
4. Ta p  
Remove account, then tap Remove account at the 
prompt to remove the account and delete all its 
messages, contacts, and other data.
Synchronizing Accounts
Select the items you want to synchronize on your account 
such as Books, Calendar, Contacts, and more. 1. From a Home screen, tap    ➔ Settings. 
						

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Tap the account which is located in the 
Accounts 
section.
3. Tap the account name.
4. Ta p  
Sync now to synchronize your account or tap Sync 
all
 to synchronize all your accounts. Tap Cancel sync to 
stop the synchronization.
5. Ta p  
Settings to access your account settings.
Motion
The Motion settings allow you to set up various Motion 
activation services. For more information on using gestures, 
see “Using Gestures”  on page 35.
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ Motion.
2. Tap the ON/OFF icon   at the top of your 
screen to activate Motion.
Caution! Excessive shaking or impact to the device may cause  
unintended results. To learn how to properly control 
motions, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔  Motion ➔ Learn 
about motions.
3. The following options are available. Tap an option to 
activate the feature. A checkmark is displayed.
 Quick glance: Once enable, you can check key information at 
a glance by reaching towards your device.
: Once enabled, the device will dial the currently 
displayed on-screen Contact entry as soon as you place the 
device to your ear. 
: Once enabled, pickup the device to be alerted and 
notified of you have missed any calls or messages. 
 Double tap to top: Once enabled, double tap the top of the 
device to be taken to the top of the current on-screen list. 
 Tilt to zoom: Once enabled, you must be on a screen where 
content can be zoomed. In a single motion, touch and hold two 
points on the display then tilt the tilt the device back and forth to 
zoom in or out. 
 Pan to move icon: Once enabled, touch and hold a desired 
application shortcut icon or widget on the screen. Once it 
detaches, move the device left or right to migrate it to a new 
location.
 Pan to browse images: Once enabled, touch and hold a 
desired on-screen image to pan around it. Move the device left 
or right to pan vertically or up and down to pan horizontally 
around the large on-screen image.
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 Shake to update: Once enabled, shake your device to rescan 
for Bluetooth devices, rescan for Wi-Fi devices, Refresh a Web 
page, etc.
 Turn over to mute/pause: Once enabled, mute incoming calls 
and any playing sounds by turning the device display down on 
a surface. This is the opposite of the Pickup to be Notified 
Gesture.
 Advanced settings: allows you to access additional settings 
for Quick glance, Gyroscope calibration, Tilt to zoom, Pan to 
move icon, and Pan to browse images.
 Learn about motions: provides additional help on using the 
different motions.
 Palm swipe to capture: Once enabled, you can capture any 
on-screen information swiping across the screen. In a single 
motion, press the side of your hand on the screen and swipe 
form left to right. The image is then copied to the clipboard.
 Palm touch to mute/pause: Once enabled, you can pause any 
on-screen video or mute any current sound by simply covering 
the screen with your hand. Once you remove your hand from 
the screen, the device goes back to normal by either continuing 
to play the current video or unmuting the current sound.
 Learn about hand motions: provides additional help on the 
hand motions such as Palm swipe to capture and Palm touch 
to mute/pause.
S Pen Settings
This menu allows you to customize settings for the S Pen. 1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ S Pen.
2. The following options are available:
: allows you to set your phone to Left handed 
or Right handed.
 Pen attach/detach sound: allows you to select a sound to be 
played whenever the pen is attached or detached.
 Open Popup Note: automatically opens Popup Note whenever 
the pen is detached.
 Battery saving: disables the pen detection feature while the 
pen is attached to save battery power.
 S Pen keeper: sounds an alert and displays a pop-up when 
you walk with the device without attaching the pen.
: When the S pen tip is near the screen for a while, the 
S pen hovering feature will be provided. Touch and slide the 
slider to the right to turn it on  .
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 Sound and haptic feedback: allows you to hear sound and 
sense haptic feedback when using your S Pen
 Quick command settings: allows you to create pen gestures 
to open selected apps or perform tasks.
 S Pen help: provides additional information about S Pen.
Accessor y Settings
This menu allows you to select the Audio output mode when
using a car or desk dock.
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ 
Accessory.
2. Ta p  
Dock sound to play sounds when inserting or 
removing the phone from the dock.
3. Ta p  
Audio output mode to use the external dock 
speakers when the phone is docked.
4. Ta p  
Desk home screen display to display the desk home 
screen whenever the phone is docked.
5. Ta p  
Audio output to set your Audio output to Stereo or 
Surround.
Date and time
This menu allows you to change  the current time and date 
displayed.
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ Date 
and time
.
2. Ta p  
Automatic date and time to allow the network to set 
the date and time.
3. Ta p  
Automatic time zone to allow the network to set the 
time zone.
Important! Deactivate Automatic date and time to manually set the rest of the options.
4. Ta p  
Set date and tap the up and down arrows to set the 
Month, Day, and Ye a r then tap Set.
5. Ta p  
Set time and tap the up and down arrows to set the 
Hour, Minute, and PM/AM, then tap Set.
6. Ta p  
Select time zone, then tap a time zone.
7. Optional: Tap 
Use 24-hour format. If this is not selected 
the phone automatically uses a 12-hour format.
8. Ta p  
Select date format and tap the date format type. 
						

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Accessibility
Accessibility services are special features to make using the 
device easier for those with certain physical disabilities. Use 
the Accessibility settings to activate these services.
Note: You can download accessibility applications from Play 
Store and manage their use here.
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ 
Accessibility.
2. Ta p  t h e  
Auto-rotate screen to automatically rotate the 
screen from landscape to portrait when you rotate your 
phone.
3. Ta p  t h e  
Screen timeout option to timeout the 
accessibility feature after a defined amount of time.
4. Ta p  t h e  
Speak passwords option to activate this feature 
which reads out password information.
5. Ta p  t h e  
Answering/ending calls option to be able to 
accept incoming calls by pressing the home key or end 
calls using the power key. 6.
Ta p  t h e  
Accessibility shortcut option to allow the 
accessibility shortcut under the device options to be 
used by pressing and holding the power key.
7. Ta p  t h e  
Ta l k B a c k option to activate the TalkBack 
feature.
Note: TalkBack, when installed and enabled, speaks feedback 
to help blind and low-vision users.
Important! 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.
8. Ta p  t h e  
Font size field to change the size of the fonts 
used on the device within menus, options, etc. Choose 
from: Tiny, Small, Normal, Large, or Huge.
9. Ta p  t h e  
Negative colors field to reverse the display of 
on-screen colors from White text on a Black 
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Ta p  t h e  
Text-to-speech output field to adjust your text-
to-speech settings.  For more information, refer to 
“Speech Settings”  on page 152.
11. Ta p  
Enhance web  accessibility if want to allow apps to 
install scripts from Google that make their Web content 
more accessible. Tap 
Allow.
12. Ta p  t h e  
Sound balance field and use the slider to set the 
Left and Right balance when using a stereo device.
13. Ta p  t h e  
Mono audio field to enable stereo audio to be 
compressed into a single mono audio stream for use 
with a single earbud/earphone.
14. Ta p  t h e  
Turn off all sounds field to mute every sound 
made by the device during taps, selections, 
notifications, etc.
15. Ta p  t h e  
Flash notification field to set your camera light 
to blink whenever you receive a notification.
16. Ta p  t h e  
Tap and hold delay field to select a time interval 
for this action. Choose from: Short, Medium, or Long.
Developer options
Use the Developer options to  set options for application 
development.
Warning! The developer options are  intended for development 
use only. They can cause errors to occur on your 
device and with the applic ations you have on it.
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ 
Developer options.
2. Tap the ON/OFF slider, located to the right of the 
Developer options field, to turn ON  . 
3. The following options are available:
 Desktop backup password: allows you to protect your 
desktop with a backup password ID.
: with the Stay awake option enabled, your screen 
will never sleep while you are charging the phone.
 Protect SD card: requires apps to ask your permission before 
accessing data on your SD card.
 USB debugging: allows debugging when the device is 
attached to a PC by a USB cable.
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 Allow mock locations: used by developers when developing 
location-based applications.
 Select app to be debugged: allows developers to select a 
specific app to debug.
 Wait for debugger: specified apps must have debugger 
attached before executing.
 Show touches: Displays touch interactions on the screen.
 Show pointer location: Highlights the data that was touched 
on the screen.
 Show layout boundaries: displays clip bounds, margins, etc.
 Show GPU view updates: flashes views inside windows when 
drawn with GPU.
 Show screen updates: Areas of the screen flash when they 
update.
 Window animation scale: Configure the scale for animation 
(ranges from off to 10x).
 Transition animation scale: Configure the scale for 
transitioning when using animation (ranges from off to 10x).
 Animator duration scale: Configure the scale for duration 
when using animation (ranges from off to 10x).
 Disable hardware overlays: Assigns the work of redendering 
to the GPU.
 Force GPU rendering: allows the use of 2D hardware 
accelerations in applications.
 Strict mode: Makes the screen flash when applications 
perform long operations on the main thread.
 Show CPU usage: Screen highlights the current CPU usage.
 GPU rendering profile : Uses a 2D acceleration in applications.
 Enable traces: Enables/disables on-screen tracing based on 
an available parameter.
 Do not keep activities: destroys every activity as soon as the 
application is closed.
 Limit background processes: sets the number of processes 
that can run in the background. 
 Show all ANRs: displays a prompt when applications running 
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About Device
This menu contains legal information, system tutorial 
information, and other phone information such as the model 
number, firmware version, baseband version, kernal version, 
and software build number. 
To access phone information:
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ About 
device
. 
2. The following information displays:
 Software update: allows you to update your phone software, if 
available. For more information, refer to 
“Software Update”  
on page 162.
 Status: displays the battery status, the level of the battery 
(percentage), network, signal strength, mobile network type, 
service state, roaming status, mobile network state, the phone 
number for this device, ERI version, IMEI number, IP address, 
Wi-Fi MAC address, Bluetooth address, Serial number, Up 
time, and Device status.
 Legal information: This option displays information about 
Open source licenses as well as Google legal information. This 
information clearly provides copyright and distribution legal 
information and facts as well as Google Terms of Service, 
Terms of Service for Android-powered Phones, and much more 
pertinent information as a reference. Read the information and 
terms, then press 
 to return to the Settings menu.
 Model number: displays the phone’s model number.
 Android version: displays the android version loaded on this 
handset.
 Baseband version: displays the baseband version loaded on 
this handset.
: displays the kernel version loaded on this 
handset.
 Build number: displays the software, build number.
Note: Baseband, kernal and build numbers are usually used 
for updates to the handset or support. For additional 
information please contact your AT&T service 
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Software Update
The AT&T Software Update feature enables you to use your 
phone to connect to the network and upload any new phone 
software directly to your phone. The phone automatically 
updates with the latest available software when you access 
this option.
1. From the Home screen, tap    ➔ 
Settings ➔ About 
device
  ➔ Software update.
2. Ta p  
Check for updates.
3. At the 
Software update prompt, tap OK to continue.
4. The phone automatically updates the software (if 
available), otherwise, when the 
Current software is up 
to date 
prompt is displayed, tap OK.
5. When updating software, once the update file is 
downloaded, you can delay the update on the start 
screen by postponing it for a  certain period of time. If 
you want to resume the update before the selected 
time, tap 
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Section 9: Connections
This section describes the various connections your phone 
can make including accessing the Internet with your 
Browser, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Connecting your PC.
Internet
The Browser is your access to the mobile web. This section 
explains how to navigate the  Browser and introduces you to 
the basic features.
Accessing the Mobile Web
To access the Browser:
  From the Home screen, tap Internet .
The AT&T/YAHOO! mobile homepage displays.
Navigating with the Browser
1. To select an item, tap an entry.
2. To scroll through a website, sweep the screen with 
your finger in an up or down motion.
3. Sweep the screen left to right to move laterally across 
a web page.
4. To return to a previous page, press  .
5. To move forward to a web page, press  .
Zooming in and out of the Browser
There are several ways to Zoom in and out on your browser. 
After tapping on a link or arti cle, use one of these methods:
Tilting: Tap and hold the screen at tw o points then tilt the device 
back and forth to reduce or enlarge the screen. You must first 
enable motion in the  Settings section. For mo re information, refer 
to 
“Motion”  on page 155.
Double tap: Quickly tap the screen twice on the web page to 
zoom in or out.
Pinching: Sweep in opposite directions at the same time to zoom 
in or out (use a pinching-in or pinching-out motion). 
Browser Options
1. From the home page, press  to access the 
following options:
: displays the home web page.
 New window: displays a new window so you can browse 
multiple URLs. For more information, refer to 
“Adding and 
Deleting Windows” 
 on page 164.
: allows you to add a URL to your bookmark list