Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Owners Manual
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SM-N900A_UM_English_MI9_WC_092713_F4 Intellectual Property All Intellectual Property, as defined below, owned by or which is otherwise the property of Samsung or its respective suppliers relating to the SAMSUNG Phone, including but not limited to, accessories, parts, or software relating there to (the “Phone System”), is proprietary to Samsung and protected under federal laws, state laws, and international treaty provisions. Intellectual Property includes, but is not limited to, inventions (patentable or unpatentable), patents, trade secrets, copyrights, software, computer programs, and related documentation and other works of authorship. You may not infringe or otherwise violate the rights secured by the Intellectual Property. Moreover, you agree that you will not (and will not attempt to) modify, prepare derivative works of, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to create source code from the software. No title to or ownership in the Intellectual Property is transferred to you. All applicable rights of the Intellectual Property sh all remain with SAMSUNG and its suppliers. Open Source Software Some software components of this product incorporate source code covered under GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), OpenSSL License, BSD License and ot her open source licenses. To obtain the source code covered under the open source licenses, please visit: http://opensource.samsung.com. Disclaimer of Warranties; Exclusion of Liability EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE EXPRESS WARRANTY CONTAINED ON THE WARRANTY PAGE ENCLOSED WITH THE PRODUCT, THE PURCHASER TAKES THE PRODUCT AS IS , AND SAMSUNG MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THE PRODUCT OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE; TH E DESIGN, CONDITION OR QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT; THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT; THE WORKMANSHIP OF THE PRODUCT OR THE COMPONENTS CONTAINED THEREIN; OR COMPLIANCE OF THE PRODUCT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF ANY LAW, RULE, SPECIFICATION OR CONTRACT PERTAINING
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©2013 Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC. Samsung is a registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Do you have questions about your Samsung Mobile Phone? For 24 hour information and assistance, we offer a new FAQ/ARS System (Automated Response System) at: http://www.samsung.com/us/support. Nuance®, VSuite™, T9® Text Input, and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc., or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. The Bluetooth ® word mark, figure mark (stylized “B Design”), and comb ination mark (Bluetooth word mark and “B Design”) are registered trademarks and are wh olly owned by the Bluetooth SIG. microSD™ and the microSD logo are Trad emarks of the SD Card Association. Openwave ® is a registered Trademark of Openwave, Inc. LTE is a trademark of ETSI. and are trademarks of SRS Labs, Inc. CS Headphone and WOW HD technologies are incorporated under license from SRS Labs, Inc. Google, the Google logo, Android, the Android logo, Google Pl ay, Gmail, Google Mail, Google Maps, Google Music, Google Hangouts, Picasa, YouTube and other ma rks are trademarks of Google Inc. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wireless Fidelity Alliance, Inc. Swype and the Swype logos are trademarks of Swype, Inc. © 2010 Swype, Inc. All rights reserved. Devices purchased for use on AT&Ts system are designed for us e exclusively on AT&Ts system. You agree that you wont make any modifications to the Equipment or pr ogramming to enable the Equipment to oper ate on any other system. A voice plan is Internet Address: http://www.samsung.com
required on all voice-capable devices, unless specifically noted otherwise in the terms governing your agreement. Some devices or plans may require you to subscribe to a data plan. Your phone is designed to make it easy for you to access a wide variety of content. For your protection, AT&T wants you to be aware that some applications that you enable may involve the location of your phone being shared. For applications available through AT&T, AT&T offers privacy controls that let you decide ho w an application may use the location of your phone and other phones on your account. However, AT&Ts privacy tools do not ap ply to applications available outside of AT&T. Please review the terms and conditions and the associated pr ivacy policy for each location-based service to learn how location information will b e used and protected. Your phone may be used to access the Internet and to download, and/or purchase goods, applications, and services from AT&T or elsewhere from third parties. AT&T provides tools for you to co ntrol access to the Internet and certain Internet content. These controls may not be available for certain devices which bypass AT&T controls. AT&T may collect certain types of information from your device when you use AT&T services to provide customer support and to improve its services. For more information on AT&Ts Privacy Policy, visit http://www.att.com/privacy. Your phone features earSmart™, an inte lligent voice processor that delivers a clear voice experience, allowing you to hear and be heard ™ in nearly any environment. earSmart technology uses the sc ience of human hearing to distinguish sounds, identify your voice and suppress surrounding noise, for cl ear conversations just about anywhere.
How Does It Work? The earSmart voice processor in your phone captures your voice and all the sounds around you. Working like the human ear, it processes and distinguishes these sounds, isolates your voice conversation, and removes background noise - from both ends of a call. It also automatically equalizes and adjusts voice volume so you can hear and talk naturally, even in the noisiest places. With earSmart technology, you can talk where you want, and have clear conversations for mobile calls, video chats, even speakerphone calls, without worrying about surrounding noise.
1 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 . . . . . . 11 Configuring your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Creating a Samsung Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Creating a New Google Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Setting Up Your Voice Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Section 2: Understanding Your Phone ........ 14 Features of Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Front View of Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Side Views of Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Rear View of Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 S Pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Display Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Menu Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the Multi Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Customizing Your Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Notification Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Section 3: Call Functions ............................. 49 Displaying Your Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Making a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Making Emergency Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Making a Call Using Speed Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Making a Call from the Address Book . . . . . . . . . 51 Answering a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Dialing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Call Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Call Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Options During a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Call Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Section 4: Contacts and Your Address Book .......................................................... 61 AT&T Address Book Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Adding a New Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Editing an Existing Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Using Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
2 Linking Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Synchronizing Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Address Book Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Address Book Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Managing Address Book Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Section 5: Pictures and Videos ....................74 Using the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Camera Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Quick Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Camera and Camcorder Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Editing a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Using the Camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Section 6: Changing Your Settings ..............85 Accessing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Settings Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Wi-Fi Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Bluetooth settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Tethering & portable hotspot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Airplane mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Data Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Location services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90More networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 NFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 S Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Nearby devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Screen Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Multi window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 LED indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Lock Screen Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Wallpaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Notification Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Easy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Call Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Blocking Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Language and input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Voice control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Hands-free Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 S Pen Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 One-handed operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Motions and Gestures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
3 Add Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Backup and reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Accessory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Browser Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Application Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Power saving mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 About Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Section 7: Messaging ................................ 139 Types of Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Creating and Sending Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Messaging Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Viewing New Received Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Deleting Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Message Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Messaging Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Using Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Using Gmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Hangouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Google + . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 AT&T Messages App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 ChatON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Section 8: Connections .............................. 153 Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 NFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 PC Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Section 9: Applications .............................. 163 Application Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Action Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 AT&T Code Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 AT&T DriveMode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 AT&T FamilyMap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 AT&T Locker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 AT&T Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 AT&T Ready2Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 AT&T Smart Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 ChatON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Chrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170