Samsung Galaxy Note Owners Manual
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Changing Your Settings 106 Fixed Dialing Numbers: allows you to restrict outgoing calls to a limited set of phone numbers. Using Fixed Dialing Numbers Enabling FDN 1.From the Call Settings menu, tap Additional settings ➔ Fixed Dialing Numbers. 2.Ta p Enable FDN. 3.At the prompt, enter your PIN2 code and tap OK. FDN is enabled. 4.To enable FDN after it has been disabled, tap Disable FDN, enter your PIN2 code and tap OK. Important!: Not all SIM cards use a PIN2 code. If your SIM card does not, this menu does not display. The PIN2 code is provided by your carrier. Entering an incorrect PIN2 code could cause the phone to lock. Contact customer service for assistance. Changing the PIN2 Code 1.From the Call Settings menu, tap Additional settings ➔ Fixed Dialing Numbers. 2.Ta p Change PIN2. 3.At the prompt, enter your old PIN2 code. 4.At the prompt, enter a new PIN2 code. 5.Confirm your PIN2 code. Managing the FDN List When this feature is enabled, you can make calls only to phone numbers stored in the FDN list on the SIM card. Note: Before you can manage an FDN list a list must be created. 1.From the Call Settings menu, tap Additional settings ➔ Fixed Dialing Numbers. 2.Ta p FDN list. 3.A list of all existing FDN numbers will be displayed. Voicemail Ser vice 1.From the Call Settings menu, tap Voicemail Service. Voicemail service provided by your carrier is the default. 2.Ta p My carrier to remove the carrier Voicemail service. Voicemail You can view or modify your voicemail number from this menu. 1.From the Call Settings menu, tap Voicemail.
1072. Ta p t h e Voicemail number field, backspace to erase the digits, and enter a new voicemail number using the keypad, then tap OK. 3.Ta p OK. Sound Settings From this menu you can control the sounds on the phone. From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound. The following options display: Silent mode Silent mode is convenient when you wish to stop the phone from making noise, in a theater for example. In Silent Mode the speaker is muted and the phone only vibrates to notify you of incoming calls, or other functions that normally have a defined tone or sound as an alert. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound. 2.Ta p Silent mode. – or – From the Home screen, press the Lock key until Phone options displays. 3.Ta p Silent mode to activate or deactivate this mode (the current mode displays). Vibration Vibration mode allows your phone to vibrate instead of a producing a tone. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound ➔ Vibration. 2.Ta p Always, Never, Only in silent mode, or Only when not in silent mode . Vo l u me The Volume option allows you to change the volume for all phone sounds in one easy location. 1.Touch and drag the slider to adjust the sound volume for Incoming calls, Media, System, and Notification. 2.Ta p OK. Vibration Intensity Set the intensity of vibration for Incoming call, Notification, and Haptic feedback. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound ➔ Vibration intensity.
Changing Your Settings 108 2. Touch one of the three vibration intensity options and drag the slider to set. 3.Touch OK to save your setting. Phone ringtone This option allows you to set the ringtone. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound. 2.Ta p Phone ringtone. 3.Tap a ringtone and tap OK. Notification ringtone This option allows you to set the ringtone that will sound for notifications and alarms. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound. 2.Ta p Notification ringtone. 3.Tap a ringtone and tap OK. Audible Tone Settings The Audible touch tones and Audible selection options are used when you use the dialing pad, make a screen selection, or lock your screen. Each time you press a key, make a selection, or lock your phone, the selected tone sounds. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound. 2.Ta p Audible touch tones, Audible selection, or Screen lock sounds . A check mark displayed next to these features indicates active status. Haptic feedback Instead of sounding a tone, the Haptic feedback option vibrates when you press soft keys on certain screens. You can also set the intensity of the vibration using the Vibration intensity setting. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Sound. 2.Ta p Haptic feedback. A check mark displayed next to the feature indicates Haptic feedback is active. Display Settings In this menu, you can change various settings for the display such as the font, orientation, pop-up notifications, puzzle lock feature, animation, brightness, screen timeout, power saving mode, and tv out settings. From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Display. The following options display: Screen display: allows you to set the Font style, the Home screen and Lock screen Wallpaper, Clock, Weather, Weather settings, and Clock and weather position.
109 Brightness: configures the LCD Brightness levels. Tap Automatic brightness to allow the phone to self-adjust and tap OK. Auto-rotate screen: allows you to switch the display orientation automatically when you rotate the phone. : determines whether some or all of the window elements animate. Selections are: No animations, Some animations, and All animations. Screen time-out: adjusts the delay time before the screen automatically turns off. Selections are: 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, and 10 minutes. Touch key light duration: allows you to set the time that the touch keys located on the bottom of your phone are lit. Auto adjust screen power: allows you to save power because the phone analyzes the displayed screen image and adjusts the LCD brightness. Gyroscope calibration: allows you to calibrate the gyro sensors. Place your device on a level surface and tap Calibrate. Power Saving Power Saving allows you to manage your phone to conserve power. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Power saving . 2.The following options are available: System power saving: uses the default power settings. Settings will be enabled immediately when this option is selected. Custom power saving: allows you to customize your power settings. Settings will be enabled immediately when this option is selected. Custom power saving settings: allows you to customize your power settings. After selecting Custom power saving the following options are enabled after you tap Custom power saving settings. –Power saving on at: allows you to set the percentage of battery power remaining that Power saving will begin. Choose between 10%-50%. –Tu r n o f f W i - F i: automatically turns off Wi-Fi when you are not connected with Mobile AP. –Turn off Bluetooth: automatically turns off Bluetooth when it is not in use. –Tu r n o f f G P S: automatically turns off GPS when it is not in use. –Tu r n o f f S y n c: automatically turns off Sync when the phone is not synchronizing with the server. –Brightness: allows you to manually adjust the brightness of the screen. Tap this option to enable the next Brightness option. –Brightness: allows you to set the Brightness percentage of the screen. –Screen time-out: allows you to set the time before the screen times out and goes into lock mode. Learn about power saving: describes various ways to conserve battery power.
Changing Your Settings 110 Location and Security The Location and Security settings allow you to set up how the phone will determine your location and the security settings for your phone. Use Wireless Networks Before you use applications such as Google Maps and find your location or search for places of interest, you must enable the Use wireless networks option or enable the GPS satellites. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Use wireless networks to enable location information using the wireless network. Use GPS satellites This option allows you to locate locations accurately to street level. To conserve power, deselect this option when not in use. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Use GPS satellites to enable the GPS satellite. Use sensor aiding This options enhances the positioning capabilities of your phone and conserves power using sensors. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Use sensor aiding to enable the positioning sensors. Set screen lock Creating a screen unlock pattern increases security on the phone. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Set screen lock and select one of the following options: : disables screen unlock security. Pattern: requires that you draw a pattern on the screen to unlock it. Follow the on-screen instructions. : requires that you enter a numeric PIN number to unlock the screen. Enter a PIN number, confirm it, then tap OK. : requires that you enter a password to unlock the screen. Enter a password, confirm it, then tap OK. Password must contain at least one letter. Note: Once you have set the screen lock option, the Set screen lock option changes to Change screen lock. Disable USB debugging mode 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location
111 and security. 2.Ta p t h e Disable USB debugging mode checkbox to create a checkmark. This is necessary when device encryption is enabled. Set up SIM card lock Prevent another user from using your SIM card to make unauthorized calls or from accessing information stored on your SIM card by protecting the information using a PIN code. When enabled, your phone will ask for a PIN number each time you use the phone. Using this option you can also change your SIM PIN number. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Set up SIM card lock. 3.Ta p Lock SIM card, enter your SIM PIN code, then tap OK. Note: You must activate Lock SIM card before you can change your SIM PIN code. 4.Ta p Change SIM PIN. 5.Enter your old SIM PIN code and tap OK. 6.Enter your new SIM PIN code and tap OK. 7.Re-type your new SIM PIN code and tap OK. Visible passwords When you create a phone password you can also configure the phone to display the password as you type it instead of using an asterisk (*). 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Visible passwords to create a checkmark and activate this feature. Set up/Change password Use this option to set up your password when one is first required or change your current password. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security ➔ Set up/Change password. 2.Enter a new password and tap Confirm. 3.Enter the new password again and tap Confirm. Select device administrators The Device Administration feature allows you to select one or more administration applications that control your device for security purposes (for example, if your phone is lost of stolen).
Changing Your Settings 112 These applications enforce remote or local device security policies. Some of the features a device administration application might control are: Setting the number of failed password attempts before the device is restored to factory settings. Automatically locking the device. Restoring factory settings on the device. Note: If a device uses multiple enabled administration applications, the strictest policy is enforced. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Select device administrators. 3.Select a device administrator and follow the prompts. If no device administrators are listed, you can download them from the Android Market. Credential storage This option allows certain applications to access secure certificates and other credentials. Certificates and credentials can be installed to the SD card and password protected. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Location and security . 2.Ta p Use secure credentials to activate this feature. A check mark displayed next to the feature indicates secure credentials is active. 3.Ta p Install from USB storage to install encrypted certificates from USB storage. 4.Ta p Set password to set or change the credential storage password. 5.Ta p Clear storage to clear the storage (SD card or phone memory) of all contents and reset the credentials password. Applications This device can be used for Android development. You can write applications in the SDK and install them on this device, then run the applications using the hardware, system, and network. This feature allows you to configure the device for development. Warning!: Android Dev Phone 1 devices are not intended for non-developer end-users. Because the device can be configured with system software not provided by or supported by Google or any other company, end-users operate these devices at their own risk.
113 Unknown sources This feature allows you to download and install non-Market applications. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications. 2.Ta p Unknown sources. A check mark is displayed to indicate it is active. Manage Applications This feature allows you to manage installed applications. You can view and control currently running services, or use the device for application development. Using the Samsung Apps option the device notifies you when you are using Wi-Fi or Packet data for Samsung applications. You can also view the amount of memory or resources used as well as the remaining memory and resources for each of the applications on your phone and clear the data, cache, or defaults. From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Manage applications. Clearing application cache and data Important!: You must have downloaded applications installed to use this feature. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Manage applications. 2.Tap an application in which to clear the cache or data. 3.Ta p Clear data or Clear Cache. Uninstalling third-par ty applications Important!: You must have downloaded applications installed to use this feature. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Manage applications. 2.Tap the application you want to uninstall and tap Uninstall. 3.At the prompt, tap OK to uninstall the application. 4.At the Uninstall finished prompt, tap OK.
Changing Your Settings 114 Running ser vices The Running services option allows you to view and control currently running services such as DataService, Google Talk, SNS (messaging), Swype, and more. To stop a service from running on your phone: 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Running services. 2.Tap a service. 3.Ta p Stop to stop the service from running on your phone. Storage usage The Storage usage option allows you to view the memory usage for your applications. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Storage usage. The Memory usage for the different applications that are present on your phone are displayed. 2.Ta p t h e Running tab to see the memory usage for applications that are presently running. 3.Ta p t h e Downloaded tab to see the memory usage for Downloaded applications. 4.Ta p t h e On SD card tab to see the memory usage for applications that are stored on your SD card. Batter y usage The Battery usage option allows you to view the battery usage of the applications and features on your phone. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Battery usage. 2.Press ➔ Refresh to refresh the display. Development From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Applications ➔ Development. Important!: These features are used for development purposes only. USB debugging This feature is used for development purposes only. Allow mock locations This feature is used for development purposes only. If you are a developer who is testing a GPS applications using this device, you can tell the device that the phone is at different
115 GPS locations. In other words, the phone is allowed to “mock” the coordinates. Accounts and Synchronization 1.Sign in to your Google account. 2.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Accounts and sync . 3.From the General sync settings section, tap one of the following options: Background data: allows your phone to use data in the background. Auto-sync: automatically synchronizes your data with the phone. 4.From the Manage accounts section, tap on an open account to set the account settings or tap on Add account to add a new account. Motion The Motion settings allow you to set up various Motion activation services. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Motion. 2.Ta p Motion activation to activate the feature. A checkmark is displayed. 3.The following options are available: Tilt to zoom: allows you to use the Tilt feature to reduce or enlarge the screen when in Gallery or Browser. Tap Tilt to create a checkmark then tap Sensitivity, then set the sensitivity using the slider. Tap Learn about tilt for more information. Pan to edit: allows you to use the Panning feature to move icons from one page to another in Home and Application edit mode. Ta p Panning to create a checkmark, then tap Sensitivity, then set the sensitivity using the slider. Tap Learn about panning for more information. Shake to update: allows you to use the Shake feature to scan for Bluetooth devices.Tap Shake to create a checkmark. Tap Learn about shake for more information. Turn over to mute: allows you to mute incoming calls and sounds by turning your phone over. Tap Tu r n o v e r to create a checkmark and activate. Tap Learn about turn over for more information. Privacy The Privacy settings allow you to backup your data, perform an automatic restore of your backed up data and settings, and reset the phone to the factory default settings. From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Privacy. Back up my data By setting this option, the Google server will back up all of your settings and data. 1.From the Home screen, tap ➔ Settings ➔ Privacy.