Sony Xperia Z3 User Guide

To select the notification sound
1 From your Home screen, tap 
.
2 Find and tap  Settings > Sound  > Notification sound .
3 Select the sound to be played when notifications arrive.
4 Tap  Done .
To enable touch tones
1 From your Home screen, tap 
.
2 Find and tap  Settings > Sound .
3 Mark the  Dial pad touch tones  and Touch sounds  checkboxes.
SIM card protection
You can lock and unlock each SIM card that you use in your device with a PIN
(Personal Identity Number). When a SIM card is locked, the...

To adjust the idle time before the screen turns off
1 From your Home screen, tap 
.
2 Find and tap  Settings > Display  > Sleep .
3 Select an option.
To turn off the screen quickly, briefly press the power key .
Screen lock
There are several ways to lock the screen. The security level of each lock type is
listed below in order of weakest to strongest:
• Swipe – no protection, but you have quick access to the Home screen
• Bluetooth Unlock – unlocks your device by using paired Bluetooth devices
• Face...

To unlock the screen using the Face Unlock feature
1 Activate the screen.
2 Look at your device from the same angle you used to capture your Face
Unlock photo.If the Face Unlock feature fails to recognise your face, you must use the backup unlock
method to unlock the screen.
To create a screen lock pattern
1 From your Home screen, tap 
 .
2 Find and tap  Settings > Security  > Screen lock  > Pattern .
3 Follow the instructions in your device.
If the unlock pattern you draw on the screen is rejected five...

To change the language
1 From the Home screen, tap 
.
2 Find and tap  Settings > Language & input  > Language .
3 Select an option.
4 Tap  OK.
If you select the wrong language and cannot read the menu texts, find and tap . Then select
the text beside 
 and select the first entry in the menu that opens. You can then select the
language you want.
Date and time
You can change the date and time on your device.
To set the date manually
1 From the Home screen, tap 
.
2 Find and tap  Settings > Date & time .
3...

Enhancing the sound outputYou can enhance the sound of your device by manually enabling individual sound
settings such as Equaliser and Surround sound. You can also enable the Dynamic
normaliser to minimise volume differences between songs or videos. And you can
listen to high-resolution audio using a regular headset (connected via the headset
socket) or by connecting your device with a digital-to-analogue converter/amplifier
(DAC/amp) either wirelessly or by cable via the micro USB port of your device....

To use a noise cancelling headset
1 Connect the noise cancelling headset to your device.
2 From your Home screen, tap 
 > Settings  > Sound  > Audio settings  > Noise
canceling , then drag the slider beside  Noise canceling to the right.
3 If you want  Noise canceling  to be enabled only during music or video playback
or when the screen is active, mark the  Power save mode checkbox.
4 If you want  Noise canceling  to be enabled for as long as the headset is
connected, unmark the  Power save mode...

Typing text
On-screen keyboard
You can enter text with the on-screen QWERTY keyboard by tapping each letter
individually, or you can use the Gesture input feature and slide your finger from letter
to letter to form words. If you prefer to use a smaller version of the on-screen
keyboard and input text using only one hand, you can activate the one-handed
keyboard instead.
You can select up to three languages for text input. The keyboard detects the
language that you are using and predicts the words for...

To enter text using the Gesture input function
1 When the on-screen keyboard is displayed, slide your finger from letter to letter
to trace the word that you want to write.
2 After you finish entering a word, lift up your finger. A word suggestion appears
based on the letters that you have traced.
3 If the word that you want does not appear, tap 
 to see other options and
select accordingly. If the desired option does not appear, delete the entire
word and trace it again, or enter the word by tapping...

To enter text using the Phonepad
• When 
 appears in the Phonepad, tap each character key only once, even if
the letter you want is not the first letter on the key. Tap the word that appears
or tap 
 to view more word suggestions and select a word from the list.
• When 
 appears in the Phonepad, tap the on-screen key for the character you
want to enter. Keep tapping this button until the desired character is selected.
Then do the same for the next character you want to enter, and so on.
To enter numbers...

To select text
1 Enter some text, then double-tap the text. The word you tap gets highlighted
by tabs on both sides.
2 Drag the tabs left or right to select more text.
To use the magnifier
• When you enter text, tap and hold on the text field to view the text magnified
and to place the cursor where you want within the text field.
To edit text
1 Enter some text, then double-tap the entered text to make the application bar
appear.
2 Select the text that you want to edit, then use the tools in the...