Google Nexus 4 Guidebook

For AndroidTM mobile technology platform 4.2
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Table of contents

Part One: Using Nexus 4
. Get started 2
1
Inser t a SIM card 2
Charge the battery 4
Get around 7
Browse & organize your Home screens 10
Touch & type 14
Type text by speaking 16
Why use a Google Account? 18
What’s New in Android 20
2. Explore your phone 24
Swipe up for Google Now 24
Swipe down for notications
& settings 27
Relax with Google Play 31
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Use & customize the lock screen 35
Try Face Unlock 38
Share content with Android Beam 39
Change the wallpaper 41
Take a screenshot 42
Connect to keyboards, mice, & other devices 43
3. Use the Phone app 47
Make a phone call 47
Answer or divert calls 49
Work with the Call log 51
Place an Internet (SIP) call 52
Listen to your voicemail 54
4. Use the keyboard 59
Enter & edit text 59
Try Gesture Typing 63
Use keyboard dictionaries 65
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5. Try some apps 66
Use All Apps 66
Start Gmail 68
Find People 69
Manage your Calendar 71
Open & use Clock 73
Manage downloads 75
6. Use Google Now & Search 77
About Google Now 77
Use Google Now 83
Turn off Google Now 86
Control location access, repor ting, & history 87
Search & Voice Actions basics 92
Search tips & tricks 95
Use Voice Actions 97
Voice Actions commands 99
Google Now Card list 102
About Gmail Cards 114
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About the Location Histor y card 115
About the Stocks card 116
Search settings 117
Privacy & accounts 120
7. Accessibility 122
Accessibility overview 122
Accessibility gestures for Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) 124
Set up your phone 127
Use magnication gestures 130
Use TalkBack 131
Change TalkBack settings 132
Use Explore by Touch with TalkBack 134
Navigate the Home screen 136
Try Google Play 140
Use Gmail 144
Browse Chrome 148
Use the lock screen 151
Accessibility settings 152
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Part Two: Adjusting settings
. Wireless & network settings 15 6
8
Connect to Wi -Fi networks 156
Connect to Bluetooth devices 163
Optimize data usage 168
Control airplane mode & other network settings 174
Connect to virtual private networks 176
9. Device settings 179
Change sound settings 179
Set up Daydream 180
Use Wireless Display 182
Transfer les through USB 183
Extend battery life 185
Manage memory usage 187
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10. Security settings 19 2
Security on Android 192
Manage security settings 193
Protect against harmful apps 195
Set screen lock 197
Encr ypt your data 200
Work with certicates 203
11. Personal, account, & system settings 208
Manage location access 208
Change backup & reset options 211
Add or remove accounts 214
Congure sync options 216
Appendix: Hardware reference 220
What’s in the box 220
Nexus 4 222
Specs 224
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Part One
Using Nexus 4
1

Get started

Insert a SIM card
Before you star t using your phone, you may need to insert your Micro SIM card. If no card is installed, the message “No SIM card” ap ­pears on the phone’s lock screen.
Eject button aperture
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The SIM card tray is located on the left side of the phone below the volume button. The eject button is a small hole just above the tray door. To install a new Micro SIM card:
1. Inser t the SIM ejection tool that comes with the phone (or a thin pin) into the eject bu tton hol e, and push r mly but ge ntl y un­til the tray pops out.
2. Remove the tray and place the micro SIM card inside it, with the contacts out and the angled corner to the right. There is only one poss ible way to t the card snug­ly into the tray.
3. Carefully reposition the tray in the slot and push it gently back into the phone.
TIP: Your phone’s IMEI identication
number is on the SIM card tray. You may need this number later to identify your phone for service purposes. Write down the IMEI number or take a photo of the label on the product box.
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Charge the battery
Your battery will not be fully charged when
you rst unpack your Nexus 4. It’s a good
idea to fully charge the battery as soon as you get a chance.
If you’re using the travel adapter that comes with the phone, connect one end of the data cable to the charger port at the bottom of the phone, and the other end to the travel adapter. Then connect the travel adapter to a power outlet.
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• The travel adapter varies by countr y
or region.
• Use only the travel adapter and Mi-
cro USB cable that come with your Nexus 4. Using a different travel adapter or cable may damage your phone.
• The input voltage range between
the wall outlet and this travel adapt­er is AC 100V–240V, and the travel adapter’s output voltage is DC 5V, 2A.
• Charging yo ur phone through a USB
cable attached to another device, such as a laptop computer, takes longer than charging with a travel adapter.
• Nexus 4’s battery can’t be removed.
Don’t attempt to open the phone.
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IMPORTANT: If you use a w ireless cha r­ger, you must use an approved model and only as directed. The Nexus 4 trav­el adapter may not generate enough current to power a wireless charger.
DO NOT throw the battery in municipal waste. The symbol of the crossed out wheeled bin indicates that the battery should not be placed in mu­nicipal waste.
Set up your phone
The rst time you turn on the phone, you’ll
see a Welcome screen.
• To choose a different language, touch the menu.
• To continue, touch Start and follow the instructions.
When prompted, sign in using the email ad-
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dress and password for your Google Ac­count. If you don’t have one yet, create one.
An email address that you use for any of the following counts as a Google Account:
• Gmail
• YouTube
• Google Apps
• AdWords
• Any other Google product
When you sign in with a Google Account, all the email, contacts, Calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your phone.
If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can add the others later.
Get around
Every Home screen shows the Favorites tray: another quick way to get to your apps:
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At the bottom of every Nexus 4 screen, no
matter what you’re doing, you’ll always nd
these three navigation buttons:
Back
Opens the previous screen you were working in, even if it was in a different app. Once you back up to the Home screen, you can’t go back any fur ther in your his tory.
Home
Opens Home. If you’re view­ing a lef t or right Home screen, opens the central Home screen. To open Google Now, swipe up. Google Now gives just what you need to know, right when you need it.
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Recent apps
Opens a list of thumbnail images of apps you’ve worked with re­cently. To open an app, touch it. To remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it left or right.
If you don’t use these buttons often, they may s
hrink to dots or fade away, depending on the cu rrent app. To brin g them back, to uch their location.
On the All Apps screen avail­able from the Favorites tray, notice the Settings icon. This
Settings
brings you to the Settings screens for your phone, where you can adjust things like net­work, sound, and account set­tings, among many others.
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TIP: You can use Quick Settings to tog ­gle Wi-Fi, change display brightness, and more. To open Quick Settings,
swipe down with two ngers from the
top of any screen. Or, swipe down with
one nger to pull down the notication
shade, and touch the Quick Settings icon at the top right.
At the top of the screen you’ll nd Google
Search, which lets you search your phone or the Internet. Touch Google to type your search terms, or the speak them; you can also say “Google” and your query to activate a voice search.
Microphone icon to
Browse & organize your Home screens
Browse Home screens
To move between Home screens, swipe lef t or right.
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The My Library widget displays apps, music, movies, magazines, books, and games you already have – including free content that comes with your Nexus 4:
Touch any title to open it
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When you’re ready to shop for more, try the suggestio ns in one of the Play Recommenda ­tions widgets:
Touch to avoid future suggestions like this
Touch to learn more
Touch to see a different suggestion
To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the top of the screen.
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Organize Home screens
To add an app or widget to a Home screen:
1. Go to the Home screen where you want to
place the app or widget.
2. Touch the All Apps icon.
3. Swipe right, if necessar y, to nd the app
or widget you want..
4. Touch & hold the app or widget until the
Home screen appears, slide it into place,
and lift your nger.
To move an app or widget icon to a different location on a Home screen:
1. Touch & hold the icon.
2. Slide your nger to the new position.
To move between Home screens, slide to­ward the edge of the screen. To bump another icon out of the way, slide slowly into it.
3. Lift your nger.
The icon drops into its new position.
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To combine two icons in a folder, slide one quickly over the other.
To open a folder, touch it. To rename a folder, touch its name.
Touch & type
To select or activate something, touch it.
To type something, such as a name, pass­word, or search terms, just touch where you want to type. A keyboard pops up that lets
you type into the eld.
Other common gestures include:
Touch & hold. Touch & hold an item on the
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screen by touching it and not lifting your
nger until an action occurs.
Drag. Touch & hold an item for a moment
and then, without lifting your nger, move your nger on the screen until you reach
the target position. For example, you can move apps around on the Home screen.
Swipe or slide. Quickly move your nger
across the sur face of the screen, with-
out pausing when you rst touch (so you
don’t drag something instead). For exam­ple, you can slide a Home screen left or right to view the other Home screens.
Double-tap. Tap quickly twice on a web-
page, map, or other screen to zoom. For example, double -tap a picture in Chrome to zoom in, and double -tap again to zoom out.
Pinch. In some apps (such as Maps,
Chrome, and Galler y), you can zoom in
and out by placing two ngers on the
screen at once and pinching them togeth ­er (to zoom out) or spreading them apart (to zoom in).
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Rotate the screen. The orientation of
most screens rotates with your phone as you turn it. To lock or unlock the screen’s vertical orientation, swipe down with two
ngers from the top of any screen and
touch the Rotation icon in Quick Settings.
To change your phone’s noti -
Settings
cation sounds, volumes, and
more, go to vice > Sound.
To change your phone’s bright­ness, font size, and more, go to Display.
Settings > De-
Settings > Device >
Type text by speaking
You can speak to enter text in most places that you can enter text with the onscreen keyboard.
1. Touch a text eld, or a location in text
you’ve already entered in a text eld.
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2. Touch the Microphone key on the on-
screen keyboard.
3. When you see the microphone image,
speak what you want to type.
Say “comma,” “period,” “question mark,” “ex­clamation mark,” or “exclamation point” to enter punctuation.
When you pause, what you spoke is tran­scribed by the speech-recognition service
and entered in the text eld, underlined. You
can touch the Delete key to erase the under­lined text. If you star t typing or e ntering more text by speaking, the underline disappears.
To improve processing of your voice input, Google may record a few seconds of ambient background noise in temporary memor y at any time. This recording remains on the de­vice only fleetingly and is not sent to Google.
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To change you r phone’s spe ech settings, go to Settings > Per- sonal > Language & input.
Settings
Why use a Google Account?
A Google Account lets you organize and ac­cess your personal information from any computer or mobile device:
Use Google Play. Google Play brings to-
gether all your favorite content in one place: movies, TV shows, books, music, magazines, apps, and more. When you sign in with your Google Account, you can reach any of this content from any of your devices – as long as you have a network connection. You can also shop for more in the Google Play store.
Synchronize and back up everything.
Whether you draft an email, add an event to your calendar, or add a friend’s ad­dress, your work gets backed up continu-
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ously by Google and synchronized with any computer where you use the same Google Account.
Access from anywhere. Check your latest
calendar, email, tex t messages, or social stream, no mat ter what computer or mo­bile device you’re using.
Keep your stuf f secure and available.
Google works round the clock to protect your personal data from unauthorized ac­cess and to ensure that you get it when you need it, wherever you need it.
Simplify shopping. You can connect your
Google account with Google Wallet, which makes it easy to purchase music, books, apps, and more on Google Play and other online stores.
Use other Google ser vices. Your Google
Account also lets you take full advan­tage of other Google apps and services that you may want to use, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Navigation, Google Play, YouTube, Google Talk, Messaging, and more.
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What’s New in Android
Whether you’re new to Android or an avid user, check out some of the new features in Android 4.1 and 4.2 (Jelly Bean). For a com­prehensive list of all changes since Android
4.0, see Android 4.1, Jelly Bean and Android
4.2: A new flavor of Jelly Bean.
• Gesture Typing (Android 4.2)
Instead of typing each letter, use Ges ­ture Typing to input a word without lifting
your nger. You don’t need to worry about
spaces because they’re added automati­cally for you.
Glide your nger over the letters you want to type, and lift it after each word.
• Google Play widgets
New widgets on your Home screens dis ­play recently used apps, music, movies, books, or games you already have – in­cluding preloaded content that comes with your device. Other widgets of fer sug­gestions for browsing Google Play.
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Touch a widget to access its content on Google Play. Touch & hold a widget to re ­size it or remove it.
Quick Settings (Android 4.2)
Use Quick Settings to easily access Wi­Fi settings, manage display brightness, open the main Settings menu, and more.
Swipe down with two ngers from the top right corner of any screen to open Quick Settings, then touch one of the boxes to open a specic setting.
Expandable notications
Expandable notications were introduced
in Android 4.1, including the option to per-
form actions from the notication itself. In Android 4.2, you can expand notica-
tions more easily with a swipe of your
nger.
Swipe down the notication shade from the top of the screen, then glide your nger down the notications to expand them. Touch an icon inside a notication to handle a task directly.
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