Huawei U8100-9 User Manual

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During a call, press to hang up.

Rejecting an In coming Call

• Press to reject a call.

• Drag the to the left.

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Using Call log

The Call log contains a list of the last calls that you have dialed, received, or missed. You can use the call log to quickly find a recently called number or add an incoming number to your contact list.

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Adding a n entry to C ontacts

1. Touch > Call log to display the call log.

2. Touch and hold the entry you want to add.

3. Touch Add to contacts in the options menu.

4. Touch Create new contact or scroll through the contact list and touch an existing contact name.

Other Operations During a Call

Making a Conference C all

If you receive a new call while you are already on a call, you can connect the second call to the call you are on. This feature is known as conference calling. You can also set up a conference call with multiple callers.

Note: Contact your wireless service provider to learn whether it supports

conference calls and how many participants you can add.

1. To initiate a conference call, dial the number of the first person

to be on the call. While you are on that call, press , and then touch Add call.

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2. Enter the phone number of the person you want to join the

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conversation and press , or select someone from your Call log or Contacts. The first call is automatically placed on hold.

3. Once you have connected to the person you have added,

press , and then touch Merge calls to begin the conference call.

4. To add more people, touch Add call and repeat steps 2 and

5. To drop someone from the call or to talk privately to one

person, press , and then touch Manage conference call.

6. To end the conference call and disconnect everyone, press

Switching Betwee n C alls

If you receive a new call while you are already on a call, you can switch between the two calls.

1. While you are on two calls, press , and then touch Swap calls.

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2. The current call is placed on hold and you are connected to the other call.

Tip: You can also touch Call on hold icon on the notification bar to

switch to the call.

Using the Airplane Mode

Some locations may require you to turn off your phone’s wireless connections. Rather than powering off your phone, you can place it in Airplane mode.

1. Press and hold the Power key.

2. Touch Airplane mode in the options menu.

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Contacts

The Contacts application enables you to save and manage information such as phone numbers and addresses of your contacts. After you save the contact information on your mobile phone, it gives you easy access to the people with whom you want to communicate.

Opening and Viewing Contacts

Opening the Co ntacts Application

If you have a new mobile phone and have not yet added any contacts, Contacts displays a message with hints on how to start adding contacts to your mobile phone.

• Touch > Contacts.

• Press , and then touch the Contacts tab.

All of your contacts are displayed alphabetically in a scrolling list. Each contact is followed by the phone number that you have specified as the person's default phone number.

Contacts

Quick Contact for Android

As you build up your list of contacts on your phone, you can use Quick Contact for Android in many applications to quickly start a chat, email, or text message, to place a call, or to locate your contacts. Quick Contact for Android is a special icon that you can touch to open a bubble with options for quickly initiating a connection to that contact.

Contacts that you can access with Quick Contact are displayed differently in different applications, but usually with a picture frame.

Contacts

Quick Contact icon with a picture frame.

Touch to open a bubble with icons for all the ways you can communicate with the contact.

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A bubble with icons for all the ways you can communicate with the contact.

If there are more icons than can fit in the bubble, drag the icons left or right to view them all.

Touch an icon to open its application, and you can

start communicating with your contact right away.

Opening a Li st of You r Favorite C ontacts

The Favorites tab contains a short list of the contacts with whom you communicate most often.

To open a list of your favorite contacts, touch the Favorites tab in the contacts list.

Viewing Contact Details

To view contact details, touch the contact whose details you want to view. Detailed information such as the phone number, email address, and physical address appears for each contact.

Contacts

Contact details

Touch an icon to open Quick Contact. Please refer

to “Quick Contact for Android” on page 59.

2 Touch an address to view it on Google Maps.

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Touch an icon to call, send a message, chat, and

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so on.

Touch the History tab to view a list of interactions

you have had with this contact.

5 Touch to add the contact to your favorites.

Tip: Press , and then touch Edit contact to edit the contact’s

information.

Adding a Contact

1. In the contacts list, press , and then touch Create contact.

Tip: In the contacts list, you can touch to add a new contact.

2. If you have more than one account with contacts, touch the account to which you want to add the contact.

3. Enter the contact's name, and then add any detailed information such as phone number or address.

4. When you are finished, touch Done to save the contact information.

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Deleting a Contact

1. In the contacts list, touch and hold the contact that you want to delete, and then touch Delete contact in the options menu.

2. Touch OK to confirm that you want to delete the contact.

Adding a Contact to Your Favorites

To add a contact to your favorites, you can do any of the following while you are in the contacts list:

• Touch and hold the contact you want to add to Favorites. Then

touch Add to favorites.

• Access the favorites list, press , and then touch Add

favorites to select the contacts you want to add to Favorites.

• Touch a contact, and then touch the star to the right of the

contact’s name. The star turns gold.

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Removing a Contact from Your Favorites

To remove a contact from your favorites, you can do any of the following while you are in the favorites list:

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• Touch and hold the contact you want to delete from Favorites.

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Then touch Remove from favorites.

• Press , and then touch Remove favorites to select the

contacts you want to remove from Favorites.

• Touch a contact, and then touch the star to the right of the

contact’s name. The star turns gray.

Editing a Contact

You can always make changes to the information you have stored for a contact.

1. In the contacts list, touch and hold the contact whose details you want to edit, and then touch Edit contact in the options menu.

Tip: You can also press , and then touch Edit contact while

viewing a contact’s details.

2. If you have more than one account with contacts, touch the account in which you want to edit the contact.

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3. Touch a category of contact information, such as contact’s name, phone number or email address, to enter that kind of information about your contact.

4. Make the desired changes to the contact information, and then touch Done. To cancel all changes you made to the contact information, touch Cancel.

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Contact Ed iting Screen

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Touch the Picture Frame icon to select a picture to

display next to the name in your list of contacts and in other applications.

Touch to open a menu with preset labels, such as

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Mobile and Work for a phone number, or touch Custom in the menu to create your own label.

3 Touch to remove the entry from that category.

Touch to add more than one entry for that

category.

Touch to display more text boxes for entering the

name details such as middle name and last name.

Importing Contacts from a SIM Card

When you open the Contacts application for the first time, you are asked whether to import contacts from the SIM card to your phone. Select Yes to import the contacts, or No to import them later.

1. In the contacts list, press , and then touch Manage contacts.

2. Touch Import from SIM card. Wait for the SIM card contents to be loaded.

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3. Select the check box of the contact you want to import.

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Note: If you want to deselect or select all, press . Then touch

Deselect all or Select all.

4. Touch Copy.

5. If you have more than one account on your phone, touch the account into which you want to import the contacts.

Searching for a Contact

1. In the contacts list, press , and then touch Search.

Tip: In the contacts list, you can also touch to search for a contact.

2. Enter the name of the contact for which you are searching. As you type, contacts with matching names appear below the search box.

Communicating with Your Contacts

From the Contacts or Favorites tab, you can quickly call or send a text (SMS) or multimedia message (MMS) to a contact’s default phone number. You can also open details to view a list of all the ways you can communicate with that contact. This

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section describes ways to initiate communication when viewing your list of contacts.

Connecting Through Quick Contact for An droid

1. Touch the contact's picture or picture frame (if you have not assigned a picture to the contact) to open Quick Contact for Android.

2. Touch the icon for the way you want to communicate with the contact.

Note: The icons available depend on the information you have for the

contact and the applications and accounts on your mobile phone.

Communicating with a Co ntact

1. In the contacts list, touch the contact that you want to communicate.

2. In the contact’s details screen, touch the green icon to the right of the number to call or send messages.

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Using the Onscreen Keyboard

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Displaying the Keyboard Panel

To enter text, use the onscreen keyboard. Some applications open the keyboard automatically. In others, touch a text field to open the keyboard. To open the keyboard, do one of the following:

• Press and hold to show the keyboard.

• Touch the space where you want to write text to show the

keyboard.

• Touch and hold the space where you usually write your text to

open the options menu.

Press to hide the keyboard.

Choosing an Input Me thod

1. On the text screen, touch and hold the space where you usually write your text until the Edit text menu is displayed.

2. Touch Input method.

3. Choose the input method.

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

The keyboard panel will be automatically displayed.

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Using the To uchPal Keybo ard Pa nel

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Displays the list of candidate words. Touch a word to insert it into your text. If word suggestions is

enabled, the suggested word is highlighted. To enable the function, please refer to “Customizing Keyboard Settings” on page 77.

2 Change from uppercase to lowercase.

3 Enable the word prediction.

Set the language for your mobile phone. To select a language that your mobile phone supports, to

> Settings > Language & keyboard >

TouchPal > Select languages.

5 Touch to insert a space.

Switch to the numbers and symbols keyboard

panel.

7 Touch to add a carriage return.

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Touch to delete the character to the left side of the

cursor. Touch and hold to delete all characters to the left side of the cursor.

9 Touch to see more candidate words.

Switching the Keyboard Layout

You can switch the keyboard layout only when TouchPal is selected. There are three keyboard layouts you can choose: Full QWERTY , 12–key PhonePad, and CooTek T+.

To switch the keyboard layout, touch and hold one side of the keyboard panel, and then flick the panel to the edge of the screen.

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

1Full QWERTY.

2 12–key PhonePad.

3 CooTek T+.

Note: When you switch the keyboard layout, you need to touch and hold

anywhere on the panel and then flick the panel to the edge of the screen.

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Using the Android Ke yboard

1 Change from lowercase to uppercase.

Change from the text mode to the symbol/number

mode. Touch again to change back.

3 Touch to insert a space.

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

4 Touch to insert a smile in your text.

Touch to delete a character to the left of the

cursor. Touch and hold to delete all characters to the left of the cursor.

Using the Landscape Keybo ard

If you find the keyboard a little inconvenient or difficult to use, turn your mobile phone sideways to have a wider keyboard layout. The screen will present the keyboard with a landscape orientation.

Customizing Keyboard Settings

Touch > Settings > Language & keyboard > TouchPal to customize the TouchPal settings.

Word prediction

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Select to enable the word prediction while typing.

Key press sound

Select to play a brief sound each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard.

Key press vibration

Layout in portrait mode

Layout in landscape mode

Swipe to switch layout

Mixed language input

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Select to have the phone vibrate briefly each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard.

Select the layout to display in portrait mode.

Select the layout to display in landscape mode.

Select check box to be able to swipe horizontally over the keyboard to switch layout.

Select check box to enable mobile phone to auto detect language if no more than 3 languages have been selected.

Select languages

Select the languages you want to use.

Predict next word

Correct mistyping

Slide-down symbols

Relevant words

Help

TouchPal

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Select check box to enable the ability to predict the next word when you are typing.

Select to automatically correct some common misspellings as you type.

Select check box to enable you to slide down on keys to enter symbols.

Select check box to enable you to slide on candidate words for synonyms or other relevant.

Access the online user manual for using TouchPal.

View the version of TouchPal.

Touch > Settings > Language & keyboard > Android keyboard to customize the Android keyboard settings.

Vibrate on keypress

Sound on keypress

Select to have the phone vibrate briefly each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard.

Select to play a brief sound each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard.

Select to have the onscreen keyboard

Autocapitalization

automatically capitalize the first letter of the first word after a period, the first word in a text field, and each word in name fields.

Quick fixes

Show suggestions

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Select to automatically correct some common misspellings as you type.

Select to show suggested words in a strip above the onscreen keyboard as you type.

Autocomplete

Select to automatically enter a suggested word, highlighted in orange in the strip above the keyboard, when you enter a space or punctuation.

Using the Onscreen Keyboard

Messaging

The Messaging application allows you to exchange text messages (SMS) and multimedia messages (MMS) with your friends on their mobile phones. With the Email application you can read and send email.

SMS and MMS

Text messages: One text message can contain up to 160 characters. You can send a text message of any length, but every 160 characters or portion thereof will be charged as one text message. For recipients, the message will count as just one text message.

Multimedia messages: Multimedia messages make everyday messages extra special. You can record a message and send it as an audio file or send a slideshow of photographs. For example, you can sing "Happy Birthday" to someone, send them a video message, or send photos of a special event.

Opening Messa ging

• Touch on the Home screen.

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