Motorola T56NH1 Users manual

Motorola input

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Enter text a letter at a time. As you type, your phone
suggests words from your dictionary and chosen
language. The phone also automatically enters
apostrophes in some words, like “dont.”

To add a word to your dictionary, touch the word, then

+ add to dictionary

select

.

Typing tips

To .. .

Enter one capital
letter

Enter only capital
letters

Move the text entry

cursor

Select text Touch and hold text to

Touch Sh i f t .

Touch and hold Shift .
Touch again to revert to
lowercase.

Touch the text where you
want the cursor to go.

select it. If necessar y, drag
the text boundary markers
to select the text you want.

To .. .

Cut or Copy selected

text

Paste cut or copied

text at cursor location

Delete character to left

of cursor

Touch icons at the top of the
screen to
selected text. In a landscape
display, touch

Copy

Touch the
top of the screen. In a
landscape display, touch
>

Touch Delete (hold to
delete more).

.

Paste

.

Cut

Paste

or

Copy

Edit >Cut

icon at the

Text input settings

Find it: Apps >

• To change the language for your phone and

touchscreen keypad, touch

• To change the default text input method, touch

KEYBOARD & INPUT METHODS

under

• To change text input settings, touch next to

voice typing

Settings >Language & input

Locale

,

Motorola Input

or

Motorola Chinese Input

.

.

or

Edit

Default

Google

.

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Social networking

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my life, your life

Your social networking account

Integrate and sync all your contacts, emails, and social
networking sites. No opening and closing apps and
menus. Just touch the

Status

widgets on your home screen.

Tip: Use the gallery to view all of yours and your friends’
online albums. Touch Apps >

Add accounts

You can add your
your social networking account. If you don’t have
accounts on these sites, visit their websites to set them
up.

To set up email accounts, see “Email” on page 20.

Find it: Apps

ACCOUNT

Add an account by touching it. Then enter your user
name and password for that account.

When you sign into social networking accounts, you’ll
see your friends and contacts in your

Twitter messages will always appear as “read” on your
phone, but your phone notifies you when you receive a
new message.

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Social Networking

Facebook, Twitter

Settings >Accounts & sync >ADD

and

Social

My Gallery

, or other accounts to

Contacts

.

list.

Tip: To download updates faster, see “Wi-Fi n etworks”
on page 38.

Edit & delete accounts

Find it: Apps >

To edit an account, touch account name >

settings

.

To delete an account, touch account name >Menu

Remove account

>

Note: You can’t delete the Google™ account you used
or created when you set up your phone.

Settings >Accounts & sync

Account

.

Tips & tricks

ON

ON

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a few handy hints

General tips

• Screen brightness changes as your phone senses the

current lighting conditions.

• To return to the home screen, touch Home .

• To see recently dialed numbers, touch

Recent

.

>

• To sleep/wake your phone, press the Power key.

• To set screen timeout, touch >

Sleep

.

>

• To search, touch Apps >

• To automate everyday tasks, touch Apps

Smart Actions

>

• To show the most recent apps you’ve used, touch

Recent Apps .

• To change one of the dock shortcuts at the bottom of

the home screen, touch and hold a shortcut, then
drag it out of or into the dock row.

• To turn sound on/off, press and hold the Power key to

open the phone options menu, then touch one of the
sound setting icons.

• To turn airplane mode on/off, press and hold the

Power key >

.

Airplane mode

Search

.

Phone

Settings >Display

.

Battery tips

Want to extend your battery life? Try these:

• To help minimize battery use, touch Apps

Smart Actions

>
enable battery savings:

Battery Extender

• To turn off background data transfers, touch Apps

Settings >Data usage

>

background data

• To turn off Bluetooth power, touch Apps >

Settings

, then touch or drag the

power switch to the left to turn it off.

• To turn off Wi-Fi power, touch Apps >

then touch or drag the
the left to turn it off.

. Check out the sample rules that

Nighttime Battery Saver

.

.

> Menu >

Wi-Fi

power switch to

Restrict

Bluetooth

Settings

, and

,

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Digital living

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connect and enjoy

MotoCast

Stream or download music, pictures, videos, and
documents from your computer directly to your phone.
MotoCast lets you pull content from your home or work
computers at blazing fast 4G LTE speeds, providing
secure, nearly instant remote access to your files.

Note: Copyright—do you have the right? Always follow
the rules. See “Content Copyright” in your legal and
safety information.

Device setup

To get started, touch Apps >

sync

>

ADD ACCOUNT >MotoCast ID

on-screen instructions to create an account on your
phone.

Desktop setup

MotoCast can be installed on one or more
Microsoft® Windows® or Apple Macintosh computers
to stream and download files. Your phone contains the
application that needs to be installed on your computer.
Connect your phone to the computer with a USB cable,
and follow the on-screen instructions to install the
application. When installed, log in to the same account

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Settings >Accounts &

, and follow the

you created on your phone, then select which computer
files you want to share.

Use remote files

You can use your phone’s

My Files

and
on your computer.

apps to access the shared files stored

My Music, My Gallery

,

Photos & videos

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Switch between front

& back cameras.

Zoom

in/out.

Tak e

photo.

Shots
Remaining

See your

last photo.

Adjust camera

settings.

Autofocus Box

Touch screen to

change focus location.

Switch to

camcorder.

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see it, capture it, share it!

Photos

Take & share photos

Find it: Apps >

Tip: If the screen is locked, touch and flick to .

Camera

Note: Photos are stored in your phone’s internal
memory, unless you switch it to a microSD memory
card. Photo resolution can be set to 8MP or

Widescreen

(6MP).

Tip: Press the volume keys to zoom in and out on the
viewfinder image.

To take the photo, touch in the viewfinder screen.

Your phone stores the photo, and shows a thumbnail
image in the corner of the screen. To see the photo you
just took, touch the thumbnail. Then:

• To set the photo as a wallpaper, contact photo, or

Set as

social network photo, touch >

.

• To share the photo in a message or post it online,

touch . For more info on sharing your photos, see
“Share photos & videos” on page 28.

• To upload the photo to an online photo album,

touch >

Quick upload

• To print the photo, touch >

• To delete the photo, touch >

.

Print

.

Delete

.

Panoramic photos

In the viewfinder, drag the tab in the lower-left corner,
then touch
photo. The camera auto-captures up to six multiple
shots as you move the camera, and joins them together
to make one large image.

Modes >Panorama

to take a wide panoramic

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