ZTE Skate Acqua User Guide

Acqua

WCDMA/GSM Mobile Phone

User Manual

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Version No.: R1.0 Edition Time : 2012.3.20

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Contents

Getting Started....................................................... 11

Your Phone at a Glance..................................................... 11

Knowing the Keys..............................................................12

Installing the SIM Card, microSD Card, and Battery..........12

Charging the Battery..........................................................14

Powering On/Off ................................................................15

Setting Up for the First Time ..............................................16

Locking/Unlocking the Screen and Keys ...........................16

Using the Touch Screen.....................................................17

Getting to Know the Home Screen ....................................18

Personalizing .........................................................21

Changing the System Language........................................21

Setting the Date and Time .................................................21

Changing Ringtone and Notification Sound .......................21

Adjusting Volumes .............................................................22

Applying New Wallpapers ..................................................23

Changing Screen Brightness.............................................23

Protecting Your Phone With Screen Locks ........................24

Protecting Your Phone With Encryption.............................25

Knowing the Basics...............................................27

Monitoring the Phone Status..............................................27

Managing Notifications ......................................................28

Managing Shortcuts and Widgets ......................................30

Organizing With Folders ....................................................31

Rearranging the Favorites Tray ......................................... 32

Entering Text......................................................................33

Editing Text........................................................................ 39

Opening and Switching apps.............................................40

Connecting to Networks and Devices..................42

Connecting to Mobile Networks......................................... 42

Connecting to Wi-Fi........................................................... 44

Using Wi-Fi Direct..............................................................46

Connecting to Bluetooth Devices ......................................46

Connecting to Your Computer via USB.............................. 49

Sharing Your Mobile Data Connection............................... 51

Connecting to Virtual Private Networks .............................54

Phone Calls ............................................................56

Placing and Ending Calls...................................................56

Answering or Rejecting Calls.............................................57

Working With the Call Log.................................................57

Calling Your Contacts ........................................................ 59

Checking Voicemail ...........................................................60

Using Options During a Call .............................................. 60

Managing Multi-party Calls................................................ 61

Adjusting Your Call Settings ..............................................62

People .....................................................................67

Opening Your Contact List.................................................67

Adding a New Contact....................................................... 67

Setting Up Your Own Profile.............................................. 68

Importing, Exporting, and Sharing Contacts ......................68

Working With Favorite Contacts.........................................70

Working With Groups.........................................................71

Searching for a Contact.....................................................72

Editing Contacts.................................................................73

Accounts ................................................................76

Adding or Removing Accounts...........................................76

Configuring Account Sync..................................................77

Email ....................................................................... 79

Set Up the First Email Account ..........................................79

Checking Your Emails........................................................79

Responding to an Email.....................................................80

Writing and Sending an Email............................................81

Adding Signature to Your Emails .......................................82

Adding and Editing Email Accounts ...................................82

Changing General Email Settings......................................83

GmailTM...................................................................84

Opening Your Gmail Inbox.................................................84

Switching Accounts............................................................84

Writing and Sending a Message ........................................85

Adding Signature to Your Gmail Messages .......................85

Replying to or Forwarding a Message...............................86

Working With Received Attachments.................................86

Searching for Messages....................................................87

Working With Labels..........................................................87

Changing Gmail Settings................................................... 88

Messages................................................................89

Opening the Messages Screen......................................... 89

Sending a Text Message ...................................................89

Sending a Multimedia Message ........................................90

Replying to a Message...................................................... 91

Forwarding a Message......................................................91

Viewing Details About a Message .....................................91

Deleting Messages or Threads..........................................92

Changing Message Settings..............................................92

Calendar .................................................................93

Viewing Your Calendars and Events.................................. 93

Creating an Event..............................................................95

Editing or Deleting an Event.............................................. 95

Changing Calendar Settings..............................................96

Google Talk.............................................................97

Signing into See Your Friends ...........................................97

Adding a Friend................................................................. 97

Changing Your Online Status............................................. 98

Chatting With Friends........................................................98

Changing Google Talk Settings .........................................99

Google+ ................................................................100

Organizing Your Contacts................................................ 100

Getting Updates ..............................................................100

Chatting With Contacts.................................................... 101

Checking Photos..............................................................101

Checking and Managing Your Profile...............................102

Browser ................................................................103

Opening the Browser.......................................................103

Working With an Opened Page .......................................105

Using Multiple Browser Windows.....................................106

Downloading Files ...........................................................107

Using Bookmarks.............................................................107

Changing Browser Settings .............................................108

Maps, Navigation, Places, and Latitude............. 109

Activating Location Services............................................109

Getting Your Location ......................................................109

Searching for a Location.................................................. 110

Getting Directions to Your Destination .............................110

Searching for Local Places.............................................. 111

Sharing Location.............................................................. 112

Google Search, Voice Search, and Voice Actions

............................................................................... 113

Searching With Text......................................................... 113

Searching by Speaking.................................................... 113

Using Voice Actions ......................................................... 114

Changing Search and Voice Search Settings..................114

Camera ................................................................. 115

Capturing a Photo............................................................ 115

Customize Camera Settings............................................ 116

Recording a Video........................................................... 117

Customizing Camcorder Settings.................................... 119

Gallery...................................................................120

Opening Gallery ..............................................................120

Working With Albums ...................................................... 120

Working With Pictures ..................................................... 121

Working With Videos ....................................................... 124

Music.....................................................................125

Copying Music Files to Your Phone ................................. 125

Viewing Your Music Library .............................................125

Playing Music .................................................................. 127

Managing Playlists...........................................................128

Play Music ............................................................130

Playing Your Music .......................................................... 130

Managing Playlists...........................................................132

Video Player .........................................................134

Opening the Video Library...............................................134

Playing and Control Videos............................................. 134

Managing Video Files...................................................... 135

FM Radio...............................................................136

Scanning and Saving Channels ......................................136

Listening to FM Radio......................................................136

Adding a Radio Station to Favorites ................................137

Other Options and Settings............................................. 138

Sound Recorder................................................... 139

Recording a Voice Memo.................................................139

Playing a Voice Memo .....................................................139

More Apps ............................................................140

Alarm ...............................................................................140

Backup and Restore ........................................................141

Calculator ........................................................................141

File Manager....................................................................141

News and Weather ..........................................................142

Note pad ..........................................................................142

Play Books.......................................................................142

Play Movies .....................................................................143

Software Update Service.................................................143

Task Manager ..................................................................143

Timer................................................................................144

World Time.......................................................................144

YouTube...........................................................................144

Play Store ............................................................. 145

Browsing and Searching for Apps....................................145

Downloading and Installing Apps .....................................145

Managing Your Downloads..............................................146

Settings ................................................................147

Wireless and Networks....................................................147

Device..............................................................................149

Personal ..........................................................................151

System ............................................................................154

Troubleshooting...................................................156

For Your Safety.....................................................162

General Safety ................................................................162

Radio Frequency (RF) Exposure..................................... 163

National Restrictions on Wi-Fi Usage.............................. 165

Distraction .......................................................................166

Product Handling............................................................. 167

Electrical Safety...............................................................172

Radio Frequency Interference......................................... 172

Explosive Environments.................................................. 174

Declaration of RoHS Compliance .......................176

Disposal of Your Old Appliance..........................177

EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ................178

Getting Started

Your Phone at a Glance

Knowing the Keys

Key Function

Power Key

Home Key

Menu Key

Back Key

Search Key

Volume Keys

• Press and hold to turn on or off Silent,

Vibration or Flight mode, or to power off.

• Press to switch your phone to Sleep mode.

• Press to wake up your phone.

• Touch to return to the Home Screen from

any application or screen.

• Touch and hold to see recently used

applications.

Touch to get the options for the current screen.

Touch to go to the previous screen.

• Touch to search information on the current

screen or application.

• Touch and hold to use Google voice search.

•

Press or hold to turn the volume up or down.

Installing the SIM Card, microSD Card, and Battery

Switch off your phone before installing or replacing the battery or the SIM card. The microSD card can be installed and removed while the phone is turned on. Unmount the microSD card before

removing it.

1. Remove the back cover.

2. Hold the SIM card with the cut corner oriented as shown and slip it into the card holder.

3. Hold your microSD card with the metal contacts facing down and slide it in.

NOTE: microSD logo is a trademark of the SD Card Association.

4. Insert the battery by aligning the gold contacts on the battery with the gold contacts in the battery compartment. Gently push down on the battery until it clicks into place.

5. Press the cover gently back into place until you hear a click.

Charging the Battery

When you first get your new phone you’ll need to charge the battery.

1. Connect the adapter to the charger jack. Ensure that the

adapter is inserted with the correct orientation. Do not force the connector into the charger jack.

2. Connect the charger to a standard AC wall outlet.

3. Disconnect the charger when the battery is fully charged.

How much charge have you got?

If the battery is low, there will be a pop-up message on the screen. As you charge your phone, the screen will tell you the exact battery level each time you wake up your phone.

If the phone is on, you’ll see this charging icon / appears on the status bar.

Powering On/Off

Make sure the SIM card is in your device and the battery is charged.

• Press and hold the Power Key to turn on your phone.

• To turn it off, press and hold the Power Key to open the

options menu. Touch Power off and then touch OK.

Setting Up for the First Time

When you first power on your phone after you purchase it or reset it to factory settings (see Settings – Personal – Backup and

Reset), you need to do some settings before using it.

1. Touch the language field to select the language you want to use and then touch Start.

2. Touch Get an account to create a Google Account or touch Sign in to sign in your account.

You can also touch Not now to set up an account later.

3. Configure the Google location options and touch Next.

4. Enter your name which the phone uses to personalize some apps and touch Next.

5. You will be prompted to accept the terms of Google service. Touch Next to continue.

6. Touch Finish to complete the setup.

Locking/Unlocking the Screen and Keys

Your phone allows you to quickly lock the screen and keys when not in use and to turn the screen back on and unlock it when you need it.

To lock the screen and keys:

To quickly turn the screen off and lock the keys, press the Power

Key.

NOTE: To save battery power, the phone automatically turns off

the screen after a certain period of time when you leave it idle. You will still be able to receive messages and calls while the phone screen is off.

To unlock the screen and keys:

1. Press the Power Key to turn the screen on.

2. Touch and hold at the center of the screen.

NOTE: If you have set an unlock pattern, PIN or password for your phone (see chapter Personalizing – Protecting Your Phone

With Screen Locks), you’ll need to draw the pattern or enter the

PIN/password to unlock your screen.

Using the Touch Screen

Your phone’s touch screen lets you control actions through a variety of touch gestures.

• Touch

When you want to type using the onscreen keyboard, select items onscreen such as application and settings icons, or press onscreen buttons, simply touch them with your finger.

• Touch and Hold

To open the available options for an item (for example, a message or link in a Web page), touch and hold the item.

• Swipe or Slide

To swipe or slide means to quickly drag your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen.

• Drag

To drag, press and hold your finger with some pressure before you start to move your finger. While dragging, do not release your finger until you have reached the target position.

• Pinch

In some apps (such as Maps, Browser, and Gallery), you can zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and pinching them together (to zoom out) or spreading them apart (to zoom in).

• Rotate the screen

For most screens, you can automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by turning the phone sideways.

Getting to Know the Home Screen

The home screen is the starting point for your phone’s applications, functions, and menus. You can customize your home screen by adding application icons, shortcuts, folders, widgets, and more. Your home screen extends beyond the initial screen. Swipe the screen left or right to display additional screens.

Stat us & Notifications

Google Search

Widget

Wallpaper

Shortcut

Phone

People

All apps

Browser

Messages

Extended Home Screens

Your home screen extends beyond the initial screen, providing more space to add icons, widgets, and more. Simply swipe left or right on the screen to see the extended Home Screens.

To add or remove an extended Home Screen:

1. Touch the Home Key to return to the Home Screen.

2. Touch the Menu Key > Personalization > Screen edit.

3. Touch to add more extended Home Screens.

Touch on a thumbnail to remove a screen.

To adjust the order of an extended Home Screen:

1. Touch the Home Key to return to the Home Screen.

2. Touch the Menu Key > Personalization > Screen edit.

3. Touch and hold a thumbnail and drag it to the place you

need.

Personalizing

Changing the System Language

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings > Language & input > Language.

2. Select the language you need.

Setting the Date and Time

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings > Date & time.

2. Clear the Automatic date & time and Automatic time zone check boxes if you want to set the date, time and time zone by yourself.

3. Set the date, time, time zone, and date/time format.

Changing Ringtone and Notification Sound

You can customize the ringtone for incoming calls and default notification sound quickly.

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > Personalization.

2. Touch Phone ringtone or Notification ringtone.

3. Scroll through the ringtone list and select the ringtone you

want to use.

4. Touch OK.

NOTE: To adjust the ringtone for an individual caller, go to that person's contact card in the People app, touch the Menu

Key > Set ringtone for that card.

Adjusting Volumes

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings > Sound > Volumes.

2. Adjust the volume for music, video, games, and other media, the ringtone and notification volume, and the alarm volume.

3. Touch OK to save.

TIP: You can adjust the media volume when a media application is in use by pressing the Volume Keys. If no media application is active, press the Volume Keys to adjust ringtone volume (or the earpiece volume during a call).

To enable the silent or vibration mode:

You can set the phone to the silent or vibration mode by using one of the following methods.

• Press and hold the Power Key and then touch to enable

the silent mode, touch to enable the vibration mode, or touch to disable the silent mode.

• Press the Volume Keys down when no media application is

active. When the icon appears in the status bar, the phone is set to the vibration mode. When the icon

appears in the status bar, the phone is in the silent mode.

• Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings >

Sound > Silent mode, and touch Off, Vibrate or Mute.

Applying New Wallpapers

You can set the wallpaper for the Home Screen or Lock Screen.

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > Wallpaper.

2. Touch Home or Lock screen.

3. Select a wallpaper source from Gallery, Live Wallpapers, or Wallpapers and choose the image or animation you want to use as the wallpaper. Some cropping may be needed for Gallery images.

4. Touch CROP at the top of the screen (for Gallery images) or

Set wallpaper.

NOTE: Live Wallpapers are not available for the Lock Screen.

Changing Screen Brightness

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings > Display > Brightness.

2. Tick the Automatic brightness box to make the phone adjust the screen brightness automatically, or clear the tick box to adjust the brightness manually.

3. Touch OK.

Protecting Your Phone With Screen Locks

You can protect your phone by creating a screen lock. When enabled, you need to draw a pattern or enter a numeric PIN or password to unlock the phone’s screen and keys.

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings > Security.

2. Touch Screen lock.

3. Touch Pattern, PIN or Password.

• If you touch Pattern, you’re guided to create a pattern you

must draw to unlock the screen. The first time you do this, a short tutorial about creating an unlock pattern appears. Then you’re prompted to draw and redraw your own pattern.

• If you touch PIN or Password, you’re prompted to set a

numeric PIN or a password you must enter to unlock your screen.

The next time you turn on your phone or wake up the screen, you must draw your unlock pattern or enter your PIN or password to unlock it.

IMPORTANT: Screen lock options are listed in the approximate order of the strength of their security, starting with None and Slide, which provide no security. Pattern provides minimal security, although it can be more convenient than the stronger options.

Protecting Your Phone With Encryption

You can encrypt all the data on your phone: Google Accounts, application data, music and other media, downloaded information, and so on. If you do, you must enter a numeric PIN or password each time you power on your phone.

WARNING! Encryption is irreversible. The only way to revert to an unencrypted phone is to perform a factory data reset, which erases all your data.

Encryption provides additional protection in case your phone is stolen, and may be required or recommended in some organizations. Consult your system administrator before turning it on. In many cases the PIN or password you set for encryption is controlled by the system administrator.

Before turning on encryption, prepare as follows:

1. Set a lock screen PIN or password.

2. Charge the battery.

3. Keep the phone connected to the charger.

4. Schedule an hour or more for the encryption process: you must not interrupt it or you will lose some or all of your data.

When you're ready to turn on encryption:

1. Touch the Home Key > Menu Key > System settings > Security > Encrypt phone.

2. Read the information about encryption carefully. The Encrypt phone button is dimmed if your battery's not

charged or your phone's not plugged in.

If you change your mind about encrypting your phone, touch the Back Key.

WARNING ! If you interrupt the encryption process, you will lose data.

3. Touch Encrypt phone.

4. Enter your lock screen PIN or password and touch Next.

5. Touch Encrypt phone again. The encryption process starts and displays its progress.

Encryption can take an hour or more, during which time your phone may restart several times.

When encryption is complete, you're prompted to enter your PIN or password.

Subsequently, you must enter your PIN or password each time you power on your phone, to decrypt it.

Knowing the Basics

Monitoring the Phone Status

The status bar at the top of the home screen provides phone and service status information on the right side. You can monitor the phone status by checking the following status icons.

GPRS connected No signal

EDGE connected Signal strength

3G connected Mobile data in use

Flight mode Ringer off

Phone microphone off Vibrate mode

Battery flat Speaker on

Battery low Bluetooth on

Battery partially drained

Battery full Wi-Fi in use

Battery charging Wired headset connected

No SIM card installed Alarm set

Connected to a Wi-Fi network

Managing Notifications

Notification Icons

The status bar at the top of the home screen provides notification alerts on the left. You can view the following notification icons.

New SMS

New MMS

New Email

New Gmail message

New Google Talk instant message

Problem with SMS/MMS delivery

Missed call

Call in progress

USB connected

Song is playing

Updates available

microSD card unmounted

microSD card removed

Upcoming event

Call on hold

New Wi-Fi network detected

Downloading data

Sending data

USB tethering is on

Portable Wi-Fi hotspot or Wi-Fi direct is on

GPS on

Open/Close the Notification Panel

Notifications report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as when you've configured your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot. You can open the notification panel to view the details of notifications.

• To open the notification panel, swipe your finger down from

the top of the screen.

• To close the notification panel, swipe your finger up from the

bottom of the screen or touch the Back Key.

Respond to or Remove a Notification

In the notification panel, you can respond to a notification or remove the notifications.

• To respond to a notification, just touch it.

• To remove a notification, swipe it left or right.

• To remove all notifications, touch in the top right corner.

• Most apps that send notifications, such as Gmail and Google

Talk, have notification settings that you can adjust.

TIP: In the notification panel, touch at the top of notifications list to get to the Settings menu quickly.

Use Quick Settings

The Quick Settings in the notification panel make it convenient to view or change the most common settings for your phone.

Open the notification panel and you can find the following Quick Settings on the top of the screen. Slide left or right to view the setting options.

• Auto-rotate: Touch to turn on or off the Auto-rotate feature.

• Sound: Touch to turn on or off vibration.

• WLAN: Touch to turn on or off Wi-Fi.

• Data: Touch to enable or disable data access over the mobile

network.

• Bluetooth: Touch to turn on or off Bluetooth.

• GPS: Touch to turn on or off GPS function.

• Sync: Touch to turn on or off account sync.

• Airplane mode: Touch to turn on or off the airplane mode.

• Brightness: Touch to adjust the screen brightness.

Managing Shortcuts and Widgets

Add Shortcuts and Widgets

1. Touch the Home Key > > Widgets.

2. Touch Widgets or Shortcuts to view the available widgets and shortcuts.

3. Touch and hold a widget or shortcut and drag it to the Home Screen.

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