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HUAWEI Ascend Plus
Welcome to HUAWEI
Model:H881C
TracFone part number: H02230SQM

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  • Page 1: User Guide

    User Guide HUAWEI Ascend Plus Welcome to HUAWEI Model:H881C TracFone part number: H02230SQM...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Content 1 Read Before Proceeding .............1 1.1 Safety Precautions............... 1 1.2 Personal Information and Data Security ........2 1.3 Legal Notice................. 3 2 Getting Started..............6 2.1 Key Functions at Your Fingertips..........6 2.2 Important Information About the Battery........6 2.3 Power Saving Tips ..............7 2.4 Power On or Off Your Mobile Phone ...........
  • Page 3 4.10 Joining and Separating Contacts..........23 4.11 Sending Contacts ..............23 5 Text Input................24 5.1 Displaying the Keyboard............24 5.2 Choosing an Input Method............24 5.3 Using the Android Keyboard............25 5.4 Editing Text................25 5.5 Using the Landscape Keyboard..........26 5.6 Customizing Your Keyboard Settings ........
  • Page 4 8.7 Deleting an Email Account............36 8.8 Changing Email Account Settings ..........36 9 Entertainment..............36 9.1 Taking Photos and Recording Videos ........36 9.2 Using the Gallery ............... 38 9.3 Listening to the FM Radio............39 10 Google™ Services ............40 10.1 Creating a Google Account............
  • Page 5 13.6 Protecting Your Mobile Phone ..........58 13.7 Managing Applications............. 59 13.8 Resetting Your Mobile Phone ..........60 13.9 Online Update................60 14 Appendix ................61 14.1 FAQs..................61...
  • Page 6: Read Before Proceeding

    1 Read Before Proceeding 1.1 Safety Precautions Please read the safety precautions carefully to ensure the correct use of your mobile phone. Do not crash, throw, or puncture your mobile phone. Avoid the falling, squeezing, and bending of your mobile phone. Do not use your mobile phone in a moist environment, such as the bathroom.
  • Page 7: Personal Information And Data Security

    Do not place your mobile phone or its accessories in containers with a strong electromagnetic field. Do not place magnetic storage media near your mobile phone. Radiation from the phone may erase the information stored on them. Do not put your mobile phone in a high-temperature place or use it in a place with flammable gas such as a gas station.
  • Page 8: Legal Notice

    • Be sure to obtain third-party applications from a legitimate source. Downloaded third-party applications should be scanned for viruses. • Install security software or patches released by Huawei or third-party application providers. • Some applications require and transmit location information. As a result, a third- party may be able to share your location information.
  • Page 9: Trademarks And Permissions

    ® The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is under license. Other trademarks, product, service and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
  • Page 10 Ltd. has made necessary changes to the platform. Therefore, this product may not support all the functions that are supported by the standard Android platform or may be incompatible with third-party software. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. shall not be liable for any of such situation.
  • Page 11: Getting Started

    2 Getting Started All the pictures in this guide are for your reference only. Your phone's actual display features may be different to those described here, depending on its software version. 2.1 Key Functions at Your Fingertips • Press and hold to power on your mobile phone. •...
  • Page 12: Power Saving Tips

    usual after being charged properly, replace the battery with a new one of the same type. • Using data services increases the power consumption of the phone and will therefore reduce the length of time that the phone can be used between battery charges.
  • Page 13: Setting Up Your Mobile Phone

    2.4.2 Setting Up Your Mobile Phone The first time you power on your mobile phone, the phone displays a setup wizard to help you set up the phone. The setup wizard helps you: • Create or sign in to your account •...
  • Page 14: Using The Touchscreen

    2.5 Using the Touchscreen 2.5.1 Touchscreen Actions Touch: Tap the screen with your finger to select an item, confirm a selection, or start an application. Touch and hold: Touch an item with your finger and do not release it until the mobile phone responds. For example, to open the options menu for the active screen, touch and hold the screen until the menu appears.
  • Page 15: Home Screen

    • If your phone is idle for a while, the screen will lock automatically. 2.6.2 Unlocking the Screen 1. Press to wake up the screen. 2. Drag the unlocking icon to the small open lock, the screen is unlocked. If you have set up a screen unlock pattern, you will be prompted to draw the pattern on the screen to unlock it.
  • Page 16: Notification And Status Icons

    Touch and hold a shortcut until the mobile phone vibrates, you can then drag it to your desired location or move it to the trash. You can also drag an icon from another area of the screen to the shortcut position. 2.7.1 Notification and Status Icons Signal strength No signal...
  • Page 17: Notification Panel

    Open Wi-Fi network Upcoming event available Uploading Downloading Phone storage space is Sign-in or synchronization getting low problem Preparing the mircoSD More undisplayed card notifications Synchronizing data Synchronization failed Connected to a VPN 2.7.2 Notification Panel Your mobile phone will notify you when you receive a new message or there is an upcoming event.
  • Page 18: Viewing Other Parts Of The Home Screen

    2.7.3 Viewing Other Parts of the Home Screen 10:23 Flick your finger left or right across the Home screen. 2.7.4 Customizing the Home Screen Adding a New Home Screen Item 1. On the Home screen, touch to display the application list. 2.
  • Page 19: Applications And Widgets

    Managing Folders on the Home Screen • To create a folder: Drag an application icon onto another application icon to create a new folder that contains both icons. • To rename a folder: On the Home screen, touch a folder, and then touch the folder name field beneath it.
  • Page 20: Using A Microsd™ Card

    3. Without lifting your finger, drag the icon to the desired location, and then release it. To move more icons, repeat steps 2 and 3. 4. Touch to save. 2.8.2 Viewing Recently Used Applications To display the list of recently used applications, press and hold .
  • Page 21: Calling

    3 Calling To make a phone call, you can dial a number using the keypad or touch a number saved in your contact list, on a webpage, or in other places. When you are in a call, you can answer other incoming calls or redirect them to your voicemail. You can also set up conference calls with several participants.
  • Page 22: Answering Or Rejecting A Call

    3.1.4 Using Voice Dialing Calls can be placed using voice dialing. When you open the voice dialing application, your phone's speaker will be enabled. Background noise will affect the accuracy of voice dialing. 1. On the Home screen, touch > Voice Dialer.
  • Page 23: Other Operations During A Call

    3.2.3 Rejecting an Incoming Call Drag to the left to reject the call. You can also drag to the message icon to reject the call and send a message to the caller. 3.3 Other Operations During a Call 3.3.1 Making a Conference Call If you receive a new call while you are already in a call, you can add the second call to the call you are in.
  • Page 24: People

    4. To add more people, touch , and then repeat steps 2 and 3. 5. To end the conference call and disconnect from everyone, touch 3.3.2 Switching Between Calls If you receive a new call while you are already in a call, you can switch between the two calls.
  • Page 25: Adding A Contact To Your Favorites

    To save a contact from your call log, touch and hold the desired phone number to display the options menu, and then touch Add to contacts. 4.3 Adding a Contact to Your Favorites Select a contact and touch the star on the right of the contact's name. If the icon is highlighted, the contact is in your favorites list.
  • Page 26: Deleting A Contact

    2. Touch the icon for the way you want to communicate with the contact. The icons available depend on the information you have entered for the contact, the applications installed on your phone, and the accounts you have. 4.6.2 Communicating with a Contact 1.
  • Page 27: Managing Groups

    You can copy the .vcf files backed up on the microSD card to your computer. Restoring Contacts 1. In the contact list, touch > Manage contacts. 2. Touch Import from storage in the displayed menu. If there is more than one .vcf files saved on the microSD card, you can choose to restore one, multiple, or all the of them.
  • Page 28: Joining And Separating Contacts

    4.10 Joining and Separating Contacts You may have duplicate contacts if you import contacts by: • Adding an account, such as a Gmail account. • Using the social networking services such as Facebook or Twitter. • Using other methods, such as exchanging emails. To avoid duplication, join two or more contacts together to form a single contact.
  • Page 29: Text Input

    2. Touch > Share. 3. Select your preferred method to send the contacts you have selected, for example Bluetooth or Email. 5 Text Input 5.1 Displaying the Keyboard To enter text, use the onscreen keyboard. The keyboard is displayed automatically when you run certain applications.
  • Page 30: Using The Android Keyboard

    5.3 Using the Android Keyboard q w e r t y u i o p Touch to delete a character a s d f g h j k to the left of the cursor. z x c v b n m Touch and hold to delete all characters to the left of the ?123...
  • Page 31: Using The Landscape Keyboard

    where you want to paste the text. Touch > PASTE to paste the previously cut text. • : Copy the selected text. Touch and hold the text. Drag the grab points to select text you want to copy. Touch this button to copy the text. After the text is copied, touch a blank area in the text field to display .
  • Page 32: Creating And Sending A Text Message

    6.2 Creating and Sending a Text Message 1. Touch > Messaging, then 2. Enter a phone number or a contact's name in the To field, or touch to select a contact from People. As you enter the phone number or the contact's name, the phone displays possible matches from your contacts.
  • Page 33: Opening And Viewing A Multimedia Message

    5. When you are ready to send the message, touch Send MMS. You can select a media file (music, video, or picture) and send it as an attachment in a multimedia message. In File Manager, touch and hold a media file, and then touch Share >...
  • Page 34: Customizing Message Settings

    6.7 Customizing Message Settings In the message list, touch , and then touch Settings to customize the message settings. 7 Getting Connected 7.1 Mobile Networks Your mobile phone will be automatically configured to use your network operator's 2G/3G service (if available) when you turn on the phone for the first time. 7.1.1 Turning On the Data Service 1.
  • Page 35: Controlling Data Usage

    2. Under WIRELESS & NETWORKS, touch Wi-Fi to display the Wi-Fi screen. You will see a list of detected Wi-Fi networks. 3. Touch a Wi-Fi network to connect to it. • If you select an open network, your mobile phone will automatically connect to •...
  • Page 36: Browser

    7.4 Browser Your mobile phone comes with an Internet browser pre-installed. 7.4.1 Basic Operations Touch > Browser to open the home page. When known or open Wi-Fi networks and mobile data networks are available at the same time, your phone will preferably select a Wi-Fi network for Internet access.
  • Page 37: Bluetooth

    2. Touch Settings > General > Set homepage. 3. Select one page from the list, or touch Other to enter desired homepage's URL, and then touch OK. 7.4.4 Managing Bookmarks You can store as many bookmarks as you want on your mobile phone. Adding a Bookmark 1.
  • Page 38: Sending Files Via Bluetooth

    2. Under WIRELESS & NETWORKS, touch the button next to Bluetooth. When Bluetooth is turned on, the Bluetooth icon appears in the notification bar. 3. Touch Bluetooth, and your device's Bluetooth name is displayed on the screen. Touch the device name and set your device to be visible to other Bluetooth devices. Touch >...
  • Page 39: Email

    7.5.4 Disconnecting from or Unpairing with a Bluetooth Device 1. Touch > Settings. 2. Under WIRELESS & NETWORKS, touch Bluetooth. 3. Navigate to the PAIRED DEVICES section, and then touch 4. Touch Unpair to disconnect from the device. 8 Email Your mobile phone also puts email at your fingertips.
  • Page 40: Viewing An Email Message

    8.3 Viewing an Email Message On the Inbox screen, touch the email message you want to view. You can also touch and select another folder to view. 8.4 Saving an Email Attachment 1. On the Inbox screen, touch the email message you want to view. 2.
  • Page 41: Deleting An Email Account

    8.7 Deleting an Email Account 1. On the Inbox screen, touch > Settings to enter the account configuration screen. 2. Select an email account. 3. In the menu at the bottom, touch Remove account then touch OK. 8.8 Changing Email Account Settings You can change a number of account settings, including the email checking frequency, new mail notification method, and details about the account's email sending and receiving servers.
  • Page 42: Opening Your Camera

    9.1.1 Opening Your Camera • Touch > Camera to open the camera. • Touch to close the camera. Drag up to take photos, drag down to record videos. Touch to take a photo. Auto Auto Thumbnail of last photo. Touch to preview the photos or videos.
  • Page 43: Using The Gallery

    9.1.4 Recording a Video 1. Open the camera application, and then switch it to camcorder mode. 2. If necessary, change the camcorder settings. 3. Frame the scene with which you want to start your video. 4. Touch to start recording a video. 5.
  • Page 44: Listening To The Fm Radio

    2. Touch the picture to view it in full-screen mode. The picture viewer supports the automatic rotation function. When you rotate your mobile phone, the picture adjusts itself to the rotation. 9.2.3 Rotating a Picture 1. When viewing a picture, touch to display the operations panel.
  • Page 45: Google™ Services

    • Touch to tune the radio to the previous or next channel. • Slide the knob left or right to perform precision tuning. When a channel is found, touch , then Save station. Enter the channel name, touch OK, and then select an empty channel to save the new channel to the channel list.
  • Page 46: Gmail

    To use another Google account, go to the Accounts & sync screen, and touch ADD ACCOUNT to select which type of accounts you want to add. 10.2 Gmail™ Gmail is Google's web-based email service. When you first set up your phone, you may have configured it to use an existing Gmail account or create a new account.
  • Page 47: Talk

    2. Touch to reply. You can also touch , and then touch Reply all or Forward. 3. Do one of the following: • If you selected Reply or Reply all, enter your message. • If you selected Forward, specify the message recipients and add any additional text you want to include in the forwarded message.
  • Page 48: Maps

    2. Touch a pending invitation, and then touch Accept. 10.3.4 Starting a Chat 1. In the friends list, touch a friend's name in the friends list. 2. Use the onscreen keyboard to enter text and chat with your friend. 3. After entering your message, touch 10.3.5 Setting Notifications for New Instant Messages Whenever you receive an instant message, your mobile phone can play a sound, vibrate, or display an icon.
  • Page 49: Youtube

    10.4.1 Enabling the Location Service Before you open Maps to find your location or search for places of interest, you must enable the location service. 1. On the Home screen, touch > Settings. 2. Touch Location services. 3. Select the Google's location service check box, the GPS satellites check box, or both.
  • Page 50: Play Store

    10.5.1 Opening YouTube On the Home screen, touch > YouTube. You will then see the YouTube screen. 10.5.2 Searching for a Video 1. On the YouTube screen, touch 2. Enter a search keyword, and then touch the Search icon. 3. You will see a number of search results displayed below the notification bar. Scroll through the results and touch a video to watch it.
  • Page 51: Synchronizing Information

    3. To check the progress of a download, open the notification panel. Most applications are installed within seconds. To stop an application from downloading, touch the cross (×). After the application has been downloaded and installed on your mobile phone, the content download icon appears in the notification bar.
  • Page 52: Adding An Account

    11.1.1 Adding an Account When you add an account, the People application compares contacts from the newly synchronized account with contacts from your existing mobile phone accounts and attempts to merge duplicates into a single entry in People. While it is presented as a single contact entry, the contact data itself is not merged.
  • Page 53: Customizing Your Account Synchronization

    2. Touch > Remove account. 3. Confirm that you want to remove the account. 11.2 Customizing Your Account Synchronization You can configure background data use and synchronization options for all the applications on your phone. You can also configure what kind of data you synchronize for each account.
  • Page 54: Using Other Applications

    12 Using Other Applications 12.1 All Backup You can back up data using All Backup, which provides the following options: Backup, Restore, Quick backup, Scheduled backup, and Applications. To open All Backup, touch > All Backup on the Home screen. If a microSD card is inserted into your phone, the files backed up are stored in the HuaweiBackup folder on the card by default;...
  • Page 55: Calendar

    12.1.4 Backing up an Application On the All Backup screen, touch Applications to display the application backup list. Here you can: • Backup: Back up an application installed on your phone. • Restore: Restore an application you have previously backed up. •...
  • Page 56: Setting An Event Reminder

    12.2.3 Setting an Event Reminder 1. In any calendar view, touch an event to view its details or an event summary. 2. Touch the Add reminder button to add a reminder, or touch the reminder's button to delete an existing reminder. 3.
  • Page 57: File Manager

    • Default reminder time: Touch to select the default time before an event for event reminders to occur. 12.3 File Manager File Manager is like having a pocket-sized personal assistant (PA), letting you organize, edit, and delete files and folders. 12.3.1 Opening File Manager On the Home screen, touch >...
  • Page 58 3. In the search box, enter a word contained in the name of the file you are searching for. 4. Touch Go. Your mobile phone will start the search. 5. A list of search results will be displayed. Touch a file in the list to open it. 6.
  • Page 59: Clock

    12.4 Clock Clock displays the date and time. You can also use Clock to turn your mobile phone into an alarm clock. 12.4.1 Opening the Clock On the Home screen, touch > Clock to open the application. 12.4.2 Opening the Alarms On the Clock screen, touch to open the Alarms.
  • Page 60: Notes

    12.5.1 Opening Calculator On the Home screen, touch > Calculator to open the application. 12.5.2 Switching Between Basic and Advanced panel On the Calculator screen, flick the screen to the right or left to switch between Advanced panel and Basic panel. 12.6 Notes Notes features a simple text processor.
  • Page 61: Setting The Display

    6. Select or clear the Use 24-hour format check box to switch between 24-hour and 12-hour formats. 7. Touch Select date format to select how you want the date to be displayed. 13.2 Setting the Display 13.2.1 Adjusting the Screen Brightness 1.
  • Page 62: Setting Phone Services

    3. Touch OK to save the adjustment. 13.3.3 Changing the Phone Ringtone 1. On the Settings screen, touch Sound > Phone ringtone. 2. In the displayed list, select an option: • Ringtone: Select a preinstalled ringtone. The ringtone plays when selected. •...
  • Page 63: Adjusting The Speech Rate

    13.4.3 Disabling the Data Service 1. On the Settings screen, touch More... > Mobile networks. 2. Clear the Data enabled check box. 13.5 Adjusting the Speech Rate 1. On the Settings screen, touch Language & input > Text-to-speech output > Speech rate.
  • Page 64: Managing Applications

    13.7 Managing Applications 13.7.1 Viewing an Installed Application 1. On the Settings screen, touch Apps > ALL. 2. In the applications list, do either of the following: • Touch , and then touch Sort by size. Then touch an application to view its details.
  • Page 65: Resetting Your Mobile Phone

    • Uninstall any downloaded programs that you no longer use. • Reset your mobile phone. 13.8 Resetting Your Mobile Phone 13.8.1 Backing Up My Data You can use your Google account to back up your mobile phone's settings to Google servers.
  • Page 66: Appendix

    Make sure that your microSD card has sufficient space to store the new software version. Perform the online update following the onscreen instructions. 14 Appendix 14.1 FAQs How Can I Use a microSD Card to Import Contacts to My Phone from Another Phone? Your mobile phone supports contact files in the .vcf format only.
  • Page 67 How Do I Stop the Song Playing in the Background? Flick the notification bar downwards to open the notifications panel, touch the music playing notification to go to the music playing screen, and then stop playing the song. How Do I Return to the Call Screen? If you switched to another screen during a call, flick the notification bar downwards to open the notifications panel, and then touch the current call notification to return to the call screen.
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