Samsung Galaxy S III User Manual page 51

Controlling Synchronization
You can choose to have your phone automatically
synchronize with your accounts, or manually synchronize
each account when you want to check messages.
You may also choose to limit automatic or background
synchronization to extend battery life.
1. From the Home screen, touch
Settings.
2. Under Accounts, touch the account that contains data
to synchronize. The account screen displays.
3. Under Accounts, touch the account that contains data
to synchronize. The Sync settings screen for the
selected account displays and lists some or all of the
following synchronization settings:
• Sync Calendar
• Sync Contacts
• Sync Email
• Sync Gmail
• Sync Google Photos
• Sync Google Play Books
• Sync Google Play Magazines
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Menu, then touch
• Sync Google Play Movies & TV
• Sync Google Play Music
• Sync Internet
• Sync Picasa Web Albums
4. Touch these settings to enable/disable synchronization
of the associated file types. When enabled, a check
mark displays in each setting check box.
• With automatic synchronization enabled, your phone
automatically synchronizes its related files with similar files on
on-line file servers.
• With automatic synchronization disabled, you can manually
sync accounts by touching Sync all in the account type screen
for each account.
Tip: You can control automatic synchronization using the Sync
toggle in the Quick Settings menu on the Notifications
screen. (For more information, refer to "Quick Settings
Menu" on page 34.)