Find My Location Using Gps Satellites; Data Backup - Alcatel IDOL 2 MINI S 6036A Quick Start Manual

7�4 Sharing your phone's mobile data
connection
You can share your phone's mobile data connection with a single
computer via USB cable (USB tethering) or with up to eight devices
at once by turning your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.
To turn on USB tethering or Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
• Touch the Menu key from the Home screen.
Touch Settings\More���\Tethering & portable hotspot.
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• Mark the checkbox of USB tethering or Portable Wi-Fi
hotspot to activate this function.
These functions may incur additional network charges from
your network operator. Extra fees may also be charged in
roaming areas.
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Find my location
using GPS satellites �����
To activate your phone's global positioning system (GPS) satellite
receiver:
Touch the Menu key from the Home screen.
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• Touch Settings\Location access.
switch beside Access to my location to
• Touch the
turn on.
You can then open Maps to find your location:
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Use your phone's GPS satellite receiver to pinpoint your location
within an accuracy as close as several meters ("street level") . The
process of accessing the GPS satellite and setting your phone's
precise location for the first time will require up to 5 minutes. You
will need to stand in a place with a clear view of the sky and avoid
moving. After this, GPS will only need 20-40 seconds to identify your
precise location.
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Data backup �����������������
This phone enables you to back up your phone's settings and other
application data to Google Servers, with your Google Account.
If you replace your phone, the settings and data you've backed up
are restored onto the new phone the first time you sign in with
your Google Account.
To activate this function:
Touch the Menu key from the Home screen.
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• Touch Settings\Backup and reset\Back up my data.
When this function is activated, a wide variety of settings and data
is backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, a list of
the applications you've installed, the words you've added to the
dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings
that you configure with the Settings application. If you deactivate this
option, you stop backing up your settings, and any existing backups
are deleted from Google Servers.
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