Protecting Your Phone With Encryption - Alcatel Streak User Manual

Quick setting panel
Touch and drag down the Notification panel or touch
setting panel. Get quick access to commonly used settings like Wi-Fi, screen
brightness, airplane mode, and others, using the Quick Settings panel. You
can open this panel from anywhere on your device, including your lock
screen.
Enter user screen.
Access Settings, where you can set more
items.
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Protecting your phone with a screen unlock pattern
to open the Quick You can protect your phone by creating a screen lock. When enabled, you
need to swipe the screen, draw a pattern or enter a numeric PIN or password
to unlock the phone's screen and keys.
1. From the home screen, tap
2. Tap Screen lock.
3. Tap Swipe, Pattern, PIN, or Password.
• Tap None to disable screen lock.
• Tap Swipe to enable screen lock.
• Tap Pattern to create a pattern you must draw to unlock the screen.
• Tap PIN or Password to set a numeric PIN or a password that you must

Protecting your phone with encryption

You can encrypt all of 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.
Before turning on encryption, prepare as follows:
• Set a lock screen PIN or password.
> Settings > Lock screen.
enter to unlock your screen.
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