Get Started ♦ Your KYOCERA Hydro LIFE (Page 2) Your KYOCERA Hydro LIFE ♦ Get Your Phone Ready (Page 3) < Front > < Top > ♦ Use Your Phone (Page 6) Headset Jack Proximity Sensor/ ♦ Manage Your Account (Page 15) Light Sensor ♦...
Get Your Phone Ready < Side > < Back > Insert the Battery 1. Insert the battery, contacts end first, and gently press Back Camera Lens into place. Camera Flash Volume Speaker Button 2. Replace the cover, making sure all tabs on the cover SIM Card Slot/ align with the battery compartment slots and pressing microSD Card Slot...
Insert the SIM Card Activate Your Phone 1. Remove the battery cover. Lift the battery and remove You will need the following information when activating service: it from the battery compartment. ● Your name, address and an eight-digit number that you 2.
Turn the Phone On Unlock the Screen Press and hold the Power button to turn your phone on. Touch and hold on the screen and swipe your finger toward Start to unlock the screen. ▪ Once your phone is powered up, dial 1.888.8metro8 (1.888.863.8768) to connect with an activation Turn the Phone Off representative who will assist you in activating your...
Use Your Phone Retrieve Your Voicemail Touch and hold on the phone dialpad. Voicemail From any other phone: Set Up Your Voicemail 1. Dial your wireless phone number. All unanswered calls are automatically transferred to your 2. When your voicemail answers, press the asterisk key (*). voicemail, even if your phone is in use or turned off.
Respond to an Incoming Call Display Settings On the incoming call screen, swipe the Answer icon Add App Shortcuts or Widgets to the Home Screen Swipe the Ignore icon to send the call to your 1. Touch > voicemail inbox. 2.
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▪ To remove the item, drag it over “X Remove” at the top Contacts of the screen and release it when it turns red. View Contacts Change Wallpaper > People. 1. Touch > 1. Touch and hold the empty area on the home screen. 2.
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Edit Contacts Messaging 1. Touch > > People. Send a Message > Edit. 2. Touch a contact to open it, and then touch 1. Touch > > Messaging, and then touch ▪ Touch a field to add or edit information. 2.
Access Messages second Gmail address or any other email address from which you currently send and receive email. Touch > > Messaging. Touch a message to This address is used to authenticate your account open and read it. should you ever encounter problems or forget your If you have a new message notification, drag the status password.
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and touch Manual setup. Follow the instructions to 5. Identify your new account with a unique name and touch Next. provide the required information. Note: If you are not sure about your account, touch Next Send an Email Message after entering your email address and password. If 1.
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Wi-Fi Bluetooth Connect to a Wi-Fi Network Pair and Connect With a Bluetooth Device ® When you are in range of an available Wi-Fi network, you > Settings > Bluetooth. 1. Touch > can use your phone’s Wi-Fi feature to access the Internet ▪...
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Access Bookmarks 4. Touch the name of the device to which you’re sending the file. (If prompted, touch Turn on to activate From any open Web page, touch > Bookmarks. Bluetooth.) Tip: You can also touch next to the address bar and then touch Create Bookmarks Go Online...
Camera & Camcorder Google Play™ on Your Phone Take a Picture Download Apps and Games > Camera. > Play Store. 1. Touch > 1. Touch > ▪ Touch ▪ The first time you visit the Google Play Store app, the to select the front-facing camera lens.
Manage Your Account ● Express Pay. Pay by credit or debit card online at metropcs.com. Account Detail ● Drop Box.* Drop a check or money order in a MetroPCS store drop box. ● Text Message Reminder. MetroPCS provides a text ●...
Customer Support safely store cards for quick payment, set up auto pay and add funds to your MetroConnect account. ® For Assistance ● Text to Pay. The secure and easy way to pay your monthly MetroPCS service. Register your credit or debit Please visit your local MetroPCS store or refer to the card with the MetroPCS eWallet service and simply following options if you need additional assistance.
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Notes ● Coverage. Coverage and services not available everywhere. Nationwide long distance only available to the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico. Coverage, rates, ● The services described in this guide may require a services and features subject to change. subscription to a service plan and/or may incur additional Text Messages: Unlimited international texts are limited to charges.
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● Data Plans. For unlimited 4G or 4G LTE data plans, full ● Your device may not work if you alter its original software. available speeds apply up to monthly data allotment; then This device will only operate with firmware versions that speeds slowed to average MetroPCS network speeds for have been approved for use by MetroPCS and the device remainder of billing cycle.
Important Safety Information ♦ General Precautions (Page 19) General Precautions ♦ Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your Phone There are several simple guidelines to operating your phone (Page 20) properly and maintaining safe, satisfactory service. ♦ Waterproof Capability (Page 23) ●...
Using Your Phone While Driving Note: For the best care of your phone, only Kyocera-authorized personnel should service your phone and accessories. Talking on your phone while driving (or operating the phone Failure to do so may be dangerous and void your warranty.
Persons with implantable medical devices: RF signals may affect improperly installed or inadequately shielded electronic operating systems or entertainment ● Should always keep the mobile phone more than six (6) systems in motor vehicles. Check with the manufacturer or inches from the implantable medical device when the their representative to determine if these systems are mobile phone is turned ON.
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● Below deck on boats. plane is on the ground. To prevent any risk of interference, FCC regulations prohibit using your phone while the plane is ● Fuel or chemical transfer or storage facilities. in the air. ● Areas where the air contains chemicals or particles such Turning Off Your Phone in Dangerous as grain, dust, or metal powders.
Should your phone be accidentally exposed to other liquids, rinse the phone gently in clean fresh water. Your Hydro LIFE is waterproof and meets IPX5 and IPX7 ● The touch panel and touch keys will not operate when the standards, immersible for up to 30 minutes at a depth not phone is wet.
Not all phones have as in a bathroom or near a kitchen sink. been rated for compatibility with hearing devices. Phones that have been rated have a label located on the box. Your Hydro LIFE has an and a rating. Important Safety Information...
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These ratings are not guarantees. Results will vary that it uses. However, there may be some newer wireless depending on the user’s hearing device and the individual’s technologies used in this phone that have not been type and degree of hearing loss. If a hearing device is tested yet for use with hearing aids.
● Any combined rating equal to five is considered normal Caring for the Battery use. Protecting Your Battery ● Any combined rating equal to four is considered usable. Thus, if you pair an M3 hearing aid with an M3 phone, you The guidelines listed below help you get the most out of your will have a combined rating of six for “excellent use.”...
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● Do not disassemble or open, crush, bend or deform, or Charging puncture or shred the battery. ● In order to avoid damage, charge the battery only in ● Do not modify or remanufacture, attempt to insert foreign temperatures that range from 32° F to 113° F (0° C to objects into the battery, immerse or expose to water or 45°...
● Repeating sound, vibration, or lighted alerts. Storing ● Don’t store the battery in high temperature areas for long Disposal of Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) Batteries periods of time. It’s best to follow these storage rules: ● Promptly dispose of used batteries in accordance with ▪...
Radio Frequency (RF) Energy Institute (ANSI) joined in updating ANSI’s 1982 standard for safety levels with respect to human exposure to RF signals. Understanding How Your Phone Operates More than 120 scientists, engineers and physicians from universities, government health agencies and industries Your phone is a radio transmitter and receiver.
1.6 W/kg are considered safe for use by Wireless Phones the public. The SAR value corresponds to the relative amount of RF The highest reported SAR values of the Hydro LIFE are: energy absorbed into the head of a user of a wireless handset. Head: W/kg 1.07...
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FCC Radio Frequency Emission These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This This phone meets the FCC Radio Frequency Emission equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency Guidelines. energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio FCC ID number: V65C6530 communications.
Record the serial number in the space provided below. This will be helpful if you need to contact us about your phone in the future. Model: Hydro LIFE (C6530N) Serial No.: Important Safety Information...
(including the antenna); (ii) Products which have been owner of the Product. KYOCERA shall, at its sole and subjected to misuse (including Products used in conjunction absolute discretion, either repair or replace a Product (which...
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(iii) Products operated outside published maximum ratings; the Product. KYOCERA is not responsible for damage to or (iv) cosmetic damage; (v) Products on which warranty loss of any software, applications, data or removable storage stickers or Product serial numbers have been removed, media.
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ACCEPTED BY YOU “AS IS”. telephone number from anywhere in the continental United States and Canada: 1-800-349-4478 or 858-882-1401. KYOCERA MAKES NO OTHER WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, ORAL OR VERBAL, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCTS,...
Software, Kyocera grants you a limited, non-exclusive, PROVIDED WITH IT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND license to use Kyocera and third party proprietary software BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. IF YOU and services found on your Kyocera device and/or packaged...
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Software or make it available over a network content may be subject to different or additional terms and for use on more than the single Kyocera device for which it conditions as determined by the Third Party Software was originally supplied.
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Open Source Software are reproduced and OF THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses. Please REMAINS WITH YOU. IN NO EVENT WILL KYOCERA, ITS refer to the Open Source License Terms regarding your EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, SHAREHOLDERS, LICENSORS, rights under such licenses to the Open Source Software.
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Termination: This License Agreement will automatically information to others, but not in a form that personally terminate without notice from or action by Kyocera if you fail identifies you. to comply with any term hereof.
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Entire Agreement: By using or otherwise accessing the Software, you agree that this Agreement sets forth the entire agreement between you and Kyocera with regard to the Software and supersedes all prior agreements, notwithstanding the terms of any such agreements.
MetroPCS Terms and Conditions of Service (“Agreement”) ● The MetroPCS Privacy Policy For the most recent and up-to-date version of the MetroPCS Terms and Conditions of Service to which (http://www.metropcs.com/privacy-policy); you agree and will be bound when you activate, use, ●...
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▪ Rhapsody Unlimited Music Terms of Use new subscriber); (c) using your Service after your Service is ® (http://www.metropcs.com/rhapsody-unlimited-music-terms) activated or after you make a change or addition to your Service; (d) paying for the Service; or (e) failing to activate ▪...
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● You will pay all taxes and regulatory fees even if your rate plan is inclusive of taxes and regulatory fees; and ● MetroPCS may terminate your Service if you fail to timely pay for your Service or violate the Terms and Conditions of Service in any way, including abuse of the Service or violations of applicable laws.
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