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  • Page 1: User Guide

    User Guide HUAWEI Ascend Y 201 Welcome to HUAWEI...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents 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 ..............
  • Page 3 4.8 Deleting a Contact ..............21 4.9 Backing Up and Synchronizing Contacts ......... 21 4.10 Managing Groups ..............22 4.11 Joining and Separating Contacts ........... 23 4.12 Sending Contacts ..............24 5 Using the Onscreen Keyboard ............24 5.1 Displaying the Keyboard ............24 5.2 Customizing Keyboard Settings ..........
  • Page 4 10.1 Managing Your Accounts ............47 10.2 Customizing Your Account Synchronization ......48 11 Using Other Applications ..............49 11.1 AppInstaller ................49 11.2 All Backup ................50 11.3 Calendar ................50 11.4 File Manager ................52 11.5 Clock ..................54 11.6 Calculator ................

  • Page 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Other trademarks, product, service and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
  • Page 9 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 10: 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 11: Power Saving Tips

    • 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. • The time required to fully charge the battery depends on the ambient temperature and the age of the battery.

  • Page 12: Using The Touchscreen

    phone, you must enter your PIN before using the 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: •...

  • Page 13: Locking And Unlocking The Screen

    • Flick: Move your finger either vertically or horizontally across the screen. • Drag: Touch and hold the desired item with your finger. To move an item, drag the item to any part of the screen. You can drag an icon to move or delete it. 2.5.2 Rotating Your Mobile Phone Screen The orientation of most screens will change to landscape or portrait view when you rotate your phone sideways.

  • Page 14: Home Screen

    2.7 Home Screen Notifications bar: 10:23 Displays the reminders and status icons of your phone. Flick down to open the notifications panel. Display area: Shows the operation and display areas of your phone. Indicates the current screen. Shortcuts Touch to view all your applications. 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.
  • Page 15 Receiving location data Bluetooth on from GPS Speakerphone on Alarm enabled Vibration mode Charging battery Call muted Battery extremely low Battery full Missed call Call in progress New mail from Gmail Problem with text or Call in progress with a multimedia message Bluetooth headset used delivery...

  • Page 16: Notification Panel

    Disconnected from a Synchronizing data Portable Wi-Fi hotspot on 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. The notification panel also informs you of alarms and settings. Open the notification panel to see your network operator or to view a message, reminder, or event notification.

  • Page 17: Viewing Other Parts Of The Home Screen

    2.7.3 Viewing Other Parts of the Home Screen 10:23 10:23 Flick your finger left or Touch to view thumbnails right across the Home of the Home screen and its screen. extensions. Touch a thumbnail to open the screen. 2.7.4 Customizing the Home Screen Adding a New Home Screen Item 1.

  • Page 18: Application Screen

    2. Without lifting your finger, drag the item to the trash can. When the item and the trash can turn red, the item is ready to be removed. 3. Release the item to remove it from the Home screen. 2.7.5 Service Shortcuts 1.

  • Page 19: Using A Microsd Card

    2.9 Using a microSD Card 2.9.1 Using the microSD Card as a USB Mass Storage To transfer all your favorite music and pictures from your PC to your mobile phone’s microSD card, set the microSD card as a USB mass storage. 1.

  • Page 20: Answering Or Rejecting A Call

    Be careful not to block the microphone at the bottom of your phone if you want your voice heard by the other parties in a call. 3.1.1 Making a Call with the Dialer Application 1. On the Home screen, touch >...

  • Page 21: Other Operations During A Call

    displayed. If the caller’s number is not saved in Contacts, the caller’s number is displayed. Drag to the right to answer the call. 3.2.2 Ending a Call During a call, touch End to hang up. 3.2.3 Rejecting an Incoming Call Drag to the left to reject the call.

  • Page 22: Using The Call Log

    Contact your network operator to ask if conference calls are supported and, if yes, how many parties can participate. 1. To initiate a conference call, dial the number of the first participant. After you have connected to the first participant, keep the connection open, touch Add call. 2.

  • Page 23: Contacts

    1. Press and hold 2. Touch Airplane mode in the options menu. 4 Contacts The Contacts application enables you to save and manage information such as phone numbers and addresses of your contacts. After you save contact information on your mobile phone, you have easy access to the people with whom you want to communicate.

  • Page 24: Adding A Contact To Your Favorites

    4. When you are finished, touch Save to save the contact information. 4.4 Adding a Contact to Your Favorites • Touch and hold the contact you want to add to Favorites. Then touch Add to Favorites. • Touch a contact, and then touch the star to the right of the contact’s name. The star turns gold.

  • Page 25: Deleting A Contact

    4.7.1 Using Quick Contact for Android 1. Touch the contact's picture or picture frame (if you have not assigned a picture to the contact) to open Quick Contact for Android. 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.

  • Page 26: Managing Groups

    2. Touch Restore from SD card 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. 4.9.2 Using a Google Account to Synchronize Contacts You can synchronize contacts using your Google account.

  • Page 27: Joining And Separating Contacts

    • When editing a group, touch , and then touch Add Members to select the contacts you want to add to group. You can add contacts in phone memory rather than in SIM/UIM card to a group. 4.11 Joining and Separating Contacts You may have duplicate contacts if you import contacts by: •...

  • Page 28: Sending Contacts

    The joint contact is then separated into two contacts displayed separately in Contacts. 4.12 Sending Contacts You can send contacts as a .vcf file via Bluetooth or Email. 1. In the contacts list, touch 2. Select contacts that you want to send. 3.

  • Page 29: Customizing Keyboard Settings

    5.1.2 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. Touch and hold to delete all z x c v b n m characters to the left of the cursor.

  • Page 30: Sms And Mms

    6.1 SMS and MMS 6.1.1 Opening Messaging Touch > Messaging. 6.1.2 Creating and Sending a Text Message 1. Touch > Messaging > New message. 2. Enter a phone number or a contact's name in the To field, or touch to select a contact from Contacts or Groups.

  • Page 31: Opening And Viewing A Multimedia Message

    • Touch Add to add a picture, music, or video file. 5. When the message is ready to be sent, touch 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 32: Email

    6.1.7 Customizing Message Settings In the message list, touch , and then touch Settings to customize the message settings. 6.2 Email Your mobile phone also puts email at your fingertips. With your phone’s Email application, you can use your email account with Yahoo!, AOL, or other popular email services on your phone.

  • Page 33: Saving An Email Attachment

    6.2.3 Saving an Email Attachment 1. On the accounts screen, touch the email account you want to use. 2. Touch the email message you want to view. 3. Touch Save next to the attachment in the email. 4. Select a path for saving the attachment and touch Save. 6.2.4 Creating and Sending an Email Message 1.

  • Page 34: Getting Connected

    service you are using. You can enter the necessary details manually, although you may need to contact your email service provider to obtain the correct information. 1. Touch > Email. 2. On the accounts screen, touch and hold the email account you want to change. 3.

  • Page 35: Wi-Fi

    7.2 Wi-Fi Wi-Fi gives you wireless access to broadband Internet. To use Wi-Fi on your mobile phone, you must have an access to wireless access points (hotspots). Obstacles that block the Wi-Fi signal will reduce its strength. 7.2.1 Turning On Wi-Fi 1.
  • Page 36 7.3.1 Installing the USB tethering Driver If your computer is running Windows 7 or a recent distribution of some flavors of Linux (such as Ubuntu), you typically do not need to prepare your computer for tethering. But if you are running an earlier version of Windows or another operating system, you may need to prepare your computer to establish a network connection via USB.

  • Page 37: Browser

    7.4 Browser Your mobile phone comes with an Internet browser pre-installed. 7.4.1 Opening the Browser 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 38: Bluetooth

    7.4.4 Managing Bookmarks You can store as many bookmarks as you want on your mobile phone. Adding a Bookmark 1. In a browser window, go to the webpage you want to save as a bookmark. 2. Touch , and then touch Bookmarks >...

  • Page 39: Sending Files Via Bluetooth

    3. Touch Bluetooth settings, and then select the Discoverable to make your mobile phone visible to other Bluetooth devices. 7.5.2 Pairing with and Connecting to a Bluetooth Device Your mobile Bluetooth lets you do the following: • Hands Free Profile (HFP): allows you to use a hands-free Bluetooth device. •...

  • Page 40: Entertainment

    8 Entertainment In addition to being a communication device and personal assistant, your mobile phone also provides you with a multitude of entertainment possibilities. You can take photos, create videos , and download and listen to music. 8.1 Taking Photos and Recording Videos The camera is a combination of camera and camcorder that you can use to shoot and share pictures and videos.

  • Page 41: Using The Gallery

    Photos taken are displayed for a moment. You can take another photo or review your photos. 8.1.3 Viewing Your Photos 1. After taking a photo, a thumbnail of the photo you have just taken is shown in the lower right corner of the capture screen. Touch the thumbnail to view it. 2.

  • Page 42: Viewing A Picture

    8.2.1 Opening the Gallery On the Home screen, touch > Gallery. The Gallery application categorizes your pictures and videos by storage location and displays these files in folders. Touch a folder to view the pictures or videos inside. 8.2.2 Viewing a Picture 1.

  • Page 43: Enjoying Music

    8.3 Enjoying Music 8.3.1 Opening the Music Library On the Home screen, touch > Music to open the music library. The music library automatically scans for music stored on your microSD card and displays them in Albums， Songs， Playlists， Folders. Touch More to view music in other ways.

  • Page 44: Listening To The Fm Radio

    By default, the album cover is displayed while the music is playing. You can flick left or right to switch to visualization effects or the lyrics screen. While playing music, touch to return to the Home screen, the music will continue to play in the background and you can use other applications.

  • Page 45: Google Services

    2. The first time you open FM radio, touch Auto tuning, which automatically scans for available FM channels, saves them as presets, and plays the first FM channel found. 8.4.2 Tuning the FM Radio Open the FM Radio application, and then do the following: •...

  • Page 46: Gmail

    5. Select a security question from the drop-down menu, and then enter the answer. 6. Touch Create. 7. When the Google Terms of Service screen appears, touch I agree, Next. 8. Enter the characters that appear on the screen, and then touch Next. To use another Google account, go to the Accounts &...

  • Page 47: Talk

    9.2.4 Replying to or Forwarding an Email 1. In the mail list, touch the email that you want to reply to or forward. 2. Touch to reply. You can also touch , and then touch Reply, Reply all, or Forward. 3.

  • Page 48: Accepting An Invitation

    9.3.3 Accepting an Invitation 1. If you have invited anyone to chat or if someone else has invited you to chat, this information will appear in the friends list. 2. Touch a pending invitation, and then touch Accept. 9.3.4 Starting a Chat 1.

  • Page 49: Youtube

    9.4 YouTube YouTube is Google’s free online video streaming service for watching, searching for, and uploading videos. 9.4.1 Opening YouTube On the Home screen, touch > YouTube. You will then see the YouTube screen. 9.4.2 Searching for a Video 1. On the YouTube screen, touch , and then touch Search.

  • Page 50: Synchronizing Information

    9.5.3 Installing an Application 1. In the Play Store, select a category, and then touch the application you want to download. On the application details screen, you can view more information about this application, such as its cost, overall rating, user comments, and similar applications.

  • Page 51: Managing Your Accounts

    10.1 Managing Your Accounts You can synchronize contacts, email, and other information on your mobile phone with multiple Google accounts or other kinds of accounts, depending on the applications installed on your mobile phone. For example, you can start by adding your personal Google account, so your personal email, contacts, and calendar are always available.

  • Page 52: Customizing Your Account Synchronization

    3. Follow the instructions and enter the required information about the exchange account you want to add. For details, contact the server administrator. 4. Touch Next to display the Account options screen. Configure the synchronization settings for this account. 5. Touch Next to finish configuring the account settings. If emails are not synchronized properly, contact the server administrator.

  • Page 53: Using Other Applications

    • Select or clear the Background data check box to control whether applications and services can transmit data when you are not working with them directly (that is, when they are running in the background). If you clear this option, Gmail stops receiving new mails, Calendar stops synchronizing events, and so on, until you refresh them.

  • Page 54: All Backup

    11.2 All Backup You can back up data using All Backup, which provides the following options: Backup to SD, Restore from SD, and Quick Backup. 11.2.1 Backing Up data by using Backup to SD 1. On the Home screen, touch >...

  • Page 55: Setting An Event Reminder

    • If the event is a special occasion such as a birthday or a day-long activity, set the date for From and To, and then select the All day check box. 3. Enter the location of the event and a description. 4.

  • Page 56: File Manager

    • Hide declined events: Select to hide events for which you have declined invitations. • Set alerts & notifications: Touch to set event reminders to alert you, to send you a notification, or to turn off event notifications on your mobile phone. •...

  • Page 57: Searching For A File

    4. Select the path where you want the file to be copied or moved. Touch to open the options panel, and then touch Paste to move or copy the file to the selected path. 11.4.4 Searching for a File 1. On the File Manager screen, touch a folder to access the directory where the file you want is located.

  • Page 58: Clock

    11.4.6 Viewing Your Memory Status On the File Manager screen, touch to open the options panel, and then touch Memory Status. The memory management screen will be displayed. This screen allows you to view the memory status and available memory on your mobile phone and microSD card.

  • Page 59: Calculator

    Customizing Alarm Settings On the alarm list screen, touch , and then touch Settings. 11.6 Calculator Use Calculator to solve simple arithmetic problems or use its advanced operators to solve more complex equations. 11.6.1 Opening Calculator On the Home screen, touch >...

  • Page 60: Updating Weather

    3. Select the city you want to add. In addition to your current city, you can add up to four more cities to the weather clock and get weather information for all of them at the same time. 4. Touch >...

  • Page 61: Managing Your Mobile Phone

    12 Managing Your Mobile Phone To configure your mobile phone, touch > Settings. 12.1 Setting the Date and Time By default, your mobile phone automatically uses the date, time, and time zone provided by the network. When your mobile phone is using the date and time settings provided automatically by the network, you cannot manually set the date, time, and time zone.

  • Page 62: Setting Ringers

    12.2.2 Adjusting the Time Before the Screen Turns Off If your mobile phone is idle for several minutes, it will turn off the screen to save battery power. To set a longer or shorter idle time: 1. On the Settings screen, touch Display >...

  • Page 63: Setting Phone Services

    3. Touch the ringtone you want to use, and then touch OK. The ringtone plays when selected. 12.4 Setting Phone Services 12.4.1 Customizing Call Settings Mobile phone service providers offer different services such as call forwarding, call waiting, fixed dialing numbers, and voicemail. You can customize many of these services if they are part of your calling plan.

  • Page 64: Protecting Your Mobile Phone

    12.5.2 Adjusting the Speech Rate 1. On the Settings screen, touch Voice input & output > Text-to-speech settings > Speech rate. 2. Select a speed at which the text is to be spoken. 12.6 Protecting Your Mobile Phone 12.6.1 Turning on Your SIM Card PIN 1.

  • Page 65: Managing Applications

    3. Touch Continue. 4. Enter the same characters again and touch OK. To change your PIN, touch Location & security > Change screen lock. 12.7 Managing Applications 12.7.1 Viewing an Installed Application 1. On the Settings screen, touch Applications > Manage applications.

  • Page 66: Resetting Your Mobile Phone

    12.7.4 Ways to Free Up Your Mobile Phone Memory • Move files and email attachments to the microSD card. • In Browser, clear all temporary Internet files and Browser history information. • Move applications to the microSD card. • Uninstall any downloaded programs that you no longer use. •...

  • Page 67: Faqs

    Back up your personal information. All personal information will be removed after the update. Make sure that your microSD card has sufficient space to store the new software version. Perform the online update following the onscreen instructions. 13 FAQs How Can I Use a microSD Card to Import Contacts to My Phone from a Different Mobile Phone? Your mobile phone only supports contact files in the .vcf format.
  • Page 68 How Can I Change the Input Method? Touch and hold the area where you write text and then select the input method you prefer. How Do I Stop the Song Playing in the Background? Touch the notification bar, flick downwards to open the notifications panel, touch the music playing notification to go to the music playing screen, and then stop playing the song.
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