Huawei MATE S User manual

User Guide

HUAWEI Mate s

Contents

Foreword

Highlights

Voice wakeup 2

New camera modes 3

Director mode 4

Wi-Fi+ 4

Thumb mode 5

Fingerprint ID 6

Safe 8

Getting started

Locking and unlocking the screen 9

Connecting to a Wi-Fi network 10

Turning on mobile data 10

Connecting your phone to a computer 10

Importing contacts from your old phone 11

Touchscreen gestures 12

Motion control 14

Status icons 16

Navigation bar settings 17

Home screen 18

Notifications 21

Accessing applications 22

Personalising your phone 23

Entering text 25

Calls and contacts

Making a call 28

Answering or rejecting a call 30

In-call menu 31

Answering a third-party call 32

Making a conference call 32

Using the call log 33

Turning on pocket mode 33

Call settings 34

Managing contacts 35

Searching for a contact 35

Importing or exporting contacts 36

Adding a contact to your favourites 38

Contact groups 38

Messaging and email

Sending a text message 40

Replying to a message 40

Managing messages 41

Setting up an email account 42

Sending an email 43

Checking your email 43

Account settings 44

Camera and gallery

Capture screen 45

Taking a photo 46

Launching the camera from the gallery 46

Capture modes 47

Shooting a video 50

Video shooting modes 50

Camera settings 50

Gallery 51

Scanning a QR code 53

Music and videos

Adding songs 54

Listening to music 54

Creating a playlist 56

Playing a playlist 56

Deleting a playlist 56

Setting a song as the ringtone 56

Playing a video 57

Network and sharing

Enabling mobile data 58

Wi-Fi network 58

Sharing your phone's mobile data 59

Transferring data using Bluetooth 60

Transferring data using Wi-Fi Direct 61

iii

Transferring data between your phone and

computer 62

Transferring data between your phone and a USB

storage device 63

Multi-screen display 64

Huawei Beam 65

Apps

Managing applications 66

Backup 67

Phone Manager 69

Calendar 70

Clock 72

Weather 73

Notes 74

FM Radio 74

Phone settings

Turning on location services 76

Modifying sound settings 76

Modifying display settings 77

Enabling one-hand UI 78

Touch-disable mode 78

Turning on gloves mode 79

Using the suspend button 79

Changing the lock screen style 80

Turning aeroplane mode on or off 81

Setting your SIM card PIN 81

Setting up an account 82

Restoring factory settings 83

Updating your phone 83

Setting the date and time 84

Changing the system language 85

Privacy protection 85

Accessibility 86

Safety information

Legal Notice

Foreword

This guide is intended to be used with phones running EMUI 3.1.

All pictures and illustrations are for your reference only and may differ from the final

product.

The features described in this guide may not be available on all phones or carriers due to

local service supplier policy.

Symbols and definitions

For more information

You can refer to the Quick Start Guide packaged with your phone.

Open

HiCare

to read the user guide and service information or get help from the online

forum.

Go to http://consumer.huawei.com/en/ to download product manuals (including safety

information), read the FAQs and view the Privacy Policy.

Go to

Settings

About phone

Legal information

to view important legal information.

Please visit http://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/hotline/ for the most

up-to-date contact information for your country or region.

Note Highlights important information and tips and

provides additional information.

Caution

Indicates potential problems that may arise, such

as device damage or data loss, if proper care or

attention is not given.

Highlights

Voice wakeup

If you can't find your phone when you know it's nearby or your hands are full when you

need to call somebody, use voice wakeup to find your phone and place calls.

This feature may not be available on all phones.

Waking up your phone and making a call

On the home screen, touch

Settings

Under

All

, touch

Speech awareness

Touch the

Speech awareness

switch to enable voice wakeup.

Follow the onscreen instructions to set up a wakeup keyword.

Say the keyword to wake up your phone and use voice dialling.

Waking up your phone and locating it

On the home screen, touch

Settings

Under

All

, touch

Speech awareness

Touch the

Speech awareness

switch to enable voice wakeup.

Follow the onscreen instructions to set up a wakeup keyword.

Say the keyword and ask your phone where it is. Your phone will ring to reveal its

location.

Highlights

New camera modes

Perfect selfie

Set your own custom beauty settings for facial enhancement and beautifying effects

when you take photos in

Beauty

mode.

On the home screen, touch

Camera

Touch > >

Perfect selfie

Enable

Perfect selfie

Touch

Perfect selfie

and take three self-portrait shots.

On the camera settings screen, you can touch

Perfect selfie

Edit personal info

update your personal information.

On the

Set beauty effects

screen, adjust your beauty settings and then touch .

Beauty

mode, touch to take photos.

Light painting mode

Capture trails of light by using slow shutter speeds.

On the home screen, touch

Camera

Touch

Light painting

and select a preset effect.

Touch to begin shooting. When the desired exposure time is reached, touch to

complete the shot.

Time-lapse mode

Use this mode to create an accelerated video of a slow-changing scene, such as the

sunset or sunrise.

On the home screen, touch

Camera

Swipe left or right to select

Time-lapse

Touch to start recording.

Highlights

Touch to stop recording. The captured video will be played back at an accelerated

pace.

Director mode

Director mode lets you play the role of a movie director and partner with friends to create

a professional film.

You can connect up to four phones for different shooting angles and activate the

camera on each as necessary. Make sure Wi-Fi is turned on and

Director Mode

available on each phone.

On the home screen, touch

Director Mode

On your phone, touch

Record

Create group

and follow the onscreen instructions to

set up a group. Your phone will act as the director's phone while shooting.

On the other phones, touch

Director Mode

and then touch

Record

Join group

. Follow

the onscreen instructions to join the group.

After a connection is set up, you can view each of the phone cameras from sub-

windows at the bottom of your screen.

Touch to start recording. Touch any sub-window to switch to another camera.

Touch to stop recording.

You will be able to the edit the video clip after shooting by cropping, adding background

music, adding titles and more.

Wi-Fi+

If you enable Wi-Fi+, your phone will monitor the quality of available networks and

automatically switch to the network with the best signal and speed.

On the home screen, touch

Settings

and then go to the

All

tab.

Under

Wireless

networks

, touch

Touch

LINK+

Wi-Fi+

Touch

Wi-Fi+ settings

Highlights

Turn on

Wi-Fi+

Thumb mode

Thumb mode makes it easier to use phones with large screens and quickly share QR

contact cards with friends.

One-hand layout

On the home screen, touch

Settings

Under

All

, touch

One-hand UI

One-hand layout

Enable

One-hand layout

. You can then swipe the virtual navigation bar to either side to

change the screen layout, bringing everything within reach.

Shifting keyboard

On the home screen, touch

Settings

Under

All

, touch

One-hand UI

Shifting keyboard

Enable

Shifting keyboard

. You can then touch the arrow on either side of the screen to

move the keyboard, dialler or in-call menu to the side within reach.

This feature may not be available on all phones.

Highlights

Moving the screen down

On the contacts, dialler, messaging or email screen, if you can't reach items near the top

of the screen, touch the upper half of the screen and drag down and release (after 1

second) to shift the entire interface down closer to your thumb.

From the dialler, contacts or messaging screen, drag down and then release to display

your personal QR contact card. Your friends can scan this to obtain your phone number

instantly.

Fingerprint ID

Use your fingerprint to unlock the screen or encrypt important or private information.

This function is only available on phones that have a fingerprint sensor.

Registering a fingerprint

Use your fingerprint to unlock the screen or view encrypted data. To better protect your

privacy, you can use the fingerprint screen unlock feature only when the unlocking

method is set to

Password

On the home screen, touch

Settings

Under

All

, touch

Fingerprint ID

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