Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Manual

Encrypt important and private files to prevent others from viewing them.

Enabling the Safe

1. Open File Manager.
2. Touch Safe.
3. If your phone supports and has a microSD card inserted, you can choose to create the Safe in SD card or Internal.
4. Enable Safe and follow the onscreen instructions to set a password and security question answer.

Adding files to the Safe

1. Open File Manager.
2. Touch Safe and enter your password.
3. Touch . Then add some files to Safe. You can then view the encrypted files in Safe.

All focus mode lets you change the focus point on a photo after it’s been taken.
1. Open Camera.
2. Touch > All-focus.
3. Touch to take a photo.
4. Touch to find the photo you’ve just taken, and touch to adjust the focus point.

You can take photos directly from Gallery.
1. Open Gallery.
2. Touch the view switching button at the bottom of the screen to switch to the timeline album view.
3. On the timeline album screen, drag down on a blank area to launch the camera in half-screen mode. Touch to take photos.
4. Drag the viewfinder further down to enter full-screen capture mode. When you are done, touch Return to return to the timeline album screen.

Scanning a QR code using Gallery

1. Open Gallery.
2. Choose a QR code photo. Gallery will automatically scan the QR code.
3. Touch View details to view the QR code details.

Scanning a QR code using Camera

1. Open Camera.
2. Frame the QR code with the camera. Camera will automatically scan the QR code.
3. Touch View details to view the QR code details.

What’s Privacy protection?

If you have content on your phone that you want to keep private, you can set two different unlock passwords, one for yourself, and the other for visitors. If your phone is unlocked using the visitor password, all your private content will be hidden.

Your contacts, albums, and applications are all able to be set as private.

Setting a privacy protection password

1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Security > Privacy protection > Let’s start.
3. Choose a password style, and set your owner password and the visitor password.
If you have set a screen unlock password, the password will be used as the owner password by default.

Setting private information

1. Open Settings.
2. Touch Security > Privacy protection.
3. Enter your owner password to access the Privacy protection screen.
4. Select the contacts, albums, or applications you want to set as private.

Enabling or disabling a SIM card

You can install two SIM cards to your phone and use one or both of them at the same time. When you do not need to use a SIM card, disable it.
1. On the home screen, touch Settings.
2. Under All, touch SIM card management.
3. Select or deselect the check box next to Card 1 or Card 2 to enable or disable a SIM card.

The settings displayed may vary according to your service provider and phone model.

Setting the default SIM card for data services

You can set a default SIM card for data services.
1. On the home screen, touch Settings
2. Under All, touch SIM card management.
3. Touch Card 1 or Card 2 next to Default data network.

The settings displayed may vary according to your service provider and phone model.

Setting the default SIM card for calling and messaging

You can set the default SIM card for calling or messaging.
1. On the home screen, touch Settings.
2. UnderAll, touch SIM card management.
3. Touch Card 1 or Card 2 next to Default calls/messages.

Magazine screen unlock

Flick up from the bottom of the screen to display the magazine unlock control panel.

Managing the home screen

Adding a widget

1. Touch and hold a blank area on the home screen.
2. Touch Widgets.
3. Choose a widget and drag it to the home screen.

Creating a folder

On the home screen, drag one application on top of another to create a folder containing both of them.

Adding or removing a home screen

Pinch three fingers together on the home screen to display the home screen thumbnails. Touch to add a home screen or touch on the upper right corner of a blank home screen to remove it.

1. Open Camera.
2. Frame the scene you want to capture. Let your camera focus automatically or touch the screen to focus the camera.
3. Touch to take a single photo, or touch and hold to take several photos in rapid succession.

• Beauty: Your phone automatically beautifies your skin and gives your portraits a more professional touch-up.
• Panorama: Your phone takes several photos as you pan and stitches them into one stunning panoramic shot.
• HDR: High dynamic range imaging (HDR) helps improve the photo quality when ambient light is unbalanced.
• Audio note: Your phone records a brief audio clip after you take a photo.
• Best photo: Your phone takes several photos in rapid succession and automatically picks the best.
• Watermark: Add the time, location, weather, and other information to a photo as watermarks.

1. Open Camera.
2. Flick left or right to switch to video mode.
3. Frame the scene you want to record.
4. Touch to start recording.

This section only applies to phones that support microSD cards.

After a microSD card is properly inserted into your phone, you can change the preferred save location for photos and videos.
1. Open Camera.
2. Touch > Settings > Preferred save location.
3. Set the preferred save location for your photos and videos.

Creating a playlist

1. Open Music.
2. Touch Playlists > Create new playlist.
3. Name and save the playlist.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to add songs to the playlist.

Playing a playlist

1. Open Music.
2. Touch Playlists.
3. Touch the playlist you want to play.

Playing a video

1. Open Videos.
2. Touch the video you want to play.
3. Touch the onscreen control buttons to fast forward, rewind, stop, or perform other operations.

Turning on Bluetooth

1. Open the notification panel and go to the Shortcuts tab.
2. Touch and hold to enter the Bluetooth settings screen.
3. Touch Turn on Bluetooth.
4. From the search results, choose a Bluetooth device, and follow the onscreen instructions to pair your phone with it.

To unpair the two devices, touch next to the other device, and touch Unpair.

If you can’t set up a Bluetooth connection with another device, the device may not be compatible with your phone.

Sharing a file using Bluetooth

To exchange data with another Bluetooth device, enable Bluetooth on both devices and make sure they are both discoverable.
Touch and hold the file you want to send, and touch Share > Bluetooth.

Connecting two devices using Wi-Fi Direct

1. Open the notification panel and go to the Shortcuts tab.
2. Touch and hold from the shortcut switches to enter the Wi-Fi settings screen.
3. Turn on Wi-Fi.
4. Touch Wi-Fi direct to scan for available devices.
5. Choose a device.

Sending a file using Wi-Fi Direct

1. Open File Manager.
2. Touch and hold the file you want to send, and touch Share > Wi-Fi direct.