Huawei Ascend Mate 2 Owners Manual

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Removing an email account
After you remove an email account, your phone will no longer send or receive 
emails using that account.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. On the Inbox screen, touch  .
3. Touch Settings.
4. Select the account you want to remove.
5. Under Remove account, touch Remove account.
6. Touch OK.
Modifying email account settings
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. On the Inbox screen, touch  .
3. Touch Settings > General.
4. Set the font size, display options, and other settings. 
						

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Camera
As time flies by, there must be some memories you want to keep forever. 
Camera is a great tool for this. It supports a variety of capture modes, such 
as beauty and smile.
Viewfinder
•Drag the slider to to switch to photo mode. 
•Drag the slider to  to switch to video mode. 
•Touch  to take a photo.
•Touch and hold   to take burst shots, and release your finger to 
stop.  
Touch the thumbnail to view your photos.
•Touch an object on the viewfinder to focus the camera on it.
•Spread two fingers to zoom in or pinch to zoom out. 
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Taking a photo
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Frame the scene you want to capture. The camera automatically focuses 
itself. 
When the viewfinder frame turns green, the camera is focused.
3. Touch .
Continuous shooting
Continuous shooting allows you to record a series of dynamic images and pick 
the best from them. 
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Frame the scene you want to capture. 
3. Touch and hold  . The camera then takes up to 10 photos at most in 
rapid succession. You can stop shooting anytime by releasing your finger.Touch  to open the option menu, where you can:
•Touch  to switch to normal mode. 
•Touch  to switch to smart mode. 
•Touch  to switch to beauty mode. 
•Touch  to switch to HDR mode. 
•Touch  to switch to panoramic mode. 
•Touch  to switch to Sound & shot mode.
•Touch  to switch to special effects mode. 
•Touch to enable or disable Object tracking, Capture smiles, Touch 
to capture
, and other functions, as well as set the photo resolution, 
timer, and other parameters. 
Touch  to set the flashlight mode.
Touch  to switch between the rear and front cameras. 
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Shooting a video
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Frame the scene you want to record. 
3. Touch to start recording.
4. Touch  to stop recording.
Taking a photo in beauty mode
Want great photo quality without putting on any makeup? Enable beauty 
mode for flawless photos. 
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. In photo mode, touch   >  to switch to beauty mode. 
3. Frame the scene you want to capture and adjust the beauty level. 
The camera will identify a face and focus on it. 
4. Touch .
Taking a panoramic photo
Are you still upset that your camera's view angle isn't wide enough to capture 
an incredible scene? Panorama mode is exactly the solution you need. You'll 
be able to piece together several photos and combine them into one seamless 
shot.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. In photo mode, touch   >  to switch to panoramic mode. 
3. Frame the scene you want to capture.
4. Touch .
5. Move your phone slowly in the direction indicated by the arrow to capture 
multiple photos.
 
If the viewfinder screen turns red, the view will not be captured. This 
may happen when you have moved your phone too fast or the viewfinder 
scope has gone beyond the limits of the panoramic view.  
						

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6. Your phone stops shooting when it has taken enough photos for a 
panoramic photo. You can also touch  to stop shooting.
The camera automatically stitches the photos together to create one 
panoramic photograph.
Using HDR
High dynamic range (HDR) imaging technology improves the details in the 
lightest and darkest areas of photos for true-to-life quality.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. In photo mode, touch   >  to switch to HDR mode. 
3. Frame the scene you want to capture. The camera automatically focuses 
itself. 
When the viewfinder frame turns green, the camera is focused.
4. Touch . 
Taking an audio photo
You can record an audio clip while taking a photo to make the photo more 
vivid. 
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch    >  to switch to audio photo mode. 
3. Frame the scene you want to capture. 
4. Touch  to take a photo. The phone then records an audio clip for a few 
seconds. Record your thoughts for the photo you've just taken. 
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Gallery
Gallery is your personal treasure box of sweet memories.
Viewing photos or videos
In your Gallery, photos and videos are stored in separate albums.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch the album you want to view.
3. Touch the photo or video to view it in full screen mode.
 
When viewing a photo, pinch two fingers together to zoom out or 
spread them apart to zoom in.
Playing a slideshow
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch an album.
3. Touch  > Slideshow to play a slideshow of the photos in the album.
4. Touch the screen to stop the slideshow.
Editing a photo
You can remove red eye, crop a photo, or apply a number of effects to make 
your photos even more stunning.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch the photo you want to edit.
3. Touch  > Edit and then you can:
•Touch  to select a filter. 
•Touch  to rotate or crop the photo.
•Touch  to lighten or shadow the photo.
•Touch  to add a frame to the photo.  
						

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4. Touch .
Rotating a photo
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch the photo you want to rotate.
3. Touch  > Rotate Left or Rotate Right.
 
You can also enable the auto-rotate screen function to have your phone 
automatically adjust the display orientation when you rotate your phone.
Cropping a photo
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch the photo you want to crop.
3. Touch  > Edit.
4. Touch  > Crop and then you can:
•Drag the grid to reposition it.
•Drag the frames of the grid to resize it.
5. Touch .
Deleting a photo
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch the photo you want to delete.
3. Touch .
4. Touch Delete. 
						

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Sharing a photo or video
Want to share your best shots or an amusing trick your dog just did? Simply 
share the photos and videos using email, Bluetooth, and more.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch the photo or video you want to share.
3. Touch .
4. Choose a sharing method and follow the onscreen instructions.
Setting a photo as the wallpaper
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Choose the photo you want to set as the wallpaper.
3. Touch  > Set as > Wallpaper.
4. Drag the frames of the grid to resize it.
5. Touch .
Music
In the mood for music? Your phone provides you with a supreme audio 
experience.
Adding songs
You can copy songs to your phone and immerse yourself in a world of 
extraordinary sound anytime. Add songs to your phone by:
• Copying songs from your computer using a USB cable.
• Downloading songs from the web.
• Copying songs from Bluetooth devices.
• Copying songs from other devices using Wi-Fi. 
						

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Listening to music
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Choose a category.
3. Touch the song you want to play.
Flick left or right to switch between the album cover and lyrics. 
Touch  to add a song to your favorites. 
Touch  to switch the playing mode. 
•Touch to play and touch to pause. 
•Touch  to go back to the previous song.
•Touch  to skip to the next song.
Drag the slider to control the playback.
Touch  to display the option menu from which you can perform 
additional operations.
Touch  to enable or disable DTS audio. 
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When a song is playing, touch  to exit the playback screen without 
stopping the song. To return to the music playback screen, open the 
notification panel and touch the playing song. 
Creating a playlist
Creating playlists lets you be creative with your songs, and organize them into 
groups. You'll be able to listen to the playlist that best fits your mood.
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch Playlists > Create new playlist.
3. Touch the text box to name the playlist. 
4. Touch Save.
You can now add songs to the playlist. 
5. In the displayed dialog box, touch OK.
6. Select the songs you want to add.
7. Touch ADD.
Playing a playlist
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch Playlists.
3. Touch and hold the playlist you want to play.
4. From the displayed option menu, choose Play.
Deleting a playlist
1. On the home screen, touch  .
2. Touch Playlists.
3. Touch and hold the playlist you want to delete.
4. From the displayed option menu, choose Delete.