Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini User Manual

     
  
     
   
 
     
     
  
 
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Section 3: Contacts and Accounts 
This section explains how to 
manage contacts and accounts. 
Accounts 
Your device provides the ability to synchronize information, 
from a variety of accounts, including Email, Facebook, 
Google, LDAP, Microsoft Exch ange ActiveSync, and your 
Samsung account. Depending  on the account, you can 
choose to synchronize your calendar, contacts, and other 
types of content. 
Contacts from your...

  
   
 
     
    
 
 
   
 
       
 
    
    
      
   
Contacts Contacts Contacts
Contacts 
Synchronizing Accounts 
From the Accounts menu, you decide if you want 
applications to synchronize, send, and receive data at any 
given time, or whether you  want the applications to 
synchronize automatically. After determining how you want 
the accounts to synchronize,  indicate which account to 
synchronize with your Contacts list. 
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔  . 
2.	  Touch 
Menu ➔...

     
  
    
 
 
 
 
   
 
Note: New contacts are saved in “my device contacts” unless 
you add an account. 
3.	  To u c h  the Contact image to choose a picture to identify 
the contact. 
4.	  Touch contact fields to display the keyboard and enter 
information: 
• Some fields have preset values. Touch the field and touch the 
desired value. For example, touch the   Label tab and touch 
a label for the field. 
• Other fields have to be input. Touch the field and use the 
onscreen keyboard to input...

    
   
 
     
    
 
      
     
 
      
 
 
 
Editing an Existing Contact 
When editing an existing contact, you can touch a field and 
change or delete the information, or you can add additional 
fields to the contact’s list of information.  1.  From a Home screen, touch 
Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
Contacts Contacts 
 Contacts
Contacts 
. 
2.  Touch the Contact that you want to edit. 
Edit.
3.	  Touch 
4.	  Touch any of the fields to add, change, or delete 
information. 
5.	  Touch 
Save to save the...

     
      
   
 
 
 
Using Contacts 
Dialing or Messaging from Contacts 
Once you have stored contacts  with phone numbers, you can 
call those contacts easily and quickly by either using their 
phone number or by using the Search field to locate a 
contact entry. You can also send messages from Contacts. 
1.  From a Home screen, touch 
Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts . 
2.	  Within the Contacts list (sorted alphabetically), touch a 
letter on the right side of the display to quickly jump to 
the...

    
 
    
 
     
      
 
   
   
 Linking Contacts 
Note: Only contacts stored on your phone can be linked. 
1.  From a Home screen, touch 
Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔
 Contacts Contacts . 
2.	  Touch a contact name that you want to link to another 
contact entry. 
Note: Typically this is the same contact with a different 
name or account information. 
3.	  Touch 
Menu ➔ Link contact. 
4.  Touch the second contact entry that you want to link 
with the first contact entry.
 
The  
second contact is now lin ked...

     
 
     
       
     
     
 
 
 
 
     
     
   
Marking a Contact as Default 
When you use messaging type applications, the application 
needs to know which information is primary (default) in a 
contact entry list. For example, you may have three different 
contact records for John Smith, so the application will be 
looking for the “default” number or entry. 
1.  From a Home screen, touch 
Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
Contacts Contacts . 
2.	  Touch a Contact name. 
3.	  Touch 
Menu ➔ Mark as default....

 
   
   
 
  
      
 
 
 
     
 
• Send message/email: Send a text message or an email to 
one or more contacts. 
•  Contacts to display: You can choose to display all of your 
contacts or only display contacts on your Phone, SIM, or 
contacts stored to other accounts. You can also touch 
Customized list to change other options on how your 
contacts are displayed. 
•Settings: Displays options for viewing contacts: 
– Only contacts with phones: Only display contacts that 
have phone numbers. 
– List...

     
   
 
       
    
   
   
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
      
   
 
Groups 
Assign contacts to Groups to make searching for contacts 
faster or to quickly call or send messages to group members. 
There are several default groups  that are predefined, which 
you can use to add your contacts, or you can create new 
groups. 
Creating a New Group 
1.  From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
Groups Groups . 
2. Touch Menu ➔ Create. 
3.	  Touch the 
Group name field and enter a new group 
name. 
4.	  Touch...

    
  
    
  
         
    
 
 
      
 
 
Removing a Contact from a Group 
1.  From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
GroupsGroups . 
2.  Touch a group entry. 
3.	  Touch 
Menu ➔ Remove from group. 
4.	  Touch each contact that you want to remove from this 
group or touch 
Select all. 
5.	  Touch 
Done.
 
The contacts are removed from the group.
 
Editing a Group 
To edit a Group entry, there mu st be at least one member as 
part of the selected group. 
1.  From a Home screen, touch 
Apps ➔...