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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 accounts appear in your device’s   
Contacts. 
With synchronization, you can ensure that information on   
you

r device is updated with an y information that changes in   
your accounts. 
Setting Up Your Accounts 
Set up and manage your accounts with the Accounts 
settings. 

For information about setting  up other, non-synchronized 

email accounts, see  “Creating an Email Account”  on
 
page 66
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Adding an Account 
1.  From the Home screen, touch Apps ➔ 
Settings  ➔➔ Add account. 
2.	  Select an account provider, then follow the prompts to 
enter your credentials and sign in. 
3.	  The device communicates with the provider’s server to 
set up your account on the device. 
Managing Accounts 
1. From the Home screen, touch Apps ➔ 
Settings  ➔. 
2.	  Select an account, then touch a setting to enable or 
disable synchronization. Wh en enabled, a check mark 
displays in the check box. 
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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 ➔ Accounts.
 
If you have previously added any accounts, the 

Sync settings screen displays with your current
 
accounts listed.
 
3.  Touch an account that you would like to synchronize. 
4.	  At the 
Sync settings screen, touch the options that you 
would like to synchronize for that account. 
5.	  Touch 
Sync now to synchronize the account.
 
The account is synchronized.
 
6.	  Touch  
Back to return to the Contacts list. 
Contacts 
Use Contacts to store information about your friends, family, 
and colleagues, to make contacting them easy. 
To access Contacts: 
� From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔  Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts . 
– or – 
From a Home screen, touch 
Phone ➔ . 
Tip: Swipe your finger left-to-right across a contact to make a 
call to the contact. Swipe righ t-to-left across a contact to 
create a message addressed to the contact. 
Creating Contacts 
1.  From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts ➔ Create contact . 
2.  At the  Save contact  prompt, select a save option for 
the contact (options depend  on accounts set up): 
•Device
: Save to the phone’s Contacts. 
•  Add new account: Add a new account type. 
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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 information. 
• Touching the check box next to some fields may make 
additional fields available. 
• Touch  to add additional fields.  Touch to remove an 
unused field. Also, touch 
Add another field to add other 
fields. 
• Touch the screen and swipe up or down to display additional 
fields or touch 
Next on the keyboard to move to the next field. 
5.	  Touch  Back to remove the keyboard.  6.	 
When you finish entering information, touch 
Save to 
save your changes or touch 
Cancel ➔ OK to cancel and 
discard changes. 
Tip: Display a contact’s record and touch the Email field to 
send an email, the 
Address field to displa y the address on 
a map, or the Website field to link to the website. 
Updating Contacts from Recent Calls 
Save a phone number from a recent call to create a new 

contact, or update an existing contact.
 
For more information, refer to “Saving a Recent Call as a 

Contact”  on page 54
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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 edited information. 
Choosing Contacts to Display 
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ . 
2.	 Touch Menu ➔ Contacts to display  for options: 
•  All contacts
: Show all contacts. 
•Device: Only contacts stored to your device. 
•SIM: Only contacts saved to the SIM card. 
• : Only display contacts from this account. 
• Customized list: Select contact types for each account or 
the phone. 
My Local Profile 
My local profile is your own co ntact record, listed under ME 
in Contacts. You can send My local profile as a vCard by 
using Bluetooth or as an attachment. 
Creating My Local Profile 
1.  From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts . 
2.	  To u c h  Set up profile , then enter your information
 in the 
contact fields. 
For more information, see  “Creating 
Contacts”  on page 36
. 
Sending My Local Profile 
You can send your profile as a  vCard by using Bluetooth to 
other Bluetooth devices, or as an attachment. 
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts . 
2.  Touch your profile to display your contact information. 
3.	  To u c h 
Menu, then touch  Share namecard via . 
4.	  Choose a sending method, then  follow the prompts to 
send the profile. 
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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 contacts beginning with that letter. 
3.  Touch the contact you want to call or message. 
4.  To make a phone call, touch the phone icon 
. 
– or – 
To send a message, touch the message icon  . 
F

or more information, refer to  “Creating and Sending 
Messages”  on page 61
. 
Tip: From the Contact list, swipe right over a listing to make a 
call. Swipe left over a listing to send a message. 
Linking Contacts 
Linking Contact Information 
Your device can synchronize with multiple accounts, 
including Google, Corporate, and other providers, plus social 
networking sites like Facebook. When you synchronize 
contacts from these accounts with your device, you may 
have multiple contacts for one person. 
Linking contact records allows you to see all the contact’s 

numbers and addresses together. Linking also helps you 

keep your contacts update d because any changes to 

information in the respective accounts is automatically 

updated the next time you synchronize with the account.
 
The next time you synchronize your phone with your 
accounts, any updates that contacts make to email account 
names, email addresses, and so on, automatically update in 
your contacts list. 
For more information about synchronizing accounts, see 

“Synchronizing Accounts”  on page 36
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 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 wi

th the first  
contact
   
and   
the account information   
is merged into one screen.
 
Note: When you link the contacts, the information is still 
maintained in both entries,  but displays in one record 
for easier viewing.  5.	 
To u c h
 i n  t h e Connection section to view the 
linked contact information. The  location of the contact, 
such as Device or an account, displays along with the 
contact’s name. 
Unlinking Contacts 
1.  From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts . 
2.	  Touch the linked contact name. 
In the Connection  section, various icons show how 
many contacts are linked in this record. 
3.	  To u c h
 i n  t h e Connection section to display the 
linked contacts list. 
4.	  Touch
 next to a contact to remove it from the linked 
contact record. 
5.  At the 
Separate contact prompt, touch OK. 
The contact is now separated and no longer displays in 
the merged record screen. 
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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. The  Mark as 
default  screen displays radio buttons next to the 
contact names or phone numbers of all the linked 
contacts. The radio button ne xt to the default contact 
will be green. 
4.	  To change the default contact, touch the radio button 
next to another entry that you want to be the default. 
The radio button will turn green, then touch 
Done. 
Contacts Options 
You can access Contacts options while at the main Contacts 
screen or while in the details screen for a specific entry. 
Options in Contacts 
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
Contacts Contacts . 
2.	  To u c h 
Menu for options: 
•Delete
: Delete one or more contacts. 
•Import/Export: Move contacts to or from your memory card 
or USB storage. 
•  Share namecard via: Send one or more contact’s 
information by using Bluetooth, Email, Gmail, Messaging, or 
Wi-Fi Direct. 
•  Merge Accounts: Combine accounts set up on your phone. 
•Accounts: Display the accounts set up on your phone. Touch 
Add account to add additional accounts or touch an existing 
account to manage sync settings. 
•  Speed dial setting: Set up speed-dialing. For more 
information, refer to  “Making a Call Using Speed Di
al” on 
page 52
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• 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 by: List contacts by First name or Last name. 
– Display contacts by: Display contacts by First name first 
or Last name first. 
– Service numbers: Display or edit your service numbers. 
– Contact sharing settings: Touch Settings to specify 
how contacts are transferred to another device, either as a full 
group or individually. 
•Help: Displays information about how to use Contacts. 
Contact Options 
1.  From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
ContactsContacts . 
2.	  Touch a contact and at the  contact’s display screen, 
touch 
Menu. 
3.  The following options are displayed: 
•History
: View the phone and message history for the contact. 
•Edit: Edit the contact’s information. 
•Delete: Delete the contact. 
•Link contact: Link contacts with other contacts. 
• Separate contact: Separate contacts that have been 
linked. This option only appears if the contact has been linked. 
•  Mark as default: When you have multiple contacts linked 
together, you can mark one of them as default (only displays 
when contact is saved to the phone). 
•  Share namecard via: Send the contact’s information by 
using Bluetooth, Email, Gmail, Messaging, or Wi-Fi Direct. 
•  Add to/Remove from reject list: Add or remove the 
contact from your reject list. If they call while being on the reject 
list, the call will be sent directly to voice mail. 
•  Add shortcut to home: Place a shortcut for this contact 
on your Home screen. 
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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 
Group ringtone to choose a ringtone for 
assignment to this new group.  Touch a ringtone to hear 
how it sounds, then touch 
OK. 
– or – 
Touch 
Add to select a ringtone from your music files. 
5.	  Touch 
Message alert to choose an alert tone for
 
assignment to this new group, then touch 
OK.
  6.	 
To u c h 
Vibration pattern to choose a vibration audio file 
for assignment to this new group, then touch 
OK. 
– or – 
To u c h 
Create and follow the onscr een instructions to 
create your own vibration pattern. 
7.	  To u c h 
Add member to add contacts to the new group. 
Touch each contact you want to add to create a check 
mark. You can also touch 
Select all. 
To u c h 
Done to add the members. 
8.  To u c h 
Save to save the new contact Group. 
Adding a Contact to a Group 
1. From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
Groups Groups . 
2. Touch a Group to display it, then touch Add. 
3.  Touch contacts to mark them for addition or touch 
Select all to mark all contacts.
 
When selected, a check mark displays in the 

check box.
 
4.	  To u c h 
Done to add the selected contacts. 
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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 ➔ Contacts 
➔
 GroupsGroups . 
2. Touch Menu ➔ Edit group. 
3.	  Make modifications to the Group name, Group 
ringtone, Message alert, or Vibration pattern fields. 
4.	  Touch 
Add member to add more contacts to this group. 
Touch 
Done to add the members. 
5.  Touch 
Save to save the edited contact Group. 
Sending a Message to Group Members 
Send a text or email message to a group’s members. 
1.  From a Home screen, touch 
Apps ➔ Contacts 
➔ 
GroupsGroups . 
2.  To u c h  a  Group to display it. 
3.	  To u c h 
Menu  ➔ Send message  or Send email. 
4.  Touch contacts to mark them as recipients for the new 
message or touch 
Select all, and then touch Done . 
The new message opens with the marked contacts as 
recipients. Continue creating the message, as desired. 
For more information, see  “Creating and Sending 
Messages”  on page 61
, or see “Using Email”  on 
page 66. 
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