Samsung S5 Active Owners Manual

Contacts and Your Address Book       63
Linking Contacts
Linking Contact Information
Many people now maintain multiple email accounts, social 
networking logins, and other similar account information. For 
example, a Facebook account logi n name might differ from a 
corporate email account login because they are maintained 
separately and for different groups of people.
This device can synchronize with multiple accounts such as 
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Corporate email, and Google. 
When you...

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Tap the link icon   under the 
Connection bar to 
view the contact information you joined. The contacts
and information displays wi th an icon next to the 
contact name to indicate what type of account 
information is contained in the entry.
Unlinking a Contact
1. From the Home screen, tap Contacts .
2. Tap a contact name (the ac count name from which you 
want to unlink an entry). 
Note: typically this is the same 
contact with a different na me or account information.
3. Tap the link icon   under...

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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 if 
you want the applications to sy nchronize automatically. After 
determining how you want the accounts to synchronize, 
indicate which account to sync hronize with your Contacts 
list.
1. From the Home screen, tap 
Contacts .
2. Press   ➔ 
Settings ➔ Contacts then tap Accounts.
If you have previously added any accounts,...

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–Ta p   ➔  to begin framing and then photographing 
a new business card. This proce ss automatically imports that 
information and updates either an existing contact or creates a 
new one.
 SIM Management: allows you to copy contacts from your 
phone to your SIM card or from  your SIM card to your phone. 
You can also delete contacts from your SIM.
 Speed dial: allows you to set up speed-dialing.
 Send message or email: allows you to send a text /picture 
message or an email using your Google...

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 Send contact information: allows you select specific elements 
of an existing contact (name, Mobile number, email, etc.) and 
send them to a recipient via a text message. This option does 
not send the entire Contact entry but only selected elements.
 Add to reject list: allows you to add an entry’s number to the 
reject list.
 Add shortcut to home screen: adds a shortcut to the current 
Contacts entry to an available screen location.
Groups
Adding a Contact to a...

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Group message tone to choose an alert tone for 
assignment to this new group, then tap 
OK.
5. Ta p  
Group vibration pattern to choose a vibration audio 
file for assignment to this new group, then tap 
OK.
– or –
Ta p  
Create and follow the on-screen instructions to 
create your own vibration pattern.
6. Ta p  
Add member to add contacts to the new group.
7. Tap each contact you want to add to create a 
checkmark. You can also tap 
Select all.
8. Ta p  
Done.
9. Ta p  
Save to save the new...

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Removing Favorites from your Address Book
1.From the Home screen, tap Contacts .
2. Within the Contacts list, tap  a contact that you want to 
remove from your favorites list. Contacts in your 
Favorites list will have a gold star.
3. Tap the gold star on the top of the display.
4. The gold star will change  to a white star and the 
contact is removed from your Favorites list. The gold 
star will no longer appear next to the contact image in 
the Address Book....

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 of your current contacts 
stored on your SIM card.
4. Tap the contacts to place  a checkmark adjacent to 
those entries you wish to ha ve copied to your phone. 
Repeat this step for all individual entries you wish copied to 
your phone or tap 
Select all to place a checkmark alongside all 
entries.
5. Ta p  Done to copy.
The selected numbers are copied. 
Deleting Contacts from the SIM card
To delete contacts from your SIM card, follow these steps: 1. From the Home...

Messaging       71
Section 5: Messaging
This section describes how to send and receive different 
messages using the default Messaging app on your phone.
Types of Messages
Your default Messaging app provides the following message 
types:
Text Messages 
Multimedia (Picture, Video, and Audio) Messages 
The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive 
text messages to and from other mobile phones or email 
addresses. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to 
your service provider’s...

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Tap on the 
Enter recipient field to manually enter a 
recipient or tap   to select a recipient from your 
Contacts. You can also select the recipient based on 
Groups, Favorites, or Logs.
3. If adding a recipient from your Contacts, tap the 
contact to place a checkmark then tap 
Done.
The contact will be placed in the recipient field.
Note: For the Group option, if the  number of recipients is less 
than 10, all members in the group will be added. You will 
need to delete any unnecessary members...