v6.0
Table Of Contents
- Setup and basics
- Your device at a glance
- Insert the SIM card
- Insert a media card
- Turn your device on or off
- Move between home screens
- Get around with navigation buttons
- Touch screen gestures
- Apps, widgets, and shortcuts
- Personalizing your device
- Phone and voice
- Applications and features
- Find help for apps
- Download an app on Google Play™
- Organizing your home screen
- Move an app, a widget, or a shortcut around
- Move an app or a shortcut to the favorites tray
- Add a home screen
- Change the default home screen
- Delete a home screen
- Organize apps and shortcuts into folders
- Change how you view your recent apps and screens
- Uninstall an app or remove an app, a widget, or a shortcut from a home screen
- Messenger
- About the Google™ app and Now on Tap
- Clock
- BlackBerry Device Search
- Location services and Google Maps
- Google Chrome™ and Downloads
- Printing
- Settings
- Change your device settings
- Customize the quick settings menu
- Notifications
- Storage space and media cards
- Connections
- Wireless connection icons
- Turn on airplane mode
- Mobile network
- Wi-Fi network
- Bluetooth technology
- Turn on Bluetooth technology
- Pair and connect your device with a Bluetooth enabled device
- Change the name of your device for Bluetooth connections
- Change the settings for a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- Delete a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- View a list of files you received over Bluetooth
- Supported Bluetooth profiles
- Troubleshooting: Bluetooth connections
- NFC
- Tethering and mobile hotspot mode
- VPN
- Emergency broadcast messages
- Data usage
- Battery and power
- Display
- Advanced interactions
- Convenience key
- Accounts
- Accessibility
- Users
- Backup and reset
- Update your device software
- Security
- Locks, passwords, and protecting your data
- Finding and protecting a lost device
- Security settings
- Legal notice
2.
Tap > More > Tethering & Mobile Hotspot.
3. Do one of the following:
• Connect your device to another device using an appropriate cable, and then turn on the USB tethering switch.
• Turn on the Bluetooth tethering switch, and then connect your device to another device using Bluetooth
technology.
To stop sharing your Internet connection, turn o the USB tethering or Bluetooth tethering switch.
Use mobile hotspot to share your Internet connection
Before you turn on mobile hotspot, confirm that your device is connected to the mobile network.
When you set up your mobile hotspot, record the name of your mobile hotspot and the password. You, or the user of
another device that wants to connect to your mobile hotspot, must know the name of your mobile hotspot and the
password to connect.
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen once using two
fingers, or twice using one finger.
2.
Tap > More > Tethering & Mobile Hotspot.
3. Turn on the Mobile Hotspot switch.
4. To change your settings, tap Set up Mobile Hotspot. Make your changes, and then tap Save.
To stop sharing your Internet connection, turn
o the Mobile Hotspot switch.
View a list of devices that are connected to your mobile hotspot
Make sure that mobile hotspot is turned on.
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen once using two fingers, or twice using one finger.
2.
Tap > More > Tethering & Mobile Hotspot > Connected devices.
Troubleshooting: Tethering and mobile hotspot
I can't use Internet tethering
• Check that your device is connected to the mobile network.
• Check that data services are turned on. Swipe down from the top of the screen once using two fingers, or twice using
one finger. Tap > Data usage. Confirm that the Cellular data switch is turned on.
• Check that your wireless service plan is set up to use Internet tethering.
• If your wireless service plan supports Internet tethering while roaming, check that data roaming is turned on. Swipe
down from the top of the screen once using two fingers, or twice using one finger. Tap > More > Cellular networks.
Confirm that the Data services while roaming setting is set to Prompt or On.
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