User's Manual

38 Chapter 8 : Preferences
Screen & Lock
Change screen brightness
1 Open Screen & Lock .
2 Under Screen, tap, hold, and drag the Brightness slider to the
preferred level.
Set the interval for turning the screen off automatically
By default, your screen turns off after one minute of inactivity to save battery
power. You can change this interval.
1 Open Screen & Lock .
2 In Tu rn O f f A f te r, tap the interval shown, then tap the number of
seconds or minutes.
Change your wallpaper
Your wallpaper is the screen background in Card view. You can customize
the wallpaper to show a favorite picture.
1 Open Screen & Lock .
2 Ta p Change Wallpaper.
3 Do one of the following:
• Use an existing picture as the background: Tap the album
containing the picture, and tap the picture.
• Use a new picture as the background: Ta p New Photo and take
the picture.
4 (Optional: applies to new pictures only) Do either or both of the
following:
• To zoom out or in on a part of the picture, pinch in or out on the
picture.
• To capture the portion of the picture you want for your wallpaper,
tap and hold the picture, and then drag the portion you want to the
center of the onscreen box.
5 Ta p Set Wallpaper.
Sounds & Ringtones
Manage system sounds and notifications
You can turn system sounds, such as transition sounds, and notification
alerts, on or off. You can also set the volume for system sounds.
NOTE Sliding the ringer switch off turns off system sounds. The ringer switch
does not affect the Clock alarm or media sounds, such as Music and Video.
1 Open Sounds & Ringtones .
2 In Ringer Switch Off, tap Vibrate or Mute to set whether your phone
vibrates when you slide the ringer switch off.
3 Under Ringer Switch On, set any of the following:
Rings & Alerts: Select Sound & Vibrate, or Sound. To change the
ringtone for incoming calls, see Select the ringtone for incoming calls.
Tap, hold, and drag the Ringtone Volume slider to set the ringtone
volume.
System Sounds: Set whether to turn on systemwide sounds for
general actions such as transitions and alarms set in Clock. Tap, hold,
and drag the Volume slider to set the system sounds volume.