User guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Important information
- Android™ – what and why?
- Getting started
- Getting to know your phone
- Phone overview
- Using the keys
- Battery
- Using the touchscreen
- Home screen
- Accessing and using applications
- Status and notifications
- Phone settings menu
- Typing text
- Keyboard and Phonepad settings
- Customizing your phone
- Memory
- Using a headset with your phone
- Internet and messaging settings
- Controlling data usage
- Turning off data traffic
- Data roaming
- Network settings
- Calling
- Contacts
- Messaging
- Google Talk™
- Getting started with Google Play™
- PlayNow™ service
- Getting organized
- Scanning with the NeoReader™ application
- Synchronizing data on your phone
- Connecting to wireless networks
- Web browser
- Music
- Identifying music using TrackID technology
- Using the FM radio
- Taking photos and recording videos
- Viewing photos and videos in Gallery
- Bluetooth™ wireless technology
- Connecting your phone to a computer
- Using location services to find your position
- Locking and protecting your phone
- Updating your phone
- Phone settings overview
- Status and notification icons overview
- Application overview
- User support
- Troubleshooting
- My phone is not working as expected
- Resetting the phone
- I cannot charge the phone
- No battery charging icon appears when phone starts charging
- The battery performance is low
- The device does not recognize my wired headset
- I cannot transfer content between my phone and the computer, when using a USB cable
- I cannot use Internet-based services
- Error messages
- Recycling your phone
- Legal information
- Index
To unblock a locked SIM card
1 When SIM card locked appears, enter the PUK code.
2 Enter a new PIN code and tap OK.
If you enter an incorrect PUK code too many times, the SIM card becomes blocked. If this
happens, contact your service provider to get a new SIM card.
Setting a screen lock
To set a screen lock
1
From your Home screen, tap > Settings > Security > Screen lock.
2 Select an option.
It is very important that you remember your screen unlock pattern, PIN or password. If you
forget this information, it may not be possible to restore important data such as contacts and
messages. Refer to Sony Customer support for more information.
To create a screen unlock pattern
1
From the Home screen, tap
.
2 Find and tap Settings > Security > Screen lock > Pattern.
3 Follow the instructions in your phone. You are asked to select a security question
that will be used to unlock the phone if you forget your screen unlock pattern.
To unlock the screen using a screen unlock pattern
1 Activate the screen.
2 Draw your screen unlock pattern.
If the unlock pattern you draw on the screen is rejected five times in a row, you can select to
either wait 30 seconds and then try again, or to answer the security question you have
selected.
To change the screen unlock pattern
1
From your Home screen, tap
.
2 Find and tap Settings > Security > Screen lock.
3 Draw your screen unlock pattern.
4 Tap Pattern.
5 Follow the instructions in your phone.
To disable the screen unlock pattern
1
From your Home screen, tap > Settings > Security > Screen lock.
2 Draw the screen unlock pattern.
3 Tap Slide.
To create a screen unlock PIN
1
From your Home screen, tap > Settings > Security > Screen lock > PIN.
2 Enter a numeric PIN.
3
If necessary, tap
to minimize the keyboard.
4 Tap Continue.
5 Re-enter and confirm your PIN.
6
If necessary, tap to minimize the keyboard.
7 Tap OK.
To disable the screen unlock PIN
1
From your Home screen, tap
> Settings > Security > Screen lock.
2 Enter your PIN, then tap Next.
3 Tap Slide.
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