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7.4 Sharing your phone's cellular data
connection
You can share your phone's cellular data connection with a single
computer via USB cable (USB tethering) or with up to eight devices at
once by turning your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.
To turn on USB tethering or Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
• Touch Settings\More\Mobile Hotspot and Tethering.
• Touch the switch
of USB tethering or Mobile Hotspot to
activate this function.
These functions may incur additional network charges from
your network carrier. Extra fees may also be charged in
roaming areas.
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Find my location using
GPS satellites ...................
To activate your phone’s global positioning system (GPS) satellite
receiver:
• Touch Settings\Location.
• Touch the switch
to turn on Google's location service.
You can then open Maps to find your location:
Use your phone’s GPS satellite receiver to pinpoint your location
within an accuracy as close as several meters (“street level”). The
process of accessing the GPS satellite and setting your phone's
precise location for the first time will only take a few minutes. You
will need to stand in a place with a clear view of the sky and avoid
moving. After this, GPS will only need 20-40 seconds to identify your
precise location.
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Data backup .....................
This phone enables you to back up your phone’s settings and other
application data to Google servers, with your Google account.
If you replace your phone, the settings and data you’ve backed up
are restored onto the new phone the first time you sign in with your
Google account.
To activate this function:
• Touch Settings\Backup & reset
• Touch Back up my data and then the switch
.
When this function is activated, a wide variety of settings and data
is backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, a list
of the applications you’ve installed, the words you’ve added to the
dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings
that you configure with the Settings application. If you deactivate this
option, you stop backing up your settings, and any existing backups
are deleted from Google servers.
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Factory data reset
To activate factory data reset:
• Touch Settings\Backup & reset\Factory data reset.
• Touch RESET PHONE.
Resetting the phone will erase all of your personal data from internal
phone storage, including information about your Google account,
any other accounts, your system and application settings, and any
downloaded applications. If you reset the phone in this way, you’re
prompted to re-enter the same kind of information as when you first
started Android.
When you are unable to power on your cellphone, you can perform
a factory data reset by pressing the Power key and the Volume up
key at the same time until the screen lights up.