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Copyright © 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
Edition 1.2.
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All information in this guidebook is subject to change without notice.
For online help and support, visit support.google.
com/nexus .
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Table of contents
Part One: Using Nexus 4
1. Get started
2
Insert a SIM card
Charge the battery
Get around
Browse & organize your
Home screens
Touch & type
Type text by speaking
Why use a Google Account?
What’s New in Android
2
4
7
10
14
16
18
20
2. Explore your phone
24
Swipe up for Google Now
Swipe down for notifications
& settings
Relax with Google Play
24
27
31
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Use & customize the lock screen 35
Try Face Unlock 38
Share content with Android Beam 39
Change the wallpaper
Take a screenshot
Connect to keyboards, mice,
& other devices
41
42
43
3. Use the Phone app
47
Make a phone call
Answer or divert calls
Work with the Call log
Place an Internet (SIP) call
Listen to your voicemail
47
49
51
52
54
4. Use the keyboard
59
Enter & edit text
Try Gesture Typing
Use keyboard dictionaries
59
63
65
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5. Try some apps
66
Use All Apps
Start Gmail
Find People
Manage your Calendar
Open & use Clock
Manage downloads
71
73
75
66
68
69
6. Use Google Now & Search
About Google Now
Use Google Now
Turn off Google Now
Control location access, reporting, & history
Search & Voice Actions basics
Search tips & tricks
Use Voice Actions
Voice Actions commands
Google Now Card list
About Gmail Cards
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95
97
99
102
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77
83
86
About the Location History card
About the Stocks card
Search settings
Privacy & accounts
7. Accessibility
122
Accessibility overview
Accessibility gestures for
Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
Set up your phone
122
124
127
Use magnification gestures
Use TalkBack
130
131
Change TalkBack settings 132
Use Explore by Touch with TalkBack 134
Navigate the Home screen
Try Google Play
Use Gmail
Browse Chrome
Use the lock screen
Accessibility settings
136
140
144
148
151
152
115
116
117
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Part Two: Adjusting settings
8. Wireless & network settings
156
Connect to WiFi networks
Connect to Bluetooth devices
Optimize data usage
156
163
168
Control airplane mode & other network settings 174
Connect to virtual private networks 176
9. Device settings
Change sound settings
Set up Daydream
Use Wireless Display
Transfer files through USB
Extend battery life
Manage memory usage
179
179
180
182
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10. Security settings
192
Security on Android
Manage security settings
Protect against harmful apps
Set screen lock
Encrypt your data
Work with certificates
192
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195
197
200
203
11. Personal, account, & system settings
Manage location access
Change backup & reset options
Add or remove accounts
Configure sync options
Appendix: Hardware reference
220
What’s in the box 220
Nexus 4 222
Specs 224
208
208
211
214
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Part One
Using
Nexus 4
1
Get started
Insert a SIM card
Before you start using your phone, you may need to insert your Micro SIM card. If no card is installed, the message “No SIM card” ap pears on the phone’s lock screen.
Eject button aperture
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The SIM card tray is located on the left side of the phone below the volume button. The eject button is a small hole just above the tray door. To install a new Micro SIM card:
1. Insert the SIM ejection tool that comes with the phone (or a thin pin) into the eject button hole, and push firmly but gently un til the tray pops out.
2. Remove the tray and place the micro SIM card inside it, with the contacts out and the angled corner to the right. There is only one possible way to fit the card snug ly into the tray.
3. Carefully reposition the tray in the slot and push it gently back into the phone.
TIP: Your phone’s IMEI identification number is on the SIM card tray. You may need this number later to identify your phone for service purposes. Write down the IMEI number or take a photo of the label on the product box.
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Charge the battery
Your battery will not be fully charged when you first unpack your Nexus 4. It’s a good idea to fully charge the battery as soon as you get a chance.
If you’re using the travel adapter that comes with the phone, connect one end of the data cable to the charger port at the bottom of the phone, and the other end to the travel adapter. Then connect the travel adapter to a power outlet.
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• The travel adapter varies by country or region.
• Use only the travel adapter and Mi cro USB cable that come with your
Nexus 4. Using a different travel adapter or cable may damage your phone.
• The input voltage range between the wall outlet and this travel adapt er is AC 100V–240V, and the travel adapter’s output voltage is DC 5V,
2A.
• Charging your phone through a USB cable attached to another device, such as a laptop computer, takes longer than charging with a travel adapter.
• Nexus 4’s battery can’t be removed.
Don’t attempt to open the phone.
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IMPORTANT: If you use a wireless char ger, you must use an approved model and only as directed. The Nexus 4 trav el adapter may not generate enough current to power a wireless charger.
DO NOT throw the battery in municipal waste. The symbol of the crossed out wheeled bin indicates that the battery should not be placed in mu nicipal waste.
Set up your phone
The first time you turn on the phone, you’ll see a Welcome screen.
• To choose a different language, touch the menu.
• To continue, touch Start and follow the instructions.
When prompted, sign in using the email ad
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dress and password for your Google Ac count. If you don’t have one yet, create one.
An email address that you use for any of the following counts as a Google Account:
• Gmail
• YouTube
• Google Apps
• AdWords
• Any other Google product
When you sign in with a Google Account, all the email, contacts, Calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your phone.
If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can add the others later.
Get around
Every Home screen shows the Favorites tray: another quick way to get to your apps:
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At the bottom of every Nexus 4 screen, no matter what you’re doing, you’ll always find these three navigation buttons:
Back
Opens the previous screen you were working in, even if it was in a different app. Once you back up to the Home screen, you can’t go back any further in your history.
Home
Opens Home. If you’re view ing a left or right Home screen, opens the central Home screen.
To open Google Now, swipe up.
Google Now gives just what you need to know, right when you need it.
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Recent apps
Opens a list of thumbnail images of apps you’ve worked with re cently. To open an app, touch it.
To remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it left or right.
If you don’t use these buttons often, they may shrink to dots or fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them back, touch their location.
Settings
On the All Apps screen avail able from the Favorites tray, notice the Settings icon. This brings you to the Settings screens for your phone, where you can adjust things like net work, sound, and account set tings, among many others.
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TIP: You can use Quick Settings to tog gle WiFi, change display brightness, and more. To open Quick Settings, swipe down with two fingers from the top of any screen. Or, swipe down with one finger to pull down the notification shade, and touch the Quick Settings icon at the top right.
At the top of the screen you’ll find Google
Search, which lets you search your phone or the Internet. Touch Google to type your search terms, or the Microphone icon to speak them; you can also say “Google” and your query to activate a voice search.
Browse & organize your Home screens
Browse Home screens
To move between Home screens, swipe left or right.
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The My Library widget displays apps, music, movies, magazines, books, and games you already have – including free content that comes with your Nexus 4:
Touch any title to open it
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When you’re ready to shop for more, try the suggestions in one of the Play Recommenda tions widgets:
Touch to avoid future suggestions like this
Touch to learn more
Touch to see a different suggestion
To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the top of the screen.
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Organize Home screens
To add an app or widget to a Home screen:
1. Go to the Home screen where you want to place the app or widget.
2. Touch the All Apps icon.
3. Swipe right, if necessary, to find the app or widget you want..
4. Touch & hold the app or widget until the
Home screen appears, slide it into place, and lift your finger.
To move an app or widget icon to a different location on a Home screen:
1. Touch & hold the icon.
2. Slide your finger to the new position.
To move between Home screens, slide to ward the edge of the screen.
To bump another icon out of the way, slide slowly into it.
3. Lift your finger.
The icon drops into its new position.
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To combine two icons in a folder, slide one quickly over the other.
To open a folder, touch it. To rename a folder, touch its name.
Touch & type
To select or activate something, touch it.
To type something, such as a name, pass word, or search terms, just touch where you want to type. A keyboard pops up that lets you type into the field.
Other common gestures include:
• Touch & hold. Touch & hold an item on the
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screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs.
• Drag. Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without lifting your finger, move your finger on the screen until you reach the target position. For example, you can move apps around on the Home screen.
• Swipe or slide. Quickly move your finger across the surface of the screen, with out pausing when you first touch (so you don’t drag something instead). For exam ple, you can slide a Home screen left or right to view the other Home screens.
• Double-tap. Tap quickly twice on a web page, map, or other screen to zoom. For example, doubletap a picture in Chrome to zoom in, and doubletap again to zoom out.
• Pinch. In some apps (such as Maps,
Chrome, and Gallery), you can zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and pinching them togeth er (to zoom out) or spreading them apart
(to zoom in).
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• Rotate the screen. The orientation of most screens rotates with your phone as you turn it. To lock or unlock the screen’s vertical orientation, swipe down with two fingers from the top of any screen and touch the Rotation icon in Quick Settings.
Settings
To change your phone’s noti fication sounds, volumes, and more, go to Settings > De-
vice > Sound.
To change your phone’s bright ness, font size, and more, go to
Display.
Settings > Device >
Type text by speaking
You can speak to enter text in most places that you can enter text with the onscreen keyboard.
1. Touch a text field, or a location in text you’ve already entered in a text field.
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2. Touch the Microphone key on the on screen keyboard.
3. When you see the microphone image, speak what you want to type.
Say “comma,” “period,” “question mark,” “ex clamation mark,” or “exclamation point” to enter punctuation.
When you pause, what you spoke is tran scribed by the speechrecognition service and entered in the text field, underlined. You can touch the Delete key to erase the under lined text. If you start typing or entering more text by speaking, the underline disappears.
To improve processing of your voice input,
Google may record a few seconds of ambient background noise in temporary memory at any time. This recording remains on the de vice only fleetingly and is not sent to Google.
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To change your phone’s speech settings, go to Settings > Per-
sonal > Language & input.
Settings
Why use a Google Account?
A Google Account lets you organize and ac cess your personal information from any computer or mobile device:
• Use Google Play. Google Play brings to gether all your favorite content in one place: movies, TV shows, books, music, magazines, apps, and more. When you sign in with your Google Account, you can reach any of this content from any of your devices – as long as you have a network connection. You can also shop for more in the Google Play store.
• Synchronize and back up everything.
Whether you draft an email, add an event to your calendar, or add a friend’s ad dress, your work gets backed up continu
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ously by Google and synchronized with any computer where you use the same
Google Account.
• Access from anywhere. Check your latest calendar, email, text messages, or social stream, no matter what computer or mo bile device you’re using.
• Keep your stuff secure and available.
Google works round the clock to protect your personal data from unauthorized ac cess and to ensure that you get it when you need it, wherever you need it.
• Simplify shopping. You can connect your
Google account with Google Wallet, which makes it easy to purchase music, books, apps, and more on Google Play and other online stores.
• Use other Google services. Your Google
Account also lets you take full advan tage of other Google apps and services that you may want to use, such as Gmail,
Google Maps, Navigation, Google Play,
YouTube, Google Talk, Messaging, and more.
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What’s New in Android
Whether you’re new to Android or an avid user, check out some of the new features in
Android 4.1 and 4.2 (Jelly Bean). For a com prehensive list of all changes since Android
4.0, see Android 4.1, Jelly Bean and Android
4.2: A new flavor of Jelly Bean .
• Gesture Typing (Android 4.2)
Instead of typing each letter, use Ges ture Typing to input a word without lifting your finger. You don’t need to worry about spaces because they’re added automati cally for you.
Glide your finger over the letters you want to type, and lift it after each word.
• Google Play widgets
New widgets on your Home screens dis play recently used apps, music, movies, books, or games you already have – in cluding preloaded content that comes with your device. Other widgets offer sug gestions for browsing Google Play.
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Touch a widget to access its content on
Google Play. Touch & hold a widget to resize it or remove it.
• Quick Settings (Android 4.2)
Use Quick Settings to easily access Wi
Fi settings, manage display brightness, open the main Settings menu, and more.
Swipe down with two fingers from the top right corner of any screen to open Quick
Settings, then touch one of the boxes to open a specific setting.
• Expandable notifications
Expandable notifications were introduced in Android 4.1, including the option to per form actions from the notification itself.
In Android 4.2, you can expand notifica tions more easily with a swipe of your finger.
Swipe down the notification shade from the top of the screen, then glide your finger down the notifications to expand them. Touch an icon inside a notification to handle a task directly.
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• Rearrange Home screens
Slide an icon slowly to move other icons or widgets gently aside.
Touch & hold an icon and slide slowly to the location of your choice. Slide an icon quickly over another to create a folder.
• Screen magnification (Android 4.2)
Users with visual impairments can enter full-screen magnification by triple-tap ping the screen.
Go to Settings > System > Accessibility >
Magnification gestures to turn on screen magnification.
• Google Now
Google Now shows you information at just the right time, such as today’s weath er before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and even your favorite team’s score while they’re playing.
Swipe up from the bottom center of any
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screen, or touch the Google Search bar on any Home screen.
• Say “Google” to search
When the Google Now screen is open, you can say “Google” to activate a voice search.
Open Google Now, then say “Google” and your query to search.
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Explore your phone
Swipe up for Google Now
Google Now is about getting you just the right information, at just the right time.
It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and even your favorite team’s score while they’re playing.
All of this happens automatically. Google
Now intelligently brings you the information you want to see, when you want to see it. No digging required.
For example, here’s a Google Now card that
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appears when you’re about to start your commute home:
Give it a try! Swipe your finger up from the bottom of any screen, or touch the Google
Search bar at the top of the screen.
When you want to see more cards, touch
Show more cards at the bottom of the screen. When you don’t need them any more, swipe them out of the way.
You’re in control
When you decide to use Google Now, you’re turning on location reporting and location
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history. Google Now also uses location information provided by Google’s location service and GPS, if those are currently turned on.
Google Now also uses data that you may have stored in other Google products. For example, if you have searches stored in your
Web History, Google Now can show cards based on sports scores, flight status, and so on.
Similarly, Google Now can use data that you may have stored in thirdparty products that you allow Google to access. For example, your phone’s synced calendar may include entries from nonGoogle calendar products.
If you have such an entry for a dentist appointment that includes the dentist’s address, Google Now can check traffic and suggest when to leave.
You’re in control. You can choose exactly which cards you’d like to see, adjust the details of what they display, and adjust your privacy settings.
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For more information about Google Now and your location information, see “Chapter 5,
Use Google Now & Search.”
Swipe down for notifications & settings
Notifications alert you to the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as video downloads.
When a notification arrives, its icon appears at the top of the screen. Icons for pending notifications appear on the left, and system icons showing things like WiFi signal or bat tery strength on the right:
Pending notifications
Bluetooth, WiFi, & battery status
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To open the notification shade, swipe down from the top left corner of any screen.
Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email pre views or calendar events. The one at the top is always expanded when possible.
To open the related app, touch the notifica tion icon on the left. Some notifications also allow you to take specific actions by touch ing icons within the notification. For ex ample, Calendar notifications allow you to
Snooze (remind you later) or send email to other guests.
When you’re finished with a notification, just swipe it away. To dismiss all notifications, touch the Dismiss icon at the top right of the notification shade.
You can perform these actions from the no tification shade:
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Dismiss all
Go to Quick Settings
Swipe down using one finger to expand certain notifications
Touch to respond to other guests
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Quick Settings
Use Quick Settings to easily toggle WiFi, manage display brightness, open the main
Settings menu, and more. To open Quick Set tings, swipe down from the top right corner of any screen:
Go to notifications
Touch to open all settings
Touch a square to open the specific setting
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Relax with Google Play
Google Play brings together all your favorite content in one place – movies, TV shows, books, music, magazines, apps, and more – so you can reach it from any of your devices.
Use Google Play widgets
These widgets are available on your Home screens:
• My Library. Displays your most recently used music, books, and so on. Touch any of the images to see your content – plus free gifts from Google.
• Recommended on Play. Suggests music, movies, and other content that may inter est you. Touch the suggestion to learn more about it.
• Recommended apps. Recommends apps that you can add to your Home screen.
Touch the recommendation to learn more about it.
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All Google Play recommendation widgets work the same way:
Touch to avoid future suggestions like this
Touch to learn more
Touch to see a different suggestion
To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the top of the screen.
To add another Play widget, touch the
All Apps icon, then Widgets, and swipe from right to left until you see the one you want.
Then touch & hold, and let go in the Home screen location you want.
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Shop on Google Play
Play Store
To open the Google Play Store app, touch the Play Store icon in your Favorites tray on every
Home screen.
Most things you purchase on
Google Play are available from your computer as well as from any of your Android mobile de vices. (Android apps are one exception – they run only on
Android devices.)
Sign in to play.google.com
to get your enter tainment from anywhere.
Find your content
If you purchased on Google Play in the past, you’ll automatically have access to this con tent on your Nexus 4 — just make sure you’re signed in using the same account that you used to purchase it.
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You can get to your content using any of the Google Play icons in your Favorites tray, including Books, Magazines, Movies, and
Music.
Or, touch the Play Store icon to open
Google Play, and then go to one of the main sections, such as Apps, Music, and so on.
When you touch the Menu icon in any section, the first item in the menu is always something like My Apps or My Music, which will bring you your content for that section of
Google Play.
You can quickly access your content this way, from the Google Play Store app, even if you originally purchased it on Google Play using a different phone or phone. If you get a new device, all your media will automatically be waiting for you here when you turn on and sign in.
Google Play settings
To adjust your Google Play settings, switch accounts, or get help, choose the option
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you want from the Menu in the top right corner.
The Google Play Settings screen lets you control when you’re notified about updates to apps and games, clear your search histo ry, and enable user controls. To filter Android apps based on maturity level or require a PIN before completing any purchase, touch Con-
tent filtering or Set or change PIN.
Google Play support
For more detailed information about Google
Play, including phone and email support op tions, visit support.google.com/googleplay .
Use & customize the lock screen
You can add widgets to the top of the lock screen and swipe between them. Lock screen widgets let you scan recent Gmail
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messages, Calendar entries, and other app content without unlocking your screen.
To set or change the type of lock, see
Navigate the lock screen
Clock is the default widget. To hide the PIN, pattern, or password lock, swipe down from the clock or other widget at the top of the lock screen. Touch the lock icon at the bot tom of the screen to show the lock again.
To access the Camera app without unlocking the screen:
1. Swipe left from the right edge of the screen.
2. If necessary, switch to the mode you want. The mode is indicated by the cam era or other icon at the lower left in por trait mode.
3. Start taking photos or videos.
To view what you captured, swipe left to open
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the Filmstrip view of your Gallery. The image or video is automatically saved to your Gal lery, but you can’t view any of your other pho tos and videos until you unlock your screen.
To get back to the main Camera app, swipe right.
To close the Camera app, touch the bottom of your screen to bring up the navigation but tons, then touch one of the buttons.
Add a widget to the lock screen
1. Swipe left from the right edge of the screen until you see the Plus icon.
2. Touch the Plus icon. If prompted, en ter your PIN, pattern, or password.
A list of widgets appears. Apps that sup port lock screen widgets can add their own widgets to this list.
3. Touch the widget you want to add.
You can add up to five widgets to your lock screen. To move between them, swipe be tween screens.
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Reorder lock screen widgets
1. Touch & hold a widget.
2. Drag the widget and release it in the loca tion of your choice.
Remove a lock screen widget
Touch & hold the widget, then drag it onto the
Remove icon.
Try Face Unlock
You can set an automatic screen lock for your phone. After you set a lock, the screen locks when the display goes to sleep or when you press the Power button.
You can set locks of different strengths us ing lock settings:
1. Go to Settings > Personal > Security
> Screen lock.
2. Touch the type of lock you’d like to use.
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Face Unlock is one of the options available.
After you’ve set it up, you can unlock your phone simply by looking at it. Although Face
Unlock is not very secure, it can be conve nient and fun to use.
TIP: After you set up Face Unlock, look under Settings > Personal > Security for two additional settings: Improve
face matching and Liveness check.
Use these to make Face Unlock more reliable and secure.
Share content with Android
Beam
You can beam a web page, a video, or other content from your screen to another device by bringing the devices together (typically back to back).
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Before you begin: Make sure both devices are unlocked, support Near Field Communi cation (NFC), and have both NFC and Android
Beam turned on.
1. Open a screen that contains something you’d like to share, such as a webpage,
YouTube video, or place page in Maps.
2. Move the back of your phone toward the back of the other device.
When the devices connect, you hear a sound, the image on your screen reduces in size, and you see the message Touch
to beam.
3. Touch your screen anywhere.
Your friend’s device displays the trans ferred content. Or, if the necessary app isn’t installed, Google Play opens to a screen where your friend can download the app.
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TIP: When you touch another device to the back of your Nexus 4, make sure it’s near the “u” in “nexus” to success fully beam content.
Settings
To turn on NFC, go to Settings
> Wireless & networks > More
> NFC.
To turn on Android Beam, go to
Settings > Wireless & networks
> More > Android Beam.
Change the wallpaper
To change the wallpaper that’s displayed on your Home screens:
1. Touch & hold anywhere on a Home screen that’s not occupied.
A list of options appears.
2. Touch a wallpaper source:
Gallery. Choose from pictures that you’ve
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synced with your phone.
Live Wallpapers. Choose from a scrolling list of animated wallpapers.
Wallpapers. Choose from thumbnails of default images, or touch a thumbnail for a larger version.
You can download additional wallpapers on Google Play.
3. To set a wallpaper, touch Set wallpaper or, for Gallery images, determine the crop ping and touch Crop.
To change your phone’s wall paper, go to Settings > Device
> Display > Wallpaper.
Settings
Take a screenshot
You can easily take a screenshot on your phone that you can save in your Gallery or share with others:
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1. Make sure the image you want to capture is displayed on the screen.
2. Press the Power and Volume down but tons simultaneously.
The screenshot is automatically saved in your Gallery.
TIP: To easily share your screenshot via Gmail, Google+, and more, swipe down the notification shade and touch the Share icon next to the preview of your screenshot.
Connect to keyboards, mice, & other devices
You can connect a keyboard, mouse, or even a joystick or other input device to your phone via USB or Bluetooth and use it just as you would with a PC.
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You may need an adapter to connect the key board or other device to your phone’s USB port. To connect more than one USB device at a time, use a powered USB hub to reduce the drain on your phone’s battery.
IMPORTANT: Using external devices such as keyboards via USB will cause a significant additional drain on your battery, as will continuous use of a mouse via Bluetooth.
You pair and connect Bluetooth input de vices to your phone in the same way as any other Bluetooth device.
Keyboards
In addition to entering text, you can use your keyboard to navigate your phone’s features:
• Use the arrow keys to select items on screen.
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• Pressing Return when an item is selected is equivalent to touching that item.
• Pressing Escape is equivalent to touch ing Back.
• Press Tab or Shift-Tab to move from field to field in a form or other screen with mul tiple text fields.
Mice
When you connect a mouse to your phone and move the mouse, an arrowshaped cur sor appears, just as on a computer:
• Use the mouse to move the cursor.
• Clicking, pressing, and dragging with the mouse button is equivalent to touching, touching & holding, and dragging with your finger.
• Only one mouse button is supported.
• If your mouse has a trackball or scroll wheel, you can use it to scroll both verti cally and horizontally.
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Other input devices
You can connect joysticks, gamepads, and other input devices to your phone. If they work without special drivers or adapters on your PC, they will likely work with your phone.
However, games and other apps must be de signed to support any special features of an input device, such as dedicated buttons or other controls, to take full advantage of them.
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Use the
Phone app
Make a phone call
You can place calls from the Phone app the People app
,
, or other apps or widgets that display contact information. Wherever you see a phone number, you can usually touch it to dial.
To dial using the Phone app:
1. Touch the Phone icon on a Home or
All Apps screen.
Notice the three tabs at the top of the phone.
You can make calls from any of them.
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• The Dialer tab lets you dial manually.
Touch the keys to enter the number, then touch the Phone icon pad to dial.
below the key
If you enter a wrong number, touch erase digits one by one.
to
To dial an international number, touch & hold the 0 key to enter the plus ( + ) sym bol. Then enter the international prefix for the country, followed by the full phone number.
• The Call log tab shows recent calls.
Touch a call to return it.
• The Contacts tab shows the numbers you frequently call at the top, and all your contacts below. Touch to dial.
You can switch applications during a call – for example, to look up information by using
Chrome.
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To return to the Phone app while a call is in progress:
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal your notifications.
2. Touch the green phone icon.
To end a call in progress, touch the End Call icon at the bottom of the screen.
Answer or divert calls
When you receive a phone call, the Incom ing Call screen opens, displaying the caller
ID and any additional information about the caller that you’ve entered in People.
All incoming calls are recorded in the Phone app’s Call log tab. If you miss a call, you re ceive a notification.
To silence the ringer before answering the call, press the Volume Down button on the side of your phone.
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When a call arrives, touch the white phone icon and slide over one of these icons:
Answer call
Start talking to the caller.
Send to voicemail
Direct the caller to leave a voice mail message.
Send a message
Opens a list of quick text re sponses. Touch one to send it to the caller immediately.
TIP: To edit text responses from within the Phone app, touch Menu icon >
Settings > Quick responses.
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Work with the Call log
The Call log is a list of all the calls you’ve placed, received, or missed. It provides a convenient way to redial a number, return a call, or add a number to your Contacts.
Within the Phone app der the middle tab
, the Call log is un
. Touch a number for more information about the call, or touch the phone icon beside it to call back.
Arrow icons beside a call indicate the type of call. Multiple arrows indicate multiple calls:
•
•
•
Missed incoming call
Received incoming call
Outgoing call
While viewing details for a call:
• Touch the number to call it.
• Touch
• Touch the
to send a text message.
Contacts icon to view con tact details.
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• Touch the caller.
to add a new People card for
To clear the Call log:
1. Touch the Menu icon.
2. Touch Clear Call Log.
Place an Internet (SIP) call
You can place calls over the Internet when connected to a WiFi network, rather than over your mobile network. To do so, you must first configure your phone to use an Internet calling account.
After you set up the account, placing an In ternet call is no different than placing any other call. However, you must be connected to a WiFi network. When you’re making an
Internet call, the phone displays Internet Call near the top of the screen.
Internet calling is based on the Session Ini
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tiation Protocol (SIP) for voice calls on Inter net Protocol (IP) networks.
IMPORTANT: Calling a phone number over the Internet requires that your service provider supports it. You may incur additional charges. Check with your service provider for details..
To add an Internet calling account and config ure your incoming and outgoing preferences:
1. Touch the Phone icon on a Home or
All Apps screen.
2. Touch the Menu icon.
3. Touch Settings.
4. At the bottom of the screen, under Inter net call settings:
To change your incoming call preference or account settings, touch Accounts.
To change your outgoing call preferences, touch Use Internet calling.
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You’ll also want to add SIP addresses for the contacts you want to call this way. To do so:
1. Touch the contact’s info in the log tab.
Call
2. Touch to go to the contact’s card.
3. Touch the Menu icon, then Edit.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, touch
Add another field, and then Internet call.
5. Touch the Internet call field and type the number.
Listen to your voicemail
When you have a new voicemail message, the voicemail icon appears in the Status area at the top left of your screen.
To read your voicemail:
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to view your notifications.
The voicemail notification displays the number of unread messages and a num ber to dial.
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2. Touch New voicemail.
Your phone dials the voicemail message.
Follow the instructions to retrieve your messages.
To change your voicemail service or other settings:
1. Touch the Phone icon on a Home or
All Apps screen.
2. Touch Menu, then Settings.
3. Touch the voicemail setting you want to change, or dial the number listed to ac cess other voicemail settings.
Options during a call
During a call, you can
• Answer another incoming call: You see the Incoming Call screen, displaying the caller ID and any additional information about the caller that you’ve entered in
People. As with any incoming call, touch the white phone icon and slide to answer,
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respond with a text message, or send the call to voicemail.
If you answer, the first call will be put on hold. If you respond with a message or send to voicemail, you return to the first call.
• Adjust the volume: Use the volume but tons on the side of the phone.
During a call, you can also use buttons near the bottom of the screen to
Switch to the dialer, for example to enter a code.
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Controls the audio output as follows:
• If a Bluetooth headset is not connected: Turns the speaker phone on or off.
• If a Bluetooth headset is con nected: Functions as a 3way switch between the builtin earpiece, the speakerphone, and the headset. The icon changes to indicate the cur rent output. Touch & hold to see a 3way menu.
• If a wired headset is plugged into the phone, it replaces the phone’s builtin earpiece.
Mute your microphone.
Put the other party on hold.
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Switch to another call in progress.
Make another call separately from the first call, which is put on hold.
Merge separate calls as a single conference call.
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4
Use the keyboard
Enter & edit text
You can enter text using the onscreen key board. Some apps open it automatically. In others, you open it by touching where you want to type.
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Touch a suggestion to type it
Touch & hold to type this character
Touch & hold to see input and keyboard settings
Touch & hold to choose a smiley face
To make the keyboard go away, touch the modified Back button below it.
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Basic editing
• Move the insertion point. Touch where you want to type.
The cursor blinks in the new position, and a blue tab appears below it. Drag the tab to move the cursor.
• Select text. Touch & hold or doubletap within the text.
The nearest word highlights, with a tab at each end of the selection. Drag the tabs to change the selection.
The tab disappears after a few moments.
To make it reappear, touch the text again.
• Delete text. Touch to delete selected text or the characters before the cursor.
• Type capital letters. Touch the Shift key once to switch to capital letters for one letter.
Or touch & hold Shift key while you type. When you release the key, the lower case letters reappear.
• Turn caps lock on. Doubletap or touch
& hold Shift key, so it changes to
. Touch Shift key again to return to lowercase.
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• Cut, copy, paste. Select the text you want to manipulate. Then touch Cut,
Copy or Paste button:
Use next-word suggestions
1. Touch the location where you want to in put text.
2. Start typing out a word. When the word you want is displayed in a list above the keyboard, touch it.
3. Continue to touch one of the three op tions as your phone predicts words you may want. If you don’t want any of the op tions, type the next word without using the space bar.
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Your phone will continue to suggest words as you type.
Settings
To change your phone’s key board and input methods, go to Settings > Personal > Lan-
guage & input.
To turn nextword sugges tions on or off, go to Settings
> Personal > Language & input > Keyboard & input meth-
ods > Android keyboard. Touch the Settings icon, then check the box next to Next-word
suggestions.
Try Gesture Typing
To input a word using Gesture Typing:
1. Touch the location where you want to type to open the keyboard.
2. Slide your finger slowly across the letters of the word you want to input.
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3. Release your finger when the word you want is displayed in the floating preview or in the middle of the suggestion strip. To select one of the other words in the sug gestion strip, touch it.
If the word you want isn’t shown while using
Gesture Typing, you can type it out manually.
Use Gesture Typing without space bar
When you use Gesture Typing, there’s no need to use the space bar — just continue to slide over the words you want.
Settings
To change Gesture Typing set tings, go to go to Settings >
Language & input > Keyboard
& input methods > Android
keyboard. Then touch Settings and look under Gesture Typing.
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Use keyboard dictionaries
To manage keyboard dictionaries, go to Set-
tings > Personal > Language & input.
Personal dictionary
You can add your own words to your person al dictionary so that your phone remembers them. Touch the Add icon to add a word or phrase, as well as a shortcut to easily use that word or phrase.
Add-on dictionaries
1. Touch the Settings icon next to Android
keyboard.
2. Touch Add-on dictionaries.
You’ll see dictionaries for other languag es that you can download to your device.
3. Touch the dictionary you want, then touch
Install.
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Try some apps
Use All Apps
To see all your apps, touch All Apps in the
Favorites tray on any Home screen.
This is where you can see all your apps, in cluding those downloaded on Google Play.
You can move app icons to any of your Home screens.
From All Apps, you can:
• Move between screens. Swipe left or right.
• Open an app. Touch its icon.
• Place an app icon on a Home screen.
Touch & hold the app icon, slide your fin ger, and lift your finger to drop the icon in place.
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• Browse widgets. Touch the Widgets tab at the top of any All Apps screen.
• Get more apps. Touch the Play Store icon in the list of app icons, or the Shop icon at the upper right.
To remove an app icon from the Home screen, touch & hold it, slide your finger to ward the top of the screen, and drop the app over the
Remove icon .
To view info about an app from an All App screen, touch & hold it, slide your finger to ward the top of the screen, and drop the app over the App Info icon .
Most apps include a Menu icon near the top or bottom of the screen that lets you con trol the app’s settings.
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Start Gmail
Gmail
Use the Gmail app to read and write email from any mobile device or browser. To open it, touch the Gmail icon on a
Home or All Apps screen.
But Gmail isn’t just about email. You can use your Gmail account to sign in to all Google apps and services, including these and many more:
• Google Now, for getting just the right in formation at just the right time
• Calendar
• People, for keeping track of your contacts
• Google Drive, for working with docu ments, spreadsheets, or drawings
While you’re reading a message:
• Touch the icons and menu along the top of the screen to archive, throw away, label, or perform other actions on that message.
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• Swipe left or right to read the previous or next conversation.
To organize your email, check the box beside a message to select it. Then use the icons and menu along the top of the screen to man age the selected messages.
To change your settings, add an account, or get help, touch the Menu icon.
No matter where you are within Gmail, you can always get back to the Inbox by touching the Gmail icon at the top of the screen.
Find People
People
The People app gives you quick access to everyone you want to reach. To open it, touch the
People icon on a Home or All
Apps screen.
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When you first turn on your phone and sign into a Google Account, any existing contacts from that account are synced with your Peo ple app. After that, all your contacts stay in sync automatically on your phone, another device, or a Web browser.
If you use Exchange, you can also sync that contact information with People.
All your People information is available from
Gmail, Google Talk, and other apps. As you add contacts from different sources, they’re synced automatically across all the places you need them.
When you open the People app, you can:
• View all contacts, favorites, or groups.
Choose from the top left of the screen.
• Read details. Touch a name to see details for a contact or group.
• View recent activity. When viewing a contact, swipe to the right to see recent updates.
• Edit details. While viewing a contact,
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touch icons at the top of the screen or the Menu icon to search contacts, add a contact, edit or share contact details, delete a contact, and so on. You can also touch the star beside the contact’s name to add that contact to your Favorites list.
• Change your settings. While viewing the main list screen, touch the Menu icon to import or export contacts, choose dis play options for the Groups and All tabs, and add or edit accounts.
Manage your Calendar
Calendar
Use the Calendar app to view and edit your schedule. To open it, touch the Calendar icon on a Home or All Apps screen.
When you first set up your phone, you con figured it to use an existing Google Account
(such as Gmail), or you created a new one.
The first time you open the Calendar app on
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your phone, it displays any existing calendar events from that Google Account on the web.
As you edit events from any mobile device or web browser, they’re synced automatically across all the places you need them.
To change the Calendar view, choose Day,
Week, Month, or Agenda from the top of the screen.
From any of these views, you can:
• Read or edit event details. Touch an event to view its details.
• Manage events and calendars. Touch icons across the top of the screen or
Menu to search or create events, return to today, or adjust settings.
To email everyone who’s invited to an event, you have two options:
• Open the event from the Calendar app at any time and touch Email guests.
• When a notification of the event arrives just before the meeting starts, swipe
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down the notification shade. Then swipe using one finger to expand the notifica tion if necessary, and touch Email guests.
Open & use Clock
To open the Clock, touch the Clock icon from a Home or All Apps screen.
Set an alarm
1. Touch the Alarm Clock icon in the lower left corner of the screen.
2. Touch the Add icon to add a new alarm.
3. Select the time you want, then touch OK.
Any existing alarms will show in the main
Clock screen. To turn one On or Off, slide the switch.
You can also add a label to an alarm and change the ringtone. To change these op tions for a single alarm, touch the arrow un derneath the On/Off switch.
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Set a timer
1. Touch the Timer icon in the top left corner of the screen.
2. Enter the time you want, then touch Start.
When the timer is going, you can add an ad ditional minute, pause the timer, or delete the current timer.
The timer beeps when the time is up. It keeps beeping until you touch Stop.
Use the stopwatch
1. Touch the Stopwatch icon in the top right corner of the screen.
2. Touch Start to start the stopwatch.
If you want to pause the stopwatch, touch
Stop. You can also add laps while the stop watch is running by touching the icon to the left of the stopwatch.
To share your results, touch the Share icon to share via Google+, Gmail, and more.
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View your Clock
To view the current date and time, touch the
Clock icon at the top center of the screen.
Manage downloads
Downloads
To manage most downloads, touch the Downloads icon on the All Apps screen. Movies and some other content that you download don’t show up in the Downloads app.
Google Play streams your purchases and rentals from Google servers while you’re playing them. They don’t occupy permanent storage space. However, you can pin (down load) books, movies, and other content in or der to access it offline.
In addition to downloading content from
Google Play, you can download files from
Gmail or other sources. Use the Downloads
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app to view, reopen, or delete what you down load in this way.
From the Downloads app:
• Touch an item to open it.
• Touch headings for earlier downloads to view them.
• Check items you want to share. Then touch the Share icon and choose a sharing method from the list.
• Check items you want to delete. Then touch the Trash icon.
• At the bottom of the screen, touch Sort
by size or Sort by date to switch back and forth.
When your phone is connected to a comput er, look in the Download directory to view files available in the Downloads app. You can view and copy files from this directory.
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6
Use Google
Now & Search
About Google Now
Google Now gives you just the right informa tion at just the right time. Swipe up from the bottom of your phone to get commute traffic before work, popular nearby places, your fa vorite team’s current score, and more.
You can turn Google Now on or off at any time. Swipe up the same way and touch
Menu > Settings > Google Now. If the key board’s covering the menu, touch the modi fied Back button to lower it.
After you decide to start using Google Now,
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you don’t need to do anything else. If you like, you can fine-tune some settings, but Google
Now doesn’t need any elaborate setup.
The information you need is always at your fingertips.
To know when to display what information,
Google Now uses contextual data from your phone and from other Google products, plus data from thirdparty products that you allow
Google Now to access.
For example, Google Now uses the time of day, your current location, and your loca tion history to show you what the traffic on your commute is like when you wake up in the morning. It also uses information from
Google services such as your Web History for sports or flight updates, or from your synced calendar entries for appointment reminders.
About Google Now cards
A Google Now card is a short snippet of use ful information that slides into view right
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when you’re most likely to need it. For exam ple, here’s a traffic card:
To see some sample cards from the main
Google Now screen, touch Menu > Sample
cards. When you’re finished and want to get back to the main Google Now screen, touch
Hide sample cards.
In addition to the cards shown in the list of samples, you may also see a Public Alerts card.
Public Alerts provide emergency information from sources such as the National Weath
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er Service and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Coverage is currently provided by a limited number of key partners, only in the United
States (excepting U.S. Geological Survey earthquake alerts). Google can’t guarantee that you’ll see every relevant alert. However,
Google Now attempts to show you what’s important when you need it, in the hope that such alerts are a useful additional source of information. To learn more, visit support.
google.com/publicalerts .
About location access, reporting, & history
Location access settings determine whether your phone can use your current location.
When location access is turned on, apps can use it to give you more relevant informa tion, such as nearby restaurants or commute traffic.
To turn off location access for all apps, go to
Settings > Personal > Location access. If you prefer, you can turn off location access by
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Google apps while still permitting its use by nonGoogle apps – just go to Settings > Ac-
counts > Google > Location settings.
Location reporting refers your phone’s abil ity to report your current location for the pur pose of recording your location history.
Location history refers to your phone’s ability to store your past locations, including home and work.
When you decide to use Google Now, you’ll start reporting your location and turn on your location history. Google won’t share this information with other users or marketers without your permission.
If you opted in to location history in the past,
Google Now uses your previously recorded locations as well as ongoing details when making suggestions. Turning off location history pauses the collection of location in formation, but doesn’t delete your history. To manage or delete your location details, visit http://google.com/locationhistory .
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Along with location history, Google Now uses Google’s location service and GPS. To manage these settings from the Google Now screen, touch Menu > Settings > Privacy
and accounts > Location services.
For more details, see
“Control location ac cess, reporting, & history.”
About Web History & other data
Google Now uses data from multiple sources to help predict what you need. For example, if you have a synced calendar entry for a dentist appointment, Google Now can check traffic and suggest when to leave. And if you have relevant searches saved in your Web
History, such as for your favorite sports team or for upcoming flights, Google Now can also show cards for sports scores, flight status, and more.
To manage your Web History, visit google.
com/history . You can delete or pause your
Web History and still use Google Now, but
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certain kinds of information, such as flight details, won’t show up.
Use Google Now
To view the Google Now cards that are wait ing for you at any particular time, swipe up from the bottom of your phone, or touch
Google on any Home screen.
Google Now displays cards when they’re most likely to be useful and relevant based on the current time and your current loca tion. To expand that search and get addition al ones, touch Show more cards at the bot tom of the main Google Now screen.
When you’re finished with a card, just swipe it away to dismiss it from the Google Now screen. Don’t worry – it appears again when a new update is available.
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Edit card settings
To change the settings for an individual
Google Now card:
• Touch Menu > Settings on the card.
OR
• From the lower right corner of the Google
Now screen, touch Menu > Settings >
Google Now.
The Google Now settings screen appears, where you can turn a specific card On or Off or adjust its settings. After you turn off a card, it won’t appear when you open Google
Now.
Dismiss cards
To dismiss a card from the Google Now screen, swipe it away. The card will return the next time it’s relevant, which may be hours or days from now.
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Adjust notifications
When a card has a new update, you’ll receive a notification at the top of your screen. You can pull down the notifications shade to open the card or dismiss the notification.
Most notifications for Google Now cards can be turned off or set to low or standard prior ity. Low priority notifications appear at the bottom of the notifications shade without any additional signal. Standard notifications appear like the others, in chronological order, and you can set vibration and a ringtone to accompany them.
To set notifications to low or standard prior ity for an individual card that supports both options:
• Touch Menu > Settings when the card appears.
OR
• From the lower right corner of the Google
Now screen, touch Menu > Settings >
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Google Now, and adjust the settings un der Notifications.
To change ringtone and vibrate options for all standard notifications, start from the Google
Now screen, touch Menu > Settings >
Google Now, and adjust the settings under
Standard Notifications.
Turn off Google Now
Turning off Google Now stops the display of cards and returns Google Now settings to their defaults.
1. Open the Google Now screen.
Touch Google on a Home screen, or swipe up from the bottom of your phone while viewing any screen.
2. Touch Menu > Settings > Google Now, then slide the switch at the top right to
Off.
3. In the Turn off Now cards dialog, decide whether you also want to turn off location
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history. If you do, check Also turn off Lo-
cation history.
Turning off location history may affect the way other Google products work.
4. Touch Turn off.
Turning off Google Now and location history doesn’t delete existing history or turn off lo cation reporting. For more information, see the next section, “Control location access, reporting & history.”
Control location access, reporting, & history
This section describes how to set your home and work addresses and manage other loca tionrelated features used by Google Now.
Define home & work
As you use Google Now, you may be asked to confirm your home or work address to get commute traffic information, travel help, and
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more. You can change these addresses in several other ways:
• When a Traffic card appears for home or work, touch Menu > Edit.
• On the main Google Now screen, go to
Menu > Settings > Google Now > Traffic, then edit Home or Work under Locations.
• On the main Google Now screen, go to
Menu > Settings > Google Now > Traffic, then edit Home or Work under Locations.
• Open the Latitude app, find your own lo cation, touch your name on the map, and then Location history > Change home lo-
cation / Change work location.
• Visit maps.google.com
from a browser and open My Places.
• Visit https://www.google.com/latitude/b
/0/history/dashboard from a browser, click Change next to Time at Work or Time at Home, edit the address, and click Save.
You can turn off and delete your location his tory and still use Google Now, but certain kinds of information, such as commute traf fic, may be limited or won’t show up at all.
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Turn off location reporting & history
To turn off both location reporting and loca tion history for your phone:
1. Go to
Latitude.
Settings > Google > Maps &
This brings you to the Location settings screen for Google Maps.
2. To turn off location reporting, touch Lo-
cation reporting > Do not update your
location.
3. To turn off location history, uncheck En-
able location history.
Delete location history details
Even if you turn off both location reporting and location history, your previously record ed history is still available to Google services such as Google Now.
To delete location history details, follow these steps from a desktop computer:
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1. Open a web browser and make sure you’re signed in with the account whose loca tion history you want to manage.
2. Visit http://google.com/locationhistory .
A page appears that allows you to view your location history for any date.
3. To delete all your recorded location his tory, click Delete all history.
Alternatively, from this screen you can delete a portion of your location history starting from a date you choose in the calendar.
4. Click OK.
Turn off location access for your phone
Even when location reporting and location history are turned off, Google can periodical ly report data for use by various apps from sources such as WiFi, mobile networks, and
GPS to determine your precise location at any given time.
To turn off access to precise location infor mation for your phone, go to Settings
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> Personal > Location access and slide the switch to Off.
IMPORTANT: Turning off location ac cess for your phone also turns it off for
Google Now, other Google apps, and thirdparty apps. That means that no apps can receive your precise location information and many useful features will be disabled.
To keep location access on, you must keep
GPS satellites, Wi-Fi & mobile network loca-
tion, or both settings checked.
If you prefer, you can turn off location access by Google apps while still permitting its use by nonGoogle apps – just go to Settings >
Accounts > Google > Location settings.
For more information about location access settings, see
“Control location access, re porting, & history.”
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Search & Voice Actions basics
To use Google Search, touch Google on any
Home screen or swipe up from the bottom of your phone.
You can use Voice Actions with Google
Search to get directions, send messages, and perform a number of other common tasks.
Voice Search & Voice Actions
You can initiate a Voice Search or Voice Ac tion in several ways:
• Touch the Microphone icon in the
Google Chrome omnibox.
• Touch the Microphone icon on the
Home screen or Google Now screen and speak.
• Touch Google on the Home screen and say “Google”.
• When you’re viewing the Google Now
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screen, you don’t have to touch anything.
Just say “Google.”
Next, speak the terms to search for or the
Voice Action to perform. For more details on
Voice Actions, see
The ability to trigger a search or action by saying “Google” is called hotword detection.
To turn it off or on, start from the Google Now screen and touch Menu > Settings > Voice >
Hotword detection.
IMPORTANT: To detect when you say
“Google” to launch Voice Search or
Voice Actions, Google analyzes sound picked up by your phone’s microphone in intervals of a few seconds or less.
The sound is immediately discarded after analysis and is not stored on the device or sent to Google.
For more information about Voice Actions,
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see
Search by typing
Type your query in the search box on the
Home or Google Now screen, or in Google
Chrome’s omnibox.
As you type, suggestions appear below the
Search box.
The first few suggestions attempt to com plete what you’re typing:
• To search for a suggestion immediately, touch it.
• To search for the contents of the search field, touch the Search icon on the right side of the keyboard.
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Search tips & tricks
What you want
What to type or say
Examples
Sports information
Pictures
[team’s name] San Francisco
Giants
Pictures of
[topic] images of
[topic]
Pictures of San
Francisco
Images of cats
Convert mea surements
[original mea surement] in [new mea surement]
30 degrees
Celsius in Fahr enheit
Movie show times
Movie
Movie [loca tion]
[movie name]
Movie
Movie Chicago
The Horse’s
Mouth
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Word defini tion
Define [word] Define cam panile
Weather fore cast
Weather
Weather [loca tion]
Weather
WeatherDetroit
Area code 215 Identify an area code
Identify zip code
Time
Area code
[###]
Zip code
[#####]
Zip code 46202
Flight infor mation
Translation
Time
Time [loca tion]
Time
Time in London
[Airline] [flight number]
American air lines flight 390
Translate to
[language]
[phrase]
Translate to
Spanish, Where is the Palace
Hotel?’
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Calculator
Food
[A math phrase]
75 divided by 6
[Type of food]
[Type of food] in [location]
Mexican food
Mexican food in
Urbana, Illinois
Use Voice Actions
You can use Voice Actions with Google
Search to get directions, send messages, and perform a number of other common tasks.
You initiate a Voice Action the same way you initiate a voice search, by touching a Mi crophone icon in a search box or the Chrome omnibox, or by saying “Google” when the
Google Now screen is open. For details, see
“Search & Voice Actions basics.”
Next, speak the Voice Action you want to use.
Here are some typical examples:
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• “Set alarm for 8:30 a.m.”
• “Send email to Marcus Foster. Subject:
Coming tonight? Message: Hope to see you later.”
• “Navigate to Mike’s Bikes in Palo Alto.”
As you speak, Voice Search analyzes your speech and initiates the action.
If Voice Search doesn’t understand you, it lists a set of possible meanings. Just touch the one you want.
Some Voice Actions, such as “send email” and “note to self,” open a panel that prompts you to complete the action by speaking or typing more information.
• Touch any text already entered in the pan el to add or edit the text by typing.
To speak text instead of typing, first touch the Microphone key near the bottom right of the onscreen keyboard.
• Touch underlined words or phrases or drag across multiple words to view a list
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of alternate transcriptions, or to edit by speaking or typing.
When confident that the transcription is accurate, Voice Search displays tran scribed words as regular text. Words or phrases for which it has provided alter nate transcriptions are underlined.
• Touch a button at the bottom of the win dow to add any optional fields (you can also speak the name and content of any of these fields in your original voice action).
• When you’re done, touch the button ap propriate to complete the action, such as
Send.
Voice Actions commands
You can search and control your phone with the following Voice Action commands. For de tails, see
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Say
Words you want to search for
“Map of”
Followed by Examples
“bike shoes”
Address, name, business name, type of business, or other location
“Map of
Golden Gate
Park, San
Francisco.”
“Directions to” or “Navigate
to”
Address, name, business name, type of business, or other destination
“Directions to
1299 Colusa
Avenue,
Berkeley,
California” or
“Navigate to Union
Square, San
Francisco.”
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Contact name
“Go to”
“Send email”
“Note to self”
“Mike LeBeau”
(opens Mike’s contact card)
Search string or URL
“Go to Google.
com ”
One or more of:
“To” & contact names, “Cc”
& contact names, “Bcc”
& contact names, “Sub ject” & subject text
“Message” & message text
(speak punc tuation)
“Send email to Hugh Briss, subject, new shoes, mes sage, I can’t wait to show you my new shoes, period.”
Message text “Note to self: remember the milk”
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“Set alarm”
“Listen to”
“Time” or “for”
& time, such as “10:45 a.m.” or “20 minutes from now,” “La bel” & name of alarm
“Set alarm for 7:45 p.m., label, switch the laundry”
Words to search You
Tube for, such as the name of a song, artist, or album.
“Listen to:
Smells Like
Teen Spirit”
Google Now Card list
Cards are displayed when you’re most likely to need them. Most are based on informa tion available to your Google account, such as your current location, recent searches, or calendar entries.
Gmail cards display information based on recent confirmation messages in the Gmail
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account you’ve selected for use with Goog le Now. For more details, see
Travel cards appear when you’re away from home.
Birthdays
Displays an interesting fact about your birthdate on your birthday.
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Concerts
Shown before your favorite artists give concerts near you.
Flights
Shown before flights that you’ve searched for.
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Gmail: Event bookings
Shown before an event booking confirmed by
Gmail.
Gmail: Flights
Shown before flights confirmed by
Gmail.
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Gmail: Hotels
Shown when you receive a confirmation email and before your scheduled checkout.
Gmail:
Packages
Displayed when you receive a shipping notification for an online purchase.
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Gmail:
Restaurants
Shown before a restaurant reservation confirmed by
Gmail.
Location history
Shows a rough approximation of how far you walked or cycled during the past month.
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Movies
Shows movies playing in your vicinity, and tells you when a movie you’re interested in is playing nearby.
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News update
Shows updates related to news items you’ve read recently.
Next appointment
Shown before scheduled meetings.
Photo spot nearby
Shown when you’re near a popular spot for taking photos.
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Places
Shows nearby businesses and other places of potential interest.
Public alerts
Gives public advisories for your location from the National
Weather
Service, U.S.
Geological
Survey, and similar services.
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Public transport
Shown with relevant schedules when you’re near a train station, bus stop, or other public transit stop.
Sports
Shown for teams that interest you before, during, or after a game.
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Stocks
Shown periodically for stocks you’re tracking. For more details, see
.
Traffic
Shown before your usual commute times.
Travel:
Currency
Shows the latest currency conversion information for your location.
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Travel: Nearby attractions
Shown when you’re near wellknown attractions, such as restaurants, museums, cafes, and so on.
Travel: Time back home
Shown periodically when you’re in a different time zone than usual.
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Travel:
Translate
Shown when you’re visiting a place with a different language, to help translate words and phrases.
Weather
Periodically displays weather for home, work, or your current location.
About Gmail Cards
Gmail cards are based on confirmation mes sages sent to the Gmail account you’ve se
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lected for use with Google Now. For example, cards appear before restaurant reservations you’ve made with OpenTable or when you re ceive email updates for packages in transit.
Gmail cards typically include links to oth er useful information, such as a link to the email on which the card is based, or direc tions to a restaurant or hotel from your cur rent location.
You can turn Gmail cards off or on at any time .To do so from the main Google Now screen go to Menu > Settings > Google Now and check or uncheck Show cards based on
Gmail.
About the Location History card
The Location History card appears once a month. It provides a very rough approxima tion of how far you’ve walked or cycled dur ing that month compared to the previous one. These estimates are based on occa sional samples of the accelerometer in your
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phone, which are then compared to typical movements involved in walking or cycling.
This information isn’t available unless you’ve turned on location reporting and history for at least one of your Android devices. If you’ve turned these on for more than one device, the location history card reflects the one you used most often that month.
For more information, see
“Control location access, reporting, & history.”
About the Stocks card
The Stocks card displays stocks that:
• You’ve searched on recently.
• You’re tracking through Google Finance.
• You’ve explicitly listed in the Stocks card settings.
• You can choose whether to display stocks when their price changes by 1% or more, or in the mornings or evenings.
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To change Stock card settings from the main
Google Now screen ,go to Settings > Google
Now > Stocks.
Search settings
To view Google Search settings, including those for Google Now, scroll to the bottom of the Google Now screen and touch Menu
> Settings.
The first three types of settings are de scribed here. For Privacy and accounts, see the next section.
Google Now
Google Now settings let you turn Google
Now on or off. If you turn it on, you’re taken through a brief introduction and given the chance to opt in.
While Google Now is on, you can also set your preferences for individual Google Now
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cards and related notifications from the
Google Now settings screen.
Options for each card vary. Most include a
Notifications section that lets you control how you’re informed when a card changes.
Typically, you can choose between Off, Low priority, or Standard notifications.
Low priority notifications appear at the bot tom of the notifications shade without any additional signal. Standard notifications ap pear like the others, in chronological order, and you can set vibration and a ringtone.
To set the ringtone and vibrate options for standard notifications, go to touch Menu
> Settings > Google Now and look at the end of the list.
Voice settings
Voice settings control different aspects of speech input and output when you search by voice or use voice actions:
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• Language. The language you select here for Voice Search input and output can be different from the language displayed by your phone.
• Speech output. To turn on speech output only when you’ve got a headset attached to your phone, select Hands-free only.
• Block offensive words. Check to ensure that search results with offensive lan guage are blocked.
• Hotword detection. When this is checked, you can say “Google” when viewing the
Google Now screen rather than touching the Microphone icon to initiate a voice search or action.
• Download offline speech recognition.
Check to select one or more additional languages for speech recognition when you don’t have a network connection.
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IMPORTANT: To detect when you say
“Google” to launch Voice Search or
Voice Actions, Google analyzes sound picked up by your phone’s microphone in intervals of a few seconds or less.
The sound is immediately discarded after analysis and is not stored on the device or sent to Google.
Phone search
Phone search settings let you select which apps on your phone are included in Google searches.
Privacy & accounts
These settings control the account for use with Google Search and searchrelated pri vacy options for that account. You can view them in two ways:
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• From the Google Now screen: Menu >
Settings > Privacy & accounts.
• From your phone’s main Settings app:
Settings > Accounts > Google > Search.
Touch each setting to learn more:
• Google Account. The account used with
Google Search and Google Now.
• Manage location history. Opens Google
Maps settings, where you turn location settings and location reporting on or off.
• Google location settings. Lets you turn location access by all Google apps on or off. If location access is turned on for your phone, you can turn Google apps access off here without affecting access by non
Google apps.
• Show recent searches. Check if you want search suggestions based on your recent searches.
• Manage Web History. Opens your Web
History settings in a browser. You may have to sign in to reach them.
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Accessibility
Accessibility overview
Your phone’s accessibility features make it easier to use if you have visual impairments:
TalkBack is a preinstalled screen reader service provided by Google. It uses spoken feedback to describe the results of actions, such as opening an app, and events, such as notifications.
Explore by Touch is a system feature that works with TalkBack, allowing you to touch your phone’s screen and hear what’s under your finger via spoken feedback. This feature is helpful to users with no vision.
Accessibility settings let you modify your phone’s display and sound options, such as
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increasing the text size, changing the speed at which text is spoken, and more.
Users with low vision
If you have low vision and don’t plan to use
Explore by Touch, go to support.google.
com/nexus to see Help content formatted for sighted users. You can make reading and navigating this material easier by increasing the text size – just go to Settings > Accessi-
bility, and check the Large text option.
Related Settings
• To view Accessibility settings, go to Set-
tings > Accessibility.
• To control sound feedback and other Talk
Back behaviors, go to Settings > Accessi-
bility > TalkBack and touch Settings at the top right corner of the screen.
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Accessibility gestures for
Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
When TalkBack and Explore by Touch are turned on, you can use simple gestures to navigate your Nexus 4:
• Drag one finger. Explore your screen and hear audible feedback for what is being touched.
• Double-tap anywhere on the screen.
Opens or activates the item that you last touched.
• Swipe up or down using two fingers.
Scroll within lists.
• Swipe left or right using two fingers.
Change pages and screens.
• Swipe right (or down) using one finger.
Move to the next item.
• Swipe left (or up) using one finger. Move to the previous item.
• Swipe down then up using a single mo-
tion. Transition to the next reading level when reading blocks of text, then swipe right to read forward or left to go back.
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• Swipe up then down using a single mo-
tion. Transition to the previous reading level when reading blocks of text, then swipe right to read forward or left to go back.
• Swipe right then left using a single mo-
tion. Move to the next page.
• Swipe left then right using a single mo-
tion. Move to the previous page.
While you’re exploring with one finger, you can use another finger to double-tap to open an app, widget, and so on.
IMPORTANT: The way these gestures are interpreted is specific to TalkBack.
Other accessibility services may use the same gestures for different actions
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Shortcut gestures in TalkBack
Note: These gestures work only when Ex plore by Touch is turned on.
TalkBack has shortcut gestures to help you get to your Home screen, go back, and more.
To try these shortcuts, swipe using a single motion:
• Up then right: Open continuous reading menu
• Up then left: Home button
• Down then right: Open global context menu
• Down then left: Back button
• Right then down: Open notifications
• Left then up: Recent apps button
You can modify your shortcut gestures and the corresponding actions in TalkBack by go ing to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack >
Settings > Manage shortcut gestures.
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Set up your phone
Your Nexus 4 has the following hardware:
• Power button/lock key. The Power button is located on the right side of your phone.
• Volume. The Volume key is directly under the Power button.
• Front-facing camera. The camera is locat ed at the top center of your screen.
• Micro USB port. The USB is at the bottom of your phone.
• Headset jack. The headset jack is in the lower right side at the bottom of your phone.
• SIM tray. The SIM tray is located on the lower left side of your phone (available only for Nexus 4 with mobile data).
When you turn on your phone for the first time, you’ll arrive at a Welcome screen.
• To turn on TalkBack and Explore by Touch, place two fingers slightly apart on your screen. You’ll hear spoken feedback when your phone recognizes the gesture. Keep
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holding your fingers for two more sec onds to enable TalkBack and Explore by
Touch. After turning on these features, the Explore by Touch tutorial starts, giv ing you a chance to experience navigating on Android. When you’ve completed the tutorial, the phone displays the Welcome screen again.
• To choose a different language, swipe right and doubletap the menu.
• To finish setting up your phone, swipe right and doubletap Start towards the center of the screen.
A series of screens takes you through the setup process. When prompted, you can sign in using the email address and password for your Google Account. When you sign in with a Google Account, all the email, contacts,
Calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your phone. If you have multiple Google
Accounts, you’ll be able to add the others later.
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TIP: If you share your phone with other users and need to turn accessibility features off, you can use a shortcut to turn them back on again.
To turn on this shortcut, go to Bet-
tings > Accessibility > Accessibility shortcut, then slide the switch to the
On position. To turn on accessibility features using the shortcut, touch & hold the Power button until you hear a sound or feel a vibration. Then touch
& hold two fingers until you hear audio confirmation.
Overlays
After completing the setup process, you’ll encounter several overlays that explain how to use various features on your phone. To dismiss an overlay, swipe right and double tap OK.
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Use magnification gestures
When this feature is turned on, you can mag nify your screen by tripletapping. (For users
with low vision)
Note: Triple-tap for magnification works ev erywhere except for the keyboard and navi gation buttons.
Magnify: Tripletap & hold.
Magnify & pan: Tripletap & hold, then drag your finger.
Toggle magnification in or out: Triple tap & release.
While you’re zoomed in, you can:
Pan: Drag two or more fingers across the screen.
Adjust zoom level: Pinch or expand using two or more fingers.
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Use TalkBack
TalkBack provides spoken feedback to help you navigate your phone, describing what you touch and activate.
Note: Sighted assistance is needed for users with no vision to enable TalkBack if it wasn’t turned on during the initial setup.
To turn TalkBack off or on:
1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack.
2. Slide the TalkBack switch to the On or Off position.
3. Touch OK to turn on TalkBack.
4. When asked if you want to enable Explore by Touch, touch OK only if you want to change the way your phone works and have your phone describe each item that your finger moves over on the screen.
When you turn on TalkBack, spoken feed back starts immediately. As you navigate your phone, TalkBack describes your actions
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and alerts you of notifications and other occurrences.
If you also enabled Explore by Touch, moving your finger around the screen triggers a de scription of each item it touches. Doubletap to activate the last spoken item, and swipe with two fingers to perform swiping actions that normally require just one finger.
Change TalkBack settings
To modify TalkBack settings, go to Settings
> Accessibility > TalkBack, then doubletap
Settings in the top right corner.
When to speak
• Speech volume. You can set this as a per centage of media volume.
• Use pitch changes. Check to speak key board feedback at a lower pitch.
• Speak when screen is off. Check to turn on spoken feedback when the screen is off.
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Feedback settings
• Sound feedback. Check to control naviga tion sounds.
• Sound volume. Available when Sound
feedback is checked. You can set this as a percentage of media volume.
Touch exploration
• Launch “Explore by touch” tutorial.
• Manage shortcut gestures. Allows you to assign the operations that different ges tures trigger.
Control speed of Text-to-Speech
To control the speed of TalkBack’s speech, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text-to-
speech output > Speech rate.
Manage TalkBack volume
To change the volume settings for TalkBack, go to Settings > Sound > Volumes. Use the
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slider for Music, video, games, & other media to change the volume level.
You can also use the volume control on the right side of your phone when you hear spo ken feedback.
Enhance web accessibility
In order to have full accessibility support for products such as Gmail and Chrome, you’ll need to turn on the Enhance web accessibil-
ity option. Go to Settings > Accessibility >
Enhance web accessibility, and doubletap
Allow. This allows apps to install scripts that make web content more accessible.
Use Explore by Touch with
TalkBack
When TalkBack is turned on, you have the op tion to use the Explore by Touch feature. Ex plore by Touch allows you to drag your finger
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slowly over your screen and describes each item that your finger touches.
TalkBack must be turned on for Explore by
Touch to be available. When you turn on Talk
Back for the first time, you’ll receive a prompt to turn on Explore by Touch.
IMPORTANT: If you chose not to turn on Explore by Touch when you turned on TalkBack, you can switch it on later.
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Talk-
Back > Settings, then check Explore by
touch. You can use the same checkbox to turn it off at any time.
Each action you take with your finger alerts you with spoken feedback, as well as sound
(if enabled).
To navigate your phone using Explore by
Touch, you can:
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• Explore your screen using one finger to hear what icons and buttons are on the screen and can be selected.
• After finding icons and buttons, double-
tap anywhere on the screen to open apps, menus, and more.
To learn about the gestures you can use with
TalkBack and Explore by Touch, visit “Acces sibility gestures for Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).”
Recommended tutorial: To learn more about
Explore by Touch, go to Settings > Acces-
sibility > TalkBack > Settings > Launch “Ex-
plore by touch” tutorial.
Navigate the Home screen
Note: These instructions assume that you have turned on Explore by Touch.
At the bottom of the screen, you’ll find three
Navigation buttons. They’re always avail able. No matter what you’re doing with your
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phone, you can always get back to the main
Home screen or return to previous screens:
• Back. Opens the previous screen you were working in, even if it was in a differ ent app. Once you back up to the Home screen, you can’t go back any further in your history.
• Home. Opens Home. If you’re on a left or right Home screen, this button opens the central Home screen.
• Recent apps. Opens a list of thumbnail im ages of apps you’ve worked with recently.
To open an app, touch and doubletap. To remove a thumbnail from the list, use two fingers to swipe it left or right.
After a short time without getting used, these buttons may shrink to dots or fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them back, doubletap in their approximate location.
You can use easy gestures to activate the
Navigation buttons and access your notifica tions. Swipe with a single motion:
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• Up then right: Open continuous reading menu
• Up then left: Home button
• Down then right: Open global context menu
• Down then left: Back button
• Right then down: Open notifications
• Left then up: Recent apps button
Just above the Navigation buttons in por trait mode, or on the right side of the screen in landscape mode, you’ll find the Favorites tray. The apps you keep in the tray are avail able on every Home screen.
The Apps icon in the center is permanent.
Find it and doubletap to reveal all your apps and widgets.
Your Home screen can hold app and widget icons, plus folders.
• To open an app, folder, or widget, find its icon and doubletap.
• To see additional Home screens, swipe
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left then right or right then left in a single motion, or left or right using two fingers.
At the top of the screen, you’ll find the sta tus bar:
• Status icons on the left tell you which apps have sent you notifications—for ex ample, that a message has arrived, or it’s time for a meeting. If you have TalkBack or another accessibility service running, it will speak the notification when it first appears.
To find your notifications, use two fingers to pull down the notification shade from the top of the screen, or swipe up then right using a single motion.
• System icons on the right display the cur rent wireless and network connection strength, battery level, time, and more.
Google Search, just below the status and system icons, lets you search your phone or the Internet. Find Search and doubletap to type your search terms, or Voice Search to speak them.
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To find your notifications, use two fingers to pull down the notification shade from the top left side of the screen, or swipe up then right using a single motion.
You can also use the Quick Settings menu to easily open settings for WiFi, Bluetooth, and more. To open Quick Settings, use three fin gers to pull down the menu from the top right side of the screen.
Try Google Play
Note: These instructions assume that you have turned on TalkBack and Explore by
Touch.
Google Play brings together all your favorite content in one place – movies, books, mu sic, magazines, apps, and more – so you can reach it from any of your devices.
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Use Google Play widgets
These widgets are available on your Home screens:
• Recommended on Play: Suggests music, movies, and other content that may inter est you. Find the suggestion and double tap to learn more about it.
• Recommended apps: Recommends apps that you can add to your Home screen.
Find the recommendation and doubletap to learn more about it.
To remove a widget, doubletap & hold on the second tap, then drag it to the Remove icon at the top of the screen.
To add another Google Play widget, find the
Apps icon and doubletap, then Widgets, and swipe left until you find the one you want.
Then doubletap & hold on the second tap, and let go in the Home screen location you want.
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Shop on Google Play
To open the Google Play Store app, find and doubletap the Play Store icon in your Favor ites tray on every Home screen.
Most things you purchase on Google Play are available from your computer as well as from any of your Android mobile devices. (Android apps are one exception – they run only on
Android devices.) Sign in to play.google.com
to get your entertainment from anywhere.
Find your content
If you purchased from Google Play in the past, you’ll automatically have access to this content on your Nexus 4 – just make sure you’re signed in using the same account that you used to purchase it.
You can get to your content using any of the
Google Play icons in your Favorites tray, in cluding Books, Magazines, Movies, and Mu sic. (Note: To read magazines in text mode,
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visit Reading in text mode at the end of this
article.)
Or, find the Play Store icon and double-tap to open Google Play. In the top right corner, to the left of the Menu and Search icons, you’ll find a My Library icon corresponding to the section of Google Play you’re currently view ing. For example, while browsing the Movies
& TV section, you’ll find the Google Play Mov ies app icon, which will take you to My Mov ies & TV.
You can quickly access your content this way, from the Google Play Store app, even if you originally purchased it on Google Play using a different phone or phone. If you get a new device, all your media will automatically be waiting for you here when you power on and sign in.
Google Play Settings
To adjust your Google Play settings, switch
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accounts, or get help, choose the option you want from the Menu at the top right.
The Google Play Settings screen lets you control when you’re notified about updates to apps and games, clear your search his tory, and enable user controls. To filter An droid apps based on maturity level or to re quire a PIN before completing any purchase, find and double-tap Content filtering or Set
or change PIN.
For more detailed information about Google
Play, visit support.google.com/googleplay .
Use Gmail
Note: These instructions assume that you have turned on TalkBack, Explore by Touch, and Enhanced Web Accessibility.
Read your messages
• From a Home or Apps screen, find the
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Gmail app and doubletap to open it.
Gmail opens to your Inbox.
To hear the subject lines of your conversa tions, swipe right or down. When you find a conversation you want to hear:
• Doubletap to open it. If you have chosen to allow enhanced web accessibility, you can touch once to hear a conversation.
• To navigate back to your Inbox, find the
Gmail icon at the top of the screen and doubletap.
OR
Using the Navigation buttons at the bot tom of the screen, find and double-tap the
Back button, or swipe down then left us ing a single motion.
Compose and send a message
1. From a conversation list, find the Com pose icon at the top of the screen and doubletap.
2. To use the keyboard to fill in the To, Sub-
ject, and Compose email fields, slide your
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finger across the keyboard and lift your finger on the chosen key to input text.
3. Find and doubletap the Send icon in the main action bar at the top of the screen to send your message.
Search your Inbox
1. From a conversation list, find the Search icon in the action bar at the top of the screen and doubletap.
2. To use the keyboard to edit the Search
mail field, slide your finger across the key board and lift your finger on the chosen key to input text.
3. As you type, suggestions appear below the Search field. Find a suggestion and doubletap to search for it immediately.
4. To search, find and double-tap the Search key on the right side of the second row of the keyboard.
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Gmail settings
You can change a number of settings for
Gmail from any Gmail screen.
• Find and doubletap More options at the top right corner of the screen, then find and doubletap Settings.
General settings apply to all Gmail accounts.
Other settings apply only to a specific account.
More Gmail help
To get more detailed Help while reading your conversations, composing a message, and so on, find and double-tap More options in the top right corner of the screen, then find and doubletap Help. Note that the content you’ll find covers general Gmail behavior, but not accessibility features like TalkBack and
Explore by Touch.
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Browse Chrome
These instructions assume that you have turned on TalkBack, Explore by Touch, and
Enhanced Web Accessibility.
• From a Home or Apps screen, find the
Chrome icon and doubletap to open it.
Chrome opens to display your homepage or the most recent page you were browsing.
The web address (URL) of the current page is located at the top of the screen in the ad dress box (also called the omnibox).
To edit or input a web address, you can:
1. Swipe right to find the omnibox at the top of the screen, and doubletap to edit.
2. Slide your finger across the onscreen key board and release a key to input text.
3. As you type, a list of matching sugges tions appears. You can keep on typing or find a suggestion and double-tap to open the page.
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4. To search for the contents of the omni box or open a specific web address it contains, find and double-tap the Go key on the right side in the second row of the keyboard.
To navigate within a webpage, you can:
• Navigate forward and backward. Swipe left to right to move forward and right to left to go backward.
• Scroll. Slide two fingers in any direction.
• Receive spoken feedback. Touch any where on the screen to hear the contents of the webpage.
• Change the reading level. Swipe down then up using a single motion to transi tion to the next reading level when read ing blocks of text, or swipe up then down using a single motion to go back to the previous reading level.
• Zoom. To zoom out, touch the screen with two fingers and pinch them together. To zoom in, spread them apart. Ascending and descending tones alert you when zooming in or out.
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To customize web page zooming, go to More
options > Settings > Accessibility.
You can also browse in Incognito mode. To open an Incognito tab, find and double-tap
More options > New Incognito tab. To toggle between standard tabs and Incognito tabs, find and double-tap the Toggle tabs switcher, or find and double-tap the Incognito tabs (or
Non-Incognito tabs) button at the top right corner.
Adjust text size on webpages (for lowvision users)
1. Touch Menu > Settings > Accessibility.
2. Drag the slider under to adjust the text size scaling. In the “Preview” box, you can see how it will look on webpages.
Force enable zoom
On some sites designed for mobile devices, you can’t to zoom in or out. Choosing “Force
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enable zoom” will allow you to zoom in or out on those sites.
More Chrome Help
To get more detailed Help while navigating a webpage, working with tabs, and so on, go to the Chrome Help Center . Note that the con tent you’ll find does not cover accessibility features like TalkBack and Explore by Touch.
Use the lock screen
About the lock screen
Your phone’s lock screen is enabled if any of the following occurs:
• The phone goes to sleep (and it locks automatically).
• The screen turns off after a specified time out (depending on your display settings).
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• You force your screen to turn off and the phone to lock by pressing the power button.
Unlock your phone
1. Hold the screen in portrait mode and turn it on by pressing the Power button on the right side of your phone.
2. Touch the lower center of the screen.
3. Slide your finger all the way across the screen to the right. You’ll receive spoken feedback that the phone is unlocked if you do this successfully.
Accessibility settings
To modify your phone’s Accessibility set tings, go to Settings > Accessibility.
A list of options appears:
• TalkBack. Controls spoken feedback for visually impaired users.
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• Magnification gestures. Turn on to zoom in and out as well as magnify what’s un der your finger. (For users with low vision)
• Large text. Check to increase the text size on all your phone’s screens. (For users
with low vision)
This option changes the font size to the largest available. For more fine-grained control over font size, go to Settings >
Display > Font size. Note that this setting does not apply to the Google Chrome app
– it has its own text scaling control.
• Auto-rotate screen. Check to have the screen rotate automatically when you change the phone’s orientation.
• Speak passwords. Check to get spoken feedback while typing passwords.
If this option is not checked, you will need a headset to hear the letters you type for passwords.
• Text-to-Speech output. Lets you specify texttospeech engine details and speech rate.
• Touch & hold delay. Lets you adjust the delay required for the phone to notice
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that you’re touching and holding an item
(for example, to move an app to a Home screen).
• Enhance web accessibility. Enable this option to have Chrome Vox provide spoken feedback as you browse and interact with web sites and apps.
To make sure specialized accessibility apps work correctly on your phone, be sure to turn on this option.
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Part Two
Adjusting settings
8
Wireless
& network settings
Connect to Wi-Fi networks
Turn Wi-Fi on & connect to a Wi-Fi network
If you’re adding a Wi-Fi network when first setting up your phone, WiFi is turned on automatically.
1. Touch Settings > Wireless & networks
> Wi-Fi.
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2. Slide the WiFi switch to the On position.
The phone scans for available WiFi net works and displays the names of those it finds. Secured networks are indicated with a Lock icon. If the phone finds a net work that you connected to previously, it connects to it.
3. Touch a network name to see more de tails or connect to it, and type a password if necessary.
Or, if your WiFi router supports WiFi Pro tected Setup, touch the WPS icon on your phone, and then touch the same but ton on your router.
To modify a network’s settings, touch & hold the network name.
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TIP: To extend the life of your battery between charges, turn off WiFi when you’re not using it. You can also set your phone to disconnect automati cally from WiFi networks when it’s sleeping.
Add a Wi-Fi network
You can add a WiFi network so that your phone will remember it, along with any secu rity credentials, and connect to it automati cally when it’s in range. You must also add a
WiFi network if the network does not broad cast its name (SSID), or to add a WiFi net work when you are out of range.
To join a secured network, you first need to learn security details from the network’s administrator.
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1. Turn on WiFi, if it’s not already on.
2. Touch the Plus icon at the top of the screen.
3. Enter the SSID (name) of the network. If necessary, enter security or other net work configuration details.
4. Touch Save.
The information about the network is saved.
Your phone will connect to this network au tomatically the next time you come within range.
Forget a Wi-Fi network
You can make the phone forget about the de tails of a WiFi network that you added—for example, if you don’t want the phone to con nect to it automatically or if it’s a network that you no longer use.
1. Turn on WiFi, if it’s not already on.
2. In the WiFi settings screen, touch the name of the network.
3. Touch Forget in the dialog that opens.
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Configure proxy settings for a Wi-Fi network
Some network administrators require you to connect to internal or external network resources via a proxy server. By default, the
Wi-Fi networks you add are not configured to connect via a proxy, but you can change that for each WiFi network you’ve added.
Proxy settings are used by Chrome but may not be used by other apps.
1. Touch & hold a network in the list of WiFi networks you’ve added.
2. Touch Modify network in the dialog that opens.
3. Select Show advanced options.
4. If the network has no proxy settings, touch None under Proxy Settings, then touch Manual in the menu that opens.
5. Enter the proxy settings supplied by your network admini strator.
6. Touch Save.
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The proxy settings apply only to the WiFi network you modified. To change the proxy settings for other WiFi networks, modify them individually.
Set Wi-Fi notifications, disconnect policy, & other advanced options
To work with advanced WiFi settings:
1. Turn on WiFi, if it’s not already on.
2. In the WiFi settings screen, touch
Menu > Advanced.
These are the settings you can adjust:
• Network notification. By default, when
Wi-Fi is on, you receive notifications in the Status bar when your phone detects an open WiFi network. Uncheck this op tion to turn off notifications.
• Keep Wi-Fi during sleep. To conserve mo bile data usage, your phone stays con nected to WiFi when the screen goes to sleep. Touch this option to change this
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default behavior: either to stay connected to WiFi only when the phone is connect ed to a charger (when battery life isn’t a problem), or never to stay connected to
WiFi during sleep.
• Avoid poor connections: Check to au tomatically avoid using networks with a lowquality or intermittent Internet connection.
• Wi-Fi optimization: Check to minimize battery usage when WiFi is on.
This screen also displays the following information:
• MAC address. The Media Access Control
(MAC) address of your phone when con nected to a WiFi network.
• IP address. The Internet Protocol (IP) ad dress assigned to the phone by the WiFi network you are connected to (unless you used the IP settings to assign it a static
IP address).
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Settings
Settings > Wireless & networks
> Wi-Fi.
To manage data usage and mobile hotspots, go to Set-
tings > Wireless & networks >
Data usage.
Connect to Bluetooth devices
To connect to a Bluetooth device, first turn on your phone’s Bluetooth. Then, the first time you use a new Bluetooth device, you need to
“pair” it with your phone so that both devices know how to connect securely to each other.
After that, they connect automatically.
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TIP: To extend the life of your battery between charges, turn off Bluetooth when you’re not using it. You may also be required to turn Bluetooth off in some locations. Bluetooth is turned off when you switch to Airplane mode.
System bar icons in the top right corner of the screen indicate Bluetooth status.
Turn Bluetooth on or off
1. Touch Settings > Wireless & networks.
2. Slide the Bluetooth switch on or off.
Change your phone’s Bluetooth name
Your phone has a generic Bluetooth name by default, which is visible to other Blue tooth devices when you connect them. You
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can change the name so that it is more recognizable.
1. Under Settings > Wireless & networks, make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
2. Touch Bluetooth.
3. In the Bluetooth screen, touch Menu >
Rename phone.
4. Type a new name and touch Rename.
Pair your phone with a Bluetooth device
You must pair your phone with a device be fore you can connect to it. Once you pair your phone with a device, they stay paired unless you unpair them.
If the device you want to pair with isn’t in the list, ensure that the it’s turned on and set to be discoverable.
1. Under Settings > Wireless & networks, make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
2. Touch Bluetooth. Your phone scans for
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and displays the IDs of all available Blue tooth devices in range.
3. If your phone stops scanning before your
Bluetooth device is ready, touch Search
for devices.
4. Touch the ID of the Bluetooth device in the list to pair with it.
5. Follow the instructions to complete the pairing. If you’re prompted to enter a pass code, try entering 0000 or 1234 (the most common passcodes), or consult the docu mentation that came with the device.
If the pairing is successful, your phone con nects to the device.
Connect to a Bluetooth device
Once you’ve paired with a Bluetooth device, you can connect to it manually—for example, to switch devices or to reconnect after it is back in range.
1. Under Settings > Wireless & networks >
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Bluetooth, make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
2. In the list of devices, touch a paired but unconnected device.
When the phone and the device are con nected, the device is displayed as con nected in the list.
Configure or unpair a Bluetooth device
Some Bluetooth devices have multiple pro files. Profiles can includes the ability to transmit your conversations, play music in stereo, or transfer files or other data. You can select which profiles you want to use with your phone. You can also change the name of the Bluetooth device as it appears on your phone.
1. Under Settings > Wireless & net-
works > Bluetooth, make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
2. In the Bluetooth settings, touch the Set tings icon beside the connected Blue
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tooth device you want to configure.
A screen opens that allows you to change the device’s name, unpair it, or select pro files. Touch the Back button when you’re finished.
Optimize data usage
Data usage refers to the amount of data up loaded or downloaded by your device during a given period. Depending on the device and your wireless plan, you may be charged ad ditional fees when your data usage exceeds your plan’s limit.
To monitor your data usage, go to Set-
tings > Wireless & networks > Data usage.
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WARNING: The usage displayed on the data usage settings screen is mea sured by your phone. Your carrier’s data usage accounting may differ.
Usage in excess of your carrier plan’s data limits can result in steep overage charges. The settings described here can help you track your usage, but are not guaranteed to prevent additional charges.
Data usage settings allow you to:
• Set the data usage level at which you’ll re ceive a warning.
• Set a data usage limit.
• View or restrict data usage by app.
• Identify mobile hotspots and restrict background downloads that may result in extra charges.
To view mobile hotspot settings, touch
Menu > Mobile hotspots.
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By default, when you open the data usage settings screen you see the settings for mo bile data: that is, the data network or net works provided by your carrier.
It’s possible to show WiFi data usage set tings in a separate tab. To do so, touch the
Menu icon , then Show Wi-Fi usage.
Near the top of the screen, note the onoff switch for mobile data. The instructions that follow assume that this switch is turned on.
If it’s off, you won’t be able to use mobile data at all and many features of your phone and apps won’t work correctly.
Just below the onoff switch, note the data usage cycle. Touch it to choose a different cycle. This date range is the period of time for which the graph displays data usage.
The vertical white lines on the graph show a period of time within the data usage cycle.
This range determines the usage amount displayed just below the graph. Drag lines to change the period.
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Set auto-sync
You can also conserve data usage by sync ing your apps manually, only when you need the data, rather than relying on autosync.
To turn autosync off or on, touch Menu
> Auto-sync data.
Set data usage warning
Drag the orange line by its right side to the level where you want to receive a warning.
When your data usage reaches this level, you’ll receive a notification.
Set data usage limit
1. Check Set mobile data limit.
A dialog appears that describes the limit you’re setting.
2. Read the message. If you’re willing to pro ceed, touch OK.
The red line at the top of the graph acti vates, so you can drag it up or down.
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3. Drag the red line by its right side to the limit you want to set.
When your data usage reaches the limit, mobile data will be turned off automati cally and many features of your phone won’t work correctly. You’ll receive a no tification when this occurs.
View or restrict data usage by app
Some apps transfer data in the background— that is, when you’re not actually using the app, it may download data for future refer ence. Restricting background data usage for individual apps can sometimes be a useful way to reduce your overall data usage. How ever, this is a drastic measure that may also affect the app’s performance or cause it to malfunction. Check whether data usage can be restricted from the app’s own settings
(available from within the app) before re stricting it here.
1. Make sure you’re viewing the network for which you want to view or restrict app
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data usage. If more than one is displayed, you can switch between them by touching tabs at the top of the screen.
2. Scroll down to find the app whose data us age you want to view.
The blue bar for each app indicates its total data usage for the cycle displayed above the main graph, near the top of the screen.
3. To see more details for an app, touch its name.
The main graph switches to show just this app’s data usage for the specified cycle.
Below the main graph, a pie chart breaks out foreground versus background data usage for this app.
4. To stop background data usage for this app, check Restrict background data.
5. Read the message that appears. If you’re willing to proceed, touch OK.
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Advanced data usage settings
Two other settings available from the Menu icon can have dramatic effects—but may sometimes be useful:
• Data roaming can result in steep addition al charges. However, in some locations this may be the only way to connect to the
Internet.
• Restrict background data affects all your apps across all available networks, and may cause some features to stop work ing. This is an extreme step that should be used with caution.
Control airplane mode & other network settings
These settings are available under Settings >
Wireless & networks > More.
• Airplane mode. Check to turn off all data transmission from the phone.
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• VPN. Touch to adjust settings for access ing a secured local network from outside that network. See
“Connect to virtual pri vate networks”
.
• NFC. Check to turn on Near Field Commu nication (NFC) feature (required for An droid Beam).
• Android Beam. Touch to turn Android
Beam off or on. When NFC is checked and
Android Beam is on, you can touch your phone to other devices to exchange web pages, contact info, and other data. See
“Share content with Android Beam.”
• Mobile networks. Touch to adjust set tings that control your phone’s connec tions with mobile data networks.
• Cell broadcasts. Touch to adjust settings for emergency alerts. Note that these alerts provided through your wireless car rier are independent of the public alerts available through Google Now.
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Connect to virtual private networks
Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow entry into secured local networks from the out side. Corporations, schools, and other insti tutions use VPNs to grant access to local network resources when people are not on campus or connected to a wireless network.
To configure VPN access, you must first ob tain the details from your network admin istrator. Depending on your organization’s solution, you may need to obtain a VPN app, either from your administrator or on Google
Play.
Settings
The VPN settings screen al lows you to add VPN networks and adjust their settings. To view this screen and perform the tasks described here, go to
Settings > Wireless & networks
> More > VPN.
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Add a VPN
1. From the VPN screen, touch Add VPN
profile.
2. In the form that appears, fill in the in formation provided by your network administrator
3. Touch Save.
The VPN is added to the list on the VPN screen.
Connect to or disconnect from a VPN
1. From the VPN screen, touch the name of the VPN.
2. In the dialog that opens, enter any re quested credentials.
3. Touch Connect.
When you’re connected to a VPN, a Status icon and notification are displayed continu ously. To disconnect, touch the notification for the VPN connection.
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Edit a VPN
1. From the VPN screen, touch & hold the name of the VPN profile.
2. In the dialog that opens, touch Edit profile.
3. Edit the VPN settings you want.
4. Touch Save.
Delete a VPN
1. From the VPN screen, touch & hold the name of the VPN profile.
2. Touch & hold the VPN.
3. In the dialog that opens, touch Delete
profile.
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9
Device settings
Change sound settings
To customize the sounds your phone makes, go to Settings > Device > Sound:
• Volumes sets the master volume sepa rately for music, notifications, and alarms.
You can still use the physical volume con trol on the phone to raise or lower volume of whatever sound is currently playing.
• Default notification announces the arrival of notifications unless you specify a dif ferent sound in an individual app.
• Touch sounds give audible feedback when you touch active icons or buttons on the screen.
• Screen lock sound is triggered when you unlock the screen.
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Set up Daydream
When Daydream is on, your phone displays photos, colors, and more while it is charging or docked.
Turn on Daydream
1. Go to Settings > Device > Display.
2. Touch Daydream.
3. Slide the switch to On.
To decide if your phone sleeps while docked, charging, or both, touch When to daydream.
You can choose what your phone displays when Daydream is on:
• Clock displays the phone’s digital or ana log clock. You can change the clock style or select the Night mode option by touch ing the Settings icon next to Clock.
• Colors shows changing colors on the screen.
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• Currents displays snippets from the Cur rents app. You can touch one to open it or swipe it away to hide it.
• Photo Frame presents a slideshow of photos on your phone or Google+ ac count. Touch the Settings icon next to
Photo Frame to control what photos are displayed.
• Photo Table scatters photos on your phone or Google+ account across your screen. Touch & hold an image to move it around the screen, or swipe it away to hide it. Touch the Settings icon next to
Photo Table to control what photos are displayed.
Time to sleep
You can choose the amount of time your phone is inactive before Daydream starts.
1. Go to Settings > Device > Display.
2. Touch Sleep.
3. Touch one of the options.
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Turn off Daydream
1. Go to Settings > Device > Display.
2. Touch Daydream.
3. Slide the switch to Off.
Use Wireless Display
Nexus 4 supports the Miracast protocol for wireless display. You can connect your phone via WiFi to a variety of displays and other devices that support Miracast, even when a standard WiFi network isn’t avail able. For example, you can use Wireless Dis play to show your phone’s screen on a TV equipped with a certified Miracast adapter.
For more information, see the documenta tion that comes with the Miracast-certified device you wish to connect to your phone.
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Transfer files through USB
You can use a USB cable to transfer music, pictures, and other files from your phone to a computer and vice versa. This connec tion uses the MTP protocol, which is sup ported by most recent versions of Windows but not by Mac OS X. For file transfer to Mac
OS X, you use the free Android File Transfer application.
Windows transfer
1. Connect your phone to the USB port on your computer. Its USB storage is mount ed as a drive and appears on your com puter screen.
2. Copy files back and forth as you would us ing any other external device.
3. When you finish, eject the phone from within Windows before unplugging the
USB cable.
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Mac OS transfer
1. Install Android File Transfer from www.
android.com/filetransfer , and follow the instructions there. (If you are using An droid File Transfer for the first time, dou ble-click it to open it. After the first con nection, it opens automatically whenever you connect.)
2. Connect your phone to your computer with a USB cable. Android File Transfer starts, if it’s not already running, and opens a window that displays the contents of your phone, along with storage space details at the bottom of the window.
3. Work with this window much as you do in the Finder window: open and close fold ers, create new folders, and drag files to or from it and other Finder windows.
4. Disconnect the USB cable when you finish.
Related settings
To change your phone’s USB connection op
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tions, touch Settings > Device > Storage >
Menu > USB computer connection.
Extend battery life
To control Battery settings, go to
tings > Device > Battery.
Set-
You can extend your battery’s life between charges by turning off features that you don’t need. You can also monitor how apps and system resources consume battery power.
• If you aren’t using WiFi, Bluetooth, or
GPS, use the Settings app to turn them off. The GPS setting is located in Settings
> Personal > Location access.
• Don’t leave the Maps or Navigation apps open on the screen when you’re not using them. They use GPS (and thus more pow er) only when they’re running.
• Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter Sleep timeout: Settings > Device
> Display.
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• If you don’t need it, turn off automatic syncing for all apps: Settings > Accounts
> Google account-name. This means you need to sync manually to collect messag es, email, and other recent information, and won’t receive notifications when up dates occur.
• If you know you won’t be near a WiFi net work for a while, switch to Airplane mode: press and hold the Power button, or go to
Settings > Wireless & Networks > More >
Airplane mode.
Check battery level and usage details
Open Settings > Device > Battery.
The list at the bottom of the screen shows the breakdown of battery usage for individu al apps and services. Touch a graph for more details. The details screen for some apps in cludes buttons that allow you to adjust set tings affecting power usage, or stop the app completely.
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WARNING: If you stop some apps or services, your device may not work correctly.
Battery status (charging, discharging) and level (as a percentage of fully charged) are displayed at the top of the screen.
The discharge graph shows battery level over time since you last charged the device, and how long you’ve been running on battery power.
Manage memory usage
You typically don’t need to worry about man aging apps beyond installing, opening, and using them. But there may be times when you want to know more about what’s hap pening behind the scenes in order to better manage your storage.
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IMPORTANT: Android manages and carefully guards the portion of inter nal storage where the system, apps, and most data for those apps are stored, because this area may contain your private information. It’s not pos sible to view this portion of internal storage when you connect your de vice to a computer with a USB cable.
The other portion of internal storage, where music, downloaded files, and so on are stored, remains visible for your convenience.
You’re able to optimize your memory usage by:
• Uninstalling apps you don’t use.
• Deleting downloaded files or files you cre ated and copying them over to a computer via USB.
• Removing content from Google Play
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that’s saved for offline use and streaming it via a WiFi or mobile network.
Use the Apps screen
Settings
The Apps screen allows you to adjust several aspects of the way your device uses memory.
To view these settings, go to
Settings > Device > Apps.
You’ll see three tabs at the top of the screen, each displaying a list of apps or their components:
• Downloaded. Displays apps you’ve down loaded on Google Play or other sources.
• Running. Displays all apps, processes, and services that are currently running or that have cached processes, and how much RAM they are using.
The graph at the bottom of the Running tab shows the total RAM in use and the amount free. At the top right of the screen, touch Show cached processes or Show
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running services to switch back and forth.
• All. Displays all apps that came with An droid and all apps you downloaded on
Google Play or other sources.
To switch the order of the lists displayed in the Downloaded or All tabs, touch Menu >
Sort by name or Sort by size.
To view details about an app or other item listed under any tab, touch its name. The information and controls available vary among different types of apps, but common ly include:
• Force stop button. Stops an app that is misbehaving. Stopping an app, process, or service may cause your device to stop working correctly. You may need to re start your device after doing this.
• Uninstall button. Deletes the app and all of its data and settings.
• Disable button. Prevents the app from running, but does not uninstall it. This op tion is available for some apps and servic es that can’t be uninstalled.
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• Clear data button. Delete an app’s set tings and other data without removing the app itself.
• Clear cache button. If the app stores data in a temporary area of the phone’s mem ory, lists how much information is stored, and includes a button for clearing it.
• Launch by default. If you have configured an app to launch certain file types by de fault, you can clear that setting here.
• Permissions. Lists the kinds of informa tion about your phone and data the app has access to.
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10
Security settings
Security on Android
Android takes a multilayered approach to security:
Prevent. Apps in Google Play are scanned continuously to block harmful apps and pol icy violators. You can also choose to have apps installed from other sources verified.
Control. App “sandboxes” keep apps from accessing other parts of your phone’s oper ating system, or each other, unless you give permission at installation. Screen lock and
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encryption help prevent unauthorized ac cess to the entire phone.
Defend. Once identified, dangerous apps can be removed remotely.
This chapter includes information about the verify apps feature (used both for prevention and defense), screen lock, encryption, and other security features of your phone.
Manage security settings
You can manage the security settings for your phone by going to Settings > Personal
> Security.
• Screen security. Manage screen lock op tions, such as using the Power button to lock your screen.
• Encryption. Encrypt the data on your phone.
• SIM card lock. Set up a PIN to lock your phone’s SIM card.
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• Passwords. Make passwords visible, which helps you to enter a password that is more complex and secure.
• Device administration. Manage device administrators, allow apps to be in stalled from sources other than the Play
Store, and choose to verify apps from all sources.
• Credential storage. Manage, install, or clear certificates on your phone.
TIP: Touch Owner info under Screen
Security to enter information that’s displayed on the lock screen. This is useful in case you lose or misplace your phone.
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Protect against harmful apps
About verifying apps
Some apps can harm you or your phone. You can choose to verify apps in order to help pre vent harmful software from being installed on your phone.
If you attempt to install an app from any source while app verification is turned on, your phone may send information identifying the app to Google.
If the app is harmful, Google may warn you not to install it, or it may block the installa tion completely.
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IMPORTANT: When you verify apps,
Google receives log information, URLs related to the app, and general infor mation about the device, such as the
Device ID, version of the operating system, IP address, and one or more cookies.
Control app verification
App verification is turned on by default, but no data is sent to Google unless you agree to allow this when asked in the dialog that ap pears prior to installing the first app from an unknown source.
To control app verification, go to Settings >
Security > Verify apps.
If you attempt to install an app that may be unsafe, you may see one of the following dialogs:
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• Installing this app may harm your phone.
The app may be harmful to your phone and personal information.
• Installation has been blocked. The app is harmful and can’t be installed.
Turn off app verification
To stop verifying apps at any time, go to Set-
tings > Security > Verify apps, then uncheck the box.
Set screen lock
You can lock your screen for additional secu rity. After you set a lock, the screen is locked after the display goes to sleep.
If your phone’s playing music when the screen locks, you can continue listening or pause the selection without unlocking.
To adjust your lock settings:
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1. Go to Settings > Personal > Security
> Screen lock.
2. Touch the type of lock you want and fol low the onscreen instructions.
To change the screen lock that’s currently set, enter the pattern, PIN, or password to ac cess the lock options.
You can choose among these lock options, listed in approximate order of strength:
• Slide provides no protection, but lets you get to the Home screen quickly, or open Camera and start taking pictures immediately.
• Face Unlock lets you unlock your phone by looking at it. This is the least secure lock option.
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TIP: Face Unlock lets you un lock your phone by looking at the screen. After you set it up, look un der Settings > Personal > Security for two additional settings: Improve
face matching and Liveness check.
Use these to make Face Unlock more reliable and secure.
• Pattern lets you draw a simple pattern with your finger to unlock the phone. This is slightly more secure than Face Unlock.
• PIN requires four or more numbers. Lon ger PINs tend to be more secure.
• Password requires four or more letters or numbers. This is the most secure option, as long as you create a strong password.
Password tips: For best security, specify a password that is
• A least 8 characters long.
• Contains a mixture of numbers, letters, and special symbols.
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• Doesn’t contain any recognizable words or phrases.
Settings
To change when your phone goes to sleep, go to Settings >
Device > Display > Sleep.
To see your passwords when you input them, go to Settings
> Personal > Security > Make passwords visible.
Encrypt your data
You can encrypt all your data: Google Ac counts, app data, music and other media, downloaded information, and so on. If you do, you must enter a numeric PIN or pass word each time you turn on your phone. Note that this is the same PIN or password that you use to unlock your phone without en cryption, and can’t be set independently.
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WARNING: Encryption is irreversible.
The only way to revert is to perform a factory data reset, which erases all your data.
Encryption provides additional protection in case your phone is stolen, and may be required or recommended in some organi zations. Consult your system administrator before turning it on. In many cases the PIN or password you set for encryption is controlled by the system administrator.
Before turning on encryption, prepare as follows:
1. Set a lock screen PIN or password.
2. Charge the battery.
3. Plug in your phone.
4. Schedule an hour or more for the encryp tion process: you must not interrupt it or you will lose some or all of your data.
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When you’re ready to turn on encryption:
1. Touch Settings > Personal > Security >
Encryption > Encrypt phone.
2. Read the information about encryption carefully.
The Encrypt phone button is dimmed if your battery’s not charged or your phone’s not plugged in. If you change your mind about encrypting your phone, touch the Back button.
WARNING: If you interrupt the en cryption process, you will lose data.
3. Touch Encrypt phone.
4. Enter your lock screen PIN or password and touch Continue.
5. Touch Encrypt phone again.
The encryption process starts and displays its progress. Encryption can take an hour or more, during which time your phone may re start several times.
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When encryption is complete, you’re prompt ed to enter your PIN or password.
Subsequently, you must enter your PIN or password each time you power on your phone, to decrypt it.
Work with certificates
You can use digital certificates to identify your device for a variety of purposes, includ ing VPN or WiFi network access as well as authentication to servers by apps such as
Email or Chrome. To use a certificate to iden tify your device, you must obtain it with help from your system administrator, and install it in your device’s trusted credential storage .
Android supports DERencoded X.509 cer tificates, saved in files with a .crt or .cer file extension. If your certificate file has a .der or other extension, you must change it to .crt or
.cer or you won’t be able to install it.
Android also supports X.509 certificates
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saved in PKCS#12 key store files with a .p12 or .pfx extension. If your key store has some other extension, you much change it to .p12 or .pfx or you won’t be able to install it. When you install a certificate from a PKCS#12 key store, Android also installs any accom panying private key or certificate authority certificates.
Install client & CA certificates
To install a certificate from your phone’s in ternal storage:
1. Copy the certificate or key store from your computer to the root of your device’s in ternal storage (that is, not in a folder).
2. Touch Settings > Personal > Secu-
rity > Credential storage > Install from storage.
3. Touch the filename of the certificate or keystore to install. Only certificates that you haven’t already installed are displayed.
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4. If prompted, enter the key store password and touch OK.
5. Enter a name for the certificate and touch
OK.
Typically, a CA certificate included with a cli ent certificate is installed at the same time.
You can also install separate CA certificates using the same steps.
If you have not already set a pattern, PIN, or password for your device, you’re prompted to set one up. The type of lock that’s accept able may be predetermined by your system administrator.
You can now use the certificate that you in stalled when connecting to a secure net work or for client authentication with Email,
Chrome, and thirdparty apps. After a cer tificate is installed successfully, the copy in storage is deleted.
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IMPORTANT: Apps such as Email that support certificates allow you to in stall certificates directly from within the app. For details, see the Help or other instructions that come with each app.
Work with CA certificates
If a certificate authority (CA) certificate gets compromised, or for some other reason your organization doesn’t want to trust it, you can disable or remove it. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Touch Settings > Personal > Security
> Credential storage >Trusted credentials.
The trusted credentials screen has two tabs:
System displays certificate authority
(CA) certificates that are permanently in stalled in the ROM of your phone.
User displays any CA certificates that you
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have installed yourself, for example in the process of installing a client certificate.
2. To examine the details of CA certificate, touch its name.
A scrolling screen displays the details.
3. To remove or disable a CA certificate, scroll down to the bottom of the de tails screen and touch either Disable for system certificates or Remove for user certificates.
When you disable a system CA certificate, the button at the bottom of its details screen changes to Enable, so you can enable the certificate again if necessary.
When you remove a userinstalled CA cer tificate, it is gone permanently and must be reinstalled if you want it back.
4. In the confirmation dialog that appears, touch OK.
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Personal, account,
& system settings
Manage location access
You can let your phone access GPS, WiFi networks, and mobile networks to estimate your location. Apps that have your permis sion can use this information to deliver lo cationbased services, such as the ability to check in, view commute traffic, or find nearby restaurants.
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For your phone
To control what location information your phone can use, go to Settings > Personal >
Location access.
When the Access to my location switch at the top of the screen is On, you can select either or both of these checkboxes:
• GPS satellites. Just like a GPS device in your car, lets your phone calculate your location based on satellite signals.
• Wi-Fi & mobile network location. Lets your phone use Google’s location service to help estimate your location faster, with or without help from GPS.
When the switch is Off, your phone can’t find your precise location or share it with any apps.
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IMPORTANT: Turning off location ac cess for your phone also turns it off for
Google Now, other Google apps, and nonGoogle apps. That means that no apps can receive your precise location information, and many useful features will be disabled.
For Google apps
When location access for your phone is turned on, you can prevent Google apps from using this information with one easy setting
– without affecting access by nonGoogle apps. To do so:
1. Go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Lo-
cation settings.
2. Slide the switch to the Off position.
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IMPORTANT: When you turn Location
settings off, nonGoogle apps and
Google’s location service will continue to receive your location. To change these settings, go to Settings > Per-
sonal > Location access.
Change backup & reset options
To view the settings described here, go to
Settings > Backup & reset.
You can back up settings and other data as sociated with one or more of your Google Ac counts. If you need to replace or factory reset your device, you can restore your data for any accounts that were previously backed up.
These options are available:
• Back up my data. If you check this option, a wide variety of your personal data is backed up automatically, including your
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WiFi passwords, Chrome bookmarks, a list of the apps you’ve installed on Google
Play, the words you’ve added to the dic tionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of your customized settings.
Some thirdparty apps may also take ad vantage of this feature, so you can restore your data if you reinstall an app.
If you uncheck this option, your data stops getting backed up, and any existing backups are deleted from Google servers.
• Backup account. Displays the Google Ac counts whose information gets backed up. You must sign in with one or more of these accounts on a new or reset device to retrieve the associated information.
To add a new account, touch Backup ac-
count > Add account.
• Automatic restore. Check this option to restore settings and other data when you reinstall an app. This feature requires that you are backing up your data with your
Google Account and that the app is using the backup service.
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• Factory data reset. Touch this option, then Reset phone to erase all your person al data from internal storage, including information about your Google Account, any other accounts, your system and app settings, any downloaded applications, and your music, photos, videos, and other files.
After resetting your phone, you’ll need to reenter the same information requested when you first set up your phone. If you’ve been backing up your data to a Google ac count, an option during the setup process allows you to restore it.
Some thirdparty apps also make use of the backup service, so if you reinstall one, its set tings and data are restored.
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Add or remove accounts
Add an account
To add some accounts, you may need to ob tain details from system administrator about the service to which the account connects.
For example, you may need to know the ac count’s domain or server address.
1. Go to Settings > Accounts > Add account.
2. Touch the kind of account to add.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions.
Most accounts require a username and pass word, but the details depend on the kind of account and the configuration of the service you’re connecting to.
Depending on the kind of account, you may be asked to configure what kinds of data you want to sync, name the account, and other details.
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When you’re finished, the account is added in one of two places:
• Google Accounts show up under Settings
> Accounts > Google.
• Other accounts show up under Settings >
Accounts.
Remove an account
You can remove any account and all informa tion associated with it from your device, in cluding email, contacts, settings, and so on.
To remove a Google account, touch its name under Settings > Accounts or Settings > Ac-
counts >Google, then Menu > Remove
account.
For any other type of account go, to Settings
> Accounts > account-name and look for the
Remove option.
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Configure sync options
To reach sync settings for Google accounts, start from Settings > Accounts > Google.
You can configure synchronization options for any of your apps. You can also decide what kinds of data to synchronize for each account.
For some accounts, syncing is twodirec tional; changes that you make to the infor mation on your device are made to the copy of that information on the web. Your Google
Account works this way. Other accounts sup port only oneway sync: the information on your mobile device is readonly.
Some apps, such as Gmail and Calendar, have separate synchronization settings that provide more fine-grained control. For example, to control message syncing in the
Gmail app, ensure you’re viewing your Inbox, then touch Menu > Label settings > Sync
messages.
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Configure auto-sync for all apps
To control Antosync for all apps that use it, open Settings > Data usage > Menu and check or uncheck Auto-sync data.
If you turn off Autosync, you need to sync manually to collect messages, email, and other recent information, and won’t receive notifications when updates occur. For exam ple, changes that you make in your People app are automatically made to your Google contacts on the web.
If this option is not checked, you may be able to use an app’s tools to sync data manually.
You can also sync manually to collect mes sages, email, and other recent information.
Leaving Autosync off can help extend your battery life, but will prevent you from receiv ing notifications when updates occur.
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Configure Google Account sync settings
To adjust a single Google Account’s sync settings:
1. Go to Settings > Personal > Accounts >
Google. indicates that some or all of an ac count’s information is configured to sync automatically.
indicates that none of an account’s information is configured to sync automatically.
2. Touch the account whose sync settings you want to change.
3. The Sync Settings screen opens, display ing a list of the kinds of information the account can sync.
4. Check or uncheck items as needed.
Unchecking an option does not remove the information from your device; it simply stops it from being kept in sync with the version on the web.
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Sync a Google Account manually
1. Go to Settings > Accounts > Google.
2. Touch the account whose data you want to sync.
3. Touch Menu > Sync now.
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Appendix:
Hardware reference
What’s in the box
Micro USB cable
Nexus 4
APPENDIX
Travel adapter
SIM ejection tool
220
This Quick Start Guide and a Safety & War ranty booklet are also included.
• If any item is damaged or missing, contact your point of purchase for assistance.
• Use only approved accessories.
• Accessories may vary by country or region.
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Nexus 4
3.5mm headset jack
Microphone
TOP
Frontfacing camera
Proximity sensor
Volume key
SIM card tray
Earpiece
Power/
Lock key
LED
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FRONT
222
Camera lens
Power/
Lock key
Flash
Induction coil
3.5mm headset jack
Volume key
Speaker
Charger/
USB/
SlimPort
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BACK
BOTTOM
Microphone
223
Specs
Screen
Size
Weight
Cameras
Memory
CPU
4.7” diagonal
1280x768 pixel resolution (320 ppi)
WXGA IPS
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2
133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1mm
139g
8 MP (main)
1.3 MP (front)
8GB or 16GB (actual formatted capacity will be less)
2GB RAM
Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 Pro
1.5GHz
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Sensors
Network
Wireless
Microphone
Accelerometer
Compass
Ambient light
Barometer
Gyroscope
GPS
Unlocked GSM/UMTS/HSPA+
GSM/EDGE/GPRS (850, 900,
1800, 1900 MHz)
3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100
MHz)
HSPA+ 42
Wireless charging compatible
WiFi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
NFC (Android Beam)
Bluetooth
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Connectivity
Battery
OS
Micro USB
SlimPort HDMI
3.5mm headphone jack
2,100 mAh
Standby: up to 250 hours
Talk time: up to 10 hours
Music playback: up to 40 hours
Video playback: up to 8 hours
Web browsing: up to 7 hours
Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
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Table of contents
- 4 Table of contents
- 10 Part One Using Nexus 4
- 11 1. Get started
- 33 2. Explore your phone
- 56 3 Use the Phone app
- 68 4. Use the keyboard
- 75 5. Try some apps
- 86 6 Use Google Now & Search
- 131 7. Accessibility
- 164 Part Two Adjusting settings
- 165 8. Wireless & network settings
- 188 9. Device settings
- 201 10. Security settings
- 217 11. Personal, account, & system settings
- 229 Appendix: Hardware reference