Consumer Cellular ZTE Avid 557 - Changing the Screen Brightness; Protecting Your Phone with a Screen Lock; Protecting Your Phone with Encryption

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CHANGING THE SCREEN BRIGHTNESS
1. Press the Home Key > > Settings > Display > Brightness level.
2. Drag the slider to manually adjust the screen brightness.
NOTES:
• With the proximity and light sensor, your phone can automatically adjust
the screen brightness for available light. Tap Adaptive brightness in the
Display settings screen to turn the feature on or off.
• You can also adjust the screen brightness from the Notification Panel.
Swipe down from the top of the screen to open the Notification Panel and
drag
, or tap AUTO to turn on or off adaptive brightness.
PROTECTING YOUR PHONE WITH A SCREEN LOCK
You can protect your phone by creating a screen lock. When it is enabled, you
can press and hold a blank area on the screen, and then draw a pattern or
enter a numeric PIN or password to unlock the phone’s screen and keys.
1. Press the Home Key >
> Settings > Security.
2. Tap Screen lock.
3. Tap None, Long press, Pattern, PIN, or Password.
• Tap None to disable screen lock protection.
• Tap Long press to enable screen lock and allow unlocking with a “press
and hold” gesture. You can unlock the screen by pressing and holding a
blank area on the lock screen.
• Tap Pattern to create a pattern that you must draw to unlock the screen.
• Tap PIN or Password to set a numeric PIN or a password that you must
enter to unlock the screen.
4. For Pattern, PIN, or Password lock, select how you would like notifications
and their contents to show when the phone is locked, and then tap DONE.
NOTES:
• Screen lock options are listed in the approximate order of the strength
of their security, starting with None and Long press, which provide no
security. A pattern provides minimal security, although it can be more
convenient than the stronger options.
• Remember the pattern, PIN or password you set. Otherwise, you may have
to contact customer service to upgrade the phone software (see
Upgrading
the Phone Software
).
PROTECTING YOUR PHONE WITH ENCRYPTION
You can encrypt all the data on your phone: your accounts, application data,
music and other media, downloaded information, and so on. If you do, you
must draw an unlock pattern, or enter a numeric PIN or a password each time
you power on your phone.
WARNING! Encryption is irreversible. The only way to revert to an
unencrypted phone is to perform a factory data reset, which erases all your
data.
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