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Add Bookmarks to Your Home Screen
1. From any open Web page, tap > Bookmarks.
– or
From any open Web page, tap .
2. Touch and hold an existing entry from the list to display a context menu.
3. Tap Add shortcut to Home to add the selected entry to your Home screen.
Tethering and Portable Hotspot
phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.
When your device is sharing its data connection, appears in the Status Bar. For the latest
information about portable hotspots, including supported operating systems and other details,
please visit http://www.android.com/tether#wifi.
To share your device's data connection via USB cable:
1. Tap > > System settings > Networks tab > PC connection.
2. Connect your device to your computer with a USB cable.
3. Tap USB tethering to activate it. (A blue checkmark will appear.)
Note: You cannot access your phone's microSD card on your computer when using USB
tethering.
-Fi hotspot:
1. Tap > > System settings > Networks tab > Connectivity.
2. Tap Portable Wi-Fi hotspot to activate it. (A blue checkmark will appear.) After a
moment, the phone starts broadcasting its Wi-Fi network name (SSID), so you can
connect it with up to 8 computers or other devices.
3. To change the network name (SSID) or secure its Wi-Fi network, tap Configure Wi-Fi
hotspot.
4. In the dialog box, configure the options.
Tap the Network SSID field and enter a new network SSID (name) that other
computers see when scanning for Wi-Fi networks.