16 GETTING STARTED 17PERSONALIZING
Getting to know the home screen
The home screen is the starting point for your phone’s applications, functions,
and menus. You can customize your home screen by adding application
icons, shortcuts, folders, widgets, and more.
Extended home screens
Your home screen extends beyond the initial screen, providing more space to
add icons, widgets, and more. Simply swipe left or right on the screen to see
the extended home screens.
Creating, deleting, or setting the home screens
1. Pinch or spread two ngers on the home screen.
2. Tap
on the blank screen to create a new home screen; tap on the
corner of a screen to delete it; tap on the bottom of a screen to set it as
the main home screen; drag a screen to adjust its place.
Personalizing
Changing the system language
1. From the home screen, tap > Settings > Language & input > Language.
2. Select the language you want.
Setting the date and time
1. From the home screen, tap > Settings > Date & time.
2. Uncheck Automatic date & time and Automatic time zone if you want to
set the date, time, and time zone yourself.
3. Set the date, time, time zone, and date/time format.
Changing ringtone and notication sound
You can customize the default ringtone for incoming calls and the default
notication sound.
1. From the home screen, tap > Settings > Sound.
2. Tap Phone ringtone or Default notication sound.
3. Scroll through the ringtone list and select the ringtone you want to use.
4. Tap OK.
Tip: (see People – Editing contacts – Setting a ringtone for a contact) for how
to assign a special ringtone to an individual contact.
Turning on/off touch sounds
1. From the home screen, tap > Settings > Sound.
2. Check or uncheck Touch sounds.
Shortcuts
Status and notications bar
Favorite shortcuts
Widget