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Setting For Phones Using Windows Phone 8

6/21/2013 5:47:42 PM

If you possess a Smartphone that runs Windows Phone 8, you will need to implement some settings for ringtones, interface, e-mail setup, Facebook and mastering Find My Phone feature, backup...

Phones that use Windows Phone 8

Phones that use Windows Phone 8

Ringtones + Sounds

Windows Phone 8 provides a number of audio tracks so that users can be flexible to choose for message notification, voicemail, e-mail, ring tones, alarm sound, keyboard sound... To set these settings, you enter to Settings menu, choose Ringtones + Sounds, click Ringtone, and then select the sound you want to use from the list that appears. In addition, you can press Get more links to free download other audio samples from the Windows Phone Store.

Interface appears when you enter to the Settings menu

Interface appears when you enter to the Settings menu

Theme

Setting up the interface on Widows Phone 8 is quite simple; users simply need to switch between Dark and Light in the Background. With Dark option, the screen will be black with white letters stand out; while the Light option is opposite.

Changing your phone’s background with Dark and Light

Changing your phone’s background with Dark and Light

E-mail Account

This is the user management central for e-mail services and social networks, users can report Microsoft, Google and Facebook account. If you use the company's own account, click the Advanced setup to report the required information. For each account declared, continue to adjust device-synchronized components as well as the frequency of this step. After completing the setup, click Done.

Email+account interface

Email+account interface

Internet Sharing

With this feature, users will quickly turn their devices into a Wi-Fi base station for other devices to access. First, turn Sharing into On. Then set the name and password for the connection. Recommendation: users should set strong passwords to prevent data loss due to unauthorized access from unwanted users.

Turn Sharing into On before set the name and password for the connection

Turn Sharing into On before set the name and password for the connection

Lock Screen

Settings in the Screen Lock groups include changing the background image (you can choose to use images from Bing or Facebook), the way to display the current track information on the lock screen, applications allowed to notify on Lock Screen (including email, Facebook, calendar, alarms,...). In addition, users can reset the time before switching to Lock mode, and set the login password.

The Lock Screen

The Lock Screen

Wi-Fi

This item simply shows the Wi-Fi connections that are available for accessing, of course, users must turn the Wi-Fi networking On. When accessing to a connection, users can save the connection information for automatically logging next time.

Wi-Fi interface

Wi-Fi interface

Battery Saver

Windows Phone 8 provides quite effective battery-saving feature; users turn on this mode to reduce unnecessary services automatically that run the background. Here, you can also find information about the remaining battery capacity, time used... easily.

Battery saver application

Battery saver application

Phone Storage

The memory manager mode helps users to control the handset’s memory and memory card capacity. For databases of multimedia entertainment like music, video and photos, users can specify the default storage folder when adding new entries, in two new menus: Store new music + video and Store new pictures on.

Phone storage application

Phone storage application

Backup

The Backup feature on Windows Phone 8 helps to bring the list of applications settings (App list+settings), text messages, images (Photos) to the cloud automatically when there is change. If you want to back up a component, select Backup on at the bottom section respectively, with images is Auto upload on.

Back up application

Back up application

Find My Phone

This is quite an attractive feature, thanks to the Find My Phone app, users can find their lost phones. After enabling this feature on the handset, users can control the handset to play ringtones, get the phone locked, delete data or send push-formed text messages to the device via WindowsPhone.com or positioning current location of the device, thereby hoping to find the device.

Find My Phone application

Find My Phone application

 

 

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