Huawei Ascend Y manual Managing Your Accounts, Adding an Account, Adding an Exchange Account

10.1 Managing Your Accounts

You can synchronize contacts, email, and other information on your mobile phone with multiple Google accounts or other kinds of accounts, depending on the applications installed on your mobile phone.

For example, you can start by adding your personal Google account, so your personal email, contacts, and calendar are always available. You could then add a work account, so your work-related emails and work contacts are handy. If you like, you may add multiple Google accounts or other accounts.

10.1.1 Adding an Account

When you add an account, the Contacts application compares contacts from the newly synchronized account with contacts from your existing mobile phone accounts and attempts to merge duplicates into a singleentryin Contacts. While itis presented as a single contact entry, the contact data itself is not merged.

1.Touch > Settings > Accounts & sync. The screen displays your current synchronization settings and a list of your current accounts.

In some cases, you may need to obtain account details from IT support. For example, you may need to know the account’s domain or server address.

2.Touch Add account.

3.Touch the kind of account to add.

4.Follow the onscreen steps to enter the required and optional information about the account. Most accounts require a username and password, but the details depend on the kind of account and the configuration of the service to which you are connecting.

5.Configure the account. Depending on the kind of account, you may be asked to configure what kind of data you want to synchronize to the mobile phone, to name the account, and for other details. When you are finished, the account is added to the list on the Accounts & sync settings screen.

10.1.2 Adding an Exchange Account

1.On the Home screen, touch > Settings> Accounts &sync.

2.Touch Add account > Corporate.

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