Alcatel 916D Joining/Separating contacts, Accounts, Background data, Auto-sync, Sync manually

3.3.7Joining/Separating contacts

To avoid duplication, you can add any new contact information to existing contacts in a single action (only available for phone contacts).

Touch the contact which you want to add information to, press Menu key and touch Edit contact, then press Menu key again and touch Join.

At this time, you are required to select the contact whose information you want to join with the first contact. The information from the second contact is added to the first one, and the second contact will no longer be displayed in the Contacts list.

To separate contact information, touch the contact whose information you want to separate, press Menu key and touch Edit contact, then press Menu key again and touch Separate.

3.3.8Accounts

Contacts, data or other information can be synchronized from multiple accounts, depending on the applications installed on your phone.

To add an account, press Menu key from Contacts list, touch More\ Accounts, then touch Add account tab; or access it by pressing Menu key from Home screen, touch Settings, then selecting Accounts & Sync and finally touching Add account tab.

You are required to select the type of accounts to add, like Google, Facebook, etc.

As with other account set-ups, you need to enter detailed information, such as username, password, etc.

You can remove an account to delete it and all associated information from the phone.

Open the Accounts & sync settings screen, touch the account you want to delete, then press Menu key and touch Remove account and confirm.

Useful icons:

Indicates that the account is configured to synchronize automatically with your phone.

Indicates that the account is not configured to synchronize automatically with your phone.

Background data

Activate or deactivate Background data to control whether applications or services data can be transmitted when they are running in the background. Applications can synchronize, send, and receive data at any time if activated.

Auto-sync

When activated, all changes to information on the phone or online will be automatically synchronized to each other.

Sync manually

You can synchronize an account manually on Accounts & sync settings screen, and you must touch an account in the list on this screen, touch Sync now.

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