Alcatel 918D manual Applications, Credential storage

11.6.7Credential storage

Use secure credentials

Mark the check box to allow applications to access your phone’s encrypted store of secure certificates and related passwords and other credentials. Credential storage is used to establish some kinds of VPN and Wi-Fi connections. If you have not set a password for the credential storage, this setting is dimmed.

Install from SD card

Touch to install encrypted certificates from the microSD card.

Set password

Touch to set or change a password for the credential storage (at least 8 characters).

Clear storage

Touch to clear credential storage of all contents and reset its password.

11.7Applications

You use the Applications settings to view details about the applications installed on your phone, to manage their data and force them to stop, and to set whether you want to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites and email.

Unknown sources

Mark the check box to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites, email, or other locations other than Android Market.

To protect your phone and personal data, download applications only from trusted sources, such as Android Market.

Manage applications

Touch to manage and remove installed applications.

Running services

Touch to open a list of services—applications or parts of applications that provide services to other applications, or that run even when their main application isn’t running. Examples include the Android onscreen keyboard and the small portion of Google Talk that always listens for incoming messages.Above each service, one or more gray bars show what processes the running service needs and how much memory they're using (how much memory you would recover if you stopped the service). Depending on the service, when you touch it in the list it either opens a dialog in which you can stop it or opens its Settings screen.

Storage use

Touch to view available memory and the memory used by applications on your phone.

Battery use

Touch to view the amount of power consumed by your phone. It also shows which applications consume the most battery power. For more information, refer to section 11.16 About phone.

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