Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Alcatel One Touch 993D Tips and Tricks

How to Backup and Factory Reset Alcatel One Touch 993D

Resetting your Alcatel One Touch 993D will restore the default settings of your device. It will also delete all your files on your phone, so it is recommended to backup all your important files on your computer.

Luckily in Alcatel One Touch 993D you can backup your phone settings and other application data to Google Servers before wiping all the data on your phone. But if you want to erase all the content on your phone, then there’s no need for you to backup your data.

How to Activate the Backup Function:

• Tap on the Menu key from Home screen.
• Select Settings Backup & reset > Back up my data.
• Then mark the checkbox.

How to Factory Reset:

• Tap on the Menu key from Home screen.
• Select Settings Backup & reset > Factory data reset.
• Then mark the checkbox.

If you are unable to turn on your Alcatel One Touch 993D, then you may need to do the hard reset. Press and hold the Volume up key and the Power key at the same time until the screen light up. This process will also factory reset your device.


How to Turn On/Off Wi-Fi on Alcatel One Touch 993D

By connecting to a Wi-Fi network you can surf to the Internet using your One Touch 993D. Just make sure that you are within the range of a wireless network so you will be able to connect your successfully. You can used a Wi-Fi even without a SIM Card.

Follow these steps on how to connect to your wireless network:

• On your Home screen, tap on the Menu key.

• Select on Settings.

• You will see a Wi-Fi option, beside on the Wi-Fi, just switch whether on/off.

• Tap on Wi-Fi, there should a detailed information of detected wireless networks.

• Tap on the network you want to connect with.

• If the network is secured with a password, make sure to enter the password correctly.

• Then tap Save.


How to Extend Battery Life of Alcatel One Touch 993D

Battery Life depends on how you use your device. For One Touch 993D device, if you want to save your battery to last longer hours, you may need to adjust your settings. Follow these suggestions:

• Turn on the power-saving option on the device (if applicable).

• Lessen the screen brightness and the screen lock timeout.

• Turn down your device volume with the volume keys.

• Close any apps or features when you are done using it so they will not continuously running in the background.

• Turn off the network connection if you are out of range so that your device will stop searching for a network signal.

• You should use the latest version of the software update. Software updates improves some features and fixes some bugs on the previous software version.

• Turn off the camera flash.


How to Setup an Email Account on Alcatel One Touch 993D

You can set-up an external POP3 or IMAP email accounts on your One Touch 993D. But for me, I recommend using the Gmail account which is powered by Google, and where you can back up your applications.

How to setup your an email, follow these steps:

• On your Homescreen, touch on the Application tab.

• There should an email wizard that will guide you through process in setting up an email.

• Enter the email address and password of the account you want to set-up.

• Then tap Next. (You will be prompted to go to email account settings to enter settings manually, if the account is not provided by your service provider.)

• You can also tap on Manual setup to directly enter the incoming and outgoing settings for the email account you are setting up.

• Enter your preferred account name and display name in outgoing emails.

• If you want to add another email account, just tap on Menu key > Settings Add Account on the right of the title to create.


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