TCL 30 XE 5G Smartphone User Manual

: June 5, 2024
: TCL

TCL 30 XE 5G Smartphone

Getting Started

Overview

Recent Apps button
- Touch to open a card view of applications you’ve worked with recently. Swipe up on the screen to remove a specific thumbnail from the list, or touch CLEAR ALL to remove all thumbnails from the list.
Home button
- From any application or screen, touch to return to the Home screen. Touch and hold to open Google Assistant. Through this function, you can search for information online, open apps on your phone, send messages, etc.
Back button
- Touch to go back to the previous screen, or close a dialog box, options menu, the Notification panel, etc.
Power key
- Press: Lock the screen/Light up the screen.
- Press and hold: Show the popup menu to select from Power off, Restart, Airplane mode or Cast.
- Press and hold the Power key and Volume down key to take a screenshot and save it.
- Press and hold the Power key for at least 11 seconds to force reboot.
Volume Keys
- Adjust the call volume during a phone call.
- Adjust the media volume while listening to music, watching a video, or streaming content.
Adjust the ringtone volume.
- Mutes the ringtone of an incoming call.
- While using the Camera, press the Volume up or down key to take a photo, or touch and hold to take several photos.

Setup

Inserting Nano SIM card

You must insert your Nano SIM card to make phone calls using your network. Your phone only supports Nano SIM cards. In order to avoid damaging your phone, do not attempt to insert other SIM types, such as Mini or Micro cards.
Note: Even if no SIM card is installed, your phone will still power on and you will be able to connect to a Wi-Fi network and use some of the phone’s features.

Setup your phone for the first time
The first time you power on the phone, you should set the following options: language, mobile data, fingerprint, Google service, and date & time, etc.

Home Screen

You can bring all of the items that you use most frequently (applications, shortcuts, widgets, folders) to your Home screen for quick access. Touch the Home button to switch to the Home screen.

Status bar
- Status/Notification indicators
- Swipe down to open the Notification panel.
Search bar
- Enter text search screen.
- Enter voice search screen.
Swipe left or right to view more screens
Touch to open an application, folder, etc.
Favorite apps tray
- Touch to open the application.
- Touch and hold to move or change applications

Status Bar

The Status bar appears at the top of your Home screen. Icons indicating your phone’s status and new notification alerts appear in the Status bar.
About Your Phone

Power On/Off

Hold down the Power key until the phone powers on, unlock your phone (Swipe, Pattern, PIN, Password or Fingerprint) if necessary, once unlocked, Home screen is displayed. If you don’t know your PIN code or if you have forgotten it, contact Customer Care. For Safety, please do not store PIN code in your phone. Press and hold the Power key until options appear, then select Power off.

Charging

Insert the small end of the charging cable into the charge port and plug the charger into an electrical outlet.

Battery

To optimize your battery life, you may do the following: Turn on power saving mode

Go to Settings > Smart Manager > Battery > Battery detail > Battery saver
Touch TURN ON NOW to activate the battery saving mode.

Lower screen brightness

Go to Settings > Display > Brightness level
Lower the brightness by sliding

Screen timeout

Go to Settings > Display > Sleep
Select the screen timeout duration.

Personalize Your Phone

Language

Your device supports multiple languages. To change your phone language:

Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Languages.
Touch + Add a language to select a language from the language list.
Touch and hold next to your desired language and drag it to the top of the list.

Date & Time

Go to Settings > System > Date & time.
Use network-provided time
Turn on to enable the network-provided time.
Use network-provided time zone
Turn on to enable the network-provided time zone.

If Use network-provided time is turned off, you will have the following two options to manually set the date and time:

Set date
Touch to open a dialog in which you can manually set the date.
Set time
Touch to open a dialog in which you can manually set the time. If Use network- provided time zone is turned off, you will have the following option to manually set the time zone:
Time zone
You can select the time zone and region manually.
Time format
You can also set the time format as locale default or 24-hour format.

Display

Dark mode
Your screen will become black in this mode, which makes it easier to look at your screen or read in dim light.
Eye comfort mode
Eye comfort mode can effectively reduce blue light radiation and adjust the color temperature to relieve eye fatigue. You can also create a custom schedule to turn it on.
Auto-rotate screen
Select whether the screen rotates automatically or not.

Note: Using your device in landscape mode with polarized sunglasses on may cut light from the screen. Take your polarized sunglasses off or use your device in portrait orientation to continue use.

Sound

Adjusting volume:

Press the volume keys that are located on the right side of the device to adjust the Ringtone & Notification volume.
You can also go to Settings > Sound & vibration to adjust the volume for call, ring, media and alarm.

Adjusting tones

Go to Settings > Sound & vibration > Phone ringtone & vibrate.
You may select ringtones for phone, notification, alarm as well as other sounds.

Adjusting other sounds
All other sounds that are related to Dial Pad, Screen locking and Charging can be adjusted to by doing the following:

Go to Settings > Sound & vibration > More sound settings.

Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls

Use this menu to find out how much time you have spent on the phone and even on each app. You can customize the time limit for using the phone.
In addition, parents can restrict their children’s usage time and manage their browsing habits.

Application..

Call.

Making a call

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Suggested numbers are displayed as you enter numbers on the dial pad.

Enter the desired number from the dial pad and touch to place the call. You can also select a contact from Favorites , Recents or Contacts by touching the tabs. The number you entered can be saved to Contacts by touching Create new contact. If you make a mistake, you can delete the incorrect digits by touching . To hang up a call, touch .

International call
To make an international call, touch and hold to enter “+”, then enter the international country prefix followed by the full phone number and touch .

Emergency call
If your phone has network coverage, dial the emergency number and touch to make an emergency call. This works even without a SIM card and without typing the PIN code.

Answering or rejecting a call

When you receive a call:

Slide up to answer;
Slide down to reject;
Touch to reject the call by sending a preset message.
To mute the ringtone of an incoming call, press the Volume key.

Voicemail

Your voicemail is provided to avoid missing calls. It works like an answering machine that you can consult at any time.
To access your voicemail, touch and hold . To set your voicemail number: touch Phone and go to menu > Settings > Voicemail > Advanced Settings > Setup > Voicemail number. If you receive a voicemail, appears in the Status bar. Open the Notification panel and touch Voicemail.

Contacts.

Contacts enables quick and easy access to the contact you want to reach. You can view and create contacts on your phone and synchronize them with your Gmail contacts or other applications on the web or on your phone.
Adding a contact
Touch in the contact list to create a new contact. Enter the contact’s name and other contact information. By scrolling the screen up and down, you can move from one field to another.

When finished, touch SAVE to save.
To exit without saving, you can touch and then touch DISCARD.

Editing your contacts

Touch in the contact details screen to edit. When finished, touch SAVE to save.

Add to/remove from Favorites(1)

Touch a contact to view details then touch to add the contact to favorites. Touch the star to remove a contact from favorites.

Deleting a contact
From the contact list screen:

Touch and hold the contact you want to delete, then touch and confirm to delete.
Mark the checkbox of all contacts, then touch and confirm to delete all contacts.
The contact you have deleted will also be removed from other applications on the phone or web the next time you synchronize your phone.

Sharing a contact
You can share a single contact with others by sending the contact’s vCard to them via Email, Messages, and Bluetooth. Select a contact you want to share, touch and then select Share.
Available options
From the contact list, you may also make further settings by touching . (1) Only phone contacts can be added to Favorites.

Settings

My info
Touch to set up your profile
Accounts
Touch to add account and configure related info.
Default account for new contacts
Touch to choose the default place to save a new contact.
Sort by
Touch to sort the list by the first name or last name.
Name format
Touch to choose whether to display first name first, or last name first.
Phonetic name
Touch to choose display or hide phonetic name.
Import/Export
Import or export contacts between phone, SIM card, microSD card and phone storage, etc.
Block numbers
Add numbers here so that you won’t receive the calls or texts from them.
About Contacts
Touch to view the build version, open source licenses and so on.

Messages.

Use the messaging app to send and receive text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages.
Creating a message
On the Messaging list screen, touch to write text/multimedia messages.
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Sending a text message

Enter the name or the phone number of the recipient in the To bar or touch to add recipients.
Touch the Add text bar to enter the text of the message.
Touch to insert emoticons.
When finished, touch to send the text message.

An SMS message of more than 160 characters will be charged as several SMS. A counter will be on the right of the text box to remind you how many characters can be entered in one message. Specific letters (accented) will also increase the size of the SMS, this may cause multiple SMS to be sent to your recipient.

Sending a multimedia message
MMS enables you to send video clips, images, audios and vCard to other compatible mobiles and e-mail addresses.

Enter the recipient’s phone number in the To bar.
Touch the Add text bar to enter the text of the message.
Touch to attach a picture, video, audio or contact.
When finished, touch to send the multimedia message.

Managing messages
When receiving a message, will appear in the Status bar as a notification. Drag down the Status bar to open the Notification panel, touch the new message to open and read it. You can also access the Messaging application and touch the message to open it.
Messages are displayed as a conversation. Touch a message to enter the message composing screen:

Touch to call the number.
Touch launch a video call.
To reply to a message, enter the text. When finished, touch .
If you touch and hold a message, the following options will be available: delete , turn off notification , archive , etc. Touch to add contact.

Calendar

You can use Calendar to keep track of important meetings, appointments, etc. To access the function, touch Google folder from the Home screen, then touch Calendar.

Viewing calendars
You can display the Calendar in Schedule, Day, 3 days, Week or Month view. Touch and select your desired calendar view.

Creating a new event
You can add new events from any Calendar view.

Touch .
Fill in all required information for this new event. If it is a whole-day event, you can turn on next to All-day.
Invite guests to the event. Enter the email addresses of the guests you want to invite with commas to separate. The guests will receive an invitation from Calendar and Email. When finished, touch Save from the top of the screen. To quickly create an event from the Day, 3 Day, or Week views, touch an empty spot to select a target area which will then turn into , and touch the icon to create the new event.

Deleting or editing an event

To delete or edit an event, touch the event to enter its details screen, touch to edit the event.
Touch and Delete to remove the event.

Event reminder
If a reminder is set for an event, the upcoming event icon will appear in the Status bar as a notification when the reminder time arrives.