How To Use Contacts – Samsung Galaxy Tab 4

Jun 18, 2014

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Learn how to use Contacts on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. Store contact information for your friends, family, and colleagues to quickly access information or to send a message.

To access Contacts:

From the Home screen, touch Contacts icon.
or
From a Home screen, touch Apps icon > Contacts.

Creating Contacts

Use the following procedure to add a new contact:

Touch Contacts icon > Create. The Save contact to pop-up displays.
Touch Device, SIM, or an account name.
or
Touch Add new account to add a different account.
Touch the Contact photo to set up a photo to identify the contact.
Touch contact fields to display the keyboard and enter information:
- Some fields have preset values. Touch the field and touch the desired value. For example, touch the Label tab and touch a label for the field.
- Other fields have to be input. Touch the field and use the onscreen keyboard to input information.
- Touching the check box next to some fields may make additional fields available.
- Touch + icon to add additional fields.Touch – icon to remove an unused field. Also, touch Add another field to add other fields.
- Touch the screen and swipe up or down to display additional fields or touch Next on the keyboard to move to the next field.

Touch Back Key to remove the keyboard.
When you finish entering information, touch Save.
or
Touch Cancel > OK to cancel and discard changes.

Note: Display a contacts record and touch the Email field to send an email, the Address field to display the address on a map, or the Website field to link to the website.

Updating Contacts

To update an existing contact:

Touch Contacts icon.
Touch a contact in the Contacts list to view its information.
Touch Edit icon.
Continue entering contact information.

Deleting Contacts

To delete a contact:

Touch Contacts icon.
Touch a contact in the Contacts list to view its information.
Touch Delete icon.
At the prompt, touch OK.

Managing Photo IDs

To remove or update a contacts Photo ID:

Touch Contacts icon.
Touch a contact in the Contacts list to view its information.
Touch Edit icon.
Touch the Contact photo, then touch Remove, Image, Pictures by people, or Take picture.

Note

This guide will work on all Samsung Galaxy Tabs; including Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1.

Tags:

Android, Contacts, Galaxy, Galaxy Tab 4, Samsung

Amarnath Natarajan

I am a freelance programmer and tech enthusiast. In my spare time, I contribute to this website.

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