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3. After you turn Location on, you can configure settings:
Mode
: Choose the method your phone uses to determine your location.
•
High accuracy
: When enabled, your phone uses GPS information, Wi-Fi, and mobile
networks to estimate your location.
•
Power saving
: When enabled, your phone uses Wi-Fi and mobile networks to estimate
your location.
•
GPS only
: When enabled, your phone uses only GPS information to estimate your
location.
Recent location requests
: View services or apps that have recently accessed your location
information.
Location services
: Select sources for reporting your location information to Google.
Location sources
: Tap
My places
to save your favorite locations, to allow your phone to
provide relevant information by recognizing saved locations.
•
Tap
Home
,
Work
,
Car
,
School
, or
Gym
and then follow the prompts to configure options
for identifying the location.
•
Tap
to set up a new location.
NFC and Sharing Settings
Use NFC (Near Field Communication) to share information between your phone and another NFC device
by touching the devices together, typically back-to-back.
NFC is used with S Beam and Android Beam, and must be turned on to use these features.
Turn NFC On or Off
Use NFC (Near Field Communication) to share information between your phone and another NFC-
capable device or NFC tag, by touching the devices together, typically back-to-back. For example, you
can beam Web pages from the browser, contacts from Contacts, and videos from YouTube. The app
determines what is beamed.
1. From a Home screen, tap
Apps
>
Settings
.
2. Tap
NFC and sharing
>
NFC
, and then tap
ON/OFF
to turn NFC on or off.
Android Beam
With Android beam, you can transmit app content via NFC to other NFC devices that support Android
Beam.
Android Beam uses NFC, so NFC must be turned on before you can turn on Android Beam.