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Home screen & apps
Control & customize
Calls
Contacts
Messages
Type
Socialize
Browse
Photos & videos
Music
Books
Locate & navigate
Work
Connect & transfer
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a quick look
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First look
Top topics
First look
Your new Moto G has pretty much everything—
camera, Internet, email, and more. You can even change the
back cover for a new look with optional covers.
Note: Your phone may look a little different.
Tips & tricks
• Start: Back cover off, SIM in, charge up, and sign in. See
“Start”.
• Top topics: Just want a quick list of what your phone can
do? See “Top topics”.
• Help: All your questions about your new phone answered
Moto Care. Want
right on your phone. Touch Apps
even more? See “Get help”.
Note: Certain apps and features may not be available in all
countries.
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This product meets the applicable national or
international RF exposure guidance (SAR guideline)
when used normally against your head or, when worn
or carried, at a distance of 1.5 cm from the body. The SAR
guideline includes a considerable safety margin designed to
assure the safety of all persons, regardless of age and health.
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First look
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Tips & tricks
• Intuitive: To get started quickly, touch Apps
Moto Care for interactive tutorials.
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Top topics
Check out what your phone can do.
• Customize your phone: see “Redecorate your home”.
• Make a quick change: see “Quick settings”.
• Go online: see “Browse”.
• Explore: see “Google Play™”.
• Find apps: see “Download apps”.
• Be social: see “Socialize”.
• Find it yourself: see “Locate & navigate”.
• Take a photo: see “Take photos”.
• Connect to Wi-Fi: see “Wi-Fi Networks”.
• Watch a movie: see “Watch on Google Play”.
• Protect your phone: see “Screen lock”.
• Watch interactive guided tutorials: see “Moto Care help &
more”.
• Get all the help you need: see “Get help”.
Start
let’s get up & running
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
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SIM in
Your SIM may already be in your phone. But if not, take off the
back cover and put in the SIM.
Caution: Before using your phone, please read the safety,
regulatory, and legal information provided with your
product.
Activate your SIM cards
In some countries, you can use a second SIM. If there’s only
one SIM in the phone, it’s ready to use. With two, you can use
either or both.
Touch Apps
Settings > Dual SIM Settings and select
settings, like which SIM to use for calls, texts, and more. Also,
during setup, you’ll be asked which SIM to use for data.
Power on
Press and hold the Power key until the screen turns on. Then
charge up the battery when you need to.
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1
2
2
Take off the back cover to see if your SIM is in.
If it is, you can replace the cover & get started.
1
Power on.
Press the
center and
grip the
bottom
edge.
Lift up
from the
bottom.
Put the SIM in.
With the gold contacts facing
down, push in the first micro SIM
until it clicks.
(If your phone supports it,
push in the second SIM on
the lower, opposite side.)
SIM 1
SIM 2
Press & hold
the Power key
until the screen
lights up.
2
Charge up, if you need to.
3 H
Tips & tricks
• Power Key: To make the screen sleep or wake up, press the
Power key. To turn your phone on or off, press and hold it.
• Battery: Squeeze every bit of juice out of your battery. See
“Battery life”.
Warning: Don't try to remove or replace the battery
yourself—doing so may damage the battery and could cause
burning and injury. If your phone becomes unresponsive, try a
reboot—press and hold the Power key until the screen goes
dark, and your phone restarts.
Battery life
Your phone is like a small computer, giving you tons of
information and apps, at lightning fast speed. Depending on
what you use, that can take a lot of power.
To see what's using up battery power, touch Apps
>
Settings > Battery. To set automatic rules to save power,
touch Apps
>
Assist. See “Motorola Assist”.
Start
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
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Tips & tricks
To save even more battery life between charges, you could
reduce:
• Recording or watching videos, listening to music, or taking
pictures.
• Widgets that stream information to your home screen, like
news or weather.
• Unused online accounts that you registered: Touch
Settings. Under ACCOUNTS, touch the one
>
Apps
you want to remove, then touch Menu
account.
> Remove
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® use: Touch Apps
>
Settings,
then touch the switch next to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to turn them
OFF
when you don’t need them.
• GPS use: Touch Apps
>
and uncheck GPS satellites.
Settings > Location access,
• Display brightness: Touch Apps
>
Settings > Display
> Brightness > (slide dimmer setting left).
>
• Display timeout delay: Touch Apps
Display > Sleep > (shorter setting).
Settings >
• Screen use by setting a screen saver when docked or
>
Settings > Display >
charging: Touch Apps
Daydream.
Start
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
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Sign in
If you use Gmail™, you already have a Google™ account—if
not, you can create an account now. Sign in to your Google
account to see your contacts, appointments, photos, and
more.
Just select your language and follow the screen prompts to get
started.
Got Google?
Do you have a Google Account?
If you use Gmail, answer Yes.
Mail, contacts,
appointments,
photos, and
more—sign in
to see it all.
Or, create a
new account.
Yes
No
Tips & tricks
• Wi-Fi network: For faster Internet access, flick the status bar
down and touch
> Wi-Fi.
• Reboot: In the unlikely event that your phone becomes
unresponsive, try a reboot—press and hold the Power key
until the screen goes dark and your phone restarts. It may
take a couple minutes.
• Accounts: To add, edit, or delete accounts, touch
>
Settings. Under ACCOUNTS, touch + Add
Apps
account to add one. Or, touch an account > Menu
Remove account to delete one from your phone, if allowed.
To set up email accounts, see “Email”.
For help with your Google account, visit
www.google.com/accounts.
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• Contacts: To get your contacts from your old phone, you
have options. If your old phone was also Android™ and you
used the Android Backup and Restore feature, your contacts
automatically appear on your new phone. Otherwise, use
the Motorola Migrate app in “Old phone to new phone”.
Or, visit www.motorola.com/transfercontacts.
Note: This phone supports apps and services that may use a lot
of data, so make sure your data plan meets your needs.
Contact your service provider for details.
Tips & tricks
• While you’re migrating, you can keep using your phone.
Start
Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
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Old phone to new phone
Moving your photos, music, text & call history, contacts and
more from your previous Android™ phone is easy—we
promise.
On your previous Android phone, download the Motorola
Migrate app on Google Play™ to get started. Then on your
new phone, touch Apps
the instructions on your screen.
Note: Music has to be non-DRM to migrate. Signing into your
Google account migrates your apps.
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Motorola Migrate
Don’t want to start from scratch? Copy
your stuff from your old phone to this
one.
We’ll take care of...
Text Messages
Text Messages
Call History
SIM Contacts
Media
Volume & Screen Brightness
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Tip: If you
don’t migrate
right after
setting up your
new phone,
you can always
do it later.
Touch here to
get started.
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Start
SIM in
Power on
Battery life
Sign in
Old phone to new phone
Google Play™
Google Play™
Google Play is a digital content experience from Google
where you can find and enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV
shows, books, magazines, and Android apps and games. It’s
your entertainment hub: you can access it from the web or
from your Android device, and all your content is instantly
available across your devices.
Note: Content varies depending on your service provider and
region.
• Find more about Google products: See
www.google.com/about/products.
• Log in or open a Google account: Visit
www.google.com/accounts.
• Google help: See www.google.com/support.
• Download Android apps: Touch Apps
• Access all of your files in the cloud: Check out “Your
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Play Store.
cloud”.
Note: This phone supports apps and services that may use a lot
of data, so make sure your data plan meets your needs.
Contact your service provider for details.
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