Chat using hangouts, Wireless emergency alerts – Motorola moto G User Manual
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Chat Using Hangouts
Hangouts is Google's instant messaging app that uses your Google account to keep you in touch
with friends and family. It can also be used as your phone's default text messaging app.
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Touch Apps
>
Hangouts.
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Start a new hangout: Touch
(or swipe left), touch a name in your list of friends, and
then follow the prompts to invite the user to a hangout.
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Message via hangout: Touch an existing hangout and enter a message in the Send a
message field. Touch
for a video chat.
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Change settings: Touch Menu to see your old Hangouts, change your profile pic, other
settings and more.
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Chat from a computer: You can chat from a computer too. Find out more at
Wireless Emergency Alerts
Read the following information about Wireless Emergency Alerts and your phone.
Wireless Emergency Alerts, also known as CMAS or PLAN, is a U.S. national emergency alert
system. Emergency alerts can pop up to tell you about a national or local crisis. After you close an
alert, you can reopen it by touching Apps
>
Messaging > Menu > Emergency alerts.
Tip: Emergency alerts have a special sound and vibration that is two seconds long, followed by one
second, then another one second.
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To choose which types of alerts you receive, touch Apps
>
Settings > More >
Emergency alerts.
The U.S. and local governments send these alerts through your service provider. So you will always
receive alerts for the area where you are, and you will not receive alerts if you are outside the U.S.
.