Nokia G300 for Beginners (Learn the Basics in Minutes)

welcome into the video I am your Tech Guy Wayne and today I'll be going over how to use the Nokia g300 for beginners and I do want to give a disclaimer that uh a lot of the tips I'm going to show in this video are going to apply to most of the other Nokia phones too so if you don't quite have the g300 but you have a similar version this video will probably still apply to you so I would say watch till the end and pick up as many nuggets as you can okay so this is going to be a beginner video and I'm going to walk you through all the things you'll need to know to learn how to use his phone starting with just a a tour of the phone so we'll go over all the exterior buttons how to navigate the home screen how to find all the important things you'll need to be using from there we'll go over how to download apps and where to find your apps how to organize them then we'll go over how to set up your email on the phone how to use email on your phone from there we'll then go through a quick walk through of how to use the camera and we'll also sprinkle in how to make the text larger for you so you can see things to see the words better if you need to do that and we'll end the video with how to control the volume on the phone so that's kind of a rundown what we'll cover in the video so make sure you watch till the end so you don't miss any important information and if at any point in the video you find it helpful you learn something new make sure you stop and bump that like button all right let's go ahead and jump into the video so on the left side of the phone you will find your uh SIM tray this is where the SIM card for the phone is going to sit there's also a slot to expand the storage using a micro SD card card one of these little guys here so some of you guys might have had a card from an older phone you'll put it in on this side using uh what is called a Sim tool looks like this if you have a paperclip it also works the same way too so just FYI um and then we also have this special button here that basically will launch your assistant so watch I'm just going to tap it once here it launches the Google assistant and then you can tap the mic to ask it um a command we'll go over this more later but I just want to point out that you have this button on the left side to launch your Google Assistant now on the right side of the phone you will find your volume up volume down and your power button now this power button will also uh act as a fingerprint reader you can program your fingerprint so that when you put your finger on the button here it'll unlock the phone um using your fingerprint so I'll I'll go over later how to set up the fingerprint so you can use that it's a great way to secure your phone so that no one can just pick up your phone and start using it they would need to have your fingerprint or your passcode so we'll go over that more later but um for the power button simply pressing it will wake up the phone and know that smartphones have two functions so there's the sleep mode and then there's actually the off mode so when I press the power button like this it's putting the phone asleep but the phone is not off because I can simply just tap it again and it wakes the phone up but if I hold down on the power button then that does something different so let me unlock the phone first and just show you if I hold down the power button it's going to take me to this menu here that will allow me to actually power the phone off pressing the power off button here it also gives me an option for a restart in the upper right corner so just know there are two different functions most people keep their phone all the on all the time but what they do is their phone will just simply go to sleep and then when they're ready to use it they either just tap the screen or they tap the power button and that will wake up the phone okay now once you're ready to get into the phone take your finger you're going to put it on the screen and you're going to drag your finger up the screen keyword is drag if you drag your finger up the screen that's how you unlock it so power button to wake it up put your finger on the screen and just drag it up and that's how you unlock the phone okay now before I get into the phone I want to show you just one more thing so um at the bottom of the phone you will find your charging port now this phone uses what is called a type-c charging type so if you ever needed to buy a new charging cable you'd have to look for a type c charging cable so type c there you have a headphone jack to the left right here and that's all you'll find at the bottom of the phone at the top of the phone there's nothing there so we're good okay so we're ready to wake up the phone I'm going to press my power button put my finger on the screen and I'm going to just drag my finger up the screen that's how you unlock the phone and now we are on what is called the home screen now on the home screen you're going to find three buttons at the bottom of the screen and these are the primary buttons you'll use to navigate the phone you have a home button in the middle you have a back button to the left and on the right you have what is called called a recent apps button let me give you a quick rundown of what each button does so the home button simply put takes you back to the home screen so if I tap on any one of these little icons here they're going to take me into what is called an app or application think of it like how computers have programs phones have applications or apps for short so whenever I reference apps I'm referring to these little icons that are on the home screen okay so if I tap on one of these apps let's say I tap on this app here which is the phone app and now because I want to make a phone call guess what I'm in the phone app if I want to get back to the home screen I'm going to tap on the home button at the bottom of the screen and just that easy we're right back to the home screen if I go to here which is called the Chrome browser or your web browser maybe I want to go on the internet and I want want to search for something right you know you can go to uh AOL Facebook uh Amazon any website you think of all obviously you get there through the web browser but when you're all done and you want to get back to the home screen You're simply going to tap on the home button and just that easy it takes you back to the home screen so that's what the home button does now next we have to the left we have what is called the back button this button simply put takes you back one step here's a great example of how this works I'm going to swipe down from the top of the screen I'm going to take my finger I'm going to drag it down the screen remember when I say drag you know I'm using very specific language because you put your finger on the screen and you just drag it down and that's how you bring up this menu here so let me show you one more time finger at the top of the screen drag it down the screen to bring up this menu I'm going to drag it down again and now we'll have our shortcut to our settings wheel and this takes you to the settings menu on the phone okay so I'm in the settings I'm going to select a few things I'm going to go to system and I'm going to go to um gestures so I've just selected a few things within this app and I've gone deeper into the menu I want to go back one page to do that I can tap on this back arrow in the upper left corner which is way up here or I can simply tap my back button right here this will take me back one page and guess what I can tap it again take me back another page and you can keep hitting this button until it takes you all the way out of that application so that's all the back button does it just takes you back one step and it will keep taking you back one step until there's no more uh places to go and in which case it'll take you out of the app and back to the home screen all right now to the right we have what is called the recent apps button maybe you were in the phone app and you want to get back to it you can tap on the phone app here or I can tap recent apps and I can swipe over swipe over again and I can tap it here so it's just another way to get back to an app that you were previously using it's also a way to look at all the apps you've used recently and you know you want to get back to them to continue what you were doing or maybe you say I'm all done with my web browser and I want to close out this program I'm simply going to swipe up and that's going to completely take me it's going to close out the browser so it's no longer running in the background of the phone and I can swipe up on all these apps to close everything that's running in the background of the phone this is a great way to help um to keep your phone running nice and smooth is closing out um apps once you're once you're finished using them okay so that's our quick rundown of our home screen and these are the again three buttons you'll use to navigate the entire screen now I did want to show you as well this is the main home screen but I can swipe uh left and there's more pages where I can add more apps right I can also swipe right okay so you can swipe left and right and there are different pages on the home screen now if if I'm on the main home screen here and I swipe to the right it will take me to a Google page and this is a great page to use to keep track of different things um the weather um different uh articles as you begin to search for things the phone is going to learn the things that you like to search for and it will recommend um additional news that is in that same category so Sports here and political stuff and as I as I scroll up I can see even more stories and articles that are being recommended so this is a great place to find just the latest news and things that are happening in the world based on the things that you search now at the top of the screen you will find a search box and you can simply tap in this box and you can then search for more things things you can also tap on this little um microphone and you can just say what you want to search for NBA playoffs the Mavericks will face the Timberwolves today at 5:30 p.m. so just that easy I want to know hey who's playing in the playoffs right now and they're telling me this is the game that's going to happen today so that's just one way one of many ways to use the Google page you'll find on the home screen I'm going to hit the home button to get back to the main screen so far if you learned anything and this has been helpful make sure you bump that like button let's move on to the next section we're going to go over what is called your notification panel now earlier I briefly showed you starting at the top of the screen and dragging down this will take you to what is called the notification panel and this is a section of the phone where you have two important things and sorry the phone is having a little trouble Focus focusing in so you'll have at the top here these are called switches and these switches are basically shortcuts to some of the most important settings you'll find on the phone so your WiFi switch Bluetooth um do not disturb your flashlight auto rotation power saving mode these are all just some of the shortcuts that you'll find on this screen uh and then here you'll find these are some other games and different things that you can play that are within the phone and then right below this um if you have for example a new email or a new text message or a Facebook notification they would all show up in this menu here so frequently you might get notification on your phone if you want to check that notification you swipe down and that's where you'll see oh Facebook sent me a message or I got an email and then you can select that option when you see it it'll take you into that app to see more about that notification right now I don't have a lot of notifications that are in here but this is where they'll fill up as you begin to sign into your different accounts now one cool trick is when you swipe down once this is the menu you'll see if we swipe down again um you'll have some other options so for example this is a brightness bar where you can make the phone dimmer or brighter depending on what works best for your eyes and then in this menu here I can swipe left to get to some other options here airplane mode screen recording screenshot things like that sorry about the the screen kind of flickering and blurring um we'll be off this section soon and it'll stop doing that now one more thing I want to show you that's important in that menu is some of you are probably saying yeah how do I connect to Wi-Fi my home Wi-Fi network well we'll swipe down the first option you'll see is the Wi-Fi switch so I'm going to take my finger and I want to hold down on that Wi-Fi switch for 1 second that'll take me to the Wi-Fi menu and here first I want to make sure my Wi-Fi is turned on so like this it's off and now it's on so that's our little onof switch and then here it'll show us a list of all of the available Wi-Fi networks and so you'll want to look for the network for your home and let's say if it's uh Netgear 52 I would tap on there and then I would want to enter the password uh for that Network so maybe it's you know 6749 whatever you type in that password hit the check and then it's going to connect to that Network for you so just that easy you can connect to Wi-Fi and if you're out at a coffee shop or you're at a friend's house all you need to do is ask hey what's the Wi-Fi password and what's the name of the network and then you can go to this menu and connect for yourself now same goes for a Bluetooth device a Bluetooth speaker or a Bluetooth headphone you can hold down on this Bluetooth icon here tap on pair new device and then it will show you all the available Bluetooth devices for you to be able to connect to them all right so that's a quick rundown of the notification panel and some of the important things that you'll find in that menu okay in our next section section we're going to go over how to download applications now just one more quick rundown of this so computers have programs phones have applications or apps for short and you'll find the apps in what is called the Play Store it's this little play icon you'll find on the home screen we're going to tap on the Play Store icon and this is where you would download apps now some of you when you tapped on that play button it didn't take you to this screen for some of you it might have taken you to a screen that says you need to sign in to a Google account first if that's what you see on your screen no problem in the bottom left corner you should see a button that says uh or you so you have two options you'll either sign into your Google account because you already have one if you don't have one there should be a button at the bottom left corner of the screen that'll say create account or create and that that is where you can create a free Gmail account that just takes a couple of minutes and then it will give you access to the Play Store you do have to have a a Google account or a Gmail account in order to use the Play Store and download apps there is no way around it okay so here's the easiest way to search for an app that you want to download let's say you want to download the a a good solitire app CU you like to play solitire you can tap in the search box at the top of the screen screen here tap in the box and when you tap in the Box a keyboard will pop up and you can type in solitire or you can tap on the microphone in the upper right corner and when you tap that you can just say solitire just like this solitire just that easy it'll take your voice command it'll do a search for you and then it'll recommend solitire games and there's so many to choose from so how do I choose a great game well you can tap on each one of these and some of them will have a video that you can watch and some will just have pictures you can kind of see this is what the app looks like um also look at how many downloads the app has this one has 100 million so it's safe to say that that's a good option because it has so many downloads but if it only has like a th000 downloads or like you know 50,000 downloads that's considered low so always pick one that has a high download number and also uh this install button this is telling you that the app is free okay this blue button if the app is free it'll just say install if the app is not free instead of saying install it'll have a price in this box so keep that in mind not all apps are free some of them do cost and um it's up to you if you want to get a paid version or a free version sometimes the free versions have a lot of ads and that can be frustrating so in that case there's times where I will look for a paid version that doesn't have ads cuz I don't want to have ads pop up every few minutes that's up to you and up to your budget now let's say I like this one and I want to download it I'm going to tap on this blue install button and you'll see this begin to spin when this pops up just say not now and you'll see that the app is now in the process of downloading to the phone this one should download fairly quickly when it's finished this play button is going to light up and allow me to press it right now I can't press it because that's telling me the app has not downloaded yet so just be patient wait till it fully downloads when it's finished you'll see again that button is going to change and keep in mind the app has to download and then it has to install so it's a two-step process so anyway once it's done you'll hit the play button and that will allow us to to go right into the app and just that easy there it is hit play and it will take us right into the solitire game all right it's asking me to hit accept just to get into it now I'm not going to go any further into the app but that is the process of how to download an app now one of the things you might notice is well hey what if I want to get out of this app I don't see my home button how do I get out of this every now and then you'll have an app that is in what's called full screen mode and in full screen mode it hides the buttons that you would normally see at the bottom all you'll need to do is at the bottom where it says no Kia just swipe up and the buttons will pop up briefly so swipe up there you go and once you swipe up just tap that home button and it'll take you back to the home screen so just that easy you can get out of that full screen to make those buttons show up by just swiping up from the bottom of the screen now you'll find some of your apps are going to be on this home screen but not all the apps where are all my apps stored well if you simply swipe up from on the home screen swipe up like this it'll take you to what is called the app drawer and this is where all the apps on the phone are stored so you'll find quite a few here's the new solitire game we just downloaded and I can also get to that app by going to it in the app chore okay once again swipe up from the top or from the bottom excuse me hit the home button so I want to show you that one more time in case you missed it we're on the home screen and I want to get to all the apps on the phone I'm going to swipe up and swiping up is the same as dragging up putting your finger on the screen SC and just dragging up the screen that takes you to the app drawer to find all your apps all right if you haven't hit that like button yet take a minute and bump that like cuz I know you've learned something in this video already okay let's transition now into how to sign to your email okay now if you already signed into your Gmail account you might be good to go but some of you may have multiple email accounts and so here are the steps to sign into more than one account you'll have this folder on the main screen it says Google you'll tap on this folder to see all the apps that are in the folder we're going to tap on Gmail and from here it already has me signed into one account already you know now if I want to sign into multiple accounts I would need to go to the top of the screen to the right and you'll find a little icon in the right corner if you tap on that icon it'll take you to this menu and from here you'll go down to add another account this will take you to the setup email page now best kept secret you can sign into non-gmail accounts in the Gmail app that's right I can sign to my Outlook Hotmail live Yahoo exchange or Office 360 I can sign to all these different email types and I can check these emails using the Gmail app you just have to select the right prompt so if you had Yahoo for example you would tap on Yahoo and all you would need is your Yahoo email address and your password um to proceed now some of you may have other email accounts that you don't see on this list a good example is AOL or SBC global.net so let me show you a little trick on how to sign into those email accounts since you don't see them on the list here let's hit our home button we're going to go to the Play Store and we want to get uh off this screen we're just going to hit the back button to go back one page and let's hit it again now we're going to tap on the search apps and games box up here the keyboard is going to pop up now here's what you'll need to do tap on the numbers in the bottom left corner where it says question mark 1 2 3 and hit the at symbol so whatever your email account is if it's at AOL.com you're going to type in at and then tap on the ABC to get back to the letters and then I'm going to just tap a o this is the erase button right here if you make a mistake just type in at AOL and then hit this magnifying glass to do a search and this will recommend apps that work with at AOL email accounts you can repeat this for any other email type you have atbc global.net at verizon.net you can simply just type in the app and the provider and then it will recommend apps that will work with it so in this case I can just simply download the AOL app I'm going to tap the install button right next to this one give it a couple of seconds and it's going to download the AOL app so then I can sign into my AOL account using that app so this is a really easy workaround for you to be able to sign into those accounts that you don't see on the main Gmail page now uh obviously it's downloading and installing that'll take a few seconds so I'm going to hit the home button Buton go back to my main screen and just that fast our AOL app is downloaded I can now open it up and then I can sign into my AOL email account all right now this one doesn't prompt you right away so uh in this case you would go to the upper left corner and tap on this little uh profile icon and then here you should go to manage accounts and then it should give you an option here we go go to sign in to your AOL email address okay let's hit our home button next let's go over how to set up your fingerprint sensor so you can unlock your phone using your power button and we'll also go over how to set a password for the phone as well now let's see if you're a remember how to get to the settings you swipe down from the top of the screen swipe down again tap on the settings wheel that you'll find right here and you'll need to swipe up and go to security and from here where it says uh screen lock tap on screen lock change it to a pen or pattern this way we can program a four-digit code you'd have to enter to unlock the phone let's make it 1 2 3 4 I'm just making that for the Simplicity of the video you should make yours a harder number 1 two 3 4 confirm so now if you want to get into the phone you do need to put in that code before you do anything so watch this I'm going to press the power button okay now I'm going to press it again the phone is awake if I try to swipe up it will prompt me to put in that code before I can get into the phone so 1 2 3 4 hit the arrow and now it lets me into the phone so that's how you set a passcode for the phone and once you have a pass code then you can set up things like a fingerprint so tap on fingerprint It'll ask for that code again and we'll tap add fingerprint next start and then we need to start basically pressing our our thumb or any other finger you want it's up to you what finger you want but the thumb makes the most sense so you'll just take your thumb and just place it on top of the uh power button right here here that's all I'm doing and I'm trying to slightly move my thumb each time so it can learn my fingerprint and this will make it easier to unlock the phone when the time comes you just lift put it back you try to move it each time and we're almost done here it usually takes less than a minute now you can always program multiple fingerprints too I always recommend program a fingerprint on on each finger or on each hand so if you have like grease or something on one hand you can use your other hand to unlock the phone we're going to hit done and now if I put the phone asleep and wake it up it's asking for a pass code but I can just take my thumb and unlock it that way so that is how you set up your fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone with your finger now next let's move into how to take pictures we're going to go over how to use the camera so at the bottom of the screen you will find a camera button right here and the first thing will ask you is giving your camera permission to access device storage or actually this one is location so this one is up to you if you want the camera to access your location uh I'm going to hit while using the app now our camera is up and open and you'll see you have this button in the center here to snap pictures now if you want to take a video right next to photo it says video you'll tap on video and the button changes to a little red dot and tapping that will start recording a video and this will count down or count up so it'll show you that your video is recording record record record pressing this button will let you take pictures while it's recording the video and when you're done simply hit that button in the center to stop the video now once you take a picture or video you'll have a button to the right here to to review that picture or video you just took so let's tap on that icon and now I can play back the video that we just took see and let's hit the back button here those are the main things you need to know about taking pictures it's essentially pictures and video you can also swipe across the screen to go back and forth so if you want to go to photo you can swipe this way you also have a portrait in a night mode if you want to flip the camera to go the other way you'll tap on this button here and that'll flip to the front camera so front camera press it again now it's the rear camera all right let's hit our home button so let's say you've taken all these pictures and now you want to go back and look at all these pictures so to do that you want to go to the Google photos app which you'll find in the bottom right corner this will show you um all the all of the photos that you've taken on the phone um it'll prompt you to do an update as soon as you open the app so make sure you update it so you have the latest version Google photos is a really cool app it also has a special backup feature as well and you can set it so that it'll backup all your photos to the cloud so if you ever lose your phone your photos will always be saved in the cloud you'll simply need to go to photos. goole.com sign into your Google account and that will allow you to look at all the pictures that you've taken using your phone you do need to turn on this backup feature when you first open the app so here the app is open um so here it's asking do you want your photos to automatically uh this is something different so I'm going to turn this off now if you want to turn on the backup function you'll need to go to the upper right corner tap on your profile icon and from here you'll go to turn on backup see backup is off I'm going to turn it on and now it's going to start backing up every photo that I take on the phone so I never have to worry about losing them if my phone gets lost or damaged now let's go back and here we can see these are the pictures that we took today and it's super easy to swipe through and look at all the photos that we just took okay that's a quick rundown of where to find the photos after you take the pictures next we're going to go over how to change the text size if you want to make the words a bit bigger so it's easier to read we're going to do that now now we already had the settings open so we can use our recent apps button here tap on that and I can go right to my settings from here great example of when you would use the recent apps button and I need to get out of the security section because that's not the right section to control the size of the text so let's our back button and now that we're on the main screen we're going to go to display and then from here we'll want to go down to font size and let me show you what I did cuz I did that kind of fast display tap on Advanced and then we're going to go to font size and here we can move this little toggle over one to make the words bigger and then I can move it one more time to make the words even larger so that's one way to make the words bigger I'm going to hit my back button and then there's also a display size which is another option and dragging this over will make the text bigger and you can keep going until you find a comfortable size for the text okay if I hit the home button you'll notice all of my uh app names are bigger and Everywhere I Go the text is going to be Lar larger now so that's how you make text larger the very last thing I wanted to cover is how to change the volume on the phone now to do this you need to tap on the volume up button volume up or down to get to this menu so volume up you'll see this popup that'll show up now it leaves quickly it only stays for two seconds so I'm going to have to press it multiple times as I explain this so just stay with me so volume and if you tap on this icon this is what changes the setting of the phone so let's start with here this is all the volume is up vibrate mode sound totally off and then back to all the sound on so that's how you toggle through put your phone on vibrate it's on vibrate press it again it's on silent and now all the volume is back up so that's one of the things you need to know now down here there's another button this will show you all of the other volumes that are on the phone let me show you that one more time volume up tap on the the bottom button this is how you control the individual volume for these four categories so media volume has to do with you listening to music or watching a video this is how you specifically control that sound you're on a call and you want to it's too loud you want to lower the volume of the call you'll lower call volume you want to raise the volume of your ringer when the phone rings or when someone sends you a text message you would raise this bar here and then you have your alarm volume which is the last one so these are four different settings you can control and these are the the main four things that will make sound for your phone you'll just tap that button to get to this menu and then control them according ly all right and that brings us to the end of our video again if this was helpful make sure you bump that like button down below I'd love to hear your feedback let me know if the video was helpful for you and specifically what section was the most helpful for you always love hearing your feedback and um we want to continue to make these videos and so we always gauge the comments to know if the video is helpful should we continue to make them and also if there's any follow-up videos you'd like to see on this phone let me know and I'll try to put some together for you okay thanks again for watching take care and as always have a good one