User’s Guide Contents Get started 3 Get around........................................................................................ 3 Touch & type ................................................................................... 4 Use the lock screen ......................................................................... 5 Make yourself at home ................................................................... 6 Change the wallpaper ...................................................................
Connect to Wi‐Fi networks ........................................................... 24 Connect to keyboards, mice, and other devices ........................... 28 Connect to a Windows computer via USB .................................... 29 Manage accounts .......................................................................... 30 Add or remove accounts ............................................................... 30 Configure account sync options ....................................................
Get Started Get around After you enter into the systems, at the bottom of the screen, you'll find three Navigation buttons. They're always available. No matter what you're doing with your tablet, you can always get back to the main Home screen or return to previous screens: Icon Name Description Back Open the previous screen you were working in, even if it was in a different app. Once you back up to the Home screen, you can’t go back any further in your history. Home Open Home.
After a short time without getting used, these buttons may shrink to dots or fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them back, touch their location. The All Apps icon in the right upper corner is permanent. Touch it to see all your apps and widgets. The middle of your Home screen can hold app and widget icons, plus folders. z To open an app, folder, or widget, touch its icon. z To see additional Home screens, swipe your finger quickly left or right.
To select or activate something, touch it. To type something, such as a name, password, or search terms, just touch where you want to type. A keyboard pops up that lets you type into the field. Other common gestures include: z Touch & hold: Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs. z Drag: Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without lifting your finger, move your finger on the screen until you reach the target position.
Use the lock screen To protect personal information, you can adjust your phone's lock settings: 1. From the Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon 2. Scroll down and touch Security. 3. Touch Screen lock. 4. Touch the type of lock you'd like to use. After you set a lock here, a lock screen displays whenever your screen wakes up, requesting the pattern, PIN, or other specified key.
Make yourself at home Change the wallpaper Wallpapers are images from Super‐HD Player (pictures you shot with Camera, synced from Picasa, and so on), still images included with the system, and live images (such as an animation or a map that centers on your location). They take the place of the default background for your Home screens. 1. Touch & hold anywhere on a Home screen that's not occupied. A list of options appears. 2. Touch a wallpaper source: Super‐HD Player.
Arrange & work with apps To see all your apps, touch the All Apps icon on any Home screen. The main All Apps screen opens. This is where you can see all your apps, including those downloaded from Android Market. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens. From All Apps, you can z Move between screens: Swipe left or right. z Launch an app: Touch its icon. z Place an app icon on a Home screen: Touch & hold the app icon, slide your finger, and lift your finger to drop the icon in place.
Use folders You can combine several app icons in a folder. Drop one app icon over another on a Home screen, and the two icons will be combined. From any Home screen, you can z Open a folder: Touch it. The folder opens: z Rename a folder: Touch its name. z Move icons around your Home screens: Touch, hold, and slide. Tips z z To can see a smaller collection of frequently used apps, touch the Google Apps folder near the bottom of the screen. As with any folder, you can customize its contents.
Add widgets Widgets are like windows into your apps. They're available from an All Apps tab for you to move onto your Home screens. To see your widgets: 1. Touch the All Apps icon on your Home screen. 2. Touch Widgets at the top of the screen. From the main Widgets screen, you can z Move between screens: Swipe left or right. z Drag a widget to a Home screen: Touch and hold the widget's icon, slide your finger where you want to place it, and lift your finger.
Try some apps Start Gmail You can use Gmail to read and write email from any mobile device or browser. All your email is always up to date and available no matter where you check it from. But Gmail is not just about email. Your Gmail name and password signs you into to all Google apps and services, including Calendar; People, for keeping track of your contacts; Google Reader, for keeping up with your online reading; and many more. z To launch Gmail, touch the Gmail icon on a Home or All Apps screen.
Find People The People app gives you quick and easy access to everyone you want to reach. When you first turn on your Tablet and sign into a Google Account, any existing contacts from that account are synced with your People app. After that, all your contacts stay in sync automatically, whether you make changes on your Tablet, from another device, or from any Web browser. If you belong to Google+ or use Exchange, you can also sync that contact information with People.
z You can also touch the star beside the Menu icon to add a contact to your Favorites list. Change your settings. While viewing the main list screen, touch the Menu icon to import or export contacts, choose display options for the Groups and All tabs, and add or edit accounts. No matter where you are within People, you can always get back to the main lists by touching the icon in the top left corner of the screen. Manage your Calendar The Calendar app lets you view and edit your schedule.
z Manage events and calendars. Touch icons across the top or Menu to search or create events, return to today, or adjust settings. Use your Camera The Camera app is a combination camera and camcorder. You can view photos and videos you take with Camera in the Super‐HD Play app along with movies that you rent or download. To take pictures and videos, first touch the Camera icon on a Home or All Apps screen. When Camera opens, you can z Take a picture: Touch the blue button.
in your device's internal storage. You can use the Downloads app to view, reopen, or delete what you've downloaded. Some mobile networks restrict the size of the files you can download, to manage the demands on their networks or to help you avoid unexpected charges. When you try to download an oversized‐file when connected to such networks, you may be required to delay downloading until your device is connected to a Wi‐Fi network, when the download will resume automatically.
Tune performance Optimize battery life You can extend your battery's life between charges by turning off features that you don't need. You can also monitor how apps and system resources consume battery power. To adjust the settings described here, first touch the Settings icon on a Home or All Apps screen. Extend the life of your battery z If you aren't using Wi‐Fi, Bluetooth, or GPS, use the Settings app to turn them off. The GPS setting is located in Settings > Personal > Location services.
appears. Then touch Airplane Mode. Check battery level and usage details z Open Settings > Device > Battery. The list at the bottom of the screen shows the breakdown of battery usage for individual apps and services. Touch a graph for more details. The details screen for some apps includes buttons that allow you to adjust settings affecting power usage, or stop the app completely. Warning! If you stop some apps or services, your device may not work correctly.
It's possible to show Wi‐Fi data usage settings in a separate tab. To do so, touch the Menu icon , then Show Wi‐Fi usage. Near the top of the screen, note the on‐off switch for mobile data. The instructions that follow assume that this switch is turned on. If it's off, you won't be able to use mobile data at all and many features of your Tablet and apps won't work correctly. Just below the on‐off switch, note the data usage cycle. Touch it to choose a different cycle.
Set data usage limit 1. Check Set mobile data limit. A dialog appears that describes the limit you're setting. 2. Read the message. If you're willing to proceed, click OK. The red line at the top of the graph activates, so you can drag it up or down. 3. Drag the red line by its right side to the limit you want to set. When your data usage reaches the limit, mobile data will be turned off automatically and many features of your Tablet won't work correctly. You'll receive a notification when this occurs.
the app) before restricting it here. 1. Make sure you're viewing the network for which you want to view or restrict app data usage. 2. Scroll down to find the app whose data usage you want to view. 3. To see more details for an app, touch its name. 4. To stop background data usage for this app, check Restrict background data. 5. Read the message that appears. If you're willing to proceed, click OK.
data they use. They also use RAM (memory designed for temporary storage and fast access) when they're running. Android manages and carefully guards the portion of internal storage where the system, apps, and most data for those apps are stored, because this area may contain your private information. It's not possible to view this portion of internal storage when you connect your device to a computer with a USB cable.
Use the Apps screen The Apps screen allows you to adjust several aspects of the way your device uses memory. To view these settings: 1 From a Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon . 2 Under Device, touch Apps. You'll see three tabs at the top of the screen, each displaying a list of apps or their components: ● Downloaded. Displays apps you've downloaded from Market or other sources. ● Running.
correctly. You may need to restart your device after doing this. ● Uninstall button: Deletes the app and all of its data and settings. ● Disable button: Prevents the app from running, but does not uninstall it. This option is available for some apps and services that can't be uninstalled. ● Clear data button: Delete an app's settings and other data without removing the app itself.
As you type, the keyboard displays suggestions above the top row of keys. To accept a suggestion, touch it. Basic editing ● Move the insertion point: Touch where you want to type. The cursor blinks in the new position, and a green tab appears below it. Drag the tab to move the cursor. ● Select text: Touch & hold or double‐tap within the text. The nearest word highlights, with a tab at each end of the selection. Drag the tabs to change the selection.
To make the keyboard go away, touch Done. Tips & shortcuts ● Type capital letters: Touch the Shift key once to switch to capital letters for one letter. Or touch & hold the Shift key while you type. When you release the key, the lower case letters reappear. ●Turn caps lock on: Double‐tap or touch & hold the Shift key , so it changes to . Touch the Shift key again to return to lowercase. ● Show numbers or symbols: Touch the ?123 key. To see more choices, touch the = \ < key.
you touch a key with a small gray character in its corner to enter the gray character. Touch & hold any key to see alternative letters, symbols, or numbers, which you can then touch to type. ● Change input language or keyboard: Touch & hold the key to the left of the space bar (with ... In the lower‐right corner), and then release it. The Input options menu appears. Choose the option you want to adjust.
If you're adding a Wi‐Fi network when first setting up your device, Wi‐Fi is turned on automatically. 1 Touch the Settings icon on a Home or All Apps screen. 2 Touch Wireless & networks > Wi‐Fi. 3 Slide the Wi‐Fi switch to the On position. The device scans for available Wi‐Fi networks and displays the names of those it finds. Secured networks are indicated with a Lock icon. If the device finds a network that you connected to previously, it connects to it.
The information about the network is saved. Your device will connect to this network automatically the next time you come within range. Forget a Wi‐Fi network You can make the device forget about the details of a Wi‐Fi network that you added; for example, if you don't want the tablet to connect to it automatically or if it's a network that you no longer use. 1 Turn on Wi‐Fi, if it's not already on. 2 In the Wi‐Fi settings screen, touch the name of the network. 3 Touch Forget in the dialog that opens.
change the proxy settings for other Wi‐Fi networks, modify them individually. Set Wi‐Fi notifications, disconnect policy, and other advanced options To work with advanced Wi‐Fi settings: 1 Turn on Wi‐Fi, if it's not already on. 2 In the Wi‐Fi settings screen, touch the Menu icon and choose Advanced. These are the settings you can adjust: ● Network notification: By default, when Wi‐Fi is on, you receive notifications in the Status bar when your device detects an open Wi‐Fi network.
This screen also displays the following information: ● MAC address: The Media Access Control (MAC) address of your device when connected to a Wi‐Fi network. ● IP address: The Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to the device by the Wi‐Fi network you are connected to (unless you used the IP settings to assign it a static IP address).
● Press Tab or Shift‐Tab to move from field to field in a form or other screen with multiple text fields. Mice When you connect a mouse to your tablet and move the mouse, an arrow‐shaped cursor appears, just as on a computer: ● Use the mouse to move the cursor. ● Clicking, pressing, and dragging with the mouse button is equivalent to touching, touching & holding, and dragging with your finger. ● Only one mouse button is supported. Other input devices You can other input devices to your phone.
the USB cable. Settings > Device > Storage > Menu > USB computer connection Manage accounts Add or remove accounts You can use multiple Google Accounts and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts on your device. You may also be able to add other kinds of accounts, depending on your apps. Some you can add in the Accounts & Sync screen, as described here. Others you add using an app that works with those kinds of accounts. For example, you can add IMAP and POP3 email accounts with the Email app.
account. Most accounts require a username and password, but the details depend on the kind of account and the configuration of the service you're connecting to. Depending on the kind of account, you may be asked to configure what kinds of data you want to sync, name the account, and other details. When you're finished, the account is added to the list in Accounts & sync. Depending how you configured the account, email, contacts, and other information start syncing to your device.
such cases, the settings you select at the account level are still valid. For some accounts, syncing is two‐directional; changes that you make to the information on your device are made to the copy of that information on the web. Your Google Account works this way. Other accounts support only one‐way sync: the information on your mobile device is read‐only. To view the Accounts & sync settings screen described here: 1 From a Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon .
If this option is not checked, you may be able to use an application's tools to sync data manually. You can also sync manually to collect messages, email, and other recent information. Leaving Auto‐sync off can help extend your battery life, but will prevent your from receiving notifications when updates occur. Sync information manually 1 Go to Settings > Personal > Accounts & sync. 2 Touch the account whose data you want to sync. 3 Touch Menu icon > Sync now.
To adjust your tablet lock settings: 1 From a Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon . 2 Touch Personal > Security > Screen lock. 3 Touch the type of lock you want and follow the onscreen instructions. You can choose among these lock options, listed in approximate order of strength: z Slide provides no protection, but lets you get to the Home screen quickly, or open Camera and start taking pictures immediately. z Pattern lets you draw a simple pattern with your finger to unlock the phone.
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