T0 Owner’s Handbook
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ELECTRICAL INFORMATION CAUTION! Use this appliance only with the supplied AC Adapter/charger. Using non-approved power supplies will void the warranty. Mains Supply: The mains operating voltage of this unit is marked on a rating plate on the AC adapter/charger. The means of disconnecting this appliance from the mains supply is the AC adapter/mains plug. This should be unobstructed and readily operable at all times.
LICENSE AGREEMENT PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE BELOW TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) BEFORE USING YOUR ARCHOS PRODUCT. THE “ARCHOS SOFTWARE” (all software distributed within the ARCHOS hardware product) ON THIS DEVICE IS LICENSED TO YOU, YOU DO NOT OWN IT. BY USING THE SOFTWARE ON THE DEVICE, YOU ARE THUS GIVING YOUR CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS EULA, ARCHOS WILL NOT LICENSE THE SOFTWARE TO YOU.
INDEX Important safety information............................................................................................... 1 License agreement................................................................................................................... 2 Legal information...................................................................................................................... 3 Overview...................................................................................................
OVERVIEW WHAT CAN I DO WITH MY TABLET? INTRODUCTION If you have access to the Internet via a wifi connection you can use your tablet to stay in touch through email and social networking, you can search the Internet or browse for your favourite videos on Youtube. You can load your choice of music, digital photos, movies or e-books into the built-in memory which can be expanded if required. Once your files are loaded you can play music*, browse photos* read books* or watch movies* on the 8” display screen.
CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS MIC bc d e f g hi a 1) 1! a BACK 1@ 1. FRONT & SIDES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
GETTING STARTED CONNECTING POWER Battery level: The battery level is shown in the battery symbol at the bottom right of the screen. The blue level in this example shows half-charge. The flash shown in the example will be present when the battery is charging. • Check that the mains voltage marked on the rating plate on the AC adapter/charger is the same as the voltage in your area. • Plug the cord from the AC adapter/charger into the DC-In jack.
INSTALLATION WIZARD When you first power up your tablet the Installation Wizard will run. This will help you step through the initial settings you need to choose to get your tablet set up. The settings sequence is shown here - Touch-Screen calibration: This process will start automatically and requires no intervention from the user. Language: You can choose your preferred language for the display.
WORKING WITH THE TOUCH-SCREEN HOW DOES THE TOUCH-SCREEN WORK? Switching between the text and numeric keypads: There are three keypads - QWERTY, numeric/punctuation and additional punctuation. The touch-screen is a dual purpose interactive display and input device. No keyboard or mouse is required to make selections or write text. Selecting on-screen icons: You can touch icons or sections of the screen to make selections.
WORKING WITH THE TOUCH-SCREEN Portait or Landscape viewing: At any time you can set the screen to display in portrait or landscape format. Documents and photos of people may display best in portrait view whilst movies and photos of groups and scenes are best displayed in Landscape view. • Rotate the screen to switch between portrait and landscape view. For some applications such as Internet browsing etc, you can zoom the display in and out to view sections of the screen in more detail.
THE HOME PAGE USING THE HOME PAGE Applications are necessary to make things happen on your tablet. The Home Page is the place where you have your most-used applications. Just touch the application that you want to launch. The factory default Home Page screen layout is shown here. HOME PAGE a b From the Home page you can also: 1. Touch Google Search to search the Internet. A text window will open with a keyboard. • Type in your search query on the keyboard then touch the return arrow on the keyboard.
THE HOME PAGE HOME PAGE WALLPAPER The wallpaper is the background picture on the home page. You can change this to other designs in the library or you can use one of your favourite digital photos as in the example shown. A PERSONALISED HOME PAGE a b To change the wallpaper: • Touch and hold the screen in an area where there are no application icons. The ‘Choose wallpaper’ pane will open.
APPLICATIONS, BOOKS, MOVIES AND GAMES Your tablet is bundled with many applications (apps). The supplied applications may vary, but include an Internet browser, Email app, Social networking links, Photo viewers, Music and Video players, Maps of the world, Navigation route finder and more. ALL APPLICATIONS SCREEN (Example shown) a To view all the applications: • Navigate to the Home Page and touch the ‘All Applications’ icon in the top right corner. The Applications will be displayed.
WIDGETS Your tablet is also bundled with many useful widgets including quick links to apps that you may use regularly. A SCREEN OF WIDGETS To browse the widgets that are available: • Navigate to the All Applications screen. • Touch the ‘WIDGETS’ tab at the top of the screen. A page of widgets will be displayed. • Drag the page to the left or right to see more widgets. a Adding a widget to your Home page: If you find one or more widgets that you like you can add them to your home page.
BROWSING THE INTERNET, YOUTUBE AND SOCIAL NETWORKING BROWSING THE INTERNET NOTE: You can only browse the Internet if you have an active wi-fi connection. The Internet browser on your tablet works in exactly the same way as the Internet browser on a computer. • You can search for a subject that interests you and browse the results that you see (for example, ‘tennis’). • Alternatively, if you know the web address (URL) of the site you want to visit (for example, ‘www.tesco.com’), you can enter this directly.
EMAIL IF YOU DON’T HAVE AN EMAIL ACCOUNT You can set up and use one or more email accounts from your tablet. You will need to have a wifi connection to set up or use email. Most users will already have acquired an email account when setting up an Internet connection at home. If this is not the case you may also have created a Google identity for the Google Play store which comes with a ‘gmail.com’ email address.
EMAIL RECEIVING AND SENDING EMAIL EMAIL INBOX Once you have set up your email account you are ready to receive or send email. • Navigate to the Home Page. • Touch the ‘Email’ icon. If your email accounts are live you will now see the email Inbox summary of messages you have received. a Reading a message: • Touch the message you want to read. d e f g bc nobody@gmail.com Sending a message: • Touch the ‘New message’ icon.
READING BOOKS On your tablet you can read ebooks that you have downloaded on-line from the Internet or Google Play store. BOOK READER (Example shown) Book reading apps: When you download books from the Google Play store you may be prompted to download the Google Play book reader. • If you want to read books from the store, follow the prompts to download and install the reader. Once the reader is installed, you can read books you have downloaded from the store.
TAKING PHOTOS DUAL CAMERAS CAMERA SCREEN (Example shown) Your tablet includes two cameras, one on the back panel and one forward-facing positioned above the screen. Both cameras can be used for taking photos. The screen mounted camera can also be used for video phone calls and messaging (suitable applications will be required). a b c d ef ghi USING THE CAMERAS • Navigate to the Home Page. • Touch the Camera icon. The camera application will open.
CLOCK AND ALARMS CLOCK APPLICATION To dim the clock display if you are using the clock at night: • Touch the display. The display will dim. • Touch the display again to restore full brightness. NOTE: If your tablet is battery powered, the display will switch off when the tablet sets to sleep to conserve battery life. If the charger is connected, the display will stay lit so you can continue to see the clock display. You can use the clock application to display the time in large format on the screen.
MUSIC, PHOTO, VIDEO AND COMPUTER DATA FILE TRANSFER MUSIC, PHOTOS AND VIDEOS DATA FILES (DOCUMENTS, DIGITAL BOOKS ETC) You can play compatible music files, browse digital photos and watch video files on your tablet. The music, photos and videos that you play are transferred from your computer to the flash memory in your tablet via the USB cable (supplied). Alternatively, you can dock a Micro-SD card into your tablet that already contains music, photo or video files.
TRANSFERRING MUSIC FROM A WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER LIBRARY The display above the sync list will show the available memory in your tablet. You can transfer music to your tablet from the Windows Media Player library on your computer using Windows Media Player version 11 or later. • Switch on your computer. • Open Windows Media Player. • Connect the USB cable (supplied) to your tablet. • Connect the other end of the cable to a convenient USB port on your computer.
TRANSFERRING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS FROM A WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER LIBRARY Picture and video files may be transferred to your tablet in the same way as music files. • With the library set to the correct mode, begin by dragging the files you want to transfer to the sync list. You can also switch the Windows Media Player screen to display a library of the Pictures or Videos stored on your computer.
TRANSFERRING FILES USING WINDOWS EXPLORER Uploading files/folders: • Browse to the folders or files you want to copy from your computer and drag them onto a folder to upload them. In the example, music albums are being dragged onto the MUSIC folder on the tablet. The process is the same for other types of file, but the destination folder will be different.
MANAGING THE FILES ON YOUR TABLET The ‘Explorer’ application included on your tablet will manage the files on your tablet in a similar way to Windows Explorer/My Computer managing them on your computer. EXPLORER (Example shown) ab Using Explorer: • Navigate to the All Applications screen. • Touch the ‘Explorer’ icon. The Explorer screen will open. The first screen will show you memory locations available including the Internal Memory on your tablet and a Micro-SD card (when fitted).
PLAYING MUSIC Once you have uploaded music files to your tablet, they will be available to play. • Navigate to the All applications screen. • Touch the ‘Play Music’ icon. The Music index screen will open. The screen will show you music albums and tracks that are available to play in all memory locations on your tablet including a Micro-SD card (when fitted). NOTE: The index screen will only display music albums and tracks that are in one of the compatible, playable formats of MP3, WAV, APE, OGG or FLAC.
BROWSING DIGITAL PHOTOS You can view photos you have taken with the tablet and also photos you have copied to the tablet from your computer. • Navigate to the All Applications screen. • Touch the ‘Gallery’ icon. The Gallery screen will open. The screen will show you memory locations available including photos taken by the built-in camera, those in the Internal Memory on your tablet and a Micro-SD card (when fitted). • Touch a memory location to browse photos stored in that location.
WATCHING VIDEOS AND MOVIES You can watch movies you have filmed with the tablet and also movies you have copied to the tablet from your computer. • Navigate to the All applications screen. • Touch the ‘Video’ icon. The Video listing will open. The screen will show you videos available to play in all memory locations, including videos filmed on the built-in camera. • Touch a video in the listing to watch it. The video will start to play immediately. When the video ends, the next video will start to play.
SETTINGS The settings screens of your tablet enable you to set up and personalise your tablet to your own requirements. SETTINGS DISPLAY (Example shown) Opening the Settings screen from the Home Page: • Navigate to the Home page. • Touch the Settings icon. The Settings screen will open. More settings are available by dragging the index up or down. • Touch the setting you want to change in the setting index on the left of the screen. The options for this setting will be shown.
SETTINGS > WIRELESS & NETWORKS SETTINGS > DEVICE WIRELESS & NETWORKS > Wifi: Touch this option to see if your tablet is connected to a wireless network and also to see any other wireless networks that will connect when you are within range of them. • Touch the ON/OFF button on the Wi-Fi tab to switch wireless networking on or off. The toolbar at the top of the screen includes some more options • Touch SCAN in the toolbar to initiate a scan for new wireless networks.
SETTINGS > PERSONAL SETTINGS > SYSTEM PERSONAL > Accounts & sync: • Touch this option to display email and other accounts that are setup on your tablet. • Touch an account in the list to display more information about an account and to change account or sync settings. • Touch this tab to change the settings for time and other settings that relate to the operating system of your tablet. SYSTEM > Date & time: • Touch this tab to set the time or to choose manual time setting and set the clock.
TROUBLESHOOTING FACTORY RESET Unable to browse the Internet: • Go to Settings > WIRELESS & NETWORKS. • Check that Wi-Fi is switched on in the Wi-Fi tab. • Check that there is a wireless network connected (wireless networks will be listed in the information pane). If the tablet is not connected to the network, it may be out of wireless range. • Move closer to the network hub and re-try.
FCC Warning: z This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: z (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and z (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. z Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
