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 6 Arrange & work with apps 7 Use folders 8 Add widgets 9 Try some apps 9 Find People 10 Manage your Calendar 12 Use your Camera 13 Manage downloads 13 Tune performance 14 Optimize battery life 14 Optimize data usage 14 Optimize memory usage 19 Use the Apps screen 20 Enter & edit text 21 Use the keyboard 22 Basic editing 22 Tips & shortcuts 23 1
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 32 Configure general sync settings 32 Change an account’s sync settings 33 Secure your tablet 33 2
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. To open an app, folder, or widget, touch its icon. To see additional Home screens, swipe your finger quickly left or right.
keyboard, and other items on the touchscreen. You can also change the screen's orientation. 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: Touch & hold: Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs.
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.
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. Choose from pictures that you've taken with Camera or downloaded to your device. Live Wallpapers. Choose from a scrolling list of animated wallpapers. Wallpapers. Choose from thumbnails of default images, or touch a thumbnail for a larger version.
icon, slide your finger, and lift your finger to drop the icon in place. Place an app icon in the Favorites tray: Touch, hold, & slide to move one of the Favorites icons out of the tray. Then use the same technique to move another one into the same position. Explore your widgets: Touch the Widgets tab at the top of any All Apps screen. Get more apps. Touch the Market icon.
slide. Tips 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. After you open an app, you can usually adjust its settings by choosing items from its Menu icon near the top or bottom of the screen . 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.
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. To launch Gmail, touch the Gmail icon on a Home or All Apps screen.
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.
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. When you first set up your Tablet, you configured it to use an existing Google Account (such as Gmail), or you created a new one.
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 Take a picture: Touch the blue button. View the most recently taken picture: Touch the thumbnail near the blue button.
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. You can view and manage these queued files in the Downloads app as well. Downloaded files are stored in the Download directory that's visible when your device is connected to a computer.
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 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.
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. Battery status (charging, discharging) and level (as a percentage of fully charged) are displayed at the top of the screen.
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. This date range is the period of time for which the graph displays data usage. The vertical white lines on the graph show a period of time within the data usage cycle.
Important The usage displayed on the data usage settings screen is measured by your Tablet. Your carrier's data usage accounting may differ. Usage in excess of your carrier plan's data limits can result in steep overage charges. The feature described here can help you track your usage, but is not guaranteed to prevent additional charges. For best results, set a conservative limit.
Two other settings available from the Menu icon can have dramatic effects, but may sometimes be useful: Data roaming can result in steep additional charges. However, in some locations this may be the only way to connect to the Internet. Restrict background data affects all your apps across all available networks, and may cause some features to stop working. This is an extreme step that should be used with caution.
activities. You affect the way apps use internal storage directly and indirectly in many ways; for example, by: ● Installing or uninstalling apps. ● Downloading files in Browser, Gmail, and other apps. ● Creating files (for example, by taking pictures). ● Deleting downloaded files or files you created. ● Copying files between your device and a computer via USB. You rarely need to manage the way apps use RAM. But you can monitor apps' RAM usage and stop them if they misbehave.
downloaded from Android Market or other sources. To switch the order of the lists displayed in the Downloaded or All tabs, touch Menu icon > Sort by name or Sort by size. To view details about an app or other item listed under any tab, touch its name. The information and controls available vary among different types of apps, but commonly include: ● Force stop button: Stops an app that is misbehaving. Stopping an app, process, or service may cause your device to stop working correctly.
You can enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some apps open it automatically. In others, you open it by touching where you want to type. 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.
before the cursor. ● Cut, copy, paste: Select the text you want to manipulate. Then touch the Paste , Cut , or Copy button : 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 .
choices, touch the = \ < key. ● Quickly access common punctuation and symbols: Touch & hold the key to the right of the space bar (period key). ● Type special characters: Touch & hold the Shift key while 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 ...
To extend the life of your battery between charges, turn off Wi-Fi when you're not using it. You can also set your device to disconnect automatically from Wi-Fi networks when it's sleeping. Turn Wi-Fi on and connect to a Wi-Fi network 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.
1 Turn on Wi-Fi, if it's not already on. 2 In the Wi-Fi settings screen, touch Add Network. 3 Enter the SSID (name) of the network. If necessary, enter security or other network configuration details. 4 Touch Save. The information about the network is saved. Your device will connect to this network automatically the next time you come within range.
4 If the network has no proxy settings, touch None under Proxy Settings, then touch Manual in the menu that opens. 5 Enter the proxy settings supplied by your network administrator. 6 Touch Save. The proxy settings apply only to the Wi-Fi network you modified. To 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.
data usage. You may want to revisit this setting if you receive a notification that you're approaching your specified mobile data limit. ● Wi-Fi frequency band: Specify Automatic, 5 GHz, or 2.4 GHz frequency bands 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.
your tablet's features: ● Use the arrow keys to select items on screen. ● Pressing Return when an item is selected is equivalent to touching that item. ● Pressing Escape is equivalent to touching Back. ● 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.
When you connect your tablet to the USB port on your computer, its USB storage is mounted as a drive and appears on your computer screen. You can now copy files back and forth as you would using any other external device. When you're finished, simply disconnect the tablet by unplugging 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.
address. 1 Go to Settings > Personal > Accounts & sync. 2 Touch Add account. 3 Touch the kind of account to add. 4 Follow the onscreen steps to enter information about the 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.
You can configure synchronization options for any of your apps. You can also configure what kinds of data you synchronize for each account. Some apps, such as Gmail and Calendar, have separate synchronization settings that provide more fine-grained control. In 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.
notifications when updates occur. For example, when this option is checked, changes that you make in your People app are automatically made to your Google contacts on the web. 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.
Depending how you use your phone, you may want to set some form of automatic screen lock to prevent unauthorized access. If a screen lock has been set, the screen locks when your phone's display goes to sleep. 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.
