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PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Table of Contents 1. Get Started............................................................Page 3 2. Play & Explore.......................................................Page 4 3. Tune Performance................................................Page 14 4. Enter & Edit Text..................................................Page 18 5. Connect to Networks...........................................Page 21 6. Connect to Keyboards, Mice & Other Devices...Page 29 7.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 1 Getting Started Power On & Sign In To turn on your Prestige 7, press the Power button on the right edge near the top for a few seconds, then release it. Charge the battery The battery may not be fully charged at first. It’s a good idea to fully charge it as soon as you can. The Prestige 7 can be charged 2 ways. With the power adapter, connect the power adapter to the Prestige 7 and to a power outlet.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 2 Play & Explore Browse Home Screens To move between Home screens, swipe left or right. To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the top of the screen. Tap Status Bar for Notifications Notifications alert you to the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as video downloads.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email previews or calendar events. To ©2013 Visual Land Inc.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book expand or collapse a notification, use two fingers to either swipe vertically or twist together. To open the related app, touch the notification icon on the left. Some notifications also allow you to take specific actions by touching icons within the notification. For example, Calendar notifications allow you to Snooze (remind you later) or send email to other guests. When you’re finished with a notification, just swipe it away to the left or right.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Home Opens Home. If you’re viewing a left or right Home screen, opens the central Home screen. Recent Apps Opens a list of thumbnail images of apps you’ve worked with recently. To open an app, touch it. To remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it left or right. 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 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. 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. For example, you can move apps around on the Home screen.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Settings On the All Apps screen or the Utilities home screen, notice the settings icon. This brings you to the settings screens for your tablet, where you can adjust things like network, sound, and account settings, among many others. TIP: To get to Settings quickly no matter what screen you’re on, swipe up your Notifications from the top of any screen and touch the small settings icon near the top.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book unauthorized access. if a lock has been set, the screen locks when your tablet’s display goes to sleep. When you touch the power button to wake up a locked tablet, you must take some action, ranging from a simple swipe to typing a lengthy password, to unlock it. You can set locks of different strengths using your tablet’s lock settings. To do so, go to Settings > Personal > Security > Screen lock and touch the type of lock you’d like to use.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Access Your Content To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the top of the screen. To add a widget, touch and hold on an empty part of the home screen, then select Widgets from the popup menu and swipe from up until you see the one you want. If there is proper space for the widget it'll be placed on the home screen.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book To remove an app icon from the Home screen, touch and hold it, slide your finger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app over the Remove icon . Most apps include a Menu icon near the top or bottom of the screen that lets you control the app’s settings. Organize Your Home screens To move an app or widget icon to a different location on a Home screen: Touch & hold the icon. Slide your finger to the new position.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book To customize the sounds your tablet makes, go to Settings > Device > Sound: Volumes sets the master volume separately for music, notifications, and alarms. You can still use the physical volume control on the tablet to raise or lower volume of whatever sound is currently playing. Default notification announces the arrival of notifications unless you specify a different sound in an individual app.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 3 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 control battery settings, go to Battery. Settings > Device > Extend the life of your battery If you aren’t using Wi-Fi use the Settings app to turn it off. Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter sleep timeout: Settings > Device > Display.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Check battery level and usage details 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Downloaded. Displays apps you’ve downloaded Running. Displays all apps, processes, and services that are currently running or that have cached processes, and how much RAM they are using. The graph at the bottom of the Running tab shows the total RAM in use and the amount free. At the top right of the screen, touch Show cached processes or Show running services to switch back and forth. All.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 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. Clear cache: if the app stores data in a temporary area of the tablet’s memory, lists how much information is stored, and includes a button for clearing it.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 4 Enter & Edit Text Use the keyboard 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. To make the keyboard go away, touch the modified back button below it. Basic editing ©2013 Visual Land Inc.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 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. The tab disappears after a few moments, to get out of your way. To make it reappear, touch the text again.
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PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 5 Connect to Networks Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that can provide internet access at distances of up to 100 meters, depending on the Wi-Fi router and your surroundings. To use Wi-Fi, you connect to a wireless access point, or “hotspot.” Some hotspots are open and you can simply connect to them.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Turn on Wi-Fi, if it’s not already on. Touch the Plus icon at the top of the screen. Enter the ssid (name) of the network. if necessary, enter security or other network configuration details. Touch Save. The information about the network is saved. Your device will connect to this network automatically the next time you come within range.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Proxy settings are used by browser but may not be used by other apps. Touch & hold a network in the list of Wi-Fi networks you’ve added. Touch Modify network in the dialog that opens. Select Show advanced options. If the network has no proxy settings, touch none under Proxy settings, then touch Manual in the menu that opens. Enter the proxy settings supplied by your network administrator. Touch Save. The proxy settings apply only to the Wi-Fi network you modified.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 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. uncheck this option to turn off notifications. Keep Wi-Fi during sleep: To conserve mobile data usage, your device stays connected to Wi-Fi when the screen goes to sleep.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book To manage mobile data options, go to Wireless & networks > Data usage. Settings > Connect to Virtual Private Networks Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow you to connect to the resources inside a secured local network, from outside that network. VPNs are commonly deployed by corporations, schools, and other institutions to let people access local network resources when not on campus, or when connected to a wireless network.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book In the form that appears, fill in the information provided by your network administrator. Touch Save. The VPN is added to the list on the VPN screen. Connect to a VPN From the VPN screen, touch the name of the VPN. In the dialog that opens, enter any requested credentials. Touch Connect. When you’re connected to a VPN, a Status icon and notification are displayed continuously. To disconnect, touch the notification for the VPN connection.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book These settings are available under Settings > Wireless & networks > More. Follow the links for detailed instructions: Airplane Mode. Check to turn off all data transmission from the device. VPN. Touch to adjust settings that allow you to connect to websites and other resources within a secured local network from outside that network. see “Connect to virtual private networks” on page 59. ©2013 Visual Land Inc.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 6 Connect to Keyboards, Mice, & Other Devices You can connect a keyboard, mouse, or even a joystick or other input device to your tablet via usb and use it just as you would with a PC. You may need the provided adapter to connect the keyboard or other device to your tablet’s USB port. To connect more than one USB device at a time, use a powered usb hub to reduce the drain on your tablet’s battery.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 7 Connect to a Computer Connect to a Windows Computer via USB You can use a usb cable to connect your tablet to a Windows computer and transfer music, pictures, and other files in both directions. This connection uses the MTP protocol, which is supported by most recent versions of Windows. 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book You can use a usb cable to connect your tablet to a computer running Mac OS X with a usb cable and transfer music, pictures, and other files in both directions. This connection uses the MTP protocol, which is not supported by Mac OS X natively. Therefore, you first need to install the free Android File Transfer application on your Macintosh. It’s available from www.android.com/filetransfer, along with instructions on how to install it.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book You work with this window much as if it were a Finder window: opening and closing folders, creating new folders, and dragging files to or from it and other Finder windows. Disconnect the USB cable when you’re finished. To change your tablet’s USB connection options, go to Settings > Device > Storage > Menu > USB computer connection. ©2013 Visual Land Inc.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 8 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 section of settings, 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Go to Settings > Accounts > Add account. Touch the kind of account to add. Follow the on-screen instructions. 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.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book For any other type of account go, to Settings > Accounts > account-name and look for the Remove option. ©2013 Visual Land Inc.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 9 Change Backup & Reset Options You can back up settings and other data associated with one or more of your Google Accounts. if you need to replace or factory reset your device, you can restore your data for any accounts that were previously backed up. To view the settings described here, go to Backup & Reset. Settings > These options are available: Back Up My Data.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book more of these accounts on a new or reset device to retrieve the associated information. To add a new account, touch Backup account > Add account. Automatic restore. Check this option to restore settings and other data when you reinstall an app. This feature requires that you are backing up your data with your Google Account and that the app is using the backup service. Factory data reset.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 10 Secure Your Tablet Set Screen Lock Depending how you use your tablet, 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 tablet’s display goes to sleep. If your tablet’s playing music when the screen locks, you can continue listening or pause the selection without unlocking. To adjust your lock settings: 1. Go to Settings > Personal > Security > Screen lock. 2.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Slide provides no protection, but lets you get to the Home screen quickly, or open Camera and start taking pictures immediately. Pattern lets you draw a simple pattern with your finger to unlock the phone. This is more secure than Slide unlock. PIN requires four or more numbers. Longer PINs tend to be more secure. Password requires four or more letters or numbers. This is the most secure option, as long as you create a strong password.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book information, and so on. if you do, you must enter a numeric PIN or password each time you turn on your tablet. Note that this is the same PIN or password that you use to unlock your tablet without encryption, and cannot be set independently. Warning: encryption is irreversible. The only way to revert to an unencrypted tablet is to perform a factory data reset, which erases all your data.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book When you’re ready to turn on encryption: Touch Settings > Personal > Security > Encryption > Encrypt tablet. Read the information about encryption carefully. The Encrypt Tablet button is dimmed if your battery’s not charged or your tablet’s not plugged in. If you change your mind about encrypting your tablet, touch the back button. Warning: if you interrupt the encryption process, you will lose data. Touch Encrypt tablet.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book 11 Work with Certificates You can use digital certificates to identify your device for a variety of purposes, including VPN or Wi-Fi network access as well as authentication to servers by apps such as email or browser. To use a certificate to identify your device, you must obtain it with help from your system administrator, and install it in your device’s trusted credential storage . Android supports DER-encoded X.509 certificates, saved in files with a .crt or .
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book To install a certificate from your tablet’s internal storage: Copy the certificate or key store from your computer to the root of your device’s internal storage (that is, not in a folder). Touch Settings > Personal > Security > Credential storage > Install from storage. Touch the filename of the certificate or keystore to install. Only certificates that you haven’t already installed are displayed. If prompted, enter the key store password and touch OK.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Warning: Apps such as email and browser that support certificates allow you to install certificates directly from within the app. For details, see the Help or other instructions that come with each app. Work with CA Certificates If a certificate authority (CA) certificate gets compromised, or for some other reason your organization doesn’t want to trust it, you can disable or remove it. To do so, follow these steps: 1.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book To remove or disable a CA certificate, scroll down to the bottom of the details screen and touch either Disable for system certificates or remove for user certificates. When you disable a system CA certificate, the button at the bottom of its details screen changes to Enable, so you can enable the certificate again if necessary. When you remove a user-installed CA certificate, it is gone permanently and must be re-installed if you want it back.
PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book Safety Information • • • • • • • • • The battery is not intended to be replaced by the consumer. If you believe the battery is damaged or needs to be replaced, contact Visual Land customer support for inspection and/or replacement. Do not let the battery come in contact with liquids. Do not place your device near a heat source or leave it in your car in high temperatures. Do not dispose of the battery in a fire. Avoid dropping device.
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