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 FCC STATEMENT 34 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.
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.
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. 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 drag to reposition shortcuts on the Home screen.
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. Important Screen lock options are listed in the approximate order of the strength of their security, starting with None and Slide, which provide no security.
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. You can download additional wallpapers from Google Play store. 3. To set a wallpaper, touch “set wallpaper” under the Gallery images or Set wallpaper.
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. 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 Note The All Apps icon can't move it. . in the Favorites tray is permanent. You Use folders You can combine several app icons in a folder.
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. Touch the All Apps icon on your Home screen. 2. Touch Widgets at the top of the screen.
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.
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. All your People information is available from Gmail, Google Talk, Messenger, Tablet, and other apps where it's useful. As you add contacts from different sources, they are synced automatically across all the places you need them. To view your contacts, touch the People icon on a Home or All Apps screen.
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. The first time you open the Calendar application on your Tablet, it displays any existing calendar events from that Google Account on the web.
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.
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 view and copy files from this directory. Open Downloads and manage downloaded files Touch the Downloads icon screen. Touch an item to open it. Touch headings for earlier downloads to view them. Check items you want to share.
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. Don't leave the Maps or Navigation apps open on the screen when you're not using them. They use GPS (and thus more power) only when they're running.
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. The discharge graph shows battery level over time since you last charged the device, and how long you've been running on battery power. To adjust the settings described here: 1.
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. This range determines the usage amount displayed just below the graph. Drag lines to change the period.
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. View or restrict data usage by app Some apps transfer data in the background; that is, when you're not actually using the app, it may download data for future reference.
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. Optimize memory usage You typically don't need to worry about managing apps beyond installing, opening, and using them. But there may be times when you want to know more about what's happening behind the scenes.
● 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. Use the Apps screen The Apps screen allows you to adjust several aspects of the way your device uses memory.
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 may need to restart your device after doing this. ● Uninstall button: Deletes the app and all of its data and settings.
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: 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.
interference that may cause undesired operation. 2. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
