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Secure your tablet 33 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.
Status icons on the left tell you which apps have sent you notifications; for example, that a message has arrived, or it's time for a meeting. System icons on the right display the current wireless and network connection strength, battery level, time, and more. Touch & type Use your fingers to manipulate icons, buttons, menus, the onscreen keyboard, and other items on the touchscreen. You can also change the screen's orientation. To select or activate something, touch it.
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.
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 Move between screens: Swipe left or right. Launch an app: Touch its icon. 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.
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.
The first time you launch Gmail, you're asked to sign in or create an account, if you didn't already do so when you first set up your device. Then Gmail opens to the Inbox. From here, you can Read email. Touch a message to read it. Unread messages are bold. Organize email. Check the box beside a message to select it. Then use the icons and menu along the bottom of the screen to manage the selected messages. Change your settings.
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.
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. You can now share the picture by touching the Gmail, Google+, Messenger, or other icons displayed along one side of the image. To view this picture and others in the Gallery app, touch the picture. Manage downloads Files, apps, and other items you download from Gmail, Email, Android Market, or in other ways are stored in your device's internal storage.
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 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.
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. Touch the Settings icon on a Home or All Apps screen. 2. Touch Wireless & networks > Data usage. By default, you see the settings for mobile data: that is, the data network or networks provided by your carrier: It's possible to show Wi‐Fi data usage settings in a separate tab.
below the graph. Drag lines to change the period. Set data usage warning Drag the orange line by its right side to the level where you want to receive a warning. When your data usage reaches this level, you'll receive a notification. 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.
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. Advanced data usage settings 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.
● 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 these settings: 1 From a Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon . 2 Under Device, touch Apps.
● 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. ● Launch by default: If you have configured an app to launch certain file types by default, you can clear that setting here. ● Permissions: Lists the kinds of information about your tablet and data the app has access to. Enter & edit text Use the keyboard You can enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some apps open it automatically.
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. ● Quickly access common punctuation and symbols: Touch & hold the key to the right of the space bar (period key).
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. 4 Touch a network name to see more details or connect to it. If the network is secured, you're prompted to enter a password or other credentials. (Ask your network administrator for details.) To modify a network's settings, touch & hold the network name.
Proxy settings are used by Browser but may not be used by other apps. 1 Touch & hold a network in the list of Wi‐Fi networks you've added. 2 Touch Modify network in the dialog that opens. 3 Select Show advanced options. 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.
the Wi‐Fi network you are connected to (unless you used the IP settings to assign it a static IP address). Related settings Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi‐Fi Settings > Wireless & networks > Data usage Connect to keyboards, mice, and 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 an adapter to connect the keyboard or other device to your tablet's USB port.
Connect to a Windows computer via USB You can use a USB cable to connect your phone to a Windows computer and transfer music, pictures, and other files in both directions. 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.
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. Remove an account You can remove an account to delete it and all information associated with it from your device, including email, contacts, settings, and so on. 1 Go to Settings > Personal > Accounts & sync. 2 Touch the account to delete.
sync automatically. indicates that none of an account's information is configured to sync automatically. 2 Check or uncheck Menu icon > Auto‐sync app data to control whether changes you make to information on your device or on the web are automatically synced with each other. If you turn off Auto‐sync, you need to sync manually to collect messages, email, and other recent information, and won't receive notifications when updates occur.
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. 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.
can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.
