TM Quick Start Guide English Android 5.
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Table of contents 1 Welcome to Android 1 About Android 5.
2 Essentials Google Now How it works 15 15 16 Try it 17 What you can ask Google to do for you 18 Turn “Ok Google” on or off 18 Display 18 Sound and notification 19 Manage accounts on your device 22 Add an account 22 Remove an account 23 Share your device with other users 24 Switch users 25 Remove a user 25 Guest user 25 Security Smart Lock 26 26 Screen pinning 27 Protect against harmful apps 28 Android Device Manager 28 Android Beam 29 Tap & pay
3 Use the keyboard Enter & edit text 4 34 34 Use next-word suggestions 37 Gesture Typing 38 Keyboard dictionaries 39 Type by speaking 39 Try some apps All Apps 41 41 Gmail 42 Google Play 44 Camera 45 Photos 48 Contacts 49 Messenger 50 Hangouts 52 Calendar 52 5 Settings 54 6 Accessibility 56 ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE v
1 Welcome to Android About Android 5.0, Lollipop Android 5.0, Lollipop is the latest version of Android, the operating system that powers not just phones and tablets, but also wearables, TVs, and even cars. This guide introduces the Android 5.0 software available on Nexus and Google Play edition mobile devices. For hardware details for these devices, such as how to insert a SIM card, specs, and so on, visit support.google.com/android.
• Set priorities for notifications and see them when your phone is locked. • Easier ways to manage battery usage, including a battery saver feature to extend battery life. • More ways to secure your phone. Android Auto Android Auto will be supported by most major car manufacturers starting with 2015 models. It allows you to plug in your phone to display your music, contacts, and messages on the car’s built-in screen.
Android Wear Android Wear watches from LG, Motorola, Sony, and other manufacturers connect your phone to your wrist. Pause, play, and skip music tracks or quickly respond to text messages using only your watch. Android Wear organizes your information, suggests what you need, and shows it to you before you even ask. Get messages from your friends, meeting notifications, and weather updates at a glance. For more information, visit play.google.com/store/devices.
An email address that you use for any of the following counts as a Google Account: • • • • • • Gmail YouTube Google Play Google Apps AdWords Any other Google product Signing in with a Google Account helps you get up and running quickly. When you sign in, you can easily get all the apps you’ve purchased on Google Play onto your new device. All the email, contacts, calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your device.
• To open Quick Settings—frequently used settings—swipe down from the top of the screen twice with one finger or once with two fingers. See “Quick Settings” on page 7. • To open Settings, swipe down from the top of any screen with two fingers or swipe twice with one finger, then touch in the top right. • From the Home screen, touch Google at the top of the screen, or say “Ok Google” to search and start telling Google what to do.
To place a call to one of your contacts: 1. Touch Phone on a Home or All Apps screen. 2. To choose someone to call, scroll or search. If the keypad is in the way, touch the Back button to lower it. 3. To place a call, touch the contact’s name. To view recent calls, touch the Recents tab. To use the keypad, touch the keypad. TIP: On Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 only, Caller ID by Google identifies inbound and outbound numbers, even for callers not saved as contacts in the Contacts app.
Send an email Use the Gmail app to read and write email from your Gmail or other email addresses. 1. Touch Gmail on a Home or All Apps screen. 2. If you already signed into a Gmail account during setup, your email will be synced to your device. Otherwise, add an email address now. Status bar The status bar is at the very top of the screen. On the right, you can see the Wi-Fi and mobile signal strength, how much battery power is left, and the time.
• Flashlight: Turn the flashlight on or off. • Display brightness: Slide to lower or increase the brightness of your screen. • Auto-rotate: Lock your device’s orientation in portrait or landscape mode. On a Nexus 5, Quick Settings look like this: Open the main Settings app by touching right. Settings in the top You can also turn Auto Rotate on or off from Quick Settings, to lock or unlock automatic screen rotation.
Your Android device’s battery is built to get you through your day. When you’re running low, Android’s battery saver conserves your battery power so you can still make calls and send SMS (text) messages. To turn it on, go to Settings > Battery > Battery saver. For more information, visit Manage battery life. Get around At the bottom of every Home screen you’ll find the Favorites tray: another quick way to get to your apps. To open an app, touch it.
Overview Opens a list of thumbnail images of screens you’ve worked with recently. To open one, touch it. To remove a screen from the list, swipe it left or right or touch on the X. Some apps hide these buttons temporarily, or fade them to small dots in the same position. To bring them back, touch the dots, touch the screen in the middle, or swipe up from the bottom. Google Play edition navigation buttons Some Google Play edition devices have two or three buttons just below the screen.
Organize your Home screens On Nexus 5, 6, and 9: • To change your wallpaper, add a widget, adjust Search settings, or change screen order, touch & hold the background of any Home screen. • You can have any number of Home screens to the right. To add a new screen, swipe to the rightmost screen and drag an app or widget to the right edge. • The screen to the left of the main Home screen is reserved for Google Now, and is available only when Google Now is turned on.
To move an app or widget to another position: 1. Touch & hold the icon. 2. Slide your finger to the new position. To move between Home screens, slide toward the edge of the screen. To bump another icon out of the way, slide slowly into it. 3. Lift your finger. Touch & type 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.
and pinching them together (to enlarge scale) or spreading them apart (to reduce it). • Rotate the screen. The orientation of most screens rotates with your device as you turn it. To keep your screen locked in Portrait mode, swipe down with two fingers from the top of any screen and touch Portrait/Auto-Rotate in Quick Settings. Help & support For most Google apps, you can get to help and support from the Menu. Other apps include a Menu icon that you can touch.
• Android version. Look partway down the list for this heading and the number just below it. If you don’t have a Nexus or Google Play edition phone or tablet and are running Android 5.0 on some other device, some details of the system as described in this book may vary. For comprehensive online help and support, including details about Nexus and Google Play edition hardware running the software described in this book and links to information about other Android devices, visit support.google.com/android.
2 Essentials Google Now Google Now is about getting you just the right information, at just the right time. It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and even your favorite team’s score while they’re playing.
After you start using Google Now, you don’t need to do anything else. If you like, you can fine-tune some settings, but Google Now doesn’t need any elaborate setup. How it works To know when to show information you’ll find useful, Google Now uses contextual data from your device and from other Google products, plus data from third-party products that you allow Google Now to access.
Try it You have a chance to turn on Google Now when you first set up your device. You can also turn it on or off at any time: 1. Touch & hold any empty space on your Home screen. 2. Go to Settings > Google Now. To open Google Now on Nexus 5, 6, and 9, swipe up from the Home button. Updates appear in the form of Google Now cards. When you don’t need a card anymore, swipe it from left to right. Swiping from right to left returns you to the main Home screen.
What you can ask Google to do for you When you use Google Now, you can speak to your device to search, get directions, and create reminders. For example, say “Ok Google, do I need an umbrella tomorrow?” to see if there’s rain in the weather forecast. To see other examples of what you can say, visit “Ok Google” and voice search.
• Adaptive brightness: Turn on adaptive brightness to automatically optimize the brightness level on your device based on the available light around you. Adaptive brightness is on by default. You can still adjust your brightness when needed. • Sleep: Change how long it takes for your device’s screen to go black when you’re not using it. Learn more about Sleep Settings. • Daydream: Set up screensavers that display photos, colorful backgrounds, and more when your device is charging or docked.
things like the title of a song you downloaded, who sent you an email, or the details of a calendar event. For more information, visit the Help Center. • App Notifications. Modify the notification settings individually for apps such as Gmail. The setting under When device is locked will always take precedence over the setting for an individual app. • Notification access. See which apps can access your notifications. When a notification arrives, its icon appears at the top of the screen.
TIP: Wi-Fi and mobile signal strength are indicated at the top of the screen by white bars. To see whether the selected Wi-Fi network has a full Internet connection, open Quick Settings by swiping down with two fingers from the top of the screen. In Quick Settings only, white bars in the Wi-Fi or mobile signal indicators indicate the signal strength of a normal Internet connection. Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email previews or calendar events.
Manage accounts on your device You can add accounts so that information associated with that account automatically syncs with your device. You’ll need to set up an account on your device if you want to get email or get apps on Google Play. You can also add multiple users for your device, like if several people share a tablet. Adding users is different from adding accounts.
or POP3, try IMAP first. Many email services use IMAP. Learn more about the differences between IMAP and POP3. i. Choose “Google” if you want to add your Google Account. When you sign in with a Google Account, all the email, contacts, calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your device. ii. Follow the on-screen instructions to add the account. To change the settings of any of the accounts you added, follow these steps: 1.
3. Under “Accounts,” touch the name of the account you want to remove. If you’re using a Google Account, touch Google and then the account. • When you sign out of your Google Account, all the email, contacts, Calendar events, and other data associated with that account will no longer automatically sync with your device. 4. Touch Menu in the top right corner of the screen. 5. Touch Remove account.
Switch users To switch users, swipe down from the top of any screen twice to open Quick Settings. Touch the image of the current user in the top right corner of the screen, then touch another user’s image. Remove a user The device’s owner can delete any user that they added: 1. Go to Settings > Device > Users. 2. Touch Settings next to the user’s name, then touch Remove user. Other users can only delete their own space. 1. Go to 2. Touch Settings > Device > Users.
Security If a lock is set for your screen, the screen goes dark and locks when the display goes to sleep or if you press the Power button. You can set locks of different strengths using Screen Lock settings: 1. Go to Settings > Personal > Security > Screen lock. 2. Touch the type of lock you’d like to use. Even when your screen is locked, you can perform certain activities. • Quick Settings: Slide down from the top of the screen to open Quick Settings without entering your password.
Trusted devices and face matching You can set your device to stay unlocked while connected to a Bluetooth device—like a watch, fitness tracker, headset, or car speaker system. You can also set your device to unlock when it touches an NFC tag. You can also have your device unlock when it recognizes your face. After setting a trusted face, every time you turn on your device, it will search for your face and unlock if it recognizes you.
3. Touch Overview on your device. Swipe up the first screen on the bottom to bring it into view. 4. Touch the pin. Here, you can select an option to return to the lock screen after a screen is unpinned. 5. To exit from the pinned screen, touch and hold and at the same time. Protect against harmful apps Apps from Google Play are always verified by Google to protect you and your device from harm. By default, your device doesn’t allow the installation of apps from sources other than Google Play.
If you lose your device, go to Android Device Manager and follow the instructions. Android Beam You can instantly send, or beam, a web page, a video, or other content from your screen to another device by bringing the devices together (typically back to back). In some apps, you can also start a beam from the Share menu. Before you begin: Make sure both devices are unlocked, support Near Field Communication (NFC), and have both NFC and Android Beam turned on.
Tap & pay When NFC is turned on, you can use the Tap & pay feature to pay for items just by touching your phone to a reader at a register. To manage your Tap & pay apps: 1. Go to Settings > Device > Tap & pay. 2. Touch an app to make it your default payment app. If your device doesn’t have a payment app, such as Google Wallet, search Google Play for “payment apps.” For more information, visit Tap & pay with your device. Printing With Android 5.
Chromecast Chromecast is a small device that plugs into the back of your TV. It allows you to send videos and music straight from your phone or tablet to your TV. You can use Chromecast with apps like: • • • • • YouTube Netflix Google Play Movies & TV Google Play Music Hulu Plus To see more apps, visit chromecast.com/apps. When using Chromecast, make sure your phone or tablet is using the same Wi-Fi network as your Chromecast, and that Chromecast is selected as your TV’s source input.
File storage Android 5.0 makes it easy to store and browse through pictures, videos, and other files on your device and attach them to an email, Hangout message, and so on. You can also use stored images as your Home screen wallpaper. For example, to attach an image to an email you’re composing, touch the Paper Clip in the top right and choose to either Attach file or Insert from Drive to select stored images in your Drive folder.
Google Play streams purchases and rentals via the Internet. So the purchases and rentals don’t always occupy storage space when you play them. Although you can download content in Google Play apps to access offline, Google Play content never appears in Downloads. Screenshots To take a screenshot from Nexus or Google Play edition devices: 1. Make sure the image you want to capture is displayed on the screen. 2. Press the Power and Volume down buttons simultaneously.
3 Use the keyboard TIP: To select a keyboard language other than English, go to Settings, Personal > Language & input. For more details, visit the Keyboard help. Enter & edit text Use the onscreen keyboard to enter text.
Keyboards on tablets work in a similar way. To make the keyboard go away, touch the Back button below it. Some apps open the keyboard automatically. In others, you first need to touch where you want to type. Basic editing Change where you want to type Touch the cursor, then touch and drag the tab that appears below it to the new position. Select text Touch and 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.
Change word capitalization If you want to quickly change the capitalization of a word you’ve already typed, you can select it and touch the Shift key. You’ll have the option to select the capitalized word or the word in all capital letters. Type a symbol or character To switch to symbol keys for one word, touch the symbol key ?123 once. View more symbols and characters Touch and hold symbols or characters to get accented characters or additional symbols.
You’ll see a panel like this. To move between categories, swipe left or right or touch the symbols in the top row. To type an emoji, touch it: Use next-word suggestions 1. Touch the location where you want to input text. 2. Start typing out a word. When the word you want is displayed in a list above the keyboard, touch it. 3. Continue to touch words unless the one you want doesn’t appear. If so, type it. Android continues to suggest words as you type.
Gesture Typing Gesture Typing works best for English. Quality varies for other languages, and some don’t support it yet. To input a word using Gesture Typing: 1. Touch the location where you want to type to open the keyboard. 2. Slide your finger slowly across the letters of the word you want to input. 3. Release your finger when the word you want is displayed in the floating preview or the middle of the suggestion strip. To select one of the other words in the suggestion strip, touch it.
Keyboard dictionaries To manage keyboard dictionaries, go to Language & input. Settings > Personal > Personal dictionary You can add your own words to your personal dictionary so that your device remembers them. To add a word or phrase, including an optional shortcut, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input > Google Keyboard > Text Correction > Personal dictionary and the language of the dictionary you want to modify, then choose Add and type in the word.
or “exclamation point.” Supported languages include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian. To improve processing of your voice input, Google may record a few seconds of background noise in temporary memory at any time. This recording remains on the device only temporarily and is not sent to Google. To change your speech settings, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input.
4 Try some apps All Apps To see all your apps, touch All Apps in the Favorites tray on any Home screen. This is where you can see all your apps, including those that come with your phone and those you downloaded on Google Play. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens. From All Apps, you can: • Move between screens. Swipe left or right. • Open an app. Touch its icon. • Place an app icon on a Home screen.
To view info about an app from an All Apps screen, touch & hold it, slide your finger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app over App Info. TIP: Some apps can harm you or your device. However, you don’t need to purchase anti-virus software for Nexus or Google Play edition devices. Google can verify apps to help prevent harmful software from being installed. For more details, visit Protect against harmful apps. Gmail Use the Gmail app to read and write email from any mobile device.
unread. Look under the Menu to move, change labels, mute, print and do other actions to the email. • Swipe left or right to read the previous or next conversation. Organize your conversations: From the Inbox, touch & hold a conversation to select it. Then use the icons and menu along the top of the screen to manage the selected messages. To change your settings, add an account, or get help, touch the menu icon or button.
To change the settings of any of the accounts you added, follow these steps: 1. Open the Settings menu on your device. 2. Under “Personal,” touch “Accounts” and select your account. If you’re using a Google account, touch Google and then your account. Google Play Google Play brings together all your favorite apps & games, movies & TV shows, books, music, and news & magazines in one place, so you can reach it from any of your devices. To open the Google Play app, touch Google Play.
Google Play support For more details about Google Play, including phone and email support options, visit support.google.com/googleplay. Camera The Camera app lets you take photos, panoramic photos, videos, and immersive 360-degree photo sphere shots, including what’s above and below you. To open Camera: • From the the lock screen, swipe from right to left. • From the Home screen, touch Camera. The first time you open Camera, you may be asked if you want it to remember photo locations.
When you open Camera, you can choose from five different camera modes. To see the modes, swipe left to right. The Camera icon indicates Camera mode. To take a picture: 1. Frame your subject and watch for the focus ring. To focus on a different part of the image, touch it. To zoom in, pinch two fingers outwards. To zoom out, pinch two fingers inwards. 2. When the focus ring brackets disappear, touch the shutter button, which is the camera button. 3.
Photo Sphere To capture a 360-degree or wide angle shot, pan or tilt until the circle in the center of the screen moves over a blue dot and records that portion of the image. Keep moving over the dots until you’re finished, then touch the check mark at the bottom of the screen. Panorama Touch Panorama to begin taking a panoramic photo. Find your starting point, and touch the shutter to take the first picture in the panorama.
TIP: HDR+ on Nexus 5 and 6 automatically snaps a rapid burst of photos and combines them to give you the best possible single shot. To turn on HDR+, touch the … at the lower right of the shutter and select HDR+. For more details, visit Camera help. Photos The Photos app gives you instant access to all your photos and videos associated with any Google Account set up on your phone or tablet. To open it, touch Photos. To open Photos from the: • Camera app. Swipe from right to left. • All Apps screen.
Contacts The Contacts app gives you quick access to everyone you want to reach. To open it, touch the Contacts icon on a Home or All Apps screen. When you first turn on your device and sign into a Google Account, existing contacts from that account are synced with your Contacts app. After that, your contacts stay in sync automatically on your different devices or a Web browser. If you use Exchange, you can also sync that contact information with Contacts.
Messenger The Messenger app for sending SMS/text messages is available for devices running Android Lollipop, 5.0 or higher. To read and respond to messages, follow these steps: 1. When you receive a new message, you’ll get a notification on your device and a new message icon will appear in your notification panel. 2. To open and read the message, touch the new message notification in the notifications panel. 3. To respond to a message, touch the Send message box and type your message. 4.
your message. Learn more about using Google Keyboard and emoji. See “Use the keyboard” on page 34. 5. If you touch the Back button while composing a message, it’s saved as a draft in Messenger. Touch the conversation to resume composing it. 6. To send, touch Send. You can manage your messages, conversations, notifications, and contacts right from Messenger home screen. You can also change your sound, notification, and other settings. Delete messages 1. Open a conversation in Messenger. 2.
Hangouts With Hangouts, you can make video calls to anyone with a Google Account. You can share photos and your location with others. On some Nexus devices, Hangouts is also your default messaging app. For more information about using Hangouts, visit Hangouts help. Calendar Use the Calendar app to view and edit your schedule. To open it, touch Calendar on a Home or All Apps screen. When you first set up your Android device, you have a chance to configure it to use a Google Account (such as Gmail).
• Open the event from the Calendar app at any time and touch Email guests. You have a list of quick responses or you can write your own. • When a notification of the event arrives just before the meeting starts, swipe down the notification shade. Then swipe using one finger to expand the notification if necessary, and touch Email guests. For more information, visit Calendar help.
5 Settings Settings controls the core Android settings for networks, hardware, location, security, language, accounts, etc. The fastest way to adjust system settings that you access frequently, such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. See “Quick Settings” on page 7. You can control many other settings for your device and account by swiping down from the top of the screen twice and touching . These are the main types of device or account settings available.
Most apps also include their own settings, typically available from the menu on the upper left side of the app, or from the Menu > Settings. On Google Play edition devices, settings may be in the Menu button. Some useful settings are also available from the Google Settings app. The Google Settings app let you adjust adjust preferences for commonly used Google apps and services in one place, including Google+, Location, Search, and the Android Device Manager. To open Google Settings, touch the in All Apps.
6 Accessibility To use the accessibility options, open Accessibility. Settings > System > To view detailed information about setting up these options, visit Android Accessibility. Options for people with visual impairments include the following: Captions: You can turn on captions for your device and specify the language, text size, and style. For some apps, you have to turn on the captions in the app itself. TalkBack is a screen reader from Google that comes with your Android phone.
Display and sound accessibility options include increasing the text size, changing the speed at which text is spoken, color inversion, color correction, and high contrast text. If you have low vision and don’t plan to use Explore by Touch, visit support.google.com/android to see Help content formatted for sighted users. You can make reading and navigating this material easier by increasing the text size – just open Chrome, go to Menu > Settings > Accessibility, and drag the slider to adjust the text size.
