User Manual 1
Contents Welcome to the NUU Mobile X1! Installing the SIM Card and Powering Up Controls & Using The Touchscreen Those Three Buttons Common Onscreen Buttons How Do I...
X1 Overview 3
Welcome to the NUU Mobile X1! Thank you for purchasing a NUU smartphone! We’re proud to have you as a customer and we think you’ll get a lot of enjoyment and usefulness out of our smartphone. Your X1 is a carrier-unlocked Android smartphone. Like all smartphones, you can use it to call, e-mail, video chat, text, use popular apps, and that’s just for starters. Since your phone is carrier-unlocked, you can use it with any compatiable carrier.
Installing the SIM Card and Powering Up SIM Card Safety Note: SIM cards are small enough to become a choking hazard, so please keep them away from children. SIM cards are also quite delicate. Please be careful when handling your card, and if you need to store the card, we recommend using a small bottle or a dedicated card-carrier to keep your card safe. (Old film canisters and empty prescription bottles work well.
non-conductive gloves), the screen may not “hear” you or register your touches properly. In that case, try a different fingertip or a patch of bare skin. “Tap”: In some documentation, this may also be referred to as a “touch” or even a “click”. It’s almost exactly like tapping your finger on a table; aim a single fingertip, touch it to the screen, and pull it away from the screen.
In NUU documentation (and Google’s) the direction refers to the way your fingertip goes. So “swipe left” means your fingertip starts on the right side of the screen and goes to the left. That swiping left results in the app “jumping to the right” is where the potential confusion comes from. When in doubt, follow your fingertip! Swiping is normally used to bring a menu onto the screen, switch between windows, or other large-scale actions that involve most or all of the screen.
Long-pressing the Home button, however, brings up the “Recent Apps” menu. This is a vertical list of apps that are currently active. You can slide the list up and down to see the whole list. Slide an app’s picture off the screen (left or right works) to make it inactive. This is often referred to as “killing” or “force-quitting” an app, and it’s a useful thing to know as doing so can solve many problems with a misbehaving app! Back: This does exactly what its name suggests; it takes you back one step.
“Microphone”: Used for Google Now, OK Google, and voice-recognition. Tap the microphone and then speak when prompted. “Call”: Dials the number entered on the keypad, or if you are looking at a contact page, dials the preferred number for that contact. “Locate”: Most often found in mapping software, tapping this centers the map on your location if it was not already. “Search”: This magnifying-glass icon, when tapped, activates the search function for whatever app you are using.
Welcome Screen: Pick your language by swiping up and down and pressing the > (or START) button. Insert SIM Card: Pops up if there’s no SIM installed. You can skip this screen. Connect to WiFi: If you’re in range of a trusted Wi-Fi hotspot, configure it and connect to it here. Google Account: In these next screens, you have the option of skipping them entirely or filling out your Google account credentials, or even making a new Google account if you’ve never had one.
This Phone Belongs To: Fill out your name here to have the phone personalized, or skip with the >. FINISH! Find An App, Move Apps, Add Widgets Like any good smartphone, your NUU Mobile smartphone allows you to arrange your app icons as you see fit. You’ll have several screens on which you can place your icons, each screen accessible by swiping left or right. You can always see which screen you are on by consulting the Navigation Bar at the bottom.
Move an App Icon: To move an icon, long-press on the icon until it enlarges under your finger. At this point you may drag it around the screen. An outline will appear showing you where the icon will go when it is dropped. If you move the icon to the left or right edges of th screen, you will transition to the next Home screen over on that side When you let go, the icon drops back into place in the new location you’ve specified. You may also make folders of icons.
Like regular apps, just long-press and then drag-n-drop to place the widget. Note that each widget as a size listing underneath its picture, and this tells you how many rows and columns of icons it will take up when placed. 4x3 widget, for example, is 4 icons across and 3 high, and as a result takes up the entire width of a Home screen. Widgets can be removed from your Home screen in the same manner as app icons.
Make A Phone Call Of course, a phone should make calls, and your NUU Mobile smartphone will do just that. First, start the Phone app. accessed from All Apps. It’s located on the main Home screen or can be Press the keypad icon to bring up a numeric keypad. Type the phone number you wish to dial and then press the dial button , which looks like a phone handset. At that point, you may put the phone up to your ear and speak normally after the other party picks up.
Browse The Web Your phone includes Google Chrome , a web browser app from Google. It can be found on the main Home screen or in the All Apps folder. You can use Chrome to pull up pages from all over the web, and it’s particularly useful when the company or site you want to view doesn’t have a dedicated app. Omnibox: Sometimes known as the “address bar”. Typing into this will either search for what you type, or go directly to a web page if you type in a full web address.
Send Text Messages As always, DO NOT TEXT AND DRIVE. It’s often illegal and always dangerous. Google’s voice controls, once properly set up through Google Now, are quite sufficient to text hands-free. In any case, the Messaging app is located on your Main Home Screen at the bottom. Open it up and tap New Message to make a new message. You can fill out the recipient field (the top one) with a single contact or multiple contacts or even an entire contact group if you wish.
Take Pictures We very strongly recommend installing an microSD card before using the camera! Use the microSD card so that your photos are easily transferrable. It is said that the best camera is the one you have with you, and part of the point of buying a smartphone is to have one with you as needed. Your NUU smartphone has a pair of cameras for which you’ll find excellent uses. To start taking pictures, load the Camera app. If it’s not on your Home screen, check the All Apps button for it.
Panoramic photos are easy, but do require steady movement. Put the camera in panorama mode, tap the blue shutter button, and slowly swing the camera in one sideways direction as if you were spinning around. Tap the shutter button again to stop taking a panorama. The camera app will automatically stop taking a panorama if you’ve turned far enough--about 180 degrees.
FM Radio You can find the FM Radio app by using the All Apps button. You must plug in a pair of headphones to use the FM radio! The headphone cable is used as the FM antenna. You can make the sound output through the phone speakers, but you still must have the headphones plugged in. Once you’ve started the radio playing, just press Home to have it play in the background while you do other things. Power: Switches the radio on or off. Record: Records the radio broadcast to an .AAC file.
Clock The Clock app has many features to go with its world clock abilities. Set alarms, use it as a stopwatch, and even turn it into one (or more!) countdown timers. Alarm: Tap the New Alarm//+ button to add an alarm. From here you can choose the time of day, the sound the alarm makes (including music), on what days it repeats, and its name. World Clock: By default, this displays your current time. You can add other world clocks by using the world button and then selecting one or more cities.
Stopwatch: This is a basic stopwatch with start/stop functions and a lap button . A stopped timer can be shared with the share button . Gallery & Photos These two apps allow you to view, edit, and share the photos you take and save. For information on the Photos app, please consult Google’s Google+ documentation at: https://support.google.com/plus/ You can find these apps in All Apps . Gallery has many features and you’ll want to take your time exploring them all.
Filter: Apply photo filters, like B&W, Sepia, “Vintage”, and so on. Borders: Add frames and borders Transform: Crop, flip, rotate, straighten Adjustments: Exposure, color balance, contrast, etc.
Note that effects and edits are not permanent until you choose to save them with the Save button in the upper-left. Before you save, you can review effects and edits by using the Menu button. You’ll see the picture and a film-strip of effects applied running across the bottom of the screen. Swipe up on a listed effect to remove it. You can also use the Undo and Redo arrows at the top to step back and forth through the effects you’ve applied in order.
Tap the Favorite//Frequent button to view your most-used contacts. The Menu//Overflow button lets you adjust list display settings, change or add accounts, import, explore, and otherwise manage your contacts list. Tap the Search button to search through your contacts. Just start typing to search by name, e-mail, and so on.
To turn on NFC, open Settings. In the “Wireless & Networks” section, tap “More”. Check the box next to “NFC” to turn it on. Google Wallet: Google provides payment services through their Google Wallet app. To get started with Google Wallet, turn on NFC (see above), open the Play Store and download the Google Wallet app from Google. Please take care to read all Google Wallet documentation, as it is a completely separate service and NUU Mobile cannot control Google Wallet in any way.
During playback, you can use the buttons under the album cover to select new songs, change the shuffle mode, change the repeat mode, and access the custom Snapdragon equalizer. Use the button in the upper right to toggle the equalizer on or off. Slide the list of music genres left and right to change through pre-sets. Use the Custom pre-set to set your own values. When you plug in headphones, you will also be able to modify the bass boost and surround-sound settings via the dials at the bottom.
Connecting to a new Wi-Fi network is a matter of scanning for networks (tap Overflow > Scan), tapping the name of the desired network, and entering the password for the network when prompted. Forgetting a network is likewise easily accomplished: tap the name of the connected network and choose “Forget”. This is a useful troubleshooting step for network problems, so keep it in mind. NOTE: Exercise caution when choosing a Wi-Fi network.
Tethering & Portable Hotspot: Allows you to turn your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot as well as tether its Internet connection directly to another Wi-Fi or Bluetooth device. NOTE: Some carriers disallow these practices, so check your documentation carefully! Also be aware that tethering and hotspot usage can eat up your monthly allotment of data very quickly! VPN: Here you may configure a virtual private network. VPNs are most often used to connect a phone securely to a work network while on the road.
PERSONAL Location: This sub-menu controls the location services available to your smartphone. Turning location off completely prevents the phone and any apps from calculating your position. Tapping on the “Mode” button changes how your position is calculated and how much battery is consumed in the process. Note that apps like Google Maps work best with the highest-level mode. Security: Another complex sub-menu that allows you to adjust how your phone and its data are secured.
Backup & Reset: The backup options here concern backing up your phone’s configuration data to Google’s servers, and it’s all tied to your Google credentials. The really important item in this menu, though, is the “factory reset” option. Activating (and confirming) this destroys all data on your phone and returns it to “out of the box” configuration. Don’t worry about accidentally activating this, as there several screens of confirmation prompts to get through before the reset occurs.
Accessibility: There are many tools in this menu, but the most commonly used ones are the Large Text and Auto-Rotate Screen checkboxes. The first greatly enlarges the system text, making menus easier to read. The second toggles rotation of the screen on and off. The rest of the features in Accessibility come with on-screen explanations, and you should consult those for operation instructions. Printing: If you’ve signed up for Google Cloud Print, you may configure it here.
