User Manual U8 1
Contents Welcome .......................................................................................................... ３ Important Notices ............................................................................................ ３ Keys and Functions.......................................................................................... ４ I. Getting Started ............................................................................................. ５ 1.1 Turn on/off ...............................
Welcome Thank you for purchasing this tablet. It brings you much convenience for your business (supports Word, Excel, send & receive e-mails...) and entertainment (supports 3D game, chatting, movie playback, eBooks.....). Running on Android 4.2, with a 1.6GHz processor and highly responsive capacitive touch screen, it brings you wonderful user experience. Before beginning, please refer to this user manual carefully.
Keys and Functions 1. Speaker Speaker 2. Front camera 2M pixel Front camera 3. Esc key Tap to return to home screen 4. Power jack(DC input) Connect to a 5V,2A output adapter as included in the accessories 5. Micro SD card slot To insert your Micro SD card 6. HDMI Connect to TV output via a HDMI cable 7. MIC MIC, microphone for for recording invoice. 8. USB slot Connect to a computer via a USB cable to transfer data 9. Earphone Jack To connect your earphone 10.
I. Getting Started 1.1 Turn on/off 1.1.1 Turn on To start your tablet, press and hold the power key at the right side of your tablet for a while. Tap and drag the lock out of the circle to unlock. → Tap and drag the lock out of the circle to unlock. 1.1.2 Turn off To power off your tablet, press and hold the power button until the ―Would you like to shut down?‖ dialog appears and tap ―OK‖ to power it off. 1.1.
There are two kinds of launcher available, click ―Launcher‖ , you will go to the regular PIPO interface. Click‖PIPO Launcher‖ , you will go to the special interface.
1.2 Lock/unlock the screen (sleep mode) To save battery, you should put your tablet in sleep mode by turning off the LCD display. To do this, shortly press the power key. Press it again to wake up the screen. 1.3 Connect to computer You can connect your tablet to your computer with the supplied USB cable so you can transfer media files. If your computer is XP system, please install a Windows Media Player 11 for your computer before transfer media files as android 4.
g. Volume + h. WIFI Signal i. Battery status Tap Tap to increase the volume There will be WIFI signal when WIFI connected Show battery status (All Apps launcher) on the upper right corner to enter into all apps panel: 2.1 Change wallpaper: Tap the ―Settings‖ icon on the all apps panel, you will see a pop-up options; Enter into ―Display‖ interface, you can choose wallpaper from Gallery, live Wallpapers or Wallpapers. 2.
2.3 Add widgets to home screen: Tap all Apps launcher→Tap WIDGETS. There are Analog clock, bookmarks, calendar, Email, and lots of other widgets. Drag the widget you want to the home screen. Tips: Besides your home screen, you can access to other four panels by sliding left or right in your home screen. You can also customize these panels. III. Network Connection 3.1 Wi-Fi Wi-Fi can only be used when it connects with home Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) or a free unsecured Wi-Fi hotpot.
3.1.3 Add a Wi-Fi network Users may also add a Wi-Fi network under ― settings‖. In ―settings‖, tap ― ‖ on the upper right corner. Enter the SSID (name) of the network. If necessary, enter security or other network configuration details. Touch Save. 3.2 Bluetooth 3.2.1 Make device visible You must pair your tablet with a device before you can connect to it. Once you pair your tablet with a device, they stay paired unless you unpair them. Under ―Settings‖, choose ―Bluetooth‖.
3.3 3G Network 3.3.1 External 3G Network A 3G network is a mobile network that allows high-speed data access and advanced network capacity. This tablet supports external 3G network by a 3G dongle. You can connect the 3G dongle to HOST port via the OTG convertor cable (the shorter one). You can find the convertor cable in the accessories. However, this tablet supports some 3G dongles, but not all dongles. If you need a special dongles to support, please check with the shop before you buy it. IV.
Tap the submenu. icon in the top corner of the brower page to open the V. Install and Manage Apps 5.1 Install Apps Go to the ―Apk Installer‖ to install and manage your apps. To install an application, follow below steps: 1. Tap to open the ‗APKInstaller‘ → ‗Install‘ → then tap ―Internal Memory‖ or ―TF Card‖. Available APK files will appear at the right side. Touch the required one to install it. Note: Make sure the APK file is workable on android 4.1 and the suffix is .apk. e.g. ―angrybirds.apk‖.
You can also go to ―AppS‖ under ―Settings‖ to manage apps. VI. Multi-media Functions 6.1 Music After loading your music into your tablet, tap the music icon to open the music player. You can select songs by Artist, Albums, songs or Play lists. Tap to select. The media player allows you to shuffle, skip, or pause your current selection and even displays the album artwork when available. Tap in the bottom line to open a submenu in music playing page. 6.
Tap the video you would like to play. Tap the screen to show the video tool bar. You can play back, fast forward, pause your video here. You can also add bookmark for your video, adjust brightness, or set screen ratio here. Here is the toolbar: With the Wi-Fi on, you are also able to view an on-line video. 6.2.1 HDMI output a. Tap 'Video player' or other video players and play a required movie. b. Adjust your TV set and select “HDMI” output c.
Tap the picture you want to display it, and slide right or left to show other pictures. Tap the menu icon, you can edit, rotate, crop, or set it as wallpaper. 6.4 Camera Tap the icon to open camera. Your tablet is built in 2M front camera and 5M rear camera. You can take a photo, or a video both by front camera and rear camera. Note: After you power on your tablet, you can go to camera directly by drag the lock to left.
Tap the screen while taking pictures, you will have focus on any subject if you want to. 6.5 E-book reader The tablet supports many eBook formats like PDF, Text, E-Pub, FB2.... Tap the ―e-book‖ icon to open e-book shelves. Tap an e-book to open the book and read. You can page up or page down by sliding your finger right or left.
Tap or the menu button to check the sub-menus. You can set the font size, Go to Page jump; check your bookmarks, set the auto flip time, etc. 6.6 Sign function Tap the ―sign‖ icon to open this. You can make notes and sign your signature on PDF, Picture file. Just tap to choose the PDF file from your tablets, make sure you have those files in your tablets. If you want to make note or want to sign on pictures, Please tap . You may edit the documents and pictures as you want.
6.7 Incstage Apps Incstage Photo, Incstage Presenter, Incstage Reader, Incstage share for sharing and displaying synchronization. 6.7 .1 Incstage photo Tap Incstage Photo , enter into the App, Turn on ―send on/off‖, ―receive on/off‖, , you pictures on your U8 could be displayed on another U8. Make sure that all Incstage photo apps in different PIPO U8 are opened at the same time, and you connect all U8 to the same WIFI. 6.7 .2 Incstage presenter Incstage Presenter .
PIPO U8 are opened at the same time, and you connect all U8 to the same WIFI. 6.7 .3 Incstage Reader Tap the icon of Incstage Reader menu , enter into the App, tap the to import e-books.
Select the book you want to share with another PIPO U8, and tap share icon to invite other PIPO tablets. Make sure that all Incstage Reader apps in different PIPO U8 are opened at the same time, and you connect all U8 to the same WIFI. Then the images on your PIPO U8 you control will be displayed to other PIPO tablets invited. Check the bellowing synchronization displaying.
6.7 .4 Incstage Share Center. This is the share center , you will achieve remote control function via a PIPO TV dongle. Connect PIPO TV dongle to HDMI port of your TV set, (PIPO TV dongle Then enter into ―Instage Share Ceter‖, videos, images on your U8 will be sent to TV display synchronously.
VII. Settings Tap the ―Settings‖ icon to go to settings. You can check and set wireless&networks, sound, display, storage, Battery, Accounts &sync, security, language, date&time, about tablet, etc. Wi-Fi: tap ―Settings‖ → ―Wireless & networks‖ to turn on wifi and scan. It will show a list of Wi-Fi networks scanned in range. Choose a strong Wi-Fi network to connect. (You may need to input the password).
You may choose what ever screen lock you like, pattern, PIN, password. Bellowing I select Pattern as an example. Secondly, after setting the screen lock, you could add A new VPN.
And , finally, VPN settled. Portable hotspot: turn on Wi-Fi and turn on hotspot by ticking the square. And then create hotspot. Set up network ID, select the security type.
When hotspot is set up , there will be an icon appearing, like this, the Wi-Fi signal is surrounded by a white square: Ethernet: Turn on Ethernet, connect to HOST port via the OTG cable which is included in accessories, and then connect this OTG cable to the Ethernet cable. Mobile networks: Turn on ―Mobile Networks‖→ ―Data enabled‖ whether you use a 3G dongle or SIM card, it‘s required to turn on ―Data enabled‖ for mobile data transmission .
Sound: turn off touch sound by tapping ―sound‖—―touch sounds‖ Display: To set Brightness, Wallpaper, Sleep time-out, Font size here. Screenshot: Tap ―Screenshot‖, ticket the option ―show screenshot button on the status bar‖. There will be a screenshot button on the bar. Storage: Check internal storage here. If you insert a Micro SD card, or USB disk, you can check the total and available space for your Micro SD card or USB disk. Please unmount it to safely remove it. Battery: Check the Battery status here.
3. Please backup your data before upgrading, the storage will be formatted when upgrading, data will be lost and unrecoverable. 4. Please do not touch any buttons on the tablets while it is upgrading. 5. Make sure that your tablet is with enough power, you‘d better charge the tablet before upgrading, in case of upgrading failure due to low battery. 6. Please proceed in accordace with the instructions strictly. 9.
press the ESC key for a few seconds, at the same time press ―reset‖, release ESC until the tool finds your tablet, make you tablet set into upgrading mode. 3. After the PC finding out the tablet, and the device icon turns green, click ―upgrade‖ for upgrading.
Note: If the device detected under the status of Pink , please click ―Switch‖, the upgrading status will switch to Green (standby status) The tablet is upgrading the firmware ２９
The tablet will turn on automatically, now you could disconnect the tablet to the PC. 9.4 Instructions of Installing Rock chip USB driver If you do the upgrading for the first time, please install the Rock chip USB driver in accordance with the bellowing instructions. If you are upgrading via your PC for the first time, it requires your PC to install Rock chip USB driver, after your tablet entering into upgrading mode, it will pop out a guide advising you that the PC finds new hardware.
4. Load the USB driver included in the ―RK batch tool‖ to install the USB driver. Note: Do not turn on ―USB Debugging‖ in the setting when upgrading firmware. 5. When you finish the driver installation, you can come back to upgrading procedures. Troubleshooting 1. Can not turn on the tablet Check the tablet‘s power level; please charge it before starting it. In case your tablet still cannot be turned on, you may try to reset it 2. No sound from earphone Check if volume is set to ‗0‘.
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