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Common information Dear Customer, thank you for choosing Prestigio MultiPhone PAP3500 Duo. Before starting to use the phone, please read this manual carefully to discover all its features . Please save this manual and refer to it in the future if you have questions concerning your device.
Table of content Important Safety Instructions ...........................................................................................................................7 General instructions ......................................................................................................................................7 Safety instruction for using the touch screen ...............................................................................................8 Warranty Information...................
3 Communication ............................................................................................................................................................. 26 View details about a contact .......................................................................................................................27 Additional contact options ..........................................................................................................................27 Calling .......................
Web .........................................................................................................................................................................................78 Bookmarks...................................................................................................................................................80 View your Browser history ..........................................................................................................................
Change your calendar view .........................................................................................................................99 Working in Agenda view ...........................................................................................................................100 Working in Day view..................................................................................................................................100 Working in Week view ......................................
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14. The MultiPhone and the adapter may produce some heat during normal operation or charging. Do not leave the MultiPhone on your pockets to prevent discomfort or injury from heat exposure. 15. Disconnect the MultiPhone from an electrical outlet after it is charged. 16. Do not use a pen or any sharp object to tap the screen. Clean the touch screen with a soft cloth. If needed, dampen the cloth slightly before cleaning. Never use abrasives or cleaning solutions. 17.
1 Product Overview Package content 1x 1x Prestigio MultiPhone PAP3500 Duo Quick Start Guide AC Adapter – 1x USB Cable – 1x Battery – 1x Earphone – 1x Micro SD card 4GB – 1x Legal and Safety Notices – 1x Warranty Card – 1x Device overview 1 Earphone jack 2 Menu 3 Home Earphone connection.
Technical Specifications Display Display Size 3.50" Display Resolution 320x480 Pixel Density 165 ppi Display Technology TN LCD Display Color Depth 16M Display Touchscreen Capacity Display Features N/A Processor CPU Qualcomm MSM7225A-AB CPU Internal Clock Rate 1.
Network Bands GSM 1800, GSM 900, WCDMA 2100 Protocols EDGE, GPRS, HSDPA GPS GPS, A-GPS Multimedia Radio Yes TV-Tuner N/A Supported Audio Formats MP3, eAAC+, AAC, AAC+ Supported Picture Formats N/A Supported Video Formats MPEG-4, WMV, H.263, H.
2 Getting Started Charge the battery Prestigio MultiPhone comes with a built-in lithium-ion polymer rechargeable battery and is designed to use only manufacture-specified original batteries and accessories. You can see battery status on status bar of MultiPhone in the upper right corner of the home screen. Android OS has battery charge detection system and notify user if battery charge is low and device need to be connected to AC adapter.
Your device turns off the touch screen when you do not use it for a specified period. You can set the length of time that the device waits before turning off the screen. See Settings/Display/Screen timeout. You can also set customized pattern, PIN or password to unlock the screen. See Settings/Location & Security settings/Change screen lock. Turn on for the first time When you turn on the MultiPhone for the first time, after the greeting screen, Prestigio Wizard will appear.
If you selected Advanced settings, the new screen will be shown, where you can set time, date and different formats. Uncheck to set the date, time and time zone on the phone manually, rather than obtaining the current time from the mobile network. If Automatic is unchecked, opens a dialog where you can manually set the phone´s date. If Automatic is unchecked, opens a dialog where you can manually set the phone´s time zone. If Automatic is unchecked, opens a dialog where you can set the phone’s time.
Using the touchscreen Tap: To act on items on the screen, such as application and setting icons, to type letters and symbols using the on-screen keyboard, or press onscreen buttons, you simply touch them with your finger. Tap and hold: Tap and hold the item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs. Swipe or slide: To swipe or slide means to drag your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen.
Using the phone´s buttons Button Press Press & hold Menu Opens a menu with items that affect the current screen or application. Home Opens the Home screen. If you’re viewing the left or right extended Home screen, opens the central Home screen. Back Opens the previous screen you were working in. If the onscreen keyboard is open, closes the keyboard. Power Opens a menu with options for Airplane mode, for Silent mode, and for powering off the phone. Turns off the screen.
Home screen Home screen is your starting point to access all the features on your phone. It displays application icons, widgets, shortcuts and other features. You can customize the Home screen with different wallpaper and display the items you want. See “Customizing the Home screen”. 1. Status bar - displays the time, information about the status of your phone and icons for notifications that you’ve received. To learn more, please see chapter “Managing notifications”. 2.
Using the onscreen keyboard Enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some applications open the keyboard automatically. In others, touch a text field where you want to enter text to open the keyboard. Enter text by typing Touch a text field. The onscreen keyboard opens. To capitalize the next letter you type, tap once on and hold for all caps. button. Touch If you want to change characters to numbers, tap on the button.
If you touch the space key, the suggestion strip offers a series of punctuation marks you can touch to replace the space with. If you touch a word that is not in the system or user dictionary, it’s entered and you’re prompted to touch the word again, if you want to add it to the user dictionary. You can view, edit or delete the words that you add to the dictionary. See “Language & keyboard settings”. Use the Delete key to erase characters to the left of the cursor.
Change the keyboard orientation Turn the phone sideways or upright. The keyboard is redrawn to take best advantage of the new phone orientation. You can control whether the screen changes orientation automatically when you turn the phone. See Settings/ Display /Auto-rotate screen. Touch and hold the Period button (.) to open a small window with a set of common symbols.
Managing the notifications Status bar Bluetooth is on Status icons The following icons indicate the status of your phone. Notifications icons Network status icons turn green if you have a Google Account added to your phone and the phone is connected to Google services, for syncing your Gmail, Calendar events, contacts, for backing up your settings and so on.
Notification panel Open notification panel When new notification icons displays in the status bar, press and hold the status bar, then slide your finger downwards to open the Notifications panel. If you have several notifications, you can scroll down the screen to view more notifications. In the dropdown notification panel, there are also some other information. See picture below.
Adding application to Home screen You can add an application icon to the Home screen by touching and holding it on the Launcher screen until it vibrates and then dragging it towards the Home icon on the bottom of the screen. All extended Home screens will appear in small version. Choose the Home screen page you want to add the application and lift your finger. To close the Launcher tap the Home icon on the Launcher or the Home button.
Replacing or deleting the shortcuts icons If you would like to replace the icon or delete it, hold the icon. New window will appear. Choose Delete to delete the icon or touch Replace to change the icon. You can replace icons with a default icon, Theme´s or Custom icon. Custom icon enables to pick your favorite photo from the gallery. Customizing the home screen Adding a widget to your Home screen Tap and hold the home screen to enter into list Add to screen. A list Select Widget appears.
Your Google account Sign into Google Account to use Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and other Google Apps; to download applications from Android Market; to back up your settings to Google servers; and to take advantage of other Google services on your phone. Important note: If you want to restore your settings to this phone from another phone that was running Android release 2.0 or later, you must sign into your Google Account now, during setup.
3 Communication Contacts Contacts give you quick and easy access to the people you want to reach. When you first time turn on your phone and sign into your Google Account, any existing Google contacts are downloaded to your phone. After that, your contacts are synchronized: any changes you make to your contacts on the phone or the web are made in both places the next time you sync. Contacts from Exchange ActiveSync accounts are also synced in this way.
View details about a contact Open your contacts. Touch the contact whose details you want to view. You can now see entries for communicating with the contact followed by details. Touch a communication method to start dialing, texting or emailing the contact by using the listed number, address and so on. Press Menu to Edit, Share and Delete contact or see more options. Edit the contact’s information (see “Editing contact details”). Share contact via Bluetooth, Email, Gmail or message.
Add new contact Open your contacts. Press Menu button and touch New contact. If you have more than one account with contacts, touch the account to which you want to add the contact. Enter the contact’s name. When you are done, click Next. If you don´t want to add any more information click Done. Touch a category of contact information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, to enter that kind of information about your contact. Scroll the page to view all categories.
New window opens: 3. Tap on contacts you wish to delete or mark All to delete all contacts 4. Touch OK to confirm that you want to delete the contacts. Note: If you delete a contact from Google Contacts (or another account with editable contacts), the contact is also deleted from Contacts on the web the next time you sync your phone. You can’t delete contacts from a read-only account, such as Facebook. Instead, a dialog informs you that the contact will be hidden.
Group contacts New contact group 1 Open your contacts or favorites. 2 Touch Menu and touch Group. New window Group appears. 3 Touch Menu and touch New contact group 4 Enter the name of your new group and touch Done. Changing members in the group Add new members or delete them from the group or move them to another group. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Open contacts or favorites, touch Menu and then Group. Choose the group you would like to make changes in. Touch Menu. Touch Add new member or Delete.
1 Open your contacts. 2 Press Menu and touch More and then Import/Export. 3 Select the option you would like to use. 4 If you selected Export to SD card, you can export all of the contacts on your phone to your SD card as a group vCard file. You can then copy this file to a computer or another device that can work with files in this format, such as an address book application. See “Connecting to a computer via USB”. In this case Contacts creates a file with the .vcf extension on your SD card.
Change a contact’s default phone number A default phone number appears below the contact’s name in the Contacts list. The default phone number is used when you initiate a call or send a text message from the list by touching and holding a contact. 1 Open your contacts or favorites. 2 Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details. 3 Touch & hold the phone number to use it as the contact’s default phone number. 4 Touch Make default number in the menu that opens.
Contacts detailed screen 1 Open your contacts or favorites. 2 Touch the contact with whom you want to communicate. You can also just touch the Green Phone icon in Call log to call the displayed number. 3 In the contact’s details screen, touch the way to start communicating with the contact. Connect to contact’s default number 1 Open your contacts or favorites. 2 Touch & hold the entry for the contact to call. 3 Touch Call / Text in the menu that opens.
Calling Placing and ending calls You can place calls with the Phone application. You can also place calls when working in the Call log (see “Working with the Call log”) or in Contacts (see “Contacts”). Open Phone You can open the phone applications in three different places: Touch the Phone icon at the bottom of the Home screen Touch the Phone application icon in the Launcher. If you’re already working with Contacts or the Call log, touch the Phone tab. Place a call by dialing Open Phone.
Press the Volume Up / Down button to adjust the call volume. The duration of the call. Information from Contacts about the person you’re calling. Touch to enter additional numbers during your call. Touch End button. Disable phone calls (Airplane mode) Some locations may require you to turn off your phone’s mobile, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connections. You can turn off all these wireless connections at once by placing your phone in Airplane mode. 1 Press & hold the Power button.
Answering or rejecting calls When you receive a phone call, the Incoming call screen opens with the caller ID and any additional information about the caller that you have entered in Contacts. All incoming calls are recorded in the Call log. See “Working with the Call log”. If you miss a call, you receive a notification. Answer a call Drag the green phone icon to the right. If you were already on a call, the first call is placed on hold while you answer the new call.
Working with the Call log The Call log is a list of all the calls you’ve placed, received or missed. It offers a convenient way to redial a number, return a call or add a number to your Contacts. Open the Call log Press the Call button. Or, if you have the Phone or Contacts tab open, touch the Call log tab. Calls are listed with the most recent at the top. Calls exchanged sequentially with the same number are grouped. Scroll to view earlier entries in the log.
Clear the Call log While viewing the Call log, press Menu and touch Clear call log. You can also touch & hold an entry in the log. Touch Remove from call log to remove just that entry from the log. Call a favorite contact Instead of opening Contacts, open Favorites icon. All procedures for calling are the same.
Listening to your voicemail When you have a new voicemail message, the voicemail icon appears in the Status bar. If you have not set up your voicemail number or if you need to change it, you can do that with the Call settings. See “Settings/Call settings/Dual SIM settings/ SIM2/ Voicemail settings”. Open the Notifications panel and touch New voicemail. See “Managing notifications”. OR Open Phone and touch the voicemail icon on the Phone tab.
Turn the speakerphone on or off Touch Speaker. The Speaker button lights up green to indicate that the speakerphone is on. The Speaker icon appears in the Status bar and the sound from your call is played through the phone’s speaker. When viewing the current call screen, you can turn the speakerphone off by touching the Speaker icon again. The speaker is turned off automatically when your current call ends.
5 When you’re connected, touch Merge calls. 6 The participant is added to the conference call. You can add as many callers as your carrier supports. 7 During a conference call, touch Manage to drop a conference call participant or to talk privately with one of the participants. 8 Touch End to end a conference call and disconnect all callers. Messaging You can use Messaging to exchange text messages (SMS) and multimedia messages (MMS) with your friends on their mobile phones.
Exchanging messages You can send text (SMS) messages of up to 160 characters to another mobile phone. If you keep typing after the limit, your message is delivered as a series of messages (if supported by your carrier). Multimedia (MMS) messages can contain text and a picture, a recorded voice, an audio file, a video, or a picture slideshow. Messaging automatically converts a message into a multimedia message if you send it to an email address instead of a phone number, add a subject or attach a media file.
If you touch Pictures, you’re prompted to touch a picture to attach it. If you touch Capture picture, Camera opens so you can take a picture and attach it. If you touch Videos, you’re prompted to touch a video to attach it. If you touch Capture video, Camcorder opens so you can shoot a video and attach it. If you touch Audio, you’re prompted to touch a ringtone to attach it. If you touch Record audio, a screen opens where you can record a spoken message and attach it.
Forward a message Forward message to another contact or contacts. Lock a message You can lock a message so it won’t be deleted if you reach your storage limits (see Storage settings). A lock icon appears to the right of the message. Unlock a message by touching & holding it and then touching Unlock message. If you try to delete a thread that contains a locked message, you’re asked to confirm that you want to delete it.
Multimedia message (MMS) settings Check to receive a report on the messages you send. Check to receive reports when your messages are read or deleted. Uncheck to download only the heading of multimedia messages, which you can then touch to open a menu to download the whole message. This is useful for controlling how much data you download. Uncheck to download only the header of multimedia messages when connected to other carrier’s data networks.
Tab on Menu button. Below options appear: Refresh -- refresh your inbox Compose – compose new email Folders – see the folders you made Accounts – see your combined inbox, if you have more than one account. See more in chapter Accounts. Accounts The Accounts screen lists your Combined Inbox and each of your email accounts. If you have starred, draft, or unsent messages in any of your accounts, the folders for those items from all accounts are displayed as well.
Combined inbox If you have configured Email to send and receive email from more than one account, you can view all messages sent to all accounts in your Combined Inbox. Open the Accounts screen and touch Combined Inbox. Messages in the Combined Inbox are color coded along their left sides, by account, using the same colors that are used to color code your accounts in the Accounts screen. Unread messages are in grey. A previously read message.
Managing messages You can reply to or forward a message that you receive. You can also delete messages and manage them in other ways. Reply to or forward a message Mark a message as unread While reading a message, touch Reply or Reply all. OR Press Menu and touch Reply, Reply all or Forward. You can to return a read message to the unread state—for example, to remind yourself to read it again later.
Composing and sending email You can send email to your contacts, other people or groups. While in Email screen, Combined inbox or Inbox press Menu and touch Compose. Address the message. As you enter text, matching addresses are offered from your Contacts. You can touch a suggested address or enter a new one. Separate multiple addresses with commas. Press Menu and touch Add Cc/Bcc to address a copy or blind copy of the message. Enter a subject for the message. Enter the text of the message.
Appending a signature to your messages You can append one or a few lines of text to every message you send from an account, such as your name, contact information, or even “Sent by Prestigio MultiPhone.” 1 Open the Accounts screen. 2 Touch & hold the account whose settings you want to change. In the menu that opens, touch Account settings. You can also open the settings for an account while you’re viewing its inbox, by pressing Menu and touching Account settings. 3 Touch Signature. 4 Enter a signature.
Add an email account Open the Accounts screen. See “Opening Email and the Accounts screen”. Press Menu and touch Add account. 1 Enter your email address and password. You can also check the option to use the new account to send all outgoing messages. 2 Touch Next OR if you need to enter email account settings the wizard can’t configure for you, touch Manual setup. For some emails this is all you have to do.
Set whether you want to receive notifications when you receive new email sent to this account. Select a ringtone for sound when you receive an email notification for this account. Opens a dialog where you can set the phone to vibrate whenever you receive an email notification for this account, only when the phone is in Silent mode or never. Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you receive email for this account. See “Incoming server settings”.
Settings for IMAP accounts: Username Depending on the requirements of your email service provider, use your full email address or just your username (it means the part before @example.com in your email address). Password The password for your email account. IMAP server The fully resolved domain name of your email service provider’s IMAP server. (for example, imap.example.
Outgoing server settings If you use an IMAP or POP3 account for receiving email, you typically use an SMTP server to send email from that account. Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts do not have separate outgoing server settings. SMTP server The fully resolved domain name of your email service provider’s SMTP server (for example, smtp.example.com).
Gmail Gmail is Google’s web-based email service. When you first set up your phone, you configured it to use an existing Gmail Account or you created a new account. The first time you open the Gmail application on your phone your Inbox contains the messages from your Gmail Account on the web. Opening Gmail and your Inbox When you open Gmail, your most recent conversations are displayed in your Inbox. When you return to Gmail after using other applications, the last screen you were working with is displayed.
Open your Inbox when Gmail is running Press Back until you return to your Inbox. OR When reading a message, press Menu and touch Go to Inbox. OR When viewing a list of labeled conversations, press Menu and touch More > Go to Inbox. If you have Priority Inbox set as your default inbox, your Priority Inbox opens instead of your Inbox (see “Working with Priority Inbox”). Switch accounts Gmail displays conversations, messages and settings from one Google Account at a time.
Reading your messages When viewing a list of conversations in your Inbox or in any list of labeled conversations, you open a conversation to read its messages. Gmail “pushes” new messages to your phone automatically: you don’t need to refresh your Inbox manually (but see “Synchronizing your conversations by label”).
Copy text from a message You can copy text from messages you receive, so you can paste it into a message you compose or into text fields in other applications. Open a message and scroll the text you want to copy into view. See “Reading your messages”. Press Menu and touch More > Select text. Use your finger to drag across the text you want to copy. The text you selected is copied to the clipboard.
Send a copy or blind copy of a message You can send a copy or blind copy of a message to one or more addresses. While composing a message, press Menu and touch Add Cc/Bcc to add Cc and Bcc fields you can enter addresses in. These filed work the same way as field “To”. Attach a photo to a message While composing a message, press Menu and touch Attach to send a photo with the message. See “Gallery” to learn more about working with photos.
Working with Priority Inbox If you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox, you can configure Gmail on your phone to show it as well. You can also set Priority Inbox as your default inbox. Open Priority Inbox Priority Inbox is a list of conversations that Gmail or you have labeled important and that are also in your Inbox: they are new or you haven’t archived them or moved them to another label by hand or with a filter.
of conversations, you can touch Undo in the green bar at the top of the screen to undelete them. You can also use Undo after muting, archiving and reporting spam. If you never work with batches of messages, you can hide the checkboxes to leave more room for the subjects of conversations. See “Changing Gmail settings”. Check conversations to add them to the batch Touch a button to act on the batch or press Menu to act on the batch in other ways.
Change a conversation’s labels When reading a conversation’s messages, press Menu and touch Change labels. You can also change the labels of a batch of conversations, in the same way that you label a batch of conversations, by touching the Labels button. In the dialog that opens, check or uncheck the labels. Touch OK. Viewing conversations by label When viewing your Inbox or another conversation list press Menu and touch Go to labels. Your labels are presented in a scrolling list.
Reporting spam The Gmail webmail service is quite effective at preventing spam (junk mail) from reaching your Inbox. But when spam does make it through, you can help improve the Gmail service by reporting the conversation as spam. Report a conversation as spam While reading the conversation's messages, press Menu and touch More > Report spam OR check one or a batch of conversations in your Inbox or other conversation list, press Menu and touch Report spam.
Appending a signature to your messages You can append one or a few lines of plain text to every message you send from your phone, such as your name, contact information, or even “Sent by Prestigio MultiPhone.” This signature is independent of any signature you append to messages you send from Gmail on the web. Open your Inbox or another labeled list of conversations. Press Menu and touch More > Settings > Signature. Enter a signature. Touch OK. Enter a signature to append to your messages; then touch OK.
. 4 Entertainment Camera Camera is a combination camera and camcorder that you use to shoot and share pictures and videos. Pictures and videos are stored on the phone’s SD card. Copy your pictures and videos to a computer, as described in “Connecting to a computer via USB”. View your pictures and videos on the phone, edit them, share them and so on with Gallery. See “Gallery”. Opening Camera and taking pictures or videos Take pictures and shoot videos with Camera.
Take pictures with digital zoom Zoom in or out of a scene before taking a picture. Touch the onscreen Zoom icon 1x and then touch the amount of zoom you want. OR Pinch the screen to zoom all the way in or out. Pictures that you take with digital zoom may be smaller (in pixels) than the size you set with the Picture Size setting. See “Camera mode settings”. Shoot a video If necessary, drag the control to the Video position. Adjust the quality, color effect, flash, and other settings if you wish.
Camera mode settings When in Camera mode, Camera settings are displayed on screen. Settings Touch to open a scrolling list of settings: Focus mode Exposure Scene mode Picture size Picture quality Color effect Restore to defaults Touch to set Camera to use its Autofocus feature (Auto), or to more quickly take pictures focused at infinity (Infinity) or close-ups (Macro). Touch to adjust the exposure.
Video mode settings As in Camera mode, Video mode settings are displayed on screen. Settings Touch to open a scrolling list of settings: Color effect Touch a special effect for your videos, such as Monochrome, Sepia tone or negative. Restore to defaults Touch to restore all of Camera’s settings to their default values. White balance Touch to select how Camera adjusts colors in different kinds of light, to achieve the most natural-looking colors for your videos.
have configured it to sync with Picasa, Gallery also presents your Picasa web albums. See “Configuring account sync and display options”. If you have a great many pictures or videos on your SD card or USB storage or in Picasa web albums, it may take Gallery a few minutes when you open it to discover and organize them. Touch to open Camera Touch in any view to return to the main Gallery screen. An album of the photos and videos you took with Camera. A Picasa web album.
Share an album You can share the entire contents of one or more albums. You can also share individual images or videos from an album, as described in chapters “Working with pictures” and “Working with videos”. Open the main Gallery window. Press Menu twice. Check or uncheck the albums you want to share. Touch Share at the bottom of the screen. In the menu that opens, touch the application to use to share the selected albums.
View and browse pictures Open a Gallery album and touch a picture. Turn the phone to view the picture in upright (portrait) or sideways (landscape) orientation. The picture is displayed (but not saved) in the new orientation. Touch the picture to view the Zoom and other controls. Touch a Zoom icon, double-tap the screen, or pinch two fingers together or spread them apart to zoom in or out. When the picture is zoomed in, drag the picture to view parts that are not in view.
Delete a picture You can delete a picture from your SD card or USB storage. Touch a picture to view the controls and touch Menu. Touch Delete. Touch OK in the dialog that opens. Working with videos Use Gallery to play videos that you’ve taken with Camera and to share them. Play videos Open a Gallery album and touch a video. The video plays with the orientation (portrait or landscape) you shot it in. Opening albums is described in “Opening Gallery and viewing your albums”.
Music Use Music to organize and listen to music and other audio files that you transfer to your SD card from your computer. Transferring music files to your phone Music plays audio files that are stored on your phone’s SD card or USB storage so before you open Music, you must copy audio files from your computer. Music supports a wide variety of audio file formats, so it can play music that you purchase from online stores, music that you copy from your CD collection and so on.
Open Music and view your music library Touch the Music icon in the Launcher or on the Home screen. Music library screen opens, with tabs that you can touch to view your music library organized by Artists, Albums, Songs, or Playlists. Touch a tab to view your library in one of four ways. Touch button to see how many song are on the album. Touch to see list of songs in the album. Touch the summary of the current track to open the Playback screen.
Playing music You can listen to music by using the phone’s built-in speaker, through a wired headset, or through a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset that supports the A2DP profile. Play music Touch a song in your library to listen it. OR While viewing a list of tracks in an album, press Menu and touch Play all. The Playback screen opens and the song you touched or the first song in the album or other playlist starts to play.
Control playback volume In addition to the techniques for setting media volume described in “Sound settings”, you can control the volume of music in the Music application. Press the phone’s Volume Up/Down button. A panel opens to show the current media volume; the indicator moves as you adjust the volume. Play your tracks in a party shuffle When you turn on Party Shuffle, Music plays tracks in random order, until you turn Party Shuffle off.
Working with playlists You can create playlists to organize your music files into sets of songs, which you can play in the order you set or in a shuffle mode. Create a playlist When viewing a list of songs in the library, touch & hold the first song you want to add to the new playlist. Touch Add to playlist. Touch New. Enter a name and touch Save. The new playlist is added to the Playlist library.
5 Web Accessing the Internet Use Browser to view webpages and to search for information on the web. Opening Browser Use Browser to surf the web. Some websites have two versions of their sites: full-size for computer-based web browsers and another for mobile devices. They may allow you to switch back and forth. Full-size sites are often harder to navigate on a mobile browser than sites designed for use on mobile devices. Open Browser Touch the Phone icon at the bottom of the Home screen Home screen.
Refresh the current page Press Menu and touch Refresh. The webpage is reopened, updating any content that has changed. Stop opening a page If a webpage is taking a long time to open, or if you change your mind, you can stop it from opening. Touch the Cancel icon OR to the right of the URL Press Menu and touch Stop. Get more information about the current page Press Menu and touch More > Page info. A dialog opens with the page’s title and full address (URL).
Bookmarks Working with bookmarks You can bookmark webpages so that you can quickly return to them. Bookmark a webpage Open the webpage to bookmark. You can press Menu and touch More > Add bookmark. OR Touch the bookmark icon and Bookmarks). at the top of the screen (or press Menu On the top of the Bookmarks screen, Touch Add. You can also press Menu and touch Bookmark last-viewed page. Edit the name and the address if necessary and touch OK. The bookmark is added to your list of bookmarks.
Additional options Touch and hold bookmark to see additional options. Open a bookmark. Open a bookmark in new window. Edit the name or address in the dialog that opens. Touch OK. You can add a shortcut to your phone’s Home screen that you can touch to open one of your bookmarks in a Browser window. Touch the application you want to use to send the bookmark. The application opens with the bookmark’s address entered. Copy this link. Paste it in a new message or email.
Most visited web pages View your most frequently visited pages Touch the bookmarks icon at the top right of the screen. Touch the Most visited tab. The pages you’ve visited most frequently are listed in order. Bookmarked pages have a gold star. Touch a star to add or remove that page from your bookmarks. Touch & hold a page in the list to open a menu with options for opening the page, adding it or removing it from you bookmarks, sharing page, removing it from your history, and so on.
Touch an area with two fingers at once and pinch them together to zoom out; spread them apart to zoom in. Double-tap after zooming in this way, to reflow a column of text to fit the screen. If you have the Auto-fit pages setting checked, as described in “Page content settings”. Find text on a webpage Press Menu and touch More > Find on page. Enter the text you’re looking for. As you type, the first word with matching characters is highlighted on the screen, and subsequent matches are boxed.
Press Menu and touch More > Downloads. View the files you’ve downloaded The Downloads application opens, with a list of the files you’ve downloaded in Browser and other applications. Changing Browser settings You can configure a number of Browser settings, including several that you can use to manage your privacy. To open the Browser settings screen, press Menu and touch More > Settings. Opens a dialog where you can increase or decrease the size of the text that Browser uses when displaying webpages.
Opens a dialog where you can enter the URL of a page that you want to open whenever you open a new Browser window. If you prefer to open new Browser windows more quickly, by not opening any page by default, leave the dialog blank. The browser stores the text and images of the webpages you visit so that they open more quickly when you revisit them. Touch Clear cache to delete these temporary files. The browser keeps track of the webpages you visit, so you can quickly find them and open them again later.
6 Connecting to networks and devices Your phone can connect to a variety of networks and devices, including mobile networks for voice and data transmission, Wi-Fi data networks and Bluetooth devices, such as headsets. You can also connect your phone to a computer, to transfer files from your phone and share your phone’s mobile data connection via USB or as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.
Touch an existing APN to edit it or press Menu and touch New APN. Enter the APN settings that you obtained from your wireless service provider by touching each setting that you need to edit. When you’re finished, press Menu and touch Save. If you created a new APN, touch it in the APNs screen to start using it. Connecting to Wi-Fi networks Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that can provide Internet access at distances of up to 100 meters, depending on the Wi-Fi router and your surroundings.
Receive notifications when open networks are in range By default, when Wi-Fi is on, you receive notifications in the Status bar when your phone detects an open Wi-Fi network. Turn on Wi-Fi if it’s not already on. In the Wi-Fi settings screen, check Network notification. You can uncheck this option to stop receiving notifications. Add a Wi-Fi network You can add a Wi-Fi network so the phone will remember it, along with any security credentials and connect to it automatically when it is in range.
Connecting to Bluetooth devices Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communications technology that devices can use to exchange information over a distance of about 8 meters. The most common Bluetooth devices are headphones for making calls or listening to music, hands-free kits for cars and other portable devices, including laptops and cell phones. To connect to a Bluetooth device, you must turn on your phone’s Bluetooth radio.
If your phone stops scanning before you make the other device discoverable, touch Scan for devices. Touch the ID of the other device in the list in Settings to pair them. The devices pair with each other. If you’re prompted to enter a passcode, try entering 0000 or 1234 (the most common passcodes), or consult the documentation that came with the device to learn its passcode. If the pairing is successful, your phone connects to the device.
Touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. When the phone is connected as USB storage, the screen indicates that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification. Your phone’s USB storage or SD card is mounted as a drive on your computer. You can copy files back and forth now. For more information, see the documentation for your computer.
Sharing your phone’s mobile data connection You can share your phone’s mobile data connection with a single computer via a USB cable: USB tethering. You can also share your phone’s data connection with up to eight devices at once, by turning your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot. (Not all carriers and phones support these features.) When your phone is sharing its data connection, an icon appears in the Status bar and as an ongoing notification in the Notifications panel (see “Managing notifications”).
Rename or secure your portable hotspot You can change the name of your phone’s Wi-Fi network name (SSID) and secure its Wi-Fi network. Press Settings to open the Settings application. Touch Wireless & networks > Tethering & Softap. Ensure WLAN softap is checked. Touch WLAN softap settings. Touch Configure WLAN hotspot. The Configure Wi-Fi hotspot dialog opens. You can change the network SSID (name) that other computers see when scanning for Wi-Fi networks.
In the dialog that opens, enter any requested credentials and touch Connect. When you’re connected to a VPN, you receive an ongoing notification in the Status bar. If you are disconnected, you receive a notification that you can use to return to the VPN settings screen so that you can reconnect to it. See “Managing notifications”. Disconnect from a VPN Open the Notifications panel and touch the ongoing notification for the VPN connection. Edit a VPN Open the Settings application.
See “Connecting to a computer via USB” for information about connecting your phone to a computer and copying files. Open the Settings application. Touch Location & security. Touch Install from SD card. Touch the file name of the certificate to install. Only the names of certificates that you have not already installed on your phone are displayed. If prompted, enter the certificate’s password and touch OK. Enter a name for the certificate and touch OK.
7 Tools Clock Clock displays the date and time. You can also use Clock to turn your phone into an alarm clock. Viewing the date and time Touch the Clock icon on the Home screen or in the Launcher. Clock opens with the date and time displayed on your Home screen wallpaper. When Clock is running, it switches to Screen-saver mode after a few minutes, moving the date and time display on the phone screen. Simply touch the screen or a phone button to wake the phone up again.
Dim the Clock display If you want to use your phone as a bedside clock, you can set the screen brightness very low. Touch the Dimmer icon to dim the clock. Touch the icon again to restore normal brightness. Touch & hold the Dimmer icon to switch to Screen-saver mode immediately. Touch the screen again restore the Clock screen. Setting alarms You can set an alarm by modifying an existing alarm or by adding a new one. Set an alarm Touch the Alarm icon at the bottom of the Clock screen .
Changing Clock alarm settings To change Clock alarm settings, touch the Alarm icon screen that opens, touch Settings. at the bottom of the Clock screen. In the Alarms Check to play alarms even when the phone is in Silent mode. Opens a dialog where you can set the volume of alarms. Opens dialogs where you can set how long Clock waits before playing an alarm again and how many times to repeat the snooze. Up / Down button when an alarm sounds.
Calendar Calendar on the phone works with the web-based Google Calendar calendaring service for creating and managing events, meetings and appointments. It also works with the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync calendaring service. Calendar on the phone is optimized for the phone. Viewing your calendar and events Open Calendar to view events you’ve created or that others have invited you to. When you first set up your phone, you configured it to use an existing Google Account, or you created a new account.
Working in Agenda view Agenda view is a list of your events in chronological order. All-day and multiday events are listed at the start of each day. Days without events are not shown. Switch to Agenda view. Press Menu and touch Agenda. Touch an event. A screen with details about the event opens. Touch an event to view its details. Drag up or down to view earlier or later events. This event repeats. While you viewing an event in agenda view touch Menu and Add reminder, Edit event or Delete it.
Working in Week view Week view displays a chart of the events of one week. All-day and multiday events are displayed at the top. Switch to Week view. Press Menu and touch Week. Touch an event to view its details. Touch & hold an event to open a menu with options for viewing, editing, or deleting the event, and for creating a new event at that time. Add an event in Week view Touch & hold an empty spot or an event in the week to open a menu with the option for creating a new event at that time.
Viewing event details You can view more information about an event in a number of ways, depending on the current view. View information about an event In Agenda, Day, or Week view, touch an event to view its details. In Month view, touch a day to switch to Day view. Then touch an event to view its details. You can set or change whether you will attend the event by using the Attending? Menu. Other attendees’ status is displayed below your own.
Editing an event You can an edit an event that you created on the phone or on the web. You can also edit events created by others, if they have given you permission. Edit an event Open the summary of the event. See “Viewing event details”. Press Menu and touch Edit event. The Event Details screen opens. This is the same screen described in Press Menu and touch Show extra options to add or edit event details. Make your changes to the event. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and touch Done.
If you receive notifications with alerts, the Calendar notifications list opens, listing all notifications awaiting your response. Touch an event in the Calendar Notifications list to view more information about that event. Touch Snooze all in the Calendar Notifications list to turn off all event reminders for 5 minutes. Touch Dismiss all in the Calendar Notifications list to delete all reminders in the list. Press Back when viewing the Calendar Notifications list to keep the reminders pending.
Changing Calendar settings You can change the following settings for how Calendar displays event and how it notifies you of upcoming events. To change Calendar settings, open a Calendar view, press Menu and touch More > Settings. Check to use your home time zone when viewing calendars and event information in Calendar when you’re traveling, rather than the local time zone reported by the mobile network you’re connected to.
GO widget Go widget application offers you preinstalled GO Weather widget, GO store and GO Switch. See more details in following chapters. Open GO widgets Weather widget is already set on your Home screen when you first turn your phone on. To open other widgets touch GO widget icon on your application screen. New window appears with widgets. You can switch views between Installed and Not installed widgets. Get free or buy more widgets from GO store. Shows current weather on the Homescreen.
8 Settings Use the Settings application to configure how your phone looks, sounds, communicates, protects your privacy and operates in many other ways. Many applications also have their own settings. For more details see the documentation of those applications. Tap on the launcher icon to see all your applications. Tap on Settings icon.
Wireless & networks Use Wireless & Network settings to configure and manage connections to networks and devices via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mobile networks. You also use Wireless & Network settings to configure connections between your phone and virtual private networks (VPNs), to connect your computer to the Internet using your phone’s mobile data connection and to turn off all radios with Airplane mode. Check to turn off all the phone’s radios that transmit voice or data.
Advanced settings screen Opens a dialog where you can set whether and when the WLAN radio disconnects. Disabling sleep mode uses more battery power. The Media Access Control (MAC) address of your phone when connecting to Wi-Fi networks. IP address The Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to the phone by the WLAN network you are connected to (unless you used the IP settings to assign it a static IP address).
Tethering & Softab For details about these settings, see “Sharing your phone’s mobile data connection”. Check to share your phone’s mobile network data connection with your computer via USB connection. Check to share your phone’s mobile network data connection as a portable WLAN hotspot. Opens a screen with settings to turn the hotspot on and off and to set the its SSID (its broadcast name) and security.
Dual SIM settings Change the network operating mode Opens the APNs screen, where you can select mobile access point configurations; or press Menu to add a new APN. Consult your carrier about how to use the tools on this screen. Opens a screen that searches for and displays mobile networks that are compatible with your phone. Consult your carrier to understand the billing implications of selecting another carrier.
Call settings screen Use this feature to redirect incoming calls to any other telephone number, when you are not available, unreachable or busy. Use this feature to restrict certain types of outgoing calls (such as international calls), and/or incoming calls (such as from undesired callers. Here you can set Caller ID and Call waiting. See details in Additional settings screen. Here you can set Caller ID, so that your telephone number is seen when you make a call.
Set the phone to vibrate whenever you receive an incoming call or notification. Set vibrate strength for incoming calls and other conditions with slider. Set volume for ringtone and alarm. Check to set same volume for notifications. Incoming calls and notifications Choose ringtone to sound when you receive an incoming call or notification for each SIM card and for incoming calls. Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone between Internal (preinstalled) and External (SD card, computer) source.
*You can check Automatic brightness to set the phone to adjust the brightness automatically, using the phone’s built in light sensor. Or uncheck that option to use the slider to set a brightness level you want at all times when using the phone. For the longest battery life between charges, use the dimmest comfortable brightness. USB connection settings Check if you wish automatically enable USB mass storage when connected to computer.
Applications settings Use the Applications settings to view details about the applications installed on your phone, to manage their data, to stop them if have any problems in downloading and to set whether you want to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites and email. Check to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites, email or other locations. Choose locations between internal device storage, removable SD card or let the system decide.
Accounts & sync settings Use the Accounts & Sync settings to add, remove and manage your Google and other accounts. You also use these settings to control how and whether applications send, receive and sync data on their own schedules and whether applications can synchronize user data automatically.
Privacy settings Use the Privacy settings to manage your personal information. Check to back up some of your personal data to Google servers, with your Google Account. See more below in Back up my data. Check this option to restore your settings and other data when you install an application. See more below in Automatic restore. Opens a dialog where you can erase all of your personal data from internal phone storage. See more in Factory data reset below.
Storage settings Use the Storage settings to monitor the used and available space on your phone’s internal storage and on your phone’s USB storage or SD card (depending on your model of phone). You can also view and manage the storage used by applications and where they are stored. You can view and delete files you’ve downloaded with Browser, Gmail or Email with the Download applications.
Android Keyboard settings screen The Android Keyboard settings apply to the onscreen keyboard that is included with your phone. The correction and capitalization features affect only the English version of the keyboard. Check to have the phone vibrate briefly each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard. Check to play a brief sound each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard.
Date & time settings Use Date & Time settings to set your preferences for how dates are displayed. You can also use these settings to set your own time and time zone, rather than obtaining the current time from the mobile network. Uncheck to set the date, time, and time zone on the phone manually, rather than obtaining the current time from the mobile network. If Automatic is unchecked, opens a dialog where you can manually set the phone’s date.
About phone About Phone includes information about your phone. Open a screen that reports on the availability of Android system software updates. Open the Status screen with a long list of information about your battery, mobile network connection and other details. Opens a list of the applications and operating system components you have used since you last charged the phone, sorted by the amount of power they have used. .
