Mini Tabby User manual QW TB-1543 ANDROID 4.
Table of contents Inhoud I. _________________________________________________________ 4 _________________________________________________________4 IMPORTANT WARNINGS WARNINGS_________________________________________________________ II. _____________________________________________ 5 INTRODUCING YOUR NEW MINI TABBY TABBY_____________________________________________ III.
I. • Important warnings NB: Please take extra care when allowing young kids access to a tablet or phone with a registered credit card to it without proper guidance. Make sure they cannot buy digital content in the Google Play store or in certain apps or games without your consent to avoid unwanted billing! • This is a high precision electronic product. Do not open or disassemble it, this will violate the warranty regulation and it is dangerous.
II. Introducing your new Mini Tabby Congratulations on your purchase of the Qware Mini Tabby (TB-1543) 4.3” tablet PC. The Mini Tabby uses the Android 4.2 operating system and is based on a powerful Cortex A8 1.2GHz processor. The Mini Tabby has 4GB of internal memory of which approximately 2GB is allocated for direct application downloads. The other memory part is free to use for storage of pictures, music, movies and other data files.
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IV. Packaging Contents Open the package carefully and please make sure that all items listed below are present. Do not discard the packing materials within the warranty period; if you have to return the product it must be in its original package including all extra content: 1x Tabby tablet pc, article nr.
V. Product Layout The Android system uses the following keys: 1) Volume keys volume + and volume - buttons on top to adjust the volume. 2) Power key to turn on and off of the unit or by short pressing it to enter or leave the standby mode.
VI. Hardware specification Product specification A13 Cortex A8 Multi-Core ARM v7 processor Frequency 1.2GHz Processor Memory 512MB DDR3 RAM Memory built-in 4GB Storage (partly used for OS+backup, system apps and app installations) Supports Micro SD card to expand memory up to 32GB Wireless IEEE802.11b/g/n wireless network USB USB2.0 OTG high speed interface and USB1.1 3.
VII. Startup and shutdown A. When the Mini Tabby is powered off and you would like to turn it on � Press and hold the power button for a few seconds and the Mini Tabby will begin loading the Android software. The following startup screens appear After loading has completed, you’ll be greeted by the lock screen (which also appears when you exit standby). � Touch the lock icon and drag it outside the circle that appears to unlock the screen.
Press the power button for a short moment short to have the Mini Tabby enter stand-by mode. To end stand-by mode, press the power button again for a short moment. VIII. Home screen After startup has completed, the Android 4.2 homescreen appears: The default home screen has several shortcuts in the middle of the screen which you can freely activate, remove, add to or adjust. The title underneath the icon explains its purpose.
IX. Applications/Widgets screen Click the applications icon in the top right corner of the home screen and the application screen appears: (shown apps may differ from those actually installed) In the applications screen, you can choose to start any installed application with a simple short touch on the app icon. You can also press and hold an app or widget to create a shortcut on the home screen; drag it to the position you wish the shortcut to be.
X. System Settings Touch the ‘Settings’ app on the home screen or Applications & Widgets screen to enter the Settings menu: The left area shows all the different menus available. You can drag a finger over the left side from bottom to top to scroll down and see all the menus. This principle also applies to the right side if a selected menu has more options than can be displayed on screen (for instance, a list of all available languages can be scrolled down this way).
If the password is entered correctly, the message ‘connected’ will appear underneath the network name. If this doesn’t appear, touch the name of the network and choose ‘forget’ to erase the password and try again. B. Display The Tabby does not support a cabled connection to an external screen. All video output is shown on the LCD screen of the tablet itself.
C. Date and time settings If connected to the internet, the easiest way to set the time is with the ‘Automatic date & time’ and ‘Automatic time zone’ options. Otherwise, set it manually by touching the different options: Set date | Set time | Select time zone | Use 24-hour format | Select date format Scroll up or down by dragging the finger over the date or time numbers on the screen or set the date on the calendar.
XI. Internet Check if the Wi-Fi connection has been established to ensure access to the internet. Touch the icon of the browser app (named Browser or Chrome. Others browser apps are available through the online Google Play store) and enter the website address in the top bar and hit ‘start’ or ‘enter’ on the onscreen keyboard. XII. Music Touch the ‘Music’ icon in the Applications & Widgets screen, you will enter the music player interface. Here you can search through audio files on the Mini Tabby.
XIII. Gallery with videos and photos Touch the ‘Gallery’ app to view video and photo files saved on the ‘Mini Tabby’s memory. Touch the folder where the file can be found and then touch the file to display it on screen. When viewing pictures, you can zoom in or out by touching the screen with two fingers and moving them towards or away from each other. The top right menu offers options like rotate, set as wallpaper, crop, etc. XIV.
XV. Sound recording Touch the app “Sound recorder” and the following screen will appear. Press ‘Record’ button to start recording and press ‘Stop’ button to stop recording. For playback, touch the “Music” app, then ‘Playlists’, then ‘My recordings’. The recording playlist will appear as shown in the next screen. Select the recorded file and touch “Play” to playback.
XVI. Camera Touch the ‘Camera’ app go activate the camera and view what the camera sees on screen. The camera captures a picture once you touch the blue circle on the right. The bottom shows the photo and video options which allows you to switch between the two. When switched to video, the circle changes to red. Once you touch the red circle, the camera starts recording video and sound. Press it again to stop the recording.
XVII. Google Play First make sure you have connection the internet. Touch the ‘Play Store’ app or the top right corner of the Applications & Widgets screen labeled ‘Store’ and follow the instruction on screen. If you do not have a Gmail account yet, you will be asked to create one. Installed Google apps on the Tabby are linked to the Gmail account and enable synchronization between different devices when using Google services with the same Gmail account.
If you like, you can join Google+ which is a social network integrated with most of the services Google offers. You can read more about it at https://plus.google.com This is optional and not mandatory. You can skip it and still join later at any moment. The following options aren’t mandatory as well and can be deactivated if you wish. They can be activated later at any moment in the Google account settings.
Fill in the security code shown on the screen and press the bottom right arrow. The device will contact the Google server and the following screen appears. And after a few minutes, the following screen appears. Registering your credit card information is optional. Some apps or other content available in the Google Play store are sold for a certain fee which require you to pay. You can choose to fill in the credit card information at any other moment.
access to a tablet or phone with a registered credit card to it without proper guidance. Make sure they cannot buy digital content in the Google Play store or in certain apps or games without your consent to avoid unwanted billing! The last step allows you to automatically backup data linked to your Gmail account. After this screen, you enter the Google Play store online which gives you access to an enormous library of apps.
XVIII. E-mail Make sure you are connected to the internet. In the application screen, touch the ‘E-mail’ app to enter the e-mail client. The first time you use this app, you need to configure the account information. Enter your email and password, touch ‘Next’ and the next screen appears. Please select the account type. For instance, we select a POP3 account type and the next screen appear.
Please enter all the email account details; user name, password, POP3 server, etc. Then touch ‘Next’ and the next screen appears. Please also enter SMTP server, port, security type. For details, please ask your network administrator or e-mail provider.
If the settings are correct, the following screen appears. Set the options as you wish and touch ‘Next’ to go to the following screen where you can give the e-mail account a custom name. Touch ‘Next’ to enter the mail interface. The Tabby will automatically load and synchronize with the e-mail server. Afterwards you can read, write, send and receive e-mails.
XIX. USB port options A. Connect to a PC Use the MicroUSB-USB cable to connect the Tabby with a pc. If the message ‘New hardware detected’ pops up in Windows, please ignore it and close the installation wizard. Touch the notification ‘USB connection’ in the bottom right of the screen when it appears.
Touch ‘Turn on USB storage’ to access the memory in the Mini Tabby via the pc, much like you would with a USB memory stick. Look for the newly added drive in the pc explorer. � Please do not disconnect the Mini Tabby, the cable and the pc from each other in this mode. To disconnect, return to this ‘USB connected’ screen and ‘Turn off USB storage’ before removing the Mini Tabby or cable. B. USB keyboard and mouse Use the MicroUSB adapter cable to plug in a USB mouse, USB keyboard or USB memory stick.
XX. Firmware upgrade The Android upgrade process will format the internal flash memory. � Please back up your data before upgrading the firmware. � Make sure the battery of the Mini Tabby is fully charged when starting the upgrade process. If the battery is depleted during the upgrade process, it could disable the Mini Tabby completely and permanently. Upgrading is at your own risk. � Make sure to use only the designated image file and updating program software as instructed by Qware.
buttons during this process. During the process, this screen appears. Step 5 – Finish the upgrade process once the ‘Update rkimage complete.’ message appears by removing the MicroSD card from the Tabby and pressing power button. ATTENTION: � Please DO NOT power off the Mini Tabby until the upgrading process has finished. � Please make sure the Tabby is FULLY CHARGED before starting upgrading, in order to avoid not enough internal battery power for whole upgrading process.
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