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1. The category screen opens for the category you touched with a list of videos you can touch to watch You can limit the videos on the category screen to a more or less recent period of time by touching This week or the current time setting at the top of the category list You can touch Top rated or the current setting just below the time setting to view the most viewed top rated most discussed or most favorited videos in that category Explore related videos Each video s Watch screen includes information about that video that you can use to discover related videos gt Touch the Related videos tab OR gt Touch the name of the uploader just below the video to open their channel and view a list of other videos they ve uploaded OR gt Use one or more of the tags from the video description below the video in a YouTube search See Search for videos on page 239 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 241 Rating and commenting on videos Give a video the thumbs up or thumbs down Add or remove a video to your Favorites Comment on a video Flag a video as inappropriate AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can rate videos by giving them a thumbs up or down and you can comment on videos You can also add a video to your favorites and even report videos you think are inappropriate gt On a video s Watch screen touch the thumbs up or thumbs down button Your vote is added to the tally of
2. Check one or a batch of conversations in your Inbox and touch Menu gt Mute OR gt When reading a message touch Menu gt Mute You can view conversations you have muted in by viewing messages with the All Mail label See View conversations by label on page 126 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail Reporting spam Report a conversation as AUG 3 1 CC 100 spam 153 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 gt Check one or a batch of conversations in your Inbox or other conversation list and touch Menu gt Report spam OR gt While reading a conversation s messages touch Menu gt Report spam When you report a conversation as spam the conversation and all its messages are removed from your Inbox You can view the messages you ve marked as spam by viewing messages with the Spam label See View conversations by label on page 126 Android User s Guide Gmail 154 Appending a signature to your messages AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can append one or a few lines of plain text to every message you send from your tablet such as your name contact information or even Sent by an android This signature is independent of any signature you append to messages you send from Gmail on the web 1 a U N T
3. Roy West Group rides this weekend Google Calendar Reminder Club Ride Sun Dec 5 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com Google Calendar Reminder Erick Paz 1 1 Wed Nov 3 4pm Spm pazditu gmail com 10 308m 3 50am 12 6 2010 12 5 2010 12 5 2010 11 3 2010 Older H Ga a till o Show detalls 10 Lavash Kiri Yup Show quoted text Cheese factory this Sunday 131 Touch the tab that indicates the number of unread messages to view their summary tabs Touch the tab of a message you ve already read to open it So you can read it again i 02 wy Ii o gt Hi Hugh What do you think of a ride up by the cheese factory this Sunday for Sounds great to me Catch me riding this aes Wow He loaned it to you how detal and touch Mark unread to return a read message to the unread state for example to remind yourself to read it again later Android User s Guide Gmail 132 Copying 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 Copy text from a 1 Open a message and scroll to the text you want to copy message See Reading your messages on page 128 2 Touch amp hold one of the words you want to copy The word you touched is selected and tools for working with text appear in the Application bar AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail AU
4. Contacts looks for matches in your contacts If you have a Google Apps or other account that makes your company or other institution s contacts available Contacts also searches for matches there 4 Touch a matching contact in the list to open its Details screen Or touch the Magnifying Glass icon to open a screen with a list of matching contacts AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 118 Editing contact details Edit contact details AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can change or add details about your contacts Some contact entries contain information from multiple sources information that you added manually information that Contacts joined from duplicate contacts in different accounts and so on When you edit a contact entry the information from each source is grouped in its own labeled section If you find duplicate entries in Contacts you can join them into a single entry as described in Joining contacts on page 121 If you that find information from unrelated contacts that were joined in error you can separate them as described in Separating contact information on page 122 Changes that you make to information from one source do not affect the information from other sources For example if you have information about a contact from a Google Account and another account and both are configured to sync contacts edits to the information from the Google Account are synced to that account on the web but the in
5. Gallery opens with your cameras photos added as an album labeled Touch to import 2 Touch the album of your camera s photos The album opens with all of your camera s photos selected for importing to Gallery on your tablet 3 Select the photos you want to import The number of photos selected initially all is displayed as the title of a menu in the Application bar You can touch the menu and touch Deselect all if you want to select just the photos you want to import If all photos aren t selected Deselect all changes to Select all in the menu You can also touch individual photos to select or deselect them 4 Touch Import at the top right of the Application bar A dialog displays the progress of importing the photos you selected 5 Touch Done in the Application bar and disconnect your camera AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 72 Connecting to a Windows computer via USB You can use the USB cable that came with your tablet to connect it to a Windows computer to transfer music pictures and other files between your tablet and the computer This connection uses the MTP protocol which is supported by most recent versions of Windows Depending on the version of Windows you are using and your model of tablet you may need may need to obtain and install a Windows driver to work with your tablet on your computer For more information speak with your tablet s vendor For inf
6. Searching for messages You can search for messages that contain one or more words in their contents or in their addresses subjects labels and so on When you search for messages all of the messages in your Gmail account on the web are included except those labeled Trash or Spam not just those that you ve synchronized onto your tablet For this reason you must have a data connection to search for messages in Gmail You can also use the advanced search features that are described on the Gmail website 1 Touch the Search button 2 Enter the word or words to search for and touch the Return key on the onscreen keyboard or the right pointing arrow at the right of the search box You can also touch words you searched for previously in the list below the search box or matching addresses from your contacts AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 150 M Q hu gt inb hull F Hull Mt Ride 1 the treats fi jan 30 Prid hbrisst gmail com Fr je Cheese factory this Sunday ky Jan 30 A s Important tat hughvelo gmail com r Shoe envy 12452010 Roy West Group rides this weekend Chats Matching conversations are listed in a conversation list in the left column The words you searched for are displayed in the Application bar You work with the conversations in this list just as you would with the conversations in your Inbox or any other conversation list When you open a conversation in a search res
7. 26 Managing notifications Open the Notifications list AUG 3 1 CC 100 Notifications report the arrival of new messages calendar events and alarms as well as ongoing events such as when you have configured your tablet as a Wi Fi hotspot When you receive a notification its icon appears in the System bar to the left of the time along with a summary that appears briefly see Notification icons on page 25 Depending on your settings and the model of your tablet you may also hear a notification sound a light may blink and so on These settings and adjusting sound volume and other general notification settings are described in Sound settings on page 273 You can open the Notifications list to view all of your current notifications Most apps that send notifications such as Gmail and Google Talk have their own settings which you can use to configure whether and how they send notifications whether they sound a ringtone and so on See the documentation for those apps for details 1 Touch the time in the System bar 2 Touch a notification summary to respond to it You can also touch a notification s Close button to remove it from the Notifications list or touch elsewhere on the screen to close the list Android User s Guide Home and Android basics Respond to a AUG 3 1 CC 100 Notification 1 27 Touch a Notification icon in the System bar The notification s summary panel opens
8. Open the Settings app See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Wi Fi settings Check Wi Fi to turn it on The tablet scans for available Wi Fi networks and displays the names of those it finds Secured networks are indicated with a Lock icon If the tablet finds a network that you connected to previously it connects to it Touch a network to connect to it If the network is open you are prompted to confirm that you want to connect to that network by touching Connect If the network is secured you re prompted to enter a password or other credentials Ask your network administrator for details By default you obtain an address on the network from the network itself using the DHCP protocol You can touch DHCP to change the IP settings to Static so you can enter an address and other network details manually if you or your network administrator require it If you do you must enter e An IP address for your tablet that is valid and unique for your Wi Fi network e The Gateway for the network The network prefix length a number between O and 32 such as 24 for a Class C network 16 for a Class B network or 8 for a Class A network e At least one DNS server for the network When you re connected to a network you can touch its name in the Wi Fi settings screen for details about the speed security address and related settings You can change the password and network settings for a
9. Sun Jan 30 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com Important Sad Reminder Status Meeting Mon Dec 6 9 30am 11am Chats s pazditu gmail com Sent Lavash Kiri Clinchers or tubulars Outbox Lavash Kiri m Shoe envy Drafts Roy West D Group rides this weekend All Mail eccesa Cil neer Reminder Club Ride Sun Dec 5 10am 2pm Spam pazditu gmail com Remunder E y 3 4pm Spm Trash Google Calendar ardt p Personal Ska Br A cepted L nch at Cafe P Thu May 20 11am 12pm Gmail opens with a scrolling list of your labels on the left and the contents of your Inbox on the right with the conversation with the newest messages at the Android User s Guide Gmail Open your Inbox when Gmail is running Switch accounts AUG 3 1 CC 100 gt 125 top All of your conversations are displayed in your Inbox unless you delete archive or filter them If you change your preferred inbox to Priority Inbox in Gmail in the web you can also use it as your default inbox in Gmail on your tablet See Working with Priority Inbox on page 139 The current Google Account is displayed above the list of labels in the Application bar If you have more than one account you can touch the current account to switch accounts as described in Switch accounts on page 125 Adding and working with accounts is described in Accounts on page 99 Conversations with new messages have bold subject lines To read a message in a conversa
10. on page 100 Adding contacts on page 111 Starring a contact on page 116 1 Touch All contacts or the current setting at the top left in the Application bar 2 Inthe menu that opens touch the account or groups whose contacts you want to view Only matching contacts are displayed 3 When you re done touch the current setting at the top left and then touch All contacts in the menu All your contacts are shown again You can create a custom combination of accounts and groups to display in Contacts 1 Touch All contacts or the current setting at the top left in the Application bar 2 Inthe menu that opens touch Customize In the Define Custom View dialog touch the arrow icon next to each account to view the account s groups and then check the groups you want to view 4 Touch OK Android User s Guide Contacts 110 Change how contacts are 1 Open Contacts and touch the Menu button at the top right of the displayed Application bar and then touch Settings 2 Touch Sort list by to set whether contacts are listed in order of their last name or first name 3 Touch View contact names as to set whether you want to view contacts with their last name or first name first AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts Adding contacts Add a new contact AUG 3 1 CC 100 111 You can add contacts on your tablet and synchronize them with the contacts in your Google Account or other accounts t
11. on page 47 6 Touch Send in the Application bar If you re not ready to send the message touch Save Draft instead You can read your drafts by opening messages with the Draft label See View conversations by label on page 126 You can also touch the Discard button to abandon the message including any saved drafts If you aren t connected to a network for example if you re working in Airplane mode the messages that you send are stored on your tablet with the Outbox label until you connect to a network again Send a copy or blind You can send a copy or blind copy of a message to one or more addresses copy of a message While addressing a message touch Cc Bcc to add Cc and Bcc fields you can enter addresses in Attach a photo to a While composing a message touch the Attach button to send a photo with the message message See Gallery on page 231 to learn about working with photos Important Do not delete the original of an attachment before the message is completely sent that is it has the Sent label not the Outbox label or the attachment will not be sent AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 136 gt If you change your mind touch the X button to the right of an attachment to remove it from your message AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 137 Replying to or forwarding a message Reply to or forward a message AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can continue a conversation by rep
12. to connect other devices to the Internet using your tablet s mobile data connection and to turn off all radios with Airplane mode Airplane mode Check to turn off all the tablet s radios that transmit data Wi Fi Check to turn on Wi Fi so you can connect to Wi Fi networks Wi Fi settings See Wi Fi settings screen on page 269 Bluetooth Check to turn on Bluetooth so you can connect to Bluetooth devices Bluetooth settings See Bluetooth settings screen on page 270 Tethering amp portable hotspot See Tethering amp portable hotspot settings screen on page 271 VPN settings See VPN settings screen on page 271 Mobile networks See Mobile networks settings screen on page 271 For details about working with these settings see Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 In addition to the settings described in this section you can touch the Menu button in this screen s Application bar and touch Advanced to configure the settings described in Advanced Wi Fi settings screen on page 270 Wi Fi Check to turn on Wi Fi so you can connect to Wi Fi networks When connected to a network displays the network s name Network notification Check to receive a notification in the System bar when an open Wi Fi network becomes available Android User s Guide Settings Advanced Wi Fi settings screen Bluetooth settings screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 270 Wi Fi disconnect policy Opens a dialog wh
13. Depending on the requirements of your email service provider your full email address or just your username that is the part before example com in your email address Password The password for your email account POP3 server The fully resolved domain name of your email service provider s POP3 server for example pop3 example com Port Set the Security type first to enter the typical server port number in this field automatically Or enter a different port number if your email service provider requires it Security type Select the security type required by your email service provider Select the Accept all certificates option for your security type to accept a server certificate from your POP3 server that is self signed out of date or in some other way not accepted by the Email application Delete email from server Use to configure Email to cause your email service provider to delete from its server any email you delete in the Email applica tion or to never delete email from the server Outgoing server If you use an IMAP or POP3 account for receiving email you typically use an settings SMTP server to send email from that account AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Email 206 SMTP server The fully resolved domain name of your email service provider s SMTP server for example smtp example com Port Set the Security type first to enter the typical s
14. Notification panels can contain a great variety of information and controls including e A summary of a message along with the date and even a picture of the sender e Controls such as buttons to pause a playing song or to skip to the next or previous track e Progress bars such as those that indicate how much of an app you ve down loaded from Market Touch the summary to open it in its app You can also just touch its Close button to remove the notification Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 28 Status Details and Quick Settings You can get more details about the current date and time networking and battery status in with the Status Details You can also open the Quick Settings to view and control the most common settings for your tablet as well as accessing the complete Settings application Open Status Details Touch the time in the System bar If you have any current notifications their summaries are listed below the Status Details touch one to respond to it See Managing notifications on page 26 Close the Status Details by touching any other part of the screen Work with Quick The Quick Settings make it convenient to view or change the most common tablet Settings settings and to open the full Settings app 1 Open the Status Details 2 Touch anywhere in the Status Details The Quick Settings open below the Status Details replacing the list of current notifications AUG 3 1 CC
15. Offline mn Ann Vee AE e Lavash Kiri D oine 186 Q 4 pazditu gmail com Ready to spin Available A Allow video and voice chats Change to a recently used status 4 Android User s Guide Google Talk 187 Managing your Friends list Add a friend to your Friends list View and accept an invitation to become a AUG 3 1 CC 100 friend Your Google Talk Friends list contains the friends you ve invited or accepted invitations from to become friends in Google Talk Friends can invite each other to chat in Google Talk and see each others online status in Google Talk and other applications such as in Gmail and Maps The Google Talk Friends list is sorted by your friends online status active chats online busy and offline Within each status group friends are listed alphabetically You can invite anyone with a Google Account to become your friend in Google Talk so you can chat with each other and view each others online status 1 When viewing your Friends list touch the Add friend button 2 Enter your friend s address and touch Send invitation Your friend s address in Google Talk is a Gmail or other email address that is configured to connect to Google Talk If your friend accepts your invitation they are added to your Friends list in Talk and you can share each others status in Talk and other applications When a contact invites you to become a friend in Google Talk you receive a
16. Restore data from my Google Account to this device Keep this device backed up with my Google Account Many kinds of data are backed up including e Your Android settings such as your Wi Fi networks and passwords user diction ary and so on Many Google application settings such as your Browser bookmarks The apps you download from Android Market AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 16 Some third party apps also make use of the backup service so if you reinstall one its settings and data are restored You can change your backup settings after you finishing setting up your tablet see Privacy settings on page 280 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 17 Finishing setup If you aren t connected to a mobile network you re prompted to set the date and time on your tablet See Date amp time settings on page 287 Otherwise when setup is complete Home opens displaying your main Home screen To learn more about Home and the basics of using Android see Home and Android basics on page 19 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 18 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 19 Home and Android basics Once you ve finished setting up your tablet Home opens It s a good idea to become familiar with the basics of your tablet and how to use it Home and its Home screens the touchscreen securin
17. Touch Start AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 11 Activating your mobile data service AUG 3 1 CC 100 On some mobile data networks you must activate mobile data service on your tablet before you can use it to connect to the Internet As soon as you touch Start on the Welcome screen your tablet starts the activation process If your mobile network doesn t require activation or if your tablet only connects to Wi Fi networks it skips this step and prompts you to connect to a Wi Fi network instead see Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 Then you can use that mobile data network Internet connection to sign into your Google Account and finish setting up your tablet If you prefer not to activate you mobile data service now or if you are setting up your tablet in a location without access to your carrier s mobile network you can touch Skip to set up your tablet using Wi Fi instead you re prompted to connect to a local Wi Fi network See Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 You can activate your mobile data service later using the Settings app see Wireless amp networks settings on page 269 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 12 Setting your location preferences Google s location service uses the Wi Fi and mobile data networks near you to make your approximate location available to your apps This location information can make fi
18. as described in Changing Browser settings on page 222 Scroll a webpage Slide your finger on the screen Blue scroll indicators along the bottom and right sides of the screen indicate your current position on the page Zoom in or out ona You may not be able to zoom in or out on webpages designed for mobile devices webpage Touch an area with two fingers at once and pinch them together to zoom out spread them apart to zoom in gt Double tap on a section of a webpage you want to zoom in on To return to the default zoom level double tap again If you adjust your zoom level in this view Browser remembers your preference while you stay on that page gt Double tap after pinching or spreading apart your fingers to reflow a column of text to fit the screen if you have the Auto fit pages setting checked as described in Changing Browser settings on page 222 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Browser Find text on a webpage AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 Touch the Menu button Find on page 214 atthe top right of the Application bar and touch Enter the text you re looking for As you type the first word on the page with matching characters is highlighted on the screen and subsequent matches are boxed Touch the left or right arrow to scroll to and highlight the previous or next matching word inside I find that the thing isn t yours after all Jack Of course its mine Moving to him Y
19. notification in the System bar and the invitation appears in your Friends list 1 Touch the invitation 2 Touch Accept You can also touch Decline if you don t want to chat with and share your Google Talk status with the sender right now or Block to prevent receiving any more invitations from that person If you touch Accept they are added to your Friends list in Talk and you can share each others status in Talk and other applications Android User s Guide Google Talk View all friends or only those most popular with you Make a friend popular Block a friend AUG 3 1 CC 100 188 By default only the friends that you frequently chat with the most popular with you are shown in the Friends list But you can view all friends instead gt In the Friends list touch Menu in the Application bar and touch All friends To switch back to just the friends with whom you chat most frequently touch Most popular in the menu You can set a friend to appear always in your Friends list 1 Touch a friend in the Friends list If you don t see the friend s name touch Menu in the Application bar and touch All friends Touch the Chat Menu button to the right of the chat window and touch Friend info In the Friend info window touch the Show in Friends list menu and touch the option you want Always Appear in the Friends list whether or not you have All friends showing Never Never appear in the Friends
20. touch the triangular menu button J next to an item and touch Play The Playback screen opens and the song you touched or the first song in the album or other list starts to play The tracks in the current list play in order until you reach the end of the playlist unless you choose a repeat option Otherwise playback stops only if you stop it even when you switch applications You can return to the Playback screen from most other screens in the Music application by touching Now playing near the top left of the Application bar You can return to the Playback screen from any other application by opening the Notifications panel and touching the ongoing music notification See Managing notifications on page 26 Control playback The Playback screen contains several icons that you can touch to control the AUG 3 1 CC 100 playback of songs albums and playlists Touch to pause playback Touch to resume playback Touch to skip to the next track in the album playlist or shuffle Android User s Guide Music 254 Touch to skip to the previous track in the album playlist or shuf fle Touch to play the current playlist in shuffle mode tracks are played in random order Touch to toggle repeat mode Don t repeat repeat the current list or repeat the current track Control playback volume In addition to the techniques for setting media volume described in Sound se
21. 72 Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB on page 73 Sharing your mobile data connection on page 75 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 58 Connecting to mobile networks Your tablet is configured to use mobile networks to transmit data unless your tablet is configured for Wi Fi only Depending on your model of tablet and how you purchased it it may simply connect to your carrier s network when you turn it on Or you may need to insert a SIM card or configure details about how to connect to a specific carrier Be sure to consult your tablet s vendor and its owner s guide for details Different locations may have different mobile networks available Initially your tablet is configured to use the fastest mobile network available for data But depending on your model of tablet you may be able to configure your tablet to use slower networks for data to extend the life of your battery between charges You can also configure your tablet to access a different set of networks entirely or to behave in special ways when roaming Icons in the System bar to the right of the time indicate which kind of data network you re connected to and the network signal strength Network status icons turn blue if you have a Google Account added to your tablet and the tablet is connected to Google services for syncing your Gmail Calendar events contacts for backing up your settings and so
22. 90 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Search 84 Searching your tablet and the web You can use Google Search to find information on your tablet and the web AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Search Search your tablet and the web by typing Touch to search the web Or just touch the Return key Touch to enter the text of a suggestion in the Search box to quickly refine your search As you type search results from your tablet previously chosen search results and Voice Actions and web search suggestions appear Touch one to search for it again or to open a result or voice action AUG 3 1 CC 100 85 1 Return Home AN 2 Touch the Google Search button at the top left of the screen 3 Start typing what you want to search for br D Browser brett favre s bruno mars Hugh Briss bravo brookstone brainpop As you type suggestions from Google web search appear below the Search box and results from your tablet and local searches appear to the right You can touch a suggestion s arrow icon to enter it in the Search box If you do new suggestions appear and you can enter more text or touch the arrow icon next subsequent suggestions to quickly refine your search Business listings are indicated by a Maps marker icon Touch one to open a business listing panel with icons you can touch to call map get details about or add the business to your contacts In applicatio
23. AUG 3 1 CC 100 As you build up your list of contacts you can use Quick Contact for Android in many apps to quickly start a chat email or to locate your contacts on a map gt Identify a Quick Contact icon by its frame Contacts that you can access with Quick Contact are displayed differently in different apps but usually with a picture frame that looks like this LA y HA VA Touch a Quick Contact icon to open a bubble with icons for all the ways you can communicate with the contact If there are more icons than can fit in the bubble drag them left and right to view them all Touch an icon to start communicating talk w 2 with the contact in that app Touch an icon to open its app where you can start communicating with your contact right away You can also touch an icon to edit the contact s information in Contacts to view the contact s address in Google Maps and so on depending on which apps and accounts are configured on your tablet You can add a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen which you can then touch to open Quick Contact for Android for that contact For more information about adding shortcuts to the Home screen see Customizing Home screens on page 33 Android User s Guide Contacts 121 Joining contacts When you add a new Google Account or other kind of account Contacts attempts to join duplicate contacts into a single entry You can also join contacts manually The
24. AUG 3 1 CC 100 The right side of the System bar displays icons indicating that you ve received notifications the current time and icons indicating the tablet s status ahi icons i icons If you have more notifications than can fit in the System bar a plus icon prompts you to open the Notifications panel to view them all See Managing notifications on page 26 lt ls this still true gt gt Status icons indicate the status of your tablet at the right edge of the System bar and in the Status Details panel which opens if you touch the time To learn more about the different kinds of mobile networks see Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 Network status icons turn blue if you have a Google Account added to your tablet and the tablet is connected to Google services for syncing your Gmail Calendar events contacts for backing up your settings and so on If you don t have a Google Account or if for example you re connected to a Wi Fi network that is not connected to the Internet the network icons are gray Notification icons indicate that you ve received a notification from the system or form an application They appear to the left of the time in the System bar See Managing notifications on page 26 for information about responding to these notifications In addition these icons apps you install on your tablet may use their own notification icons Android User s Guide Home and Android basics
25. Edit a VPN Delete a VPN AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 gt oa KR WwW 1 80 Open the Settings application Touch Wireless amp networks gt VPN settings The VPNs you ve added are listed on the VPN settings screen Touch the VPN to which you want to connect 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 System bar to the left of the time 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 on page 26 Touch the notification for the VPN connection in the System bar Open the Settings application Touch Wireless amp networks gt VPN settings The VPNs you ve added are listed on the VPN settings screen Touch amp hold the VPN whose settings you want to edit In the dialog that opens touch Edit network Edit the VPN settings you want Touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and touch Save Open the Settings application Touch Wireless amp networks gt VPN settings The VPNs you ve added are listed on the VPN settings screen Touch amp hold the VPN you want to delete In the dialog that opens touch Delete network Touch OK in the dialog that asks you to confirm you want to delete the VPN Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 81 W
26. Fi network where videos always open in high quality Caption font size Opens a dialog where you can set the size of text you prefer when viewing video captions with your videos Clear search history Touch to remove the history of video search terms you ve pursued in the past so they aren t presented as suggestions in future searches for YouTube videos SafeSearch filtering Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want Google SafeSearch filtering to block some results when you search for videos Block no search results off only explicit or offensive videos moderate or both explicit or offensive text and videos strict Help Opens the YouTube Help Center in Browser Feedback Opens a YouTube feedback form in Browser Terms of service and mobile privacy policies Displays the YouTube and Google terms of service and privacy policies Application version The version of the YouTube application installed on your tablet Android User s Guide 249 Music Use Music to listen to music and other audio files that you copy from your computer or download from the Internet In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Transferring music files to your tablet on page 250 Opening Music and working with your library on page 251 Playing music on page 253 Working with playlists on page 255 Android User s Guide Music 250 Transferring music files to your tablet Copy music files from your computer A
27. Guide Browser 208 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 typically with a link to their non mobile sites at the bottoms of their pages Open Browser Touch the Browser icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 Browser also opens when you touch a web link for example in an email or chat When you open Browser the last webpage you were viewing is displayed If you haven t used Browser recently your homepage opens The web address URL of the current page is displayed at the top of the window unless a site scrolls the URL bar off the top of the screen if so just touch the down arrow in the tab to show it again AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 209 Browser s android google amp source android home Google Google Search I m Feeling Lucky The URL of the current page some navigation buttons and other controls WALT Nas Paz Ditu are included in the URL bar s Advertising Programs Business Solutions About Google Touch the URL box at the top of the Browser screen The current URL is selected and the onscreen keyboard opens If the URL box isn t visible touch the down pointing arrow in the tab to open it Open a webpage or 1 search the web AU
28. Guide Entering and editing text 52 Entering text by speaking You can use voice input to enter text by speaking Voice input is an experimental feature that uses Google s speech recognition service so you must have a data connection on a mobile or Wi Fi network to use it Enter text by speaking You can enter text by speaking in most places that you can enter text with the onscreen keyboard 1 Touch a text field or a location in text you ve already entered in a text field 2 Touch the Microphone key on the onscreen keyboard 3 When prompted to Speak now speak what you want to enter mn Say comma period question mark exclamation point to enter punctuation exclamation mark or compose gt Send Save Draft a Text that you enter by speaking is i i i pazditu gmail com underlined You can continue entering text to keep it or delete it Hugh Briss lt hbrissi gmail com gt Ce Bec New shoes G I just picked up my new shoes Lwill wear them to spinning class tonight When you pause what you spoke is transcribed by the speech recognition service and entered in the text field underlined You can touch the Delete AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Entering and editing text 53 key to erase the underlined text If you start typing or entering more text by speaking the underline disappears You can edit the text that you enter by typing or speaking See Editing tex
29. Pictures Pictures of topic images of topic Pictures of San Francisco Images of cats Convert measurements original measurement in new measurement 30 degrees Celsius in Fahr enheit Movie showtimes Movie Movie location movie name Movie Movie Chicago The Horse s Mouth Word definition Define word Define campanile Weather forecast Weather Weather location Weather Weather Detroit Identify an area code Area code Area code 215 Identify a Zip code Zip code Zip code 46202 Time Time Time location Time Time in London Flight information Airline flight number American airlines flight 390 Translation Translate to language phrase Translate to Spanish Where is the Palace Hotel Calculator A math phrase 75 divided by 6 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Search AUG 3 1 CC 100 89 What you want What to type or say Examples Food Type of food Type of food in location Mexican food Mexican food in Urbana Illinois Android User s Guide Google Search 90 Changing Google Search settings Searchable items settings Google Search settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 You use the Google Search settings to configure which data on your tablet you want to be able to search manage your privacy and to configure a number
30. a folder in the Add To menu Touch OK The bookmark is added to your list of bookmarks Touch the Bookmarks button at the top right of the URL bar window opens with a list of your bookmarks sorted by how often you visit them or if you are syncing bookmarks with Chrome how you sorted them in Chrome Bookmarks are displayed in thumbnail view by default To see them as a list Touch Menu and touch List Touch a bookmark to open it The bookmark opens in the current tab If you prefer to open it in a new tab touch amp hold the bookmark and touch Open in new tab in the menu Touch the Bookmarks button at the top right of the URL bar Touch amp hold the bookmark to edit Touch Edit bookmark in the menu Edit the name address and other details in the dialog that opens Touch OK You can create a folders to organize your bookmarks You do this when you create a bookmark Android User s Guide Browser Synchronize your bookmarks with Google Share a bookmark Add a bookmark Chrome shortcut to the Home AUG 3 1 CC 100 screen gt 220 When adding a bookmark touch Other folder in the Add to menu and in the dialog that opens touch New folder edit the folder name and touch OK If you use Google Chrome on a computer you can synchronize the bookmarks between Chrome on your computer and Browser on your tablet 1 2 Touch Menu and touch Settings Touch General and touch Sync with Googl
31. amp hold the text or word you want to select The selected text is highlighted with a tab at each end of the selection Android User s Guide Entering and editing text Drag a selection tab to expand or reduce the range of selected text Cut or copy text AUG 3 1 CC 100 55 Text selection Selectall X Cut i Copy Paste pazditu gmail com Hugh Briss lt hbriss1 gmail com gt CuBcc New shoes I just picked up my new shoes I will wear them to Spifining class tonight Drag either selection tab to expand or reduce the range of selected text Or touch Select all in the Application bar If you change your mind you can unselect the text by touching elsewhere on screen Use the tools in the Application bar to cut copy or paste to replace the selected text You can also simply enter text by typing or speaking to replace the selection with what you type or touch the Delete key es to deleted the selected text Select the text to cut or copy See Select text on page 54 Touch Cut or Copy in the Application bar If you touch Cut the selected text is removed from the text field In either case the text is stored so that you can paste it into another text field Android User s Guide Entering and editing text AUG 3 1 CC 100 Paste text 1 56 Cut or copy the text to paste See Cut or copy text on page 55 Place the cursor in the text field where you want to paste the text or sel
32. and the configuration of the service you re connecting to Adding and changing email accounts on page 200 and the detailed tables in Email account settings on page 202 describe how to add an email account based on IMAP POP3 or SMTP using the Email application Configure the account Depending on the kind of account you may be asked to configure what kinds of data you want to sync to the tablet name the account and other details When you re finished the account is added to the list in the Accounts amp Sync settings Depending on how you configured the account email contacts and other information start syncing to your tablet Android User s Guide Accounts 102 See Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 for details about changing how the account is configured Remove an account You can remove an account to delete it and all information associated with it from your tablet including email contacts settings and so on 1 Open the Accounts amp Sync settings The Accounts amp Sync Settings screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts Touch the account to delete Touch Remove account Confirm that you want to remove the account AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Accounts 103 Configuring account sync and display options You can configure background data use and synchronization options for all of the applications on your tablet Y
33. area where you do not have a mobile data plan and want to avoid charges for data use on local carriers mobile networks Unchecking this setting does not prevent your tablet from transmitting data on other wireless networks such as Wi Fi or Bluetooth Data roaming Uncheck to prevent your tablet from transmitting data on other carriers mobile networks when you can t access your own carrier s mobile networks See Disable data when roaming on page 59 Android User s Guide Settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 272 Data usage Only available if your carrier enforces a mobile network data use policy Displays the amount of data you ve transmitted over the mobile network in the current period the data threshold the amount of data you can transmit before the policy is enforced and the time when the next period starts If you touch this setting the Data Usage screen opens with more details about your mobile network data use the period in which it s measured and the way in which the carrier will enforce the policy if you exceed the data threshold for the period Contact your carrier for more information about its mobile network data use policy System select CDMA mobile networks only Opens a dialog where you can configure your tablet to connect only to the carrier you have a contract with Home or to allow you to connect to other mobile networks Automatic Activate device Touch to activate your tablet on your carrier s mobile
34. can connect to a Bluetooth device for example to switch device devices or to reconnect after the tablet and the device come back into range AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Configure the Bluetooth features you want to use Disconnect from a Bluetooth device Unpair a Bluetooth device AUG 3 1 CC 100 67 Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Bluetooth settings Check Bluetooth to turn it on In the list of devices touch a paired but unconnected device in the list If the device you expected isn t displayed touch Scan for devices When the tablet and the device are connected the device Is displayed as connected in the list Some Bluetooth devices have multiple profiles Profiles can includes the ability to transmit your tablet conversations to play music in stereo or to transfer files or other data You can select which profiles you want to use with your tablet You can also change the name of the Bluetooth device as it appears on your tablet 1 In the Bluetooth settings touch the Wrench icon for the Bluetooth device you want to configure A screen opens with information about the device including its profiles Touch rename device to change the name of the device as it appears on your tablet Touch the More icon to open options for that profile then check or uncheck the features of that profile to
35. containing the song or list of songs Add a song to a playlist 1 Touch the triangular menu button D to the right of an album artist song or genre and touch Add to playlist You can also add the currently playing song from the Now Playing screen by touching Menu at the top right of the Application bar and touching Add to playlist 2 Touch the name of the playlist to add the song to The song is added to the playlist Rearrange songs ina 1 Open a playlist playlist 2 Drag the songs into the order you want by dragging each song into place by the handle E at its left side AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Music Remove a song from a playlist Delete a playlist Create playlists on your computer AUG 3 1 CC 100 256 1 Open a playlist 2 Touch the triangular menu button Bi to the right of the song you want to remove and touch Remove from playlist The song isn t deleted from your tablet or other playlists it s removed only from the playlist you re working with 1 Open the Playlist library 2 Touch the triangular menu button F tothe right of the playlist you want to delete and touch Delete No songs are harmed by deleting a playlist You can create playlists on your computer to use in Music Music can work with playlists in the M3U WPL and PLS file formats You copy playlists onto your tablet in the same way as you copy music as described in Transferring music files to your tablet on page
36. including updates to Android applications that have been released on the Android Market downloadable applications service This guide does not describe the physical features of your tablet its parts and accessories how to turn it on and so on or its specifications for that information refer to your tablet s owner s guide AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide About this guide 8 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time When you first turn on your tablet you have the opportunity to activate your mobile data service to sign into your Google Account and to decide how you want to use some Google services In this section Welcome to Android on page 10 Activating your mobile data service on page 11 Setting your location preferences on page 12 Signing into your Google Account on page 13 Backing up and restoring your data on page 15 Finishing setup on page 17 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 10 Welcome to Android The first time you power on your tablet after setting it up as described in your tablet s owner s guide you re welcomed to Android and invited to pick a language to work in and to start setting up and using your tablet gt Touch English if you want to work in a different language gt Touch Start to start setting up your tablet Touch to use a different language English
37. invitation joins the group chat In a group chat everyone can see everyone else s messages Group chats appear at the top of your Friends list with a group chat icon Your Google Talk text chats are stored with the Chats label in Gmail so you can review them later and even search for them in Gmail But if you d rather not store a chat you can go off the record gt Ona text chat screen touch the Chat Menu button and touch Go off record To resume saving text chats the Chat Menu button and touch Stop chatting off the record You can end a chat so the friend your chatting with is no longer at the top of your Friends list The text from text chats is not discarded if you restart a text chat the conversation is displayed in the new chat window where you left off gt On the chat screen touch the close button You can search for text you exchanged with friends in any text chat that was on the record 1 Touch the Search button in the Application bar 2 Enter the text you want to search for 3 Touch the Return key on the keyboard Chats that contain the text you searched for are listed on the left 4 Touch achat to open it 5 Touch a button in the chat to reply by Talk Gmail or to forward the chat by Gmail Android User s Guide Google Talk 182 Chatting by voice or video If your friends use Google Talk on a computer tablet or other device with a microphone or camera that can connect to Talk and they make them
38. longer receive chat notifications or share Google Talk status in other applications such as Gmail Android User s Guide Google Talk Chatting by text Invite a friend to chat AUG 3 1 CC 100 179 You can chat with friends by exchanging text messages If your friends have a microphone or camera on the device where they re using Google Talk you can also invite them to chat by voice or by voice and video Chatting by voice or video on page 182 Before you can chat with one of your friends you need to invite them to become a friend in Google Chat and they must accept your invitation 1 Touch the Invite button in the Application bar 2 Enter your friend s Gmail address 3 Touch Send invitation Friends you invite to chat appear off line in your Friends list until they accept your invitation Android User s Guide Google Talk Chat with a friend Accept an invitation to chat Switch between active chats Invite a friend to join a AUG 3 1 CC 100 group chat 180 1 Touch a friend in your Friends list A friend must be online to start a chat with you see Changing and monitoring online status on page 185 If you re already chatting with someone you touch the Chat Menu button to the right of the main chat window and touch Add to chat to invite another friend to join your chat The chat screen opens 2 Enter your message and touch the Return key on your keyboard or touch the Send butt
39. moment the tablet starts broadcasting its Wi Fi network name SSID so you can connect to it with up to 8 computers or other devices An ongoing notification is added to the System bar to the left of the time When Portable Wi Fi hotspot is checked you can change its network name or secure it See Rename or secure your portable hotspot on page 77 Uncheck Portable Wi Fi hotspot to stop sharing your data connection via Wi Fi You can change the name of your tablet s Wi Fi network name SSID and secure its Wi Fi network 1 a a N Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Tethering amp portable hotspot Ensure Portable Wi Fi hotspot is checked Touch Portable Wi Fi hotspot settings Touch Configure Wi Fi 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 You can also touch the Security menu to configure the network with Wi Fi Protected Access 2 WPA2 security with a preshared key PSK If you touch the WPA2 PSK security option a password field is added to the Configure Wi Fi hotspot dialog If you enter a password you will need to enter that password when you connect to the tablet s hotspot with a computer or Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 78 other device Or touch Open in the Security menu to remove security f
40. network so you can connect to it This feature is not used by all mobile networks Access Point Names GSM mobile networks only Opens the APNs screen where you can select mobile access point configurations or touch the Menu button in the Application bar to add a new APN Consult your carrier about how to use the tools on this screen Use only 2G networks GSM mobile networks only Check to obtain slightly better battery life by preventing your tablet from connecting to higher speed networks Network operators GSM mobile networks only Opens a screen that searches for and displays mobile networks that are compatible with your tablet Consult your carrier to understand the billing implications of selecting another carrier Android User s Guide Settings Sound settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 273 Use the Sound settings to configure how and at what volume the tablet plays music or other media with audio notification ringtones and alarms You also use these settings to pick the notification ringtone you prefer and whether you hear audible feedback when touching or locking and unlocking the screen Volume Opens a dialog with three sliders for adjusting the volume of music and other media audio notification ringtones and alarms Notification ringtone Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when you receive a notification Touch a ringtone to listen to it Audible selection Check to play a sound when you t
41. not have information about every location AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Maps Navigation Places and Latitude 228 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 229 Camera Camera is a combination camera and camcorder that you use to shoot and share pictures and videos Pictures and videos are stored on your tablet s internal storage You can copy your pictures and videos to a computer as described in Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 You can view your pictures and videos on your tablet edit them share them and so on with Gallery See Gallery on page 231 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Camera 230 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 231 Gallery You use Gallery to view pictures and play videos that you ve taken with Camera downloaded or copied to your tablet You can also view pictures in a Picasa web album You can perform basic editing tasks on pictures and set them as your wallpaper or contact picture You can also share your pictures and videos with friends via email or messaging or by uploading them to the Picasa and YouTube web sites AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gallery 232 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 233 Movie Studio Use Movie Studio to edit the videos you take with Camera or copy onto your tablet into movies You can cut and order scenes add a sound track and so on AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Movie Studio 234 AUG
42. of other settings gt To change Google Search settings touch in the Google Search box on the Home screen to open Google Search touch the Menu button at the top right and touch Search settings The Searchable items settings list the applications on your tablet whose data you can search when using Google Search You can check and uncheck the kinds of data you can search for on your tablet See Change what you target when searching the tablet on page 86 Use My Location Check to include your location when using Google Search and other Google services When you check this option you re asked whether you consent to allowing Google to use your location when providing these services Personalized search Check to use information Google stores about your past searches to see search results personalized for you Google Account The Google Account used for personalized search results and other Google Search settings Touch to switch to another Google Account Manage search history Opens Browser with a web based interface for viewing and managing the web search history and other information associated with your Google Account Always use google com Check to view web search results on http www google com instead of your country s local Google Search web site Terms of Service Opens Browser with the Google Search terms of service Android User s Guide 91 Voice Search and Voice Actions You can search for information o
43. on If you don t have a Google Account or if for example you re connected to a Wi Fi network that is not connected to the Internet the network icons are gray When you re connected to slower networks you may want to postpone using your tablet for data intensive tasks until you are connected to a faster network again or find a Wi Fi network to connect to See Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 Determine what network On some kinds of networks you can view the name of the network you re you re using connected to 1 Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 2 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Mobile networks AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Disable data when roaming Limit your data connection to slower networks Edit or create a new access point AUG 3 1 CC 100 59 You can prevent your tablet from transmitting data over other carriers mobile networks when you leave an area that is covered by your carrier s networks This is useful for controlling expenses if your mobile data contract doesn t include data roaming 1 Open the Settings application 2 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Mobile networks and uncheck Data roaming With Data roaming unchecked you can still transmit data with a Wi Fi connection See Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 If your tablet connects to GSM mobile networks you can extend yo
44. on page 154 Android User s Guide Gmail 158 Troubleshooting sync issues AUG 3 1 CC 100 If you find that your Gmail isn t syncing as you expect you can try the following steps gt Make sure you have an Internet connection Make sure you have an Internet connection via a mobile data network Wi Fi or Bluetooth try opening Browser and making sure you can open well known web site See Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 Check that you have configured the labels you re working with to synchronize messages See Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 Try turning sync on and off for Gmail for your Google Account You do this in the Settings application under Accounts amp sync See Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 Restart your tablet Use the Power button to turn off your tablet and then turn it on again Look for notifications about storage or sign in problems Notifications will include instructions on how to correct the problems they notify you about See Managing notifications on page 26 Check your Gmail on the web If Gmail on the web is experiencing problems they can affect the Gmail app as well As a last resort clear your Gmail application data When all else fails you can delete the settings and other data stored by Gmail and start over Android User s Guide Gmail 159 Warning Clearing Gmail s data will per
45. page 197 gt While reading a message touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and touch Mark as unread You can delete a message from its folder You can also delete a batch of messages see Working with messages in batches on page 197 gt While reading a message the Delete button in the Application bar For most kinds of accounts deleted messages are moved to a Trash folder so you can retrieve them if you deleted them in error Android User s Guide Email 196 Starring messages You can star an important message to make it easy to Keep track of Once you star a message a Starred folder is added to the list of folders You can also star a batch of messages see Working with messages in batches on page 197 Star a message While reading a message touch the star in its header OR gt While viewing a list of messages in a folder touch a message s star The star turns gold W Unstar a message gt Touch its star again View your starred You can open a folder that contains the starred messages from all of your accounts messages 1 Open Combined view See Open Combined view on page 193 2 Touch Starred A folder opens with a list of your starred messages You can also open an account s individual Starred folder See Open an account s folders on page 192 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Email 197 Working with messages in batches You can delete star o
46. pazditu gmail com Touch to change whether you are r as 7 Hugh Briss lt hbriss1 gmail com gt Co Bee replying replying to all or forwarding Re Cheese factory this Sunday You sure are lucky Enter your reply Include text Respond inline Touch to convert quoted text to text only On Jan 30 2011 10 30 AM Hugh Briss lt hbriss1 gmall com gt wrote and interleave your response with the Yup original On Wed May 19 2010 at 11 17 AM Lavash Kiri lt lavashkiri88 gmail com gt wrote F Wow He loaned it to you Uncheck to send your reply without E OE cons voi including the original message Catch me riding this 2 Touch Send AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 139 Working with Priority Inbox Open Priority Inbox AUG 3 1 CC 100 If you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox you can configure Gmail on your tablet to show it as well You can also set Priority Inbox as your default inbox If you receive a great deal of email Priority Inbox can help you get through it faster by separating what s important from what s not so important Gmail does this by analyzing your new messages to predict what s important considering things like how you ve treated similar messages in the past how directly the message is addressed to you and many other factors You also teach Gmail what kinds of messages are important to you as you use it For more information about Priority Inbox inc
47. right If you have more apps than can fit on the Apps screen you can slide the screen left or right to view more You can add shortcut to an app to a Home screen by touching amp holding the app on the Apps screen until outlines of the Home screens appear below the app icons Then drag the app icon to a the Home screen If you pause before releasing your finger on a Home screen that Home screen enlarges so you can place the shortcut where you want it You can also add shortcuts using the Customize screen see Customizing Home screens on page 33 gt Touch the Home button N to close the Apps screen and return Home The Launcher closes automatically if you touch an icon to open its app gt Touch an app s icon on the Apps screen OR gt Touch an app s shortcut icon on a Home screen if you added one there Android User s Guide Working with apps Switch to a recently used app Switch to the previous app you were using AUG 3 1 CC 100 41 Touch the Recent Apps button m in the System bar A list of the names and thumbnails of apps you ve used recently opens If you ve been using more apps recently than can fit on the screen you can scroll the list up and down Touch a name or thumbnail to open that app You can also touch the Back button zd or touch away from the Recent Apps list to return to your current app Touch the Back button zd in the System bar Android User s Guide Working with apps
48. settings 248 Search settings 248 About 248 Music 249 Transferring music files to your tablet 250 Opening Music and working with your library 251 Playing music 253 Working with playlists 255 Android User s Guide Books 257 Language amp input settings 282 Language amp input screen 282 Clock 259 Google Voice Recognition settings screen 283 Text to Speech settings screen 283 Configure input methods screen 284 Android Keyboard settings screen 284 Accessibility settings 286 Date amp time settings 287 About tablet 288 About tablet screen 288 Viewing the date and time 260 Setting and changing alarms 261 Calculator 263 Using the Calculator 264 Market 265 Settings 267 Opening Settings 268 Wireless amp networks settings 269 Wireless amp Network settings screen 269 Wi Fi settings screen 269 Advanced Wi Fi settings screen 270 Bluetooth settings screen 270 Tethering amp portable hotspot settings screen 271 VPN settings screen 271 Mobile networks settings screen 271 Sound settings 273 Screen settings 274 Location amp security settings 275 Applications settings 277 Applications settings screen 277 Development screen 277 Accounts amp sync settings 279 Accounts amp sync settings screen 279 Account screen 279 Privacy settings 280 Storage settings 281 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 7 About this guide This guide describes how to use release 3 1 of the Android mobile technology platform
49. sure check the settings in the application you Android User s Guide Email Change an account s settings Delete an email account AUG 3 1 CC 100 201 use to send and receive email on your computer or ask your email service provider If the wizard determines that your service provider requires additional information or if you touched Manual setup you re prompted to enter your email account details The details you enter are different depending on the email service type These details are described in Email account settings on page 202 Contact your email service provider for the settings required for your account Enter any other information requested by the type of account you re adding and touch Done Enter a name for the account and touch Done Email starts downloading your email messages and you can start using it to send and receive messages using the new account You can change a number of settings for an account including how often you check for email how you re notified of new mail and details about the servers the account uses to send and receive mail 1 Touch the Menu button in the Application bar and touch Account settings Touch the name of the account whose settings you want to change For descriptions of the settings that you can change see Email account settings on page 202 When you re finished changing settings touch Back zd Touch the Menu button in the Appl
50. text field at All pazditu gmail com Hugh Briss lt hbriss1 gmail com Cc Bec New shoe G shoe show shoes she showed shore shower shores showers gt Touch the keys on the keyboard to enter text As you type words that the keyboard has suggestions for are underlined If you set the keyboard to show correction suggestions they appear in a strip above the keyboard The underlined word in the strip is the suggested word You can also touch another word in the strip to enter it instead You turn the suggestion feature on or off and change whether suggestions are shown with the Android keyboard settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Entering and editing text Enter capital letters Enter numbers symbols and other characters Change the input AUG 3 1 CC 100 language 50 Touch space or a punctuation mark to enter a suggested word in place of the underlined word If you mistype a word that the keyboard recognizes it corrects it automatically unless you turn that feature off If you touch the space key the suggestion strip offers a series of punctuation marks you can touch to replace the space with Use the Delete key to erase characters to the left of the cursor When you re finished typing touch the Close Keyboard button gt Touch amp hold the Shift key while you type to enter capital letters when you release the Shift key the lowercase letters reappear Touch Shift once to swi
51. the Location amp Security settings to configure how you want the tablet to determine your location this affects accuracy and how you want to share your location with Google and others You can also configure settings that help secure your tablet and its data Use wireless networks Check to use information from Wi Fi and mobile networks to determine your approximate location for use in Maps and other geographically aware applications when you search and so on When you check this option you re asked whether you consent to sharing your location anonymously with Google s location service to help improve the service Use GPS satellites Check to use your tablet s global positioning system GPS satellite receiver to pinpoint your location to within an accuracy as close as several meters street level Actual GPS accuracy depends on a clear view of the sky and other factors Use location for Google Search Check to use include information about your location when you use Google Search Voice Search and so on Configure lock screen Touch to configure your lock screen to require a pattern PIN or password to unlock your screen or never to show the lock screen at all For more information see Securing your tablet on page 31 Owner info Opens a screen where you can set whether you want to display information about yourself such as your contact information on the lock screen and where you can enter the text you want to disp
52. use them or not When you re done touch Back a Touch the device in the Bluetooth settings screen Touch OK to confirm that you want to disconnect You can unpair a Bluetooth device to erase all pairing information about it 1 2 In the Bluetooth settings touch the Wrench icon for the Bluetooth device you want to unpair Touch Unpair Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 68 Obtain a network If you have a computer or other device that can share its network connection via connection via Bluetooth Bluetooth you can configure your tablet to obtain a network connection by tethering Bluetooth tethering sometimes called reverse tethering For details about sharing your tablet s Internet connection with a computer or other device see Sharing your mobile data connection on page 75 1 Configure your computer to share it s network connection via Bluetooth See your computer s documentation for details on how to do this but it typically means making your computer discoverable via Bluetooth and allowing incoming PAN connections 2 Pair and connect your tablet to your computer via Bluetooth See Pair your tablet with a Bluetooth device on page 66 and Connect to a Bluetooth device on page 66 3 Touch the Wrench icon for the Bluetooth connection and in the screen that opens touch the Internet access profile Your tablet connects to the Internet via Bluetooth and your computer
53. viewers who liked or disliked the video on the video s Watch screen On a video s Watch screen touch the Menu button in the Application bar and touch Favorite or Unfavorite The video is added or removed from your favorites Your favorites are available on your Your Channel screen See Working with channels on page 242 You can share your thoughts about a video with others 1 2 3 gt On a video s Watch screen touch the Comments tab Enter your comments in the text field at the top of the Comments tab See Entering and editing text on page 47 Touch the Return key on the onscreen keyboard On a video s Watch screen touch the Menu button in the Application bar at top right and touch Flag Browser opens and after you sign into YouTube on the web you re asked to pick a reason why you think the video is inappropriate before passing your comments onto Google Android User s Guide YouTube 242 Working with channels channel is a collection of a person s videos playlists and other YouTube information You can create you own channel and invite other people to subscribe to all or parts of it so they can enjoy your contributions to YouTube You can also view and subscribe to other people s channels On the tablet Your Channel is where you find your uploads playlists favorites and subscriptions Visit YouTube on the web to learn more about configuring your channel Open Your Ch
54. words Manage account Opens the Accounts amp Sync settings See Accounts amp sync settings on page 279 Terms amp privacy Opens Browser to a page with information about the Google Talk terms of use and privacy policies Android User s Guide 191 Email You use the Email application to read and send email from services other than Gmail Email includes a wizard that makes it easy to configure it for several popular email service providers including those based on IMAP and POP3 In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Opening Email your Inbox and other folders on page 192 Reading your messages on page 194 Responding to a message on page 195 Starring messages on page 196 Working with messages in batches on page 197 Composing and sending email on page 198 Appending a signature to your messages on page 199 Adding and changing email accounts on page 200 Email account settings on page 202 Android User s Guide Email 192 Opening Email your Inbox and other folders Open Email Open an account s folders Switch accounts AUG 3 1 CC 100 You use the Email application to read email from services other than Gmail gt Touch the Email icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 The first time you open Email a setup wizard opens to help you add an email account as
55. you must reset it before you can sign in Go to http www google com click Sign In click Can t access your account in the sign in box and then follow the instructions for resetting your password After setup you can add Google and other kinds of accounts to your tablet and sync some or all of their data as described in Accounts on page 99 However only the first Google Account you sign into is backed up to Google servers Some apps that only work with a single account display data only from the first account that you sign into Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 15 Backing up and restoring your data You can back up your settings and other data with your Google Account so if you ever replace your tablet you can restore your data on the new one If you choose to use this service your data is backed up automatically If you previously used the backup service with the Google Account you just used to sign in you can also choose to restore your settings from your Google Account to your tablet now Important If you want to restore your settings you must do that now during setup You can t restore data after setup is complete Signed into pazditu gmail com and synchronizing data You can use your Google Account to back up your apps settings such as bookmarks and Wi Fi passwords and other data If you previously backed up your data with this account you can restore it to this device now
56. 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 29 3 View or change the settings you want You can close the Quick Settings again by touching anywhere else on the screen The Quick Settings are Airplane mode Drag the switch to On to turn off all the tablet s radios that transmit data including mobile data and Wi Fi See Wireless amp Network settings screen on page 269 Wi Fi Touch to open the Wi Fi settings See Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 Lock screen orientation Drag the switch to On to lock the screen in landscape orientation so it doesn t rotate when you turn the tablet See Using the touchscreen on page 21 Brightness Drag the slider to change the brightness of the screen Or touch Auto to have the tablet set screen brightness automatically using its sensors to measure the amount of light in your surroundings Notifications Drag the slider to Off if you don t want to be disturbed by system or application notifications about new mail invitations to chat and so on See Managing notifications on page 26 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 30 Settings Touch to open the Settings application See Settings on page 267 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics Securing your tablet Secure your lock screen Encrypt your tablet AUG 3 1 CC 100 31 Initially when you turn on or wake the tablet the lock scre
57. 167 Editing or deleting an event 168 Setting an event reminder 169 Android User s Guide Responding to event reminders 170 Synchronizing and displaying calendars 171 Changing Calendar settings 172 Google Talk 175 Signing in and opening your Friends list 176 Chatting by text 179 Chatting by voice or video 182 Changing and monitoring online status 185 Managing your Friends list 187 Changing Google Talk settings 189 Email 191 Opening Email your Inbox and other folders 192 Reading your messages 194 Responding to a message 195 Starring messages 196 Working with messages in batches 197 Composing and sending email 198 Appending a signature to your messages 199 Adding and changing email accounts 200 Email account settings 202 General settings 202 Account settings 202 Incoming server settings 204 Outgoing server settings 205 Browser 207 Opening Browser 208 Navigating within a webpage 213 Navigating across webpages 215 Working with tabs 217 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Downloading files 218 Working with bookmarks 219 Changing Browser settings 222 General 222 Privacy amp security 222 Advanced 223 Labs 224 Maps Navigation Places and Latitude 227 Camera 229 Gallery 231 Movie Studio 233 YouTube 235 Opening YouTube and watching videos 236 Discovering videos 239 Rating and commenting on videos 241 Working with channels 242 Uploading and sharing videos 244 Working with playlists 246 Changing YouTube settings 248 General
58. 250 The best practice is to create a subfolder within your Music folder for playlists If you don t have a dedicated application on your computer that can create playlists you can create a playlist in a text editor using the following guidelines e Enter each music file name to include in the playlist on its own line e Use music file names as displayed on your computer Music ignores all but the track names when displaying the playlist e Save the file with the m3u extension Android User s Guide 257 Books Use the Books app to read eBooks from the web based Google Books service You can read books online or mark them for availability offline so you can read them when you don t have an Internet connection such as on an airplane You can also use Books as your starting point for browsing or searching for books on line AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Books 258 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 259 Clock The Clock application displays the date and time You can also use it to turn your tablet into an alarm clock In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Viewing the date and time on page 260 Setting and changing alarms on page 261 Android User s Guide Clock 260 Viewing the date and time You can open Clock to display the time in large characters with the date and the next set alarm underneath Open Clock Touch the clock icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Ho
59. 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 235 YouTube YouTube is Google s online video streaming service for viewing discovering and sharing videos In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Opening YouTube and watching videos on page 236 Discovering videos on page 239 Rating and commenting on videos on page 241 Working with channels on page 242 Uploading and sharing videos on page 244 Working with playlists on page 246 Changing YouTube settings on page 248 Android User s Guide YouTube 236 Opening YouTube and watching videos Open YouTube Watch videos AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can browse search for view upload and rank YouTube videos on your tablet with the YouTube application gt gt Touch the YouTube icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 The YouTube home screen opens If you re signed in see Sign into YouTube on page 237 the home screen displays recent videos from the channels you subscribe to and other recommended videos Otherwise it displays popular videos from across YouTube Touch a video in the YouTube home screen to watch it see Watch videos on page 236 Touch Browse to look for videos by category see Browse for videos by category on page 240 Touch Your Channel to open a screen with your favorites uploads and other YouTube information
60. 42 Managing how apps use memory As described in Opening and switching apps on page 40 you typically don t need to worry about managing apps beyond installing opening and using them The operating system manages how they use memory and other resources automatically But there are times when you may want to know more about how apps are using the memory and other resources in your tablet Apps use two kinds of memory in your tablet internal storage and RAM Apps use internal storage for themselves and any files settings and other data they use They also use RAM memory that is designed for temporary storage and fast access when they are running All tablets have internal storage The operating system manages and carefully guards the portion of internal storage where the system image apps and some kinds of files and other data for those apps are stored because it can contain your private information you can t view its contents when you connect the tablet to a computer with a USB cable The other portion of internal storage where music files you download in Browser or Gmail and so on is visible when you connect the tablet to a computer see Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 The operating system also manages how apps use your tablet s RAM It only allows apps and their component processes and services to use RAM when they need it It may cache processes that you ve been using recently in RAM so they re
61. Android 3 1 User s Guide April 15 2011 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Creative Commons Attribution 3 0 License Edition Android mobile technology platform 3 1 Google AUG 3 1 CC 100 Legal Except as otherwise noted at http code google com policies html restrictions the contents of this manual is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3 0 License which is available at http creativecommons org licenses by 3 0 When using this work in whole or in part please attribute the work to Google Inc No Google or third party trademarks or brand features are included in this license Google the stylized Google logo Android the stylized Android logo Nexus the stylized Nexus logo Android Market the stylized Android Market logo Gmail Google Apps Google Calendar Google Checkout Google Earth Google Goggles Google Latitude Google Maps Google Talk Picasa SafeSearch and YouTube are trademarks of Google Inc All other company and product names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated Availability of Google applications services and features may vary by country carrier phone model and manufacturer For more information about the Android mobile technology platform visit http www android com Android User s Guide About this guide 7 Starting Android the first time 9 Welcome to Android 10 Activating your mobile data service 11 Setting your location preferences 12 Signing into your Googl
62. Background data is unchecked In that case Auto sync is dimmed Manage accounts The rest of this screen lists the Google Accounts and other accounts you ve added to the tablet Adding accounts is described in Accounts on page 99 If you touch an account in this screen its account screen opens This screen contains different options depending on the kind of account For each Google Account it lists the kinds of data you can synchronize to the tablet with checkboxes so you can turn synchronizing on and off for each kind of data You can also touch the Synchronize button at the top right of the Application bar to synchronize data now Touch Remove account to remove the account along with all its data contacts mail settings and so on See Privacy settings on page 280 Android User s Guide Settings Privacy settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 280 You use the Privacy settings to manage whether your settings and other data are backed up to Google servers using your Google account You also use these settings to erase all the data on your tablet by performing a factory data reset Back up my data Check to back up some of your personal data to Google servers with your Google Account If you replace your tablet you can restore the data you ve backed up the first time you sign in with your Google Account If you check this option a wide variety of your personal data is backed up including your Wi Fi passwords Browser bo
63. G 3 1 CC 100 Lamh Hugh 4 10 30am Cheese factory this Sunday Yup 133 Text selection copy SF Share selectall QQ Find OQ web search Cheese factory this Sunday gt Lavash Kirt h Hugh Briss 10290m s Cheese factory this Sunday Google Calendar Reminder Club Ride Sun Jan 30 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com hink of ride up by the GEWEST this Sunday for the club ride Googte Calendar Reminder Status Meeting Mon Dec 6 9 30am 11am lav in case she has another _estion Lavash Wr Clinchers or tubulars o Hugh Briss Sounds great to me Catch me riding this Lavash Or nan Shoe envy Lavash Kiri Wow He loaned it to you Hugh Briss Group rides this weekend O te h Google Calendar To Show details Reminder Club Ride Sun Dec 5 10am 2pm pazditu gmall com Yup Older 3 Drag the selection tabs to select the text you want to copy or touch Select all in the Application bar See Editing text on page 54 4 Touch Copy The text you selected is copied You can now use the techniques described in Entering and editing text on page 47 to paste the copied text into a message you compose or into a text field in another application You can also touch Share to open a panel where you can pick an application such as Gmail to share the selected text Find to find more occurrences of the selected text in the conversation Web search to search for the term usi
64. G 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Browser 210 Touch the URL box in the URL bar and S z android google amp source android home enter a web address or search terms Paz Ditu 2 Bo 2 Enter the address URL of a webpage Or enter terms you want to search for As you enter text Browser offers matching suggestions from your web history your bookmarks and your web search engine makes suggestions of webpages and queries AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Browser 211 8 Googie calflora Calflora Search for Plants 2Ditu amp aiflera ong calflora net aa calflora nursery caifioral a 4 Q Q Q Q Calflora what grows here You can set the web search engine you want to use See Changing Browser settings on page 222 You can touch the Plus button next to a suggestion to enter the suggestion into the URL box You can do this several times in a row to quickly enter a specific set of words to search for on the web 3 Touch a suggestion or enter an address and touch the arrow button D If you touch a suggested page or enter an address and touch the button A that webpage opens If you touch a suggested query your web search engine opens with the results Refresh the current page gt Touch the Refresh button to the left of the URL bar The webpage is reopened updating any content that changed Stop opening a page If a webpage is taking a long time to open or i
65. Inbox are color coded at right by account using the same colors as mark your accounts in the left column You can also open a combined view of all your accounts starred items or drafts You can touch an account in the left column to view the Inbox for just that account The number of unread messages in the combined folders and for each account is displayed next to its name in the left column Only some of your account s recent email is downloaded to your phone To download earlier messages in batches for IMAP or POP3 accounts touch Load more messages at the bottom of the list of email AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Email 194 Reading your messages You can read messages in your Combined view or in the Inbox or other folders for individual accounts When you receive a new message you also receive a notification in the Status bar unless you ve turned off Email notifications using the Account settings pick a ringtone for that account s notifications See Change an account s settings on page 201 Read a message 1 Open an account s Inbox a Combined view or another folder of messages 2 Touch the message to read The message opens in a screen with information about who sent it the date it was sent and related information at the top followed by the contents of the message Some attached images are displayed in the message others have buttons for opening them You can configure Email to download attachment
66. See Connecting to a Windows computer via USB on page 72 or Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB on page 73 for information about connecting your tablet to a computer and copying files Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Location amp security 4 Touch Install from tablet storage AUG 3 1 CC 100 Touch the file name of the certificate or key store to install Only the names of certificates that you have not already installed on your tablet are displayed If prompted enter the certificate s password and touch OK Enter a name for the certificate and touch OK If you have not already set a password for your tablet s credential storage you re prompted to enter a password for it twice and then touch OK For more information about credential storage see Location amp security settings on page 275 You can now use the certificate that you installed when connecting to a secure network For security the certificate is deleted from the USB storage or SD card Android User s Guide 83 Google Search You can search for information on your tablet and on the web using Google Search You can also search the web by speaking instead of typing see Voice Search and Voice Actions on page 91 In this section Searching your tablet and the web on page 84 Using Google Search tips and tricks on page 88 Changing Google Search settings on page
67. UG 3 1 CC 100 Music plays audio files that are stored on your tablet s internal 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 Music supports audio files in numerous formats including MP3 M4A iTunes application AAC DRM free AMR MIDI and OGG Vorbis 1 Connect your tablet to your computer To learn how to connect your tablet to your kind of computer and how to view and copy items to and from it see e Connecting to a Windows computer via USB on page 72 or e Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB on page 73 By default tablet stores music in the Music folder at the root of its file system But Music will find your music files in anywhere you put them on your tablet except the Ringtones folder Copy music and other audio files form your computer to your tablet You can use subfolders to organize your music files If the music files have accompanying artwork in JPEG format rename the art file albumart jpg and include it in the same folder as the music files If you have created any playlists create a subfolder for them in your music folder and copy the playlists into it Disconnect your tablet from your computer When you next start Music it searches your tablet s storage and adds the music to yo
68. Wi Fi network listed in the to a Wi Fi network Wi Fi settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Configure proxy settings for a Wi Fi network Receive notifications when open networks are in range AUG 3 1 CC 100 62 Touch amp hold a network in the list Touch Modify network in the dialog that opens Change the settings you want See Turn Wi Fi on and connect to a Wi Fi network on page 60 and Configure proxy settings for a Wi Fi network on page 62 Touch Save Some network administrators require you to connect to internal or external network resources via a proxy server By default the Wi Fi networks you add are not configured to connect via a proxy but you can change that for each Wi Fi network you ve added Proxy settings are used by Browser but may not be used by other apps 1 2 3 Touch amp hold a network in the list of Wi Fi networks you ve added Touch Modify network in the dialog that opens If the network has no proxy settings touch the None proxy setting and in the menu that opens touch Manual Enter the proxy settings required for your network e The hostname of the proxy server e The port on which the proxy server listens for connections e Any domains you want to connect to directly bypassing the proxy server You may need to refer to your network administrator for details about these settings Touch Save The proxy settings apply on
69. You can download additional wallpapers from Android Market See Market on page 265 Touch Save or Set wallpaper Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 36 Working with widgets Widgets are miniature apps that you can place on your Home screens Some widgets are standalone applications some open a related application when you touch them and others provide a subset of useful information or controls for their related applications Stock widgets include a clock a Gmail widget that displays recent messages a music player a picture frame a calendar that shows upcoming appointments and so on You can also download widgets from Android Market Browsing among available widgets and adding moving and removing them from you Home screens is described in Customizing Home screens on page 33 Some widgets simply display information and or act as shortcuts for opening their applications such as the Picture Frame widget Some widgets give you controls to view and manage their application s content such as the Clock widget or the Music Player widget Other widgets such as the Calendar and Gmail and Email widgets are like miniature applications You can scroll information displayed by different widgets in different ways for example you can scroll up or down among events in the Calendar widget or with a carousel effect in the Books widget If you touch amp hold some widgets such as the Gmail widget handles ap
70. abel of one You can change the labels of one or more conversations at once There are several or more conversations ways to do that In a conversation list gt Drag a conversation to a label in the left column AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail AUG 3 1 CC 100 145 1 selected Change labels a Hull Mt Rid EF p ER PERSE A Ske Che Travel Roy West eee ess ossi sai Jan 30 Priority Inbox 1 Lavash Hugh me 5 Cheese factory this Sunday You sure are lucky Jan 30 te Starred Lavash Kiri Shoe envy 12 5 2010 Important 1 Roy West Group rides this weekend 12 5 2010 Accepted Lunch at Cafe P e Thu hu May 20 20 11am 12pm 27 abat pazditu gmail com Hu cepted thi nano Reminder Spinning Class Mon Oct 25 LE we Google Calendar gt pazditu gmail com more details Spinning Class When 10 25 2010 Reminder Status Meeting non Oet 25 Satam Tam Saaga nii pazditu gmail com more Meeting 10232010 Reminder Club Ride Sun a 24 10am an ES Google Calendar pazditu gmail com hora Club Ride Whe 10 24 2010 Trash me Mail 2 ms Watch ri giri sp cures Roll on Le Les 10222010 nt failed perma p 1022 2010 Personal This changes the label removing the label of the conversation you dragged it from and assigning the label you dragged it to Check a batch of conversations and drag one to a label in the left column This changes the labels for the whole batch Check a batch of co
71. able that came with your tablet to connect your tablet to your computer Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Tethering amp portable hotspot Check USB tethering The tablet starts sharing its mobile network data connection with your computer via USB connection An ongoing notification icon is added to the System bar to the left of the time Uncheck USB tethering to stop sharing your data connection Or just disconnect the USB cable If your computer can obtain an Internet connection via Bluetooth you can configure your tablet to share it s mobile data connection with your computer 1 Pair your tablet with your computer See Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 Configure your computer to obtain its network connection via Bluetooth For more information see your computer s documentation Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 4 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Tethering amp portable hotspot Check Bluetooth tethering Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Share your tablet s data connection as a portable Wi Fi hotspot Rename or secure your portable hotspot AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 N 77 Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Tethering amp portable hotspot Check Portable Wi Fi hotspot After a
72. account you may have joined contacts manually and so on If contact information from different sources was joined in error you can separate the information back into individual contacts on your phone Touch a contact you want to separate to view its details Touch the Edit button at the top right of the Application bar Separate contact 1 2 3 Touch Menu and touch Separate 4 information Touch OK in the dialog that asks you to confirm you want to separate the contact The contact information is separated into individual contacts in the list of contacts AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 123 Gmail Gmail is an Android application for working with Google s web based email service When you first set up your tablet you were prompted to sign into an existing Google Account or to create a new account you can also do that later at any time see Accounts on page 99 When you open Gmail on your tablet your Inbox contains the messages from your Gmail accounts on the web To learn more about Gmail be sure to visit Gmail on the web In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Opening Gmail and your Inbox on page 124 Reading your messages on page 128 Copying text from a message on page 132 Composing and sending a message on page 134 Replying to or forwarding a message on page 137 Working with Priority Inbox on page 139 Working with conversations in batches o
73. an choose the calendar to which to add the event Touch the Plus button to add more reminders See Setting an event reminder on page 169 Invite guests to the event In the Add guests field enter the email addresses of everyone you want to invite to the event Separate multiple addresses with commas If the people to whom you send invitations use Google Calendar they ll receive an invitation in Calendar and by email Touch Done in the Application bar The event is added to your calendar Android User s Guide Calendar 168 Editing or deleting an event Edit an event Delete an event AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can an edit or delete an event that you created on the tablet or on the web You can also edit or delete events created by others if they have given you permission 1 1 Open the summary of the event See Viewing event details on page 166 Make your changes to the event Touch Done in the Application bar Open the summary of the event See Viewing event details on page 166 Touch Delete In the dialog that opens touch OK Android User s Guide Calendar 169 Setting an event reminder You can set one or more reminders for an event whether or not you created the event or have permission to edit its other details Set an event reminder 1 Delete an event 1 reminder gt AUG 3 1 CC 100 Open the event summary and touch Details See Viewing event details on pa
74. and a Bluetooth icon appears in place of the mobile or Wi Fi network indicator in the System bar to the right of the time and the Status Details panel displays Bluetooth tethering AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 69 Connecting to keyboards mice and other input devices You can connect a keyboard mouse or even a joystick or other input device to your tablet via USB or Bluetooth and use it with your tablet just as you would with a PC Depending on your model of tablet and USB input device you may need an adapter to connect your device to the tablet s USB port See your tablet s owner s guide for more information To connect more than one USB device at a time use a USB hub use a powered hub to reduce the drain on your tablet s battery You pair and connect Bluetooth input devices to your tablet in the same way as any other Bluetooth device see Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 Keyboards In addition to entering text you can use your keyboard to navigate your tablet s features e Use the arrow keys to select items on screen e Pressing Return when an item is selected is equivalent to touching that item e Pressing Escape is equivalent to touching Back e Press Tab or Shift Tab to move from field to field in a form or other screen with multiple text fields Mice When you connect a mouse to your tablet and move the mouse an arrow shaped cursor appears just like o
75. annel gt Touch the YouTube icon at the top left of the screen to return to the YouTube home screen and touch Your channel The Your Channel screen presents information about your channel and tabs you can touch to view a list of the videos you ve uploaded your favorite videos your playlists and a list of other peoples channels you re subscribed to Open another person s Touch the Subscriptions tab on the Your Channel screen channel op gt On the Watch screen of a video uploaded by another person touch the person s name in the description below the video The channel screen opens with information about the channel You can touch a tab on the channel screen to view the channel s uploads favorites activities or playlists AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 243 Subscribe to a channel 1 Open another person s channel See Open another person s channel on page 242 Touch Subscribe at the top of the channel screen Touch All activity or Video uploads only in the dialog The option you touch affects what tab opens when you open the channel screen You can view the list of channels you re subscribed to and touch one to open it in the Subscriptions tab in Your Channel If you re already subscribed to a channel Subscribe changes to Unsubscribe at the top of that channel s screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 244 Uploading and sharing videos Upload a video to Yo
76. arch in the Browser Go to Google com Send email To one or more contacts Cc one or more con tacts Bcc one or more con tacts Subject followed by a subject Message followed by the message you want to send speak any punctua tion you want to include Gmail opens where you can complete the mes sage before sending it Send email to Hugh Briss subject new shoes message can t wait to show you my new shoes period AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions 96 Say Followed by one or more optional words Results Examples Note to self followed by the message you want to send to yourself Gmail opens where you can complete a message to yourself before send ing it Note to self remember the milk Set alarm Time or for followed by a time such as 10 45am or 20 min utes from now Label followed by a label for the alarm Clock opens prompting you to confirm the details before setting the alarm Set alarm for 7 45pm label switch the laundry Listen to followed by words for music you want to search for such as the name of a song artist or album YouTube opens with the results of your search for music If you install another application that works with the Listen to Voice Action you re prom
77. attern or to enter your PIN or password to unlock it You can encrypt all the data on your tablet Google Accounts application data music and other media downloaded information and so on If you do you must enter a numeric PIN or password each time you power on your tablet Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 32 Warning Encryption is irreversible The only way to revert to an unencrypted tablet is to perform a a factory data reset which erases all your data see Privacy settings on page 280 1 Prepare for encryption Before you can start encrypting your tablet you must e Set a lock screen PIN or password see Secure your lock screen on page 31 e Charge your tablet s battery Plug in your tablet Schedule an hour or more for the encryption process you must not interrupt it or you will lose some or all of your data 2 Open Settings and touch Location amp security gt Encrypt tablet Read the information on the Encrypt Tablet screen carefully Warning You must not interrupt the encryption process or you will lose data The Encrypt tablet button is dimmed if your battery is not charged or if your tablet is not plugged in If you change your mind about encrypting your tablet touch Back zd 3 Touch the Encrypt tablet button Enter your lock screen PIN or password and touch Continue 5 Touch the Encrypt tablet button again to confirm you want to continue The encryption process starts and displa
78. blet It s your starting point for opening and managing the apps that came with the system and that your downloaded from Android Market or other locations See Working with apps on page 39 for details about opening apps switching among them and more gt Touch the Apps button at the top right of any Home screen to open the Apps screen The Apps screen closes when you open an app You can also close it by touching Home gt Touch My apps to view just the apps you ve downloaded from Android Market See Market on page 265 Swipe left or right to bring more apps into view If you have more apps installed than can fit on one screen you can see outlines of additional apps on adjacent screens Touch an app on the Apps screen to open it See Opening and switching apps on page 40 Drag an app down so you can add a shortcut for it to a Home screen Thumbnails of your Home screens appear when you drag an app you can pause on one to place the shortcut where you want See Customizing Home screens on page 33 Drag an app to the Information icon to open a screen with details about the app Drag an app on the My Apps tab to the Uninstall icon to uninstall the app from your tablet You can t uninstall the apps that are included with Android only the apps you ve downloaded Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 25 Monitoring your tablet s status Status icons Notification icons
79. bout you and your activities with your Google Account AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions 98 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 99 Accounts You can sync contacts email calendar events and other information with your tablet from multiple Google Accounts or other kinds of accounts depending on the applications installed on your tablet For example you could start by adding your personal Google Account so your personal email contacts and calendar are always available Then you could add an account from work so you can read your work email and have your work contacts handy You configure how your account interacts with the applications on your tablet using the Account amp Sync settings and the setting s in Gmail Calendar Email and other applications Use a web browser to change your password and other general account settings In this section Adding and removing accounts on page 100 Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Accounts 100 Adding and removing accounts You can add multiple Google Accounts You may also be able to add other kinds of accounts depending on your applications Some you can add in the Accounts amp Sync settings as described in this section Others you add using an application that works with those kinds of accounts for example you can add IMAP and POP3 email accounts with the Emai
80. box Priority Inbox Starred Important Sent Bike Club Touch a label to change whether or how many messages to sync A dialog for that label opens with three options Sync none Don t download any conversations that have only this label Sync 4 days Download the previous 4 or number of days you set of conversations Sync all Download all conversations with this label Touch the option you want and touch OK Touch Menu gt Settings Touch the account whose labels you want to work with Touch Number of days to sync Enter the number of days and touch OK Android User s Guide Gmail 148 Check or change your You use the Settings application to control how and when applications synchronize Gmail account sync their data But you can check whether you have synchronization on for Gmail and settings ACCESS the Account amp Sync settings directly from Gmail settings 1 Touch Menu gt Settings 2 Touch the account whose synchronization settings you want to check The Sync options indicate whether Gmail sync for this account is ON or Gmail sync for this account is OFF 3 Touch Gmail sync for this account to open the Accounts amp Sync settings See Accounts amp sync settings on page 279 for details on how to change what applications data are synchronized for each account 4 Touch a conversation label whose synchronization settings you want to change AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 149
81. ce Search analyzes your speech and Browser opens displaying results of a Google Search on the web See Browser on page 207 If you have the Use My Location setting checked in the Google Search settings local results are featured in your search results see Changing Google Search settings on page 90 If Google Search didn t understand what you said it presents a list of similar sounding search terms and actions which you can touch to continue with that action Some Voice Actions open another application where you re prompted to confirm and complete the action for example sending messages opens Gmail and setting an alarm opens Clock AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions Using Voice Actions 94 You can use Voice Actions in Voice Search to text your contacts get directions send email and to perform a number of other common tasks in addition to searching the web For example you can say e Set alarm for 8 30am e Send email to Marcus Foster Subject Coming tonight Message Hope to see you later e Navigate to Mike s bikes in Palo Alto For the current list of languages and locations supported by Voice Actions visit the Google Mobile Help Center at http www google com support mobile You can search and control your tablet with the following Voice Action commands Say Followed by one or more optional words Results Examples Wor
82. d to compose messages Messages that you send are stored on your tablet with the Outbox label until your connection is restored when they are sent automatically You can view the Android User s Guide Gmail 127 messages stored with the Outbox label see View conversations by label on page 126 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 128 Reading your messages When viewing a list of conversations you can open a conversation to read its messages Gmail pushes new messages to your tablet automatically you don t need to refresh your Inbox manually but see Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 When you receive a new message you also receive a notification in the Status bar unless you ve turned off Gmail notifications for that account see Changing Gmail settings on page 156 If you re using Priority Inbox as your default inbox you only receive notifications for important messages see Working with Priority Inbox on page 139 Read a message Touch a conversation that contains a message you want to read A conversation opens to the first new unread message or to the first starred message if you ve previously starred a message in the conversation See Starring a message on page 143 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail This conversation has one label Touch to view the header and the first line of messages that you ve already read Touch t
83. deo chat buttons Touch the Microphone video chat button to mute or unmute your micro phone Use your tablet s Volume buttons to control the volume of the speakers dur ing your video chat Touch the Text video chat button to switch to text chatting you can chat by voice at the same time but video is paused Touch the Camera video chat button to switch between your tablet s front and back cameras Adjust the amount of image stabilization by dragging the slider above your picture 3 When you re done with the video chat touch the End Chat button Accept an invitation to If you have the Allow video and voice chats option checked see Changing and chat by voice or video monitoring online status on page 185 your friends can invite you to a video or voice chat AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Talk 184 gt Touch Accept in the invite window Video chat invite 7 ya Hugh Briss Accept Decline The audio or video chat window opens See Invite a friend to a voice chat on page 182 and Invite a friend to a video chat on page 183 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Talk 185 Changing and monitoring online status Change your online AUG 3 1 CC 100 status Icons in Google Talk Gmail Google Maps and other applications indicate your and your friends Google Talk status Available Signed into Google Talk and available for text chats Available Signed into G
84. described in Adding and changing email accounts on page 200 After the initial setup Email opens to the last screen you were viewing or if you have not used Email recently it displays the contents of the Inbox for the account you picked to send email from by default You can also add an Email account shortcut to a Home screen so that you can open that account directly from that Home screen See Customizing Home screens on page 33 for details about adding shortcuts Each account has Inbox Outbox Sent and Drafts folders Depending on the features supported by your account s service provider you may have additional folders 1 Switch to the account you want to work with See Switch accounts on page 192 The accounts folders are listed in the left column 2 Touch an account s folder The messages in that folder are displayed If you have more than one email account the current account is displayed at the top left in the Application bar when you are viewing your mail gt Touch the name of the current account in the Application bar and then touch the account whose email you want to view Android User s Guide Email 193 Open Combined view 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 Combined view gt Touch the name of the current account in the Application bar and then touch Combined view Messages in the Combined
85. devices Find nearby devices Touch to search for and display information about nearby Bluetooth devices Android User s Guide Settings Tethering amp portable hotspot settings screen VPN settings screen Mobile networks settings screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 271 For details about these settings see Sharing your mobile data connection on page 75 USB tethering Check to share your tablet s mobile network data connection with your computer via a USB connection Portable Wi Fi hotspot Check to share your tablet s mobile network data connection as a portable Wi Fi hotspot Portable Wi Fi hotspot settings Opens a screen with settings to turn the hotspot on and off and to set the its SSID its broadcast name and security Bluetooth tethering Check to share your tablet s mobile network data connection with other devices via a Bluetooth connection Help Opens a dialog with information about USB tethering portable Wi Fi hotspots Bluetooth tethering as well as information about where to learn more For details about these settings see Connecting to virtual private networks VPNs on page 79 Add VPN Opens a screen that prompts you to select the type of VPN to add You are then prompted for VPN configuration details VPNs The list of VPNs that you ve previously configured Data enabled Uncheck to prevent your tablet from transmitting data on any mobile network This is useful if you are traveling in an
86. ds you want to search for Browser opens with the result of your search bike shoes Map of followed by an address name business name type of business or other location Maps opens with the result of a Maps search for the words you spoke Map of Golden Gate Park San Francisco Directions to followed by an address name business name type of business or other desti nation Maps opens with direc tions to your destination or a list of possible matching destinations Directions to 1299 Colusa Avenue Berkeley California AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions 95 Say Followed by one or more optional words Results Examples Navigate to followed by an address name busi ness name type of busi ness or other destination Maps opens with spoken turn by turn directions to your destination or a list of possible matching des tinations Navigate to Union Square San Francisco The name of one of your contacts If there is a single match Contacts opens with details about your con tact Or if there is more than one match you re prompted to pick a con tact Mike LeBeau Go to followed by a search string or URL Voice Search searches for a matching web site and if it finds one opens its URL in Browser Other wise it opens the result of a Google se
87. dvanced settings for particular websites Text size Opens a dialog where you can increase or decrease the size of the text that Browser uses when displaying webpages Default zoom Opens a dialog where you can increase or decrease the magnification level that Browser uses when first opening a webpage Open pages in overview Uncheck to open webpages displaying their top left corners at 100 size Check to open webpages zoomed out in an overview Auto fit pages Check to have Browser optimize the presentation of text and other elements of webpages to fit your tablet s screen Checking this option also causes the browser to reflow a column of text to fit the screen if you double tap the screen directly after zooming with your fingers Uncheck to view pages as designed for a computer screen and to cause double tapping to simply switch between zoomed in and default view Block pop ups Check to prevent websites from opening tabs unless you request it Load images Uncheck to omit images when Browser displays a webpage This speeds webpage display which can be useful if you have a slow connection but many websites make little sense with text alone Text encoding Opens a dialog where you can change the character encoding standard that Browser uses when displaying text on a webpage Reset to default Touch to delete all Browser data including your browsing history cookies passwords and bookmarks and to restore all the Browser settings to t
88. e Account 13 Resetting your Google Account password 14 Additional accounts 14 Backing up and restoring your data 15 Finishing setup 17 Home and Android basics 19 Getting to know Home 20 Using the touchscreen 21 Using the Navigation buttons 22 Waking the tablet 23 Finding your apps 24 Monitoring your tablet s status 25 Status icons 25 Notification icons 25 Managing notifications 26 Status Details and Quick Settings 28 Securing your tablet 31 Customizing Home screens 33 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Contents Working with widgets 36 Optimizing battery life 37 Working with apps 39 Opening and switching apps 40 Managing how apps use memory 42 Managing downloads 46 Entering and editing text 47 Using the onscreen keyboard 48 Entering text by speaking 52 Editing text 54 Connecting to networks and devices 57 Connecting to mobile networks 58 Connecting to Wi Fi networks 60 Connecting to Bluetooth devices 65 Connecting to keyboards mice and other input de vices 69 Keyboards 69 Mice 69 Other input devices 70 Connecting to cameras 71 Connecting to a Windows computer via USB 72 Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB 73 Sharing your mobile data connection 75 Android User s Guide Connecting to virtual private networks VPNs 79 Working with secure certificates 81 Google Search 83 Searching your tablet and the web 84 Using Google Search tips and tricks 88 Changing Google Search settings 90 Searchable items set
89. e Calculator on page 264 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Calculator 264 Using the Calculator Open and use the AUG 3 1 CC 100 Calculator Use Calculator to solve math problems gt Touch the Calculator icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 gt Enter numbers or operators to figure arithmetic and trigonometric problems just as on a pocket calculator gt Touch amp hold the Calculator s display to copy the contents of the display so you can paste it into a text field in another app See Entering and editing text on page 47 Android User s Guide 265 Market Android Market provides direct access to free and paid applications games and books that you can download and install on your tablet AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Market 266 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 267 Settings You use the Settings application to configure how your tablet looks sounds communicates protects your privacy and operates in many other ways Many applications also have their own settings for details see the documentation for those applications In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Opening Settings on page 268 Wireless amp networks settings on page 269 Sound settings on page 273 Screen settings on page 274 Location amp security settings on page 275 Applicati
90. e Chrome A dialog asks whether you want to add any existing bookmarks in Browser to your Chrome bookmarks before syncing or to delete them so they are replaced by your Chrome bookmarks Touch the sync option you want and touch Next If you have added more than one Google Account to your tablet a dialog asks which one you want to sync with Chrome 4 Touch the account you want to sync and touch Next h U N gt Touch Done in the dialog that asks you to confirm you want to sync bookmarks Subsequently the Sync with Google Chrome setting opens a dialog where you can pick which account s synced bookmarks you want to work with Touch the Bookmarks button E at the top right of the URL bar Touch amp hold the bookmark to share Touch Share link in the menu Touch the application you want to use to send the bookmark The application opens with the bookmark s address entered You can add a shortcut to your one of your tablet s Home screens that you can touch to open one of your bookmarks in a Browser window Android User s Guide Browser Delete a bookmark AUG 3 1 CC 100 a fk U N h WU N gt 221 Open the Home screen where you want to add the item For an introduction to working with Home including how to switch Home screens see Getting to know Home on page 20 Touch the Customize button at the top right of the screen Touch More Touch Bookmark Touch a bookmark in the scrolling list of your b
91. e accounts that you configure are displayed in the Accounts screen See Opening Email your Inbox and other folders on page 192 The Email setup wizard helps you set up your account for many popular email systems including those based on IMAP and POP3 so you can read and work with the same email as you do on a computer in Thunderbird Mac Mail in a web browser or with another email application If your service provider requires additional settings or if your service provider is unknown to Email you can enter the necessary details manually though you will typically need to contact your email service provider to determine the right settings for your account 1 Touch the Menu button in the Application bar and touch Account settings 2 Touch Add account in the Application bar In the Setup Email screen enter your email address and password If you re adding a second or subsequent email address you can also check the option to use the new account to send outgoing messages by default 3 Touch Next Or if you need to enter email account settings the wizard can t configure for you touch Manual setup If you touch Next Email attempts to communicate with your email service provider to validate your account for sending and receiving mail using just your email address and password This is sufficient for most email services Depending on the service provider you may be asked what kind of email account you have If you re not
92. e first time on page 9 Android User s Guide Settings 281 Storage settings Use the Storage settings to monitor the used and available space on your tablet s internal storage You can also view and manage the storage used by applications see Managing how apps use memory on page 42 You can view reopen and delete files you ve downloaded with Browser Gmail or Email with the Downloads application see Managing downloads on page 46 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Settings 282 Language amp input settings Language amp input screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 Use the Language amp Input settings to select the language you want to work with on your tablet You can also configure the Android voice input feature described in Entering text by speaking on page 52 and the text to speech synthesizer for applications that can take advantage of it such as TalkBack see Accessibility settings on page 286 You can configure the onscreen keyboard or other input methods You can also add or remove words you ve added to the user dictionary Select language Opens the Language screen where you can select the language to use for the text on your tablet User dictionary Opens a list of the words you ve added to the dictionary as described in Using the onscreen keyboard on page 48 Touch a word to edit it Touch the red X next to a word to delete it Touch the Plus button at the top right of
93. e total RAM in use and the amount free You can touch a misbehaving app process or service and in the screen that opens touch the Stop button You can also touch the Report button to send the developer information about how the app misbehaved on your tablet Important Stopping an app or operating system processes and services disables one or more dependant functions on your tablet You may need to restart your tablet to restore full functionality Uninstall an app You can uninstall apps you downloaded from Market and other sources You can also use Market to uninstall apps you downloaded from there see Managing downloads on page 46 1 a fF N AUG 3 1 CC 100 Open the Manage Applications screen Touch the Downloads tab Touch the app you want to uninstall Touch the Uninstall button Touch OK in the screen that asks you to confirm you want to uninstall the app Android User s Guide Working with apps 46 Managing downloads Files apps and other items you download in Browser Gmail Email or in other ways are stored on your tablet s internal storage You can use the Downloads app to view reopen or delete what you ve downloaded Some mobile networks place restrictions on the size of the files you can download to manage the demands on their networks or to help you avoid unexpected charges When you try to download an oversized file when connected to such networks you re asked or required to delay do
94. eck if you want a dialog to open when you delete messages asking you to confirm that you want to delete them Confirm before archiving Check if you want a dialog to open when you archive messages asking you to confirm that you want to archive them Confirm before sending Check if you want a dialog to open when you send messages asking you to confirm that you want to send them Auto advance Opens a dialog where you can set which screen opens when you delete or archive a conversation whose messages you are viewing the messages in the next conversation the previous conversation or the Inbox or other conversation list you re working with Message text size Opens a dialog where you can select the size of text in the messages you read Clear search history Touch to remove the history of the words you ve searched for previously in Gmail in any account See Searching for messages on page 149 Restore default for Show pictures Restores the default setting don t show pictures automatically for all the people who send you email including those whose Show pictures setting you may have changed when reading messages from them Android User s Guide Gmail Account settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 157 Each account has its independent settings Priority Inbox Check to make Priority Inbox your default inbox so it opens when you start Gmail with new messages instead of Inbox and you only receive notifications for new message
95. ect text you want to replace by pasting You can paste text that you copied from one app into a text field in any app Touch Paste in the Application bar You can also touch the Paste panel that opens above the cursor Paste hell I just picked up my new shoes I will wear them to spinning dass tonight The text is inserted at the cursor The text that you pasted also remains in a temporary area on the tablet so you can paste that same text in another location Android User s Guide 57 Connecting to networks and devices Your tablet can connect to a variety of networks and devices including mobile networks for data transmission Wi Fi data networks and Bluetooth devices such as headsets You can connect your tablet to a computer to transfer files from your tablet using a USB connection or Bluetooth or to a Keyboard mouse other input devices or to a camera to import its photos You can also share your tablet s mobile data connection via USB Bluetooth or as a portable Wi Fi hotspot In this section Connecting to mobile networks on Connecting to virtual private networks page 58 VPNs on page 79 Connecting to Wi Fi networks on Working with secure certificates on page 60 page 81 Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 Connecting to keyboards mice and other input devices on page 69 Connecting to cameras on page 71 Connecting to a Windows computer via USB on page
96. en requires you to drag a lock icon to unlock the screen But you can secure the lock screen by requiring that you draw a pattern or enter a numeric PIN or password so only you can access your data buy apps from Market and so on You may also be required to secure you lock screen by a policy set by an email account or other account you add to your tablet See Location amp security settings on page 275 for other ways to protect your tablet and privacy and for details about other lock screen settings You can also encrypt the data on your tablet so you must enter a numeric PIN or a password to decrypt it each time you power it on 1 Touch the time in the System bar touch the time in the Status Details panel and touch Settings at the bottom of the Quick Settings You can also open Settings by touching its icon in the Apps screen or on a Home screen if you placed a shortcut to it there Touch Location amp security Touch Configure lock screen 4 Touch Pattern PIN or Password If you touch Pattern you re guided to create a pattern you must draw to unlock the screen The first time you do this a short tutorial about creating an unlock pattern appears Then you re prompted to draw and redraw your own pattern If you touch PIN or Password you re prompted to set a numeric PIN or a password you must enter to unlock your screen The next time you turn on your tablet or wake up the screen you must draw your unlock p
97. endar and events Open Calendar AUG 3 1 CC 100 Open Calendar to view events you ve created or that others have invited you to When you first set up your tablet you configured it to use an existing Google Account or you created a new account The first time you open the Calendar application on your tablet it displays any existing calendar events from your Google Account on the web You can add additional accounts with Google Calendar or other calendars to your tablet and configure them to display in Calendar See Accounts on page 99 When you first set up Calendar to synchronize events on your tablet it includes events from the previous month through one year in the future Subsequently Calendar keeps a year s worth of future events synchronized between your tablet and the web plus any later events that you add to your calendar using Calendar on your tablet gt Touch the Calendar icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 Events from each account you ve added to your tablet and configured to synchronize calendars are displayed in Calendar For information about adding accounts see Accounts on page 99 Events from each calendar are displayed in a different color For information about which calendars are displayed on your tablet see Synchronizing and displaying calendars on page 171 Calendar shows the current time the blue horiz
98. ents of your library in a number of ways including by album library artist or genre gt Search for music in your 1 library gt AUG 3 1 CC 100 On the main Library screen touch the name of the current view near the top left of the Application bar The contents of your library is displayed in a scrolling grid list or carousel depending on the view Touch an album artist playlist or genre to view its contents Touch a song to play it Touch the triangular menu button Bi next to an item to play it or add it to a playlist Working with playlists on page 255 Touch the Search button Start typing the name of the artist album or song you re looking for Matching songs are displayed in the list below the search box Touch a matching song to play it touch a matching album or artist to view a list of its songs or touch the triangular menu button BD next to play it or add it toa playlist Android User s Guide Music Playing music Play music 253 You can listen to music by using the tablet s built in speakers through a wired headset or through a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset that supports the A2DP profile See Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 and refer to your tablet s owner s guide for more information about connecting headsets to your tablet gt Touch a song in your library to listen to it OR gt While viewing a list of albums artists playlists genres or songs
99. enu button at the top right and touch Search settings Touch Searchable items The Searchable Items settings list the applications you can target when searching along with a description of information they make searchable Check or uncheck the applications whose information you want to be able to search You can control how your search history is stored and used on your tablet and the web in a number of ways Android User s Guide Google Search 87 Open Google Search Touch the Menu button at the top right and touch Search settings Touch Google Search bh N gt Check or uncheck Use My Location depending on whether you want to inform Google of your location when using Google Search to see local results 5 Check or uncheck Personalized search depending on whether you want Google servers to make search suggestions based on your interests and previous searches 6 Touch Manage search history to open Browser with a web based interface for viewing and managing the web search history associated with your Google Account AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Search Using Google Search tips and tricks 88 The following techniques are examples of shortcuts to getting the most out of Google Search and Voice Search For the latest list of tips and tricks visit the Google Help Center What you want What to type or say Examples Sports information team s name San Francisco Giants
100. eplaces those words in transcriptions with a placeholder comprised of hash symbols Personalized recognition Check if you want Google to store and use recordings of what you speak when using Voice Search and when entering text by speaking to improve voice recognition for your own voice Touch More information in the dialog that opens to learn more Google Account dashboard Touch to open your Google Account dashboard in Browser where you can view and manage information stored on Google servers that is associated with your Google Account If you don t have speech synthesizer data installed only the Install voice data setting is available Listen to an example Plays a brief sample of the speech synthesizer using your current settings Always use my settings Check to use the settings on this screen in place of speech synthesizer settings available in other applications Default engine Opens a dialog where you can set the text to speech application you want to use if you have more than one installed Install voice data If your tablet does not have speech synthesizer data installed connects to Android Market and guides you through the process of downloading and installing the data This setting is not available if the data is already installed Android User s Guide Settings Configure input methods screen Android Keyboard settings screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 284 Speech rate Opens a dialog where you can select how quic
101. ere you can set when you want to disconnect from Wi Fi networks and connect to mobile data networks when the screen turns off uses more mobile data never when plugged in or never uses more battery power Wi Fi networks Displays a list of Wi Fi networks you ve previously configured and those detected when the tablet last scanned for Wi Fi networks See Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 Add Wi Fi network Opens a dialog where you can add a Wi Fi network by entering its SSID the name it broadcasts security type and other properties See Connecting to Wi Fi networks on page 60 MAC address The Media Access Control MAC address of your tablet when connected to a Wi Fi network IP address The Internet Protocol IP address assigned to the tablet by the Wi Fi network you are connected to unless you used the IP settings to assign it a static IP address For details about working with these settings see Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 Bluetooth Check to turn on Bluetooth so you can connect to Bluetooth devices Device name Opens a dialog where you can give your tablet a name that is visible on some Bluetooth devices The current name is displayed Discoverable Check to make your tablet discoverable by other Bluetooth devices for 120 seconds Bluetooth devices Displays a list of Bluetooth devices that you ve previously configured and those detected when the tablet last scanned for Bluetooth
102. erver port number in this field automatically Or enter a different port number if your email service provider requires it Security type Select the security type required by your email service provider Select the Accept all certificates option for your security type to accept a server certificate from your SMTP server that is self signed out of date or in some other way not accepted by the Email application Require sign in Check this option to enter a username and password for your SMTP server if your email service provider requires that you enter them to send email Username Your username on the SMTP server this may not be the same as your username on the POP3 or IMAP server for incoming mail Visible only if Require sign in is checked Password Your password on the SMTP server this may not be the same as your username on the POP3 or IMAP server for incoming mail Visible only if Require sign in is checked AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 207 Browser You use Browser to open webpages and to search for information on the web In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Opening Browser on page 208 Navigating within a webpage on page 213 Navigating across webpages on page 215 Working with tabs on page 217 Downloading files on page 218 Working with bookmarks on page 219 Changing Browser settings on page 222 Android User s
103. estore their authority when you try to use them unless you delete those accounts Use secure credentials Check to allow applications to access your tablet s encrypted store of secure certificates and related passwords and other credentials You use credential storage to establish some kinds of VPN and Wi Fi connections as described in Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 If you have not set a password for the credential storage this setting is dimmed Install from storage Touch to install a secure certificate from your tablet s storage as described in Working with secure certificates on page 81 Set password Opens a dialog where you can set or change the password for your secure credential storage Your password must have at least 8 characters See Working with secure certificates on page 81 Clear storage Deletes all secure certificates and related credentials and erases the credential storage s own password after prompting you to confirm that you want to do this Android User s Guide Settings 277 Applications settings Applications settings screen Development screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 You use the Applications settings to view details about the applications installed on your tablet to manage their data to force them to stop if they misbehave and to set whether you want to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites and email Manage applications Opens a list of al
104. f you change your mind you can stop it from opening AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Browser 212 gt Touch the Cancel button to the right of the URL OR gt Touch the Menu button at the top right of the Application bar and touch Stop Get more information Touch Menu and touch More gt Page info about the current page A dialog opens with the page s title and full address URL Set your homepage Your homepage opens when you open a new Browser window and when you start Browser after restarting your tablet or after not using it for a while 1 Browse to the page you want to set as your homepage 2 Touch Menu and touch More gt Settings gt Set homepage 3 Touch Use current page Or enter a different page s address URL 4 Touch OK If you prefer to open new Browser windows without opening a webpage by default leave this field blank This can make new Browser windows open more quickly AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Browser 213 Navigating within a webpage Webpages that are optimized for mobile devices typically open at a size appropriate for a mobile device Often you can t zoom or even scroll their contents you may find it easier to look for a link that let s you switch to the non mobile version of the site Webpages that aren t designed specifically for mobile devices typically open in overview mode the page is zoomed out so you can get the big picture You can change how pages open
105. formation from the other account remains unchanged For more information about working with multiple accounts see Accounts on page 99 1 Open your contacts 2 Touch the contact you want to edit 3 Touch the Edit button at the top right of the Application bar 4 Edit the contact information using the same controls as when you create a contact See Adding contacts on page 111 5 Touch Done Android User s Guide Contacts Delete a contact AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 119 Open your contacts Touch the contact you want to delete Touch the Menu button at the top right of the Application bar and touch Delete contact 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 tablet You can t delete contacts from a read only account such as a Skype or Twitter account Instead a dialog informs you that the contact will be hidden To restore hidden contacts from a read only account you must delete that account from your tablet and then add it again If the contact contains information from both editable accounts such as Contacts and from a read only account a dialog informs you that the information from the read only account will be hidden not deleted Touch OK to confirm that you want to delete the contact Android User s Guide Contacts 120 Connecting quickly with your contacts
106. ft to save it in your Drafts folder You can open the combined Drafts folder for all accounts on the Combined view or just your account s Drafts folder See Open an account s folders on page 192 Touch a draft message in a Drafts folder to resume working on it Your message is also saved as a draft if you touch Back x or switch applications before sending it Touch the Discard button to abandon a message including any saved drafts If you aren t connected to a network for example if you re working in airplane mode the messages that you send are stored in your Outbox folder until you re connected to a network again Android User s Guide Email 199 Appending a signature to your messages AUG 3 1 CC 100 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 an android 1 Touch the Menu button in the Application bar and touch Account settings Touch the account you want to work with Touch Signature Enter a signature Entering and editing text on page 47 Touch OK 6 When you re finished changing settings touch Back ed Android User s Guide Email 200 Adding and changing email accounts Add an email account AUG 3 1 CC 100 The first time you open Email you re prompted to set up an email account After that you can configure Email to send and receive email from additional accounts Th
107. g to a Windows computer via USB on page 72 Transfer files to or from Once you have installed Android File Transfer on your Macintosh you can connect a Macintosh computer your tablet to your computer using the USB cable that came with your tablet so you can view and copy files 1 If you are using Android File Transfer for the first time double click it to open it After you start Android File Transfer once it opens automatically whenever you connect your tablet to your computer 2 Connect your tablet to your computer using its USB cable Android File Transfer starts if it s not already running and opens a window that displays the contents of your tablet Details about the amount of space on your tablet are at the bottom of the window You work with this window much as if it were a Finder window opening and closing folders creating new folders and dragging files to or from it and other Finder windows You can copy files up to 4GB onto the tablet AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Touch to add a new folder in the current folder Drag items to or from this window and Finder windows AUG 3 1 CC 100 74 gt Alarms gt ocim gt Download gt Movies v Music gt Bach Cello Suites Casals Bebo amp Colina Carole Cerasi gt I CASALS Pablo 1876 1973 Cond _ Prades F Charlie Christian gt Harald Vogel gt Heart Of The Forest gt Dit
108. g your tablet monitoring and responding to status and notification messages and so on In this section Getting to know Home on page 20 Using the touchscreen on page 21 Using the Navigation buttons on page 22 Waking the tablet on page 23 Finding your apps on page 24 Monitoring your tablet s status on page 25 Managing notifications on page 26 Status Details and Quick Settings on page 28 Securing your tablet on page 31 Customizing Home screens on page 33 Working with widgets on page 36 Optimizing battery life on page 37 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 20 Getting to know Home Return Home View other Home AUG 3 1 CC 100 screens After you finish setting up your tablet Home opens Home is your starting point for all the features of your tablet You can use the Customize button to add shortcuts to apps widgets and other features to your Home screens and to change the wallpaper see Customizing Home screens on page 33 At the top of the screen Home displays Search and Voice Search buttons to search your tablet and the web by typing or speaking see Google Search on page 83 The Apps button EEE Apps find all your installed apps see Opening and switching apps on page 40 The Customize button for adding items to your Home screens see Cus tomizing Home screens on page 33 A
109. ge 166 If you already have a reminder set touch the Plus button to add a reminder A new reminder is added for your default reminder time before the event You can change the default time see Changing Calendar settings on page 172 Touch the reminder time and in the dialog that opens touch the length of time before the event that you want to be reminded of it When the time comes you receive a notification about the event See Responding to event reminders on page 170 You can use Google Calendar on the web to configure additional reminder settings Touch Done in the Application bar Open the event summary Touch the reminder s Minus button Android User s Guide Calendar 170 Responding to event reminders If you set a reminder for an event you receive a Notification in the System bar when the reminder time arrives See Managing notifications on page 26 Respond to an event gt reminder AUG 3 1 CC 100 If you receive notifications in the System bar touch the notification to open a summary about it The number of current notifications is displayed in the summary Touch a Calendar notification summary to open the Calendar Notifications list which lists all Calendar 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 m
110. ge information over a distance of about 8 meters The most common Bluetooth devices are headsets for making calls or listening to music hands free kits for cars and other portable devices including laptops There are several Bluetooth profiles that define the features and communications standards for Bluetooth devices For a list of the profiles supported by your tablet refer to your tablet s owner s guide To connect to a Bluetooth device you must turn on your tablet s Bluetooth radio The first time you use a new device with your tablet you must pair the device with your tablet so that both devices know how to connect securely to each other After that you can simply connect to a paired device Turn off Bluetooth when you re not using it to extend the life of your battery between charges You may also be required to turn Bluetooth off in some locations Bluetooth is turned off when you switch to Airplane mode System bar icons indicate Bluetooth status Turn Bluetooth on or off 1 Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks Check or uncheck Bluetooth Change your tablet s Your tablet has a generic Bluetooth name by default which is visible to other Bluetooth name devices when you connect them You can change the name so that it is more recognizable AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 66 1 Open the Settings applicat
111. hat account now during setup If you sign in after setup you can t restore your settings If you don t have a Google Account you can also create one by touching Create account Enter your Gmail account Email pazditu gmail com Touch to enter your password Password By signing in you agree to the Google and Additional Privacy Policies Then touch Sign in Create account Cancel Sign in Touch to create a new Google Account When you sign in you re prompted to enter your username and password using the onscreen keyboard For information about navigating the touchscreen and entering text see Using the touchscreen on page 21 and Entering and editing text on page 47 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time Resetting your Google Account password Additional accounts AUG 3 1 CC 100 14 If you have an enterprise Gmail account through your company or other organization your IT department may have special instructions on how to sign into that account When you sign in your contacts Gmail messages Calendar events and other information from these apps and services on the web are synchronized with your tablet If you don t sign into a Google Account during setup you are prompted to sign in or to create a Google Account the first time you start an app that requires one such as Gmail or Android Market If you have a Google Account but forget your password
112. hat support syncing contacts For details about adding accounts see Adding and removing accounts on page 100 When you add a new Google Account or other kind of account Contacts looks for new contacts that are duplicates of existing contacts and tries to join them into a single entry You re also asked if you want to merge contacts if you add a contact that matches an existing one See Joining contacts on page 121 and Separating contact information on page 122 1 Open your contacts Touch the New button in the Application bar If you have more than one account with contacts touch the account to which you want to add the contact 4 Enter the contact s name and other information in the labeled fields by touching in a field and typing Scroll the page to view all categories 5 Touch a category s plus button to add more than one entry for that category for example to add both work and personal email addresses Touch the label to the right of the item of contact information to open a menu with preset labels such as Home or Work for an email address or touch Custom in the menu to create your own label 6 Touch the Picture Frame icon to the left of the contact s name to shoot or select a picture to display next to the name in your lists of contacts and in other applications 7 Touch the Groups field to add the contact to one or more Contacts groups Or touch Create new group in the menu to add the contac
113. he Android Keyboard settings apply to the onscreen keyboard that is included with your tablet The correction and capitalization features affect only the English version of the keyboard Android User s Guide Settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 285 Auto capitalization Check to have the onscreen keyboard automatically capitalize the first letter of the first word after a period the first word in a text field and each word in name fields Sound on keypress Check to play a brief sound each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard Auto correction Check to automatically enter a suggested word highlighted in the strip above the keyboard when you enter a space or punctuation See Using the onscreen keyboard on page 48 Show correction suggestions Check to show suggested words in a strip above the onscreen keyboard as you type See Using the onscreen keyboard on page 48 Android User s Guide Settings 286 Accessibility settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 You use the Accessibility settings to configure any accessibility plug ins you have installed on your tablet Accessibility Check to enable all installed accessibility plug ins KickBack Check to have the tablet vibrate briefly as feedback as you navigate the user interface touch buttons and so on This setting is only included if your tablet has a vibration feature TalkBack Check to have an installed speech synthesizer speak the labels or names of items as you naviga
114. heir original values Quick controls Check to hide the Application bar and URL bar and to access their controls by swiping your thumb into the screen from the left or right edge Android User s Guide Browser 225 Most visited homepage Check to replace your homepage with a screen that displays thumbnails of the webpages you visit most frequently Google Instant Check to use Google Instant when you search for information by typing in the Browser URL bar Using Google Instant can increase your mobile data use AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Browser 226 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 227 Maps Navigation Places and Latitude You use Maps to find your current location to view real time traffic conditions to get detailed directions by foot public transportation bicycle or car and to navigate by using spoken turn by turn driving instructions through Google Maps Navigation Beta You can find street addresses landmarks and places of business and locate these points of interest directly on a street map or satellite image In some areas you can view street level imagery of businesses and neighborhoods With Google Latitude you can view your friends locations on your maps and share your location and other information with them The Maps app also contains three features that allow for quick access to Google Places Navigation Beta and Latitude these appear as app icons in the Launcher Maps does
115. ication bar and touch Account settings Touch the name of the account you want to delete Touch Remove account at the bottom of the scrolling list of settings Touch OK in the dialog to confirm that you want to delete the account Android User s Guide Email 202 Email account settings General settings Account settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can change some general preferences for how you navigate through the email you re reading and the size of text You can also change a number of settings per account Auto advance Opens a dialog where you can set which screen opens when you delete or archive a message the next newer message the previous older message or the folder you were working in Message text size Opens a dialog where you can select the size of text in the messages you read The following settings for each email account when you create it or at any later time See Adding and changing email accounts on page 200 Account name The name of the account as it appears in the Accounts and Folders screens Your name Your name as it appears to others when they receive email from you Signature Opens a dialog where you can enter a signature to append to the messages you send from this account See Appending a signature to your messages on page 199 Inbox check frequency Opens a dialog where you can set how often Email checks for new email sent to this account Auto download attachments When checked Emai
116. inutes Touch Dismiss all in the Calendar Notifications list to delete all reminders in the list Touch Back ed when viewing the Calendar Notifications list to keep the reminders pending The icon remains in the System bar and the reminders remain in the Notifications panel Android User s Guide Calendar 171 Synchronizing and displaying calendars When you add an account to your tablet that includes a calendar service and you configure that account to synchronize calendar events to the tablet the events from that calendar are added and kept up to date in Calendar on the tablet You control whether an account synchronizes changes to calendar events between a Google or other calendar service with the Settings application s Accounts amp Sync Settings screen see Accounts amp sync settings on page 279 You configure which calendars to store on the tablet for quicker access and which of those to show or hide on the tablet in Calendar Set whether calendars 1 Touch the Menu button in the Application bar and touch Settings are stored on the tablet 2 Touch the name of the account whose calendars you want to work with All the calendars you ve added or subscribed to for that account using Calendar on the web are listed 3 Check or uncheck the calendars you want to view on the tablet You remain subscribed to Calendars that you configure not to store on the tablet and you can still work with them with Google Calendar o
117. ion See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Bluetooth settings Check Bluetooth to turn it on 4 Touch Device name enter a name and touch OK Pair your tablet with a You must pair your tablet with a device before you can connect to it Once you pair Bluetooth device your tablet with a device they stay paired unless you unpair them 1 Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Bluetooth settings Check Bluetooth to turn it on Your tablet scans for and displays the IDs of all available Bluetooth devices in range 4 Ifthe device you want to pair with isn t in the list ensure that the other device is turned on and set to be discoverable See the documentation that came with your device to learn how to make it discoverable by your tablet and for other instructions for pairing 5 If your tablet stops scanning before your other device is ready touch Find nearby devices and then Scan for devices 6 Touch the ID of the other device in the list in the Found list to pair them The devices pair with each other If you re prompted to enter a passcode try entering OOOO or 1234 the most common passcodes or consult the documentation that came with the device to learn its passcode or what other procedures it requires for pairing If the pairing is successful your tablet connects to the device Connect to a Bluetooth Once paired you
118. ire batch of messages AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 143 Starring a message Star a message Unstar a message Unstar all messages in a conversation AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can star an important message to make it easy to locate again Conversations with starred messages display a star in your Inbox and other conversation lists To view just conversations with starred messages see View conversations by label on page 126 gt While reading a message touch the star in its header OR gt While viewing a list of messages in a conversation list touch a message s star The star turns gold gt Touch its star again gt Touch the conversation s star in a conversation list Android User s Guide Gmail 144 Labeling a conversation You organize conversations by labeling them Gmail has several built in labels You can add your own labels and assign them colors by using Gmail on the web Viewing labeled conversations is described in View conversations by label on page 126 Label a conversation When reading a conversation touch the labels in its header and in the dialog that opens check and uncheck the labels you want M pazditu gmail com 8 Q E 5 Roy west mo Hull Mt Ride D Bike Club Travel Hull Mt Ride This is just one of the treats from our ride Roy West an tax eweste monocot con Lavash Hugh me jan 30 m Cheese factory this Sunday of He Change the l
119. items on the Home screen to reposition them as described in Customizing Home screens on page 33 Swipe or slide To swipe or slide you quickly move your finger across the surface of the screen without pausing when you first touch it so you don t drag an item instead For example you slide the Home screen left or right to view the other parts and in some Calendar views you slide to view earlier or later periods Double tap Tap quickly twice on a webpage map or other screen to zoom For example you double tap a section of a webpage in Browser to zoom that section to fit the width of the screen Double tapping after pinching to zoom in some apps reflows a column of text to fit the width of the screen Pinch In some apps such as Maps Browser and Gallery you can zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and pinching them together to zoom out or spreading them apart to zoom in Rotate the screen On most screens the orientation of the screen rotates with the tablet as you turn it You can turn this feature on and off as described in Screen settings on page 274 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 22 Using the Navigation buttons The System bar s Navigation buttons make it easy to quickly switch among Android apps In some media apps the System bar controls are replaced by dim dots when you re watching a movie slide show and so on so you can better enjoy them witho
120. kly you want the synthesizer to speak Language Opens a dialog where you can select the language of the text you want the synthesizer to read This is particularly useful in combination with the Always Use My Settings setting to ensure that text is spoken correctly in a variety of applications Engines Lists the text to speech engines installed on your tablet Touch one to view or change its settings This screen lists settings for the input methods you have installed Initially it lists settings only for the Android onscreen keyboard Physical keyboard settings If your tablet is connected to a physical keyboard see Connecting to keyboards mice and other input devices on page 69 you can set your preferences when using a physical keyboard for the same settings as the onscreen keyboard described in Android Keyboard settings screen on page 284 Android keyboard checkbox For tablets with or connected to physical keyboards uncheck to disable the onscreen keyboard See Android Keyboard settings screen on page 284 Active input methods Touch to open a screen where you can check the languages you want available for typing and speaking when using the onscreen keyboard and voice input If you check specific languages the Input Method button appears in the System bar when the onscreen keyboard is open See Using the onscreen keyboard on page 48 Settings See Android Keyboard settings screen on page 284 T
121. l application see Adding and changing email accounts on page 200 Add an account To add some accounts you may need to obtain details from an IT support representative about the service to which the account connects For example you may need to know the account s domain or server address 1 Open the Accounts amp Sync settings You can do this by opening the Settings application and touching Accounts amp sync Many applications also have an Accounts button or menu item on the screens where you work with accounts For example in the Contacts application you can touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and then touch Accounts The Accounts amp Sync Settings screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts See Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Accounts Touch Add account AUG 3 1 CC 100 101 Y Wireless amp networks di Sound eneral sync settings Background data Auto sync t o FA Applica 5 Accounts amp sync g pazditu gmail com HH Privacy Storage LA Language amp input Accessibility Date amp time About tablet Touch Add account Touch the kind of account to add Follow the onscreen steps to enter the required and optional information about the account Most accounts require a username and password but the details depend on the kind of account
122. l downloads attachments to messages when you receive them rather than requiring you to explicitly download the attachments when you open the messages Automatic downloads only occur when you are connected to a Wi Fi network Amount to synchronize For some accounts opens a dialog where you can set how many days or weeks of email to store on the phone Android User s Guide Email AUG 3 1 CC 100 203 Default account Use this account s outgoing email server for the email you compose and send when you are not currently viewing or working with email from a specific account Email notifications Set whether you want to receive notifications when you receive new email sent to this account Select ringtone Select a ringtone to sound when you receive an email notification for this account Incoming settings Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you receive email for this account See Incoming server settings on page 204 Outgoing settings Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you send email from this account See Outgoing server settings on page 205 Sync Email For accounts that can sync different kinds of information check to sync email between your tablet and the email service Sync contacts For accounts that can sync contacts check to sync contacts from between this account to your tablet See Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 Sync calendar For accou
123. l the applications and other software installed on your tablet along with their sizes and tools for managing them See Managing how apps use memory on page 42 Running services Opens a list of applications processes and services services that are currently running or are cached See Managing how apps use memory on page 42 Storage use Opens a list of all applications on your tablet with information about the storage they use See Managing how apps use memory on page 42 Battery use Opens a list of the applications that have used battery power since you last charged your tablet See Optimizing battery life on page 37 Unknown sources Check to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites email or other locations other than Android Market Warning To protect your tablet and personal data download applications only from trusted sources such as Android Market Development See Development screen on page 277 The Development screen contains settings that are useful for developing Android applications For full information including documentation of the Android APIs and development tools see the Android developer web site http developer android com USB debugging Check to permit debugging tools on a computer to communicate with your tablet via a USB connection Android User s Guide Settings 278 Stay awake Check to prevent the screen from dimming and locking when the tab
124. lay Encrypt tablet Touch to encrypt the contents of your tablet and to require a numeric PIN or password to decrypt your tablet each time you power it on For details see Securing your tablet on page 31 Set up SIM card lock Only for tablets that use a SIM card Opens a screen where you can configure the tablet to require entering the SIM PIN to use the tablet and where you can change the SIM PIN Android User s Guide Settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 276 Visible passwords Check to briefly show each character of passwords as you enter them so that you can see what you enter Device administrators Opens a screen with a list of the applications you have authorized to be administrators for your tablet This is typically an email calendar or other enterprise application that you granted this authority to when you added an account hosted by an enterprise service that requires the ability to implement security policies on any devices that connect to it Touch an application in this list to disable its authority to be a device administrator if you do the account you added will typically lose some functionality in its applications such as the ability to sync new email or calendar events until you restore the application s authority as a device administrator Applications whose device administration authority you disable in this way but that have accounts that require them to be a device administrators typically notify you how to r
125. let is connected to a charger Don t use this setting with a static image on the tablet for long periods of time or the screen may become marked with that image Allow mock locations Check to permit a development tool on a computer to control where the tablet believes it is located rather than using the tablet s own internal tools for this purpose AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Settings 279 Accounts amp sync settings Accounts amp sync settings screen Account screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 Use the Accounts amp Sync settings to add remove and manage your Google Accounts 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 Gmail Calendar and other applications may also have their own settings to control how they synchronize data see the documentation for those applications for details Background data Check to permit applications to synchronize data in the background whether or not you are actively working in them Unchecking this setting can save battery power and lowers but does not eliminate data use Auto sync Check to permit applications to synchronize data on their own schedule If you uncheck this setting you must touch an account in the list on this screen and touch to synchronize data for that account Synchronizing data automatically is disabled if
126. list Automatically Talk determines whether your friend is popular with you You can block a friend from sending you messages When blocked your friend is also removed from your Friends list 1 Touch a friend in the Friends list If you don t see the friend s name touch Menu in the Application bar and touch All friends Touch the Chat Menu button to the right of the chat window and touch Block friend You can view a list of friends you blocked and unblock them in the Talk settings see Changing Google Talk settings on page 189 Android User s Guide Google Talk 189 Changing Google Talk settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can configure Google Talk to send you a notification with the contents of each text chat you receive and to sound a ringtone with notifications You can also configure Google Talk to sign you in automatically when you turn on your tablet along with several other settings If you have more than one account each maintains has its own Talk settings gt To change Talk settings touch the Menu button in the Application bar touch Settings and touch the account whose settings you want to change Sign in automatically Check to sign into Google Talk automatically when you power on your tablet Or uncheck to remain signed out of Talk until you open it and sign in Mobile indicator When checked your friends see an outline of an android next to your name in their Friends list when you re sig
127. luding how to show it in Gmail on the web so you can use it on your tablet visit Gmail on the web 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 gt If you ve configured Priority Inbox as your default inbox touch the Gmail icon at the top left of the screen until you return to Priority Inbox gt If Priority Inbox isn t your default inbox touch the Gmail icon at the top left of the screen until you return to your Inbox and then touch the Priority Inbox label See View conversations by label on page 126 Android User s Guide Gmail 140 Mi pardtu gmaiLcom u Hull Mt Ride Roy West gt Inbox y Priority Inbox 1 Lavash Hugh me Cheese factory this Sunday Wr Starred Lavash Kiri C nchers or tubutars Important Chats Sent p Outbox Hugh Briss 12pr Drafts n Did you get your new bike shoes All Mail Roy West p tation Roberts Birthday Party Fri Oct 16 6pm 8pm nan Spam parditu gmad com Trash Personal Important messages are marked with a yellow icon indicates important messages sent directly to you indicates important messages that you were Cc d on D indicates important messages that you received as part of a group Set Priority Inbox as You can set Priority Inbox as the conversation list to open whe
128. ly to the Wi Fi network you modified To change the proxy settings for other Wi Fi networks modify them individually By default when Wi Fi is on you receive notifications in the Status bar when your tablet detects an open Wi Fi network Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Add a Wi Fi network Forget a Wi Fi network AUG 3 1 CC 100 63 1 Turn on Wi Fi if it s not already on 2 Inthe Wi Fi settings screen check Network notification You can uncheck this option to stop receiving notifications You can add a Wi Fi network so the tablet will remember it along with any security credentials and connect to it automatically when it is in range You must also add a Wi Fi network to connect to it if the network does not broadcast its name SSID or to add a Wi Fi network when you are out of range of it To join a secured network you need to contact the network s administrator to learn what security scheme is deployed on it and to obtain the password or other required security credentials For more information about installing secure certificates see Working with secure certificates on page 81 1 Turn on Wi Fi if it s not already on If you re adding a Wi Fi network when first setting up your tablet Wi Fi is turned on automatically 2 Inthe Wi Fi settings screen touch Add Wi Fi network at the bottom of the list of discovered networks 3 Enter the SSID name of the network If necessa
129. lying to or forwarding one of its messages 1 When reading a message touch the Reply Reply All or Forward button in the message header Replying to or forwarding messages without changing the subject adds your reply to the current conversation Changing the subject starts a new conversation The message opens in a new screen where you can add or remove addresses edit the subject and add or remove text or attachments as described in Composing and sending a message on page 134 You can also touch the button at the top left to change whether you are replying replying to all or forwarding the message Attachments are included automatically in messages you forward but not in messages you reply to If you want to interleave your message with the text of the old one you can touch Respond inline However this removes any attachments or formatting in the original message You can uncheck Include text if you don t want to include the message you re replying to You can add one or more people to an ongoing conversation by replying to all and then adding the new people s addresses to the reply All of the messages in the conversation up to the one you are replying to or forwarding are included in the new message any messages that follow the message you are responding to are omitted Android User s Guide Gmail 138 Touch to send your response or to save it M as draft Reply Replyall Forward gt Send Save Draft
130. manently delete any draft messages you haven t sent yet including those waiting in your Outbox as well as ringtone settings signatures and other Gmail data You clear Gmail application data by opening the Settings application touching Applications gt Manage applications touching Gmail in the All tab and touching the Clear data button Then it s best to restart your tablet AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 160 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 161 Calendar Calendar on your tablet works with the web based Google Calendar calendaring service for creating and managing events meetings and appointments Calendar on the tablet is optimized for the tablet Some Calendar features such as creating Calendars are only available in Google Calendar on the web visit http calendar google com to learn about the features of the web version of Calendar In this section AUG 3 1 CC 100 Viewing your calendar and events on Changing Calendar settings on page 162 page 172 Working in Day and Week views on page 164 Working in Month view on page 165 Viewing event details on page 166 Creating an event on page 167 Editing or deleting an event on page 168 Setting an event reminder on page 169 Responding to event reminders on page 170 Synchronizing and displaying calendars on page 171 Android User s Guide Calendar 162 Viewing your cal
131. me screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 Clock opens displaying the date and time along with date and time of the next scheduled alarm If Clock is open when your screen darkens it reopens when you wake the phone instead of the lock screen If you have secured your lock screen touch Back E to open the lock screen so you can unlock your tablet See Securing your tablet on page 31 Add an analog clock You can add an analog clock widget to your Home screens If you touch the clock widget to a Home screen widget it opens the alarms dialog See Working with widgets on page 36 and Setting and changing alarms on page 261 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Clock 261 Setting and changing alarms Add an alarm Set or change an existing alarm AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can set an alarm by modifying an existing alarm or by adding a new one 1 Touch Set alarm or Alarm set if you have an alarm already set on the Clock screen A list of current alarms opens Set alarms are checked You can set or change an existing alarm See Set or change an existing alarm on page 261 Touch Add alarm Use the up and down arrows to set the time Then touch Set A dialog with details about the alarm opens Touch Repeat to open a dialog where you can check the days on which you want the alarm to sound Touch Ringtone to select a ringtone for the alarm The ringtone plays briefly when you select i
132. n a PC e Use the mouse to move the cursor Clicking pressing and dragging with the mouse button is equivalent to touch ing touching amp holding and dragging with your finger Only one mouse button is supported If your muse has a trackball or scroll wheel you can use it to scroll both verti cally and horizontally AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 70 Other input devices You can connect joysticks gamepads and other input devices to your tablet if they work without special drivers or adapters on your PC they will likely work with your tablet However games and other apps must be designed to support any special features of an input device such as dedicated buttons or other controls to take full advantage of them AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 71 Connecting to cameras If you have a camera or other device that supports the PTP protocol you can connect it to your tablet s USB port and import the pictures on the camera into Gallery your tablet Be sure to read the owner s guide for your camera to learn what protocols it supports and whether it can use PTP over USB You may need an adapter cable to connect your camera s USB cable to your tablet see your tablet s owner s guide 1 Connect your camera to your tablet using your camera s USB cable and if necessary an adapter from your tablet s manufacturer for its USB port
133. n page 142 Starring a message on page 143 Labeling a conversation on page 144 Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 Searching for messages on page 149 Archiving conversations on page 151 Muting a conversation on page 152 Reporting spam on page 153 Appending a signature to your messages on page 154 Using keyboard shortcuts on page 155 Changing Gmail settings on page 156 Troubleshooting sync issues on page 158 Android User s Guide Gmail 124 Opening Gmail and your Inbox Open Gmail The number of unread messages in your Inbox Touch to open a list of conversations with a different label Touch a conversation to open it and read its messages Your account Touch to switch accounts Bold subject lines indicate conversations with new unread messages There are 2 messages in this conversation AUG 3 1 CC 100 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 gt Touch the Gmail icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 M pardtuBgmail com ag Rhee FA Lavash Hugh gt Cheese factory this Sunday Priority Inbox 1 Hugh Cheese factory this Sunday Starred Google Calendar Reminder Club Ride
134. n the web or in other calendaring services AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Calendar 172 Changing Calendar settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can change the following settings for how Calendar displays event and how it notifies you of upcoming events gt To change Calendar settings open a Calendar view touch Menu _ and touch Settings Hide declined events Check if you don t want to see events to which you ve declined invitations Show week number Check to display the number of the week in the left column in Month view and in the small month calendar in Day and Week views Week starts on Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want the display of weeks to start on Saturday Sunday Monday or on the standard day for your current location Use home time zone 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 Home time zone Opens a dialog where you can set the time zone to use in Calendar when you re traveling if you have the Use home time zone setting checked Clear search history Touch to remove the history of the words you ve searched for previously in Calendar Notifications Check to receive notifications of event reminders Select ringtone Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when you receive an event reminder Pop up notificati
135. n the web and control your tablet by speaking with Voice Search You can also use Voice Actions to control your tablet in a number of ways such as sending messages or setting Clock alarms In this section Searching the web by speaking on page 92 Using Voice Actions on page 94 Changing Voice Search settings on page 97 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions 92 Searching the web by speaking You can use Voice Search to search the web by speaking instead of by typing To learn about searching the web and your tablet by typing see Google Search on page 83 Search the web by 1 Return Home speaking 2 Touch the Microphone button at the top left of the screen The first few times you open Voice Search it offers hints about how to use it and offers to play an introductory video You can touch Speak now to start using Voice Search at any time Subsequently a dialog opens prompting you to speak now You can touch Help to open the hints screen again AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions 93 Speak now Cancel 3 Speak the words you want to search for on the web You can simply say words you want to search for or you can use the techniques described in Using Google Search tips and tricks on page 88 You can also speak Voice Actions which are detailed in Using Voice Actions on page 94 When you re finished speaking Voi
136. n you have new mail your default inbox rather than Inbox This setting is only available in Gmail on your tablet if you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox 1 Touch the Menu button and touch Settings 2 Touch the account you want to configure 3 Check Priority Inbox AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail Mark a conversation as important Mark a conversation as not important AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 141 In your Inbox or other conversation list check one or a batch of conversations that are not marked important Or open a conversation that is not marked important See Working with conversations in batches on page 142 Touch the Menu button and touch the Mark important The messages are added to your Priority Inbox and Gmail learns about what conversations you consider important In any conversation list check one or more messages that are marked important Or open a conversation that is marked important Touch the Menu button and touch the Mark not important The messages are removed form your Priority Inbox and Gmail learns about what conversations you consider less important Android User s Guide Gmail 142 Working with conversations in batches You can archive label delete and perform other actions on a batch of conversations at once in your Inbox or in another conversation list 1 In the Inbox or other conversation list check the conversations that you want to work wi
137. ncheck this option Gmail stops receiving new mail Calendar stops syncing events and so on until you touch the Refresh menu item or send an email Check or uncheck Auto sync to control whether changes you make to information on the tablet or on the web are automatically synced with each other For example when this option is checked changes that you make in Contacts on the tablet are automatically made in Google Contacts on the web If you uncheck this option you may be able to use an application s tools to sync data manually See Sync information manually on page 104 Open the Accounts amp Sync settings Touch the account whose data you want to sync Touch the Sync Now button at the top right of the Application bar Android User s Guide Accounts 105 Change an accounts 1 Open the Accounts amp Sync settings sync settings 2 Touch the account whose sync settings you want to change The Sync Settings screen opens displaying a list of the kinds of information the account can sync Checked items are configured to sync to your tablet 3 Check or uncheck the kinds of information you want to sync to the tablet Unchecking an option does not remove the information from your tablet it simply stops it from being kept in sync with the version on the web To remove the information previously synced for the account you must remove the account AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Accounts 106 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Andr
138. nding your precise location by GPS much faster it can also provide your location to apps when GPS isn t available When you use Google s location service Google collects data about your location and local networks without associating the information it gathers with you or your Google Account to improve the service You can also choose whether to use your location in your Google Search results and other Google services You can change these settings after setup see Location amp security settings on page 275 Google s location service provides applications with your approximate location without using GPS You can disable t eatures in Settings under Location amp security and in Google Search settings Allow Google s location service to collect anonymous location data Collection will occur even when no applications are running Allow Google to use location for improved search results and other services AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Starting Android the first time 13 Signing into your Google Account You must sign into a Google Account to use Gmail Google Talk and other Google Apps to download apps from Android Market to back up your settings and other data to Google servers and to take advantage of other Google services on your tablet Important If you have backed up your Android settings using a Google Account in the past and you want to restore those settings to your tablet you must sign into t
139. ne You can learn about how your apps memory You can also view and work with the files and other items you ve downloaded in such apps as Browser and Gmail In this section Opening and switching apps on page 40 Managing how apps use memory on page 42 Managing downloads on page 46 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Working with apps 40 Opening and switching apps Open the Apps screen Open an app AUG 3 1 CC 100 Home s Apps screen has icons for all of the apps on your tablet including any apps that you downloaded and installed from Android Market or other sources When you open an app the other apps you ve been using don t stop they keep on running playing music opening webpages and so on You can quickly switch among your apps to work with several at once The Android operating system and apps work together to ensure that apps you aren t using don t consume resources unnecessarily stopping and starting them as needed For this reason there s no need to stop apps unless you re certain that one you downloaded is misbehaving For details about how apps use memory and how you can manage them see Managing how apps use memory on page 42 See Market on page 265 to learn how to discover and install additional apps including productivity tools utilities games references and many other kinds of apps on your tablet gt In Home touch the Apps button EEE Apps at the top
140. ned into Google Talk on a tablet or phone Set status to Away when the screen is turned off When checked your Talk status changes to Away when your screen turns off When unchecked your status is not changed IM notifications Opens a dialog where you can set whether you prefer a dialog to open a notification in the System bar or neither when you receive a text chat Notification ringtone Opens a dialog where you can touch the ringtone to sound when you receive a text chat or touch Silent Invitation notifications Opens a dialog where you can set whether you prefer a dialog to open a notification in the System bar or neither when you receive an invitation to become a friend in Talk Video chat notifications Opens a dialog where you can set whether you prefer a dialog to open a notification in the System bar or neither when you are invited to a video chat Android User s Guide Google Talk AUG 3 1 CC 100 190 Video chat ringtone Opens a dialog where you can touch the ringtone to sound when you receive a an invitation to a video chat or touch Silent Blocked friends Opens a list of friends you ve blocked Touch one to open a dialog where you can unblock the friend Clear search history When you search in Talk you see your previous searches which you can touch as a quick way to search for those words again You can touch this setting to erase that history so no previous searches are shown until you search for new
141. ng Google Search Android User s Guide Gmail 134 Composing and sending a message You can compose and send a message to one or more people or groups with Gmail or other email addresses Compose and senda 1 When reading mail touch the Compose button message Touch to send or to save a draft M compose D send SaveDraft Touch to change sender pazditu gmail com 4 Address the message Hugh Briss lt hbriss1 gmail com gt Co Bec So close to perfection G Enter a subject Touch to remove an attachment Just a little less foam and this would be the perfect macchiato Pag Enter your message Send the message save it as a draft or discard it 2 Set the address you want to send the email from The Gmail account you are sending the email from is displayed in the From line If you have more than one Gmail account you can touch the displayed account to pick the one you want to send the message from If you have configured a custom From address for your Gmail account on the web you can AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 135 use that address see Gmail on the web for more about configuring a custom From address 3 Address the message As you enter email addresses matching addresses from your contacts are suggested touch one to enter it 4 Enter a subject for the message You can use the Tab key to move from field to field 5 Enter the text of the message See Entering and editing text
142. nline status A Touch a friend in your Friends list to Change to a recently used status invite them to chat or to resume chatting Inviting friends to chat and accepting invitations to chat is described in Chatting by text on page 179 Return to your Friends You can return to your Friends list when chatting with a friend so that you can list invite another friend to chat add a friend and so on AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 178 Google Talk Return to the Accounts screen Sign into multiple accounts Sign out of Google Talk AUG 3 1 CC 100 gt Touch the Talk icon in the top left corner of the Application bar If you go too far and open the Accounts screen touch an account to open its Friends list gt Touch the Talk icon in the top left corner of the Application bar You can sign into two or more Google Accounts if you have added them to your tablet gt On the Friends list touch the current account at the top left of the Application bar and then touch the account you want to sign into OR gt On the Accounts screen touch an account to sign into it The Friends list for that account opens You can now conduct and receive invitations to chat using each account If you aren t planning on using Google Talk for a while signing out can extend your battery life gt On your Friends list touch the Menu button and touch Sign out OR gt Touch Sign out on the Accounts screen You no
143. ns such as Gmail and Contacts the application s own search box opens when you touch the Search button Q These search boxes are identified Android User s Guide Google Search Change what you target when searching the tablet Manage your search AUG 3 1 CC 100 privacy 86 by the application s own icon in the search box See the documentation for those applications for information about searching in them You can use the Search settings to configure some aspects of Google web search for example whether it personalizes search results for you and what tablet features you want to include in searches See Changing Google Search settings on page 90 If what you re searching for is in the list of suggestions tablet search results or previously chosen search results touch it in the list The item opens in the appropriate application such as Contacts or the Browser If what you re searching for is not in the list touch the arrow icon in the Search box or touch the Return key on the onscreen keyboard to search the web The Browser opens displaying results of a Google Search on the web See Browser on page 207 Many applications can make some or all of their information searchable from the Google Search box Search results are displayed below and to the right of the Search box as you enter text You can change which applications are targetable by Google Search 1 2 3 Open Google Search Touch the M
144. nscreen keyboard You can enter text using the onscreen keyboard Some apps open the keyboard automatically In others you touch a text field where you want to enter text to open the Keyboard The onscreen keyboard has a number of settings as described in Language amp input settings on page 282 You can also open the Android keyboard settings by touching the Settings key gog You can enter text by speaking instead of by typing See Entering text by speaking on page 52 Enter text by typing Touch a text field to open the keyboard The onscreen keyboard opens Compose gt Send Save Draft 5 All pazditu gmail com Hugh Briss lt hbriss1 gmail com gt Cc Bec New shoe G Touch space or a punctuation mark to enter Android s best guess at the word you mean to enter Touch the Shift key once to capitalize the next letter you type Double tap for ALL CAPS If you touch in a text field where there is already text entered the insertion point is set where you touch and the insertion point tab appears You can AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Entering and editing text 49 drag the insertion point by its tab to move the insertion point to pick exactly where you want to add more text You can also select a word or more at a time and copy cut and paste text See Editing text on page 54 Touch a suggestion to enter it in place of I Compose gt Send Save Draft the underlined word in the
145. nts that can sync calendars check to sync calendar events between this account to your tablet See Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 Android User s Guide Email T Incoming server Your account s incoming settings are different depending on the kind of email settings service for the account IMAP POP3 Settings for IMAP accounts Username Depending on the requirements of your email service provider your full email address or just your username that is 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 com Port Set the Security type first to enter the typi cal server port number in this field automat ically Or enter a different port number if your email service provider requires it Security type Select the security type required by your email service provider Select the Accept all certificates option for your security type to accept a server certificate from your IMAP server that is self signed out of date or in some other way not accepted by the Email application IMAP path prefix Leave blank unless instructed to enter a spe cific prefix by your email service provider Settings for POP3 accounts AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Email 205 Username
146. nversations touch Change labels in the bar above the conversation list and in the dialog that opens check and uncheck the labels you want for the whole batch Android User s Guide Gmail 146 Synchronizing conversations by label The Gmail webmail service has the resources to store all the messages you ve ever sent or received your tablet does not To keep from filling your tablet with all your email ever Gmail downloads only some of your messages You can set which conversations messages are kept current on your tablet by label and what portion of those conversations by time You use the Accounts amp Sync settings to set how and when Gmail synchronizes its data at all see Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 See Troubleshooting sync issues on page 158 for help diagnosing issues with Gmail sync Select which labels to 1 Touch Menu gt Settings synchronize 2 Touch the account whose labels you want to work with 3 Touch Labels to sync The Synchronization settings screen opens displaying a list of your Gmail labels for the account listed at the top of the screen Below each label is its current synchronization setting Sync all Sync 4 days or no label not synchronized AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail Set how many days to AUG 3 1 CC 100 synchronize bh U N gt 147 M pazditu gmail com Add account Duration Number of days to sync Labels In
147. o archive the conversation Touch to delete the conversation Touch to read the next or previous conversation Work with attachments AUG 3 1 CC 100 129 M pordtuBgmail com 2 E 6 mpi on Cheese factory this Sunday Cheese factory this Sunday Yup 3 previously read messages Hugh 29am M Cheese factory this Sunday e Hugh Briss h Google Calendar gt Reminder Club Ride Sun Jan 30 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com Google Calendar Reminder Status Meeting Mon Dec 6 9 30am 11am Lan Shoe envy Roy West D Group rides this weekend Googte Calendar gt Reminder Club Ride Sun Dec 5 10am 2pm pazditu gmall com Older The message header shows who sent the message when who it was sent to and other information Icons indicate whether the message has an attachment and the sender s Google Talk online status For more information touch the Show Details button You can touch the message sender s Quick Contact icon to open a list of ways you can quickly contact the sender See Connecting quickly with your contacts on page 120 When reading messages in a conversation you can use buttons at the top of the screen to archive the entire conversation see Archiving conversations on page 151 or to delete it If you do archive or delete a conversation you can touch Undo in the bar at the top of the screen to undelete it When a message has an attachment Gmail displays informa
148. o have location sharing enabled in the Settings application See Privacy settings on page 280 Clear location access Opens a dialog where you can clear the permissions you ve granted to websites in the past to access your location If those websites want permission to access your location again you must grant it again Remember passwords Browser can remember your passwords for some webpages that require you to sign in to make it quicker to sign into those pages on repeat visits Uncheck to prevent Browser from storing passwords Clear passwords Touch to delete any passwords that Browser has stored Set search engine Opens a dialog where you can select the web search engine you want to use when you enter web addresses URLs or search terms in the URL box The search engines available depend on your location The Microphone icon is available in the URL box only when you are using the Google search engine Open in background Check to open new tabs in the background This is useful when you are working with webpages that take a long time to download and display See Switch Browser tabs on page 217 Enable JavaScript Uncheck to prevent JavaScript from running on webpages Many webpages function correctly only if they can run JavaScript on your tablet Android User s Guide Browser Labs AUG 3 1 CC 100 224 Enable plug ins Uncheck to disable plug ins from webpages Website settings Opens a screen where you can view a
149. o view its videos You can touch one of the videos to view it Or touch Play all in the Application bar to play all the videos in the playlist without interruption When viewing all the videos in a playlist you can swipe left or right in the video image to switch videos or touch the Next or Previous controls Android User s Guide YouTube 247 View other people s 1 Open another person s channel playlists See Working with channels on page 242 Touch the Playlists tab Touch a playlist to view its videos You can touch one of the videos to view it Or touch Play all in the Application bar to play all the videos in the playlist without interruption When viewing all the videos in a playlist you can swipe left or right in the video image to switch videos or touch the Next or Previous controls AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 248 Changing YouTube settings General settings Search settings About AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can change the following settings for YouTube on your tablet gt To change YouTube settings touch the Menu button in the Application bar and then touch Settings Then touch the tab for the settings you want to work with High quality on mobile Check if you prefer to watch videos in high quality by default when connected to mobile networks uncheck to start videos in normal quality to reduce startup time and data use This setting has no effect if you are connected to a Wi
150. oid User s Guide 107 Contacts Contacts gives you quick and easy access to the people you want to reach When you first turn on your tablet and sign into a Google Account any existing contacts from that account are downloaded to your tablet After that your contacts are synchronized any changes you make to your contacts on the tablet on the web or on another device are made everywhere the next time you sync Information about your contacts is shared with other applications such a Gmail Google Talk and so on If you have more than one account with contact information Contacts joins duplicates into a single entry You can also manage that process manually In this section Opening your contacts on page 108 Connecting quickly with your contacts Changing which contacts are displayed on page 120 on page 109 Joining contacts on page 121 Adding contacts on page 111 Separating contact information on page 122 Importing exporting and sharing contacts on page 113 Starring a contact on page 116 Searching for a contact on page 117 Editing contact details on page 118 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 108 Opening your contacts Open your contacts View details about a contact AUG 3 1 CC 100 Open Contacts to add view and communicate with your friends and acquaintances gt gt Touch the Contacts icon on the Apps screen or touch a shor
151. okmarks a list of the applications you ve installed from Market the words you ve added to the user dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard and most of the settings that you configure with the Settings application Some third party applications may also take advantage of this feature so you can restore your data if you reinstall an application If you uncheck this option you stop backing up your data to your account and any existing backups are deleted from Google servers Backup account Displays the Google Account that your settings and other data are backed up with This is the account you need to sign into on a new Android tablet or other device if you want to restore the settings from this tablet to that device Automatic restore Check this option to restore settings and other data when you reinstall an application This feature requires that you are backing up your data with your Google Account and that the application is using the backup service Factory data reset Opens a dialog where you can erase all of your personal data from internal tablet storage including information about your Google Account any other accounts your system and application settings any downloaded applications as well as your music photos videos and other files If you reset the tablet in this way the next time you turn on your tablet you re prompted to reenter the same kind of information as when you first started Android See Starting Android th
152. on The messages that you exchange are interleaved on the screen with information about the chat such as whether it s on the record the time a message was sent if there s no response after a short while and so on You can enter a smiley icon an emoticon keyboard by touching amp holding the Smiley key on the onscreen keyboard and then dragging to the smiley you want Your chat session remains open until you end it Friends you re chatting with are displayed at the top of your Friends list When a friend sends you a Google Talk message you receive a notification and the first words of the message appear below their names in your Friends list gt Touch the friend in your Friends list OR gt Touch the chat notification See Managing notifications on page 26 A chat window opens where you can exchange messages with your friend If you have more than one chat going you can switch between them gt Inthe Friends list touch the name of the person you want to chat with When you re text chatting you can invite additional friends to join a group chat Android User s Guide Google Talk Chat on or off the record End a chat Search for text in a chat AUG 3 1 CC 100 181 1 On a text chat screen touch the Chat Menu button and touch Add to chat 2 Touch the name of the friend to invite The friend you invited and the current participants receive an invitation to a group chat Each one who accepts the
153. on Check to open a dialog with upcoming events when you receive a notification of an upcoming event from Calendar Default reminder time Opens a dialog where you can select the default time before an event for event reminders Android User s Guide Calendar 173 Accounts Opens the list of calendars you subscribe to for each account See Synchronizing and displaying calendars on page 171 Build version The version of Calendar you are using AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Calendar 174 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 175 Google Talk Google Talk is Google s instant messaging and audio and video chat service You can use it to communicate in real time with other people who also use Google Talk on another Android tablet or phone or on a computer In this section Signing in and opening your Friends list on page 176 Chatting by text on page 179 Chatting by voice or video on page 182 Changing and monitoring online status on page 185 Managing your Friends list on page 187 Changing Google Talk settings on page 189 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Talk 176 Signing in and opening your Friends list Open Google Talk and sign in Touch to add an account Touch an account to sign in AUG 3 1 CC 100 You sign into Google Talk to chat with your friends 1 Touch the Google Talk icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home
154. ons settings on page 277 Accounts amp sync settings on page 279 Privacy settings on page 280 Storage settings on page 281 Language amp input settings on page 282 Accessibility settings on page 286 Date amp time settings on page 287 About tablet on page 288 Android User s Guide Settings 268 Opening Settings The Settings application contains most of the tools for customizing and configuring your tablet The Quick Settings also offers convenient access to several of the most commonly used settings See Status Details and Quick Settings on page 28 Open Settings gt Touch the time in the lower right of the System bar to open the Status Details touch in the Status Details to open Quick Settings and then touch Settings See Status Details and Quick Settings on page 28 OR gt Touch the Settings icon on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Settings 269 Wireless amp networks settings Wireless amp Network settings screen Wi Fi settings screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 Use Wireless amp Network settings to configure and manage connections to networks and devices via Wi Fi Bluetooth mobile networks and via a USB connection You also use Wireless amp Network settings to configure connections between your tablet and virtual private networks VPNs
155. ontact files The contacts are imported You can export all of the contacts on your tablet to your tablet s internal storage 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 networks and devices on page 57 for details about copying files to your computer Android User s Guide Contacts 114 1 Open Contacts 2 Touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and touch Import Export 3 Touch Export to storage 4 Touch OK to confirm Contacts creates a file with the vcf extension on your tablet s internal storage This file contains all of your contacts Import contacts from a If your tablet uses a SIM card your service provider may store some contacts on it SIM card such as customer care and voicemail numbers You may also have stored contacts on the SIM card if you re moving it from another device such as a phone You can add some or all of these contacts to the Contacts application 1 Open Contacts 2 Touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and touch Import Export Touch Import from SIM card If you have more than one account on your tablet touch the account into which you want to import the contacts A list of contacts on the SIM opens 5 Touch each contact you want to import Share a contact You can share a contact with someone b
156. ontal line in some views and the time for events using your local time zone by default as provided by the mobile network you re connected to If you re traveling you can set a home time zone and use it in Calendar instead See Changing Calendar settings on page 172 Android User s Guide Calendar 163 Change your calendar Touch Day Week or Month in the Application bar view Each view displays the events in your calendar for the period of time that you specify For details see Working in Day and Week views on page 164 Working in Month view on page 165 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Calendar 164 Working in Day and Week views Day and week views displays a chart of the events of one day or week in a table of one hour rows blue line indicates the current time All day and multiday events are displayed at the top of the day The title of each event is displayed in the rows that correspond to when it occurs gt gt AUG 3 1 CC 100 When viewing a calendar touch Day or Week in the Application bar to open that view Swipe left or right to view other days Touch a day in the small month calendar to view that day or week Swipe the month up or down to switch months Touch Today in the Application bar to return to today Touch a synced calendar on the right to show or hide its events See Synchronizing and displaying calendars on page 171 Touch an event to view a summar
157. oogle Talk and available for audio chats Available Signed into Google Talk and available for video chats g Be 9 Away Signed into Google Talk but not active Busy Signed into Google Talk but too busy to chat Signed out of Google Talk Invisible Signed into Google Talk but appear signed out to others You can change your online status You can also change the status message you share with other Google Talk users and the picture that others see gt gt Touch your own entry at the top of your Friends list to open your Status screen Touch your picture to add or change an image by taking a picture or picking one from Gallery Touch your current status message to enter a new status message Touch Change to a recently used status to open a menu of recent status messages you can touch to replace your current message Touch Clear history in the menu to erase your recent status messages Touch your current status to change it or to sign out of Talk Uncheck Allow video and voice chats if you only want to accept invitations to text chats Android User s Guide Google Talk Touch to change your picture Enter a status message Touch to change your online status Uncheck to accept invitations only for text chats Touch to use a recent status message AUG 3 1 CC 100 sally pazditu gmail com 4 N pazditu gmail com tr Ready to spin 7 y Hugh Briss On the road l
158. ookmarks The bookmark icon is added to the Home screen Touch the Bookmarks button at the top right of the URL bar Touch amp hold a bookmark to delete Touch Delete bookmark in the menu Touch OK You can also delete a bookmark by touching the star next to its URL when you re viewing the bookmark in a tab or in your Browser history Android User s Guide Browser 222 Changing Browser settings General Privacy amp security AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can configure a number of Browser settings including several that you can use to manage your privacy gt To open the Browser settings screen touch Menu and touch Settings Set homepage Opens a dialog where you can enter the URL of a page that you want to open whenever you open a new Browser tab or touch the Home button on the Bookmarks or screen If you prefer to open new Browser tabs more quickly by not opening any page by default leave the dialog blank Sync with Google Chrome See Synchronize your bookmarks with Google Chrome on page 220 Form auto fill Check to enter information in web forms by simply touching in fields using the data saved with the Auto fill settings Auto fill data Touch to open a screen of typical web form fields where you can enter and save the data you d like to enter in those fields simply by touching them if you have Form auto fill checked Clear cache The browser stores the text and images of the webpages you visit so tha
159. or right to move it to another Home screen When the item is where you want it lift your finger Touch amp hold the item you want to remove until the Home screen grid appears Don t lift your finger The Remove button appears in the top right of the screen Drag the item to the Remove button When the icon turns red lift your finger The item is removed from the Home screen but it s not deleted from your tablet You can always put it back see Add an item to a Home screen on page 33 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics Change Home screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 wallpaper 1 2 35 Touch the Customize button at the top right of a Home screen Touch Wallpapers Touch Gallery Live wallpapers or Wallpapers Touch Gallery to use a picture that you have captured using the camera or copied to your tablet You can crop the picture before setting it as a wallpaper Working with pictures is described in Gallery on page 231 Touch Live wallpapers to open a scrolling list of animated wallpapers installed on your tablet Some live wallpapers change according to the time of day in response to touching the screen tell the time or offer other information Some live wallpapers have a Settings button Touch Wallpapers to open a screen where you can sample the wallpaper images that come with the tablet Slide the miniature images left and right to view the samples Touch a sample to view a larger version
160. orce stop button to stop an app that is misbehaving see Stop a misbehaving app on page 44 e f you installed the app from Android Market or another source you can use the Uninstall button to remove the app and all of its data and settings from the tablet See Market on page 265 and Uninstall an app on page 45 for more information about uninstalling and reinstalling apps Storage Gives details about the amount of tablet storage that an app uses You can delete an app s settings and other data by touching the Clear data button e Cache If the app stores data in a temporary area of the tablet s memory lists how much information is stored and includes a button for clearing it e Launch by default If you have configured an app to launch certain file types by default you can clear that setting here e Permissions Lists the kinds of information about your tablet and data the app has access to You can monitor how much RAM running apps and cached processes are using and if necessary stop them Android User s Guide Working with apps 1 2 3 45 Open the Manage Applications screen Touch the Running tab At the top right of the screen touch Show cached processes or Show running services to switch back and forth The Running tab shows the apps processes and services that are currently running or that have cached processes and how much RAM they are using The graph at the bottom of the screen shows th
161. orking with channels on page 242 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 239 Discovering videos You can discover YouTube videos in many different ways including browsing by category searching and by exploring information about a video on its Watch screen Viewing the channels of people who have uploaded a video you like is also a great way to discover videos see Working with channels on page 242 Search for videos 1 Touch Search YouTube in the Application bar when YouTube is running 2 Enter the text you want to search for or touch the Microphone icon to search by voice 3 Touch a suggestion below the search box or touch the magnifying glass icon to search for what you ve entered 4 Scroll through the search results and touch a video to watch it You can restrict the results to a certain period of time by touching All time or the current time filter setting at the top of the search results screen and picking the period of time you want You can set whether you want to filter out potentially offensive videos with SafeSearch You can also clear your search history so it is not included in suggestions when you search YouTube See Changing YouTube settings on page 248 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 240 Browse for videos by 1 Return to the YouTube home screen and touch Browse in the Application bar category 2 Touch a category in the scrolling list of YouTube categories or touch All
162. orking with secure certificates AUG 3 1 CC 100 If your organization s VPN or Wi Fi networks rely on secure certificates you must obtain the certificates and store them in your tablet s secure credential storage before you can configure access to those VPN or Wi Fi networks on your tablet If your network administrator instructs you to download the certificates from a website you re prompted to set a password for the credential storage when you download the certificates For more information about working with credential storage see Location amp security settings on page 275 Android supports DER encoded X 509 certificates saved in files with a crt file extension if your certificate file has a cer der or other extension you must change it to crt or you won t be able to install it Android also supports X 509 certificates saved in PKCS 12 key store files with a p12 extension if your key store has a pfx or other extension you much change it to p12 or you won t be able to install it When you install a certificate from a PKCS 12 key store Android also installs any accompanying private key or certificate authority certificates contained in the key store Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Install a secure 1 certificate from your tablet s internal storage 82 Copy the certificate or keystore from your computer to the root of its internal storage that is not in a folder
163. ormation on connecting your tablet to a Macintosh computer see Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB on page 73 If you are using USB tethering you must turn that off before you can use USB to transfer files between your tablet and computer See Sharing your mobile data connection on page 75 Connect your tablet to a Use the USB cable that came with your tablet to connect the tablet to a USB computer via USB port on your computer Your tablet s USB storage or SD card is mounted as a drive on your computer You can now copy files back and forth as you would using any other external device For more information see the documentation for your computer gt When you re done simply disconnect the tablet from your computer by unplugging the USB cable AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 73 Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB You can connect your tablet to a computer running Mac OS X with a USB cable to transfer music pictures and other files between your tablet and the computer This connection uses the MTP protocol which is not supported by Mac OS X natively so you first need to install the free Android File Transfer application on your Macintosh It s available from http www android com filetransfer along with instructions on how to install it You don t need to install the Android File Transfer application to connect to a Windows computer see Connectin
164. ou can also configure what Kinds of data you synchronize for each account Some applications such as Gmail and Calendar have their own synchronization settings For some accounts syncing is two directional changes that you make to the information on your tablet are made to the copy of that information on the web Your Google Account works this way Other accounts support only one way sync the information on your tablet is read only Configure general sync 1 Open the Accounts amp Sync settings settings You can do this by opening the Settings application and touching Accounts amp sync Many applications also have an Accounts button or menu item on the screens where you work with accounts For example in the Contacts application AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Accounts Sync information manually AUG 3 1 CC 100 2 104 you can touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and then touch Accounts The screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts indicates that some or all of an account s information is configured to sync automatically with your tablet indicates that none of an account s information is configured to sync automatically with your tablet Check or uncheck Background data to control whether applications and services can transmit data when you are not working with them directly that is when they are running in the background If you u
165. ou from installing applications that you download from the web or receive with an email message Warning Applications downloaded from the web can be from unknown sources To protect your tablet and personal data download applications only from trusted sources such as Android Market Open the Settings application Touch Applications Check Unknown sources bh N gt Touch OK in the dialog to confirm you want to allow downloading applications from sources other than Market Different webpages offer different mechanisms for downloading pictures documents applications and other files gt Touch amp hold an image or a link to a file or to another webpage In the menu that opens touch Save If the file is in a format supported by an installed application it is downloaded to your tablet s internal storage gt Touch Menu and touch Downloads The Downloads application opens with a list of the files you ve downloaded in Browser and other applications See Managing downloads on page 46 Android User s Guide Browser 219 Working with bookmarks Bookmark a webpage Open a bookmark Edit a bookmark Organize bookmarks in AUG 3 1 CC 100 folders You can bookmark webpages so that you can quickly return to them 1 2 3 4 5 1 1 2 3 4 5 Open the webpage to bookmark Touch the star at the right of the URL bar Edit the name and the address if necessary Touch Bookmarks or
166. ou have seen me with it a hundred times and you have no right whatsoever to readwhat is written inside It is a very ungentlemanly thing tolreadja private cigar ase Algernon Oh it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn t More than half of modern culture depends on what of shouldn t Bad Jack I am quite aware of the fact and I don t propose to discuss modern culture It isn t the sort of thing one should talk of in private I simply want my cigarette case back Algernon Yes but this isn t your cigarette case This cigarette case is a present from some one of the name of Cecily and you said you didn t know any one of that name Jack Well if you want to know Cecily happens to be my aunt Algernon Your aunt Jack Yes Charming old lady she is too Lives at Tunbridge Wells Just give it back to me Algy Algernon Retreating to back of sofa But why does she call herself little Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at Tunbridge Wells Reading From little Cecily with her fondest love If you select text on a web page see Editing text on page 54 you can touch Find in the Application bar to search for that word on the page Android User s Guide Browser 215 Navigating across webpages Open a link Go back and forward among the pages you ve opened View your Browser AUG 3 1 CC 100 history You can open links on a webpage naviga
167. ouch Menu gt Settings Touch the account whose signature you want to add or change Touch Signature Enter a signature Touch OK Android User s Guide Gmail 155 Using keyboard shortcuts If you pair a Bluetooth keyboard with your tablet you can use the following keyboard shortcuts to manage your conversations and messages Se Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 Conversation list You can use the following keyboard shortcuts when viewing a conversation list shortcuts such as your Inbox u Refresh list Cc Compose Enter Open conversation y Archive conversation Shift Space Page up Space Page down Message shortcuts You can use the following keyboard shortcuts when reading messages r Reply to last message in conversation a Reply all to last message in conversa tion f Forward last message in conversation y Archive conversation AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 156 Changing Gmail settings General preferences AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can change a number of settings for Gmail General settings apply to all Gmail accounts Other settings apply only to a specific account Notification volumes and some synchronization settings are changed in the Settings application See Settings on page 267 gt To change Gmail settings touch the Menu button at the top right of the Application bar and touch Settings Confirm before deleting Ch
168. ouch buttons icons and other onscreen items Screen lock sounds Check to play a sound when the screen is locked or unlocked Android User s Guide Settings Screen settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 274 Use the Screen settings to configure brightness and other screen settings Brightness Opens a dialog for adjusting the brightness of the screen You can check Automatic brightness to set the tablet to adjust the brightness automatically using the tablet 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 tablet For the longest battery life between charges use the dimmest comfortable brightness Auto rotate screen Check to automatically switch the orientation of the screen as you turn the tablet sideways or upright Animation Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want to enjoy animated transitions for some effects such as opening menus for all supported effects including when navigating from screen to screen or to enjoy a tablet without any optional animation effects this setting does not control animation in all applications Screen timeout Opens a dialog where you can set how long to wait after you touch the screen or press a button before the screen darkens For the longest battery life between charges use the shortest convenient timeout Android User s Guide Settings 275 Location amp security settings AUG 3 1 CC 100 Use
169. pdates Opens a screen that reports on the availability of Android system software updates Status Opens the Status screen with information about your battery mobile network connection and other details Battery use Opens a list of the applications and operating system components you have used since you last charged the tablet sorted by the amount of power they have used See Optimizing battery life on page 37 Legal information Opens a screen where you can obtain legal information about the software included with your tablet Version information Lists details about the model numbers and versions of your tablet s hardware and operating system software This information is useful if you need to work with your carrier s support team AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide
170. pear at its edges so you can resize it AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 37 Optimizing battery life Extend the life of your battery Check the battery charge level Monitor and control what uses the battery AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can extend your battery s life between charges by turning off features that you don t need You can also monitor how apps and system resources consume battery power gt Turn off radios that you aren t using If you aren t using Wi Fi Bluetooth or GPS use the Settings app to turn them off See Wireless amp networks settings on page 269 and Location amp security settings on page 275 The GPS receiver is only turned on when you re using an app that makes use of it Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout See Screen settings on page 274 If you don t need them turn off automatic syncing for Gmail Calendar Contacts and other apps See Configuring account sync and display options on page 103 Use the Quick Settings to check and control the status of radios the display brightness and syncing See Status Details and Quick Settings on page 28 If you know you won t be near a mobile or Wi Fi network for a while switch to Airplane mode You tablet uses extra power to search for mobile networks See Status Details and Quick Settings on page 28 Open the Settings app and touch About
171. pted to pick which application you want to open Listen to smells like teen spirit AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Voice Search and Voice Actions 97 Changing Voice Search settings You use the Voice Search settings to configure which data on your tablet you want to be able to search manage your privacy and to configure a number of other settings gt To change Voice Search settings touch the Voice Search icon on the Home screen to open Voice Search touch the Menu button at the top right and touch Settings Language Displays the language you want Voice Search to recognize Touch to change languages SafeSearch Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want Google SafeSearch filtering to block some results when you search Block no search results off only explicit or offensive content moderate or both explicit or offensive content strict Block offensive words Check to replace offensive words that Voice Search correctly or incorrectly recognizes with symbols in place of text Personalized recognition Check to have Voice Search tailor results to your voice by recording and then learning from your searches and results over time storing the results with your Google Account Uncheck to stop Google from recording and learning from your searches Google Account dashboard Touch to open Browser with a page that you can use to review and manage the details about what information Google stores a
172. r mark unread a batch of messages at once 1 When viewing your Inbox or any other folder check the messages that you want to work with as a batch When you check a batch of messages the Move to Folder Mark Unread or Mark Read Star and Delete buttons appear in the Application bar along with the number of messages that you ve checked 2 Touch the button in the Application bar that corresponds to the action you want to take on the batch of messages You can also touch Done in the Application bar to uncheck the entire batch Your action affects each checked message AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Email 198 Composing and sending email Compose and send a AUG 3 1 CC 100 message You can send email to your contacts or to other people or groups 1 Touch the Compose button in the Application bar 2 Address the message As you type matching addresses are offered from your Contacts You can touch a suggested address or enter a new one Separate multiple addresses with commas See Contacts on page 107 for more information 3 Touch Cc Bcc to send a copy or blind copy of the message Enter a subject for the message Enter the text of the message See Entering and editing text on page 47 6 Touch the Attach button to send a photo with the message Gallery opens where you can select the photo you want to attach 7 Touch Send in the Application bar If you re not ready to send the message touch Save dra
173. res you shot with Camera synced from Picasa and so on still images included with the system and live wall papers such as a map that centers on your location or an animated scene AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics Move aa Home screen item Remove an item from the Home screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 34 They take the place of the default background to your Home screens See Change Home screen wallpaper on page 35 e More includes shortcuts to Browser bookmarks to directions in Maps and an assortment of other useful items If there are more items in the category than can fit on one screen outlines of additional items appear to the left or right You can slide the screen left or right to see the additional items Drag an item onto the Home screen where you want to add it If you pause before lifting your finger the Home screen enlarges so you can place the item where you want it Otherwise it gets placed in the first available spot Some items prompt you for more information before they are added to a Home screen For example bookmarks prompt you to pick the Browser bookmark you want to add Contacts shortcuts prompt you to pick the contact you want and so on Touch amp hold the item you want to move until the Home screen grid appears Don t lift your finger Drag the item to a new location on the same Home screen or drag the item to the outline of another Home screen to the left
174. rom your Wi Fi network 6 Touch Save AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 79 Connecting to virtual private networks VPNs Virtual private networks VPNs allow you to connect to the resources inside a secured local network from outside that network VPNs are commonly deployed by corporations schools and other institutions so that their users can access local network resources when not on campus or when connected to a wireless network There are numerous systems for securing VPN connections including some that rely on secure certificates or other schemes to ensure that only authorized users can connect For information about installing secure certificates see Working with secure certificates on page 81 To configure VPN access from your tablet you must obtain the details from your network administrator Add a VPN 1 Open the Settings application See Opening Settings on page 268 Touch Wireless amp networks gt VPN settings Touch Add VPN Touch the type of VPN to add In the screen that opens follow the instructions from your network administrator to configure each component of the VPN settings a fF U N 6 Touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and touch Save The VPN is added to the list on the VPN settings screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Connect to a VPN Disconnect from a VPN
175. ry enter security or other network configuration details See Turn Wi Fi on and connect to a Wi Fi network on page 60 4 Touch Save The information about the network is saved so you are connected automatically the next time you come within range of this network You can make the tablet forget about the details of a Wi Fi network that you added for example if you don t want the tablet to connect to it automatically or if it is a network that you no longer use 1 Turn on Wi Fi if it s not already on 2 Inthe Wi Fi settings screen touch the name of the network 3 Touch Forget in the dialog that opens Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 64 Set a Wi Fi disconnect By default the tablet disconnects from Wi Fi when the screen turns off and policy connects toa mobile data network instead It does this to conserve battery power and reconnects to Wi Fi again when you wake it You can change this policy to stay connected to Wi Fi when the tablet is connected to a charger when battery life isn t a problem or never to disconnect from Wi Fi which trades battery life for reduced mobile network data use 1 On the Wi Fi settings screen touch Wi Fi disconnect policy 2 Touch the policy you want AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 65 Connecting to Bluetooth devices Bluetooth is a short range wireless communications technology that devices can use to exchan
176. s automatically when you have a Wi Fi connection see Email account settings on page 202 Attachments you download are stored on your tablet s internal storage Viewing reopening and deleting your downloaded files is described in Managing downloads on page 46 The Google Talk online status is shown next to the name of the sender of each message You can touch the picture of the sender to open Quick Contact see Connecting quickly with your contacts on page 120 You can reply to forward delete or take other actions on a message as described in Responding to a message on page 195 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Email 195 Responding to a message Reply to or forward a message Mark a message as unread Delete a message AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can reply to or forward a message that you receive You can also delete messages and manage them in other ways gt While reading a message touch the Reply Reply All or Forward button in the message header A Compose window opens with the addresses when replying subject and a copy of the message you re responding to filled in You can send this message as you would a new message as described in Composing and sending email on page 198 You can to return a read message to the unread state for example to remind yourself to read it again later You can also mark a batch of messages as unread see Working with messages in batches on
177. s that are part of important conversations This setting is not visible unless you have configured Gmail on the web to show Priority Inbox See Working with Priority Inbox on page 139 Gmail sync for this account is ON OFF Indicates whether you have Gmail synchronization turned on for this account in the Account amp Sync setting Touch to open those settings See Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 Labels to sync Opens the a screen where you can manage which conversations are synchronized See Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 Auto download attachments When checked Gmail downloads attachments to messages when you receive them rather than requiring you to explicitly download the attachments when you open the messages Automatic downloads only occur when you are connected to a Wi Fi network Email notifications When checked you receive a notification when you have new email See Managing notifications on page 26 Ringtone Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when you receive a new email notification including the tablet s default ringtone and a silent option Notify once Check to receive a notification from Gmail only the first time you have new email since you last read your messages rather than each time a new message arrives Signature Opens a dialog where you can enter text to append to every message you send See Appending a signature to your messages
178. s that you ve already read are hidden in a tab that indicates the number of hidden messages 1 Touch the tab that indicates the number of previously read messages The tab expands into tabs that list the sender and the first line of each read message 2 Touch an expanded tab to reread the message Android User s Guide Gmail M pazditu gmail com Lavash Hugh 4 Cheese factory this Sunday Yup Google Calendar Reminder Club Ride Sun Jan 30 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com Google Calendar Reminder Status Meeting Mon Dec 6 9 30am 11am Lavash Kirt Clinchers or tubulars Lavash Kiri Shoe envy Roy West Group rides this weekend Google Calendar Reminder Club Ride Sun Dec 5 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com Google Calendar Reminder Erick P 3 4pm Spm pa 3 Wed Nov gmail com 10 300m 3 50am 12 6 2010 12 5 2010 12 5 2010 11 3 2010 Older AUG 3 1 CC 100 Cheese factory this Sunday o Yup Show quoted text M When reading a message or when its tab is selected you can touch Menu 2 previously read messages nema horis 1 amatl com A pazditu gmail com Lavash Hugh 4 Cheese factory this Sunday Yup Google Calendar Reminder Club Ride Sun Jan 30 10am 2pm pazditu gmail com Google Calendar Reminder Status Meeting Mon Dec 6 9 30am 11am Lavash Kirt Clinchers or tubulars Lavash Kiri Shoe envy
179. screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 Sign into a Google Account If you are not already signed into Talk you re prompted to sign into a Google Account you added to your tablet You remain signed in even when you re using other applications until you deliberately sign out tal Accounts Add account N pazditu gmail com Sign in Ess velopaz gmail com Sign in Android User s Guide Google Talk 177 You can add a Google Account by touching the Add account button at the top right of the Accounts screen to open the Accounts amp Sync settings See Adding and removing accounts on page 100 Once you sign into Google Talk your Friends list is displayed on the left and your current status and other information is displayed in the main part of the screen Your Friends list includes all of the friends you ve added by using Google Talk on the web on your tablet or other Android device or with a desktop Talk application Adding friends to this list so you can invite them to chat is described in Managing your Friends list on page 187 talk azditu gmailcom 2 Touch to return to the Account screen gt se 4 pazditu gmail com A r t 5 Touch to w accounts if you have a Sat pazditu gmall com more than one 4 a 2 pa gup Briss Ready to spin s Offline Touch to invite a friend to join your ry San ves eyes friends list and to chat dass 4 ry Lavash Kiri on i i Your o
180. see Working with channels on page 242 Touch Search YouTube to search for videos by typing or speaking see Search for videos on page 239 Touch the YouTube icon at the top left of the screen and then touch Home to return to the YouTube home screen from any other screen On any YouTube screen touch a video to start playing it The video starts playing in its Watch screen The Watch screen is where you interact with videos in many ways in addition to watching them See Rating and commenting on videos on page 241 Uploading and sharing videos on page 244 and the other sections in this chapter Android User s Guide YouTube AUG 3 1 Sign into YouTube CC 100 gt 237 On the Watch screen touch the video to display the video controls Touch again to pause Browse in the Related videos tab or read comments in the Comments tab See Discovering videos on page 239 Touch the Full Screen button to watch in full screen view Touch is again to return to the Watch screen You can also switch back and forth by double tapping the screen In full screen view the System bar s buttons and other features are reduced to dim dots to reduce distraction The dots work like the features they replaced Touch an empty area of the System bar to restore it Drag the scrubber to jump to a different part of the video Touch the HQ icon to change whether you re viewing a high quality or regular quali
181. selves available for it you can chat with them by voice and video Invite a friend to a voice 1 Touch your friend s name in the Friends list to open a chat window chat 2 Touch the Microphone button to the right of the chat window Your friend receives a voice chat invitation touch the close button on your screen to withdraw the invitation If your friend accepts your invitation you can speak to each other using your tablet s built in microphone and speakers or a headset Use your tablet s Volume buttons to control your speakers volume during the chat You can touch the Mute button to the right of the chat window to turn off your microphone You can also chat by text in the chat window at the same time as the voice chat 3 When you re done with the voice chat touch the End Chat button AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Google Talk 183 Invite a friend to a video 1 Touch your friend s name in the Friends list to open a chat window chat 2 Touch the Video icon to the right of the chat window Your friend receives a video chat invitation If your friend accepts your invitation the video chat window opens filling the screen You can now speak with and see each other each other using your tablet s built in microphone speakers and camera You can also use a wired or Bluetooth headset see Connecting to Bluetooth devices on page 65 During a video chat you can Touch the screen to reveal the vi
182. start more quickly when you open them again but it will erase the cache if it needs the RAM for new activities AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Working with apps Open the Manage Applications screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 43 You manage how apps use internal storage directly and indirectly in many ways as you use your tablet for example by Installing or uninstalling apps see Market on page 265 and Uninstall an app on page 45 Downloading files in Browser Gmail and other apps Creating files for example by taking pictures Deleting downloaded files or files you created see Managing downloads on page 46 and the documentation for the apps you use Copying files to or from your tablet and a computer via USB or Bluetooth see Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 You rarely need to manage how apps use RAM the operating system does this for you But you can monitor how apps use RAM and stop them if they misbehave as described in Stop a misbehaving app on page 44 gt Open the Settings app and touch Applications gt Manage applications The Manage Applications screen has three tabs with lists of apps and their components in each At the bottom of each tab is a graph of the memory used by the items in the list and amount of free memory Touch an app process or service in a list to open a screen with details about it and depending on the item to change its settings stop it
183. t 6 Touch Label to open a dialog where you can type a label for the alarm 1 Touch Done Touch Set alarm or Alarm set if you have an alarm already set on the Clock screen A list of current alarms opens Set alarms are checked You can add an a new alarm to the list See Add an alarm on page 261 Check an existing alarm to set it and touch Done Or touch an existing alarm to change it If you touched an existing alarm touch Time Repeat Ringtone or Label to change it Then touch Done Android User s Guide Clock 262 Respond to an alarm When an alarm sounds a dialog opens where you can turn the alarm off or snooze it gt Touch Dismiss or press one of your tablet s buttons to turn off the alarm OR gt Touch Snooze to set the alarm to sound again in ten minutes When you have an alarm snoozed a notification is added to the System bar You can open the notification and touch it to turn the alarm off before it sounds again See Respond to a Notification on page 27 Delete an alarm You can delete an alarm from the Alarms list 1 Touch Set alarm or Alarm set if you have an alarm already set on the Clock screen A list of current alarms opens Touch the alarm you want to delete Touch Delete AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 263 Calculator Use Calculator to solve simple arithmetic problems or use its advanced operators to solve more complex equations In this section Using th
184. t on page 54 You can change the language you want to use for voice input by touching the Input Method button just as you do for the onscreen keyboard See Change the input language on page 50 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Entering and editing text Editing text Edit text Select text AUG 3 1 CC 100 54 You can edit the text you enter in text fields and cut copy or paste text within or across apps Some apps don t support editing some or all of the text they display others may offer their own way to select text you want to work with 1 Touch the text you want to edit The cursor is inserted where you touched The cursor is a blinking vertical bar that indicates where text you type or paste will be inserted When it first appears it has an tab you can use to drag the cursor to move it where you want I just picked up my new shoes 1 will wear them to spinning dass tonight If you previously copied text the Paste panel appears briefly above the cursor touch the panel to paste see Paste text on page 56 Drag the cursor by its tab to the location where you want to edit text The tab disappears after a few moments to get out of your way To make it reappear just touch the text again Type cut paste or delete text as described in this section 4 Touch the Close Keyboard button Ine when you re done You select text that you want to cut copy delete or replace 1 Touch
185. t have the same label including conversations with starred messages You can control how many conversations are kept current on your tablet by label and by time as described in Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 See Labeling a conversation on page 144 or Starring a message on page 143 for information about assigning labels and stars gt When viewing your Inbox or another conversation list touch the label in the left column You work with labeled conversation lists in the same way that you work with your Inbox which is the conversation list with the Inbox label You can add a Gmail widget to one of your Home screens to preview summaries of the conversations with recent new messages You can scroll in the widget to view older conversations touch a conversation to open it in Gmail The widget also displays the number of new messages in your Inbox and includes a Compose button Adding widgets is described in Customizing Home screens on page 33 If you added more than one Google Account to your tablet you re prompted to pick which account s email you want to preview in the widget To preview the email in another account you can add another widget If you aren t connected to a mobile data or Wi Fi network for example if you re in Airplane mode you can use Gmail to read or reread the messages currently synced to your tablet see Synchronizing conversations by label on page 146 an
186. t the bottom of the screen the System bar displays The Back Ex Home PS and Recent Apps m buttons for navigating among your apps see Using the Navigation buttons on page 22 Notification icons the time and Status icons see Monitoring your tablet s sta tus on page 25 and Managing notifications on page 26 Touch the Home button AN in the System bar at any time in any app Slide your finger left or right across the current Home screen The other Home screens provide more space for widgets shortcuts and other items For more on sliding see Using the touchscreen on page 21 Touch the Home button A to return to the central Home screen Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 21 Using the touchscreen The main way to control Android features is by using your finger to manipulate icons buttons menu items the onscreen keyboard and other items on the touchscreen You can also change the screen s orientation Touch To act on items on the screen such as app and settings icons to type letters and symbols using the onscreen keyboard or to pres onscreen buttons you simply touch them with your finger Touch amp hold Touch amp hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs Drag Touch amp hold an item for a moment and then without lifting your finger move your finger on the screen until you reach the target position For example you drag
187. t they open more quickly when you revisit them Touch Clear cache to delete these temporary files Clear history The browser keeps track of the webpages you visit so you can quickly find them and open them again later See View your Browser history on page 215 Touch Clear history to delete this record Show security warnings Uncheck to prevent Browser from warning you about websites with common security problems such as outdated or invalid certificates Accept cookies Many webpages store read and update files called cookies on your tablet for your convenience For example some password protected sites use cookies so you don t have to sign in each time you visit Other sites use cookies to Android User s Guide Browser Advanced AUG 3 1 CC 100 223 remember your preferences Uncheck to prevent webpages from storing cookies on your tablet Clear all cookie data Touch to delete all Browser cookies from your tablet Remember form data Browser remembers what you enter in some form fields on a site and helps you reenter that text the next time you use that form Uncheck to disable this feature Clear form data Touch to delete all the information the Browser remembers about what you ve entered in forms Enable location Check to permit websites with location specific content to ask whether you want to share your location using your tablet s location information To provide a website with your location you must als
188. t to a new group Groups are synced between Contacts on your tablet and Contacts on the web 8 Touch Add another field to open a menu with a variety of other kinds of contact information you can add Android User s Guide Contacts 112 9 When you re finished touch Done at the top right of the Application bar AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 113 Importing exporting and sharing contacts Import contacts from internal storage Export contacts to internal storage AUG 3 1 CC 100 If you copy contacts stored in vCard format to your tablet s internal storage you can import them into Contacts on your tablet You can export all your contacts in vCard format onto internal storage to back them up to a computer or other device And you can send a contact via email You can copy individual or group contacts in vCard format onto your tablet s internal storage and then import them into Contacts See Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 for details about copying files from your computer 1 Open Contacts 2 Touch the Menu button in the top right of the Application bar and touch Import Export 3 Touch Import from storage If you have more than one account on your tablet touch the account into which you want to import the contacts 5 If you have more than one vCard file on the SD card or USB storage touch the option to import a single contact file multiple contact files or all of the c
189. t visited The pages you ve visited most frequently are listed in order Bookmarked pages have a star Touch a star to add or remove that page from your bookmarks Touch amp hold a page in the list to open a menu with options for opening the page adding it or removing it form you bookmarks sharing page removing it from your history and so on Touch a page to open it Browser recognizes links as well as some phone numbers addresses and similar information as information that you may want to act on directly gt gt Touch amp hold a link to open a menu with shortcuts for opening bookmarking saving and sending the link via email Touch a street address to open it in Maps For more information see Maps Navigation Places and Latitude on page 227 Android User s Guide Browser Working with tabs Open a new Browser tab Switch Browser tabs Open an incognito tab AUG 3 1 CC 100 Close a tab 217 You can open up to 16 web pages in their own tabs so you can quickly switch among multiple open pages gt Touch the Plus button EE in the Application bar A new tab opens displaying your homepage You can also open a link or a page in your history or bookmarks in a new tab by touching amp holding it and then touching Open in new tab You can set your homepage and whether new tabs open in front of or behind current tabs see Changing Browser settings on page 222 1 Touch the tab yo
190. tablet gt Status The battery status charging discharging and level as a percentage of fully charged are displayed at the top of the screen The Battery Use screen shows which apps consume the most battery power You can also use it to turn off apps that you ve downloaded if they are consuming too much power Android User s Guide Home and Android basics AUG 3 1 CC 100 38 gt Open the Settings app and touch Applications gt Battery use The Battery Use screen lists the apps that have been using the battery from greatest to least battery use The discharge graph at the top of the screen shows battery level over time since you last charged the tablet and how long you ve been running on battery power Thin green lines below the chart indicate short periods of time when you were connected to a charger The thin blue line shows when the tablet was active Touch an app in the Battery Use screen to learn details about its power consumption Different apps offer different kinds of information Some apps include buttons that open screens with settings to adjust power use Touch the discharge graph to open a screen with details about when the tablet s radios screen and other features were using the battery Android User s Guide 39 Working with apps You can open and switch among numerous apps Android manages your tablet s resources for you so you don t need to quit one to get the most out of another o
191. tablet into a portable Wi Fi hotspot Not all carriers and tablets support these features When your tablet is sharing its data connection an icon appears in the Status bar and as an ongoing notification in the Notifications panel see Managing notifications on page 26 You can also obtain a network connection for your tablet from a computer via Bluetooth see Obtain a network connection via Bluetooth tethering on page 68 USB tethering is active EJ Bluetooth tethering is active J Portable Wi Fi hotspot is active Multiple tethering or hotspot connections are active For the latest information about tethering and portable hotspots including supported operating systems and other details visit android com tether Share your tablet s data If your computer is running Windows 7 or a recent distribution of some flavors of connection via USB Linux such as Ubuntu you typically don t need to prepare your computer for tethering But if you re running an earlier version of Windows or another operating system you may need to prepare your computer to establish a network connection via USB For the most current information about which operating systems support USB tethering and how to configure them visit android com tether AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Share your tablet s data connection via Bluetooth AUG 3 1 CC 100 76 Use the USB c
192. tch to capital letters for one letter Double tap Shift to switch to ALL CAPS touch Shift again to restore lowercase letters Touch the Numbers and Symbols key to enter numbers symbols and other special characters Touch the More key for more special characters Touch a key that has a gray ellipsis EJ its corner to open a small panel where you can drag to enter a different character Touch amp hold the shift key while you touch a key with a gray character in its corner to enter the gray character the gray character turns white to indicate on the key Or just touch amp hold that key to enter the gray character Touch amp hold a vowel or the C N or S key to open a small panel where you can drag onto the accented vowel or other alternate letter or number you want to enter If you ve used the Input Method settings to make more than one language or input method available the Input Method button E appears in the System bar when the onscreen keyboard voice input panel or o er input method is open Android User s Guide Entering and editing text AUG 3 1 CC 100 51 You can open the Input Method settings by touching the Keyboard Settings key on the onscreen keyboard by touching Configure input methods in the pan at opens when you touch the Input Method button Ei or in Settings 1 Touch the Input Method button in the System bar 2 Touch the language or other input method you want to use Android User s
193. tcut icon on a Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 You can also open Contacts via Quick Contacts See Connecting quickly with your contacts on page 120 Your contacts are displayed alphabetically at left in a scrolling list with the details of the currently selected contact in the main part of the screen You can drag the list of contacts up or down to scroll it or drag the scroll knob to scroll quickly Touch the contact whose details you want to view The details you have about that contact are displayed in the central part of the screen You can touch a communication method to start communicating with the contact in that way for example by Gmail or Google Talk You can touch an address to view it on Google Maps See Maps Navigation Places and Latitude on page 227 Touch amp hold an address or other element of a contact to copy it so you can paste it into another application See Entering and editing text on page 47 Android User s Guide Contacts 109 Changing which contacts are displayed Change which contacts are displayed Create a custom list of contacts to display AUG 3 1 CC 100 By default all the contacts from all your accounts are displayed in the scrolling list in Contacts But you can view just contacts from one account from one group only starred contacts or a custom set of contacts For related details see Adding and removing accounts
194. te back and forward between pages and review your browsing history You can also take advantage of some shortcuts for working with links and other kinds of information See Working with tabs on page 217 to learn about opening multiple pages in tabs and switching among them gt Touch a link to open it gt Touch the Back button or Forward button in the URL bar As you browse the web Browser keeps track of the pages you visit to help you find your way back later Changing Browser settings on page 222 describes the setting that clears your history 1 2 Touch the Bookmarks button at the top right of the URL bar Touch the History tab You can also touch amp hold the Back button E1 when viewing a webpage to open the History tab The pages you ve visited are grouped chronologically Bookmarked pages have a star Touch a star to add or remove that page from your bookmarks Touch a time period to view the pages you ve visited 4 Touch amp hold a page in the list to open a menu with options for opening the page adding it or removing it form you bookmarks sharing page removing it from your history and so on Touch a page in the history to reopen it Android User s Guide Browser 216 View your most frequently visited pages Follow shortcuts for links and addresses AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 2 4 Touch the Bookmarks button at the top right of the URL bar Touch the History tab Touch Mos
195. te the tablet s user interface SoundBack Check to play a sound as you navigate the tablet s user interface Accessibility scripts Check to allow applications to download accessibility scripts from Google Android User s Guide Settings 287 Date amp time settings Use Date amp 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 Automatic date amp time Uncheck to set the date and time on the tablet manually rather than obtaining the current time from the mobile network Automatic time zone Uncheck to set the time zone on the tablet manually rather than obtaining the local time zone from the mobile network Set date if Automatic date amp time is unchecked opens a dialog where you can manually set the tablet s date Set time If Automatic is unchecked opens a dialog where you can set the tablet s time Select time zone If Automatic time zone is unchecked opens a dialog where you can set the tablet s time zone Use 24 hour format Check to display the time using 24 hour time format for example 13 00 rather than 1 00 pm Select date format Opens a dialog where you can select the format for displaying dates AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Settings 288 About tablet About tablet includes information about your tablet About tablet screen System u
196. th as a batch Check conversations to add them to the 5 selected Changelabes HF batch TETEA ul t Ride Inbox 10 nay Wiest a 11 413m Touch a button to act on the batch or Priority Inbox Lavash Hugh me 2 Cheese factory this Sunday ee touch the Menu button to act on the Starred batch in other ways Lavash Kiri Clinchers or tubulars 12 5 2010 Important Lavash Kiri Shoe envy 12 5 2010 Chats Sent Roy West Group rides this weekend 2 5 2010 Reminder Club Ride Sun Dec 5 10am 2pm Outbox Google Calendar 2 5 2 pazditu gmail com V aaia Drafts 4 SP Good Calendar Reminder Erick Paz 1 1 Wed Nov 3 4pm Spm SESSE pazditu gmail com e de Erick P 11 3 2010 All Mail er Accepted Lunch at Cafe P Thu May 20 11am 12pm Nr Spam Hugh Griss pazditu gmailcom ed tt uoo Ke Reminder S ving Class Mon Oct 25 6 7 Trash w Google Calendar Hp ep Mon Oct 25 6pm 7pm Peep Personal Googie Calendar Reminder Status Meeting Mon Oct 25 9 30am 11am pazditu gmail com 2 Take an action on all the checked conversations There are a number of actions you can take on a batch of conversations e Touch Change labels to open the Labels dialog where you can check the labels you want to apply to the conversations Touch the Mark Read Star Archive or Delete button e Touch the Menu button and touch Mark important or Mark unim portant Report spam or Mute Your action affects the ent
197. the Application bar to add a word Voice recognizer settings See Google Voice Recognition settings screen on page 283 Text to speech settings See Text to Speech settings screen on page 283 Current input method Opens a dialog where you can select the input method you want to use if you have more than one installed or touch Configure input methods to open the screen where you can configure the current input method You can download alternative keyboards and other input methods from Android Market Input method selector Opens a dialog where can set whether you want the Input Selector button to appear in the System bar to the left of the time Configure input methods See Configure input methods screen on page 284 Android User s Guide Settings Google Voice Recognition settings screen Text to Speech settings screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 283 Language Opens a screen where you can set the language you use when entering text by speaking SafeSearch Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want Google SafeSearch filtering to block some results when you use Google Voice Search Block no search results off only explicit or offensive images moderate or both explicit or offensive text and images strict Block offensive words When unchecked Google voice recognition will recognize and transcribe words many people consider offensive when you enter text by speaking When checked Google voice recognition r
198. tings 90 Google Search settings 90 Voice Search and Voice Actions 91 Searching the web by speaking 92 Using Voice Actions 94 Changing Voice Search settings 97 Accounts 99 Adding and removing accounts 100 Configuring account sync and display options 103 Contacts 107 Opening your contacts 108 Changing which contacts are displayed 109 Adding contacts 111 Importing exporting and sharing contacts 113 Starring a contact 116 Searching for a contact 117 Editing contact details 118 Connecting quickly with your contacts 120 Joining contacts 121 Separating contact information 122 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Gmail 123 Opening Gmail and your Inbox 124 Reading your messages 128 Copying text from a message 132 Composing and sending a message 134 Replying to or forwarding a message 137 Working with Priority Inbox 139 Working with conversations in batches 142 Starring a message 143 Labeling a conversation 144 Synchronizing conversations by label 146 Searching for messages 149 Archiving conversations 151 Muting a conversation 152 Reporting spam 153 Appending a signature to your messages 154 Using keyboard shortcuts 155 Conversation list shortcuts 155 Message shortcuts 155 Changing Gmail settings 156 General preferences 156 Account settings 157 Troubleshooting sync issues 158 Calendar 161 Viewing your calendar and events 162 Working in Day and Week views 164 Working in Month view 165 Viewing event details 166 Creating an event
199. tion touch the conversation See Reading your messages on page 128 gt gt indicates messages sent directly to you gt indicates messages that you were Cc d on Other messages were sent to you as part of a group If you are using Priority Inbox messages in conversation lists may also indicate whether Gmail or you have marked them as important see Working with Priority Inbox on page 139 Important messages are marked with a yellow icon indicates important messages sent directly to you indicates important messages that you were Cc d on D indicates important messages that you received as part of a group Touch the Gmail icon at the top left of the screen until you return to your Inbox If you have Priority Inbox set as your default inbox your Priority Inbox opens instead of your Inbox see Working with Priority Inbox on page 139 Gmail displays conversations messages and settings for one Google Account at a time If you have more than one account you can switch accounts Adding and configuring accounts is described in Accounts on page 99 Android User s Guide Gmail 126 View conversations by label Add a Gmail widget to a Home screen Use Gmail offline AUG 3 1 CC 100 1 From your Inbox touch the current account at the top left of the screen 2 Touch the account that contains the email you want to read The account s Inbox opens You can view a list of the conversations tha
200. tion about that attachment at the top of the message You can set whether Gmail downloads some kinds of attachments automatically depending on your network connection See Account settings on page 157 Android User s Guide Gmail Reread a message AUG 3 1 CC 100 130 Depending on the kind of attachment the applications you have installed and your settings Gmail may also display a thumbnail image and one or more of the following buttons Preview Touch to download and view some kinds of attachments in a separate window For documents with multiple pages touching Preview downloads only the pages you view so it can be faster and use less data than touching View which downloads the entire file before opening it View or Play Download the attachment if necessary and then view or play it using the appropriate application Info View information about the attachment if there is no installed application that can open it you can download applications that open different kinds of files from Android Market Save Download the attachment if necessary and save it on your tablet For details on viewing and working with downloaded items on your tablet see Managing downloads on page 46 Downloaded items are stored in the Downloads directory on your tablet For information about copying files from your tablet to a computer see Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 When you open a conversation message
201. tion you want to use to share the video See the documentation for the application you picked to learn how to finish sending information about the video to those you want to share it with Copy a video s web You can copy a video s web address URL on YouTube to paste into a message or address other document gt When viewing a video s Watch screen touch the Menu button in Application bar and then touch Copy URL You can now paste the URL into a text field in any application see Editing text on page 54 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide YouTube 246 Working with playlists Add a video to a playlist View your own playlists AUG 3 1 CC 100 playlist is a collection of videos you can watch on YouTube as a set Your playlists are available on your Your Channel screen see Working with channels on page 242 You can add videos to your playlists You can also watch other people s playlists Visit YouTube on the web to learn how to create and edit playlists You create edit and delete playlists in YouTube on the web But you can add videos to your existing playlists using YouTube on your tablet 1 On a video s Watch screen touch the Menu button in the Application bar and then touch Save to In the dialog that opens touch the name of the playlist you want to add the video to Open Your Channel See Working with channels on page 242 Touch the Playlists tab Touch a playlist t
202. ttings on page 273 you can control the volume of music in the Music application gt Press the tablet s Volume Up or Volume Down button A panel opens to show the current media volume the indicator moves as you adjust the volume You can also drag the indicator in the panel to adjust the volume or touch the Settings icon to both the media and notification volume sliders Play a list of songs ina You can play the songs in the current album playlist or other list in a shuffle shuffle Music plays the songs in the list in random order until you turn shuffle off gt When viewing a list of songs in an album playlist or other list touch Shuffle OR gt Touch the Shuffle button on a Now Playing screen The songs in the list or the list the current track is part of are played ina shuffle until you touch the Shuffle button on a Now Playing screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Music 255 Working with playlists You can create playlists to organize your music into sets of songs which you can play in the order you set or in a shuffle Create a new playlist 1 Touch the triangular menu button P to the right of an album artist song or genre and touch Add to playlist You can also create a playlist starting from the Now Playing screen by touching Menu at the top right of the Application bar and touching Add to playlist Touch New Enter a name and touch Save The new playlist is added to the Playlist library
203. ty version of the video You can set whether videos start in high or normal quality when you re connected to mobile data networks See Changing YouTube settings on page 248 Touch the CC icon to show closed captions in the language you want or to hide closed captions Closed captions are available for videos only if the video owner provided them You can change the caption size see Changing YouTube settings on page 248 Touch Back ad to stop playback and return to the videos list You can discover and watch YouTube videos without a YouTube account but if you want to comment on videos add them to your Favorites upload videos or take advantage of many other YouTube features you must sign into your YouTube account Android User s Guide YouTube 238 gt Touch the Menu button atthe top right of the screen and touch Sign in Or touch any YouTube feature that requires you to be signed in such as Your Channel If one of the Google Accounts on your tablet is already a YouTube account you re prompted to use it to sign in Otherwise you can add a YouTube account If you re not already signed in the first time you use a YouTube feature that requires an account you re prompted to sign in You can sign out of YouTube for example so you can sign in using another account by touching the Menu button and touching Sign out For more information about YouTube accounts visit YouTube on the web and see W
204. u want to open If you have more tabs open than can fit onscreen drag the Application bar left or right to bring more tabs into view You can use incognito tabs to browse the web with more privacy than in normal tabs When you re browsing incognito Browser doesn t share your regular Browser cookies but creates a temporary set that it discards when you close all incognito tabs In addition pages you view in incognito tabs won t appear in your browser history or search history and they won t leave other traces like cookies on your tablet Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved Browsing in incognito mode is useful for example for allowing a friend to check her email on the web without using your identity or leaving her s behind gt Touch Menu and touch New incognito tab A new tab opens with an incognito icon FA and information about going incognito 1 Touch a tab to switch to it 2 Touch the Close button 9 in the tab Android User s Guide Browser Downloading files Allow installing applications from the web or email Download a file View the files you ve downloaded AUG 3 1 CC 100 218 You can download files and even applications from webpages The files that you download are stored on your tablet s internal storage Viewing reopening and deleting your downloaded files is described in Managing downloads on page 46 By default your tablet is configured to prevent y
205. uTube Delete a video you AUG 3 1 CC 100 uploaded You can upload videos you shot with Camera to YouTube where they appear on your Your Channel page You can share videos that are already on YouTube by sending the video s web address URL You can also share videos directly from Gallery after you shoot them with Camera see Gallery on page 231 and Camera on page 229 1 On the Your Channel screen touch Upload in the Application bar Gallery opens with albums of your videos For more information about Gallery including opening albums selecting videos and even starting an upload to YouTube see Gallery on page 231 Open an album and touch the video you want to upload Enter a title for the video and more details if you want such as whether you want to make the video public or private Touch Upload The video is added to your channel You can delete a video you uploaded to your channel on YouTube whether you originally uploaded it from your tablet or with a web browser 1 2 3 4 Open Your Channel Touch the Uploads tab Touch amp hold the thumbnail of the video you want to delete Touch Delete in the Application bar Or touch Done if you change your mind Android User s Guide YouTube 245 Share a video 1 When watching a video touch Share in the Application bar If you re watching full screen you may need to touch the video to display the video controls 2 Touch the applica
206. ult list the word you searched for is highlighted wherever it occurs in the conversation s messages Words you search for are stored by the tablet and suggested for later Gmail searches You can erase these stored words with Gmail settings see Changing Gmail settings on page 156 3 When you re done touch the close button at the right of the search box AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Gmail 151 Archiving conversations AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can archive conversations to move them out of your Inbox without deleting them Archived conversations are assigned the All Mail label and they retain any other labels you ve assigned to them See View conversations by label on page 126 They re also included in search results If someone replies to a message that you ve archived its conversation is restored to your Inbox gt While reading a conversation s messages touch the Archive button in the Application bar OR gt Check one or more conversations in your Inbox or other conversation list and touch the Archive button in the Application bar See Working with conversations in batches on page 142 Android User s Guide Gmail 152 Muting a conversation If you find yourself burdened by an ongoing conversation you don t want to keep seeing in your Inbox you can mute it Muted conversations are archived and any new messages bypass your Inbox and get archived automatically Mute a conversation
207. uninstall it and so on Most of these tasks are described in this section Touch the Downloaded tab to view the apps you ve downloaded from Market or other sources Touch the All tab to view all the apps installed on your tablet The list includes apps that are bundled with your release of Android and apps you downloaded from Market or other sources Touch the Running tab to view the apps and their processes and services that are running or cached See Stop a misbehaving app on page 44 Android User s Guide Working with apps Get details about an app Stop a misbehaving app AUG 3 1 CC 100 44 gt When viewing the Downloaded or All tab touch the By Size icon or the 1 2 Alphabetical icon to switch the order of the list Open the Manage Applications screen Touch an app process or service You can also open the Application Info screen from Home s Apps screen by touching amp holding an app and then dragging it to the Info icon The Application Info screen for each app lists its name and version along with details about the app Depending on the app and where it came from it may also include buttons for managing the app s data forcing the app to stop and uninstalling the app It also lists details about the kinds of information about your tablet and data that the app has access to Different kinds of apps have different kinds of information and controls but commonly include e Use the F
208. ur battery life by limiting your data connections to slower 2G networks GPRS or EDGE When you are connected to a 2G network you may want to postpone activities that transmit a lot of data such as sending uploading or downloading pictures or video until you are connected to a faster mobile or other wireless network 1 Open the Settings application 2 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Mobile networks and check Use only 2G networks If your tablet connects to GSM mobile networks and if you and your GSM carrier determine that you need to change the settings of your current access point name APN or to create a new one you must obtain the APN and detailed settings from your provider 1 Open the Settings application 2 Touch Wireless amp networks gt Mobile networks gt Access Point Names 3 Touch an existing APN to edit it Or touch New APN Enter the APN settings that you obtained from your carrier by touching each setting that you need to edit 4 When you re finished touch Save 5 If you created a new APN touch it in the APNs screen to start using it Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 60 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 To use Wi Fi on your tablet you connect to a wireless access point or hotspot Some hotspots are open and
209. ur library Android User s Guide Music 251 Opening Music and working with your library After you ve copied some music onto your tablet s internal storage as described in Transferring music files to your tablet on page 250 or downloaded music from another source you can open Music and see your library of music files sorted in one of four ways Open Music and view gt Touch the Music icon wir on the Apps screen or touch a shortcut icon on a your music library Home screen See Opening and switching apps on page 40 When you copy music to your tablet Music searches it for music files and builds a catalog of your music based on information about each file that is stored in the file itself This can take from a few seconds to several minutes depending on the number of files When the catalog is complete the Music library screen opens displaying a carousel view of your new and recent music organized by album New and recent Afterglow Live Big Boi amp Dre Present Outk St x 4 7 x BAREILLES AANE 174 UB s SARAH MCLACHLANET oasis AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Music 252 Swipe left or right to spin the carousel and browse through your new and recent music You can return to Music s Library screen from most other screens in the Music application by touching the Music app icon at the top left of the Application bar Change views of your You can view the cont
210. uri Pygmies gt Lane Piers gt Les Voix Humaines Susie Napier Margaret Little gt Louis Armstrong Plays W C Handy gt M Miles gt Piers Lane gt William Porter gt Notifications NT Click or Shift click on files or folders to select them just as you do in the Finder Double click folders or touch their arrow icons to view their contents Use the commands in the Go menu open and close folders and to navigate back and forth among the folders you ve opened Touch the New folder button or choose New Folder from the File menu to create a folder in the current folder Select one or more files or folders and choose Delete from the File menu to delete the selected files or folders from your tablet Drag one or more files to a folder in Android File Transfer or in the Finder to copy files back and forth Disconnect your tablet s USB cable from the Macintosh when you re done It s best to wait until any file transfers or deletions are complete before disconnecting but you can simply disconnect your tablet at any time any tasks in progress are simply abandoned Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices 75 Sharing your mobile data connection You can share your tablet s mobile data connection with a single computer via a USB cable or via Bluetooth USB tethering or Bluetooth tethering You can also share your tablet s data connection with up to eight devices at once by turning your
211. ut the distraction of the System bar You can touch a dot as it if were the control it stands for or touch a blank area of the System bar to restore it to full view Back ad Opens the previous screen you were working in If the onscreen keyboard is open the button changes to a down arrow and touching it closes the keyboard Home NI Opens Home If you re viewing a left or right Home screen opens the central Home screen Recent Apps my Opens a list of thumbnail images of apps you ve worked with recently touch an app to open it Legacy Ezz Opens the options menu for applications designed for pre vious versions of Android AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 23 Waking the tablet If you don t use the tablet for a while the screen dims and then darkens to conserve the battery 1 Press the Power button The lock screen opens unless you ve turned it off see Securing your tablet on page 31 2 Touch amp hold the lock icon and when it turns into a circle drag it to the edge of the larger circle that surrounds it Or if you ve secured the lock screen enter a pattern PIN or password See Securing your tablet on page 31 The last screen you were viewing opens AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics Finding your apps Open and work with the Apps screen AUG 3 1 CC 100 24 The Apps screen displays all the apps on your ta
212. web based version of Google Contacts offers another useful tool for eliminating duplicate contacts the Find amp merge duplicates command in the More actions menu See Contacts on the web for more information Join contacts 1 Touch a contact to which you want to join one or more other contacts to view the contact s details This is the contact you will see in Contacts after the join Touch the Edit button at the top right of the Application bar Touch Menu and touch Join A dialog opens with a list of likely contacts to join You can touch Show all contacts to pick a contact from your full list of contacts 4 Touch the contact whose information you want to join with the first contact The information from the second contact is added to the first contact and the second contact is no longer displayed in the Contacts list You can repeat these steps to join another contact to the main contact See Editing contact details on page 118 for details about how to view where a contact s information came from including automatic and manually joined information See Separating contact information on page 122 for information about how to separate contacts joined in error AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 122 Separating contact information Each contact on your phone may contain information from a variety of sources you may have entered it Contacts may have joined information automatically when you added an
213. whether you will attend the event by touching an Attending option Other attendees status is displayed below your own Event times are shown in the time zone set by your local mobile carrier unless you configure Calendar to work in your home time zone see Changing Calendar settings on page 172 You can change any event reminders or touch the Plus button to add one See Setting an event reminder on page 169 If you have permission to change events you can change other details or delete the event as described in Editing or deleting an event on page 168 Android User s Guide Calendar Creating an event Create an event AUG 3 1 CC 100 167 You can use Calendar on your tablet to create events that appear on your tablet and in Google Calendar on the web 1 In any Calendar view touch the New Event button You can also touch amp hold a spot in Day or Week view Add details about the event Enter a name time and other details about the event When setting a date or time you can use the plus and minus buttons in the dialog or touch the date or time and enter it using the onscreen keyboard You can use the default time zone or set a different one for this event The default time zone for your events is the one set by your local mobile carrier unless you configure Calendar to work in your home time zone see Changing Calendar settings on page 172 If you have more than one calendar you c
214. wnloading the file until you are next connected to a Wi Fi network when the download will resume automatically You can view and manage these queued files in the Downloads app as well Downloaded files are stored in the Download directory in your tablet s internal storage You can view and copy files from this directory when connected to a computer as described in Connecting to networks and devices on page 57 Open Downloads and Touch the Downloads icon 4 in Home on the Apps screen or a shortcut on a manage downloaded Home screen if you added one there files See Opening and switching apps on page 40 gt Touch an item to reopen it gt Touch headings for earlier downloads to view them gt Check items you want to delete then touch Delete The item is deleted from your tablet gt Touch the Menu button and touch Sort by size or Sort by time to switch back and forth AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide 47 Entering and editing text You can use the onscreen keyboard to enter text in web pages when composing mail and anyplace else with a text field or you can enter text by speaking instead of typing You can also edit text insert delete copy and even paste between applications In this section Using the onscreen keyboard on page 48 Entering text by speaking on page 52 Editing text on page 54 AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Entering and editing text 48 Using the o
215. y of it Touch Details in the summary to view or change details or touch amp hold the event to open this screen directly See Editing or deleting an event on page 168 You can pinch with two fingers or spread them apart to contract or expand the detail shown for each event Touch amp hold an empty spot or an event in a day to create a new event at that time or day See Creating an event on page 167 Android User s Guide Calendar 165 Working in Month view AUG 3 1 CC 100 Month view displays a chart of the events of the month The current day is highlighted in blue gt gt gt gt When viewing a calendar touch Month in the Application bar to open that view Swipe up or down to view other months Touch Today in the Application bar to return to today Touch a day to view its events in Day view See Working in Day and Week views on page 164 Android User s Guide Calendar 166 Viewing event details View information about an event AUG 3 1 CC 100 You can view more information about an event in a number of ways depending on the current view gt In Day or Week view touch an event to view a summary gt In Month view touch a day to switch to Day view Then touch an event to view it as summary gt Inthe summary dialog touch Details to view or changes the details about the event Or touch amp hold the event to open this screen directly You can set or change
216. y sharing it with them in vCard format AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 115 Open Contacts Touch the contact you want to share to view its details Touch Menu and touch Share contact bh U N gt Touch the way in which you want to share the vCard Gmail Bluetooth and so on The list depends on the applications you have installed Use the application you picked to finish sharing the vcf file see the documentation for that application for details AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 116 Starring a contact You can star the contacts you communicate with most frequently Then you can view only your starred contacts to find them more quickly To learn how to view only starred contacts see Changing which contacts are displayed on page 109 Star a contact 1 Open your contacts Touch a contact to view its details Touch the star next to the contact s name The star turns blue Unstarring a contact 1 View the details for a starred contact 2 Touch the blue star next to the contact s name The star turns gray and the contact is removed from the Starred group AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Contacts 117 Searching for a contact You can search for a contact by name Search for a contact 1 Open your contacts Touch the Search button Q Start entering the name of the contact you re searching for As you type contacts with matching names appear below the search box
217. you can simply connect to them Others implement security features so you must configure your tablet so it can connect to them There are numerous systems for securing Wi Fi connections including some that rely on secure certificates or other schemes to ensure that only authorized users can connect See Working with secure certificates on page 81 Turn off Wi Fi when you re not using it to extend the life of your battery between charges You can also set whether you want to disconnect from Wi Fi networks when your tablet is sleeping see Set a Wi Fi disconnect policy on page 64 The Status bar displays icons that indicate Wi Fi status Network status icons turn blue if you have a Google Account added to your tablet and the tablet is connected to Google services for syncing your Gmail Calendar events contacts for backing up your settings and so on If you don t have a Google Account or if for example you re connected to a Wi Fi network that is not connected to the Internet the network icons are gray U Connected to a Wi Fi network waves indicate connection strength Notification that an open Wi Fi network is in range Turn Wi Fi on and If you re adding a Wi Fi network when first setting up your tablet Wi Fi is turned connect to a Wi Fi on automatically so you can skip to step 4 network AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Connecting to networks and devices Modify how you connect 61
218. ys its progress Encryption can take an hour or more during which time your tablet may restart several times When encryption is complete you re prompted to enter your PIN or password Subsequently you must enter your PIN or password each time you power on your tablet to decrypt it AUG 3 1 CC 100 Android User s Guide Home and Android basics 33 Customizing Home screens You can add app icons shortcuts widgets and other items to any part of any Home screen where there s free space You can also change the wallpaper For an introduction to Home see Getting to know Home on page 20 Add an item to a Home 1 Open the Home screen where you want to add the item screen For an introduction to working with Home including how to switch Home screens see Getting to Know Home on page 20 Touch the Customize button at the top right of the screen Touch the category of item you want to add If there are no empty spots on the Home screen Add is dimmed you must delete or move an item before you can add another item or switch to another Home screen 4 Inthe menu that opens touch the tab for the category of item you want to add e Widgets are miniature apps They are described in detail in Working with widgets on page 36 e App shortcuts are app icons you can place on your Home screens so you can touch them to open those apps without opening the Apps screen first e Wallpapers are images from Gallery pictu

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