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Page 1: Quick Start Guide
Quick Start Guide English Android 6.0, Marshmallow... - Page 2 Copyright © 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved. Edition 1.04 Google, Android, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Android Wear, Nexus, Google Play, YouTube, Hangouts, and other trademarks are property of Google Inc. A list of Google trademarks is available at http://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/ our-trademarks.html.
- Page 3 Table of contents Welcome to Android About Android 6.0, Marshmallow What’s new in 6.0 Get started Sign in to your account Send a text message (SMS) Make a phone call Send an email Take a photo Quick Settings Your apps Your Home screens Status bar Navigation basics...
- Page 4 Use the keyboard Enter & edit text Gesture Typing Keyboard dictionaries Type by speaking Control access Manage accounts on your device Add an account Remove an account Share your device with other users Switch users Remove a user Guest user Security Smart Lock Facial recognition...
- Page 5 Share & store content on your device Android Beam Google Cast File storage SD card storage Dual-SIM card support Screenshots Printing Try some apps Play Store Gmail Camera Photos Contacts Hangouts Calendar FM Radio Accessibility Android on watches, TVs, and cars Android Wear Android TV Android Auto...
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Page 6: Welcome To Android
Welcome to Android About Android 6.0, Marshmallow Marshmallow is the latest version of Android, the operating system that powers phones, tablets, watches, TVs, cars, and more. This book introduces the Android 6.0 software on your Nexus or Android One phone or tablet. For hardware details, visit support.google.com/ android. -
Page 7: Get Started
Get started When you first turn on your phone or tablet, you’ll see a Welcome screen. Choose the language you want and touch the arrow to continue. IMPORTANT: To complete the setup process, it’s best to have a Wi-Fi connection. Sign in to your account When prompted, sign in with your Google Account or create one. - Page 8 When you sign in, you can easily get all the apps you’ve purchased on Google Play onto your new device. All the email, contacts, calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your device. For example, if you change a friend’s phone number on your phone, that change also appears on your tablet and on any computers where you’re signed in to your Google Account.
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Page 9: Send An Email
Make a phone call Using a Nexus phone, you can place calls from the Phone app, the Contacts app, or other apps or widgets that display contact information. Wherever you see a phone number, you can usually touch it to dial. To place a call to one of your contacts: 1. -
Page 10: Quick Settings
will be synced to your device. Otherwise, add your email address now. For more details, see Gmail. Take a photo To take a photo: 1. Open Camera 2. Frame your picture. 3. Touch the capture icon below the image area to take the picture. To see the photo you just took, swipe from right to left. - Page 11 • Auto-rotate: Lock your device’s orientation in portrait or landscape mode. • Flashlight: Turn the flashlight on or off. On a Nexus 5, Quick Settings look like this: Open the main Settings menu by touching Settings at the top right.
- Page 12 Your apps To see all your apps, touch in the Favorites tray on any Home screen. This is where you can see all your apps, including those that come with your phone or tablet and those you downloaded on Google Play. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens.
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Page 13: Status Bar
Your Home screens After you finish setting up your device, the main Home screen appears for the first time. Here, you can add app icons and widgets (an “at-a-glance” view of an app’s most important information) to your Home screens. •... -
Page 14: Manage Battery Life
Home Returns to the Home screen. To get suggestions based on the screen you’re currently viewing, touch & hold this button. For more information, see Now on Tap. Overview Opens a list of thumbnail images of screens you’ve worked with recently. To open one, touch it. To remove a screen from the list, swipe it left or right or touch the X. - Page 15 • Doze reduces battery usage when your device is not in use, not charging, and not moving. • App Standby lets Android reduce battery-draining activities of apps that you haven’t used for a long period of time (when your device isn’t charging).
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Page 16: Personalize Your Device
Personalize your device Customize your Home screens Make your Home screen feel like home. You can change your wallpaper, add apps or widgets, or add additional Home screens to the right. To change your wallpaper: 1. Touch & hold the background, then touch Wallpapers 2. - Page 17 To move an app or widget to another position: 1. Touch & hold the icon. 2. Slide your finger to the new position. To move between Home screens, slide toward the edge of the screen. To bump another icon out of the way, slide your finger slowly into it. 3.
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Page 18: Manage Your Settings
Manage your settings Settings controls the core Android settings for networks, hardware, location, security, language, accounts, and more. The fastest way to adjust system settings that you access frequently, such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. See Quick Settings for more information. -
Page 19: Sound And Notification
• Brightness level: Move the slider to adjust the brightness level on your device. • Adaptive brightness: Turn on adaptive brightness to automatically optimize the brightness level on your device based on the available light around you. Adaptive brightness is on by default. You can adjust the brightness when needed. - Page 20 • App notifications. Modify the notification settings individually for apps such as Gmail. The setting under When device is locked will always take precedence over the setting for an individual app. • Notification access. See which apps can access your notifications. When a notification arrives, its icon appears at the top of the screen.
- Page 21 Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email previews or calendar events. The one at the top is expanded when possible. To expand a notification, position one finger inside it and swipe down slowly. To open the related app, touch the notification. Some notifications also allow you to take specific actions by touching icons within the notification.
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Page 22: Google Now
Pin your screen You can enable your device to only show a certain app’s screen using screen pinning. This feature can come in handy if you want to play a game without accidentally minimizing the app if you touch the Home button. -
Page 23: How It Works
For example, here’s a Google Now card that appears when you’re about to start your commute: After you start using Google Now, you don’t need to do anything else. You can fine-tune some settings, but Google Now doesn’t need any elaborate setup. - Page 24 an address, Google Now can check traffic and suggest when you should leave. When you decide to use Google Now, you can also turn on Location History. Location History allows Google to store a history of your location data from all devices on which you’re logged into your Google Account.
- Page 25 Turn “Ok Google” on or off You can start a search or action by saying “Ok Google.” To turn this feature off or on, open Google Now or the Google app and touch menu > Settings > Voice > “Ok Google” detection. Now on Tap In Android 6.0, Google Now can also provide you with relevant suggestions based on the content currently on your screen.
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Page 27: Use The Keyboard
Use the keyboard TIP: To select a keyboard language other than English, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input. For more details, visit Keyboard help. Enter & edit text Use the onscreen keyboard to enter text. Here’s what it looks like on a Nexus phone:... - Page 28 Keyboards on tablets work in a similar way. To make the keyboard go away, touch the Back button below it. Some apps open the keyboard automatically. In others, you first need to touch where you want to type. Basic editing Change where you want to type •...
- Page 29 • You’ll have the option to capitalize the word or change the word to be in all capital letters. Type a symbol or character • To switch to symbol keys for one word, touch the symbol key once. ?123 • You can also touch &...
- Page 30 messages. Depending on your app, you may need to touch & hold the Return key (or sometimes the Next key, the right-pointing arrow that appears instead of the Return key) and then slide your finger to the happy face to display emoji.
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Page 31: Gesture Typing
Gesture Typing Gesture Typing works best for English. Quality varies for other languages, and some don’t support it yet. To input a word using Gesture Typing: 1. Touch the location where you want to type to open the keyboard. 2. Slide your finger slowly across the letters of the word you want to input. -
Page 32: Type By Speaking
Personal dictionary Add your own words to your personal dictionary so that your device remembers them. To add a word or phrase, including an optional shortcut, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input > Personal dictionary and the language of the dictionary you want to modify, then choose Add and type in the word. -
Page 33: Control Access
Control access Manage accounts on your device You can add accounts so that information associated with those accounts automatically syncs with your phone or tablet. You’ll need to set up an account on your device if you want to receive email or get apps on Google Play. -
Page 34: Share Your Device With Other Users
1. Go to Settings > Personal > Accounts. 2. Select your account. If you’re using a Google account, touch Google and then your account. Remove an account When you remove an account that you’ve added to your device, everything associated with that account, including email, contacts, and settings is also deleted. -
Page 35: Switch Users
custom Home screens, accounts, apps, settings, and more. You must be the device owner to add users. To add a new user: 1. Go to Settings > Device > Users. 2. Touch Add user, then touch OK. If you’re with the new user: Touch Set up now and you’ll be taken to the lock screen. - Page 36 Guest user If someone wants to temporarily use your device, but they don’t need to be set up as a regular user, they can use it as a guest. Guest users don’t have access to your mail, your apps, or any content on your phone that’s tied to your account, like photos or downloaded files.
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Page 37: Smart Lock
Emergency. If you have a device that’s set up for more than one user, you may need to touch your image at the bottom of the screen to see your own locked screen. For more information, visit Set screen lock. Smart Lock You can turn on Smart Lock to keep your device unlocked when it’s safe with you—for example, when you’re at a trusted place or when the device... -
Page 38: Protect Against Harmful Apps
will learn a signature of the way the phone moves while you walk in order to lock the phone when it moves in a way that doesn’t resemble your natural rhythm. Note: On-body detection can’t tell whose body is connected to on-body detection. -
Page 39: Android Device Manager
and your device from harm. By default, your device doesn’t allow the installation of apps from sources other than Google Play. If you choose to allow the installation of apps from other sources, you’re more likely to end up with harmful apps on your device. The Verify Apps feature protects you by continually checking for apps that may harm your device, steal your personal information, or perform other malicious actions –... -
Page 40: Pay With Your Phone
Pay with your phone When NFC is turned on, you can use Tap & pay to pay for items just by holding your phone to the contactless terminal at checkout. To manage which app you use for payment: • Go to Settings >... -
Page 41: Android Beam
Share & store content on your device Android Beam You can instantly send or beam a web page, video, or other content from your screen to another device by bringing the devices together (typically back to back). In some apps, the Share icon also gives you the option of using Android Beam. -
Page 42: File Storage
More > Android Beam Google Cast Google Cast is a technology that lets you cast entertainment and music from your phone or tablet right to your TV or speakers. Discover a growing number of Google Cast apps including Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, Hulu Plus, HBO GO, WatchESPN, Google Play, and more at g.co/ castapps. - Page 43 kind of messages. You can also use stored images as your Home screen wallpaper. For example, to attach an image to an email you’re composing, touch the Paper Clip at the top right and choose to either Attach file or Insert from Drive to select stored images in your Drive folder.
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Page 44: Dual-Sim Card Support
SD card storage You can insert micro SD cards into most Android One phones to extend their storage capacity. This feature isn’t available on Nexus devices. For more details, visit Install and use a micro SD card. Dual-SIM card support If you have an Android One phone, you can use two SIM cards: one for Dual-SIMs cellular data, and one for voice. - Page 45 To check what services are currently available, go to Settings > System > Printing. Open each available service to turn it on or off, check which printers are available, add new printers, and adjust the service’s settings. To print a document, like a webpage in Chrome: 1.
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Page 46: Try Some Apps
Try some apps Play Store The Google Play Store brings together all your favorite apps & games, movies & TV shows, books, music, and news & magazines in one place, so you can reach them from any of your devices. To open the Play Store app, touch Play Store If you purchased content in the Play Store in the past, you’ll automatically have access to this content on any Android device —... - Page 47 Gmail Use the Gmail app to read and write email from any mobile device. To open it, touch Gmail on a Home or All Apps screen. Gmail isn’t just about email. You can use your Gmail account to sign in to all Google apps and services, including these and many more: •...
- Page 48 For more information, visit Gmail help. Camera The Camera app lets you take regular photos, panoramic photos, videos, and immersive 360-degree photo sphere shots, including what’s above and below you. To open Camera: • From the the lock screen, touch Camera and swipe away from the camera icon in the bottom right corner.
- Page 49 view the camera modes. On the latest Nexus devices, you can swipe from right to left to switch to Video mode, and then from left to right to switch back to Camera. To view the other modes, touch menu at the top left of the image area. Photo Sphere •...
- Page 50 in the center of the screen moves over a blue dot and records that portion of the image. Keep moving over the dots until you’re finished, then touch the check mark at the bottom of the screen. Panorama • Touch Panorama to begin taking a panoramic photo. •...
- Page 51 TIP: HDR+, available on some Nexus devices, automatically snaps a rapid burst of photos and combines them to give you the best possible single shot. To turn on HDR+, touch the … at the lower right of the shutter and select HDR+. This feature is most useful for backlit scenes or those with both very bright and very dark elements.
- Page 52 Contacts The Contacts app gives you quick access to all of your stored contacts. To open it, touch the Contacts icon on a Home or All Apps screen. When you first turn on your device and sign into a Google Account, existing contacts from that account are synced with your Contacts app.
- Page 53 For more information about using Hangouts, visit Hangouts help. Calendar Use the Calendar app to view and edit your schedule. To open it, touch Calendar on a Home or All Apps screen. When you first set up your Android device, you have a chance to configure it to use a Google Account (such as Gmail).
- Page 54 You can keep listening to the radio even when you want to use another app or if your screen goes to sleep by touching the Home button. The radio will keep playing until you turn it off. For more information, visit Listen to and record FM radio stations.
- Page 55 Accessibility To use the accessibility options, open Settings > System > Accessibility. To view detailed information about setting up these options, visit Android Accessibility. Here are some options for people with visual impairments: TalkBack is a screen reader from Google that comes with your Android phone and tablet.
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Page 56: Android Wear
Google Play help you customize the look and features of your watch. You can choose from a variety of watches and bands from Asus, Huawei, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, and other manufacturers. For more information, visit android.com/wear. -
Page 57: Android Auto
For more information, visit android.com/tv. Android Auto Android Auto allows you to display navigation, music, contacts, and messages from your phone on the built-in screen of a compatible car. With a simplified interface, integrated steering wheel controls, and powerful new voice actions, it’s designed to minimize distraction so you can stay focused on the road.