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- Page 2 Copyright © 2015 Visual Land Inc. All rights reserved. Google, Android, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Chromecast, Android Wear, Google Play, YouTube, Google+, 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.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of contents Welcome to Android About Android 5.0, Lollipop Android Wear Set up your device Make yourself at home Send an email Status bar Quick Settings Manage battery life Get around Navigation buttons Menus Organize your Home screens Touch & type Android version &... - Page 4 Essentials Google Now How it works Try it What you can ask Google to do for you Turn “Ok Google” on or off Display Sound and notification Manage accounts on your device Add an account Remove an account Share your device with other users Switch users Remove a user Guest user...
- Page 5 Use the keyboard Enter & edit text Use next-word suggestions Gesture Typing Keyboard dictionaries Type by speaking Try some apps All Apps Gmail Google Play Camera Photos Contacts Hangouts Calendar Settings Accessibility ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE...
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Page 6: Welcome To Android
Welcome to Android About Android 5.0, Lollipop Android 5.0, Lollipop is the latest version of Android, the oper- ating system that powers not just phones and tablets, but also wearables, TVs, and even cars. Android 5.0 features a bold and bright new design, 3D graphics support that are as good as on a desktop computer, and great new features that make your phone work for you: Add guest users and other users without providing them ac-... -
Page 7: Android Wear
Android Wear Android Wear watches from other manu-facturers connect your phone to your wrist. Pause, play, and skip music tracks or quickly respond to text messages using only your watch. Android Wear organizes your information, suggests what you need, and shows it to you before you even ask. -
Page 8: Make Yourself At Home
An email address that you use for any of the following counts as a Google Account: • Gmail • YouTube • Google Play • Google Apps • AdWords • Any other Google product Signing in with a Google Account helps you get up and running quickly. -
Page 9: Send An Email
Send an email Use the Gmail app to read and write email from your Gmail or other email addresses. 1. Touch Gmail on a Home or All Apps screen. 2. If you already signed into a Gmail account during setup, your email will be synced to your device. -
Page 10: Manage Battery Life
• Display brightness: Slide to lower or increase the bright- ness of your screen. • Auto-rotate: Lock your device’s orientation in portrait or landscape mode. Quick Settings look like this: Open the main Settings app by touching Settings in the top right. -
Page 11: Get Around
Your Android device’s battery is built to get you through your day. When you’re running low, Android’s battery saver conserves your battery power so you can still make calls and send SMS (text) messages. To turn it on, go to Settings >... -
Page 12: Menus
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 on the X. Some apps hide these buttons temporarily, or fade them to small dots in the same position. -
Page 13: Organize Your Home Screens
Organize your Home screens • To change your wallpaper, add a widget, adjust Search set- tings, or change screen order, touch & hold the background of any Home screen. • You can have any number of Home screens to the right. To add a new screen, swipe to the rightmost screen and drag an app or widget to the right edge. -
Page 14: Touch & Type
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 slowly into it. 3. -
Page 15: Android Version & Updates
and pinching them together (to enlarge scale) or spreading them apart (to reduce it). • Rotate the screen. The orientation of most screens rotates with your device as you turn it. To keep your screen locked in Portrait mode, swipe down with two fingers from the top of any screen and touch Portrait/Auto-Rotate in Quick Settings. -
Page 16: Essentials
Essentials Google Now Google Now is about getting you just the right information, at just the right time. It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and even your favorite team’s score while they’re playing. For example, here’s a Google Now card that appears when you’re about to start your commute: ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE... -
Page 17: How It Works
After you start using Google Now, you don’t need to do anything else. If you like, you can fine-tune some settings, but Google Now doesn’t need any elaborate setup. How it works To know when to show information you’ll find useful, Google Now uses contextual data from your device and from other Google products, plus data from third-party products that you allow Google Now to access. -
Page 18: Try It
Try it You have a chance to turn on Google Now when you first set up your device. You can also turn it on or off at any time: 1. Touch & hold any empty space on your Home screen. 2. -
Page 19: What You Can Ask Google To Do For You
What you can ask Google to do for you When you use Google Now, you can speak to your device to search, get directions, and create reminders. For example, say “Ok Google, do I need an umbrella tomorrow?” to see if there’s rain in the weather forecast. -
Page 20: Sound And Notification
ful backgrounds, and more when your device is charging or docked. • if you want your phone to wake up when you pick it up or when a notification arrives. Sound & notification You can change the sound and notification settings on your de- vice by going to Settings >... - Page 21 When a notification arrives, its icon appears at the top of the screen. Icons for pending notifications appear on the left, and system icons showing things like the Wi-Fi signal, or battery strength are on the right: Notifications Wi-Fi signal Battery Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email previews or calendar events.
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Page 22: Manage Accounts On Your Device
Manage accounts on your device You can add accounts so that information associated with that account automatically syncs with your device. You’ll need to set up an account on your device if you want to get email or get apps on Google Play. -
Page 23: Remove An Account
or POP3, try IMAP first. Many email services use IMAP. i. Choose “Google” if you want to add your Google Account. When you sign in with a Google Account, all the email, con- tacts, calendar events, and other data associated with that account are automatically synced with your device. -
Page 24: Share Your Device With Other Users
3. Under “Accounts,” touch the name of the account you want to remove. If you’re using a Google Account, touch Google and then the account. • When you sign out of your Google Account, all the email, contacts, Calendar events, and other data associated with that account will no longer automatically sync with your device. -
Page 25: Switch Users
Switch users To switch users, swipe down from the top of any screen twice to open Quick Settings. Touch the image of the current user in the top right corner of the screen, then touch another user’s image. Remove a user The device’s owner can delete any user that they added: 1. -
Page 26: Security
Security If a lock is set for your screen, the screen goes dark and locks when the display goes to sleep or if you press the Power button. You can set locks of different strengths using Screen Lock settings: 1. Go to Settings > Personal > Security > Screen lock. -
Page 27: Protect Against Harmful Apps
Trusted devices and face matching You can set your device to stay unlocked while connected to a Bluetooth device—like a watch, fitness tracker, headset, or car speaker system. Bluetooth may not be available on all devices. You can also have your device unlock when it recognizes your face. -
Page 28: Chromecast
Chromecast Chromecast is a small device that plugs into the back of your TV. It allows you to send videos and music straight from your phone or tablet to your TV. You can use Chromecast with apps like: • YouTube •... -
Page 29: File Storage
File storage Android 5.0 makes it easy to store and browse through pictures, videos, and other files on your device and attach them to an email, Hangout message, and so on. 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 in the top right and choose to either... -
Page 30: Screenshots
Google Play streams purchases and rentals via the Internet. So the purchases and rentals don’t always occupy storage space when you play them. Although you can download content in Google Play apps to access offline, Google Play content never appears in Downloads. Screenshots To take a screenshot: 1. -
Page 31: Use The Keyboard
Use the keyboard TIP: To select a keyboard language other than English, go Settings, Personal > Language & input. Enter & edit text Use the onscreen keyboard to enter text. Here’s what it looks like: ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE USE THE KEYBOARD... - Page 32 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 Touch the cursor, then touch and drag the where you...
- Page 33 Change word If you want to quickly change the capitaliza- capitalization tion of a word you’ve already typed, you can select it and touch the Shift key. You’ll have the option to select the capital- ized word or the word in all capital letters. Type a To switch to symbol keys for one word, touch symbol or...
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Page 34: Use Next-Word Suggestions
You’ll see a panel like this. To move between categories, swipe left or right or touch the symbols in the top row. To type an emoji, touch it: Use next-word suggestions 1. Touch the location where you want to input text. 2. -
Page 35: Gesture Typing
Gesture Typing Gesture Typing works best for English. Quality varies for other lan- guages, 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. -
Page 36: Keyboard Dictionaries
Keyboard dictionaries To manage keyboard dictionaries, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input. Personal dictionary You can 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 >... - Page 37 or “exclamation point.” Supported languages include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian. To improve processing of your voice input, Google may record a few seconds of background noise in temporary memory at any time. This recording remains on the device only temporarily and is not sent to Google.
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Page 38: Try Some Apps
Try some apps All Apps To see all your apps, touch All Apps in the Favor- ites tray on any Home screen. This is where you can see all your apps, including those that come with your phone and those you downloaded on Google Play. -
Page 39: Gmail
To view info about an app from an All Apps screen, touch & hold it, slide your finger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app App Info. over TIP: Some apps can harm you or your device. However, you don’t need to purchase anti-virus software for Google Play edition devices. - Page 40 unread. Look under the Menu to move, change labels, mute, print and do other actions to the email. • Swipe left or right to read the previous or next conversation. Organize your conversations: From the Inbox, touch & hold a con- versation to select it.
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Page 41: Google Play
To change the settings of any of the accounts you added, follow these steps: 1. Open the Settings menu on your device. 2. Under “Personal,” touch “Accounts” and select your account. If you’re using a Google account, touch Google and then your account. -
Page 42: Camera
Google Play support For more details about Google Play, including phone and email support options, visit support.google.com/googleplay. Camera The Camera app lets you take photos, panoramic photos, videos, and immersive 360-degree photo sphere shots, including what’s above and below you. To open Camera: •... - Page 43 When you open Camera, you can choose from five different cam- era modes. To see the modes, swipe left to right. Camera icon indicates Camera mode. To take a picture: 1. Frame your subject and watch for the focus ring. To focus on a different part of the image, touch it.
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Page 45: Photos
Photos The Photos app gives you instant access to all your photos and videos associated with any Google Account set up on your phone or tablet. To open it, touch Photos. To open Photos from the: • Camera app. Swipe from right to left. •... -
Page 46: Contacts
Contacts The Contacts app gives you quick access to every- one you want to reach. To open it, touch the Con- tacts 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 47: Hangouts
Hangouts With Hangouts, you can make video calls to anyone with a Google Account. You can share photos and your location with others. On some devices, Hangouts is also your default messaging app. Calendar Use the Calendar app to view and edit your sched- ule. - Page 48 • Open the event from the Calendar app at any time and touch Email guests. You have a list of quick responses or you can write your own. • When a notification of the event arrives just before the meet- ing starts, swipe down the notification shade.
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Page 49: Device Information
Settings Settings controls the core Android settings for networks, hardware, location, security, language, accounts, etc. The fastest way to adjust system settings that you access fre- quently, such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. “Quick Settings” on page 7. You can control many other settings for your device and account by swiping down from the top of the screen twice and touching . - Page 50 Most apps also include their own settings, typically available from the menu on the upper left side of the app, or from the Menu > Settings. On Google Play edition devices, settings may be in the Menu button. Some useful settings are also available from the Google Settings app.
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Page 51: Accessibility
Accessibility To use the accessibility options, open Settings > System > Accessibility. To view detailed information about setting up these options, visit Android Accessibility. Options for people with visual impairments include the following: Captions: You can turn on captions for your device and specify the language, text size, and style. - Page 52 Display and sound accessibility options include increasing the text size, changing the speed at which text is spoken, color inver- sion, color correction, and high contrast text. If you have low vision and don’t plan to use Explore by Touch, visit support.google.com/android to see Help content formatted for sighted users.
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