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Summary of Contents for MHRD AAKASH
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Your Aakash Tablet ..............1 1.4.4) Drag and Drop ..............8 1.4.5) Pinch In ................8 Copyright ................1 1.4.6) Pinch Out ................8 Charging Battery ..............2 1.5) Display Indicators ............. 9 Memory Card ................3 1.6) Tablet Keypad ..............10 1) Getting Started .............. - Page 4 4.4) Operations on Files ............21 6) Aakash Applications ............26 4.4.1) Selecting / Marking Single File .......... 21 7) Aakash Programming Lab ..........26 4.4.2) Selecting / Marking Multiple Files........21 4.4.3) Renaming a File ..............21 4.4.4) Deleting Single/Multiple File/s .......... 21 4.4.5) Copy or Move (Single/Multiple) File/s .......
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Page 5: Your Aakash Tablet
Your Aakash Tablet for the latest version of the manuals. Aakash tablet was launched in India by MHRD for educational Copyright use. In near future, Government of India plans to deploy Millions of these tablets amongst students, to enhance the effectiveness of... -
Page 6: Charging Battery
Charging Battery Your device has a built-in battery. Before using the device for the first time, you must charge the battery for 6 to 8 hours. Use only Use only datawind approved chargers. Unauthorized charger may cause damage to your device and / or may lead to overcharging and explosions. When your battery is low, the battery level indicator will be very thin. -
Page 7: Memory Card
Memory Card Memory card is to store additional files. Your device accepts micro SD Card with a maximum capacity of 32GB (this varies by memory card manufacturer). Insert the memory card into the tablet as shown in the figure given on the right. Push the memory card into the tablet till you feel the click. -
Page 8: Getting Started
1) Getting Started 1.1) Isometric View Fig 3... -
Page 9: Switch On/Off
1.2) Switch ON/OFF 1.2.1) Switch ON Press the power button for 3 seconds to switch on the tablet. The following screen will be displayed when the tablet switches on. Fig 4... -
Page 10: 2) Switch Off
1.2.2) Switch OFF Press the power button for 3 seconds to switch off the tablet. Select “OK” to confirm switching off. Select “Cancel” to avoid switching off the tablet. Fig 5 1.3) Lock / Unlock 1.3.1) Lock Screen Press the power button to lock the screen. The tablet will hibernate into sleep mode. The tablet also hibernates and the screen gets locked if, it is not used for certain amount of time. -
Page 11: 3) Home Screen
1.4) Operating the Touch Screen 1.3.3) Home Screen 1.4.1) Tap / Touch Tap or touch the screen with your finger, to select an application or button, or to type using android keyboard. 1.4.2) Touch and hold To view more features of the application, To view more features of the application, or to activate the drag feature, touch and or to activate the drag feature, touch and... -
Page 12: 4) Drag And Drop
Similarly, to view more content placed below, slide your finger 1.4.5) Pinch In upwards. This is shown in Fig 11 and Fig 12 Pinch In operation is used to perform zoom in operation. It is normally used to increase the size of the image or object. -
Page 13: Display Indicators
1.5) Display Indicators The display indicators are present in the notification bar placed at the bottom (Fig 7) of the screen. Fig 15... -
Page 14: Tablet Keypad
1.6) Tablet Keypad 1.6.1) Alpha Mode Fig 16 Fig 17... - Page 15 In many text editing applications, a virtual keyboard is used for typing. It has two modes: 1) Alpha; 2) Numeric and Special Characters. Characters. In a text editing/browsing application, the mode is lower case by default, but it can be changed, as explained later. Alpha mode (layout changed, as explained later.
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Page 16: 2) Numeric And Special Character Mode
1.6.2) Numeric and Special Character Mode Fig 19 Fig 20... - Page 17 This mode is used to type numbers or special characters. The general layout of this mode is shown below. Touch the “Alt” key to view the “Alt” key to view and utilize other available special characters/numbers. The numeric mode is activated using the “Switch mode” key on the keypad. To ad.
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Page 18: Customize Desktop
Browse through the list using slide operation(E.g. Wallpaper) 2) Customize Desktop Touch the Option button ‘⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ’ present in the notification bar. A list is displayed containing ‘Wallpaper’, ‘Manage apps’, ‘System settings’ as shown below. Wallpaper Manage apps System settings Fig 22 2.1) Add to Home Screen... -
Page 19: 3) Widgets
2.1.3) Widgets Touch the menu button on the home screen, which displays a list of applications installed. Touch Widgets tab Browse through the list of widgets in your tablet. Touch and hold the desired widget. The widget will be selected and home screen will be displayed. -
Page 20: Select, Cut, Copy, And Paste
3) Select, Cut, Copy, and Paste Select, cut, copy, and paste are general editing operations that are common to all text editing text input applications like Notepad, browser search, configuring applications, naming renaming folders, setting reminders, etc. To perform editing operations, open any text editing application like ‘Notepad’. -
Page 21: Select
3.1) Select Touch and hold the desired area or text for 3seconds. current word gets highlighted and is placed in between the start and end tabs (blue color). Drag the start and end tabs Fig 26 to select more or less text. 3.4) Copy Perform Select operation(Refer 3.1) 3.2) Select all... -
Page 22: File Manager
4) File Manager File manager is used to keep track of the files, folders, maintain and create directory structures, for organizing data on the tablet. Touch Menu button on the home screen. Touch File Manager Fig 27 This will list all files/folders which are categorized by the storage locations and type, like external memory card, USB, etc.. Fig 28 4.1) Organization and Tools Files or Folders can be created, copied, and stored in various locations. -
Page 23: Navigating To A Directory/File
An example that displays a list of images is shown below. Touch a particular image to view it. Fig 29 4.2) Navigating to a Directory/File Select File Manager (Refer 4). Touch location as shown in Fig 28. Browse through the folders and select the desired one. Continue browsing and selecting files or folders (if exists). -
Page 24: Creating A New Directory / Folder
It will display a list of options. Fig 30 Touch the first option New Directory Write the name of the directory. e.g. “Aakash” Fig 31 Touch Create A new directory is created in the internal memory of the tablet. This is shown in Fig 32. -
Page 25: Operations On Files
Touch File/Folder Editing options. Refer Fig 28. 4.4) Operations on Files The various operations that can be performed on a file are Touch the desired files. The selected files will have a green the desired files. The selected files will have a green ‘Delete’, ‘Rename’, ‘Copy’, ‘Cut’, and ‘Email’. -
Page 26: 5) Copy Or Move (Single/Multiple) File/S
4.4.5) Copy or Move (Single/Multiple) File/s 4.5.1) Selecting / Marking Single Folder Navigate to the desired file(Refer 4.2). Navigate to the desired directory(Refer 4.2). Perform select operation for single file (Refer 4.4.1). Or Touch and hold the desired folder for 3 seconds. Perform select operation for multiple files (Refer 4.4.2). -
Page 27: 4) Deleting Single/Multiple Folder/S
4.5.4) Deleting Single/Multiple Folder/s 4.5.7) Paste into Folder Perform select operation for single folder (Refer 4.5.1). Or Perform Cut or Copy operations(Refer 4.4.4, 4.4.5, 4.5.4, and 4.5.5). Perform select operation for multiple folders (Refer 4.5.2). Navigate to the desired directory(Refer 4.2). Touch Delete. -
Page 28: Configuring Wi-Fi
Fig 36 Touch Wi-Fi. (Fig 37) Touch OFF to switch on Wi-Fi connectivity Fig 38 Fig 39 The tablet will list all the available Wi-Fi connections. Touch any one of the available Fig 37 Wi-Fi networks. (e.g. AAKASH) Touch Connect... -
Page 29: Adding A Wi-Fi Network
Touch appropriate 5.2) Adding a Wi-fi Network security Touch Wi-Fi settings (Refer 5.1) configurations of that Touch “ADD NETWORK” placed on top right corner of the tablet network. Touch Save to confirm, else touch Fig 40 Cancel. Fig 42 Provide details for configuring the Wi-Fi network. Input Network SSID. 5.3) Removing a Wi-Fi Network Touch Wi-Fi settings(Refer 5.1) Touch and hold the desired Wi-Fi connection for 3... -
Page 30: Aakash Applications
Touch Aakash Programming Lab Touch menu button on the home screen Browse through the list of applications. Fig 46 Touch Aakash Applications A list of all applications installed under ‘Aakash Programming Aakash Programming (Demonstration) Lab’ is displayed, which is shown below. Fig 44 Applications developed at IIT Bombay will appear through their icons shown below. - Page 31 Notes(1)
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