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Visual Land Prestige Series Manual Book

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  • Page 2 Copyright © 2016 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. All other marks and trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
  • Page 3 Table of Contents Welcome to Android About Android 6.0, Marshmallow What's new in 6.0 Get Started Sign into your account Send an email Quick Settings Your Apps Your Home screens Status bar Navigation Basics Manage Battery Life Help and Feedback Personalize your device Customize your Home Screen Manage your setting...
  • Page 4 Switch users Remove a user Guest user Security Smart Lock Protect against harmful apps Share & Store content on your device Google Cast File Storage SD card Storage Printing Try some Apps Play Store Gmail Google Play Camera Photos Contacts Hangouts Calendar ANDROID GUIDE...

  • Page 5: Welcome To Android

    . There, you can find comprehensive information about all types of Android tablets, including more details about your Visual Land tablet. Switching to Android from an iPad (iOS)? See Switch to Android for useful tips on moving your apps and more onto your android tablet.

  • Page 6: Get Started

    Get Started When you first turn on your 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 at that time.
  • Page 7 To see the photo you just took, swipe from right to left on your Visual Land Android tablet. On your Visual Land tablet, touch the circular preview of the photo that appears to the lower right of the capture button.
  • Page 8 Quick Settings Use Quick Settings to easily get to frequently used settings, like turning on Wi-Fi. To open Quick Settings, swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. To change a setting, just touch the icon: • Display brightness: Slide to decrease or increase the brightness of your screen.
  • Page 9 Your Apps To see all your apps, touch All Apps in the Favorites tray on any Home screen. This is where you can see all your apps, including those that come with your tablet, and those you downloaded on Google Play. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens.

  • Page 10: Status Bar

    After you finish setting up your device, the 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 to easily find them. •...
  • Page 11 Home Return to the Home screen to get suggestions based on the screen you are currently viewing, touch and hold this button. 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.

  • Page 12: Manage Battery Life

    This book introduces a few of the key features and apps that come with Android 6.0. Google also welcomes feedback from you about your Visual Land tablet. It’s easy to send feedback. Just go to Settings > System > About tablet > Send feedback about this device .

  • Page 13: Personalize Your Tablet

    Personalize your Tablet 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: Touch & hold the background, then To change the wallpaper: 1.
  • Page 14 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 Manage your 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 frequently, such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. You can control many other settings for your device and account by swiping down from the top of the screen twice and touching .
  • Page 16 Display Change the display settings on your device by following these steps: 1. Go to Settings > Device > Display. 2. Choose from the following settings. Some of these settings may vary by your device and version of Android. All can affect battery life. •...

  • Page 17: Sound & Notification

    Sound & notification You can change the sound and notification settings on your device by Settings > Device > Sound & notification. going to Notifications alert you to the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as downloads: •...
  • Page 18 Notifications Wi-Fi signal Battery Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email previews or calendar events. The one at the top is always expanded when possible. To expand a notification, position one finger inside it and swipe down slowly.

  • Page 19: 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. Some apps may ask if you want to use screen pinning.
  • Page 20 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 21 Portuguese, but some examples aren’t available in all of these languages. Turn “Ok Google” on or off You can start a search or task by saying “Ok Google.” To turn it off or on, open Google Now or the Google app and touch Menu > Settings > Voice >...

  • Page 22: 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 the Keyboard help. Enter & edit text Use the onscreen keyboard to enter text. Here’s what it looks like: Keyboards on tablets work in a similar way.
  • Page 23 Basic editing Change Touch the cursor, then touch and drag the tab where you that appears below it to the new position. want to type Select text Touch and hold or double-tap within the text. The nearest word highlights, with a tab at each end of the selection.
  • Page 24 Change word If you want to quickly change the capitalization capitalization of a word you’ve already typed, you can select it and touch the Shift key. You’ll have the option to select the capitalized word or the word in all capital letters. To switch to symbol keys for one word, touch the Type a symbol key...
  • Page 25 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 26: 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 27: Keyboard Dictionaries

    Keyboard dictionaries Settings > Personal > To manage keyboard dictionaries, go to 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 28 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.

  • Page 29: Control Access

    Control Access 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. You can also add multiple users for your device, like if several people...
  • Page 30 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. You can’t remove the account you used to initially set up your device. To remove an account from your device, follow these steps: 1.

  • Page 31: Share Your Device With Other Users

    Share your device with other users You can easily share your device with family and friends by creating a separate user for each person. Each person has their own space on the device for custom Home screens, accounts, apps, settings, and more. You must be the device owner to add users.

  • Page 32: Guest User

    Remove a user The device’s owner can delete any user that they added: 1. Go to Settings > Device > Users. 2. Touch Settings next to the user’s name, then touch Re- move user. Other users can only delete their own space. 1.
  • Page 33 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 34: 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. You can also set your device to unlock when it touches an NFC tag.
  • Page 35 Share & store content on your device 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 tablet to your TV. You can use Chromecast with apps like: •...

  • Page 36: Sd Card Storage

    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 Paper Clip in the top right and choose to either Attach file or Insert from Drive to select stored images in your Drive folder. From here, you can view any of these sources: •...
  • Page 37 Screenshots To take a screenshot: 1. Make sure the image you want to capture is displayed on the screen. 2. Press the Power and Volume down buttons simultaneously. The screenshot is automatically saved in your Photos. TIP: To easily share your screenshot via Gmail, Google+, and more, select your screenshot in Photos and touch Share at the bottom.

  • Page 38: Try Some Apps

    Try some apps Google Play Google Play brings together all your favorite apps & games, movies & TV shows, books, music, and news & magazines in one place, so you can reach it from any of your devices. To open the Google Play app, touch Google Play.
  • Page 39 Google Play support For more details about Google Play, including phone and email support options, visit support.google.com/googleplay. ANDROID GUIDE Page | 38...
  • Page 40 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 41 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: • From the lock screen, swipe from right to left. • From the Home screen, touch Camera.
  • Page 42 To change to a different mode, swipe left to right to show the list of camera modes: Photo To capture a 360-degree or wide angle shot, pan or Sphere tilt until the circle in the center of the screen moves over a blue dot and records that portion of the (option image.
  • Page 43 Panorama Touch Panorama to begin taking a panoramic photo. (optional) Find your starting point, and touch the shutter to take the first picture in the panorama. To take the subsequent pictures, slowly swivel the tablet in place to move the target icon over each gray dot until the dot turns blue.
  • Page 44 Photos The Photos app gives you instant access to all your photos and videos associated with any Google Account set up on your Visual Land tablet. To open it, touch Photos. To open Photos from the: • Camera app. Swipe from right to left.
  • Page 45 Contacts The Contacts app gives you quick access to every- one you want to reach. 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 46 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 schedule. To open it, touch Calendar on a Home or All Apps screen.
  • Page 47 • 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 meeting starts, swipe down the notification shade.
  • Page 48 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 49 Display and sound accessibility options include increasing the text size, changing the speed at which text is spoken, color inversion, 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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