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5.0 HOW TO USE THE ANDROID PLATFORM
This chapter describes how to use the Android platform. After turning on your receiver, Home opens.
The app icons you keep in the tray remain visible on every Home screen. All app icons in the centre
are permanent. to see all your apps and widgets. The middle of your Home screen can hold app
and widget icons as well as folders. To open an app, folder or widget, click on its icon.
5.1 . Connect to wireless networks
To fully use the Android platform you first need to setup connection to the Internet. If you missed this
setup in Step 4 of the First Installation Wizard you can setup this connection by selecting Settings from
the Home screen and press OK. Select Network and press OK again. In this menu you can choose if
you want to connect via Wi-Fi or LAN (cable). Enter and store your passwords or gateway ports here.
Passwords and IP settings are provided by your Internet provider (or in-house router). A message
appears to inform about a successfully made setup. Press
When all settings have been installed, select Browser and press OK access the Internet.
Turn your wireless on and connect it to a wireless network
If a wireless network has been added during the first time installation, Wi-Fi is turned on
automatically.
1. Click the settings icon Setting on the Home or All Apps screen.
2. Click the icon More and then choose Wi-Fi.
3. Slide the Wi-Fi switch to the On position. The device scans for available wireless networks and
displays the names of those it finds. Secured networks are indicated with . If the device finds a
network that you have connected to previously, it connects to it.
4. Click a network name to see more details or connect to it. If the network is secured, you will be
prompted to enter a password or other credentials. (Ask your network administrator for details.)
To modify the settings of a network, click and hold the network name.
Forget a wireless network
You can make the device forget about the details of a wireless network that you have added, if you
don't want your device to connect to it automatically or if it is a network that you use no longer.
5. Turn on Wi-Fi if it is not already on.
6. In the Wi-Fi settings screen, click on the name of the network.
7. Click Forget in the dialogue that opens.
When you connect to a wireless network, the USB device obtains a network address and other
information it needs from the network, using the DHCP protocol.
5.2 Open the browser
Click on the Browser icon at the bottom of the Home screen or on the Application icon in the launcher.
The browser also opens when you click on a web link in an email or text message. Use p/qtu
to select an item, menu or web address search bar to enter a website address (URL) of your wish.
Alternatively you can press to simulate p/qtu with the mouse function. Press OK to confirm
or BACK to go one step back. You can press this button more times until you to return to the Home
screen.
until you return to the Home screen.
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