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  • Page 2: Legal Information

    Legal Information All rights are reserved. Reproduction, transfer, distribution of the contents herein in any manner without the prior written permission of Best IT World (India) Pvt. Ltd. is prohibited. Best IT World (India) Pvt. Ltd. reserves the right to add, modify or delete, any of the contents herein or withdraw this document at any time without prior notice and without assigning any reasons thereof.
  • Page 3 - Avoid using and / or storing in dusty and / or dirty places / environments. - Do not drop, knock, throw or otherwise handle the Slide roughly. - Avoid exposing your Slide to extreme temperatures. Extreme temperatures reduce the charging capacity and life of batteries and Slide.

  • Page 4: Protect Your Hearing

    Drive Safety Avoid using your Slide while driving and respect and obey all regulations that restrict the use of mobile phones or similar devices while driving. Primary consideration while driving should be safety. Vehicles RF signals may affect improperly installed or inadequately shielded electronic systems in motor vehicles such as electronic fuel injection, electronic speed control, and air bag systems.
  • Page 5 -Seizures or blackouts can occur when you are exposed to flashing lights while watching videos or playing Flash- based -games for extended periods. If you feel any discomfort, stop using the device immediately. -If anyone related to you has experienced seizures or blackouts while using a similar device, consult a physician before using the device.

  • Page 6: Using This Guide

    Using this Guide This guide has been specially designed to guide you through the basics of your device, such as getting started with the device. Please read this guide carefully before using your device to ensure safe and correct use. The descriptions in this guide are based on the default settings of your device.

  • Page 7: Sar

    Class 4 SD card 4 MB/sHD recording including full HD (from 720p to 1080p/1080i) Class 6 SD card  6 MB/s HD recording including full HD (from 720p to 1080p/1080i) Class 10 SD card 10 MB/sFull HD (1080p) video recording and consecutive recording of HD stills For HD video recording a SD card of class 6 or higher is suggested because of the constant stream of data that needs to be written.

  • Page 8: Sar Value

    • Prefer to use your Slide when the signal quality is good. SAR Value Tested SAR Value of Octa-A41 is as follows: (2G) GSM 900MHz: 1.211 W/Kg (1g) (2G) GSM 1800MHz: 0.974 W/Kg (1g) (3G) WCDMA 2100MHz: 0.803 W/Kg (1g)

  • Page 9: Table Of Contents

    INDEX Legal Information ............................ 2 Safety Precautions ..........................2 Using this Guide ............................6 SAR ................................7 SAR Value ..............................8 INDEX ..............................9 Introduction ..........................10 Starting up the device ........................13 Settings ............................17 Communication ..........................32 Contacts ............................36 Messaging .............................

  • Page 10: Introduction

    1. Introduction 1.1 Technical Specification iBall SLIDE Octa-A41 Details Description ARM Cortex A7 1.7GHz True8core Processor Memory 2GB RAM Storage 16GB Built-in storage (Approx. 6GB of built in storage is used by OS and application files) Micro SD Slot with up to 32GB expandable Android™...
  • Page 11 1.2 Know Your Device...

  • Page 12: Quick Setting Panel

    1.3 Quick setting panel Swipe down from the top right corner of any screen. This option provides the shortcut to the following functions. 1. Owner: The information of the owner can be stored and then can be displayed on the lock screen. 2.

  • Page 13: Starting Up The Device

    7. Airplane Mode: Selecting this option activates the airplane mode, which means it cuts you off from all kind of network connectivity including your SIM network, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi network or any other network your handset supports. 8. Data connection: Using this you can turn the data connection On/Off. Data connection helps you access internet using your SIM network.
  • Page 14 Press POWER key once to off display immediately. While not on a call, to lock your control buttons and screen from accidental touch activation, press POWER key. You can increase the security of your phone by setting Screen unlock pattern. Once set, in order to unlock your screen, you‟ll have to draw the correct unlock pattern.

  • Page 15: Home Screen

    2.1 Home screen The Home screen is your starting point for using all the applications on your Slide. You can customize your Home screen to display applications, shortcuts, and widgets as you like. 1. Touch the application tab with your fingertip to reveal the application icons. 2.

  • Page 16: Read Your Notifications

    To create a folder, slide one icon quickly over another. To name or rename a folder, open it and touch its name. 6. To remove a shortcut or widget from your Home screen, touch & hold the item to enter “move mode”. The application tab turns into a Trash button.

  • Page 17: Settings

    When you see a notification in the status bar, touch the bar and swipe your finger down the screen to open the list of notifications displayed in the sliding window. Ongoing notifications report activities such as call forwarding ON, current call status, song playing. Notifications report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms.

  • Page 18: Sim Management

    WIRELESS & NEWORK 3.1 SIM Management You can select to activate or deactivate the SIM card you want to keep in use. From here you can set the default SIM to use voice call, video call, and messaging and data connection. You can also select always ask, which means that the device will ask you which SIM do you want to use, every time you perform a function.
  • Page 19 Wi-Fi on/off: Select this option if you prefer to use Wi-Fi for your data connection. You can activate Wi-Fi by toggling the switch left/right to On/Off Wi-Fi connectivity. Wi-Fi settings: Open the Wi-Fi settings screen. Select it from the network list. Provide your username or password if required Scan: To scan the available Wi-Fi networks.
  • Page 20 On/Off Bluetooth connectivity. Bluetooth settings: With Bluetooth services on, you can open the Bluetooth settings screen to: Rename iBall Slide 1. Make sure you have turned Bluetooth on. 2. Select Settings  Bluetooth  Bluetooth settings Device name.

  • Page 21: Data Usage

    4. To pair with a device in the list, select it. 5. Type the device‟s PIN and then select as „OK‟. 6. Once paired, select the device name to connect. You can also touch & hold the name to open the context menu, and then select Connect.

  • Page 22: More Settings

    Set the data usage level at which you'll receive a warning. Set a data usage limit. View or restrict data usage by app. To adjust the settings described here: Touch the Settings icon on a Home or All Apps screen. Touch Data usage.
  • Page 23  Wi-Fi hotspot: Select the Wi-Fi networks which are Slide hotspots. Apps can be restricted from using these networks when in the background. Apps may also warn before using these networks for large downloads.  USB tethering: Tethering refers to connecting one device to another. Tethering allows sharing the Internet connection of the phone or tablet with other devices such as laptops.

  • Page 24: Audio Profiles

    (Please contact your SIM service provider for APN) Network operators: Out of the available 2 network, which network do you want to use. You may either select “Select manually or “Choose automatically”. USB internet: Using this function you can share windows PC internet via USB cable on your device (mobile/Slide). Steps to connect USB internet USB internet is the method of using your PC's internet on your mobile/Slide.
  • Page 25 -Vibrate on touch: Selecting this will make your device vibrate with every touch on the display • Best Audio Enhance & BesLoudness: This tool enhances audio for earphone and loudness of loudspeaker. 3.8 Display Personalize ClearMotion: This feature makes the motion in the video to be smooth. Lock screen notification: Select this if you want the notifications to display even when the screen is locked.

  • Page 26: Gesture Control

    Mount SD Card: For safety purposes you can unmount the inserted SD card before ejecting it. 3.10 Battery It gives you the current battery level, along with the distribution of battery consumption by different apps. Battery Percentage: You select this to view the level of battery in Percentage on your Notification Bar. Open SettingsBattery.

  • Page 27: Location Access

    3. Type alphabet: Gesture Search lets you quickly access contacts, applications, settings and music on your device by drawing letters. 3.14 Location Access My Location: Select a source for determining your location: Wireless networks, or GPS satellites. Typically GPS will be more accurate (to street level) but it consumes more battery power.
  • Page 28 Owner info: The information of the owner can be stored and then can be displayed on the lock screen. Encrypt iBall Slide: Android includes a system encryption feature that encrypts all data – including application data, downloaded files, and everything else – on your phone or tablet. You‟ll have to enter your PIN or password each time you turn on your phone.

  • Page 29: Add Account

    Pointer speed: On selecting this option, you can control the pointer speed. 3.17 Backup & reset Back up my data: You can have a backup of the data present in your Slide on the Google server using your Google Account. It is suggested to take the time to time backup in case you have to reset your Slide.
  • Page 30 Note: Removing the account will not delete the account permanently. It will just remove the account from the device. You can log in to that account from any other account or the same device also. For removing the account, go to settingsselect the account that you want to removetap on that particular accountselect the option key.

  • Page 31: Developer Options

    Auto-rotate screen: Check to have the screen rotate automatically when you change the phone's orientation. Speak Password: Check to get spoken feedback while typing passwords. Accessibility Shortcut: When this feature is turned on, you can quickly enable accessibility features. Text-to-speech output: The text is spoken for the user convenience. Touch &...

  • Page 32: Communication

    After enabling this tool System automatically setup a power saving mode or you can customize the setting for power saving mode. 3.25 About iBall Slide View the model number and version information for your Slide. Status: You will get the current status like Battery status, Battery level, SIM status, IMEI information, Wi-Fi MAC address, Bluetooth address, IP address, Serial number &...

  • Page 33: Making A Call

    4.2 Making a call On Home screen, touch Phone to enter the dial screen. You can type a number which you want to dial, you can search your particular contact through number and name. To dial a number, touch „Voice Call‟ button to select SIM1 card or SIM2 card to make a call. To end a call, touch „END‟ button (Red icon).

  • Page 34: Answering And Ending A Call

    Note: You SIM card must be 3G enabled to make this function. Please contact your service provided to know the status of your 3G service working. 4.4 Answering and Ending a call When you receive a phone call, the incoming voice call screen will appear, allowing you to either answer or ignore the call. 1.

  • Page 35: Call Settings

    2. Use „Call log‟ tab to check who the caller was, or view all your dialed numbers, and received calls. To open „Call log‟ tab, touch „Call log‟ button in the phone screen to enter the call history list. 3. Scroll to select the contact or number you want to dial, touch „Call‟ button. 4.

  • Page 36: Contacts

    Bigger peer video: Turn on to make peer video bigger than local video Auto drop back: drop back to voice call connecting automatically Outgoing Video calls: Display local video when make a video call. Video Incoming call: Display local video when accept an incoming video call. Call forwarding: Forward the calls with Always forward, forward when busy, Forward when unanswered and Forward when unreachable.

  • Page 37: Add A Contact

    The contacts on your Slide are synced with your account contacts stored on the Web. To view the contacts on your device, touch and select People. Contacts belonging to a specific group (you can choose which group) are listed in the Contacts tab. Only those contacts you star as “favorites”...

  • Page 38: Messaging

    From Contacts you can quickly call or text a contact‟s default number, as displayed below their name on the screen. However, to view all the information you have stored for a contact, and to initiate other types of communication with that contact, open the Contact details screen.
  • Page 39 To open the SMS & MMS Messaging application, on the Home screen, then touch and select the Messaging icon. About text and multimedia messages SMS messages are also known as “text” messages and can each be around 160 characters. If you continue to type after the limit is reached, your message will be delivered as one, but count as more than one message.
  • Page 40 1. To view details about a particular message, in the Read view, touch & hold the message to open the context menu. Select View details. 2. Reply to a message: Simply start typing your message in the text box at the bottom of the screen to reply to a message. You can always press MENU and select to add a subject or an attachment to convert it to a multimedia message.

  • Page 41: Email

    Request Delivery report: To receive a report on the delivery status of your message, select this check box. Manage SIM card messages: Text messages can also be stored on your SIM card. The exact SIM card number depends on your card, but it is usually around 25-50. To view messages on your SIM card, delete them, and copy them to your phone memory, select this setting.

  • Page 42: Add An Email Account

    7.1 Add an email account You can fetch messages from up to five POP3 or IMAP accounts. Follow these steps: 1. On the Home screen, then touch and select Email application. 2. The Set up new account screen appears. 3. Type your account email address and password. 4.
  • Page 43 Read email: You can display or collapse the messages in your Inbox by selecting Inbox. Unread messages display with a colored band. (Each account you add will use a different color.) Forward, Reply and Reply all: You can forward, reply, or reply all to an email message from the Inbox. From the Inbox, touch &...

  • Page 44: Internet

    Outgoing server settings: Select Outgoing settings if you need to edit the SMTP server, port, and security type, option to require sign-in or username/password. 7.3 Add another POP3 or IMAP To add another account (you can add up to five), go to your Inbox, press MENU and select „Accounts‟. Your Account‟s screen opens.
  • Page 45 To open the Browser, touch and select Browser icon. The Browser always opens to the last Web page you were viewing. The first time you enter the Browser after powering on, your home page will display. You can change your home page by pressing MENU...

  • Page 46: Media

    Set your home page You set your home page from the Settings screen: 1. Press MENU and select MoreSettings. The Settings screen opens. 2. In the Page content section, select „Set home page‟ to open the dialog box. 3. Type the URL of the page you want to set as home, and then select „OK‟. Download Web files and applications Before you download any files or applications using the Browser, note the following: 1.
  • Page 47 4. Open this folder and copy music files into it. If you want, create folders within “music” to organize your music further. If you want to use certain music files as phone, notification, or alarm ring tones. Note: If you do not want a ringtone to appear in your music Library but you do want it to be available as a ringtone, and then create the “ringtones”, “notifications”, or “alarms”...

  • Page 48: Video Player

    • Create a playlist on your Slide 1. From the Library, select a category. From the list that appears, navigate to the artist, album, or song that you want on a playlist. 2. Touch & hold the artist, album, or song to open the context menu. 3.
  • Page 49 Choose application in main menu. From the list choose the video you want to play. Tap on the video to select and then play it. You can play/pause the video by single tapping on the screen. By tapping on the option key you will get two options stop and loop using which you can either stop the video or can make it play in loop over and over again.
  • Page 50 Multi angle view mode: You can capture photos from more than one angle. Panorama: Take panoramic photos made up of a maximum of eight consecutive photos. Face beauty: The camera corrects facial imperfections when taking portraits. Live photo mode: You can capture photos during video recording. Normal mode: The camera determines the ideal mode for the photo.
  • Page 51 2. Share a picture: In full-screen view, select to share your picture via Messaging (MMS), or another application (if you have another application installed on your phone that supports sharing). 3. Set as wallpaper: In full-screen view, press MENU and select set as. From the menu that opens select Wallpaper. Touch & hold an edge of the cropper to reveal the sizing arrows, then drag the edge in or out to size.

  • Page 52: Connectivity Features

    This device supports FM Radio. You can search and auto save channels. Also, FM recording function is present. You can record your favorite songs to listen later and you can select the audio format in which you want to save. The saved songs will be present in the folder FM records.

  • Page 53: Others

    Over-the-air programming (OTA) refers to various methods of distributing new software updates, configuration settings, and even updating encryption keys to devices like cellphones. One important feature of OTA is that one central location can send an Update to all the Users; who are unable to refuse, defeat, or alter that Update, and it applies immediately to everyone on the Channel.
  • Page 54 View event details - Highlight an event to open a small popup window in the lower part of the screen that provides more event information. This window will stay open for three seconds. (Note that highlighted events are outlined in orange.) To view the full event details, touch the pop-up window while it‟s open, or select the event itself.

  • Page 55: Alarm Clock

    Tip: Create an event quickly in the Day or Week view by selecting an empty time slot. A new Event details screen appears. The „From‟ field contains the selected time slot. Edit an event To edit an event, you must have the View event screen open and you must have created, or have write privileges, for the event. 1.
  • Page 56 Set the following options: Alarm: Select the check box to turn alarm on (checked) or off (cleared). This is the same check box that appears on the main Alarm Clock screen. Time: The time the alarm will go off is shown. To change this time, select Time to open the time selector. Swipe the finger up or down to set the time you want, and then select Set.

  • Page 57: File Manager

    1. Go to the main Alarm Clock screen. 2. Touch the clock with your fingertip to open the Clock selection screen. 3. Drag your fingertip horizontally along the bottom clock face row and touch the face you want to display. 4.

  • Page 58: Location

    File Manager is an application which provides you easy access to all your media files, images, documents present in your phone and in your SD card. It shows you the total storage capacity and the available memory of the device. You can create, view, share, and delete, copy, paste files on your phone using this application.

  • Page 59: Troubleshooting

    phone in the app to search. Users can, alongside normal Google Search results, receive interactive weather results and flight information, among calculations and more features. 13.3 Play Movies & TV According to Google, there are thousands of Movies & Television shows available on Google Play Movies & TV, some in HD, including comedy, drama, animation, action and documentary.
  • Page 60 • PIN: When using the device for the first time or when the PIN requirement is enabled, you must enter the PIN supplied with the SIM or USIM card. You can disable this feature by using the Lock SIM card menu. •...
  • Page 61 • Ensure that you have not set call barring for the incoming phone number. 8. Others cannot hear you speaking on a call: • Ensure that you are not covering the built-in microphone. • Ensure that the microphone is close to your mouth. •...
  • Page 62 14. Another Bluetooth device is not located: • Ensure that the Bluetooth wireless feature is activated on your device. • Ensure that the Bluetooth wireless feature is activated on the device you wish to connect to, if necessary. • Ensure that your device and the other Bluetooth device are within the maximum Bluetooth range (10 m). If the tips above do not solve the problem, contact your nearest iBall Service Centre.

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