Dell 5055 User Manual

Dell Venue 10 Pro – 5055 User’s Guide

Regulatory Model: T14G Regulatory Type: T14G001

Notes, cautions, and warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

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Contents

1 Working on Your Tablet.......................................................................................5

Before Working Inside Your Tablet.......................................................................................................5

Turning off Your Tablet.........................................................................................................................6

2 Features.................................................................................................................. 8

3 Setting Up Your Tablet.......................................................................................10

Charging the Tablet.............................................................................................................................10

Turning On Your Tablet....................................................................................................................... 11

Turning off the Screen.........................................................................................................................12

Using power buttonUsing Charms............................................................................................... 12

4 Using Your Tablet............................................................................................... 13

Screen Orientation.............................................................................................................................. 13

How to lock / unlock the screen orientation..................................................................................... 13

Adjusting the screen brightness....................................................................................................13

Gestures...............................................................................................................................................14

Right-Click..................................................................................................................................... 15

The Windows Start Screen..................................................................................................................16

How to access the Start screen.................................................................................................... 16

Get to know Windows 8.1............................................................................................................. 16

Swipe Right.................................................................................................................................... 16

Swipe Left.......................................................................................................................................17

Swipe Up/Down.............................................................................................................................17

Split Screen.....................................................................................................................................17

Using Headphones.............................................................................................................................. 17

Inserting the Micro-SIM Card (Optional)............................................................................................18

Inserting the MicroSD Card.................................................................................................................19

5 Managing your tablet settings..........................................................................21

Wi-Fi setting.........................................................................................................................................21

Turning On/Off Wi-Fi.................................................................................................................... 21

Connecting to a network.............................................................................................................. 21

Mobile broadband setting...................................................................................................................22

Turning On/Off mobile broadband.............................................................................................. 22

Connecting to a mobile broadband network.............................................................................. 22

Disconnecting from mobile broadband network........................................................................ 23

Mobile broadband options............................................................................................................23

Service Provider hardware information........................................................................................24

Enabling PIN lock.......................................................................................................................... 24

Refreshing / Recovering / Re-setting your tablet..............................................................................24

Refresh your PC without affecting your files............................................................................... 24

Remove everything and re-install Windows................................................................................ 25

Advanced startup...........................................................................................................................25

6 Synchronizing your tablet................................................................................ 26

Using Microsoft account.................................................................................................................... 26

Copying music, photos, and videos................................................................................................... 26

7 Getting Your Stylus Ready for Use...................................................................27

Using the Optional Stylus with Your Tablet .......................................................................................27

8 Docking Your Tablet to the Keyboard Dock ................................................ 29

Undocking Your Tablet from the Keyboard Dock............................................................................. 29

9 Cleaning Your Tablet..........................................................................................31

10 Troubleshooting...............................................................................................32

Battery problem...................................................................................................................................32

System problem.................................................................................................................................. 32

Touchscreen problem.........................................................................................................................33

Network problem................................................................................................................................34

11 System Setup..................................................................................................... 35

System Setup (BIOS) Options............................................................................................................. 35

Updating the BIOS ............................................................................................................................. 38

12 Technical Specifications................................................................................. 40

13 Contacting Dell.................................................................................................44

Working on Your Tablet

Before Working Inside Your Tablet

Use the following safety guidelines to help protect your tablet from potential damage and to help to ensure your personal safety. Unless otherwise noted, each procedure included in this document assumes that the following condition exists:

• You have read the safety information that shipped with your tablet.

WARNING: Before working inside your tablet, read the safety information that shipped with your tablet. For additional safety best practices information, see the Regulatory Compliance Homepage at www.dell.com/regulatory_compliance

CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions that came with the product.

CAUTION: To avoid electrostatic discharge, ground yourself by using a wrist grounding strap or by periodically touching an unpainted metal surface, such as a connector on the back of the tablet.

CAUTION: Handle components and cards with care. Do not touch the components or contacts on a card. Hold a card by its edges or by its metal mounting bracket.

CAUTION: When you disconnect a cable, pull on its connector or on its pull-tab, not on the cable itself. Some cables have connectors with locking tabs; if you are disconnecting this type of cable, press in on the locking tabs before you disconnect the cable. As you pull connectors apart, keep them evenly aligned to avoid bending any connector pins. Also, before you connect a cable, ensure that both connectors are correctly oriented and aligned.

NOTE: The color of your tablet and certain components may appear differently than shown in this document.

To avoid damaging your tablet, perform the following steps before you begin working inside the tablet.

1. Ensure that your work surface is flat and clean to prevent the tablet cover from being scratched.

2. Turn off your tablet (see Turning Off Your Tablet).

3. If the tablet is connected to a docking device (docked) such as the optional docking station or

keyboard dock, un-dock it.

4. Disconnect the power adapter from the tablet.

5. Press and hold the power button for a few seconds to remove the flea power from the system board.

CAUTION: To guard against electrical shock, always unplug your tablet from the electrical outlet.

CAUTION: Before touching anything inside your tablet, ground yourself by touching an unpainted metal surface, such as the metal at the back of the tablet. While you work, periodically touch an unpainted metal surface to dissipate static electricity, which could harm internal components.

6. Remove the storage SD card from the tablet.

Turning off Your Tablet

Turning off your tablet completely shuts down your tablet. You can turn off your tablet by two ways:

• Using power button

• Using charms menu

1. To turn off your tablet using power button:

a. Press and hold the Power button until you see “Slide to shut down your PC” on the screen.

NOTE: After you press and hold the Power button, by default, the “Slide to shut down your PC” screen displays in Venue 10 Pro 5055. To change the power button setting, go to

Control Panel > Power Options > Change Plan Setting > Change Advanced Power Settings. To access Control Panel, swipe at the right edge of the screen, tap Search, enter Control Panel in the search box, and then click Control Panel.

b. Slide to shut down your tablet.

NOTE: You can also turn off your tablet without sliding down the screen. Press and hold the Power button for >10 seconds to turn off your tablet. You can perform this force

shutdown, if your tablet is not responding / behaving unexpectedly or touch is not working.

2. To turn off your tablet using the charms menu: a. Swipe from the right edge of the display to access the Charms menu.

b. Touch Settings —> Power —> Shut down to turn off the tablet.

Features

Table 1.

1. Camera

2. Camera-status light

3. Microphones

4. Power button

5. Windows button

6. MicroSD memory card reader

7. Micro-SIM reader (LTE/ HSPA+ models only)

8. Speaker

9. Noble security-cable slot

10. Back camera

11. Dock-guide slots

12. Dock pins

13. Service-tag label

14. Wi-Fi / WWAN status light (optional)

15. USB 2.0 connector

16. Speaker

17. Battery-status light

18. Micro USB power connector

19. Micro HDMI connector

20. Volume buttons

21. Audio connector

Keyboard dock (optional)

22. Dock connector

23. Dock latches

24. Undock button

25. Touchpad

Stylus (optional)

26. Pen Tip (replaceable)

27. Buttons

28. Pen loop

Setting Up Your Tablet

Charging the Tablet

CAUTION: Charge the battery in an ambient temperature of 0 °C to 40 °C.

CAUTION: Use only the power adapter and power cable that came with your tablet. Using unauthorized power adapters or power cables may cause severe damage to your tablet.

NOTE: The battery is not fully charged when you unpack your tablet.

1. Connect the power cable into the power adapter.

2. Connect the power adapter to an electrical outlet and charge the tablet until the battery is fully charged.

NOTE: The tablet battery requires about 4 hours to fully charge.

You can check the tablet battery charge status from:

• Battery-charge light located on the front of the tablet:

LED Behavior Description

Solid white color on Battery is charging.

Off Battery is not charging. Either no AC adapter is

connected or battery is fully charged.

Amber color on Momentarily

NOTE: You can check the exact battery charge level by booting to the operating system.

• Battery icons displayed on the screen:

– The LED will be solid amber for 2 seconds

and then change to solid white. This is an indication that the system cannot power on with the current state of charge, but the

battery is being charged. – Battery is charging – The tablet will not power on.

Battery icon Description

Battery is fully charged and AC adapter is connected.

Battery is charging with AC adapter.

Your tablet is running on battery power and the battery is discharging.

Your tablet is plugged in, and either no battery is detected or the battery is not working correctly.

Battery is at low level.

Battery is at critical level.

Turning On Your Tablet

NOTE: Use this tablet in an ambient temperature between 0 °C and 40 °C.

1. Press and hold the Power button for 2 seconds to turn on your tablet.

2. If the lock screen image displays, swipe your finger from the bottom of the display to switch to the login screen, and then enter the password to log in to Windows.

The tablet is ready for use after the Windows Start screen displays.

NOTE: If the login screen is not enabled in Windows 8.1, you will be taken directly from the lock screen to the start screen.

NOTE: The lock screen displays only when returning from a sleep state.

Turning off the Screen

Using power button

Press the Power button to turn off the screen.

Using Charms

1. Swipe from the right edge of the display to access the Charms bar.

2. Touch Settings → Power → Sleep to turn off the screen.

NOTE: If your tablet is in a sleep state, press the Power button or Windows button once to turn on the screen.

Using Your Tablet

Screen Orientation

For optimal viewing experience, the screen orientation changes automatically to portrait or landscape format depending on how you hold the tablet.

NOTE: Some applications may not support automatic screen rotation to portrait or landscape format.

How to lock / unlock the screen orientation

1. Swipe from the right edge of the display to access the Charms bar.

2. Touch Settings → Screen .

3. Touch toggle to lock the screen orientation, or touch toggle to unlock the screen orientation.

Adjusting the screen brightness

You can adjust the screen brightness here by using the slider under the toggle menu.

Gestures

Your tablet has a multi-touch display. You can touch the screen to operate the tablet.

Gesture Actions Functions

Touch

Tap gently on the display with your fingertip.

• Select items on the screen, including options, entries, images, and icons

• Start applications

• Touch buttons on the screen

• Input text using the on-screen keyboard

Touch and Hold

Touch and hold your finger on the display

Drag and Drop

1. Touch and hold your finger on an item on the screen

2. Keeping your finger in contact with the display, move your fingertip to the desired location

3. Take your finger off the display to drop the item in the desired location

• Display detailed information about an item

• Open the context menu of an item to perform further actions

Move item such as images and icons on the screen

Swipe or Slide

Move your finger in a vertical or horizontal direction on the display

• Scroll through the Start screen, web pages, lists, entries, photos, contacts, and so on

• Close an application. (Swipe the application to the bottom of the display)

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