Eken GT70X, X70 User's Guide

User’s Guide

Contents

Get started 3

Get around 3
Touch & type 4
Use the lock screen 5
Make yourself at home 6
Change the wallpaper 6
Arrange & work with apps 7
Use folders 8
Add widgets 9
Try some apps 9
Find People 10
Manage your Calendar 12
Use your Camera 13
Manage downloads 13
Tune performance 14
Optimize battery life 14
Optimize data usage 14
Optimize memory usage 19
Use the Apps screen 20
Enter & edit text 21
Use the keyboard 22
Basic editing 22
Tips & shortcuts 23

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Connect to Wi-Fi networks 24
Connect to keyboards, mice, and other devices 28
Connect to a Windows computer via USB 29
Manage accounts 30
Add or remove accounts 30
Configure account sync options 32
Configure general sync settings 32
Change an account’s sync settings 33
Secure your tablet 33

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Back Open the previous screen you were

working in, even if it was in a different
app. Once you back up to the Home
screen, you can’t go back any further in
your history.

Home Open Home. If you’re viewing a left or

right Home screen, opens the central
home screen.

Recent Apps Opens a list of thumbnail images of

apps you’ve worked with recently.
To p open an app, touch it. To remove
a thumbnail from the list, swipe it
left or right.

Get Started

Get around

After you enter into the systems, at the bottom of the screen, you'll
find three Navigation buttons. They're always available. No matter
what you're doing with your tablet, you can always get back to the
main Home screen or return to
previous screens:

Icon Name Description

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After a short time without getting used, these buttons may shrink
to dots or fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them
back, touch their location.

The All Apps icon in the right upper corner is permanent.

Touch it to see all your apps and widgets.
The middle of your Home screen can hold app and widget icons,
plus folders.

 To open an app, folder, or widget, touch its icon.
 To see additional Home screens, swipe your finger quickly left

or right.

At the bottom of the screen, you'll see something like this:

Status icons on the left tell you which apps have sent you
notifications; for example, that a message has arrived, or it's time
for a meeting.
System icons on the right display the current wireless and network
connection strength, battery level, time, and more.

Touch & type

Use your fingers to manipulate icons, buttons, menus, the onscreen

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keyboard, and other items on the touchscreen. You can also change
the screen's orientation.
To select or activate something, touch it.
To type something, such as a name, password, or search terms, just
touch where you want to type. A keyboard pops up that lets you
type into the field.
Other common gestures include:
 Touch & hold: Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching

it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs.

 Drag: Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without

lifting your finger, move your finger on the screen until you
reach the target position. For example, you can drag to
reposition shortcuts on the Home screen.

 Swipe or slide: Quickly move your finger across the surface of

the screen, without pausing when you first touch (so you don't
drag something instead). For example, you can slide a Home
screen left or right to view the other Home screens.

 Pinch: In some apps (such as Maps, Browser, and Gallery), you

can zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at
once and pinching them together (to zoom out) or spreading
them apart (to zoom in).

 Rotate the screen: On most screens, the orientation of the

screen rotates with your device as you turn it. You can change
this Display setting.

Related settings

Settings > Device > Sound
Settings > Device > Display

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Use the lock screen

To protect personal information, you can adjust your phone's lock
settings:

1. From the Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon

2. Scroll down and touch Security.

3. Touch Screen lock.

4. Touch the type of lock you'd like to use.
After you set a lock here, a lock screen displays whenever your
screen wakes up, requesting the pattern, PIN, or other specified
key.

Important Screen lock options are listed in the approximate order of the

strength of their security, starting with None and Slide, which
provide no security. Face Unlock and Pattern provide minimal
security, although they can be more convenient than the stronger
options.

If your tablet's playing music when the screen locks, you
can continue listening or pause the selection without
unlocking.

Make yourself at home

Change the wallpaper

Wallpapers are images from Super-HD Player (pictures you shot
with Camera, synced from Picasa, and so on), still images included
with the system, and live images (such as an animation or a map

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that centers on your location). They take the place of the default
background for your Home screens.

1. Touch & hold anywhere on a Home screen that's not occupied. A
list of options appears.

2. Touch a wallpaper source:
Super-HD Player. Choose from pictures that you've taken with
Camera or downloaded to your device.
Live Wallpapers. Choose from a scrolling list of animated
wallpapers.
Wallpapers. Choose from thumbnails of default images, or touch a
thumbnail for a larger version.
You can download additional wallpapers from Android Market.

3. To set a wallpaper, touch “set wallpaper” under the Gallery
images or Set wallpaper.

Related settings

Settings > Device > Display > Wallpaper

Arrange & work with apps

To see all your apps, touch the All Apps icon on any Home screen.
The main All Apps screen opens. This is where you can see all your
apps, including those downloaded
from Android Market. You can move app icons to any of your Home
screens.
From All Apps, you can

 Move between screens: Swipe left or right.
 Launch an app: Touch its icon.
 Place an app icon on a Home screen: Touch & hold the app

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icon, slide your finger, and lift your finger to drop the icon in
place.

 Place an app icon in the Favorites tray: Touch, hold, & slide to

move one of the Favorites icons out of the tray. Then use the
same technique to move another one into the same position.

 Explore your widgets: Touch the Widgets tab at the top of any

All Apps screen.

 Get more apps. Touch the Market icon.
To remove an app icon from the Home screen, touch and hold it,
slide your finger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app

over the Remove icon .

Note The All Apps icon in the Favorites tray is permanent. You

can't move it.

Use folders

You can combine several app icons in a folder. Drop one app icon
over another on a Home screen, and the two icons will be
combined.

From any Home screen, you can

 Open a folder: Touch it. The folder opens:
 Rename a folder: Touch its name.
 Move icons around your Home screens: Touch, hold, and

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slide.

Tips

 To can see a smaller collection of frequently used apps, touch

the Google Apps folder near the bottom of the screen. As with
any folder, you can customize its contents.

 After you open an app, you can usually adjust its settings by

choosing items from its Menu icon near the top or bottom of

the screen .

Add widgets

Widgets are like windows into your apps. They're available from an
All Apps tab for you to move onto your
Home screens.
To see your widgets:

1. Touch the All Apps icon on your Home screen.

2. Touch Widgets at the top of the screen.

From the main Widgets screen, you can

 Move between screens: Swipe left or right.
 Drag a widget to a Home screen: Touch and hold the widget's

icon, slide your finger where you want to place it, and lift your

finger.
You may be asked to make further choices before the widget
activates. If there isn't room where you dropped it, the widget
won't get added to the Home screen.

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Try some apps

Start Gmail

You can use Gmail to read and write email from any mobile device
or browser. All your email is always up to date and available no
matter where you check it from.
But Gmail is not just about email. Your Gmail name and password
signs you into to all Google apps and services, including Calendar;
People, for keeping track of your contacts; Google Reader, for
keeping up with your online reading; and many more.

 To launch Gmail, touch the Gmail icon on a Home or All

Apps screen.
The first time you launch Gmail, you're asked to sign in or create an
account, if you didn't already do so when you first set up your
device. Then Gmail opens to the Inbox. From here, you can
 Read email. Touch a message to read it. Unread messages are

bold.
 Organize email. Check the box beside a message to select it.

Then use the icons and menu along the bottom of the screen

to manage the selected messages.

 Change your settings. Touch the Menu icon to change your

preferences, add an account, or get help.

Find People

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The People app gives you quick and easy access to everyone you
want to reach. When you first turn on your Tablet and sign into a
Google Account, any existing contacts from that account are synced
with your People app. After that, all your contacts stay in sync
automatically, whether you make changes on your Tablet, from
another device, or from any Web browser.
If you belong to Google+ or use Exchange, you can also sync that
contact information with People.
All your People information is available from Gmail, Google Talk,
Messenger, Tablet, and other apps where it's useful. As you add
contacts from different sources, they are synced automatically
across all the places you need them.

 To view your contacts, touch the People icon on a Home

or All Apps screen.
The first time you launch People, you're asked to sign in or create
an account. Then the app opens to the main list of your contacts.
You can view them in three ways from the tabs at the top of the
screen: Groups, All, and Favorites:
From any of the main views, you can
 Read details. Touch a name to see details for a contact or

group.

 Edit details. While viewing a contact, touch the Menu icon

and choose options to edit or share contact details, and so on.

You can also touch the star beside the Menu icon to add a

contact to your Favorites list.
 Change your settings. While viewing the main list screen,

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