Google Nexus 7 Guidebook
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Table of contents
Part One: Using Nexus 7
1. Get started 2
Inser t & activate a SIM card 2
Charge the battery 4
Turn on & sign in 4
Get around 5
Browse & organize your Home screens 7
Touch & type 9
Type text by speaking 10
Why use a Google Account? 11
What’s New in Android 12
2. Explore your tablet 15
Swipe up for Google Now 15
Swipe down for notications & settings 17
Relax with Google Play 19
Use & customize the lock screen 22
Try Face Unlock 24
Share content with Android Beam 24
Change the wallpaper 25
Take a screenshot 26
Connect to keyboards, mice, & other devices 26
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3. Use the keyboard 29
Enter & edit text 29
Try Gesture Typing 31
Use keyboard dictionaries 32
4. Try some apps 33
Use All Apps 33
Start Gmail 34
Find People 35
Manage your Calendar 36
Open & use Clock 37
Manage downloads 38
5. Use Google Now & Search 40
About Google Now 40
Use Google Now 43
Turn off Google Now 45
Control location access, reporting, & histor y 46
Search & Voice Actions basics 48
Search tips & tricks 50
Use Voice Actions 51
Voice Actions commands 52
Google Now Card list 54
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About Gmail Cards 62
About the Location History card 63
About the Stocks card 63
Search settings 64
Privacy & accounts 66
6. Accessibility 67
Accessibility over view 67
Accessibility gestures for Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) 68
Set up your tablet 70
Use magnication gestures 71
Use TalkBack 72
Change TalkBack settings 73
Use Explore by Touch with TalkBack 74
Navigate the Home screen 75
Try Google Play 77
Use Gmail 80
Browse Chrome 82
Use the lock screen 84
Accessibility settings 84
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Part Two: Adjusting settings
7. Wireless & network settings 87
Connect to Wi-Fi networks 87
Connect to Bluetooth devices 91
Optimize data usage 93
Control airplane mode & other network settings 98
Connect to vir tual private networks 99
8. Device settings 101
Change sound settings 101
Set up Daydream 101
Transfer les through USB 103
Extend battery life 104
Manage memor y usage 105
About tablet sharing 108
Add, modify, or delete users 109
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9. Security settings 111
Security on Android 111
Manage security settings 111
Protect against harmful apps 112
Set screen lock 114
Encr ypt your data 115
Work with certicates 117
10. Personal, account, & system settings 12 0
Manage location access 120
Change backup & reset options 121
Add or remove accounts 123
Congure sync options 124
Appendix: Hardware reference 127
What’s in the box 127
Nexus 7 128
Battery 129
Specs (Wi-Fi models) 131
Specs (32GB + mobile data) 132
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Part One
Using Nexus 7
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1
Get started
Insert & activate a SIM card
Applies only for Nexus 7 with mobile data.
To use your tablet with 3G networks, you must rst insert & activate a SIM card. If no card is installed , the message “No SIM card”
appears on the tablet ’s lock screen.
Only the Nexus 7 with mobile data can accept a SIM card. Wi- Fi
versions of the tablet can’t.
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When the tablet is face down, the SIM card tray is located on the
right side. The eject button is a small round opening on the left
side of the tray door.
To install a new SIM card:
1. Turn your tablet off and place it on a flat surface with the
screen facing down.
2. Locate the SIM card tray on the right side of your tablet, and
nd the hole on the tray door.
3. Insert the tool that comes with the tablet (or a paperclip) into
the hole on the tray, and push rmly but gently until the tray
pops out.
4. Remove the tray and place the micro SIM card inside it, with
the angled corner to the left.
5. Carefully reposition the tray in the slot and push it gently back
into the tablet.
To activate a SIM card:
1. Turn off Wi -Fi after completing the set-up instructions. Once
Wi-Fi is off, you’ll see a notication at the top of your screen.
2. Swipe down the notication shade and touch the notication.
3. Follow the activation instructions provided by your carrier.
IMPORTANT: Some carriers may take a minute or more to
activate your SIM card. In particular, AT&T may take a long
time to activate, in some cases requiring that you restart
your tablet. Other carriers may require you to enter and
then exit airplane mode, or to use an SMS app from the Play
store to manage your data.
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Charge the battery
The battery may not be fully charged at rst. It’s a good idea to
fully charge it as soon as you can.
Connect the micro USB cable to Nexus 7 and to the charging unit,
and the charging unit to a power outlet:
a
IMPORTANT: Use the charging unit and micro USB cable
that come with your Nexus 7. Other charging units and USB
cables may charge more slowly or not at all.
Turn on & sign in
To turn on your Nexus 7, press the Power button on the right edge
near the top for a few seconds, then release it.
The rst time you turn on the tablet, you’ll see a Welcome screen.
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• To choose a dif ferent language, touch the menu.
• To continue , touch the Play icon and fo llow the ins tructio ns.
When prompted, sign in using the email address and password
for your Google Account. If you don’t have one yet, create one.
An email address that you use for any of the following counts as
a Google Account:
• Gmail
• YouTube
• Google Apps
• AdWords
• Any other Google product
When you sign in with a Google Account, all the email, contacts,
Calendar events, and other data associated with that account are
automatically synced with your tablet.
If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can add the others
later.
Get around
Every Home screen shows the Favorites tray: another quick way
to get to your books, magazines, apps, movies, and music:
Open folder of
popular apps
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View all
your apps
Shop on
Google Play
At the bottom of every Nexus 7 screen, no matter what you’re do-
ing, you’ll always nd these three navigation buttons:
Back
Opens 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 fur ther in your
his tor y.
Home
Opens Home. If you’re viewing a left or right Home
screen, opens the central Home screen. To open
Google Now, swipe up. Google Now gives just what
you need to know, right when you need it.
Recent apps
Opens a list of thumbnail images of apps you’ve
worked with recently. To open an app, touch it. To remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it lef t or right.
If you don’t use these buttons often, they may shrink to dots or
fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them back,
touch their location.
On the All Apps screen available from the Favorites tray, notice the Settings icon. This brings you
to the Settings screens for your tablet, where you
Settings
can adjust things like network, sound, and account
settings, among many others.
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TIP: In Android 4.2 and later, you can use Quick Settings to
toggle Wi-Fi, change display brightness, and more. To open
Quick Settings, swipe down from the top right corner of any
screen.
At the top of the screen you’ll nd Google Search, which lets you
search your tablet or the Internet. Touch Google to type your
search terms, or the
also say “Google” and your quer y to activate a voice search.
Microphone icon to speak them; you can
Browse & organize your Home screens
Browse Home screens
To move between Home screens, swipe left or right.
The My Librar y widget displays apps, music, movies, magazines,
books, and games you already have – including free content that
comes with your Nexus 7:
Touch any
title to
open it
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When you’re ready to shop for more, try the suggestions in one of
the Play Recommendations widgets:
Touch to
avoid future
suggestions
like this
Touch to
learn more
Touch to see a
different suggestion
To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue
dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon
at the top of the screen.
Organize Home screens
To add an app or widget to a Home screen:
1. Go to the Home screen where you want to place the app or
widget.
2. Touch the All Apps icon.
3. Swipe right, if necessar y, to nd the app or widget you want..
4. Touch & hold the app or widget until the Home screen appears ,
slide it into place, and lift your nger.
To move an app or widget icon to a different location on a Home
screen:
1. Touch & hold the icon.
2. Slide your nger 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.
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3. Lift your nger.
The icon drops into its new position.
To combine two icons in a folder, slide one quickly over the other.
To open a folder, touch it. To rename a folder, touch its name.
Touch & type
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 eld.
Other common gestures include:
• Touch & hold. Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching
it and not lifting your nger until an action occurs.
• Drag. Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without lift-
ing your nger, move your nger on the screen until you reach
the target position. For example, you can move apps around
on the Home screen.
• Swipe or slide. Quickly move your nger across the surface of
the screen, without pausing when you rst 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.
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• Double-tap. Tap quickly twice on a webpage, map, or other
screen to zoom. For example, double-tap a picture in Chrome
to zoom in, and double-tap again to zoom out.
• Pinch. In some apps (such as Maps, Chrome, and Gallery), you
can zoom in and out by placing two ngers on the screen at
once and pinching them together (to zoom out) or spreading
them apart (to zoom in).
• Rotate the screen. The orientation of most screens rotates
with your device as you turn it. To lock or unlock the screen’s
vertical orientation, swipe down from the top right of any
screen and touch the Rotation icon in Quick Settings
To change your tablet’s notication sounds, vol-
Settings > Device >
Settings
umes, and more, go to
Sound.
To change your tablet’s brightness, font size, and
more, go to
Settings > Device > Display.
Type text by speaking
You can speak to enter text in most places that you can enter text
with the onscreen keyboard.
1. Touch a text eld, or a location in text you’ve already entered
in a text eld.
2. Touch the Microphone key on the onscreen keyboard.
3. When you see the microphone image, speak what you want
to type.
Say “comma,” “period,” “question mark,” “exclamation mark,” or
“exclamation point” to enter punctuation.
When you pause, what you spoke is transcribed by the speech-
recognition service and entered in the text eld, underlined.
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You can touch the Delete key to erase the underlined text. If you
start typing or entering more text by speaking, the underline
disappears.
To improve processing of your voice input, Google may record a
few seconds of ambient background noise in temporar y memory
at any time. This recording remains on the device only fleetingly
and is not sent to Google.
To change your tablet’s speech settings, go to Set-
tings > Personal > Language & input.
Settings
Why use a Google Account?
A Google Account lets you organize and access your personal information from any computer or mobile device:
• Use Google Play. Google Play brings together all your favorite
content in one place: movies, T V shows, books, music, maga zines, apps, and more. When you sign in with your Google Account, you can reach any of this content from any of your devices – as long as you have a network connection. You can
also shop for more in the Google Play store.
• Synchronize and back up everything. Whether you draft an
email, add an event to your calendar, or add a friend ’s address,
your work gets backed up continuously by Google and syn chronized with any computer where you use the same Google
Account.
• Access from anywhere. Check your latest calendar, email, text
messages, or social stream, no matter what computer or mobile device you’re using.
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• Keep your stuff secure and available. Google works round the
clock to protect your personal data from unauthorized access
and to ensure that you get it when you need it, wherever you
need it.
• Simplify shopping. You can connect your Google account with
Google Wallet, which makes it easy to purchase music, books,
apps, and more on Google Play and other online stores.
• Use other Google services. Your Google Account also lets you
take full advantage of other Google apps and services that
you may want to use, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Navigation,
Google Play, YouTube, Google Talk, Messaging, and more.
What’s New in Android
Whether you’re new to Android or an avid user, check out some of
the new fe atures in And roid 4.1 and 4.2 (Jelly B ean). For a comprehensi ve list of all chan ges since An droid 4.0, see Android 4.1, Jelly
Bean and Android 4.2: A new flavor of Jelly Bean.
• Gesture Typing (Android 4.2)
Instead of typing each letter, use Gesture Typing to input a
word without lifting your nger. You don’t need to worry about
spaces because they’re added automatically for you.
Glide your nger over the letters you want to type, and lift it
after each word.
• Google Play widgets
New widgets on your Home screens display recently used
apps, music, movies, books, or games you already have – including preloaded content that comes with your device. Other
widgets offer suggestions for browsing Google Play.
Touch a widget to access its content on Google Play. Touch &
hold a widget to resize it or remove it.
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• Quick Settings (Android 4.2)
Use Quick Settings to easily access Wi-Fi settings, manage
display brightness, open the main Settings menu, and more.
Swipe down from the top right corner of any screen to open
Quick Settings, then touch one of the boxes to open a specic
setting.
• Expandable notications
Expandable notications were introduced in Android 4.1, including the option to perform actions from the notication itself. In Android 4.2, you can expand notications more easily
with a swipe of your nger.
Swipe down the notication shade from the top of the screen,
then glide your nger down the notications to expand them.
Touch an icon inside a notication to handle a task directly.
• Rearrange Home screens
Slide an icon slowly to move other icons or widgets gently
aside.
Touch & hold an icon and slide slowly to the location of your
choice. Slide an icon quickly over another to create a folder.
• Screen magnication (Android 4.2)
Users with visual impairments can enter full-screen magnication by triple-tapping the screen.
Go to Settings > System > Accessibility > Magnication ges-
tures to turn on screen magnication.
• Google Now
Google Now shows you information at just the right time, such
as today’s weather before you star t your day, how much traf-
c to expect before you leave for work , and even your favorite
team’s score while they’re playing.
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Swipe up from the bottom center of any screen, or touch the
Google Search bar on any Home screen.
• Say “Google” to search
When the Google Now screen is open, you can say “Google” to
activate a voice search.
Open Goog le Now, then say “Go og le” and you r quer y to search .
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Explore your tablet
Swipe up for Google Now
Google Now is about getting you just the right information, at just
the right time.
It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much
trafc to expect before you leave for work , and even your favorite
team’s score while they’re playing.
All of this happens automatically. Google Now intelligently brings
you the information you want to see, when you want to see it. No
digging required.
For example, here’s a Google Now card that appears when you’re
about to start your commute home:
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Give it a try! Swipe your nger up from the bottom of any screen,
or touch the Google Search bar at the top of the screen.
When you want to see more cards, touch Show more cards at the
bottom of the screen. When you don’t need them any more, swipe
them out of the way.
You’re in control
When you decide to use Google Now, you’re turning on location
repor ting and location history. Google Now also uses location
information provided by Google’s location service and GPS, if
those are currently turned on.
Google Now also uses data that you may have stored in other
Google products. For example, if you have searches stored in
your Web History, Google Now can show cards based on sports
scores, flight status, and so on.
Similarly, Google Now can use data that you may have stored
in third-party products that you allow Google to access. For
example, your tablet ’s synced calendar may include entries from
non-Google calendar products. If you have such an entry for a
dentist appointment that includes the dentist’s address, Google
Now can check trafc and suggest when to leave.
You’re in control. You can choose exactly which cards you’d like
to see, adjust the details of what they display, and adjust your
privacy settings.
For more information about Google Now and your location
information, see “Chapter 5, Use Google Now & Search.”
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Swipe down for notications & settings
Notications alert you to the arrival of new messages, calendar
events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as video
downloads.
When a notication arrives, its icon appears at the top of the
screen. Icons for pending notications appear on the left, and
system icons showing things like Wi-Fi signal or battery strength
on the right:
Pending
notications
To open the notication shade, swipe down from the top left cor-
ner of any screen.
Certain notications 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 open the related app, touch the notication icon on the left.
Some notications also allow you to take specic actions by
touching icons within the notication. For example, Calendar no tications allow you to Snooze (remind you later) or send email
to other guests.
When you ’re nis he d with a notic at io n, just swipe it away. To dis miss all notications, touch the Dismiss icon at the top right of
the notication shade.
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Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, &
battery status
You can per form these actions from the notication shade:
Dismiss all
Touch to
respond
to other
guests
Swipe down
using one
nger to
expand
certain
notications
NOTE: The notication tray differs slightly in Android 4.1.2
and earlier versions.
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Quick Settings
Available for Android 4.2 and later.
Use Quick Settings to easily toggle Wi-Fi, manage display brightness, open the main Set tings menu, and more. To open Quick Settings, swipe down from the top right corner of any screen:
Touch to open
all settings
Touch a square
to open the
specic setting
Relax with Google Play
Google Play brings together all your favorite content in one place
– movies, TV shows, books, music, magazines, apps, and more –
so you can reach it from any of your devices.
Use Google Play widgets
These widgets are available on your Home screens:
• My Library. Displays your most recently used music, books,
and so on. Touch any of the images to see your content –plus
free gifts from Google.
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• Recommended on Play. Suggests music, movies, and other
content that may interest you. Touch the suggestion to learn
more about it.
• Recommended apps. Recommends apps that you can add to
your Home screen. Touch the recommendation to learn more
about it.
All Google Play recommendation widgets work the same way:
Touch to
avoid future
suggestions
like this
Touch to learn more
Touch to see a
different suggestion
To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go and drag the blue
dots. To remove it, touch & hold, then drag it to the Remove icon
at the top of the screen.
To add another Play widget, touch the
All Apps icon, then
Widgets, and swipe from right to left until you see the one you
want. Then touch & hold, and let go in the Home screen location
you want.
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Shop on Google Play
To open the Google Play Store app, touch the Play
Store icon in your Favorites tray on every Home
screen.
Play Store
Sign in to play.google.com to get your enter tainment from
anywhere.
Most things you purchase on Google Play are available from your computer as well as from any of your
Android mobile devices. (Android apps are one exception – they run only on Android devices.)
Find your content
If you purchased on Google Play in the past, you’ll automatically
have access to this content on your Nexus 7 — just make sure
you’re signed in using the same account that you used to purchase it.
You can get to your content using any of the Google Play icons
in your Favorites tray, including Books, Magazines, Movies, and
Music.
Or, touch the
right corner, to the lef t of the Menu and Search icons, you’ll nd
a My Library icon corresponding to the section of Google Play
you’re currently viewing. For example, while browsing the Movies
& TV section, you’ll see the Google Play Movies app icon, which
will take you to My Movies & TV:
Play Store icon to open Google Play. In the top
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Touch icon in this location to
see your content of that type
You can quickly access your content this way, from the Google
Play Store app, even if you originally purchased it on Google Play
using a different phone or tablet. If you get a new device, all your
media will automatically be waiting for you here when you turn
on and sign in.
Google Play settings
To adjust your Google Play settings, switch accounts, or get help,
choose the option you want from the
corne r.
The Google Play Settings screen lets you control when you’re no -
tied about updates to apps and games, clear your search history,
and enable user controls. To lter Android apps based on matu-
rity level or require a PIN before completing any purchase, touch
Content ltering or Set or change PIN.
Menu in the top right
Google Play support
For more detail ed informati on about Goo gle Play, includ ing phone
and email support options, visit support.google.com/googleplay.
Use & customize the lock screen
Available for Android 4.2 and higher.
You can add widgets to the top of the lock screen and swipe be-
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tween them. Lock screen widgets let you scan recent Gmail messages, Calendar entries, and other app content without unlocking
your screen.
To set or change the type of lock, see Set screen lock.
Add a widget to the lock screen
1. In por trait mode, swipe right across the upper part of the
screen until you see the
swipe right from the lef t side of your screen
2. Touch the Plus icon. If prompted, enter your PIN, pattern,
or password.
A set of the available widgets appears. Apps that support lock
screen widgets can add their own widgets to this set.
3. Touch the widget you want to add.
You can add up to ve widgets to your lock screen. To move be-
tween them, swipe across the top of the screen in portrait mode,
or across the lef t side of the screen in landscape mode.
Plus icon. In landscape mode,
Reorder lock screen widgets
1. Touch & hold a widget.
2. Drag the widget and release it in the location of your choice.
Remove a lock screen widget
Touch & hold the widget, then drag it onto the Remove icon.
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