Obreey Pocketbook A10 User Manual
USER
MANUAL
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Contents
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ........................................................... 4
APPEARENCE ............................................................................. 8
Front View 8
Side View 9
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ............................................ 10
GETTING STARTED ............................................................... 11
Charging the Battery 11
Inserting Micro SD Card 12
Turning On 12
Finger Gestures 14
Menus 15
Home Screen 15
Using the On-Screen Keyboard 18
Establishing Network Connection 19
Transferring Data 20
OTG-cable Usage 20
About… 23
CONTENTS
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MULTIMEDIA ........................................................................... 24
Manage Data 24
Manage Books 26
Loading of the Protected
Electronic Books (Adobe DRM) 28
Read Books 31
Dictionary 38
Take Photos and Videos 39
Watch Movies 41
Listen to the Music 41
Gallery 43
FM Radio 43
ORGANIZER ............................................................................. 45
Clock 45
Calendar 45
Contacts 46
Make Notes 47
INTERNET ................................................................................ 48
Browser 48
Email 52
Location 55
Search 58
Android Market 59
Third Party Applications 60
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CONFIGURATION ................................................................... 62
Wireless & Networks 62
Sound Settings 66
Display Settings 66
Location & Security 67
Application Management 67
Accounts & Sync 68
Privacy Settings 69
Storage 69
Language & keyboard 70
Date & time 71
About device 71
FIRMWARE UPDATE .............................................................. 72
Automatic Update 72
Manual Update 73
TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................ 75
CUSTOMER SUPPORT........................................................... 76
COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS .... 77
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Safety Precautions
Before start working with the Device, please, read this section
carefully. Following these instructions will help you ensure
your safety and extend service life of the Device.
Storage, Carriage and Usage Conditions
Device operating temperature range is 0°С to 40°С, so don’t
expose the Device to excessively high or low temperatures.
Never leave cables near heat sources. Heated cables or their
insulation may become deformed or damaged, which could
lead to re or electric shock.
Try to avoid next impacts:
• direct sunlight
• direct ame or smoke (cigarette, lighter, open re etc.)
• exposure to liquids or damp (do not use the Device in
the rain, in the street at higher humidity, near bodies of water
etc.)
• penetration of liquids or moisture
• exposure to strong electromagnetic elds, electro-
static charges and articial sources of UV electromagnetic
radiation
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• excessive mechanical pressure on the screen, connec-
tors and keys of the Device.
Do not leave the Device for a long time in poorly ventilated
environment, e.g. in a car or in closed tight boxes/packaging.
Neither drop nor try to bend the Device. Protect the screen
from objects that may scratch or damage it. To ensure adequate
protection of the screen, we recommend storing the Device in
a protective and/or hard cover.
Keep away from children.
Maintenance
Do not disassemble or modify the book reader.
Do not use the Device with a damaged battery, charger (broken
case, poor contact, broken feed cable) or SD card. If the battery
is damaged (cracked case, leakage of electrolyte, off-shape
etc.) it should be replaced by the authorized personnel. Usage
of home-made or modied batteries may cause an explosion
and/or damage the Device.
Do not use organic or inorganic solvents (e.g. benzoyl etc.) to
clean the screen/case. Use a soft cloth to remove dust from the
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Device’s surface. Apply a few drops of distilled water to remove
dirt.
Up to ve faulty pixels are acceptable in the screen and do not
constitute a warrantable defect of the screen.
By the end of product guarantee term, please contact the near-
est authorized service facility for examination on the subject
of security is maintained.
For detailed information about service centers in your region
please visit the ofcial website of PocketBook International:
http://www.pocketbook-int.com.
RF Safety
The Device receives and transmits radio frequencies and may
interfere with radio communications and other electronic
equipment. If you use personal medical Devices (e.g. a pacemaker or hearing aid) please contact your doctor or the man-
ufacturer to learn whether or not such medical devices are
protected against external RF signals.
Do not use wireless communication in places where it is prohibited, e.g. onboard a plane and in hospitals – this may affect
airborne avionics or medical equipment.
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Utilization
Incorrect disposal of this Device may have adverse impacts
on the environment and public health. To prevent such con-
sequences follow the device-specic disposal requirements.
Recycling of these materials helps preserve natural resources.
For more information regarding recycling issues please contact local municipal authorities, your domestic waste collection service, store where you purchased the Device, or the
authorized service center.
Disposal of electric and electronic components (the Directive is applicable to the EU and other European countries where separate waste disposal systems exist). In
other countries dispose batteries accordingly to local laws.
Do not destroy the battery by burning it to avoid the danger of
explosion!
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Appearance
FRONT VIEW
1. Speaker
2. Home – Home screen
3. Menu – open quick menu
4. Backward – previous page
5. Forward – next page
6. Return – go to previous menu
7. Search – bring up search menu
8. Microphone
9. Camera
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SIDE VIEW
10. 3.5 mm audio jack
11. Volume controls
12. Power button
13. MicroSD card slot
14. Power LED indicator
15. Micro-USB port
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Technical Specications
Display
10” TFT (TN+Film) 1024×768, 262000 colors, capacitive
multisensor
CPU TI OMAP 3621 (1 GHz)
RAM 512 MB
Internal Storage 4 GB
Platfrom Android™ 2.3
Input/Output
Ports
1×micro USB, 3.5 mm earphone jack
Card reader micro SD up to 32 GB
Communications Wi-Fi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1
Camera 2 Megapixels, 4× digital zoom
Audio 2×0.5 W speakers, microphone
Accelerometer Yes
Battery Li-Polymer, 6600 mAh, 3.7 V, up to 6 hrs video playback
Dimensions 207×244×15 mm
Weight 670 g
Text Formats
PDF, EPUB, DJVU, FB2, FB2.zip, TXT, HTM, HTML, RTF,
DOC, DOCX, PDF/EPUB (DRM)
Image Formats JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
Audio Formats
MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3, FLAC, OGG, MIDI, AMR-NB (.3gp),
APE, M4A, WAV
Video Formats 3GP, MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, WEBM, MOV, MPG, WMV
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CHARGING THE BATTERY
The battery of your Device is not fully charged as you un-
pack it, so you need to charge it for 8-12 hours. It’s strongly
recommended to keep the Device off during the rst charge,
otherwise power consumption may be more, than charging,
especially when you charge it from PC. Follow next steps to
charge the battery:
1. Make sure the Device is off. In opposite case, press
On/Off button for a few seconds and select Power Off in menu
appeared. The Device will shut down.
2. Connect your Device to a computer or power supply
using the micro-USB cable included in package.
3. LED indicator will start blinking green as soon as
charging process starts.
4. When the battery is fully charged, the indicator turns
solid green. Now you can disconnect the micro-USB cable.
Getting Started
IN THIS SECTION…
You will get to know how to make the Device operable for
the rst time and learn about its basic interface and control
features.
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NOTE It’s recommended to charge the battery using the charging device. In
case if you charge the battery from PC, it’s better to keep the Device off, because power consumption may be more, than charging.
INSERTING MICRO SD CARD
The Device already has 4 GB of internal
storage, but you can extend it by using
micro SD card. Insert it to the slot, like it
shown on a gure, and slightly push until
card will be xed.
To eject the card, slightly press on its
edge until it will be unxed, and pull it to get.
ATTENTION! Before ejecting microSD card either turn the Device off or un-
mount it: go to Settings > Storage settings > Unmount SD card. Otherwise the
data stored on microSD card might be damaged.
TURNING ON
To turn the Device on, press On/Off button until startup logo
appears. When the Device is ready to operate, the lock screen
appears. The lock screen can be unlocked in two ways: either
by pressing Menu hardware button on the front panel or by
touching the lock icon on the screen and sliding your nger
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over the screen in the direction indicated by the arrow, till the
screen becomes unlocked.
If the Device is turning on for the rst time, you will be guided
through the initial settings wizard, where you will be suggested to specify or create Google account (you may skip this step),
set date, time and interface language and connect to Wi-Fi.
Reset
In case if the Device ‘freezes’ doesn’t respond on screen touches or hardware key press, you can use the force off feature. To
proceed, press and hold power button for 10 seconds until the
Device goes off. If you will continue holding power button for
5 more seconds, the Device’s power management system will
completely reboot. To switch the Device on, press again the
power button as usual.
ATTENTION! Please, try to use this feature as rarely, as it possible, because it
adversely affects the hardware components of the Device. For example, if the
Device ‘freezes’ wait for 1-2 minutes before use the reset.
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FINGER GESTURES
Tap
Short soft touch on an item (e.g. le, application, folder or menu item) opens it. If item can be opened with
various applications, you will be asked to select one
to open with. You can set your choice as default one.
Press and Hold
This gesture calls context menu with available options for an item. While you at Home Screen, it allows
to move an item.
Slide
Slide means move nger across the screen vertically or
horizontally.
Drag
To drag an item, press and hold it until you reach nal position.
Flick
Flicking is similar to sliding, but you need to move your nger
more rapidly. It’s used for scrolling through lists.
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Scaling
In particular applications (e.g. Maps)
to scale an image, you can ‘pinch’ the
screen: move to zoom out or spread to
zoom in two ngers.
MENUS
Most applications have two types of menu: quick and context
one. Quick menu is brought up by pressing hardware button
on a front panel. Context menu is called by continuous touch
on a screen or item, depending on application.
HOME SCREEN
Home screen consists of 5 desktops. To scroll the Home screen,
move your nger across the screen or tip the counter icon in
the left or right corner of the screen. Continuous touch on one
of them brings up the thumbnails of all ve desktops for quick
switching between them.
Desktop may contain shortcuts, widgets and control panels.
1. Status bar – displays date, time and system notica-
tions icons. To view detailed information, press the status bar
and slide your nger downwards to expand the notication
area or go to Quick menu > Notications.
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2. Desktop counter – displays next or previous to current
desktops count. Press a counter to scroll desktops, continuous
press opens desktop thumbnails
3. File Manager
4. Applications – opens applications panel
5. Browser – opens the web browser. If browser already
running, it will be opened in current state.
After continuous touch on icon or widget Recycle Bin starter is
activated. To delete element, drag-and-drop it to Recycle Bin
and release after it highlights in red.
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Context menu of the Home Screen allows you to customize
interface to your own, adding shortcuts, widgets, folders and
wallpapers to a desktop.
Widgets
Widgets are interface elements, displaying brief information
and/or providing some control features.
Desktop menu
• Add – adding elements to the desktop, similar to the
context menu
• Manage apps – application manager
• Wallpaper
• Search
• Notications – expands status bar to view detailed
system notications
• Settings – general settings.
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USING THE ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD
To access the on-screen keyboard, touch any textbox. Enter
your text by touching the keys of the on-screen keyboard.
1. Switches between upper and lower case. If indicator
in right top corner is on, all the text will be typed in upper
case, otherwise – only the rst letter of the word. In symbol
mode this button is replaced with ALT button, which changes
available symbols
2. Switches to symbol mode – letters on keyboard will
be replaced with symbols. Press ALT button to open others
3. Press and hold to open additional features
4. Slide over the Space key to change input languages.
You can add keyboard layout in keyboard settings (Settings >
Language & Keyboard settings > Android keyboard)
5. Press and hold to see additional symbols. Don’t re-
lease your nger and slide to the desired symbol to type it
6. Backspace – erases previous symbol
7. To type a digit, press and hold one of the top row keys
and slide your nger to a digit.
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NOTE Keyboard view may be different from described, depending on applica-
tion it used in.
ESTABLISHING NETWORK CONNECTION
If you skipped Wi-Fi conguration during the initial setup, you
can congure it later.
Bring up Home screen quick menu and go to Settings > Wireless
& networks. Check Wi-Fi checkbox, and the Device will start
scanning for available networks. The Device automatically de-
tects security type, and if there’s no need to specify additional
data (e.g. password), connection would be established. Other-
wise, you need to go to Wi-Fi settings section, tap on network
name you want to connect and specify password and other
security settings (if required) manually.
If the network you want to connect to is hidden (isn’t detected
while scanning), you need to specify its SSID (network name),
and security settings (security method and related credential
information) in Add Wi-Fi network section.
About advanced network conguration you can read in Set-
tings User Manual section.
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TRANSFERRING DATA
To transfer data between PC and the Device, connect micro-
USB cable.
NOTE The Device should be kept on during data transferring!
After you connect the cable, a notication window suggesting
to turn on USB storage will popup. Press Turn on USB storage
and the Device memory and microSD card (if present) will be
displayed as USB storages in your PC Explorer or other le
manager.
Now you can copy data to the Device’s internal memory or microSD card. After transferring data, expand notifaction panel,
press Turn off USB Storage message and press corresponding
button. Now you can unplug micro-USB cable.
OTG-CABLE USAGE
You can connect external devices, such as keyboard or USB
ash disk, using OTG cable. To connect the device, plug an
OTG-cable into micro-USB port of the Device, and connect an
external device to other side.
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After connecting a keyboard, it will be detected automatically
and you will be able to use for typing. Settings for external
keyboard will be available in Settings > Language & keyboard.
From there you can enable/disable misspelling autocorrection,
autocapitalization, set the layout switch keys combinations
and select layouts will be used.
After connecting a ash disk, you’ll be able to view its content
in usbdisk folder, using the File Manager.
In section Settings > Storage > USB Storage you can view infor-
mation about total and free memory on the storage, unmount
it for safe ejection or format it.
ATTENTION! Formatting a storage will totally erase all data on it!
Connecting 3G-modem (experimental)
You can connect 3G USB modem using the OTG-cable.
ATTENTION! The Device utilizes some services, which don’t ask user’s per-
mission for Internet access (for example, synchronization). Consult with your
mobile operator about trafc rates.
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To connect to the mobile network, plug a modem to the Device
using OTG-cable and wait 2-3 minutes till the Device will be
registered on a network.
If you need to change connection conguration, go to Settings
> Wireless & networks > Mobile networks.
• Data enabled – turn mobile network connection on or
off
• Data roaming – select whether use mobile network
connection or not when you are out of your mobile operator
coverage, for example, abroad
• Network mode – select the most suitable one for your
mobile network or set to auto-detect
• Access Point Name – Internet access points congura-
tion. If you need to set up one more point, open the section’s
menu by Menu hardware key press and set the parameters provided by your mobile operator
• Network operators – select network operator to con-
nect to. Press Select automatically to connect to the default
network. After pressing Search networks, the Device will search
for available mobile networks and you will be able to select
one. For example, this feature could be useful when you are
in roaming zone – you will be able to select operator with the
lowest rates.
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NOTE Consult your mobile network operator about roaming rates.
• USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is a
service for GSM networks, which allows organizing interactive
communication with GSM’s service in the mode of short mas-
sages transferring.
The massage should start with an asterisk * and end with #.
ABOUT…
You can view detailed information about your Device in section
Settings > About device. There you can nd information about
model and serial number, rmware and operating system ver-
sion, battery usage, Wi-Fi MAC address, Bluetooth address and
legal information. Also in this section you can congure OS
and rmware updates.
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MANAGE DATA
Use File Manager to operate with les, stored in internal Device memory and external microSD card. To open File Manager,
press starter at Home screen.
File Manager has tabbed view. At the top operation buttons
are located:
1. Favorites – opens added to Favorites les and folders
list
2. Home – returns to the highest level of le hierarchy
3. Up to one level
4. Create Folder
5. Copy to Clipboard – select one or more le or folder,
and in each folder Copy here button will appear
Multimedia
In this chapter you will learn about basic multimedia features
of the Device.
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