Visual Land Prestige 7G, Prestige Pro 7D, ME-7D User Guide v4.1

PRESTIGE 7 Android Tablet Guide Book

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Table of Contents

1. Get Started............................................................Page 3

2. Play & Explore.......................................................Page 4

3. Tune Performance................................................Page 14

4. Enter & Edit Text..................................................Page 18

5. Connect to Networks...........................................Page 21

6. Connect to Keyboards, Mice & Other Devices...Page 29

7. Connect to a Computer.......................................Page 31

8. Manage Accounts................................................Page 34

9.Change Backup & Reset Options.........................Page 37

10.Secure Your Tablet.............................................Page 39

11. Work With Certificates.....................................Page 43

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Getting Started

Power On & Sign In

To turn on your Prestige 7, press the Power button on the right edge near the top for a few seconds, then release it.

Charge the battery

The battery may not be fully charged at first. It’s a good idea to fully charge it as soon as you can.

The Prestige 7 can be charged 2 ways. With the power adapter, connect the power adapter to the Prestige 7 and to a power outlet. With a USB, connect the included USB cable to the Prestige 7 and to a computer that is powered on. (Note: charging via USB is slower than via power adapter.)

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Play & Explore

Browse Home Screens

To move between Home screens, swipe left or right.

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.

Tap Status Bar for Notifications

Notifications alert you to the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as video downloads.

When a notification arrives, its icon appears at the bottom of the screen. Icons for pending notifications appear on the left, and system icons showing things like Wi-Fi signal or battery strength on the right.

To open the notifications shade, swipe up from the bottom or tap the bar to expand it:

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Certain notifications can be expanded to show more information, such as email previews or calendar events. To

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expand or collapse a notification, use two fingers to either swipe vertically or twist together.

To open the related app, touch the notification icon on the left. Some notifications also allow you to take specific actions by touching icons within the notification. For example, Calendar notifications allow you to Snooze (remind you later) or send email to other guests.

When you’re finished with a notification, just swipe it away to the left or right. If you want to dismiss all notifications, touch the Dismiss icon at the top of the notification shade. drawer.

Getting Around

At the bottom of every Prestige 7 screen, no matter what you’re doing, you’ll always find 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 further in your history.

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Home

Opens 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 open an app, touch it. To remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it left or right.

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.

Touch & Type

Use your fingers to manipulate icons, buttons, menus, the on-screen keyboard, and other items on the touch screen. 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.

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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 move apps around 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.

Double-tap: Tap quickly twice on a webpage, map, or other screen to zoom. For example, double-tap a picture in browser to zoom in, and double-tap again to zoom out.

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 in display settings.

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Settings

On the All Apps screen or the Utilities home screen, notice the settings icon. This brings you to the settings screens for your tablet, where you can adjust things like network, sound, and account settings, among many others.

TIP: To get to Settings quickly no matter what screen you’re on, swipe up your Notifications from the top of any

screen and touch the small settings icon near the top.

To change your tablet’s notification sounds, volumes, and more, go to

Settings > Device > Sound.

To change your tablet’s brightness, font size, and more, go to

Settings > Device > Display.

Lock Screen

Depending how you use your tablet, you may want to set some form of automatic screen lock to prevent

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unauthorized access. if a lock has been set, the screen locks when your tablet’s display goes to sleep.

When you touch the power button to wake up a locked tablet, you must take some action, ranging from a simple swipe to typing a lengthy password, to unlock it.

You can set locks of different strengths using your tablet’s lock settings. To do so, go to

Settings > Personal > Security > Screen lock and touch

the type of lock you’d like to use.

IMPORTANT: If you set a pattern or password unlock you MUST remember it. If you forget it, there is no way of unlocking your tablet without restoring it to the factory settings which will erase all data on your tablet.

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Access Your Content

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 a widget, touch and hold on an empty part of the home screen, then select Widgets from the popup menu and swipe from up until you see the one you want. If there is proper space for the widget it'll be placed on the home screen.

Use apps

To see all your apps, touch All Apps at the bottom on any home screen. The main All Apps screen opens. This is where you can see all your apps. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens.

From All Apps, you can

Move Between Screens: swipe up or down.

Launch an App: Touch its icon.

Place an app icon on a Home screen: Touch & hold the

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

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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 .

Most apps include a Menu icon near the top or bottom of the screen that lets you control the app’s settings.

Organize Your Home screens

To move an app or widget icon to a different location on a Home screen:

Touch & hold the icon.

Slide your finger 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.

Lift your finger.

The icon drops into its new position.

Change sound settings

Your tablet uses sounds to communicate, including notifications, alarms, and navigation feedback.

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To customize the sounds your tablet makes, go to Settings

> Device > Sound:

Volumes sets the master volume separately for music,

notifications, and alarms. You can still use the physical volume control on the tablet to raise or lower volume of whatever sound is currently playing.

Default notification announces the arrival of notifications unless you specify a different sound in an individual app.

Touch sounds give audible feedback when you touch active icons or buttons on the screen.

Screen lock sound is triggered when you unlock the screen.

Change the wallpaper

Touch and hold on an empty part of any home screen. Select Wallpapers and a selection of thumbnails will appear. Swipe left or right to browse the available wallpapers. Tap on one to select it. Choose Set wallpaper to make the selection your wallpaper.

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3

Tune Performance

Optimize Battery Life

You can extend your battery’s life between charges by turning off features that you don’t need. You can also monitor how apps and system resources consume battery power.

To control battery settings, go to Settings > Device >

Battery.

Extend the life of your battery

If you aren’t using Wi-Fi use the Settings app to turn it off.

Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter sleep timeout:

Settings > Device > Display.

If you know you won’t be near a mobile or Wi-Fi network for a while, switch to Airplane mode: press and hold the Power button, or go to Settings > Wireless & networks > More > Airplane mode.

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