Vodafone Tab Prime Operation Manual

User manual

VF-1497

Table of Contents

1 Your device ........................................................................... 1

1.1 Keys and connectors ....................................................................1

1.2 Getting started ................................................................................3

1.3 Home screen ....................................................................................5

2 Text input ............................................................................13

2.1 Using Onscreen Keyboard .......................................................13

2.2 Android keyboard ........................................................................13

2.3 Text editing ....................................................................................13

3 Contacts .............................................................................15

3.1 Consult your contacts ...............................................................15

3.2 Managing contact groups ........................................................16

3.3 Adding a contact .........................................................................16

3.4 Editing your contacts.................................................................17

3.5 Contacts importing, exporting and sharing......................18

3.6 Accounts .........................................................................................18

4 Messaging, Email .............................................................20

4.1 Messaging .....................................................................................20

4.2 Gmail/Email ..................................................................................23

4.3 Hangouts .......................................................................................28

5 Calendar & Time ...............................................................30

5.1 Calendar .........................................................................................30

5.2 Time .................................................................................................32

6 Getting connected ...........................................................34

6.1 Connecting to the Internet .....................................................34

6.2 Connecting to Bluetooth devices .......................................36

6.3 Connecting to a computer ......................................................37

6.4 Sharing your tablet's mobile data connection................38

6.5 Connecting to virtual private networks .............................39

7 Play Store .........................................................................41

7.1 Locate the item you want to download and install ......41

7.2 Download and install .................................................................42

7.3 Manage your downloads ..........................................................43

8 Multimedia applications ...............................................45

8.1 Camera ...........................................................................................45

8.2 Gallery .............................................................................................47

8.3 YouTube ..........................................................................................48

9 Maps ....................................................................................50

9.1 Get My Location ...........................................................................50

9.2 Search for a location ..................................................................51

9.3 Star a location ...............................................................................52

9.4 Get driving, public transportation or walking directions 53

9.5 Arrangement of Layers .............................................................54

10 Others ..................................................................................55

10.1 Calculator ......................................................................................55

10.2 File Manager .................................................................................55

10.3 Sound Recorder ..........................................................................56

10.4 Peel Smart Remote ....................................................................56

10.5 Device Manager ...........................................................................56

10.6 Other applications .....................................................................56

11 Settings ..............................................................................57

11.1 Wireless & networks ...................................................................57

11.2 Device ...............................................................................................59

11.3 Personal...........................................................................................60

11.4 Accounts .........................................................................................65

11.5 System .............................................................................................65

1 Your device

1.1 Keys and connectors

IR LED

Headset connector

Front camera

Touch screen

Back key

Home key

Recents key

micro USB port

Rear Camera

Micro SD

Sim

Recents key

• Touch to open a list of thumbnail images of applications you've worked with recently.

Home key

• While on any application or screen, touch to return to the Home screen.

Back key

• Touch to go back to the previous screen, or to close a dialog box, options menu, the notification panel, etc.

These keys are visible when the screen lights up.

Power key

• Press: Lock the screen/Light up the screen

• Press and hold: Power on or pop up the menu to get more

options, such as Shut down, Airplane mode, etc.

• Press and hold Power key and Volume down key to capture a screenshot.

Power key Volume up Volume down

Keyboard connector

Volume Keys

• In Music/Video/Streaming mode, adjust the media volume.

1.2 Getting started

1.2.1 Set-up

Inserting the micro SIM card & the microSD card

Before inserting/removing the SIM card and the microSD card, you should ensure the tablet is off, to protect it from corruption or damage. In addition, regularly removing or inserting the SD card may cause the tablet to restart.

Your tablet only supports micro-SIM cards. Do not attempt to insert other SIM types like mini and Nano cards, otherwise you may damage

your tablet.

Charging the battery

To charge your tablet, connect the charger to your tablet and mains

socket.

• When using your tablet for the first time, charge the battery fully (approximately 5 hours).

You are advised to fully charge the battery ( indicated by the percentage on screen while the tablet is powered off. The percentage increases as the tablet is charged.

To reduce power consumption and energy waste, when battery is

fully charged, disconnect your charger from the plug; switch off Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth or background-running applications when not in use; reduce the backlight time, etc. Adapter shall be installed near the equipment and shall be easily accessible

). Charging status is

1.2.2 Power on your tablet

Hold down the Power key until the tablet powers on, unlock your tablet (Slide, PIN, Password, Pattern, Face unlock) if necessary and confirm. The Home screen is displayed.

If you do not know your PIN code or if you have forgotten it, contact your network operator. Do not leave your PIN code with your tablet. Store this information in a safe place when not in use.

Set up your tablet for the first time

The first time you power on the tablet, you should set the following options:

• Select the tablet's language, then touch

• Insert SIM card or touch Skip to get to the next step.

• Select a Wi-Fi network to connect, or touch Skip to get to the next step.

• Set Date and Time. Then touch Next.

• Add your name to personalise some apps later, then touch Next.

• Touch More\Next to go through Google services

• Touch Finish,

• Touch

to turn on/off Help tips, then touch Next to Complete.

1.2.3 Power off your tablet

Hold down the Power key until a pop-up menu appears, then select Shut down to confirm.

1.3 Home screen

You can bring all your favourite icons (applications, shortcuts, folders and widgets) to your home screen for quick access. Touch the Home key to switch to Home screen.

Status bar

• Status/Notification indicators.

Favorite tray applications

• Touch to launch the application.

• Touch and hold to move or

Application tab

• Touch to see all applications.

The Home screen extends on the right side of the screen to allow more space for adding applications, shortcuts etc. Slide the Home screen horizontally right to get a complete view of the Home screen. The white dot at the lower part of the screen indicates which screen you are viewing. Slide the home screen horizontally left to open Flipboard.

change applications.

1.3.1 Using the touchscreen

Touch

To access an application, touch it with your finger. When the tablet is in standby mode, double touch the screen to wake up the tablet.

Touch and Hold

Touch and hold the home screen to access Widgets, Wallpapers, and Settings screen. Touch and hold an App on the home screen to remove the app. Touch and hold an app on the app launcher to get app information, or uninstall the app.

Drag

Place your finger on any item to drag it to another location.

Slide/Swipe

Slide the screen to scroll up and down the applications, images, web pages… at your convenience.

Flick

Similar to swiping, but flicking makes it move quicker.

Pinch/Spread

Place your fingers of one hand on the screen surface and draw them apart or together to scale an element on the screen.

Rotate

Automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by turning the tablet sideways to have a better view.

1.3.2 Status bar

From status bar, you can view both tablet status on the right side and notification information on the left side.

Status icons

GPRS connected No signal (gray)

GPRS in use Roaming

EDGE connected

EDGE in use Signal strength (blue)

3G connected Ringer is silenced

3G in use

HSPA connected 4G in use

HSPA in use 4G connected

Connected to a Wi-Fi network

Bluetooth is on Battery is full

Connected to a Bluetooth device

Airplane mode Battery is very low

Alarm is set Battery is low

No SIM card inserted

Tablet microphone is mute

Battery is partially drained

Battery is charging

Headset connected

Notification icons

New text or multimedia message

Problem with SMS or MMS delivery

New Hangouts message Uploading data

Screenshot captured Downloading data

Upcoming event Select input method

Data is synchronizing

Tablet is connected via USB cable

Notification panel & Quick setting panel

When there are notifications, touch and drag down the Status bar from the top to open the Notification panel to read the detailed information.

Swipe down twice from the Status bar to open the Quick settings panel, where you can enable or disable functions or change modes by touching the icons. Touch and drag up to close the panel.

USB tethering is on

Portable Wi-Fi hotspot is on

An open Wi-Fi network is available

Touch to access Settings, where you can set more items

Touch to clear all event–based notifications (other ongoing notifications will remain)

1.3.3 Search bar

The tablet provides a Search function which can be used to locate information within applications, the tablet or the web.





 Search by text

• Touch Search bar from the Home screen.

• Enter the text/phrase you want to search for.

• Touch

 Search by voice

• Touch

• Speak the word/phrase you want to search for. A list of search results

on the keyboard if you want to search on the web.

from Search bar to display a dialog screen.

will display for you to select from.

1.3.4 Lock/Unlock your screen

To protect your tablet and privacy, you can lock the tablet screen by choosing slide or creating a variety of patterns, PIN or password, etc.

To create a screen unlock pattern (refer to section "Screen lock" for detailed settings)

• Drag down the Quick settings panel and touch the settings icon to enter Settings, then touch Security\Screen lock\Pattern.

• Draw your own pattern.

Draw your unlock pattern

Touch to confirm by drawing pattern again

To create a screen unlock PIN/Password

• Touch Settings\Security\Screen lock\PIN or Password.

• Set your PIN or password.

To lock tablet screen

Press the Power key once to lock the screen.

Palm and Lock

• Drag down the Quick setting panel and touch the settings icon enter Settings, then touch Security.

• Mark/Unmark the checkbox of Palm and Tap to enable/disable the feature. When the feature is enabled, putting your palm on any screen will lock the screen.

To unlock tablet screen

Press the power key once to light up the screen, draw the unlock pattern you have created or enter PIN or password, etc. to unlock the screen.

If you have chosen Slide as the screen lock, touch and drag the icon to the top to unlock the screen.

1.3.5 Personalize your Home screen

Add

You may touch and hold a folder, an application or a widget to activate

the Move mode, and drag the item to any Home screen as you prefer.

Reposition

Touch and hold the item to be repositioned to activate the Move mode, drag the item to the desired position and then release. You can move items both on the Home screen and the Favorite tray. Hold the icon on the left or right edge of the screen to drag the item to another Home screen.

Remove

Touch and hold the item to be removed to activate the Move mode, drag the item up to the top of Remove, and release after the item turns red.

Create folders

To improve the organization of items (shortcuts or applications) on the Home screen, you can add them to a folder by stacking one item on top of another.

Wallpaper customization

Touch and long press the blank area in Home screen, then touch Wallpaper to customize wallpaper.

1.3.6 Volume adjustment

Using volume key

Press Volume key to adjust the volume. To activate the Silent mode, press the Volume down key until the tablet silent.

Using Settings menu

Drag down the quick setting panel and touch the settings icon to enter Settings, then touch Sound & notification, you can set the volume of media, notification, system and etc. to your preference.

2 Text input

2.1 Using Onscreen Keyboard

Onscreen Keyboard settings

Drag down the quick setting panel and touch the settings icon enter Settings, select Language & input, touch Android Keyboard, a series of settings are available for your selection.

2.2 Android keyboard

When Wi-Fi or data

connection is on, touch to

enter voice input.

Touch to switch

between "abc/Abc"

mode; Touch & hold to

switch between "abc/

ABC" mode.

Touch to switch

between symbol and

numeric keyboard.

Touch & hold, then select to enter symbols/emoticons.

2.3 Text editing

You can edit the text you have entered.

• Touch and hold or double-tap within the text you would like to edit.

• Drag the tabs to change the high-lighted selection.

• Following options will show: Select all, Cut

, Copy , Paste .

You can also insert new text

• Touch where you want to type, or touch and hold a blank space, the cursor will blink and the tab will show. Drag the tab to move the cursor.

• If you have selected any text, touch the tab to show PASTE icon which allows you to paste any text you have previously copied.

3 Contacts

Contacts enables quick and easy access to the people you want to reach.

You can view and create contacts on your tablet and synchronize these with your Gmail contacts or other applications.

3.1 Consult your contacts

Touch icon to

open Quick

Contact panel.

Touch the Menu key to display contacts list option menu.

Following actions are enabled:

• Share visible contacts

• Delete Select and delete unwanted contacts.

Share visible contacts with others by sending the contact’s vCard to them via Bluetooth, Email, etc.

Touch to search in

Contacts.

Touch to add a new contact.

• Contacts to display

• Import/Export Import or export contacts between tablet, SIM

• Accounts Manage the synchronization settings for different

• Settings Set contacts' display mode.

Choose contacts to display.

card, microSD card and internal storage.

accounts.

3.2 Managing contact groups

The contact group helps you to improve the organization of your contacts. You can add, remove and view groups in the Groups screen.

Touch the Groups to view local groups. To create a new group, touch the menu key, then choose Add Group, enter the new name and touch

Done to confirm. If you have added accounts to your tablet, touch the Groups to view groups in accounts.

3.3 Adding a contact

Touch the icon in the contact list to create a new contact.

You are required to enter the contact's name and other contact information. By scrolling up and down the screen, you can move from one field to another easily.

Touch to save.

Touch to select a picture for the contact.

Touch to unfold the other predefined labels of this category.

If you want to add more information, touch Add another field to add a new category.

When finished, touch Done to save.

To exit without saving, you can touch

Add to/remove from Favorites

To add a contact to Favorites, you can touch a contact to view details then touch in color).

To remove a contact from favorites, touch the gold star details screen.

to add the contact to Favorites (the star will turn white

Only device contacts can be added to Favorites.

to choose Discard changes.

on contact

3.4 Editing your contacts

To edit contact information, touch to choose the contact, then touch

on top of the screen, When finished, touch .

3.5 Contacts importing, exporting and sharing

This tablet enables you to import or export contacts between tablet, SIM card, microSD card and tablet storage.

From Contacts screen, touch Export, then select to import/export contacts from/to SIM card, Tablet, Tablet storage, Accounts, etc.

To import/export a single contact from/to SIM card, choose an account and target SIM card(s), select the contact you want to import/export, and touch the icon

To import/export all contacts from/to SIM card, choose an account and target SIM card(s) mark Select all and touch the icon

You can share a single contact or contacts with others by sending the contact's vCard to them via Bluetooth, Gmail, etc.

Touch a contact you want to share, touch the Menu key select Share from contact details screen, then select the application to perform this action.

to confirm.

to open options menu, touch Import/

to confirm.

, and

3.6 Accounts

Contacts, data or other information can be synchronized from multiple accounts, depending on the applications installed on your tablet.

To add an account, drag down the quick setting panel and touch enter Settings, then touch Accounts\Add account.

You are required to select the kind of account you are adding, like Google, Email, etc.

As with other account set-ups, you need to enter detailed information, like username, password, etc.

You can remove an account to delete it and all associated information from the tablet. Open the Settings screen, touch the account you want

to delete, touch the Menu key confirm.

Turn on/off the sync & Auto-sync

Touch an account to enter the account screen, mark/unmark the checkbox(s) to turn on/off the account’s auto-sync. When activated, all changes to information on the tablet or online will be automatically synchronized to each other.

Sync manually

You can also synchronize an account manually on Accounts screen, touch an account in the list, then touch the Menu key and select Sync now.

and select Remove account, then

4 Messaging, Email

4.1 Messaging

You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS with this tablet.

To access this feature, touch

4.1.1 Write message

On message list screen, touch the new message icon to write text/ multimedia messages.

For saved contacts, touch the photo to open the Quick Contact panel to communicate with the contact. For unsaved contacts, touch the photo to add the number to your Contacts.

Sending a text message

Enter the phone number of the recipient on To bar, touch Type text message bar to enter the text of the message. When finished, touch

to send the text message.

from the home screen, then select .

Touch to search in all messages. Touch to view the whole message

thread.

Touch to create a new message.

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