Xtreamer Ban-G Getting Started Manual

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Xtreamer Ban-G

Getting Started Guide

The purpose of this guide is to introduce to you some basic features and settings of

your new friend and partner: Xtreamer Ban-G – an Android mobile phone.

Android OS provides an open platform, lots of flexibility and a true freedom to

customize your phone to be uniquely suitable to your needs. And that's great but if

you have no experience with Android your first contact can be somewhat

overwhelming: all these options, settings, features and functions can present a bit of

a challenge.

Those new to the smartphone scene are suddenly required to learn a whole new

operating system and people used to the ordered simplicity of Apple products feel

that they are confronted by chaos.

Surprisingly there are almost no newbie guides for Android. So this is what we

wanted to give you: a few very simple tutorials and some advice on how to use your

new device.

So, let's begin…

A few words about Android

Android is an operating system for mobile phones, in much the same way that many
PCs run Microsoft Windows as their operating system. It is developed by Google and
allows you to use many of the programs you might have on your home computer,
such as Skype, Internet browsers, document readers and editors, but in addition to
that it provides access to the applications specifically created for devices with the
touch-screen interface.

With Android you literally have the world on your fingertips.

On Xtreamer Ban-G you have an Android version called Jelly Bean. This is an
advanced OS: smoother, faster and more responsive than anything you might have
seen on a mobile device. There are a lot of nice little features that will make your life
easier and more convenient and we will go through some of them.

What does Android look like?

Android's standard layout is to have a series of Home screens, which can contain
shortcuts to launch apps, or can contain widgets, which are small programs that

serve a single function, such as controlling your music or displaying Facebook
updates.

From the Home screens, you can bring up a menu with all of your other apps on.
Very little is done from within the Android interface, but instead you launch an app
for what you want to do, including dialing the phone or browsing through your
contacts.

Android itself contains the functions that are vital to using a mobile phone, including
the phone dialer, text messaging client and phone number storage. Google also
provides some additional apps, including a Gmail email client, Google Maps (which
features free turn-by-turn satellite navigation), YouTube etc. All of these applications
are pre-installed on your Ban-G.

Beyond that, you can also buy or download for free many other apps to enable your
phone to do more. You can do it by using Google Play Store.

Turning you phone on for the first time

You can find the instructions on inserting SIM and SD cards in the User Manual you

received with your phone. Please make sure to fully charge your battery before you

switch the Ban-G on.

We also advise you to verify that you have a Google account. Please note, that you

can use an Android phone without connecting to Google but this will put a lot of

functions out of your reach. For starters, you would not be able to use over a million

apps in Google Play Store.

If you have a Gmail account, it means you already connected to Google.

And one more thing: using a smartphone means using its Internet features. Make

sure you have a good mobile plan with sensible data transfer rates. You might want

to contact your mobile service provider to make sure everything is as it should be,

When you turn the phone for the first time, the Android will take you through the

Setup Wizard. It will connect you to the Google services via your Google account,

setup your system and keyboard language etc. Please follow the instructions on the

screen.

It will only take a couple of minutes.

Ones your phone is on, you will be taken to the Android "Desktop".

The Desktop

The Android desktop is composed of multiple home-screen panels.
You can customize the Android desktop to reflect your interests, and you can make it
as full and dynamic as you like.

When you power up your phone, you'll see the main homescreen panel. This panel
is typically centered, and you can access additional panels on either side of the main
one by swiping your finger left or right. What goes on the homescreens is up to you.
You can fill the space with any combination of shortcuts, widgets, and folders.

As you'd expect, short-cuts are small icons that let you load apps or other functions
on your phone; they function much like the ones you see on a PC desktop. You can
set a shortcut to do anything from opening a program to linking to a specific Web
page to initiating a phone call.

To add a shortcut, simply press and hold your finger on any open space on your

home screen, and select Shortcuts from the resulting pop-up menu.

Widgets are dynamic programs that operate directly on your homescreen. They can
perform any number of functions-giving you the latest weather, for example, or
letting you play music from either your personal collection or from the Internet.
Should you want more, you can download additional widgets from the Google Play
Store.

Folders are a good way to keep your content organized while simultaneously
expanding your homescreen space. A folder lets you group multiple shortcuts in a
single space. When you tap on a folder, a box pops up showing all of the shortcut
icons inside that folder. You can fill one folder with one-touch dialing shortcuts to all
of your favorite contacts, and another, perhaps, with various phone-number lookup
utilities. Folders help you add many useful things to your homescreens without
eating up a lot of space.

To add one, press and hold your finger on an open space. Select Folders, and then
New Folders. Then drag and drop as many shortcuts into the folder as you wish. To
give it a custom name, tap the folder once to open it, and then hold your finger
along the top bar until the Rename folder dialog box appears on your screen. To
move any shortcut, widget, or folder, simply touch and hold your finger to it. After a
couple of seconds, it will seem to lift up from the screen. You can then drag it
anywhere, including to another panel and drop it wherever you like. As you drag and
drop, you'll also see a trash symbol at the bottom-center of the screen; slide any icon
down onto the trash symbol to remove it from the homescreen altogether.

There are four keys on phone that allow you easy access to various functions and
features. You can always find them in the bottom of your home screen.
The first three are standard Android keys: a Menu button, a Home button, a Back
button. These keys will help you navigate through your phone more easily, no matter
what program or process you're running.

Pressing the Menu key brings up a list of options relevant to the area of the phone
you're currently using. When you press it on the Homescreen, it permits you to
access your phone's settings and other customization options.

The Home key has two functions: If you press it once, it takes you back to your home
screen. If you press and hold it, it allows you to multitask and switch to other
programs you've recently used.

Pressing the Back key takes you back one step to whatever you were doing prior to
the beginning of your current step. It works in Web navigation, e-mail navigation, or
navigation to a previously open program.

The last key brings up the list of the last accessed apps and programs and allows you
to quickly return to an application you were using.

The App Launcher

You can always find all of your apps in the app launcher. To open the launcher,

simply tap the square icon at the bottom of the screen in your task bar.
Within the app launcher, you can tap any app's icon to run the program, or press and
hold it to drag it directly onto the home screen as a shortcut.

Status panel

On the top of the screen you can see time, battery icon, signal strength bar. You can

also see additional information for various enabled services.

Swipe it down to access the Status panel. Press the button in the top right corner.

SIM card setup and usage

When the phone detects that there is a new SIM card inserted it will ask for the

confirmation. If you have two SIM cards you will be able to use them separately.

Please note that only a SIM card in slot one will be able to use 3G connection.

If you are using 2 SIM cards there will be two signal bars at the top of the screen, the

first one is for the first SIM slot, the second one is for the second SIM slot. These are

the regular signal strength indicators.

Xtreamer Ban-G is a Dual Standby phone. Dual standby is when both SIMs can work

at the same time, but say for example you use one SIM card to make a call, the other

SIM card will not work and be on standby for the duration of the call.

You can manage both SIM cards from the Settings. Just click on SIM management

(the first line). Here you get the option to turn the SIM cards on and off at will and

you can set the defaults for each SIM.

You can also assign contacts to certain SIM cards: this is useful when differentiating

between work colleagues and personal contacts. When you get a call or text, or if

you send a call or text, the phone will display the SIM used. You can also change

these settings on the go. For example, when in the dialer or messaging service, drag

down the notification bar and you get an option to switch to a different SIM card as

default.

Using a dual SIM phone on Ban-G is simple. You have all the options you need at the

touch of a button.

Connecting your Ban-G to a network

You can turn Wi-Fi, mobile network connection and BlueTooth from the status panel.

Connecting to WiFi

Enable Wi-Fi in the Status Panel and then go to Settings Wi-Fi. Please note that

during the Setup Wizard, you will go through a step when the system will offer to

you to connect to a Wi-Fi network.

The device scans for available Wi-Fi networks and displays the names of those it

finds. Secured networks are indicated with a Lock icon. If the device finds a network

that you connected to previously, it connects to it.

Touch a network name to see more details or connect to it, and type a password if

necessary.

To modify a network's settings, touch & hold the network name.

That's it.