Modecom FREEWAY TAB 7.0 User manual

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user’s manual

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User’s manual
1. Appearance 4
2. Beginning Use 5
2.1 Charge the battery 5
2.2 Fix the GPS Navigator with Mounting Kit 5
2.3 Use the storage card 6
2.4 Hot plug of storage card 6
2.5 Memory space T
2.6 Power on/off $
2.7 Connect to wireless networks 8
3. Home Screen 8
3.1 Status and notifications 10
3.2 Shortcut Menu 12
3.3 Add shortcuts/widgets 13
3.4 Finger gestures 15
3.5 Coping files to and from the storage card 16
3.6 Searching the device and the web 17
4. Personalizing 18
4.1 Change the Notification ringtone 18
4.2 Change your wallpaper 18
4.3 Personalize your Home screen with widgets 19
4.4 Rearrange or remove widgets and icons on your Home screen
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5. Web browsing 22
6 Manage Applications 22
7. Typical applications introduction 23
7.1 Navigation 23
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7.2 GPS Info
7.3 FM Transmitter
7.4 Music Player
7.5 Video Player
7.6 Gallery
7.7 My Pad
7.8 Apk Manager
7.9 Instant Messaging tools
7.10 Emails
8. Settings
8.1 Wireless & networks
8.2 Sound
8.3 Display
8.4 Location & security
8.5 Applications
8.6 Accounts& Sync
8.7 Privacy
8.8 SD card & storage settings
8.9 Search
8.10 Language & Keyboard setting
8.11 Date & Time setting
8.12 Calibration
8.13 About Device
9. Troubleshooting
9.1 Force shutdown
9.2 Restore default settings
9.3 System updating
9.4 Reset
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1. Appearance
TAB series include several products with different physical dimen-
sions. In this manual, TAB 7” is taken as the example to illustrate its
appearance. The pictures in the manual are subject to the material
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1 Menu icon
FA Back button
3 Home
4 Microphone
5 Power button: press to power on/off, wake up from sleep mode or
to activate the status bar (because the status bar will hide auto-
matically when the screen is left idle for some time)
6 Reset key
7 Indicator light: it is red when charging and turns into green when
the battery is fully charged.
8 T-Flashcard slot
9 Micro USB port to communicating with PC via Micro USB cable
10 DC IN port working as the charging port
11 3.5mm earphone jack
12 Speaker
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2. Beginning Use
Statement: The software updates sporadically since we continu-
ously devote to product quality improvements. When operation for the
product(s) your purchased differs from that described in this manual,
please follow your product(s).
2.1 Charge the battery
The FreeWAY TAB comes with a built-in polymer rechargeable
battery and is designed to use only manufacture-specified original
batteries and accessories. When the battery is low, please charge
it timely.
Charge by Charger
Plug one terminal of the charger into the power adapter socket,
and the other to the power jack of the device to charge it.
Charge by Car Charger
Plug one terminal of the car charger into the USB port of the Free-
WAY TAB and the other to the charging port to supply power and
charge the device.
[Note] Plug in the car charger after the automobile is started to
avoid damage due to current surge.
2.2 Fix the GPS Navigator with Mounting Kit
The mounting kit is composed of a back splint and a bracket. To
use the GPS navigator in an automobile, fix it on the dashboard under
the front windshield.
[Note] Do not place the GPS navigator in positions obstructing the
driver's vision. Do not place it without fixing it, or in the place of air bag
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When using the mounting kit, please follow local relevant laws and
regulations. We assume no responsibility for any traffic punishments
or device damage caused by illegal use.
2.3 Use the storage card
Insert the storage card
The storage card slot is on the in left panel, just insert the TF Flash
card with its gold contacts facing down and push it in until it licks into
place.
Browse files in the storage card
To browser the files in the storage card, do one of the following:
run “My Pad” to view files in the storage card
tap Settings > Applications> Manage applications > On SD card to
view files in the storage card
Remove the storage card
Simply push the storage card in to eject it from its slot.
To avoid data loss or damage, please stop using files/ programs
in the storage card before remove the T-Flash card, and then tap
Settings> SD card & device storage> Unmount SD card to remove
it safely.
[Note]:
Make sure the location and direction of the storage card is correct
when inserting, otherwise it is easy to cause damage/destroy to the
storage card.
To avoid incompatibility or unrecognized of the storage card, major
brands of storage card are recommended.
2.4 Hot plug of storage card
Please do not hot plug the storage card when using or browsing
its files.
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For example, when you are running the Music/Video Player/ Gal-
lery, the storage card may damage if you push out the storage card
directly and the running program will stop automatically to protect the
device. As for details of inserting/removing storage card, see 2.3 Use
the storage card.
2.5 Memory space
The device contains 2 memory spaces: local storage & extended
storage card. Local storage appears as “Local” and extended storage
card as “SD1"in the device. The capacity of built-in flash varies from
4GB, 8GB and 16GB because of different model of the PI08 series.
The built-in flash capacity of your device depends on the model your
purchased. PI08 series support extended storage card of capacity
mTAB imum 32GB.
2.6 Power on/off
Power on: press down the Power Button to turn on the device when
the battery is full enough
Power off: press down the Power Button for about 3 seconds and
then a menu with options will popup, select Power Off to turn off the
device
Silent Mode: press down the Power Button for about 3 seconds
and then a menu with options will popup, select Silent Mode and then
the device will be mute
[Note]: when the Home screen is locked, you can also drag the
icon | downwards to set the Silent Mode for the device.
Screen Lock: press down the Power Button for about 3 seconds
and then a menu with options will popup, select Screen Lock to shut-
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again to activate the locked Home Screen. After unlocking, the device
will resume the screen before locking the screen.
2.7 Connect to wireless networks
To connect to a wireless network, you should follow:
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tap Settings on the Home screen;
select Wireless & Networks in the Settings screen;
tick in the check box after Wi-Fi to open it;
tap Wi-Fi settings to open a screen to set Wi-Fi;
the network names and security settings of detected Wi-Fi
networks are displayed in the Wi-Fi networks section;
tap a Wi-Fi network to connect. If you selected an open net-
work, you will be automatically connected to the network. If
you selected a network that is secured with WEP, enter the
key and then tap Connect. Depending on the network type
and its security settings, you may also need to enter more
information or choose a security certificate.
after successful connection, the Wi-Fi connected icon will ap-
pears on the status bar.
Home Screen
The Home screen is your starting point to access all the features
on you device. It displays application icons, widgets, shortcuts, and
other features. You can customer the Home screen with different wall-
paper& widgets and display items you want. See the Personalizing
chapter.
When you sign in, the Home screen opens.
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Sleep mode
Sleep mode suspends your device to a low power state while the
display is off in order to save battery power. You will still be able to
receive messages and calls while the device is in Sleep mode.
[Note]: If the device in sleep mode more than 30 minutes, the de-
vice will automatically turn off to save electricity.
Switch to sleep mode
Press down the Power Button and tap Sleep Mode in the option
menu prompted. The device will automatically shutdown the display
screen when there is no operation on the screen for a period of time.
Wake up from sleep mode
To wake up your device manually, press the Power Button. You will
then see that the device has locked the screen.
Unlocking the screen
Press the bar on the lock screen and then slide your finger up-
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Browse Home Screen
You can go to the extended Home screen by sliding your finger
horizontally across the screen to gi e left or right side of the
Home screen. Tap the launcher icon to view all applications on
your device.
Directly going to a particular screen
. on any Home screen, press 8 hold the white spot to
bring up a snapshot of the Home screen as follows:
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3.1 Status and notifications
lcons may appear on the status bar/notification area:
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The status bar (as the above) presents media volume, networks
condition, battery condition, time and so on. When an application is
running, corresponding notification icon will appear in the notification
area. Icons you may often see are listed as follows:
Status icons and its meanings | Notification icons its meanings
Tap to go to the Home Menu icon
screen
New Gmail/Google Mail
message
Connected to a Wi-Fi
network and display the New Email message
Notification
signal strength
Battery is full Music player is ongoing
Battery is charging
Volume down r
FM transmitter is in use
SD card is mounted
Media scanner is scan-
ning
Back
Volume u
P [4x] Silent mode is activated
GPS search for satellites
USB Connected
Open notification panel
When a new notification icon displays in the status bar, press and
hold the status bar, then slide your finger downward to open the Noti-
fications panel as follows:

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Select to disable USE debugging
USB connected
Select to copy fles totram your computer
Notifications
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Unrmount Memory device before removing to avoid data loss,
If you have several notifications, you can scroll down the screen to
view more notifications.
[Tip]: You can also open the Notifications panel on the Home screen
by pressing Menu icon on the panel and then tapping Notifications.
In the dropdown notification panel, there are shortcut buttons for
turning on/off Wi-Fi, FM transmitter, searching satellites and for ad-
justing screen brightness.
Close the Notifications panel
Do one of the following:
* press and hold the bottom bar of the Notifications panel, then
slide your finger up the screen.
. press the Back button on the device panel.
3.2 Shortcut Menu
Press the Menu icon on the Home screen and a shortcut menu will
popup as follows.
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The shortcut menu includes: Add, Wallpaper, Search, Notification
and Settings.
3.3 Add shortcuts/widgets
Shortcuts
To add shortcut(s) to Home screen, you can
1. press the Menu icon to prompt the shortcut menu;
2. tap Add to prompt the Add to Home screen option menu as fol-
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3. tap Shortcuts,
4, select a shortcut for an item in an option menu prompted
After the shortcut is added to the Home screen, you can simply tap
its icon to run it quickly.
Widgets
To add widgets to Home screen, you can
1. press the Menu icon to prompt the shortcut menu;
2. tap Add to prompt the Add to Home screen option menu;
3. tap Widgets and the following option menu with addable items
will prompt; you can scroll down the screen to view more addable
items
Calendar
Home screen tips
Latitude
Market
Power Control
4. select one item.
For example, when you select Power Control in the option menu,
the widget for it will appear on the Home screen as follows:
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3.4 Finger gestures
Tap: When you want to type using the keyboard, select items on-
screen such as application and settings icons, or press onscreen but-
tons, simply tap them with your finger.
Press and hold: To open the available option for an item (e.g. con-
tact or link in a web page), simply press and hold the item.
Swipe or slide: To swipe or slide means to drag your finger verti-
cally or horizontally across the screen.
Drag: Press and hold your finger with some pressure before you
start to drag. While dragging, do not release your finger until you have
reached the target position
Rotate: For most screens, you can automatically change the
screen orientation from portrait to landscape by turning the FreeWAY
TAB sideways. When entering text, you can turn the FreeWAY TAB
sideways to bring up a bigger keyboard. Refer to Settings chapter for
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3.5 Coping files to and from the storage
card
You can copy music, photos/pictures and others to your device to
personalize your device.
1. Use the USB cable that came with your device to connect it to a
USB port on your computer.
2. when the icon appears in the notification area, open the notifi-
cation panel and tap USB Connected to popup the following screen:
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3. tap Turn on USB storage, when the notification icon kel turns yel-
low, the computer will recognize your device as a removable disk;
4. find the removable disk and open it. Do one of the followings:
. Copy the files from the computer to the storage card's root
folder.
. Copy the files from the storage card to a folder in your com-
puter or computer desktop.
5. after copying the files, unmount the removable disk (that is, your
device) as required by your computer's operating system to safely
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6. disconnect your device from the computer.
If your want your device remain connecting to the computer and
enable reading its storage card, you can open the Notifications panel
and tap Turn off USB storage.
[Note]: you can also realize communication between the device and
the computer by tapping Settings> Applications> Development>USB
Debugging.
3.6 Searching the device and the web
You can search for information on your FreeWAY TAB and on the
Web by using the Quick Search Box.
1. press the Menu icon on the Home screen to prompt the shortcut
menu;
2. tap Search and then enter the search item in the Quick Search
Box. As you type, matching items on your device and suggestions
from Google web search are shown as a list. The suggested items
that appear will depend on the options that you have selected in the
search settings. See “Setting Web and Quick Search Box options”
for details.
3. Do one of the following:
. If what you're searching for is in the list of suggestions, tap it
in the list. The item opens in the appropriate application.
* If what you're searching for is not in the list, tap Q to open the
search option menu. Tap Web and then tap % to search the
Web. The web browser opens, displaying results of a Google
search on the Web
Setting web and Quick Search Box options
1. tap Settings;
2. scroll down the screen, and then tap Search to enter the search
settings screen;
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screen and then tap Search settings to enter the search settings
screen.
4.tap Google search settings, and then select Show web sugges-
tions if you want to include suggestions from Google when doing a
search.
5. tap Searchable items, and then select the items you want included
when doing a search.
4. Personalizing
4.1 Change the Notification ringtone
Choose from the available selections of notification ringtones on
your device. You can also download or copy notification ringtones or
songs to your device’ storage card and choose one to use as your
notification ringtone. To find out how you can copy files to your storage
card, see “Coping files to and from the storage card”.
1. In the Home screen, tap Settings > Sound > Notification ring-
tone.
2. Tap the notification ringtone you want to use. The notification
ringtone briefly plays when selected.
3. Tap OK.
4.2 Change your wallpaper
Personalizing your Home screen wallpaper with your favorite photo
is a quick and easy way to change the feel of your device and give ita
fresh look. Browse the collection of wallpapers included in your device
or choose from photos that you have taken with the camera.
To change your Home screen or lock screen wallpaper:
1. on the Home screen press EE, and then tap Wallpaper.
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2. choose source of wallpaper:
You can choose a wallpaper from gallery or wallpaper
3. do one of the following:
. Tap Gallery to select a photo/picture that you have taken
using the camera or copied to your storage card. Crop the
photo/picture and then tap Save.
. Tap Wallpaper gallery to choose from preset wallpapers and
then tap Set wallpaper.
4.3 Personalize your Home screen with
widgets
Widgets put at-a-glance important information and media content
up front on your Home screen. Some widgets are already added to
your Home screen for your convenience. You can add more from the
available selections of widgets, or download more widgets.
Adding a widget to your Home screen
A wide selection of widgets is available for you to choose from,
such as Calendar, Music, Photo Album, and more.
1. go to the part of the Home screen where there's space to add a
new shortcut. To find out how, see “Browse the Home screen”.
2. press and hold on tne Home screen to open the Add to Home
screen options menu.
[Note]: You can also press = in the Home screen and then tap
Add to open the Add to Home screen options menu.
3. Tap Widgets and then select a widget that you want.
[Note]: To remove a widget, please see Removing a widget or icon
for details.
Adding application icons and other shortcuts on your Home
screen
Place application icons on your Home screen to open applications
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tion such as a bookmarked webpage, a music playlist, route direc-
tions, and many other items, to your Home screen.
[Note]: the shortcuts available depended on the applications that
are installed on your device.
1. go to the part of the Home screen where there's space to add a
new shortcut. To find out how, see “Browse the Home screen”
2. press and hold Home screen to open the Add to Home screen
options menu.
[Note]: You can also press |= in the Home screen and then tap
Add to open the Add to Home screen options menu.
3. to add a shortcut to an applications or Bookmark, tap Shortcuts
and then select the type of information.
[Note]: To add an application icon on the Home screen, you can
also press and then press and hold an application icon. Without
lifting your finger, drag the icon to an empty area on the Home screen,
and then release it.
Adding folders on your Home screen
Use folders to group related applications and other shortcuts to
keep your Home screen tidy and organized.
1. go to the part of the Home screen where there's space to add a
new shortcut. To find out how, see "Browse the Home screen”.
2. press and hold Home screen to open the Add to Home screen
options menu.
[Note]: You can also pressE in the Home screen and then tap Add
to open the Add to Home screen options menu.
3. Tap Folder and then tap New folder.
4. Press and hold an application icon or a shortcut that you want to
move to the folder. The device then vibrates. Do not lift your finger.
5. Drag application icon or shortcut and drop it on top of the folder.
Simply tap the folder to open it so you can access the applications
and shortcuts inside the folder.
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