Dell 7 - Manual

6 Contents 9 Sy n c h ro n i z i n g Yo u r De l l S t re a k 7 Ta b l e t a n d C o m p u t e r U s i n g D e l l M o b i l e Sy n c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 6 1 0 Tro u b l e s h o o t i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 8 Starting Your Device in the Safe Mode . . . . . 140 LG7_bk0.bo...

Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features 7 Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features This section provides information about the features available on your device. Buttons/Connectors/Parts Functionality 1 Headphone connector Connects to headphones. 2 Speaker Provides audio output for video and music playback. 3 TV antenna...

Setting Up Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 11 Setting Up Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Getting Your Device Ready for Use Insert the SIM card Insert the SD card 1 Pull out the slot door. 2 Hold the SIM card with the metal contacts facing down, and follow the SIM card illustration on the slot door label to inse...

Setting Up Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 13 Turning On Your Device NOTE: Use this device in an environmental temperature between -10°C and 55°C. 1 Press and hold the Power and Sleep/Wake button to turn on your device. The operating system starts up. 2 If the screen is locked automatically, flick the ico...

14 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Out-Of-Box Wizard To view the on-screen Out-Of-Box Wizard for basic controls of your device, touch the Home button  the Launcher button  welcome , and follow the instructions to proceed. You can play the wizard vid...

Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 17 Screen Orientation For optimal viewing experience, the screen orientation changes automatically to portrait or landscape format depending on how you hold the device. NOTE: Applications downloaded from the Android Market may not support automatic screen rota...

18 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Shortcut — A link that you can create on your Home Screen to provide quicker access to an application or a folder containing contacts or bookmarks. The Dell™ Stage Desktop The Dell Stage desktop is composed of multiple screens including the Home screen. The...

Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 19 To navigate across the desktop Flick the desktop horizontally until the desired Home screen is displayed. To navigate the Home screens using Home screen thumbnails The Home screen thumbnails act as shortcuts to their individual Home screens. The icon of the...

20 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet • To control the Home screens using the thumbnails, either: – Touch the corresponding thumbnail to go to the desired screen. – To quickly pan through the Home screens, drag your finger horizontally across the thumbnails, until the desired Home screen appear...

Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 21 Dell ™ Stage Widgets The Dell ™ Stage widgets give you direct access to your most recently used applications, e-mails, photos, music, videos, contacts, Facebook & Twitter updates, and frequently viewed websites. You can create your own Stage widgets on ...

22 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Using Stage Widgets Touching the label of any Stage Widget opens the supporting application in its default screen. For example, touching the label of the MUSIC widget opens the Music player in the same manner as it would by touching the Music icon in the ap...

24 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Customizing Your Home screen To add an item to a Home screen 1 Touch the Home button . 2 Flick to the screen where you want to add the item. 3 To access the Add to Home screen menu, either: • Touch and hold an empty area on the home screen. • Touch the Menu...

Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 29 NOTE: Widgets and folders cannot be moved inside a folder. To remove a Home screen shortcut from a folder 1 Touch a folder on the Home screen to view the contents. 2 Touch and hold a shortcut to make it movable. The shortcut pops out and the folder closes a...

32 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Quick Buttons The quick buttons at the bottom of the Home screen allow you to quickly access the application drawer and some main functions. 1 Home screen dots • Touch the dots at the bottom left of the screen to display the Home screen thumbnails. • Double...

Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 33 Navigating the Applications You can find applications available on your device in these screen elements: Application Drawer The application drawer can be accessed from any home screen and contains all of the applications installed on the device, including t...

34 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Application Shortcuts To quickly launch applications on the Home screen, you can add shortcuts for frequently-used applications to the Home screen or to the folder that you created on the Home screen. For more information, see "Customizing Your Home scr...

Understanding Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 35 The Screen Lock Wallpaper You can set the display to turn off automatically after a timeout period of inactivity, or turn it off manually by pressing the power button . When you press the power button to wake up the display, the screen lock wallpaper appear...

36 Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Managing Contacts To view and manage your contacts, touch  Contacts . To add a new contact 1 Touch the Menu button  New contact . 2 Select the account where you want to add this contact, such as your Gmail account. 1 This area show...

Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 39 Messaging To compose, send, and read text (SMS) or multimedia (MMS) messages, touch  Messaging . The Messaging screen opens with a list of messages or message threads representing all the received, sent, and draft messages. NOTE: For information about the message...

Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 43 Receiving text and multimedia messages Depending on your notification settings, the device rings, vibrates, or displays a message briefly in the status bar as a new text or multimedia message is received. A new message icon appears and stays in the notifications ar...

Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 45 To delete a message or a message thread 1 In the Messaging list, touch and hold the message thread that you want to delete. 2 To delete the entire thread, touch Delete thread and then touch Delete to confirm deletion. To delete a message within a thread, touch and ...

46 Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Android Keyboard You can type text using the Android on-screen keyboard. The keyboard automatically rotates to either the portrait or landscape mode based on the device orientation. To open the Android keyboard Touch a text box, or touch and hold the Menu button . ...

48 Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Word suggestion settings Create your personal dictionary The keyboard displays suggested words as you type using the default dictionary. You can create a personal dictionary to include words not found in the main dictionary. Word suggestions also appear from your p...

Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 49 To delete a word from the dictionary 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Language & keyboard  User dictionary . 2 Touch the word to delete. 3 Touch Delete . Google Search You can use the Google Quick Search Box to find websites and information o...

50 Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 6 Touch the desired link if you want to view a web page. To search by voice 1 Touch that appears beside the search box. 2 Say the name or keyword of the item you want to search. 3 The browser with matching web links opens. NOTE: You can also access the Voice Search...

Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 51 Managing Your Device Settings To check storage spaces Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  SD card & Device storage . The screen displays the total and available space on the device and on the SD card. To erase unwanted application data to free stor...

Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 53 To force power off your device 1 Pull out the slot door. 2 Push the force-power-off button using a paper clip or other similar pointed objects. 3 Press and hold the Power and Sleep/Wake button to turn on your device. Force-power-off button LG7_bk0.book Page 53 Thur...

54 Internet Internet Connecting to the Internet To browse the web and access web-based utilities such as instant messaging, one of the following data networking connections must be available: • GPRS • EDGE • 3G • 4G • HSPA • Wi-Fi GPRS/EDGE/3G/4G/HSPA To connect to the Internet using GPRS, EDGE, 3G,...

56 Internet 3 Flick the list and touch to select a Wi-Fi network you want to connect to. 4 Enter a password (if necessary), then touch Connect to connect to the Wi-Fi network. NOTE: To connect to a network protected by Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), WPA2, or Wireless P...

Internet 57 To connect to another Wi-Fi network 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Wireless & networks  Wi-Fi settings . The detected Wi-Fi networks are displayed in the Wi-Fi networks list. NOTE: To start a new search for available Wi-Fi networks, on the Wi-Fi settings screen, ...

Internet 59 Viewing Web Pages To navigate on a web page Flick your finger horizontally or vertically on the screen to scroll and view desired areas of a web page. To zoom in on a web page Pinch-out a desired area of a web page by moving two fingers apart on the screen. To zoom out on a web page Pinc...

62 Internet To allow download of web applications CAUTION: Applications downloaded from the web can be from unknown sources. To protect your device and personal data, download applications only from trusted sources such as Android Market. To download web applications, enable your device’s downloadin...

Internet 65 E-mail You can create POP3, IMAP, and exchange e-mail accounts from web-based e-mail services on your device. To open the e-mail application Touch the Email button , or touch the Launcher button  Email . To set up an e-mail account 1 On the Set up email screen, type the e-mail address a...

66 Internet To view your e-mails To select an account as default for sending e-mail 1 Touch an account  Menu button  Account settings , or touch and hold the account, then touch Account settings from the context menu. 2 Touch Default account to select the check box. 1 The Combined Inbox contains a...

Internet 67 To compose and send e-mail 1 Touch the Email button , or touch the Launcher button  Email . 2 Select an email account to use if you have set up more than one account on your device. NOTE: If you do not select an account, the account marked as default by a check symbol will be the one us...

68 Internet To delete or edit an e-mail account on your device 1 Touch the Email button , or touch the Launcher button  Email . 2 Touch the Menu button  Accounts . • To delete an e-mail account, touch and hold the account you want to remove under the Accounts bar and then touch Remove account on t...

72 Internet Twitter Touch the Launcher button  Twitter . Twitter is a social networking service application that allows you to view short messages called Tweets posted by Twitter users. You can also post your own Tweets for others to read. To sign in to Twitter You must have a Twitter account to us...

76 Internet Gmail Gmail is a web-based e-mail service provided by Google. To open Gmail Touch the Launcher button  Gmail . To set up your Google account You need to sign in to a Google account to use Google applications and services such as Gmail, Google Talk, and Android Market. Signing in to your...

Internet 79 To create and send an e-mail 1 Touch the Menu button  Compose . 2 Type the contact’s e-mail address in the To field. To send e-mail to multiple contacts, separate their e-mail addresses with a comma. To send a carbon copy (Cc) or a blind carbon copy (Bcc), touch the Menu button  Add Cc...

Internet 83 To sign out from Google Talk In the friends list, touch the Menu button  Sign out . Maps Google Maps helps you find your current location, view real-time traffic situations, and get directions to your destination. You can also use the search tool to locate addresses or places of interes...

84 Internet To find a location on the map 1 On the Maps screen, touch the Menu button  Search . 2 To search by typing: a Type the place you want to find in the search box. You can enter an address, a city or country, or a type of business or organization such “restaurant” or “school”. b Touch the s...

86 Internet To move around a map 1 Flick or drag the map in any direction on the screen to view desired areas. 2 If you spot a place of interest while navigating the map, touch and hold the place to display the address (a picture thumbnail is also displayed if the street view for the location is ava...

88 Internet NOTE: While viewing a street view of a location, touch the Menu button  Compass mode to enable the compass mode, which allows you to view the area around the selected location by tilting or turning your device, rather than by moving the view on the screen with your finger. To get direct...

Internet 89 4 Touch Show on map , or touch a direction instruction on the list to show the directions or routes on the map. NOTE: To obtain driving directions using the Google GPS navigation services, touch Navigate . For more information, see "Navigation" on page 94. To clear a map Touch th...

Internet 93 Places Touch the Launcher button  Places . Places automatically detects your current location and offers guide to nearby restaurants, coffee shops, bars, hotels, attractions, ATMs, gas stations, and more. 1 Touch to select a category. 2 From the list of places, touch the desired place t...

94 Internet Navigation NOTE: Google Maps Navigation is only available for use in the United States at this time. WARNING: It is your sole responsibility to use this application in a safe and responsible manner. You must obey local traffic laws, posted road signs, and safety regulations. Do not opera...

98 Internet News and Weather Touch the Launcher button  News and Weather . Weather The Weather service automatically detects your current location and shows the local weather information. If your current location is temporarily unavailable, you need to set your location manually as follows. 1 Touch...

100 Internet YouTube YouTube is an Internet video streaming service that allows you to view videos uploaded by YouTube members. NOTE: Browsing and watching videos does not require you to sign in to a YouTube account. However, to use full YouTube features, such as commenting on videos, adding videos ...

Internet 103 Android Market You can use Android Market to download and install applications and games on your device. NOTE: Applications downloaded from Android Market may not support automatic screen rotation to portrait or landscape. To open Android Market 1 Touch the Launcher button  Market . 2 ...

104 Internet 4 The Android Market screen opens. 1 • Touch Apps to view the application categories. All applications available for download are sorted by these categories. • Touch Games to view the game categories. All games available for download are sorted by these categories. 2 The Market screen d...

Internet 105 When a category is selected, for example, touch the Games tab  Brain & Puzzle : To download and install an application or game 1 Scroll and browse listed applications or games to locate the desired application or games. 2 Touch the application or game you want to download and inst...

106 Internet NOTE: During installation, the icon appears in the notification area of the status bar. Touch the notification area of the status bar to open the Notifications panel and check the status of the download. NOTE: To stop downloading an application, touch Cancel download on the application’...

Internet 107 Synchronizing Your Google Data Through a web connection, your device can synchronize your Google data including Gmail, calendar, and contacts with your computer or any other device that you use to access your Google account. To select the applications to synchronize 1 Touch Home button ...

108 Customizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Customizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet You can customize your device, using the options available in the Settings menu. Display Settings To change the display settings: 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Display , or touch the Launcher button ...

Customizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 109 Sound and Ringtone Settings To change the sound and ringtone settings: 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Sound , or touch  Settings icon  Sound . Use the options under Sound settings , and then touch a desired option. 2 Flick the list to l...

112 Customizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet Language Settings To set the language of the display text: 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Language & keyboard  Select language , or touch  Settings icon  Language & keyboard  Select language . 2 Select a language of your choic...

Protecting Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet 115 To change unlock pattern settings 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Location & security , or touch the Launcher button  Settings icon  Location & security . 2 To enable a setting, touch the setting option to select the check box ; t...

116 Protecting Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet To disable or change PIN 1 Touch the Home button  Menu button  Settings  Location & security  Change screen lock , or touch the Launcher button  Settings icon  Location & security  Change screen lock . 2 Enter the PIN you have enabled. 3 Select...

118 Applications Applications Camera Your device has a camera with auto-focus feature that allows you to capture and share high-quality pictures and videos. To start the camera in picture mode Touch the Launcher button  Camera . Camera controls 1 Viewfinder screen. 2 Camera setting indicator. Touch...

Applications 119 Additional camera settings Touch the Menu button . To start the camcorder mode Touch the Menu button  Switch to video , or touch to switch to the camcorder screen. Camcorder controls 4 Drag this on-screen switch to toggle between the camera mode for capturing pictures, and the camc...

120 Applications Copying Files to and From the Device To exchange pictures, videos, music, and other files between your device and a computer, you can use the internal device storage or the SD card as a USB drive, by connecting the device to a computer with the included USB cable. NOTE: To copy file...

Applications 121 5 Copy the desired files such as music or pictures from another drive/folder to one of the removable drives, or vice versa. To turn off USB storage The device will not recognize the SD card and the internal device storage when they are being used as a USB drive. You will not be able...

124 Applications Gallery To view and manage the pictures and videos stored on your device, touch the Launcher button  Gallery . The Gallery application displays not only the pictures and videos stored on your SD card, but also those uploaded to the Picasa web album of your Gmail account which you s...

126 Applications • Touch or drag the playback progress bar at the bottom to rewind or fast-forward the video. Music To open Music Touch the Launcher button  Music . The Music library screen opens, which is organized by Artists , Albums , Songs , and Playlists tabs. You can touch a tab to display yo...

128 Applications NOTE: Press the volume up button or volume down button to adjust the playback volume. NOTE: On the Music library screen, touch Shuffle all to play all songs in your library in random order. The first randomly selected song starts to play. To create a playlist 1 On the Music screen, ...

Applications 129 Calendar Use the calendar to schedule and manage your events, meetings, and appointments. To open the calendar Touch the Launcher button  Calendar . To set up an event 1 On any calendar view, touch the Menu button  More  New event to open the Event details screen. 2 Type the even...

130 Applications To view the calendar You can display the calendar in daily, weekly, monthly, or agenda view. To change the calendar view, touch the Menu button  Day / Week / Month / Agenda / Today . While viewing the calendar you can: • In day or week views, touch an event to open a quick view win...

Applications 131 3 Touch OK . Event reminders If you set a reminder for an event, the upcoming event icon appears in the notifications area of the status bar when the reminder time arrives. To view, dismiss, or snooze a reminder 1 Drag the notification area of the status bar to open the Notification...

132 Applications Clock Your device can work as a desk alarm clock to display current time and date, local weather, and play picture slideshow and music. Touch the Launcher button  Clock . 1 Displays the first active alarm time. 2 The current time and date. 3 Touch to set the alarm. 4 Touch to play ...

134 Applications To temporarily disable an alarm On the Alarms screen, clear the green bar of the alarm time you want to disable. To delete an alarm 1 On the Alarms screen, touch the alarm time you want to delete. 2 On the Set alarm screen, touch Delete . To enable the alarm in silent mode You can c...

Applications 135 Sound Recorder Open this application to record voice and sounds and then play them back. You can also set the recording as a ringtone for your device. NOTE: The sound recorder only supports recording in the amr format. 1 Touch the Launcher button  Sound Recorder . 2 Touch to start ...

136 Synchronizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet and Computer Using Dell Mobile Sync Synchronizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet and Computer Using Dell Mobile Sync The Dell Mobile Sync (powered by Nero ™ ) software allows you to copy or sync music, photos, videos, and Outlook contacts between your device an...

Synchronizing Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet and Computer Using Dell Mobile Sync 137 c Double-click the InstallDellMSync.exe file to start the installation. NOTE: You can also download and install the Dell Mobile Sync software from support.dell.com/support/downloads . To sync music, photos, videos, and O...

138 Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Problem Possible causes Possible solutions PIN Code is blocked You have entered an incorrect PIN code three consecutive times. Contact your service provider. If the service provider provides the SIM card's PUK code, use the PUK code to unlock the SIM card. System ...

140 Troubleshooting Starting Your Device in the Safe Mode If you find your device unusable because of an application you installed, try to start your device in the Safe mode. In the Safe mode, all 3rd-party applications are disabled and you can remove any problematic applications to continue using y...

142 Index Index A A i r p l a n e M o d e , 5 7 A l a r m C l o c k , 1 3 2 A n d r o i d M a r k e t , 1 0 3 A p p l i c a t i o n s Definition, 1 7Erase data, 5 1Navigate, 3 3Recently used, 3 4Shortcuts, 3 4 B B a t t e r y Charge, 1 2 B l u e t o o t h , 1 2 1 B u t t o n Back, 8Home, 9Menu, 8Pow...

Index 145 To u c h s c r e e n , 14 Tr o u b l e s h o o t i n g , 1 3 8 Tw i t t e r, 7 2 V Vo i c e S e a rc h , 5 0 W We b Applications, 6 8Bookmarks, 6 2 Wi d g e t s Add, 2 6Definition, 1 7Google Search, 4 9 Wi -F i , 5 5 Y Yo uTu b e , 1 0 0 LG7_bk0.book Page 145 Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:1...