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5Copy 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 
to use the device’s applications that involve saving or retrieving files on 
the SD card and on the internal device storage, such as camera or 
music playback. You need to turn off USB storage for the device to 
recognize the SD card and the internal device storage, when the 
device is connected to a computer.
To turn off the USB storage function:
1Drag down the status bar to open the Notifications panel.
2To u c h  Tu r n  o f f  U S B  s t o r a g e.
Bluetooth®
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communications technology that 
lets your device connect over a wireless network to other Bluetooth-
enabled devices for data exchange.
Bluetooth on your device operates in three different modes:
To turn on Bluetooth and make the device discoverable
1Touch the Home button → Menu button → Settings → 
Wireless & networks.
2Select the Bluetooth check box to turn on Bluetooth. The 
Bluetooth icon
  appears in the status bar.
OnBluetooth is turned on. Your device is enabled to detect 
Bluetooth devices within range, but will not be found by 
them.
DiscoverableBluetooth is turned on, and other Bluetooth devices can 
detect your device.
OffBluetooth is turned off. Your device cannot send and 
receive data using Bluetooth.
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3To u c h  Bluetooth settings, then select the Discoverable check 
box to make the device recognizable by other nearby Bluetooth 
devices.
To pair and connect a Bluetooth device
1Touch the Home button → Menu button → Settings→ 
Wireless & networks→ Bluetooth settings.
2Touch and select the Bluetooth check box. Your device starts to 
scan for Bluetooth devices within range and then displays all 
detected devices below the Bluetooth devices banner.
 NOTE: To detect more devices, touch Scan for devices.
3To initiate a connection with a device, touch the name of the 
device.
4You may be prompted to enter a password to authenticate. Enter 
the same password on both devices, or enter the password 
provided by the device manufacturer. Ensure that you read the 
documentation of the pairing device to check if it requires a 
default password.
5When the pairing is successful, Paired but not connected is 
displayed under the paired device.
6Touch the paired device to start connection. When the paired 
device is successfully connected to your device, the Bluetooth 
connected icon   appears in the status bar.
 NOTE: To listen to the music using a Bluetooth headset, pair it first with 
your device.
 
NOTE: Pairing is a one-time process. Once your device successfully 
pairs with another device, your device recognizes that device without re-
entering your password.
To end a Bluetooth connection
1Touch the Home button → Menu button → Settings→ 
Wireless & networks→ Bluetooth settings.
2Touch and hold the name of a connected device.
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3To u c h  Disconnect on the pop-up menu that appears.
To terminate a pairing partnership
1Touch the Home button → Menu button → Settings→ 
Wireless & networks→ Bluetooth settings.
2Touch and hold the name of a paired device.
3To u c h  Unpair on the pop-up menu that appears to erase all 
pairing information with that device. You need to re-enter the 
password if you want to restore a Bluetooth connection to that 
device.
To change your device’s Bluetooth name
1Ensure that you have turned on Bluetooth on your device 
(  icon in the status bar indicates that Bluetooth is enabled).
2Touch the Home button → Menu button → Settings→ 
Wireless & networks→ Bluetooth settings→ Device name.
3Enter a name to identify the device when you connect using 
Bluetooth.
4To u c h  OK.
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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 signed in with on your device.
To share or delete albums
All pictures and videos are grouped in separate 
albums as overlapping thumbnails, according to 
their dates, sources, or folders in which they are 
stored. For example, pictures taken using the 
device camera are grouped as Camera, and 
downloaded pictures are grouped as download.
1Touch and hold an album until the check box 
 appears.
2Touch more albums to select them if you want to do the same 
task for those albums.
• To post the selected album to Picasa or video album to YouTube, 
or to send the album using Bluetooth, messaging, or e-mail, 
touch Share.
• To delete the album, touch Delete.
To browse picture and video thumbnails
1Touch an album to display the thumbnails of all pictures and 
videos inside.
2To browse the thumbnails:
• Touch or drag   to display all the thumbnails in grid view, 
or group them by date as overlapping thumbnails.
• When the thumbnails are displayed in grid view, drag   or 
touch the arrows on it to move thumbnails horizontally, until the 
desired thumbnail is located.
Overlapping 
thumbnails as one 
album.
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3To select a thumbnail, touch and hold it until   appears; touch 
more thumbnails as you need.
• To post a selected picture or video to Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, 
YouTube, or to send it using Bluetooth, messaging, or email, touch 
Share.
• To delete a selected picture or video, touch Delete.
• To set a picture as the Home screen wallpaper, touch More→ Set 
as→ Wallpaper.
• To set a picture as a contact’s picture ID, touch More→ Set as→ 
Contact icon.
To display a full picture
Touch a desired picture thumbnail to display the picture in full screen.
• Flick the picture to view the next or previous one.
• To bring up the picture viewing controls, touch anywhere on the 
screen, or touch  twice.
• To zoom the picture in or out, you can:
•Touch .
• Pinch the picture with two fingers, then move the fingers 
away from each other to enlarge the view of the picture, or 
bring them closer together to reduce the view of the picture.
• To zoom in or out on a particular area of the picture, tap that 
area twice.
• When a picture view is being enlarged, flick or drag the 
enlarged picture across the screen until the required area 
appears.
To play a video
1Touch a video thumbnail to start playback of the video.
2To control playback, use these controls below the viewing screen:
• Touch the   button to pause and the   button to 
resume playback.
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• Touch or drag the playback progress bar at the bottom to 
rewind or fast-forward the video.
Music
To  o p e n  M u s i c
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 your desired 
category.
To  s e l e c t  a  s o n g
1All the music files available on your device are grouped into these 
categories: Artists, Albums, Songs, and Playlists. Touch a category to 
view the list within it.
NOTE: If you rotate your device to landscape mode, an additional Now 
playing category appears.
2Flick the list until you find the music you want to play. For instance, to 
select music by artist:
aFlick the list of artists in alphabetical order.
bTouch the name of an artist. A list of albums by the artist appears.
cTouch an album to find the songs inside.
dTouch a song to open the music playback screen and play the 
music.
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To control music playback
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You can flick or drag a long list, and then drag the icon   that appears 
to quickly scroll the list by alphabet.
5The letter icon indicates the alphabet of the list you scroll to.
1The album’s cover image if present.
2The passing playback time.
3• Touch the playback control bar to jump to any part of the song.
• Drag and scroll the playback control bar forward to fast-forward the 
song.
• Drag and scroll the playback control bar backward to rewind the 
song.
4• If the song is playing for more than five seconds, touch to jump to the 
beginning of the song.
• If the song is playing for less than five seconds, touch to play the 
previous song.
5
Touch   to pause playback; touch   to resume playback.
6• Touch to play the next song.
• Touch and hold to fast-forward the song.
7Touch to turn the HDMI mode on and off when connecting to an HDMI 
output device.
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 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
1On the Music screen, touch the Artists, Albums, Songs tabs as 
needed.
2Flick the screen until you reach the artist, album, or song that you 
want to add to the playlist.
3Touch and hold the artist, album, or song that you want to add in 
the playlist. A pop-up menu opens.
4To u c h  Add to playlist.
5In the Add to playlist window, touch New.
 NOTE: If you want to add the artist, album, or song to the current 
playlist, touch Current playlist in the Add to playlist options menu.
6Enter the name for your new playlist in the text field and then 
touch Save.
9• The name of the artist, album, and the song being played.
• Touch and hold the artist, album, or song to search for relevant 
information or videos from the Internet using the Browser or Youtube 
application, or do the search inside the Music application.
10Touch to cycle through the repeat modes.
11Touch to turn the shuffle mode on and off.
12Go to the Now playing list.
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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
1On any calendar view, touch the Menu button → More→ New 
event to open the Event details screen.
2Type the event name using the on-screen keyboard.
3If there is a time period for the event, touch and type the From 
and To date and time.
If the event is a special occasion such as a birthday or takes a 
whole day, set the From and To date, and then select the All day 
check box.
4Type the event location and description.
5If you have set up more than one account on your device, under 
the Calendar option, choose the account calendar to which to 
add the event.
6To invite your friends to join this event, type their e-mail addresses 
into the Guests text box. The invitation will be e-mailed to them 
when this event is set up.
7Decide whether it is a recurring event in Repetition and choose 
how often it occurs.
8In Reminders, set when the reminder appears before the event.
9To u c h  Done and the event is created.
 NOTE: To quickly set up an event in day, week, or month view, touch 
and hold an empty time slot
→ New event. A new Event details screen 
opens with the selected time slot and date in the From and To fields.
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To  v i e w  t h e  c a l e n d a r
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/To d a y.
While viewing the calendar you can:
• In day or week views, touch an event to open a quick view 
window of the event on the lower part of the screen.
• Touch the event or the quick view window to view details about 
the event.
• Touch and hold an event to open a menu with options for 
viewing, editing, or deleting the event, or creating a new event.
To view and synchronize multiple calendars
If you have set up more than one account on your device, you can 
view multiple calendars from the accounts on your device. You can 
configure which calendars to synchronize to the device, and which of 
those to show or hide on the device in Calendar.
To set whether calendars are synchronized to the device or visible, 
follow the steps below.
1In Calendar, touch the Menu button → More→ Calendars. The 
Calendars screen displays all the calendars you have added or 
subscribed to for each account on your device, organized by 
account. Touch the name of an account to show or hide its 
calendars on your device. The icon to the right of each calendar 
indicates whether the events on that calendar are synchronized to 
the device and whether they are visible in Calendar.
2Touch the icon next to a calendar to change whether it is 
synchronized to the device and visible in Calendar.
Calendar events are synchronized to the device and visible in Calendar.
Calendar events are synchronized to the device but not visible in 
Calendar.
Calendar events are not synchronized to the device.
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