Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Owners Manual
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GT-P6210_MR-2_UM_English_UELPC_BH_090112_F1 Intellectual Property All Intellectual Property, as defined below, owned by or which is otherwise the property of Samsung or its respective suppliers relating to the SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab, including but not limited to, accessories, parts, or software relating there to (the “Galaxy Tab System”), is proprietary to Samsung and protected under federal laws, state laws, and international treaty provisions. Intellectual Property includes, but is not limited to, inventions (patentable or unpatentable), patents, trade secrets, copyrights, software, computer programs, and related documentation and other works of authorship. You may not infringe or otherwise violate the rights secured by the Intellectual Property. Moreover, you agree that you will not (and will not attempt to) modify, prepare derivative works of, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to create source code from the software. No title to or ownership in the Intellectual Property is transferred to you. All applicable rights of the Intellectual Property shall remain with SAMSUNG and its suppliers. Open Source Software Some software components of this product incorporate source code covered under GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), OpenSSL License, BSD License and other open source licenses. To obtain the source code covered under the open source licenses, please visit: http://opensource.samsung.com. Disclaimer of Warranties; Exclusion of Liability EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE EXPRESS WARRANTY CONTAINED ON THE WARRANTY PAGE ENCLOSED WITH THE PRODUCT, THE PURCHASER TAKES THE PRODUCT AS IS, AND SAMSUNG MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THE PRODUCT OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE; THE DESIGN, CONDITION OR QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT; THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT; THE WORKMANSHIP OF THE PRODUCT OR THE COMPONENTS CONTAINED THEREIN; OR COMPLIANCE OF THE PRODUCT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF ANY LAW, RULE, SPECIFICATION OR CONTRACT PERTAINING
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1 Table of Contents Section 1: Getting Started ...........................6 Understanding This User Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Turning Your Device On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting Up Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Retrieving Your Google Account Password . . . . 12 Using Google Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Task Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Galaxy Tab Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Securing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Section 2: Understanding Your Device .....18 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Side Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Back and Bottom Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Navigating Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Status Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Quick Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Primary Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 App Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Wallpapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Mini App Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Apps Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Section 3: Entering Text ........................... 45 Samsung Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Text Input Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Changing the Input Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the Samsung Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2 Entering Text Using Swype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the Handwriting Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using Speech Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Section 4: Contacts and Accounts ........... 56 Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Section 5: Messaging ............................... 66 Types of Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Gmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Google Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Section 6: Internet and Social Networking ............................................. 83 Google+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Latitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Play Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Section 7: Music ......................................103 Play Music App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Viewing Your Music Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Music Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Section 8: Photos and Video ...................117 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Video Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Media Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Section 9: Connections ...........................135 Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Wi-Fi Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Managing Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Kies Via Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
3 Synchronizing with Windows Media Player . . 142 Connecting as a Mass Storage Device . . . . . . 143 Section 10: Applications and Widgets ...144 Update Available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 GPS Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 AllShare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Amazon Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Dual Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 eBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Gmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Google+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Latitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Media Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Moviefone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Music Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 My Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Next Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Pen Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Play Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Play Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Play Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Play Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Polaris Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Pulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Samsung Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Smart Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Social Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
4 Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Task Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Video Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 World Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Yahoo! Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Section 11: Settings ............................... 174 Accessing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Wireless and Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 About Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Section 12: Health and Safety Information ........................................... 206 Exposure to Radio Frequency (RF) Signals . . 206 Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Certification Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 FCC Part 15 Information to User . . . . . . . . . . 213 Smart Practices While Driving . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Battery Use and Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214Samsung Mobile Products and Recycling . . . 216 UL Certified Travel Charger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Display / Touch-Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Care and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Responsible Listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Operating Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Restricting Childrens Access to Your Mobile Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 FCC Notice and Cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Other Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . 223 Section 13: Warranty Information ..........225 Standard Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 End User License Agreement for Software . . 230 Social Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Social Hub Privacy Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT . . . . . . . . 243 USE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT . . . . . . . 244 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
5 CHILDREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 SECURITY OF THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 CHAT ROOMS AND OTHER PUBLIC AREAS . . . 246 CONTESTS AND SWEEPSTAKES . . . . . . . . . . 247ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Social Hub End User License Agreement . . . . 248 Index ......................................................... 253