Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Owners Manual
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Internet and Social Networking 96 Maps Settings Use the Maps settings to customize your Maps application. 1.From the Home screen, touch Maps. 2.Touch Menu ➔ Settings to set the following Maps options: : Set the following Maps display options: –Zoom Buttons: If enabled, the zoom in (+) and zoom out (-) buttons are displayed on the map. –Scale bar: If enabled, the scale bar is displayed on the map, which shows the scale of the map in feet and meters. –Clear map tile cache: Touch OK to clear map tile cache. Location settings: These settings display if you have joined Latitude. –Location reporting: To update your location automatically, set the following options: –Enable location history: This history is only seen by you. –Manage your friends: Add or remove friends who can see your location. –Sign out of Latitude: Signs you out of Latitude and launches the Maps application. –Automatic check-ins: Checks you in to places that you have designated. Directions: Displays the Directions pop-up. Enter My Location and End point or touch the button to the right of the fields to choose your current location, a contact’s location, or to touch a point on the map. Touch the automobile, bus, bicycle, or walking icon for the appropriate directions. Then touch Go to display a list of directions. Touch the Directions list and scroll up or down. Touch an entry in the Directions list to show the point mentioned on the map. Layers: Enable or disable a map layer to display. Choose from Traffic, Satellite, Terrain, Transit Lines, Latitude, My Maps, Bicycling, or Wikipedia. Detect your location: Enable or disable whether your location is updated automatically. Set your location: Set your location manually. Do not update your location: Your friends cannot see your automatic location.
97 –Check-in notifications: Enables notifications that suggest places to check in. –Manage your places: View and modify your automatic check- ins and muted places. Switch Account: Choose a different Google account. This option only appears if you have added more than one Google account on your device. : Access experimental features. : Link to Google Play Store where you can check for a Maps update. About: View information about Maps. Feedback: Display a Maps feedback form. Terms, Privacy & Notices: View information about Google Maps, including the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Legal Notices, and Web History. Navigation Use Google Navigation to find a destination and to get walking or driving directions. Note: You must first create a Wi-Fi connection to use Navigation. 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Navigation. 2.To u c h Accept to accept the Google Maps Navigation beta message. 3.Touch in the Application bar and then touch either Driving or Walking to describe the type of directions you want. 4.To u c h Map in the Application bar to see a map (Driving) or a satellite image (Walking) of your area. 5.To u c h Menu for the following options: Route options: Set whether directions should Avoid highways and Avoid tolls.
Internet and Social Networking 98 : Display Navigation settings: –Screen dimming: Enable or disable screen dimming, which lets the screen dim between instructions to save power. –Terms, privacy & notices: View Google’s Terms and conditions, Privacy policy, and Legal notices. : Display Navigation help information. 6.To find a destination, touch an option: Speak destination: Say the name or address of your destination. Type destination: Enter the destination. : Choose a destination from a contact record. Starred places: Choose destinations you have marked as favorites. Recent destinations: Choose from recent destinations. This option is not available until a destination has been requested. 7.While navigating, touch: ROUTE AND ALTERNATES: View information about the current route and alternate routes. Directions List: View directions in a step-by-step list. SHOW MAP: Return to the map view after viewing ROUTE AND ALTERNATES or the directions list. Layers: Choose map layers to display. Menu: To display these options: Tu r n o f f v o i c e / Tu r n o n v o i c e: Enable or disable voice-guided prompts. Exit navigation: Close Navigation and discard route information. Search: Find a location. Set destination: Choose or enter a destination. Settings: Enable or disable screen dimming and view Google’s Terms and conditions, Privacy policy, and Legal notices. Help: Display Navigation help information.
99 Play Books Use the Play Books app to read eBooks from the Internet-based Google Play™ Books service. Google eBooks is a new way to discover, buy, and enjoy your favorite books online and offline. You can read books online or mark them for availability offline, so you can read them when you have no Internet connection (such as on an airplane). You can also use Books as your starting point for browsing or searching for books on line. 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Play Books. The Google Play Books main screen displays. Note: You may be asked to create or sign on to your Google account. For more information, refer to “Setting Up Your Gmail Account” on page 66. 2.To add more books to your library, touch SHOP in the Application bar. A pop-up displays a link to the Google Play Terms of Service. Read the document and touch Accept.Browse the selection of Google eBooks, which are arranged in categories like Featured, Top Selling, Top Rated, Top Free, and many more. 3.To find a book by title or author name, touch Search on the Play Books main screen or touch SHOP ➔ Search. 4.On the Play Books main screen, touch Menu for these options: Make available offline: Mark books to make them available offline. Touch below a book cover to mark it with a pin and then touch . Just reverse this process to remove books from your device. View as list / View as carousel: Set how you want to view your books. : If a book in your library does not appear on your device, use this option to update the display. : Set the account to use. : Displays various Book help information. Touch Help Center to get additional Google Play Books information. 5.Touch the cover of a book to start reading.
Internet and Social Networking 100 Reading a Book Once the book displays: 1.Sweep across the screen to turn the page. 2.Touch the screen to display or hide the following options. 3.Touch for a table of contents. 4.Touch to set THEME (day or night), BRIGHTNESS, TYPEFACE, FONT SIZE, TEXT ALIGNMENT, and LINE HEIGHT. 5.Touch Search on the Play Books main screen or touch SHOP ➔ Search. 6.Touch Menu for these additional options: Original pages / Flowing text: Display the pages of the book in their original format or use your format settings. About the book: Displays the Google Play description of the book. : Share the book by using Bluetooth, Email, Gmail, Google+, Social Hub, or Wi-Fi Direct. Available offline: Touch the check box to make the book available offline. Read aloud / Stop reading aloud: Touch to let your device read the book to you. : Touch Help center, Contact us, or Report a problem to link the appropriate website. Touch Terms of Service, Privacy Policy , or Open source licenses to read those documents. The Play Books version number is also displayed. 7.Touch and drag the slider at the bottom of the page to display a different page, which is indicated by the pop-up. 8.To contact customer support, report an issue, and display more Google eBooks information, from a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Play Books ➔Menu ➔ Help.
101 Search Search the internet using the Google search engine. Tip: The Google Search widget displays by default on all Home screens. For information about displaying widgets on the Home screen, see “Adding Widgets to a Home screen” on page 32. 1.From a Home screen, touch Google. – or – From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Search. 2.Use the keyboard to enter search criteria to display matching searches. – or – Touch and speak the search criteria slowly and clearly. Google searches for the information and displays results. Suggestions display below the text entry area.3.Touch a suggestion to search for that term. – or – Touch on the keyboard to start the search. A browser window displays the search results. YouTube View and upload YouTube videos right from your device. 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ YouTube. 2.To u c h t h e HOME tab to return to the main YouTube page. 3.To u c h t h e BROWSE tab to browse videos by categories like Comedy, Education, Music, and so on. Touch the desired category to display video thumbnails. 4.To u c h t h e ACCOUNT tab to choose which Google account you would like to use or add an account. Once you are signed in, touch ACCOUNT to display your subscriptions, see your favorites, see you watch later list, manage your playlists, or upload a video.
Internet and Social Networking 102 5.Touch Search YouTube and use the keyboard to enter a keyword or phrase to find a YouTube video. Touch on the keyboard to initiate the search. 6.While browsing, touch Menu for these options: Sign in / Sign out: Sign in, sign out, or add an account. You may have to sign in to use certain options. : Configure display and search settings and view information about the application. : Display YouTube help information. Feedback: Display a YouTube feedback form. 7.Touch a video thumbnail to view the video. Options While Viewing a Video Use these options while viewing a video: 1.Touch Add to, which lets you add the video to your watch later list or your favorites, or add a new playlist. 2.Touch Share (in landscape mode) or touch Menu ➔ Share (in portrait mode) to use Wi-Fi Direct, Google+, Social Hub, Bluetooth, Email, or Gmail to send the video’s URL.3.To u c h Menu for these options: : Copy the URL of the video to the clipboard. For more information, refer to “Copying and Pasting a Hyperlink or URL” on page 86. : Flag the video for YouTube review. : Configure display and search settings and view information about the application. : Display YouTube help information. : Display a YouTube feedback form.
103 Section 7: Music This section explains how to use the music features of your device including the Music app and the Music player. Play Music App The Play Music app contains a music player that plays music and other audio files that you copy from your computer or store online. Note: Some options described in this manual may not be available until you sign in to your Google account. Google Play Music Google PlayTM Music is a new service from Google that gives you instant access to your personal music collection on the Internet and your compatible Android devices without the hassle of wires or syncing. For more information, visit music.google.com. Accessing the Music App 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Play Music. The Play Music app searches your online library and your device’s internal storage for music and playlists; this can take from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the amount of new music added since you last opened the application. It then displays a carousel view of your new and recent music, organized by album.
Music 104 2.Swipe left or right to spin the carousel and browse through your new and recent music. 3.Touch an album to open it. 4.Return to the Library screen from most other screens in the Music application by touching the Music application icon at the top-left of the Application bar. Changing Librar y View You can change the way you view the contents of your library. 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Play Music. 2.Touch the name of the current view, such as Recent, near the top-left of the Application bar. 3.Touch an option to set how you view your library. The choices are: Recent, Albums, Artists, Songs, Playlists, or Genres. Note: The contents of your library display in a scrolling grid, list, or carousel, depending on the view. Searching for Music To find music in your library: 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Play Music. 2.To u c h Search. 3.Type the name of an artist, album, song, or playlist. Touch on the keyboard to remove the keyboard. Matching songs are displayed in a list below the search box. 4.Touch a matching song to play it, touch a matching album, artist, or playlist to view a list of its songs, or touch next to an item in the list to play it, add it to a playlist, or shop for other music by the artist online.
105 Changing Music Settings To change settings in the Music application: 1.From a Home screen, touch Apps ➔ Play Music. 2.Touch Menu. The following options display depending on the library view: Shuffle all: Play all songs in a random order. Hide now playing bar / Show now playing bar: Hide or show the Now Playing bar that displays at the bottom of the screen. You can return to the Now playing screen from other Music screens by touching the name of the current song in the Now Playing bar. Make available offline: In addition to playing the music that you add to your online library, you can play music stored on your device’s internal storage. Then you can listen to music when you have no Internet connection. To do this, make some of your online music available offline. For more information, refer to “Making Online Music Available Offline” on page 110. Offline music only: Display only the music that is available offline. Hide labels / Show labels: Hide or show labels. This option is not available in all library views. Settings: Displays the Settings screen. Choose a Google account to use to connect to Google PlayTM Music and set the Music settings as indicated on the screen. The Music app version is also displayed. : Opens the Browser with information about the Music application. Listening to Music You can listen to music by using your device’s built-in speakers, through a wired headset, or through a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset. For more information, refer to “Bluetooth” on page 137. Touch the Volume Key on the side of the device to activate on-screen volume control, then touch and drag on the scale to set volume. You can also press the Volume Key to adjust playback volume.