Section 9: Settings
This section explains
Settings for customizing your device.
Control your device’s
wireless connections.
Accessing Settings
From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings.– or –From a Home screen, touch Applications
→Settings
Wireless and network
Control your device's wireless connections
Wi-Fi settings
Your device supports Wi-Fi b/g/n. Use Wi-Fi settings to manage your device’s Wi-Fi connections.
Turning Wi-Fi On or Off
Turn your device’s
Wi-Fi service on or off. When you turn Wi-Fi service on, your device
automatically searches for available, in-range
Wireless Access Points (WAPs).
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Wireless and network.
2. Touch Wi-Fi
settings, then touch Wi-Fi to turn Wi-Fi On or Off. When on, a check appears in
the checkbox.
Network notification
Have your device alert
you to new Wireless Access Points (WAPs).
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Wireless and network.
2. Touch Wi-Fi settings, then touch Network notification to turn notifications On or Off.
When
on, a check appears in the
checkbox.
Sound settings
General
Volume
Set the volume level
for all types of sounds.
Note: You can only set volume when
Silent Mode is disabled.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Sound settings→ Volume.
2. Touch and drag the
sliders to set:
- Media volume: Playback of music, videos and other multimedia content.
- Alarm volume: Notifications for alarms set in Clock.
- System volume: Application sounds, and other sounds made by your device.
- Notification volume: Sounds for alerts to new messages and other events.
3. Touch OK to save
your setting.
Tip: You can also set Device Volume from
the Home screen by pressing the Volume Key.
Notifications
Screen lock sounds
When enabled, tones
play when unlocking and locking the screen.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Sound settings.
2. Touch Screen lock
sounds to enable or disable tones. When enabled, a check mark appears
in the check box.
Display settings
Brightness
Set the default screen
brightness.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key Settings Display settings Brightness.
2. Touch and drag the
slider to set the brightness, or touch Automatic brightness.
3. Touch OK to save
the setting.
Animation
Set the level of
animations for transitions between screens.
1.From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Display settings→ Animation.
2.Touch No animation,
Some animations, or All animations.
Screen timeout
Set the length of
delay between the last key press or screen touch and the automatic screen
timeout
(dim and lock).
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Display settings→ Screen timeout.
2. Touch a setting to
select it.
Screen unlock settings
Passwords
Set screen lock
Choose settings for
unlocking your screen.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Location and security.
2. Touch Set screen
lock/Change screen lock for these settings:
- None: Touch to disable all screen lock settings.
- Pattern: A screen unlock pattern is a touch gesture you create and use to unlock your device.
Follow the prompts to create or change your screen unlock pattern.- PIN: Touch to select a PIN to use for unlocking the screen.
- Password: Touch to create a password for unlocking the screen.
Visible passwords
When enabled, password
characters will display briefly as you touch them while entering passwords.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Location and security.
2. Touch Visible
passwords to enable or disable brief displays of password characters. When
enabled,
a check mark appears in the check box.
Device administration
Add or remove device
administrators.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Location and security.
2. Touch Select device
administrators.
Applications
You can download and
install applications from an app market, or create applications using the
Android SDK and install them on your
device. Use Applications settings to manage applications.
Warning!: Because this device can be configured with
system software not provided by or supported by Touchsquid, Google or any other company, end-users operate
these devices at their own risk.
Unknown sources
When Unknown sources is enabled, you can
install of application from sources other than the Android Market.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Applications.
2. Touch Unknown sources to enable or disable the setting. When enabled, a check mark appears in the check box.
Manage applications
Manage and remove
applications from your device.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Applications Manage applications.
2. Touch an
application to view and update information about the application, including
memory usage, default
Running services
View and control
services running on your device.
Warning!: Not all services can be
stopped, and stopping services may have undesirable consequences on the application or Android System.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Applications Running services.
2. To stop a service,
touch the service, then touch Stop at the confirmation prompt.
Development
Set options for
application development.
USB debugging
When enabled, allows
debugging when the device is attached to a PC by a USB cable.
Note: This setting is used for
development purposes.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Applications Development.
2. Touch USB debugging
to enable or disable the setting. When enabled, a check mark appears in the
check box.
Stay awake
When enabled, the screen will not go to sleep (lock) while connected to a PC via USB cable. This can be useful when using some applications, such as 3G Mobile Hotspot, because the device will disconnect a Wi-Fi connection when the screen locks.
Note: This setting is used for
development purposes.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Applications Development.
2. Touch Stay awake to
enable or disable the setting. When enabled, a check mark appears in the check
box.
Allow mock locations
This setting is used
by developers when developing location-based applications.
Note: This setting is used for
development purposes.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Applications Development.
2. Touch Allow mock
locations to enable or disable the setting. When enabled, a check mark appears
in the box.
Accounts and sync
Set up and manage
accounts, including your Google and Backup Assistant accounts.
General sync settings
Background data
When enabled, all
accounts can sync, send, and receive data at any time, in the background.
Important!: Disabling background data
can extend battery life and lower data use. Some applications may still use the background data connection, even
if this setting is disabled.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key →Settings→ Accounts and sync.
2. Touch Background
data to enable or disable the setting. When enabled, a check mark appears
in the check box.
Auto-sync
When enabled, all
accounts sync data at any time, automatically.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Accounts and sync.
2. Touch Auto-sync to
enable or disable the setting. When enabled, a check mark appears in the check
box.
Manage accounts
Use Manage accounts to
set up and configure your accounts.
Note: Available settings depend on the
type of account. Not all settings are available for all accounts.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Accounts and sync.
2. Under Manage
accounts, touch the account to modify its settings.
Adding an account
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Accounts and sync
2. Under Manage
accounts, touch Add account and follow the prompts to enter your credentials
and set up the account
Removing an account
Important!: Removing an account also
deletes all of its messages, contacts and other data from the device.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Accounts and sync.
2. Touch an account to
display its settings.
3. Touch Remove
account, then touch Remove account at the prompt to remove the account and
delete
all its messages, contacts and other data.
SD card and device storage
Manage the use of
memory resources in your device’s internal memory, and on an installed memory
card.
External SD card
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ SD card and device storage.
2. View Total space
and Available space memory usage on an installed memory card (not
user-configurable).
3. Touch
information, see
“Removing a Memory Card” on page10.
4. Touch
Internal device storage
View usage for your
device’s 16 GB internal memory.
Note: This setting cannot be configured.
From a Home screen, press the Menu Key→ Settings→ SD card and device storage→ Available space.
Web
Configure settings for
web searches.
Google search
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Search→ Google search.
2. Touch Show web
suggestions to enable or disable display of suggestions from Google as you type
search criteria.
3. Touch Use My
Location to enable or disable to customized Google search results and other
4. Touch Search
history to enable or disable saving of search criteria and results.
5. Touch Manage search
history to configure settings for search history.
Language and keyboard
Google services based
on your location information.
Select locale
Set the language used
by your device.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key Settings→ Language and keyboard→ Select locale.
2. Touch a
language/locale from the list.
Configure text entry
options to your preferences.
Text settings
Select input method
Choose the default
text entry method.
From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key Settings Language and keyboard Select input method.
Touchsquid
View information about your pad, including status, legal information, hardware and software versions.
1. From a Home screen,
press the Menu Key→ Settings→ Touchsquid.
2. Touch items to view
details: