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English Language User Manual
Dear Customer,
ARCHOS thanks you for your choice of this exciting PMA430™ Personal Media Assistant.
Based on the tried and tested Linux® operating system, you can now get all the entertainment
you want, right in the palm of your hand. This guide will explain to you the functions of the
PMA430™. This product is, in reality, a computer. Our engineers have packed this product
with many functions and capabilities*. The better you know how to use it, th
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Display 33 TABLE OF CONTENTS Video 33 8.3 Playing Video Files from the Internet.............................................................................. 33 The complete manual in different languages is available on the hard drive of your PMA430 under 9 VideoCorder Application ................................................................................................35 /Archos/Manuals. Manual Recording...............................................................................
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17 Hardware Settings ...........................................................................................................56 17.1 LCD Settings ....................................................................................................................56 !!Backup the .zip folder!!! 17.2 Light & Power.................................................................................................................. 56 17.3 Recalibrate..............................................
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1 Overview 1.1 Ports, Buttons, and Connectors PART I Introduction to the PMA430 Lights a Hard drive activity indicator b On indicator c* Adapter/Charger Connected Navigation pad d Move UP (Increase volume when playing music or video) e Move DOWN (Decrease volume when playing music or video) f Move LEFT (Move to left window in dual browser) g Move RIGHT (Open or move to right window in dual browser) h On/Enter/Play – Hold for 3 seconds to turn on i Escape/Stop/Standby – Ho
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a Infrared communications port 1.2 Overview of different screen areas b Microphone Application tabs Application c Headphone & AV in/out Multi- launcher icons Status bar connect jack – connect headphones, - Network connection TV cradle, or optional adapter*. This area will show - Luminosity icons for running - Cut/Copy/Paste menu d Power connector – use only the provided ARCHOS AC applications - Battery adapter/charger. - Volume & speaker Qtopia menu - Clock e USB
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From this tab, you can launch applications such as E-mail, an Internet browser, a calendar, agenda, the right of the input screen) will demonstrate to you how this is to be done, and will give you the contacts, and others. opportunity to train yourself. Games A number of games have been included with your device. Further, there is a Mophun® game engine found in the games tab. This is a special game playing platform. You can check the Method: Keyboard ARCHOS website for a list of availa
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The Program storage area (64MB fixed size) is where new Linux® programs that you install onto ATTENTION Macintosh® Users your PMA430. Because Linux® applications need to run in a Linux® formatted space, the Macintosh® users should be especially careful when they download and save this file to their installation packages (file type .ipk) must be installed into the Program Storage area. You will Macintosh® computer. Do not double-click on it. Macs use .img files for a different purpose and
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1.7 Changing the Language 2 Connecting/Disconnecting the PMA430 to/from your PC The PMA430 interface can be set to English (default), French, German, Italian, or Spanish. To Note that when the PMA430 is connected to a computer, it will consume more energy, that is to change the language, go to Settings then Language and select your desired language. Click OK say, the battery will discharge faster than usual. If the PMA430 looses power while connected to and wait a few moments. Your PMA4
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2. Click on the icon to eject (unmount) the PMA 400 from the computer and select the ‘Safely Macintosh™ OS X (10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther) remove’ message. If you have OS 10.2, you must update to version 10.2.4 or higher. ® ® This is a free update from Apple Computer. You will not need any Windows XP special installation of software drivers or extensions. Simply plug the 3. There will be a message indicating that it is now safe to disconnect the PMA430. You can now PMA430 into
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3 System Recovery If for some reason you need to restore your PMA430 to its original factory condition, then you need to perform a system recovery. A system recovery will erase personal files and programs that you may have installed on your device. In order to be prepared for this situation, you should back PART II up the following files from your PMA, for example by storing them on your computer. • The PMA400_recovery.zip from the folder /Archos/PMA_Recovery_zip • The progfs.img from
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4 Music Application 3. In the left pane, highlight a song and click the 4. Various playlist commands exist in the pull-down PLAY button. The song will be added to the Playlist. menu or in the playlist window. 4.1 Playing Music To add a folder, click the menu button and select To navigate between File, Display and Playlist “Add to Playlist” from the File menu. menus, use the RIGHT and LEFT control of the This is the music player application. When you click on this icon in the main scre
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Music Application Current File and Directory Status: Playing Help icon Close Application 4.2 The ARCLibrary™ - Browsing by Artist, Album, or Title The ARCLibrary is a database of all the songs Song title* or file name in the Music folder. Many music files contain Album* or current folder *APIC Album picture Artist* or parent folder information to describe the music file, called Song recording info tags. Through these tags, the ARCLibrary let Next track t
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Synchronizing Music from Windows Media® Player (WMP) to the PMA430 you place a music CD in your computer, Windows® will ask you if you would like to rip it. Depending on the power of your computer, to rip a 60 minute CD, it will take anywhere from 10 Windows Media® Player (WMP) allows you to synchronize music between your computer and minutes to 60 minutes. Once this is done, the album will become part of your music library. PMA430: That means, it will add music files to your PMA430 so tha
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4.6 Customizing the Equalizer 5 AudioCorder Application To set the equalizer, tab the EQ button. You will now be able to adjust the PMA430’s five band equalizer. Tab on the buttons on the left hand side to select a style, With this application you can make digital audio recordings from the built-in microphone (Int. Mic), a connected dynamic microphone (Ext. Mic), or from a and move the sliders to adjust The slider on the right line level audio source (Line In) such as a cassette player,
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6 MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your PMA430 7 Photo Application ® This is the photo viewer application. When you click on this icon in the main screen, The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh computer and you will be sent directly to the Photo Browser, which lets you look through your your PMA430 is to use the Macintosh Finder™ to drag and drop the files to photos. A thumbnail photo of the highlighted file name will be shown on the right ® between the thumbnails of the f
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Use the UP and DOWN buttons to view the previous or next photo in the folder. The LEFT and 8 Video Application Right controls also permit you to rotate the images. The menu bar above the photo provides the following options, which are also available via the menu button. This is the video viewer application. When you click on this icon in the main screen, Action Alternative button to use you will be sent directly to the Video Browser. To watch a video, you simply Zoom in – show pictur
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• Touch the screen to Hide / Show the overlaid video file information. not play right away on your device. Due to certain “variations”, even when video files are formatted in “MPEG4” they may not play right away. The PMA430 series can play video files of 8.1 The Resume Functions type MPEG4 Simple Profile which have an MP3, PCM (standard .wav) or IMA-ADPCM (compressed .wav) audio sound track. It can play such video files at a maximum size of 720 by On the Pockets AV/ARCHOS tab, you will n
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9 VideoCorder Application Fixed Time Recording Use the + and – buttons to adjust the length of the recording. As shown in this picture, the This is the video recorder application. Connect your TV Cradle to your home recording was set for a fixed time of 5 minutes. When you click on the record button, the entertainment system as shown in the TV Cradle manual. Once this is done, you PMA430 will start recording and stop automatically after 5 minutes. Notice the white and red can use the
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on a computer. Further, the playback of protected files will be limited to the built-in LCD screen PMA430 will not play them back on an external television - Second scheduled recording being set Once a recording is set, you can shut off the PMA430 and leave it in the TV cradle. 9.1 Setting other Recording Parameters If you prefer, you can adjust the settings for your own specific needs in the Recording Configuration screen and the Image Configuration screen. Note: Higher quality
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10.2 Part 2: Testing the channel changer 10 Set-up for scheduled video recordings In order for the PMA430 to turn on and off your video device and also change its channels via its TV cradle, you need to set it up to send the correct infrared codes to your video cassette recorder (VCR), cable box, or satellite receiver. If you do not plan on making scheduled recordings, then you do not need to install the IR emitter or set the infrared emitter code. Before following the procedure of setti
