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Offi cial User Guide
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CONTROL Thanks for Choosing Velocity! Thank you for purchasing a Velocity Micro CRUZ Tablet! We appreciate your business and know you’ll love your brand new multimedia device. This guide is intended to help you with initial setup of your device and to familiarize you with the Android operating system. Stay Up To Date! For the latest updates, news, giveaways, downloads, and support tips, be sure to follow CRUZ on facebook and twitter! Go to www.cruzreader.com for details! Also be sure to
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Table of Contents I. Getting Started 4-7 II. Hand Gestures 8-9 III. Your Home Screen 10-11 IV. Adding Widgets To Your Home Screen 12 V. Connecting to Wi-Fi 13-14 VI. Email Setup 15 VII. Saving Battery Life 16 VIII. SD Cards 17 IX. Device Storage and ASTRO 18-19 X. Transferring Files 20-22 XI. File Formats 23 XII. Preloaded Apps 24-25 XIII. Buying eBooks 26-27 XIV. Reading 3rd Party eBooks 28 XV. Playing Media 29-30 XVI. Flash and Youtube 31 XVII. Installing Apps 32-33 XVIII. System Requirements
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I. Getting Started Device Exterior: A B C D E F G H I J K 4
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I. Getting Started (cont’d) A. Status Bar A white strip along the top of the screen displaying alerts, Wi-Fi strength, battery life, and the current time. B. Widget Area Your Home-screen has a designated area for widgets, which are basically “applications” that have functionality and accessibility directly from your home-screen. There are several pre- installed widgets on your CRUZ Tablet, such as a calendar and an analog clock, but you can download several others. To add a widget to your h
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I. Getting Started (cont’d) G. Power Button The power button is located on end opposite the Quicklaunch Buttons. Tapping this button while the device is running will send the CRUZ to sleep mode. H. DC-In This is the port through which your CRUZ AC Adapter charges the device I. Mini USB Port Tethering the device through USB port to a computer charges the device and allows you to transfer files to and from the SD card/internal storage J. Headphone Jack Connect earbuds through this port for a pe
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I. Getting Started (cont’d) Starting the Device To start your Cruz, press the on/off button located at the left side of the device. When you first turn on the Cruz, you will be greeted with a CRUZ logo, then an ANDROID logo, and then your Home screen. The display has a screen timeout by default set to 10 min. If the unit is left inactive for that period of time, the screen will go dark as if turned off. However, it is simply in standby mode. Tap the power button and a screen will appear wit
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II. Hand Gestures Tapping Touch your finger to the screen and remove immediately to select an item on the screen. This is the equivalent of a mouse “click” on a computer. Long-Pressing Press and hold your finger on the screen for 2-3 seconds. Oftentimes this will open menu options or perform an app-specific function. Dragging Press and hold your finger on the screen, then slide in the desired direction. 8
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II. Hand Gestures (cont’d) Scrolling Sliding your finger up and down in a vertical, flicking moton scrolls through menus, websites, and lists. The faster you slide, the faster the scrolling motion will be. Swiping Sliding your finger left and right scrolls horizontally. Some eReader apps are designed to turn the page in the direction you “swipe.” Pinching Positioning your thumb and index finger roughly 1-inch apart while “pinching” or “spreading” them typically zooms in or out, respect
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III. Your Home Screen Think of your home screen as your desktop. What goes on the home screen is up to you. You can fill the space with any combination of shortcuts, widgets, and folders you like. Some pre- installed shortcut icons will appear at the bottom, and a Google Search Widget appears at the top. You have five customizable home screens in total. When you power up your Cruz for the first time, you’ll see the main home-screen panel. This panel is typically centered; you can access addi
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III. Your Home Screen (cont’d) The time, Wi-Fi signal, and battery icons are on the right hand side of the Status Bar. The battery icon will change as the energy is used up. It will turn orange to warn you that you should consider charging the unit. When the icon is red, it is nearly dead and requires immediate charge. While charging, the icon will change to an animating green bar with a thunderbolt on it. The Wi-Fi icon will only appear when there is a Wi-Fi signal connected. In the c
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IV. Adding Widgets to the Home Screen Widgets allow you to place a function of an app onto your Home Screen. For instance, you may add an Analog clock, calendar, picture frame, and other useful widgets. To add a widget, long-press, or tap/hold your finger on any open space on your home screen, and select Widgets from the context menu that opens. From there, select any of the available widgets. You may long-tap and drag any widget to move it to the desired location on your Home Screen. To r
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V. Connecting to Wi-Fi Introduction For the sake of this guide, the assumption is that you are connecting to your Cruz to your own home Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) or a free unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. From the Home Screen, select the shortcut icon that reads Wi-Fi Settings and ensure that both Wi-Fi and Network Notifi cation are enabled with green check marks. After a moment, your Wi-Fi networks list should populate. If you need to rescan for available networks, tap Menu> then tap Scan. NOTE: The W
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V. Connecting to Wi-Fi (cont’d) Accessibility If a password is required, tap the password text fi eld for the popup keyboard, and enter the security key Many public Wi-Fi hotspots are freely accessible, though not all are. Some are secured, others are open. And still others appear to have no security, but require either access codes or some other form of access agreement acknowledgment via a browser. It is possible to connect to such a signal, appear to be connected, and still require validat
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VI. Email Setup Introduction The pre-installed Email app is a simple but effective email client for both POP3 and IMAP email services. Confi guration is automatic for some email services. For those that are auto-confi gured, you only need to enter the email address and password, then click next. If this does not work, you’ll need to manually confi gure your account. Details are below. Prior to beginning, you will need detailed email confi guration information which is available from your service pr
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VII. Saving Battery Life Very Low Battery Full Battery Charging Battery Tips on Extending Battery Life 1 Streaming audio or video apps will use a lot of battery life Disable Wireless Network Positioning. You can turn it off from Settings > Location 2 & Security > Use wireless networks. Switch off Wi-Fi if you’re not close to a strong Wi-Fi signal for extended periods of 3 time. This puts strain on the device. Use a Quick Screen Timeout. You can alter this option from Settings > Sound & 4 d
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VIII. SD Cards There are two areas for storage on your CRUZ Tablet. The first is a full-sized SD card slot located on the top of your device. You may purchase SD and SDHC cards in a wide range of capacities, varying from 1 GB – 32 GB. To properly load the SD card, place your CRUZ flat on a surface with the screen facing up. Then, with the BACK of the SD card showing, slowly and carefully push the card into the SD/SDHC slot located at the top of the device. Gen- tly push the card unti
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IX. Device Storage and ASTRO There are TWO areas for storage on this device: Name Capacity Appears in ASTRO as Storage Uses The Android apps you install will write file folders and app content to this removable storage. You may copy content to this location, but be careful of what you delete as it may impact the function of SD Supports up to your apps. /sdcard Storage 32 GB This slot on the top left corner is for standard and SD and SDHC flash memory cards (up to 32GB) and is useful f
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IX. Device Storage and ASTRO (cont’d) ASTRO is your fi le manager app. Use it to browse your storage location and manage fi les on the SD card as well as the internal storage. It also features an Application Manager to help install or uninstall your apps, and an SD card usage monitor as well. Learn more about how to use ASTRO at http://www.metago.net/ You can even use ASTRO to kill all tasks. When multiple apps are running at once, more energy is used up and your device runs slower. Adding
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X. Transferring Files NOTE: While still tethered, you cannot use your Cruz to gain access to the SD card! Tether Via USB to Computer Turn on your Cruz and connect a mini USB cable to the Cruz device and to Step 1 your PC. Slide the notification panel down and tap the alert that reads, “USB Connected Step 2 Select to copy files to/from your computer,” then tap “Turn on USB Storage.” This should only be required once. After doing this, the alert should change to Step 3 “Turn off USB storag
