Lenovo LePad, User Manual

Page 1: ...1 LePad User Guide V1 0 Please read the safety precautions and important notes in the supplied manual before use ...

Page 2: ...02 Connecting to the Internet 2 1 Browser 2 2 App Store Chapter 03 Applications 3 1 Camera 3 2 Pictures 3 3 Videos 3 4 Sound Recorder 3 5 Music 3 6 Calendar 3 7 Notepad 3 8 Calculator 3 9 File Management 3 10 Application Uninstallation 3 11 Backup and Recovery 3 12 System Information 3 13 Global Search 3 14 eBook Viewer 3 15 Contacts 3 16 Text Messages 3G version 3 17 Email Chapter 04 Settings 4 1...

Page 3: ... mode selection with Silent mode Airplane mode Power off options if you continue to hold it LePad will be powered off After your LePad is powered on press and hold this button for about 6 sec to forced shutdown Volume Button Adjusts the volume Screen Rotation Lock Button Toggle the button UP to unlock the screen orientation allowing screen rotation Toggle the button DOWN to lock the screen orienta...

Page 4: ... the SIM card 1 4 Turning Screen Backlight On Off Turning Screen Backlight On In the standby mode you can tap the Power button on the upper left of the LePad to wake the screen up The device s screen will then light up indicating that the backlight has been turned on Turning Screen Backlight Off If your LePad is powered on and you do not use it temporarily you can tap the Power button on its upper...

Page 5: ...own The device will then enter the standby mode and become locked Manual Lock How to Unlock Once in the standby mode tap the Power button on the upper left of LePad to brighten the screen display back up to normal level You can also drag the 4 pane bubble to the center of the screen by following on screen instructions to unlock the screen as shown in the figure below ...

Page 6: ...nabled you will need to draw your unlock pattern in order to unlock the screen before you can use your device For detailed actions please refer to Section 4 6 Unlocking Patterns 1 6 Basic Gestures 1 Scroll up to display the dynamic menu Up 2 Scroll down to return to the previous page Down 3 Touch to return to the desktop Touch 4 Press and hold to switch applications Press and hold 1 7 Switching De...

Page 7: ...zontally 1 8 4 Pane Desktop 1 9 Gadget Desktop Upon entering the Gadget Desktop you can add and display up to 6 gadgets from a total of 9 available gadgets including Switch Center Email Music News Video Stocks Weather World Clock and Calendar You can add or delete various gadgets on the Gadget Desktop Add Touch the Add button on the left side of the screen Delete Touch and hold the desired gadget ...

Page 8: ...r level Full battery Battery out of power Charging status Charging Signal level Strong signal No signal WLAN connection status WLAN is connected WLAN status is unknown Connection status of the Lenovo server Push service is working normally Push service pauses due to network reasons and will resume to normal later Push service is starting Download Downloading Downloaded E mail ...

Page 9: ...age press and hold the gesture area to bring up the applications switch panel Then tap the icon of your selected application to switch to another application of your choice Close Applications Touch the red close button on the upper right corner of the application to quit it Quit the Applications Switch Panel Perform the back pattern gesture within the gesture area to quit the switching application...

Page 10: ... applications Uninstall to open the applications list Then touch the desired application to delete it 1 13 Entering Text When using your LePad you can easily enter text from the virtual keyboard directly onto the touch screen such as when adding contact information into Contacts and when typing and editing SMS messages You can also directly input Simplified Chinese characters Traditional Chinese c...

Page 11: ...ers Lenovo IME After the Lenovo IME is selected the default keyboard will be displayed as follows Toggle case In the English input mode touch on the keyboard to toggle between upper and lower case letters Toggle between digit symbols letters Touch on the keyboard to toggle between numbers and letters International keyboard You can easily turn on or off the multilingual keyboard supported for this ...

Page 12: ...Zone you can manage the media library of your LePad using LeZone You can also synchronize recent items from your PC to your LePad and access those files using LeTrace Without Match you can only copy some files from PC to LePad You can match multiple LePads to LeZone LeTrace Click LeTrace in application list to launch LeTrace You can access the recent items of the PC after synchronization All the f...

Page 13: ...browser supports the following functions Input web address Touch the input text box and input the web address with the pop up soft keyboard Then touch Go on the soft keyboard to open the web page Exit Touch Back on the left side of the operation menu to quit the browser Bookmark Touch Bookmark on the right side of the operation menu to open the Bookmark page which contains 2 tabs Displays a list o...

Page 14: ...ttings and Hide bookmark toolbar Search Searches the current webpage for keywords Select text Selects the text in the current page for copying purposes Download manager Downloads files and or displays the status size and time of downloaded file s Settings Page content settings Privacy settings Browser compatibility identified as Mobile device or PC browser security settings and advanced settings Z...

Page 15: ...d applications ranking list and the free applications ranking list on the top of the applications list Update Touch the Update tab on the bottom of the APP Store page to open the updates list This list will help you determine if there are any available updates for any of the applications currently installed on your LePad MyStore Touch the MyStore tab on the bottom of the APP Store page to open the...

Page 16: ...he video recording preview interface touch REC on the screen to start recording or touch Stop to stop recording Camera Switches to the photo taking mode Back Quits the video recording preview interface and returns to the photo taking preview interface View Photos In the photo taking preview interface touch Photo Preview on the screen to open the photo preview interface Here you can set and play ph...

Page 17: ...tabs include the following functions Edit Switches to the picture editing mode which includes such functions as Select All Operate and Done Upon entering the picture editing mode you can select all photos and operate photo functions Select All Selects one whole album or all of your photos simultaneously Operate Here is where you can perform functions on one or more photos such as Share Delete Note...

Page 18: ...h this icon to add the track to Favorite Now Playing Touch the Now Playing page to display the cover art of the album currently being played In addition the song lyrics if available will be displayed simultaneously on the right side of the page Edit You can delete a track by touching the Edit button on the top The Delete function allows you to delete songs that have not been imported from LeZone I...

Page 19: ...iew Touch and hold an event in the week view to create view edit and delete that event touch anywhere within the empty area to create a new event Month view Touch and hold any date in the month view to create a new calendar item Agenda Displays all of the Calendar events in the format of a list Tap any event entry to view the details NOTE Within any Calendar view you can easily return to the curre...

Page 20: ...he Edit Text page will automatically save the document Delete Within the Edit Text page of any open text document touch Delete in the dynamic operation menu at the bottom of the page to delete the entire document 3 8 Calculator Touch Calculator in the applications list to bring up the calculator application It functions as a scientific calculator in the landscape mode and functions as a standard c...

Page 21: ...her you want to decompress the file cabinet If you touch OK the files will be decompressed and extracted into the directory of the cabinet automatically New Tap the Operation button to create a new folder Word file Excel file and Power Point file You can also edit the name of any folder or file After you touch OK the system will then inform you that the file has been created successfully Note The ...

Page 22: ...tent please continue as instructed by the wizard Backup File Management By touching Backup file management in the Backup Recovery page you can manage all of your backup files If there is more than one backup file of a certain type you can tap the Edit button to open the editing page of backup files Select one or more backup files and tap the Delete button to delete the selected backup file s By to...

Page 23: ...pace Storage space info Displays the resource allocation of the storage including the total storage used storage and free storage Battery info Displays the Battery status Battery level and power consumption of individual applications Network info Displays the information on your LePad and its network use For the Wifi enabled version the Bluetooth and Wifi physical address information will also be ...

Page 24: ...h 3 14 eBook Viewer Touch eBook Viewer in the applications list to open the e book shelf page Open E books Tap any e book on the shelf to open and read it Read E books The e book application can read e books in the formats of Epub Txt and PDF When reading e books in Epub and Txt formats you can touch the page margin or drag left or right within the e book page to turn pages or use your finger to d...

Page 25: ...and then input the relevant information for that contact Tap the Done button when you have finished Delete Contact Within the Contacts details page tap the Edit button to enter the editing mode and then tap the Delete contact button to delete the current contact Contact Details Within the contacts list page touch any contact entry to open the Contact Details page Tap the Share bizcard button to se...

Page 26: ...ut the destination telephone number manually or select one or more desired contacts from your contacts list and then touch Send Method 2 Touch and hold the message and then simply select Forward from the menu that pops up Delete Tap the Edit button check the box of the message that you want to delete and then touch Delete to delete the selected message In the Message main page You can also touch a...

Page 27: ...ar in the preview area on Email Inbox or e mail reading pages Within the new e mail editing page you can perform the following functions Input the e mail address of the recipient directly into the To input box or simply touch All contact to select a recipient s mail address from your contacts list You can input the CC BCC address Fast add mail recipient Touching the CC BCC Sender column will displ...

Page 28: ... e mail Reply Touching here will send replies directly to all of the related contacts listed on the selected e mail Reply to all Tapping here will forward the current e mail to any other e mail contacts you select Forward Tap here to delete the current e mail and automatically switch to the next e mail Deleted You can also perform the following operations while viewing any e mail Touch From If the...

Page 29: ...TE Selecting this option will cause it to change to say None at the same time By using Before you can select all e mails before a specific time and date First you need to select a specific e mail message and then tap the Before button to select any e mails received before the receipt time date of the selected e mail Touching Between allows you after first selecting two e mails to select all of the...

Page 30: ...go Two weeks ago and Never Auto delete do not include Selects the scope of auto clearing old e mail messages Options include UNREAD mails and STARRED mails How many mails on first page Selects the quantity of displaying old e mail messages Options include Display 25 mails Display 50 mails and Display 100 mails Default Account If you have added a mailbox account this function will enable you to set...

Page 31: ...reless networks displaying them in the WLAN network list There is an icon indicating the network status following every LAN where indicates that the network requires no password and can be connected directly and indicates that the network has been encrypted and can be connected only after the required password is input You can select any network you want from the list After selecting your desired ...

Page 32: ... also reducing the service life of your battery You can perform the following functions in the Bluetooth Settings Bluetooth devices After Bluetooth has been turned on your LePad will automatically display a list of any Bluetooth enabled devices it can find in the nearby area i e scan for devices These settings allow you to add and set up various types of VPN Virtual Private Network VPN Settings Da...

Page 33: ...eby gaining access to more Lenovo services For example with your Lenovo account you will be able to download more applications from an ever increasing number of applications available within the Lenovo applications store as well as backup your personal data via the network Register Account To register for your Lenovo account touch the icon and then follow the simple online instructions as prompted...

Page 34: ...ty Within the settings you will gain access to the following functions My Location Screen Unlock Passwords Device Administration Credential storage Factory Reset and System Upgrade My Location For the 3G enabled version you can use the switch to decide whether you wish to use GPS or not Screen Unlock Using these options you will be able to unlock the screen in one of the three ways Pattern Unlock ...

Page 35: ...ation These features work in conjunction with the Enterprise Policy Center Lenovo Enterprise Policy Manager The Enterprise Policy Center is the executor of the security policy of the Lenovo enterprise platform Whenever the user enables the Lenovo enterprise mail and service function the Enterprise policy center will then be enabled automatically This will allow your LePad to accept the security po...

Page 36: ...ory settings Touching System Upgrade will download any available upgrade package s such as system firmware via the Internet and install them to upgrade your LePad s system automatically 4 7 Applications With these settings you can Manage Applications Running Services perform Risk Right Management and Development functions NOTE This last function is available for developers only Manage Applications...

Page 37: ...o operate your LePad Text Settings Here you can choose from any of the keyboard input method editors available in your LePad You can also add or delete words within the user dictionary Here you can perform a variety of functions including International Keyboard select the different language keyboards Handwriting settings Keyboard settings Dictionary management and Charset settings Lenovo IME Handw...

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