Samsung Galaxy Tabs For Dummies
Overview
Welcome to the Galaxy
Popular for both work and play, Android tablets fill a useful niche between smartphone and computer. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab kicks it up a notch, offering both hardware and software technology beyond its competitors. Samsung enhances the basics—web, email, eReader, navigation, music, video, camera—and offers unique tools such as the Bixby assistant and the high-tech S-Pen. Coupled with an envious design, Galaxy Tab is a formidable contender to other devices, offering features you won’t find anywhere else.
Samsung Galaxy Tab For Dummies helps you take full advantage of everything
this sweet device has to offer. Whether you’re looking to keep in touch with friends and family on social media, want a portable way to stay connected to your work, or desire to read the latest potboiler or catch-up with the latest streaming TV drama, the Galaxy Tab makes it possible—and this book shows you how.
- Set up and start using your new tablet
- Connect with email, video chat, and explore social media
- Play games, enjoy music, watch movies and streaming TV
- Browse digital magazines and enjoy ebooks
A whole new galaxy awaits! Get ready to soak it all in!
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About The Author
Dan Gookin combined his love of writing with his gizmo fascination nearly 30 years ago to produce more than 160 informative, entertaining books demystifying technology. Perhaps his most famous is DOS For Dummies, published in 1991, which became the world's fastest-selling computer book and launched the entire For Dummies franchise.
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It’s a device that just can’t be described in a single sentence. The Samsung Galaxy Tab presents the latest solution to the problem of carrying around too many electronics. This tablet offers so many features that gentle hand-holding and careful explanation is required. Therefore, use this Cheat Sheet as your quick-and-dirty guide to Galactic tablet tips and tricks you just can’t find anywhere else.
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This article offers some amazing tips, tricks, and shortcuts as you learn how to use your Samsung Galaxy Tab. Explore Multi Window apps and Samsung Galaxy Tablet features like Do Not Disturb mode and the blue light filter.
Make Some Multi Window Apps Magic
Your Galaxy Tab features a multitasking tool called Multi Window.
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There are tons of ways to input information into your Samsung Galaxy tablet and to find that information. Some of these ways involve typing, others involve using the sound of your very own voice! The second app discussed here allows you to find information by drawing on the touchscreen. Cool!
How to use the Voice Recorder app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
Your tablet can record your voice or other sounds, and the Voice Recorder is a good app for performing this task.
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Relax. Maintenance for your Samsung Galaxy tablet is simple and quick. Basically, it can be summarized in three words: Keep it clean. Beyond that, another maintenance task worthy of attention is backing up the information stored on your tablet.
How to keep your Samsung Galaxy tablet clean
You probably already keep your tablet clean.
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Who doesn't like to watch movies? There are two must have apps for your Samsung Galaxy tablet that focus on movies, Netlix and Movies by Flixster. These apps focus on different aspects of movies and may help enhance your movie experience.
Movies by Flixster: The Movies by Flixster app is your Galaxy tablet's gateway to Hollywood.
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Without apps, your Samsung Galaxy tablet would be nothing more than a pricey frame without a picture. There must be apps! Especially apps that help you access music, wallpaper and ringtones!
A moderate assortment of apps was preinstalled on your tablet, first by Google and then by Samsung. Perhaps a smattering was installed by the cellular provider as well.
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Odds are good that your Samsung Galaxy tablet came without preinstalled music. You may find some tunes available, which are typically a generic sampling of the Google Play Music library. To add music, buy music, or steal it from somewhere else.
How to borrow music from a PC your Samsung Galaxy tablet
Your computer is the equivalent of the 20th-century stereo system — a combination tuner, amplifier, and turntable, plus all your records and CDs.
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Hundreds of thousands of apps are available for your Samsung Galaxy tablet at the Google Play Store — so many that it would take you more than a relaxing evening to discover them all.
Rather than list every single app, this list has culled from the lot some apps that you may find exceptional. They show not only the diversity of the Google Play Store but also how well the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab can run Android apps.
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Three items on your Samsung Galaxy tablet suck down battery power faster than a massive alien fleet is defeated by a plucky antihero who just wants the girl:
A bright display
Wi-Fi networking
Bluetooth
It takes a lot of power for the tablet to give you a nice, bright touchscreen, so don’t make the screen any brighter than you have to.
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You may not a frequent flier, but it can be surprising how many gadgets you bring with you, including your Samsung Galaxy tablet.
For some people the most amount of junk to carry on a flight is two laptop computers and three smartphones. That may not be a record, but it’s enough to warrant some travel tips, all of which apply to taking the Galaxy tablet with you on an extended journey:
Take the Galaxy tablet’s AC adapter and USB cable with you.
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Typing on a Samsung Galaxy tablet? That device takes some getting used to because its keys are merely flat rectangles on a touchscreen. If this concept doesn’t drive you nuts, typing on a tablet is something you should master with relative ease.
How to type one character at a time on your Galaxy tablet
The onscreen keyboard that appears on your Galaxy Note or Galaxy Tab touchscreen is pretty easy to figure out: Touch a letter to produce the character.
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Many people love Q&A! So let’s have some about the Samsung Galaxy tablet! Not only is it an effective way to express certain problems and solutions, but some of the questions might also cover things you’ve wanted to ask.
What to do if you can’t turn the Samsung Galaxy tablet on (or off)!
Yes, sometimes a Galaxy tablet locks up.
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You can find a galaxy of accessories for your Samsung Galaxy tablet. The following seven accessories are some of most frequently used. There are many more accessories than covered in this list.
Earphones: You can use earphones from any standard smartphone or portable media player with your tablet. Simply plug the earphones into the headphone jack and you're ready to go.
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For your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet, some things are definitely worth remembering. Out of the long, long list, here are ten good ones.
How to summon a recently opened app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
Remember you can summon the list of recently opened apps by long-pressing the Home key. Up pops the Recent Apps list, from which you can easily switch to a previous app.
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The first steps toward learning how to manipulate your Samsung Galaxy tablet are truly simple. Unfortunately, however, the terminology is most definitely not as simple.
How to use the Galaxy tab’s touchscreen
Minus an ample supply of buttons and knobs, your tablet is controlled for the most part by manipulating things on the touchscreen.
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The Samsung Galaxy tablet’s camera is much more than just a hole in the case. Taking a picture or shooting a video can involve more than just touching an icon. To help you get the most from the tablet’s camera, various settings, options, and effects eagerly lurk beneath the Camera app’s interface.
How to delete an image immediately after you take it on your Samsung Galaxy tablet’s camera
Sometimes, you just can’t wait to delete an image.
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Some Samsung Galaxy tablets feature a slew of Smart Screen tricks. These tricks greatly increase your fear of the device by making it frighteningly smarter than you would otherwise think.
Ensure that the Smart Screen repertoire of tricks is active by visiting the Settings app. Select the Controls category, and then touch the Smart Screen item on the left side of the screen.
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The key to understanding attachments in the Samsung Galaxy tablet e-mail apps is to look for the paperclip icon. After you find that icon, you can either deal with an attachment for incoming e-mail or add an attachment to outgoing e-mail.
How to deal with attachments on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
Attachments work differently between Gmail and Email.
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab works flawlessly with Gmail. In fact, if Gmail is already set up to be your main e-mail address, you’ll enjoy having access to your messages all the time by using your tablet.
After completing the quick and occasionally painless setup, you can receive e-mail on your tablet just as you can on a computer.
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Don’t worry about your Samsung Galaxy tablet controlling too much of your life: The tablet harbors no insidious intelligence, and the Robot Revolution is still years away. Until then, you can use your tablet’s listening capabilities to enjoy a feature called Google Now. It’s not quite like having your own personal Jeeves, but it’s on its way.
Your location, as well as the location of things near and far, is found on your Samsung Galaxy tablet by using the Maps app. Good news: You run no risk of improperly folding the Maps app. Better news: The Maps app charts the entire country, including freeways, highways, roads, streets, avenues, drives, bike paths, addresses, businesses, and points of interest.
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Somewhere, deep in the bosom of your Samsung Galaxy tablet, lies a storage device. It’s like the hard drive in your computer. The thing can’t be removed, but that’s not the point. The point is that the storage is used for your apps, music, videos, pictures, and a host of other information.
The Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab come with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.
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Making Wi-Fi work on your Samsung Galaxy tablet requires two steps. First, you must activate Wi-Fi, by turning on the tablet’s wireless radio. The second step is connecting to a specific wireless network.
How to activate and deactivate Wi-Fi on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
Follow these carefully written directions to activate Wi-Fi networking on your tablet:
Touch the Apps icon.
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You may already have some friends in your Samsung Galaxy tablet. That’s because your Google account was synchronized with the tablet when you first set up the device. Because all your Gmail and other types of contacts on the Internet were duplicated on the tablet, you already have a host of friends available. The place where you can access those folks is the Contacts app.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet comes with Google’s own e-book reader app. It has the clever name Play Books, and it can be found on the Apps screen either by its lonesome or in the Google apps folder.
Begin your reading experience by opening the Play Books app. If you’re prompted to turn on synchronization, touch the Turn On Sync button.
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One of the first things you see when powering on your Samsung Galaxy tablet is the Home screen. The main Home screen is illustrated below, but it will change as you add more widgets. This article takes you through the basic aspects of the Home screen that will not change.
You’ll find many fun and interesting things to notice on the Home screen:
Notification icons: These icons come and go, depending on what happens in your digital life.
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To turn on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, press and hold down the Power Lock key. After a few seconds, you see the tablet’s start-up logo and then some hypnotic animation. The tablet is coming to life.
Eventually, you see the main unlock screen. The screen may appear in a vertical orientation, depending on how you’ve oriented the tablet.
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Both the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy tablet feature a basic lock screen: Simply slide your finger across the touchscreen and the tablet is unlocked and ready to use. If you prefer to have a lock that’s not so easy to pick, you can choose from one of several types of secure lock screens: Pattern, PIN, and Password, as well as the less secure Face and Voice lock screens.
To use the S Pen, slide it out of the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s case: Grab the cap and yank the thing out. If the tablet is locked, pulling out the S Pen unlocks the tablet. You’ll still have to work the PIN, Pattern, or Password screen locks, but if your Note has only the Swipe lock, it’s unlocked right away and ready for action.
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One chatting app that does come with your Samsung Galaxy tablet is the ChatON app. It’s from Samsung. As such, it’s keyed into your Samsung account. Further, if you want to use the app to chat with others, they must also have Samsung accounts.
As long as all your friends have Samsung mobile devices and have all signed up for Samsung accounts, and you know all those accounts, the ChatON app works marvelously.
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Of all the social networking sites, Facebook is the king. It’s definitely a social networking site you want to use on your Samsugn Galaxy tablet. It’s the online place to go to catch up with friends, send messages, express your thoughts, share pictures and videos, play games, and waste more time than you ever thought you had.
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The Google Earth map is similar to the Maps app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, except it covers the entire planet. And while you can get around and explore your locale or destination using the Maps app, Google Earth is more of a look-and-see, interactive world atlas.
To run Google Earth, start the Earth app, found on the All Apps screen.
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People love to shop when they’re buying something they want or when they’re spending someone else’s money. With your Samsung Galaxy Tab, you can buy apps, games, music, magazines, movies, TV shows, and books at the Google Play Store.
The Google Play Store may sound like the place where you can go buy outerwear for children, but it’s really an online place where you go to pick up new goodies for your tablet.
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Non-Gmail e-mail you fetch on your Samsung Galaxy tablet is typically left on the e-mail server. That’s because the Email app, unlike a computer’s e-mail program, doesn’t delete messages after it picks them up. The advantage is that you can retrieve the same messages later by using a computer. The disadvantage is that you end up retrieving mail you’ve already read and possibly replied to.
Picture-taking and video-recording duties on your Samsung Galaxy tablet are handled by the same app, the Camera app. You may be able to find a shortcut to that app on the Home screen, and it also dwells with all its app buddies on the Apps screen.
The Camera app controls both the main camera, which is on the tablet’s butt, and the front-facing camera, which is not on the tablet’s butt.
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Finding something is only half the job. The other half is getting there. Your Samsung Galaxy tablet is ever-ready, thanks to the various direction and navigation features nestled in the Maps app.
How to get directions on your Samsung Galaxy Tablet
One command associated with locations on the map is getting directions.
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The Sound screen is where you control which sound the Samsung Galaxy tablet plays as a ringtone, but it’s also where you can set volume and vibration options.
To display the Sound screen, choose Sound from the list of categories on the left side of the Settings app screen. If you don’t see the Sound category, first choose the Device tab.
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The most direct way to connect a Samsung Galaxy tablet to a computer is by using a wire — specifically, the wire nestled cozily in the heart of a USB cable. You can do lots of things after making the USB connection. Before doing those things, however, you need to connect the cable.
How to connect the Samsung Galaxy tablet to a computer
The USB connection between the Galaxy tablet and your computer works fastest when both devices are physically connected.
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YouTube is the Internet phenomenon you can access through your Samsung Galaxy tablet that proves that real life is indeed too boring and random for television. Or is that the other way around? Regardless, you can view the latest videos on YouTube — or contribute your own — by using the YouTube app on your Galactic tablet.
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The main base from which you begin exploration of your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet is the Home screen. It’s the first thing you see after unlocking the tablet, and the place you go to whenever you quit an app.
To view the Home screen at any time, just press the Home key, which is found on the front of the tablet, right below the touchscreen.
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You probably use the same apps over and over on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. You can easily access that list of recent and currently running apps by pressing and holding down the Home key. When you do, you see a pop-up list of apps most recently accessed.
To reopen an app, choose it from the list. The app takes over the screen, in most cases picking up right where you left off.
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With your Samsung Galaxy tablet, you’re not limited to typing only the symbols you see on the alphabetic keyboard. The onscreen keyboard has many more symbols available, which you can see by touching the Sym key. Touching this key gives you access to two additional keyboard layouts.
Touch the 1/2 or 2/2 key to switch between the symbol keyboards.
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Part of your Google account, which most people use on their Samsung Galaxy tablet, includes access to the online photo-sharing website, Picasa web. If you haven’t yet been to the Picasa website, you should check it out.
Configure things by logging into your Google account on that website.
The Picasa web account should be synchronized and configured automatically with your Galaxy tablet.
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Computer nerds have long had the desire to connect high-tech gizmos to one another, such as connecting your Samsung Galaxy tablet to a printer. The Bluetooth standard was developed to sate this desire in a wireless way.
Although Bluetooth is wireless communication, it’s not the same as wireless networking. It’s more about connecting peripheral devices, such as keyboards, mice, printers, headphones, and other gear.
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Does a Samsung Galaxy tablet fall asleep or does it just lock? A locked tablet seems rather restrictive, so you may prefer to think of the tablet as taking a snooze. But does it dream? Of course it does! You can even see the dreams, providing you activate the Daydream feature — and you keep the tablet connected to a power source or in a docking station.
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One of the first things you will want to do with your Samsung Galaxy tablet is to place your most favorite apps on the Home screen. Here’s how that works:
Touch the Apps icon on the Home screen.
Long-press the app icon you want to add to the Home screen.
After a moment, the Home screen panel overview is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
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Don’t bother looking: You won’t find a something called a “shortcut” to add to the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Home screen. Older versions of the Android operating system had such a feature. Today, you apply shortcut widgets instead.
For example, say you desire a Bluetooth shortcut icon on the Home screen. You can use that icon to turn the Bluetooth radio on or off.
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Just as you can add apps to the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Home screen, you can also add widgets. A widget works like a tiny, interactive or informative window, often providing a gateway into another app on the tablet.
Both the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab come with a smattering of widgets preaffixed to the Home screen, possibly just to show you how they can be used.
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Just as you can adorn the Home screen of your Samsung Galaxy tablet with widgets, you can also slap down a few right on the lock screen. In fact, the time display on the tablet’s lock screen is a widget. It’s only one of several.
To add a lock screen widget, heed these directions:
Open the Settings app.
It’s found on the Apps screen.
A backup is a safety copy of information. For your Samsung Galaxy tablet, the backup copy includes contact information, music, photos, video, and apps, plus any settings you’ve made to customize your tablet. Copying that information to another source is one way to keep the information safe in case anything happens to your Galaxy tablet.
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The first time you start the Play Music app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, you may be asked whether you’d like to try Google Play Music All Access. It’s an all-the-time music service from Google, available for a monthly fee. You do not have to subscribe to the service to use the Play Music app on your tablet.
How to browse your music library on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
The music stored on your tablet is presented in the Play Music app by category.
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The place to find more stuff for your Samsung Galaxy Tab is the digital marketplace known as the Google Play Store. You can obtain music, books, movies, TV shows, and, most importantly, apps. A lot of the stuff that’s available is free. Some of it costs money, but not as much as you would expect. Bottom line: The Google Play Store is the place to go when you need to expand upon your Tab’s capabilities.
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The Samsung Galaxy tablet has room for only seven Home screen panels, maximum. Each panel has room for so many icons, depending on the size of the tablet. For example, a Galaxy Note 10.1 has room for 48 icons on each Home screen panel.
An 8-inch Galaxy Tab 3, on the other hand, has room for only 30 icons on each Home screen panel.
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You will have plenty of things to adjust, tune, and tweak on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. The Settings app is the gateway to all these options, and you could waste hours there if you had hours to waste. But, your time is precious; therefore, let’s get right to the point and talk about how to change visual settings.
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The Home screen on your Samsung Galaxy tablet has two types of backgrounds, or wallpapers: traditional and live. Live wallpaper is animated. A not-so-live (traditional) wallpaper can be any image, such as a picture you’ve taken and stored in the Gallery app.
To set a new wallpaper for the Home screen, obey these steps:
Long-press any empty part of the Home screen.
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A useful setting for the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Camera app that most people ignore is the image resolution. That setting is routinely ignored on digital cameras as well, mostly because people don’t understand resolution. You don’t always need to use the highest resolution.
High-resolution images are great for printing photos and for photo editing.
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More options and settings and controls exist for the Internet app than about any other app on a Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet. It’s complex. No matter which size Galactic tablet you own, you have several ways to improve the way the web looks. First and foremost, don’t forget that you can orient the device horizontally and vertically, which rearranges the way a web page is displayed.
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One of the first things it is recommended you do with your Samsung Galaxy tablet is give the battery a full charge. This is a simple procedure, but a vital one.
Obey these steps to charge up the battery on your Samsung Galaxy Tab:
Assemble the wall adapter that came with the tablet.
Attach one end of the USB cable to the tablet.
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Whether you have a Wi-Fi-only Samsung Galaxy tablet or one that can also access the mobile data network, you can use the Data Usage screen to check Internet activity and even control how much data is sent and received. This feature is important to ensure that you do not exceed data limits.
To visit the Data Usage screen to see how much data you are using, open the Settings app and choose Data Usage, which is found in the Connections tab if your tablet’s Settings app features tabs.
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A perfectly wireless way to connect your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet with a computer is to use the Kies Air app. Provided that both the tablet and computer can access the same Wi-Fi network, the connection can be made and files can be transferred with relatively little pain.
Both your computer and Galaxy tablet must be connected to the same wireless (Wi-Fi) network for the connection to work.
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Upon making the USB connection between the Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet and a PC, a number of things happen. Don’t let any of these things cause you undue alarm.
First, you may see some activity on the PC: some drivers being installed and such. That’s normal behavior any time you first connect a new USB gizmo to a Windows computer.
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Despite the device’s wireless and mobile nature, you may desire to share information stored on your Samsung Galaxy Tab with other devices. Likewise, you might want to access from your tablet information stored elsewhere. Several methods are available to accomplish these tasks, although osmosis doesn’t seem to be as effective as others.
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When it comes time to turn your Samsung Galaxy tablet into a phone, you need something called Skype. It’s one of the most popular Internet communications tools, allowing you to text chat, voice chat, or video chat with others on the Internet as well as use the Internet to make real, honest-to-goodness phone calls.
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Like the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, sometimes the volume on your Samsung Galaxy tab is too loud. Sometimes it’s too soft. And rarely, it’s just right. Finding that just-right level is the job of the Volume key that clings to the side of your Galaxy tablet.
If the Volume key is on top of your tablet, press the left part of the key to increase the volume and the right part to decrease the volume.
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It’s possible to corral contacts into groups on your Samsung Galaxy Tablet, which makes it easier to send that group an e-mail, to chat via voice or video, or to perform a number of interesting group activities. The variety of things you can do depends on the apps installed on your tablet.
How to build contact groups on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
To build a group of contacts, obey these steps while using the Contacts app:
Touch the Groups tab.
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Making a new playlist on your Samsung Galaxy tablet is easy, and adding songs to the playlist is even easier. Follow these five easy steps:
Find an album or song in the library.
Locate music you want to add to a playlist.
Touch the Menu icon by the album or song.
The menu icon is shown in the margin.
Choose the Add to Playlist command.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to create a contact on your Samsung Galaxy tablet when you actually meet another human being in the real world, or maybe you finally got around to transferring information to the tablet from your old paper address book. In either instance, you have information to input, and it starts like this:
Open the Contacts app.
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One of the most common ways to lock a Samsung Galaxy tablet is to apply an unlock pattern: The pattern must be traced exactly as it was created to unlock the device and get access to your apps and other tablet features.
Summon the Screen Lock window.
Choose Pattern.
If you’ve not yet set a pattern lock, you may see a tutorial describing the process; touch the Next button to skip over the dreary directions.
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It is highly recommended that you create a custom e-mail signature for sending messages from your Samsung Galaxy tablet. It is an easy thing to set up. Here’s an example of a signature from a tablet:
DAN
This was sent from my Galaxy tablet.
Typos, no matter how hilarious, are unintentional.
To create a signature for Gmail, obey these seven simple directions:
Start the Gmail app.
It's entirely possible to own the amazing Galaxy Tab for the rest of your life and never even once bother to customize the gizmo. It's not only possible, it's sad. That's because there exists great potential to make the tablet your own. You can alter so many things, from the way it looks to the way it sounds, from the Galaxy Tab lock screen to the Galaxy Tab wallpaper.
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The lock screen on your Samsung Galaxy tablet shows up right away whenever you unlock your tablet. It shows up also after a sleep timeout or a period of inactivity. When that happens, the touchscreen automatically turns off and the tablet locks. You can control the timeout delay for the screen lock as well as whether the tablet locks automatically when you press the Power Lock key.
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Depending on the source, you have two ways to deal with unwanted music in the Play Music app's library on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. The method you use depends on whether or not the song is stored directly on the tablet:
For music stored on the device, simply locate the song or album and touch the Menu icon. Choose the Delete command.
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The Samsung Galaxy tablet is smart enough to know which of its features use the most battery power. You can check it out for yourself:
At the Home screen, touch the Apps icon.
Open the Settings app.
Choose the General tab, if available.
Not every version of the Settings app displays a General tab.
Choose Battery from the list of categories on the left side of the screen.
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On your Samsung Galaxy tablet, there’s nothing to downloading, other than understanding that most people use the term without knowing exactly what it means. Officially, a download is a transfer of information over a network from another source to your gizmo. For a Galaxy Note or a Galaxy Tab, that network is the Internet, and the other source is a web page.
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After you locate an app, the next step is downloading, by copying it from the Google Play Store to your Samsung Galaxy tablet. The app is installed automatically, building up your collection of apps and expanding what the tablet can do.
Good news: Most apps are available for free. Better news: Even the apps you pay for don’t cost dearly.
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The best tool for image editing is a computer with photo-editing software, such as Photoshop. It’s possible to use the Samsung Galaxy tablet Gallery app to perform some minor photo surgery.
How to crop a picture on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
One of the few true image-editing commands available in the Gallery app is Crop.
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You’ll probably do more text editing on your Samsung Galaxy tablet than you realize. That editing includes the basic stuff, such as spiffing up typos and adding a period here or there as well as complex editing involving cut, copy, and paste. The concepts are the same as you find on a computer, but the process can be daunting without a keyboard and mouse.
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A surefire way to make a Samsung Galaxy tablet battery last a good long time is to never turn on the device in the first place. But rather than let you use your Samsung Galaxy tablet as an expensive paperweight, let’s offer a smattering of suggestions you can follow to help prolong its battery life:
Turn off vibration options: The tablet’s vibration is caused by a teensy motor.
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Many interesting and useful items festoon the front, back, and perimeter of your Samsung Galaxy tablet. Different tablets place some features in different locations, however, as shown by the horizontal and vertical orientation of the different tablets. Due to the differences, ensure that you properly locate everything on your tablet.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet can be configured to save additional information with each picture you snap. What you can do with that information is display it while viewing a picture, and even locate the exact spot where you took a picture, right on the Maps app.
To view location and weather information for a photo, touch the photo’s image when it’s displayed full screen in the Gallery app.
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You can look at a map all day, and unless you have a GPS, how would you know where you are? Your Samsung Galaxy tablet knows where you are. Not only does it have a GPS, but by using the Maps app, it can instantly discover where you are, find what’s nearby, and even send your location to someone else.
How to find out where you are with your Samsung Galaxy tablet
To find your current street address, or any street address, long-press a location on the Maps screen.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet comes with some preinstalled security features. One of these features is a variety of lock screens. Lock screen security is set on the Set Screen Lock or Lock Screen window. Here’s how to get there:
On the Home screen, touch the Apps icon.
Open the Settings app.
Select Lock Screen from the categories on the left side of the window.
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Here are some typical problems you may encounter on your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet and here are some suggestions for a solution:
How to fix general trouble on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
For just about any problem or minor quirk, consider restarting the Galaxy tablet: Long-press the Power Lock key and choose the Restart command from the Device Options menu.
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You can use two sources for support for your Samsung Galaxy tablet. For cellular tablets, the first source of support is your cellular provider. The second source, or the only source if you have a Wi-Fi tablet, is Samsung. Or, perhaps, if you were suckered into a long-term service agreement at some Big Box store, you can try getting support from it.
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It makes sense that you would want the most comprehensive contact list on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. So how can you do that? Well, your computer’s e-mail program is doubtless a useful repository of contacts you’ve built up over the years. You can export these contacts from your computer’s e-mail program and then import them to your tablet.
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Having friends is great. Having more friends is better. Keeping all those friends is best. The Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Contact app, myriad ways are available to add more friends or create contacts.
How to create a contact from an e-mail message for your Samsung Galaxy tablet
Perhaps one of the easiest ways to build up the Contacts list is to create a contact from an e-mail message.
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You can easily expand your Samsung Galaxy tablet's storage capacity by installing a microSD card. The card stores photos, music, and other information, supplementing the tablet's internal storage. You can use the card also to exchange files between the tablet and other devices, including a computer.
You can insert the microSD card into the tablet whether the device is on or off.
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Although they’re not broadcast radio stations, some sources on the Internet — Internet radio sites — play music. Lamentably, your Samsung Galaxy tablet doesn’t come with any Internet radio apps, but that doesn’t stop you from finding a few good ones at the Google Play Store. Two free services that to recommend are
TuneIn Radio
Pandora Radio
The TuneIn Radio app gives you access to hundreds of Internet radio stations broadcasting around the world.
Security is an important feature on any electronic device, especially one like your Samsung Galaxy tablet. To lock the Galaxy tablet, simply press the Power Lock key. The touchscreen goes dark; the tablet is locked.
The tablet still works while it’s locked; it still receives e-mail and can still play music. But it’s not using as much power as it would with the display on.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet ships with a small smattering of Home screen panels, probably three. But that’s not the limit of your Home screen neighborhood. It’s possible to expand the number of panels to seven. You can add new panels as you need them, remove empty panels, and even set which is the primary one.
To add or remove Home screen panels, heed these directions:
At the Home screen, touch the Menu button.
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The Internet app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet uses a tabbed interface to display more than one web page at a time. This interface allows you to go from one web page to another with ease.
Here’s how you work the tabbed interface:
To open a blank tab, touch the plus button to the right of the last tab.
To open a link in a new tab, long-press that link.
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Nothing is truly perfect the first time, especially when you create things on a Samsung Galaxy tablet while typing with your thumbs at 34,000 feet during turbulence. You can do a whole slate of things with (and to) your friends in the tablet’s address book.
How to edit contact information on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
To make minor touch-ups to any contact, start by locating and displaying the contact’s information in the Contacts app.
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You can find information about the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s battery status in the upper-right corner of the screen, next to the current time in the status area. The icons used to display battery status are shown here.
You might also see an icon for a dead battery.
Heed those low-battery warnings! The Galaxy tablet alerts you when the battery level gets low, at about 15 percent capacity.
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A good understanding of basic file operations is necessary before you attempt file transfers between your computer and the Samsung Galaxy tablet. You need to know how to copy, move, rename, and delete files. It also helps to be familiar with what folders are and how they work.
The good news is that you don’t need to manually calculate a 64-bit cyclical redundancy check on the data, nor do you need to know what a parity bit is.
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Although it’s possible to use your Samsung Galaxy tablet without a Google account, you’d be missing out on a buncha features. So if you don’t already have one, drop everything and follow these steps to obtain a Google account:
Open your computer’s web browser program.
Yes, these steps work best if you use your computer, not the tablet.
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At last estimate, more than 2.6 million apps are available at the Google Play Store. Why not collect them all for your Samsung Galaxy Tab? Organization is the key word, and organizing and managing your Samsung Galaxy Tab apps is a rather painless experience.
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Lots of interesting doodads bespeckle your tablet's Home screen, like bugs on a windshield after a long trip.
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To make the Bluetooth connection between your Samsung Galaxy tablet and some other gizmo, such as a printer, mice, or headphones, follow these nine very simple steps:
Ensure that Bluetooth is on.
Turn on the Bluetooth gizmo or ensure that its Bluetooth radio is on.
Some Bluetooth devices have separate power and Bluetooth switches.
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Lots of interesting doodads festoon your Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Home screen, like bugs on a windshield after a long trip. You can set the background, add an icon or a widget, and rearrange everything to your heart’s content. Or when your heart isn’t content, you choose to make your gall bladder content.
Some Galaxy tablets feature a Favorites tray on the Home screen.
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One of the best ways to put expensive, high-tech gizmos, like your Samsung Galaxy tablet, to work is to play games. Don’t even sweat the thought that you have too much business or work or other important stuff you can do on your Galaxy Note or Galaxy Tab. The more advanced the mind, the more the need for play, right?
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The source of your musical joy on the Samsung Galaxy tablet is an app aptly named Play Music. You can find that app on the Apps screen. If you don’t see it there directly, look inside the Google folder. You may also find a handy Play Music shortcut right on the main Home screen.
How to play a tune on your Samsung Galaxy tablet
You listen to music by locating a song in the Play Music app library.
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The best way to share a video from your Samsung Galaxy tablet is to upload it to YouTube. As a Google account holder, you also have a YouTube account. You can use the tablet’s YouTube app to upload your videos to the Internet, where everyone can see them and make rude comments. Here’s how:
Ensure that the Wi-Fi connection is activated.
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Yes, your Samsung Galaxy tablet is wireless. Yes, it’s mobile. No, it shouldn’t have a printer attached, but golly, it’s almost a crime not to be able to print some of those incredible images you’ve captured with your Galaxy tablet. So rather than break the law and leave the images on the tablet, you can instead print from your tablet.
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Notifications appear as icons at the top left of the Home screen of your Samsung Galaxy tab. To review them, you pull down the notifications shade by dragging your finger downward from the top-left part of the screen. The notifications shade is illustrated below.
Touch a notification to deal with it. What happens next depends on the notification, but most often the app that generated the notification appears.
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The apps you install on your Samsung Galaxy tablet originate from the Play Store. That’s also the app you can return to for app management. That task includes reviewing apps you’ve downloaded, updating apps, organizing apps, and removing apps you no longer want or that you severely hate.
To peruse the apps you’ve downloaded from the Google Play Store, follow these steps:
Start the Play Store app.
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The Play Music app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet categorizes your music by album, artist, song, and so forth, but unless you have only one album and enjoy all the songs on it, that configuration probably won’t do. To better organize your music, you can create playlists. That way, you can hear the music you want to hear, in the order you want, for whatever mood hits you.
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A nifty thing to do is to save some web pages for later reading on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. You may usually start your day by perusing online articles and angry editorials in the local paper.
If you don’t have time to read that stuff before you leave, and you do have time on the plane, or later in the day, and you may be extremely unwilling to pay for in-flight Wi-Fi, you can save your favorite websites for later reading.
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As far as the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Internet app’s settings go, most of the security options are already enabled, including the blocking of pop-up windows (which normally spew ads).
If information retained on the tablet concerns you, you can clear it when you use the Internet app: Touch the Menu button and choose the Settings command.
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The Email app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet is used to access web-based e-mail, or webmail, such as Yahoo! and Windows Live. It also lets you read e-mail provided by your Internet service provider (ISP), office, or other large, intimidating organization.
How to connect an email account to your Samsung Galaxy Tablet
To get things set up regardless of the service, follow these steps:
Start the Email app.
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Your Samsung Galaxy Tab can handle several users. Computers have long had the capability to allow multiple users on the same device. Each person has his own account and customized items in his account. It’s a good idea for a computer, but for a tablet?It's not always practical for everyone to have their own Samsung Galaxy Tab.
The folks who sold you the Samsung Galaxy tablet may have already done some configuration before you left the store. That's great if it happened, but not terrible if it didn't. A cellular (LTE) tablet has most likely been unboxed and manhandled by the Phone Store people — maybe even in front of your own eyes!
That step is necessary before you can use an LTE tablet — even though it might have broken your heart (as it did mine).
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To help keep you electronically connected, the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy tablet feature the capability to collect and send your electronic missives. You can read and compose missives just about anywhere you go, peruse attachments, forward messages, and do the entire e-mail e-nchilada all in one spot.
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The home page is the first page you see when you start the Internet app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, and it’s the first page that’s loaded when you fire up a new tab. To set a home page, heed these directions:
Browse to the page you want to set as the home page.
Touch the Menu button.
Choose Settings.
The Settings screen appears.
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You can choose any picture that’s viewable in the Gallery as the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Home screen wallpaper. You can assign a different image for use as the lock screen wallpaper. Or you can use the same image for both! Follow these steps:
View an image in the Gallery.
Touch the Menu button and choose the Set As command.
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A handy way to share files between a computer and your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy tablet is to use the Dropbox app. Once installed, any files saved to your Dropbox folders are immediately synchronized across both your computer and the tablet. That makes sharing files a snap.
If Dropbox isn’t already installed on your tablet, obtain the Dropbox app by visiting the Google Play Store.
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Keeping your precious moments and memories by themselves in the Samsung Galaxy tablet is an elegant solution to the problem of lugging around photo albums and a video projector. When you want to show your pictures to the widest possible audience, however, you need a bigger stage. That stage is the Internet, and you have many ways to send and save your pictures and videos online.
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There it is! That web page that you just have to tell everyone you know about, probably a website about awesome your Samsung Galaxy tablet. The gauche way to share the page is to copy and paste it. Because you’re reading this, though, you know the better way to share a web page. Heed these steps:
Go to the web page you want to share.
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When you love an app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet so much that you just can’t contain your glee, feel free to share that app with your friends. You can easily share a link to the app in the Google Play Store by obeying these steps:
In the Play Store, select the app to share.
You can select any app, but you need to be at the app’s details screen, the one with the Free or price button.
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Sometimes, apps on your Samsung Galaxy tablet that misbehave let you know. You see a warning on the screen announcing the app’s stubborn disposition. When that happens, touch the Force Quit button to shut down the app. Then say, “Whew!” Unfortunately, the app doesn’t always let you know that it is going to misbehave and you have to take matters into your own hands.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet has no trouble sniffing out a digital cellular signal, so it can access the Internet just about anywhere. Your laptop might not be so lucky. But hey: You’re already paying for the digital cellular signal, right?
So why should you bother getting a digital cellular modem for the laptop, as well as buying into another cellular contract, when you could just use your Galactic tablet as a portable modem?
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The most basic form of communication in the Hangouts app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet — and one of the oldest forms of communications on the Internet — is text chatting, in which people type text back and forth at each other. It can be most tedious.
You start text chatting by obeying these steps:
Touch a contact in the Contacts list.
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There are plenty of reasons why you would want to copy a file from your computer to the Samsung Galaxy tablet. You can copy over your pictures and videos, and you can copy over music or audio files. You can even copy vCards that you export from your e-mail program, which helps you build your tablet’s address book.
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The very, very first time your Samsung Galaxy tablet is turned on is a special event because setup and configuration takes place. You need to do this procedure only once.
The specifics for the setup and configuration process may change.
It is recommended you read through these steps first, before turning on the tablet and working through them.
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The Samsung Galaxy tablet is a gizmo with many purposes. Its capabilities are limited only by the apps you get for it. To help you grasp this concept, the tablet comes with a slate of apps preinstalled. They can give you an idea of what the tablet is capable of, or you can simply use those apps to make the Galaxy tablet a more versatile and useful device.
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You can direct your Samsung Galaxy tablet to share its digital cellular connection with as many as five other wireless gizmos. This process is referred to as creating a mobile wireless hotspot, though no heat or fire is involved.
To set up a mobile hotspot with your Galaxy tablet, heed these steps:
Turn off the Galaxy tablet’s Wi-Fi radio.
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One cool feature located on your Samsung Galaxy tablet’s edge is an infrared remote. It’s a dark, glassy area about the size of a grain of rice. You can use that infrared hardware and the WatchON app as a super genius TV remote. Which comes in handy if you lose your remote a lot, and let’s be honest, who doesn’t lose the remote every once in a while?
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Although not many people use the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s dictation option, it can be handy. And some of the things you dictate may be considered censored. Whether or not you use it, you might notice that it occasionally censors some of the words you utter. Perhaps you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want to put up with that kind of s***.
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You don’t need to use the Play Store app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet to install apps. Using a computer, you can visit the Google Play website, choose software, and have the app installed remotely. It’s kind of cool, yet kind of mysterious. Here’s how it works:
Use your computer’s web browser to visit the Google Play store on the Internet.
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Another way to share images on the Internet is to use your Dropbox account. The Dropbox app is included with your Samsung Galaxy tablet, and signing up for Dropbox is part of the tablet’s setup and configuration. Even if that’s no longer the case, you can still obtain and use Dropbox to save and share photos. In fact, sharing photos is automatic.
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It truly is the trendiest of things to be aloft with the latest mobile gizmo, like your Samsung Galaxy tablet. Like taking a smartphone on a plane, however, you have to follow some rules. Although the Samsung Galaxy tablet isn’t a smartphone, you still have to heed the flight crew’s warnings regarding smartphones.
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Below the Samsung Galaxy tab’s touchscreen, and to the left and right of the Home key, are two popular touch buttons, each adorned with its own icon. These buttons are used to control not only the Home screen but also apps.
The Menu button, below, displays a menu of commands. When no commands are available, touching the button does nothing.
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You access Facebook on your Samsung Galaxy tablet by running the Facebook app. If you can’t find the Facebook app, you need to install it.
The first time you behold the Facebook app, you’ll probably be asked to sign in. Do so: Type the e-mail address you used to sign up for Facebook and then type your Facebook password.
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Electronic mail is handled by two apps on your tablet: Gmail and Email. The Gmail app hooks directly into your Google Gmail account. It’s a copy of all the Gmail you send, receive, and archive, just as you could access on the Internet by using a web browser.
You can also use the Email app to connect with non-Gmail electronic mail, such as the standard mail service provided by your ISP or a web-based e-mail system such as Yahoo!
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The Hangouts app can be found on the Apps screen on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. If you don’t see it directly in the list of apps, look for it inside the Google folder. And if you still can’t find it, you can obtain the app from the Google Play Store. It’s free!
Hangouts hooks into your Google account. If you have any previous conversations, they’re listed on left side the main screen.
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Bookmarks are those electronic breadcrumbs you can drop as you wander the web on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. Need to revisit a website? Just look up its bookmark. This advice assumes, of course, that you bothered to create a bookmark when you first visited the site.
The cinchy way to bookmark a page is to touch the Favorite (star) icon on the right end of the Address bar.
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The Maps app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet can help you find places in the real world, just like the Internet app helps you find places on the Internet. Both operations work basically the same.
Open the Maps app and, in the Search text box, type something to find. You can type a variety of terms in the Search box.
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Samsung Galaxy tablets feature a unique multitasking feature called Multi Window. It allows you to view two apps side-by-side on the touchscreen. This is opposed to how apps normally run, which is full screen.
Before you can use Multi Window, ensure that it's activated. The quick way to turn on this feature is to pull down the notifications shade and choose the Multi Window quick action.
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Twitter is a social networking site, similar to Facebook but far briefer, that you can use on your Samsung Galaxy tablet. On Twitter, you write short spurts of text that express your thoughts or observations, or you share links. Or you can just use Twitter to follow the thoughts and twitterings, or tweets, of other people.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet has the amazing capability to interpret your utterances as text. It works almost as well as computer dictation in science fiction movies, though you won’t find the command to launch photon torpedoes.
How to activate voice input on your Samsung Galaxy Tablet
To ensure that the tablet’s dictation feature is active, obey these steps:
Display the onscreen keyboard.
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The Wi-Fi Direct feature is used to connect your tablet with another Wi-Fi Direct device. It’s not necessarily about connecting to the Internet, but rather more about sharing with other mobile devices.
Heed these directions to use Wi-Fi Direct to connect your Samsung Galactic tablet to another Wi-Fi Direct device:
Open the Settings app.
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The Samsung Galaxy tablet has a plethora of options for you to choose from to decide how to secure your tablet. Two of these options involve your very own face!
How to unlock the Samsung Galaxy tablet with your face
The Face Unlock setting allows you to get access to your Galaxy tablet simply by looking at it.
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The Google Cloud Print option is perhaps the easiest way to print from your Samsung Galaxy tablet. The problem is that you need four things to make it work:
A desktop computer or access to one
A printer connected to that computer, either directly or over a network
The Google Chrome web browser on that computer
The Google Cloud Print app on your tablet
Providing you can wrangle those four items, the next step is to configure everything.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet keeps constant, accurate track of the time, which is displayed at the top of the Home screen as well as on the lock screen. The display is lovely and informative, but it can’t actually wake you up. You need to choose a specific time and apply a noise to that time. This process turns the tablet into an alarm clock.
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The Samsung Galaxy tablet’s onscreen keyboard reveals itself on the bottom half of the screen. If you find that keyboard comforting, you’re getting ahead of yourself. That’s because the keyboard may change its appearance and function as you use it. This feature can be useful but also disconcerting.
The onscreen keyboard is shown in alphabetic mode.
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Feel free to throw away any datebook you have. You never need to buy another one again. That’s because your Samsung Galaxy tablet is the ideal datebook and appointment calendar. Thanks to the Calendar app and the Google Calendar feature on the Internet, you can manage all your scheduling right on your Galaxy tablet.
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The cellular Samsung Galaxy tablet is designed to connect to the Internet by using the digital cellular network. This network is the same type used by smartphones and cellular modems to wirelessly connect to the Internet.
Several types of digital cellular networks are available:
4G LTE: The fourth generation of wide-area data networks is up to ten times faster than the 3G network and is the latest craze in cellular networking.
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Samsung’s Galaxy tablets are based on the Android operating system, which is the spawn of Google. The Google-preferred way to browse the web is to use the Chrome web browser. Your tablet came with the Internet browser. It’s like Chrome, but Chrome has some features you may want to take advantage of.
Yes, it’s okay to have more than one web browser app on your tablet.
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One app that seems to be missing from the Samsung Galaxy tablet is a task manager app. One may be added in the future, but until then you have a handy substitute. To view running apps on your tablet, follow these steps:
Open the Settings app.
On the left side of the screen, select the Application Manager item.
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Take the conversation up on the Hangouts app on your Samsung Galaxy tablet a notch by touching the Video icon on the right side of the text chat window. When you do, your friend receives a pop-up invite. Touch the Accept button to begin talking.
Here is an ongoing video chat. The person you’re talking with appears in the big window; you’re in the smaller window.
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Start the Gallery app by choosing its icon from the Apps screen on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, or you may find a shortcut lurking on the Home screen. When the Gallery app opens, you see pictures organized into albums.
If you see the Camera app when you start the Gallery, touch the Back button to return to the Gallery.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet’s web-browsing app is named Internet. Yeah, that’s kind of generic, but it’s the app you open when you desire to surf the ’net. Find that app on the Apps screen or perhaps as a shortcut icon affixed to the Home screen. Here is an illustration of the Internet app’s interface.
Here are some handy tablet web-browsing tips:
Pan the web page by dragging your finger across the touchscreen.
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To visit a web page on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, type its address into the Address box. You can also type a search word or phrase if you don’t know an exact web page address. Touch the Go button on the onscreen keyboard to search the web or visit a specific web page.
If you don’t see the Address box, touch the web page’s tab atop the screen.
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It’s not possible to watch “real” TV on your Samsung Galaxy tablet, but a few apps come close. The YouTube app is handy for watching random, meaningless drivel, which you may suppose makes it a lot like TV.
Then there’s the Play Movies & TV app, which lets you buy and rent real movies and TV shows from the Google Play Store.
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To get mail you need to send mail. Doing so on your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy Tab is relatively simple. In fact, if you’ve ever composed e-mail before, you’ll find writing an electronic epistle on your tablet quite familiar. However, the process is subtly different between the Gmail and Email apps.
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Icons and widgets are fastened to the Samsung Galaxy tablet’s Home screen by something akin to the same glue they use on sticky notes. You can easily pick up an icon or a widget, move it around, and then restick it. Unlike sticky notes, the icons and widgets never just fall off.
To move an icon or a widget, long-press it.
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The icons you see on the Home screen don't represent all the apps in your Samsung Galaxy tablet. Those icons aren't even apps themselves; they're shortcuts. To see all installed apps, you must visit the Apps screen. To do so, touch the Apps button on the Home screen. You see the first panel of the Apps screen:
You can find any additional apps by swiping the Apps screen to the left.
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Not only can you organize apps into folders on the Home screen of your Samsung Galaxy Note or Samsung Galaxy Tab, you can also build folders of apps on the Apps screen. Creating a folder, adding apps, and accessing the apps works the same on both the Home screen and Apps screen.
To create an Apps screen folder, obey these steps:
Open the Apps screen.
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Your Samsung Galaxy tablet's life isn't difficult, as long as you know how to do some basic duties on the Home screen: start an app, access widgets, and work with Quick Settings.
How to start an app on your Galaxy tab
It's blissfully simple to run an app on the Home screen: Touch its icon. The app starts.
Not all apps dwell on the Home screen, but they all appear when you display the Apps screen.
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It’s a device that just can’t be described in a single sentence. The Samsung Galaxy Tab presents the latest solution to the problem of carrying around too many electronics. This tablet offers so many features that gentle hand-holding and careful explanation is required. Therefore, use this Cheat Sheet as your quick-and-dirty guide to Galactic tablet tips and tricks you just can’t find anywhere else.
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Armed with your Samsung Galaxy tablet, you can keep your digital social life up-to-date wherever you go. With the Samsung Galaxy Tab Facebook app and other social media, you can communicate with your friends, followers, and buddies; upload pictures and videos you take on the tablet; or simply share your personal, private, intimate thoughts with the mass of humanity.
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One solution for synchronizing files between your Samsung Galaxy tablet and a computer is to use Google Drive. It's yet another free service offered by Google, providing online, or Cloud, storage. Files saved on Google Drive are available to all devices — computers, tablets, phones — that have the Google Drive software installed.
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Your Samsung Galaxy Tab’s battery allows it to wander away from a wall socket. Wireless networking is what keeps a gizmo such as your Galaxy Tab connected to the Internet. The digital cellular signal offers Internet access pretty much all over. Other types of wireless communications are available, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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