g-mee Play 2 Android Smart Player User Manual

User Manual
Product Name：Android smart player
Brand Name：G-mee
Model Name：Play 2

General Information

1.1 Profile
Please read this pamphlet carefully in order to make your smart player in perfect condition.
Our company may change this Android smart player without prior written notice and reserves the final right to interpret the performance of this Android smart player.
Due to different software and network operators, display on your smart player may be different, refer to your smart player for details.

1.2 Safety warning and Attentions
• Safety warning
• SWITCH OFF IN AIRCRAFT
Wireless devices can cause interference in aircraft. Using a Android smart player in flight is illegal and risky.
Please make sure that your Android smart player is powered off in flight.
• SWITCH OFF BEFORE ENTERING RISKY AREAS
Strictly observe the relevant laws, codes, and regulations on the use of Android smart players in risky areas. Turn off your Android smart player before entering a place susceptible to explosion, such as an oil station, oil tank, chemical plant or a place where a blasting process is under way.
• OBSERVE ALL SPECIAL REGULATIONS
Follow any special regulations in force in any area such as hospitals and always switch off your smart player whenever it is forbidden to use it or, when it may cause interference or danger. Properly use your
Android smart player near medical apparatuses, such as pacemakers, hearing aids and some other electronic medical devices, as it may cause interference to such apparatuses.
• INTERFERENCE
The conversation quality of any Android smart player may be affected by radio interference. An antenna is built inside the Android smart player and located below the microsmart player. Do not touch the antenna area during a conversation, lest that the conversation quality deteriorate.
• QUALIFIED SERVICE
Only qualified personnel may install or repair smart player equipment. Installing or repairing the Android smart player on your own may bring great danger and violates the warranty rules.
• ACCESSORIES AND BATTERIES
Use only approved accessories and batteries.
• USE SENSIBLY
Use only in a normal and proper manner.
• Precautions
This Android smart player is well designed with fine art. Please exercise special care when using it. The following suggestions will help your Android smart player survive the warranty period and extend its service life:
Keep the Android smart player and all its fittings beyond children’s reach.
Keep the Android smart player dry. Keep away from rain, moisture, liquid or other substances that may corrode electronic circuits.
Do not use or store the Android smart player in dusty places, lest that active parts of the Android smart player be damaged.
Do not store the Android smart player in a high-temperature place. High temperature will shorten the life of electronic circuits and damage the battery and some plastic parts.
Do not store the Android smart player in a chilly place. Otherwise, moistures will be formed inside the
Android smart player to damage electronic circuits when the Android smart player is moved to a constant temperature place.
Do not throw, knock or shock the Android smart player, as that will destroy the internal circuits and high-precision components of the Android smart player.

Your smart player

2.1 Smart player overview

2.2 Functions of Keys
The Android smart player provides the following keys:
• Power
Power key situates at the right side of the smart player. While using the smart player, you can press this key to lock screen; if you press and hold this key, a smart player-options dialog would pop out. Here, you can select to adjust the profile mode, power off, reboot or turn on/off airplane mode.
• Volume key
Volume key situates at the left side of the smart player. You can press it to adjust ringer volume.

2.3 Functions of icons
Menu icon

Touch this icon to access options of a selected function;
• Home icon
Touch it to open home screen. If you’re viewing the left or right extended Home screen, touch it can enter the home screen.
• Back icon
Touch this icon to return to the previous screen;

Getting started

3.1 Installing the Battery

Battery Installation
• Hold the power key for a while and select power off to power off the Android smart player.
• Take the back cover away.
• With the metallic contacts of the battery facing the metallic contacts in the battery slot, install the battery.
Note:
The SD card is a miniature object. Keep it out of the reach of children for fear that children swallow it!
3.2 Charging the Battery
• Your Android smart player can monitor and display the battery state.
• Normally the remaining energy of the battery is indicated by the battery level icon at the upper right corner of the display screen.
• When the battery energy is insufficient, the Android smart player prompts “Battery low”.
Using a travel adapter:
• Install the battery into the Android smart player before charging the battery.
• Connect the adapter of the travel charger with the charging slot in the Android smart player. Ensure that the adapter is fully inserted.
• Insert the plug of the travel charger to an appropriate power outlet.
• During the charging, the battery level grids in the battery icon keep flickering till the battery is fully charged.
• The battery icon does no longer flicker when the charging process ends.

Note:
Ensure that the plug of the charger, the plug of the earsmart player, and the plug of the USB cable are inserted in the right direction. Inserting them in a wrong direction may cause charging failure or other problems.
Before the charging, ensure that the standard voltage and frequency of the local mains supply match the rated voltage and power of the travel charger.

Optimizing battery life
You can extend your battery’s life between charges by turning off features that you don’t need. You can also monitor how applications and system resources consume battery power.
To guarantee the optimal performance of your battery, please stick to the following rules:
• Turn off radios that you aren’t using. If you aren’t using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GPRS, use the Setting application to turn them off.
• Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.
• If you don’t need them, turn off automatic syncing for Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, and other applications.

Note : On the Home screen, press Menu icon and touch Settings > Device>Battery. The Battery Use screen lists the applications that have been using the battery, from greatest to least battery use. The top of the screen displays the time since you were last connected to a charger or, if you’re currently connected to one, how long you were running on battery power before you connected to a charger. Then each application or service that used battery power during that time is displayed, in order of the amount of power they used. Touch an application in the Battery Use screen to learn details about its power consumption. Different applications offer different kinds of information.

3.3 Linking to the wifi and devices
Your smart player can connect to a variety of networks and devices, including Wi-Fi data networks, and Bluetooth devices, such as headsets. You can also connect your smart  player to a computer, to transfer files from your smart player’s SD card and share your smart player’s mobile data connection via USB.
Connecting to Wi-Fi networks
Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that can provide Internet access at distances of up to 100 meters, depending on the Wi-Fi router and your surroundings.
Touch Settings>Network > Wi-Fi. Check Wi-Fi to turn it on. The smart player scans for available Wi-Fi networks and displays the names of those it finds. Secured networks are indicated with a Lock icon.
Note : If the smart player finds a network that you connected to previously, it connects to it.

Touch a network to connect to it. If the network is open, you are prompted to confirm that you want to connect to that network by touching Connect. If the network is secured,  you’re prompted to enter a password or other credentials.

Connecting to Bluetooth devices
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communications technology that devices can use to exchange information over a distance of about 8 meters. The most common Bluetooth devices are headsmart players for making calls or listening to music, hands-free kits for cars, and other portable devices, including laptops and cell smart players.

Touch Settings> Network > Bluetooth. Check Bluetooth to turn it on.
You must pair your smart player with a device before you can connect to it. Once you pair your smart player with a device, they stay paired unless you unpair them.
Your smart player scans for and displays the IDs of all available Bluetooth devices in range. If the device you want to pair with isn’t in the list, make it discoverable.
Connecting to a computer via USB
You can connect your smart player to a computer with a USB cable, to transfer music, pictures, and other files between your smart player’s SD card and the computer.
3.4 Using the touch screen
• Touch-screen tips
• Touch
To act on items on the screen, such as application and settings icons, to type letters and symbols using the onscreen keyboard, or to press onscreen buttons, you simply touch them with your finger.

• Touch & hold
Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs. For example, to open a menu for customizing the Home screen, you touch  an empty area on the Home screen until the menu opens.
• Drag
Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without lifting your finger, move your finger on the screen until you reach the target position.
• Swipe or slide
To swipe or slide, you quickly move your finger across the surface of the screen, without pausing when you first touch it (so you don’t drag an item instead). For example, you  slide the screen up or down to scroll a list.
• Lock screen
When Screen lock in Security setting is enabled, press Power key to lock the handset. This helps to prevent accidental touching of keys and as well as power saving. When Sleep function in Display setting is enabled, after the handset device has been idle for preset period, the screen will be locked automatically to save power.
• Unlock screen
Press Power key to switch on the handset device. The lock screen appears. Touch and slide right to unlock screen, and the screen being locked last time will show.

3.5 Using the onscreen keypad
You enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some applications open the keyboard automatically. In others, you touch a text field where you want to enter text to open the  keyboard. You can also enter text by speaking instead of by typing.
• To enter text
Touch a text field, and the onscreen keyboard opens. Some applications open the keyboard automatically.
In others, you touch a text field where you want to enter text to open the keyboard.
• Touch the keys on the keyboard to type.
The characters you’ve entered appear in the text field, with suggestions for the word you are typing below.
• Use the Delete icon to erase characters to the left of the cursor.After finishing typing, touch Back icon to close the keyboard.

Using the Menus

4.1 Backup Restore
You can use this function to backup or restore your smart player data.
4.2 Browser
You can use Browser to view web pages and search for information on the web.
When you open Browser, your home page opens. The web address (URL) of the current page is displayed at the top of the window.

To go to a webpage or search the web
Touch the URL box at the top of the Browser screen. Enter the address (URL) of a webpage. Or enter terms you want to search for. As you enter text, your web search engine  makes suggestions of web pages and queries.
To refresh the current page
Touch Menu icon and an option interface appears, then you can touch Refresh to update the current web page.
To zoom in or out on a webpage
Slide your finger slightly on the screen to reveal the Zoom control. Touch the plus or minus side of the Zoom control to zoom in or out.
To find text on a webpage
Touch Menu icon and touch More > Find on page. Enter the text you’re looking for. As you type, the first word with matching characters is highlighted on the screen, and  subsequent matches are boxed. Touch the left or right arrow to scroll to and highlight the previous or next matching word.
Copy text from webpage
Open a webpage and scroll to the beginning of the text you want to copy, touch Menu icon and touch More > Select text. Use your finger to drag across the text you want to  copy. Touch the text you selected and the text would be copied to the clipboard.
Navigate among webpage
You can open links on a webpage, navigate back and forward, and review your browsing history, just as in any web browser.
To open a link: Touch a link to open it. Links that you touch are highlighted in orange until the webpage they refer to opens in the window.
To go back and forward among the pages you’ve opened: Press back key or touch menu icon> forward.
To view your Browser history: As you browse the web, Browser keeps track of the pages you visit, to help you find your way back later. Touch the icon which situates at the right  of the URL box, then touch History tab, and then you can view your browser history. Select Most visited tab and you can view a list of most visited webpage.
Working with multiple browser windows
You can open up to several Browser windows at once and switch among them.
To open a new Browser window, touch menu icon >new window; New windows open with your home page.
To switch Browser windows, touch menu icon > windows. Here, all your open windows are listed. You can select one of them as per your need.
To close a Browser window, touch menu icon > windows. Here, all your open windows are listed.
You can touch the close icon at the right side of each open window to close it.
Downloading files
You can download files and even applications from webpage. The files that you download are stored on your SD card.
To download a file, Different webpage offer different mechanisms for downloading pictures, documents, applications, and other files. Touch & hold an image or a link to a file or to another webpage. In the menu that opens, touch Save. If the file is in a format supported by an application on the smart player, it is downloaded to your SD card. Touch the menu icon and then touch More>downloads, here, you can find a list of downloaded files. If you want to delete a file, just touch the indication box which situates at the left of the downloaded file, and an option box will pop out, here, you can select delete to delete an unnecessary file.

Working with bookmarks
Open a webpage to bookmark, touch menu icon> Bookmarks, here, you can view bookmarks displayed in thumbnail style.
Touch & hold a bookmark, an option box will pop out. There, you can perform the following operations on bookmarks: Open, open in new window, Edit bookmark, Add shortcut to Home, Share link, copy link URL, Delete bookmark and set the current bookmark as homepage.

4.3 Calculator
You can use this Calculator to solve simple arithmetic problems or use its advanced operators to solve more complex equations.
Enter numbers and arithmetic operators on the basic screen; Drag the basic screen to the left to open the advanced screen; Touch Del to delete the last number or operator you entered. Touch & hold Del to delete everything in the display.
In the calculator screen, you can touch menu icon to access advanced panel.

4.4 Calendar
You can open Calendar to view events you’ve created.
Touch the Calendar icon in the main menu interface. Events from each account you’ve added to your smart player and configured to synchronize calendars are displayed in  Calendar.
Creating an event

You can use Calendar on your smart player to create events. In any calendar view, touch menu icon >new event to open a event details screen for a new event.
Enter a name, time, and optional additional details about the event. You can touch plus icon to add more reminders. In the Guests field, you can enter the email addresses of  everyone you want to invite to the event.
Separate multiple addresses with commas ( , ). If the people to whom you send invitations use Google Calendar, they’ll receive an invitation in Calendar and by email. You can  touch menu icon and touch Show extra options to add details about the event. Scroll to the bottom of the Event details screen and touch Done. The event is added to your calendar.

Synchronizing and displaying calendars
When you add a Google Account or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account to your smart player that includes a calendar service, and you configure that account to synchronize calendar events to the smart player, the events from that calendar are added and kept up to date in Calendar on the smart player.

In calendar screen, touch menu icon and touch Calendars to display > Calendars, here, you can set whether calendars are stored on the smart player or visible. The Calendars screen displays all the calendars you’ve added or subscribed to for each account that is configured to synchronize events to your smart player, organized by account. Touch the name of an account to show or hide its calendars on your smart player. An icon to the right of each calendar indicates whether its events are synchronized in the smart player and whether they are visible in Calendar.

Change Calendar settings
You can change the following settings for how Calendar displays event and how it notifies you of upcoming events. Open a Calendar view, touch menu icon and touch settings.

4.5 Camera
Touch the Camera icon in the main menu interface or on the home screen, camera opens in Landscape mode, ready to take a picture. In this mode, you can touch the camera icon to take a photo, touch photo icon and slide right to switch between photo, video and Panora.
Note : you can also touch menu icon to pop out an option box. There, you can switch to camcorder mode.
4.6 Clock
Touch the Clock icon on the Home screen or in the main menu interface. You can set an alarm by modifying an existing alarm or by adding a new one. You also can use word time，Timer and Stopwatch.
4.7 Downloads
Through this function, you can view a list of files and applications which you downloaded from the network.
4.8 Email
You use the Email application to read and send email. There are many email address to choose Touch email icon to access it. If the Email account has not been set up, you can  set up an Email account in a few steps.
• Account setup
Enter an Email address and the account’s password.
• Account settings
• Set inbox checking frequency.
• Set Send email from this account by default.
• Set Notify me when email arrives.
• Set Synchronize contacts, calendar or Email from this account.
• Set Automatically download attachments when connected to Wi-Fi.
• Compose and sending Email
To compose and send an Email:
1. Touch the create icon to compose a new Email.
2. Enter Email address(es) for intended recipient(s).
3. Touch Menu → Attach file to attach a file.
4. Touch Menu → Add Cc/Bcc to add copy or blind copy this Email to other contacts.
5. After completing the Email, Touch send icon to send the Email. Touch folder icon to check the account status. For each Email account there are five default folders, i.e.,  Inbox, Drafts, Outbox, Send and Trash folders. To view sent Emails, open Sent folder and tap refresh icon.
4.9 Facebook
You can use the Facebook through this function after you have a Facebook account and log in it.
4.10 File manager
The smart player supports the SD card. You can use the File Manager to conveniently manage various directories and files on the SD card.
4.11 FlashLight
You can turn on/off the flash light through this function.
4.12 Flipkart
This is a online store.you can log in it with an email account to go shopping after connecting to the network.
4.13 FM Radio
Please plug in the compatible earsmart player to the device and then turn on the radio. The earsmart player cable can be used as FM Antenna. Please adjust appropriate volume  when listening to the radio. Continue to use higher volume is harmful for your ear.
4.14 Gallery
Both pictures and videos taken by camera or stored in SD card can be scanned through this function.
4.15 Gmail
This is a email provided by google. You can view the email to use it.
4.16 Google
You can search by voice or input some words through this function which is provided by google.
4.17 Google settings
Through this function, you can set the google apps.
4.18 Hangouts
This is a messaging app provided by google. sign in it through the google account before using it.
4.19 HI LifeBox
You can use the HI LifeBox function through this function,please enable the network good connection.
4.20 Music
Music plays audio files that are stored on your smart player’s SD card, so before you open Music, you must copy audio files from your computer onto the SD card. Music  supports a wide variety of audio file formats, so it can play music that you purchase from online stores, music that you copy from your CD collection, and so on.
To open Music and view your music library
Touch the Music icon in the main menu interface or on the Home screen.
When you copy music to your SD card, Music searches the card for music files and builds a catalog of your music, based on information about each file that is stored in the file itself. This can take from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on how many files you have copied onto the SD card. When the catalog is complete, the Music library screen opens, with tabs that you can touch to view your music library organized by Artists, Albums, Songs or Playlists.
Note : If the smart player power off owing to low battery while you were downloading music via USB cable, the smart player would prompt ‘ SD card error’ when you power on the smart player. Repower on the smart player for about 5 times, the same prompt would occur. Under this circumstance, you should repower on the smart player until it prompts ‘SD card error. Format?’. Please select format to format your SD card to ensure the smart player runs properly.
Any sudden suspend during downloading music via USB cable may result in great damage to your SD card.

Play music
You can listen to music by using the smart player’s built-in speaker, through a wired headset, or through a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset.
Touch a song in your library to listen to it. The Playback screen opens and the song you touched starts to play. The Playback screen contains several icons that you can touch to  control the playback of songs. On the right-top of playback screen, you can find three function icons. You can touch them to open the current playlist, shuffle the current playlist or repeat the current playlist / repeat the current track (touch twice). Three function icons which situates just above the process bar can be used to control the playing process of the music application. Their functions can be defined as the following: switch to last song (touch) /rewind (touch & hold), play/pause and switch to next song  (touch)/ fast forward (touch & hold)
To delete a song from the SD card
You can delete music from the storage card. Touch & hold a song in a library list. In the menu that opens, touch Delete.

4.21 Note
You can create new note through this function.
4.22 Opera Mini
This is a browser,you can view the part of browser to use it.
4.23 People
In the contacts screen, touch menu icon and you can perform the following operations: Contacts to display: you can select the contacts on different group to display.

Accounts: you can sync with your account.
Settings: you can set the display options in this interface.
Send contacts by sms/mms: you can share your visible contacts via sms/mms.
Batch delete: Select this function, then you can mark the target contacts. To delete all contacts, you just need to touch all at the top of contacts screen. Last, touch OK and confirm to delete contacts. card.

4.24 Play store
You can download and manage media files through this application.
4.25 Quikr
This is a life website of India that provides free classified ads site, native to India release cars, jobs, housing, entertainment, services, pets and so on.
4.26 Search
The Search function enables you to open a search box for searching your smart player and the web.
【DEVICE】
• Audio profiles
There are four profiles: General, Silent, Vibration and Outdoor. You can set the profiles according to different conditions.
• Display
You can set Brightness, Wallpaper, Auto-rotate screen, Sleep, Daydream, Font size and Font in this interface.

• Storage
  Use the Storage settings to monitor the used and available space on your smart player and on your SD card and to manage your SD card.

• Battery
  You can view your battery status, battery level and battery use in this interface.

• Apps
  You can use the Applications settings to view details about the applications installed on your smart player, to manage their data and force them to stop, to view and control currently running services, and to view the storage used by applications, etc.

• Delete application
  You can use this function to uninstall the apps that install by yourself.
  【PERSONAL】

• Location
  You can turn on/off location and select High accuracy, Battery saving or Device only through this function.

• Security
  You can set the parameters about security through this function.

• Language & input
  Use the Language & Keyboard settings to select the language for the text on your smart player and for configuring the input method.

• Backup & reset
  You can backup your data and reset your smart player in this interface.

• Schedule power on/off
  You can auto power on/off your smart player through this setting.
  【ACCOUNTS】

• Add account
  You should add account first before using this function.
  【SYSTEM】

• Date & time
  You can use Date & Time settings to set your preferences for how dates are displayed. You can also use these settings to set your own time and time zone, rather than  obtaining the current time from the network, etc.

• Accessibility
  You use the Accessibility settings to configure any accessibility plug-ins you have installed on your
  smart player.

• Printing
  You can connect to printer and print something you need through this function.

• About smart player
  This function enables you to view some smart player related information.
  4.27 Sound Recorder
  Use this function to record audio files. Two function icons at the bottom of the Recorder screen are corresponding to start recording and review record file.

4.28 Video player
With Videos, you can play video clips in your device (for example, the video you captured by the camera) or video files stored in compatible SD card (if inserted).