SKY DEVICES Elite P55Max Smartphone User Manual

SKY DEVICES Elite P55Max Smartphone

Ensure the phone is switched on and in service, enter the emergency number, e.g. 112, then press the Dial key. Give your location and state your situation briefly. Do not end the call until told to do so.

Note: Just like all other mobile phones, this mobile phone does not necessarily support all the features described in this manual due to network or radio transmission problems. Some networks even do not support the emergency call service. Therefore, do not rely solely on the mobile phone for critical communications such as first aid. Please consult the local network operator. Precautions This mobile phone is well designed with fine art. Please exercise special care when using it. The following suggestions will help your mobile phone survive the warranty period and extend its service life:

• Keep the mobile phone and all its fittings beyond children’s reach.
• Keep the mobile phone dry. Keep away from rain, moisture, liquid or other substances that may corrode electronic circuits.
• Do not use or store the mobile phone in dusty places; lest the active parts of the mobile phone be damaged.
• Do not store the mobile phone in a high-temperature place. High temperatures will shorten the life of electronic circuits and damage the battery and some plastic parts.
• Do not store the mobile phone in a chilly place. Otherwise, moisture will be formed inside the mobile phone to damage electronic circuits when the mobile phone is moved to a constant temperature place.
• Do not throw, knock or shock the mobile phone, as that will destroy the internal circuits and high-precision components of the mobile phone.

Your phone

Phone overview

Functions of Keys
The mobile phone provides the following keys:

• Power key
  The power key situates at the right side of the phone. While using the phone, you can press this key to lock screen; if you press and hold this key, a phone-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
  The volume key situates at the right side of the phone. You can press it to adjust the ringer volume.

Functions of icons

• Recent icon
  Touch this icon to access the options of a selected function;

• Home icon
  Touch it to open the 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

Installing the SIM Card and the Battery
A SIM card carries useful information, including your mobile phone number, PIN (Personal Identification Number), PIN2, PUK (PIN Unlocking Key), PUK2 (PIN2 Unlocking Key), IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity), network information, contacts data, and short messages data.

Note:
After powering off your mobile phone, wait for a few seconds before removing or inserting a SIM card. Exercise caution when operating a SIM card, as friction or bending will damage the SIM card. Properly keep the mobile phone and its fittings such as the SIM cards beyond children’s reach.

Installation

• Hold the power key for a while and select power off to power off the mobile phone.
• Take the back cover away.
• Insert the SIM Card into the SIM Card slot lightly with the comer cutting of the card aligning to the notch of the slot, the gold plate of the small card facing download and the gold plate of the normal card facing up, till the SIM Card cannot be further pushed in.
• 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!

Charging the Battery

• Your mobile phone 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 comer of the display screen.
• When the battery energy is insufficient, the mobile phone prompts “Battery low”.
• Using a travel adapter:
• Install the battery into the mobile phone before charging the battery.
• Connect the adapter of the travel charger with the charging slot in the mobile phone. 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 earphone, 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 tum 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 > More>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.

Linking to the Networks and devices
Your phone can connect to a variety of networks and devices, induding mobile networks for voice and data transmission, Wi-Fi® data networks, and Bluetooth® wireless connection devices, such as headsets. You can also connect your phone to a computer, to transfer files from your phone’s SD card and share your phone’s mobile data connection via USB.

Connecting to mobile networks
When you assemble your phone with a SIM card, your phone is configured to use your provider’s mobile networks for voice calls and for transmitting data. 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 phone 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 phone 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, f 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 headphones for making calls or listening to music, hands-free kits for cars, and other portable devices, including laptops and cell phones. Touch Settings> Network> Bluetooth®. Check Bluetooth® to turn it on. You must pair your phone with a device before you can connect to it. Once you pair your phone with a device, they stay paired unless you unpaired them. Your phone 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 phone to a computer with a USB cable, to transfer music, pictures, and other files between your phone’s SD card and the computer.

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 the Screen lock in Security setting is enabled, press the 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 a preset period, the screen will be locked automatically to save power.

Unlock screen
Press the Power key to switch on the handset device. The lock screen appears. Touch and slide right to unlock the screen and the screen is locked last time will show.

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.

Dialing Calls

• Dialing a call to a number in the contacts
  Touch the Phone icon or the phone application icon on the Home screen, then select the Contacts tab. Swipe or slide upward/downward to pick out the target contact. Then you can touch the dial icon to originate a call.

• Dialing a call to a number in call log
  Touch the Phone icon or the phone application icon on the Home screen, then select the call log tab. Swipe or slide upward/downward to pick out and touch the target contact. Then you can originate a call.

• Answering incoming calls

  • Touch the Answer icon to answer an incoming call.
  • Touch the End icon to end the current conversation.
  • To reject an incoming call, touch the Decline icon.

• Managing multiple calls
  If you accept a new call when you’re already on a call, you can touch the Answer icon to answer the current calls.

Using the Menus

Chrome Browser
You can use Browser to view web pages and search for information on the web. When you open the Browser, your home page opens. The web address (URL) of the current page is displayed at the top of the window.

Call History
You can use this function to manage your calls:

• All: All calls will be in the list.
• Missed: You can view a list of missed calls. If there are some missed calls, you can drag the Column notice down to view it.
• Outgoing: You can view and manage the dialed calls.
• Incoming: You can view and manage the received calls.

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 and video

Contacts

In the contacts screen, touch the menu icon and you can perform the following operations:

• Contacts to display: you can select the contacts on the different groups to display. import you can import the contacts form a SIM card or storage; you can also share the visible contacts.
• Blocked numbers: select this option to enter the call firewall.
• Accounts: you can sync with your account.
• Settings: you can set the display options in this interface.
• Send contacts by Messaging: select this function, then you can choose some contacts to share by messaging
• 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 the contacts screen. Last, touch OK and confined to delete contacts.
• Advanced options: you can view the SIM capacity and Clear up contacts

Gmail
You use the Gmail application to read and send Gmail. There are many Gmail addresses to choose from Touch Gmail icon to access it. If the Gmail account has not been set up, you can set up a Gmail account in a few steps.

Account setup
Enter a Gmail address and the account’s password.

Account settings

• Set inbox checking frequency.
• Set Send Gmail from this account by default.
• Set Notify me when Gmail arrives.
• Set Synchronize contacts, calendar or Gmail from this account.
• Set automatically download attachments when connected to Wi-Fi®.

Compose and send Gmail
To compose and send a Gmail:

1. Touch the Create icon to compose a new Gmail.
2. Enter the Gmail address (es) for the intended recipient(s).
3. Touch Menu – Attach a file to attach a file.
4. Touch Menu – Add Cc/Bee to add copy or blind copy this Gmail to other contacts.
5. After completing the Gmail, Touch send icon to send the Gmail. Touch the folder icon to check the account status. For each Gmail account, there are five default folders, i.e., inbox, Drafts, Outbox, Send and Trash folders. To view sent emails, open the Sent folder and tap the refresh icon.

FM Radio

Please plug in the compatible earphone to the device and then tum on the radio. The earphone cable can be used as FM Antenna. Please adjust the appropriate volume when listening to the radio. Continuing to use higher volume is harmful for your ear.

Gallery
Both pictures and videos taken by camera or stored in SD card can be scanned through this function. You also can log in the Google to view the photos in your account.

Google Play Store
You can download and manage media files through this application. Google, Google Play, and other marks are trademarks of Google LLC.

Appendix
Appendix 1: Troubleshooting
If you find exceptions when operating the mobile phone, restore the factory settings and then refer to the following table to solve the problem. If the problem persists, contact the distributor or service provider.

SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR) CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
This device meets international guidelines for exposure to radio waves This device has been tested and found to comply with the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) RF exposure requirements set by international agencies.

Designed in the USA Manufactured in China to Sky Devices Specifications Google. Google Play and other marks are trademarks of Google LLC.

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