SKY DEVICES Elite Octa Smartphone User Manual
- June 6, 2024
- SKY DEVICES
Table of Contents
EliteOcta
User Manual
**General Information
**
1.1 Profile
Please read this pamphlet carefully in order to make your tablet in perfect
condition.
Our company may change this tablet without prior written notice and reserves
the final right to interpret the performance of this tablet. Due to different
software and network operators, the display on your tablet may be different,
refer to your tablet for details.
1.2 Safety warning and Attentions Safety warning
Safety warning
ROAD SAFETY COMES FIRST
Do not use a hand-held tablet while driving. Use hands-free fittings when
calls are unavoidable while driving. In some countries, dialing or receiving
calls while driving is illegal!
SWITCH OFF IN AIRCRAFT
Wireless devices can cause interference in aircraft. Using a tablet in flight
is illegal and risky. Please make sure that your tablet is powered off in
flight.
SWITCH OFF BEFORE ENTERING RISKY AREAS
Strictly observe the relevant laws, codes, and regulations on the use of
tablets in risky areas. Turn off your tablet before entering a place
susceptible to explosions, such as an oil station, oil tank, chemical plant,
or a place where a blasting process is underway.|
OBSERVE ALL SPECIAL REGULATIONS
Follow any special regulations in force in any area such as hospitals and
always switch off your tablet whenever it is forbidden to use it or, when it
may cause interference or danger. Properly use your tablet 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 tablet may be affected by radio interference.
An antenna is built inside the tablet and located below the micro tablet. Do
not touch the antenna area during a conversation, lest that the conversation
quality deteriorates.
QUALIFIED SERVICE
Only qualified personnel may install or repair tablet equipment. Installing or
repairing the tablet on your own may bring great danger and violate the
warranty rules.
ACCESSORIES AND BATTERIES
Use only approved accessories and batteries.
USE SENSIBLY
Use only in a normal and proper manner.
Precautions
This tablet is well designed with fine art. Please exercise special care when
using it. The following suggestions will help your tablet survive the warranty
period and extend its service life:
Keep the tablet and all its fittings beyond children’s reach.
Keep the tablet dry. Keep away from rain, moisture, liquid, or other
substances that may corrode electronic circuits.
Do not use or store the tablet in dusty places; lest that active parts of
the tablet are damaged.
Do not store the tablet e in a high-temperature place. The high
temperature will shorten the life of electronic circuits and damage the
battery and some plastic parts.|
Do not store the tablet in a chilly place. Otherwise, moistures will be
formed inside the tablet to damage electronic circuits when the tablet is
moved to a constant temperature place.
****Do not throw, knock or shock the tablet, as that will destroy the
internal circuits and high-precision components of the tablet.
Your tablet
2.1 Tablet overview
2.2 Functions of Keys
The tablet provides the following keys:
♦ Power key
The power key is situated on the right side of the tablet. While using the
tablet, you can press this key to the lock screen; if you press and hold this
key, a tablet-options dialog would pop out. Here, you can power off, reboot,
or screenshot.
♦ Volume key
Volume key is situated on the right side of the tablet. You can press it to
adjust the 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 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
3.1 Charging the Battery
♦Your tablet 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 tablet prompts “Battery low”.
♦Using a travel adapter:
♦Install the battery into the tablet before charging the battery.
♦Connect the adapter of the travel charger with the charging slot in the
tablet. Ensure that the adapter is fully inserted.
♦Insert the plug of the travel charger into 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 flickers 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 the 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®, 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.
Not e: On the Home screen, press the 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.
3.2 Linking to the Networks and devices
Your tablet can connect to a variety of networks and devices, including
mobile networks for voice and data transmission, Wi-Fi® data networks, and
Bluetooth® wireless connection devices, such as headsets. You can also connect
your tablet to a computer, transfer files from your tablet’s SD card, and
share your tablet’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
tablet 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 tablet 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 headphones for making calls or listening to
music, hands-free kits for cars, and other portable devices, including laptops
and cell tablets. Touch Settings> Network > Bluetooth®. Check Bluetooth® to
turn it on. You must pair your tablet with a device before you can connect to
it. Once you pair your tablet with a device, they stay paired unless you
unpaired them. Your tablet scans for and displays the IDs of all available
Bluetooth® devices in range. If the device you want to pair with isn’t on the
list, make it discoverable.
Connecting to a computer via USB
You can connect your tablet to a computer with a USB cable, to transfer music,
pictures, and other files between your tablet’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 the 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 the Sleep function in the 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 screen and the screen is locked last
time will show.
3.4 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 the Back icon to close the keyboard.
**
Using the Menus
4.1 Google Chrome
Fast, easy, and secure browsing with Google Chrome. When you open Browser,
your home page opens. The web address (URL) of the current page is displayed
at the top of the window.
4.2 Camera
Touch the Camera icon in the main menu interface or on the home screen, the
camera opens in Landscape mode, ready to take a picture. In this mode, you can
touch the camera icon to take a photo, touch the photo icon, and slide right
to switch between photo and video
4.3 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.
Accounts: you can sync with your account.
Settings: you can set the display options in this interface.
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 confirm to delete contacts.
4.4 Gmail
Email by Google: secure, smart, and easy to use. Touch the 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 email arrives.
Set Synchronize contacts, calendar, or Gmail from this account.
****Set automatically download attachments when connected to Wi-Fi ®.
♦Compose and send an email
To compose and send an email:
- Touch the create icon to compose a new email.
- Enter Gmail address (es) for the intended recipient(s).
- Touch Menu → Attach a file to attach a file.
- After completing the email, Touch send icon to send the Gmail. Touch
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 Gmails, open the Sent folder and tap the refresh icon.
4.5 FM Radio
Please plug in the compatible earphone to the device and then turn 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 a higher
volume is harmful to your ear.
4.6 Photos
Photos is a light, fast, and offline gallery optimized for your tablet. Your
photos will look great with one-tap editing, and easily find that photo with
the automatic organization.
4.7 Google Play
Download thousands of apps on Google Play such as music, movies, TV, books,
magazines, apps, and games.
Appendix
Appendix 1: Troubleshooting
If you find exceptions when operating the tablet, 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.
Fault
| Cause|
Solution
---|---|---
The tablet cannot be powered on| The battery energy is exhausted.| Charge the
battery
The
battery
cannot be
charged| The charging voltage
does not match the
voltage range indicated
on the charger| Ensure the charging
voltage matches the|
voltage range indicated
on the charger
An improper charger is used| Use the charger especially
designed for the tablet
| Poor contact| Ensure the charger plug
is in good contact with
the tablet
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. Google, Google
Play, YouTube, Gmail, and other marks are trademarks of Google LLC.
Designed in the USA Manufactured in China to Sky Devices Specifications
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