Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: A Galaxy at Your Fingertips 5
Chapter 1: Tab Orientation 7
Set Up Your Galaxy Tab 7
Opening the box 8
Charging the battery 9
Know Your Way around the Galaxy 10
Finding things on the tablet 10
Inserting and removing a microSD card 12
Getting optional accessories 14
Where to Keep Your Tab 15
Making a home for the tablet 15
Taking the tablet with you 15
Chapter 2: The On-and-Off Chapter 17
Hello, Tablet 17
Turning on your Galaxy Tab (for the first time) 18
Turning on your tablet 19
Unlocking the tablet 19
Working the Lock screen 21
More Accounts for Your Tab 22
Farewell, Tablet 24
Locking the tablet 24
Turning off your Galaxy Tab 24
Restarting the tablet 25
Chapter 3: Galactic Procedures 27
Basic Operations 27
Touching the touchscreen 27
Changing the orientation 28
Using the navigation icons 30
Setting the volume 30
Behold the Home Screens 31
Touring the Home screen 32
Reviewing notifications 33
Making Quick Settings 34
All About Those Apps 35
Starting an app 35
Quitting an app 35
Working with widgets 36
Visiting the Apps screen 36
Switching between running apps 37
Recognizing common icons 38
Chapter 4: Text to Type and Edit 41
This Is a Keyboard? 41
The Old Hunt-and-Peck 43
Typing one character at a time 44
Accessing special characters 44
Typing quickly by using predictive text 45
Adding keyboard swipe 46
Google Voice Typing 47
Dictating text 47
Uttering s**** words 48
Text Editing 49
Moving the cursor 49
Selecting text 49
Cutting, copying, and pasting 50
Undoing and redoing mistakes 51
Chapter 5: Tab Toys and Peripherals 53
The Samsung Book Cover Keyboard and DeX 53
Connecting to the book cover keyboard 54
Activating DeX manually 55
Exploring DeX 55
Exiting from DeX 57
Disabling DeX 58
S Pen Scribbling 58
Understanding the S Pen 58
Using Air Command 59
Part 2: Tab Communications 61
Chapter 6: All Your Friends in the Galaxy 63
Meet the Tab's Address Book 63
Using the Contacts app 64
Sorting your contacts 65
Searching contacts 66
Add More Friends 66
Creating a contact from scratch 66
Creating a contact from an email message 67
Grabbing contacts from your social networking sites 68
Importing contacts from a computer 68
Manage Your Friends 69
Editing contact information 69
Taking a picture of a contact 70
Making a favorite 71
Joining identical contacts 71
Separating contacts 72
Removing a contact 72
Chapter 7: Mail of the Electronic Kind 73
Galactic Email 73
Adding more email accounts 74
Creating a signature 75
Removing an email account 76
You've Got Email 76
Checking the inbox 77
Reading email 78
Write That Message 79
Message Attachments 80
Dealing with attachments 80
Sending an attachment 81
Chapter 8: Text, Video, and Voice Chat 83
Let's Hang Out 83
Using Hangouts 84
Typing at your friends 84
Talking and video chat 85
Placing a Hangouts phone call 86
Connect to the World with Skype 87
Getting Skype for your Tab 87
Chatting with another Skype user 87
Seeing on Skype (video call) 88
Placing a Skype phone call 88
Chapter 9: Web Browsing 91
The Web Browser App 92
Mobile Web Browsing 92
Viewing the web 92
Visiting a web page 93
Browsing back and forth 94
Working with bookmarks 94
Managing web pages in multiple tabs 95
Going incognito 96
Finding text on a web page 96
Sharing a web page 97
The Art of Downloading 97
Grabbing an image from a web page 98
Downloading a file 98
Saving a web page 98
Reviewing your downloads 98
Web Browser Controls and Settings 99
Clearing your web history 99
Changing the way the web looks 99
Setting privacy and security options 100
Chapter 10: Social Networking 101
Face-to-Face with Facebook 101
Running Facebook on your tablet 102
Setting your status 103
Uploading a picture to Facebook 104
Going live 105
All A-Twitter 106
Even More Social Networking 107
Part 3: Everything in the Galaxy 109
Chapter 11: From Here to There 111
There's a Map for That 111
Using the Maps app 112
Adding layers 113
Saving an offline map 114
It Knows Where You Are 115
Finding a location 115
Helping others find your location 116
Find Things 117
Looking for a specific address 117
Finding a business, restaurant, or point of interest 117
Searching for favorite or recent places 119
The Galactic Navigator 119
Getting directions 120
Adding a navigation Home screen widget 121
Chapter 12: It's a Big, Flat Camera 123
Your Galactic Camera 123
Introducing the Camera app 124
Taking a still image 125
Recording video 125
Doing a selfie 126
Taking in a panorama 126
Deleting something you just shot 127
Capturing the screen 128
Camera Settings and Options 128
Setting the flash 129
Changing still resolution and video quality 129
Activating the location tag 130
Chapter 13: All the Photos in Your Galaxy 131
Your Pictures and Videos 131
Creating an album 133
Starting a slideshow 133
Finding a picture's location 134
Edit and Manage Images 134
Editing an image 134
Unediting an image 136
Cropping an image 136
Rotating a picture 137
Editing video 138
Deleting images and videos 139
Set Your Pics and Vids Free 139
Posting a video to YouTube 140
Sharing images with other apps 141
Chapter 14: Music Everywhere 143
Your Hit Parade 143
Browsing your music library 144
Playing a tune 145
Queuing up the next song 147
Being the life of the party 148
Organize Your Music 148
Reviewing your playlists 148
Creating your own playlists 149
Saving the song queue as a playlist 150
Removing unwanted music 150
Soap, No Soap, Galaxy Radio 150
Chapter 15: What Else Does It Do? 153
It's an Alarm Clock 153
It's a Very Big Calculator 155
It's a Calendar 155
Browsing your schedule 156
Reviewing appointments 157
Creating an event 158
Adding a task 160
It's an eBook Reader 160
It's a Game Machine 163
It's Your Pal, Google 163
It's Your Video Entertainment 165
Enjoying YouTube 165
Buying and renting movies 165
Chapter 16: The Google Play Store 167
Welcome to the Store 167
Browsing Google Play 168
Obtaining an item 170
Purchasing something at Google Play 172
Renting or purchasing videos 173
Google Play Tricks 174
Using the wish list 175
Sharing a Google Play item 175
Keeping stuff on the device 175
Part 4: Nuts and Bolts 177
Chapter 17: It's a Wireless Life 179
Wireless Networking Wizardry 179
Using the mobile data network 180
Understanding Wi-Fi 180
Activating and deactivating Wi-Fi 181
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network 181
Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network 183
Connecting to a WPS router 183
The Bluetooth Experience 184
Understanding Bluetooth 184
Activating Bluetooth on the Tab 184
Pairing with a Bluetooth device 185
Chapter 18: Connect, Share, and Store 187
The USB Connection 187
Connecting the tablet to a computer 188
Configuring the USB connection 188
Dealing with the USB connection in Windows 189
Connecting your Tab to a Mac 190
Disconnecting the tablet from a computer 191
Files from Here, Files to There 191
Transferring files by using the USB connection 191
Sharing files in the cloud 193
Sharing the screen 194
Printing 195
Galactic Storage 196
Reviewing storage stats 196
Managing files 198
Chapter 19: Apps and Widgets 199
Apps and Widgets on the Home Screen 199
Adding an app to the Home screen 199
Slapping down widgets 201
Resizing a widget 202
Moving icons and widgets 202
Removing an icon or a widget 203
Building app folders 203
Manage Your Apps 204
Updating apps 205
Uninstalling an app 205
Choosing a default app to open a file 206
Clearing a default app 207
Setting a default app 207
Shutting down an app run amok 208
Organizing the Apps Screen 208
Rearranging apps on the Apps screen 209
Working with Apps screen folders 209
Chapter 20: Customize Your Tab 211
Home Screen Settings 211
Hanging new wallpaper 211
Managing Home screen pages 212
Setting the primary Home screen page 213
Adjusting the screen timeout 214
Lock Screen Configuration 214
Adding Lock screen app shortcuts 215
Displaying FaceWidgets 215
Various Galactic Adjustments 216
Singing a different tune 216
Changing visual settings 216
Chapter 21: Galactic Security 219
Lock Your Tablet 219
Finding the screen locks 219
Removing the screen lock 220
Setting a PIN 220
Assigning a password 221
Creating an unlock pattern 221
Unlocking the tablet with your face 222
Other Tab Security 223
Adding owner info text 223
Hiding Lock screen notifications 224
Find your lost tablet 224
Avoiding Android viruses 225
Performing a factory data reset 226
It's Everyone's Tab! 227
Adding another user 227
Switching users 228
Configuring the Tab for a kid's account 229
Chapter 22: Taking the Tab with You 231
Before You Go 231
Galaxy Tab Travel Tips 232
Into the Wild Blue Yonder 233
The Galaxy Goes Abroad 234
Traveling overseas with the tablet 234
Disabling mobile data and data roaming 235
Chapter 23: Maintenance and Troubleshooting 237
Regular Galactic Maintenance 238
Keeping it clean 238
Backing up your stuff 238
Updating the system 239
Battery Care and Feeding 239
Monitoring the battery 239
Determining what is sucking up power 241
Extending battery life 242
Help and Troubleshooting 242
Fixing random and annoying problems 242
Getting support 244
Valuable Galaxy Tablet Q&A 245
"I can't turn the tablet on (or off)!" 245
"The touchscreen doesn't work!" 245
"The battery doesn't charge!" 245
"The tablet gets so hot that it turns itself off!" 246
"It doesn't do Landscape mode!" 246
Part 5: The Part of Tens 247
Chapter 24: Ten Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts 249
Make Some Multi Window Magic 250
Snooze with Do Not Disturb Mode 251
Configure Auto Restart 252
Activate the Blue Light Filter 252
Avoid Display Timeouts with Smart Stay 253
Watch the Tablet Dream 254
Add Spice to Dictation 254
Restore the Apps Icon 255
Hide the Navigation Bar 255
Check Your Data Usage 256
Chapter 25: Ten Things to Remember 257
Summon a Recently Opened App 257
Make Quick Settings 258
Use Dictation 258
Lock the Orientation 258
Use Keyboard Suggestions 259
Avoid Things That Consume Lots of Battery Juice 259
Make Phone Calls 260
Keep Up with Your Schedule 260
Snap a Pic of That Contact 260
Enter Location Information for Your Events 261
Index 263
