Arnova 10B G3 - Tablet ARCHOS - Free user manual and instructions

Brand	Archos
Model	Arnova 10B G3
Product type	Touchscreen tablet
Operating system	Android
Screen	10.1 inches (estimated), capacitive touch
Internal storage	Approximately 100 GB
Card reader	Micro-SD
Connectivity	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Ports	Micro-USB, 3.5 mm headphone jack
Battery	Rechargeable lithium, variable battery life
Camera	Integrated (front or rear depending on version)
Speaker	Built-in
Physical buttons	Power, volume +/-, reset (hole)
Sensors	Accelerometer (estimated)
Weight	Approximately 500 g (estimated)
Dimensions	Approximately 240 x 170 x 10 mm (estimated)
Power supply	5V power adapter (included), USB charging
Main functions	Web browsing, email, Android apps, multimedia, games
Maintenance and cleaning	Wipe with a soft, dry cloth; avoid liquids
Security	Screen lock by pattern, PIN, or password
Spare parts and repairability	Not specified, contact Archos support
General information	Manual available in multiple languages at notice-facile.com

Frequently Asked Questions - Arnova 10B G3 ARCHOS

How to charge the battery of the Arnova 10B G3?

Plug the included power cable into the tablet's power connector and into a wall socket. The red indicator shows charging, green means the battery is fully charged.

What to do if my tablet completely freezes?

Use a pointed object (e.g., paperclip) to press the reset button on the device. You can also hold the ON/OFF button for 10 seconds to force shutdown.

How to connect to a WiFi network?

From the home screen, touch the time in the status bar, then the time in the status panel. Enable WiFi and select your network. Enter the security key (WEP, WPA, WPA2) if needed, then touch Connect.

How to transfer files from my computer to the tablet?

For Windows, connect the tablet via USB: it appears in My Computer. Copy-paste your files to the appropriate folders. For Mac, install Android File Transfer. For Linux, install MTP tools.

How to customize the home screen?

Press and hold on an empty area to change wallpaper, move icons, or create folders. You can also add widgets from the 'All apps' tab.

How to extend battery life?

Disable WiFi if not in use, lower screen brightness, reduce sleep delay, and disable automatic synchronization in Settings > Accounts & Sync.

How to install new applications?

Connect to a WiFi network, then open the AppsLib application. You can download thousands of free and paid applications.

How to protect my tablet with a screen lock?

Go to Settings > Security > Screen lock. Choose a pattern, PIN, or password. Each time you wake the screen, you will be required to enter it.

What to do if the touchscreen does not respond correctly?

Ensure the screen is clean and dry. Use the pad of your finger. If the problem persists, restart the tablet or perform a reset.

Where to find additional help?

Check the FAQ at http://arnovatech.com/faq or contact technical support at http://arnovatech.com/support. It is recommended to register your product beforehand.

USER MANUAL Arnova 10B G3 ARCHOS

Before using your ARNOVA for the first time, completely charge the battery!

Charging the Battery

1. Connect the supplied power cable to the ARNOVA Power connector and to a wall outlet.
2. The ARNOVA device will turn on and start charging.

- The Power indicator light is red while the battery is charging.

- It will turn green when the battery is fully charged.

Installation Wizard

The first time you start up your ARNOVA, the installation wizard will bring you through a few screens to help you set up the principal settings: language, country, time, etc.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVICE

1. On/Off button: enables to turn on or turn off the device.

2. Micro-SD card slot

3. Hardware Reset: in the event that your ARNOVA freezes operation, you can press the "pinhole reset" button by using a sharp object such as a toothpick.

4. Volume + / Volume -

5. Micro-USB port: to connect your ARNOVA to your computer, using the included USB cable (to transfer files)

6. Headphone jack

7. Charging indicator:

8. red light: battery charging

9. green light: battery charged.

10. Power connector

11. Loudspeaker

12. Camera

IMPORTANT:

Your device is frozen. You can turn it off. Press the ON/OFF button 1 for 10 seconds or press the reset button. See Hardware Reset ☑.

CONNECTING TO THE WIFI NETWORK

For this procedure to work, you need to be in a WiFi zone that will allow you to connect to it. Every time the ARNOVA is in range of a network that you have already configured once, it will attempt to make a connection.

How to configure a WiFi network

From the status bar, at the bottom right hand of the screen, you can access the WiFi settings quickly.

1. Touch the time in the status bar. The status dashboard is displayed.
2. Touch the time in the status dashboard. The setting dashboard is displayed below.
3. Touch WiFi to open the WiFi settings.

4. If the WiFi is off, slide the WiFi switch to the On position. Once the WiFi is on, the ARNOVA will scan for available WiFi networks. Secured networks are indicated with a Lock icon. If the device finds a network that you connected to previously, it connects to it.

5. Touch the network you want to connect to.

6. Enter the required network information* and touch Connect. We recommend that you select Show password in order to be able to see the characters you are typing.

Your ARNOVA will attempt to establish a connection to that WiFi access point.

* For free access WiFi points, there is no need to enter any special information. For secured networks, you will need either a key (a series of numbers and/or letters) of the type WEP, WPA, or WPA2. To obtain the exact connection parameters required, contact the Internet service provider.

THE ARNOVA INTERFACE

Touch for text search or search by voice

Your ARNOVA device is equipped with a capacitive touchscreen. Use your fingertip to navigate.

Home screen

These are default Android™ applications (Web Browser, EMail, etc.). Tap on an icon to open the corresponding application. You can customize the Home screen by adding/ removing shortcuts and widgets, changing the wallpaper etc. See next page.

The navigation bar displays the Back, Home and Recent Apps buttons.

All apps button

Tap on this icon to reveal all the Android™ applications and widgets installed on your ARNOVA (games, various tools, etc.). You can copy them onto the Home screen. You can get more Android™ applications from AppsLib

The status bar displays notifications and system icons.

Main Touchscreen buttons

The Back button - to go back to your previous screen.

The Search button - to type terms to search your tablet and the web.

The Home button - to return to the main screen.

The Voice search button - to speak terms to search your tablet and the web.

The Recent Apps button - to navigate among your apps. - to remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it left or right.

The All apps button - to find all your apps and widgets.

CUSTOMIZING YOUR PRODUCT

The extended Home screen

Navigate between different home screen panels by swiping left and right.

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Customizing the Home screen panels

- To change your wallpaper, hold your finger on the screen at an empty location, then choose from the list.

Arranging & working with apps

- To move a Home screen item, touch and hold your finger onto it until the positioning gridlines appear, then slide it to the desired location, and release your finger.

-To remove a Home screen item, touch and hold it, slide your finger towards the top of the screen and drop it over the Remove icon. Removing an item from the All apps screens will uninstall the item.

Zoom: In some apps (such as Browser, and Gallery), you can zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and pinching them together (to zoom out) or spreading them apart

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Creating application folders: you can combine several application icons in a folder. Drop one app icon over another on a Home screen and the two icons will be combined.

Changing the Settings

Tap on Settings and choose a menu among these categories: Wireless & networks, Device, Personal, System.

Adding more applications with APPSLIB : with the ARNOVA connected to the Internet, tap on the AppsLib icon This online library has thousands of applications to download and use.

CUSTOMIZING YOUR PRODUCT

Add widgets

Widgets are like windows into your apps. They're available from an All Apps tab for you to move onto your Home screens.

To see your widgets:

1. Touch the All Apps icon on your Home screen.
2. Touch Widgets at the top of the screen.
3. From the main Widgets screen, you can:
4. move between screens: Swipe left or right.
   -drag a widget to a Home screen. Touch and hold the widget's icon, slide your finger where you want to place it and lift your finger.
   You may be asked to make further choices before the widget activates. If there isn't room where you have dropped it, the widget won't be added to the Home screen.

Use the lock screen

To protect personal information, you can adjust your tablet's lock settings:

1. From the Home or All Apps screen, touch the Settings icon.
2. Scroll down and touch Security.
3. Touch Screen lock.
4. Touch the type of lock you'd like to use. After you set a lock here, a lock screen is displayed whenever your screen wakes up, requesting the pattern, PIN or other specified key.

Extend the life of your battery

-If you aren't using WiFi, use the Settings app to turn it off.
- Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter Sleep timeout: Settings > Device > Display.
- If you don't need it, turn off automatic syncing for all apps: Settings > Personal > Accounts & sync. Note that this means you need to sync manually to collect messages, email, and other recent information, and won't receive notifications when updates occur.

TRANSFERRING MEDIA

For Windows: note that the below procedure requires at least Windows XP and Windows Media Player 11.

1. Connect your tablet to your computer using the USB cable.
   Your device is automatically detected. It appears as an icon on "My Computer".
2. You can transfer your media files to the ARNOVA by copy/pasting them into the respective folders.
3. Once all your file transfers are finished, close any program that may have read or written to the ARNOVA.
4. You can now unplug the USB cable.

For Macintosh:

You first need to install the free Android File Transfer application (not included).

Download from http://www.android.com/filetransfer.

After you install Android File Transfer, follow these steps:

1. If you are using Android File Transfer for the first time, double-click it to open it.
   After you start Android File Transfer once, it opens automatically whenever you connect your device to your computer.
2. Connect your device to your computer with a USB cable.
   Android File Transfer starts, if it's not already running, and opens a window that displays the contents of your device, along with storage space details at the bottom of the window.
3. You can transfer your media files to the ARNOVA by copy/pasting them into the respective folders.
4. Once all your file transfers are finished, close any program that may have read or written to the ARNOVA.
5. You can now unplug the USB cable.

For Linux: You need to install MTP tools (not included).

REGISTER YOUR PRODUCT!

→ On the web at http://arnovatech.com/register

We recommend that you take a few minutes to register it (http://arnovatech.com/register). This will allow you to get access to ARNOVA technical support (http://arnovatech.com/support).

NEED HELP?

On our Website: see the Frequently Asked Questions section on http://arnovatech.com/faq

Contact our Technical Support Team: visit http://arnovatech.com/support for e-mail support. Please register your product before contacting Technical Support (see Register your Product).

As we are often updating and improving our products, your device's software may have a slightly different appearance or modified functionality than presented in this Quick Start Guide.

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PREMIÈRE UTILISATION

L'INTERFACE DE L'ARNOVA

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FRANÇAIS

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de pincement

Installationsassistent

Alle Apps Symbol

ANPASSEN IHRES PRODUKTES

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Hintergrund ändern

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ANPASSEN IHRES PRODUKTES

Widgets hinzufügen

LA INTERFAZ DEL ARNOVA

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INTERFACCIA

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Cambiare lo sfondo

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ITALIANO

Installatiewizard

DE ARNOVA-INTERFACE

PERSONALISEER UW PRODUCT

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PERSONALISEER UW PRODUCT

Widgets toevoegen

A INTERFACE ARNOVA

Toque para procurar o texto ou procurar com o comando de voz

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National restrictions

This device is intended for home and office use in all EU countries (and other countries following the EU directive 1999/5/EC) without any limitation except for the countries mentioned below:

Country Restriction Reason/remark

Bulgaria None General authorization required for

outdoor use and public service

France Outdoor use

limited to 10 mW

e.i.r.p. within the

band 2454-2483.5

MHz

Military Radiolocation use. Refarming

of the 2.4 GHz band has been ongoing

in recent years to allow current relaxed

regulation. Full implementation planned

2012

Italy None If used outside of own premises, general

authorization is required.

Luxembourg None General authorization required for

network and service supply (not for

spectrum)

Norway Implemented This subsection does not apply for the

geographical aera within a radius of 20 km

from the centre of Ny-Alesund

Russian Federation None Only for indoor applications

Note: Frequency 2454-2483.5MHZ are restricted to indoor use in France.

Consult the declaration of conformity on http://www.arnovatech.com/products/declaration_conformity.html

Open Source Software Offer

The software bundled with this product includes software files subject to certain open source license requirements. Such open source software files are subject solely to the terms of the relevant open source software license. Such open source software is provided on an "AS IS" basis to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

For the open source files contained herein, please access "Open source license" section located at: Settings\About tablet\Legal information on the device for the relevant copyright and licensing terms. You may obtain a copy of Apache License, Version 2.0 at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. You may also obtain a copy of GNU General Public License, Version 2 at the Free Software Foundation, INC, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Until the date that is three years after our last shipment of this product, you may obtain a copy of the source code corresponding to the binaries for any GPL-Licensed file by contacting ARNOVA customer service at http://www.arnovatech.com and ARNOVA will send you a link to such source code or will provide instructions to get the source on a physical medium.

This offer is valid to anyone in receipt of this information.