My Android Tablet

[bigmck]

I got an Android Tablet for Christmas. It is not a top of the line one, but it has the web and email and appears to have things that most tablets do. I have tried to learn how to use this thing but am having little luck. Is there a place to go that teaches the fine art of using one or is it just hit and miss. My Owners manual was very poorly written and is of little help. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

 

[Golden]

This is for a phone, but I used this to understand the basics behind my wife's Samsung Galaxy Tab:
The Complete Android Guide - CompleteGuides

 

[Solarstarshines]

I got an Android Tablet for Christmas. It is not a top of the line one, but it has the web and email and appears to have things that most tablets do. I have tried to learn how to use this thing but am having little luck. Is there a place to go that teaches the fine art of using one or is it just hit and miss. My Owners manual was very poorly written and is of little help. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

I think it would be sorta like my phone if i were you I would visite Android forum type in your device model and name and they should give you a detail way to use it Android Im sure you are probably running Jelly Bean that is the latest Os 4.2

 

[DeaconFrost]

I had an Acer for a while. Is there something specific you need to learn how to do? I haven't seen a manual or anything like that, because the basics are very simple, by design. There isn't supposed to be much of a learning curve for general usage.

Do you have a gmail account set up so you can access the Play store and download new apps? If you have web-browsing and e-mail accomplished, then you are pretty much on to 3rd party apps.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I had an Acer for a while. Is there something specific you need to learn how to do? I haven't seen a manual or anything like that, because the basics are very simple, by design. There isn't supposed to be much of a learning curve for general usage.

Do you have a gmail account set up so you can access the Play store and download new apps? If you have web-browsing and e-mail accomplished, then you are pretty much on to 3rd party apps.

Yeah pretty much after you make a Gmail Account everything else it pretty much up to you

Also i would look into file manager apps and such because they improve performance I know it isn't that far from my phone but make sure to max out the SD card slot that you have because internal storage fills up quick unless you divert it away from the Device

 

[DeaconFrost]

On that note, I've been using AndExplorer and it seems to work very well, and handles .zip files for me.

 

[Solarstarshines]

On that note, I've been using AndExplorer and it seems to work very well, and handles .zip files for me.

is that a paid or free app ?

 

[bigmck]

I want to thank you all for the quick response. Golden, thanks for the Manual and I will read that tonight. I also appreciate the reference to the Andriod Forum. I did not know about that. One of you mentioned a "Learning Curve", what is that they say about "Teaching Old Dogs......". Seriously, I thank you for all of your helpful hints,

 

[bigmck]

Also i would look into file manager apps and such because they improve performance I know it isn't that far from my phone but make sure to max out the SD card slot that you have because internal storage fills up quick unless you divert it away from the Device

What is my SD Card? I never realized I was so "Tablet Handicapped".

 

[Golden]

An SDCARD is a small little storage card that can be inserted into the tablet as additional storage - they are common in digital cameras. Think of it as a small, slim external storage card.

 

[whs]

I want to thank you all for the quick response. Golden, thanks for the Manual and I will read that tonight. I also appreciate the reference to the Andriod Forum. I did not know about that. One of you mentioned a "Learning Curve", what is that they say about "Teaching Old Dogs......". Seriously, I thank you for all of your helpful hints,

You never said what tablet you got. Maybe there is a manual on-line. I have a Nexus 7 since black Friday and I know what you are talking about. I immediately joined the Android forum. They have subforums for all models and I got 80% of my know how from there. Scroll down on the homepage and eventually you will get to the individual forum links - phones first then tablets.

I am obviously on the Nexus 7 subforum. I learned so much that I started giving advice to other newcomers. It is a nice and friendly crowd and the forums are quite lively. You could also get the Nexus 7 Guidebook from Google Play. Since the N7 is running on a vanilla Android 4.2.1, it may be very similar to what you have.

 

[bigmck]

I want to thank you all for the quick response. Golden, thanks for the Manual and I will read that tonight. I also appreciate the reference to the Andriod Forum. I did not know about that. One of you mentioned a "Learning Curve", what is that they say about "Teaching Old Dogs......". Seriously, I thank you for all of your helpful hints,

You never said what tablet you got. Maybe there is a manual on-line. I have a Nexus 7 since black Friday and I know what you are talking about. I immediately joined the Android forum. They have subforums for all models and I got 80% of my know how from there. Scroll down on the homepage and eventually you will get to the individual forum links - phones first then tablets.

I am obviously on the Nexus 7 subforum. I learned so much that I started giving advice to other newcomers. It is a nice and friendly crowd and the forums are quite lively. You could also get the Nexus 7 Guidebook from Google Play. Since the N7 is running on a vanilla Android 4.2.1, it may be very similar to what you have.

It is an Android 4.0 Is there any other breakdown that further describes it? == After going to the Android Tablet site, I see that there are about 20 dozen different types of Tablets. Not sure what I have. I will keep looking.

 

[Golden]

I think he means what make of tablet. Samsung?

 

[Solarstarshines]

I want to thank you all for the quick response. Golden, thanks for the Manual and I will read that tonight. I also appreciate the reference to the Andriod Forum. I did not know about that. One of you mentioned a "Learning Curve", what is that they say about "Teaching Old Dogs......". Seriously, I thank you for all of your helpful hints,

You never said what tablet you got. Maybe there is a manual on-line. I have a Nexus 7 since black Friday and I know what you are talking about. I immediately joined the Android forum. They have subforums for all models and I got 80% of my know how from there. Scroll down on the homepage and eventually you will get to the individual forum links - phones first then tablets.

I am obviously on the Nexus 7 subforum. I learned so much that I started giving advice to other newcomers. It is a nice and friendly crowd and the forums are quite lively. You could also get the Nexus 7 Guidebook from Google Play. Since the N7 is running on a vanilla Android 4.2.1, it may be very similar to what you have.

It is an Android 4.0 Is there any other breakdown that further describes it?

well now you know the OS is Ice Cream Sandwhich which is very easy to adapt too

Current max capacity that I have seen as of late is 64 GB expansion could be wrong but I am defently going to purchase a Tablet hopefully Asus or some along those lines which they have them at decent prices

They are asking for the Make of the Tablet Kindel Asus HTC

 

[bigmck]

I think he means what make of tablet. Samsung?

Gee, that might be a problem. There isn't anything written on it, anywhere. Things seem to work fine on it, I just don't know how to use it. I have sent some emails and have visted some websites, but I can do that on my PC and a lot easier. It is beginning to appear I have one of those that you get from a guy in the alley who is wearing a long trench coat.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I think he means what make of tablet. Samsung?

Gee, that might be a problem. There isn't anything written on it, anywhere. Things seem to work fine on it, I just don't know how to use it. I have sent some emails and have visted some websites, but I can do that on my PC and a lot easier. It is beginning to appear I have one of those that you get from a guy in the alley who is wearing a long trench coat.

Ok this is what you want to do the hit the last button to the right hit setting and scroll down to about it should tell you everything about the tablet also do this being on the home screen

 

[The Howling Wolves]

I think he means what make of tablet. Samsung?

Gee, that might be a problem. There isn't anything written on it, anywhere. Things seem to work fine on it, I just don't know how to use it. I have sent some emails and have visted some websites, but I can do that on my PC and a lot easier. It is beginning to appear I have one of those that you get from a guy in the alley who is wearing a long trench coat.

bigmck,
Go into settings and click on About...Should tell you everything about your tablet.
I have a Toshiba Thrive Tablet that came with HoneyComb and rooted it to ICS.
I also belong to Toshiba Thrive Forum where they have a few developer's that can do magic with your tablet.
The group there are like the group here... All very knowledgeable and helpful with quick responses to help
you have fun and enjoy your tablet.
THW

 

[whs]

Yeah, Dennis is right. In Settings > About (which I think is the last one in Settings), you should find all the info.

 

[bigmck]

Yeah, Dennis is right. In Settings > About (which I think is the last one in Settings), you should find all the info.

Model = Q88
Android Version = 4.0.4
Baseband Version = 1.5
Kernel Version = 3.0.8+
Build Number = nuclear_evb-eng 4.0.4 IMM76D 20121101 test-keys

I saw Google in there, but I guess that is who makes Android.

I don't see any brand. This is strange. If there are any other ideas where I might find it, let me know. Do all of yours have it on the front of the Tablet?

 

[whs]

Q88 7" ALLWINNER A13 ANDROID 4.0 - YouTube

Looks nice.