Dell STREAK 7 User manual

Dell™ Streak 7

User's Manual

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make

better use of your device.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss

of data if instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage,

personal injury, or death.

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Contents 3

Contents

1 Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features. . . . . . . 7

2 Setting Up Your Dell Streak 7

Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Getting Your Device Ready for Use . . . . . . . . 11

Turning On Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Turning Off Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Turning Off the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Understanding Your Dell Streak 7

Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Out-Of-Box Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Touch Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Screen Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Applications, Widgets, and Shortcuts . . . . . . 17

The Dell™ Stage Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Dell™ Stage Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Quick Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Navigating the Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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4 Using Your Dell Streak 7 Tablet . . . . 36

Managing Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Pop-up Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Android Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Google Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Power Control Widget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Managing Your Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . 51

5 Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Connecting to the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Browsing the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Synchronizing Your Google Data . . . . . . . . 107

6 Customizing Your Dell Streak 7

Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Sound and Ringtone Settings . . . . . . . . . . 109

Date, Time, and Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Language Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

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7 Protecting Your Dell Streak 7

Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Protect Your Device Data With a Screen

Unlock Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Protect Your Device Data With a PIN . . . . . . 115

Protect Your Device Data With a Password . . 116

Protect Your SIM Card With the SIM Lock

Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

8 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Copying Files to and From the Device . . . . . 120

Bluetooth® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Sound Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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9 Synchronizing Your Dell Streak 7

Tablet and Computer Using

Dell Mobile Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

10 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Starting Your Device in the Safe Mode . . . . . 140

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Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features 7

Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features

This section provides information about the features available on your

device.

Buttons/Connectors/Parts Functionality

1Headphone connector Connects to headphones.

2Speaker Provides audio output for video and music

playback.

3TV antenna

(available on select models

only)

Used for improving the reception of

television signals.

4Volume up button • Press to increase the media volume by

one level.

• Press and hold to continuously increase

the media volume.

5Volume down button • Press to decrease the media volume by

one level.

• Press and hold to continuously

decrease the media volume.

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8Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features

6Power and Sleep/Wake button • Press and hold to turn on the device.

• Press to turn the screen on or off.

• While the device is on, press and hold

to select one of these options:

–Silent mode: The device is set to

vibrate mode; all sounds are disabled

except for alarms.

–Airplane mode: Disable all wireless

connections.

–Power off: Turn off the device.

7Battery status light Indicates the battery charge status and

pending notifications. The different lights

indicate the following:

• Solid green — Battery is fully charged

when connected to power.

• Solid amber — Battery is charging.

• Solid red — Battery charge is low and

the battery is charging.

• Blinking red — Battery charge is low.

• Blinking green — Indicates pending

notifications.

8Back button Touch to return to the previous screen,

close a dialog box, menu, or pop-up

message, and to dismiss the keyboard.

9Menu button Touch to open or close options menus

that display available tools for the current

application or actions that you can

perform on the current screen.

10 Home button • Touch to open the central Home

screen.

• Touch and hold for quick access to the

most recently used applications.

Buttons/Connectors/Parts Functionality

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Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features 9

130-pin connector • Connects to the supplied USB cable for

transferring files to and from a computer.

• Connects to the supplied USB cable and USB

wall charger adapter to charge the device.

2Touch screen Touch the screen to use on-screen controls

including buttons, menu items, and the

keyboard.

3Force-power-off button Push the button to force power off the device.

4SD card slot Holds the SD card in place.

5SIM card slot

(available on select

models only)

Holds the SIM card in place.

6Slot door Provides access to the SIM card and SD card

slots.

7Speaker Provides audio output for video and music

playback.

8Microphone Used for making video calls with supportive

web applications, such as Skype.

9Front-facing camera • Used for capturing a front view picture, for

example, a self-portrait.

• Used for making video calls with supportive

web applications, such as Skype.

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10 Dell Streak 7 Tablet Features

1Camera lens Captures pictures and videos.

2Camera flash Used for capturing pictures and

videos in dimly lit environments.

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