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1. Refer Fig 28 Touch the desired files The selected files will have a green colored tick mark 4 4 3 Renaming a File Rename 1 png Perform select operation for single file Refer 4 4 1 Touch Rename File mnt sdcard Aakash Type the desired name using the keyboard Rename Cancel Fig 34 Touch Rename A confirmation message is displayed after the file is renamed 4 4 4 Deleting Single Multiple File s Perform select operation for single file Refer 4 4 1 Or Perform select operation for multiple files Refer 4 4 2 Touch Delete Touch Delete to confirm 21 4 4 5 Copy or Move Single Multiple File s Navigate to the desired file Refer 4 2 Perform select operation for single file Refer 4 4 1 Or Perform select operation for multiple files Refer 4 4 2 Touch Copy File or Move Cut File 4 4 6 Paste File s Perform Cut or Copy operations Refer 4 4 4 and 4 4 5 Navigate to the desired directory Refer 4 2 Touch File Folder Editing options Refer Fig 28 Touch Paste 4 5 Operations on Folders The various operations that can be performed on a folder are Delete Rename Copy Cut Zip Extract Here and Paste Into 22 Folder operations Delete Folder Rename Folder Copy Folder Move Cut Folder Zip Folder Paste into Folder Extract here Fig 35 4 5 1 Selecting Marking Single Folder Navigate to the desired directory Refer 42. button or to type using android keyboard 1 4 2 Touch and hold To view more features of the application Press or to activate the drag feature touch and amp hold the screen for two seconds at the Hold desired position Fig 8 1 4 3 Slide Touch the screen of the tablet and without lifting your finger slide your finger on to the screen in the desired direction The action will result the screen image or content to shift up down left or right To view more content placed on the Fig 9 right slide the finger towards the left Similarly to view more content placed below slide your finger upwards This is shown in Fig 11 and Fig 12 Fig 10 1 4 4 Drag and Drop Use the drag and drop facility to add remove and reposition applications Touch the application icon on the screen that is to be moved and without lifting your finger from the screen slide your finger to desired place and release it f Drag and Drop Final Position Initial Position Os Tie Fig 12 1 4 5 Pinch In Pinch In operation is used to perform zoom in operation It is normally used to increase the size of the image or object The pinch in operation is performed by placing the two fingers close to each other on the screen and moving them apart from each other 1 4 6 Pinch Out Pinch Out operation is used to perform zoom out operation It is normally used to decrease the size of the image object The pinc
3. mode tab com long central key space forward slash hyphen and Settings key The first row has alpha characters Q W ER T Y UI OP and Backspace key The second row has alpha characters AS D F GH J KL and Return Enter key The third row has Shift Z X C V B N M comma full stop and hyphen The fourth row is same as that in lower case QWERTY keyboard and row 1 2 and 3 are similar anaes KA ENEN ENEN ENEN ENEN EVER Switch I com Space Slash Hyphen Settings Hyphen Return Enter Places text on next line Backspace Deletes last character Shift Toggles the text between lower and upper case Tap Once Converts only next letter from lower to upper case e g abc Shift Abc Tap Twice Convert rest of the text from lower to upper case e g abc Shift Shift abc Convert Upper to lower case touch the key once e g A Shift abc Fig 18 11 og AE E O PPLE Ee oo Fig 19 nee eee EEE ER EEE Fig 20 This mode is used to type numbers or special characters The general layout of this mode is shown below Touch the Alt key to view and utilize other available special characters numbers The numeric mode is activated using the Switch mode key on the keypad To switch back to the alpha mode again press the Switch mode key It is a toggle key that switches between two modes Touch the respective keys on the touch screen of the virtual ke
4. 2 Touch and hold the desired folder for 3 seconds A list of operations that can be performed on the folder are displayed in Fig 35 4 5 2 Selecting Marking Multiple Folders Navigate to the desired folder Refer 4 2 Touch File Folder Editing options Refer Fig 28 Touch the desired folder The selected folder will have a green colored tick mark 4 5 3 Renaming a Folder Perform select operation for single folder Refer 4 5 1 Touch Rename Folder Type the desired name using the keyboard Touch Rename A confirmation message is displayed after the folder is renamed 4 5 4 Deleting Single Multiple Folder s Perform select operation for single folder Refer 4 5 1 Or Perform select operation for multiple folders Refer 4 5 2 Touch Delete Touch Delete to confirm 4 5 5 Copy Move Single Multiple Folder Navigate to the desired folder Refer 4 2 Perform select operation for single folder Refer 4 5 1 Or Perform select operation for multiple folder Refer 4 5 2 Touch Copy or Move Cut 4 5 6 Paste Folder s Perform Cut or Copy operations Refer 4 4 4 and 4 4 5 Navigate to the desired directory Refer 4 2 Touch File Folder Editing options Refer Fig 28 Touch Paste 4 5 7 Paste into Folder Perform Cut or Copy operations Refer 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 and 4 5 5 Navigate to the desired directory Refer 4 2 Touch and hold the desired folder for 3 seconds Touch File Folder Editing options Refe
5. L 3 CuT COPY Select cut copy and paste are common to all text editing or text input applications like Notepad browser search configuring applications naming and renaming folders setting reminders etc Fig 26 3 4 Copy Perform Select operation Refer 3 1 Touch Copy option placed at the top of the screen The selected text will be copied on to the clipboard for future reference 3 5 Paste Perform cut and copy editing operations Refer 3 3 and 3 4 Place the cursor at the desired position by tapping the screen Touch and hold the screen for 3 seconds Touch Paste button 17 4 File Manager File manager is used to keep track of the files folders maintain and create directory structures for organizing data on the tablet Touch Menu button on the home screen Touch File Manager ey 21 This will list all files folders which are categorized by the storage locations and type like external memory card USB etc Navigate Data on to previous Tablet directory 4 1 Organization and Tools Dataon Data on Images Movies Toolbox File Folder External USB devices editing Memory options Card Fig 28 Files or Folders can be created copied and stored in various locations The locations are present at the top of the screen Touch appropriate storage locations of the files and folders by tapping on respective icons as shown in Fig 28 18 An example that displays a list of images is shown
6. a USER MANUAL Your Aakash Tablet Charging Battery Memory Card 1 Getting Started 1 1 Isometric View 1 2 Switch ON OFF 1 2 1 Switch ON 1 2 2 Switch OFF 1 3 Lock Unlock 1 3 1 Lock Screen 1 3 2 Unlock Screen 1 3 3 Home Screen 1 4 1 Tap Touch 1 4 2 Touch and hold Table of Contents AN 1 1 4 4 Drag and Drop aaa tata NET ia iaa cia NYT 1 1 4 5 PINCH IN een Se gt TA EP A RE ae eee eee TE u a 3 13 Di plav Indicators era A C E 4 1 6 Tablet Keypad ita LO re 4 1 6 1 Alpha Mode viii na LO O rr etre 5 Re A A A g 2 Customize Desktop viaria 24 INES REINER 5 2H Add to Home Sereen vst a EHER ag rie 6 2 1 1 Wallpaper te ones eee 6 212 ola ot A O SEJER TES BED SENDE REJER NES 1A AA 6 ES A D ern 7 22 Delete from Home Sereen n18 1 4 Operating the Touch SCION cccccccccccsssssssesssssseeccecessseenans 7 3 Select Cut Copy and Paste unse 16 a e 7 Bil SCC A ee aa TE EET seins A hese ay 7 3 2 SClCCt li dz dal ANNE 7 A A DA CODY eu ea rue eee ee re 17 39 3 A Regener 17 A File Manager a a ane neat 18 4 1 Organization and Tools a 18 4 2 Navigating to a Directory File csccsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 19 4 3 Creating a New Directory Folder eee 20 4 4 Operations ON Files sn 21 4 4 1 Selecting Marking Single File scener 21 4 4 2 Selecting Marking Multiple File 21 4 4 3 Renaming a File au aa Bann 21 4 4 4 Deleting Single Multiple File S
7. ations available on Android several educational applications and contents have been added by IIT Bombay Touch menu button on the home screen Browse through the list of applications Touch Aakash Applications Demonstration Aakash Applications Demonstrations Fig 44 Applications developed at IIT Bombay will appear through their icons shown below O N 259 a proxyMITY Clicker Robot proxyMITY WiFi Z Blender Educational Animation Content Fig 45 26 7 Aakash Programming Lab Touch menu button on the home screen Browse through the list of installed applications Touch Aakash Programming Lab Aakash Progra Fig 46 A list of all applications installed under Aakash Programming Lab is displayed which is shown below Python Scilab Fig 47 Notes 1 27 28 Notes 2
8. below Touch a particular image to view it Fig 29 4 2 Navigating to a Directory File Select File Manager Refer 4 Touch location as shown in Fig 28 Browse through the folders and select the desired one Continue browsing and selecting files or folders if exists 19 4 3 Creating a New Directory Folder Navigate to the desired directory Refer 4 and 4 2 Touch Option button present in the notification S Q bar It will display a list of options New Directory Search Settings Quit Touch the first option New Directory Write the name of the directory e g Aakash Touch Create A new directory is created in the internal memory of the tablet This is shown in Fig 32 Fig 30 Create New Directory mnt sdcard amp ade men o BE ei ei e ett ety i oat mnt sdcard 20 0 items drw Fig 32 4 4 Operations on Files The various operations that can be performed on a file are Delete Rename Copy Cut and Email File Operations Delete File Rename File Copy File Move Cut File Email File Fig 33 4 4 1 Selecting Marking Single File Navigate to the desired file Refer 4 2 Touch and hold the desired file for 3 seconds A list of operations that can be performed on the file are displayed in Fig 33 4 4 2 Selecting Marking Multiple Files Navigate to the desired file Refer 4 2 Touch File Folder Editing options
9. blet will continue to have further enhancements Under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technologies NME ICT IIT Bombay is conducting a project for empowerment of teachers using these tablets Apart from the standard applications available on Android several important educational applications and contents have been added by IIT Bombay These are being distributed in Open Source The tablet you are using is procured by HT Bombay as a part of this project and has been issued to you at no cost for use in your college for educational purposes As such it shall remain the property of IIT Bombay Feedback from students and teachers will help improving it further Please visit http www it 1itb ac in aakash2 for more details and for the latest version ofthe manuals Copyright Aakash logo is the copyright of Government of India NME ICT MHRD Applications developed at IIT Bombay are copyright of IT Bombay released in Open Source under Creative Commons By Attribution license User Manual Version 1 1 October 2012 Charging Battery Your device has a built in battery Before using the device for the first time you must charge the battery for 6 to 8 hours Use only datawind approved chargers Unauthorized charger may cause damage to your device and or may lead to overcharging and explosions When your battery is low the battery level indicator will be very thin The device will automati
10. cally turn off after the battery is drained out Recharge the battery to continue use Recharge the battery by first inserting the cable into the charging point and then plugging into a standard AC power outlet After charging unplug the charging head from the power outlet and remove the cable from the device Fig 1 Memory Card Memory card is to store additional files Your device accepts micro SD Card with a maximum capacity of 32GB this varies by memory card manufacturer Insert the memory card into the tablet as shown in the figure given on the right Push the memory card into the tablet till you feel the click To remove the memory card from the tablet press the memory card till you feel the click Pull the memory card from the tablet Fig 2 1 Getting Started 1 1 Isometric View OO AKASH tablet for every indian Volume Button Increase decrease volume Power Button Switch ON OFF or hibernate Charging LED Camera Audio Output Slot Back Navigate to the previous screen Reset Home Display home screen Micro USB Connector Connect any micro USB device or PC using MicroUSB convertor cable Charging Point Charge the tablet by connecting charger Options Display extra options features Micro SD Card Slot Slot to insert Micro SD Card Speaker Fig 3 1 2 Switch ON OFF 1 2 1 Switch ON Press the power button for 3 seconds to switch on the tablet The following screen will be displayed w
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12. h out operation is performed by placing the two fingers at a distance on the screen and moving them towards each other o 7 Fig 13 y E Fig 14 1 5 Display Indicators The display indicators are present in the notification bar placed at the bottom Fig 7 of the screen A 12 20 3 A Display time in 24 00hour format hh mm Wi fi Network if available Display battery level Show options features for application Increase volume Decrease volume Show all open applications Move to next home screen page Back button Fig 15 1 6 Tablet Keypad 1 6 1 Alpha Mod Cee ble CACAO EA Le wo e fallo ee DE HE a we le Ir rel elle le BE KEN KEN ER ICH IE ER fe fell e fez x fle fe te fe fe EN ER IE In many text editing applications a virtual keyboard is used for typing It has two modes 1 Alpha 2 Numeric and Special Characters In a text editing browsing application the mode is lower case by default but it can be changed as explained later Alpha mode layout on the left page is used to type lower and upper case alphabets To type touch the respective keys on the touch screen The layout of the virtual keyboard is similar to a typewriter computer The first row has alpha characters q wert yudiop and Backspace key The second row has alpha characters a s d f g hj k and Return Enter key The third row has Shift z x c vb n m comma full stop and hyphen The fourth row has Switch
13. hen the tablet switches on 12 15 Thu August 9 Fig 4 1 2 2 Switch OFF Press the power button for 3 seconds to switch off the tablet Select OK to confirm switching off Select Cancel to avoid switching off the tablet Would you like to shut down Fig 5 1 3 Lock Unlock 1 3 1 Lock Screen Press the power button to lock the screen The tablet will hibernate into sleep mode The tablet also hibernates and the screen gets locked if it is not used for certain amount of time 1 3 2 Unlock Screen To unlock the screen press the power button The home screen will be displayed but the screen will remain locked If no action is performed within 5 seconds the tablet will hibernate into sleep mode again After pressing the power button slide the lock icon from the current position towards the unlock icon positioned on the right Refer 1 4 3 to perform slide operations on touch screen 1 3 3 Home Screen Home Screen The main basic screen of the tablet that contains shortcut Displays list of icons if created widgets etc applications installed Menu Button ome gg ASA AA tablet for every indian SITE Notification Bar Contains display indicators notification icons like wifi battery level alarm clock if set etc Fig 7 12 20 78 1 4 Operating the Touch Screen 1 4 1 Tap Touch Tap or touch the screen with your finger to select an application or
14. nd renaming folders setting reminders etc To perform editing operations open any text editing application like Notepad Touch menu button which will list all applications installed in the tablet Browse through the applications and select Notepad 4 0 Select cut copy and paste are common to all text editing or text input applications like Notepad browser search configuring applications naming and renaming folders setting reminders etc fw fee ee Hely Neli elle ll e ls ee ee ER ER ER EES EN ER ER TE ET a E Fig 25 Touch New button A new blank Notepad page opens Touch the screen to activate the virtual keyboard for writing notes Write the intended notes The editing options are Select Select all Cut Copy and Paste All editing operations are performed only after selecting the text 16 3 1 Select Touch and hold the desired area or text for 3seconds X Done Text selection Save The current word gets highlighted and 1s placed in between the start and end tabs blue color Drag the start and end tabs to select more or less text 3 2 Select all Perform Select operation Refer 3 1 Touch Select All option placed at the top of the screen 3 3 Cut Perform Select operation Refer 3 1 Touch Cut option placed at the top of the screen The selected text will be copied onto the clipboard and the text will be deleted from the screen SELECTAL
15. r Fig 28 23 5 Configuring Wi fi 5 1 Selecting a Wi fi Network Touch Menu button on the home screen Touch Settings Os 0 Settings Fig 36 Touch Wi Fi Fig 37 Touch OFF to switch on Wi Fi connectivity Fig 38 Fig 39 The tablet will list all the available Wi Fi connections Touch any one of the available Wi Fi networks e g AAKASH Touch Connect 24 WIRELESS amp NETWORKS F Wi Fi Y Data usage More DEVICE Q Sound 2 Display Storage w Battery Apps PERSONAL SCAN ADD NETWORK B KR WiFi Saved KR WiFi Secured with WEP AAKASH Not in range Cfiltextn Not in range Fosseel Not in range HomerSimpson Not in range IITB Wireless Help Not in range Local hotspot Not in range Fig 37 5 2 Adding a Wi fi Network Touch Wi Fi settings Refer 5 1 Touch ADD NETWORK placed on top right corner of the tablet O SCAN ADD NETWORK El Fig 40 Provide details for configuring the Wi Fi network Input Network SSID Add Network Network SSID Security Cancel Fig 41 Touch appropriate security configurations of that network Touch Save to WPA WPA2 PSK confirm else touch 802 1xEAP Cancel Fig 42 5 3 Removing a Wi Fi Network Touch Wi Fi settings Refer 5 1 Touch and hold the desired Wi Fi connection for 3 seconds Touch Forget network Forget network 25 6 Aakash Applications Apart from the standard applic
16. slide operation E g Wallpaper Wallpaper W4 Wallpaper Preview laminis Set Wallpaper 2 CJ E e 1 Touch Set Wallpaper 2 1 2 Shortcuts Apps Touch the menu button on the home screen which displays a list of applications Browse through the list Touch and hold the desired application The application will be selected and the home screen will be displayed Drop the application at the desired position on the home screen by lifting the finger from the screen 2 1 3 Widgets Touch the menu button on the home screen which displays a list of applications installed Touch Widgets tab Browse through the list of widgets in your tablet Touch and hold the desired widget The widget will be selected and home screen will be displayed Drop the widget at the desired position on the home screen by lifting the finger from the screen 2 2 Delete from Home Screen Touch and hold the desired item on the home screen The selected item will be magnified and the Trash icon X will be displayed at top center of the screen Drag the item over the trash and release it When the icon is placed over the Trash the color of the selected item changes to red 15 3 Select Cut Copy and Paste Select cut copy and paste are general editing operations that are common to all text editing or text input applications like Notepad browser search configuring applications naming a
17. yboard to type The top row has numbers from 0 to 9 1 234567890 and Backspace key The second row consists of special characters amp y and Return Enter key The third row also consists of special characters The left edge has AT i e Alt key The fourth row has Switch mode tab gt long central key space double quotes underscore _ and Settings key The top row has e y II x A and backspace key The second row has Pound Cent Euro and Return Enter The third row has 123 j and EI EI RI EI EN EI ER eis ie Danke Pais LL EL JL Se Ir Tab Switches to alpha mode Settings Return Space Backspace ALT Toggles between Math Symbols and Numbers and Special Characters Fig 21 The fourth row has Switch mode tab gt a long central key space and Settings 13 2 Customize Desktop Touch the Option button present in the notification bar A list is displayed containing Wallpaper Manage apps System settings as shown below Wallpaper Manage apps System settings Fig 22 2 1 Add to Home Screen 2 1 1 Wallpaper Touch Wallpaper Touch the source of wallpaper Gallery image captured from camera Live Wallpaper animated wallpapers Wallpaper images 14 Choose wallpaper from TIL Gallery LJ Wallpaper Browse through the list using
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