Tips & Tricks: Galaxy Tab (Wi-Fi)

Web Browser

Incognito Mode: You can enjoy a private web browsing mode called Incognito. When Incognito Mode is enabled in a browser window, any site viewed in that window won’t be stored in the browser or search history, or leave cookies behind on the device after the window is closed. To turn on Incognito, while in the browser, touch the Action Bar > New Incognito Tab.

Remote Wipe

Remote Wipe as a Last Resort: Though the Find My Mobile feature at samsungdive.com can be useful in recovering a lost device and protecting the data stored on it, the remote wipe feature should only be used as a last resort because it completely reinitializes the device, making it impossible to use the other Find My Mobile features (lock, ring and track) until the Tab is located and re-registered with the service.

User Interface

Viewing Recently Used Apps: To quickly view recently used apps, touch the third icon in the lower left corner of the screen. This function displays thumbnails of apps that have been recently opened. To navigate to one of these apps, touch its thumbnail.

Using the Action Bar: The Action Bar—which can be accessed by touching the Plus Sign icon at the top right of the screen—is the key to contextual, changing menus that are controlled by each application. When you touch the Action Bar, you may access options, settings and actions that are relevant to the current app. For example, from the Home screen, the Action Bar opens widgets, shortcuts and wallpaper menus. But from the web browser, touching the same Action Bar opens a menu for tabs, find on page, downloads, and settings.

Default Screen Orientation: Unlike smaller Android™ devices, the default screen orientation for the Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 10.1 is landscape rather than portrait. The wide screen allows spacious display of the interface, menus, applications and media.

Deleting Home Screen Widgets: To delete a widget from the Home screen, touch and hold the widget and drag it to the top right corner. Drop it over the Remove trash can icon.

Opening the Notifications Menu: While previous versions of Android™ had a windowshade Notifications menu, Android 3.1 incorporates this menu into the bottom right corner of the screen, on the System Bar. To open the Notifications menu, touch the Time Display to access airplane mode and Wi-Fi® settings, and change lock screen orientation, brightness, notifications and additional settings.

Customizing the Home Screen: You can organize widgets and shortcuts on any of the five areas on the scrolling Home screen. To move a widget or shortcut from one screen to another, touch and hold the widget until it releases from the Home screen grid, and then drag it toward the edge of the screen into the frame of the next Home screen. The same long press (touch and hold) gesture can be used to move widgets and shortcuts around on the same Home screen. Individual widgets can be resized by the drag bars around each widget window. Pull a drag bar horizontally or vertically to change the widget’s size. Not all widgets support multidirection resizing.

News Feeds

Managing Pulse Feeds: The preloaded Pulse application offers a visually stimulating way to catch up on news feeds and blogs. Several popular feeds are preinstalled, but you can change and add feeds, and it can also be synced with the your Google Reader™ account. To manage Pulse feeds, touch Apps > Pulse and touch the Settings icon in the top left corner of the display. To add a source, touch the Plus button, or to delete a source, touch the red X next to its name.

Virtual Keyboard

Typing Special Characters: The new Android™ 3.1 keyboard makes it easy to insert accented letters into messages and emails. While using the keyboard, long press a letter key to show the special accented characters available for that letter. Without lifting from the keyboard, the you can slide your finger onto the appropriate character. Release the key to input the accented letter.