Nexus 9 11/02/2015 Martyn 1 Installation 1.1 Preparation The Nexus 9 runs Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and requires a Google account which in turn requires an email address. Create an Outlook email address (http://login.live.com) such as tab1.tech4d@outlook.com and then use this when you create a Google account (https://accounts.google.com) with a personal name such as the dummy one TabOne TechFord. Notice that you cannot use numbers in the name, only alphabetic letters. 1.2 Turn on the Nexus 9 for the first time The battery may not be fully charged at first. It s a good idea to fully charge the battery as soon as you get a chance. To charge and turn on your device, follow these steps: Connect the small end of the micro USB cable to the micro USB port on the bottom of the tablet, when viewed from the front. Then connect the other end to the charging unit and the charging unit to a power outlet. To turn the tablet on, press the power button on the right side for a few seconds. You see the welcome screen, so scroll down one to select English (United Kingdom), press the yellow button and you will see the list of WiFi signals. Touch the one you want and it will ask for the WiFi password. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 1 of 15
The keyboard will appear when you touch the password field so you can type the password. It may take a short while to connect to the internet. Once connected, it detects it needs to update it s software. Touch the Next button and it downloads the software for some minutes and then reboots itself. Once rebooted it asks you to sign into your Google account, so we can use the one we set up beforehand in preparation. Sign in by entering the email address that we set up beforehand and then used to create our Google account. The onscreen keyboard appears to let us do this and then allows us to type in the Google account password. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 2 of 15
It asks if we want to add a credit card, but we select Remind me later and touch the Next button. It then asks about Google services, so we just leave the defaults and touch Next. When it asks about Google Now we touch No thanks and then the Next button. At last, we have the welcome banner on the desktop, but there is a system alert at the top, saying there is another update to install. Touch the INSTALL button and it gives details on the update so simply touch Restart & install. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 3 of 15
Finally, after rebooting, everything is finished and we see the login screen. Note the round, turquoise User icon top right which allows different users to log in. Currently we only have the one, default Google account user TabOne. Log in by simply swiping in the middle of the screen and it shows the Home screen which is the equivalent of the Windows desktop. Every Home screen shows the Favourites tray it's a quick way to get to your apps. At the bottom of every screen, no matter what you're doing, you'll always find three navigation buttons. If you don't use these buttons often, they may shrink to dots or fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them back, touch their location on your device. Back: Opens the previous screen that you were working in, even if it was in a different app. Once you go back up to the Home screen, you can't go back any further in your history. Home: Opens Home. If you re viewing a left-hand or right-hand Home screen, opens the central Home screen. To open Google Now, swipe up. Overview: Opens a list of thumbnail images of apps and Chrome tabs that you ve worked with recently. To open an app, touch it. To remove a thumbnail from the list, swipe it left or right. On the All Apps screen available from the Favourites tray, notice the Settings icon. This brings you to the Settings screens for your device, where you can adjust things like network, sound and account settings, among many others. You can search the Settings app to find what you need quickly. Simply touch the search icon at the top of the screen and type in your search term. You can use Quick Settings to easily access Wi-Fi settings, change display brightness, and more. To open Quick Settings, swipe down from the top or top-right corner of any screen. At the top of the screen you'll find Google Search, which lets you search your phone or the Internet. Touch Google to type your search terms, or the Microphone icon to speak them. You can also say "OK Google" and your query on any Home screen to activate a voice search or perform an action. Many screens in apps and settings include a Menu icon. Touch it to explore additional options, often including a Help item that provides more information about that screen. 1.3 Email app first time Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 4 of 15
Press the All Apps button to view all the apps. Notice that there are two small, white dots at the bottom which indicate that the list of apps covers two screens. Swipe the screen to the left to see the second screen. Swipe to the right to get the first screen back. Touch the Back or Home buttons to go back to the desktop. Touch the red M icon in the favourites tray to run the Gmail app. It asks you to add an account, so we touch the Personal (IMAP/POP) and OK. You then enter your email address on the next screen and touch Next, followed by your email password. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 5 of 15
There follows some options which we can leave at the default values and after touching Next a couple of times, everything is done. Touch Take me to Gmail and it shows the email Inbox containing three emails. Touch the YouTube email and it opens. Notice that there is a button with grey writing Show pictures. This is a security feature, so if you are happy that the email is from a legitimate source, touch the button and all the pictures will appear. To go back to the Inbox, touch either the Back button or the white left arrow on the left of the heading bar. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 6 of 15
Notice that the YouTube email is no longer shown in bold letters, signifying that you have opened and read the email. To compose a new email, touch the white pencil on the red circle, bottom right. This allows you to type an email address to send the email to, a subject line and the body of the email. Touch the send icon top right to send the email and once sent it returns you to the Inbox screen. Some new emails may have appeared meanwhile. From the Inbox, touch the menu icon top right to list all the email folders. Touch the Sent icon and is shows our email hasn t been sent yet, so press the Back icon and then the Outbox icon. Hey, there is nothing there, the email has been sent. Touch the Sent icon and it shows our recently composed new email has been sent and is listed in the Sent folder. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 7 of 15
1.4 Chrome web-browser first time From the home page, favourites bar, touch the Chrome icon and the app loads a welcome screen. Touch Accept after optionally touching the links to view the terms and policy. It now acknowledges your name and that it will synchronise details with your Google account. Touch Done and the app invites you to Take a tour. Touch those words to begin. It takes you to a web page, showing the first screen of a set of six. Swipe the screen to the left to move to the second screen, then again for the third, and so on. Notice that there are six small circles towards the bottom, representing the six screens. The current one is shown darker than the rest. It helps you see where you are if you swipe left or right. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 8 of 15
The six screens give useful information on how to use Chrome and at the end invite you to type in a URL to start browsing. So touch the green bit and type in the Tech4D website address tech4d.org.uk and press the green right-arrow icon to go load that website. Voila, it should load the Tech4D home page for the website. Touch the home icon to return to the home page ready to try another app. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 9 of 15
1.5 Camera and Photos apps first time From the home page, favourites bar far right, touch the Camera and the app loads saying it will tag photos with the GPS location. You can touch the green tick to disable, but we don t. Touch Next and the camera screen appears with a list of options on the left. After a short time the list slides to the left and you may take pictures. To see the list again, simply swipe from the left hand edge. Touch the home icon to return to the home page. From the home page, favourites bar, touch the Photos icon that looks like a child s windmill and the app loads asking if you want to automatically back up photos in the cloud We don t want this so touch No thanks and the app shows you all the photos, including any screenshots! Double-touch an image to see it full-size. Touch the back icon to go back until you reach the home page. Touch the overview icon to see all the apps that are running. Each running app has a window with a cross icon top right corner. Touch this to close an app. Swipe down to scroll through the apps. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 10 of 15
Swipe down again to reveal the topmost app and it is the Google earth app that we never started. It must be part of the installation process. Touch within the Earth window and we switch to that app showing California of course! Touch the screen and it will home in on your current position using GPS. Touch the overview icon again and then touch the Chrome window to return to the web browser. Press the physical power button on the side of the tablet for a few seconds until you get a message Power off. Touch that message to turn the tablet off completely, or touch anywhere else if you don t want to turn it off. Press the physical power button briefly to put the tablet to sleep to save battery. Press it briefly once again when you want it to wake up and show the login screen. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 11 of 15
1.6 Multiple users One person owns the tablet and is the main user with their own Google account that provides their details to the table and any apps. However, there may be someone else in the household that wants to use the tablet, have their own Google account, their own email and other settings. Press the All Apps button to view all the apps then press the Settings icon. Press the Users icon and you will see the owner and a Guest. Touch the Add user or profile text. In the Add window, press the word User. The window wants you to confirm, so press OK and it now lists a New user. The window asks if you want to provide details now, so touch Set up now. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 12 of 15
It now switches to the login page for the new user. Notice the red icon top right. Swipe to log in and view the welcome page. Touch the yellow icon to continue to give details for the new user, just the same as we did for our first user TabOne TechFord. Step through, the images show a few steps only. Our new user is family to the first user and is named TabTwo TechFord. Once completed we arrive at the home screen for the new user. Swipe from the top of the screen down and you can see there are no notifications. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 13 of 15
Swipe down again or with two fingers to view the Quick settings. Touch the Gmail icon to set up email for the new user. It follows the same sequence as for our first user and we need to have previously set up an email account and a Google account for the second user. Once the account has been set up, we receive and email from Outlook, with a notification at the top of the screen. We swipe down from the top left of the screen to see the notification and see it is from the Outlook.com Team. Normally we would touch that window to view the email, except we have not yet touched the Take me to Gmail button. Swipe up on the notification and then press that button. We can now bring down the notification and touch it to view the email. To go from there to the Inbox, simply touch the white left arrow top left. Email is fully working, do press the home icon to return to the home screen. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 14 of 15
From the home screen swipe down from the top with two fingers to show the Quick settings. Touch the red user icon to see a list of available users. Touch the blue TabOne user and the tablet switches you to that user s login page. You can tell that it is the first user s login by the blue user icon. Swipe down and you have the user options, to switch between users or to add a new user. Nexus 9 revision 2 Technology for the Disabled 2015 Page 15 of 15