How To Set Up Your Android Tablet

If you've been given a Google Android tablet for Christmas, the GHI tin can assist you start using as shortly as possible, with these height tips.

Practise I demand a specific Google mail service account?

For Google Android tablets you lot need a Google account to be able to download apps and music from the Google Play store. If you already have a Gmail address/Google account this can exist used, alternatively, you can create one during the set-up process. You just need to enter your name, the username y'all desire to employ as the start of your Gmail accost and your password. If you're moving to the Android tablet from an iPad, we recommend you practise this first before starting to set-up the new tablet.

How practise I get all my contacts, music, photos and apps onto my new Google Android tablet?

If you've previously had a Google Android tablet, brand sure your contacts are backed up to your Google Business relationship, and when you sign in with that Google business relationship on your new tablet, your contacts will be bachelor. Brand sure all your apps, wi-fi passwords and settings are backed up by selecting Settings and and so Dorsum upward & Restore. So when you gear up upwardly the new Android tablet, select the option to restore from a previous back up so your settings and passwords will exist added to the new smartphone, and apps automatically downloaded. For photos, save them to Google Photos on your existing Android tablet, then install the Google Photos app on your new tablet (it may come pre-loaded).

If you've currently got an iPad, download the free Google Bulldoze app on to your device. Open and sign-in with your Google account. Tap the menu from the elevation left-manus side and then select the Settings icon (shaped like a cog) From here select redundancy and then choose the aspects you want to copy such as contacts, calendar entries and photos. Now press Start Backup. Information technology'due south worth ensuring your iPad is being charged every bit this can take a while. When complete, start setting up the Android tablet post-obit the on-screen instructions signing in with the Google Account you used to sign in to Google Drive.

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Can I connect to the internet why I'thousand away from home?

Depending on which version of an Android tablet yous've got, you may be able to connect to the web away from home. If you take wi-fi only, you'll need a wireless network in reach. To observe i, head to Settings and so Wi-fi and connect to a network. If yous take a wi-fi and 4G tablet, you tin access the internet when you're away from a wireless network using 4G but yous'll demand to purchase a sim either pre-loaded with data, or you'll need to sign up to a data contract from a mobile network to let y'all do this.

How do I back up my content?

When y'all first set up the tablet and enter your Google account details, you'll be asked if you desire to back-up your data to your Google Account and restore previous back-ups to your device. Make certain this box is ticked and your content will exist backed upwards. If you forget to do this, head to Settings then Backup & Restore and plow on Support to Google Drive. It doesn't cover photos and then back them up to Google Photos (free from the Google Play Store if not already installed on your tablet.

Do I need insurance?

Tablets are an expensive investment, costing anywhere from betwixt £200 to £700, so nosotros recommend you take out insurance. Contact your home contents provider and look at the price of getting your tablet added to your policy, or attempt ProtectYourBubble - a defended gadget insurance provider. As well invest in a case and screen protector, as a smashed screen is 1 of the nigh common accidents to befall tablet devices.