Android OS

You can configure background data use and synchronization options for all of the applications on your tablet. You can also configure what kinds of data you synchronize for each account. Some applications, such as Gmail and Calendar, have their own synchronization settings.

For some accounts, syncing is two-directional; changes that you make to the information on your tablet are made to the copy of that information on the web. Your Google Account works this way. Other accounts support only one-way sync: the information on your tablet is read-only.

Configure general sync settings

1. Open the Accounts & Sync settings.

   You can do this by opening the Settings application and touching Accounts & sync. Many applications also have an Accounts button or menu item on the screens where you work with accounts. For example, in the Contacts application you can touch the Menu button in the top-right of the Application bar and then touch Accounts.

   The screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts.

   indicates that some or all of an account’s information is configured to sync automatically with your tablet.

   indicates that none of an account’s information is configured to sync automatically with your tablet.



2. Check or uncheck Background data to control whether applications and services can transmit data when you are not working with them directly (that is, when they are running in the background).

   If you uncheck this option, Gmail stops receiving new mail, Calendar stops syncing events, and so on, until you touch the Refresh menu item or send an email.

3. Check or uncheck Auto-sync to control whether changes you make to information on the tablet or on the web are automatically synced with each other.

For example, when this option is checked, changes that you make in Contacts on the tablet are automatically made in Google Contacts on the web.

If you uncheck this option, you may be able to use an application’s tools to sync data manually. See Sync information manually.

Sync information manually

1. Open the Accounts & Sync settings.
2. Touch the account whose data you want to sync.
3. Touch the Sync Now button at the top-right of the Application bar.

Change an account’s sync settings

1. Open the Accounts & Sync settings.
2. Touch the account whose sync settings you want to change. The Sync Settings screen opens, displaying a list of the kinds of information the account can sync.

   Checked items are configured to sync to your tablet.

3. Check or uncheck the kinds of information you want to sync to the tablet.

Unchecking an option does not remove the information from your tablet; it simply stops it from being kept in sync with the version on the web. To remove the information previously synced for the account, you must remove the account.