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Annex No.5 Page 1 of 101 Functional Description / User manual Archos G6H (Archos 5 User manual & legal booklet)
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Please visit www.archos.com/manuals to download the latest version of this manual. Dear Customer, Thank you for choosing this ARCHOS product. We hope that you will enjoy using it and that it will give you satisfaction for many years to come.
If you do not plan on using the ARCHOS for an extended period of time, keep the button held down until you see a second message appear. The device will shut down completely, and there will be absolutely no battery usage.
MANUAL INTRODUCTION > P. 5 • Carefully pull it out, and it will allow your ARCHOS to stand by itself on a flat, stable surface. FIRST TIME USAGE CHARGING THE BATTERY Before using your ARCHOS for the first time, completely...
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WiFi connection. manage the Home screen shortcuts. lock your device’s touchscreen. This can be useful if your ARCHOS is in your pocket, for example, and you do not want to touch the screen by accident. To unlock the device, press the button.
(be careful however not to tap on a link!). PRODUCT CARE Your ARCHOS is an electronic product that needs to be treated with care: • Do not subject it to shock or vibration.
” browser allows you to navigate through the folder of the Video Video ARCHOS hard drive. • You can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home screen...
1.2 VIDEO PLAYBACK To play a video, highlight the file and open it. VIDEO PLAYBACK SCREEN 1. Menu icon 2. Back icon 3. video file name 4. Home icon 5. play / pause icon 6. video progression bar 7. volume level...
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DVR Station 6, Mini Dock or Battery Dock: see ARCHOS Accessories ). “ ”: enlarges the picture to fill the screen. In order to fit the ARCHOS Full Screen screen, your device might need to cut small parts of the image, most likely at the top and bottom.
MANUAL PLAYING VIDEO > P. 11 “Set” “ ”: sets a bookmark at the current spot in the video. Only one bookmark Bookmark per file is allowed. You can bookmark up to 32 files. Bookmarked videos will appear, in the “ ”...
” button). Reset 1.4 PUTTING VIDEOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS On The ARCHOS Media Club, you have the possibility to purchase or rent vid- eos directly from your ARCHOS, without using a computer. See: The ARCHOS Media Club. There are two main methods to transfer the videos stored on your computer onto the ARCHOS: ®...
To learn how to connect/disconnect the ARCHOS from your computer, see the Transferring Files section. CREATING COMPATIBLE VIDEO FILES WITH YOUR COMPUTER If some of your videos don’t play on your ARCHOS, you may need to convert them to a compatible format: •...
files contain these song information tags. • When new music is copied to the ARCHOS, the Music Library will be updated automatically. • If some of your music files do not con- tain information tags, they will be classi- fied as...
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MANUAL PLAYING MUSIC > P. 15 THE MUSIC BROWSER • The music browser allows you to navigate through the folder Music of your device’s hard drive. • To use it, select “ ” in the Hard Drive initial Music Library view. MUSIC LIBRARY AND MUSIC BROWSER MENU ITEMS* * The available menu items will vary depending on the mode you chose (Music Library or Music Browser).
• To pause/resume the song, tap on the Pause / Play previous screen). (n° 5 or 6). • To play the previous/next song, tap on • To browse through your songs while listening to music, simply tap on the Back icon .
” will remove the bookmark from the song). Resume Clear “Set rating” allows you to give a rating to the current song (1-5) or to remove the rating (none). “Lock device” locks your device’s touchscreen. This can be useful if your ARCHOS is in your pocket, for example, and you do not want to touch the screen by accident.
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This will be repeated indefi- nitely. plays the songs of the current folder ran- “Shuffle” domly. plays all the songs of your ARCHOS one “All” “Normal” after the other, and then stops. plays all the songs of your ARCHOS one “Repeat”...
A playlist is a list of audio tracks that the music player will automatically play one after the other. • On your ARCHOS, you can play, create and edit as many playlists as you want. Note: when you delete a playlist, you are only deleting the list and not the mu- sic itself.
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MANUAL PLAYING MUSIC > P. 20 “Insert in playlist” “ ”: will insert the highlighted track before the selected item in the Selected file current playlist. “ ”: will add all the tracks (from the left panel) before the selected item the All files current playlist.
® Player 10 or higher* ( tab) to synchronize your Sync computer’s music files to the ARCHOS. See Putting Files onto the ARCHOS for more details. * For best performance, we recommend that users update to Windows Media ® Player 11 or higher.
You can easily create music files with your computer by using Windows Media® Player 10 or higher to convert your CDs to a playable format for your ARCHOS: Place a music CD in your computer, and Windows® will ask you what action you would like to perform.
” browser allows you to navigate through the folder of the Photo Pictures ARCHOS hard drive. • You can go back one level in the interface by tapping on the Back icon Wherever you are in the interface, you can go back directly to the Home screen...
MANUAL VIEWING PHOTOS > P. 24 “ ”: allows you to define the file/folder as adult content, so that other Permissions users can’t see it. To use this, your “ ” needs to be set to “ Parental Mode Adult (un- ”.
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” menu item will appear, allowing you to pause the slide- Pause slideshow show. “Set as wallpaper” defines the current picture as your ARCHOS background image. “Settings” will display the Photo viewer settings screen (see next section). “Zoom” use the slider to magnify/demagnify the current picture.
”: displays the entire picture in its original format. Original “ ”: enlarges the picture to fill the screen. In order to fit the ARCHOS Full Screen screen, your device might need to cut small parts of the image, most likely at the top and bottom.
Windows® Explorer: Copy and paste your pictures from your computer into the folder of your ARCHOS. Pictures To learn how to connect/disconnect the ARCHOS from your computer, see the Transferring Files section. 3.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED PHOTOS (UPNP) •...
USING THE FILE BROWSER > P. 28 4. USING THE FILE BROWSER The ARCHOS File Browser gives you the possibility to navigate the file system of your ARCHOS hard drive. In the Home screen, tap on “ ”, Tools then choose the “...
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MANUAL USING THE FILE BROWSER > P. 29 FILE BROWSER MENU ITEMS Note that some of the above menu items may not appear if they are not avail- able for the highlighted file or folder. “Info” displays a message box with information about the highlighted file. “Create folder”...
® • When you are connected to a Windows network, you can browse* the shared folders of other computers in the network, using the ARCHOS File Browser. • From the Home screen, select tap on “ ”, then select “...
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Using the ARCHOS double browser, you will be able to play media files or transfer any file from a networked computer onto your device. You can also transfer files from your device onto a computer’s write-enabled shared folder (see Copying and Moving Files...
5. CONNECTING TO THE WIFI • The first time you start the ARCHOS, the installation wizard will help you con- figure your WiFi connection. Every time you launch an Internet application, the ARCHOS will try to connect automatically to a WiFi network.
Check with your network manager. WIFI NETWORK CONFIGURATION In order to connect to a wireless network, the ARCHOS will need some specific informa- tion about the network. Your device will automatically pick up certain pieces of infor- mation that it needs from the WiFi hot spot. You can enter the rest of the information manually in the network’s configuration screen, as shown in the following sections.
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When you have finished entering all the information, tap on the “ ” button, and Connect your ARCHOS will connect to this network, provided the signal is strong enough. PROTECTED NETWORKS ( WEP, WPA OR WPA2 KEY ) • Protected networks require an en- cryption key to connect.
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” button, and Connect your ARCHOS will connect to this network, provided the signal is strong enough. Filtered networks: If your network manager allows only specific devices to connect to the network (known as MAC address filtering), you can supply the network manager with the MAC address of your ARCHOS.
If you are already connected to a network, the Web browser will simply open and you can start browsing the Web. • If you are not connected to the Internet, the ARCHOS will try to connect auto- matically to a WiFi network. •...
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MANUAL THE INTERNET FEATURES > P. 37 WEB BROWSER TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLS • You can use your finger to scroll the current web page horizontally or vertically. To open a link, simply tap on it. • To switch between the available tabs, tap directly on the corresponding tab, in the upper left corner of the screen.
6.2 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MEDIA FILES (UPNP) • When connected to your home WiFi network, your ARCHOS gives you the possi- bility to watch, directly on your device, shared media files (videos, music or pho- tos) stored in your PC’s Windows Media® Library.
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files directly on your ARCHOS (see next section). PLAYING YOUR SHARED MEDIA FILES ON THE ARCHOS Your PC needs to be connected to the same WiFi network as the one the ARCHOS will connect to. You also need to have configured Windows Media® Player’s sharing op- tions (see the previous section).
Internet into your ARCHOS. • Or, if your ARCHOS is connected to the optional DVR Station 6, you will be able to select your internet media content directly from your television. In order to activate The ARCHOS Media Club, you will need to register your ARCHOS product on-line on the ARCHOS web site (www.archos.com/register).
▲ ▲ ▲ The ARCHOS will ask you if you want to charge it or connect it. Choose to con- nect it. The ARCHOS icon will appear on your computer. The ARCHOS starts charging and you can start transferring files to it.
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The Synchronize button in Windows Media® Player is a one way ‘sync’ button. It will add video, music and photo files to your ARCHOS. If will give you the possibility to have the same digital media on your ARCHOS as you have in your Windows Media® Player media library.
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Windows 2000 or Me DO NOT SIMPLY PULL OUT THE CABLE AT ANY TIME! You must remove/unmount the ARCHOS from the computer before disconnecting the USB cable to avoid loss of data or freezing. • Once all your transfers are finished, click on the ‘safely remove’...
” / “ ”: the built-in speaker remains on or off regardless if headphones are attached. “ ”: the built-in speaker automatically turns off when you plug in head- Automatic phones or connect your ARCHOS to the optional DVR Station 6.
“Reset” resets the sound parameters to the default values. “EQUALIZER” SCREEN • Your ARCHOS features a 5-band equalizer. • Select a band (Bass, Mid. bass, Mid. range, Mid. treble or Treble), then use the up/down arrows to change the gain level for these frequency ranges.
(see: System Recovery). 8.3 “TV OUT” SETTINGS “TV OUT” SETTINGS “TV Connection” when your ARCHOS is connected to the optional DVR Station 6 (available at www.archos.com), select the type of video output (“ ”, “ ”,...
” interface depending on how you have connected the ARCHOS to your TV. SPDIF 8.4 “APPEARANCE” SETTINGS “Picture name” allows you to choose a wallpaper for your ARCHOS. The wallpaper can be either an image or a video. Select “ ” if you do not want any background image or None video.
8.6 “TV CONTROL” SETTINGS • This is where you can set the DVR Station’s IR emitter to communicate with your tuner. This will allow you to schedule recordings easily via the ARCHOS TV Program Guide (EPG). • See the manual of the optional DVR Station 6.
“ ”: select this parameter if you want to set the clock automatically Automatic when your ARCHOS is connected to a WiFi network. You will need to select your location in the “ ” settings screen (see: “Language and Language and Region Region”...
“Device Complete Power Off” If you do not plan on using the ARCHOS for an extended period of time, use this button to completely turn off your device, so that there is absolutely no battery usage.
“POWER SUPPLY OPERATION” “Standby” the amount of time of user inactivity before the ARCHOS goes into Standby mode. the system will not go into Standby mode during a slideshow, audio/video play- back, audio/video recording, or USB connection.
Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). It allows you to charge your ARCHOS and transfer files onto it at the same time. Your ARCHOS will be locked only when it is opened in Windows® Explorer. You will be able to synchronize your media library auto- matically every time you connect your ARCHOS to your computer.
* If you go from “Child” to “Adult” mode, you will be required to enter your parental code. 8.11 “ “ CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE” SETTINGS Here you can find ARCHOS technical support information, view the PDF user manual or access the “ ”: Repair and Formatting Tools “Repair and Formatting Tools”...
From to the Home screen, tap on “ ”, select “ ” and choose Tools Settings “ ”. Firmware and Plug-ins Tap on the “ ” button. Online Firmware Update The ARCHOS will connect to the WiFi and search on-line for a new firmware. If there...
You can also update the firmware using a computer connected to the internet: On your PC, go to www.archos.com/firmware. Search for the latest firmware available for your ARCHOS. Compare the latest on-line version with the one installed on your ARCHOS: your ARCHOS firmware version number appears in the “ ” set- Firmware and Plug-ins tings screen (see: “Firmware and Plug-ins”...
Select this icon to watch digital TV (DVB-T) when you have connected the optional Mobile TV Snap-on accessory to your ARCHOS. TVPORTATION If you also own an ARCHOS TV+ and it is connected to your television tuner, this option provides a way to view your home TV anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Go on www.archos.com to learn how to get widgets for your ARCHOS and how to install and use them. FILES Select this icon to navigate the file system of your ARCHOS hard drive. See Using the File Browser. FLASH APPS •...
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MANUAL OTHER FUNCTIONS > P. 59 • To scroll the page up and down, tap on the page and drag it up or down. • Once arriving at the bottom of a PDF page, pull the page up to reveal the next page.
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Your ARCHOS hard drive will then be accessible from your computer’s network neighborhood. • If you want to set up your ARCHOS device to appear with a particular name in a particular workgroup on the network, you can change the following parameters (in the “...
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MANUAL OTHER FUNCTIONS > P. 61 Enable file server tap on this button to turn on the file server. INFO • Select this icon to display a list of useful PDF documents such as this full PDF manual, or other useful guides. •...
10. ARCHOS PLUG-INS AND ACCESSORIES You can purchase the following accessories or plug-ins to extend the func- tionality of your ARCHOS. They can be purchased from the ARCHOS web site (www.archos.com), or via the “ ” menu on your ARCHOS.
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Transform your ARCHOS into a full-fledged car GPS (Nav Sat) navi- gation system. FM REMOTE FM remote control which allows you to listen to the radio directly on your ARCHOS. It also allows you to record from its built-in micro- phone.
However some settings will be reset to their factory defaults. SYSTEM RECOVERY • If your ARCHOS does not respond correctly, or does not show certain songs or videos that you have copied to it, try using the “ ” Repair and Formatting Tools (see: Customer Assistance Settings ).
MANUAL TROUBLESHOOTING > P. 65 “Format Disk” formats the hard drive. all data (music, photos, videos, etc.), licenses and settings are erased. “Force Touchscreen Calibration” use this option if the touchscreen does not respond correctly and if you cannot access the touchscreen settings (see: Screen Settings ). follow the instructions on the screen.
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” (erase all data, media files, licenses and settings) Full Reinitialization In the event that your ARCHOS freezes or does not respond anymore, try to reset it (see: Resetting your ARCHOS). If this does not work or if you cannot access the Repair and Formatting Tools,...
• On our Website: see the frequently asked questions section on www.archos.com/faq • By asking our technical support team: visit www.archos.com/support for e-mail support. • U.S. & Canada: Call 877-300-8879 (toll free). All brands and product names are registered trademarks and the property of their respec- ®...