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Congure general sync settings
Open the Accounts and Sync settings.
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You can do this by opening the Settings application and touching Accounts and 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 congured to sync automatically with your tablet.
indicates that none of an account’s information is congured to sync automatically with your tablet.
Check or uncheck
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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, Google Mail stops receiving new mail, Calendar stops syncing events, and so on, until you
touch the Refresh menu item or send an email.
Check or uncheck
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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” on page 83.