An Absolute Beginner's Guide for the RP2

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DO NOT LINK Turning on your RP2 for the first time

DO NOT LINK The power button

The power button is a small, round button, located on the top edge of the RP2 between the right shoulder buttons and the volume rocker. Press and hold the power button until the screen lights up (roughly three seconds), and your RP2 begins to boot up.

IMAGE OF POWER BUTTON

DO NOT LINK Initial boot-up, and installing RetroidOS

Your RP2 will take 40 to 50 seconds to boot up. This is normal.

The first time that you boot up your RP2 out of the box, it will boot into Android 6.0. If you have never used an Android phone before, this can be a little daunting, but don't worry, as we won't be spending much time with it.

If you touch the d-pad, you will see a square highlight that moves between the various icons on the screen. When in Android mode, the controller's "A" button is used to select items, while "B" is the "back" or "cancel" button. Use the d-pad to move the highlight to the middle icon at the bottom of the screen, which looks like a circle with six dots inside. Then press the "A" button to select it. This will open the Android "app drawer", which is a menu of all the apps installed on your RP2.

IMAGE OF APP DRAWER ICON IMAGE OF APP DRAWER

Don't worry if your app drawer doesn't look exactly like the one in the image above; this screenshot was taken on an RP2 which has already had several extra Android apps installed by the user.

Now that you're in the app drawer, use the d-pad to move the square highlight until it is on the "Toolbox" app. Because there will be more apps installed on your RP2 than can fit on the screen at once, you will probably need to scroll the app drawer a little before you will be able to see the "Toolbox" app. Just keep moving the highlight down, even after you reach the bottom of the screen. The app drawer will scroll automatically to keep up.

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