GoPOS Software Upgrades

 

To upgrade the GoPOS application on each of your APOS units, follow the following steps.

 

 

1) Download and copy the latest GoPOS application package (GoPOS-AYYMMDD.apk) file from the Dealer Portal or from Optima's One drive directory to a USB thumb drive.

 

2) From the GoPOS Home Settings Menu press on Android Bars to enable the android navigation bar.

 

3) Press Upgrade from the Home Settings Menu.

 

This will display the android Open From Dialogue box.

 

 

4) Insert the USB drive containing the latest APK file, into the back of your APOS unit. The USB drive will be displayed on the left pane of the Open from dialogue. Please note that Android may take a few minutes to verify the USB depending on the capacity of the device. When Android Bars have been enabled, swiping down from the top of the screen with two fingers will display the USB drive status.

5) Press on the USB storage and navigate to find the GoPOS installation file. (GoPOS-AYYMMDD.apk) You may press on the View Icon at the top left of the window to change from Grid View to List view.

Search

Click on this icon to display a text box, allowing you to enter the text you wish to search for.

View

Press on this icon to toggle from Grid View to List View.

 

Grid View

List View

Sort

Press on this icon to sort by file name, by date modified or by file size.

Options

Press on this icon for additional display options.

 

6) Once you have located the latest installation file, press on the file to install the latest version and upgrade your APOS.

 

If a permission window appears asking you to Allow Optima GoPOS to access photos, media, and files on your device?

•Press ALLOW. – This will enable the app to control Hardware settings such as Display brightness, Sound Volume and Customer Display contrast directly from the GoPOS Hardware Settings Maintenance Screen.

•Press Home  to display an additional security screen that will ask you if Optima GoPOS can modify system settings.

•Press Optima GoPos and enable “Allow modify system settings”.

•Arrow back to return to GoPOS.

          

Once the installation has completed, GoPOS should launch automatically.

 

To validate that the upgrade was successful, you may verify the application version in the GoPOS Home About window.

 

7) When android bars have been enabled, you can swipe down from the top of the screen to safely eject your USB drive. If android bars were not enabled, shut down the APOS before removing the USB drive to ensure that it can be safely ejected.