Reading Before Proceeding Safety Precautions Please read the safety precautions carefully to ensure the correct use of your mobile phone. Do not crash, throw, or puncture your mobile phone. Avoid the falling, squeezing, and bending of your mobile phone. Do not use your mobile phone in a moist environment, such as the bathroom.
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Do not attempt to disassemble your mobile phone or its accessories. Only qualified personnel are allowed to service or repair the phone. Do not place your mobile phone or its accessories in containers with a strong electromagnetic field. Do not place magnetic storage media near your mobile phone.
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Getting Started Appearance Phone at a Glance Note: All the figures in this guide are for your reference only. The actual appearance and display features depend on the mobile phone you purchase. Power key Earpiece Front camera Proximity sensors Volume keys Capture key End key Home key...
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Search key Back key Charging/Data Headset jack interface Camera Speaker Key Functions at Your Fingertips • Press to power your phone on. • Press and hold to open the Phone Power options menu. • Press to lock the screen when your phone is powered on.
Setting Up Your Phone Installing the SIM Cards SIM1 SIM2 1. Remove the battery cover. 2. Insert the subscriber identity module (SIM) cards as shown in the figure. Note: When inserting a SIM card, ensure that the gold contact area faces down.
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Installing the Battery 1. Remove the battery cover. 2. Insert the battery at a downward angle (a) and move it slightly forward until it snaps into place at (b). 3. Replace the battery cover. Charging the Battery Before charging the battery, ensure that it has been properly inserted on your phone.
Important Information About the Battery • If the battery has not been used for a long time, you may not be able to power on your mobile phone immediately after you begin charging the battery. Allow the battery to charge for a few minutes with the phone powered off before attempting to power the phone on.
Using the Touchscreen Touchscreen Actions • Touch: Tap the screen with your finger to select an item, confirm a selection, or start an application. • Touch and hold: Touch an item with your fingertip and continue to press down until your phone responds. For example, to open the options menu for the active screen, touch the screen and hold down until the menu appears.
Note: If you have set up a screen unlock pattern, you will be prompted to draw the pattern on the screen to unlock it. Home screen g...
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Notification bar: Displays notifications and status icons for your mobile phone. Flick down to open the notification panel. Display area: Shows the date and time. Home screen and extension indicator: Indicates the number of home screen extensions.The yellow dot indicates the current screen. Notifications and Status Information Notification and Status Icons Call in progress...
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Extremely low Battery full battery Charging battery Music playing Alarm enabled New email New message Notification Panel Your mobile phone will notify you when you receive a new message or there is an incoming event. The notification panel also informs you of alarms and settings. For example, you will be notified when Call forwarding is activated.
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2. Select an item to add it to the Home screen. Moving a Home Screen Item 1. Touch and hold an item on the Home screen until the item enlarges and the phone vibrates. 2. Without lifting your finger, drag the item to the desired position on the Home screen, and then release your finger.
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Folders Adding a Folder to the Home screen 1. Touch and hold the blank area on the Home screen to open the Add to Home screen menu.Touch Folders to open the Select folder menu. 2. Select the folder you want to add to the Home screen. Renaming a Folder on the Home screen 1.
Using a microSD Card Installing the microSD Card 1. Remove the battery cover. 2. Insert the microSD card into the card slot as shown in the figure. Note: When inserting the microSD card, ensure that the gold contact area faces down. Using the microSD Card as USB Mass Storage To transfer all your favorite music and pictures from your PC to your phone’s microSD card, set the microSD card as USB...
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Note: When your microSD card functions as USB mass storage, your phone will not use this memory space. Removing the microSD Card 1. Touch > Settings. 2. Scroll down the screen, and touch SD card & phone storage > Unmount SD card. 3.
Calling To make a phone call, you can dial a number using the dialer or touch a number saved in your contact list, on a web page, or in a document. When you are in a call, you can answer other incoming calls or redirect them to your voicemail.
searches among your contacts and lists the matching results ordered according to the accuracy of the match. If no contact matches the information entered, the phone will not display any result. 3. Touch SIM1 or SIM 2 to initiate the call. Making a Call from Contacts 1.
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Drag down or press to answer the call. 123456789 Ending a Call During a call, press End call to hang up. Rejecting a Call Drag up or press to reject the call.
123456789 Other Operations During a Call Making a Conference Call If you receive a new call while you are already in a call, you can add the second call to the call you are in. This feature is known as conference calling. You can also set up a conference call with multiple callers.
participant is automatically placed on hold while you do this. 3. Once you have connected to the second person, press , and touch Merge calls to begin the conference call. 4. To add more people, touch Add call and repeat steps 2 and 3.
4. Touch Save as new or Add to Existing.If you touch Add to Existing, scroll through the contact list and touch an existing contact name. Using Airplane Mode Some locations may require you to turn off your phone’s wireless connections. Rather than powering your phone off, you can place it in Airplane mode.
Contacts The Contacts application enables you to save and manage information such as phone numbers and addresses of your contacts. After you save contact information on your phone, you have easy access to the people with whom you want to communicate.
4. If you have touched Select and import contacts > OK, select the contacts you want to import, and touch in the top right corner of the screen. Adding a Contact 1. Open the contact list, press , and touch New contact. Tip: you can also open the contact list, and touch +.
2. Enter the name of the contact you want to search for. As you type, contacts with matching names appear below the search box. Editing a Contact You can make changes to the information you have stored for a contact at any time. 1.
Contact for Android, which allows you to quickly initiate a connection to your contacts. 2. Touch the icon for the way you want to communicate with the contact. Note: The icons available depend on the information you have entered for the contact, the applications installed on your phone, and the accounts you have.
Using the Onscreen Keyboard Displaying the Keyboard Panel To enter text, use the onscreen keyboard. Some applications automatically open the keyboard. In others, touch the text field where you want to enter text to open the keyboard. To hide the keyboard, press Tip: Touch and hold a text field to open the Edit text menu.
Touch to enter text by voice. Touch to insert a space in your text. Touch to delete the character to the left of the cursor. Touch and hold to delete all characters to the left of the cursor. Using the Landscape Keyboard If you find the keyboard inconvenient or difficult to use, turn your phone sideways.
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Select to correct common spelling Quick fixes mistakes as you type. Show Select to display suggested words as suggestions you type. Select to automatically enter a Auto- suggested word, highlighted in orange complete in the strip above the keyboard, when you enter a space or punctuation.
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Message The Message application allows you to exchange text and multimedia messages with anyone using a phone supporting the Short Message Service (SMS) and the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). With the Email application you can receive and send emails. SMS and MMS Opening Message •...
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the window. As you view and send additional messages, a message thread is created. Sending a Multimedia Message 1. Touch > Message, then touch the icon in the top left corner of the screen. 2. Enter a phone number in To, or touch + to select a contact from Contacts.
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3. To add and edit another slide, press and touch Add slide in the displayed menu. While editing the slide, you can touch the yellow arrow icons to switch between slides. 4. Touch Done to finish composing your message and return to the multimedia message screen.
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Email Your phone also puts email at your fingertips. With your phone’s Email application, you can add versions of Yahoo!, AOL, and other popular email services to your phone. These types of email accounts are known as POP3 or IMAP. Adding an Email Account When using the Email application for the first time, you must configure an email account.
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Adding Another Email Account 1. After creating your initial email account, press on the Inbox screen, and touch Accounts to access the account list. 2. Press , and touch Add account to create another email account. Tip: When adding an additional email account, you have the option to use the new account to send all outgoing messages.
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Replying to an Email 1. Open the account list, and touch the email account you want to use. 2. Touch the email to which you want to reply. 3. Touch Reply or Reply all to reply to the email. Deleting an Email Account 1.