Alcatel One Touch 818 User Manual
Alcatel One Touch 818 User Manual

Alcatel One Touch 818 User Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Note: Table of contents This is a shared user manual for one touch 818/one touch 818D/one touch 828 specifying Dual SIM information where relevant. Safety and use ..............6 Introduction ......... General information ............11 Getting started ..............13 TCT Mobile Limited would like to thank you for purchasing this mobile Set-up ....................13...
  • Page 3 Outbox ....................36 12.2 Ebook ....................60 Sent .......................36 12.3 Java ......................61 Drafts ....................36 Camera ................63 Available options ................37 13.1 Access ....................63 Palringo ................38 13.2 Camera ....................63 Access ....................38 13.3 Video ....................64 Open a Palringo account online .............38 Profiles ................66 Sign in/Sign out ...................38 14.1 General...
  • Page 4: Safety And Use

    18.3 Notes ....................78 Safety and use ......18.4 Tasks .....................79 18.5 Clock ....................80 18.6 Converter ....................81 We recommend that you read this chapter carefully before using your phone. The manufacturer 18.7 Voice recorder ...................81 disclaims any liability for damage, which may result as a consequence of improper use or use contrary to the instructions contained herein.
  • Page 5 • PRIVACY: Emergency call numbers may not be reachable on all cellular networks. You should never rely only on your phone for emergency calls. Please note that you must respect the laws and regulations in force in your jurisdiction or other Do not open, dismantle or attempt to repair your mobile phone yourself.
  • Page 6: Radio Waves

    The highest SAR values under the Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners. ICNIRP guidelines for this device model are: one touch 818/one touch 818D/one touch Maximum SAR for this model and conditions under which it 828 Bluetooth QD ID B017652 was recorded.
  • Page 7: General Information

    Protection against theft General information ....Your telephone is identified by an IMEI (phone serial number) shown on the packaging label and in the phone’s memory. We recommend that you • Internet address: www.alcatelonetouch.com note the number the first time you use your telephone by entering * # 0 6 # and keep it in a safe place.
  • Page 8: Getting Started

    You must insert your SIM card to make phone calls. Please power off your phone and remove battery before inserting or removing the SIM card. one touch 818/one touch 828 • Insert and click the battery into place, then close the telephone cover.
  • Page 9: Power On Your Phone

    Power off your phone Connect the battery charger to your phone and mains socket respectively. Hold down the key until the telephone powers off. • Charging may take about 20 minutes to start if the battery is flat. • Be careful not to force the plug into the socket. Using the touchscreen •...
  • Page 10: Your Mobile

    Keys and connectors Your mobile ......• Return to the Home screen one touch 818/818D • Short key press: Reject a call one touch 828 Lock/unlock the screen • Long key press: Power on/off • Short key press: Volume up/down Zoom in/out •...
  • Page 11: Home Screen

    Home screen 2.2.1 Status bar icons You can bring all the items (shortcuts and widgets) you love or use most Battery charge level frequently to your Home screen for quick access. Vibrate alert: your phone vibrates, but does not ring or beep with the exception of the alarm (see page 66).
  • Page 12 Call forwarding activated: your calls are forwarded Receiving message. (see page 46). SMS unread. Stopwatch is active. MMS unread. Radio is on. (Flickering) Message list is full: your phone cannot accept any new messages. You must access the message list and delete Alarm or appointments programmed (see page 77, 80).
  • Page 13: Making A Call

    2.2.4 Personalize the Homescreen Making a call ......Adding items To add an item from the main menu, you can select one of the following ways: • Touch and hold an item from the main menu list. Placing a call •...
  • Page 14: Calling Your Voicemail

    Making an emergency call Muting the ringtone If your phone has network coverage, dial emergency number and touch You may mute ringtone of current incoming call by press Volume key. to make an emergency call. This works even without a SIM card and Rejecting a call without typing the PIN code.
  • Page 15: Conference Calls

    Handling two calls • Answering a second call (ensure that " Call waiting" is activated, see page 45). • To call a second party during a call, you may touch and select "New call". Call held Conference calls Call not held Your phone allows you to talk to several people at the same time (up to Turn off microphone and select "Conference call".
  • Page 16: Menu Arrange

    Menu arrange ......Messages ......The main menu can be altered according to your preference. You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS with this mobile phone. To access this function, first select to enter the main menu. MMS enables you to send video clips, images, photos, animations and sounds to other compatible mobiles and e-mail addresses.
  • Page 17: Write Message

    Useful icons: Timer send Options Schedule an SMS/MMS to be sent out at predefined time (select "Timer send" via Compose new message An SMS message of more than a certain number of characters (the Search for a thread number of characters depends on your language) will be charged as several SMS.
  • Page 18: Delete Threads

    Delete threads Multimedia messages To delete threads (containing all conversations), touch and multi-select Edit Set slide timing, edit mode, image size, signature, the threads you want to delete and then touch etc. Send Set the values for validity period, Read report, Available options etc.
  • Page 19: Email

    New email service Email ....... To set up a new email account other than the predefined email services, touch and then "Other Email accounts". Your phone has an email client with the settings predefined for a few You are required to enter your email address, display name, password, popular email services like –...
  • Page 20: Available Options

    Available options Palringo ......Signature To attach your signature when sending emails. Check interval To check for new emails at a pre-set interval. Palringo Instant message (IM) allows you to chat with other people using Palringo account. You can also connect to other popular IM services Edit account To edit the detailed configuration information of through Palringo, like Yahoo, AIM, GG, ICQ, GTalk, iChat etc.
  • Page 21: Add Service

    Add service Contacts ......Various services (Yahoo, GTalk, ICQ etc.) can be added by "Menu\Add Service". Consulting your contacts Chat To access the Contacts, touch from tool bar to enter the main menu, To start a chat, select one online contact, then touch "Private chat". and select "Contacts".
  • Page 22: Adding A Contact

    Adding a contact Phone contact Touch to set as your You can add a new contact by touching favourite contact Touch to view the Touch to view call log with Following fields are accessible when you create a new contact in the contact information the contact and do further Touch to view...
  • Page 23: Available Options

    After you have created a group, go to the All contacts or Phone contacts Call log ......tab, select a contact and enter its details screen, tap and select Assign to group. For dual SIM Model, you can make full use of both SIM1 and SIM2 for information backup.
  • Page 24 9.2.2 Billing Call forwarding You can activate, cancel or verify the status of the call forwarding to the You can access different items with this option: voicemail or to a specified number. Last call cost/Total You can view the last call cost/total cost/max Call barring cost/Max cost/Reset cost/reset cost/price per unit of charged calls,...
  • Page 25: Media Applications

    Cancel all barring Deactivate all call barring. Media applications ..... Change barring Change the original Password for activating call password barring. 10.1 Music player ..........Caller ID To access this function, touch to enter the main menu and select Activate/deactivate CLIR. You will have full flexibility of managing music both on your mobile and Line switching (1) (2)
  • Page 26 10.1.1 Music playing mode Available options All songs See page 48 My star list See page 48 Bluetooth settings Set to play music in a Bluetooth device Delete Delete the song Setting See page 50 Properties Song information Set as ringtone Set the song as ringtone 10.1.2 Settings...
  • Page 27: Image Viewer

    10.2 Image viewer ..........10.3 Video player ..........A library links to the images stored in your phone or SD card to be shown "My videos" album contains video clips recorded, received or downloaded. in list, or slide, set as wallpaper, power on/off display and incoming call All supported video clips in this folder can be played, set as power on/off image or sent by MMS, Email, Bluetooth.
  • Page 28: Radio

    Available options: 10.4 Radio ............Channel list Open the list of saved stations. Your phone is equipped with a radio with RDS functionality. You can use the application as a traditional radio with saved channels or with Auto search Start auto search and stations will be parallel visual information related to the radio program on the display if automatically saved to "Channel list".
  • Page 29: Internet

    11.3.3 Go to URL Internet ......Enter the URL of website. 11.3.4 Open file 11.1 My friends ............ A link to File manager to open WML, HTML,HTM and XHTML files. It migrates self-contained sub-trees of the websites to let you stay in touch 11.3.5 Last web address with your friends by flicking through Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, Myspace and...
  • Page 30: News

    11.4 News ............. 11.5 Weather ............ It is a huge time saver providing news updates from a website in a simple Your phone is equipped with a weather function for consulting up to 3-day form. forecasts of favourite cities. Once subscribed to a channel, it gives you the ability to track and To access the function from the Home screen, touch from tool bar to manage all your favourite RSS content on your mobile phone at anytime,...
  • Page 31: Facebook

    Entertainment ....11.6 Facebook ............Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. It provides a number of features with which users may interact: Wall, a space on every user's profile page 12.1 Stopwatch ............
  • Page 32: Java

    12.3.5 Trusted certificates 12.3 Java ............... View detailed information of the trusted certificates supported by your phone. 12.3.1 Launch an application Select "Java applications" to launch applications. Disclaimer Downloading or running applications will not damage or alter any 12.3.2 Java downloading software already in your mobile telephone designed to support Java™...
  • Page 33: Camera

    13.2.2 Settings in framing mode Camera ..... Before taking the photo, you can adjust a number of settings by touching Your mobile phone is fitted with a camera for taking photos and shooting videos that you can use in different ways: Timer Color mode Image size...
  • Page 34: Profiles

    13.3.2 Recording mode Profiles ....... Once you have chosen your settings, you can launch the recording of your video-clip by touching on the screen. Save the video by touching With this menu, you may personalise ringtones for different events and If a call comes in while you are recording, the recording process will environments.
  • Page 35: Meeting

    14.2 Meeting File manager ....When this is selected the phone will not ring or beep unless an alarm has been set. A new event will cause it to vibrate. You will have access to all audio and visual files stored in phone or SD 14.3 Outdoor card in File manager.
  • Page 36: My Images

    15.2 My images 15.8 SD card You can select an image or a photo as wallpaper, power on/off screen, or You can access all files stored in the SD card here. assign it as incoming call image in the contacts. When a SD card is inserted for the first time, it will be scanned and default folders will be created.
  • Page 37: Managing Audios, Images, Videos And Others

    15.9 Managing audios, images, videos and others Streaming URL View or download new video stream from streaming URLs. According to the item chosen, you can access some of the functions below: View View the selected image by tapping it. 15.10 Formats and compatibility Play Play the selected video/audio by tapping it.
  • Page 38: Bluetooth

    Bluetooth technology allows free wireless connections between all Bluetooth-compliant devices within short range. Please make sure that the You are recommended to use Alcatel Bluetooth headsets, which have been Bluetooth headset or the Bluetooth car kit and your mobile phone are in tested and proved compatible with phone.
  • Page 39: Access

    17.4 Write to a tag ......To write to a tag, you first have to activate the contactless antenna by going to “NFC\Tag writing” and selecting “OK”. Then pass your phone over the tag and select to write a phone number (“Tag writing\ Near Field Communication (NFC) is a new, short-range wireless Call”), a text message (“Tag writing\Send a text message”) or a URL connectivity technology that allows mobile users to read and write NFC...
  • Page 40: Others

    Available options: Others ......... Synchronization Synchronize with the account you've set. 1st day of 1 week You can select any day as the first day of one 18.1 Calendar ............week. To access this function, touch to enter the main menu and select 1st week of 1 year You can select any week as the first week of , there is a monthly-view calendar for you to keep track of important...
  • Page 41: Tasks

    Useful icons: 18.5 Clock ............Send by SMS, MMS, Email or Bluetooth. 18.5.1 Alarm Create text note. Your mobile phone has a built-in alarm clock with a snooze feature. You Edit the note can set up to five separate alarms and choose whether or not the alarm should repeat.
  • Page 42: Converter

    Settings ......18.6 Converter ..........You can use the Weight and Length conversion by selecting the unit you wish to convert via , then touch to input the digits. Finally confirm From the main menu, select the menu icon and select the function of with "√".
  • Page 43: Phone Settings

    19.3 Phone settings Backlight Screen Allows you to reduce brightness for enhanced battery performance 19.3.1 Display and to save power during periods of expected inactivity. Wallpaper 19.3.2 Profiles The wallpaper is displayed when you switch on your telephone. See page 66. By selecting "Wallpaper"...
  • Page 44: Call Settings

    19.3.8 Auto lock Wallpaper shake Shake the phone heavily leftward or rightward, Wallpaper will switch to Your touchscreen will be locked automatically if the phone has been idle the next or previous image respectively. for a certain length of time set by you or you may lock it manually with a short press key.
  • Page 45: Network

    19.6 Network 19.7 Connectivity A set of profile settings for message (MMS, Email...) and Web connection. Network selection Preferred network List of networks to which you wish to be 19.8 Default browser connected in order of priority. You can select the browser of your choice as the default browser. Select network The choice of network connection is left up to the user.
  • Page 46: Making The Most Of Your Mobile

    Using One Touch Upgrade tool you can update your phone’s software mobile ......... from your PC. Download One Touch Upgrade from ALCATEL website (www. alcatelonetouch.com) and install it on your PC. Launch the tool and update your phone by following the step by step instructions (refer to the User 20.1...
  • Page 47: Latin Input Mode/Character Table

    Touching inputting Latin input mode/ 3*4 virtual keypad Qwerty virtual keypad character table ....There are two text entry methods that can be used to write messages • Normal • Predictive mode (Slide horizontally to switch between the two types of keypad) Normal Switch mode of input method.
  • Page 48: Telephone Warranty

    This warranty shall not apply to defects to your phone and/or accessory Telephone warranty ..due to (without any limitation): 1) Non-compliance with the instructions for use or installation, or with technical and safety standards applicable in the geographical area where Your phone is warranted against any defect or malfunctioning which may your phone is used, occur in conditions of normal use during the warranty period of twelve...
  • Page 49: Accessories

    My phone cannot charge properly accessories in your box. • Make sure you are using an Alcatel battery and the charger from the box • Make sure your battery is inserted properly and clean the battery contact if it’s dirty. It must be inserted before plugging in the charger...
  • Page 50 Check with your operator to make sure that your subscription includes this down key, or alternatively, touch Settings\Touch settings\LCD touch service calibration. • Make sure this feature does not require an Alcatel accessory Unable to make outgoing calls • Make sure you have dialed a valid number and touch •...
  • Page 51 I am unable to connect my phone to my computer • Install Alcatel’s PC suite first of all • Check that your computer meets the requirements for Alcatel’s PC Suite installation • Make sure that you’re using the right cable from the box.
  • Page 52 ALCATEL is a trademark of Alcatel-Lucent and is used under license by TCT Mobile Limited. All rights reserved © Copyright 2011 TCT Mobile Limited. TCT Mobile Limited reserves the right to alter material or technical specification without prior notice.

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