LG -A190 User Manual

LG-A190 User Guide
- English
This guide will help you to understand your new mobile phone. It will
provide you with useful explanations of the features on your phone.
Some of the contents of this manual may diff er from your phone
depending on the phone software or your service provider.
Making an Emergency call when there is no USIM
card present in the handset:
1. Enter emergency number 000 or 112
2. Press Send key to dial the emergency number.
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Display Information On-Screen Icons
Tells you the strength of the network signal.
Icon areas
Indicates the battery charge level.
Indicates new text message(s).
Text and graphic area
Indicates new voice message(s).
Indicates that the alarm clock is set.
Menu Contacts Soft key indications
Indicates that your phone is using the general
profi le.
Indicates that your phone is using the silent
profi le.
Indicates that your phone is using the outdoor
profi le.
Indicates that your phone is using the headset
profi le.
Indicates that all calls are being diverted to
another number.
Indicates that your phone is in Flight mode.
Indicates new schedule(s).
3 To scroll through your contacts, use the up and Changing your call settings
down navigation keys. To scroll through the contact's
Press Menu, select Settings>Call and choose SIM1
diff erent numbers, use the left and right navigation
or SIM2.
keys.
• C all divert – Select methods for diverting calls.
4 Press to initiate the call.
• Call barring – Choose a barring password for all
Answering and rejecting a call
outgoing calls, outgoing international, outgoing
international except to home country , all incoming
When your phone rings, press Accept or press
calls, or incoming when abroad.
to answer the call. While your phone is ringing,
• Call waiting – Select Active or cancel call waiting.
select Silent to mute the ringing. This is great if you
• Fixed dial number – Restrict calls only to numbers in
have forgotten to change your profi le to Silent for a
the Fixed dial number list.
meeting.
Press or Reject to reject the incoming call.
Checking your call history
TIP! You can change the settings on your phone to answer
your calls in diff erent ways. Press Menu, select Settings and
Press Menu, select Call history. You can check the
choose Call. Press Common settings, select Answer mode record of All calls, Missed calls, Dialled calls, Received
and choose Any key or Send key only.
calls, and Call duration. The number and name (if
• Any key – You can answer a call by pressing any key. available) are displayed together with the date and
time at which the call was made. You can also view the
• Send key only – You can answer a call only by
number of times you have called a particular number.
pressing the Send key.
• Information
› Service dial numbers – Access the list of service numbers assigned by your service provider.
› Own number – You can save and check your own numbers on the SIM card.
› Business card – You can save and check your business card containing information including your name, mobile
phone, home, offi ce and email, and send it in a message.
Call history
You can view the records of All calls, Missed calls, Dialled calls, Received calls, and Call duration. The number and
name (if available) are displayed together with the date and time at which the call was made. You can also view the
number of times you have called a particular number.
• All calls – Displays the lists of all call types by time.
• Missed calls – This option lets you view the last 20 unanswered calls.
• Dialled calls – This option lets you view the last 20 outgoing calls (called or attempted).
• Received calls – This option lets you view the last 20 incoming calls.
• Call duration – Allows you to view the duration of your last call, all calls, dialled calls and received calls.
Games
Your LG-A190 comes with preloaded games to keep you amused when you have time to spare. Press Menu and
select Games.
Getting to know your phone
Earphone jack
Earpiece
Display screen
Soft keys
Each of these keys
performs the functions
indicated by the text on
the display immediately
above them.
Send key
You can dial a phone
number and answer
incoming calls.
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Menu and Options
Your phone off ers a set of functions that allow you to customise it. These functions are arranged in menus and sub-
menus, which are accessed via the left and right soft keys. The label at the bottom of the display screen immediately
above the soft keys indicates their current function.
Press the left soft key to access
the available menu.
Quick feature reference
Messaging
Sending a message
1 Press Menu, select Messaging and choose New message.
2 A new SMS message editor will open.
3 Enter your message using either the T9 predictive, Abc manual, or 123 text editing modes. You can switch text
input modes by pressing .
4 Press Options and choose Insert to add Symbol, Template, Contact, or Business card.
5 Press Send to.
6 Enter the phone number or press Options and select Contacts or Recent list to open your contacts list.
7 Press Options and choose Send.
• Inbox – You will be alerted when new messages are received and saved to your Inbox.
• Drafts – This menu shows your saved draft messages.
• Outbox – This menu allows you to view the message which is about to be send or that have failed to send.
• Sent – This menu allows you to view the messages which have already been sent, including time and content.
• Listen voicemail – This menu provides you with a quick way to access your voice mailbox.
FM radio (Wireless FM)
With embedded FM antenna, you can receive FM radio without an external earphone. You can listen to your
favourite radio station anytime.
Note: In weak FM radio signal area it is advisable to insert an external earphone for better and enhanced FM quality.
Listening to the radio
1 Press Menu then FM radio, or press the FM key (right navigation key on standby screen), then confi rm to play
sound or No to exit.
2 Select Options > Auto scan then confi rm auto scan now to scan for FM channels or No to cancel.
3 When your phone detects a channel, it will pop-up asking to save the channel. Confi rm save or skip save by
selecting No.
Note: Your phone can only store a maximum of 12 channels. Device will stop auto scanning when all 12 channels
have been saved or when it cannot detect any more FM channels
4 Select the channel by pressing the appropriate channel number on the keypad or by using the left or right
navigation keys.
Note: Up and down navigation keys will increase or decrease sound volume respectively.
Note: You can listen to the radio via built-in speaker. Press Options, select Listen via and choose Speaker.
Torch
Hand Strap Hole
Navigation keys
Use for quick access to
phone functions.
(up) : Contacts
Charger port
(down) : Keypad Lock
(left) : Compose message
(right) : FM radio
End/Power key
Allows you to power the
phone on or off , end calls, or
return to Standby mode.
Alphanumeric keys
Used to input characters and
or numbers.
Menu Contacts
Press the right soft key
to access contacts.
Installing the SIM Card and Charging the Battery
Installing the SIM Card
When you subscribe to a mobile phone network, you are provided with a plug-in SIM card which is loaded with
your subscription details, such as your PIN, and any optional services available.
Important! › The plug-in SIM card and its contacts can easily be damaged by scratches or bending, so be careful when
handling, inserting or removing the card. Keep all SIM cards out of the reach of small children.
1 Open battery cover
2 Remove the battery
1 2
3 Insert your SIM
4 Insert the battery
5 Close the battery cover
6 Charge your battery
WARNING: Do not remove the
4 5
battery while the phone is
switched on, as this may
damage the phone.
You can enter alphanumeric characters via the phone's internal linguistic dictionary to determine the correct
keypad. For example, storing names in Contacts, word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes than the
writing a message and scheduling events in the traditional ABC mode.
calendar all require entering text. To change text
Turning Your Phone On and Off
editing modes press the key.
The input method is displayed in the upper right
You can power the phone on and off by pressing or
corner of your phone.
holding the power key.
Indicator Function (English Smart mode)
Making a Call
Numeric
1 Key in the number using the keypad.
Multitap Abc
2 Press
Multitap abc
3 To end the call, press
Multitap ABC
TIP! To enter + when making an international call, press
and hold 0.
T9 Mode
Making a call from your contacts
In Editor, Press Options Choose "Set T9" Select On.
1 Press
This mode allows you to enter words with only
one keystroke per letter. Each key on the keypad 2 On the keypad, enter the fi rst few letter of the
is associated with more than one letter. T9 mode
contact you want to call.
automatically compares your keystrokes with an
• Info messages – Info service messages are text messages that are delivered by the network to your handset.
• Templates – There are pre-defi ned messages in the list. You can view and edit the template messages or create
new messages.
• Settings – This menu allows you to set the features of your network service provider.
Contacts
You can search for a contact stored in your Contacts menu.
1 Select Contacts from the Menu screen or press (right soft key) from the standby screen.
2 Select Search, then press OK. Using the keypad enter the fi rst letter of the contact you want to call.
3 To scroll through the contacts, use the up and down navigation keys. To scroll through their diff erent numbers
use the left and right navigation keys.
• New contact – You can add phonebook entries by using this menu.
• Speed dials – Assign a phone book entry to any key between 2 and 8 for speed dialling. Press and hold the
appropriate key to dial the contact.
• Copy all – Used to copy all phone book entries between phone and SIM.
• Delete all – Delete all phone book entries from phone or SIM.
• Memory status – Used to check the memory status of your phone or SIM.
Profi les
To change your phone profi le, select Menu>Profi les:
• General – After selecting up this profi le, the indicator
will be displayed on the standby screen.
• Silent – Ring tone is disabled and Vibrate is activated. When you select this profi le, the indicator
displayed on the standby screen.
• Outdoor – This is the default profi le. Ring tone and key tone volume are set to maximum. When you select this
profi le, the indicator will be displayed on the standby screen.
• Flight mode – Select this profi le to disable all mobile network services. You will not be able to make or receive
messages or calls when Flight mode is switched on.
• Headset – This option will be available when an external earphone is inserted in the Earphone jack, the indicator
will be displayed on the standby screen. You can personalise your call alert type, ring tones, ring volume,
message alert type, message tones, message volume, keypad tones, keypad volume, eff ect sound volume and
power on/off volume.
Tools
• Torch – Turn on/off the torch or turn on/off the torch directly by holding the up navigation key for 3 seconds.
• Self call – This is a useful function for avoiding awkward situation politely. You can call yourself by setting the time
in self call menu.
• Calculator – This contains standard functions such as Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.
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to initiate the call.
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(up) to open the address book.
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