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* Depending on the software installed or your service provider or country, some of the description in this guide may not match your phone. * Depending on your country, your phone and accessories may appear different from the illustrations in this guide. Printed in Korea World Wide Web Code No.: GH68-xxxxxA...
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SGH-X166 User’s Guide Please read this manual before operating your phone, and keep it for future reference.
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Drive safely at all times Do not use a hand-held phone while driving. Park the vehicle first. Switch off the phone when refuelling Important Do not use the phone at a refuelling point (service station) or near fuels or chemicals. safety Switch off in an aircraft Wireless phones can cause interference.
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Be aware of special regulations Accessories and batteries Meet any special regulations in force in any area and Use only Samsung-approved batteries and always switch off your phone whenever it is forbidden accessories, such as headsets and PC data cables.
Contents Unpack Make sure you have each item Get started First steps to operating your phone Install and charge the phone ........5 Power on or off............6 Keys and display ............. 6 Menu functions All menu options listed Solve problems Help and personal needs Health and safety information...
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Overview of menu functions To access Menu mode, press <Menu> in Idle mode. 1 SIM AT p. 9 4 Sound settings p. 12 7 Organizer p. 14 9 Phone settings p. 16 1 Ring tone p. 12 1 Alarm p. 14 1 Display settings p.
Unpack Your package contains the following items. phone Handset Battery Travel Adapter User’s Guide In addition, you can obtain various accessories from your local Samsung dealer. • Standard Battery • Extended Battery • Battery Charger • Headset • PC Data Link Kit •...
Get started Plug the travel adapter into the phone. First steps to operating your phone Plug the adapter into a standard AC wall outlet. SIM card information When the phone is completely charged (the When you subscribe to a cellular network, you receive battery icon becomes still), unplug the adapter a plug-in SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card from the power outlet.
Get started Power on or off Keys and display Key(s) Description Switch on 1. Open the phone. Perform the function indicated on the Soft keys bottom line of the display. 2. Press and hold [ ] to turn on the phone. Navigation In Idle mode, access your favourite keys...
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SEND key Send or answer a call. * key In Idle mode, press and hold [ ] to enter a pause between numbers. In Idle mode, retrieve the recent numbers dialled, missed, or received. # key Press and hold [ ] to activate or deactivate Quiet mode.
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Get started Display Icons New multimedia message (continued) New voicemail Layout Icons New e-mail display various icons. One of the message Inbox is full Text and graphics Call diverting feature is active display messages, instructions, and Connected to hans-free car kit or information you enter.
Call records Menu functions (Menu 2) Use this menu to view the calls you have dialed, All menu options listed received, or missed, and the length of calls. You can also check the cost of your calls, if your SIM card supports this function.
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Menu functions Network services Delete all (Menu 3) Use this menu to delete all of the records in each call Use this menu to access network services. Please type. contact your service provider to check their availability and subscribe to them, if you wish. Call time To access this menu, press <Menu>...
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Network selection Closed user group This network service allows you to either automatically Use this menu to set incoming and outgoing calls to be or manually select the network used when roaming restricted to a selected user group. For details about outside of your home area.
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Menu functions Sound settings Message tone (Menu 4) Use this menu to select a ringtone or alert type for The Sound settings menu allows you to customize incoming messages. various sounds on the phone. To access this menu, press <Menu> in Idle mode and Folder tone select Sound settings.
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Messages Funbox (Menu 5) (Menu 6) Use the Messages menu to send and receive short The Funbox menu allows you to use the web browser, messages and multimedia messages. You can also use play Java games, and access images and sounds Push message, Voicemail, and Cell broadcast message stored in the phone’s memory.
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Menu functions Organizer Sounds (Menu 7) Use this menu to access sounds downloaded from the The Organizer menu enables you to keep track of wireless web, received in messages, or created by the your schedule and tasks. You can also set the time and melody composer.
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Phonebook Calculator (Menu 8) Use this menu to perform basic arithmetic functions You can store phone numbers on your SIM card and in such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and your phone’s memory. The SIM card and phone’s division. memory are physically separate, but they are used as a single entity called Phonebook.
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Menu functions Phone settings Speed dial (Menu 9) Use this menu to assign speed dial numbers (2 to 8) to The Phone settings menu provides you with various 7 of your most frequently called numbers. setting options to customize the phone to your preferences and needs.
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Own number Extra settings Use this feature to check your phone numbers, or to You can turn the automatic redialing or answering assign a name to each of the numbers. Changes made features on or off. here do not affect the actual subscriber numbers on Short cut your SIM card.
“Enter PUK” Solve problems • The PIN code has been entered incorrectly three Help and personal needs times in succession, and the phone is now blocked. To save the time and expense of an unnecessary service Enter the PUK supplied by your service provider. call, perform the simple checks in this section before “No service,”...
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• A clear description of the problem The audio quality of the call is poor Then contact your local dealer or Samsung after-sales • Check the signal strength indicator on the display service. ). The number of bars indicates the signal strength from strong ( ) to weak ( ).
bands. Although the SAR is determined at the highest Health and safety information certified power level, the actual SAR level of the phone while operating can be well below the maximum value. Exposure to radio frequency (RF) signals This is because the phone is designed to operate at multiple power levels so as to use only the power required Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter and receiver.
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Precautions when using batteries tested and meets the FCC RF exposure guidelines when used with a Samsung-supplied or approved accessory Never use any charger or battery that is damaged in any designated for this product or when used with and way.
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Dispose of used batteries in accordance with local regulations. Always recycle. Do not dispose of batteries in Use only Samsung-approved batteries and recharge your a fire. battery only with Samsung-approved chargers. When a charger is not in use, disconnect it from the power source.
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phone with one of the many hands-free accessories conversations that have the potential to divert your available today. attention from the road. Position your wireless phone within easy reach. Be able to Use your wireless phone to call for help. Dial the access your wireless phone without removing your eyes emergency number in the case of fire, traffic accident or from the road.
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Health and safety information When connecting the phone or any accessory to another are consistent with the independent research and device, read its user’s guide for detailed safety recommendations of Wireless Technology Research. instructions. Do not connect incompatible products. Persons with pacemakers: As with other mobile radio transmitting equipment, users should always keep the phone more than 15 cm (6 inches) are advised that for the satisfactory operation of the...
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information. Switch off your phone in health care facilities Users are advised to switch off the phone while at a when any regulations posted in these areas instruct you to refueling point (service station). Users are reminded of the do so. Hospitals or health care facilities may be using need to observe restrictions on the use of radio equipment equipment that could be sensitive to external RF energy.
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Health and safety information FCC Notice and Cautions Remember, to make or receive any calls the phone must be switched on and in a service area with adequate signal FCC Notice strength. Emergency calls may not be possible on all •...
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Changes or modifications made in the radio phone, not determined by turning the equipment off and on, expressly approved by Samsung, will void the user’s the user is encouraged to try to correct the authority to operate the equipment.
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Health and safety information For vehicles equipped with an air bag, remember that an Keep the phone dry. Precipitation, humidity and liquids air bag inflates with great force. Do not place objects, contain minerals that will corrode electronic circuits. including both installed or portable wireless equipment in Do not use the phone with a wet hand.
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Acknowledging special precautions Do not put the phone in or on heating devices, such as a microwave oven, a stove or a radiator. The phone may and the FCC and industry canada explode when overheated. notice Use only the supplied or an approved replacement antenna.
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Health and safety information Appendix A: CERTIFICATION This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio INFORMATION (SAR) frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful THIS MODEL PHONE MEETS THE GOVERNMENT’S interference to radio communications. However, there is REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPOSURE TO RADIO WAVES.
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For body worn operation, this model phone has been tested and meets the FCC RF exposure guidelines whenused with a Samsung accessory designated for this In the United States and Canada, the SAR limit for mobile phones used by the public is 1.6 watts/kilogram (W/kg) product or when used with an accessory that contains no averaged over one gram of tissue.
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Health and safety information Appendix B: Guide to safe and judgment must be exercised at all times while driving a responsible wireless phone use motor vehicle whether on the phone or not. Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association The basic lessons are ones we all learned as teenagers. “Safety is the most important call you will ever make.”...
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Wireless phone “Safety Tips” with know you are driving; if necessary, suspend the call in heavy traffic or hazardous weather conditions. Rain, Below are safety tips to follow while driving and using a sleet, snow and ice can be hazardous, but so is heavy wireless phone which should be easy to remember: traffic.
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Health and safety information people you are talking with aware you are driving and if traffic accident where no one appears injured or a vehicle necessary, suspend conversations which have the you know to be stolen, call roadside assistance or other potential to divert your attention from the road.
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Appendix C: consumer update phones. There is no proof, however, that wireless phones on wireless phones are absolutely safe. Wireless phones emit low levels of radio frequency energy (RF) in the microwave range while U.S. Food and Drug Administration being used. They also emit very low levels of RF when in What kinds of phones are the subject of this update? the stand-by mode.
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Health and safety information to repair, replace or recall the phones so that the hazard Occupational Safety and Health Administration no longer exists. National Telecommunications and Information Although the existing scientific data do not justify FDA Administration regulatory actions, FDA has urged the wireless phone The National Institutes of Health participates in some industry to take a number of steps, including the interagency working group activities, as well.
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FDA is working with the U.S. National Toxicology Program additional research needs in the context of the latest and with groups of investigators around the world to research developments around the world. ensure that high priority animal studies are conducted to What steps can I take to reduce my exposure to radio address important questions about the effects of exposure frequency energy from my wireless phone?
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Health and safety information those described above to reduce your RF exposure from Since there are no known risks from exposure to RF wireless phone use. emissions from wireless phones, there is no reason to believe that hands-free kits reduce risks. Hands-free kits What about children using wireless phones? can be used with wireless phones for convenience and The scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of...
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“hand-free” kits, these so-called “shields” may interfere FDA has tested hearing aids for interference from with proper operation of the phone. The phone may be handheld wireless phones and helped develop a voluntary forced to boost its power to compensate, leading to an standard sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and increase in RF absorption.
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Health and safety information showed increased tumor development used animals that A combination of laboratory studies and epidemiological had been genetically engineered or treated with cancer studies of people actually using wireless phones would causing chemicals so as to be pre-disposed to develop provide some of the data that are needed.
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STANDARD LIMITED WARRANTY FCC RF Safety Program: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/ What is Covered and For How Long? SAMSUNG Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, L.P. (SAMSUNG) http://www.epa.gov/radiation/ warrants to the original purchaser ("Purchaser") that Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA): SAMSUNG’s Phones and accessories ("Products") are http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/radiofrequencyradiation/...
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SAMSUNG for charging the battery, (ii) any of the for a period of ninety (90) days. All other repaired/ seals on the battery are broken or show evidence of...
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THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THE PRODUCT OR ITS LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE; TO YOU. IN ADDITION, SAMSUNG SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND RESULTING WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT;...
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Limited Warranty. The agents, employees, distributors, and THE PARTIES UNDERSTAND THAT THE PURCHASER dealers of SAMSUNG are not authorized to make MAY USE THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE OR EQUIPMENT IN modifications to this Limited Warranty, or make...
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SAMSUNG. Accordingly, additional statements such as dealer advertising or presentation, whether oral or written, do not constitute warranties by SAMSUNG and should not be relied upon. Samsung Telecommunications America (STA), Inc. 1301 East Lookout Drive Richardson, TX 75082...
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