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KC550 KC550d MMBB0287903 (1.1) G E N G L I S H www.lgmobile.com...
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Part 15.21 statement " Change or Modifications that are not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. " Part 15.105 statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
(6) The customer shall bear the cost of shipping the product to the Customer Service Department of LG. LG shall bear the cost of shipping the product back to the consumer after the completion of service under this limited warranty.
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For Your Safety Important Information Turn off your phone in a medical facility or at a gas station. Never place your phone in a microwave oven as this will This user guide contains important information on the use and cause the battery to explode. operation of this phone.
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Only use the batteries, antennas, and chargers provided by bathroom. LG. The warranty will not be applied to products provided by other suppliers. Never store your phone in temperatures less than- 4°F or greater than 122°F.
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For Your Safety FCC RF Exposure Information Body-worn Operation WARNING! Read this information before operating the phone. This device was tested for typical body-worn operations with the back of the phone kept 0.79 inches (2cm) between the In August 1996, the Federal Communications (FCC) of he United user’s body and the back of the phone.
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For Your Safety Vehicle Mounted External Antenna Battery Disposal (optional, if available) Please dispose of your battery properly or bring to your A minimum separation distance of 8 inches (20cm) must be local wireless carrier for recycling. maintained between the user/bystander and the vehicle Do not dispose in fire or with hazardous or flammable mounted external antenna to satisfy FCC RF exposure materials.
Congratulations on your purchase of the advanced and compact KC550 phone by LG, designed to operate with the latest digital mobile communication technology. Disposal of your old appliance 1 When this crossed-out wheeled bin symbol is attached to a product it means the product is covered by the European Directive 2002/96/EC.
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3 Display 4 Call 4 Unit converter 4 History connection 5 World clock 5 Saved pages 4 TV out 5 Security 6 SIM services 6 Settings 6 Flight mode 7 Information 7 Reset 8 Memory status LG KC550 | User Guide...
Select to play MP3 fi le. Advice to the customer In order to allow better antenna sensitivity LG suggest that you hold the handset as shown in the fi gure below. Please do not cover the antenna area with your hand during a call or when using a...
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Flight mode is activated Outdoor profi le in use Calls are diverted Headset profi le in use Roaming service Remaining battery life ® Bluetooth is activated Battery empty WAP service is connected An alarm is set Schedule LG KC550 | User Guide...
Calls Making a call Answering and rejecting a call Key in the number using the keypad. To When your phone rings, touch Accept or delete a digit press press to answer the call. Press to initiate the call. While your phone is ringing, press the camera key, then select Silent to mute the ringing.
Delete to delete selected or all of the recorded items. TIP! Using the navigation key arrows, highlight any single call entry to view the date and time of the call. To view the call duration select View. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Using call divert Using call barring Select Menu, select Settings and choose Select Menu, select Settings and choose Call. Call. Select Call divert. Select Call barring. Choose whether to divert all calls, when Choose any or all of the seven options: the line is busy, when there is no reply, All outgoing when you are out of reach, all data calls or...
Call waiting - Be alerted when you have a call waiting. Minute minder - Select On to hear a tone every minute during a call. Auto redial - Choose On or Off. Send DTMF tones - Choose On or Off. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Contacts Searching for a contact Note: When you are storing a contact’s email address, press to enter a symbol and Select Contacts from the standby screen, scroll with the navigation arrows until you and choose Search. see @. Using the keypad enter the fi rst letter of Contact options the contact you want to call.
Then return to the address book and select ringtone or icon to and select Options and the contact you want to add a picture to. choose an item you want. Choose Options and select Edit. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Scroll down to the Photo section and Enter the password, which is set to 0000 select Edit. Choose Options and select as default, and select OK. Images or New image. If you select Viewing information Images, you can choose an image that is saved in your phone memory.
SMS mode. Enter your message using either the T9 predictive mode or Abc manual mode. See Entering text on page 25 to see how to switch between the different text entry modes. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Entering text T9 predictive mode T9 predictive mode uses a built-in dictionary You can enter alphanumeric characters using to recognise words you’re writing based on the phone’s keypad. For example, storing the key sequences you press. Simply press names in Contacts, writing a message and the number key associated with the letter creating scheduling events in the calendar you want to enter, and the dictionary will...
Headers + body (only for IMAP4) details. or All. Outgoing server password - Enter the Now your account is set up, it will appear account details. in the list of accounts in your Email folder. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Sending an email using your new Inbox - All the messages you receive are placed into your Inbox. From here you can account reply, forward and more, see below for details. To send/receive an email, you should set up Email box - Contains all your email an email account (see page 26).
Delete all read - All opened messages template; as a Message, Bluetooth will be deleted. message or Email. Delete all - Delete text messages, Select a contact and select Send. multimedia messages or all messages. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Changing your text message Send long text as - Choose whether to send your message as SMS or MMS when settings you enter a text longer than 2 pages in the Your KC550 message settings are pre- message fi eld. defi...
Email account - You can set up an email account. Access point - You can set the email access point. Retrieve interval - Choose how often your KC550 checks for new email messages. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Camera Taking a quick photo After you’ve taken your photo Open the lens cover and hold the camera Your captured photo will appear on the key down on the right side of the handset. screen. The name of the image runs along The camera’s viewfi...
Continuous shot - This enables you to take camera button. up to 9 shots automatically in very quick succession, great for taking photos of moving Shutter tone - Select one of the three objects or at sporting events. shutter sounds. LG KC550 | User Guide...
ISO - Set the ISO to Auto, ISO 800, ISO 400, Select the fl ash option you’d like to use. ISO200, ISO 100 or ISO 80. When you have made your selection the Save to - Choose whether to save your fl...
Options and Set as to use the selected image as Wallpaper or Picture ID for one of your contacts. Note: Picture ID can only be added to contacts saved to your phone, not your SIM. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Video camera Shooting a quick video After you’ve shot your video Open the lens cover and hold the camera The name of the video runs along the bottom key down on the right side of the handset. of the screen and six options will be displayed The camera’s viewfi...
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Resolution - If you want to fi t more videos onto your phone you can alter the pixel number to make the fi le size smaller. Choose between four options for your video, 176X144, 320X240, 640X480, 720X480. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Watching your saved videos You can access your saved videos either from within video camera mode or from the standby screen. From the Options menu select Album. From the standby screen you should touch Menu, then select My stuff and Videos. Your gallery will appear on screen.
Select the music fi le on the other device MP3 player and choose to send it via Bluetooth. Your LG KC550 has a built-in MP3 player so When the fi le is sent you will have to you can play all your favourite music.
View playlist - Look at the playlist you are Playing a playlist currently listening to. Press Menu and select Multimedia. Add to playlist - Adds the current track to Choose MP3 player, then select My a playlist. playlist. Set as - Set the current track as your Select the playlist you would like to play Ringtone or Message tone.
In some countries Select Delete all and select Yes to national law prohibits private copying of confi rm. copyrighted material. Please check the national legislation of the applicable country concerning the use of such material. LG KC550 | User Guide...
FM radio Using the FM radio To manually tune: Press Menu and select Multimedia, then Your LG KC550 has an FM radio feature so choose FM radio. you can tune into your favourite stations to listen on the move. Select a channel number that you want to save a station to and choose Edit.
(General or MMS) and the play order (Random the recording will be added to the message or Sequential). and you can write and send it as normal. If you choose Bluetooth, you will be prompted to turn Bluetooth on. LG KC550 | User Guide...
My stuff You can store any multimedia fi les into your In the Images folder, select Options to bring phone’s memory so that you have easy up your list of options. access to all of your pictures, sounds, videos Delete - Delete the selected image. and games.
Delete and Organising your images confi rm you want to delete all of the Press Menu then select My stuff. marked images. Select Images. Choose Options then select Sort by. Choose from Date, Type or Name. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Creating a slide show Sounds If you want to look at all of the images on The Sounds folder contains the Default your phone or scan through what you’ve got, sounds, your voice recordings and sound you can create a slide show to save you from fi...
If you choose Bluetooth, you Sort by - Arrange your videos by Date, Type will be prompted to turn Bluetooth on and or Name. your phone will search for a device to send the video to. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Auto next play - Allows to set the play To move a fi le from Others to Documents: mode: Off, Repeat once and Repeat all. Press Menu, then select My stuff • Off: Plays the selected fi le. followed by Others. •...
Note: Files sent using Bluetooth will be saved example an image, press Menu, then to the phone memory. select My stuff followed by External memory then Images. All the images you transfer will be contained in this fi le. LG KC550 | User Guide...
To send a file: owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by LG Electronics is under licence. Open the fi le you want to send, typically Other trademarks and trade names are those of this will be a photo, video or music fi...
Applications menu. You can also delete downloaded applications. Reset data - Reset all settings. Press Menu and select Games & Apps. Exit - End a game. Select Applications. View and manage any applications you have. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Organiser also scroll down to enter an Expiration Adding an event to your calendar date for when the events will stop From the standby screen press Menu, and completely. select Organiser, then Calendar. Select Save and your event will be saved Select the date you would like to add an in the calendar.
Select Save. Your memo will appear on screen the next time you open the memo application. TIP! You can edit an existing memo. Select the one you want to edit, press Options and select Edit. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Tools Setting your alarm For simple calculations, select the function you require (+, –, ×, ÷), followed by =. From the standby screen press Menu, and For more complex calculations, select select Tools, then Alarm clock. Function to select a command. Select New.
Tools, then World clock. Scroll up, down, left or right to navigate the globe and choose a continent. Select Zoom in to zoom into an area and choose from the cities in that area. Press OK. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Browser With a browser at the tip of your fi ngers, Adding and accessing your you can get up to date news and weather bookmarks forecasts as well as information on sports or For easy and fast access to your favourite traffi...
Press Menu and select Browser. Select History and select OK. A list of web page titles you have accessed recently will be displayed. To access one of these pages, scroll to the required page and select Connect. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Settings Within this folder you can adapt your settings Set date - You can enter the current date. to make your KC550 personal to you. Date format - You can set the date format. Note: For information on call settings see (YYYY/MM/DD, DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY) page 20.
Bluetooth when Flight mode is when you are dialling a phone number. switched On. Standby text - Choose to add a message to your standby screen. Network name - Choose to show or hide the network name. LG KC550 | User Guide...
Resetting your phone Changing your Bluetooth settings Use Reset to reset all the settings to their Press Menu and select Connectivity, factory defi nitions. You need the security code then choose Bluetooth. to activate this function. Choose Bluetooth settings. Make your changes to: Viewing memory status My visibility - Choose whether to Show or...
Your phone will then connect to the other USB connection - Choose Data service device, on which you should enter the and synchronise your KC550 using the LG PC same passcode. Suite software to copy fi les from your phone.
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Battery Learn more about your KC550. Stereo headset Note • Always use genuine LG accessories. Failure to do this may invalidate your warranty. • Accessories may be different in different regions; please check with our regional service company or agent for further inquires.
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