Alcatel OT-356C User manual

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USER MANUAL
ALCATEL OT-356C

Contents
Contents....................................................................................................0
1. Your mobile..............................................................................................1
2. Getting started..........................................................................................5
3. Basic functions..........................................................................................6
4. Messages ...............................................................................................7
5. Contacts ...............................................................................................10
6. Recent Calls ..........................................................................................13
7. Camera ................................................................................................13
8. TATA Zone.............................................................................................14
9. Music Player ..........................................................................................15
10. Opera.................................................................................................16
11. Facebook.............................................................................................16
12. Twitter ................................................................................................16
13. Entertainment .......................................................................................16
14. Settings ..............................................................................................17
15. Tools..................................................................................................20
FAQ .......................................................................................................21
Safety and use...........................................................................................23
Friendly reminder:
This user manual applies to the OT-356C mobile phone. If there are minor differences in the description
or illustrations between the manual and the actual product，the actual product shall take precedence.
Customers will not be notified separately of any upgraded model of this mobile phone. Please contact our
Customer service.
We reserve the right to revise anytime the contents of this manual without prior notice.

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1. Your mobile
1.1 Basic specifications
Item Specifications
Size: 103mm[L]×58mm[W]×12.8mm[Thickness]
Mobile Phone Weight: 80g (Battery included)
Screen resolution 160*128 pixels
Contacts 500 entries
Recent calls 20 entries
Messages 500 entries
Operating temperature -20℃~50℃
Type: Lithium
Capacity: 800mAh
Talk time: 240 minutes (approx.)
Standby time: 180 hours (approx.)
Battery
Charging time: 3.5 hours (approx.)
Explanation:
Standby time refers to the time when the phone although in operating mode is not used for making calls
or remains idle. Standby time and call time are both related to the conditions of use, the network situation
and the environment.
The SAR standard is 1.6mw/g. This phone’s highest actual value: 1.0mw/g
Please make appropriate use of the product to reduce the effects of EMF.
1.2 Key pad indications

Number Item Function
1 Left Soft Key
Enter menu
Confirm an option
2 Send Key
Recent Call
Answer/Send a call
3 Right Soft Key
Contacts List
In Menu: Back/Delete
4 END--PWR Key
Power on/Power off
End a call
Back to the idle screen
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Navigation Keys
¾Left: Schedule
¾Right: Messages
¾Up: TATA Apps Store
¾Down: FM Radio
¾OK: T World/Confirm an option
6
QWERTY
Enter numbers and characters and choose menu
items.
7 Q Key
When standby, holding [Q] Key 2 seconds to
enter Meeting mode.
8 T Key
When input numbers in standby, holding [T] Key
2 seconds to input T after main number and then
extension number.
9 SYM Key When you edit a message, press this key to
select symbol.

10 Shift Key
When you edit a message, press this key
once/twice to switch between the upper chars
and lower chars.
11 Space Key
Lock/unlock the phone.
When you edit a message, press this key to enter
space.
12 Del Key
When you edit a message, short press this
key to delete the character one by one; long
press this key to delete the characters with the
speed of about 10 characters per second.
13 Enter Key
When you edit a message, press this key to
switch to a new line.
14 Fn Key
When you edit a message, press this key to
switch input methods.
1.3 Main Menu
From the main menu, use the navigation key to select the item you want. After selection,
press the left soft key to confirm.
Messages Received Calls Black Jack
Create Dialed Calls Settings
Inbox Call Time Profiles
Outbox Last Call Display
Draft Delete All Phone
Reserved Messages Camera Call
Templates Camera Gallery
Delete Messages Photo Gallery Auto power on
Settings TATA Zone Auto power off
Memory Status T World Security
Voice Mail TATAApps Store Phone Information
Contacts SMS Services Tools

Contacts List Music Player Notes
Search Opera Stopwatch
Add New Facebook Alarm
Groups Twitter Schedule
Speed Dial Entertainment Calculator
Contacts Management FM Radio World Time
Recent Calls Tetris Recorder
Missed Calls Brick Attack
1.4 Screen Icons
Battery power indicator. More bars indicate a higher power level.
The more bars, the stronger signal
No service
You have received one or more text messages
Indicate the message box is full
You have received one or more voicemail messages
Indicate the phone is in meeting state
Indicate the phone is in silent state
Indicate the phone is in normal state
Indicate the phone is in outdoors state
Your phone is connected with a earphone
Indicate the phone is making a call
You have missed one or more calls
Alarm has been set
Indicate the phone have set Voice privacy
You are using FM radio
The memory card has been plugged in the handset
Indicate the phone is roaming

2. Getting started
2.1 Removing and installing the back cover
2.2 Inserting and removing the UIM card
2.3 Installing and removing the battery

3. Basic functions
3.1 Power on/off
When power is sufficient, press and holds the end key to power on. If you have activated a
password, you will be prompted to enter it. Normally the phone is ready for use as soon as
you enter the password; please refer to Menu/Settings/Security settings. When the phone
is power on, press and holds the key end to turn it off.
3.2 Making a call
3.2.1 Enter the number directly
In the standby mode, use the number key to enter a phone number, and then press the
send key to make the call.
3.2.2 Dial a number in the Call Memory
In the standby mode, press the send key to access recent calls list, and press send key
again to dial the selected number.
3.2.3 Speed dial
In the standby mode, make a long key press on keys 1 to 9 to speed dial a number. You
also can press the number keys and then press the Send key to speed dials a number.
For details regarding speed dial setting. Please refer to “Contacts/Speed dial”. Key 1 is a
default setting for voice mail number. Key 2 is a default setting for Voice Station, Key 3 is a
default setting for Customer Care Prepaid, Key 4 is a default setting for Customer Care
Postpaid, Key 5 is a default setting for DirectoryAssistance.
3.2.4 Emergency call
Enter emergency number, and then press the send key. In any situation, with or without
phone lock activated, your phone can still make an emergency call.
3.3 Functions available during a call
During a call, access the Menu by pressing the left soft key.

3.4 Input mode
You may enter letters, numbers and symbols in the Contact, SMS, Note and other menu
functions.
3.4.1 Entering letters
There are six text modes: Abc, abc, ABC, En, en, EN.
Please use the Fn key to change input modes.
3.4.2 Entering numbers
Press Shift Key once to input one number, and twice to lock in number input status. Or
press Shift key and the number key you want to insert at same time.
3.4.3 Entering symbols
Press SYM key to enter symbol list.
Press Shift key once to switch to upper chars once.
Press Shift key twice to lock on upper chars, then press Shift key again to unlock.
4. Messages
Press the Right key or press the left soft key to select Messages to access the Messages
menu.
4.1 Create
Select Menu/Messages/Create to access the message editing screen. Please refer to
“Input mode” section for instructions on message editing.
In the message editing screen, press the left soft key for the following options: Send,
Insert Contacts, Insert Templates and Insert Emotion Symbol, Settings.
Send: access recipients, you can input up to 100 recipients.
Insert Contacts:Add different contact details from Contacts to a message.
Insert Templates:Add commonly-used terms to a message.
Insert Emotion Symbol: Add an expression to a message.

Settings: Set the send mode, priority，delivery report and Message Validity.
4.2 Inbox
Select Menu/Messages/Inbox to access the list of messages in this box. Press the left soft
key for the following options: View, Reply, Forward, Delete, Copy to UIM Card/Copy to
Phone, Move to UIM Card/Move to Phone.
View: Review the contents of the current messages. From the contents, press the left soft
key for the following options: Reply, Forward, Delete, Extract Details, Copy to UIM
Card/Copy to Phone, Move to UIM Card/Move to Phone.
Reply: Send a message to the sender of the current message.
Forward: Modify the contents of a message and send it.
Delete: Delete a message.
Copy to UIM Card/Copy to Phone: Copy a phone message to UIM card or copy a UIM
card message to phone.
Move to UIM Card/Move to Phone: Move a phone message to UIM card or move a UIM
card message to phone.
4.3 Outbox
Select Menu/ Messages/Outbox to access the list of messages in this box. Press the left
soft key for the following options: View, Resend, Forward, and Delete. About the
operations, please refer to the related options in the “Inbox”.
4.4 Draft
Select Menu/ Messages/Draft to access the list of messages in the draft box. Press the
left soft key for the following options: View, Forward and Delete. About the operations,
please refer to the related options in the “Inbox”.
4.5 Reserved Messages
Select Menu/Messages/Reserved Messages to access reserved messages submenu with
below options:
Create: Create a new reserved message. Different from common message, when you

create a reserved message, you can only input one recipient and you have to set the date
and time for it.
Reserved Messages: When you create a new reserved message, it will be saved here.
Failed Messages: If reserved messages can’t send successfully, they will be saved here.
When the reserved time is arriving, the phone will register to send the message.
4.6 Templates
Select Menu/ Messages/Templates to access the list of messages template. Press the
up/down key to select the message you want.
Press the left soft key for the following options: Send, Edit and Add (Edit options will be
visible for new templates).
It has 10 message templates in factory reset mode, and you may edit it optionally or add
more templates accordingly.
4.7 Delete Messages
Select Menu/ Messages/Delete Messages to access delete function. You may delete the
messages in Inbox, Outbox, Draft and Reserved Messages and also clear all the
messages.
4.8 Settings
Select Menu/ Messages/Settings to access submenu with below options: Send Option,
Priority, Delivery Reports, Save Location, Message Validity, Reserved Messages, Auto
Delete, SMS on Call Reject and Input Mode.
Send option: Choose a default send mode when create and send a new message, such
as Send and Save, Send Only or Save Only.
Priority: Choose the priority sequence such as Normal, Urgent, and Emergency.
Delivery Reports: You may activate/deactivate this function. The mobile phone will receive
the information message notification that inform message sent or unsent.
Save Location: Choose a save position when receive a new message. You can choose
phone or UIM card.

Message Validity: Choose the validity of message.
：Reserved Messages You can set reserved messages auto send or not when alert time
out.
Auto delete: You can turn on the function. When the inbox is full, the newest message will
instead the oldest message.
SMS on Call Reject: You can activate it, and edit the message when you reject others’
call.
Input Mode: You can select the input mode such as Abc, En or none.
4.9 Memory Status
Select Menu/Messages/Memory Status to check SMS storage status in Phone (Inbox,
Outbox, and Draft) and UIM Card.
4.10 Voice Mail
Select Menu/Messages/Voice Mail to enter the voice mail submenu, the following options
are available: Voice Mail, Listen Voice Mail, Voice Mail Number and Voice SMS.
Voice Mail: Check how many voice messages are in the phone, press 1 to access to the
voicemail, press 2 to clear voice mail.
Listen Voice Mail: Dial the voice mail number.
Voice Mail Number: Set the voice mail number.
Voice SMS: You can send the voice SMS to others.
5. Contacts
The phone can store up to 500 contacts. From the idle screen press the right soft key to
display the list of contacts. The contact list can also be accessed through Menu/Contacts.
5.1 Contacts List
Select Menu/Contacts/Contacts List to access the contacts list. Select the left soft key for

the following options: View, Edit, Add New, Send Messages, Send Contacts, Copy/Move
to UIM Card (for phone contacts), Copy/Move to Phone (for UIM card contacts), Delete,
Send Voice SMS, Make Fun Call and Make Music Call.
View: Check the contact’s personal information.
Edit: Edit the contact data.
Add New: Add a new contact.
Send Messages: Send a text message to the contact.
Send Contacts: Create a new text message and add the contact details to the content.
Copy to UIM Card/Copy to Phone: Copy a phone contact to UIM card /Copy a UIM card
contact to phone.
Move to UIM Card/Move to Phone: Move a phone contact to UIM card /Move a UIM card
contact to phone.
Delete: Delete the contact details in Contacts.
Send Voice SMS: Send Voice SMS to the contact.
Make Fun Call: Make fun call to the contact.
Make Music Call: Make Music call to the contact.
5.2 Search
Select Menu/Contacts/Search, input contact’s name, you can find out all contacts which
contain the name you input.
5.3 Add New
Select Menu/Contacts/Add New, to add a new contact to phone or UIM card. If the default
save position is phone memory, you can enter Name, Mobile number, home number,
office number, fax number, email address, address, website address, memo, group and
ring tone.
5.4 Groups
Select Menu/Contacts/Groups to access groups list, Contacts are separated by the
following groups: All, No Group, VIP, Family, Colleague, Friends, Schoolmates, and

Business. You can select any group to view all the contacts in that group; you can also
rename the group.
5.5 Speed Dial
Select Menu/Contacts/Speed Dial to set keys 1 to 9 for speed dialing. If the number key
has not been set, press the left soft key and select a phone number from Contacts. If the
number key has been set, press the left soft key and the following options will be available:
Add New, Delete.
Add New: You can add a number as speed dial number.
Delete: Delete the speed dial number.
5.6 Contacts Management
Select Menu/Contacts/Contacts Management to access contacts management option.
You can see the following menu: Move Contacts, Copy Contacts, Delete Contacts, Save
Location, View Mode, and Memory Status.
Move Contacts: Move all the phone contacts to UIM card or move all the UIM card
contacts to phone.
Copy Contacts: Copy all the phone contacts to UIM card or copy all the UIM card contacts
to phone.
Delete Contacts: Delete batch contacts in phone or delete batch contacts in UIM card or
delete all the contacts in phone and UIM card. You need to enter the phone password if
you select to delete all contacts.
Save Location: Make default position when add a new contact. You can select: Phone,
UIM Card or Select When Save.
View Mode: Select one mode to view contacts list. If you select Phone, you can view only
phone contacts when you open contacts list, and you can view only UIM card contacts if
you select UIM Card. When you select Phone and UIM Card, you can view all the contacts
every time you open contacts list.
Memory Status: View the number of entries stored and check the memory used up for the
contact in the phone memory and UIM card.

6. Recent Calls
From the idle screen, press the send key to display the list of dialed numbers. Press the
left and right keys to toggle between: Dialed Calls, Missed Calls and Received Calls. In
the “Recent calls” menu you can also access the following options: Missed Calls,
Received Calls, Dialed Calls, Call Time, Last Call and DeleteAll.
6.1 Missed Calls, Received Calls, Dialed Calls
Select Missed calls/ Received calls/ Dialed calls from the Recent Calls Menu to access
the submenus of the various call logs. Use the left soft key to access the options such as
View, Edit, Save, Send messages, Send contacts and Delete.
6.2 Call Time
Select Menu/Recent calls/Call time to display the time record of all received calls, dialed
calls and all calls. The call time of all calls can be set to zero any time by resetting the
timer.
6.3 Last Call
Select Recent Calls/Last Call you can find the details information for your last call.
6.4 Delete All
Select Recent Calls/Delete All you can clear all Missed Calls, Received Calls, Dialed
calls and All Calls.
7. Camera
Your mobile phone has a 0.3 mega pixel camera that can take a photo up to 640*480
pixels resolution.

7.1 Camera
OK key to capture.
Press the Left soft key to set some parameters: environment, fun (fun frame), quality, size,
shutter tone, self timer, color effect, storage and banding.
When a picture is captured, you can press the Left Soft Key to save the picture, and the
Right Soft Key to delete the picture.
7.2 Photo Gallery
From this menu, you can view the images（in the memory card）and phone images. Then
press Left Soft Key can view the option:
View: View the selected file.
Set as wallpaper: Set the selected photo as wallpaper.
Delete: Delete the selected file.
Delete all: Delete all files.
8. TATA Zone
8.1 T World
You will enter the T World to download the hottest ringtones& wallpapers (reminder: The
download is paid per time).
8.2 TATAApps Store
Through it you can see your applications and manage them. You can also download new
applications such as games, music and pictures.
8.3 SMS Services
You can find the services which your UIM Card supports through it.

9. Music Player
Access this feature from the main menu by selecting Music Player. You will have full
flexibility of managing music from your memory card.
Inserting the memory card:
You should add songs manually to the playlist, then press:
zOK Key to play and pause the song.
zUP/Down Key to increase volume and decrease volume.
zLeft/Right key to previous and next song.
Press the Soft Left Key to the options:
Play/Pause: Play or Pause the music.
Playlist: 10 playlists can be shown in total.A default playlist with 50 songs in MAX from the
music file in your memory card, and you can add another 9 playlists with MAX 50 songs in
each playlist. After entering the playlist, you can press left soft key to View, Play, Create
list, Add new, Rename and Delete.
Set as Tone: Set the selected song to be ringtone for incoming call and alarm.
Play Mode: Set the mode of playing songs in the playlists as order, random, cycle, single
and repeat one.
Minimize: The music player is playing on background, meanwhile you can use other
functions (SMS, Games, Add names, and etc.).
The handset only can read the music in the music file, and music must be put into the music
file.
If the default playlist is not empty and you changed to another memory card, the default playlist
can not update automatically, and you must to delete all the songs manually.

10. Opera
Once press Opera Mini icon, you can browse websites from bookmarks and also you can
input your favorite websites and enjoy yourself.
11. Facebook
Once press Facebook icon, Facebook interface comes and you can login your facebook
account and surf in the Facebook world.
12. Twitter
Once press Twitter icon, Twitter interface comes and you can login your Twitter account
and surf in the Twitter world.
13. Entertainment
13.1 FM Radio
You can use the phone as the FM Radio only with earphone insertion. Earphone will act
as an antenna for FM Radio function.
For FM Radio screen:
Left and Right keys: Accommodate the channel frequency by frequency, each time by
0.1MHz.
Up and Down navigation keys: Auto search to previous or next channel.
* / # key: To decrease or increase the volume of FM radio
Global Search: select Option/Global Search, all the channels will be automatically
searched out, and generate a channel list for user reference.
Channel List: select Option/Channel List, access to Channel List submenu, press left soft
key, you can play the channel, edit the exist channel, or delete the channel or delete all

channels.
Save: select Option/Save, you can save current channel into channel list.
Minimize: Select Option/Minimize to make FM screen invisible, meanwhile you can use
other functions (SMS, Games, Add names, and etc.).
In the FM Radio screen, press the PWR key to close the FM Radio.
The quality of FM radio depends on the coverage of the radio station in that particular area.
13.2 Games
The phone is embedded with three games: Tetris, Brick attack and Black Jack.
Please refer to the game instructions for details and operations.
14. Settings
14.1 Profiles
Select Menu/Profiles, you can enter the profile menu. Here 4 modes are provided: Normal,
Silent, Meeting, and Outdoor.
Select left soft key to enter the operation submenu, you can see the following operations:
Activate: active the present mode.
Personalize: Set the volume or the ring tone of incoming call, SMS, Alarm, and the alert
mode of incoming call, SMS, alarm, missed call and power on/off.
Restore Factory Setting: Choose the mode as it was initially in the factory settings.
14.2 Display
You can do some settings following your need. In order to customize your phone by set
Wallpaper, Style, Backlight Time, Keypad Light Set.
Wallpaper: Choose the wallpaper and set it as main screen.
Style: Choose a scheme of display. There are 6 available styles for you to choose
Backlight Time: Set the backlight time - 10 sec, 30 sec, 50 sec, always on

Keypad Light Set: You can turn on/off the keypad light and set the start time and end time
of using the keypad light.
14.3 Phone
Language: English only.
Time Format: Set 12-hour mode and 24-hour mode.
Date Format: Set date format and you may have three options: dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy,
yy/mm/dd.
Auto Key Guard: You can turn on/off the key guard.
14.4 Call
Answer Mode: You may access to following options to answer incoming calls: Any Key,
Send, and Headset Auto.
50 Sec Alert: You will hear the alert sound at the 50th second of every minute during the
call if you activate this function.
Voice Privacy: activated this feature, voice service will be protected by encoding.
Auto Redial: The cell phone will redial automatically when the call has failed.
DTMF Tone Settings: You can set the DTMF Tone as Normal or Long.
Call Services: You may access to call forward and call waiting by choosing this item.
Call Forward (require the network support): You can activate the status of call forward to
forward calls to another phone in the following conditions: Immediate, When Busy, No
Reply / Not Reachable. You can also edit the feature code for them separately.
Call Waiting (require the network support): When it is activated, you can pick up or end the
second calling when you are on the phone. And you can edit the feature code yourself.
International code: You can set the international code as automatic or manual input.
14.5 Gallery
Images: You can view the pictures in the memory card.
Phone Images: You can view the images in the phone.
Music: When phone with memory card insertion, you can view the music (maximum of