LG LG-A275 User manual

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User Guide
Guide de l’utilisateur
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LG Electronics Algerie SARL
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214 Bois des Cars 2, Dely Ibrahim, Alger, Algerie

LG-A275 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 dier from your phone depending on
the phone software or your service provider.

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Getting to know your phone ....................... 3
Installing the SIM Card and Charging the
Battery.................................................................. 5
Display Information......................................... 7
Menu and Options........................................... 8
Entering Text ...................................................... 9
Quick feature reference................................13
Messaging.........................................................13
Contacts.............................................................14
Call history ........................................................16
Alarm...................................................................16
FM radio ............................................................17
Proles................................................................18
Tools....................................................................19
Organiser...........................................................20
Settings..............................................................20
Guidelines for safe and ecient use .......23
Accessories .......................................................33
Troubleshooting .............................................34
Contents

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Getting to know your phone
Earphone jack
Soft keys
Each of these keys performs the
functions indicated by the text on the
display immediately above them.
Navigation keys
Use for quick access to phone
functions.
(up) : Torch
(down) : Calendar
(left) : New Message
(right) : Radio
Send key
You can dial a phone number and
answer incoming calls.
Earpiece
Hand Strap Hole
Display screen
End/Power key
Allows you to power the phone on
or o, end calls, or return to Standby
mode.
Alphanumeric keys
Most of the time, the numeric keys are
used to input numbers or characters.
Note: Only alphanumeric key is
lighting when using a phone.

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Getting to know your phone
Torch
Charger port
Allow you to power charger only.

5
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, any optional services available and many others.
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.
› only 2G SIM supported

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Installing the SIM Card and Charging the Battery
Illustrations
1Open battery cover
2Remove the battery
3Insert your SIM
4Insert the battery
5Close the battery cover
6Charge your battery
WARNING: Do not remove the battery while the
phone is switched on, as this may damage the
phone.
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Display Information
Icon areas
Text and graphic area
Soft key indications
Menu Contacts
On-Screen Icons
Tells you the strength of the network
signal.
Indicates the battery charge level.
Indicates new text message(s).
Indicates new voice message(s).
Indicates that the alarm clock is set.
Indicates that your phone is using the
general prole.
Indicates that your phone is using the
silent prole.
Indicates that your phone is using the
outdoor prole.
Indicates that your phone is using the
headset prole.
Indicates that all calls are being diverted to
another number.
Indicates that your phone is in Flight
mode.
Indicates new schedule(s).

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Your phone o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.
Menu Contacts
Press the right soft key
to access contacts.
Press the left soft key to access the
available menu.
Menu and Options

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Entering Text
You can enter alphanumeric characters via the
phone’s keypad. For example, storing names
in Contacts, writing a message and scheduling
events in the calendar all require entering text. To
change modes, press the key.
Indicator Function (English Smart mode)
Numeric
Multitap Abc
Multitap abc
Multitap ABC
T9 Mode
In Editor, Press Options Choose“Set T9” Select On.
This mode allows you to enter words with only
one keystroke per letter. Each key on the keypad
is associated with more than one letter. T9 mode
automatically compares your keystrokes with an
internal linguistic dictionary to determine the
correct word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes
than the traditional ABC mode.
Turning Your Phone On and O
You can power the phone on and o by pressing
or holding the power key.

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Entering Text
Making a Call
1Key in the number on the keypad.
2Press to initiate the call.
3To end the call, press .
TIP! To enter + when making an international
call, press and hold 0.
Making a call from your contacts
1Press Menu, select Contacts and choose
Search.
2On the keypad, enter the rst few letter of the
contact you want to call.
3To scroll through your contacts, use the up and
down navigation keys. And to scroll through
their dierent numbers, use the left and right
navigation keys.
4Press to initiate the call.
Answering and rejecting a call
When your phone rings, press Accept or press
to answer the call. While your phone is ringing,
select Silent to mute the ringing. This is great if
you have forgotten to change your prole to Silent
for a meeting. Press or Reject to reject the
incoming call.

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TIP! You can change the settings on your
phone to answer your calls in dierent ways.
Press Menu, select Settings and choose Call.
Press Common settings, select Answer mode
and choose Any key or Send key only.
• Any key – You can answer a call by pressing
any key.
• Send key only – You can answer a call only by
pressing the Send key.
Changing your call settings
You can set the menu depending on the call. Press
Menu, select Settings and choose Call > SIM1
or SIM2.
• Call divert – Select methods for diverting calls.
• Call barring – Choose a barring password for all
outgoing calls, outgoing international, outgoing
international except to home country, all
incoming calls, or incoming when abroad.
• Call waiting – Select Active or cancel call waiting.
• Fixed dial number – Choosing a PIN2 code to
enable xed dial number lets you restrict calls
only to numbers in the Fixed dial number list.

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Entering Text
Checking your call history
You can check 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. Press Menu,
select Call history.

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Messaging
Sending a message
1Press Menu, select Messaging and choose
New message.
2A new message editor will open. The default
setting of the message editor is SMS mode.
3Enter your message using either the T9
predictive mode or Abc manual mode or 123
mode. You can switch text input modes by
pressing .
4Press Options and choose Insert to add an
Symbol, Template, Contact, Business card.
5Press Send to.
6Enter the phone number or press Options and
select Contacts or Recent list to open your
contacts list.
7Press Options and choose Send.
• Inbox – You will be alerted when you have
received a message. It will also be saved here.
• Drafts – This menu shows the message you
have saved.
Quick feature reference

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• Outbox – This menu allows you to view the
message which is about to be send or that have
failed to send.
• S e n t – 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.
• Info messages – Info service messages are text
messages that are delivered by the network to
your handset.
• Templates – There are pre-dened messages
in the list. You can view and edit the template
messages or create new templates.
• 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.
1Press Menu and choose Contacts, select
Search or press (right soft key) from the
standby screen.
2On the keypad enter the rst letter of the
contact you want to call.
3To scroll through the contacts, use the up
and down navigation keys. To scroll through
their dierent numbers use the left and right
navigation keys.
• New contact – You can add phonebook entries
by using this menu.
Quick feature reference

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• Speed dials – Assign contacts to any keys
between 4 and 8. Speed dial 2 and 3 is set to SIM
Budget and 9 is set to SOS mode, so you can not
change these keys.
› SIM budget - You can set Speed SIM budget
through Startup Wizard and Speed dial menu. It
is easy way for checking SIM budget by pressing
and holding the 2 or 3 key in Idle Screen.
• Copy all – You can copy all phone book entries
from the SIM card memory to the Phone memory
or from the Phone memory to the SIM card
memory.
• Delete all – You can delete all phone book entries
from the SIM card memory or Phone memory.
• Memory status – You can check the memory
status for your SIM and phone.
• Information
› Service dial number – Access the list of service
numbers assigned by your service provider
securely.
› 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 number, home, oce and
email, and send it in a message.

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Call history
You can check the record of all, missed, dialled,
received calls and call durations. 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.
• All calls – Displays the lists of all three types
(Received/Dialled/Missed calls) 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.
Alarm
You can set up to 3 alarm clocks to go on at a
specied time.

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FM radio
With embedded FM antenna, you can receive FM
radio without an external earphone. You can listen
to your favourite radio station anytime.
Listening to the radio
1Press Menu and select FM radio.
2Select Options > Auto scan then conrm Yes
to scan for FM channels or No to cancel.
3When your phone detects a channel, it will
display a pop-up asking to save the channel.
Con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.
4Select 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.

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5Select the channel number of the station you
would like to listen to.
Note: In weak FM radio signal area the
sensitivity can degrade with wireless and
antenna mode. So it is advisable to insert the
ear-mic for better and enhanced FM quality.
Proles
• General – After setting up this prole, the
indicator will be displayed on the standby
screen.
• Silent – Ring tone is disabled and Vibrate is
activated. When you set up this prole, the
indicator will be displayed on the standby
screen.
• Outdoor – This is the default prole. Ring tone
and key tone volume are set to maximum. When
you set up this prole, the indicator will be
displayed on the standby screen.