Videocon V1524 User manual

User’s Manual
V1524

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indirect da ages howsoever caused.
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Software Update Infor ation
To enhance device perfor ance, we reco end that you get in touch with the nearest VIDEOCON Authorized Service Center, regarding
the availability of updated fir ware for your device. Please see the enclosed Service Center Directory for the VIDEOCON Authorized
Service Center nearest to your location
Safety Precautions
Please co ply with these precautions to avoid putting yourself or other around you in a dangerous or illegal situation, and ensure peak
perfor ance of your device.
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Description
ROAD SAFETY
Do not use your phone while driving.
INTERFERENCE
All wireless devices could affect your device perfor ance.

HOSPITA
LS
Switch off your device near hospitals and edical equip ent.
AIRCRAFT
Switch off your device in aircraft. Wireless devices can cause interference in aircraft.
REF ELLING
Switch off the device when refueling. Do not use the device at refueling point.
BLASTING AREAS
Switch off the device near blasting areas.
SE SENSIBLY
Use in nor al condition, as explained in the User’s anual. Do not touch the antenna unnecessarily.
Q ALIFIED SERVICE
Only qualified personnel ay install or repair phone.
BATTERIES
Use only approved batteries. Do not connect inco patible products.
WATER
-
RESISTANCE
Your device is not water-resistant. Keep it dry.
Important safety measures
Your phone is designed to co ply with all the necessary precautions and require ents and should be treated with care. The suggested
safety easures will help you to use this product without causing you any health hazards.
• When buying a cell phone, ake sure it has a low SAR (Specific Absorption Rate).
• Use a wireless hands-free syste (headphone, headset) with a low power Bluetooth e itter.
• Either keep calls short or send a SMS instead. This advice applies especially to children, adolescents and pregnant
wo en.
• Whenever possible, only use cell phone when the signal quality is good.
• People having active edical i plants should keep their cell phone at least 15c away fro the i plant.

Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)
Your phone eets the SAR require ents for exposure to radio waves, reco ended by Govt. of India. Your obile phone is a radio
trans itter and receiver. It is designed and anufactured so as not to exceed the li its for exposure to radio-frequency (RF) energy, as
reco ended by the Govt. of India. These li its are part of co prehensive guidelines and establish per itted levels of RF energy for
the general population. The li its include a substantial safety argin designed to ensure the safety of all persons, regardless of age and
health.
The exposure standard for obile phones e ploys a unit of easure ent known as SAR (Specific Absorption Rate). The SAR li it
reco ended by the Govt. of India is 1.6 Watt/kg taken over a volu e containing a ass of 1 gra of tissue.
The highest SAR value for V1524 is 1.014w/kg. Press *#07# to check the SAR value on your phone display.
Disclaimer
So e applications accessible through your obile belong to third parties and are protected by copyright, patent, trade ark and/or
other intellectual property laws. Those applications are provided solely for your personal nonco ercial use. You ay not use any
application in a anner that has not been authorized by the application owner or provider.
Without li iting the foregoing, unless expressly authorized by the applicable content owner or service provider, you ay not odify,
copy, republish, upload, post, trans it, translate, sell, create derivative works, exploit, or distribute in any anner or ediu any
content or services displayed through this device.
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erchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. VIDEOCON does not guarantee the accuracy, validity, ti eliness, legality, or
co pleteness of any content or service ade available through this device and under no circu stances, including negligence, shall
VIDEOCON be liable, whether in contract or tort, for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential da ages, attorney fees,
expenses, or any other da ages arising out of, or in connection with, any infor ation contained in, or as a result of the use of any
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networks and trans ission facilities over which VIDEOCON has no control. Without li iting the generality of this disclai er, VIDEOCON
expressly disclai s any responsibility or liability for any interruption or suspension of any content or service ade available through this
device.
VIDEOCON is neither responsible nor liable for custo er service related to the content and services. Any question or request for service
relating to the content or services should be ade directly to the respective content and service providers.
Getting Started

Assembling the device
• Gently hold the back cover and slide in upward direction to open the back cover.
• If the battery is in the co part ent, lift and pull it out in the direction of the arrow (shown below).

• Insert the SIM cards into their respective slots. Make sure that the contact areas on the cards are facing the
connectors on the device as shown below.
• Insert e ory card. Take co patible icro SD card, and place it into its respective slot.

Charge the battery
To charge the device battery:
1. Take the USB cable fro the device packaging, and attach it to power adapter. Now connect the power adapter into a
standard AC wall outlet.
2. Connect the icro USB connector on the cable into its designated port at the botto of the device. The battery level
indicator on the device screen will start scrolling horizontally to indicate that the battery is being charged.
Note: Exercise extre e caution while connecting the charger to the device. The connectors on the charger and on the phone ay get
da aged if too uch force is applied while connecting the .
3. If the battery is co pletely discharged, it ay take a while before the on-screen charging indicator starts scrolling.
4. When the battery is fully charged, the battery level indicator on the device screen will stop scrolling.
5. Once the charging is co plete, disconnect the charger fro the device and then fro the wall outlet.
Battery se: To extend the battery life of your device:
• Use the standard wall charger to charge the battery for the first ti e.
• During the first 3-4 charge cycles, charge the battery until the battery indicator on the display stops scrolling.
• Avoid partial charging. Also, wait for the battery to discharge co pletely before charging it again.
• Charge the battery using the USB cable only if the reco ended wall charger isn’t readily available.
• Avoid keeping the device on vibrate ode.
Know your device
Phone Layout

Key Layout
Left Soft Key
In idle ode, press Left Soft Key to access the ain Menu. When navigating the enu, press Left Soft Key to open the desired option.
Right Soft Key
In idle ode, press Right Soft Key to access Names.

Use to perfor functions that display in the lower right of the display screen. For exa ple, it works as a Back key to navigate the
previous screen.
Dial Key
• In idle ode, enter the phone nu ber to call and then press Dial key to choose desired SIM, which you want to use to
initiate the call.
• Press Dial key to answer an inco ing call.
• In the idle ode, press Dial key once to view the Call History.
Power/ End Key
• End or reject calls.
• Press and hold to switch on or off the device.
• Cancel active enu and return to the idle screen.
OK Key
In enu, use OK key to perfor the functions that display in the lower left of the display screen.
Keypad (0-9)
• In idle ode, use the 0-9 keys to enter a number to call.
• Select and hold a digit key to dial its associated speed dial contact.
• In idle ode, press and hold “1” key for Voicemail.
• While entering the nu ber on the idle screen, the device suggests you atching contacts so that you can scroll to the
desired contact. Once the contact is selected, press the Dial key and select SIM1 or SIM2, which you want to use to initiate a call to the
contact.
Notification Icons
Notification (indicator) icons provide infor ation such as battery level, network signal strength, alar activated, and so forth.
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Description
Battery level indicator
SIM1/2
Network signal strength

Roa ing i
s active
Unread
essages
Alar is activated
When scene ode
is set as
nor al ode
, standby screen will show the icon.
When
scene ode is set as
silent
ode,
standby screen will show the icon.
Meeting
profile is active
Indoor profile is ac
tivated
Outdoor (Vibrate and ring) profile is active
Earphone inserted
Bluetooth activated
Basic Operations
Switch on or off the device
To switch on the phone, press and hold the Power/ End key. To switch off the phone, press and hold Power/ End key again.

Accessing Menu
To access your device enu:
• In idle ode, press Left soft key (Menu) to view various device functions, and settings required for configuring the
device.
• Use the navigation keys to scroll to Menu applications.
• Press the OK key, to confir the highlighted option.
• Press Back to ove back one level. Press End key to return to the idle ode.
Working with Call Options
During an active call, press Hands free(Right soft key) to put call on loudspeaker, and press it again to use the Earpiece of the phone.
Press Options on the Call screen to access the following options:
• Speaker: Allows you to put active call on Speaker. Press it again to use Handset.
• Mute: During an active call, select Mute to disable/enable the icrophone.
• Hold: During an active call, select Hold to put the call on hold.
• Start Recording: Allows you to start recording the active call.
• Add new call: Input nu ber on Keypad or add fro Phonebook or Call History to add new call you can Merge two calls
by pressing the erge option on the call screen.
• Adjust volume: Allows to you change the volu e level.
• Phonebook: During an active call, you can access the contact nu bers.
• Call History: Displays the SIM1 and SIM2 call history.
• Message: Allows you to view the essages stored in the device and send new Message.
PC Connectivity options
You can connect your phone with a PC and use it to enhance your productivity. For instance, you can transfer files and i ages between
your device and a co puter.
To do so, take the USB cable fro the product packaging, and connect its s aller end to the ini USB connector on the device, connect
the other end into the USB port on your co puter.
An on-screen dialog pro pts you to select the connection ode:
• Select Charging to charge the battery.

• Select Mass Storage as the USB connection ode in your device. Your device is displayed in the Windows file browser
as a Re ovable Disk. Use the Windows file browser to copy, ove, or delete data fro the device storage areas.
• Select Com Port to use your phone as a ode for your co puter to connect to the Internet or any other network
services. To do this, you need ode drivers installed on your PC. These drivers are auto atically installed the first ti e you use this
feature.
• Choose Webcam to use the built-in ca era as a web ca era to chat using any instant essaging clients you ay have
installed on your co puter, such as Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and so forth.
Note: Make sure that the ode drivers are installed in your PC. If they are not installed, then you have to install the anually.
To use this feature, you need to first subscribe to the data service being offered by your teleco provider, and ensure that you have the
necessary settings for browsing the Internet, sending or receiving ulti edia essages and so on.
Please note that Mass Storage function is Memory Card dependent.
FM Radio
You can turn your obile phone into a portable FM radio device. The quality of the radio broadcast depends on the coverage of the
radio station in that particular area.
Use the headset fro the product packaging and connect it to the device to operate FM radio. The headset acts as the antenna for your
device that helps to detect radio signals fro nearby stations.
File Manager
View files and folders stored on the Memory card. In e ory card, you can view various options, such as Photos, Audio, My usic,
Answering achine, and so forth. Select the desired folder and press Options for additional actions:
• New folder: Allows you to create a new folder to store your files.
• Delete: Allows you to delete the folder.
• Details: Allows you to view the details related with the folder.
• Edit: Allows you to edit the details of folder, such as rena e it, copy or ove the folder to another location in e ory
card.
• Search: You can search the files in the folder.
• Sort: Sort the files by na e, ti e, size and type.
• Mark: Allows you to ark, un ark, ark all and un ark all the folders in the e ory card to perfor one single
function.

• Memory Status: Allows you to check the Phone/ e ory card capacity and for at the Phone/ e ory card.
Settings
Use Settings to custo ize the device settings, such as Phone settings, Display settings, Security settings, Call settings and other options,
which can be accessed by Navigation keys to secure the data you have stored in the device.
Press Menu

Settings to display the settings menu.
Phone Settings
You have following options listed under phone settings:
• Date & time: Lets you set ti e, date, ti e for at, and date display ti e on idle screen.
• Language Settings: The device currently supports English and Hindi both as display & writing.
• Shortcut Settings: You can odify shortcuts assigned on RSK, LSK & navigation keys.
• Schedule Power On/Off: Lets you set a particular ti e on the phone when the phone should auto power on/off itself.
• Battery Status: You can check the status of battery level of your phone.
• Restore Factory Settings: Selecting this option will ask you to enter the password to restore the phone to its factory
settings. The default password is set as “0000”.
Display Settings
Under display settings, you can set a host of different characteristics of the phone. You have following option under display settings:
• Wallpaper Settings: Set favorite wallpaper on the ain screen of your phone. The available wallpapers are syste
default wallpapers and ore wallpapers.
• Idle Display Settings: Allows you to choose between ti e & date, service provider, today’s schedule, and custo ized
banner to be displayed at idle display screen.
• Brightness: Allows you to adjust the brightness of phone’s display.
• Backlight: Control the ti e in seconds for the phone display.
• Keypad Backlight Time: Allows you to select the ti e in seconds for the keypad backlight ti e.
Security Settings
Adjust settings to secure your device and data:
• PIN: You can activate, odify and off the PIN lock for SIM1 and SIM2. To use these features, you need to check with
your service provider.

• Modify PIN2: You can odify the PIN2 for SIM1 and SIM2. To use these features, you need to check with your service
provider.
• Phone Locked: Activate this function to enter the password as you switched on your phone. The default password is
“0000”.
• Modify Phone Password: You can odify the phone lock password the default password is 0000.
• Privacy Protection:
Press Menu

Settings

Security Settings

Privacy Protection.
Select the Settings and input the default password as “0000” to display the privacy screen. Choose the folders you want to lock such as
Call History, Messages, Ca era, Phonebook, File Manager, EBook, Calendar, Mass Storage Audio Player and Video Player. You can also
change the password for the privacy settings of your phone.
• Auto Keypad Lock: Enable Auto keypad lock to have the devices disable the keypad after staying idle for so e ti e.
This is done to prevent against accidental dialing. For ore infor ation on this feature, refer to the “Lock the keypad” section
entioned earlier in this docu ent.
• Lock Screen By End-Key: Enables you to set lock screen by the end key.
• Mobile Tracker: Use Mobile tracker feature to help you locate your device if it is lost or stolen. When so eone inserts
a new SIM card in your device, the Mobile tracker feature auto atically sends a essage to preset recipients, so that you can initiate
steps to recover it. In order to activate this function, you need to change the password for the function first.
To activate Mobile tracker, press Menu

Settings

Security Settings

Mobile Tracker. The available options for Mobile tracker are:
o Status – On: In order to activate the function, first change the password (as explained in bullet Change Password).
Enter the new password and select OK. You will then be asked to input verified notice nu ber and then select OK.
o Status – Off: Select to put the obile tracker function to off. You are required to put the new password.
o Change Password – Enter the 4-digit new password and confir the new password. The default password is “0000”.
The o ent, a new SIM card is inserted into your device, its nu ber is sent via text essage to the nu ber you have specified in the
On section.
Fixed Dialing: Li it outgoing calls to specific nu bers only, you need PIN2 fro operator side to activate this.
• Blacklist: Blacklisted contacts cannot contact you if this feature is enabled.
• White list: Only white listed contacts can contact you if you enable this feature.

Call Settings
Dual SIM Settings
You have following options listed under Dual SIM settings:
• Standby Mode: Allows you to activate SIM1, SIM2 and Flight ode.
• Reply by Original SIM: Allows you to reply to a SMS, call or MMS by the sa e SIM, on which you have received the
SMS, call or MMS.
• Set SIM Name: You can give na e to both the SIM cards according to your choice.
• Set dual SIM Call Divert: You can set dual SIM call divert using this feature.
Call Divert
This feature allows you to divert inco ing calls fro SIM1/SIM2 to voice ail or another phone nu ber. You can activate/deactivate
this function to all calls, voice calls, and check the query status for options. The sub-options available for each function are, call
forwarding unconditional, call forwarding on busy, call forwarding on no reply, divert if unreachable, and cancel all diverts. This is
network provider dependent service.
Call Waiting
You can activate this function to answer an inco ing call in between an existing active call. Under query status, you can view the current
activation or deactivation status.
Call Barring
Use this function to restrict the calls you ake or receive with your device. Under call barring, the options are outgoing calls and
inco ing calls. You can also cancel all call barring. To change the barring password, you ay required to put the old password. In order
to activate this service, you need to check the availability with your network service provider.
Reject Call Time: You can set the ti e to reject call using this feature.
Caller ID:
Enables you to display Own ID, Display ID by network of the caller ID of the phone. It is a network based service.
Others
Enable you to set others settings. The options are:
• Call Time Minute Reminder: Set this function to On or Off to receive a warning tone after selected ti e in the call.
• Auto Redial: You can select On or Off to redial the nu ber auto atically when a call is not connected.
• Vibrate when connected: Activate this function to receive a vibration notification when your call is connected.

• Reject By SMS: Allow you to reject the inco ing call and send SMS to caller fro the list of preloaded te plates.
• Auto Call Recorder: Select On or Off to record the inco ing calls auto atically. The recorded phone conversations will
be saved in the Auto Call Record folder of e ory card. If the nu ber is saved in the contacts list, then phone will create the folder
with the saved na e else it will save with the phone nu ber. All the future conversations will be saved in the sa e folder. This feature
is e ory card dependent. Please note if the e ory card storage is full, then the phone will stop the auto call recording function.
You need to ensure to take back-up of earlier conversations periodically on a PC so that e ory card is kept sufficiently free.
Network Connections
Allow you to choose Network Account (data account), On/Off GPRS Service, On/Off Data Roa ing and
E-Waste Management
What is E-waste?
'E-waste' eans waste electrical and electronic equip ent (WEEE).
How harmful is e-waste?
E-wastes are considered dangerous, as certain co ponents of so e electronic products contain aterials that are hazardous,
depending on their condition and density. If i properly disposed, they can leach lead and other har ful substances into soil and
groundwater.
Govt. of India vide notification dated May 12, 2011 has announced E-waste (Manage ent and Handling) Rules, 2011 (“Rules”).According
to these Rules, the consu er now has the legal responsibility to dispose of the waste electrical and electronic equip ent (popularly
known as “WEEE”) in the prescribed anner and not by just throwing it into a dustbin or giving/selling it to scrap dealer.
V RECYCLE , is an initiative by Videocon where we recycle your old and no longer useful phones.
There are 3 easy steps to begin playing your part:
Step 1: Grab your old and useless phone (or its accessories).

Step 2: Locate a Videocon Collection Point near you, available at http://www.videocon obiles.co /v-recycle.ht Step 3: Drop your
old phone into the designated collection boxes.Lets join hands today to celebrate the glory of nature earth & help in aking it a better &
healthier place for all of us.