Fring for Android devices - 2.1.x.x User Guide

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Installation and User Guide

fring version 2.1.x.x

For Android devices

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents ............................................................................. 2

Introduction ..................................................................................... 3

About fring ................................................................................... 3

System Requirements ....................................................................... 4

Registering to fring ........................................................................... 5

Selecting your fring nickname and password ..................................... 5

Add-ons .......................................................................................... 7

Subscribing to your Add-ons – (optional) .......................................... 7

Unsubscribing Add-ons or subscribing as a different user .................. 10

Adding a SIP Service – (optional) .................................................. 11

Adding Twitter to fring ................................................................. 12

Using Twitter with fring ................................................................ 12

Making your first fring call ............................................................... 13

Using fring ..................................................................................... 14

Getting Started ........................................................................... 14

Statuses ..................................................................................... 14

Making a call from fring ................................................................ 15

Receiving a fring call .................................................................... 18

Making a video call from fring ....................................................... 19

Receiving a Video call ................................................................... 20

Loudspeaker ............................................................................... 20

Chatting ..................................................................................... 21

Chatting with a contact .............................................................. 21

Navigating between chats .......................................................... 22

Ending a chat ........................................................................... 22

Landscape .................................................................................. 23

Profile ........................................................................................ 24

In fring you can edit and manage your profile. ................................ 24

Adding a new fring contact ........................................................... 25

Searching a contact in your contact list .............................................................. 25

fring settings ...................................................................................................................... 26

Available settings ......................................................................................................... 27

Frequently Asked Questions .............................................................................................. 28

Downloading & Installing fring ................................................................................ 28

Registering to fring ...................................................................................................... 28

General ............................................................................................................................. 29

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Introduction

About fring

fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact

with your social networks on-the-go, including make free calls, live chat and seeing your

contacts online presence with all your fring, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP,
Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection rather

than costly cellular airtime minutes.

Once you've installed fring, fring's main screen displays your contacts and their presence
status (e.g. online, offline). This list shows the names of your fringster- friends, your
Google-Talk/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/AIM contacts.

Figure 1 – Contact list

From the main Buddy list you can navigate between your contacts, find their presence
status and initiate a communication session with them. You may initiate a voice call,
start a chat session and move between all open sessions using the Switch' feature.
You can also make SIP calls directly from your fring Buddy list.

To sum it up, you'll not only make your handset more useful, you can also save
money.

This guide will help you get started.

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System Requirements

In order to use our version, you will need:

 An Android device.
 Internet connection (Not a WAP connection) on your handset.
 Download fring from the Market or from our website

http://www.fring.com/Android .

Notes:

To initiate a call to a landline (or non-fring user) using fring, make sure to purchase SIP credits.

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Registering to fring

A short registration process is required before you can begin to use fring.

Selecting your fring nickname and password

Once the installation is complete, you are now ready to select your fring User ID and
password.

Figure 2 - Registration Screen

If you have already registered with fring, choose 'Login' and enter your existing
credentials to log in (If you forgot your password you can use the password retrieval

'Click here' link at the bottom of this page):

Figure 3 – Existing user login

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If this is your first use of fring, please choose your fring User ID and Password, and
select 'Next'.

Follow the instructions on the following screen:

Figure 4 – Account setup

The registration screen allows you to select your nickname and the password you will
use to access your fring account.
Email address is required for password retrieval purpose.
You can also fill your phone number (international format) for password retrieval via
SMS and for your friends to be able to find you in the fring network.
Note: Passwords must be at least 4 characters.

There's an option to update your mood text and your image. Don't worry; you will be
able to update them later if you wish.

Finally, read the 'User License Agreement' by clicking the 'User license' link, mark
the check box next to it and Press 'Next' to complete the registration and start using
fring.

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Add-ons

Subscribing to your Add-ons – (optional)

Figure 5 – fring

Once you have chosen your fring nickname and password, you can provide the details of
your Add-ons (e.g. MSN Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ etc).

Note: You can subscribe to one or more Add-ons (e.g., Gtalk) to which you are
registered. Make sure to have your username and password for each.

If you do not already have an Add-on account, register on the Web before you begin to
add networks. You can subscribe to Add-ons at any time. To subscribe to an Add-on
now, follow the instructions below.

 To login to an Add-on:

1. Click on the 'Menu' button and choose 'Add-ons', The following screen appears:

Figure 6 – Add-ons

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2. Select the add-on to which you would like to subscribe:

Figure 7 – Subscribe to an Add-on

3. In the 'User-ID' field, type the username of the Add-on you have selected (e.g.,

your Google Talk username).

4. In the Password field, type the password of the Add-on you have selected (e.g.,

your Google-Talk password).

5. Press Login.

The Add-on selection screen appears and you can see a green "V" sign which
states the subscription was successful.

If you are interested in subscribing to an additional Add-on, repeat steps 2 to 5 in
this section.

If you have completed selecting your Add-ons, navigate back to the Contact list.

6. Once the sign-in is complete, the Contact list of your fring contacts, selected

Add-on(s) contacts and the handset’s contact list appears.

Note: If you have added more than one Add-on, the Contact list will display
contacts from all Add-ons in a single list.

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Figure 8 – Contact list

You have successfully completed the registration. You are now ready to make
your first call.