LG 800G User Manual

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LG800G User Guide

Some of the contents in this manual may differ from your phone depending
on the software of the phone or your service provider.

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Installing the SIM card and the handset battery

Installing the SIM Card

When you subscribe to a cellular
network, you are provided with a
plug-in SIM card 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 be easily 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.

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Illustrations

Always switch the device off and
disconnect the charger before
removing the battery.

1 Remove the back cover.
2 Lift battery away.
3 Insert the SIM card.
4 Insert the battery pack.
5 Attach the back cover.
6 Charge the battery.

Phone Components

Earpiece

Call key

Dials a phone number and answers
incoming calls.

Clear key

Go back to a previous screen.

End key

Volume keys

• When the screen is

at the Home screen:

Ring tone and touch tone
volume.

• During a call: Earpiece

volume.

• Down volume key: Press

and hold to activate/
deactivate Silent mode.

Power/Lock key

• Short press to turn on/off the

screen.

• Long press for power on/off.

Handsfree or Stereo
earphone connector

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Using your touch screen

Touch screen tips

• To select an item, touch the center

of the icon.

• Do not press too hard. The

touchscreen is sensitive enough to
pick up a light, firm touch.

• Use the tip of your finger to touch

the option you require. Be careful
not to touch any other keys.

• Whenever your LG800G is not in

use, it will return to the lock screen.

Control the touch screen

The controls on the LG800G
touch screen change dynamically
depending on the task you are
carrying out.

Idle Screen Shortcut

Call Shortcut Icon

Contact Shortcut Icon

Messages Shortcut Icon

Menu Shortcut Icon

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Menu Map

Screen 1

Prepaid
Contacts
Messages
Voice Call
Recent Calls
Camera
Gallery
Music
Games & Apps
Alarms
Browser
Settings

Screen 2

My Stuff
Voice Recorder
Calendar
Tasks
Memo
Profiles
Bluetooth
Calculator
World Clock
Stopwatch
Unit Converter

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Calls

Making a Call

1 Touch to open the keypad.to open the keypad.
2 Key in the number using the

keypad.

3 Touch to initiate the call.

TIP! To enter + for making an

international call, press and hold

+

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Press the power key to lock the
touchscreen to prevent calls being
made by mistake.

Making a call from your
contacts

1 From the home screen touch

to open the Contacts.

2 Tap the Name field box on the

top of the screen and enter the
first few letters of the contact you
would like to call using the keypad.

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3 From the filtered list, touch the Call

icon next to the contact you want
to call. The call will use the default
number if there is more than one
for that contact.

4 Or, you can touch the contact

name and select the number to
use if there is more than one for
that contact to use. You can also
touch to initiate the call to the
default number.

Answering and rejecting a
call

When your phone rings, press
key to answer the call.

To mute the ringing, touch on Silent
tab in alerting screen. This is useful
if you forgot to change your profile to
Silent for a meeting. Touch on Reject
tab to reject an incoming call in
alerting screen.

Changing the Common
Settings

1 Touch Call in the Settings menu.
2 Scroll and touch Common

Settings.

• Call Reject - Slide the switch left

for ON. You can touch the Reject
list to choose All calls, Contacts,
Groups, All unknown callers and All
unknown numbers.

• Send My Number - Choose

whether to display your number on
an outgoing call.

• Auto-Redial - Slide the switch left

for ON or right for OFF.

• Answer Mode

Press Send Key: Allows you to
only answer an incoming call by
pressing the key.

Press Any Key: Allows you to
answer an incoming call by
pressing any key, except the
key.

• Minute Minder - Slide the switch

left to ON to hear a tone every
minute during a call.

• BT Answer Mode

To Answered Device: Allows you
to answer a call using earpiece
or a Bluetooth headset. You can
press key to answer a call
using earpiece or you can press a
hook key on a Bluetooth headset
to answer a call using a call using
earpiece.

Always to Handsfree: Allows you
to answer a call using a Bluetooth
headset.

Always to Handset: Allows you to
answer a call using earpiece.

• Save New Number - Select ON or

OFF to save a new number.

Contacts

Searching for a contact

1 Touch Contacts.
2 You see a list of contacts. Typing

in the first letter of a contact’s
name in the Name field will jump
the menu to that alphabetical area
of the list.

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Adding a new contact

1 Touch Contacts and touch Add.
2 Choose whether to save the

contact to your Internal memory
or SIM.

3 Enter your first and last name.
4 You can enter up to five different

numbers per contact.

5 Add an email addresses. You can

enter up to two different email
addresses per contact.

6 Assign the contact to one or more

groups.

7 Touch Save to save the contact.

Changing your contact
settings

You can adapt your contact settings
so that your Contacts suits your own
preferences.

Touch Options key and touch
Settings.

• Display name - Choose whether

to display the first or last name of a
contact first.

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• Copy - Copy your contacts from

your SIM to Internal memory, or
vice versa.

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Move - This works in the same way
as Copy, but the contact is stored
at the new location only. Therefore,
once a contact is moved from the
SIM to the Internal memory it will be
deleted from the SIM memory.

• Send all contacts via Bluetooth -

Sends all contacts to other handset
via Bluetooth.

• Backup Contacts / Restore

Contacts - Save or restore the
contacts data to the other storage.

• Clear Contacts - Delete all your

contacts. Touch Yes if you are sure
you want to delete all your contacts.

Messaging

Your LG800G combines SMS and
MMS into one intuitive and easy-to­use menu.

Sending a message
1 Touch Messages in menu

and touch Message to begin
composing a new message.

2 Touch Insert to add an image,

video, sound, template and so on.

3 Touch To at the top of the screen

to enter the recipients. Then enter
the number or touch to select
a contact. You can even add
multiple contacts.

4 Touch Send when ready.

WARNING: If an image, video

or sound is added to an SMS it
will be automatically converted to
an MMS and you will be charged
accordingly.

Entering Text

You can choose your input method by
tapping and Input method.
Touch to turn on T9 mode. This
icon is only shown when you choose
Keypad as the input method.

Touch to change between
numbers, symbols and text input.
Use Shift key to change between
capital or lowercase input.

Handwriting recognition

In Handwriting mode you simply write
on the screen and your LG800G will
convert your handwriting into your
message.

Setting up your email

Touch E-mail in menu.
If the email account is not set up,

start the email set up wizard and
finish it.

You can check and edit settings also
you can check the additional settings
that were filled in automatically when
you created the account.

Changing your text message
settings

Touch Messages and touch
Settings. Select Text Message.

Text Message Center - Enter the

details of your message center.
Email Gateway - Input your email

gateway number.

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Character Encoding - Choose how
your characters are encoded. This
impacts the size of your messages
and therefore data charges.

Send Long Text As - Choose to send
long messages as Multiple SMS or
as an MMS.

Changing your multimedia
message settings

Touch Messages and, touch
Settings and Multimedia Message.

Validity Period - Choose how

long your message is stored at the
message center.

Slide Duration - Choose how long your
slides appear on the screen.

Unsupported Attachment - Choose
whether the unsupported attachment
is restricted or not.

Delivery Time - Choose how long to
wait before a message is delivered.

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Camera

Taking a quick photo

1 Touch Camera menu.
2 When the camera has focused on

your subject, touch the on the
right-center of the screen to take
a photo.

TIP: To switch to the camera
mode or video mode, slide
up/down the camera or video
icon on the center-right of the
viewfinder.

After taking a photo

Your captured photo will appear on
the screen.

The following options are available.

Touch to delete the image.
Touch to take another photo

immediately.

Touch to view a gallery of your

saved photos.

Touch .

Send - Touch to send the photo as a
Message or via Bluetooth.

Use As - Touch to set as Homescreen
Wallpaper, Lockscreen Wallpaper,
Contacts Image, Incoming Call Image
and Outgoing call image.

Rename - Touch to rename the
photo.

Edit - Touch to edit the photo.

Using the advanced settings

From the viewfinder, touch to
open all advanced settings options.

After selecting the option, touch the

OK button.
Size - Change the size of the photo

to save memory
White balance - Choose between

Auto, Incandescent, Sunny,
Fluorescent, and Cloudy.

Color Effect - Choose a color tone
for your new photo.

Continuous Shot - Position the
subject in the viewfinder, then press
the capture button as if taking a
normal photo. The camera will take
shots in quick succession.

Self-timer - The self-timer allows
you to set a delay after the shutter
is pressed. Select Off, 3 seconds, 5
seconds, or 10 seconds. This is ideal
if you want to be included in a photo.

Night Mode - Useful to user in dark
places.

Image Quality - Choose between
Super fine, Fine, and Normal. The
finer the quality, the sharper the
photo. However, the file size will
increase as a result, which means
you’ll be able to store fewer photos in
the memory.

Select Storage - Choose whether
to save your photos to the Handset
memory or to the External memory.

Hide Icons - Choose the camera
setting icons to hide manually or
automatically.

Show Captured Image - Choose On
to check the picture you took right
away.

Shutter Sound - Select one of the
three shutter sounds.

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Grid screen - Choose between Off,
Simple cross, or Trisection.

Reset Settings - Restore all camera
default settings.

Video camera

Making a quick video

To switch to the camera mode or
video mode, slide up/down the
camera or video icon on the right
center of the viewfinder.

1 Holding the phone horizontally,

point the lens towards the subject
of the video.

2 Press the red dot .
3 REC will appear at the bottom

of the viewfinder with a timer at
the bottom showing the length of
the video.

4 To pause the video, touch and

resume by selecting .

5 Touch on screen to stop video

recording.

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After making a video

A still image representing your
captured video will appear on the
screen. The name of the video runs
along the bottom of the screen
together with icons down the left and
right sides.

Touch to play the video.

The following options are available.

Touch to delete the video you
have just made and confirm by
touching Yes. The viewfinder will
reappear.

Touch to shoot another video
immediately. Your current video will
be saved.

Touch to view a gallery of saved
videos and images.

Touch .
Send - Touch to send the video as a

Message or via Bluetooth.
Rename - Touch to rename the

video.

Using the advanced settings

From the viewfinder, touch to
open all advanced settings options.
You can change the video camera
setting after selecting the option,
touch the OK button.

Color Effect - Choose a color tone to
use for your new view.

White Balance - The white balance
ensures any the white areas in your
video are realistic. To enable your
camera to adjust the white balance
correctly, you may need to determine
the light conditions. Choose
between Auto, Incandescent, Sunny,
Fluorescent, and Cloudy.

Quality - Choose between Super fine,
Fine and Normal. The finer the quality,
the sharper a video will be, but the
file size will increase. As a result, you
will be able to store fewer videos in
the phone’s memory.

Duration - Set a duration limit for
your video. Choose between Normal
and MMS to limit the maximum size
to send as an MMS message.

Select Storage - Choose whether
to save your videos to the Handset
memory or to the External memory.

Audio Recording - Choose Mute to
record a video without sound.

Hide Icons - Select whether to
hide the icons in the camera menu
automatically or manually.

Reset Settings - Reset all the video
camera settings.

Music

To access the music player, touch
Music. From here, you can access a
number of folders:

Recently Played - Plays the songs
you have played recently.

All Tracks - Contains the songs you
have on your phone except the pre­loaded default music.

Artists - Browse through your music
collection by artist.

Albums - Browse through your music
collection by album.

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Genres - Browse through your music
collection by genre.

Playlists - Contains all the playlists
you have created.

Shuffle Tracks - Play your tracks in a
random order.

Transferring music onto your
phone

The easiest way to transfer music
onto your phone is via Bluetooth or
the data cable.

To transfer music using Bluetooth:
1 Make sure both devices have

Bluetooth switched on and are
connected to each other.

2 Select the music file on the

other device and select send via
Bluetooth.

3 When the file is sent, you will have

to accept it on your phone by
touching Yes.

4 The file should appear in Music >

All tracks.

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NOTE: If the file size is more
smaller than 300Kb, it will be not
displayed in Music.

Managing files

You can store multimedia files in your
phone’s memory so you have easy
access to all your pictures, sounds,
videos and games. You can also save
your files to a memory card. Using a
memory card allows you to free up
space in your phone’s memory.

By touching My stuff, you can open
a list of the folders that store all your
multimedia files.

Games and Applications

You can download new games and
applications to your phone to keep
you enjoy.