LG AS695 User Manual [en, es]

LG OPTIMUS PLUS

Printed in Korea

P/NO : MFL67560701 (1.0)

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are simulated. Actual displays and the color of the phone may vary. Some of the contents in this manual may differ from your phone depending on the software of the phone or your service provider.

PLUSTM is a trademark of

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English

User Guide

Table of Contents

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

Important notice .....................................................................................3

Getting to know your phone ................................................................ 10

Your Home screen .................................................................................17

Google account setup ..........................................................................33

Calls .......................................................................................................35

Contacts ................................................................................................37

Messaging .............................................................................................49

Email ..................................................................................................... 50

Camera ..................................................................................................65

Video camera ........................................................................................69

Multimedia ............................................................................................72

Utilities.................................................................................................. 84

The Web .................................................................................................91

Settings ...............................................................................................105

Safety ....................................................................................................113

Index .................................................................................................... 136

Important notice

Please check to see whether any problems you encountered with your phone are described in this section before taking the phone in for service or calling a service representative.

1. Phone memory

When available space in your phone memory is less than 10%, your phone cannot receive new messages. You need to check your phone memory and delete some data, such as applications or messages, to make more memory available.

Managing applications

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Applications > Manage applications.

2. Once all applications appear, scroll to and select the application you want to uninstall.

3. Tap Uninstall, then touch OK to uninstall the application you selected.

2. Optimizing battery life

Extend your battery’s life between charges by turning off features you don’t need to run constantly in the background. You can monitor how applications and system resources consume battery power.

Extending your battery’s life

Turn off radio communications if you are not using them, such as Wi-Fi,

Bluetooth, or GPS.

Reduce screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.

Turn off automatic syncing for Gmail, Calendar, Contacts and other

applications.

Some applications you have downloaded may cause your battery life to

be reduced.

Important notice

Checking the battery charge level

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > About phone > Status.

2. The battery status (Charging, Not charging) and level (percentage charged) is displayed at the top of the screen.

Monitoring and controlling what uses the battery

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > About phone > Battery use.

2. Battery usage time is displayed at the top of the screen and lists applications or services using battery power, from greatest amount to least.

3. Installing an open source operating system

If you install and use an open source operating system (OS) on your phone rather than using the OS provided by the manufacturer, your phone may malfunction.

If you install and use an OS other than the one provided by the manufacturer, your

WARNING!

phone is no longer covered by the warranty. To protect your phone and personal data, only download applications from trusted sources, such as Google Play. If there are improperly installed applications on your phone, your phone may not work normally or a serious error may occur. You must uninstall those applications and all their data and settings from the phone.

4. Using an unlock pattern

Set the unlock pattern to secure your phone. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key screen lock > Pattern. Follow the screens to be guided through drawing a screen unlock patter by tapping Next. Draw your pattern (connect at least 4 dots) and tap Continue. Draw your pattern again and tap Conﬁrm to set the pattern.

: Please create a Gmail account before setting an unlock pattern.

Caution

This will be useful in the event that you forget the pattern when attempting to unlock your phone.

> Settings > Location & security > Set up

Important notice

Precautions to take when using pattern lock. It is very important to remember the

WARNING!

unlock pattern you set. You will not be able to access your phone if you use an incorrect pattern 5 times. You have 5 opportunities to enter your unlock pattern, PIN or password. If you have used all 5 opportunities, you can try again after 30 seconds.

When you cannot recall your unlock pattern:

If you logged in to your Google account on the phone but failed to enter the correct pattern 5 times, tap the Forgot pattern? button. You are then required to log in with your Google account to unlock your phone. If you have not created a Google account on the phone or you forgot it, you have to perform a hard reset.

: If you perform a hard reset, all user applications and user data are

Caution

deleted. Remember to back up any important data before performing a hard reset.

5. Using the hard reset

If your phone does not restore to the original condition, use a hard reset to initialize it.

When the phone is turned off, press and hold the following keys at the same time for about 1 to 2 seconds until the touch key backlights turn on: Power/Lock Key backlight on the touch keys is turned on, release the keys. Then press and hold the Home Key

Your phone will perform the hard reset.

: If you perform a hard reset, all user applications and user data are

Caution

deleted. This cannot be reversed. Remember to back up any important data before performing a hard reset.

+ Down Volume Key . As soon as the

until the LG logo is displayed.

6. Connecting to Wi-Fi networks

To use Wi-Fi on your phone, access a wireless access point or “hotspot.” Some access points are open and you can simply connect to them. Others are hidden or use security features; you must conﬁgure your phone to be able to connect to them.

Important notice

Turn off Wi-Fi when you’re not using it to extend the life of your battery.

Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a Wi-Fi network

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings.

2. Touch the Wi-Fi check box to turn it on and begin scanning for available Wi-Fi networks.

A list of available Wi-Fi networks is displayed. Secured networks are

indicated by a lock icon.

3. Touch a network to connect to it.

If the network is open, you are asked to conﬁrm that you want to

connect to that network by touching Connect.

If the network is secure, you’re asked to enter a password or other

credentials. Ask your network administrator for details.

4 The Status Bar displays icons that indicate Wi-Fi status.

7. Using a microSD card

Unmounting and removing the microSD Card

To safely remove the microSD card from your device, ﬁrst you need to unmount the microSD card before removing it from the phone.

On the Android OS 2.3, you can download applications from the Play Store and store

WARNING!

them on the microSD card as well as on the device. Therefore, skipping the unmount procedure can cause a serious error between the microSD card and the device. In the worst case, the microSD card can become corrupted or damaged.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Storage > Unmount SD card > OK. Now you can safely remove the microSD card.

2. Remove the back cover and locate the microSD card slot.

3. Gently pull the exposed edge of the microSD card to remove it from the slot.

You can easily damage the microSD card and its adapter by improper operation. Please

NOTE

be careful when inserting, removing, or handling them.

Important notice

Formatting the microSD Card

Erase all data on the SD card, such as music and photos. You must ﬁrst unmount to microSD card prior to formatting it.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Application Key

> Settings >

Storage.

2. Touch Unmount SD card and OK to release the microSD card from device use. The icon appears within the Notiﬁcations panel to indicate an unmounted microSD card.

3. Once released, touch Erase SD card > Erase SD card > Erase

everything.

Once completely formatted, the microSD is automatically re-mounted

(reconnected for use by the device).

The formatting procedure erases all the data on the microSD card, after which the ﬁles

NOTE

CANNOT be retrieved. To prevent the loss of important data, please check the contents before you format the card.

8. Storage Settings

Viewing Memory in the microSD Card and Internal memory

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Storage.

2. Review the available information.

Formatting the Internal memory

Formatting the internal memory permanently removes all ﬁles stored on the device.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

Storage.

2. Touch Unmount SD card and OK to release the microSD card from device use. The icon appears within the Notiﬁcations panel to indicate an unmounted microSD card.

3. Once released, touch Erase internal memory > Erase internal memory

> Erase everything.

> Settings >

Important notice

Device memory

The LG optimus PLUSTM has 2 GB of internal memory where you can store user content such as photos, videos, voice recordings, etc. In addition, it also supports removable microSD card up to 32 GB. Most applications allow you to choose where the user content will be saved either in the internal memory or to the removable microSD card.

For example, in the Camera application, touch Settings Internal memory or SD card. When viewing the Gallery application, photos saved in the internal memory are stacked separately from those saved to the SD card.

> Storage >

9. Opening and switching applications

Multitasking is easy with Android because you can keep more than one application running at the same time. There’s no need to quit an application before opening another. Use and switch between several open applications. Android manages each application, stopping and starting them as needed to ensure that idle applications don’t consume resources unnecessarily.

To switch between your recently used applications, touch and hold the Home Key recently.

Stopping applications

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Applications > Manage applications.

2. Select the desired application and touch Force stop to close the application.

A screen then displays a list of the applications you used

10. Hold your phone straight up

Please hold the mobile phone straight up as a regular phone. The

LG optimus PLUS

damage the back of the phone, as that causes loss of performance.

While making/receiving calls or sending/receiving data, avoid holding the lower part of the phone where the antenna is located. Doing so may affect

has an internal antenna. Be careful not to scratch or

Important notice

call quality.

11. When the screen freezes

If the screen freezes or the phone does not respond when you try to operate it:

Remove the battery, reinsert it, then turn the phone on. If it still does not work, please contact the service center.

12. Do not connect your phone when you turn on/off your

PC.

Make sure you disconnect the data cable between your phone and PC; leaving it connected might cause errors on your PC.

DivX Mobile

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ABOUT DIVX VIDEO-ON-DEMAND: This DivX Certiﬁed registered in order to play purchased DivX Video-on-Demand (VOD) movies. To obtain your registration code, locate the DivX VOD section in your device setup menu. Go to vod.divx. com for more information on how to complete your registration.

DivX Certiﬁed

to play DivX® video up to 640x480, including premium

content.

, DivX Certiﬁed® and associated logos are trademarks of Rovi

DivX Corporation or its subsidiaries and are used under license.

device that

device must be

Getting to know your phone

To turn on your phone, press and hold the Power/Lock Key for 3 seconds. To turn off the phone, press and hold the Power/Lock Key 3 seconds, then touch Power off and OK.

for

Earpiece

Proximity Sensor

Quick Keys

- Phone Key

- Contacts Key

- Messaging Key

- Applications Key

Menu Key

- Displays the available options.

Home Key

- Return to the Home screen from any screen.

Placing a heavy object on the phone or sitting on it can damage the LCD and touch

WARNING!

screen functions. Do not cover the protective ﬁlm on the LCD’s proximity sensor. This may cause the sensor to malfunction.

Power/Lock Key

- Switch your phone on/off by pressing and holding this key.

- Turn off and lock the screen.

Touchscreen

Back Key

- Return to the previous screen.

Search Key

- Search the web and contents in your phone.

1. Earpiece Lets you hear callers and automated prompts.

2. Proximity Sensor Senses proximity towards other objects (such as your head) so that touch commands are not accidentally activated during

call.

O Do not block the sensor or near sensor to avoid problems with the touch operations.

NOTES

The use of a ﬁlm cover produced by manufacturers other than LG can cause a disturbance in touch operation, the display, etc.

3. Quick Keys

Phone Key Opens the Phone application for access to the dial pad, Call

log, Contacts, and Groups.

Contacts Key Opens the Contacts application. Messaging Key Opens the Messaging application.

Applications Key Opens the Applications screen where you can view

- all of your installed applications.

Getting to know your phone

4. Menu Key Opens an options menu with options that affect the current

screen or application.

5. Home Key Returns to the Home screen. If you’re already viewing one of

the Home screen extension panes, it navigates you to the central Home screen pane. Touch and hold to view the most recently used applications.

Power/Lock Key Locks the screen with a single press. Press and hold

to open the phone options menu for the following options: Silent mode, Airplane mode, Restart, and Power off.

Touchscreen Displays all the information needed to operate your phone,

7. such as applications, call status, date, time, signal status, and battery strength.

Back Key Returns to the previous screen. Also closes pop-up display

8. items, such as menus and dialog boxes.

Search Key Opens the Quick Search Box

9. search the phone and the web.

Flash

Camera Lens

microSD Slot

Internal Antenna

Microphone

from the Home screen to

Back Cover

10.

Flash Helps take pictures and videos in darker lighting.

11.

Camera Lens Use for taking pictures and recording videos. Keep clean

for optimal performance.

microSD Slot To store multimedia ﬁles, such as images captured using

12. the camera, you must insert a memory card into your phone.

Getting to know your phone

13. Internal Antenna

14. Microphone Transmits your voice to the other caller and for

voice-activated functions.

15. Back Cover Encloses the battery compartment.

Volume Keys

- From the Home screen: Controls ringer volume.

- During a call: Controls your earpiece volume.

- When playing a track: Controls volume continuously.

3.5mm Headset Jack

Accessory/ Charger Port

Volume Keys Allows you to adjust the ringer, media volumes, or the

16.

in-call volume during a call.

3.5mm Headset Jack Allows you to plug in an optional headset for

17.

convenient, hands-free conversations. You can also plug in headphones to listen to music.

18.

Accessory/Charger Port Allows you to connect the phone charger, USB

cable, or other compatible accessories.

Getting to know your phone

Installing the Battery

1. Use the ﬁngertip cutout along the bottom edge of the phone to remove the back cover.

2. Align the battery contacts with the terminals in the battery compartment.

3. Push the battery down until it clicks into place.

4. Place the back cover over the battery compartment, then press it downward until it clicks into place.

Removing the Battery

1. Turn the phone off and use the ﬁngertip cutout along the bottom edge of the phone to remove the back cover.

Getting to know your phone

2. Use the ﬁngertip cutout at the bottom of the battery compartment to lift the battery out and remove it.

Charging your phone

Slide open the cover of the phone’s Accessory/Charger Port on the top edge of your phone. Insert the charger, then plug it into an electrical outlet.

Please only use an approved charging accessory

NOTICE

to charge your LG phone. Improper handling of the Accessory/Charger Port, as well as the use of an incompatible charger, may cause damage to your phone and void the warranty.

Optimizing Battery Life

You can extend your battery’s life between charges by turning off features that run in the background. You can also monitor how applications and system resources consume battery power.

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

> Applications > Running services. Touch the application you want to stop running and touch Stop. Then touch OK to conﬁrm.

> Settings

Tips to extend the life of your battery

㻌

Turn off radio communications that you aren’t using. If you aren’t using



Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GPS, use the Settings menu to turn them off (Note that the GPS receiver is only turned on when you’re using an application that makes use of it).

Getting to know your phone

㻌

Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.



㻌

Turn off automatic syncing for Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, and other



applications if you don’t need it.

㻌

Use the Power Control widget to control the wireless connections,



GPS connection, Bluetooth power, display brightness, and syncing activity.

To check the battery charge level

㻌

From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key



> About phone > Status.

The battery status (Charging or Not charging) and level (as a percentage of fully charged) will be displayed at the top of the screen.

> Settings

To monitor and control what uses the battery

The Battery use screen allows you to see which applications are consuming the most battery power. Information on this screen allows you to identify downloaded applications you may want to turn off when not being used, so you can get the most out of your battery power.

㻌

From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key



> About phone > Battery The screen will display battery usage time. A list of applications or services using battery power are displayed in order of energy used, from greatest amount to least.

㻌

Touch an application in the Battery use screen to see the details about



its power consumption. Different applications offer different kinds of information and they may even include options to modify the settings so you can reduce power consumption by that application.

use.

> Settings

Getting to know your phone

Installing the microSD card

The LG optimus PLUS

NOTE

To insert a microSD card:

Do not insert or remove the microSD card when the phone is on. Doing so may damage

WARNING!

the microSD card as well as your phone, and the data stored on the microSD card may be corrupted.

Use the ﬁngertip

cutout along the bottom edge of the phone to remove the back cover.

supports memory cards up to 32 GB.

Insert the memory

card into the slot. Make sure the gold contact area is facing downwards.

Your Home screen

Touch screen tips

Here are some tips on how to navigate around your phone.

A single ﬁnger touch selects items. For example, touch an icon (e.g.,

Touch

application or menu item), touch words (e.g., menu selection or to answer on-screen question), or touch letters and numbers to type.

Touch and hold

and not lifting your ﬁnger until an action occurs. For example, to open a Context menu for customizing the Home screen, touch an empty area on the Home screen until the menu pops up.

Touch and hold an item for a moment and then, without lifting your

Drag

ﬁnger, move your ﬁnger on the screen until you reach the target position. You can drag items on the Home screen to reposition them.

Swipe or slide

surface of the screen, without pausing when you ﬁrst touch it (so you don’t drag an item instead). For example, you can drag or slide the screen up or down to scroll a list or browse through the different Home screens by swiping from left to right (and vice versa).

Double-tap

quickly double-tap a section of a web page to zoom that section to ﬁt the width of the screen. You can also double-tap to control the zoom in Maps and in other applications.

Pinch-to-Zoom

motion to zoom in or out when using a map or pictures.

Rotate the screen

rotates with the phone as you turn it from a vertical position to a horizontal position and back again.

Capturing a Screen Shot

Lock Key captured. You can ﬁnd the captured image in the Gallery (Note that you cannot capture an image from a video and some applications).

Touch and hold an item on the screen by touching it

To swipe or slide, quickly move your ﬁnger across the

Double-tap to zoom a web page or a map. For example,

Use your index ﬁnger and thumb in a pinch or spread

From many applications, the orientation of the screen

at the same time, the current image on the screen is

If you press the Home Key

and Power/

Your Home screen

Lock your phone

When you are not using the LG optimus PLUSTM, press the Power/Lock Key

to lock your phone. This helps prevent accidental presses and saves

battery power.

Also, if you do not use the phone for a while, the Home screen or another screen you are viewing is replaced with the lock screen to conserve battery power.

If there are any programs running when the screen turns off, they may be still running in Lock mode. It is recommended that you exit all programs before entering Lock mode to avoid unnecessary charges (e.g. phone calls, Web access and data communications).

Setting an unlock pattern: You can draw your own unlock pattern by connecting a pattern of dots. To unlock the phone, draw the pattern that you set on the screen.

Caution: It is recommended that you create or sign into a Google account prior to setting an unlock pattern. This will help unlock the phone if you forget the unlock pattern.

Caution: If there are more than 5 pattern drawing errors in a row, you cannot unlock the phone. In this case, you must perform a hard reset. All of your personal information and downloaded data will be deleted.

Unlock screen

Whenever your LG optimus PLUSTM is not in use, it returns to the lock screen. Drag your ﬁnger from bottom to top to unlock the screen.

Your Home screen

Getting to Know the Home Screen

The Home screen is your starting point to access all the features on your phone. It displays application shortcuts, icons, widgets, and other features.

Status Bar

Shows device status information, including the time, signal strength, battery status, and notiﬁcation icons.

Application Icon

Touch an icon (application, folder, etc.) to open the application and use it.

Quick Keys

The Quick Keys are located at the bottom of the Home screen and Applications screen.

: Opens the Phone application which displays the dial pad so you can

dial an unsaved number. It also provides additional tabs to access the Call log, Contacts, and Groups.

Opens your Contacts list. You can also access the Phone application, Call log, and Groups by touching the tabs across the top of the screen.

: Opens the Messaging application to send and receive text and

multimedia messages.

: Opens the Applications screen and displays all of the installed

applications.

Quick Keys

Provide easy, one-touch access to the functions you use the most.

Applications Key

Touch to open the Applications screen to view all of your installed applications.

To return to the Home screen

㻌

Touch the Home Key



at any time, from any application.

To view other Home screen panes

㻌

Slide your ﬁnger left or right across the Home screen. The Home



screen spans seven screen widths, allowing more space for icons, widgets, shortcuts, and other items.

Your Home screen

Adding widgets to your Home screen

You can customize your Home screen by adding shortcuts, widgets or folders to it. For more convenience using your phone, add your favorite widgets to the Home screen.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Menu Key

and select Add. Or

touch and hold the empty part of the Home screen.

2. In the Edit Mode menu, touch the type of item you want to add.

3. For example, select Folders from the list and touch the type of folder you want to add to the Home screen.

4. A new folder icon on the Home screen. You can then drag it to the desired location on the desired panel.

To add an application icon to the Home screen from the Applications screen, touch and

TIP

hold the application you want to add.

To remove an application icon from the Home screen, touch and hold the icon you want

TIP

to remove, then drag it to

You cannot delete preloaded applications. Only their icons can be deleted from the

NOTE

screen.

Returning to recently used applications

1 Touch and hold the Home Key . The screen displays a pop-up with

icons of applications you used recently.

2 Touch an icon to open the application or touch the Back Key

to the current application.

to return

Your Home screen

Working with Menus

There are two kinds of Android menus: Options menus and Context menus.

Options menus

Options menus contain tools that apply to the activities of the current screen or application, not to any speciﬁc item on the screen. To open the available options menu, touch the Menu Key Options menus; if you touch the Menu Key Options menu, nothing will happen.

Some applications have more Options menu items than can ﬁt in the options menu. To view the additional menu items, touch More.

. Not all applications have

on a screen that has no

Touch More to view additional menu items.

Context menus

Context menus contain options that apply to a speciﬁc item on the screen. To open a Context menu, touch and hold an item on the screen. Not all items have Context menus. If you touch and hold an item that has no Context menu, nothing will happen.

Your Home screen

When you touch and hold certain items on a screen, a Context menu opens.

Managing Notiﬁcations

Notiﬁcation icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as when you are in a call. When you receive a notiﬁcation, the notiﬁcation icon will be displayed in the Status Bar. You can open the Notiﬁcations panel to view a list of all recent notiﬁcations. Depending on your settings, you may hear a notiﬁcation sound and/or the phone may vibrate.

To open the Notiﬁcations panel

 Touch and drag the Status Bar to the bottom of the screen.

OR  From the Home screen, touch the Menu Key

The Notiﬁcations panel displays your wireless provider and a list of

your current notiﬁcations organized into ongoing and event-based notiﬁcations.

> Notiﬁcations.

Your Home screen

To respond to a notiﬁcation

1. Open the Notiﬁcations panel. Your current notiﬁcations are listed in the panel, each with a brief description.

2. Touch a notiﬁcation to view it.

The Notiﬁcations panel will close and the application that corresponds to

your response will open. For example, new voicemail notiﬁcations dial your voicemail box, and Gmail notiﬁcations open the Gmail application so you can read your new messages.

To clear all notiﬁcations

1. Open the Notiﬁcations panel.

2. Touch the Clear button. All event-based notiﬁcations will be cleared; ongoing notiﬁcations will remain in the list.

To close the Notiﬁcations panel

Touch and drag the tab at the bottom of the Notiﬁcations panel to the top of the screen or just press the Back Key The panel will also close when you touch a notiﬁcation.

Your Home screen

Searching Your Phone and the Web

You can search for information on your phone and on the web by using the Google search application. Some applications, such as Gmail and Contacts have the ability to search contents within those speciﬁc applications. You can conduct the search by typing in the search terms or saying what you’re looking for. Typing can be useful because the search application can provide suggestions so you don’t necessarily have to type out your full request.

Phone and Web search using text entry

1. From the Home screen, touch the Search Key .

When you touch the Search Key

other applications that support this, the Quick Search Box will open automatically.

Voice Search

Touch to search by voice.

Provides one-touch shortcut to matching search items and past searches.

In some applications, such as Gmail and Contacts the application’s own

search box opens when you touch the by the application’s icon on the left side of the search box.

on the Home screen or in

Search Key

. This is indicated

Your Home screen

2. Enter the text you’re searching for in the Quick Search Box.

As you type, search results from your phone, previous search terms, and web search suggestions appear. Touch an item to activate that search result.

You can use the Search preferences to conﬁgure some aspects of web

search (for example, whether it makes suggestions below the Quick Search Box as you type), and what phone features you want to include in searches. To access settings, open the Search application and touch the Menu Key > Search settings.

3. Touch to search for the entered terms.

Locking the Screen

You can lock your screen so that only you can unlock it to make calls, access your data, buy applications, and so on.

Setting an Unlock Pattern, PIN, or Password for the First Time

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Location & security.

2. Touch Set up screen lock (under the Screen unlock section of the settings).

3. Touch Pattern, PIN, or Password. Pattern: The ﬁrst time you set an unlock pattern, you will see a tutorial with instructions on how to create it. Read the tutorial and touch Next (twice). Draw your pattern (connect at least 4 dots) and touch Continue. Then redraw your pattern and touch Conﬁrm.

PIN: Enter a PIN (at least 4 digits) and touch Continue. Reenter your PIN

and touch OK to conﬁrm it.

Your Home screen

Password: Enter a password (at least 4 characters) and touch Continue.

Reenter your password and touch OK to conﬁrm it.

From then on, any time you wish to turn the phone on or unlock the

screen, you will need to draw your unlock pattern or enter your PIN or password to unlock the screen.

Changing Your Unlock Pattern

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Location & security.

2. Touch Change screen lock (under the Screen unlock section).

3. Draw your current unlock pattern.

4. Touch Pattern to change it (or touch None to remove it).

5. You’re prompted to draw and redraw your new pattern.

Using a PIN or Password to Lock the Screen

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Settings > Location & security.

2. Touch Set up screen lock (under the Screen unlock section).

3. Touch PIN to lock the screen with a number sequence or touch Password for an alphanumeric lock sequence.

4. You’re prompted to enter and reenter the lock sequence.

From then on, you will need to enter the sequence and touch OK to

unlock the screen.

O You have 5 opportunities to enter your unlock pattern, PIN or password. If you used

NOTES

all the 5 opportunities, you can try again after 30 seconds.

When you can’t recall your unlock pattern:

- If you’ve created a Google Account on the phone, touch Forgot pattern?. Then you

- If you haven’t created a Google Account on the phone, you need to perform a

2. Press and hold the following keys at the same time for about 1 to 2 seconds until

are required to sign in with your Google Account to unlock your phone.

factory reset (Caution: If you perform a factory reset, all user applications and user data will be deleted. Please remember to back up any important data before performing a factory reset).

1. Turn the power off.

the touch key backlights turn on:

Your Home screen

3. As soon as the backlight on the touch keys is turned on, release the keys. Then

Power/Lock Key + the down Volume Key .

press and hold the Home Key

until the LG logo is displayed.

Customizing the Home Screen

You can personalize your Home screen by adding application icons, shortcuts, widgets, and other items to any Home screen pane. You can also change the wallpaper.

To add an item to the Home screen

1. Go to the Home screen pane where you want to add the item.

2. Touch the Menu Key empty spot on the Home screen pane.

If there is no available space on a particular Home screen pane, Add will not be available;

NOTE

you must delete or remove an item before you can add another item. In this case, you have the option of switching to another Home screen pane.

3. In the menu that opens, touch the type of item to add.

You can add the following types of items to the Home screen:

Widgets Add any of a variety of widget applications to your Home screen.

Note that more widgets can also be found on Google Play

Shortcuts Add shortcuts to applications. The shortcuts available depend on the applications you have installed.

Folders Add a folder where you can organize other Home screen shortcuts and icons, or folders that contain all your contacts, contacts with phone numbers, or starred contacts. Your folders’ contents are kept up-to-date automatically.

To move an item on the Home screen

1. Touch and hold the item.

2. Drag the item to a new location on the screen. Pause at the left or right edge of the screen to drag the item onto the next available Home screen pane.

and touch Add. Or just touch and hold an

Your Home screen

3. When the item is where you want it, lift your ﬁnger.

To remove an item from the Home screen

1. Touch and hold the item (note that the Quick Keys change to an icon of a trash can

2. Drag the item to the trash can icon

3. When the icon turns red, lift your ﬁnger.

To change the Home screen wallpaper

1. From the Home screen, touch the Menu Key > Wallpaper. You can also touch and hold an empty spot on the Home screen and then touch Wallpapers in the menu that opens.

2. Touch Gallery, Live wallpapers, or any wallpaper that is displayed.

 Touch Gallery to use a picture you’ve taken with your camera as a

wallpaper. You can crop the picture before setting it as your wallpaper.

 Touch Live Wallpapers to open a list of animated wallpapers installed

on your phone. Live wallpapers can change according to the time of day, respond to touching the screen, tell the time, or offer other information.

 Touch any available wallpaper and it will automatically be applied to

your phone.

3. Touch Set wallpaper or Save (if necessary).

To rename a folder

1. Touch the folder icon to open it.

2. Touch and hold the folder window’s title bar.

3. Enter the new folder name.

4. Touch OK.

Your Home screen

Connecting Quickly With Your Contacts

As you build up your list of contacts on your phone, you can use Quick Contact for Android to quickly chat, email, text message, place a call, or to locate your contacts. Quick Contact for Android is a special set of icons that you can use to quickly and easily connect to a contact.

 Open your Contacts list and touch the contact’s picture. A bubble will

open with the available options, displayed as icons. This is the Quick Contact bubble. Depending on the contact information saved, the available actions will be displayed above the name.

 Touch a Quick Contact icon to communicate with the contact.

Depending on the icon you’ve touched, a different application will open.

If you add a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen, you will be able to use it to open Quick Contact for that contact.

Your Home screen

Viewing the Status Bar

The Status Bar uses different icons to display phone information such as signal strength, new messages, battery life and active Bluetooth and data connections.

Below is a table explaining the meaning of icons you’re likely to see in the Status Bar.

ICON DESCRIPTION ICON DESCRIPTION

Microphone muted during a call

In call

Speaker On Google Music Playing

An alarm is set

New email received Sending Email failed

New message received Sending message failed

High priority message received

Incoming Google talk message

Silent mode Vibrate mode

Wired headset connected

Using EV-DO data network

Upload through the EV-DO data network

Using 1X data network

Missed call notiﬁcation

In call using Bluetooth device

Calendar event notiﬁcation

New voicemail received

Music currently playing

EV-DO network connected

Download through the EV-DO data network

Download through 1X data network

Upload through 1X data network

Your Home screen

1X network connected Downloading

Uploading Acquiring GPS Access

Location On

No service No signal

Strong network signal Weak network signal

Roaming Airplane mode

No Wi-Fi signal

Strong Wi-Fi Signal

USB connected Bluetooth On

Bluetooth device connected

More notiﬁcations available

Internal memory space full

SD card inserted

No SD card inserted Battery Full

Receiving location data from GPS

Open Wi-Fi connection detected

USB debugging connected

Battery empty

System secure

System Alert

Preparing the SD card for use

Google sync started Error during Google sync

Battery Charging

Battery status unknown(error)

Your Home screen

On-screen keyboard

You can enter text using the on-screen keyboard. The on-screen keyboard appears automatically on the screen when you need to enter text. To manually display the keyboard, simply touch a text ﬁeld where you want to enter text.

Using the keypad & entering text

: Touch once to capitalize the next letter you type. Double tap for all caps.

: Touch to switch to the numeric and symbol keyboard.

: Touch to switch the input language or touch and hold to view a list of the

available input languages.

: Touch to insert an emoticon when writing a message.

: Touch to enter a space.

: Touch to create a new line in the message ﬁeld.

: Touch to delete the previous character.

: Touch and hold to open Swype settings and help.

Entering accented letters

While entering text, your device’s keyboard allows you to enter special accented characters (e.g. “á”).

For example, to input “á”, touch and hold the “a” key until the zoom-in key grows bigger and displays different characters relating to the original letter.

Then select the special character you want.

Google account setup

The ﬁrst time you open the Google application on your phone, you are required to sign in with your existing Google account. If you do not have a Google account, you are asked to create one.

Setup Wizard

The ﬁrst time you turn on your phone, the Setup Wizard guides you through signing in to your Google Account. If you don’t have one, don’t worry, the Setup Wizard will help you create one.

This phone supports several applications and services. It is recommended that you

NOTE

purchase a data plan that meets your needs. Contact your service provider for details.

1. Press and hold the Power/Lock Key on the top edge of your phone to turn it on.

2. On the Welcome screen, touch Continue to set up your device.

3. Follow the Setup Wizard to conﬁgure your phone settings, including creating or logging in to your Google Account.

If you have an existing Google Account, your contacts from that account are synced to

NOTE

your phone.

Creating your Google account

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key to open the Applications screen.

2. Touch Gmail > Next > Create to start the Gmail setup wizard.

3. Enter your name and username for your Google account.

4. Tap Next. Your phone is now communicating with Google servers and checking username availability.

5. Enter and re-enter your password. Follow the instructions and enter the required and optional information about your account. Wait while the server creates your account.

Google account setup

Signing in to your Google account

1. Enter your email address and password, then touch Sign in. Wait while the system signs you in.

2. After signing in, you can use Gmail and take advantage of Google services on your phone.

3. Once you have set up your Google account on your phone, your phone automatically synchronizes with your Google account on the Web (This depends on your synchronization settings).

After signing in, you can use other Google services on your phone.

IMPORTANT!

O Some applications, such as Calendar, only work with the ﬁrst Google

account you add. If you plan to use more than one Google account on your phone, be sure to sign in to the one you want to use with applications such as Calendar ﬁrst. When you sign in, your contacts, Gmail messages, Calendar events and other information from these applications and services on the Web are synchronized with your phone. If you do not sign in to a Google account during setup, you are asked to sign in or create a Google account the ﬁrst time you start an application that requires one, such as Gmail or Google Play.

If you have an enterprise account through your company or other

organization, your IT department may have special instructions on how to sign in to that account.

Calls

Making a call

1. From the Home screen, touch the Phone Key to open the keypad.

2. Enter the number using the keypad. To delete a digit, touch the Delete Key

3. Touch the Call Key

4. To end a call, touch the End icon

To enter “+” to make international calls, touch and hold

TIP

to make a call.

Calling your contacts

1. From the Home screen, touch Contacts to open your contacts list.

2. Scroll through the contact list or enter the ﬁrst letter(s) of the contact you want to call by touching the Search ﬁeld.

3. In the list, touch the contact you want to call.

Answering and rejecting a call

Unlocked screen Locked screen

Touch to answer the call.

Touch to send the caller an Excuse Message.

Touch to decline the call and send the caller to voicemail.

Drag right to answer the call.

Drag upwards to send the caller an Excuse Message.

Drag left to decline the call and send the caller to voicemail.

Calls

Adjusting call volume

To adjust the in-call volume during a call, use the Volume Keys on the left side of the phone.

Making a second call

1. During your initial call, touch the Menu Key > Add call .

2. Dial the number or search your contacts.

3. Touch the Call Key

4. Both calls are displayed on the call screen. Your initial call is locked and put on hold.

5. Touch Merge calls

6. To end active calls, touch the End Key

You are charged for each call you make.

NOTE

to connect the call.

to create a conference call.

Viewing your call logs

From the Home screen, touch Contacts and choose the Call log tab. View a complete list of all dialed, received and missed voice calls.

Touch any call log entry to view the date, time and duration of the call.

TIP

Touch the Menu Key

TIP

> Delete all to delete all of the recorded items.

Call settings

You can conﬁgure phone call settings and other special features offered by your carrier.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key Applications screen.

2. Touch Settings.

3. Touch Call settings and choose the options that you want to adjust.

to open the

Contacts

The Contacts application allows you to store names, phone numbers and other information in your phone’s memory.

Using Your Contacts

Use the Contacts application to add, view, and communicate with your friends and acquaintances.

To open your Contacts application

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key >

OR Touch the Home Key

Keys bar.

All of your contacts are displayed alphabetically in a list. If you have a

new phone and haven’t added any contacts yet, the Contacts application will display hints on how to start adding contacts to your phone.

and then the Contacts Key in the Quick

To open a list of your favorite contacts

 Open your Contacts application and touch the Groups tab at the top

of the screen. Then touch Favorites.

Favorites lists the contacts you’ve added to the your favorites list.

Contacts

To view details about a contact

1. Open your Contacts application.

2. Touch the contact whose details you want to view.

Touch an icon to call, message, or open other applications.

 The Dial icon

 The Message icon

 The Email icon  The Chat icon

places a call to the number.

starts a message.

starts an email.

starts a chat.

Touch the Menu Key for the following menu options: Edit contact,

Share, Options, Add to homescreen, Delete contact, and More (Export and Set speed dial).

Adding Contacts

You can add contacts on your phone and synchronize them with the contacts in your Google accounts that support syncing contacts.

The Contacts application tries to join new addresses with existing contacts, to create a single entry. You can also manage that process manually.

Account, Microsoft Exchange account, or other

To add a new contact

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the the Menu Key > New contact.

Contacts

3. If you have more than one account with contacts, touch Contact type at the top of the screen and choose the account to which you want to add the contact.

4. Enter the contact’s name.

5. Touch a category of contact information, such as phone number and email address, to enter that kind of information about your contact.

6. Touch a category’s plus button category. For example, in the phone number category, add a work number and a home number. Touch the label button to the left of the entry item information to open a drop-down menu of preset labels. For example, Mobile and Work for a phone number.

7. Touch the Picture Frame icon name in your list of contacts and in other applications.

8. When you’re ﬁnished, touch Save.

to add more than one entry for that

to select a picture to display next to the

Importing, Exporting, and Sharing Contacts

If you have contacts stored in vCard format on a microSD card you can import them into your Contacts application on your phone. You can also export contacts in vCard format onto a microSD card. Export to back them up to a computer or other device or so you can send a contact via email.

To import contacts from your microSD card

You can copy contacts, in vCard format, onto your microSD card then import them into your phone.

1. Insert the memory card (that contains the vCard ﬁles) into your phone.

2. Open the Contacts application.

3. Touch the Menu Key

4. Touch Import from storage.

5. If you have more than one account on your phone, touch the account into which you want to import the contacts.

> More > Import/Export.

Contacts

6. Touch the ﬁles you want to import to the microSD card. Then touch Import.

To export contacts to your microSD card

You can export all of the contacts on your phone to your microSD card, as vCard ﬁles. You can then copy this ﬁle to a computer or another device that is compatible with this format, such as an address book application.

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the Menu Key

3. Touch Export to storage > SD card.

4. Touch the contacts you wish to export to the SD card. To export all contacts, touch Select All in the top left corner of the screen. Then touch Export and OK.

> More > Import/Export.

To share a contact

You can share a contact with someone by sending it to them as a vCard ﬁle.

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the contact you want to share to view the contact details.

3. Touch the Menu Key

4. Choose the method for sending.

5. Enter the necessary information and share it.

> Share.

Contacts

Adding a Contact to Your Favorites

The Favorites section contains a short list of the contacts you communicate with most often.

To add a contact to your favorites list

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch a contact to view its details.

3. Touch the star to the right of the contact’s name. When the contact is added to your favorites list, the star will be goldcolored.

To remove a contact from your favorites list

1. Open the Contacts application and touch the Groups tab.

2. Touch Favorites and then touch a contact entry to view its details.

3. Touch the gold star to the right of the contact’s name. The grey-colored star will indicate that the contact was removed from your Favorites list.

Searching for a Contact

It’s easy to search for a contact by name.

To search for a contact

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the Search ﬁeld at the top of the screen or touch the Search Key

3. Start entering the name of the contact you’re searching for. As you type, contacts with matching names will appear below the search box.

4. Touch a matching contact in the list to view its details. You can also search by nickname, email, organization and number.

Contacts

Editing Contact Details

You can change or add details saved in your contact entries. You can also set speciﬁc ringtones to speciﬁc contacts or determine whether calls from speciﬁc contacts are diverted to your voicemail.

Some contact entries contain information from multiple sources: information that you added manually, information that Contacts joined from multiple accounts to consolidate duplicates, etc.

If you ﬁnd duplicate entries in Contacts, you can join them into a single entry.

Changes made to information from one source do not automatically change the information on the other sources. For example, if you have information about a contact from a Google Account and an Exchange account and both are conﬁgured to sync contacts, changes to the contact from the Google Account are synced to that account on the web, but the information from the Exchange account will remain unchanged.

To edit contact details:

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch and hold the contact whose details you want to edit. In the menu that opens, touch Edit contact.

3. Edit the contact information.

4. Touch Save to save the changes.

To change a contact’s default phone number

The default phone number is used when you initiate a call or send a text message using the context menu (by touching and holding a contact).

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3. Touch and hold the phone number you want to use as the contact’s default phone number.

4. Touch Make default number in the menu that opens. The default phone number is indicated by a checkmark.

Contacts

To set a ringtone for a contact

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3. Touch the Menu Key

> Options.

4. Touch Ringtone and then touch a ringtone to select it.

5. Touch OK to save the ringtone to the contact.

To delete a contact

1. Open your Contacts list or Favorites list.

2. Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3. Touch the Menu Key

> Delete contact.

 If you delete a contact from Google Contacts (or another account with

editable contacts), the contact is also deleted from Contacts on the web the next time you sync your phone.

 You can’t delete contacts from a read-only account, such as Facebook.

Instead, a dialog box informs you that the contact will be hidden.

 If the contact contains information from both editable accounts (such

as Contacts) and from a read-only account (such as Facebook), a dialog box informs you that the information from the read-only account will be hidden, not deleted.

4. Touch OK to conﬁrm that you want to delete the contact.

Communicating with Your Contacts

From the Contacts or Groups tab, you can quickly call or send a text (SMS) or multimedia message (MMS) to a contact’s default phone number. You can also open a list of all the ways you can communicate with that contact.

This section describes ways to initiate communication when viewing your list of contacts. The Contacts application shares your contacts with many other applications, such as Gmail

and Messaging.

Contacts

To connect by using Quick Contact for Android

1. Touch a contact’s picture to open Quick Contact for Android.

2. Touch the icon corresponding to the type of communication you want to start.

The communication icons displayed depend on the types of information

you saved in the contact information.

To communicate with a contact

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the contact with whom you want to communicate.

3. In the contact’s details screen, touch the way to start communicating with the contact.

 The Dial icon

 The Message icon

 The Email icon  The Chat icon

Anytime you see the Dial icon next to a number, such as in your Favorites or Call log,

NOTE

just touch it to call that number.

places a call to the number.

starts a message.

starts an email.

starts a chat.

Contacts

To call a contact’s default number

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch and hold the contact you wish to call.

3. Touch Call contact in the menu that opens.

To send a text or multimedia message to a contact’s default number

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch and hold the contact you wish to message.

3. Touch Text contact in the menu that opens.

Selecting Which Contacts are Displayed

You can hide contacts that don’t have phone numbers. You can also conﬁgure which groups of contacts you want to display in the Contacts list.

To set whether contacts without phone numbers are displayed

If you use your list of contacts only to call people, you can hide any contacts that don’t have phone numbers.

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the Menu Key

3. Touch Only contacts with phones to select or deselect this option. When selected, a checkmark will appear.

4. Touch Apply to save the settings.

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> More > Display options.

Contacts

To change which groups are displayed

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the Menu Key

3. Touch an account to open its list of available groups.

4. Touch each group whose contacts you want to view in your Contacts application. Contact types with a checkmark will appear in your contacts list. This action affects only which contacts are displayed. Your sync settings will not be affected.

5. Touch Apply to save your settings.

> More > Display options.

Joining Contacts

When you add an account or add contacts in other ways, such as by exchanging emails, the Contacts application attempts to avoid duplication by joining contact information automatically. You can also join contacts manually.

To join contacts

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the contact entry to which you want to add information. The contact name for this entry will remain unchanged after you join with another contact.

3. Touch the Menu Key

4. Touch the Menu Key

5. Touch the contact whose information you want to join with the ﬁrst contact. The information from the two contacts will be merged and displayed under the name from the ﬁrst contact.

6. Touch Save to conﬁrm you want to join the entries. The contact information will be displayed in one contact entry.

> Edit contact. > Join.

Contacts

Separating Contact Information

Each contact entry on your phone may contain ‘joined’ information from a variety of sources. If contact information from different sources was joined in error, you can separate the information back into individual contact entries on your phone.

To separate contact information

1. Open the Contacts application.

2. Touch the contact entry whose information you want to separate.

3. Touch the Menu Key

4. Touch the Menu Key

5. Touch OK to conﬁrm you want to separate the entries. The contact information will separated into individual contact entries in the Contacts list.

> Edit contact.

> Separate.

Voice Dialer

You can use the Voice Dialer application to place a phone call by speaking the name of a contact or a phone number.

To place a call by speaking

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Voice Dialer

. If you have a Bluetooth headset that supports “voice-recognition” or “voice dialing,” you may be able to open Voice Dialer by pressing your headset’s main button or in some other way, and dial by voice using your headset. For details, see the documentation that came with your headset.

2. Say “Call” followed by the name of the contact or say “Dial” followed

by a phone number.

Contacts

Call a Contact by Voice Dialing

You can call numbers directly by saying the contact’s name or number.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Say “Call” or “Dial” and then a name or a phone number. Or you can say “Redial” to redial the last number dialed.

3. If a list of results is displayed, touch the one you want to use.

> Voice Dialer

Open an Application using Voice Dialer

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Voice Dialer

2. Say “Open” and then an application name.

3. If a list of results is displayed, touch the one you want to use. The device opens the corresponding application.

Messaging

Your LG optimus PLUSTM combines text messages (SMS) and multimedia messages (MMS) into one intuitive, easy-to-use menu.

Sending a message

1. From the Home screen, touch Messaging > New message.

2. Enter a contact name or number into the To ﬁeld. As you enter the contact name, matching contacts appear. Touch a suggested recipient. You can add multiple contacts.

You are charged for one text message for every person you send the message to.

NOTE

3. Touch the text ﬁeld to start entering your message.

Touch the Menu Key

TIP

subject, Discard, Attach, Set priority, and More (Insert smiley, Insert quick text, All messages).

You can touch Attach

TIP

to open the Options menu. Choose from Call, Add

to attach a ﬁle to your message.

4. Touch Send to send your message.

5. Responses appear on the screen. As you view and send additional messages, a message thread is created.

The 160-character limit may vary from country to country depending on the language

WARNING!

and how the SMS is coded.

If an image, video or audio ﬁle is added to an SMS message, it is automatically

WARNING!

converted into an MMS message and you are charged accordingly.

When you get an SMS message during a call, you receive a notiﬁcation.

NOTE

Changing your message settings

Your Messaging settings are predeﬁned so that you can send messages immediately. You can change the settings based on your preferences. Touch Messaging Settings.

in the Home screen and touch the Menu Key >

Setting up your email

From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Email

. Enter the email address and the password to set up your email.

Microsoft Exchange email account

The following settings may need to be entered when setting up your accounts:

Email address – Enter the account email address.

Username – Enter the account username.

Password – Enter the account password.

Domain – Enter the account domain name (optional).

Server address – Enter the server address.

Use SSL – Choose whether to use SSL for Microsoft Exchange.

Sync contacts – Choose whether to synchronize the Microsoft Exchange

account contacts.

Sync calendar – Choose whether to synchronize the Microsoft Exchange account calendar.

Other (POP3 & IMAP) email account

Email address – Enter the account email address.

Password – Enter the account password.

Incoming server – Enter the incoming email server address.

Incoming Port – Each account’s default port number is displayed.

Incoming Security type – Allows you to select the security type.

Outgoing mail server – Enter the outgoing email server address.

Outgoing Port – Each account’s default port number is displayed.

Outgoing Security type – Allows you to select the security type.

Accounts screen

The Accounts screen lists your combined inbox and each of your email accounts.

Touch the Application Key appears. If the inbox of an account appears, touch the Menu Key Accounts.

You can touch an account to view its Inbox. The account from which you send email by default is indicated with a check mark.

and select Email. The Account screen

Composing and sending email

To compose and send a message:

1. In the Email application, press the Menu Key

2. Enter an address in the To ﬁeld for the message’s recipient. As you enter text, matching addresses from your list of contacts are suggested. Separate multiple addresses with commas.

3. Touch the Menu Key

> Add Cc/Bcc to copy other contacts/email

addresses.

4. Enter the text for the message.

5. Touch the Menu Key

> Add attachment to attach a ﬁle to your

message.

6. Touch Send to send the message. If you’re not ready to send the message, touch Save as draft to save it to the Drafts folder. Touch the draft message in the Drafts folder to resume working on it. Your message is also saved as a draft if you touch the Back Key

before sending it. Touch Discard to abandon and

delete a message, including a saved draft. If you aren’t connected to a network, for example if you’re working in airplane mode, the messages you send are stored in your Outbox folder until you connect to a network. If it contains any pending messages, the Outbox is displayed on the Accounts screen.

Please note that messages sent using an Exchange account are not located on the phone; they are located on the Exchange server itself.

If you want to see your sent messages in the Sent folder, you often need to open the Sent folder and select Refresh from the Options menu.

When a new email arrives in the inbox, you will receive a notiﬁcation by sound or

TIP

vibration. Tap the email notiﬁcation to stop notiﬁcations.

> Compose.

Working with account folders

Each account has Inbox, Outbox, Sent and Drafts folders. Depending on the features supported by your account’s service provider, you may have additional folders.

Adding and editing email accounts

To add an email account

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key , then select

2. From the Inbox, touch the Menu Key

3. On the Accounts screen, touch the Menu Key

4. Enter the email address and the password to set up your email and

To change account settings

1. Open the Accounts screen.

2. Touch and hold the account you want to change. In the menu that opens,

To delete an email account

1. Open the Accounts screen.

2. Touch and hold the account you want to delete.

3. Touch Remove account in the menu that opens, then touch OK to

> Accounts.

touch Next. Then follow the on-screen instructions.

touch Account settings.

conﬁrm.

> Add account.

Gmail

Opening Gmail and Your Inbox

When you open the Gmail application, the most recent conversations are displayed in your Inbox.

To open the Gmail application

From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gmail .

All of your conversations are displayed in your Inbox unless you delete, archive, or ﬁlter them.

The current Google Account is displayed at the top right of the Inbox. If you have more than one account, you can switch accounts to view the messages in each Inbox.

Conversations with new messages are displayed with bold subject lines. To read a message in a conversation, touch its subject line text.

> indicates that this message was sent directly to you.

>> indicates that you were CC’d on this message.

No indicator indicates that this message was sent to a group that

includes you.

To open your Inbox when Gmail is running

If you are viewing a message or another label, touch the Back Key until you return to your Inbox.

OR  When reading a message, touch the Menu Key



When viewing a list of labeled conversations, touch the > More > Go to inbox.

> Go to inbox

Menu Key

To switch accounts

Gmail displays conversations and messages from one Google Account at a time. If you have more than one account, you can open the Accounts screen to view how many unread messages you have in each account and to switch accounts.

1. From your Gmail Inbox, touch the Menu Key

2. Touch the account that contains the email you want to read.

> Accounts.

Reading Your Messages

When viewing a list of conversations in your Inbox or in any list of labeled conversations, you can open a conversation to read its messages.

To read a message

 Touch a conversation that contains the message you want to read.

A conversation opens to the ﬁrst new (unread) message, or to the

ﬁrst starred message, if you’ve previously starred a message in the conversation.

The Google Talk online status will appear next to the name of the

sender of each message if the sender has a Google Account. Touch the contact’s picture to open Quick Contact.

When reading messages in a conversation, you can use the buttons at

the bottom of the screen to archive the entire conversation or delete it. After you delete a conversation, you can touch Undo in the green bar that appears at the top of the screen to undo the last action and restore the message to its previous location.

You can also touch the arrow buttons to read the next, oldest, unread

message in a conversation in your Inbox (or the conversation list you’re working in).

Touch

on the message header to access options for replying or

forwarding the message.

To reread a message

When you open a conversation, messages that you’ve already read are minimized into a tab that indicates the number of hidden messages.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key touch the conversation you want to view and the tab indicating minimized messages.

2. Touch the contact name to open that message.

> Gmail . Then

When reading a message you can touch the Menu Key unread to return a read message to the unread state. For example, to

remind yourself to read it again later.

> Mark

Composing and Sending a Message

You can compose and send a message to people or groups with Gmail addresses or other email addresses.

To compose and send a message

1. From the Home screen, touch the Menu Key

2. Enter a recipient’s address in the To ﬁeld.

As you enter text, matching addresses are offered from your Contacts

list. You can touch a suggested address or continue entering text to enter a new one.

3. Touch the Menu Key

4. Enter a subject for the message in the Subject ﬁeld.

5. Continue into the next ﬁeld to enter your email message.

6. Touch the Menu Key

7. Touch Send

If you’re not ready to send the message, touch

as a Draft. You can read your drafts by opening messages with the Draft label.

To erase the message, touch the Menu Key

any saved drafts).

If you aren’t connected to a network

Airplane mode - the messages that you send are stored on your phone with the Outbox label until you connect to a network again.

> Compose.

to send your message.

Applications Key

> Add Cc/Bcc to copy recipients, if necessary.

> Attach to add an attachment to the email.

for example, if you’re working in

> Gmail >

to save the message

> Discard (including

Replying to or Forwarding a Message

You can continue an email conversation by replying to a message or by forwarding it.

To reply to or forward a message

1. Touch on the message header to access options for replying or forwarding the message.

2. Touch Reply, Reply all, or Forward.

Replying to or forwarding messages without changing the subject adds

your reply to the current conversation.

Changing the subject starts a new conversation.

The message will open in a new screen where you can add or remove addresses, edit the subject, and add or remove text or attachments.

You can add one or more people to an ongoing conversation by replying

to all and then adding the new person’s address(es) to the reply.

Note that the conversation text and previous messages are also included

in your reply (or forward).

3. Touch Send

to send your message.

Working with Conversations in Batches

You can archive, label, delete, or perform other actions on a batch of conversations at once, in your Inbox or in another label.

1. From the Inbox, or a folder with another label, touch the checkbox for all the messages you want to include in the batch.

When you checkmark a conversation, the Archive, Delete, and Labels

buttons appear at the bottom of the screen.

2. Touch Archive, Delete, or Labels or touch the Menu Key

star, Mark read/unread, Mark important/Not important, Report spam, Mute, and More (Deselect all, Help, About).

Your action affects the selected batch of messages. If you accidentally delete a batch of conversations, you can touch Undo

in the green bar (that appears brieﬂy after the action) at the top of the screen to undo the action and restore the message(s) to the previous location. You can also use Undo after muting, archiving, and reporting spam.

> Add

Labeling a Conversation

As mentioned previously, conversations are organized by labels. Gmail has several default labels, but you can also add your own through Gmail on the web.

To label a conversation

1. When reading a conversation’s messages, touch the Menu Key > Change labels.

2. In the dialog box that opens, check the labels you want to assign to the conversation and touch OK.

To label a batch of conversations at once

You can assign or change the labels of one or more conversations at once.

1. From your Inbox, or a folder with another label, checkmark the conversations to select a batch.

2. Touch Labels at the bottom of the screen.

3. In the dialog box that opens, check the labels you want to assign to the conversation.

4. Touch OK.

Starring a Message

You can star an important message or conversation to make it easy to locate again.

To star a message

 When reading a message, touch the star in its header.

 When viewing a list of conversations, touch its star

newest message in the conversation.

to star the

To unstar a message

 Touch the message’s star again.

Viewing Conversations by Label

You can view a list of the conversations that have the same label, including conversations with starred messages.

1. When viewing your Inbox, or a folder with another label, touch the Menu Key

> Go to labels.

2. Touch a label to view a list of conversations with that label.

The conversation list will resemble your Inbox. Most of the options available while using

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your Inbox will also be available while viewing these lists of labeled messages.

Reporting Spam

The Gmail service is quite effective at preventing spam (junk mail) from reaching your Inbox. But when spam does make it through, you can help improve the Gmail service by reporting the conversation as spam.

To report a conversation as spam

 When reading a message, touch the Menu Key > More > Report

spam.

 From the Inbox, touch the checkmark box to select the messages you

want to report as spam > Menu Key

When you report a conversation as spam, the conversation (and all its

messages) are removed from your Inbox. You can view the messages you’ve marked as spam by viewing messages with the Spam label.

> Report spam.

Synchronizing Your Messages

The Gmail service has the resources to store all the messages you’ve ever sent or received; your phone does not. To save space, Gmail downloads only some of your messages to your phone. Use the Settings application to control how and when applications synchronize their data.

To select which conversations to synchronize

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Touch the Menu Key > More > Settings > Select the desired account > Sync inboxes and labels.

The Synchronization screen opens, displaying a list of your Gmail labels.

Below each label is its current synchronization setting: Sync all, Sync last 4 days, or Sync none (If Sync none is selected, the labeled conversation is not synchronized).

3. Touch a conversation label whose synchronization settings you want to change.

A dialog box for that conversation label opens, with three options:

O

Sync none Don’t download any conversations that have only this label.

O

Sync last 4 days Download the previous 4 days (or number of days you set) of conversations.

O

Sync all Download all conversations with this label.

To set how many days of conversations to synchronize

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Touch the Menu Key > More > Settings > Select the desired account > Sync inboxes and labels.

3. Touch Amount of mail to sync.

4. Enter the number of days and touch OK.

> Gmail

Appending a Signature to Your Messages

You can add information to every email you send, such as your name, contact information, or even “Sent from my Android

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Touch the Menu Key account > Signature.

3. Enter a signature or other information.

4. Touch OK.

> More > Settings > Select the desired

phone”.

> Gmail

Changing Gmail Settings

You can change a number of settings for Gmail. Each Google Account has its own settings, so you have the option of changing individual account settings or general preferences. Notiﬁcation volumes and some synchronization settings can also be changed in the Settings application.

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

Menu Key

 To change general settings for all accounts, touch General

preferences instead of the individual account.

> More > Settings and select the desired account.

> Gmail

Camera

To open the Camera application, from the Home screen touch the Applications Key screen.

> Camera or touch the Camera icon on the Home

Getting to know the viewﬁnder

Brightness - Deﬁnes and controls of the amount of sunlight entering the lens. Slide the brightness indicator along the bar toward “-” for a lower brightness image or toward “+” for a higher brightness image. Zoom - Allows you to zoom in or out. The Volume Keys will also adjust the zoom.

Mode Switch - Slide this icon down to switch to video mode.

Capture - Takes a picture.

Gallery - Touch to view the last photo

you captured. This enables you to access your Gallery and view saved

Settings - Touch this icon to open the Settings menu. See 'Using the advanced settings'.

Flash – Allows you to set the ﬂash to take pictures in darker areas.

Scene mode – Allows you to set the scene mode.

photos from within camera mode.

Camera

Close all shortcut options to give a clearer viewﬁnder screen. Touch the center of the

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viewﬁnder once. To display the options, touch the screen again.

Camera

Zoom Shortcuts

Pinch Out Pinch In

Pinch out to zoom the image out. Pinch in to zoom in the image.

Taking a quick photo

1. Open the Camera application.

2. Hold the phone horizontally and point the lens towards the subject you want to photograph.

3. Touch and hold the Capture Button screen, a focus box starts blinking as it tries to get the subject in focus.

4. The focus box turns green when the subject is in focus.

5. Lift your ﬁnger off the Capture Button

. In the center of the viewﬁnder

to take the picture.

Once you’ve taken the photo

Your captured photo appears on the screen.

: Touch to share your photo using Bluetooth, Email, Gmail,

Google+, Messaging, Picasa, or any other application that supports this function.

If you have a social networking account and set it up on your phone, you can share your

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photo with the social networking community.

: Touch to use the image as a Contact icon or wallpaper.

Camera

: Touch to edit the name of the current picture.

: Touch to delete the image.

: Touch to take another photo immediately. Your current photo is saved.

: Touch to view the Gallery of your saved photos.

Using the advanced settings

In the viewﬁnder, touch Settings to open all advanced options. Change the Camera settings by scrolling through the list. After selecting the option, touch the Back Key

Image size – Touch to set the size (in pixels) of the picture you take.

ISO – The ISO rating determines the sensitivity of the camera’s light sensor.

The higher the ISO, the more sensitive the camera is. This is useful in darker conditions when you cannot use the ﬂash. Select from ISO values of Auto,

400, 200 and 100.

White balance – White balance ensures that the white areas in your picture

are realistic. To enable your camera to adjust the white balance correctly, you may need to determine the light conditions. Choose from Auto,

Incandescent, Sunny, Fluorescent and Cloudy.

Color effect – Allows you to select a color tone for your new photo.

Timer – The self-timer allows you to set a delay after the Capture Button is

pressed. Select Off, 3 sec, 5 sec or 10 sec. This is ideal if you want to be in the photo.

Image quality – Choose from Super ﬁne, Fine and Normal. The ﬁner the quality, the sharper the photo. However, the ﬁle size increases as a result, which means you can store fewer photos in the memory.

Auto review – Allows you to choose if you wish to display the picture you just took.

Shutter sound – Allows you to select one of four shutter sounds.

Tag location – Activate to use your phone’s location-based services. Take

Camera

pictures wherever you are and tag them with the location. If you upload tagged pictures to a blog that supports geo-tagging, you can see the pictures displayed on a map.

This function is only available when GPS is active.

NOTE

Storage – Allows you to save the image in Internal memory or SD card.

: Restore all Camera default settings.

: Touch whenever you want to know how a setting operates. This

provides you with a quick guide.

When you exit the Camera, some settings return to their defaults, such as white balance,

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color effect, timer and scene mode. Check these before you take your next photo.

The Settings menu is superimposed over the viewﬁnder so, when you change elements

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of the image color or quality, you see a preview of the image change behind the Settings menu.

Viewing your saved photos

Access your saved photos while in Camera mode. Just touch the picture thumbnail at the bottom right corner of the screen. Touch the screen to display the following settings for the image: Slideshow and Menu.

: Touch to see a slideshow.

: Touch to share the contents or delete a photo. Touch More for more

options.

Details – Allows you to see the details of the current image.

Set as – Allows you to set the image as a Contact icon or Wallpaper.

Crop – Allows you to crop your photo. Move your ﬁnger across the

Rotate Left – Allows you to rotate the image to the left.

Rotate Right – Allows you to rotate the image to the right.

screen to select the area.

Video camera

Camcorder

To open the Camcorder application, from the Home screen touch the Applications Key Home screen and slide the Mode Switch down to Camcorder mode.

Getting to know the viewﬁnder

Brightness - Deﬁnes and controls of the amount of sunlight entering the lens. Slide the brightness indicator along the bar toward “-” for a lower brightness video or toward “+” for a higher brightness Video. Zoom - Allows you to zoom in or out. The Volume Keys will also adjust the zoom. You can also pinch in and out to zoom. Set the zoom before starting to record a video. You cannot change the zoom setting during recording.

Settings - Touch this icon to open the settings menu. See 'Using the advanced settings'.

Duration – Allows you to set the duration mode for videos.

Flash – Allows you to set the ﬂash mode.

Recording a quick video

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Camcorder

2. The video camera viewﬁnder appears on the screen.

3. Holding the phone horizontally, point the lens towards the subject you want to capture in your video.

> Camcorder or touch the Camera icon on the

Mode Switch - Slide this icon up to switch to Camera mode.

Record - Starts recording a video.

Gallery - Touch to view the last video

you recorded. This enables you to access your Gallery and view your saved videos from within Video mode.

Video camera

4. Touch the Record Button once to start recording.

5. A timer showing the length of the video is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

6. Touch the Stop Button automatically saved.

to stop recording.The video will be

After recording a video

A still image representing your video will appear on the screen.

: Touch to play the video.

: Touch to share your video using Bluetooth, Email, Gmail,

Messaging, YouTube, or any other application that supports this function.

Additional charges may apply when MMS messages are downloaded while roaming.

NOTE

: Touch to edit the name of the selected video.

: Touch to record another video right away. Your current video is saved.

: Touch to delete the video you just made. Conﬁrm by touching OK. The

viewﬁnder reappears.

: Touch to view the Gallery of your saved videos.

Using the advanced settings

Using the viewﬁnder, touch Settings to open all the advanced options. Adjust the video camera setting by scrolling through the list. After selecting the option, touch the Back Key

Video size – Touch to set the size (in pixels) of the video you record.

White balance – White balance ensures that 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 from Auto,

Incandescent, Sunny, Fluorescent and Cloudy.

Color effect – Allows you to select a color tone to use for your new video.

Video camera

Video quality – Choose from Super ﬁne, Fine and Normal.

Audio recording – Allows you to choose to record video with or without

audio.

Auto review – Allows you to choose if you wish to play the video you just took immediately after recording it.

Storage – Allows you to save the video in Internal memory or SD card.

– Restore all Video camera default settings.

– Touch if you want to know how this function operates. This provides

you with a quick guide.

Watching your saved videos

1. In the viewﬁnder, touch the video thumbnail at the bottom right corner of the screen.

2. Your Gallery appears on the screen.

3. Touch a video once to bring it to the front of the Gallery. It starts playing automatically.

Adjusting the volume when viewing a video

To adjust the volume of a video while it is playing, use the Volume Keys on the left-hand side of the phone.

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Gallery

Opening Gallery and Viewing Your Albums

Open the Gallery application to view albums of your pictures and videos.

To open Gallery and view your albums

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gallery .

 Open Gallery from the Camera application by touching the thumbnail at

the bottom right corner of the screen.

The Gallery application presents the pictures and videos saved in your

phone, including those you’ve taken with the Camera application and those you downloaded from the web or other locations.

If you have a Picasa

 Touch an album to open it and view its contents. The pictures and videos in the album are displayed in chronological

 Touch a picture or video in an album to view it.  Return to the main Gallery screen at any time by touching

Google

Accounts, you’ll also see your Picasa web albums in Gallery.

order.

top left corner of the screen.

account synchronized with one of your phone’s

at the

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Working with Albums

Albums are groups of images and videos in folders on your microSD card and internal memory or in Picasa web albums.

To open an album and view its contents

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gallery

and touch the album whose contents you want to view.

 Use the slider bar at the bottom of the screen to scroll horizontally

through your pictures and videos.

 The date of the images in view is displayed, so you can scroll by date.  You can also scroll through an album by swiping the screen left or right.

To change how the contents of an album are displayed

You can view the images and videos in your albums in a chronological grid or in stacks, sorted by the date and the location where they were taken. You switch album views with the Album View switch screen.

 Drag the Album View switch

contents in stacks.

to the right to view the album

at the top right of the

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 Drag the Album View switch to the left to view the album

contents in a chronological grid again.

Pinch peek

When browsing your images in stacks, you can use a spread gesture to open up the contents of an image stack. Photos contained within that stack are then smoothly cycled between your two ﬁngertips.

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To Work with Batches of Pictures or Videos

In addition to working with whole albums and with individual pictures, you can select one or more pictures or videos in an album to work on them in batches. For example, to send a few pictures from an album to a friend.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gallery .

2. Open the album that contains the pictures and videos you want to work with as a batch.

3. Touch the Menu Key

4. Touch the pictures you want to work with to checkmark them. Touch a checkmarked item to remove the checkmark.

You can checkmark all items or remove all checkmarks, by touching

Select all or Deselect all at the top of the screen.

5. Use the control buttons at the bottom of the screen to perform actions on the checkmarked items. The control buttons available depend on the mix of items you’ve selected.

To share an album

You can share the entire contents of one or more albums or individual images or videos from an album.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Touch the Menu Key

3. Checkmark or uncheckmark the album(s) you want to share.

4. Touch Share at the bottom left corner of the screen and touch the application you would like to use to share the selected albums.

5. Enter the necessary information and share it.

> Gallery .

To get details about an album

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gallery .

2. Touch the Menu Key

3. Checkmark or uncheckmark the album(s) you want to see details about.

4. Touch More at the bottom right corner of the screen, then touch Details from the pop-up menu.

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To delete an album

You can delete an album and its contents from your microSD card and internal memory.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Touch the Menu Key

3. Checkmark or uncheckmark the album(s) you want to delete.

4. Touch Delete at the bottom center of the screen. Touch Conﬁrm Delete in the pop-up menu.

> Gallery .

Working with Pictures

Use Gallery to view pictures that you’ve taken with the Camera application, downloaded, copied onto your microSD card and internal memory, or that are stored in Picasa web albums.

To view and browse pictures

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gallery and then touch an album. Then touch the desired picture.

 Turn the phone to view the picture in vertical (portrait) or horizontal

(landscape) orientation. The picture is displayed (but not saved) in the new orientation.

 Touch the picture to view navigation, zoom, and other control buttons.

 To zoom, touch a zoom icon (+ or -), use the pinch-to-zoom method, or

just double-tap the screen.

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 When the picture is zoomed in, drag the picture to view parts that are

not in view.

 When the picture is zoomed to ﬁt in the window, drag left or right to

view the next or previous picture in the album.

To watch a slideshow of your pictures

 When viewing a picture, touch the screen to view the control buttons

then touch Slideshow.

 Touch the screen, or touch the Back Key

, to end the slideshow.

To rotate a picture

1. Touch a picture you want to rotate then touch Menu.

2. Touch More. A menu opens with tools for working with the picture.

3. Touch Rotate Left or Rotate Right.

The picture is saved with the new orientation.

To use a picture as a contact icon or as Home screen wallpaper

1. Touch the picture you want to use, then touch Menu.

2. Touch More.

3. Touch Set as.

4. Touch Contact icon to set the picture to identify a Contact entry or touch Wallpaper to set the picture as your wallpaper.

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5. If you choose to set as a contact icon, the Contacts application will open. Touch the contact that you want to identify with the picture. If you decide to set the picture as your wallpaper, crop it, if necessary then touch Save.

To crop a picture

You can crop and save pictures that are stored on your microSD card and internal memory.

1. Touch the picture you want to crop, then touch Menu.

2. Touch More.

3. Touch Crop.

The cropping box appears on top of the picture.

4. Use the cropping box to select the portion of the picture to keep; the rest of the photo will be discarded.

 Drag from the inside of the cropping box to move it.

 Drag an edge of the cropping box to resize it to any proportion.

 Drag a corner of the cropping box to resize it with ﬁxed proportions.

5. Touch Save to save a copy of the picture as you cropped it. The original uncropped version remains in your phone’s memory.

To get details about a picture

1. Touch the picture you want, then touch Menu.

2. Touch More.

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3. Touch Details.

To share a picture

You can share a picture by sending it to friends or posting it in a Picasa web album.

1. Touch the picture you want to share, then touch Menu.

2. Touch Share.

3. In the menu that opens, touch the application to use to share the selected picture.

4. Enter the necessary information and share it.

To delete a picture

You can delete a picture from your microSD card and internal memory.

1. Touch the picture you want to delete, then touch Menu.

2. Touch Delete, then touch Conﬁrm Delete in the dialog box that opens.

Working with Videos

Use the Gallery application to play videos that you’ve taken with the Camcorder application and to share them with friends.

To play videos

 Open a Gallery album and touch a video.

The video plays in the orientation you recorded it in.

 Touch the screen while the video is playing to view the playback

controls.

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To share a video

You can share your videos in a variety of ways, including sending it by email or multimedia message (MMS), or via a Bluetooth device. You even have the option to share your videos publicly by uploading it to the YouTube website.

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

> Gallery ,

then touch an album.

2. While viewing an album, touch the Menu Key

3. Touch to checkmark the videos you wish to share.

4. Touch Share.

5. In the menu that opens, touch the application you would like to use to share the selected videos.

6. Enter the necessary information and share it.

To delete a video

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Gallery , then select an album.

2. While viewing an album, touch the Menu Key

3. Touch to checkmark the videos you want to delete.

4. Touch Delete.

5. Touch Conﬁrm Delete.

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Music

Your LG optimus PLUSTM has a built-in music player that lets you play all your favorite tracks. To access the music player, on the Home screen touch the Applications Key

and select Music player.

Playing a song

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Music player.

2. Touch Songs.

3. Select the song you want to play.

4. Touch

5. Touch

6. Touch return to the previous song.

To change the volume while listening to music, press the up and down Volume Keys on the left-hand side of the phone.

Touch and hold any song in the list. It The following options are available: Play, Add to playlist, Use as ringtone, Delete, Details, Share and Search.

NOTE

to pause the song.

to skip to the next song.

to go back to the beginning of the song. Touch twice to

Music ﬁle copyrights may be protected by international treaties and national copyright

laws. Therefore, it may be necessary to obtain permission or a license to reproduce or copy music. In some countries, national laws prohibit private copying of copyrighted material. Before downloading or copying the ﬁle, check the national laws of the relevant country concerning the use of such material.

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Transferring ﬁles using USB mass storage devices

To transfer ﬁles using USB devices

1. Connect the LG optimus PLUSTM to a PC using a USB cable.

2. If you haven’t installed LG Android Platform Driver on your PC, you need to change the settings manually. From the Home screen, touch the

Applications Key mode > Mass storage.

3. You can view the mass storage contents on your PC and transfer the ﬁles.

If you installed the LG Android Platform Driver, your device will automatically be

NOTE

connected to the PC.

> Settings > Connectivity > Default connection

How to save music/video ﬁles on your phone

1. Connect your phone to the PC using the USB cable. From the Home screen, touch and drag the Status Bar down. Select USB connected > Mass storage > Done. Open the desired folder to view ﬁles in your PC. If you didn’t install LG Android Platform Driver on your PC, you must set it up manually. For more information, refer to ‘Transferring ﬁles using USB mass storage devices’.

2. Save music or video ﬁles from the PC to the phone’s removable storage.

You can copy or move ﬁles from your PC to your phone’s removable

storage using a card reader.

If there is a video ﬁle with a subtitle ﬁle (*.srt & *.smi ﬁle with the

same name as the video ﬁle), place it in the same folder to display subtitles automatically when playing the video ﬁle.

When downloading music or video ﬁles, copyrights must be secured.

Note that corrupted ﬁles or ﬁles with incorrect extensions may damage your phone.

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Sending data from your phone using Bluetooth

Sending data using Bluetooth

You can use Bluetooth to send data by opening a corresponding application, not from the Bluetooth menu as on most other mobile phones.

* Sending pictures: Open the Gallery application, then open the picture

and touch Menu > Share > Bluetooth. Check whether Bluetooth is turned on, then touch Scan for devices. Choose the device you want to send data to from the list.

* Exporting contacts: Open the Contacts application. Touch the Contact

you want to export. Touch the Menu Key Check whether Bluetooth is turned on, then touch Scan for devices. Choose the device you want to send data to from the list.

* Sending multi-selected contacts: Open the Contacts application.

To select more than one contact, touch the Menu Key Select all > Share > Bluetooth . Check whether Bluetooth is turned on, then touch Scan for devices. Choose the device you want to send data to from the list.

* Connecting to FTP (only FTP server is supported on this handset):

From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key Wireless & networks > Bluetooth settings. Touch the Discoverable check box so you can search for your phone on other devices. Find the FTP service and connect to the FTP server.

If you want to search for this phone from other devices, go to from

the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Wireless & networks > Bluetooth settings. Select the Discoverable check

box. Your device will be able to be detected by other devices for 120 seconds.

> Share > Bluetooth.

> Share >

> Settings >

Utilities

Setting your alarm

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Clock.

2. If you want to add a new alarm, touch

3. Set the time, then touch Set the LG optimus PLUS alarm will sound.

4. Touch the Repeat, Ringtone or Vibrate ﬁelds to set them as desired, then add a Label to name the alarm.

5. Touch Done to save the alarm.

To change the alarm settings on the alarm list screen, touch the Menu Key

NOTE

select Settings. You can adjust the following options: Alarm in silent mode, Alarm volume, Snooze duration and Side button behavior.

to turn on the alarm. After you set the time,

lets you know how much time is left before the

and select Add alarm.

Using your calculator

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Calculator.

2. Touch the number keys to enter numbers.

3. For simple calculations, touch the function you want (+, –, x or ÷) followed by =.

4. For more complex calculations, touch the Menu Key Advanced panel, then choose the desired functions.

, touch

Adding an event to your calendar

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Calendar.

2. To check the event, touch the date. Touch and hold if you want to add a new event, then touch New event.

3. Touch the Event name ﬁeld and enter the event name. Check the date and enter the time you want your event to start and ﬁnish.

4. Touch the Event location ﬁeld and enter the location.

and

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5. If you want to add a note to your event, touch the Event description ﬁeld and enter the details.

6. If you want to repeat the alarm, set Repetition, and set Reminders, if necessary.

7. Touch Done to save the event in the calendar. A colored square in the calendar marks all days that have saved events. An alarm sounds at the event start time to help you stay organized.

Changing your calendar view

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Calendar. Then touch the Menu Key

2. Select from Day, Week, Month, Agenda, or Today.

Polaris Viewer

Polaris Viewer is a professional mobile ofﬁce solution that lets users conveniently view various types of ofﬁce documents, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint ﬁles, anywhere, anytime, using their mobile devices.

Managing ﬁles

Polaris Viewer provides mobile users with convenient ﬁle management features, including copying, cutting and pasting, and deleting ﬁles and folders right on the device.

Viewing ﬁles

Mobile users can now easily view a wide variety of ﬁle types, including Microsoft Ofﬁce documents and Adobe PDF, right on their mobile devices. When viewing documents using Polaris Viewer, the objects and layout remain the same as in their original documents.

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Voice Recorder

Use the Voice Recorder to record voice memos or other audio ﬁles.

Recording a sound or voice

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key and select Voice Recorder.

2. Touch

3. Touch

4. Touch

Touch

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NOTICE

Sending the voice recording

1. Once you have ﬁnished recording, you can send the audio clip by touching the Menu Key

2. Choose from Bluetooth, Email, Gmail, Messaging, or any other application that supports this feature. When you select Email, Gmail, and Messaging, the voice recording is added to the message, then you write and send the message normally.

to begin recording.

to end the recording.

to listen to the recording.

to access your recordings. You can listen to the saved recording.

The available recording time may differ from the real time.

> Share.

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Talk

To open Google Talk and sign in

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Talk .

When you ﬁrst open Google Talk, your Friends list will be displayed.

This list includes all of the friends you’ve added by using Google Talk on the web or on the phone.

To return to your Friends list

You can return to your Friends list while chatting with a friend so that you can invite another friend to chat, add a friend, etc.

 Touch the Menu Key

To sign out of Google Talk

You can sign out of Google Talk. For example, if you want to limit Google Talk conversations to your computer. Also, signing out can extend your battery life.

 From your Friends list, touch the Menu Key

You will no longer receive chat notiﬁcations or see others’ Google Talk

status in other applications, such as Gmail

> Friends list.

> Sign out.

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Chatting with Friends

To chat with a friend

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Talk . If you’re already chatting with someone, you can touch the Menu Key

> Friends list to return to the Friends list.

2. Touch the friend you want to chat with.

3. Enter your message, then touch Send.

The messages that you exchange are displayed on the screen and include

information about the chat, such as whether it’s on-the-record, the time a message was sent (if there’s no response after a short while), etc.

To enter an emoticon (smiley), just touch the Menu Key > More >

Insert smiley to open a list of emoticons.

Your chat session will remain open until you end it.

Friends you’re chatting with are displayed at the top of your Friends list, with the most recent message displayed in a black-on-white balloon.

To accept an invitation to chat

When a friend sends you a Google Talk message, you will receive a notiﬁcation. The friend’s name in the Friends list turns white and displays the message.

 Touch the friend in your Friends list.

 Open the Notiﬁcations panel then touch the chat notiﬁcation.

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A chat window will open where you can exchange messages with your friend.

To switch between active chats

If you have more than one chat going, you can switch between chats.

 From the Friends list, touch the name of the person you want to chat

with.

 From a chat screen, touch the Menu Key

then the friend you want to chat with.

 While chatting with a friend, swipe left or right across the screen.

> Switch chats and

To invite a friend to join a group chat

While you’re chatting, you can invite additional friends to join a group chat.

1. On a chat screen, touch the Menu Key

2. Touch the name of the friend to invite.

The friend you invited and the current participants will receive an

invitation to a group chat. Each one who accepts the invitation will join the group chat. In a group chat, everyone can see everyone else’s messages. Group chats appear at the top of your Friends list, with a group chat icon.

> Add to chat.

To chat on or off-the-record

Your Google Talk messages are stored, so you can review them later and even search for them, in the Chats folder in Gmail. If you’d rather not store the messages in a chat, you can chat off-the-record.

 While chatting, touch the Menu Key

To return to on-the-record chatting, touch the Menu Key

on record.

> Chat off record.

> Chat

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To end a chat

When you’ve ﬁnished your conversation, it’s easy to end a chat session.

 From your Friends list, touch and hold the friend you want to stop

chatting with. In the menu that opens, touch End chat.

 From a chat screen, touch the Menu Key

> End chat.

Application Manager

You can manage your programs with App Manager. To access App Manager, from the Home screen touch the Applications Key

Touch the Running apps tab to view the applications that are currently

being used. The applications with high consumption of resource will have descriptions in red. Touch Stop to terminate the applications.

Touch the Installed apps tab to view all of the installed applications.

Touch the Storage tab to view the capacity of System memory,

Internal memory and SD card.

Touch the Help tab to get help information about App Manager.

You can place the App Manager widget on the Home screen and easily

check the number of currently running applications.

> App Manager.

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Browser

The Browser application allows you to access the internet from your device. Access and selections within this feature are dependent upon your service provider. For speciﬁc information on Browser access through your phone, contact your service provider.

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Browse web pages

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Browser or touch the Browser icon on your Home screen panel. To access a speciﬁc web page, touch the URL input ﬁeld, enter the web address (URL) of the web page, and touch .

2. Navigate web pages using the following options:

URL Input Field

Touch here to enter a web address for the web page you wish to access.

Bookmarks

Touch here to view and edit your bookmarks.

While browsing the web page, use the following options:

 To zoom in or out, double-tap the screen. You can also use the pinch-

to-zoom method. Place your two ﬁngers on the screen and slowly

pinch or spread them apart.  To open a new window, touch the Menu Key

 To view the list of bookmarks, touch Bookmarks

> New window.

next to the URL

ﬁeld. You can also add or edit a bookmark from this menu.

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 To bookmark the current web page, touch Bookmarks > Add.

Enter the name for the bookmark and touch OK.  To customize the Browser settings, touch the Menu Key

>Settings.

 When a web page ﬁnishes loading, the RSS Indicator will appear if an

RSS feed is available. Touch the Menu Key

> Add RSS Feed

and select the feed you want to save.  To view the currently active windows, touch the Menu Key

Windows

. You can open multiple pages and switch back and forth

between them.

 To reload the current web page, touch the Refresh icon

Refresh icon appears after the web page ﬁnishes loading.

 To stop loading a web page, touch the Stop icon

The Stop icon appears while a web page is loading.  To go to previous page, touch the Back Key

 To go to a next page in history, touch the

Menu Key > Forward .

 To search for text on the web page, touch the Menu Key > More

> Find on page.  To select text on the web page, touch the Menu Key

> More >

Select text. Highlight the text you want with your ﬁnger and tap it.

The highlighted text is copied to the clipboard and you can paste it

anywhere that allows text to be entered.  To view the web page details, touch the Menu Key

> More >

Page info.

When you are in a secure page, you can see the certiﬁcate of the current page by

NOTE

touching the View certiﬁcate button on Page info.

 To set the current page as the home page, touch the Menu Key >

More > Set home page.

 To send the web address (URL) of the web page to others, touch the

Menu Key

> More > Share page.

> More

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 To view the download history, touch the Menu Key > More >

Downloads.

Bookmark your favorite web pages

If you know the web address of the web page, you can manually add a bookmark. To add a bookmark:

1. From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key

2. Touch Bookmarks

3. Touch Add.

4. Enter a page title and a web address (URL).

5. Touch OK. From the bookmark list, touch and hold a bookmark and use the following

options:

 To open the web page in the current window, touch Open.  To open the web page in a new window, touch Open in new window.  To edit the bookmark details, touch Edit bookmark (only available on

Bookmarks you have created).  To add the bookmark shortcut to one of the Home screen panes,

touch Add shortcut to home.  To send the web address (URL) of the web page to others, touch

Share link.  To copy the web address (URL) of the web page, touch Copy link

URL.  To delete the bookmark, touch Delete bookmark.  To set the bookmark as your homepage, touch Set as homepage.

next to the URL ﬁeld.

> Brower .

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Changing the Browser settings

You can conﬁgure a number of Browser settings, such as managing your privacy settings.

 To open the Browser settings screen, open Browser and touch the

Menu Key

> More > Settings.

Page content settings

Default zoom Opens a dialog box where you can increase or decrease the magniﬁcation level that Browser uses when ﬁrst opening a web page.

Open pages in overview Checkmark to open web pages zoomed out, in an overview. Uncheckmark to open web pages at 100% size, displaying the top-left corner of the page.

Text encoding Opens a dialog box where you can change the character encoding standard that Browser uses when displaying text on a web page.

Block pop-up windows Checkmark to prevent websites from opening windows unless you request it.

Load images Uncheckmark to omit images when Browser displays a web page. This speeds up web page loading, which can be useful if you have a slow connection.

Enable power save mode Reduces the display power consumption by inverting web page colors.

Auto-ﬁt pages Checkmark to have Browser optimize the presentation of text and other elements of web pages to ﬁt your phone’s screen. Checkmarking this option also causes Browser to reﬂow a column of text to ﬁt the screen if you double-tap the screen directly after zooming with your ﬁngers. Uncheckmark to view pages as designed for a computer screen so that double-tapping simply switches between zoomed-in and default view.

Landscape-only display Checkmark to display pages in landscape (horizontal) orientation on your screen, regardless of how you are holding the phone.

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Enable javascript Uncheckmark to prevent JavaScript from running on web pages. Many web pages function correctly only if they can run JavaScript features on your phone.

Enable plug-ins Opens a dialog box to select when to enable plug-ins.

Open in background Checkmark to open new windows in the background

when you touch and hold a link, then touch Open in new window. This is useful when you are working with windows that take a long time to download and display. Uncheckmark if you prefer new windows to open in place of the current window.

Set home page Opens a dialog box where you can enter the URL of a page that you want to access whenever you open a new window. If you prefer to open new windows more quickly, by not opening any page by default, leave the dialog box blank.

Storage Allows you to choose the storage location.

Privacy settings

Clear cache Allows you to clear locally cached content and databases. Clear history Allows you to clear the Browser history. Accept cookies Checkmark to allow websites to save and read cookie

data.

Clear all cookie data Allows you to clear all Browser cookie data. Remember form data Checkmark to allow Browser to remember data

entered into forms for later use.

Clear form data Allows you to clear all saved form data. Enable location Checkmark to allow sites to request access to your

location. Clear location access Allows you to clear location access for all websites.

Security settings

Remember passwords Checkmark to allow Browser to save user names and passwords for websites.

Clear passwords Allows you to clear all saved passwords.

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Show security warnings Checkmark to show a warning if there is a problem with a site’s security.

Advanced settings

Set search engine Allows you to select a search engine. Website settings Allows you to manage advanced settings for individual

websites. Reset to default Allows you to restore the Browser settings to default.

Weather

Checking the weather

 To access the Weather application, from the Home screen touch the

Applications Key

 The current forecast is displayed. Swipe left or right to view other cities.

Weather

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 To refresh the information, tap at the bottom of the screen.

Changing Weather settings

You can conﬁgure a number of settings for Weather.

 To open the Weather settings screen, open the Weather application

and touch the Menu Key

> Settings.

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Google Play

Opening Google Play and Finding Applications

Open the Play Store to browse and search for free and paid applications.

To open the Google Play application

 From the Home screen, touch the Applications Key > Play Store

or touch the Play Store icon on the Home screen.

When you open the Play Store application for the ﬁrst time, you must

read and accept the terms of service to continue.

To get help with Google Play

Google Play Help web pages are available from all Play Store screens.  Touch the Menu Key

To browse for applications

You can browse applications by category and sort them in different ways.

1. On the Google Play home page, touch a category along the left side of

the screen.

2. Scroll left and right to view subcategories.

> Help.

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