LG-B525 USER GUIDE - ENGLISH
This guide will help you understand your new mobile phone. It will provide you with useful explanations of features on your phone.
Some of the contents in this manual may differ from your phone depending on the software of the phone or your service provider.
Contents |
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Phone Components................................... |
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Using your touch screen........................... |
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Touch screen tips..................................... |
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Control the touch screen....................... |
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Installing the SIM Card .......................... |
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Installing a Memory card....................... |
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Formatting the Memory card............... |
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Calls............................................................. |
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Making a Call ........................................ |
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Making a call from your contacts ....... |
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Answering and rejecting a call .......... |
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Cost save mode..................................... |
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Contacts.................................................... |
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Searching for a contact........................ |
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Adding a new contact.......................... |
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Messaging.................................................. |
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Entering Text............................................ |
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Setting up your email............................. |
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Camera...................................................... |
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Taking a quick photo ............................ |
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After taking a photo.............................. |
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Using the advanced settings ............. |
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Video camera........................................... |
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Making a quick video............................ |
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After making a video............................ |
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Using the advanced settings ............. |
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Music......................................................... |
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Managing files.......................................... |
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QuickMemo .............................................. |
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Banner....................................................... |
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Safety Care............................................... |
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Games and apps...................................... |
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Setting your alarm.................................. |
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Voice recorder.......................................... |
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Using your calculator............................. |
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Converting a unit .................................... |
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Installing LG PC Suite on your computer 18
The web..................................................... |
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Accessing the web ................................ |
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Dual SIM setting...................................... |
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Settings..................................................... |
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Changing your phone settings.......... |
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SOS Service settings............................ |
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Changing your connectivity settings20 |
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Sending and receiving your files using |
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Bluetooth ................................................. |
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Wi-Fi.......................................................... |
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Phone Software update......................... |
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LG Mobile Phone Software update |
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from internet ......................................... |
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Guidelines for Safe and Efficient Use 23 |
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Exposure to radio frequency energy23 |
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Product care and maintenance........ |
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Efficient phone operation................... |
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Road safety............................................. |
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Avoid damage to your hearing......... |
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Glass Parts.............................................. |
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Blasting area........................................... |
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Potentially explosive atmospheres... |
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In aircraft.................................................. |
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Children.................................................... |
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Emergency calls .................................... |
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Battery information and care ............ |
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Accessories............................................... |
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Technical Data......................................... |
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Troubleshooting...................................... |
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Phone Components
Earpiece
Back Key
Return to the previous screen.
Home Key
Return to the Home screen from any screen.
Menu Key
Display the available options.
QuickButton Key
Select apps you wish to get quick access to using QuickButton.
TOP
Handsfree or Stereo earphone connector
BOTTOM
Charger/
USB port
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Volume keys
•In the Home screen: Ring tone and touch tone volume.
• During a call: Earpiece volume.
• Down volume key: Press and hold to activate/ deactivate Silent mode.
•How to start QuickMemo:
Press Volume up and down key simultaneously. QuickMemo allows you to write a memo on a captured image
Power/Lock key
•Short press to turn on/off the screen.
•Long press for power on/off.
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•To select an item, touch the centre of the icon.
•Do not press too hard; the touch screen is sensitive enough to pick up a light, yet firm touch.
•Use the tip of your finger to touch the option you require. Be careful not to touch any other keys.
•Whenever your LG-B525 is not in use, it will return to the lock screen.
The controls on the LG-B525 touch screen change dynamically depending on the task you are carrying out.
Opening Applications
To open any application, simply touch its icon.
Scrolling
Drag from side to side to scroll. On some screens, such as the Logs list, you can also
scroll up or down.
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When you subscribe to a cellular network, you
are provided with a SIM card loaded with your subscription details, such as your PIN, any
optional services available and many others.
Important!
›The SIM card can be easily damaged by scratches or bending, so be careful when handling, inserting or removing the card.
Keep all SIM cards out of the reach of small children.
›Only 2G/2.5G SIM cards are supported.
Remove the Back cover and insert a micro SD card with the golden contact area facing
downwards as shown in the diagram. To remove the Memory card, gently pull it.
NOTE: Memory card is an optional accessory.
Select Settings from Menu, go to Device settings Choose Memory info, then select
External memory and tap Format. Enter phone password when prompted to formatting the Memory card.
WARNING: When you format your Memory card, all the content will be Erased. If you do not want to lose the data on your Memory card, take
a backup first.
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1.Touch to open the keypad.
2.Enter the number using the keypad.
3.Touch to initiate the call.
TIP! To enter + for making an international call, touch and hold “0”.
Press the power key to lock the touch screen to prevent calls being made by mistake.
1. From the home screen touch |
to open |
the Contacts. |
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2.Tap the search field box on the top of the screen and enter the first few letters of the contact you would like to call using the keypad.
3.From the filtered list, touch the contact ,then touch Call icon to make a call. The call will use the default number if there is more than one number for that contact.
4.Or you can touch the contact name and touch the number to call,if there is more than one number for that contact. You can
also touch key to initiate the call to the default number.
NOTE:
Self call - Self call imitates a real incoming call.
Enter ‘#*#’ on the Dialpad to activate a self call. This doesn’t charge any fee.
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When your phone rings, touch key to answer the call.
To mute the ringing, touch on Silent tab in alerting screen. This is useful if you forgot to change your profile to Silent for a meeting. Touch on Reject tab to reject an incoming call in alerting screen.
Every contact is added along with assigned SIM when adding in phone book. During Calling,
matching operator SIM is identified and the operation is completed using the matching operator SIM. This makes possible to use benefit from using same operator.
To use Cost save mode feature,make sure the feature is On [Settings > Call settings >
Common settings > Cost save mode]
NOTE: Cost save mode doesn’t work during in-call.
1.Touch Contacts.
2.Enter the first few letters of the contact’s name you want to call by touching Search
1.Touch Contacts and touch Add.
2.Choose whether to save the contact to your
Internal memory ,SIM1 or SIM2.
3.Enter your First and Last name.
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4.You can enter up to five different numbers per contact.
5.Add an email addresses. You can enter up to two different email addresses per contact.
6.Assign the contact to one or more groups.
7.Touch Save to save the contact.
Your LG-B525 combines SMS and MMS into one intuitive and easy-to-use menu.
Sending a message
1.Touch Messages in menu and touch Write message to begin composing a new message.
2.Touch Insert to add an Image, Video, Sound,
Template and so on.
3.Touch To: field at the top of the screen to enter the recipients, then enter the number
or touch to select a contact. You can even add multiple contacts.
4.Touch when ready.
NOTE: To send a message from SIM2 touch the forward arrow mark on icon.
WARNING: If an image, video, sound, New slide and so on is added to an SMS it will be automatically converted to an MMS and you will be charged accordingly.
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TIP: User can copy a selected text from any editor
and can paste the same in any other editor
Ex: Go to Message editor, type some text. Now select the text you want to copy by scrolling over the text and go to Option and tap on Copy . Now
place the cursor at a point you want to paste the text. Go to Option and tap on Paste, so that copied
text will get pasted.
NOTE: Spam message - You can block the unwanted messages by giving Spam numbers or Spam words. Those messages will get stored in
Spam message Folder.
You can choose your input method by tapping and Input method.
Touch to turn on T9 mode. This icon is only shown when you choose Keypad as the
input method. Touch to change between numbers, symbols and text input. Use Shift key
to change between capital or lowercase input.
TIP: You can send SMS to many contacts at a time. User can select/deselect contacts for sending the message. Only 20 contacts can be marked and
if user choose Select all only first 20 contacts will be marked.
To send the SMS to a particular group of contacts select Groups and select particular group.
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