LG GB280 User Guide

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GB280

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GB280 User Guide

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

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GB280

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

Contents

Getting to Know Your Phone

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Installing a Memory Card Formatting the Memory Card

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Installing the SIM Card and Charging the Battery Installing the SIM Card Illustrations Menu map Calls

Making a call................

Making a Call from your Contacts Answering and rejecting a call

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Changing the call settings Contacts Searching for a contact Adding a new contact Adding a contact to a group

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Speed dialing Messaging Sending a Message Entering text ABC Manual mode

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Message folders Changing your text message settings Changing your multimedia message settings Changing your other settings Setting up Your E-mail Multimedia Camera Taking a quick photo Video Camera Shooting a quick video Music

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Playing a song Creating a playlist FM Radio Using the FM radio Listening to the radio Recording the radio Voice Recorder Ringtone Creator My stuff Memory card Videos Others Organizer

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Using the calendar

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Adding an item to your to-do

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Notes

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Secret notes Data finder Tools

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Go to.............................................21

Setting your alarm ..................21

Using the calculator................21

Using the stopwatch..............21

Converting units .....................21

Adding a city to your world

time..............................................21

Browser.......................................21

Accessing the web..................21

Adding and accessing your

bookmarks.................................22

Accessing a saved page........22

Viewing your browser

history.........................................22

Changing the web browser

settings........................................22

Settings........................................23

Profiles.........................................23

Using flight mode....................23

Changing the display

settings........................................23

Changing the date & time ...23

Conectivity.................................23

Changing the call settings....24

Changing the Phone

settings........................................24

Motion Settings........................24

Changing Your Security

Settings ......................................25

Viewing Memory Status .......26

Resetting Your Phone............26

Connectivity...............................26

Bluetooth....................................26

USB Connection Mode...........28

Installing LG PC Suite.............29

Accessories................................30

Guidelines for safe and

efficient use...............................31

Warranty......................................37

Getting to Know Your Phone

Main screen

Left/Right soft key

MP3 player

Call key

It dials a phone number and answers incoming calls.

Charger, Cable, Handsfree connector

Memory card slot

Volume key

standby mode: It

controls the ring volume. During a call: It controls the receiver

volume.

Central Key

Camera

End/Power key

It ends or rejects a call. It turns the phone on/off and returns to the standby screen when you use the menu.

Installing a Memory Card

Lift the memory card cover and insert a micro SD card with the golden contact area facing downwards. Close the memory card cover so that it clicks shut.

To remove the memory card, gently push it as shown in the diagram.

A memory card is an

Note:

optional accessory.

Formatting the Memory Card

Press Menu > Settings > Memory manager > External Memory > Format, and then

insert the security code.

WARNING:

format your memory card, all the content will be wiped. If you do not want to lose the data on your memory card, back it up rst.

When you

Installing the SIM Card and Charging the Battery

Installing the SIM Card

When you subscribe to a cellular network, you are provided with a plug-in SIM card loaded with your subscription details, such as your PIN, any optional services available and many others.

Important!

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The plug-in SIM card can easily be 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.

Illustrations

1 Open the battery cover 2 Remove the battery 3 Insert your SIM 4 Insert your battery 5 Close the battery cover 6 Charge your battery

1 2

5 6

WARNING: Do not remove the battery when the phone

is switched on, as this may damage the phone.

Menu map

Call Register

Call Log Missed Calls Received Calls Dialed Numbers Call duration Packet Data Counter

Messages

Create Message Inbox My Mailbox Drafts Outbox Sent Items Saved Items Emoticons Message Settings

Organizer

Calendar To-Do List Notes Secret Notes Data Finder Settings

Multimedia

Camera Video Music FM radio Voice Recorder Ringtone Creator

Portal ideas

Home Enter Address Bookmarks Saved Pages Last Web Address Settings

Ideas Music Store

My Stu

Memory Card Images Sounds Videos Games & Apps Others

Names Settings Groups Speed Dials Service Dial Numbers Own number My Business Card

Ideas ClaroContacts

Tools

Go to Alarm Clock Calculator Stopwatch Converter World Time

Games

Games Motion Games Applications Settings

Settings

Proles Display Date & Time Connectivity Call Phone Motion Settings Security Memory manager Restore Factory

Settings

Calls

Making a call

1 Key in the number using

the keypad. To delete a digit, press CLR.

Press to initiate the

call.

To end the call, press .

TIP! To enter + when making an international call, press and hold 0.

Making a Call from your Contacts

1 Select Names from the

Contacts.

Using the keypad, enter the

first letter of the contact you want to call. For example, for Office, press “6” three times to select the first character, “O”

Select Make Call, from

Options, or press

initiate the call.

Answering and rejecting a call

When your phone rings, press

to answer the call.

You can control the volume by pressing the side keys.

Press

or select Reject to

reject the incoming call.

TIP! You can change the

settings on your phone to answer your calls in different ways. Press Menu > Settings > Call. Select Answer mode and choose from Press send

key, Slide up and Press any key.

Viewing your call history

Press Menu > Call Register and you can only check the log of missed, received and dialed calls if the network supports Calling Line Identification (CLI) within the service area.

Changing the call settings

You can set call-specific functions. Press Menu > Settings > Call.

• Call divert - Choose whether

to divert your calls.

• Call barring - Select when

you would like calls to be barred.

• Fixed dial numbers - Choose

a list of numbers that can be called from your phone. You will need your PIN2 code from your operator. Only numbers included in the fixed dial list can be called from your phone.

• Call waiting - Be alerted

when you have a call waiting. This depends on your network provider.

• Call reject - Set the rejected

call list.

• Send my number - Choose

whether your number will be displayed when you call someone. This depends on

your network provider.

• Auto redial - Choose On or Off.

• Answer mode - Choose whether to answer the phone using any key, send key only or slide up.

• Free call timer - Choose whether or not to display the call time.

• Minute minder - Select On to hear a tone every minute during a call.

• BT answer mode - Set to Hands free or Handset.

• Save new number - Choose Yes or No.

• Slide close setting - Choose End call or Continue call.

• Select line

phone line you want to use to make calls. Check if your network operator provide this option.

- choose the

Contacts

Searching for a contact

1 Select Names from the

Contacts.

2 Using the keypad, enter the

first letter of the contact you want to call.

3 To scroll through the

contacts, use the up and down keys.

Adding a new contact

1 Press Menu > Contacts >

Names > Options > Add new contact.

2 Enter all the information

you have in the fields provided > Options > Save.

Adding a contact to a group

You can save your contacts in groups; for example, to keep your work colleagues and family separate. There are a number of groups including

Family, Friends, Colleagues, School and VIP already set up

on the phone.

Speed dialing

You can assign a speed dial number to a contact you call frequently.

Messaging

Your GB280 includes text messaging, multimedia messaging and E-mail functions, and can also receive network service messages.

Sending a Message

1 Press Menu > Messages

> Create Message > Message.

2 A new message editor will

open. The message editor combines Text message and Multimedia messages into one intuitive and easyto-switch-between editor. The default setting for the message editor is text messages.

3 Enter your message.

4 Choose Options - Insert

to add an Image, Video

Clip, Sound Clip, Schedule, Business card, My business card, Note, Text Field, Todo or Text template.

5 Press Options - Send.

Entering text

You can enter alphanumeric characters using the phone’s keypad. The following text input methods are available on the phone: T9 predictive mode, ABC, Abc, abc manual mode and 123 mode.

Some fields may allow

Note:

only one text input mode (e.g. telephone numbers in the address book fields).

T9 Predictive mode

T9 predictive mode uses a built-in dictionary to recognize the words you are writing based on the key sequences you press.

Simply press the number key associated with the letter you want to enter, and the dictionary will recognize the word once all the letters are entered.

ABC Manual mode

This mode allows you to enter letters by pressing the key labeled with the required letter once, twice, three or four times until the letter is displayed.

123 Mode

Type numbers using one keystroke per number. You can also add numbers while remaining in letter modes by pressing and holding the desired key.

Message folders

Press Menu > Messages. The folder structure used on your GB280 is fairly selfexplanatory.

Create Message - Allows you to create new messages.

Inbox - All the messages you receive are placed in your Inbox.

My mailbox - Contains all your email messages.

Drafts - If you don’t have time to finish writing a message, you can save what you have done so far here.

Outbox - This is a temporary storage folder while messages are being sent. It also stores any messages that have failed to send.

Sent items - All the messages you send are placed in your Sent folder.

Saved items - You can access your saved messages, text templates and multimedia templates here.

Emoticons - A list of useful pre-written emoticons that can be used for a quick reply.

Message Settings - For this

option please read the next description.

Changing your text message settings

Your telephone message settings are pre-defined so that you can send messages immediately.

Press Menu > Messages Message Settings >

Text

Message. You can make changes to:

Text message center

- Enter the details for your message center.

Request delivery report

- Choose to receive confirmation that your message was delivered.

Validity period

- Choose how

long your message is stored at the message center.

Message types - Convert your text into Voice, Fax, X.400 or

Email. Character Encoding

- Choose

how your characters are encoded. This impacts the size of your message and therefore data charges.

Send long text as - Choose whether to send your message as Multiple SMS or MMS.

Changing your multimedia message settings

If you would like to change the settings, press Menu >

> Message Settings

Message

Multimedia

and

Message.

You can make changes to:

Retrieval mode

- Select

Home network or Roaming network. If you select Manual, you will only receive

notifications about MMS messages. You can then decide whether or not to download them in full.

Delivery report

- Choose

to allow and/or request a delivery report.

Read reply

- Choose to allow

and/or request a read report.

Priority

- Choose the priority

level of your multimedia message.

Validity period

- Choose how

long your message is stored at the message center.

Slide duration

- Choose how

long your slides appear on screen.

Creation mode

- It allows

to choose creation of multimedia message as

Restricted, Warning and Free.

Delivery time

- It allows to

deliver a message after a specific time.

Multi Msg Center

- It allows

add a new MMS center by choosing a new Title, MMSC URL and Internet Profiles to send multimedia messages. You can view, edit, delete and add a new profile.

Changing your other settings

Press Menu > Messages > Message Settings then:

Email - You can adapt the

following settings: Email Accounts, Allow reply email, Request reply email, Retrieve Interval, Retrieve amount, Include message in Fwd & Reply, Include attachment, Auto Retrieval in Roamingûply, New email notification, Signature and Priority.

Voicemail - Your voicemail number is stored here. Contact your network operator for more information on the service they provide.

Service Message - Change your service message settings.

Save Sent message - Allow you to save the messages sent by you.

Info. service

Choose the

reception status, alerts and language of your info messages.

Backup text message Choose whether to save your text messages to the phone memory or to the external memory.

Setting up Your E-mail

You can stay in touch on the move using email on your GB280. It’s quick and simple to set up a POP3 or IMAP4 email account.

1 Press Menu > Messaging >

Message Settings.

2 Select Email then Email

Accounts.

3 Press Add then set the

email account.

Sending an email using your new account

To send/receive an email, you should set up an email account.

1 Select Menu > Messages >

Create Message.

2 Choose Email and a new

email will open.

3 Enter a subject. 4 Enter your message. 5 Press Options > Insert to

add an Image, Video Clip, Sound Clip, Business card, Schedule or Note.

6 Enter the e-mail address

or press Options > Add > To - Select Recently used, Call log, Contacts, Contact groups or Enter manually.

7 Press Options > Send and

your email will be sent.

Multimedia

Camera

Taking a quick photo

1 Select . 2 Holding the phone, point

the lens toward the subject of the photo.

3 Position the phone so you

can see the subject of your photo.

4 Press the Central Key or

to take a photo.

Video Camera

Shooting a quick video

1 In the standby screen,

select Menu > Multimedia. 2 Choose Video. 3 Point the camera lens

toward the subject of the

video.

4 Press 5 ”Rec” will appear in the

6 Select Stop to stop

to start recording.

bottom-left corner of the

viewfinder and a timer will

show the length of your

video.

recording.

Music

Your GB280 has a built-in Music player so you can play all

your favorite music.

Playing a song

1 Press Menu > Multimedia >

Music.

2 Choose All Tracks then

select the song you want to play.

3 Select

the song.

4 Select

next song.

5 Select

previous song.

to play/pause

to skip to the

6 Select Back to stop the

music and return to the music player menu.

Creating a playlist

You can create your own playlists by choosing a selection of songs from the

All Tracks folder. 1 Press Menu > Multimedia. 2 Choose Music > Playlists. 3 Press Options > Add new

playlist, if you have already

created a playlist, or Add if there are not any playlist, then enter the playlist name and press Save.

4 The All Tracks folder will be

displayed. Select all of the songs that you would like to include in your playlist by scrolling to them >ing Mark

by pressing

Central Key.

5 Select Done to store the

playlist.

6 To hear one playlist

completely, select the desired list and tap Select. > play the first song and tap

Options > Shuffle > On.

FM Radio

Using the FM radio

Your LG GB280 has an FM radio feature so you can tune

into your favorite stations and listen on the move.

Listening to the radio

1 Press Menu > Multimedia >

FM radio.

2 Select the channel number

of the station you would like to listen to.

Recording the radio

1 Press the Central Key while

listening to the radio.

2 The recording time is

displayed on your phone. If you want to stop the recording, press Stop. When a recording has been made, the recorded contents will be saved in the My stuff as an mp3 file.

3 When the recording is

done, select Options and then choose from Play,

Delete, Sound edit, File, Use as or Send via.

If you are in an area

Note:

with bad radio reception, you may have difficulty listening to the radio.

It is recommended that you insert headphones into the hands-free connector when listening to the radio to ensure good radio reception.

Voice Recorder

Use your Voice Recorder to record voice memos or other sounds.

Ringtone Creator

Use this option to create your own ringtone.

Select the song you want in the Ringtone Creator.

Tap Cut the time you want to start your ringtone. Tap Stop to stop recording.

Tap Save and choose Update

Existing file or save As New File.

My stuff

You can store any kind of media file on your phone’s memory to give you easy access to all of your images, sounds, videos, games etc. You can also save your files to a memory card. The advantage of using a memory card is that you can free up space on your phone’s memory. All your multimedia files will be saved in the My

stuff. Press Menu then select My stuff to open a list of

folders.

Memory card

If you have inserted a memory card, it will be displayed as a

folder in the My stuff.

Images

The images folder contains a folder of default images

on your phone, images downloaded by you, and images taken on your phone’s camera.

Sounds

The sounds folder contains default sounds, your voice recordings, radio recordings and sound files downloaded by you. From here you can manage and send sounds, or set them as ringtones.

Videos

The videos folder shows the list of downloaded videos and videos you have recorded on your phone.

Games & Apps

Your GB280 comes with preloaded games to keep you amused in your spare time. If you choose to download any additional games or applications they will be saved in this folder.

Others

In the others folder, you can view files that are not saved in the images, sounds or videos folders.

Organizer

Using the calendar

When you enter this menu, a calendar appears. A square cursor is located on the current date. You can move the cursor to another date using the navigation keys.

Adding an item to your to-do list

You can view, edit and add tasks to do.

Press Menu > Organizer > To- do list > Add, if there is not any created task, or select Options and then Add new. Write the task and press Done to save it.

Notes

It follows to add new notes as well as view and manager saved notes.

If the entry is empty press

Central Key and add the

information. You can save

the note by pressing Central

Key. 2

Some options are available

for saved notes in the menu

Options: Add new, Send,

Edit, Move to secret notes,

Mark/Unmark and Delete.

Secret notes

You can write the private memo to protect your privacy. You must enter the security code to use this menu.

Data finder

Date Finder is a handy tool that helps you figure out what is the date after it has passed a certain number of days.

For example, 60 days after 2009/10/10 will be 2009/12/09.

Settings

You can set up the options: Calendar, Send all schedules & To do via Bluetooth, Backup Calendar & To do, Restore Calendar & To do, Memory info. and Clear all.

Tools

Go to

This helps you go to the menu you are searching for. You can set an item as Go to.

Setting your alarm

You can set up to five alarms to go off at a specified time.

Using the calculator

The calculator provides the basic arithmetic functions— addition, subtraction, multiplication and division—as well as scientific functions.

Using the stopwatch

This option allows you to use

stopwatch functions.

Converting units

This can convert many measurements into the unit you want.

Adding a city to your world time

You can add a required city to the list of world clocks. You can also check the current Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the time in major cities around the world.

Browser

Accessing the web

You can launch the WAP browser and access the homepage of the activated profile on web settings. You can also manually enter a URL address and access the associated WAP page.

1 Press Menu > Portal ideas. 2 To access the web

homepage directly, select

Home. Alternately, select Enter address and type in

your desired URL.

Adding and accessing your bookmarks

For easy and fast access to your favorite websites, you can add bookmarks and save web pages.

1 Press Menu > Portal ideas.

Bookmarks.

2 Select 3 To add a new bookmark,

select

Options

and choose

Add new. If the entry is empty choose Add, insert information select Options and then Save

. Enter a

name for your bookmark followed by the URL

4 Press Save. Your bookmark

will now appear in the list of bookmarks.

5 To access the bookmark

simply scroll to the required bookmark >

Open. You

will be connected to your

bookmarked page.

Accessing a saved page

1 Press Menu > Portal ideas. 2 Select Saved Pages. 3 Select the required page

and press

Open.

Viewing your browser history

1 Press Menu > Portal ideas. 2 Select Last web address. 3 A list of web page titles you

have accessed recently will

be displayed. To access one

of these pages, scroll to the

required page >

Open.

Changing the web browser settings

1 Press Menu > Portal ideas. 2 Select Settings. 3 You can choose the way

your mobile handles,

displays and uses

information when browsing

the internet. You can

amend settings within

Profiles, Appearance settings, Cache, Cookies

and Security.

4 Once you have changed

your settings, select Select.

Settings

This folder lets you adapt your settings to personalize your telephone.

1 Press Menu > Settings. You can choose the following options:

Profiles

You can personalize each profile setting.

1 Choose the profile you

want > Edit from Options.

2 If you activate Silent

mode, the phone will vibrate only.

Using flight mode

When Flight Mode is

, you will not be

activated able to make calls, connect to the Internet or send

messages.

Changing the display settings

You can change the settings for the phone display.

Screen theme

- Choose an

image for locking, switching the phone on or off.

Menu Style

- Choose the

style of your menu options as a grid or list.

- Adjust the font

Dialing

style for when you are dialing a phone number.

- Adjust the font size

Font

and style.

Backlight

- Choose how

long the backlight stays on.

Handset Theme

- Quickly

change the whole look of your screen.

Greeting Message

- Choose

to add a message to your standby screen.

Changing the date & time

You can set functions relating to the date and time.

Conectivity

You can adjust the settings for your Network, Internet profiles, access points, Packet data connection, Bluetooth and USB connection mode.

For more information about Bluetooth and USB connection see “Connectivity”.

Changing the call settings

For more information about call settings see “Changing

the call settings”.

Changing the Phone settings

Auto Key Lock - It allows

you to lock the phone automatically.

Language

- Change

the language on your telephone’s display.

Power Save

- Choose to

switch the value power saving settings to On or

OFF. Handset Information

- View

the telephone technical information.

Motion Settings

From here you can set movement functions.

You need to set this function as ON.

Muting the ringing with movement

To mute the ringing, turn the telephone upside down.

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