LG GT550 Users manual

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

GT550 User Guide

Part 15.21 statement

" Change or Modifications that are not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void

the user's authority to operate the equipment. “

Part 15.105 statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital

device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.

These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in

a residential installation. This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency

energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful

interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will

not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference or

television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user

is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to

which the receiver is connected.

- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Part 15 Class B Compliance

This device and its accessories comply with part15 of FCC rules.

Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

(1) This device & its accessories may not cause harmful interference.

(2) This device & its accessories must accept any interference received,

including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Body-worn Operation

This device has been tested for typical body-worn operations

with the distance of 0.79inches (2.0cm) from the user’s body.

To comply with FCC RF exposure requirements, a minimum separation distance

of 0.79inches(2.0cm) must be maintained from the user's body.

Additionally, Belt clips, holsters & other body-worn accessories may not contain

metallic components.

Getting to know your phone

Power key

Turns the phone on/off.

Earpiece

Proximity Sensor

WARNING: Moisture on the

proximity sensor may cause it to malfunction. Please wipe any moisture off the sensor surface.

End key

• Rejects a call.

• Press once to return to the home

screen.

Call key Dials a phone number and answers incoming calls.

Multitasking key

WARNING: Putting a heavy object on the phone or sitting on it

can damage its LCD and touch screen functionality. Do not cover the protection ﬁlm on proximity sensor of LCD. It can be caused the malfunction of sensor.

Getting to know your phone

Music key

Volume keys

• When the screen is idle:

key tone volume.

• During a call: earpiece

volume.

• When playing a track: controls volume

continuously.

Camera key

• Go to the camera

menu directly by pressing and holding the key.

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Charger, Data cable (USB cable)

TIP: Before

connecting the USB cable, wait until the phone has powered up and has registered on the network.

Open view

SIM card socket

Camera lens

Battery cover

Battery

Memory card socket

Installing the SIM and battery

1 Remove the battery cover

Press and hold down the battery release button on the top of the phone and lift off the battery cover.

2 Remove the battery

Hold the top edge of the battery and lift it away from the battery compartment.

WARNING: Do not remove the battery when the phone is switched on, as this may damage the phone.

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3 Install the SIM card

Slide the USIM card into the USIM card holder. Make sure the gold contact area on the card is facing downwards. To remove the USIM card, pull it gently in the outwards.

4 Install the battery

First insert the top of the battery into the top edge of the battery compartment. Ensure that the battery contacts align with the phone’s terminals. Press the bottom of the battery down until it clips into place.

Charging your phone Memory card

1 Ensure the battery is fully

charged before using the phone for the first time.

2 With the arrow facing you as

shown in the diagram push the plug on the travel adapter into the socket on the side of the phone until it clicks into place.

3 Connect the other end of the

travel adapter to the main socket. Use only the charger included in the box.

4 The moving bars of battery

icon will stop after charging is complete.

NOTE: The battery must be fully charged initially to improve battery lifetime. Disregard the first “Battery full” message and keep the phone on charge overnight.

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Installing a memory card

You can expand the available memory space on your phone by using a memory card.

NOTE: A memory card is an optional accessory.

Slide the memory card into the slot at the top, until it clicks into place. Make sure the gold contact area is facing downwards.

Menu map

Touch in the home screen to open a Top menu. From here you can access further menus by scrolling through the icons: Communication, Multimedia, Utilities and Settings.

COMMUNICATION Address book Recent history Orange World Messaging Write message Email Dialling Video call

UTILITIES

Orange Maps Alarms Organiser Memo Voice recorder Calculator World clock

MULTIMEDIA Camera

Video camera Orange music Gallery Media Album Movie maker Games & Apps FM radio

SETTINGS Profiles Screen settings Phone settings Bluetooth Wi-Fi Call settings Connectivity Message settings

Your home screen

From this screen you can access menu options, make a call, view the status of your phone and much more.

Touch screen tips

The home screen is also a great place to get used to using the touch screen.

To select an item, touch the centre of the icon.

•

Do not to press too hard; the touchscreen is sensitive enough to pick up on a light, firm touch.

•

Use the tip of your finger to touch the option you require. Be careful not to touch any other keys.

•

When the screen light is off, either press the power key or hold down the Unlock/Lock key on the touch screen to return the home screen.

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Whenever your GT550 is not in use, it will return to the lock screen.

Customising the home screen

Contact home

Shortcut home

1. screen

Widget home

2. screen (active)

3. screen

Multimedia home

4. screen

Quick keys

The quick keys on your home screen provide easy, one-touch access to the functions you use the most.

Touch to bring up the touch dialling pad, which lets you make a call. Enter the number using the normal key pad and touch Voice call.

Touch to access the Messaging menu. From here you can create a new SMS.

Touch to open your contacts. To search for the number you want to call: Enter the name of the contact using the touchpad. You can also create new contacts and edit existing ones.

Touch to open the full Top menu which is divided into four categories.

Your standby screen

The status bar

The status bar uses various icons to indicate things like signal strength, new messages and battery life, as well as telling you whether your Bluetooth or GPRS is active.

Below is a table which explains the meaning of the icons you’re most likely to see in the status bar.

Icon Description

Multitasking

Network signal strength (number of bars will vary)

No network signal

Remaining battery life

Battery empty

New text message

New voice message

Message inbox is full

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Icon Description

Message sending failed

An alarm is set

Customised Profile in use

Normal profile in use

Outdoor profile in use

Silent profile in use

Headset profile in use

Calls are diverted

EDGE in use

Roaming

Flight mode is on

Bluetooth is active

BGM play

BGM pause

Changing your Status from the status bar

Touch the status bar to open the Status Summary. It shows the current Time, Network, SVC ID, Battery, Handset memory, External Memory, Profile, MP3 and Bluetooth status. Here you can set Profile type, play/pause MP3 and activate/deactivate Bluetooth.

Using the Multitasking function

Press the multitasking hard key

to open the Multitasking menu. From here you can view all the applications you have running and access them with one touch.

When you have an application running in the background (e.g. a game or the FM radio), appear in the status bar.

will

Calls

Making a call

1 Touch to open the keypad.

2 Key in the number using the

keypad. To delete a digit touch the clear key.

3 Press the

initiate the call.

4 To end the call press the

hard key.

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

TIP! Press the lock/ unlock hard key to lock the touchscreen to prevent calls being made by mistake.

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hard key to

TIP! To bring up the keypad during a call, press the .

TIP! Touch to unlock. You can unlock by touching the button for a while until the screen is able to work or press the Unlock hard key

TIP! You can send a message and search contacts by tapping .

Making a call from your contacts

1 From the standby screen touch

to open the address book.

2 Enter the first few letters of the

contact you would like to call.

3 From the filtered list, touch the

contact you’d like to call and select the number to use if you have more than one saved.

4 Touch

Answering and rejecting a call

When your phone rings press the

hard key or touch to

answer the call.

Tap

to mute the ringing. This is great if you’ve forgotten to change your profile to Silent for a meeting.

Press the to reject an incoming call.

hard or touch

Calls

In-call options

TIP! To scroll through a list of options or your list of contacts, touch the last item visible and slide your ﬁnger up the screen. The list will move up so more items become visible.

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Speaker - Touch to turn on

the speaker phone.

Mute - Touch microphone so the person you are talking to cannot hear you.

Options - Choose from a list of further in-call options, including Go to messages, so you can check your messages, Go to contacts to add or search contacts during a call. You can also end the call from here by touching End call.

- Choose to search your

contacts during a call.

- Choose to add another

person to the call.

- Chose to open a numerical keypad for navigating menus with numbered options. For example, when dialling call centres or other automated telephone services.

to turn off the

Adjusting the call volume

To adjust the volume during a call, use the up and down button on the left edge of the phone.

Speed dialling

You can assign a frequently-called contact to a speed dial number.

1 From the standby screen touch

and select and tap .

2 Your Voicemail is already set

to speed dial 1. You cannot change this. Touch any other number to assign it a speed dial contact.

3 Your address book will open.

Select the contact you’d like to assign to that number by touching their phone number once. To find a contact tap the search field box and enter the first letter of the name of the contact required.

Making a second call

1 During your initial call, touch

and select the number you

want to call.

2 Dial the number or search your

contacts (see Making a call on page 22 for details).

3 Press

4 Both calls will be displayed on

the call screen. Your initial call will be locked and the caller put on hold.

5 To change between the calls,

touch call or press the number of the held call.

6 To end one or both calls press

All, Held or Active.

to connect the call.

and choose Swap

and select End followed by

Calls

TIP! You can combine

your calls by selecting Accept then Join. Check

that your network provider supports conference calling.

NOTE: You will be charged for each call you make.

Viewing your call logs

TIP! To scroll through a list of options, touch the last item visible and slide your ﬁnger up the screen. The list will move up so more items are visible.

Turning off DTMF

DTMF allows you to use numerical commands to navigate menus within automated calls. DTMF is switched on as default.

To turn it off during a call (to make a note of a number for example) touch DTMF off.

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and select

Touch and select and tap . Choose to view:

All - View a complete list of all your dialled, received and missed calls.

Dialled numbers you have called.

Received the numbers that have called you.

Missed calls you have missed.

- View a list of all the

- View a list of all

- View a list of all the

TIP! From any call log touch and Delete all to delete all the recorded items.

TIP! To turn off all call diverts, choose Deactivate all from the Call divert menu.

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

Using call divert

1 Touch , select and

choose .

2 Touch Call divert.

3 Choose whether to divert all

calls, when the line is busy, when there is no answer or when you are not reachable.

4 Input the number you’d like to

divert to.

5 Touch Request to activate.

NOTE: Charges are incurred for

diverting calls. Please contact your network provider for details.

Using call barring

1 Touch , select and

choose .

2 Touch Call barring.

3 Choose any or all of the six

options:

All outgoing Outgoing international Outgoing international calls

except home country All incoming Incoming when abroad Deactivate all

4 Enter the call barring

password. Please check with your network operator for this service.

Calls

TIP! Select Fixed dial number to turn on and

compile a list of numbers which can be called from your phone. You’ll need your PIN2 code from your operator. Only numbers included in the ﬁxed dial list can be called from your phone.

Changing the common call setting

1 Touch , select and

choose .

2 Touch Common settings.

From here you can amend the settings for:

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Call reject - Slide the switch to On to highlight the Reject list.

You can touch the text box to choose from all calls, specific contacts or groups, or those from unregistered numbers (those not in your contacts). Touch Save to change the setting.

Send my number - Choose whether your number will be displayed when you call someone.

Auto redial - Slide the switch left for On or right for Off.

Answer mode - Choose whether to answer the phone using the send key or any key.

Minute minder - Slide the switch left to On to hear a tone every minute during a call.

BT answer mode - Select Hands-free to be able to

answer a call using a Bluetooth headset, or select Handset to press a key on the handset to answer a call.

Save new number - Select Ye s to save a new number.

TIP! To scroll through a list of options, touch the last item visible and slide your ﬁnger up the screen. The list will move up so more items are visible.

Contacts

Searching for a contact

There are two ways to search for a contact:

From the standby screen

1 From the standby screen touch

to open the address book. Select the contact from the list that you want to make a call.

2 Touch

From the main menu

1 Touch

2 Touch

3 You see a list of contacts,

TIP! The alphabetical keypad

is displayed once you tap the blank square.

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or press the

hard key to initiate the call.

, select .

and select Search.

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

TIP! To scroll through your list of contacts, touch the last item visible and slide your ﬁnger up the screen. The list will move up so more items are visible.

Adding a new contact

1 From the standby screen touch

and touch Add contact.

2 Choose whether to save the

contact to your Handset or

SIM.

3 Enter the first and last name

of your new contact. You do not have to enter both, but you must enter one or the other.

4 You can enter up to five

different numbers per contact. Each entry has a preset type

Mobile, Home, Office, Pager, Fax, and General. When you have finished, touch Close.

5 Add an email address.

6 Assign the contact to one or

more groups. Choose from

No group, Family, Friends, Colleagues, School or VIP.

7 You can also add a Ringtone,

Birthday, Anniversary, Homepage, Home address, Company name, Job title, Company address and a Memo.

8 Touch Save to save the

contact.

TIP! You can create customised groups for your contacts, see Creating a group on page 32.

Contact options

There are many things you can do when viewing a contact. Here’s how to access and use the options menu:

1 Open the contact you’d like

to use. See Searching for a

contact on page 30.

2 You can call or send a

message directly from here.

3 Press

to open the list of

options.

Edit - Change any of the contact’s details.

Delete - Delete the contact. Touch Yes if you are sure.

Copy or Move to USIM/ Handset - Choose to move

or copy to the USIM card or handset (depending on where you originally saved the contact).

Contacts

Send business card - Send

the contact’s details to another person as a business card. Choose to send as a

Text message, Multimedia message, Email or via Bluetooth.

TIP! Send message

- Send a message to the contact. If the contact has an email address, select whether you’d like to send an email or SMS/MMS. See page 35 for details on how to send messages.

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Creating a group

1 Touch and select .

2 Touch

3 Touch

4 Select Add group.

5 Enter a name for your new

6 Touch Save.

NOTE: If you delete a group, the

contacts which were assigned to that group will not be lost. They will remain in your address book.

TIP! You can edit an existing group by highlighting it and touching . Choose Add members to the group from your contacts, assign a Group ringtone, Rename the group or Delete a group.

then Groups.

group. You can also assign a ringtone to the group.

Changing your contact settings

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

TIP! To scroll through a list of options, touch the last item visible and slide your ﬁnger up the screen. The list will move up so more items are visible.

1 From the standby screen touch

and select .

2 Touch

3 From here you can adjust the

and select Settings.

following settings:

Contact list settings - Choose whether to view contacts saved to both your Handset & USIM, Handset only or USIM only

You can also choose to show the first name or last name of a contact first.

Copy - Copy your contacts from your USIM to your handset or from your handset to your USIM. Choose to do this one at a time, or all at once. If you select one at a time, you’ll need to select each contact to copy one by one.

Move - This works in the same way as Copy, but the contact will only be saved to the location you’ve moved it to. So if you move a contact from the USIM to the handset it will be deleted from the USIM memory.

Send all contacts via Bluetooth - Send all of your

contacts to another device using Bluetooth. You will be prompted to turn on Bluetooth if you select this option.

Backup and Restore contacts

- Backup and restore contacts to the Memory Card.

Contacts

Clear contacts - Delete all your

contacts. Touch Ye s if you are sure you want to wipe your address book.

Viewing information

1 From the standby screen touch

and select .

2 Touch

3 From here you can view your

TIP! If you’ve yet to add

a business card for yourself, select My business card and enter all your details as you would for any contact. Touch Save to ﬁnish.

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and select

Information.

Service dial numbers, your Own number, your Memory info. (how much memory space you’ve got left) and My business card.

Messaging

Your GT550 combines SMS, MMS and email into one intuitive and easy to use menu.

There are two ways to enter the messaging centre:

1 Touch

screen.

2 Touch

screen, then select and choose

Sending a message

1 Touch to open a blank

message.

2 From here you can send an

SMS or MMS. To send an email, touch standby screen, them select

details.

3 Touch Insert, to add an image,

video, sound or template.

from the standby

from the

and . See page 40 for

5 Touch T(1) at the top of the

screen to enter the recipient’s number, or touch the search icon to open your address book. You can add multiple contacts. Touch Send when ready.

WARNING: You

will be charged per per 1 page text message for each person that you send the message to.

WARNING: If an

image, video or sound is added to an SMS it will be automatically convert to an MMS and you will be charged accordingly.

TIP! Quick reply - Send a reply promptly to the selected message using a template.

Messaging

Entering text

There are five ways to enter text:

Keypad, Keyboard, HandwritingScreen, Handwriting-Box, Handwriting-Double Box.

You can chose your input method by tapping

Tap the screen once, the keyboard appears.

predictive text.

languages.

symbols and text keypad.

Use different keyboard types in each text entry mode (for example, capitals or lowercase).

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and Input method.

Touch to turn on T9

You can choose writing

Tap to change numbers,

to scroll through the

T9 predictive

In T9 mode you will see .

T9 mode uses a built-in dictionary to recognise words you’re writing based on the key sequences you touch. Simply touch the number key associated with the letter you want to enter, and the dictionary will predict the word you want to use.

For example, press 8, 3, 5, 3, 7, 4, 6, 6, 3 to write ‘telephone’.

Abc manual

In Abc mode you will see . In Abc mode you must touch the key repeatedly to enter a letter. For example, to write ‘hello’, touch 4 twice, 3 twice, 5 three times, 5 three times again, then 6 three times.

Keyboard

In Keyboard mode the screen flips to landscape and a full keyboard appears on screen.

Simply touch each letter to write your message and press:

to switch to upper case

TIP! Keyboard mode predicts and shows what you will type in next. These words are predicted based on the sentences you have typed in so far. If you do not wish to use the suggested words, keep typing in new words. If you wish to use the suggested words, press the space bar to conﬁrm them.

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