LG LGP500 Owner’s Manual

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Simple Manual

LG-P500

P/N : MMBB0393947 (1.1)

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www.lg.com

Congratulations on your purchase of the advanced and compact LG-P500 phone by LG, designed to operate with the latest digital mobile communication technology.

Product Authentication program

Dear Customers,

To protect all LG customers from counterfeit and grey market products and make sure that you receive official warranty service, LG is now running a product authentication program.

To make sure your handset is a genuine product of LG, ONLY one SMS containing the IMEI No. of your purchased handset will be automatically sent to LG on the date of purchase.

Once your phone is authenticated, you will receive the message‘Your handset is a genuine LG product.’

The customer shall bear the cost of one SMS for the product authentication program. In return, you will receive one additional month of warranty for free.

One additional month of warranty covers only mobile phone, not batteries and accessories.

The IMEI No. sent to LG guarantees your handset to be free from manufacturing defects during the warranty period from the date of purchase without proof of purchase or warranty card.

LG-P500 User Guide

This guide helps you get started using your phone.

If you need more information, please visit www.lg.com.

• Some of the contents of this manual may not apply to your phone depending on your phone’s software or your service provider.

•This handset is not recommended for the visually impaired because of its touch-screen keypad.

•Copyright ©2011 LG Electronics, Inc. All rights reserved. LG

and the LG logo are registered trademarks of LG Group and its related entities. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

•Google, Google Maps, Google

Mail, YouTube, Google Talk and Android Market are trademarks of

Google, Inc.

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Important notice

Please check to see if any problems you have 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 on your phone memory is less than 10%, your phone can not receive a new message. You need to check your phone memory and delete some data such as applications or messages to make more memory available.

To manage the application

1On the home screen, touch

Applications tab and select Settings> Applications> Manage applications.

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

3Tap Uninstall and touch OK to uninstall application you desired.

2. Optimising Battery Life

You can extend your battery's life by turning off features that you don't need to run constantly in the background. You can also monitor how applications and system resources consume battery power.

To extend the life of your battery

-Turn off radio communications that you aren't using. If you aren't using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GPS, turn them off.

-Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.

-Turn off automatic syncing for Google Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and other applications.

-Some applications you’ve downloaded may cause your battery’s life to be reduced.

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To check the battery charge level

1On the home screen, touch

Applications tab and select Settings> About phone> Status.

2The battery status (charging, not charging) and level (as a percentage of fully charged) are displayed at the top of the screen.

To monitor and control what uses the battery

1On the home screen, touch

Applications tab and select Settings> About phone> Battery use.

2The top of the screen displays battery usage time. Either how long since last connected to a power source or, if connected to a power source, how long you were last running on battery power. The body of the screen lists applications or services using battery power from greatest amount to least.

3.Installing an Open Source OS

If you install an open source OS on your phone, and do not use the OS provided by the manufacturer, this may cause your phone to malfunction.

WARNING: If you install and use an OS other than the one provided by the manufacturer, your phone is no longer covered by the warranty.

WARNING: To protect your phone and personal data, download applications only from trusted sources, such as Android Market. If some applications are not properly installed on your phone, your

phone may not work normally or a serious error can be occurred. You will need to uninstall those applications and all of its data and settings from the phone.

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4. Using Unlock pattern

Set unlock pattern to secure your phone. Opens a set of screens that guide you through drawing a screen unlock pattern.

WARNING: Precautions to take when using the Pattern Lock, It is very important that you remember the unlock pattern you set. You have 5 opportunities to enter your unlock Pattern, PIN or Password. If you used all the 5 opportunities, you can attempt it after 30 seconds.

When you can’t recall your unlock Pattern, PIN, or Password:

In case of pattern lock,If you logged in Google account on the phone and failed to use correct pattern 5 times, tab the Forgot pattern button. Then, you are required to sign in with your Google account to unlock your phone.

If you haven’t created a Google account on the phone or you forgot it, you need to perform a factory reset. In case of PIN or Password lock, their is no option of forgot pattern, that time if u forgot the code then u have to do factory reset.

Caution: Only in case of pattern lock you can unlock phone using Goolge account in case of PIN or Password Lock you need to perform factory reset. 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.

5. Using Hard Reset

*Using Hard Reset (Factory Reset)

If it does not restore to the original condition, use Hard Reset to initialise your phone. If user turns on the phone with pressing and holding Power

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+ Home + Down volume key at the same time (for 10 seconds), the phone will turn on and perform factory reset immediately.

Please note, after you perform Hard Reset, all your data and applications on your phone will be erased and cannot be reversed.

WARNING

If you perform Hard Reset, all user applications and user data will be deleted. Please remember to back up any important data before performing Hard Reset.

6.Connecting to Wi-Fi networks

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

configure your phone so it can connect to them.

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

To turn Wi-Fi on and connect to a Wi-Fi network

1On the home screen, touch

Applications tab and select Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings.

2Touch Wi-Fi to turn it on and begin scan for available Wi-Fi networks.

-List of available Wi-Fi networks are displayed. Secured networks are indicated by a lock icon.

3Touch a network to connect to it.

-If the network is open, you are prompted to confirm that you want to connect to that network by touching Connect.

-If the network is secured, you're prompted to enter

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a password or other credentials. (Ask your network administrator for details.)

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

7. Using a microSD card

Pictures, along with Music and Video files, can only be saved to external memory.

Before using the built-in camera, you need to insert a micro SD memory card to your phone first.

Without inserting a memory card, you will not be able to save pictures and video you had taken.

WARNING:

Do not insert or remove the memory card when the phone is on. Otherwise, it may damage the memory card as well as your phone, and the data stored on the memory card may be corrupted. To remove the memory card safely, please select Settings> Storage (For Android 2.2 version, SD Card

& Phone Storage) > Unmount SD card.

8.Opening and Switching Applications

Multi-tasking is easy with Android because open applications keep running even when you open another application. There’s no need to quit an application before opening another. Use and switch among several open applications. Android manages each application, stopping and starting them as needed, to ensure that idle applications

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don’t consume resources unnecessarily.

To stop the application you use

1On the home screen, touch

Applications tab and select Settings> Applications> Manage applications.

2Scroll to the desire application and touch Force stop to stop using it.

TIP! Getting back to recent Apps

-Press and hold Home key, then a screen will display list of the applications you used recently.

9.Copy LG PC Suite from SD Card

The LG PC Suite IV is a program that helps you connect your mobile phone to a PC using

a USB data communication cable, so that you can use the functions of the mobile phone on your PC.

Major Functions of the LG PC Suite IV

• Create, edit and delete phone

data conveniently

•Synchronise data from a PC & phone (Contacts, Calendar, Message(SMS), Bookmark,Call log)

•Transfer multimedia files (photos, videos, music) conveniently with a simple drag & drop between a PC and phone

•Transfer the messages from a phone to a PC

•S/W update without loosing your data

Installing LG PC Suite from your microSD memory card

1Insert your microSD memory card on your phone. ( It may already be inserted on your phone.)

2Before connecting the USB data cable, make sure that the Mass storage only mode is enabled on your phone. (On the applications menu, choose Settings > Storage, then select Mass storage only

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Important notice

check box.)

3Connect your phone through USB data cable to your PC.

4• In the status bar, drag the USB icon.

•Choose USB Connected and Mount.

•You can view the mass storage content on your PC and transfer the files.

5• Copy the ‘LGPCSuiteIV’ folder on your mass storage to your PC.

•Run ‘LGInstaller.exe’ file on your PC and follow the instructions.

* When LG PCSuite IV installation completed, disable Mass storage only mode to run LG PCSuite IV.

NOTE: Please do not remove or delete other program fi le installed on your memory card this may cause to damage your preinstalled application on the phone.

10.Connecting your phone to a computer via USB

NOTE: To synchronize your phone via USB cable with your PC, you need to install the LG PC suite program on your PC. You can download this program from

the LG website (www.lg.com)

.Go to http://www.lg.com and select your region, country & language.Visit LG Website for more information. As PC suite is embedded at inboxed SD card. you can simply copy it to your PC.

LG-P500 does not support:

-PC Connection via Bluetooth

-LG Air Sync (Web Sync, R-Click)

-OSP (On Screen Phone)

-To-do in Calendar

-Java Application

-Internet Kit

User’s guide for PC Suite IV is in Help menu after install PC Suite IV.

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1Use the USB cable with your phone to connect the phone to a USB port on your computer. You receive a notification that the USB is connected.

2Open the Notification drawer and touch USB connected.

3Touch Mount to confirm that you want to transfer files between your phone’s microSD card and the computer.

When the phone is connected as USB storage, you receive a notification. You phone’s microSD card is mounted as a

drive on your computer. You can now copy files to and from the microSD card.

To disconnect your phone from the computer, carefully follow your computer’s instructions to disconnect USB devices correctly, to avoid losing information on the card.

1Safely disconnect the USB device on your computer.

2Open the Notification drawer and touch Turn off USB storage.

3Touch Turn off in the dialog that opens.

Note: When uninstalling PC Suite IV, USB and Bluetooth Drivers are not automatically removed. Therefore, they must be uninstalled manually.

Tip! To use a microSD card on your phone again, you need to open the Notifi cation drawer and touch "Turn off USB storage".

During this time, you can’t access the microSD card from your phone, so you can’t use applications that rely on the microSD card, such as Camera, Gallery and Music.

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