LG LGP500 Owner’s Manual

Simple Manual

LG-P500

ENGLISH

P/N : MMBB0393947 (1.1) G

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 o cial 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 de-

fects during the warranty period from the date of purchase without proof of purchase or warranty card.

LG-P500LG-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.

• Google, Google Maps, Google

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

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

On the home screen, touch

Applications Settings> Applications Manage applications

When all applications

appear, scroll and select the application you want to uninstall.

Tap

to uninstall application you desired.

Uninstall

tab and select

and touch OK

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.

To check the battery charge level

On the home screen, touch

Applications Settings> About phone Status

The battery status (charging,

tab and select

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

On the home screen, touch

Applications

tab and select

Settings> About phone> Battery use.

The 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.

If you install and

WARNING:

use an OS other than the one provided by the manufacturer, your phone is no longer covered by the warranty.

To protect your

WARNING:

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.

Important notice

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:

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.

Precautions

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

Reset

to initialise your phone. If user turns on the phone with pressing and holding Power

Hard

+ 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

applications on your phone will be erased and cannot be reversed.

, all your data and

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

On the home screen, touch

Applications

tab and select

Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings

Wi-Fi

Touch

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.

Touch 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

Important notice

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

The 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

Android 2.2 version, SD Card & Phone Storage) > Unmount SD card.

Settings> Storage (For

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

don’t consume resources unnecessarily.

To stop the application you use

On the home screen, touch

Applications Settings> Applications Manage applications

Scroll to the desire application

and touch 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.

Copy LG PC Suite from

tab and select

Force stop

to stop

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

Insert your microSD memory

card on your phone. ( It may already be inserted on your phone.)

Before connecting the USB

data cable, make sure that the

Mass storage only

is enabled on your phone. (On the applications menu, choose

Settings > Storage,

then select

Mass storage only

mode

Important notice

check box.) Connect your phone through

USB data cable to your PC.

• 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.

• 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

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.

Mass storage

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.

Use 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.

Open the Notification drawer and touch USB connected.

Mount

Touch

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.

Safely disconnect the USB

device on your computer. Open the Notification drawer

and touch

storage

Touch

Turn off USB

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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