LG LG-P500 User Manual

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LG-P500

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P/N : MMBB0393952 (1.0) G

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

Bluetooth QD ID B016768

LG-P500LG-P500 User Guide

This guide will help 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.

• Copyright ©2010 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 search, Maps, Google Mail, YouTube, 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 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 application

On the home screen, touch

Applications Settings> Applications Manage applications

Locate application from either

Downloaded, Running, All, and On SD card tabs located at the top of the screen.

Touch Uninstall then touch OK

to uninstall the application.

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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,

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discharging) 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 occur. 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.

On the home screen, touch Applications tab and select Settings>Location & security>Set up screen lock>Pattern.

Follow the screens to be guided through drawing a screen unlock pattern. Select OK to continue to next screen.

Opens a set of screens that guide you through drawing a screen unlock pattern.

Precautions to

WARNING:

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 have used all 5 opportunities, you may attempt again after 30 seconds.

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

If you have setup a google account on the phone and failed to use the correct pattern 5 times. Then you are required to sign in with your google account to unlock your phone Google account to unlock your phone.

If you haven't setup a google account on your phone or you have forgotten it, you need to perform a factory reset

5. Using Hard Reset

* Using Hard Reset (Factory

Reset)

Use Hard Reset to initialise your phone to the original condition. Turn on the phone by pressing and holding Power + Home + Down volume key at the same time (for 10 seconds), the phone will turn on and perform factory reset immediately.

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

Use Wi-Fi on your phone to 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 Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings

Touch

begin scan for available Wi-Fi networks.

- List of available Wi-Fi networks

are displayed. Secured networks are indicated by a lock icon.

tab and select

Wi-Fi

to turn it on and

Important notice

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

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

Connect

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, On the Home screen, touch Applications tab and select Settings>SD Card & phone storage>Unmount SD card.

8. Opening and Switching Applications

Multi-tasking is easy with Android because opened applications will keep running even when you open another application. There’s no need to quit an application before opening another. Android manages each application, stopping and starting them as needed, to ensure that idle applications don’t consume resources unnecessarily.

To stop an application

On the home screen, touch

Applications Settings > Applications > Manage applications Choose from either Downloaded, Running, All, or On SD card tabs

Scroll and touch the desire application then touch Force stop to close the application.

TIP Getting back to recent

Apps

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

LG PC Suite IV

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.

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Major Functions of the LG PC Suite IV

• Create, edit and delete phone data conveniently

• Synchronise data from 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

• Use your phone as a Modem

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 > SD card

mode

Important notice

& phone storage Mass storage only

box.) Connect your phone through

USB data cable to your PC.

• In the status bar, drag down

the USB icon.

• Touch Turn on USB storage button, then touch OK to confirm.

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

• Run 'LGInstaller.exe' file

from the USB mass storage.

"When LG PCSuite IV installation is completed, disable Mass storage only mode on the phone to run LG PCSuite"

NOTE:

Please do not remove or delete other program ﬁ le installed on your memory card this may damage pre-installed application on the phone.

, then select

check

10.

Connecting your phone to a computer via USB

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

User's guide for PC Suite IV is in the Help menu after installing PC Suite.

Use the USB cable with

your phone to connect the phone to a USB port on your computer. You should recieve a notification that a USB device is connected.

Open the Notification drawer

and touch USB connected. Touch

Mount

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

to confirm

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.

11. Unlock screen when using data connection

Your display will go dark if untouched for a period of time when using data connection. To turn on your LCD screen, just press a hard key..

Note:

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

Tip!

While in Mass Storage mode, 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.

To use the microSD card on the phone again, you need to turn off Mass Storage mode. Open the Notiﬁ cation drawer on your phone and touch "Turn off USB storage".

To avoid losing information on the microSD card, carefully follow your computer's instructions to disconnect USB devices

Open the Notification drawer

and touch Turn off USB storage.

Safely disconnect the USB

device from your computer.

12.

Hold Phone straight up

Please hold the mobile phone straight up as a regular phone.

While making/receiving calls or sending/receiving data, try to avoid holding the lower part of the phone where the antenna is located. It may affect call quality.

Important notice

13. When Screen freezes

If the phone does not respond to user input or the screen freezes:

Remove the battery, insert it again and power on the phone. If it still does not work, please contact the service center.

NOTE:

Do not connect your phone when you power on/off your PC.

Before using the mobile phone, please read ﬁ rst!

How to save music/video files to the phone

Connect your phone to the PC using the USB cable.

Touch and drag down the status bar on the home screen. Select

USB connected > Turn on USB storage > select OK >Open folder to view files.

If you didn't install LG Android Platform Driver on your PC, you need set it manually.

For more information, refer to 'Transferring files using mass storage devices' .

Save music or video files from the PC to the phone's removable storage.

- You may copy or move files from the PC to the phone's removable storage using a card reader.

- If there is a subtitle file with the video file (smi or .srt file with the same name as the video file), place them in the same

folder to display the subtitle automatically when playing the video file.

- When downloading music or video files, copyright must be secured. Please note that a corrupted file or file with a wrong extension may cause damage to the phone.

How to play music/video files to the phone

Playing music files

From home screen touch Application tab > Music. Locate the file you want to play from Artist, Albums, Songs, Playlists tabs

Playing video files

From home screen touch Application tab > Video player. , locate the file you want in the list and select it to play.

Before using the mobile phone, please read ﬁ rst!

If the connection of LG-P500

How to move the contacts from the old phone to the current phone

Export your contacts as a CSV file from your old phone to the PC using a PC sync program.

Select the

Press the Menu key then touch More > Import/Export > Import from SD card and select the vCard (vcf) file saved in the PC.

If the fields in the imported

CSV file are different from the ones in Mobile Sync for Android, you need to map the fields. After mapping the fields, click OK. Then, the contacts are added in Mobile Sync for Android.

Contacts

icon.

3 *

phone (using the USB cable) is detected by Mobile Sync for Android, click "Sync" or "Sync contacts" to synchronize the contacts saved in the PC to your phone and save them.

How to send data from your phone via Bluetooth

Sending data via Bluetooth:

You can send data via Bluetooth by running a corresponding application, not from Bluetooth menu, unlike regular mobile phones.

NOTE

: Check and make sure that Bluetooth is turned on before following steps below.

Sending pictures:

Gallery application and select

the picture to send, press Menu key then touch Share > Bluetooth >

> Choose the device you want to send data from the list.

Run the

Scan for devices

Exporting contacts:

Contacts application. Touch the address you want to export. Press

Share > Bluetooth > Scan for

or choose the device if

Devices

it has already been paired.

Sending multi-selected

contacts:

Run the "Contacts" application. To Select more than one contact press Menu key and touch Select the contacts you want to send or press and touch Select all to select all the contacts and >

Bluetooth

devices

> Choose the device you want to send data from the list.

* “Bluetooth settings”. Then, select the “Discoverable” checkbox and search for other devices by scan for devices option . Find the service you want and connect to the FTP server.

Run the

and Select

Multiselect

key

Tou ch Scan for

TIP:

The Bluetooth version is 2.1 EDR and certified by Bluetooth SIG. It is compatible with other Bluetooth SIG certified devices.

- If you want to search for this

phone from other devices, From Application tab go to Settings>Wireless & networks>Bluetooth settings.

Then, select the "Discoverable" checkbox.

The checkbox is cleared after 120 seconds.

- Supported profiles are SDAP,

HFP, HSP, OPP, PBAP (server), A2DP, AVRCP, and DUN.

Getting to know your phone

To turn on the phone, press and hold Power key for 3 seconds. To Turn off the phone, press Power key for 3 seconds , touch Power Off

and touch Ok.

Earpiece

Proximity Sensor

Home key

- Returns to home screen from any screen.

Menu key

- Check what options are available.

WARNING:

can damage its LCD and touch screen functionalities. Do not cover the protective ﬁ lm on the LCD’s proximity sensor. This can cause the sensor to malfunction.

Tip!

Press Menu key whenever you tap an application to check what

Placing a heavy object on the phone or sitting on it

options are available.

Tip!

LG-P500 does not support Video call.

Tip!

If LG-P500 has errors when you use it or you can not turn it on,

remove battery ,install it again and turn it on after 5 seconds.

Power/Lock key

- Powers your phone on/off by pressing and holding the key.

- Turns off the screen and locks.

Back key

- Returns to the previous screen.

Search key

- Search the web and contents in your phone.

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