LG Electronics USA E440G Users Manual

Contacts

Add contacts to your phone and synchronize them with the contacts in your Google account or other accounts that support contact syncing.

Searching for a contact

On the Home screen

1	Touch	to open your contacts.
2	Touch Search contacts and enter the contact name using the keyboard.

Adding a new contact

1Touch , enter the new contact's number, then touch the Menu key . Touch

Add to Contacts > Create new contact.

2If you want to add a picture to the new contact, touch the image area. Choose from Take photo or Select from Gallery.

3	Select the contact type by touching	.
4	Touch a category of contact information and enter the details about your contact.
5	Touch Save.

Favorite contacts

You can classify frequently called contacts as favorites.

Adding a contact to your favorites

1	Touch	to open your contacts.
2	Touch a contact to view its details.
3	Touch the star to the right of the contact's name. The star will turn yellow color.

Removing a contact from your favorites list 1 Touch to open your contacts.

2 Touch the tab, and choose a contact to view its details.

3Touch the yellow color star to the right of the contact's name. The star turns grey color and the contact is removed from your favorites.

Creating a group

1	Touch	to open your contacts.
2	Touch Groups and touch the Menu key		. Select New group.

3Enter a name for the new group. You can also set a ringtone for the newly created group.

4 Touch Save to save the group.

NOTE: If you delete a group, the contacts assigned to that group will not be lost. They will remain in your contacts.

Messaging

Your phone combines SMS and MMS into one intuitive, easy-to-use menu.

Sending a message

1 Touch on the Home screen and touch to open a blank message.

2Enter a contact name or contact number in the To field. As you enter the contact name, matching contacts will appear. You can touch a suggested recipient. You can add more than one contact.

NOTE: You will be charged for a text message for every person you send the message to.

3 Touch the Enter message field and begin composing your message.

4Touch to open the Options menu. Choose from Quick message, Insert smiley, Schedule sending and Add subject.

TIP! You can touch the icon to attach the file you want to share to your message.

5 Touch Send to send your message.

6Responses will appear on the screen. As you view and send additional messages, a message thread is created.

WARNING

•The 160-character limit may vary from country to country, depending on the language and how the SMS is coded.

•If an image, video or audio file is added to an SMS message, it is automatically converted into an MMS message and you are charged accordingly.

Threaded box

Unread messages (SMS, MMS) are located on the top.

And the others exchanged with another party can be displayed in chronological order so that you can conveniently see an overview of your conversation.

Changing your message settings

Your phone message settings are pre-defined, so you can send messages immediately. You can change the settings according to your preferences.

• Touch the Messaging icon on the Home screen, touch and then tap Settings.

E-mail

You can use the E-mail application to read emails from services like Gmail. The E-mail application supports the following account types: POP3, IMAP and Exchange.

Your service provider or system administrator can provide you with the account settings you need.

Managing an email account

The first time you open the E-mail application, a set-up wizard opens to help you to set up an email account.

After the initial set-up, E-mail displays the contents of your inbox. If you have added more than one account, you can switch among accounts.

To add another email account:

•Touch > Apps tab > E-mail > touch > Accounts > touch > Add account.

To change an email account's settings:

•Touch > Apps tab > E-mail > touch > Accounts > touch > Entire settings.

To delete an email account:

•Touch > Apps tab > E-mail > touch > Accounts > touch > Remove account > touch an account you want to delete > Remove > select Yes.

Working with account folders

Touch > Apps tab > E-mail > touch and select Folders.

Each account has an Inbox, Outbox, Sent and Drafts folder. Depending on the features supported by your account's service provider, you may have additional folders.

Composing and sending email

To compose and send a message

1 While in the E-mail application, touch the .

2Enter an address for the message's intended recipient. As you enter text, matching addresses will be proposed from your Contacts. Separate multiple addresses using semicolons.

3 Touch the Cc/Bcc field to add a Cc/Bcc and Touch to attach files, if required. 4 Enter the text of the message.

5Touch .

If you aren't connected to a network, for example, if you're working in airplane mode, the messages that you send will be stored in your Outbox folder until you connect to a network again. If it contains any pending messages, the Outbox will be displayed on the Accounts screen.

TIP! When a new email arrives in your Inbox, you will be notified by a sound or vibration. Tap the email notification to stop receiving notifications.

Camera

To open the Camera application, tap Camera on the Home screen.

Getting to know the viewfinder

Zoom - Zoom in or out.

Cheese shutter – This enables you to take a picture as voice command. Say "Cheese" when you get ready to take a photo.

Brightness – This defines and controls the amount of sunlight entering the image.

Flash – Automatically turns on the flash when taking a photo in a dark place.

Settings – Touch this icon to open the Settings menu.

Video mode – Touch this icon to switch to video mode.

Capture – Takes a photo.

Gallery – Touch to view the last photo you captured. This enables you to access your gallery and view saved photos within camera mode.

NOTE: The memory capacity may differ depending on the shooting scene or shooting conditions.

Using the advanced settings

In the viewfinder, tap to open the advanced options. You can change the camera settings by scrolling through the list. After selecting the option, tap the Back key.

Touch if you want to change the viewfinder menu.

Selects photo resolution. If you choose high resolution, file size will increase, which means you will be able to store fewer photos in the memory.

Finds the appropriate color and light settings for the current environment.

The ISO rating determines the sensitivity of the camera's light sensor. The higher the ISO, the more sensitive the camera. This is useful in darker conditions when you cannot use the flash.

Improves color quality in various lighting conditions.

Applies artistic effects to your pictures.

Sets a delay after the capture button is pressed. This is ideal if you want to be in the photo.

Activate this to use your phone's location-based services. Take pictures wherever you are and tag them with the location. If you upload tagged pictures to a blog that supports geotagging, you can see the pictures displayed on a map.

NOTE: This function is only available when the GPS function is active.

Selects a shutter sound.

Automatically shows you the picture you just took.

Select storage to save images.

Camera

Restore all camera default settings.

Touch this whenever you want to know how a function works. This icon will provide you with a quick guide.

TIP!

•When you exit the camera, some settings return to their defaults, such as white balance, color effect, timer and scene mode. Check these before you take your next photo.

•The setting menu is superimposed over the viewfinder, so when you change photo color or quality elements, you will see a preview of the changed image behind the Settings menu.

Taking a quick photo

1 Open the Camera application.

2Holding the phone horizontally, point the lens towards the subject you want to photograph.

3A focus box will appear in the center of the viewfinder screen. You can also tap anywhere on the screen to focus on that spot.

4 When the focus box turns green, the camera has focused on your subject. 5 Touch to capture the photo.

Once you've taken a photo

Touch	to view the last photo you captured.

	Touch to take another photo immediately.

	Touch to send your photo to others or share it via social network services.

	Touch to delete the photo.

TIP! If you have an SNS account and set it up on your phone, you can share your photo with your SNS community.

NOTE: Additional charges may apply when MMS messages are downloaded while roaming.

Touch the Menu key to open all advanced options.

Set image as – Touch to use the photo as a Contact photo, Home screen wallpaper or Lock screen wallpaper.

Move – Touch to move the photo to another place.

Copy – Touch to copy the selected photo and save it to another album. Rename – Touch to edit the name of the selected photo.

Rotate left/right – To rotate left or right.

Crop – Crop your photo. Move your finger across the screen to select the area to be cropped.

Camera

Edit – View and edit the photo.

Adjusts light and shade to your photo.

Applies artistic effects to your photos.

Improve color quality in various lighting conditions.

Applies additional options to your photos.

Slideshow – Automatically shows you the images in the current folder one after the other.

Details – Find out more information about the contents.

Viewing your saved photos

You can access your saved photos when in camera mode. Just tap the Gallery icon and your Gallery will be displayed.

•To view more photos, scroll left or right.

•To zoom in or out, double-tap the screen or place two fingers and spread them apart (move your fingers closer together to zoom out).

Video camera

Getting to know the viewfinder

Zoom – Zoom in or zoom out.

Video size – Touch to set the size (in pixels) of the video you are recording.

Brightness – This defines and controls the amount of sunlight entering the video.

Flash – Allows you to turn on the flash when recording a video in dark conditions.

Settings – Touch this icon to open the settings menu.

Camera mode – Touch this icon to switch to camera mode.

Record – Starts recording.

Gallery – Touch to view the last video you recorded. This enables you to access your gallery and view your saved videos from within video mode.

NOTE: While recording a video, place two fingers on the screen and pinch to use the Zoom function.

Video camera

Using the advanced settings

Using the viewfinder, touch to open all the advanced options.

Touch if you want to change the viewfinder menu.

Improves color quality in various lighting conditions.

Choose a colour tone to use for your new view.

Activate this to use your phone's location-based services.

Choose Off to record a video without sound.

Auto review automatically shows you the video you just recorded.

Select storage to save videos.

Restore all video camera default settings.

Recording a quick video

1 Open the Camera application and touch the Video mode button. 2 The video camera viewfinder appears on the screen.

3Hold your phone, point the lens towards the subject you wish to capture in your video.

4 Touch once to start recording.

5A red light will appear at the top left corner of the viewfinder with a timer showing the length of the video.

6 Touch on the screen to stop recording.

After recording a video

Touch	to view the last video you took.

	Touch to record another video immediately.

	Touch to send your video to others or share it via social network services.

	Touch to delete the video.

NOTE: Additional charges may apply when MMS messages are downloaded while roaming.

Watching your saved videos

1	In the viewfinder, tap	.
2	Your Gallery will appear on the screen.
3	Tap a video to play it automatically.

Adjusting the volume when viewing a video

To adjust the volume of a video while it is playing, use the volume keys on the left side of the phone.

LG Unique Function

QuickMemo function

Use the QuickMemo function to practically and efficiently create memos during a call, with a saved picture or on the current phone screen.

1 Enter the QuickMemo function screen by pressing

QuickMemo function key.

Touch and slide the status bar downward and touch .

2Select the desired menu option from Pen type, Color, Eraser and create a memo.

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