LG Electronics LG-E610 manual Getting to know your phone, Phone memory, Optimising battery life

Getting to know your phone

Before you start using the phone, please read this!

Please check to see whether any problems you 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 there is less than 10% of space available in your phone memory, your phone cannot receive new messages. You need to check your phone memory and delete some data, such as applications or messages, to make more memory available.

To uninstall applications:

1Touch > Apps tab > Settings > Apps from the DEVICE category.

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

3Touch Uninstall.

2. Optimising battery life

Extend your battery's life between charges by turning off features that you don't need to having running constantly in the background. You can monitor how applications and system resources consume battery power.

Extending your phone's battery life:

•Turn off radio communications you are not using. If you are not using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GPS, turn them off.

•Reduce screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.

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

•Some applications you have downloaded may reduce battery power.

To check the battery power level:

•Touch > Apps tab > Settings > About phone under SYSTEM > Status

The battery status (charging or not charging) and level (percentage charged) are displayed.

To monitor and control how battery power is being used:

•Touch > Apps tab > Settings > Power Saver from the DEVICE > Battery use category under BATTERY INFORMATION.

Battery usage time is displayed on the screen. It tells you how long it has been since you last connected your phone to a power source or, if currently connected, how long the phone was last running on battery power. The screen shows the applications or