EnteringText | LG Electronics PHONE 150 manual

EnteringText

Selectinga Character InputMode

Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters, punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or when using SMS Text Messaging).

Tochangethecharacterinputmode:

1.When you display a screen where you can enter text, press Mode( ) to change the character input mode.

2.Select one of the following options:

■Abc to cycle through the alpha characters associated with the letters on the keypad.

■T9Word to enter text using a predictive text entering system that reduces the amount of keys that need to be pressed while entering a word.

■123 to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on the keypad.

■Symbols to enter symbols.

■Smileystoenter“emoticons”.

■PresetMessages to enter preprogrammed messages.

■PresetSuffix to enter preset suffix such as http://www., https://www., www., .com, .net , .org,

.edu, .wap, //, ","", (), {}, [], <>, <<>>

Tip: When entering text, press the *(Shift) key to change letter capitalization (Abc>ABC>abc).

Phone Basics

Section 2A: Your Phone – The Basics

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Contents

LG LG150 Phone Guide Table of Contents Controlling Your Roaming Experience Setting Your Phone’s Roam Mode 103 Important Safety Information112 128 Manufacturer’s Warranty Page Your Phone Introduction Messaging BluetoothWeb Tools Iii Volume Ringer Unlock/911 Emergency Services Only Page Getting Started GettingStarted SettingUpYourVoicemail GettingHelp Setting Up ServiceSetting Up Service This Section Getting Started UnlockingYourPhoneTounlockyourphone,followtheseeasysteps Setting UpYour Voicemail TosetupyourvoicemailVoicemailPasscode TocallyourwirelessDirectoryAssistance OperatorServicesToaccessyourwirelessOperatorServices Getting HelpPage Your Phone Your Phone The Basics Your Phone The Basics FrontView ofYour Phone Key Functions Earpiece lets you hear the caller and automated prompts Viewing the Display Screen Phone Basics Features ofYour Phone Phone Basics TurningYourPhoneOn TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOff Toturnyourphoneon BatteryCapacity UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand Charger RemovingtheBattery InstallingtheBatteryToinstalltheLi-Ionbattery Toremoveyourbattery ChargingtheBattery UsingtheChargerTousethetravelchargerprovidedwithyourphone SelectingMenuItems NavigatingThrough Phone Menus BackingUpWithinaMenu DisplayingYour Phone NumberTogotothepreviousmenu Toreturntostandbymode Tomakeacallusingyourkeypad Making and Answering CallsMaking Calls Dialing Options Toansweranincomingcall Answering Calls AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabled Missed Call NotificationEndingaCall Calling Emergency Numbers Enhanced911E911InformationToexitEmergencymode In-Call Options End-of-Call Options Savinga Phone NumberTosaveanumberfromstandbymode Finding a Phone Number Mobile/Home/Office/Pager/Fax/NoneTofindaphonenumber Todialorsavephonenumberswithpauses Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses Plus + Code Dialing TomakeacallusingPlusCodeDialingDialing Fromthe Contacts TodialdirectlyfromaContactsentry Using Speed Dialing TouseOne-TouchDialingforspeeddiallocations1-9TouseTwo-TouchDialingforspeeddiallocations10-99 EnteringText Selectinga Character InputModeTochangethecharacterinputmode ToenterawordusingT9TextInput Entering Characters Using T9TextInput AddingaWordtotheT9Database Entering Characters byTapping the KeypadToaddawordtotheT9TextInputdatabase Toentercharactersbytappingthekeypad Toentersymbols ToenternumbersToenteremoticonssmileys Toenterpresetmessages ToenterrecentmessagesSelect SendMessage Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings RingerTypes Sound SettingsSelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Toselectaringertypeforvoicecalls Selecting a KeyTone Select MenuSettingsSoundsKeyTonesSelectingRingerTypesforMessages Toselectaringertypeformessages Toadjustyourphone’svolumesettings Adjusting the Phone’sVolume SettingsToenableordisablealertsounds AlertNotification Display Settings Silence AllChanging theTextGreeting Select MenuSettingsDisplayBacklight Select Displayor Keypad TochangethebacklightsettingChanging the BacklightTime Length Changing the Display Screen Changing the Display Screen for Incoming Calls Select MenuSettingsDisplayMenuStylesChanging the Phone’s Menu Style Tosettheincomingcallsdisplay Changing theTextInputFont Changing the Clock DisplayTochangetheclock’sappearanceonthestandbyscreen To change the text input font Tochangethepowersavemode Changing the Power Save ModeChanging the Status LightMode Tochangethestatuslightmode Toenableyourphone’sLocationfeature Location Settings SettingMessageReminders Messaging SettingsDisplayingPop-upMessages Todisplaypop-upmessages DeletingOldMessages ToenabledeliveryreceiptsDeliveryReceipt Toautomaticallydeletereadmessages ManagingPresetMessages CallbackNumberAddingaCustomizedSignature Toaddanewpresetmessage TosetyourphonetoAirplaneMode Airplane Mode TTY Use ToturnTTY Modeonoroff Call Answer Mode Phone Setup OptionsShortcuts Toassignyourshortcutkey Select MenuSettingsSetup/OthersAuto-Answer Auto Answer ModeDialing Match TosetAutoAnswermode Select MenuSettingsSetup/OthersLanguage Toassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplaySelect MenuSettingsTextEntry Display Language Setting Your Phone’s Security Setting Your Phone’s Security UsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature Accessing the Security MenuLockingYour Phone UnlockingYour Phone Changingthe Lock Code Calling in Lock ModeTochangeyourlockcode Toplaceanoutgoingcallinlockmode Erasingthe Contacts List Using Special NumbersToaddorreplaceaspecialnumber ToeraseallthenamesandphonenumbersinyourContacts Torestrictyourphone RestrictingYour Phone Toresetyourphone ResettingYour Phone Enabling and Disabling Data service Services Security Featuresfor Data serviceTodisableDataserviceservices ToenableDataserviceservices Selective Call Block Enabling Selective Call BlockSelect SelectiveCallBlock Controlling Your Roaming Experience Controlling Your Roaming Experience RecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen Understanding RoamingRoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks AnalogRoam RoamingonAnalogNetworks CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming SettingYour Phone’s Roam ModeSetMode Tocheckyourvoicemailwhileroaming Select MenuSettingsRoamingCallGuard Using Call GuardToturnCallGuardonoroff ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon Select MenuSettingsRoamingDataRoamGuard Using Data Roam GuardToanswerincomingroamingcallswithCallGuardon ToturnDataRoamGuardonoroff Managing Call History Managing Call History ToviewaCallHistoryentry Viewing History Call History Options Making a Call FromCall History ToplaceacallfromCallHistoryTosaveaphonenumberfromCallHistory ToprependaphonenumberfromCallHistory Prepending a Phone NumberFrom Call History ErasingCall History ToeraseCallHistorySelect MenuCallHistoryDeleteCalls Using Contacts Using Contacts Addinga New Contacts Entry ToaddanewentrySelect MenuContactsFind/AddEntry FindingNames FindingContacts EntriesFindingGroupEntries TofindContactsentriesbyname FindingSpeedDialNumbers TofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinspeeddiallocationsSelect MenuContactsSpeedDials Contacts Entry Options Toaddaphonenumbertoanentry AddingaPhoneNumbertoaContactsEntry Assigning Speed Dial Numbers Toeditanentry’sphonenumberToassignaspeeddialnumbertoanewphonenumber Toassignaspeeddialnumbertoanexistingphonenumber TosendContactsviaBluetooth ToaccesstoMyNameCardMy Name Card Select MenuContactsMyNameCard Tomakechangestoanentry Editinga Contacts Entry Toselectaringertypeforanentry Selecting a Ringer Type for an Entry TodialaservicefromyourContacts Dialing ServicesTodialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad CustomerService DirAssistance Operator Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Adding an Eventto the Calendar UsingYour Phone’s CalendarToaddanevent Select MenuToolsScheduler Event Alert Menu Event Alerts Viewing Events Going toToday’s Calendar MenuErasing a Day’s Events Purging All Events Purging EventsTodeleteeventsscheduledbeforeaspecifictimeanddate Select MenuToolsSchedulerOptionsDeleteOld Tousethealarmclock UsingYour Phone’s Alarm Clock UsingYour Phone’s Notepad UsingYour Phone’sToolsUsing EzTips World Clock Using the CalculatorTousethecalculator Toviewthetimeinover50differentlocations Using Your Phone’s Voice Services ManagingVoiceMemos UsingVoice-ActivatedDialing Recording Voice Memos Managing Voice Memos Voice Memo Options Press MenuVoiceServicesVoiceMemoErasingVoice Memos To play the voice memos you have recorded Select MenuVoiceServicesVoiceDial UsingVoice-Activated DialingProgrammingVoice DialTags To program a voice dial tag Accessing theVoice Dial Prompt ReviewingVoice DialTagsErasing AllVoice DialTags 103 Using Bluetooth BluetoothStatusIndicators Turning Bluetooth On and OffToturnBluetoothon ToturnBluetoothoff Bluetooth Settings My Bluetooth Name Using the Bluetooth Settings MenuToaccesstheBluetoothSettingsmenu TosetaBluetoothnameforyourphone Bluetooth Settings My Bluetooth Address Bluetooth SettingsVisibilitySelect MenuSettingsBluetoothVisibility Todisplayyourphone’sBluetoothaddress 107 Bluetooth Profiles SupportedServices Pairing Bluetooth DevicesTopairyourphonewithanotherBluetoothdevice AddDevice Select MenuBluetoothSettingsOn/Off BluetoothSettingsSelect MenuBluetoothSettingsBluetoothInfo 109 110 Service Features Service Features The Basics Service Features Basics UsingVoicemail Setting UpYourVoicemail113 NewVoicemail Message Alerts Voicemail NotificationTo call your voicemail To display your Missed Log UsingOne-TouchMessageAccess RetrievingYourVoicemail Messages115 Voicemail Options UsingExpertModeVoicemailButtonGuide ToturnExpertModeonoroff Callback SettingUpGroupDistributionListsVoicemail-to-VoicemailMessage 117 Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReply Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwardingVoicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest ContinueRecording Clearing the Message IconExtendedAbsenceGreeting Tocleartheiconfromthedisplayscreen Voicemail Menu Key TocomposeanSMSTextmessageusingtheTEXTkey Using SMSTextMessagingComposing SMSTextMessages 121 RecentList to select a recipient from your recent messages TocomposeanSMSTextmessage ToreadanSMSTextmessage Accessing SMSTextMessagesToreplytoanSMSTextmessage 123 Using Caller ID Using PresetMessagesToaddoreditpresetmessages Responding to CallWaiting ToswitchbacktothefirstcallerTorespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall 125 TomakeaThree-WayCall Making aThree-Way Call ToactivateCallForwarding Using Call ForwardingTodeactivateCallForwarding 127 Data service Data service 129 Data service Applications Your User Name Getting StartedWith Data serviceFindingYourUserName Tofindyourusername VisionConnecting Launchinga Data Service ConnectionTolaunchadataconnection 131 TochangeyourNetGuardsettings Select MenuSettingsWebNetGuard and choose an optionNet Guard 133 Data service Connection Status and Indicators Navigating theWeb SoftkeysScrolling GoingBack Selecting AccessingtheDownloadMenus DownloadingPremium ContentToaccesstheDataservicedownloadmenus Select MenuMyContent DownloadinganItem SelectinganItemtoDownloadTodownloadaselecteditem 137 ToaccessMyContentManager UsingMyContentManager 139 TodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager Exploring the Web Using the Browser Menu OpeningtheBrowserMenu Toopenthebrowsermenu141 ReverttodefaulthomepageURL. Lets you change to default home Toaccessabookmark AccessingaBookmarkCreatingaBookmark Tocreateabookmark GoingtoaSpecificWebsite DeletingaBookmarkReloadingaWebPage Todeleteabookmark RestartingtheWebBrowser Data service FAQsTorestarttheWebbrowser 145 CanIsignoutofdataservices? Whenismydataconnectionactive?Whenismydataconnectiondormant? Setting Up a Data ConnectionWithYour PC UsingYour Phone as a ModemTosetupyourphone-to-PCdataconnection 147 Data Services are available on the available network Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your Phone General PrecautionsDoNotRelyonYourPhoneforEmergencyCalls 151 FollowingSafetyGuidelines UsingYourPhoneWhileDrivingUsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices TurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhone TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas153 Caring for the Battery ProtectingYourBatteryDisposalofLithiumIonLi-IonBatteries SpecificAbsorptionRateSARforWirelessPhones Radiofrequency RF Energy155 FCCRadiofrequencyEmission AMPSmodePart22PCSmodePart24 Owner’s Record Phone Guide Proprietary Notice157 Manufacturer’s Warranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyWarranty Warranty 159 Manufacturer’s Warranty Statelawrights Warranty 161 Howtogetwarrantyservice Index Index Index