GT-S8530
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Assembling
Install the SIM or Usim card and battery
Unpack
Gold-coloured contacts facing down
To turn it off Remove the back cover
Insert the battery Replace the back cover
Charge the battery
Outlet
›› Charge with the travel adapter
Device
Multifunction jack
On a PC
Insert a memory card optional
›› Charge with the PC data cable
Before charging, ensure that your PC is turned on
Remove the memory card
Remove the back cover and battery
›› Remove the memory card
Memory card
›› Format the memory card
Turn your device on and off
Getting started
Next
›› Device layout
Get to know your device
›› Idle screen
››Keys
Synchronized with a web server
››Indicator icons
Your region or service provider Bluetooth activated
Icon Definition
›› Shortcuts panel
Use the touch screen
Your device turns off the touch screen when you
To access your device’s menus
Access menus
Lock or unlock the touch screen and keys
Bottom line
›› Organise applications in Menu mode
Mode
Select Edit at the top left of the screen
›› Use the task manager
Launch and manage applications
›› Add new main menu screens
›› Launch multiple applications
Drag it to the widget toolbar
To open the widget toolbar and access widgets
Use widgets
›› Open the widget toolbar
›› Add new panels to the idle screen
Menu mode, select Settings → Menu and widgets → Widget
Customise your device
›› Manage web-based widgets
›› Set up a sound profile
›› Adjust the volume of the key tones
›› Adjust the vibration intensity Touch screen
›› Switch to the silent profile
Select Phone lock
›› Adjust the brightness of the display
›› Lock your device
→ Wallpaper
Select PIN lock
Menu mode, select Settings → Security
›› Lock your SIM or Usim card
›› Activate the mobile tracker
Select Save → Accept
Enter text
Change the text input method
Select Mobile tracker
Change the text input method
Enter text using input methods
Change the text input mode
Option Function Keypad
Adding words to the T9 dictionary
Copy and paste text
If necessary
Access help information
Make a call
Communication
Calling
›› Make and answer a call
Call an international number
›› Use the headset
›› Use options during a voice call
Reject a call
Reduction on
Switch to video call
›› View and dial missed calls
Select → Switch to headset
To customise the video call settings, select → Settings
›› Use options during a video call
Set auto rejection
›› Use additional features
Make a fake call
Set call diverting
Use Fixed Dialling Number FDN mode
Set call waiting
Logs
›› View call and message logs
Set call barring
→ Log
››View the log manager
Manager
Network → Connections → Yes
›› Set up an MMS profile
Messages
›› Send a text message
Profiles Select a connection profile → Set
›› Send a multimedia message
Add
Select → Broadcast messages
›› View a text or multimedia message
→ Folder view
→ Conversation view
Create a multimedia template
›› Listen to voice mail messages
›› Use message templates
Create a text template
Select OK. Skip to step
›› Send an SOS message
Select Save
Sending options
Set up an email account
›› Set up an email account and profile
Compose
→ Settings →
›› Send an email message
Select an email profile
Server
›› View an email message
→ Download
Server URL
Option Function Domain
Account Select
Social Hub
Camera
Entertainment
›› Capture a photo
Number Function Change the focus mode You can take
To view the photo details, select
To set the photo as your favourites, select
Create movie Create video files. p
→ Smile shot
›› Capture a photo in Smile shot mode
›› Capture a beauty photo
→ Beauty
›› Capture a panoramic photo
›› Capture a series of photos
→ Continuous
›› Capture a vintage photo
›› Customise camera settings
→ Vintage
Setting Function Guidelines
Automatically adjust contrast
Adjust
→ to access
›› Record a video
Setting Function Reset settings
To set the video as your favourites, select
Number Function
View the photo or video you captured last
Video is saved automatically
›› Capture a video in slow motion
›› Customise camcorder settings
→ Slow motion
Turn the audio on or off
Setting Function
Video player
›› Play a video
Divide the video into segments
›› Customise video player settings
Subtitles on
Smi files
›› View a photo
Media browser
→ Edit
Adjust an image
›› Edit an image
Edit images and apply fun effects
Apply
Insert a visual feature
Apply effects to images
Transform an image
Make a new video
›› Edit a video
To end Select Done
Trim a segment of a video
Split a video
Move
Add caption to a video
Music player
›› Add music files to your device
Apply an effect to a video
Control playback with the following keys
›› Play music
Copy to your memory card. p
Select a music file
One file, or repeating all files
›› Access the disc view
›› Add a song to the quick list
›› Customise music player settings
→ Settings
›› Create a playlist
›› Listen to the FM radio
FM radio
›› Find information of music
›› Add a song to the wish list
Frequencies for stations when the current signal is weak
Select To turn on the FM radio
›› Record a song from the FM radio
›› Save a radio station automatically
→ Scan
Games
›› Customise FM radio settings
Games and more
›› Download games and applications
Controls and options of games or applications may vary
›› Play games or launch applications
›› Create a contact
Contacts
›› Find a contact
›› Create your namecard
›› Set a favourite number
Profile
›› Create a group of contacts
Accounts
›› Copy contacts
›› View events
›› Stop an event alarm
Calendar
›› Create an event
›› View tasks
Task
Memo
›› Create a task
›› Play a voice memo
Voice recorder
›› View memos
›› Record a voice memo
Personal information
Internet
›› Set up an internet profile
Settings → Internet profiles
Web
Homepage
›› Browse web pages
Select Go
›› Bookmark your favourite web pages
›› Customise browser settings
Menu mode, select Internet →
Accessed web pages
Auto save Set to automatically save your Password Internet
About Access version and copyright Internet
Cookies, IDs, and passwords
›› Use the RSS reader
Update and read RSS feeds
Select Update → feeds → Update → Yes
Samsung Apps
Synchronise
›› Set up a synchronisation profile
Synchronise
Desired
Navigation
Community websites
›› Start synchronisation
94 Web
Connectivity
Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth wireless feature
→ Settings → My phones visibility → Always on → Save
›› Find and pair with other Bluetooth- enabled devices
Bluetooth → Search
Select OK if necessary
›› Send data using the Bluetooth wireless feature
›› Receive data using the Bluetooth wireless feature
Application or My files
›› Use Remote SIM mode
Wi-Fi
›› Activate the Wlan feature
Forget
Wi-Fi
›› Find and connect to a Wlan
›› Customise the connection profile
Device type
›› Customise Dlna settings for sharing Media files
AllShare → Settings
AllShare
AllShare
›› Play your files on another DLNA- enabled device
Player
Player via my phone
Mobile AP
›› Play others files on your device
›› Play files of one device on the other device
View or edit the network key to
AP feature
Select OK to confirm
Option Function Name
Location
›› Activate the GPS feature
›› Use the mobile networks for location Service
›› Enhance the GPS functionality
TV out
TV connections TV out mode
›› Enable sensor aiding
›› View your location
USB utilities → Kies installer
›› Install Samsung Kies
PC connections
USB utilities → Mass storage
›› Use your device as a wireless modem
›› Connect with Samsung Kies
›› Connect as a mass storage device
Create a modem connection on your PC
Multifunction jack on your device to a PC
Tools
›› Set a new alarm
›› Stop an alarm
›› Delete an alarm
View
›› Use the count-down timer
›› Create a world clock
›› Use the stopwatch
›› View a Mini diary
Calculator
Mini diary
›› Create a Mini diary
›› Change the auto sync schedule
My accounts
›› Create a web account
›› Delete or edit my accounts
Select the dot next to Push sync
My files
›› Supported file formats
Select Push sync
›› View a file
›› Set a sound clip as your ringtone
Search
›› Print an image
›› Set an image as your wallpaper
Menu mode, select Settings
Settings
Access the Settings menu
Flight mode
Call
Sound profiles
Message and email
General
Display and light
Vibration
Date and time
Time zone Set your home time zone
Applications
Menu and widgets
›› Call
Video call
General settings
›› Messages
Voice call
Receiving options
Text messages
Push messages
›› Email
Broadcast messages
Receiving options
›› Contacts
Order of display name Set how to display contact names
›› Calendar
›› Media player
›› Photo upload settings
›› Installation settings
›› Internet
Security
Change PIN Change the PIN used to access SIM or Usim data
Memory
SIM applications
Reset
Software update
About phone
Troubleshooting
Ensure that your device is turned on
Ensure that you have pressed the Dial key
Ensure that you are not covering the built-in microphone
Others cannot hear you speaking on a call
Your device is hot to the touch
Error messages appear when opening music files
Handle and dispose of batteries and chargers with care
Safety precautions
Turn off your device where prohibited
Turn off your device when in an aircraft
Proper care and use of your mobile device
Ensure maximum battery and charger life
Use caution when using the device while walking or moving
Specific Absorption Rate SAR certification information
Correct disposal of this product
Disclaimer
Index
Access codes 129 alarms
See AllShare
Bluetooth DLNA GPS PC TV WLAN
Keys
116
See web browser
Sending 45 setting profiles 44 viewing
Downloading 78 playing
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Videos capturing 61 capturing videos in slow motion
Finding and connecting to
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Declaration of Conformity R&TTE
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To install Kies PC Sync