GT-S8530
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Unpack
Install the SIM or Usim card and battery
Assembling
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
Next
Getting started
Turn your device on and off
›› 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
Lock or unlock the touch screen and keys
Access menus
To access your device’s menus
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
Make a fake call
›› Use additional features
Set auto rejection
Set call diverting
Use Fixed Dialling Number FDN mode
Set call waiting
Logs
›› View call and message logs
Set call barring
Manager
››View the log manager
→ Log
Network → Connections → Yes
›› Set up an MMS profile
Messages
›› Send a text message
Add
›› Send a multimedia message
Profiles Select a connection profile → Set
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
→ Download
›› View an email message
Server
Account Select
Option Function Domain
Server URL
Social Hub
›› Capture a photo
Entertainment
Camera
Number Function Change the focus mode You can take
Create movie Create video files. p
To set the photo as your favourites, select
To view the photo details, select
→ Smile shot
›› Capture a photo in Smile shot mode
›› Capture a beauty photo
→ Beauty
→ Continuous
›› Capture a series of photos
›› Capture a panoramic photo
→ Vintage
›› Customise camera settings
›› Capture a vintage photo
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
→ Slow motion
›› Customise camcorder settings
›› Capture a video in 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
›› Find a contact
Contacts
›› Create a contact
Profile
›› Set a favourite number
›› Create your namecard
›› Copy contacts
Accounts
›› Create a group of 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
Select Go
›› Browse web pages
Homepage
Menu mode, select Internet →
›› Customise browser settings
›› Bookmark your favourite web pages
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
›› Start synchronisation
Community websites
Navigation
94 Web
Connectivity
Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth wireless feature
Bluetooth → Search
›› Find and pair with other Bluetooth- enabled devices
→ Settings → My phones visibility → Always on → Save
Select OK if necessary
›› Send data using the Bluetooth wireless feature
›› Receive data using the Bluetooth wireless feature
Application or My files
›› Activate the Wlan feature
Wi-Fi
›› Use Remote SIM mode
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
Player
›› Play your files on another DLNA- enabled device
AllShare
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
PC connections
›› Install Samsung Kies
USB utilities → Kies installer
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
Message and email
Sound profiles
Call
General
Display and light
Time zone Set your home time zone
Date and time
Vibration
›› Call
Menu and widgets
Applications
Video call
General settings
›› Messages
Voice call
Receiving options
Text messages
Broadcast messages
›› Email
Push messages
Receiving options
›› Calendar
Order of display name Set how to display contact names
›› Contacts
›› Media player
›› Photo upload settings
›› Installation settings
›› Internet
Memory
Change PIN Change the PIN used to access SIM or Usim data
Security
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
Downloading 78 playing
Sending 45 setting profiles 44 viewing
See web browser
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Finding and connecting to
Videos capturing 61 capturing videos in slow motion
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