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ENGLISH
User Guide
LG-P509
P/N : MFL67008601 (1.0) H www.lg.com
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Bluetooth QD ID B016768
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Congratulations on your purchase of the advanced and compact LG-P509 phone by LG, designed to operate with the latest digital mobile communication technology. Some of the contents in this manual may differ from your phone depending on the software of the phone or your service provider. • T his handset is not recommended for the visually impaired because of its touch-screen keypad. • Copyright ©2010 LG Electronics, Inc. All rights reserved. LG and the LG logo are registered trademark
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OVERVIEW This guide provides you with everything you need to get started. For more information and support, please visit www.t-mobile.com/support where you can: • Register for my.t-mobile.com to check your minutes, pay your bill, upgrade your phone, and change your rate plan. • Review the User Manual and troubleshooting FAQs. • View the latest troubleshooting solutions in the Support Forums or ask a question of your own. You can also access Help information on your phone: 1. From any Hom
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SERVICE ACTIVATION If you are a new T-Mobile® customer and your service has not been activated, simply call Customer Care at 1-800-937-8997 from your landline phone and a T-Mobile Activations representative will assist you. You will need the following information when activating service: • Service Agreement and agent code on your Agreement. • Your name, home address, home phone, and billing address. NOTE: For business and government accounts, please provide the name of your company or g
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Contents Locking the Screen ...........55 OVERVIEW.....................4 Customizing the Home SERVICE ACTIVATION .5 Screen ...................................59 Important notice ............9 Applications......................... 2 Onscreen Keyboard .......... 8 Understanding Your Text Input Methods ........... 8 Phone ........................... 20 Using the Swype Front View .............................20 Keyboard .............................. 9 Rear View ............................
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Changing your message Shooting a quick video ....101 settings .................................84 After shooting a video .... 102 Opening Email and the Using the advanced Accounts Screen ...............84 settings ............................... 102 Reading Your Messages ..8 Watching your saved Responding to a videos ..................................104 Message ...............................8 Adjusting the volume Starring Messages ..............87 when viewing a video ......104 Composi
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Contents About phone ......................127 Utilities......................... 117 Wi-Fi ...........................128 Setting your alarm .............117 Using your calculator ........117 Turn on Wi-Fi .................... 128 Adding an event to your To connect to Wi-Fi ......... 128 calendar ................................118 Sharing your phone’s Changing your calendar mobile data connection ..129 view.........................................119 USB tethering & portable ThinkFree Office
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Important notice Please check to see if any problems you have 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 available space on your phone memory is less than 10%, your phone cannot receive a new message. You need to check your phone memory and delete some data, such as applications or messages, to make more memory available. To uninstall an application 1. From the Home screen, to
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Important notice 2. Optimizing Battery Life You can extend your battery's life between charges by turning off features that you don't need to run constantly in the background. You can also monitor how applications and system resources consume battery power. To extend the life of your battery • Turn off radio communications that you aren't using, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GPS. • Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout. • Turn off automatic syncing for Google Mail™,
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To monitor and control what uses the battery 1. From the Home screen, touch the Application Launcher icon Settings About phone g g g Battery use. 2.The top of the screen displays battery usage time. Either how long since last connected to a power source or, if connected to a power source, how long you were last running on battery power. The body of the screen lists applications or services using battery power from greatest amount to least. 3. Installing an Open Source OS If you insta
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Important notice WARNING: To protect your phone and personal data, download applications only from trusted sources, such as Android Market™. If some applications are not properly installed on your phone, your phone may not work normally or a serious error can be occurred. You will need to uninstall those applications and all of its data and settings from the phone. 4. Using Unlock pattern Set unlock pattern to secure your phone. Opens a set of screens that guide you through drawing a s
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required to sign in with your Google account and prompted to create a new unlock pattern. If you haven’t created a Google account on the phone or you forgot it, you need to perform a Hard Reset. Caution: If you perform a Hard Reset, all user applications and user data will be deleted. Please remember to back up any important data before performing a Hard Reset. 1. Turn the power off. 2.Press and hold the following keys at the same time for 10 seconds: Power Key + Home Key + Down Volume K
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Important notice WARNING: If you perform Hard Reset, all user applications and user data will be deleted. Please remember to back up any important data before performing Hard Reset. 6. Connecting to Wi-Fi networks To use Wi-Fi on your phone, you need access to a wireless access point, or “hotspot.” Some access points are open and you can simply connect to them. Others are hidden or implement other security features, so you must configure your phone in order to connect to them. Turn of
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3.Touch a network to connect to it. • If the network is open, you are prompted to confirm that you want to connect to that network by touching Connect. • If the network is secured, you're prompted to enter a password or other credentials. (Ask your network administrator for details.) 4.The Status bar will display an icon that indicates your Wi-Fi status. 7. Using a microSD card Pictures, along with Music and Video files, can only be saved to external memory. In order to use the built-in ca
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Important notice 8. Opening and Switching Applications Multi-tasking is easy with Android because open applications run in the background when you open another application. There’s no need to quit an application before opening another. You are allowed to switch among several open applications. Android manages each application, stopping and starting them as needed, to ensure that idle applications don’t consume resources unnecessarily. To stop the application you use 1. From the Home scre
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9. Connecting your phone to a computer via USB 1. Use the USB cable with your phone to connect the phone to a USB port on your computer. You will receive a notification that the USB is connected. 2.Opens the Notifications panel for USB Connected and touch Turn on USB storage. 3.Touch OK to confirm that you want to transfer files between your phone’s microSD card and the computer. When the phone is connected as USB storage, you will receive a notification that your phone’s microSD card
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Important notice During this time, you can’t access the microSD card from your phone, so you can’t use applications that rely on the microSD card, such as Camera, Gallery and Music. To disconnect your phone from the computer, carefully follow your computer’s instructions to disconnect USB devices correctly, to avoid losing information on the card. 1. Safely disconnect the USB device on your computer. 2.Open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage. 11. Hold the phone stra
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12. When the screen freezes If the phone does not respond to user input or the screen freezes: Remove the battery, insert it again and power on the phone. If it still does not work, please contact the service center. 13. Do not connect your phone when you power on/off your PC Make sure to disconnect your phone from the PC via USB cable when powering your PC on or off as it might result in PC errors. 19
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Understanding Your Phone To turn on the phone, press and hold the Power/ Lock Key for 3 seconds. To turn off the phone, press the Power/Lock Key for 3 seconds and touch Power off. Then touch OK to confirm. Front View 5 P ower/Lock Key 6 Earpiece 1 P roximity Sensor 7 Touchscreen 8 A pplication Launcher icon 2 Phone icon 3 Menu Key 9 Search Key 4 Home Key 10 Back Key 1. Proximity Sensor senses proximity towards other objects (such as your head) so that touch commands are not accidentally a
