LG A7150: Messages

Messages: LG A7150

Messages

Create new massage

Menu 5.1

A7150 telephones allow you to write short text messages which can be

linked to create messages containing up to approx. 1530 characters (a

standard text message contains a maximum of 160 characters),

corresponding to 10 pages. EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) can also

be used to attach icons, sounds and simple animation to the message. In

particular this telephone model supports EMS 5.0 which allows you to

send and receive colour graphics and to customise the text message layout

and font. If the message recipient’s phone does not support this version,

he/she will receive the compatible features only and receipt of the written

message is normally guaranteed.

The length of an enhanced or long message can be checked while writing

using the indicators found to the top left of the screen. The first number

refers to the number of characters left to complete the individual text

message while the second shows the number of messages written. The cost

of a long message depends on the number of short text messages linked

together. All the available options for writing short messages are shown

below.

Text (Menu 5.2.1)

You can write and edit text message, checking the number of message pages.

1. Enter the Messages menu by pressing the left soft key [Select].

2. If you want to write a new message, select Create new message.

3. To make text input easier, use T9.

4. Press [Insert] to attach the followings.

5. If you want to set option for your text, or to finish your writing, press the

left soft key [Options].

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Note

The phone which supports EMS release 5 is available to send colour pictures,

sounds, text styles, etc.. The other party may not receive pictures, sounds or

text styles you sent properly if the phone does not support such options.

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Insert

] Symbol: You can add special characters.

] Graphic: You can insert the Default graphics or graphics in My pictures

that are available for short messages.

] Sound: You can insert sounds that are available for short messages.

] Text templates: You can use Text templates already set in the phone.

] Phonebook: You can add phone numbers or e-mail addresses in address

book.

] Business card: You can add your Business card to the message.

Options

] Send To: Sends text messages.

1. Enter numbers of recipient.

2. Press key to add more recipients.

3. You can add phone numbers in the address book.

4. Press the left soft key after entering numbers.

] Save to drafts: Stores messages in Drafts.

] Font: You can select Size and Style of fonts.

] Colour: You can select Colour of foreground and background.

] Alignment: You can make the message contents aligned Left, Center

or Right.

] Add T9 dictionary: You can add your own word. This menu can be

shown only when edit mode is Predictive (T9Abc/T9abc/T9ABC).

] T9 language: Select a T9 input mode.

] Exit:

If you press Exit while writing a message, you can end the writing

message and back to the Message menu. The message you have written

is not saved.

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Multimedia (Menu 5.1.2)

A multimedia message may contain text, pictures and sounds. This feature can

only be used if supported by your network operator or service provider. Only

handsets offering features that are compatible with multimedia messaging or

emails can receive and send multimedia messages. Multimedia messages can

be formed of a maximum of 10 slides which do not exceed 100 KB.

1. Enter the Message menu by pressing the left soft key [Select].

2. If you want to write a new message, select Write multimedia message.

3. You can create a new message or choose one of the multimedia message

templates already made.

4. Press Insert to add Symbol, Graphic, Photo, Sound, Video, New Slide,

Text templates, address book or Business card.

] Symbol: You can add special characters. Note: the list of symbols can

be accessed while writing messages by pressing the ‘ * ’ key.

] Graphic: Attach predefined pictures and pictures downloaded from

WAP to your multimedia message.

] Photo: Attach a photo taken with the built-in camera to your multimedia

message.

] Take photo: Set the camera to take a photo to attach to your multimedia

message.

] Sound: Attach a predefined audio file or a file downloaded from WAP

to your multimedia message.

] New sound: Set record voice to save a new audio file to attach to your

multimedia message.

] Video: Attach a video recorded using the built-in video camera to your

multimedia message. Videos recorded in MMS Video mode (see [Menu

6-2]) can be attached.

] New video: Record a new video to attach to your multimedia message.

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] New slide: A multimedia message can be formed of several pages which

are viewed according to preset time intervals just like the frames of a

film. This menu can be used to add a page – Next or Previous –to the

multimedia message you are composing. New sounds and pictures can

be entered into each page (one per page) in the standard manner.

] Text templates: Preset text templates may be used to speed up writing

of multimedia messages. Consult the Templates section [Menu 5-9] for

more information.

] Phonebook: Allows you to add telephone number or email addresses to

your multimedia message by taking them from the Address book.

] Business Card: Your own personal information can be added to

messages if entered and saved previously [Menu 5-9-3].

Options

] Send to: You can send multimedia messages to multiple recipients,

prioritise your message, and make it send later as well.

] Preview: You can preview multimedia messages you wrote.

] Save: You can save multimedia messages To drafts or As template.

] Edit Subject: Modifies multimedia messages you chose.

] Move to: You can move to previous or next slide.

] Delete slide: You can delete current slides.

] Set slide format: Sets the format of the current page by editing the

following options.

* Set timer: Set the timer for the frames forming the multimedia message

and for individual components such as text, sounds and pictures. The

start and finish time can be set for each of these components to allow you

to put together the message in the way you want.

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Note Try to put together your multimedia message and see the result by

selecting Preview!

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* Swap text and photo: Inverts the order of the text and picture in the

current page. This option is only available if the message contains

photos.

] Add T9 dictionary: Use this option to add a word to the dictionary

when the word you want is not available. After entering a word, press

the left soft key [Save]. This menu is only shown when the input mode

is predictive (T9Abc / T9abc / T9ABC).

] T9 language: Allows you to select the T9 dictionary language or disable

the T9 input mode by selecting T9 off. For more information about the

T9 mode, see pages 32.

] Exit: You can back to the Message menu.

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Note If you select the photo (15K) on writing multimedia message, loading

duration will take around 5 seconds at least. Furthermore, you can’t

activate any key during loading time. After 5 seconds, it is available to

write multimedia message.

Inbox

Menu 5.2

You will be alerted when you have received messages. They will be stored

in Inbox.

In Inbox, you can identify each message by icons. For detail, see the icon

directive.

Icon Icon directive

Multimedia message

Short message

SIM message

Read multimedia message

Read text message

Push message

Notified multimedia message

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If the phone shows ‘No space for SIM message’, you have to delete only

SIM messages from Inbox. If the phone displays ‘No space for message’,

you can make space of each repository as deleting messages, media and

applications.

Instead, when the telephone’s internal memory is full, the message

“Message memory full” is shown. In the same way you must delete some

messages in order to save others.

When notification of multimedia messages is received, these messages

must be downloaded from the server. See (Menu 5.0.2) for information

about telephone configuration.

To read a message, select the message and press [OK]. The following

menu can be accessed by pressing the key [Options]:

] View: You can view the received messages.

] Delete: You can delete the current message.

] Reply: You can reply to the sender.

] Forward: You can forward the selected message to another party.

] Return call: You can call back to the sender.

] View information: Lists information related to the message shown such

as sender’s address, subject, time and day of the message, message type

and size.

] Delete all read messages: Deletes all read messages.

] Delete all: Deletes all messages.

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* Specific MMS options

] Repeat: Allows you to repeat reproduction of the selected multimedia

message.

] Receive: (for multimedia message notification only). Multimedia

messages, unlike text messages, must be downloaded from the server

automatically or manually (see (Menu 5.0.2.5)). The network initially

sends multimedia message notification: If the Auto Download option

(Menu 5.0.2.5) is off or an error has occurred, receipt must be confirmed

by selecting [Receive]. If the Auto Download option is on, the message

is automatically downloaded after receipt of notification.

] Cancel: Interrupts multimedia message download (only when

multimedia messages are being received).

* Specific download message options

] Information: Shows the content of download messages.

] Load: Launches the WAP connection to the URL contained in the

download message. The telephone must be configured for WAP services

(Menu 4.1.4) to use download messages

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Outbox

Menu 5.3

You can see sent and unsent messages here. For sent message, you can see

the delivery status.

The browsing is same as that for the inbox message.

Icon Icon directive

MMS Sent

MMS Unsent

MMS delivery confirmed

SMS sent

SMS unsent

SMS Delivery confirmed

Messages sent correctly feature the following options.

] View: Shows the selected message.

] Delete: Deletes the selected message from the Sent folder.

] Edit: Modifies message you chose

] Send : Allows you to send the message again

] View information: Allows you to view information about the sent

message such as sender’s address, attachments (for multimedia

messages only), date and time of message transmission, message type

and size.

] Delete all: Deletes all messages in the Sent folder.

Messages being sent feature the following icons.

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Drafts

Menu 5.4

You can view the messages saved as a draft. The draft messages are listed

with the date and time when they were saved.

The following options are available.

] View: Shows the selected message.

] Delete: Deletes the message you choose.

] Edit: Modifies the massage you choose.

] View information: To view the information of the message.

] Delete all: Deletes all of the messages in the folder.

Voice mail

Menu 5.5

This menu provides you with a quick way of accessing your voice mailbox

(if provided by your network).

Before using this feature, you must enter the voice server number obtained

from your network operator.

When new voice message is received, the symbol will be displayed on the

screen. Please check with your network provider for details of their service

in order to configure the handset correctly.

Listen to voice mail(Menu 5.7.1)

Once this option has been selected, simply press the left soft key [OK] to

listen to voice messages. You can also hold down the [1] key in standby

mode to listen to voice mail.

Voice mailbox number (Menu 5.7.2)

You can input and set the voice mailbox number.

The following submenus are available:

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] Home: Enter the message answering number to be used when on the

national network.

] Roaming: Enter the message answering number to be used when in

international roaming mode.

Info. message

Menu 5.6

(Dependent to network and subscription).

Info service messages are text messages delivered by the network to GSM.

They provide general information such as weather reports, traffic news,

taxis, pharmacies, and stock prices. Each type of information has the

number; therefore, you can contact service provider as long as you have

input the certain number for the information. When you have received an

info service message, you can see the popup message to show you that you

have received a message or the info service message is directly displayed.

To view the message again or not in standby mode, follow the sequence

shown below;

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Note

Enablement of info messages may cause a reduction in the duration of

the battery in stand-by mode.

Read (Menu 5.6.1)

1. When you have received an info service message and select Read to

view the message, it will be displayed on the screen. You can read

another message by scrolling , or [Next].

2. The message will be shown until another message is reached.

Topics (Menu 5.6.2)

(Dependent to network and subscription).

] Add new: You can add Info service message numbers in the Phone

memory with its nickname.

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] View list: You can see Info service message numbers which you added.

If you press [Options], you can edit and delete info message

category which you added.

] Active list: You can select info service message numbers in the active

list. if you activate an info service number, you can receive messages

sent from the number.

Templates

Menu 5.7

Templates are preset messages used to speed up the writing of common

messages. The available templates and options are listed below.

Text (Menu 5.7.1)

Some text templates are available for which the following options can be

accessed.

] View: Shows selected template.

] Delete: Deletes selected template.

] Add new: Allows you to create a new template.

] Send via: Allows you to send selected template via SMS or MMS.

] Edit: Edits selected template.

] Delete all: Deletes all text templates.

Multimedia (Menu 5.7.2)

You can use the following options.

] View: You can see multimedia templates.

] Delete: You can delete multimedia templates.

] Add new: Allows you to add new multimedia templates.

] Send via multimedia message: You can write and send multimedia

messages.

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] Edit: You can edit multimedia templates.

] Delete all: Allows you to delete all multimedia messages.

Business card (Menu 5.7.3)

This option allows you to create your own business card featuring Name, 4

numbers and an email address. To create a new business card, press the left

soft key [Add] and enter the information into the fields. If a business card

is already available, the following menu can be accessed by pressing the

left soft key [Options]:

] Edit: Edits business card.

] Send via: Allows you to send business card via SMS or MMS.

] Delete: Deletes business card.

Settings

Menu 5.8

Text messages (Menu 5.8.1)

This menu allows you to configure preset information of text messages.

] Message centre number: If you want to send the text message, you can

receive the address of SMS centre through this menu.

] Message types:

Text, Voice, Fax, Natl. Paging, X.400, E-mail, ERMES

Usually, the type of message is set to Text. You can convert your text

into alternative formats. Contact your service provider for the

availability of this function.

] Validity period: This network service allows you to set how long your

text messages will be stored at the message centre.

] Delivery report: If you set to Yes, you can check whether your message

is sent successfully.

] Reply via same message centre: When a message is sent, it allows the

recipients to reply and charge the cost of the reply to your telephone bill.

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Multimedia messages (Menu 5.8.2)

Use this menu to configure preset information of multimedia messages.

] Priority: You can set the priority of the message you choose.

] Message subject: You can enter multimedia messages subject when this

menu is on.

] Validity period: This network service allows you to set how long your

text messages will be stored at the message centre.

] Delivery report: If it is set to Yes in this menu, you can check whether

your message is sent successfully.

] Auto download

Always on: Multimedia messages are automatically downloaded upon

receipt of notification if this option is selected.

Manual: The telephone asks whether or not to go ahead with the download

when notification of a new multimedia message is received.

Home network only: Messages are only downloaded automatically when

with your own operator if this option is selected. If in roaming mode,

confirmation will be requested if you wish to download the message.

Off: Notification only will be received if this option is selected.

] Access point: A data connection via data call (CSD) using the GPRS or

the even faster EDGE service (see the Internet section for more

information about EDGE) is needed to download multimedia messages

from the server. Up to 5 connection profiles can be set for multimedia

messages.

The following menu can be accessed by pressing the left soft key

[Options] on the profile of your choice:

• Activate: Enable the selected profile and makes it ready for use.

• Settings: Enter the MMS server connection data provided by your operator

or service provider.

- Homepage

Set the multimedia message service centre (MMSC).

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- Bearer

Data

GPRS

- Data settings

This is only shown if you select Data as the connection service.

IP address: Enter the multimedia service centre IP.

Dial number: Enter the telephone number to be used for the

connection.

User id: User id for own server connection (NOT WAP gateway

user ID).

Password: Password requested by own server connection (NOT by

WAP gateway) for identification purposes.

Call type: Select the type of data call – analogical or digital (ISDN).

Call speed: Set the connection speed for data - 9600 or 14400.

Linger time: Set the length of time after which the phone must

disconnect itself if no data have been transferred.

- GPRS setting

This menu is only shown if you select GPRS as the connection

service.

IP address: Enter the multimedia service centre IP.

APN: Enter the APN (Access Point Name) of the GPRS.

User id: Enter User id for server connection.

Password: Enter the password requested by the server.

- Connection type

Select whether the connection must be Permanent or Temporary.

- Secure settings

Decide whether or not the telephone must have a secure connection.

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Rename: Changes the name of the selected profile.

] Permitted message types

Personal: Personal message.

Advertisements

: Commercial message.

Information: Necessary information.

Download messages (Menu 5.8.3)

You can order push messages from WAP service providers. Push messages

are notifications of, for example, news headlines and they can contain a

text message or the address of a WAP service. For availability and

subscription, contact your WAP service provider.

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Note

Service providers can update an existing push message with a new

incoming push message. (Old one will be replaced with new one.)

When push messages expire, they are deleted automatically.

] Service: You can set on/off the reception of the push messages.

] Automatic download: If you set on, reception of a new push message

starts the connection to WAP atomatically.

Icon Description

Read Push Message

Unread Push Message

After selecting a push message, the following menus are available.

Information: Shows the information of the current push message.

Load: Connects to a specific site using the information in the current push

message.

Delete: Deletes the current push message.

Delete all read messages: Deletes all read messages.

Delete All: Deletes all the messages in inbox (including SMS, MMS, etc.)

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Info. message (Menu 5.8.4)

] Receive

Yes

If you select this menu, your phone will receive Info service messages.

No

If you select this menu, your phone will not receive Info service

messages any more.

] Alert

Yes

Your phone will beep when you have received Info service message

numbers.

No

Your phone will not beep even though you have received info service

messages.

] Languages

You can select the language you want by pressing [On/Off]. Then, the

info service message will be shown in the language that you selected.

Memory status

Menu 5.9

You can check free space and memory usage of each repository, SIM

memory. You can go to each repository menu.

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