LG C1100: Messages [Menu 1]

Messages [Menu 1]: LG C1100

Messages [Menu 1]

This menu includes functions related to SMS (Short Message

Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Service), voice mail, as well as

the network’s service messages.

Write text message [Menu 1-1]

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

message pages.

1. Enter the Messages menu by pressing < [Select].

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

3. To make text input easier, use T9. For details, see How to Use

T9 (Page 35).

4. Press [Insert] to attach the followings.

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

press < [Options].

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.

Accessing the Menu

Options

• Send

Sends text messages.

1. Enter numbers of recipient.

2. Press

D

key to add more recipients.

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

4. Press < after entering numbers.

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• Save

Stores messages in Outbox.

• 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 Right, Centre or

Left.

• Add T9 dictionary

You can add your own word. This menu can be shown only when

edit mode is Predictive (T9Abc/T9abc/T9ABC).

• T9 languages

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.

Accessing the Menu

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Messages [Menu 1]

Insert

• Symbol

You can add special characters.

• Picture

You can insert the Default pictures or pictures in My folder 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 Phonebook.

• Signature

You can add your contact information to the message.

Write multimedia message [Menu 1-2]

You can write and edit multimedia messages, checking message

size.

Accessing the Menu

1. Enter the Messages menu by pressing < [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, Picture, Sound, Text templates,

Phonebook or Signature.

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Options

• Send

You can send multimedia messages to multiple recipients,

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

• Preview

You can preview multimedia messages you wrote.

• Save

You can save multimedia messages in the drafts or as templates.

• Add slide

You can add a slide before or after current slide.

• Move to slide

You can move to previous or next slide.

• Delete slide

You can delete current slides.

• Set slide format

- Set timer

You can set timer for slide, text, picture and sound.

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- Swap text and picture

You can switch the position of picture and text of the message.

• Remove media

You can remove pictures or sounds in the slide. This option can be

shown only when any media exists.

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Messages [Menu 1]

• Add T9 dictionary

You can add your own word. This menu can be shown only when

edit mode is Predictive (T9Abc/T9abc/T9ABC).

• T9 languages

Select a T9 input mode.

• Exit

You can back to the Message menu.

Note

• If you select the picture (15K) on writing multimedia

message, loading duration will take around 15

seconds at least. Furthermore, you can't activate any

key during loading time. After 15 seconds, it is

available to write multimedia message.

Accessing the Menu

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How to Use T9

T9 allows you to input text quickly.

In T9, you only need to press the key with the corresponding

letter once. This is based on a built-in dictionary to which you

can also add new words.

• Writing words by using T9.

1. Start writing a word by using the keys 2 to 9.

Press each key only once for one letter.

To write for instance ‘Girl’, press 4, 4, 7, 5.

The characters that you enter appear blocked.

The word changes after each keystroke. Therefore you

shouldn’t pay too much attention to how the word appears

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on the display until you have pressed all the appropriate

keys.

To delete a character to the left, press C.

To insert several numbers, hold # down and key in the

numbers.

If you hold * down, you can change the type of

language. (You can also use options.)

Also, the phone supports three modes: Predictive (T9Abc,

T9ABC, T9abc), Multitap (ABC, abc), Numeric (123). If

you want to change a mode, press # key.

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160 1

T9Abc

159 1

T9abc

158 1

T9abc

I

Hi

157 1

T9abc

156 1

T9abc

His

Girl

4 (For G)

4 (For i)

7 (For r)

5 (For l)

Messages [Menu 1]

Alternatively : Press * key and select insert symbols.

Select the desired character and press

Select.

2. When you have finished writing a word, check whether the

word is correct.

If the word is correct

: Press 0 and write the next word.

If the word is not correct

: Search by

U , D

(Previous and

Next word).

Alternatively : If there is no word you want you can add your

own word.

Press < [Options] in the Predictive edit

mode. Select Add T9 dictionary Menu. You

can see the following.

Word

Word

Input

your word

LGGSM

ABC

ABC

Save Back

Save Back

Accessing the Menu

3. To insert a punctuation mark, press 1 repeatedly until the

desired mark appears.

T9 languages

You can select T9 Languages by selecting Menu.

In T9 mode, you can also select T9 Off menu.

(Default is T9 On)

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Inbox [Menu 1-3]

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 directive

[ ] Multimedia message

[ ] Short message

[ ] SIM message

[ ] Read

[ ] Notified multimedia message

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.

SIM message

SIM message means the message exceptionally stored in SIM

card.

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For notified multimedia message, you have to wait for downloading

and processing of the message. For notification setting, see [Menu

1-9-2] for detail.

To read a message, select one of the messages by pressing <.

Reply

You can reply to the sender.

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Messages [Menu 1]

Forward

You can forward the selected message to another party.

Return call

You can call back to the sender.

Delete

You can delete the current message.

Extract

You can extract picture, sound and text. They will be saved in My

folder or Phonebook.

View information

You can view information about received messages; Sender's

address, Subject (only for Multimedia message), Message date &

time, Message type, Message size.

Replay (applicable to Multimedia message only)

You can replay multimedia messages.

Receive (In the case of notification message)

If Multimedia message is set to Auto download off, you can get

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only Notification. To receive a message, you need to select

[Receive].

Outbox [Menu 1-4]

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.

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Icon directive

[ ] Sent

[ ] Failed

[ ] Delivery confirmed

[ ] SMS sent

When you already sent the message:

Forward

You can forward the current message to other recipients.

Delete

You can delete the current message.

View information

You can view information about outbox messages; Recipient’s

address, Subject (only for Multimedia message), Message date &

time, Message type, Message size.

When you didn’t send the message:

Accessing the Menu

View

You can view the messaage.

Send

You can send the message.

Delete

You can delete the current message.

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Messages [Menu 1]

View information

You can view information about outbox messages.

Drafts [Menu 1-5]

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

are listed with the date and time when they were saved. Scroll

through the list using up/down navigation keys.

Icon directive

[ ] Multimedia message

[ ] Text message

[ ] Delivery confirmed

Each draft has the following options. Press < [Options].

View

You can view the selected message.

Edit

You can edit the selected message.

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Delete

Deletes the selected message from the drafts folder.

View information

You can view the information of selected message: subject (only for

multimedia message), the date and time when saved, message type

and size, the priority (only for multimedia message).

Delete all

Deletes all the messages from drafts folder.

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Listen to voice mail [Menu 1-6]

You can listen to voice mail.

Info message [Menu 1-7]

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;

Read [Menu 1-7-1]

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 L , R or < [Next].

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

Topics [Menu 1-7-2]

• Add new

Accessing the Menu

You can add Info service message numbers in the Phone memory

with its nickname.

• 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.

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Messages [Menu 1]

Templates [Menu 1-8]

Text templates [Menu 1-8-1]

You have 11 text templates. You can change the predefined

templates into your favorite ones or fill the <empty>s.

Multimedia templates [Menu 1-8-2]

You can use the following options.

• Preview

You can preview multimedia messages you wrote.

• Save

You can save multimedia messages in the outbox or as templates.

• Add slide

You can add a slide before or after current slide.

• Move to slide

You can move to previous or next slide.

• Delete slide

You can delete current slides.

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• Set slide format

- Set timer

You can set timer for slide, text, picture and sound.

- Swap text and picture

You can switch the position of picture and text of the message.

• Remove media

You can remove pictures or sounds in the slide. This option can be

shown only when any media exists.

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• Add T9 dictionary

You can add your own word. This menu can be shown only when

edit mode is Predictive (T9Abc/T9abc/T9ABC).

• T9 languages

Select a T9 input mode.

• Exit

You can back to the Message menu.

Signature [Menu 1-8-3]

You can make your Signature. Key in Name, Phone number, Fax

number and Email.

Settings [Menu 1-9]

Text message [Menu 1-9-1]

• 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

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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 service 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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Messages [Menu 1]

• SMS centre

If you want to send the text message, you can receive the address

of SMS centre through this menu.

Multimedia message [Menu 1-9-2]

• Priority

You can send the message after setting the level of priority: Low,

Normal and High.

• 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

On: The messages are downloaded automatically on receipt.

Off: Requires to confirm the message which you want to

download.

Home network only: In home network, you can activate Auto

download On menu, Otherwise, you can activate Auto download

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in roaming network when you set Off.

• Network settings

In order to download MMS from the server, you need to set up a

CSD or GPRS data connection. If you select multimedia message

server, you can set URL for multimedia message server. You can

set over 5 profiles to connect service.

- Homepage

This menu allows to connect MMS centre (MMSC).

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- Bearer

• Data

• GPRS

- Data settings

Appears only if you select Data settings as a Bearer\service.

IP address

Dial number : Enter the telephone number to dial to access your

WAP gateway.

User ID

Password

Call type : Select the type of data call, Analogue or Digital

(ISDN).

Call speed : The speed of your data connection 9600 or

14400.

- GPRS settings

The service settings are only available when GPRS is chosen as

a bearer service.

IP address

APN : Insert APN (Access Point Name) of GPRS.

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User ID

Password

- Connection type

The options for connection type are Temporary or Continuous.

- Secure settings

Depending on the chosen gateway port, you can select this

option On or Off.

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Messages [Menu 1]

• Permitted types

Personal : Personal message.

Advertisements

: Commercial message.

Information : Necessary information.

Voice mail centre [Menu 1-9-3]

You can receive the voicemail if this feature is supported by your

network service provider. When a new voicemail is arrived, the

symbol will be displayed on the screen. Please check with your

network service provider for details of their service in order to

configure the phone accordingly.

1. Hold down 1 key in standby mode.

2. You can check the following submenus.

• Home

You can listen to voice mails by selecting Home.

• Roaming

Even when you are in abroad, you can listen to voice mails if

roaming service is supported.

Info service [Menu 1-9-4]

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(Dependent to network and subscription)

• 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.

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• 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.

Push messages [Menu 1-9-5]

You can set the option whether you will receive the message or not.

Accessing the Menu

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