LG C1400: Messages [Menu 1]

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.

• 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

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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.

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Messages [Menu 1]

Write multimedia message [Menu 1-2]

You can write and edit multimedia messages, checking message

size.

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,

Phone book or Business card.

Options

• Preview

You can preview multimedia messages you wrote.

• Send

You can send multimedia messages to multiple recipients,

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

Note

• When you defer sending a message, please contact

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the service provider. This service depends on network.

• 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.

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• Delete slide

You can delete current slides.

• 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.

• 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.

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’.

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T9Abc

T9abc

T9abc

I

T9abc T9abc

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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Messages [Menu 1]

4 (For G)4 (For G) 4 (For i)

7 (For r) 5 (For l)

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.

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

desired mark appears.

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Input

your word

➭

T9 languages

• You can select T9 Languages by selecting Menu.

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

(Default is T9 On)

Messages [Menu 1]

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

any SIM messages from inbox or outbox. 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

1-8-2] for detail.

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

Reply

You can reply to the sender.

Forward

You can forward the selected message to another party.

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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 Phone book.

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 case of notification message)

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

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

[Receive]. Although Multimedia message is set to Auto download

on, on the network condition or other reasons, you can get

notification message.

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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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Messages [Menu 1]

Icon directive

[ ] Sent

[ ] Unsent

[ ] Delivery confirmed

[ ] SMS sent

❇ When you use the message which is already sent

Edit

You can send the message after editing it.

Send

You can send 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 &

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time, Message type, Message size.

Note

• In case of unsent message, you can edit, send, and

delete it. You can also view the information of each

message.

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Voice mail [Menu 1-5]

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.

Listen to voice mail [Menu 1-5-1]

You can listen to voice mail.

Voice mail centre [Menu 1-5-2]

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.

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Messages [Menu 1]

Info service [Menu 1-6]

(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;

Read [Menu 1-6-1]

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 L , R or < [Next].

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

Receive [Menu 1-6-2]

• Yes

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

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messages.

• No

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

messages any more.

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