LG C3400: Messages [Menu 5]

Messages [Menu 5]: LG C3400

Messages [Menu 5]

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 5-1]

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 56).

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

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Messages [Menu 5]

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.

Contacts

You can add phone numbers or e-mail addresses in Contacts.

Signature

You can add your signature to the message.

Options

Send

Sends text messages.

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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.

All messages will be automatically saved in the outbox folder,

even after a sending failure.

Save

Stores messages in Outbox.

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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.

Write multimedia message [Menu 5-2]

You can write and edit multimedia messages, checking message

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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, Photo, Take photo, Picture,

Sound, Voice memo, Text templates, Phonebook or

Signature.

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Messages [Menu 5]

Options

Send

You can send multimedia messages to multiple recipients,

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

Note

• All messages will be automatically saved in the outbox

folder, even after a sending failure.

• Check with your service provider if the Priority service is

available.

Preview

You can preview multimedia messages you wrote.

Save

You can save multimedia messages In drafts or As template.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Messages [Menu 5]

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

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

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

T9abc

T9abc

I

T9abc T9abc

159 1

158 1

Hi

157 1

156 1

His

Girl

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.

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

desired mark appears.

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Word

Word

LGGSM

ABC

ABC

Save Back

Save Back

Input

your word

T9 languages

You can select T9 Languages by selecting Menu.

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

Messages [Menu 5]

Inbox [Menu 5-3]

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 multimedia message

[ ] Read text message

[ ] Push message

[ ] 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.

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SIM message

SIM message means the message exceptionally stored in SIM card.

You can move this message to the phone.

For notified multimedia message, you have to wait for downloading

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

5-9-2] for detail.

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

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View

You can see the received messages.

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.

Delete

You can delete the current message.

View information

You can view information about received messages; Sender’s

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

time, Message type, Message size, Priority and Class.

Delete all

You can delete all messages.

Replay (applicable to Multimedia message only)

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You can replay multimedia messages.

Receive (In the 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].

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Messages [Menu 5]

Outbox [Menu 5-4]

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.

Icon directive

[ ] MMS Sent

[ ] MMS Unsent

[ ] MMS delivery confirmed

[ ] SMS sent

[ ] SMS unsent

[ ] SMS Delivery confirmed

When you already sent the message:

View

You can see the sent messages.

Forward

You can forward the current message to other recipients.

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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 and Delivery report.

Delete all

You can delete all messages that you sent.

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When you didnt send the message:

View

You can see the unsent messages.

Send

You can send the message.

Delete

You can delete the current message.

View information

You can view information about outbox messages.

Send all

You can send all messages didnt send.

Delete all

You can delete all messages didnt send.

Drafts [Menu 5-5]

Using this menu, you can preset up to five multimedia messages

that you use most frequently. This menu shows the preset

multimedia message list.

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The following options are available.

Edit: Modifies the massage you choose.

Delete: Deletes the message you choose.

View information: To view the information of the message.

Listen to voice mail [Menu 5-6]

You can listen to voice mail.

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Messages [Menu 5]

Info message [Menu 5-7]

(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 5-7-1]

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 5-7-2]

(Dependent to network and subscription)

Add new

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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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Templates [Menu 5-8]

Text templates [Menu 5-8-1]

You have 6 text templates.

Multimedia templates [Menu 5-8-2]

After saving new template, you can use options as follow.

View: You can see multimedia templates.

Edit: You can edit multimedia templates.

Add new: Allows you to add new multimedia templates.

Write messages: You can write multimedia messages using

multimedia templates.

Delete: You can delete multimedia templates.

Delete all: You can delete all multimedia templates.

Signature [Menu 5-8-3]

You can create your own signature.

Settings [Menu 5-9]

Text message [Menu 5-9-1]

Message types

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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.

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Messages [Menu 5]

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.

SMS centre

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

of SMS centre through this menu.

Multimedia message [Menu 5-9-2]

Priority

You can set the priority of the message you choose.

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.

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Auto download

If you select On, you receive multimedia messages automatically.

If you select Off, you receive only notification message in the

inbox and then you can check this notification.

If you select Homenetwork only, You receive multimedia

messages depends on Homenetwork.

Read reply

You can send the confirmed report after reading the message.

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Defer sending

You can defer sending the message if you dont want send it right

now.

Sender visibility

On sending the message, you can send your information at the

same time.

Network settings

If you select multimedia message server, you can set URL for

multimedia message server.

Permitted types

Personal : Personal message.

Advertisements

: Commercial message.

Information : Necessary information.

Voice mail centre [Menu 5-9-3]

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.

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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 5]

Info message [Menu 5-9-4]

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.

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Push messages [Menu 5-9-5]

You can set the option whether you will receive the message which

includes URL address or not.

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