LG C3400: Messages [Menu 5]

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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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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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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