LG G1600: Messages [Menu 1]

Messages [Menu 1]: LG G1600

Messages [Menu 1]

This menu includes functions related to SMS (Short Message

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

the networks service messages.

Write short 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 short

message.

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

T9 (Page 33).

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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Messages [Menu 1]

• 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

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.

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• Text templates

You can use Text templates already set in the phone.

• Phone book

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

• Business card

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.

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 Business card.

Options

• Preview

Accessing the Menu

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

the service provider. This service depends on network.

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Messages [Menu 1]

• 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.

• 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

Accessing the Menu

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 Messages 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’.

4 (For G) 4 (For i)

1160

T9Abc

1159

T9abc

1158

T9abc

IHi

7 (For r) 5 (For l)

1157

T9abc

1156

T9abc

His

Girl

The word changes after each keystroke. Therefore you

shouldnt pay too much attention to how the word appears

on the display until you have pressed all the appropriate

Accessing the Menu

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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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.

Accessing the Menu

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

Messages [Menu 1]

Input

your word

T9 languages

You can select T9 Languages by selecting Menu.

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

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.

Accessing the Menu

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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Messages [Menu 1]

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 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

Accessing the Menu

notification message.

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

[ ] Unsent

[ ] Delivery confirmed

[ ] SMS sent

When you use the message which is already sent

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.

Note

Accessing the Menu

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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Messages [Menu 1]

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.

Accessing the Menu

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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

messages.

Accessing the Menu

No

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

messages any more.

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Messages [Menu 1]

Alert [Menu 1-6-3]

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 [Menu 1-6-4]

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.

Topics [Menu 1-6-5]

(Dependent to network and subscription)

Add new

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

Accessing the Menu

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 1-7]

Text [Menu 1-7-1]

You have 11 text templates. You can change the predefined

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

Multimedia [Menu 1-7-2]

You can use the following options.

Edit : You can edit multimedia templates.

Add new : Allows you to add new multimedia templates.

Write message

: You can write multimedia messages using

multimedia templates.

Delete : You can delete multimedia templates.

Business card [Menu 1-7-3]

You can make your business card. Key in Name, Phone number,

Fax number and Email.

Settings [Menu 1-8]

Short message [Menu 1-8-1]

Message types

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

Accessing the Menu

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.

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Messages [Menu 1]

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 1-8-2]

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

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.

Network settings

Accessing the Menu

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

multimedia message server.

Permitted message types

Personal : Personal message.

Advertisements

: Commercial message.

Information : Necessary information.

Memory status [Menu 1-8-3]

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

SIM memory. You can go to each repository menu.

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