Alcatel OneTouch Alcatel IDOL4S User Manual

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4�3�1 Consult your Contacts
To see your contacts, touch  from the Home screen, then select  
Contacts .
Touch to add new 
contact. Touch to open 
Quick Contact 
panel.
Touch to view 
your favorites.
Long press to 
select the current  contact or all 
contacts to delete.
Touch to search in  
Contacts
Delete a contact
To delete a contact, long press the contact you want to delete, the 
icon will turn to 
 , then touch  and confirm to delete. Touch  
to select all contacts, then touch  and confirm to delete all contacts.
The contact you have deleted will also be removed from other 
applications on the phone or web the next time you synchronize 
your phone. 
						

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Touch 
 to display the contacts list option menu, following actions 
are enabled:
•	 Contacts to 
display Choose contacts to display.
•	 Merge contacts Select duplicate contacts to merge.
•	 Import/Export Import or export contacts between phone, SIM 
card, microSD card and phone storage.
•	 Blocked contacts Touch to view your blocked contacts. You can 
also unblock them.
•	 Accounts Manage the synchronization settings for different 
accounts.
•	 Settings Touch to change the display of the sort list and 
contact names.
4�3�2 
Adding a contact
Touch  in the contact list to create a new contact.
You are required to enter the contact's name and other contact 
information. By scrolling up and down the screen, you can move from 
one field to another. 
						

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Touch to select a picture or 
take a photo for the contact.
Touch to save.Touch to select Phone, account, or SIM card.
Touch to add organization. Touch to add detailed name information.
Touch to add a number.
When finished, touch  to save.
To exit without saving, you can touch 
 and then touch  Discard 
changes.
Add to/remove from Favorites
(1)
To add a contact to favorites, you can touch a contact to view details 
then touch  to add the contact to favorites (the star will turn white). 
To remove a contact from favorites, touch the white star 
 on the 
contact details screen.
4�3�3  Editing your contacts
To edit contact information, touch  in the contact details screen 
to edit.
When finished, touch 
 to save.
(1) Only phone contacts can be added to Favorites. 
						

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4�3�4 Use Quick contact for Android
Touch a contact to open Quick contact for Android, then you can 
touch  or the number to make a call, touch  to send a message.
The icons available on the Quick contact panel depend on the 
information you have for the contact and the applications and 
accounts on your phone.
4�3�5 Importing, exporting and sharing contacts
This phone enables you to import or export contacts between your 
phone, SIM card and phone storage.
From the Contacts screen, touch 
 to open the options menu, touch 
Import/Export , then select Import/from SIM card,  from SD storage, 
from phone,  Export/to SIM card,  to SD storage, to phone storage or 
Share visible contacts .
You can share a single contact or contacts with others by sending the 
contact's vCard to them via Bluetooth, Gmail, etc. 
						

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Touch a contact you want to share, touch the 
 
icon and Share from 
the contact details screen. Select the number you want to share and 
touch the 
 icon, and then select the application to perform this 
action. 
4�3�6  Displaying contacts
You can configure which list of contacts, for each account, you want 
to display in the Contacts list. Touch 
 and touch  Contacts to display 
from contacts list screen, then you can choose which contacts to 
display.
Touch 
 and  Settings to sort the list by the given name or family 
name, as well as viewing contact names by given/family name first.
4�3�7  Joining/Separating contacts(1)
To avoid duplication, you can add any new contact information to 
existing contacts in a single action. 
Touch the contact which you want to add information to, touch 
 to 
enter edit contact screen, then touch  again and touch  Join. 
At this time, you are required to select the contact whose information 
you want to join with the first contact. The information from the 
second contact is added to the first one, and the second contact will 
no longer be displayed in the Contacts list.
To separate contact information, touch the contact whose information 
you want to separate, touch 
 to enter edit contact screen, then 
touch  again and touch  Separate, touch OK to confirm.
(1) Only applicable for phone contacts. 
						

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4�3�8 Accounts
Contacts, data or other information can be synchronized from multiple 
accounts, depending on the applications installed on your phone.
To add an account, touch 
 from the contacts list and touch 
Accounts Add account, or from the home screen, touch  then 
Settings\Accounts\Add account.
You are required to select the kind of account you are adding, like 
Google, Corporate, etc.
As with other account setup, you need to enter detailed information, 
like username, password, etc.
You can remove an account to delete it and all associated information 
from the phone. Touch the account you want to delete, touch 
 and 
select  Remove account, then confirm.
Turn on/off the auto-sync
In the  Accounts screen, touch 
 and mark the  Auto-sync data 
checkbox. When activated, all changes to information on the phone or 
online will be automatically synchronized with each other. 
						

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5  
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You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS with this phone.
To send a message, touch 
 from the Home screen then select 
Messaging.
5�1�1  Write message
On the message list screen, touch the new message icon  to write 
text/multimedia messages.
Touch to create a new message.
•	 Touch to view the whole message thread.
•	 Long press to activate delete mode. 
For saved contacts, touch the photo to open the Quick contact 
panel to communicate with the contact. For unsaved contacts, 
touch the photo to add the number to your  Contacts� 
						

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Sending a text message
Enter the mobile phone number of the recipient in the 
To bar or touch  
 to add recipients. Touch the  Send message bar to enter the text of 
the message. Touch the 
 icon to insert emoticons. When finished, 
touch  to send the text message. 
An SMS message of more than 160 characters will be charged as 
several SMS. A counter will be on the right of the text box to remind 
you how many characters are allowed to be entered in one message.
Specific letters (accented) will also increase the size of the SMS, 
this may cause multiple SMS to be sent to your recipient.
Sending a multimedia message
MMS enables you to send video clips, images, photos, animations, 
slides and sounds to other compatible mobiles and e-mail addresses. 
An SMS will be converted to MMS automatically when media files 
(image, video, audio, slides, etc.) are attached or subject or email 
addresses are added.
To send a multimedia message, enter the recipient's phone number in 
the  To bar and touch the Send message bar to enter the text of the 
message. Touch 
 to open the options menu, touch  Add subject to 
insert a subject. Touch the  icon to attach a picture, video, audio 
and so on.
When finished, touch 
 to send the multimedia message. 
5�1�2   Manage messages
When receiving a message, an  icon will appear on the status bar as 
a notification. Drag down the status bar to open the Notification panel, 
touch the new message to open and read it. You can also access the 
Messaging application and touch the message to open it. 
Messages are displayed in conversational order.  
						

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Touch a message to enter the message composing screen:
•	
Touch 
 to call the number;
•	 Touch 
 to save the number to contacts or view the contact details 
if the number has been saved;
•	 To reply to a message, enter the text, or touch 
 to insert quick text, 
contact etc., after edit then touch  .
•	 Long press a message to show the following icons: copy text 
,  forward , view details , delete  etc., touch  to save the 
message to SIM card.
5�1�3  Adjust message settings
You can adjust a range of message settings. From the Messaging 
application screen, touch  and touch  Settings.
GENERAL
•	 SMS enable Touch to change your default SMS app.
•	 Quick text Touch to edit quick response text.
Storage
•	 Delete old 
messages Select to delete old messages when the 
maximum number of stored messages is 
reached. 
•	 Text message limit Touch to set the maximum number of text 
messages to be saved per conversation.
•	 Multimedia 
message limit Touch to set the maximum number 
of multimedia messages to be saved per 
conversation.
  
						

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Notifications
•	
Notifications Select to display message notifications in the 
status bar.
•	 Select ringtone Touch to select a ringtone as a new message 
notification tone.
•	 Vibrate Select to have phone vibrate as a notification 
when receiving a new message.
WAP message settings
•	 WAP message 
enable Touch to enable receipt of push messages 
from network.
Cell Broadcast settings
•	 Cell broadcast Mark the checkbox to enable receipt of cell 
broadcast messages.
•	 Select CB ringtone Touch to select CB ringtone when receiving 
cell broadcast messages.
•	 Enable CB LED 
indicator Mark the checkbox to enable CB LED indicator.
•	 Enable light up 
screen Mark the checkbox to light up the screen 
when receiving new cell broadcast.
•	 Vibrate  Select to have phone vibrate as a notification 
when receiving a new message.
•	 Cell broadcast 
settings Touch to select channels and configure 
languages.
•	 Emergency alerts Touch to enter emergency alert settings, 
including whether to show threats and alert 
tones.