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Or visit www.lg.com. that you back-up any such data or information prior to Correspondence may also be mailed to: sending the unit to LG to avoid the permanent loss of LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. such information. 201 James Record Road Huntsville, AL 35824 4.
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LG430G User Guide English Congratulations on your purchase of the advanced and compact LG430G phone by LG, designed to operate with the latest digital mobile communication technology. Some of contents in this manual may differ from your phone depending on the software of the phone or your service provider.
Others Files ........24 Viewing your own number ....17 Games & Apps ........24 Creating a business card ....17 Games & Apps .......24 Changing your contact settings ..17 Tools ..........24 Messages ..........18 Internet/ Settings ......26 Sending a message ......18 LG 430G | User Guide...
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Accessing the internet browser ....26 Pairing with another Bluetooth device ..........27 Software Upgrade ......29 Accessories ........30 Network service ........31 Technical data ........31 Troubleshooting .........32 For Your Safety ........34 Safety Guidelines ......39...
• Opens the Contacts list. • Ends or rejects a call. Call key Turns the phone on/ off.Returns to the • Dials a phone number and home screen when answers incoming calls. you use the menu. LG 430G | User Guide...
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Camera Lens Front screen Headset / Charger / USB Cable connector Volume keys...
The SIM card can be easily damaged by scratches or bending, so be careful when handling, inserting or removing the card. Keep all SIM cards out of the reach of small children. Illustrations 1 Open battery cover. 4 Insert your battery. LG 430G | User Guide...
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5 Close the battery cover. 6 Charge your battery. WARNING: Do not remove the battery when the phone is switched on, as this may damage the phone.
Flight Mode Location On Battery Strength E911 Only In Call State Bluetooth On No Service File Transfer New Message Visible Msg & Voicemail Headset Speaker Phone Mono Headset Silent Mode Stereo Headset Normal Stereo/Mono Headset Outdoor LG 430G | User Guide...
Menus Overview Prepaid 3. Multimedia Templates 7 Emoticons 1 Add Airtime 8 Message Settings 2 Buy Airtime 1. Text Message 3 My Phone Number 2. Multimedia Message 4 My Airtime Info 3. Voicemail 5 Airtime Display Recent Calls 6 Serial Number 1 Call Log 7 SIM Number 2 Missed Calls...
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9 Go To 10 Settings Browser Settings 1 Profiles 2 Display 1. Homescreen 2. Menu Style 3. Dialing 4. Font 5. Backlight 6. Handset Theme 3 Bluetooth 4 Call 1. Call Rejection List 2. Send My Number LG 430G | User Guide...
Calling Making a call Answering and rejecting a call 1 Make sure your phone is on. When your phone rings, press to answer the call. 2 Use the keypad to enter the number. To delete a digit press While your phone is ringing you can press Silent to mute the ringing.
2 From here you can choose from dial number. the following options: Call Duration - View details of how long you have spent on your calls both received and dialed. To erase a specific call duration LG 430G | User Guide...
record, press Options and select BT Answer Mode - Choose how to answer a call when using a Bluetooth Clear. To erase all the call duration headset. Select Hands-Free or records, press Options and select Handset. Clear All. Save New Number - Selecting this Packet Data Counter - View the option will save numbers that are not amount of all your received and...
Note: If you delete a group, the Done. contacts which were assigned to that To enter further information group will not be lost. They will remain such as additional numbers, in your contacts. Email address, group, etc., press LG 430G | User Guide...
Viewing your own number Copy - Copy your contacts from your SIM card to your handset or Select Own number in the Contacts from your handset to your SIM menu to view your number. card. Choose to do this one by one or all together.
Menu > Messaging > Message 4 Enter the phone number or press Settings > Text message, and Options and select Send to add choose Send Long Text As. a contact from the list of your LG 430G | User Guide...
Using the T9 Mode Note: Image, Video Clip, Sound Clip, Schedule, Business Card, Text Field or Press the keys that correspond with Task is added to the message editor, the digits you want to enter. it will be automatically converted to MMS mode and you will be charged 1 When you are in the T9 predictive accordingly.
The writing options may differ delete emoticons. You can insert the depending on the language you preferred emoticon when writing a choose. message. Message Settings - Your message settings are pre-defined so that you LG 430G | User Guide...
Move - Choose to move the can send messages immediately. If you would like to change the settings, selected message to the SIM card, you can do this using the settings handset, or My Folder. options. Mark/Unmark - Mark a message or all messages in order to Managing your messages perform an action to the selected...
Voice mail center - View the details Send Long Text As - Choose of your voice mail center. whether to send your message as Multiple SMS or MMS when you enter text longer than 160 characters in the message field. LG 430G | User Guide...
Media Camera recording 4 Rec will appear in the viewfinder Using the camera module built in and a timer will show the length of your phone, you can take pictures 5 Select Stop to stop recording. of people. Additionally, you can send photos to other people and select Videos photos as wallpaper.
You can move the cursor to another date You can listen to the voice recordings. using the navigation keys. You can also select a desired ringtone, or download a new ringtone. LG 430G | User Guide...
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Tools Adding an item to your to do list Go to (Menu > Tools > To-Do List) (Menu > Tools > Go To) You can view, edit and add tasks to do. It helps you to go to the menu you search for.
Changing your display settings (Menu > Settings > Display) You can change the settings for the phone display. Bluetooth Changing your Bluetooth settings 1 Press Menu and select Settings then choose Bluetooth. LG 430G | User Guide...
Settings 2 Select Settings 5 Your phone will then connect to the other device. Make your changes to: 6 Your passcode protected Bluetooth - My device visibility - Choose between Hidden and Visible for connection is now ready. 3 Min. TIP! - My device name - Enter a 1.
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The default security to keep your LG430G and the code is set to “0000”. important information safe. - Handset Lock - Choose to lock your handset. - Change Handset Code - Change your Security code. LG 430G | User Guide...
Software Upgrade LG Mobile Phone Software update from internet For more information on using this function, please visit the http:// update.lgmobile.com or http://www. lg.com/common/ index.jsp select country and language. This feature allows you to update the firmware of your phone to the newer...
Note Always use genuine LG accessories. • Failure to do so may invalidate your warranty. • Accessories may vary in different regions. Please check with our regional • service company or agent for further information. LG 430G | User Guide...
Network service Technical data General The wireless phone described in this guide is approved for use on the Product name: LG430G GSM 850, PCS 1900 networks. System: GSM 850 /PCS 1900 A number of features included in this guide are called Network Services. Ambient Temperatures These are special services that you arrange through your wireless...
PIN 2. Phone cannot On/Off key pressed too Press On/Off key for at least two be switched briefly seconds. Battery empty Charge battery. Check charging Battery contacts dirty indicator in the display. Clean battery contacts. LG 430G | User Guide...
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Plug in to a different socket or check voltage. No main voltage If the charger does not warm up, replace it. Charger defective Only use original LG accessories. Wrong charger Replace battery. Battery defective Number not The fixed dial number Check settings.
Breaking the rules may be dangerous temperatures less than 32°F or or illegal. Further detailed information greater than 104°F, such as outside is given in this user guide. LG 430G | User Guide...
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Do not disassemble this unit. Take Do not tap the screen with a sharp • • it to a qualified service technician object; otherwise, it may damage when repair work is required. the phone. Keep away from electrical Do not expose the phone to liquid •...
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This device was tested for typical accept any interference received, body-worn operations with the back including interference that may cause of the phone kept 0.79 inches (2cm) undesired operation. between the user’s body and the LG 430G | User Guide...
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Part 15.105 statement Connect the equipment into an • outlet on a circuit different from that This equipment has been tested to which the receiver is connected. and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, Consult the dealer or an •...
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This is particularly that bear the USB-IF logo or have imperative when attempting to completed the USB-IF compliance cross the street. program. LG 430G | User Guide...
Safety Guidelines TIA Safety Information NCRP Report 86 (1986) ICNIRP (1996) Provided herein is the complete Those standards were based TIA Safety Information for Wireless on comprehensive and periodic Handheld phones. Inclusion of evaluations of the relevant scientific the text covering Pacemakers, literature.
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ON; Use hands-free operation, if available; • Should not carry the phone in a • breast pocket. Pull off the road and park before • making or answering a call if LG 430G | User Guide...
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Should use the ear opposite representative regarding your vehicle. • the pacemaker to minimize the You should also consult the potential for interference. manufacturer of any equipment that has been added to your vehicle. If you have any reason to suspect •...
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If in-vehicle wireless equipment Replace the battery when it is improperly installed and the air bag • no longer provides acceptable inflates, serious injury could result. performance. The battery can be recharged several hundred times before replacement. LG 430G | User Guide...
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Recharge the battery after long Unplug the power cord prior to • • periods of non-use to maximize cleaning your phone, and clean the battery life. power plug pin when it is dirty. Battery life will vary due to usage When using the power plug, ensure •...
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If the phone does not work, The magnetism of the phone may take it to an LG Authorized Service damage the data stored in the Centre. magnetic strip.
FDA Consumer Update but such findings have not been confirmed by additional research. The U.S. Food and Drug In some cases, other researchers Administration Centre for Devices and have had difficulty in reproducing Radiological Health Consumer Update those studies, or in determining the on Mobile Phones.
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While these group: base stations operate at higher National Institute for Occupational power than do the wireless phones • Safety and Health themselves, the RF exposures that people get from these base Environmental Protection Agency • LG 430G | User Guide...
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stations are typically thousands of have a base unit connected to times lower than those they can the telephone wiring in a house, get from wireless phones. Base typically operate at far lower stations are thus not the subject of power levels, and thus produce the safety questions discussed in RF exposures far below the FCC...
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- if they do- studies was around three years. may be many, many years. The interpretation of epidemiological studies is hampered by difficulties LG 430G | User Guide...
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in measuring actual RF exposure has also helped develop a series during day-to-day use of wireless of public information documents phones. Many factors affect this on EMF issues. The FDA and the measurement, such as the angle at Cellular Telecommunications & which the phone is held, or which Internet Association (CTIA) have model of phone is used.
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RF is deposited phone to the FCC. The FCC website in the heads of wireless phone (http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety) users. The test method uses a gives directions for locating the tissuesimulating model of the FCC identification number on LG 430G | User Guide...
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human head. Standardized SAR amount of time spent using a test methodology is expected to wireless phone will reduce RF greatly improve the consistency of exposure. If you must conduct measurements made at different extended conversations by wireless laboratories on the same phone. phone every day, you could place SAR is the measurement of the more distance between your...
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Engineers (IEEE). This standard interference with medical specifies test methods and equipment? performance requirements for Radio frequency energy (RF) from hearing aids and wireless phones wireless phones can interact with so that no interference occurs LG 430G | User Guide...
when a person uses a ‘compatible’ www.icnirp.de) phone and a ‘compatible’ hearing World Health Organization (WHO) aid at the same time. This standard International EMF Project was approved by the IEEE in 2000. (http://www.who.int/peh-emf/project/ The FDA continues to monitor en/) the use of wireless phones for National Radiological Protection Board possible interactions with other...
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4. Suspend conversations during stop sign, red light or otherwise hazardous driving conditions or stationary. But if you need to dial situations. Let the person you while driving, follow this simple are speaking with know you are LG 430G | User Guide...
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tip— dial only a few numbers, wireless phone provides you a check the road and your mirrors, perfect opportunity to be a “Good then continue. Samaritan” in your community. If you see an auto accident, crime in 7. Do not engage in stressful or progress or other serious emergency emotional conversations that where lives are in danger, call 911...
(e.g., at the ear and worn on the The exposure standard for wireless body) as required by the FCC for mobile phones employs a unit of each model. The highest SAR value measurement known as the Specific LG 430G | User Guide...
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for LG430G phone when tested for * In the United States and Canada, use at the ear is 1.08 W/kg and the SAR limit for mobile phones when worn on the body, as described used by the public is 1.6 watts/kg in this user’s manual, is 0.51 W/ (W/kg) averaged over one gram of kg.