Alcatel-Lucent 906y User Manual

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GPRS connected

Speakerphone is on

GPRS in use

Roaming

GPRS is disabled

No signal

EDGE connected

No SIM card installed

EDGE in use

Vibrate mode

EDGE is disabled

Ringer is silenced

Connected to a Wi-Fi 
network

Cellphone microphone 
is mute

Bluetooth is on

Battery is very low

Connected to a Bluetooth 
device

Battery is low

Airplane mode

Battery is partially 
drained

Alarm is set

Battery is full

Signal strength

Battery is charging

GPS is on

Headset connected

Receiving location data 
from GPS

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Answer/Send a call

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Enter Call Log

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Return to ongoing call screen if the user navigates to other 

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applications during call.

On Home screen, press to quick access to 

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Settings menu 

or Notification panel; to launch quick search; to customize 
your Home screen by adding applications or changing 
wallpaper/theme.

On other screens, press to view options list.

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Press:  Return to the Home screen or back to the central 

Home screen if it is extended.

Press and hold: Enter the recently used applications list.

Go back to the previous menu or screen.

Press:  End a call

Lock the screen
Light up the screen

Press and hold:  When cellphone is off, power on the cellphone.

When cellphone is on, enter Cellphone 
options: Silent mode, Airplane mode, Power off.

Press to adjust the Volume (in call/media playing mode)

Open Search bar for searching within an application, the 
cellphone or web.

New Gmail message

More notifications are 
hidden

New text or multimedia 
message

Call in progress (green)

Problem with text or 
multimedia message 
delivery

Call in progress using 
Bluetooth headset (blue)

New Google Talk 
message

Missed call

New voicemail

Call on hold

Upcoming event

Call forwarding is on

Data is synchronizing

Uploading data

Problem with sign-in or 
synchronization

Downloading data

microSD card is full

Download finished

No microSD card 
installed

An open Wi-Fi network 
is available

Connected to VPN

Cellphone is connected 
via USB cable

Disconnected from VPN

Radio is on

Song is playing 

System update available

You must insert your SIM card to make phone calls. Please power off 
your cellphone and remove battery before inserting or removing the 
SIM card.

Place the SIM card with the chip facing downwards and slide it into its 
housing. Make sure that it is correctly inserted. To remove the card, press 
and slide it out.

Insert and click the battery into place, then close the cellphone cover.

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Unclip the cover, then remove the battery.

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Touch and hold an empty area or press Menu key and touch Wallpaper 
on the Home screen to customize wallpaper.

Touch and hold an empty area or press Menu key and touch Themes on 
the Home screen to customize themes.

Touch 

 from Home screen to enter applications list. 

To return to the Home screen, press Home key.

To consult recently-used applications, you can press and hold the 
Applications list from Home screen. Touch an icon in the window to 
open the related application.

You can set ringer, media  and cellphone ringtone volume to your 
preference by Volume up/down key, or Settings menu.

The Applications list contains all pre-embedded and newly installed 
applications.

To access the Applications list, touch Application tab from Home screen. 
To return to Home screen, press Home key.

Remove battery cover and uncover the MicroSD card protector; Insert 
the MicroSD card with golden contact facing downwards into the slot until 
it is locked. Then cover the MicroSD card protector.

   To remove the microSD card while the cellphone is on, you 

must unmount the storage card (Settings\SD card, USB Mass 
Storage & phone storage\Unmount SD card) from the 
cellphone first, to prevent corrupting or damaging the storage 
card

Connect the battery charger to your cellphone and outlet respectively.

   To reduce power consumption and energy waste, when battery 

is fully charged, disconnect your charger from the plug; switch off 
Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth or background-running applications when 
not in use; reduce the backlight time, etc.

Onscreen keyboard will display automatically when a program requires 
entering text or numbers.

Touch to lock in capital letter input mode.

Touch to switch to symbol and numeric 
keyboard.

Press and hold to enter an accent of the letter

Touch to enter text or numbers, touch 
and hold for one or two seconds to 
select input method.

Press  Menu key from Home screen, select Settings\Language & 
keyboard\Android keyboard, a series of settings are available for 
your selection. 

Turn the cellphone sideways or upright to adjust the onscreen keyboard 
orientation. You can also adjust it by settings (Press Menu key on Home 
screen\Settings\Sound & display).

You can edit the text you have entered.

Touch and hold text you have entered

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Options list pops up

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Select the operation you need (

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Select all,  Select text,  Cut all, 

Copy all, etc.)

Hold down the End key until the cellphone powers on. It will take some 
seconds before the screen lights up.

The first time you power on the cellphone, you are required to touch 
the Android logo to begin and then sign into your Google account to 
synchronize email, contacts, calendar and other Google applications 

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Enter your user name and password, then touch 

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Sign in. If you forget 

your password, you can go to http://www.google.com/ to retrieve it. If 
you don’t own a Google Account, you are prompted to create one by 
touching Create.

Read the setup information on the screen

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Mark/Unmark the check box to choose whether you want to take 

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advantage of Google's location service, then touch Next.

Set up the date and time, then touch 

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Next.

Touch 

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Finish setup.

   This initial set up can be skipped and enabled via Settings\

Accounts & sync.

In power on screen without SIM card inserted, you can also connect 
to a  Wi-Fi network to sign into your Google account and to use some 
features.

User can easily launch a call using Phone. Enter this menu using one of 
the following two ways:

Touch Application tab from Home screen and select 

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Phone. 

Press 

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Call key, then select Phone tab.

Enter the desired number from keyboard directly or select a contact from 
Contacts, Call log or Favorites by touching tabs, then press Call key or 
touch 

 to place the call. The number you entered can be saved to 

Contacts by pressing Menu key and touching Add to Contacts. 

You also can add 2-sec pause or add wait by pressing Menu key.

If you make a mistake, you can delete the incorrect digits by touching 

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To hang up a call, press End key.

Hold down the End key from the Home screen until the cellphone 
options appear, select Power off.

You can bring all the items (applications, shortcuts, folders and widgets) 
you love or use most frequently to your home screen for quick access. 
Press Home key to switch to Home screen.

Status/Notification indicators. 

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Touch and Drag down to open notification 

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panel.

Search bar
Touch 

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 to enter text search screen.

Touch 

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 to enter voice search screen.

Application tab
Touch to open applications list.

Touch to access Call log if you have 
missed call(s), or access the tab you 
exit last time.

Touch to access Browser.

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Home screen is provided in an extended format to allow more space for 
adding applications, shortcuts etc. Slide the Home screen horizontally left 
and right to get a complete view of the Home screen. Small dots at the 
lower left and right of the screen indicate which screen you are viewing. 

Touch & hold the small dots or application tab can display the thumbnails 
of extended home screen, touch the thumbnail to open it. Press Back key 
or touch an empty area to return to Home screen. You can customize the 
number of home screens by settings (Press Menu key on Home screen\
Settings\Sound & display).

When you receive an incoming call, drag down the green cellphone icon 
or press Call key to answer. Hang up the call by dragging the red phone 
icon to left or pressing End key.

You can access your call memory by pressing the Call key from the Home 
screen and touching Call log tab to view call history in categories of 
Missed call, Dialed call and Received call.

You can view and create contacts on your cellphone and synchronize 
these with your Gmail contacts or other applications on the web or on 
your cellphone.

   

When using Contacts for the first time you are required to 
add new contacts to cellphone, import contacts from SIM card 
to cellphone, or synchronize contacts from other application 
accounts to cellphone.

To access an application, touch it with your finger.

To enter the available options for an item, touch and hold the item. For 
example, select a contact in Contacts, touch and hold this contact, options 
list will then appear on screen.

Place your finger on the screen to drag an object to another location.

Slide the screen to scroll up and down the applications, images, web 
pages… at your convenience.

Similar to swiping, but flicking makes it move quicker.

Automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by 
turning the cellphone leftward to have a better screen view.

From status bar you can view both phone status (to the right side) and 
notification information (to the left side). When the status bar is full, “ ” icon 
will appear, touch to display hidden icons. You can touch twice an empty 
area on the Home screen to hide/show the Status bar.

Touch  Application tab on the Home screen, select Contacts, then 
press Menu key from contacts list screen and touch New contact.

From Contacts screen, press Menu key to open contacts list option menu, 
touch Import/Export, then select Import from SIM card, Export to 
SIM card, Import from SD card or Export to SD card.

To import/export a single contact from/to SIM card, touch the contact you 
want to import/export, then press Menu key and touch OK to confirm.

To import/export all contacts from/to SIM card, mark Select all contacts 
check box, then press Menu key and touch OK to confirm.

Contacts, data or other information can be synchronized from multiple 
accounts, depending on the applications installed on your cellphone.

Touch  and hold a contact , then  touch Add to favorites. Or touch a 
contact to view details then touch to add the contact to favorites (the 
star will turn gold in color).

Select Remove from favorites on the contact’s option menu or touch 
gold star on contact details screen.

Touch a contact’s picture  to  open  Quick Contact, then touch the icon 
for the way to connect. The icons available on Quick contact bar depend 
on the information you have for the contact and the applications and 
accounts on your cellphone.

  Prolonged exposure to music at full volume on the music player 

may damage the listener's hearing. Set your cellphone volume 
safely. Use only headphones recommended by TCT Mobile Limited 
and its affiliates.

Quick Start Guide

For more information about how to use the cellphone, please go 
to www.alcatelonetouch.com to download complete user manual. 
Moreover, from the website you can also consult FAQ, realize software 
upgrade via PC suite, etc.

1 Your 

cellphone 

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2 Text 

input 

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3 Phone 

call 

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4 Contacts 

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5 Messaging.................................................................................................. 18

6 Email 

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7 Getting 

connected 

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8  Locate my location using GPS satellites ........................................... 23

9 Data 

backup 

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10  Factory data reset .................................................................................. 24

11 Applications ............................................................................................. 25

12  Making the most of your cellphone ................................................... 25

Touch and drag down the Status bar or press Menu key and touch 
Notifications to open the notification panel. Touch and drag up to close 
it. From Notification panel, you can open items and other reminders 
indicated by notification icons or view wireless service information. 

The cellphone provides a Search function which can be used to locate 
information within applications, the cellphone or the web. 

To protect your cellphone and privacy, you can lock the cellphone screen 
by creating a variety of patterns.

Touch and hold an empty area or press Menu key and touch Add on 
the Home screen, you can add shortcuts, widgets or folders to the 
Home screen.

Touch and hold the item to be repositioned to activate the Move mode, 
drag the item to desired position, then release. Hold the icon on the left or 
right edge of the screen to drag the item to another Home screen page.

Touch and hold the item to be removed to activate the Move mode, 
drag the item to the top of the Application tab, which will then turn red, 
and release.

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You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS with this cellphone.

To access this feature, touch Application tab from Home screen, then 
select Messaging.

   

All messages you receive or send out can only be saved in phone 
memory. To consult messages stored in SIM card, press Menu 
key from Messaging screen, then touch Settings\Manage SIM 
messages.

On message list screen, touch New message to write text/multimedia 
messages.

Enter cellphone number of the recipient on To bar or touch 

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recipients, touch Type to compose bar to enter the text of the message. 
When finished, touch Send to send the text message.

   An SMS of more than 160 characters will be charged as several 

SMS. Specific letters (accent) will also increase the size of the 
SMS, this may cause multiple SMS to be sent to your recipient.

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 
added.

You can adjust a set of message settings. From Messaging application 
screen, press Menu key and touch Settings.

To manage messages quantities limit per conversation of text message 
and multimedia message.

You can request a delivery report for each message you send while the 
mark is green. Messages stored on SIM card can be delete or copy by 
the management.

Pressing the right mark to green, you can request a delivery report and 
read report for each message you send, automatically retrieve messages. 
You also can set the maximum message size. 

Besides your Gmail account, you can also set-up external POP3 or 
IMAP email accounts in your cellphone.

To access this function, touch Application tab from Home screen, then 
select Email.

An email wizard will guide you through the steps to set-up an email 
account.

Enter the email address and password of the account you want to 

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set-up.

Touch 

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Next. If the account you entered is not provided by your 

service provider in the cellphone, you will be prompted to go to the 
email account settings screen to enter settings manually. Or you can 
touch  Manual setup to directly enter the incoming and outgoing 
settings for the email account you are setting up.

Enter the account name and display name in outgoing emails.

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Touch 

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Done.

To add another email account, you can press 

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Menu key and touch 

Add account to create.

Press 

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Menu key from Inbox screen, and touch Compose.

Enter recipient(s)’s email address in 

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To field, and if necessary, press 

Menu key and touch Add Cc/Bcc to include a copy or a blind copy 
to the message.

Enter the subject and content of the message.

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Press 

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Menu key, touch Add attachment to send an attachment 

to the receiver.

Finally, touch 

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Send.

If you do not want to send the mail right away, you can touch 

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as draft or press Back key to save a copy. 

Menu Key

Call Key

Search Key

Back Key

Touchscreen

End Key/Power 
off Key

Home Key

Micro-SD card Protector

Volume up & Volume down

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  Application availability depends on country and operator.

Earphone connector

Micro-USB connector

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