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Introduction....................................................... Table of Contents Thank you for purchasing an ALCATEL ONETOUCH Fierce™ 2 model 7040T. The 7040T comes equipped with many of the features and functions you want and need. General information.......................................................................................................... 7 1 Your mobile.................................................................................................................. 8 1.1 1.2 1.
6.5 6.6 7 Google Play Store ..................................................................................................... 75 7.1 7.2 7.3 8 Locate the item you want to download and install....................................................................................75 Download and install..........................................................................................................................................76 Manage your downloads............................................
General information......................................... Your ALCATEL ONETOUCH Fierce™ 2 is a transceiver that operates on UMTS Triband 850/1900/ AWS. Protection against theft 1 Your mobile................................................. 1.1 Keys and connectors Your mobile phone is identified by an IMEI (mobile phone serial number) shown on the packaging label and in the product’s memory.
Back key Camera • Touch to go back to the previous screen or to close a dialog box, options menu, notifications panel, etc. Volume up Volume down Power Key Home key • While on any application or screen, touch to return to the Home screen. Menu key • Touch Menu key once to access Add widgets, Manage applications, Wallpaper and Settings options. • Touch and hold Menu key to access recently used apps list. Touch app icon in list to launch app, to remove an app from list swiping app icon to left or right.
1.2 Getting started Installing or removing battery Before inserting/removing battery, ensure phone is off to prevent damage. 1.2.1 Set-up Attaching or removing back phone cover • Insert battery into slot until locked in position, then close the battery cover. • Remove battery cover and unlock battery from slot, then remove. Inserting or removing SIM card You must insert your SIM card to make phone calls. Before inserting/removing SIM card, ensure phone is off to prevent damage.
Charging battery Setting up your phone for the first time The first time you power on the phone, you should set the following options: • Touch Get started, then select the phone's language. • Select Input Method: Android Keyboard, Swype or Google voice typing and touch Next. • Mobile Data Connection: Select Data preferences and touch Next. • Select Date & Time: Automatic Time Zone will be preselected, to customize deselect this option, make changes and touch Next.
1.3 Home screen 1.3.1 Using the touchscreen Home screen is provided in an extended format to allow more space for adding applications, shortcuts etc. Slide all Home screens horizontally left and right to get a complete view of the Home screens. The white squares at the lower part of the screen indicate which screen you are viewing. Status bar • Status/Notification indicators • Touch and drag down to open the notifications panel. Touch To access an application, touch it with your finger.
1.3.2 Status bar Notification icons From status bar, you can view both phone status (to the right side) and notification information (to the left side).
Notifications panel Settings shortcut panel Touch and drag down the Status bar to open the Notifications panel. Touch and drag up to close it. From the Notifications panel, you can view wireless service information, access reminders/notifications and open apps. Get quick access to your Google Profile or your phone's Brightness, Wi-Fi, Mobile network, Data connection, Data Usage, Rotation, Bluetooth or Location settings using the Settings shortcut panel.
1.3.3 Search bar 1.3.4 Lock/Unlock your screen The phone provides a Search function which can be used to locate information within applications, the phone or the web. To protect your phone and privacy, you can lock the phone screen by choosing slide or creating a variety of patterns, PIN or password. To create a screen unlock pattern (refer to section “Screen lock”for detail settings) • From Homescreen touch Application icon , then touch Settings\Security\Screen Lock. • Draw your own pattern.
To unlock phone screen 1.3.5 Personalize your Home screen Press the power key once to light up the screen, draw the unlock pattern you have created or enter PIN or password to unlock the screen. Adding Apps and Widgets If you have chosen slide as the screen lock, touch and drag the icon To add an App touch the Applications icon mode, and drag the item to any Home screen. downward to unlock the screen.
Wallpaper customization 1.3.7 Volume adjustment Touch the Menu key on any Home screen, select Wallpaper from pop-up window to customize phone wallpaper. Gallery includes pictures you have taken, cropped or downloaded. Live wallpapers includes a scrolling list of animated wallpapers. Homescreen wallpapers includes all preset wallpapers in the phone. Slide left and right to locate a desired mage, touch Set wallpaper to confirm. Using volume key 1.3.
1.4 Applications and widgets menu The applications and widgets menus contain and provide access to all pre-installed and newly downloaded applications or widgets. To add widget to a home screen, touch preferred home screen displayed at the top of widget menu, then touch preferred widget. Selected widget will be placed on selected home screen (if space is not available on preferred home screen a new home screen with available space for widget must be selected).
2 Text input.................................................... 2.1 Using Onscreen Keyboard 2.1.1 Swype keyboard Touch to view messaging options. Touch to add a contact from saved Groups, Contacts or Call history log. Touch to enter phone number or contact. Onscreen Keyboard settings Touch from the Home screen, touch Settings then select Language & input. The following keyboard & input methods will display: Android keyboard, Swype and Google voice typing. To for options.
2.2 Text messaging Use the text messaging feature to send and receive text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages. Touch to view the whole message thread. When in new message screen, touch Type name or number line and insert contact name or phone to insert contact from People contact list. Next touch the Type text number. You can also touch message line and insert text message; to add picture, video, audio, contact or calendar to text message .
3 Phone calls, Call history log and People 3.1 Phone.............................................................................................. International call to enter “+”, then enter the international country To dial an international call, touch and hold . prefix followed by the full phone number and finally touch Emergency call If your phone has network coverage, dial emergency number and touch This works even without a SIM card and without typing the PIN code. 3.1.
3.1.3 Accessing your voicemail 3.1.6 During a call Voicemails are recorded messages left by incoming callers when calls are missed or forwarded to voicemail. To adjust the volume during a call, press the Volume up/down key on right side of phone. To access your voicemail, touch and hold To set up voicemail touch and hold account. on Phone dial pad. to call voicemail. Follow the prompts to set up your voicemail If you receive a voicemail, a voicemail icon touch New voicemail to access.
3.1.7 Call settings Fixed Dialing Numbers When in Phone screen or dial pad screen, touch the Menu key the following options: , then select Settings to access Touch to enable FDN (fixed dialing numbers) and to add phone numbers to FDN list. Dual mic noise reduction RINGTONE & VIBRATE Mark the checkbox to turn on dual mic for noise reduction. Phone ringtone Touch to select incoming call ringtone. Vibrate when ringing Mark the checkbox to enable vibrate when phone is ringing.
3.2 Wi-Fi Calling 3.3 Wi-Fi Calling lets you make and receive voice calls and text /multimedia messages over your Wi-Fi network when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network and registered with your wireless carrier's network for Wi-Fi Calling. Call history log You can access your call history log by touching from the Dial screen. Touch on the right side of contact/number to place a call directly.
Touch to view your favorite contacts. Touch to view your contact groups Touch icon to open Quick Contact panel. Touch to view the contact’s detailed information. 3.4.2 Managing contact groups Contact groups help you organize your contacts.You can add, remove and view groups in the Contact group screen. to view local groups. To create a new group, touch the icon Touch the icon name and touch Done to confirm. , enter the new 3.4.
3.4.5 Communicating with your contacts Add to/remove from Favorites To add a contact to favorites, touch a contact to view details then touch favorites. To remove a contact from favorites, touch to add the contact to in contact details screen. 3.4.4 Editing your contacts To edit contact information, touch the Menu icon When finished, touch Done. in the contact details screen, then touch Edit. Delete a contact To delete a contact, touch Menu icon and Delete from contacts list screen.
3.4.6 Contacts importing, exporting and sharing 3.4.8 Joining/Separating contacts This phone enables you to import contacts from SIM/storage and export contacts to storage which can then be used to back up your information. To avoid duplication, you can add any new contact information to existing contacts in a single action. From Contacts screen, touch Menu icon to open options menu, touch Import/Export, then select Import from storage, Export to storage or Share visible contacts.
4 Messaging, Email......................................... 4.1 Messaging....................................................................................... To communicate with a saved contact, touch contact photo to open Quick Contact panel. For unsaved contacts, touch default photo to add the number to your Contacts. Sending a text message You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS messages with this phone.
4.1.2 Manage messages Attach options: • Pictures Provides access to Gallery application or File manager to select a picture as attachment. • Capture picture Provides access to Camera to capture a new picture to attach. • Videos Provides access to Gallery application or File manager to select a video as attachment. • Capture video Provides access to Video Camera to record a new video to attach.
4.1.3 Adjust message settings Text (SMS) Messages Adjust message settings from Messaging application screen, touch Menu icon and touch Settings. • Delivery reports Select to request a delivery report for each text message you send. SMS Enabled • Message template Touch to compose new message template or edit preset message template. • Touch to setup your default SMS app. • Manage SIM card messages Touch to manage the messages stored in SIM card.
Multimedia (MMS) Messages • Delivery reports Select to request a delivery report for each multimedia message you send. • Read reports Select to request a report on whether each recipient has read a multimedia message sent by you. • Auto-retrieve Select to download the full MMS message (including message body and attachment) automatically to your phone. Otherwise, download only the MMS message header.
To receive and read your emails Managing Gmails by Labels When a new email arrives, you will be notified by a ringtone or vibration, and an icon on Status bar. will appear Touch and drag down the Status bar to display the Notifications panel, touch the new email to view. Or you can also access the Gmail Inbox label and touch the new mail to view. You can search for an email by sender, subject, label, etc. • Touch the icon from Inbox screen.
Gmail settings Touch an account, the following settings will show: To manage Gmail settings, touch Menu icon and Settings in Inbox screen. General settings • Archive & delete actions Mark the checkbox to choose if show archive & delete actions. • Swipe to archive Mark the checkbox, swipe the conversation to left in conversation list screen will archive it. • Sender image Mark the checkbox, sender's image will show beside name in conversation list,.
• If the account you entered is not provided by your service provider, 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. • To add another email account, you can touch Menu icon the right of the title to create. and Settings.
4.3.4 To manage your friends Besides adding new friends to your friends list, the following actions are available for your choice: • To view all friends By default, all your friends are displayed in Friends list.Touch your friend could start the conversation directly. Touch and hold the friend to activate archive and delete. 5 Calendar, Alarm clock & Calculator......... 5.1 Calendar........................................................................................
5.1.2 To create new events from Calendar main screen: Access important options by touching Menu icon You can add new events from any Calendar view. • New event To add a new event • Refresh To refresh the calendar • Fill in all required information for this new event. If it is a whole-day event, you can select ALL DAY. • Search To search in the calendar • Invite guests to the event. Enter the email addresses of the guests you want to invite with commas to separate.
To delete an alarm, touch and hold it from Alarm screen to enter the alarm editing screen, touch Delete alarm to delete. Touch OK to confirm, touch Cancel to cancel. To delete more than one from Alarm screen, choose alarms, touch Delete to confirm. alarm, you can touch Enter a number and the arithmetic operation to be performed, enter the second number, then touch to delete digits one by one, touch and hold to delete all at “=” to display the result. Touch one time. 5.2.
6 Getting connected...................................... To connect to the internet with this phone, you can use EDGE/HSPA/3G/4G networks or Wi-Fi, whichever is most convenient. 6.1 To activate/deactivate Data roaming When roaming, you can decide to connect/disconnect to a data service. • Touch the Application icon from Homescreen and touch to access Settings. • Mobile networks\Data roaming. • Mark/Unmark the Data roaming checkbox to activate or deactivate data roaming.
To add a Wi-Fi network 6.2 When Wi-Fi is on, you may add new Wi-Fi networks according to your preference. • Touch the Application icon • Touch Wi-Fi, and then touch from Homescreen and touch to access Settings. to add network. • Enter the name of the network and any required network information. • Touch Save. When successfully connected, your phone will be connected automatically the next time you are within range of this network.
To pair/connect your phone with a Bluetooth device To exchange data with another device, you need to turn Bluetooth on and pair your phone with the Bluetooth device with which you want to exchange data. from Homescreen and touch to access Settings. • Touch the Application icon • Touch Bluetooth • Touch SEARCH FOR DEVICES • Touch a Bluetooth device you want to be paired with in the list. • If the pairing is successful, your phone connects to the device.
To rename or secure your portable hotspot • VPNs you have added are listed; touch the VPN you want to connect with. When Portable Wi-Fi hotspot is activated, you could change the name of your phone's Wi-Fi network (SSID) and secure its Wi-Fi network. to access Settings. • Tethering & Mobile Hotspot and touch • In the dialog that opens, enter any requested credentials and touch Connect. • Touch More...\Tethering & Mobile Hotspot.
7 Google Play Store .............................. (1) Touch a category on Google Play Shop screen to browse its contents.You can also select a subcategory if there is any. Within each category you can select to view items sorted by Top free, Top new free, etc Google Play Shop is an online software store, where you can download and install applications and games to your Android Powered Phone. To open Google Play Shop: • Touch Application icon from the Home screen, then touch Play Store.
To open the application you have downloaded: • On Google Play Shop screen, touch Menu icon and My apps. 7.3 Manage your downloads • Touch the installed application in the list, then touch OPEN. After you downloaded and installed an application, the following further operations are available for your selection. To buy an application(1) View On Google Play Shop, some applications are labeled as free, while some of them are to be paid for before downloading and installing.
To take a picture 8 Multimedia applications 8.1 Camera.......................................................................................... The screen acts as the viewfinder. First position the object or landscape in the viewfinder, touch the icon to take picture, picture will save automatically. screen to focus if necessary, touch Your phone is fitted with a Camera for taking photos and shooting videos.
8.1.1 Settings in framing mode Before taking a photo/shooting a video, touch the icon mode. to adjust a number of settings in framing Camera settings • HDR • Panorama • Burst shot • • • • • Wide screen Tap shooting Shutter sound Picture size Self timer Touch the icon Touch to turn on HDR (High-Dynamic Range) function. HDR photos can better reflect the visual effects people have in the real environment by synthesizing images under different exposure time.
To view a picture/play a video Touch icon Pictures and videos are displayed by albums in Gallery. and choose Edit to edit a picture. Touch to exit edit mode. Touch to return to gallery's main screen Touch to share the picture. Touch to save the picture when the edit is done. Slide left or right to view more pictures. • Slide left/right to view previous or next pictures/videos. Touch to crop, rotate or sharpen the picture.
8.3 YouTube.......................................................................................... YouTube is an online video-sharing service where the user can download, share and view videos. It supports a streaming function that allows you to start watching videos almost as soon as they begin downloading from the Internet. To access this function, touch Application icon from the Home screen, then touch YouTube.
While playing songs with Play Music, the operation of pause, play or skip is still available even if the screen is locked. Adjust sound effects Touch Menu icon and Sound effects from Now playing screen to enable and adjust sound effects. Working with playlists Playlists allow you to conveniently organize all songs stored in the SD card. You can create a new playlist, add a song to the list, and delete or rename a playlist. 9 Google Maps........................................... 9.
To move the map, drag the map with your finger. To zoom in and out of a map, pinch or spread your fingers, or you can also zoom in by double-tapping a location on screen. To clear the map history, touch Menu icon 9.2 and then touch Settings\Maps history, touch Touch the gray star at the top of the screen to star the location. (Or touch a gold star to unstar that location.) . Search for a location While viewing a map, touch the search icon to activate search function.
• Touch enter bar or the triangle to edit your start point by one of the following methods: entering an address, using My Location, selecting a start point on a map, selecting a starred item, selecting an address from your contacts or using search history. • Do likewise for your end point. • To reverse directions, touch 9.4.3 Search for locations along your route Please refer to “9.2 Search for a location” for detailed information. 9.5 .
10 Others....................................................... 10.1 File Manager................................................................................... To access this function, touch Application icon 10.3 FM Radio......................................................................................... Your phone is equipped with a radio (1) with RDS (2) functionality.
Available options: • Save channel Save the current tuned station to the channels list. • Audio mode Listen to the radio using loudspeaker or headset. 11 • Delete Delete the channel Touch Application icon • Enter frequency Turn off the radio. • Station Info Mark the checkbox to show station info. • Exit Turn off the radio from homescreen and touch to access Settings. 11.
Touch the Menu icon , and you can view more settings related to your data usage. Data usage is measured by your phone, and your carrier may count differently. Please consider using a conservative limit. 11.4.4 Mobile networks • Data enabled Mark to enable data access over Mobile network. • Data connection reminder 11.4 More... Mark to show the message when data connection on. 11.4.
• Vibration • Vibrate on touch Mark the checkbox to enable vibrate when touch any items. Touch to preview emergency alert vibration. 11.6 Display 11.5 Sound • Volume Touch to adjust volume of media, ringtone, alarms. • Phone ringtone Touch to set your default incoming call ringtone. • Vibrate when ringing • Brightness Touch to adjust the brightness of the screen. • Wallpaper Touch to set the wallpaper. • Auto Rotate screen Touch to select whether rotate screen automatically or not.
Owner info • All: Touch to view storage used by applications. Touch to input owner information which will display on the lock screen. 11.9 Location Encrypt phone Access to my location to enable to use information from Wi-Fi and mobile networks to determine Touch the switch your approximate location, for use in Google Maps, when you search, and so on. When you select this option, you’re asked whether you consent to share your location anonymously with Google’s location service.
Clear credentials 11.12 Battery Touch to remove all certificates. In battery screen you can view the battery usage data since you last connected the phone to a power source. The screen also shows your battery status and how long it has been used since last charging. Touch one category, then you can learn its specific power consumption. 11.
Set up SIM card lock Clear credential Mark the checkbox of Lock SIM card to lock the SIM card with PIN code. Touch to remove all credentials. Touch Change SIM PIN to change the PIN code. Make passwords visible 11.16 Language & input Mark the checkbox to show passwords as you type. Use the Language & input settings to select the language for the text on your phone and for configuring the onscreen keyboard. You can also configure voice input settings and the pointer speed.
• Auto-capitalization Mark the checkbox to have the onscreen keyboard automatically capitalize the first letter of the first word after a period, the first word in a text field, and each word in name fields. • Vibrate on keypress Mark the checkbox to have the phone vibrate briefly each time you touch a key on the onscreen keyboard. • Sound on keypress Touch to view more advanced settings for android keyboard, such as Key pop-up dismiss delay, Suggest Contact name, and etc.
• Portrait keyboard Touch to set portrait keyboard display as Full screen, Mini left or Mini right. Touch to manage downloaded languages. • Landscape keyboard Touch to set Landscape keyboard display as Full screen, Mini left, Mini right or Split. • Language • Keyboard height Touch to set height of portrait keyboard and landscape keyboard. • Word choice list font size Touch to set the font size of words in choice list, Voice search Set voice search language.
Touch to play a brief sample of the speech synthesizer, using your current settings. Pointer speed Touch to open a dialog where you can change the pointer speed, touch OK to confirm. 11.17 Backup and reset When you are unable to power on your phone, there is another way to perform a factory data reset by using hardware keys. Press the Volume up key and the power key at same time until the screen lights up.
Set time Large text Touch to open a dialog where you can manually set the phone’s time. Mark the checkbox to enlarge the screen text. Select time zone Power button ends call Touch to open a dialog where you can set the phone’s time zone. Mark the checkbox to end a call by pressing Power key during the call. Use 24-hour format Auto-rotate Orientation Mark the checkbox to display the time using 24-hour clock format.
11.22 Developer options Enable QuickBoot mode To access this function, touch Settings\About phone, then touch Build number 7 times. Now Development is available. Mark the checkbox to active put device into QuickBoot mode. The Developer options screen contains settings that are useful for developing Android applications. For full information, including documentation of the Android applications and development tools, see the Android developer web site (http://developer.android.com).
Wireless display certification Force GUP rendering Mark the checkbox to active show options for wireless display certification. Mark the checkbox to force use 2D hardware acceleration in applications. Show touches Show GPU view updates Mark the checkbox to show visual feedback for touches. Mark the checkbox to show GPU view updates. Pointer location Show hardware layers updates Mark the checkbox to show current touch data. Mark the checkbox to show hardware layers updates.
Enable OpenGL traces 12 Touch to adjust OpenGL traces. Don't keep activities Making the most of your phone............ Mark the checkbox to destroy all activities as soon as you leave. 12.1 FOTA Upgrade Background process limit Using FOTA Upgrade tool you can update your phone's software. Touch to change the limit for background processes. To access System Updates, please open Settings\About phone\System updates. Touch Check for updates, and the phone will search for the latest software.
13 12 Month Limited Warranty.................. TCT Mobile (US), Inc. warrants to the original retail purchaser of this wireless device that should this product or part thereof during normal consumer usage and condition be proven to be defective in material or workmanship that results in product failure within the first twelve (12) months from the date of purchase as shown on your original sales receipt from an authorized sales agent.
14 Troubleshooting �������������������������������������� Before contacting the service center, you are advised to follow the instructions below: • You are advised to fully charge ( ) the battery for optimal operation. • Avoid storing large amounts of data in your phone as this may affect its performance. • Use Factory data reset and the upgrade tool to perform phone formatting or software upgrading (to reset factory data, hold down the power key and the Volume up key at the same time).
I cannot find my contacts • Make sure your SIM card is not broken. • Make sure your SIM card is inserted properly. • Import all contacts stored in SIM card to phone. I am unable to connect my phone to my computer • Check that your USB driver is installed properly. • Check that you have marked the checkbox of USB debugging (See 11.19 Developer options) • Make sure that you’re using the right cable from the box.
Safety and Use................................................... We recommend that you read this chapter carefully before using your phone. The manufacturer disclaims any liability for damage, which may result as a consequence of improper use or use contrary to the instructions contained herein. EXPOSURE TO RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS Your wireless handheld portable telephone is a low power radio transmitter and receiver. When it is ON, it receives and also sends out radio frequency (RF) signals.
POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES Turn your phone OFF when in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere and obey all signs and instructions. Sparks in such areas could cause an explosion or fire resulting in bodily injury or even death. Areas with a potentially explosive atmosphere are often, but not always, clearly marked.
mode thus reducing unwanted background noise. HOW WILL I KNOW WHICH WIRELESS PHONES ARE HEARING AID COMPATIBLE? The Hearing Aid Compatibility rating is displayed on the wireless phone box. A phone is considered Hearing Aid Compatible for acoustic coupling (microphone mode) if it has an “M3” or “M4” rating. A digital wireless phone is considered Hearing Aid Compatible for inductive coupling (telecoil mode) if it has a “T3” or “T4” rating.
do -may be many, many years. The interpretation of epidemiological studies is hampered by difficulties in measuring actual RF exposure during day-to-day use of wireless phones. Many factors affect this measurement, such as the angle at which the phone is held, or which model of phone is used. 6. What is FDA doing to find out more about the possible health effects of wireless phone RF? FDA is working with the U.S.
hearing loss might cause unsafe volumes to sound normal. •D o not listen at any volume that causes you discomfort. If you experience ringing in your ears, hear muffled speech or experience any temporary hearing difficulty after listening to your portable audio device, discontinue use and consult your doctor.
