Installation and User Guide fring version 3.40.
Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................................................................................2 Introduction ...............................................................................................3 System Requirements ..................................................................................4 Installation Guide ........................................................................................5 Downloading fring .............................................
Introduction About fring fring™ is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together. Using your handset′s internet connection, you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®. You can listen to music with your Last.
System Requirements Hardware requirements In order to use our Beta version, you will need: A Nokia S60 handset. Internet GPRS, EDGE, 3G data connection (Not a WAP connection) on your mobile handset. Optional: WiFi connection. If you are using a handset with WiFi capabilities, you can choose to use a Wi-Fi access point to connect to the fring network. Using fring via a Wi-Fi access point means the data is transferred by Wi-Fi, and does not use your data plan.
Installation Guide Downloading fring fring can be downloaded into your mobile handset in the following ways: From the fring website at http://www.fring.com/download to your computer or via SMS. Via your mobile device at m.fring.com Via SMS invitation sent to your handset from a friend. Downloading fring via website To download fring from the web: Open http://www.fring.com in your browser. The following screen opens.
A screen with the following form opens. Figure 2 - fring Download To download fring via SMS: 1. Click get fring via SMS. 2. In the Choose Your country field, select your country. 3. In the Phone number field, type in the phone number of your handset. Note: Type it carefully - your international number is your fring user-id. 4. In the Email address field, type in your email address. 5. Click Join. The confirmation screen opens and an SMS is sent to your handset.
The download instructions screen is open; follow the instructions to download fring to your PC. If you choose the download fring via SMS, once you have received the SMS, the installation and setup process continues on your handset. Figure 3 - SMS Message Figure 4 – Follow Link On your handset: Open the SMS message (see Figure 3) and click the download link (see Figure 4). Within a few seconds, the handset accesses the website.
Installing fring Before you can use fring, it needs to be installed on your handset. (For information about downloading fring, see the previous section in this guide.) Once you have completed downloading fring, the following screen opens: Figure 5 - Begin Installation 1. Press yes using your left soft key. The following screen opens: Figure 6 – Application Details Press Continue using your left soft key.
The following screen opens: Figure 7 – Memory Selection Select the location you would like to use and press Select using your left soft key. Note: fring can be loaded into any available memory space. The following screen opens: Figure 8 – End User License Agreement (EULA) Before you can begin working with fring, read and accept the EULA.
To read and accept the EULA: 1. Use the down arrow to scroll through the EULA. 2. Once you have read the EULA and agreed to the terms, press OK using your left soft key. 3. The full EULA is available on our site at www.fring.com/license.htm The installation process continues and the following screen appears.
Click 'OK' and continue to install VoIPAudioSrv. Once you have finished installing VoIPAudioSrv the following screen appears: Figure 11 - Confirmation Screen If you want repeated notification of billable events, un-check the first box using your left soft key. If you do not want that fring will auto start when you turn on your handset, un-check the second box using your left soft key. The following screen opens.
Figure 12 - Access Point selection Screen Select your 3G/GPRS or WiFi connection (and not your WAP connection). Note: The specific access points may vary depending on your international location and carrier.
Downloading and installing the generic sis file If, for some reason, you are unable to get the SMS from our website, you can simply download the SIS file straight to your phone. Download the SIS file from our website and install it using 'PC Suite' and a USB cable.
Note: The user ID is unique and therefore you might be looking at the following screen (Figure 16) if the user ID you're trying to register is already registered in our database. Please choose a different user ID. Figure 16 – Alternative user IDs Registering to fring A short registration process is required before you can begin to use fring.
Figure 17 - Registration Screen The registration screen allows you to select your fring credentials you will use to access your fring account. Your fring nickname will help your friends find you easily in their buddy lists. A password is required to secure your account and to protect your fring buddy list. Note: In case you download fring via SMS, your user-id is the international phone number of your handset. It cannot be changed. Your friends can search for you and contact you by using this number.
Adding and managing Your Add-Ons – (optional) Once you have chosen your fring nickname and password, provide the details of your Add-Ons (e.g., Skype) so that you can begin making and receiving VoIP calls. Note: You can add one or more Add-Ons (e.g., Skype) to which you are registered. Make sure to have your username and password for each. If you do not already have a service account, register on the Web before you begin to add networks. You can add an Add-On at any time.
The contacts from the Add-Ons you subscribe to are added to your fring buddy list. Figure 20 – fring buddy List Unsubscribing your Add-ons in fring To unsubscribe your Add-Ons: 1. Choose the Add-on you would like to unsubscribe. 2. Click Options > Unsubscribe. Adding a SIP Service – (optional) If you have an account with a SIP provider, you can also use it on fring. To add a SIP service: 1.
2. Navigate between the options using the up and down arrows on your handset. Choose SIP from the list (press your joystick in to select items in the list). The following screen appears: Figure 22 – Select SIP Service 3. Choose your SIP provider from the list. If your SIP provider is not listed, choose Other. The following screen appears: Figure 23 – SIP Service Setup 4. Enter your SIP credentials and press Subscribe using your left soft key.
Making your first fring call Once you have completed the installation and registration processes described above, you're ready to make your first call. To know that everything is working correctly, you may choose to call the Echo test, fring test call. The fring Echo is a test center that lets you record a message and plays it back to you. If you successfully record and hear the message that you have recorded, you're ready to go! To call the fring Echo: 1.
Using fring Getting Started Import of contacts (Automatic) After the installation process, fring imports your contacts. This enables you to make all your calls from fring, without going back to your address book. Note: Calls to contacts who do not have fring are regular cellular calls. Calling through fring does not change the call in any way.
Statuses The following statuses are displayed in the buddy list: On a call Unread chat event Available / Online Busy Offline Call quality The call quality icon appears at the far right of each fring contact who is currently online. It describes the expected call quality between two parties who are connected to fring, based on the connections the parties have (e.g., 3G, GPRS or WiFi). Note: this icon appears only when your contact is a member of fring.
Signing Out When you open fring, you are automatically signed in to fring and your other Add-ons. To sign out of fring: 1. Press Options using the left soft key. 2. Select the Exit option. You are signed out of fring. Adding or Signing In to an Add-On You can subscribe for Add-ons or sign-in as a different user at any time. To subscribe to an Add-on or to sign-in as a different user: 1. Navigate to the Add-ons Tab by pressing the right arrow on your handset or by choosing Options --> Go to --> Add-ons.
History tab The history tab keeps a record of every incoming or outgoing voice event in fring. To view the history tab, choose Options, click on Go to and select History. Figure 27 - History Tab The icons on the left side represent the following events: Outgoing call Missed call Incoming call (blue up arrow) (red down arrow) (green down arrow) Note: If you have chosen to display your phone contacts in fring, voice events from your phone also appear in the history tab.
The Options menu To open the Options menu, press your left soft key. The following options are available: Figure 28 - Options Menu Option Description Call Make a call. If the selected contact is a VoIP contact (e.g., fring, Skype, MSN Messenger etc), the call is a fring call. If the contact is a regular mobile contact, the call is made using your cellular plan. See the Making a call section in this guide. Chat Chat with your selected contact. See the Chatting section in this guide.
Send file Send a file from your handset to the selected contact (currently only works with fring, Skype & MSN) View profile The view profile feature allows you to access the highlighted user's profile. Go to A shortcut to your open tabs. Manage buddies Change the way your fring buddy list looks and feels, mash up all your separate communities of friends into one manageable, mobile interface via fring.
Making a Call Figure 29 – Call menu fring lets you make all of your calls directly from the fring main screen by importing all of your phone contacts to your fring's buddy list. Searching your buddy list You can browse your buddy list to find contacts quickly. To find a contact: Start typing the name of your contact. The list is filtered according to the characters you have typed.
Making a call to a fring or other Add-on contact To call a VoIP contact: 1. Choose the user-id of the person you want to call and check that the user is online. Press the green button on your phone – or – Press Options and then choose call – or – Press your joystick in. 2. After a short time, a dialing sound is heard. If your contact answers the call, your screen will display the name of the contact and a "Call in progress" message.
Making a cellular call from fring You can call your contacts from the fring buddy list exactly as you would call them from the buddy list of your handset. Dialing a cellular call from fring uses your regular cellular voice plan (Cellular call). Note: While your phone is in offline mode, this option will not be available. Making a SkypeOut call from fring To make a SkypeOut call: 1. Choose a contact in your address book and press Options using your left soft key. 2.
Chatting fring lets you chat with your contacts using instant messaging. You can chat with one or more of your contacts simultaneously. As always, dictionary, number, symbol and language options are available. Figure 31 – Chat screen Chatting with a contact To initiate a chat: 1. From your buddy list, select the contact you want to chat with and press Options using the left soft key.
Navigating between chats If you choose to have two or more chats simultaneously, each will have a separate tab. Navigate between the chats using the right and left joystick keys. Ending a chat To end a chat: Press the right soft key on your handset. Viewing offline chat messages Chat messages can be received even when you are offline. If you have received a message, it will appear as an additional tab when you open fring.
3. Select the file you wish to send. 4. At that point, the other side should approve the transfer. If accepted, the file transfer status will be shown in the Transfers tab. Receiving a file To receive a file from one of your contacts: 1. If one of your contacts sends you a file, you should get an approval request. Figure 32 – Receiving a file 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Click ok to accept the file You'll get a message asking you where you would like to save the file. Choose the directory and the folder.
Figure 33 – Transfers tab View profile The view profile feature allows you to access the highlighted user's profile. In the user's profile you can see its details, its online/offline status and its current mood message. Figure 34 – User's profile If your contact was merged you can access all of its info directly through one combined profile. Figure 35 – Merged contact's profile page To access the profile page of one of your contacts: 1. Highlight the contact and click Options > View profile.
There are several options on your contact's profile page, available by choosing options: Figure 36 – Options Option Description Call Call your contact from his profile page. You can select what kind of call you want to make. You can also initiate the call by pressing the green button directly in your contact's profile page. Chat Chat with your selected contact.
Manage buddies The manage buddies submenu lets you change the way your fring buddy list looks and feels. Using this feature you can mash up all your separate communities of friends into one manageable, mobile interface via fring. Figure 37 – Manage buddies options To access the Manage buddies feature: 1. Click Options > Manage buddies. Adding new buddy You can search for a contact who has already registered with fring and add her or him to your buddy list.
Figure 38 – Adding a buddy Note: While your phone is in offline mode, you will not be able to use this feature. Remove buddy Only fring contacts can be removed from your buddy list. Note: In order to be able to remove a fring buddy, you'll need to make sure the fring buddy is not merged with other entities of your contact from different social networks. To remove a fring contact: 1. Highlight the contact you would like to delete and choose Options > Manage buddies > Remove buddy. The contact is removed.
Friend finder When initially registering to fring, you will be alerted of all of your GSM and social community friends who are already fringsters, in the form of "Hints". Figure 39 – Start Friend finder Figure 40 – Pending fringsters Click OK to start the "Friend finder" process (Figure 39). Fring will browse your handset's address book and search for contacts who are also fring users.
Merge buddies Although the process of finding and merging your contacts is automatic, you can also manually merge or unmerge all of your contact's entities from all of the services you are subscribed to by using the Merge feature. Figure 42 – Merge buddies Figure 43 –Initial state To Merge your buddy with its different entities: 1. Highlight your buddy on the buddy list and choose Options > Manage buddies > Merge buddies. 2.
To Unmerge your buddy: 1. Highlight your buddy on the buddy list and choose Options > View profile > Options > Undo merge. Your buddy is now unmerged. Edit my profile Fring allows you to access and change your profile and the information available to your fring contacts through their buddy lists. Figure 46 – My profile To start editing your profile, click on Options > Edit my profile> Options > and choose Update picture / Update mood text / Change nickname.
The Settings menu Figure 47 - Settings Menu Connectivity settings Change connection To manually change your fring connection 1. Select Options > Change Connection or Options > Settings > Connectivity > Change Connection. 2. You can choose your desired Access point from the results. Figure 48 – Select access point Note: If fring is unable to connect using the chosen Access point you'll have an option to let fring search automatically for the best access point from the phone's list.
Available WLAN networks To search for available Wireless LAN on fring: 1. Select Options > Settings > Connectivity > Search for WLAN. 2. You can then choose your desired WLAN from the results. Figure 49 – Available WLANs 3. Choose the WLAN which you would like to use and press Options > Select with your left soft key. If the WLAN network is secure, you will be required to enter a pre-shared key. Note: If the connection is not confirmed, you can select a different access point.
Access Point Group The AP-Group Management stores a list of Access Points you would like to use repeatedly. This option allows you to easily prioritize the way fring connects to the internet. If you've successfully connected to fring using a specific Access point, you can choose whether you'd like to add this Access point to the group. In the AP group you can click on 'Options' 'Move down/up' to change the priority of a specific Access point.
Privacy settings You can change a few privacy settings in the following menu: Figure 52 – Privacy settings 1. Show fring signature – fring adds periodic signature to your Skype/MSN/Google talk messages to let your friends know that you're using your mobile on fring and therefore typing slowly. If you disable this here the signature will not appear. 2. Show fring mood msg.
Personalize settings Allow you to modify personal options: Figure 53 – Personalize setting 1. Phone address book - Showing and hiding your phone contacts. 2. Automatic start - allows you to choose whether you'd like fring to open automatically when you start your handset. 3. System application - When enabled fring will act as a system application. 4. My User-ID - Shows your fring user ID. 5. Language - Change fring's language from the available languages in the list. 6.
Figure 54 - fringtone settings 3. In the fringtone field, choose the current tone. Figure 55 – Choose fringtone Choose the tone you want to use when a fring call is received and press select using your left soft key. You can also select the fring message tone field in the same way. Choose the tone you want to use when a fring message is received and press Select using your left soft key.
Uninstalling fring To uninstall fring: 1. From the main menu of your handset, choose Applications. 2. Navigate to the Application Manager option and choose it. A list displaying the applications currently installed on your handset opens. 3. Navigate to fring and press Options using your left soft key. 4. Navigate to the Remove option and choose it. A message opens indicating that the fring client will be removed. 5. Press Yes using your left soft key. The fring client is removed from your handset.
Troubleshooting I didn't receive the SMS Message with the download link. Please make sure you've entered your cell phone number correctly and try again. If you still haven't received the SMS, please contact our support team who will be happy to help. I got the SMS but the link is not clickable Enable the automatic find on feature available in the Options menu of your SMS message.
I forgot my password. Please go to http://www.fring.com/password I've downloaded and installed fring but cannot find it on my handset. Where was it installed? This varies from handset to handset. Usually, the shortcut is in the Main Menu of the handset or under Applications.
Frequently Asked Questions Downloading & Installing fring How do I download fring? fring can be downloaded from the fring website (www.fring.com), fring WAP site (m.fring.com) or via an SMS invitation sent by your friend. For detailed information about downloading fring, see the Downloading section in this guide. Is fring free? Yes. fring's service is free. Your cost for using fring is the standard data tariff for air time it takes to download and use fring.
Registering to fring How do I register? See the registration section in this guide. Can I use more than one user-id on my handset? No, each handset is limited to a single user-id. Can I add more than one Skype account to my fring account? No, each fring account is limited to a single Skype account. I bought a new handset and kept my number; can I use the same user-id and password? Yes. Download the application again and install it on your new handset.
How do I create/edit my access point's settings? If you followed the previous instructions, you may have a few options for connecting your device to the Internet. On most Nokia handsets you can get your default access points by clicking on Menu Tools Utilities Sett. Wizard To edit one of your access points: Go to Menu Tools Settings Connection Access points 1. Navigate to the Access point you want to edit and choose it. 2. Edit the Access point as desired. Changes are saved automatically.
What happens to my GSM calls while I'm on a call through fring? GSM calls take precedence over fring calls. If you are on a fring call and a GSM call comes through, your fring call will be disconnected. I've finished a GSM call and fring disappeared, where is it? Check to see if fring is in its minimized state. Press and hold the menu button for a second and choose fring from the menu. Does fring have any effect on my phone battery? Unfortunately, yes.
