Installation and User Guide fring version 4.
Table of Contents Table of Contents ...................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 4 System Requirements ............................................................................................... 5 Registering to fring ....................................................................................................
File transfer ......................................................................................................... 34 View profile.......................................................................................................... 36 Manage buddies .................................................................................................. 38 Adding new buddy ........................................................................................... 38 Remove buddy .........................
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 favorite social networks including MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®. You can also tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons™.
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.
Registering to fring A short registration process is required before you can begin to use fring. Selecting your fring ID and password Once the installation is complete, you are now ready to select your fring User ID and password.
If this is your first use of fring, please choose your fring User ID and Password, and select 'Next'. Follow the instructions on the following screen: Figure 3 – Account setup The registration screen allows you to select your nickname and the password you will use to access your fring account. Email address is required for password retrieval purpose. You can also fill your phone number (international format) for password retrieval via SMS and for your friends to be able to find you in the fring network.
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., GTALK) so that you can begin making and receiving VoIP calls. Note: You can add one or more Add-Ons (e.g., GTALK) 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 5 – 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 7 – 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 8 – 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 N/A 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.
Exit fring When you open fring, you are automatically signed in to fring and your other Add-ons. To exit 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 12 - 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.
Option Description Call Make a call. If the selected contact is a VoIP contact (e.g., fring, 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. fringOut info Access the self care system, get further information in the fringOut section of this guide.
Making a Call Figure 14 – 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 SIP call from fring To make a SIP call: 1. Choose a contact in your address book and press Options using your left soft key. 2. From the Call submenu, choose SIP call. 3.
Making a Video call Video calls are currently supported for fring contacts using handsets which are supported for video calls (please visit our website for further details). To initiate a Video call: 1. Open the contact list, choose a fring contact you wish to call and select Options > Call > Video call. Figure 16 – Initiate call 2. On your screen you can see the call screen.
Options – allow you to end the current call by choosing 'Hang-up' or to navigate through the tabs by choosing 'Go to'. Navigate left or right – continue an open chat session or navigate to your buddy list. Volume control – use the joystick up and down to control the volume level of the incoming voice. Loudspeaker/Handset – turn the loudspeaker on and off. When you are finished with your Video call, press the red button on your phone – or – Press Options and choose Hang-up.
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 19 – 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.
You will now be redirected to the fring mobile Self Care system: Figure 21 – Mobile Self Care When you see this screen (figure 7) this means you are logged in to fringOut. In order to use fringOut you'll need to purchase some fringOut credit. Purchasing fringOut credit can be done either via your mobile phone or through our website. The next part of the guide will explain how to purchase fringOut credit via fring on your mobile phone.
Select the amount of credit you would like to buy and the payment method, and press Next. Please note: currently, the only payment method available from the mobile self care is by using your credit card. If you have a PayPal account and you prefer to use it, you can purchase credit from our website. Next, fill in your details and press Submit: Figure 23 – Credit card details Please note: CW2 is the 3 digit number at the back of your credit card. fring will execute your transaction.
When the purchase is complete you will get a confirmation screen: Figure 25 – Payment confirmation You are now ready to make your first fringOut call ! Making a fringOut call Using fringOut you can either make calls to your phone contacts or dial a number which is not on your contact list. Making a call to a phone contact To make a fringOut call, highlight a phone contact and select Options -> Call -> fringOut call.
Make sure you are using the international format and press OK. Figure 28– initiate a call Figure 29 – Call starting Calling someone not in your contact list To call a random number, highlight the fring test call buddy and select Options -> Call -> fringOut call.
Self Care system The Self Care system allows you view your current fringOut balance, your call and payment history and to purchase more credit. In fring you can access the Self Care system from your device or through our website on your computer. Mobile Self Care System Figure 31 – Mobile Self Care Calls Click the Calls tab to see the history of fringout calls: Figure 32 – Call History To switch from List to Table view, click the link at the right part of the screen.
Payments Click the Payments tab to see the history of fringout credit purchases: Figure 33 – Payment history To switch from Table to List view, click the link at the right part of the screen. Website Self Care System Our Self Care system is also available online from your home computer. To access the Self Care System, browse to fringOut.fring.com Please note: before you can you login to the Self Care system from your computer, you'll need to login at least once from your mobile phone..
Purchase credit Once you are logged in to your account you will be redirected to the Buy credit screen: Figure 35 – Buy credit Select the amount of credit you'd like to buy and the payment withod, and press Next: Figure 36 – Purchase confirmation To confirm the payment press Check out. To Cancel press Back.
Figure 37 – Purchase confirmation Please note: CW2 is the 3 digit number at the back of your credit card. When the purchase is complete you will get a confirmation screen: Figure 38 – Payment confirmation Your current balance will be updated at the middle part of the screen. You can also hit the refresh button at the right side of the screen.
History Use the History tab to see the history of your calls and payments: Figure 39 – History You can either view the entire history on record or Search specific activity by dates. FAQ You can access fringOut's FAQ by going to the FAQ tab.
Rates We update our list of rates once a week. To see the current rates, please visit http://www.fring.com/fringout/rates File transfer fring enables you to exchange files with your contacts. Sending a file To send a file from your handset to one of your contacts: 1. From the buddy list, select the contact you want to send the file to and press Options. 2.
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 42 – 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. The file progress bar will show you some information about the file You can open it from the 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 44 – User's profile If your contact was merged you can access all of its info directly through one combined profile. Figure 45 – 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 46 – 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 47 – 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 48 – 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.
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 49 – Start Friend finder Figure 50 – Pending fringsters Click OK to start the "Friend finder" process (Figure 28). 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 52 – Merge buddies Figure 53–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. My profile Fring allows you to access and change your profile and the information available to your fring contacts through their buddy lists. Figure 56 – My profile To start editing your profile, click on Options > My profile > Edit my profile > Options > and choose Update picture / Update mood text / Change nickname.
Change your status fring has four available status types you can choose from: Online, offline, busy and Invisible. Figure 57 – Change status To change your status: 1. Go to Options > My profile > Change status, and choose your desired status type.
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 59 – 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.
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. Settings Under the connection settings menu you can choose whether you'd like fring to be restricted to one type of connection (ex."Wi-Fi only") or 'Always ask' which connection you'd like to use when fring is opened.
Privacy settings You can change a few privacy settings in the following menu: Figure 63 – Privacy settings 1. Show fring signature – fring adds periodic signature to your 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. – Once you're logged in with your MSN/Google talk on fring your mood message will be changed so your friends will know that you're on fring.
Personalize settings Allow you to modify personal options: Figure 64 – Personalize setting 1. Phone address book - Showing and hiding your phone contacts. 2. Offline buddies - Showing and hiding your offline buddies. 3. Automatic start - allows you to choose whether you'd like fring to open automatically when you start your handset. 4. System application - When enabled fring will act as a system application. 5. Language - Change fring's language from the available languages in the list. 6.
Using fringtones You can determine what tones are used for incoming calls and messages. You can also decide whether you want your handset to vibrate when you receive a fring call or message. To choose the tones you want fring to use: 1. From the Options menu choose Settings. 2. Choose fringtones. Figure 65 - fringtone settings 3. In the fringtone field, choose the current tone.
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. In the fring vibrating alert field, choose whether you want your handset to vibrate when a fring call or message is received. When you are finished making changes, press Change using your left soft key.
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 GTALK account to my fring account? No, each fring account is limited to a single GTALK 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.
