CONTENTS THE ANDROID ADVANTAGE ................................. 4 READ M E FIRST ................................................ 4 DISCLAIMER ..................................................... 4 UNDERSTAND Y OUR PHONE................................ 6 GETTING STARTED ............................................ 7 SIM C ARD INSERTION ................................................ 7 MEMORY CARD INSERTION ......................................... 8 TURNING YOUR PHONE ON/ OFF ............................
T ASK MANAGER ..................................................... 22 REVERIE SMARTPAD AND PHONEBOOK .............. 24 REVERIE SMARTPAD ................................................ 24 CONFIGURING REVERIE SMARTPAD ............................ 24 USING REVERIE SMARTPAD ...................................... 24 W ORD PREDICTION ................................................. 25 REVERIE PHONEBOOK ............................................. 25 CALLING AND MESSAGING................................
TAKING CARE OF YOUR DEVICE ......................... 40 BATTERY R ECOMMENDATIONS................................... 41 RECYCLE YOUR PHONE ............................................ 41 COPYRIGHT ....................................................
The Android Advantage Micromax A120 comes with Jelly Bean 4.2.2 that is capable of performing various functions just like your personal computer and can be personalized according to your own needs. For example, you can add and remove applications or upgrade existing applications to improve the functions. At the Android market, an ever growing range of applications, games, movies, and books are available for you to download.
details and other software details through SMS* automatically. This information may be used as further specified in Micromax privacy policy**. Talk and standby times are affected by network preferences, type of SIM cards, connected accessories and individual usage patterns. Services and some features may be dependent on the network, service/content providers, SIM cards, compatibility of the devices used and the content formats supported.
Understand Your Phone A120 6
Getting Started SIM Card Insertion Your A120 is a dual SIM phone. Insert the SIM card in the SIM slots correctly. To insert the SIM card: 1. Switch off your phone and remove the rear cover and battery as illustrated below: 2. Insert the SIM card correctly in the card slot(s), as illustrated in the following image: 3. Place back the battery and rear cover. Please keep the SIM Card out of the reach of children. The card and the contacts are vulnerable to damage due to scratching or bending.
Memory Card Insertion To store additional multimedia files, you must insert a memory card. To insert memory card: 1. Switch off the mobile phone, and then remove the rear cover and battery. 2. Insert the memory card into the slot as illustrated below: 3. Place back the battery and rear cover of the mobile phone. Use only compatible memory cards approved by Micromax with this device. Incompatible memory cards may damage the card or the device and corrupt the data stored in the card.
Handset Keys Keys A120 Functions Long press to switch on or switch off the phone. Press once to turn off the screen or to wake up the screen. Press for 2 seconds to view quick options to turn off the phone, reboot the device, switch to airplane mode, or adjust the sound profiles. Adjust the phone volume from the volume keys available on the left side of the device. Opens a menu with items that affect the current screen or application. Opens the Home screen.
Charging the Battery Before using the device for the first time, you must charge the battery. You can charge the device with a travel adapter or connecting the device to a PC with a USB cable. You can also use a compatible USB charger to charge your battery. Use only Micromax approved chargers and cables. Unapproved chargers or cables can cause battery to explode or damage your device. We suggest you charge the battery for 4 hours continuously for the first time.
Basic Phone Features Google TM Account Your GoogleTM Account lets you take full advantage of applications and services offered by GoogleTM Android market. Configure your GoogleTM account on this handset to get access to your GoogleTM mails, GoogleTM Play Store, GoogleTM Maps, Navigation, and much more. GoogleTM account setup will be prompted when you turn on your handset for the first time. TM Network connection will be required for the Google account setup step to appear.
home screens including one center home screen and four extended home screens. In the bottom pane, there will be five launcher icons for you to open different sections in the phone. Except the application launcher in the middle of the pane, you can rearrange and manage the other four icons. Tap and hold to select a launcher icon and then you can rearrange, change, or remove them with ease.
Tap to view all inbuilt and installed applications and widgets. In the application menu, tap and hold any application/widget to take it to the home screen; release the hold to place at any desired location on the home screen. Widgets allow placing application shortcuts on your home screen.
Open the Toolkit Clear all Notifications When you receive a notification, its icon appears in the status bar, along with a brief summary. You may clear each notification separately by swiping it towards left or right. Toolkit provides you shortcuts to manage basic phone features, such as Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Display Brightness, and many more. Sensors and Gestures Your A120 is loaded with sensor to detect and understand you gestures. Now your phone can recognize your presence with its smart gestures.
Enable or disable smart gestures from Gesture. → → Smart On most screens, the screen orientation changes as you rotate the phone. You can turn this feature on and off. Learn more about smart gestures from → Smart Gesture → Learn about gesture. → Phone Locking Techniques You may need to provide PIN, password, draw a pattern, take your face in front of the phone screen, speak something for voice recognition, or simply slide to unlock your phone.
Face Recognition Allowing you to face as screen password. You to look at your unlock it. keep your unlocking just need phone to Look at your phone to unlock it! Voice Recognition Speak your password to unlock! Allowing you to provide your voice as the screen unlocking password. You need to speak something for the phone to recognize your voice and unlock the screen. PIN You may enter a PIN and set it as your screen unlocking password.
Password You may enter any desired password and set it as your screen unlocking password. Enter your password to unlock! Slide Just wake up the screen and slide the lock icon towards the unlock icon to unlock your phone. Slide from lock icon to unlock icon! You may set any desired locking technique from → → Security → Screen lock. It is important to password/pattern/PIN. remember your screen lock You can disable all unlocking methods from your handset by selecting the None option.
to access various useful sections on your handset. GoogleTM Search is available on the home screen and in the application menu too. To use GoogleTM voice search, tap and speak your search keywords. The phone will return the GoogleTM search results based on your input.
Using the Touch Screen Tap and Hold Tap and hold an item to view the list of actions based on the selected item and condition. Also, you can move an item from the Apps screen to the home screen using this method, as shown in the following image: Drag an Item Tap and hold an item and move your finger on the screen until you reach the target position. The item follows your finger. You can generally drag items from one location to another on the home screen.
Scroll To scroll a list, slide your finger across the surface of the screen upwards or downwards (without dragging an item). Swipe Place a finger on the screen and steadily slide your finger in the desired direction. For example, when you are viewing a picture, to view the next picture, swipe left. Using the Pinch Zoom You can open any image or web page and then use your thumb and index finger to zoom the display through the pinch gesture as illustrated in the following image.
Double-tap Tap quickly twice on a webpage, map, or other screen to zoom. For example, double-tap a section of a webpage in the browser to zoom that section. Using the Onscreen Keyboard Some applications display the keyboard by default. In others, you will be required to tap a text field, where you want to enter text, to open the keyboard.
QWERTY touch pad Tap to switch to numerical keyboard with punctuation symbols. Tap to change the sentence casing. After typing, press Backspace to erase the entered text. Turn on Word Predictions button to close the keyboard. Tap and hold the text field to open a menu and to cut/copy/paste text. Task Manager Tap and hold the key on the home screen to view the task manager. You can easily remove items from the task manager to free some memory and make your phone work faster.
There are two ways to remove items from the list. Drag an item towards left or right A120 Tap and hold an item and then select “Remove from list”.
Reverie Smartpad and Phonebook Reverie Smartpad Reverie Smartpad lets you enter text messages in 20 regional languages apart from English.
select your desired language. Word Prediction Tap Pred ON on the keypad to get word prediction of the previously selected language for whatever you type in English. For example, if you tap and hold the Space key on the onscreen keypad and select Hindi as your input language; thereafter if you again select English as the input language and tap Pred ON option then on typing each word in English, Hindi word suggestions will get displayed.
Calling and Messaging Make a Call To make a call: Tap on the menu screen or the home screen to open the dial pad for making calls. Apart from the dialer, you can make calls from the call log, phonebook, or contact groups by tapping the , or icon respectively for the desired list of phone numbers. Contacts → Go to Store, use, and synchronize contact details in your contact list. You can now create contact groups or mark contacts as favorites in your phonebook.
Add a new contact in the contacts list by tapping . You can synchronize your contacts list with any of your account configured on this device. To synchronize your contacts list: 1. Tap the button from the contacts screen and then tap Accounts. 2. Select the account(s) with which contacts list is to be synchronized. You can auto-sync contacts by selecting the Auto-sync app data option. Your contacts synchronization will be complete in a few seconds.
To make a video call: Tap in the home screen and then select the contact on which video call is to be made. Tap call. to make the video In Call Options Press the Volume up/ down keys on the left side to adjust the call volume. To add another person to the call, tap Tap to mute your voice so that the phone’s MIC will not transmit voice to the other end. You can resume transmitting your voice by tapping and then . again. Tap and then to put the call on hold.
To activate the airplane mode: 1. Press and hold the Power button and then select Airplane mode. Or 2. Drag notification panel down, tap the Switch tab and then tap AIRPLANE MODE. Send Message To send a message: 1. Tap on the menu screen or the home screen to go to the messaging section and then tap message. to compose a 2. Tap the icon to view the types of files that can be attached and tap the desired type of multimedia file. 3.
Multimedia Camera Go to → GIF Animation/Remove Object mode Swap between front and back camera Camera settings Manage camera flash light Capturing modes Switch to Video Recording mode Open the picture gallery Capture You can share/copy/move/delete images and videos from the gallery. Gallery Go to → You can use the Gallery to view pictures and play videos and share files. Tap an album to open and view its contents.
Music Player Go to → View the list of artists, albums, tracks, and playlists. Turn on/off songs shuffle Open the playlist Turn on/off repeat songs Play/Pause song Play previously played song Play next song in the playlist Press the phone’s volume up/down keys on the left side of the mobile phone to adjust the volume. You can use an SD card to enhance the storage capacity for your multimedia files such as music, photos, emails, and so on.
Video Player Go to → Lock the touch panel and keypad of the phone Play/Pause video Change the video screen size Switch to resizable playback video Retrace Forward FM Radio Go to → You can listen to your favorite FM channels using the inbuilt FM receiver of your phone. Before starting the FM, you need to plug-in the headset as it works as antenna for the FM radio. Use the intuitive buttons and icons on the phone in the radio interface to enjoy the features of your inbuilt FM radio.
Press the phone’s volume up/down keys on the left side of the mobile phone to adjust the volume.
Settings, Networks, and Applications Your phone can connect to a variety of networks and devices, including Internet, Wi-Fi, GPRS, BT, devices, such as headsets. You can also transfer files to/from your PC through the data cable. Connect to the Internet To configure Internet: 1. Go to → → More → Mobile networks → Access Point Names and select the SIM for which access point name is to be configured.
your PC or Laptop now! Go to → → More → Tethering & portable hotspot. USB Tethering 1. Connect your phone with your PC/Laptop via USB cable. 2. Select the USB tethering option. 3. Select your phone network as the homegroup network connection in your PC/laptop and get access to the Internet. BT Tethering 1. Pair your phone with the BT enabled PC/laptop via BT pairing option. 2. Select the BT tethering option in your phone. 3.
Pair With BT Devices Go to → → BT. To pair your A120 with some other BT device: 1. If BT is off, turn it on and then tap BT. Your phone scans and displays the BT devices in range. 2. Tap the ID of the other device in the list to pair with it. 3. You will be prompted to confirm passkey on both devices. Tap Pair to confirm the passkey and pair the devices. On successful pairing, your phone connects to the device.
The server will check for online settings automatically and your account will be set up. If not, please check your Internet settings before proceeding. Tap the button of the phone and then tap Refresh to refresh your emails manually. GoogleTM Maps GoogleTM Maps is a web based service offered by Google Inc. which offers you access to various map based services. You can view various streets, landmarks and can even plan your routes with the help of GoogleTM Maps.
Micromax does not guarantee the accuracy of any directional services Manage Applications Your phone comes with a host of applications to make your life easier and more convenient. The Android phones offer users access to unlimited entertainment sources. You can download applications, games, movies, and books from the ever increasing Android market. New items get added almost daily to the market to give users a never ending fun experience.
Safety Precautions Remember to comply with legal requirements and local restrictions when using the phone. Your Phone’s radio waves may interfere with inadequately shielded medical devices. Consult a physician or manufacturer of the medical device to know whether they are adequately shielded from external Radio Frequency. Switch off your device when regulations require you to do so. Always keep the phone and accessories out of reach of small children.
Only use Micromax specified batteries and charging devices. All batteries can cause property damage, injury or burns if a conductive material Tap the exposed terminals. Exercise care in handling any charged battery, particularly when placing it inside your pocket, purse or other container with metal objects. Do not dispose of batteries in fire as they may explode. Do not use the phone while driving. When you have to use the phone, please use the personal hands-free kit$.
internal circuit boards and fine mechanics. Do not use harsh chemicals, cleaning solvents, or strong detergents to clean the device. Only use a soft, clean, dry cloth to clean the surface of the device. Do not store your device near magnetic fields or allow your device to come in contact with magnetic fields for extended period of time. Battery Recommendations Please put the battery in a cool and well-ventilated place out of direct sunlight.
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