Alcatel One touch 819A Quick Start Manual Download Page 1

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Your cellphone

 ..............

Status bar icons

1.1 

 (1)

Battery charge level

Vibrate alert

: your cellphone vibrates, but does not ring 

or beep with the exception of the alarm.

Bluetooth status

 (Activated).

Bluetooth status

 (Connected to an audio device).

Java status 

(Activated).

Headset connected

.

Keypad & LCD touch locked

.

Keypad& LCD touch unlocked

.

Call forwarding activated

: your calls are forwarded. 

Alarm or appointments programmed

.

Level of network reception

.

Wi-Fi connected

.

Wi-Fi disconnected

.

 

 

Voicemail message arrived

.

Missed calls

.  

Stopwatch is active

.

Radio is on

.

Email unread.

WAP alerts

 (1)

.

Roaming

.

SD card scanning in progress

.

SD card scanning completed

.

SIM card unavailable.

Line switching

 (1)

: indicates the selected line.

GPRS connection status

 (Activated).

GPRS connecting

.

EDGE connecting

.

EDGE attached

.

Music player active

.

Message receipt in progress

.

MMS receipt in progress.

Sending a SMS.

Sending a MMS.

 

Silence mode

: your cellphone does not ring, beep or 

vibrate with the exception of the alarm.

SMS unread

.

MMS unread.

(In red) Message list is full

: your cellphone cannot 

accept any new messages. You must access the message 
list and delete at least one message on your SIM card.

Flight mode

.

A2DP connected

.

Broadcast is on.

Status list

1.2 

Tap the status bar and drag down to open, drag up to close.
To open an application, tap it from the list.

Home screen

1.3 

Adding items

To add an item from the main menu, you can select one of the following 
ways:

Tap and hold an item from the main menu list.

• 

Tap 

• 

 from the tool bar and select “

Add widgets/Add 

shortcuts

”.

Touch and hold an empty area from the main screen, select “

• 

Add 

widgets/Add shortcuts

” from the window that opens, then tap the 

item you want to add to the Home screen.

Editing/Removing items  

To edit/ remove an item from the main screen, you can select one of 
the following ways:
Long press the application on the Home screen, touch 

 to edit 

(only for my favorites), touch 

 to remove, and then confirm by 

tapping “

Done

”.

Tap

 

 from the tool bar and select “

Delete shortcuts and 

widgets

”.

Wallpaper

To personalize your wallpaper, you can select one of the following 
two ways:

Touch and hold an empty area from the Home screen, select 

• 

Wallpaper

”, then tap a folder to select an image as your 

wallpaper.
Tap 

• 

 from the tool bar, select “

Wallpaper

”, then tap a folder to 

select an image as your wallpaper.

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 bottom of the screen indicate which screen you 
are viewing.

Toolbar

1.4 

Tool bar with menu items by default as a shortcut for quick access.

Getting started

 ............

Set-up

2.1 

Removing or installing the back cover

 Inserting or removing the SIM card

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.

Installing or removing the battery

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

• 

cover.
Unclip the cover, then remove the battery.

• 

Charging the battery

Connect the battery charger to your phone 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, Bluetooth or background-running 
applications when not in use; reduce the backlight time, 
etc.

Power on your cellphone

2.2 

Hold down the 

 key until the cellphone powers on.

Power off your cellphone

2.3 

Hold down the 

 key from the main screen.

Using the touchscreen

2.4 

Tap 

To access an application, tap it with your finger.

Scroll 

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

Making a call

 ................

Enter the desired number on the hardware keypad directly. 
The number you entered can be saved to Contacts by selecting 

Save

”. If you make a mistake, you can delete the incorrect digits 

by pressing 

 or 

.

To hang up the call, press the 

 key.

Menu arrange

 ..............

The main menu is designed to vary according to your preference. 
To access this function, select 

 to enter the main menu, then 

tap 

.

Change the order

Access the main menu, focus on the main menu item you want to 
move, and then tap “

Options\Move

”, it will go to the main menu 

screen and tick “

” will be shown on the main menu you selected, 

then release it to your favorite destination.

Show/Hide

Access “

Menu arrange

”, tap the left check box of the selected menu 

once to show/hide, then tap “

Done

” to save the operation.

Messaging

 ..............

Conversational On (Off) mode

5.1 

In conversational on mode, you can view chat history in chronological 
order. In conversational off mode, you can access the following folders: 

Inbox

Outbox

Sent

Drafts

,

 

etc. You can switch between these 

two modes by selecting

 

Options\Settings\Conversational mode\

On (Off)

”. Conversational mode is set as the default mode and the 

following instructions are based on this mode.

 

Write message

5.2 

Select “

Messaging\Write message

” to create text/multimedia 

messages. An SMS will be converted to MMS automatically when: 
images, videos, audio, slides or attachments are inserted; Subject, CC/
BCC/email address is added; or the message contains more than 8 
pages of text.

 

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

Timer send

Schedule a SMS/MMS to be sent out at predefined time (“

Option\

Timer send

”).

Email

 ......................

Your cellphone has an email client with the settings predefined for a 
few popular email services like – GoogleMail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. Besides 
this, you can set up other POP3 or IMAP4 email accounts that you 
may be using.

Palringo

 (1)

 ................

 

Palringo Instant messaging (IM) allows you to chat with other people 
using Palringo account. You can also connect to other popular IM 
services through Palringo, like Yahoo, AIM, GG, ICQ, GTalk, iChat etc. 
Please note that the services accessible to you will depend on your 
client version and dynamic Palringo server options.

Contacts

 .................

Consulting your Contacts

8.1 

To access the Contacts, select “

Contacts

” from the main menu or tap 

 from tool bar. The location of each contact can be identified by an 

icon on the left of the contact name.

Adding a contact

8.2 

You can create a new contact by tapping “

Options\Create new

”.

Birthday reminder

You can set a birthday reminder when editing contact information. 
This will remind you at regular intervals during the day prior to the 
set date.

Call log

 ...................

Access

9.1 

You may access this function from the main menu “

Call log

” or by 

tapping 

 from tool bar or pressing 

 from the main screen. 

Available options

9.2 

When you tap “

Options

”, you may have access to 

Delete,

 

Send 

message, Save to Contacts,  Edit before call, 

etc.

Call settings 

9.2.1 

(1)

You can access a number of items with this option: 

Call waiting

Call forwarding

Call barring

Caller ID

Line switching

Auto 

redial, 

etc.

Media applications

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 ...

Music player

10.1 

 .................................

To access this function, tap 

 to enter the main menu and select 

You will have full flexibility of managing music both on your cellphone 
and SD card.

Image viewer

10.2 

 ................................

A library links to the images in “

My creations

” in cellphone to be 

shown in list, or slide, set as Wallpaper, Power on/off display, and 
incoming call image, or sent by MMS, Email, Bluetooth.

Video player

10.3 

 .................................

My videos

” album contains video clips recorded, received or 

downloaded. All video clips in this folder can be played, set as Power 
on/off display, sent, deleted, renamed, sorted, etc.

Radio

10.4 

 .............................................

Your cellphone is equipped with a radio

 (2)

 with RDS 

(3)

 functionality. You 

can use the application as a traditional radio with saved channels or with 
parallel visual information related to the radio program on the display 
if you tune to stations that offer Visual Radio service. You can listen to 
it while running other applications.

Internet

11 

 (1)

 ................

Opera

11.1 

 ............................................

Not only does Opera Mini give you the full Web experience where you 
stay in touch with your friends, obtain information, do your online banking 
etc., but it is also designed to save time by using compressed web pages.

Wap

11.2 

 ..............................................

Access Wap options: 

Homepage

Bookmarks

Go to URL

Last 

web address

Recent pages

Offline pages

Service inbox

Settings

.

News

11.3 

 ..............................................

It is a huge time saver providing news updates from a website in a 
simple form. Once subscribed to a channel, it gives you the ability to 
track and manage all your favorite RSS content on your cellphone at 
anytime, anywhere!

Weather

11.4 

 .......................................

Your cellphone is equipped with a weather function for consulting up 
to 3-day forecasts of favorite cities.

Facebook

11.5 

 .......................................

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others 
who work, study and live around them. It provides a number of features 
with which users may interact: Wall, a space on every user's profile 
page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see; Pokes, 
which allow users to send a virtual “poke” to each other; Gifts, a feature 
allowing users to send virtual gifts which appear on the recipient’s 
profile; Market places, which lets users post free classified goods, etc.
To open an account online, please go to: http://www.facebook.com/.

mTweet

11.6 

 .........................................

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that has gained 
notability and popularity worldwide. This feature enables cellphone 
users to exchange news updates and ideas with a community in the 
form of messages or posts. Posts are displayed on the author's profile 
page and delivered to the author's subscribers or followers. 
To open an account online, please go to: http://twitter.com/.

Snaptu

11.7 

 (1)

 ........................................

Snaptu is a free mobile application platform that turns your favorite 
websites into ultra fast mobile applications that work on your 
cellphone. It allows you to access popular services, ranging from social 
networks like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa to entertainment 
news, blogs, sports and local guides. In addition, cellphone users are 
free to add or remove application or website links.
To open an account online, please go to: http://www.snaptu.com/.

Shozu

11.8 

 (1)

 ..........................................

ShoZu means you can share the moment, whether it's a photo, video
or a blog. You can send your stuff to friends and family, email or 
social networks simply by pressing the button. Add tags, titles and 
descriptions before or after uploading them. Then see in real time what 
your friends are saying about your uploads, and reply to them from 
your cellphone anywhere and anytime.
To open an account online, please go to: http://www.shozu.com/.

Entertainment

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 ..........

Stopwatch

12.1 

 .....................................

The stopwatch is a simple application for measuring time with 
the possibility to register several results and suspend/resume 
measurement.

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Ebook

12.2 

 ............................................

A bookshelf contains the electronic books (.txt and .pdb file only). 
While reading the book, you may add bookmark, or reach the text by 
searching words, phrases (

Options\Find

Options\Jump to

).

Java

12.3 

 ................................................

Your Alcatel cellphone may include

 (1)

 some Java™ applications and 

games. You can also download new applications and games to your 
cellphone.

Camera

13 

 .............

Your cellphone is fitted with a camera for taking photos and shooting 
videos that you can use in different ways:

store them in your “

• 

File manager\My creations

”.

send them in a multimedia message (MMS) to a cellphone or an 

• 

email address.
send them directly by Email or Bluetooth.

• 

customize your main screen.

• 

select them as incoming call image to a contact in your directory.

• 

transfer them by data cable or microSD card to your computer.

• 

Profiles

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 ................

With this menu, you may personalize ringtones for different events 
and environments.

Left soft key

• 

Right soft key

• 

Answer/Send a call

• 

Enter Call log

• 

Press:  End a call

• 

Return to the main screen

Press n hold: Power on/off

• 

Press n hold: Access your voicemail

• 

Press once: Input a capitalized character

• 

Press twice: Lock the keyboard in capital letter input 

• 

mode
Press:  Press once: Input a top-half character

• 

Press twice:  Lock the keyboard in top-half key 

input mode

Fn + B: Access Bluetooth

• 

Fn+ M: Access Music player

• 

Fn + P: Access Profiles

• 

Fn + J: Access Java applications

• 

Navigation key

• 

Confirm an option (press the middle of the key)

• 

Press:  Enter a space

• 

Unlock the screen

Press n hold:  Access language list

• 

Lock the screen

Hold down Fn key, then press Space key to select input 

• 

method
Enter symbol table

• 

Hold down Fn key, then press SYM key to enter 

• 

emotion table
Confirm an option

• 

Enter the next line

• 

Vibrate alert

• 

Volume up/down

• 

Press to enter Music player

• 

(1)

  Depending on your network operator.

(1)

  The icons and illustrations in this guide are provided for information 

purposes only.

(1)

  Depending on your network operator.

(1)

  Contact your network operator to check service availability.

(2)

  The quality of the radio depends on the coverage of the radio station in 

that particular area.

(3)

  Depending on your network operator and market.

(1)

  Depending on your model.

(1)

  Depending on your network operator.

For more information about how to use the phone, 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.

Headset connector

Music player

Volume key

Micro-USB connector

Left soft key

Information bar

Tool bar

Send key

Vibration key

Voicemail key

Shift key

Fn key

Space key

Navigation key/ 
OK key

Home screen

Status bar

Right soft key

End key

Delete key

Enter key

SYM key

File manager

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 ....

You will have access to all audio and visual files stored in cellphone 
or SD card in File manager. You can access a number of items with this 
option: 

My audios

My images

My videos

Ebook

My creations

Others

Phone

,

 SD card 

and

 Memory status

.

Inserting SD card:

To release the microSD card holder, slide it in the direction of the 
arrow and lift it. Then insert the microSD card with the golden 
contact downward. Finally, turn down the microSD holder and slide 
it in the opposite direction to lock it.

Bluetooth™

16 

 .....

Access this feature by tapping 

 to enter the main menu, then 

selecting “

Bluetooth

”.

Quick Start Guide

   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

(1)

  Depending on your network operator. May cause additional network 

charges for data flow to provide this service. Extra fees might also be 
charged in roaming states.

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