Alcatel one touch 906 Quick Start Manual Download Page 1

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Your mobile

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Keys and connectors

1.1 

Status icons

GPRS connected

Speakerphone is on

GPRS in use

Roaming

GPRS is disabled

No signal

EDGE connected

No SIM card installed

EDGE in use

Vibrate mode

EDGE is disabled

Ringer is silenced

Connected to a Wi-Fi 
network

Phone microphone 
is mute

Bluetooth is on

Battery is very low

Connected to a Bluetooth 
device

Battery is low

Airplane mode

Battery is partially 
drained

Alarm is set

Battery is full

Signal strength

Battery is charging

GPS is on

Headset connected

Receiving location data 
from GPS

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Pick up/Send a call

• 

Enter Call Log

• 

Return to ongoing call screen if the user navigates to other 

• 

applications during call.

On Home screen, press to quick access to 

• 

Settings

 menu 

or Notification panel; to launch quick search; to customize 
your Home screen by adding applications or changing 
wallpaper/theme.

On other screens, press to view options list.

• 

Short press:  Return to the Home screen or back to the 

central Home screen if it is extended.

Long press: Enter the recently used applications list.

Go back to the previous menu or screen.

Short press:  End a call

Lock the screen
Light up the screen

Long press:  When phone is off, power on the phone.

When phone is on, enter Phone options: Silent 
mode, Airplane mode, Power off.

Press to adjust the Volume (in call/media playing mode)

Open Search bar for searching within an application, the 
phone or web.

Notification icons

New Gmail message

More notifications are 
hidden

New text or multimedia 
message

Call in progress (green)

Problem with text or 
multimedia message 
delivery

Call in progress using 
Bluetooth headset (blue)

New Google Talk 
message

Missed call

New voicemail

Call on hold

Upcoming event

Call forwarding is on

Data is synchronizing

Uploading data

Problem with sign-in or 
synchronization

Downloading data

microSD card is full

Download finished

No microSD card 
installed

An open Wi-Fi network 
is available

Connected to VPN

Phone is connected via 
USB cable

Disconnected from VPN

Radio is on

Song is playing 

System update available

Getting started

1.2 

 Set-up

1.2.1 

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 
phone 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 phone cover.

• 

Unclip the cover, then remove the battery.

• 

Wallpaper customization

Touch and hold an empty area or press 

Menu

 key and touch 

Wallpaper

 

on the Home screen to customize wallpaper.

Theme customization

Touch and hold an empty area or press 

Menu

 key and touch 

Themes

 on 

the Home screen to customize themes.

Application tab

1.3.6 

Touch 

 from Home screen to enter applications list. 

To return to the Home screen, press 

Home

 key.

Consult recently-used applications

To consult recently-used applications, you can press and hold the 

Applications list

 from Home screen. Touch an icon in the window to 

open the related application.

Volume adjustment

1.3.7 

You can set ringer, media  and phone ringtone volume to your preference 
by 

Volume up/down

 key, or 

Settings

 menu.

Applications list

1.4 

The Applications list contains all pre-embedded and newly installed 
applications.

To access the Applications list, touch Application tab from Home screen. 
To return to Home screen, press 

Home

 key.

Installing and removing the memory card (MicroSD card)

Remove battery cover and uncover the MicroSD card protector; Insert 
the MicroSD card with golden contact facing downwards into the slot until 
it is locked. Then cover the MicroSD card protector.

   To remove the microSD card while the phone is on, you must 

unmount the storage card (

Settings\SD card, USB Mass 

Storage & phone storage\Unmount SD card

) from the 

phone first, to prevent corrupting or damaging the storage card

Charging the battery

Connect the battery charger to your phone and mains socket 
respectively.

   To reduce power consumption and energy waste, when battery 

is fully charged, disconnect your charger from the plug; switch off 
Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth or background-running applications when 
not in use; reduce the backlight time, etc.

Text input

 ........................

Using Onscreen Keyboard

2.1 

Onscreen keyboard will display automatically when a program requires 
entering text or numbers.

Touch to lock in capital letter input mode.

Touch to switch to symbol and numeric 
keyboard.

Long press to enter an accent of the letter

Touch to enter text or numbers, touch 
and hold for one or two seconds to 
select input method.

Onscreen keyboard settings

Press 

Menu

 key from Home screen, select 

Settings

\

Language & 

keyboard

\

Android keyboard

, a series of settings are available for 

your selection. 

Adjust the onscreen keyboard orientation

Turn the phone sideways or upright to adjust the onscreen keyboard 
orientation. You can also adjust it by settings (Press 

Menu

 key on Home 

screen\

Settings

\

Sound & display

).

Text editing

2.2 

You can edit the text you have entered.

Touch and hold text you have entered

• 

Options list pops up

• 

Select the operation you need (

• 

Select all

Select text

Cut all

Copy all

, etc.)

Power on your phone

1.2.2 

Hold down the 

End

 key until the phone powers on. It will take some 

seconds before the screen lights up.

Set up your phone for the first time

The first time you power on the phone, you are required to touch 
the Android logo to begin and then sign into your Google account to 
synchronize email, contacts, calendar and other Google applications 

(1)

Enter your user name and password, then touch 

• 

Sign in

. If you forget 

your password, you can go to http://www.google.com/ to retrieve it. If 
you don’t own a Google Account, you are prompted to create one by 
touching 

Create

.

Read the setup information on the screen

• 

.

Mark/Unmark the check box to choose whether you want to take 

• 

advantage of Google's location service, then touch 

Next

.

Set up the date and time, then touch 

• 

Next

.

Touch 

• 

Finish setup

.

   This initial set up can be skipped and enabled via 

Settings\

Accounts & sync

.

In power on screen without SIM card inserted, you can also connect 
to a  Wi-Fi network to sign into your Google account and to use some 
features.

Phone call

 ..................

Placing a call

3.1 

User can easily launch a call using 

Phone. 

Enter this menu using one of 

the following two ways:

Touch Application tab from Home screen and select 

• 

Phone.

 

Press 

• 

Call

 key, then select 

Phone

 tab.

Enter the desired number from keyboard directly or select a contact from 

Contacts

Call log

 or 

Favorites

 by touching tabs, then press 

Call

 key or 

touch 

 to place the call. The number you entered can be saved to 

Contacts

 by pressing 

Menu

 key and touching 

Add to Contacts

You also can add 2-sec pause or add wait by pressing 

Menu

 key.

If you make a mistake, you can delete the incorrect digits by touching 

.

To hang up a call, press 

End

 key.

Power off your phone

1.2.3 

Hold down the 

End

 key from the Home screen until the phone options 

appear, select 

Power off

.

Home screen

1.3 

You can bring all the items (applications, shortcuts, folders and widgets) 
you love or use most frequently to your home screen for quick access. 
Press 

Home

 key to switch to Home screen.

Status bar

Status/Notification indicators. 

• 

Touch and Drag down to open notification 

• 

panel.

Search bar

Touch 

n

 to enter text search screen.

Touch 

o

 to enter voice search screen.

Application tab

Touch to open applications list.

Touch to access 

Call log

 if you have 

missed call(s), or access the tab you 
exit last time.

Touch to access 

Browser

.

n

o

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 
lower left and right of the screen indicate which screen you are viewing. 

Touch & hold the small dots or application tab can display the thumbnails 
of extended home screen, touch the thumbnail to open it. Press 

Back

 key 

or touch an empty area to return to Home screen. You can customize the 
number of home screens by settings (Press 

Menu

 key on Home screen\

Settings

\

Sound & display

).

Answering or rejecting a call

3.2 

When you receive an incoming call, drag down the green phone icon or 
press 

Call

 key to answer. Hang up the call by dragging the red phone icon 

to left or pressing 

End

 key.

Consulting your call memory

3.3 

You can access your call memory by pressing the 

Call

 key from the Home 

screen and touching 

Call log

 tab to view call history in categories of 

Missed call, Dialed call 

and

 Received call.

Contacts

 .....................

You can view and create contacts on your phone and synchronize these 
with your Gmail contacts or other applications on the web or on your 
phone.

   

When using 

Contacts

 for the first time you are required to 

add new contacts to phone, import contacts from SIM card to 
phone, or synchronize contacts from other application accounts 
to phone.

Using the touchscreen

1.3.1 

Touch

To access an application, touch it with your finger.

Touch and Hold

To enter the available options for an item, touch and hold the item. For 
example, select a contact in Contacts, touch and hold this contact, options 
list will then appear on screen.

Drag

Place your finger on the screen to drag an object to another location.

Slide/Swipe

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

Flick

Similar to swiping, but flicking makes it move quicker.

Rotate

Automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by 
turning the phone leftward to have a better screen view.

Status bar

1.3.2 

From status bar you can view both phone status (to the right side) and 
notification information (to the left side). When the status bar is full, “ ” icon 
will appear, touch to display hidden icons. You can touch twice an empty 
area on the Home screen to hide/show the Status bar.

Adding a contact

4.1 

Touch 

Application tab

 on the Home screen, select 

Contacts

, then 

press 

Menu

 key from contacts list screen and touch 

New contact

.

Importing and exporting contacts

4.2 

From Contacts screen, press 

Menu

 key to open contacts list option menu, 

touch 

Import/Export

, then select 

Import from SIM card

Export to 

SIM card

Import from SD card

 or 

Export to SD card

.

To import/export a single contact from/to SIM card, touch the contact you 
want to import/export, then press 

Menu

 key and touch 

OK

 to confirm.

To import/export all contacts from/to SIM card, mark 

Select all contacts

 

check box, then press 

Menu

 key and touch 

OK

 to confirm.

Synchronizing contacts in multiple 

4.3 

accounts

Contacts, data or other information can be synchronized from multiple 
accounts, depending on the applications installed on your phone.

Add to/remove from favorites

4.4 

Touch  and hold a contact , then  touch 

Add to favorites

. Or touch a 

contact to view details then touch to add the contact to favorites (the 
star will turn gold in color).

Select 

Remove from favorites

 on the contact’s option menu or touch 

gold star on contact details screen.

Quick contact

4.5 

Touch a contact’s picture  to  open  Quick Contact, then touch the icon 
for the way to connect. The icons available on Quick contact bar depend 
on the information you have for the contact and the applications and 
accounts on your phone.

  Prolonged exposure to music at full volume on the music player 

may damage the listener's hearing. Set your phone volume safely. 
Use only headphones recommended by TCT Mobile Limited and 
its affiliates.

Quick Start Guide

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.

Table of contents

1 Your 

mobile 

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2 Text 

input 

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3 Phone 

call 

................................................................................................. 15

4 Contacts 

................................................................................................... 16

5 Messaging.................................................................................................. 18

6 Email 

.......................................................................................................... 20

7 Getting 

connected 

................................................................................. 21

8  Locate my location using GPS satellites ........................................... 23

9 Data 

backup 

............................................................................................. 23

10  Factory data reset .................................................................................. 24

11 Applications ............................................................................................. 25

12  Making the most of your phone ......................................................... 25

www.sar-tick.com

This product meets applicable national 
SAR limits of 2.0 W/kg. The specific 
maximum SAR values can be found on 
page 30 of this user guide.

When carrying the product or using it 
while worn on your body, either use an 
approved accessory such as a holster or 
otherwise maintain a distance of 1.5 cm 
from the body to ensure compliance with 
RF exposure requirements. Note that the 
product may be transmitting even if you 
are not making a phone call.

Notification panel

Touch and drag down the Status bar or press 

Menu

 key and touch 

Notifications

 to open the notification panel. Touch and drag up to close 

it. From Notification panel, you can open items and other reminders 
indicated by notification icons or view wireless service information. 

Search bar

1.3.3 

The phone provides a Search function which can be used to locate 
information within applications, the phone or the web. 

Lock/Unlock your screen

1.3.4 

To protect your phone and privacy, you can lock the phone screen by 
creating a variety of patterns.

Personalize your home screen

1.3.5 

Add

Touch and hold an empty area or press 

Menu

 key and touch 

Add

 on 

the Home screen, you can add shortcuts, widgets or folders to the 
Home screen.

Reposition 

Touch and hold the item to be repositioned to activate the Move mode, 
drag the item to desired position, then release. Hold the icon on the left or 
right edge of the screen to drag the item to another Home screen page.

Remove

Touch and hold the item to be removed to activate the Move mode, 
drag the item to the top of the Application tab, which will then turn red, 
and release.

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Messaging

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You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS with this mobile phone.

To access this feature, touch Application tab from Home screen, then 
select 

Messaging

.

   

All messages you receive or send out can only be saved in phone 
memory. To consult messages stored in SIM card, press 

Menu

 

key from Messaging screen, then touch 

Settings\Manage SIM 

messages

.

Write message

5.1 

On message list screen, touch 

New message

 to write text/multimedia 

messages.

Sending a text message

Enter mobile phone number of the recipient on 

To

 bar or touch 

 to 

add recipients, touch 

Type to compose 

bar to enter the text of the 

message. When finished, touch 

Send

 to send the text message.

   An SMS of more than 160 characters will be charged as several 

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

Sending a multimedia message

MMS enables you to send video clips, images, photos, animations, slides and 
sounds to other compatible mobiles and e-mail addresses. 

An SMS will be converted to MMS automatically when media files (image, 
video, audio, slides, etc.) are attached or Subject or email addresses 
added.

Adjust message settings

5.2 

You can adjust a set of message settings. From Messaging application 
screen, press 

Menu

 key and touch 

Settings

.

Storage settings

To manage messages quantities limit per conversation of text message 
and multimedia message.

Text  message settings

You can request a delivery report for each message you send while the 
mark is green. Messages stored on SIM card can be delete or copy by 
the management.

Multimedia  message settings

Pressing the right mark to green, you can request a delivery report and 
read report for each message you send, automatically retrieve messages. 
You also can set the maximum message size. 

 Email

 ........................

Besides your Gmail account, you can also set-up external POP3 or 
IMAP email accounts in your phone.

To access this function, touch Application tab from Home screen, then 
select 

Email

.

An email wizard will guide you through the steps to set-up an email 
account.

Enter the email address and password of the account you want to 

• 

set-up.

Touch 

• 

Next

. If the account you entered is not provided by your 

service provider in the phone, 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.

• 

Touch 

• 

Done

.

To add another email account, you can press 

• 

Menu

 key and touch 

Add account

 to create.

To create and send emails

Press 

• 

Menu

 key from Inbox screen, and touch 

Compose

.

Enter recipient(s)’s email address in 

• 

To

 field, and if necessary, press 

Menu

 key and touch 

Add Cc/Bcc

 to include a copy or a blind copy 

to the message.

Enter the subject and content of the message.

• 

Press 

• 

Menu

 key, touch 

Add attachment

 to send an attachment 

to the receiver.

Finally, touch 

• 

Send

.

If you do not want to send the mail right away, you can touch 

• 

Save 

as draft

 or press 

Back

 key to save a copy. 

Menu Key

Call Key

Search Key

Back Key

Touchscreen

End Key/Power 
off Key

Home Key

Micro-SD card Protector

Volume up & Volume down

(1)

  Application availability depends on country and operator.

Earphone connector

Micro-USB connector

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