LG500g notes

**Tracfancier** · 05-09-2011, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by annepani

Where did you find the manual for the 501c?

He may be refering to the ST Tutorials/manual
http://tracfone.deviceanywhere.com/s...e=en_US&search

**rchang** · 05-10-2011, 07:30 PM

This phone is pretty sturdy and can survive a 3-foot drop onto concrete.

**Aaron/wv** · 05-10-2011, 07:46 PM

try looking at the LG C105 for the manual, seems to be the parent phone

**Otis 226** · 05-10-2011, 10:21 PM

manual for the 501c? I believe it was on pbush's weblog.

**Tracfancier** · 05-11-2011, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by Otis 226

manual for the 501c? I believe it was on pbush's weblog.

The link I gave in post #16 of this thread contains a link to a user Guide that is 97 pages long.

**Pinoy.Boy** · 05-11-2011, 06:37 AM

TL;DR the manual, but here are some quick notes that I learned about my LG500G after spending an hour or so with it:

THE ALARM SUCKS
- The alarm feature on it sucks compared to my T301G, it's not as customizable.
- I haven't found a way to separately control the alarm's volume apart from everything else.

You can set a .gif animated file as a background

I've always wanted the matrix style wallpaper for my cellphone many years ago back in middle school, now I can finally have one.

Web browser sucks, costs a fortune for me. The upside to this is the browser button isn't as easy to accidentally press unlike in my T301G, since the button on the LG500G is concaved and is hard to push accidentally.

Backlit qwerty keyboard

YOU CANNOT ASSIGN WHAT THE MENU BUTTONS DOES

Top row has noticeable keyboard flex.

**GreyRogue** · 05-12-2011, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by rchang

Couple of music player notes:

- This player does not multitask. As soon as you hit the 'Back' button, the music stops.

- I haven't found a way to lock the keys when the MP3 player is going. If I wanted to go jogging with this thing in my pocket, a lot of buttons are going to be pressed accidentally.

-R.

While playing, you can select Options, and then Minimize. This will take you back to the main menu, while the music continues playing. You can either select something else, or lock the screen from here.

Note that my biggest complaint about this phone is the Browser button on the home screen. Being the same button as back makes it way to easy to accidentally press. The window to hit the cancel button is too short. It's technically possible to hit, as I tried, but I never react fast enough when I do it accidentally. And even then, because the cancel button is the same as the browser button, I've even managed to cancel, but then immediately hit the browser button again (an odd number of presses puts you right back in the browser). I've already done this a half dozen times in the week I've had this phone. So far, the best way I've managed is to always use the PWR/END key when I want to get back to the main menu, rather than trying to Back my way into it.

**rchang** · 05-12-2011, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by GreyRogue

While playing, you can select Options, and then Minimize. This will take you back to the main menu, while the music continues playing. You can either select something else, or lock the screen from here.

Thanks for the tip! that works pretty well.

**rchang** · 05-12-2011, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin Cruz

YOU CANNOT ASSIGN WHAT THE MENU BUTTONS DOES

Yeah, this is frustrating. I use the Toolbar option for "Display Items" under Menu->Settings->Display->Screen Theme. This at least gives you 5 customizable items to choose from by pressing the up arrow. Of the five, I set one to be the "Go to" tool. That gives you another 10 things to pick for short cuts. (Also, while in the "Go to" tool, you can select an item by pressing a number.)

**Tracfancier** · 05-12-2011, 02:51 PM

cancelled the message.

**bagoas** · 05-12-2011, 04:56 PM

Has anyone been able to transfer files to the 500G using the USB port? According to the ST 500G tutorial at http://tracfone.deviceanywhere.com/s...=en_US&search= you can do it but it wouldn't surprise me if Tracfone has disabled that feature on the 500G for Trafcone users. I don't want to go out and buy a USB-to mini-USB cable and then find that I can't use it.

I got my 500G at Radio Shack three days ago and for the most part I am very pleased with this phone. It's not perfect but it's way better than my 420G and the W376G that I had before that. Texting with it is a breeze compared to those phones. I wasn't surprised that it had a 1.3 megapixel still camera but I was surprised that it could record video. So far I have not been able to find the voice recorder. Has anyone uncovered that? Right now something strange seems to be going on when I do text. If I type a single character or a group of letters/numbers, there is always a simicolon at the end. That wasn't the case when I first got the phone a few days ago. Does anyone know how I get get rid of the semicolon?

**Pinoy.Boy** · 05-12-2011, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by rchang

Yeah, this is frustrating. I use the Toolbar option for "Display Items" under Menu->Settings->Display->Screen Theme. This at least gives you 5 customizable items to choose from by pressing the up arrow. Of the five, I set one to be the "Go to" tool. That gives you another 10 things to pick for short cuts. (Also, while in the "Go to" tool, you can select an item by pressing a number.)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

I missed the toolbar option

So I only had the menu keys there.

**Tracfancier** · 05-12-2011, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by bagoas

Has anyone been able to transfer files to the 500G using the USB port? According to the ST 500G tutorial at http://tracfone.deviceanywhere.com/s...=en_US&search= you can do it but it wouldn't surprise me if Tracfone has disabled that feature on the 500G for Trafcone users. I don't want to go out and buy a USB-to mini-USB cable and then find that I can't use it.

I got my 500G at Radio Shack three days ago and for the most part I am very pleased with this phone. It's not perfect but it's way better than my 420G and the W376G that I had before that. Texting with it is a breeze compared to those phones. I wasn't surprised that it had a 1.3 megapixel still camera but I was surprised that it could record video. So far I have not been able to find the voice recorder. Has anyone uncovered that? Right now something strange seems to be going on when I do text. If I type a single character or a group of letters/numbers, there is always a simicolon at the end. That wasn't the case when I first got the phone a few days ago. Does anyone know how I get get rid of the semicolon?

Take the phone back to Radio Shack and tell them if they can show you that their USB cable works you will buy it.

**rchang** · 05-12-2011, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by bagoas

So far I have not been able to find the voice recorder.

Menu -> My Folder -> Voice Recorder

Scroll past "Camera", "Video" and "Music". I have no idea why these items belong in "My Folder"!

**rchang** · 05-12-2011, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by bagoas

Has anyone been able to transfer files to the 500G using the USB port? According to the ST 500G tutorial at http://tracfone.deviceanywhere.com/s...=en_US&search=

Hey, I didn't realize this was a feature. I just tried it and managed to mount the microSD card on my laptop (a MacBook Pro). When you plug in the cable, the phone asks "Connect to Mass Storage?". If you say "yes" and wait a few seconds, the SD card mounts like a flash drive (a slow one).

Make sure that you get a cable that has the pins for data transfer and isn't one just for charging.

-R.