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USER MANUAL Forward Run NGM

FORWARD Run NGM NEW GENERATION MOBILE

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Welcome to the NGM Android™ world. Thank you for purchasing NGM Forward Run. With this device you can have access to the many features of the 4.2.2 Jelly Bean edition of the Android™ operating system to manage your contacts, email, social networks and to discover the opportunities of Internet with just a single touch! Discover the full potential of your new "intelligent" phone. Compared to the usual mono SIM Smartphones, NGM Forward Run offers the convenience of Dual SIM that has always characterized the entire range of NGM phones, i.e. the ability to handle two SIM cards and consequently two telephone numbers at the same time. Discover other useful features such as setting the preferred SIM for calls and data connection. By visiting the official website www.ngm.eu you can appreciate the whole range of NGM mobile phones, ask for after sales assistance, access the forum for technical assistance and download software updates.

Warning: Data Connection of NGM Forward Run is active as soon as you first power on the phone (and after every eventual factory data reset). If you do not have a special or "flat" rate for data connection with your SIM card, you are recommended to turn off data traffic and set up a Wi-Fi connection, in order to avoid additional costs.

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Set up

Warning: insert SIM and SD Card only after removing the battery, in order to prevent data loss.

Insert SIM card: SIM cards contain your phone number, PIN codes, links to external services, contacts and other important details. To access the compartment containing the SIM slots, turn off the phone and lift up the cover from the bottom of the phone. Remove the battery. Insert the SIM cards into the slots with their gold contacts facing downwards.

Insert the memory card: To exploit all features of NGM Forward Run, it is recommended to use a micro-SD. Slide in the memory card, as shown below, with the gold contacts facing downwards.

SD card slot Slot 2: SIM 2 Slot 1: Micro SIM1

Inserting the battery

Your device is provided with a lithium-ion battery and is designed to be used exclusively with original NGM batteries and chargers. The battery must be inserted into the backside of the phone. Insert the battery into the battery compartment with the contacts facing up, matching those of the phone. When done, put the hind cover back into position as shown in the following illustrations.

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Charge the battery:

Charge the battery before starting to use the device. Use the supplied USB cable and the USB connector on the lower side of the phone. Connect the charger to the provided wall socket adapter, and then the device to the USB cable. You can also charge the phone by connecting it with the PC USB port, but in this case charging will take longer. When the battery is charging, an animated icon on the screen will show the charging progress if the phone is on. Once the battery icon is filled, it is fully charged and the phone can be disconnected from the grid.

Attention: Do not connect the phone to a booting-up or running down PC to avoid voltage jumps. To preserve the functionality of the product and the integrity of the warranty, we recommend the use of original NGM chargers. Please charge the battery indoors, in a dry and favorable environment. It's normal for the battery to get slightly warm during the charging process. The battery will reach its full capacity when cycled several times.

Power on, power off and standby

To turn on the phone, press and hold the power on/off key To turn off your device, press and hold the same key and confirm by selecting "Shutdown". A quick pressure sets the phone in stand-by mode (screen off) or allows you to go back to the lock screen (see below).

Main screen: use the touch screen by tapping, holding or dragging a finger across the screen. The main screen is the starting point for using all the applications on your phone. Other main screen pages are available, just swipe the screen left or right. These pages can be customized with shortcuts of the favorite applications; to place a link on one of the main screens, press and hold the desired shortcuts from the main menu and drag it up to "Move to Desktop." You also can customize the four widgets next to the central menu icon by pressing, holding and moving them onto the desktop. To delete shortcuts or widgets, tap and hold the icon and drag it onto the "X Delete" symbol on the screen. By moving an icon over another, you can create folders on the desktop and by pressing the contextual menu you can change the wallpaper.

Unlock Screen

10:29 15/01/2013 Hold and drag the central element to unlock the screen

The main menu: Select an application from the main menu or scroll left/right to view other applications. Press the back button to return to the previous screen, press the Home key to return to the main screen, press the contextual menu to create folders and access the phone settings.

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Home Screen

SIM signal intensity and battery level

Main Menu

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Notification Bar (Drag down to open the Notification panel)

WiFi Signal Intensity

Phone Contacts Main Menu Messaging Page Indicator Bar

Browser

Applications People Messaging Phone Gallery File Explorer NGM Nav Clock Calendar Settings Sound Records FM Radio Email SIM Toolkit Browser Camera System Update

Scroll HOME pages

Scroll menu

Receiver Front camera Capacitive Touch Screen Contextual menu key Home Key Back key Microphone Brightness and Proximity Sensors Volume "+" / "-" - On/Off and Standby key Connector Micro USB Camera Earphone Plug Flash Speaker

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SHORTCUTS

Notification panel: To open the Notification Panel, touch the upper bar containing the battery and signal-intensity icons and drag it downwards. Tap the icon in the upper right corner ☐ to switch between notifications and Quick Setup buttons ☐ or tap the settings icon to open the Phone Settings menu. To hide the panel, drag up the bottom of the panel or tap the Back key.

Recent applications: When you are inside any application, long press the Home key: a list of the applications you have recently accessed will be shown and can be directly selected.

Contextual Menu: Most applications have a Contextual Menu. By clicking on that key, you can display a contextual menu referred to the application itself, with related functions.

Lock screen and vibration: From the main menu, select Settings > Security > Screen Lock. Select the desired unlocking mode (None, Slide, Smile Unlock, Voice Unlock, Pattern, PIN or Password) and confirm. To quickly lock the screen, briefly press the power on/off key. To unlock it, follow the instructions on the screen.

Quickly turn on/off the vibration mode: To quickly disable the ringtone for calls and messages, you can press and hold volume "-" . Once you reach the minimum volume, the phone will enter the vibration mode. By pressing volume "-" again, the phone will enter the silent mode.

Managing the two SIM cards: from the main menu, select Settings > SIM Management. Select I/O keys next to the phone operators corresponding to "USIM1" and "USIM2" to selectively activate or deactivate the USIM at any time. From this menu you can also customize the color and name for each SIM icon and decide which SIM to use as default for calls, messages and data connection or choose "always ask" if you don't want to set a default SIM. In Settings > Mobile Networks > 3G service > Enable 3G you can select the SIM card on which you wish to activate the 3G service. This is an innovative feature that allows you to shift the 3G connection (that normally is only available on slot1) from one SIM to the other without having to physically exchange SIM cards.

MANAGING CALLS

From the main screen touch the Phone icon; use the virtual keypad to enter the desired phone number.
Press the dial icon and then the desired USIM if you haven't set a default SIM for calls, otherwise, the call will start with the default SIM.
To end the call press the red end call key.
To answer a call, drag the phone icon to the right onto the green handset; to reject it, drag it to the left onto the red handset, to reject with a message drag the phone icon upwards. To silence an incoming call, tap Volume "+" or "-" (on the right side of the phone).

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Call a number from the call log

From the main menu select the Phone icon. Above the keyboard the call log with missed, received and outgoing calls is displayed.
Tap the phone next to the selected number and choose the SIM to place the call.

MANAGING CONTACTS

Add a new contact

Note: In the contextual menu of the contacts you can access Import/Export functions and several other settings.

From the main menu select the Contacts icon.
Press the "+" -icon on the bottom bar.
Select the storage where you want to save the contact (Account, Phone, SIM1 or SIM2).
Insert Name, Number and any other contact detail (if the contact is saved on the SIM card, name and phone number can be saved) and confirm with Done.

Add a new contact from call log

From Phone menu, open the Call Log (over the virtual keyboard).
Touch the contact icon with the “?” symbol near the number you want to save in the Missed, Received or Outgoing calls.
Choose New Contact or add the number to an Existing contact. Once you selected the saving path and added name and any further information (when saving in Phone), confirm with Done.

It is possible to associate contacts to one of the SIM cards in order to automatically call those contacts with the associated SIM card; to associate a contact to one of the inserted SIM cards, press the contextual menu and choose Associate SIM card or from Settings > SIM Manager, choose Contact Association, select the SIM card and choose the contacts you want to associate with the SIM card from Contacts. To activate the associations, select the "Smart Dial" function in Settings > Dual SIM Settings >

Contact binding.

Note: you can set ringtones in *mid, *wav, *ogg or *mp3 formats.

Set ringtones

From the main menu, select Settings > Ringtones and Vibration > Audio Profiles > General.
Select Voice call ringtone, and choose the desired ringtone for each SIM.
If you want to set a custom ringtone: in Music select the desired audio track with a long press and choose Ringtone in the contextual menu. The audio file will be added to the available ringtones list.

Sending and reading SMS and MMS

Sending SMS and MMS: from the page or from the main menu, select Messaging and then the middle icon on the bottom bar and insert the text into the provided space.

Type the first letters of a name in the recipient field to search for a contact, select it from the pop-up or directly enter the recipient number, otherwise select the icon next to the field and check the recipients.
Select the clip icon to insert multimedia files (the message will automatically be converted into MMS). Press either Send key, selecting the SIM you want to use.

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Reading SMS and MMS: when you receive a new SMS or MMS, an icon appears in the notification panel. By clicking on the appeared icon, you can access directly to the conversation and read the incoming message. In any case, you can view the incoming messages from the home screen or menu by selecting Messaging.

CONNECTIVITY

To better use the potentiality provided by the device and its operating system, you must have an active data connection; data Connection of NGM Forward Run is active when you first power ON the phone. If it is not included into your mobile phone plan, data traffic may cause you extra costs, so it is recommended to configure an Internet connection via WiFi. To enable data traffic on one of the SIM cards, select Settings > SIM Manager > Data connection, or activate it from the Quick Setup keys in the notification panel.

Connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi®

You can connect to the WLAN using Wi-Fi option. To activate it, from the main menu choose Settings> WiFi I/O. Please follow all warnings and indications concerning the use of wireless devices in areas where the use of such functions is restricted (airplanes, hospitals, etc.). Go offline mode when you have to use only the functions that do not require Network access.

Connecting to a Bluetooth® device

Turn on the Bluetooth device you want to connect with. Refer to the device documentation.
From the main menu, choose Settings > Bluetooth I/O to turn on Bluetooth. In the contextual menu you will find additional functions and settings.
Choose Search for devices to automatically find other Bluetooth devices.
Among the discovered devices, select the device name to associate with. The phone will attempt to associate with the device, which may be asked for a pairing code.

Connect to the Internet: from the main menu, choose Browser. Type the URL into the address bar to start browsing. If you choose to navigate using data connection, be aware of costs or choose a "flat" data contract with your service provider. Alternatively, use WiFi (see "Connectivity") where possible.

Account setup: In order to better manage the Android ^TM OS functionalities, it is recommended to configure a default account. When you first power on the phone, it will guide you in configuring a default account that allows you to access OS Android ^TM applications like Email sync, for example.

Email: By configuring a default account you can easily manage your e-mails and display them automatically on your phone. If you want to use also a different Email account, you can configure a new account with another provider within the Email app in the Main Menu.

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SwiftKey text input: SwiftKey is an advanced system for entering predictive text, it is the default input method. When you write SMS, MMS or E-mails, this method predicts the word you are typing, changing it with every key pressure. During the first use, the program will prompt you with a pop-up the innovations and peculiarities of this writing system. SwiftKey has an "intelligent" dictionary that retrieves words also from other applications in the phone, such as phonebook or social networks etc. For the correct use of this function, a micro-SD has to be correctly installed. To change the text input parameters, select Settings > Language and input > SwiftKey for NGM .

Synchronization: Synchronization is the most efficient approach to manage your useful data because it allows you to make a backup of the data on your device with an internet account. In case of replacement, loss or damage of the phone you will not experience loss of data. The synchronization can be automatic (Settings > More > Data usage > Contextual menu > Auto-sync data) or can be activated manually, individually for each installed application to be synchronized; you can find the list of such applications in Settings > Account [installed app list]. To add a new account, select Add Account. The synchronization uses an active data connection, which could result in data traffic costs. It is advisable to use a WiFi connection when available.

GPS geolocalization: The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based positioning system, with a global and continuous coverage. To access the GPS, select Settings > Location Access > GPS Satellites (I/O). When the GPS function is activated, the phone starts to collect data from satellites and determines the current position. The Fix Times (position detection) are variable and can be affected by several external factors (clouds, high buildings, etc.). Limit the use of battery and memory by switching off this function when you don't need it. The device is compatible with NGM NAVIGATION SYSTEM ^© . For more details on the license and the functioning of the system, please visit www.ngm.eu.

Warning: formatting and delivery of this user manual is based on the Android ^TM operating system, NGM Italia will not bear responsibility for any incompliance with the above guidelines or improper use of the mobile phone. NGM reserves the right to modify any of the content in this user guide without previous public announcement. The content of this manual may vary from the actual content displayed in the mobile phone. In that case, the latter shall govern.

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No part of this manual may be reproduced, distributed, translated, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or storing in any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of NGM Italia.

Bluetooth® is a registered trademark of the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. worldwide.
Wi-Fi® and the Wi-Fi logo are registered trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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