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Ameristyles S18 QUICK GUIDE manual ---
How To Install the Sim Card
Your phone is a dual sim model. The sim slots sit one on top of the other so it is important to pay attention to this
part. The sim cards card sit one on top of the other if you are using two cards. The very bottom seat should have the sim card installed with the gold contact facing upwards towards the installer. The upper sim card slot should have the gold contact facing downward. You only need 1 sim card to use the phone. PLEASE CLICK ON the Ameristyles S18 link and look at the bottom picture to get an idea. (You can blow up the picture by clicking on it)
Battery
Install your battery making sure the gold contacts are lined up.
Menu Pages
Once you unlock the phone and choose menu, it brings up the 1st menu page. There are 4 different menu pages
available, you can access each one by selecting the icons in the right column of the screen.
How To Adjust the Backlight
You can adjust the backlight on your phone by going to the 4th menu page and choosing “Phone setup”. From
here, scroll down to the bottom of the menu, choose “Misc. settings” and then “LCD backlight” - you will be
able to adjust both the timer and brightness. Your phone screen will power down to the preset 5 seconds if you
do not make this adjustment
Power on
Power on your phone by holding down the middle button on the front of your phone. Then slide to unlock using
your finger or built in stylus. AT&T or T-mobile should appear on your screen within seconds of powering on. If
they don't then your sim card is in wrong.
Motion Sensors ( shake & tilt )
You can turn the motion sensors either on or off by going to the 4th menu page and choosing the 1st option for
“Motion Sensor Switch”.
Stylus
Your stylus is located in the bottom right corner of the phone.
Phone book
Enter any phone number you wish to use in the phone book by going to the 1st menu page and selecting
“Contacts” and then “Add new contact”. You may also add ringtones for each particular person. However, you
can only do so for numbers you save in the phone memory and not your sim card. Phone book entries saved in
SIM cards are limited to name and number.
If your screen ever freezes on you or the touchscreen appears to stop working - please do the following:
Hold down the up volume button located on the left hand side of the phone. After about 3 seconds a small blue
blank screen should appear. Immediately press the down volume button and you should get the pen calibration
screen. Calibrate and you should then be unfrozen.
Speed Dial
You need to scroll to the 4th menu page and choose “Call settings”. From here, choose the 3rd option for “Speed
Dial” and then enable it. You then want to go to “Set number” and select the number you want and the contact
you want that number assigned to – make sure to click “Ok” to save it. Now whenever you want to speed dial
that person, all you need to do is go to the 1st menu page, select “Dialer” and then press & hold down the number
you selected for that person.
Touchscreen
Touchscreens lose their sensitivity from time to time and need to be re-calibrated. If you're unhappy
with how the touchscreen responds to your fingers you may have to calibrate several times till you get
it right. To do this, go to the 4th menu page and scroll down to “Calibration”.
Landscape Texting
This feature is only available when writing SMS text messages. While writing a text message, simply
tilt your phone to the side and it will bring up the landscape view which makes texting a lot more
convenient. The motion sensors must be on for this feature to work.
**PLEASE READ** -The widescreen texting can often give you the letter next to the one you pressed.
You may have to do 2 or 3 calibrations to get it to your liking using the stylus. Remember you can
often fix a typo in a message before you ever make it. As you pass your finger over a letter it will
"highlight" (get bigger). Not until you actually PRESS down the key will the letter type into the
message. Always make sure the correct letter is highlighted before you press it down and you will
minimize errors. With practice and patience you will be able to text rapidly using two hands.
Internet & MMS Settings - PLEASE SEE INTERNET SETTINGS ON OUR HOME PAGE FOR UPDATES!
This phone is already pre-installed with the proper internet settings for AT&T and T-mobile – all you
have to do is select it. This can be done by going to the 1st menu page and selecting “Browser”. Choose
“WAP” and then scroll down to the settings. Choose “Edit Profile” and then either SIM1 or SIM 2
depending on which slot your sim card is in. Finally, scroll to the bottom and you will find AT&T and
T-mobile – choose ok and then activate the profile.
To activate the MMS, go to the “Messaging” icon on the 1st menu page and then choose “MMS”. Go to
“MMS settings” and then to “server profile” - from here, select either SIM1 or SIM2 and then choose
the appropriate profile for your service, make sure to activate it when you're done.
How to use Bluetooth
You must first go to the 3rd menu page and choose the bluetooth icon, you then want to make sure that
the 1st option for “Power” is turned on. After this, go to “My device” and choose “Inquiry new device” ,
in order for the phone to find & recognize your bluetooth set, please make sure it is turned on and right
by the phone.
Opera Mini Web Browser
Your phone has the "opera" Java application already installed. Just select JAVA from your 3rd page
menu (3rd icon down on the right side) and LAUNCH the application. One thing to note. The Opera
mini web browser works differently than the rest of your phone and has REVERSE scrolling.
To go down you must slide the bar up and to go up you must slide the bar down. It also will not scroll
with the volume button on the left side.
However Opera mini is still the fastest browser available today for non 3g phones like this one.
How to Adjust the Auto Keypad lock (Slide to unlock)
You can adjust the keypad lock by going to the 4th menu page and choosing the “Security” icon. Go to
the 2nd option for “Auto keypad lock” and from here you can adjust the timer for it or turn it off if
you'd like.
How to Restore Factory Settings
If you ever want to restore the original settings of the phone, you can do so by going to the 4th menu
page and choosing “Reset” - the factory pin code is 1122. Please only do this in an emergency.
How to Access Voice mail & Keypad
To get to your voice mail, you need go to the 1st menu page and choose “Messaging”. You then want to
choose the voice mail icon and connect to it. Once you're connect, there will be a little green icon in the
bottom middle of the touchscreen – press it and will bring up the touchscreen keypad.
FM Radio
Go to the 2nd menu page and select “Radio”. Make sure your earbuds are plugged in, that is your
antenna.
Camera
To access the camera, go to the 2nd menu page and select “Camera”. To take a picture, touch the camera
icon located in the bottom center of the screen. Select “options” in the bottom left corner of the screen
to adjust the camera and access different settings.
View Images
To access the photos you've taken on the camera, go to the 2nd menu page and choose “Album”.
How to set phone to "vibrate" and other profile options
To change how your phone will sound when someone calls you, you need change the user profile. To
do this, scroll down to the 4th menu page and from there open up the "Profiles" icon. In the user
profile's menu you can choose from these following options for how the phone will react to both text
messages and phone calls:
General - phone will ring at a normal volume
Meeting - when a call or text message is being received, the phone will vibrate instead of ring.
Outdoor - phone will repeatedly ring and vibrate very loud
Indoor - phone will ring/react to text messages with a slightly lower ring volume
Headset - incoming calls will come through the earbuds/headset
Bluetooth - incoming calls will come through your bluetooth device
Make sure to click the setting that you want and then “activate” the profile. If you'd like, can also
customize it first by choosing the 2nd option for “Customize”. In the customize menu, you can
adjust the:
1. Tone setup
2. Volume
3. Alert type
4. Ring type
5. Extra Tone
6. Answer mode
How to adjust all types of "Tones" on your phone
To get to the "Tone setup" menu, you need to follow the previous directions to go the customize menu for the
profiles. Once you're there, choose the 1st option for “Tone setup”
1. SIM1 incoming call - the ringtone or sound the phone will play for SIM1 when a call is received
2. SIM2 incoming call - the ringtone or sound the phone will play for SIM2 when a call is received
3. Power on - tone the phone will make when powering on
4. Power off - tone the phone will make when powering off
5. SIM1 message tone - tone that will be made when message is received for SIM1
6. SIM2 message tone - tone that will be made when message is received for SIM2
7. Keypad tone - the tone that the phone will make when scrolling through the phone
How to change Ring Tones
A simple task like changing a ringtone on a phone can be hard to find on the phone's menu.
Here are the steps to change them with some other bundled or with the ones you download or even
with a full MP3 song.
Go to the 4th menu page
* User Profile
Here select the one you use and then choose Customize
* Tone Setup
* Incoming call
Here you can pick one (from 1 to 25 are predefined on the phone) or add one in the 26 to 30 slots.
If you choose to add one click the slot desired (26 to 30) and then click OK.
* Replace
Here it shows the memory card
Go to 'My music' folder or wherever you have the sounds you like
Choose the ringtone or MP3 you like and then click OK
Now you have the sound you want for the ringtone.
Many people asked and as far as I know there is no way to add more than five custom songs or
ringtones because the only slots left are the 26 to 30 and the 1 to 25 doesn't presently permit to change them.
We'll have to wait for a way to update the firmware for that to happen.
How to assign individual ringtones and caller ID:
This is a bit more tricky. In order to assign someone an individual ringtone you are going to have to call them or
have them call you. On your first screen there is an icon called CALL LOG. Press it and proceed to “call
history”. Then go to either sim1 or sim2 call history (depending on which sim slot you are using) You will see
missed calls, dialed calls, and received calls. You can assign a ringtone and name from this location. Pick one
like missed calls and select the number and press OK and you will be taken to a “CALL INFO” screen. Press
options at bottom and then choose “SAVE TO PHONEBOOK”. Then it will ask you to “choose storage”. Select
“TO PHONE”. Put in the name and scroll down using the volume button to the music symbol and pick your
ringtone for the person. Press DONE and SAVE and you are finished. If you use your sim card in more than one
phone you can copy your PHONE info into your SIM card by using the COPY command located in the
CONTACT icon. YOU CANNOT ASSIGN INDIVIDUAL CALLER RINGTONES USING THE CONTACT
ICON, buy you can do a quick search of your contacts. There are many items and features to explore on your
phone that are not listed in this quick guide.
How to add music, videos, and wallpaper to your phone:
The first step is to connect your phone to a computer using the USB cable provided. Once you connect it, click
the "Mass storage" icon on your phone. Once it has loaded on your computer, open up removable drive folder
that will be in "My Computer". From here, you have access to all the different folders to upload whatever you
like to your phone - simply "drag and drop" whatever you want.
To upload pictures: add pictures to the "Photos" folder
To upload videos: add videos to the "Videos" folder
To upload music: add music to the "My Music" folder
To upload e-books: add e-books to the "E-book" folder
*please note that you may add your files to any of the folder you want, the above directions are recommend to
keep things organized
How to Organize Play list in Audio Player on Phone
When you try to play MP3 files on the Media Player of this phone something odd happens.
If you put a folder inside the "my music" folder (in some models is just "music") it's not showed on the list and
the "Auto gen" doesn't recognize it. The only songs added to the list were the ones in the folder 'my music' (or
'music'). It's not reading sub-folders.
There is a 'trick' or more accurate, a hidden option.
If you deactivate the "List Auto Gen' option
'2nd menu page'
'Music'
'LIST'
'Option'
'Settings'
'List Auto Gen' ---> Change to 'OFF'
Ok
Now when you go to 'Audio Player' - 'List' – 'Option' . There's a new menu and the option 4 (Add) appears and
let you select a folder to add to the play list.
We just need to copy folders of MP3 to the memory card on the phone and add them to the play list as told.
We can have some order now in our MP3 collection inside the phone.
How to Change the wallpaper and other displays on the phone:
The wallpaper is the background displayed on your phone. To change it, we need to first access the 4th menu
page.
From here, go to "Phone setup" and then select option 5 for "Display characteristics" and choose option 1
("Wallpaper")
You've got two options now; you can either choose one of the system wallpapers with the option 1 or select the
option 2 ("User Define") and enter the memory card.
In the folder "Images", there are some pre-charged images that come with the phone. You can also upload your
own pictures to this folder to have your own customized background. The most desirable picture size is
240x320.
In the display characteristics menu, you can also adjust:
Screen saver – You can adjust the settings for if you want the screen saver on or off as well as how long for it to
wait before it comes in. You can also adjust what image you want as the screen saver.
Power on display – choose the picture to be displayed when powering on
Power off display – choose the picture to be displayed when powering off
Show date & time – choose whether you want the date & time to be shown or not
S18 Quick User Guide
