Pulling my hair out!
 

I've been wanting a mobile phone with a camera for ages and a mate has passed over his old one. Having only ever had Nokias, I'm a bit thrown with Sharp. To make it worse, the idiot guide is in Spanish!

Thinking that I was good at technology I was sure it would be a doddle.

Can anyone tell me how to switch the flaming thing on?

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I've had my mobile for ages and today the battery decided to explode.

I couldn't find the instructions, so looked on the internet.

The site I found had instructions and you could change the language they appeared in.

Worth a try.

Good luck.:)

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Been there and done that Rindy. They all come up in some sort of binary which I can't decode. I'm losing the plot!!

Thanks for the thought mate xxx

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I'm certainly no tech whiz, but what phone is it??:confused:

We'll all try and find instructions for you.:D

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It's a Sharp 703..........looking at some sites, it is all dancing, bluetooth, and probably makes a cup of tea!

I'm beginning to wonder if I'd understand the idiot guide in English!!

Any help would be really welcome x

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hope you have better luck than me junetta lol had to buy a new spanish mobile last year all instructions in spanish (as you would expect) was told i could get the instructions in english when i returned to uk, this was Movistar lol got home instructions - No Chance they dont make that model here i was told by the shop also motorola said the same,so dont worry about understanding the idiot guide in english, you will probably never get one.:idunno:

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Your phone is on this page, it looks like you can get instructions.

Hope it works.

I want to say call me if you can get it to turn on...but its a bit expensive from Tenerife.:D


http://217.199.164.178/vodafone/sharp.htm

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http://www.sharp-phone.com/country/p...en&product=703

Thats a link to the sharp mobile homepage for sharp 703 - download the instructions

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See, June's gone quiet.

She followed 'my' instructions, and is now phoning her mate, to tell them about all the bloody palaver she's had to go through.:D

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no shes not - shes emailing me cos i downloaded the manual just in case that link didnt work!

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Well I'm just about to land at Tenerife airport with the instruction manual in my hand!:D

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sent the email - wonder who will get there fastest?

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We are sat on her balcony, sipping our drinks.

We'll check your email in a moment.;)

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OI wheres mine? Surely i deserve a drink for that! lol

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We'll email you one.:D :p

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Prefer the real thing! Mind you im not drinking at the min so better not i'll be good - thats something u dont know how to rindy!

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No, you are wrong, Rindy, I've thrown the flaming thing out of the window and decided to talk to you instead!

I've tried your helpline and Jen's but nothing tells me how to switch it on. It's had three hours charging, happen it's duff.

Best I sleep on it. Night night all x

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Lol. Night night. x

(Rindy goes off to look for his new phone on the beach.:D)

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http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/861/sharp703lw1.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9771/703oq2.jpg
Thats button 13 , The 'end call' button. Make sure the battery is in correctly, and that the sim card is in correctly, also make sure it's actually charging.

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I got there in the end. My daughter told me to hold down the red button.......number 13, thanks Madhatter as you had it right too! I was so excited but..........

After entering my pin number and the phone asking me 'how are you?', it came up with 'sim card error'. I now have to find a man who can unlock it.

It will be worth it in the end though as it is a lovely phone and, hopefully, I'll have it sorted before the next photo comp.

Makes me wonder though how some people get a gift and all works well and I'm always the one who has the problem!!!

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whats a sim card ?

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LOL Junetta i had probs with my dongle for ages & i got it sorted eventually it was something really simple doh!

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SIM = Subscriber Identity Module; a smart card containing the telephone number of the subscriber, encoded network identification details, the PIN and many other user data such as the phone book. A user's SIM card can be moved from phone to phone s it contains all the key information required to activate the phone.
Also called a chip by some.

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Some sim cards are locked to one phone junetta.Some phones are locked to one sim card.
Take it to an asian on a market :D
I don't know what I'd have done without the one in nuneaton. They're great.

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I had to give up on it as I really didn't like the phone. It looks good and does lots but it wasn't for me. I've passed it on to 'im indoors for him to work out.

Movistar had a good deal on a Sony Ericsson on contract, so I treated myself to it. I'm well happy, camera, bluetooth, what more could a girl want.

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I'm racist cos I said take it to an asian on the market according to the karma I got, which is what I expected when I posted it. In actual fact they are the racist, all I'm saying is the asian seem to be very good with phones.
Proves how mental deficient people really are.
Well ok I am being racist, I'm saying the asians are better than the whites in this country with mobile phones.