Kyocera KX18 manual Saving, editing, and erasing PTT groups

Regardless of how you set your availability (presence), you can still make PTT calls.

1.Select Menu → Push to Talk → My Availability.

2.Select an option:

•Available allows you to make and receive PTT calls.

•Do Not Disturb ensures that you will not receive PTT calls.

Note: You can set a shortcut to the

My Availability option to make it easily accessible from the home screen. (See “Creating and updating your custom menu” on page 56.)

Saving, editing, and erasing PTT groups

You can create up to 30 PTT groups with up to 30 members per group. The total number of contacts saved in your phone (including PTT and non-PTT contacts and groups) cannot exceed 99. You can create a PTT group from a list of contacts in another group or add new contacts to a group from scratch.

Note: To establish a group, your phone must be provisioned by your service provider.

1.Select Menu → Push to Talk → PTT Groups.

2.Press the left softkey to select New.

3.Enter the new group name using the phone’s keypad. See page 16 if you need help entering text.

4.Press the left softkey to select Next. The Select Contacts screen appears.

5.Highlight the name of the PTT contact you want to add to your new group and press the Amp’d/OK key . A check mark appears beside the contact name.

Note: The PTT contact must be provisioned from the handset or a Web interface before the contact can be added to a group.

6.If no PTT contact names appear, or if the desired contact is not on the list, then press the right softkey to select Options.

7.Press the Amp’d/OK key to select Add New.

8.Enter the phone number of the PTT contact name to be added to the group.

9.Press the Navigation key down to the Enter Name field.

10.Enter the name of the PTT contact to be added, using the phone’s keypad. Note: If the contact is already in your

Contacts directory, then the name is automatically stored.

11.Press the left softkey to select Save when you are finished adding PTT contacts to your newly created group.

When you are finished creating a new group and adding members to it, invitations are sent to the members asking for their permission to join your newly created group.

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