Managing Your Phone 41
To copy a sound to your phone
You can use a .wav, .mid, .wma, or .mp3 audio file on your phone as a ring tone, notification, or reminder.
1.Connect the phone to your PC using the USB sync cable.
2.On your PC, copy the sound file you want.
3.Explore the phone’s contents:
•In Windows Mobile Device Center, click File Management > Browse the contents of your device.
•In ActiveSync on your PC, click Explore and
4.Navigate to your phone’s Application Data > Sounds folder and then paste the audio file.
4.2 Managing Memory and Battery Power
Checking the phone memory
1.On the Home screen, click Start > Settings > About.
2.Scroll down to check the Available Memory and the Available Storage on your phone.
Adjusting the power management settings
You can use Power Management to check the battery, and configure settings that prolong battery life.
1.On the Home screen, click Start > Settings > Power > Power Management. Under Main Battery, you can see the amount of battery life remaining.
2.To optimize battery usage, you can adjust the following settings:
•Backlight brightness: lower the backlight brightness for maximum battery life.
•Backlight time out on battery/Charger and Display time out on battery/Charger: set the time when the backlight and display will turn off when the phone is not in use.
•Adjust keypad backlight by light sensor: select whether to enable or disable the light sensor to sense dark conditions and to activate a backlight under the keyboard.
•When device is turned on, do not charge the battery when connected to the PC: select Off if you want to charge the phone battery every time the phone is connected to the computer via USB.
3.Click Done.
Managing low battery
When the
1.Immediately save your current data.
2.Synchronize with your PC or use the AC adapter to charge the battery.
3.Turn off your phone. Turn it back on only when you need to use it.
4.3 Working with Files
You can copy files between your phone and computer, or copy files to a storage card installed on your phone. You can also efficiently manage your files and folders using File Explorer.
Copying files to your computer
1.Connect your phone to your PC.
2.Do any of the following:
•In Windows Mobile Device Center, click File Management > Browse the contents of your device.
•In ActiveSync on your PC, click Explore. This opens the Mobile Device folder for your phone.
3.Browse your phone for files that you want to copy to your PC.
4.Select and copy the files [Ctrl + C] and then paste them [Ctrl+V] to the destination folder in the PC.
Copying a file results in separate versions of a file on your phone and PC. Changes made to one file will not affect the other since the files are not synchronized.