Cupcake User Guide R1.5.0 95 April 14, 2009
9 Managing Your Phone

9.1 Changing Basic Settings

Set the date, time zone, and time

By default, your phone automatically uses the network-provided date, time zone, and time.
To manually adjust the date, time zone, and time
1Press HOME, then press MENU, and then touch Settings.
2Scroll down the screen, then touch Date & time.
3Clear the Automatic check box.
4Touch Set date. On the Change date window, touch or to adjust the date, month, and
year, then touch Set when finished.
5Touch Set time zone, then select the time zone in the list. Scroll down the list to view more time
zones.
6Touch Set time. On the time window, touch or to adjust the hour and minute, then touch
AM to change to PM or vice versa. Touch Set when finished.
7Select the Use 24-hour format check box to toggle between using a 12-hour or a 24-hour format.
8Touch Select date format then select how you want dates to display on your phone. The selected
date format also applies to the date displayed in the Alarm Clock.
Note For details on how to set an alarm, refer to “Using Alarm Clock” on page 46.

Display settings

To adjust the screen brightness
1Press HOME, then press MENU, and then touch Settings.
2Touch Sound & display, scroll down the screen, then touch Brightness.
3Drag the brightness slider to the left to decrease or to the right to increase the screen brightness.
4Touch OK.
To adjust the time before the screen turns off
After a period of inactivity, the phone screen turns off to conserve battery power. You can set the idle
time before the screen turns off.
1Press HOME, then press MENU, and then touch Settings.
2Touch Sound & display.
3Scroll down the screen, then touch Screen timeout.
4Touch the time before the screen turns off.
Tip To turn off the screen quickly, press the END CALL/POWER button.
To prevent the screen orientation from automatically changing
By default, the screen orientation automatically adjusts depending on how you hold the phone.
1Press HOME, then press MENU, and then touch Settings.