36 Sending and Receiving Text Messages
Note: If you receive a new message while you are
reading a message, the one you are reading is
replaced by the new one. You can find the older
message in the InBox:
•Select Menu → Messages → InBox.

If you see the symbol

1. Select Menu → Messages → InBox. A list of all
your received messages appears.
– indicates an “Urgent” message.
2. Scroll through the list of messages and press
to read one.

Reading the message

The options available to you may vary. Check with
Alltel.
Note: Sounds embedded in text messages do not
play if the phone is set to Silence All mode.
1. If the text message is long, press down to
view the entire message.
2. When you are finished, you can Reply to the
sender, Play the sound embedded in the
message, Erase the message, Save the message
to your Saved folder, or set additional Options
for the message:
–Erase the message.
–Forward the message.
–Reply with Copy to reply to the message with
a copy of the original attached.
–Save Message to save the message.
–Save as QuickText to save the text from the
message as QuickText, which you can insert
into other messages. Graphics and sound are
not saved as part of QuickText.(For more
about QuickText, see page38.)
–View Sender information.
3. Select .
Note: The symbol indicates that a graphic did
not come through. It may be too large or
incorrectly formatted.

Setting message alerts

You can set your phone to alert you of incoming
text messages or pages. For more information,
see “Setting message alerts” on page42.
Erasing messages
It is a good idea to erase old messages to free up
memory in your phone.
You have the option of erasing text messages and
pages as you send or read them, erasing them one
at a time from the list in the OutBox or InBox, or
erasing them all at once.
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