Your Palm Treo Smartphone User Guide
 Intellectual Property Notices
 Contents
 Customizing phone settings What are all those icons?
Page
 Third-party applications Error messages
 What’s in the box?
Welcome
Hardware
 Documentation and software
Palm warranty
 What do I need to get started?
 E L C O M E
 Setting up
 This chapter
 Treo 680 overview
Indicator light phone Earpiece
Front view
 Back view
 Top view
Inserting the SIM card and battery
 A P T E R
 Charging the battery
 A P T E R
 Battery icon
Maximizing battery life
 Turn down the screen brightness see Adjusting the brightness
 Adjusting call volume
After you finish the call, press Power End to end the call
Making your first call
Press Phone
 Volume Side button
Setting up your computer for synchronization
What’s my phone number?
 Upgrading from another Palm OS device
System requirements
 A P T E R
 A P T E R
 Info about compatibility with your Treo
Installing the desktop synchronization software
 Palm Desktop software or Microsoft Outlook
Connecting your smartphone to your computer
 Sync button
 Info up-to-date and backed up
Synchronizing information-the basics
Both locations
 A P T E R
 Moving around on your Palm Treo 680 smartphone
 This chapter
 5-way includes the following buttons
Moving around the screen
Center Left Right Down
 Way to move the highlight from one item to another
Highlighting and selecting items
Learn to recognize the highlight. It can take two forms
 Highlighting text
Accessing command buttons
Selecting menu items
 Way Use the 5-way
Selecting options in a pick list
To highlight
 Backlight
Using the keyboard
Option Return Shift/Find Menu Space Alt
 Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols
 Using the Alt key
Entering other symbols and accented characters
Press Alt
Press Up , Down , Right , or Left
 Symbols and accented characters
 Opening applications
Using the quick buttons
Applications Messaging
 Web
Using Applications View
Memos
Press Applications
 A P T E R
 A P T E R
 Your phone
 This chapter
 Waking up the screen and turning it off
Turning your Treo 680 on and off
 Opening the Phone application
Turning your phone on and off
 Making calls
Dialing using the onscreen Dial Pad
Press Send to make the call
 Dialing by contact name
 Press Send or Center to make the call
Speed-dial favorite from other types of favorites
 To select from your most recently dialed
Dialing from a web page or message
To select from your call history list
 Receiving calls
 Send the call to voicemail Press Power
Using voicemail
Setting up voicemail
 Voicemail notification
Enter your voicemail password using the keyboard
Listening to voicemail messages
Press Phone
 When you make or receive a call, Active Call View appears
What can I do when I’m on a call?
Turns off the speakerphone when it is on
 Switching applications during a call
Press Power/End
Ending a call
Do one of the following
 Saving phone numbers
To decline adding this number, select Cancel
 Select Add Contact
When the Dial another call prompt appears, select Yes
Making a second call
Receiving a second call call waiting
 Making a conference call
Swap or press Send
While the first call is active, make a second call
 Forwarding calls under certain conditions
Forwarding all calls
 How many minutes have I used?
 Adding a contact
Entering names and phone numbers
Do any of the following
 Press Phone Select the Contacts tab
After you enter all the information, select Done
Select Edit
Assigning a caller ID photo
 Assigning a caller ID ringtone
 Deleting a contact
Customizing Contacts
Creating a business card for beaming
Select Select Business Card from the Record menu
 Buttons
Defining favorite
Viewing your SIM Phonebook
 Creating a speed-dial favorite button
 Creating other types of favorite buttons
Editing a favorite button
 Deleting a favorite button
Using a hands-free device
 Microphone Headset button
Using a wired headset
 Connecting to a Bluetooth hands-free device
 Using a Bluetooth hands-free device
Select Setup Devices Select Hands-free Setup
 Press Applications and select Prefs Select Hands-free
Customizing advanced settings for your hands-free device
 Selecting ringtones
Customizing phone settings
 Creating and managing ringtones
Select the Volume pick list and select the volume level
Way
 Selecting Phone alert tones
Select Done twice
 Barring calls
Adjusting ringer volume
Customizing the Main tab in the Phone application
 Setting your dialing preferences
 Using TTY
Manually selecting the wireless network
Always dial +1 in front of the area
Select Select Network from the Options menu
 Press Phone Select the Dial Pad tab Enter #*TTY Press Send
What are all those icons?
 O U R P H O N E
 A P T E R
 A P T E R
 Your email and other messages
 This chapter
 VersaMail application
Which email application should I use?
How do I get started?
 New Zealand Vodafone NZ
Brazil UOL
 Taiwan HiNet Umail
Setting up VersaMail to work with common providers
 Setting up VersaMail to work with other providers
 Enter the subject and message text
Creating and sending messages
 Red paper clip icon in the upper-right corner
Attaching photos and videos
From the Type pick list, select Photo/ Video
Adding attachments to your messages
 From the Type pick list, select Sounds
Attaching ringtones
Attaching other types of files
Receiving and viewing messages
 Replying to or forwarding messages
If a large incoming message is Truncated, select More
 Viewing attachments
 Deleting messages by date
Deleting selected messages from the Inbox
Press Menu Select Delete Old on the Message menu
 Customizing your email settings
Switching accounts
Scheduling Auto Sync
Press Menu Select Options, and then select Preferences
 Select OK, and then select Get Mail
Select Auto Sync
Selecting alert tones
Check the Alert me of new mail box
 Unread messages Imap accounts
 Attaching a signature to a message
Message Format Sets the format for messages you retrieve
Select Signature Check the Attach Signature box
Enter your signature information, and then select OK
 Creating and sending a text message
Messaging
Press Messaging
Select New Select the To field to address the message
 Creating and sending a multimedia message
 Ringtones
Videos
Sound clips
Select New
 Receiving messages
 Viewing/playing a multimedia message Press Messaging
Using links in messages
 Pics&Videos
Sounds or Voice Memo
Select Message Details from the Message menu
Arranging your messages
 Chatting with Messaging
Deleting messages
Start a new chat Select a message and reply to it
 Privacy Mode hide text Indicates
Customizing your Messaging settings Press Messaging
Continue an existing chat Select a
Create new messages as Indicates
 Display my name in chat window as
Show timestamps in chats Indicate
Automatically collect MMS
 Selecting Messaging alert tones
 Text message Chat session
What are all those icons?
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 Your connections to the web and wireless devices
 This chapter
 Optimized Mode Wide Page Mode
Content without scrolling left or right. You
Web browser
Like
 Buttons on the 5-way to scroll in any direction
Press Applications and select Web
Follow a link to another web
 Saving a
Creating a bookmark
Viewing bookmarks or saved pages
 Select Edit Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu
Editing or deleting a bookmark or saved
Arranging bookmarks and saved pages
 Downloading files from a web
 Play
Streaming files from a web
Copying text from a web
 Returning to recently viewed pages
Customizing your web browser settings
Finding text on a web
Select Find Text on Page from the Page menu
 Select General and set any of the following preferences
Home Page Sets the page that appears when you select
 Set memory limit for storing pages
Select Advanced and set any of the following preferences
 Applications and select Bluetooth
Connecting your computer to the Internet through your Treo
Creating a partnership between your Treo and your computer
On your smartphone, press
 Accessing the Internet using a Bluetooth DUN connection
Setting up your computer for a Bluetooth DUN connection
 Terminating a Bluetooth DUN Internet session
 Click Disconnect
Connections with Bluetooth devices
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 Press Applications and select Bluetooth Select Bluetooth On
Accepting a connection from another Bluetooth device
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 Your photos, videos, and music
 Camera Pictures & Videos Pocket Tunes
 Taking a picture
Camera
Camera
 Camera Select Camcorder
Recording a video
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 Customizing your Camera settings
 Viewing a picture
Pictures & Videos
Select the album that contains the picture you want to see
 Select the album that contains the video you want to see
Viewing a video
Viewing a slide show
Select the album you want to view
 Copying a picture or video
Sending pictures or videos
 Organizing pictures and videos
 Adding a picture to a contact entry
Saving a picture as wallpaper
Rotating a picture
Deleting a picture or video
 Select Delete Select Delete to confirm the deletion
Pocket Tunes
Viewing pictures and videos on your computer
 Press Applications and select pTunes
Setting up Windows Media Player for MP3
 Click the Setting pop-up menu
Click the Import Using pop-up menu
Setting up iTunes for MP3
Select MP3 Encoder
 Transferring music from a CD to your smartphone
Applications and select pTunes
 Listening to music on your Treo
Select Rip Music
Previous song Plays the previous song
 Creating a playlist
Progress Indicator Play/Pause Volume
Choose Previous Next Song
 Editing a playlist Press Applications and select pTunes
Select Save List
 Your personal information organizer
 Calendar World Clock Tasks
 Displaying your calendar
Calendar
 Creating an event
 Select OK Type of time units Number of time units
Adding an alarm to an event
Creating an untimed event
 Scheduling a repeating event
 Changing or deleting an event
Color-coding your schedule
Select the event you want to edit or delete Select Details
Delete Removes the event from your calendar Select OK
 Select Day and set any of the following options
Customizing display options for your calendar
 Select OK.s
 World Clock
 World Clock
Selecting cities
Adding cities
 Setting task priority, due date, and other details
Setting an alarm
Tasks
Adding a task
 Category Assign the task to a specific category
Alarm Set an alarm for this task
Checking off a task
 Options Due Today, Last 7 Days, Next 7 Days, or Past Due
Organizing your tasks
 Customizing Tasks
Deleting a task
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 Your memos and documents
 Documents To Go Professional Memos Voice Memo
 Documents To Go Professional
 Opening a document
Memos
Documents
Creating a memo
 Deleting a memo
Voice Memo
Important thoughts directly on your smartphone
Creating a voice memo
 Voice Memo
Listening to a voice memo
 Your application and info management tools
 This chapter
 Viewing and using the alerts
Using Find
 Calculator
Switching between Basic and Advanced Calculator Modes
Press Applications and select Calc Press Menu
 Length Length conversions for metric and English values
Selecting functions in Advanced Calculator Mode
 Installing bonus software from the CD
Installing applications
Click Install bonus software
Installing applications from the Internet
 Installing applications from a computer
 Removing applications
 Manually deleting applications
Viewing application info
Press Menu Select Info on the App menu
 Sending info over a Bluetooth wireless connection
Sending information with Bluetooth wireless technology
 Press Menu Select Send from the App menu
 Select Yes to receive the information or No to refuse it
Beaming information
 Beaming an entry
Beam Category Sends all entries in the current category
 To applications that cannot be beamed
Beaming an application
Press Menu Select Beam from the App menu
Receiving beamed information
 Changing which applications sync
Synchronizing information- advanced
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 Bluetooth Select Bluetooth On
Setting up a Bluetooth connection for synchronization
 Synchronizing over a Bluetooth connection
Select Setup Devices Select HotSync Setup
 Select Synchronizing over an infrared HotSync Connection
 Applications and select HotSync
Click the HotSync Controls tab, and then select Enabled
Select Local
Double-click the HotSync manager icon in the Palm folder
 Inserting an expansion card
Using expansion cards
Open the expansion slot door
 Opening applications on an expansion card
Removing an expansion card
 Accessing items stored on an expansion card
 Highlight the application you want to copy Select Copy
 Formatting an expansion card
Select Card Info
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 Your personal settings
 This chapter
 Setting system volume levels
System sound settings
Silencing sounds
Sounds
 Adjusting the brightness
Display and appearance settings
Changing the screen font
 Prefs
Setting display formats
 Press Applications and select Prefs Select Touchscreen
Aligning the screen to correct tapping problems
Select a color scheme from the list Select Done
 Arranging applications by category
Applications settings
Press Menu Select Category on the App menu
Displaying applications by category
 Reassigning buttons
Default
 Press Applications and select Prefs Select Default Apps
Changing default applications
Locking your Treo and info
Select Done
 Locking your keyboard Keyguard
 Select Keyguard Check any of the following boxes
Locking your screen
Locking your phone Phone Lock
 Locking your Treo
 Press Applications and select Security
Select the Password box
Select the Auto Lock Device box
Select OK Do one of the following
 Hiding or masking all private entries
Working with private entries
 Viewing all private records
Select Lost Password
You can reveal all the entries you’ve hidden or masked
Viewing private entries in a specific application
 Setting the date and time
System settings
Entering owner information
Press Applications and select Prefs Select Date & Time
 Select Power
Optimizing power settings
 On a call, dim backlight after
Connecting to a VPN
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 Common questions
 This chapter
 On your computer, click
Upgrading
StartProgramsPalmSafe HotSync
 Locate your user folder on your computer
Delete all files from the original Backup subfolder
Your Mac username Documents Palm Users
 Resetting your Treo
Desktop software installation
Performing a soft reset
 Performing a hard reset
Performing a system reset
 Power/End
Replacing the battery
 Press Power/End to turn off the screen
 Screen appears blank
Screen
 There’s a blinking bell in the upper-left corner
Synchronization
Can’t find my user folder
 Palm Desktop does not respond to a sync attempt
What is the backup folder?
Make sure that HotSync manager is running
 Windows only Uninstall
 Mac Mac hard drive Applications Palm Users device name
Synchronization starts but stops without finishing
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 Select Desktop overwrites handheld, and then click OK
Have duplicate entries in Microsoft Outlook after I sync
My appointments show up in the wrong time slot after I sync
 Click HotSync manager in the taskbar and select Custom
If you’re using Palm Desktop software
Uncheck the New events use time zones box if it’s checked
Select Calendar Click Change
 Phone
Signal strength is weak
Text of my memos is truncated after I sync
My Treo won’t connect to the mobile network
 Hear my own voice echo
Other person hears an echo
My voice is too quiet on the other end
Hear static or interference
 Hands-free devices
My Treo makes or answers calls when it’s in a bag or pocket
Confirm all the following
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 Documentation folder
Can’t tell if data services are available
Can’t send or receive text messages
Can’t send or receive multimedia messages
 My Treo won’t connect to the Internet
Web
 Can’t access a web
 An image or map is too small on my screen
Try opening the web page again to see if it loads faster
Secure site refuses to permit a transaction
 Check all of the following
My Bluetooth DUN connection isn’t working
 Making room on your Treo
 Third-party
See Customizing your web browser settings
Applications
 Error messages
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 While using your Treo
Where to learn more
For a quick introduction
 H E R E T O L E a R N M O R E
 Terms
 Edge Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
Gprs General Packet Radio Service
Favorite
HotSync manager
 Palm OS
Palm Quick Install
Partnership
Phone
 SIM Subscriber Identity Module card
SMS Short Messaging Service
Slide
Streaming
 FCC Notice
Regulatory information
 FCC Radiofrequency Emission
 What biological effects can be caused by RF
 How can I obtain the Specific Absorption Rate SAR value for
 Do hands-free kits for wireless phones reduce risks from
 E G U L a T O R Y I N F O R M a T I O N
 What is FDAs role concerning the safety of wireless
 What research is needed to decide whether RF exposure from
 What about wireless phone interference with medical
 Who funds and carries out research on the biological effects
 Static Electricity, ESD, and Your Palm Device
 Précautions dusage de votre téléphone mobile
 Specifications
 Specification S
 32F to 104F 0C to 40C To 90% relative humidity RH
 Specification S
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Index
Accounts
208
 50, 194
Events 146
111
168
 Album list 131, 133 199
Installing 170-171
178
173-174
 208
 124
Bookmarks 111-113
123 194
175
 169
198
147, 148 displaying events 73 opening 36, 73 overview
150
 224
179, 180, 181 Clock 152
Tasks and 155, 156
196
 118
174
171
232
 Cookies 109, 116
For 52
243
205
 Delete command 90, 135 Delete confirmation messages
Delays 203
 201
Video clips 129, 134
Discovery 121, 122
121 175 176
 145
Accessing 81-95, 208 adding multiple recipients
162
161
 Passwords 49, 203
Setting up 81, 83, 84
Errors 223, 228
130
 172
189
186, 236 removing 186 renaming 188 sending attachments to
Favorites tab 45 FDN list
 195
170
115
Contacts 44, 58
 Connecting to smartphone
Full charge battery
HotSync manager icon 179 HotSync Setup button
Groupware
 Downloading 113 saving
Icons 75, 140, 197 Ignore button
Importing
Storing 18, 165, 185
 ITunes 136, 138
221
 Memory 117, 149
Lock icon 110, 133, 172
173
Phone
 104
102-104
Messaging 79
Creating 95, 97
 79, 87
Services 1, 95
133
95, 231
 New button
Network connection icon Network Preferences
Adding 58, 149, 155 storing
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Operating systems PCs 17 Optimized Mode browser 109
245
206
 136
64, 67
199, 202
44, 57
 Getting device
Opening 36 Receiving 47
Making 43-46, 51
Buttons for Downloading Placing on hold 50 Grouping
 Pausing 114, 130
PINs 201
Stopping 100, 141 Precautions 247, 257
Music 114, 140
 Protocol pick list 84 proxy servers 117 pTunes icon
System sounds 193 tasks
Radians Radio frequency emissions 247
 233
Email 90 Resets 213, 215-217
Photos 128, 134
155
 127
Save as Wallpaper command
29, 30 ringer
Saving
 Email 86, 99
198 Text 29, 100 Passwords 49, 203
Photos 86, 128
Contacts 45, 58
 Resetting 203
Silent alarm 70, 71, 152
Box 73
157 193 236
 246
Screen 151
Sounds 97, 152
Information 18, 165
 Offline
181, 182 caution for 18 changing defaults for
Tabs 43, 52
Tasks
 Tasks list 145, 155, 156
157 150
Sending 47, 48, 95
231
 122 172
Upgrades 17-20, 62
121, 123
Time zones 147, 206
 86-87
Troubleshooting
Viewing 130, 132, 136 View By pick list 198 viewing
 Playing
Visibility pick list 123, 175 voice captions
 Accessing 109, 110
Accessing 109, 111
234 115
112
 137, 139, 140 viewing multimedia on 136
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