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Hardware
Welcome
What’s in the box?
Documentation and software
What do I need to get started?
Setting up
This chapter
Earpiece
Palm Treo 750 smart device overview
Front view
Back view
Top view
Inserting the SIM card and battery
Stylus Ringer switch
E T T I N G U P
Follow the onscreen instructions to finish the installation
Charging the battery
H a R G I N G T H E B a T T E R Y
Maximizing battery life
Press Phone/Send to display your Today screen
Making your first call
Select Preferences Phone Settings
Adjusting call volume
What’s my number?
Press Phone/Send
Look here for your phone number Press OK
Setting up synchronization
Quickly move around
Using one thumb on the 5-way
Complete tasks in applications
Navigator
This chapter
Center Left Right
Navigating around the screen
Screen. Press Center to highlight and select items
Scrolling through screens
Closing screens
Scroll arrows
Highlighting and selecting items
Highlighting text
Using the action keys
Selecting menu items
Left action key activates this command
Selecting options in a list
Selecting options in a shortcut menu
To exit the list and cancel your selection, press Left
Understanding the keyboard backlight
Using the keyboard
Entering lowercase and uppercase letters
Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols
Entering other symbols and accented characters
Press Alt To select… Enter… Ä â ã å æ
Symbols and accented characters
Or B Ö ô œ õ Ö Ô Œ Õ Or P ¼ ½ Ë ê Or R
Or F Ï î Or T £ ¥ ¢ $
Closing applications
Opening and closing applications
Opening applications
Using your Today screen
S I N G Y O U R T O D a Y S C R E E N
Your phone
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Turning your phone off
Turning your Palm Treo 750 smart device on/off
Turning your phone on
Making calls from the Today screen
Power/End
Waking up the screen and turning it off
Dialing from the Today screen
Dialing with a speed-dial button
Dialing by contact name
Press Phone/Send or press Center to dial
Dialing using the onscreen Dial Pad
Select the number you want to dial
Go to your Today screen, and then press
Other ways of making calls
Hold Phone/Send To select from your most recently
To select from a chronological list
To answer a call, do one of the following
Receiving calls
Dialing from a web page or message
Retrieving voicemail messages from the Today screen
Using voicemail
Setting up voicemail
Retrieving messages from a voicemail notification
What can I do during a call?
Use the built-in speakerphone Press
Press Power/End
Mute the microphone so you can’t be
Ending a call
Saving phone numbers
Switching applications during an active call
Answering a second call call waiting
Making a second call
Send the new call to voicemail Press
Menu right action key and select Ignore
Making a conference call
Hang up the current call and answer
Forwarding calls
Creating a speed-dial button
Defining speed-dial buttons
Plays the previous message
Extra Digits left action key to dial these digits
Arranging your speed-dial buttons
Editing a speed-dial button
Deleting a speed-dial button
Headset
Using a phone
Using a wired headset
Connecting to a Bluetooth hands-free device
Go to your Today screen, and then tap Bluetooth
Using a Bluetooth hands-free device
Phone Missed call a call you did not
Customizing phone settings
Selecting ringtones and display notices
Assigning a caller ID ringtone
Adjusting call and ringer volume
Optional Select the Play icon to preview the sound
Select a tone for this contact entry Select OK
Select Ring tone
Enabling TTY
Adding Contacts numbers from new callers
Off No outgoing calls are blocked
Blocking calls
You can block incoming or outgoing calls
You can turn caller ID on or off
Setting caller ID
Setting call waiting notification
Manually selecting your wireless band
Enabling fixed dialing
Check the Enable fixed dialing box
Manually selecting your network settings
From the Network Selection list, select an option
What are all those icons?
Unless instructed to do so by a Cingular representative
O U R P H O N E
Charging
Your smart device’s battery is
Is fully charged
Network
A P T E R
Synchronizing information
This chapter
To suit your needs and sync only some
You can, however, customize sync settings
Synchronizing with ActiveSync desktop software
Synchronizing wirelessly with the server
How do I synchronize?
What can I synchronize?
Setting up your computer for synchronization
System requirements
Installing the desktop synchronization software
Using ActiveSync desktop software
Plug the AC charger into a wall outlet
Connecting your Treo 750 to your computer
USB sync cable This button has no function with your Treo
Setting up wireless synchronization
Synchronizing using the sync cable
Press Menu right action key and select Add Server Source
Press Start and select Programs
Select ActiveSync
Check the Save password box
If your Microsoft Exchange Server
Setting the synchronization schedule
Press Sync left action key
Initiating a wireless sync manually
Send outgoing items immediately
Other ways to synchronize
Synchronizing over a Bluetooth connection
Synchronizing over an infrared connection
When synchronization has finished
On your Treo 750, press Start and select Programs
Synchronizing with multiple computers
Changing which applications sync
Setting synchronization options
Stopping synchronization
Press Stop left action key
Your email
This chapter
Entering settings for an email account
Setting up
Using a do-it-yourself setup application
Setting up Xpress Mail
For setup instructions, see Setting up Good Mobile Messaging
Mytreo750cingular
Setting up Good Mobile Messaging
Setting up an Imap or POP email account
Example, if this is your work email Press Finish
Download settings for this account
Optional Select Options to select
Select Subject and enter a title for the message
Sending and receiving messages
Go to your Today screen Press E-mail left action key
Receiving email messages
Treo 750 when you connect your
Press Send right action key
Check the Include file attachments box
Receiving attachments
Adding an online address book
Working with email messages
Enter the server name
Using an online address book
Adding a signature to your messages
Customizing your email settings
Forwarding a message
After deleting or moving a message
Verify names using these address
Select the Storage tab and set any of the following options
Sending email messages from within another application
Your text and multimedia messages
This chapter
Creating and sending a text message
Using the Messaging application
Ringtones
Creating and sending a multimedia message
Sound clips
Pictures
I N G T H E M E S S a G I N G a P P L I C a T I O N
Select Message Options
Setting message options
On the message compose screen Press Menu
Receiving text and multimedia messages
Menu right action key and select Save
Viewing/playing a message
Press Menu right action key and select Message Details
Reply to the message Press Menu
Forward the message Press Menu
Using Messaging to chat
Right action key and select
Enter your message Press Send left action key
Message status icons
Using links in messages
Customizing the Messaging application
Customizing message settings
Sorting your messages
Select By Name or By Date Deleting a single message
On the Messages tab, set any of the following options
Customizing chat settings
Whether you want deletion confirmation messages to appear
Automatically download MMS
Select the Chat tab Select either of the following options
Customizing notification settings
Press OK twice
Acknowledge when messages are
Customizing network settings
Signing in to Pocket MSN
Using Pocket MSN
Select Pocket MSN
Select MSN Mobile Home
O U R T E X T a N D M U L T I M E D I a M E S S a G E S
Your connections to the web and wireless devices
This chapter
Press Start and select Internet Explorer
Browsing the web
Viewing a web
R O W S I N G T H E W E B
Creating a favorite
Press OK to close Internet Explorer Mobile
Organizing your favorites
Viewing a favorite
Select New Folder
Enter a name for this folder, and then select Add Press OK
Returning to recently viewed pages
Copying text from a web
Press Menu right action key and select Edit Paste
Save links to pages visited
Customizing your Internet Explorer Mobile settings
Connecting to devices with Bluetooth wireless technology
Requesting a connection with another Bluetooth device
Entering basic Bluetooth settings
Select the Devices tab, and then select New Partnership
Accepting a connection from another Bluetooth device
Setting up Modem Link for a USB connection
Using your device as a wireless modem
Creating a DUN connection using Bluetooth technology
Select Modem Link
Accessing the Internet using a Bluetooth DUN connection
Setting up your computer for a Bluetooth DUN connection
Terminating a DUN Internet session
A P T E R
Your photos, videos, and music
Camera Pictures & Videos Windows Media Player Mobile
Taking a picture
Camera
Taking pictures in burst mode
Optional Set a five-second timer Press
Brightness Press Right
Resolution Press Menu
Recording a video
Center . Press OK to return to Thumbnail View
Customizing your Camera settings
Include audio when recording video
Sets the default size for newly captured pictures
Select the Camera tab and set any of the following options
Select the Video tab and set any of the following options
Viewing a picture
Pictures & Videos
Viewing a video
Viewing a slide show
Organizing pictures and videos
Sending a picture or video
Creating a video ringtone
Editing a picture
Using a picture as the Today screen background
To keep the picture or video in two
Viewing pictures and videos on your computer
Deleting a picture or video
WMA WMV
Windows Media Player Mobile
Playing media files on your Treo
Working with libraries
Working with playlists
Customizing Windows Media Player Mobile
Resume playback after a phone call
Continues if you switch to another application
O U R P H O T O S , V I D E O S , a N D M U S I C
Your personal information organizer
Contacts Calendar Tasks
Adding a contact
Contacts
Viewing or changing contact information
Deleting a contact
Customizing Contacts
Calendar
Set any of the following options
Finding a contact in an online address book
Creating an appointment
Select one of the following views
Creating an untimed event
Adding an alarm reminder to an event
Sending a meeting request
Scheduling a repeating appointment
Organizing your schedule
Marking an event as sensitive
Deleting an event
Select the type of events you want to view
Highlight the event you want to delete
Customizing Calendar
Adding a task
Tasks
Set reminders for new items
Checking off a task
Customizing Tasks
Organizing your tasks
Deleting a task
Creating a voice note
Creating a note
Creating a note from a template
Depending on where you recorded the note Press OK
Go to the Notes list
Organizing your notes
Customizing Notes
Deleting a note
Presentations with you
Your Microsoft Office tools
This chapter
Word Mobile
Synchronizing your Microsoft Office files
Windows Explorer on your computer
Copy the file into the Mobile Device folder, and then sync
Select Word Mobile
Creating a document
Opening an existing document
Document list, select the document you want to open
Go to the documents list
Creating a document from a template
Finding or replacing text in a document
Open the document containing the text you want to find
Formatting text
Saving a copy of a document
Select Save
Formatting paragraphs and lists
Press OK to return to the document
Indentation Changes the paragraph margins
Checking spelling in a document
Customizing Word Mobile
Organizing your documents
Deleting a document
Select PowerPoint Mobile
PowerPoint Mobile
Playing a presentation
Select Next or Previous to play animations
Excel Mobile
Setting presentation playback options
Press Menu right action key and select End Show
Loop continuously Advances to
Cell patterns Patterns applied to cells are removed
Creating a workbook from a template
Creating a workbook
Select Excel Mobile
Viewing a workbook
Sheet Lets you switch to a different worksheet
Panes
Calculating a sum
Entering a sequence automatically
Entering a formula
Inserting a function
Adding cells, rows, and columns
Renaming a worksheet
Formatting cells
Formatting rows and columns
Filtering info in a worksheet
Creating a chart
Sorting info in a worksheet
Finding or replacing info in a workbook
Formatting or changing a chart
Deleting cells, rows, and columns
Organizing your workbooks
Customizing Excel Mobile
Select how you want to remove the elements
Your application and info management tools
This chapter
Finding information
Using Search
Within notes, appointments, contacts, and tasks
Press Start and select Programs Select Search
Exploring files and folders
Press Search left action key
Select File Explorer
Select My Device to view all folders
Installing bonus software from the CD
Installing applications
Click Add Programs
Installing third-party applications
Installing applications from the Internet
Double-click Mobile Device
Installing applications from your computer
Installing applications onto an expansion card
Sharing information
Removing applications
Double-click My Windows
Mobile-Based Device To open Mobile Device folder
Your info or to receive info from another device
Beaming information
Turn on your screen
Beaming a record
Receiving beamed information
Inserting and removing expansion cards
Using expansion cards
S I N G E X P a N S I O N C a R D S
Saving files to an expansion card
Opening applications on an expansion card
Exploring files on an expansion card
Moving info between your Treo 750 and an expansion card
Viewing available expansion card memory
Renaming an expansion card
Calculator
Performing calculations
Select Calculator
Using the Calculator memory
Your personal settings
This chapter
Selecting which items appear on your Today screen
Today screen settings
On the Personal tab, select Today
Select Browse Select the picture you want to use Press OK
Selecting Sounds & Notifications
System sound settings
Silencing sounds
S T E M S O U N D S E T T I N G S
Setting display formats
Display and appearance settings
Adjusting the brightness
Regional Settings
Changing the system color scheme
Aligning the screen to correct tapping problems
Changing screen orientation
Application settings
Portrait Landscape right-handed Landscape left-handed
Arranging the Start menu
Start = Start menu OK = OK/Close
Setting up voice commands
Option + Phone/Send = Messaging Option + Start = Calendar
Option + OK = Task Manager
Using voice commands
Select the Options tab and set any of the following options
Setting input options
Default zoom level for typing
Default zoom level for writing
Locking your Treo 750 and info
Capitalize first letter of sentence
Locking your screen
Locking your keyboard Keyguard
Locking the SIM card
Check the Require PIN when phone is used box
Locking your Treo
Select Password, tap the onscreen
Entering owner information
System settings
Setting the date and time
Press OK If prompted, select Yes to accept your changes
Setting system alarms
Managing identity certificates
Enabling error reporting
Optimizing power settings
Turning wireless services on/off
Managing ISP settings
Connection settings
Wireless Manager
Setting up a proxy server
Connecting to a VPN virtual private network
Ending a data connection
Transferring info from another device
Common questions
Resetting your Treo
Reinstalling the desktop software
Performing a soft reset
Shut down your computer, and then turn it on again
Performing a hard reset
Replacing the battery
Contacts
Performance
My battery seems to drain quickly
Applications are running slower than usual
Select Running Programs
Screen
Signal strength is weak
Network connection
Screen appears blank
My phone seems to turn off by itself
Can’t tell if data services are available
My Treo 750 won’t connect to the mobile network
Can’t send or receive text or multimedia messages
Verify all of the following
Turn on Bluetooth box is checked in Bluetooth Settings
Your Bluetooth device is charged and turned on
ActiveSync desktop software
Synchronization
ActiveSync desktop software does not respond to sync attempt
A P T E R
My video and music files won’t sync
Synchronization starts but doesn’t finish
My appointments show up in the wrong time slot after I sync
Check the Use above setting when roaming box
My scheduled sync doesn’t work
Press Menu right action key and select Schedule
Again later
Exchange ActiveSync wireless synchronization
An alert tells me that the server could not be reached
Have problems sending and receiving email
Have problems using my account
Scheduled email synchronization is not working
Have problems sending email
Can’t access a
Click Start on your computer, and then select Settings
Web
Select Control Panel
Secure site refuses to permit a transaction
Shockwave, VBScript, WML script, and other plug-ins
An image or map is too small on my Treo 750 screen
Camera preview image looks strange
Third-party applications
Getting more help
Making room on your Treo
Are you hearing your own voice echo?
Voice quality
Is the other person hearing an echo?
Is your voice too quiet on the other end?
While using your Treo
Where to learn more
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For a quick introduction
H E R E T O L E a R N M O R E
Terms
Dialog box
Gprs General Packet Radio Service
Edge Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
Infrared IR
Phone Off
Partnership
Phone/Send
PIM personal information manager
Start
SMS Short Messaging Service
Streaming
Synchronization
Apps that use Microsoft Windows Mobile
E R M S
FCC Statement
Regulatory information
Antenna Care/Unauthorized Modifications
G U L a T O R Y I N F O R M a T I O N
Driving Safety Tips Overview
Static ELECTRICITY, ESD, and Your Palm Device
E G U L a T O R Y I N F O R M a T I O N
Specifications
Specification S
ActiveSync
Specification S
Index
102
235-240 171
Contacts 43, 56
206
Animation 141, 173
Installing 189-190
198
Opening 28, 197
203
Bluetooth wireless
240
123-126
135
Border highlight 19 borders 174 brightness, adjusting
134, 135
Charts 175, 181
169
Entering 24, 25, 178 146
127-129
112
51-53
126
55, 139
91, 97, 101
121
Text 121
122-123
Network settings 112 Notes application 164 phone
172
184
246 124
Resetting 215
232 257
265
123, 124 Pictures 133, 138
Events 155
249 167
Videos 133, 138
Servers
Earpiece 5, 247 eBooks 11 echoes
With
241
Passwords 77, 90
Errors 219, 232
261
178
Cards 142, 146
On 198
172, 183
199
175
183
119
19-20
Storing 195, 246
187-188
Internet 128, 222
235
Manage Folders command
Lists accessing 22 creating 168
Leading zeros
168
Deleting 97, 109
110
142-147 106 105, 111
104
142, 146, 197
189
Microphone 5, 42, 137
17-19
154
Multimedia Messaging System. See MMS messaging
Receiving phone calls
Downloading sounds for
204
Off Hold button 42 Office files
174
From 92
216
Saving 90 spreadsheets
201
Entering 12, 34, 37
50, 53
Making 12, 34, 38
136
140 PINs 60, 214
PIMs 226, 238
138
Radio frequency emissions 257
Radio 258
102, 105, 110 pictures
Text messages 101, 105 Videos
192
Resets 215, 226-228
169, 172, 183
244
231
Running Programs tab 29
193
140
169, 182
Security 125, 212-216
239, 240
Services tab 46, 57, 58
253
158
Start menu 28, 208
Information 195, 246
Symbols 26, 27, 48 235
144
235-241
System settings 216-222
Wirelessly 68, 75, 80, 81
245 240
Installing 190, 245 Dialing from 34, 35, 37
228
245-246
145
Troubleshooting
VPN connections voice captions Voice Command button 210
210
Voice recording formats 211 voicemail
222
Accessing 117, 119
75, 80, 81
144 194 167-173
173
Zoom In command 173 zoom options Zoom settings 175, 177
For 184 worksheet names 175 worksheets