User Guide
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Contents
Documents To Go Professional 171 Memos 173 Voice Memo
Using a phone headset
113
Your memos and documents 169
N T E N T S
Terms Important safety and legal information 257 Index
Welcome
Hardware
Palm Software Installation CD included in the box
What’s in the box?
What do I need to get started?
Where to learn more
E L C O M E
Setting up
This chapter
Front view
Palm Treo 755P smartphone overview
Back view
Sound On
Installing the battery
Ringer switch
Top view
Battery contacts Smartphone contacts
Charging the battery
A R G I N G T H E B a T T E R Y
Battery icon
Maximizing battery life
Making your first call
Turn down the screen brightness see Adjusting the brightness
Adjusting call volume
On , you hear three tones when programming is successful
Volume button
Setting up your computer
What’s my phone number?
Upgrading from another Palm OS device
System requirements
Palm may be replaced with palmOne or Handspring
A P T E R
Installing the desktop synchronization software
Connecting your Treo smartphone to your computer
Synchronizing information-the basics
Press the sync button on the sync cable Sync button
Moving around on your smartphone
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5-way includes the following buttons
Moving around the screen
Center Up Left Right Down
Highlighting and selecting items
Scrolling through screens
Highlighting text
Accessing command buttons
Selecting menu items
Selecting options in a pick list
Entering lowercase and uppercase letters
Using the keyboard
Backlight
Option Return Shift/Find Menu Space Alt
Entering other symbols and accented characters
Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols
Are entered using the Alt key
Alt
Symbols and accented characters
Calendar
Using the quick buttons
Opening applications
Phone Option
Press Applications
Using Applications View
Your phone
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Waking up the screen
Turning your smartphone on and off
Turning your phone on and off
Opening the Phone application
Dialing using the onscreen Dial Pad
Dialing using the keyboard Press Phone
Making calls
Select the number you want to dial Press Send to dial
Dialing by contact name
Dialing from a web page or message
Press Center to make the call
Select the phone number on the web page or in the message
Call, and then press Send again to dial
Numbers From the Phone application’s
Send and selecting Call Log from the Redial list
Do one of the following
Press Power/End Select Hang Up All
Receiving calls
Ending a call
To ignore a call, do one of the following
Using voicemail
Send the call to voicemail Press Power
Setting up voicemail
Listening to voicemail messages
Voicemail notification
What can I do when I’m on a call?
Mutes the microphone so that you cannot be heard
Switching applications during a call
Select Add Contact
Saving phone numbers
Enter the information for the entry Select Done
Making a second call
When the Dial another call prompt appears, select Yes
Answering a second call call waiting
Making a conference call
Ignore with Text
To hang up the current call and answer
Send
While in Flash mode, do any of the following
Using Flash mode during a call
Press Power/End Forwarding calls
Press Send from Active Call View
Press Send to turn on call forwarding
Viewing minutes Defining favorite Usage Buttons
For example, to forward calls to
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Press Phone Use the 5-way to select a blank favorite button
Creating a speed-dial favorite button
Editing a favorite button
Select OK
Select Edit Favorites Button on the Record menu
Select Delete Select OK
Using a phone
Headset
Deleting a favorite button
Connecting to a Bluetooth hands-free device
Using a wired headset
Press Applications and select
Select Hands-free Setup
Using a Bluetooth hands-free device
Press Applications and select Prefs Select Hands-free
Customizing advanced settings for your hands-free device
Customizing the Phone application’s Main View
Customizing phone settings
Selecting ringtones
Way
Creating and managing ringtones
Selecting Phone alert tones
Select alert tones from the following pick lists
Adjusting ringer volume
Assigning a caller ID ringtone
Assigning a caller ID photo
Setting your dialing preferences
Choosing your privacy settings
Enabling TTY
Turning on the HAC Setting
What are all those icons?
Manually selecting the wireless band
Check the Hearing Aid Compatibility box
Your phone is off
Area, No Service, Extended
O U R P H O N E
U R P H O N E
A P T E R
Your email and other messages
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Want to… Use this app…
Which application should I use?
Check messages from multiple email addresses VersaMail
How do I get started?
Wireless Sync application
Press Wireless Sync
Setting up Wireless Sync to work with Internet email
Password Enter the password for your Wireless Sync account
Setting up Wireless Sync to work with corporate email
When the Congratulations message appears, select Done
When the Congratulations message appears, select Done
Press Wireless Sync
VersaMail application
SBC/PacBell SBC/Prodigy Speakeasy USA.net Verizon DSL Yahoo
Apple.Mac AT&T Global AT&T Worldnet
ESMTP, SSL
Your system administrator or ISP, and then select Next
Creating and sending email messages
Settings, select Advanced, and then enter those settings
Enter the subject and message text
Attaching ringtones
Adding attachments to your email messages
Attaching photos and videos
Red paper clip icon in the upper-right corner
Receiving and viewing email messages
Attaching other types of files
Viewing attachments
Deleting selected messages from the Inbox
Managing your messages
Deleting messages by date
Switching accounts
Customizing your email settings
Press Menu Select Delete on the Message menu
Select OK, and then select Get Mail
Set preferences for how and when
Select Auto Sync
Scheduling Auto Sync
Selecting alert tones
Setting preferences for getting messages
Check the Alert me of new mail box
Message Format Sets the format for messages you retrieve
Unread messages Imap accounts
Attaching a signature to a message
Working with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
Messaging
Select Signature Check the Attach Signature box
Enter your signature information, and then select OK
Press Applications and select Messaging
Creating and sending a text message
Select New Select the To field to address the message
Sound clips
Creating and sending a multimedia message
Videos
Ringtones
Select Add Media
Select New
Receiving messages
Record new Record a sound clip of up to 1 minute
Using links in messages
Deleting messages
Saved pictures later by pressing
Applications and selecting Pics&Videos
Arranging your messages
Message with the chat icon
Chatting with Messaging
Create chats from messages Indicate
Automatically collect MMS
Even when roaming Indicate whether
Show timestamps in chats Indicate
Display my name in chat window as
What are all those icons?
A P T E R
Your connections to the web and wireless devices
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Viewing a web
Web browser
Press Applications and select Web
E B B R O W S E R
Creating a bookmark
Goes to your home
Select Edit Bookmarks on the Bookmarks menu
Saving a
Viewing bookmarks or saved pages
Editing or deleting a bookmark or saved
Videos MP4, 3G2, ASF, WMV Ringtones
Select Edit Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu
Enter a title for this page of bookmarks
Downloading files from a web
Play
Streaming files from a web
Finding text on a web
Customizing your web browser settings
Copying text from a web
Returning to recently viewed pages
Select General and set any of the following preferences
Home Page Sets the page that appears when you select
Select Advanced and set any of the following preferences
Disable cascading style sheets
Installing the VZAccess Manager software
BroadbandAccess Connect
Getting help with VZAccess Manager software
On the Installation Complete screen, click Finish
Click Disconnect
Click the VZAccess Manager icon on your computer desktop
Terminating a BroadbandAccess Connect Internet session
On your computer, go to the VZAccess Manager window
On your smartphone, press
Applications and select Bluetooth
Select Trusted Devices
Connections with Bluetooth devices
Select Setup Devices Select Trusted Devices
Press Applications and select Bluetooth Select Bluetooth On
Accepting a connection from another Bluetooth device
A P T E R
A P T E R
Your photos, videos, and music
Camera and Camcorder Pics & Videos Pocket Tunes
Taking a picture
Camera Camcorder
Press Applications and select Camera
Press Applications and select Camcorder
Recording a video
A P T E R
Customizing your Camera settings
Select the album that contains the picture you want to see
Pics & Videos
Viewing a picture
Press Applications and select Pics&Videos
Select the album that contains the video you want to see
Press Right or Left to scroll to the next item in the album
Viewing a video
3GP 3G2 MPEG-4 video + Qcelp audio + 3g2 file type MP4
Select Share
Sending pictures or videos
Copying a picture or video
Rotating a picture
Organizing pictures and videos
Saving a picture as wallpaper
Adding a picture to a contact entry
Mac
Deleting a picture or video
Viewing pictures and videos on your computer
Windows
On your computer, open Windows Media Player, and then click
Setting up Windows Media Player for MP3
Pocket Tunes
Applications and select pTunes
Select Preferences
Setting up iTunes for MP3
Transferring MP3 files from your computer
Select Rip Music
Transferring music from a CD to your smartphone
Listening to music on your Treo smartphone
Choose Song and select a song from the list
Press Applications and select pTunes
Select Save List
Creating a playlist
Editing a playlist Press Applications and select pTunes
Your personal information organizer
Contacts Calendar World Clock Tasks
Adding a contact
Contacts
Press Phone Select the Contacts favorite button
Select New Contact
Viewing or changing contact information
Select Photos to add an existing picture to this contact
With private entries for more info
After you enter all the information, select Done
Deleting a contact
Calendar
Defining your business card
Displaying your calendar
Creating an event
Select OK Type of time units Number of time units
Adding an alarm to an event
Creating an untimed event
Interval
Scheduling a repeating event
Create an event, and then select it Select Details
Select Other to define a custom
Delete Removes the event from your calendar Select OK
Color-coding your schedule
Editing or deleting an event
Select the event you want to edit or delete Select Details
Select Day and set any of the following Day View options
Customizing display options for your calendar
Selecting alarm tones
World Clock
Default Alarm The default timeframe for the alarm field
Selecting cities
Press Applications and select World Clock
Setting an alarm
Adding cities
Tasks
Setting task priority, due date, and other details
Adding a task Press Applications and select Tasks
Checking off a task
Organizing your tasks
Today, Last 7 Days, Next 7 Days, or Past Due
Customizing Tasks
Deleting a task
Manage Word, Excel Improve productivity by taking
Your memos and documents
Documents To Go Professional Voice Memo Memos
Documents To Go Professional
Documents
Opening a document
Select the document you want from the list
Enter the text you want to appear in the memo Select Done
Memos
Voice Memo
Creating a memo Press Applications and select Memos
Press Applications and select Voice Memo
Creating a voice memo
Press Center to pause or stop playback
O U R M E M O S a N D D O C U M E N T S
Your application and info management tools
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Viewing and using the alerts
Using Find
Continue the search
Calculator
Basic Mode Advanced Mode-Math
Selecting functions in Advanced Calculator Mode
Installing applications
Length Length conversions for metric and English values
Installing applications from the Internet
Installing bonus software from My Treo on your smartphone
My Treo
Installing other third-party applications from a computer
Installing bonus software from My Palm on your 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 Applications and select Bluetooth Select Bluetooth On
Beaming information
If the Ringer switch is set to Sound
Beaming an application
Beaming an entry
Receiving beamed information
Changing which applications sync
Synchronizing information- advanced
MAC only
Setting up a Bluetooth connection for synchronization
Synchronizing over a Bluetooth connection
Select Setup Devices Select HotSync Setup
Press Applications and select HotSync
Applications and select HotSync
Synchronizing over an infrared connection
Synchronizing using Wireless Sync
A P T E R
Inserting an expansion card
Using expansion cards
Removing an expansion card
Open the door of the expansion card Slot
Opening applications on an expansion card
Accessing items stored on an expansion card
Press Applications
Formatting an expansion card
Viewing expansion card information
Card Info
Select Card Info
Press Menu Select Format Card from the Card menu Select OK
A P T E R
Your personal settings
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Silencing sounds
System sound settings
Slide the Ringer switch to Sound
Setting system volume levels
Adjusting the brightness
Display and appearance settings
Changing the screen font
Press Applications and select Prefs
Setting display formats
Small
Large bold
Press Applications and select Prefs Select Touchscreen
Applications settings
Select a color scheme from the list Select Done
Displaying applications by category
Select default applications for specific tasks
Arranging applications by category
Press Menu Select Category on the App menu
Reassigning buttons
Changing default applications
Locking your smartphone and info
Press Applications and select Prefs Select Default Apps
Locking your keyboard Keyguard
Select Keyguard Check any of the following boxes
Incoming calls received Disables
Screen when the phone rings. You must
Locking your screen
Locking your smartphone
Uncheck the On phone power off box
Enter your lock code to change this setting Select OK twice
Select one of the following Phone Lock options
Press Applications and select Security
Select the Password box
Select the Auto Lock Device box
Working with private entries
Select Lock & Turn Off to lock your smartphone immediately
Hiding or masking all private entries
Entering owner information
Select Lost Password
Viewing all private records
Security and Palm Desktop software Windows
Setting the date and time
System settings
Press Applications and select Prefs Select Date & Time
On a call, dim backlight after
Optimizing power settings
Connecting to a virtual private network
Connection settings
Common questions
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On your computer, click
Upgrading
StartProgramsPalmSafe HotSync
P G R a D I N G
Desktop software installation
Performing a hard reset
Resetting your smartphone
Performing a soft reset
Performing a system reset
S E T T I N G Y O U R S M a R T P H O N E
Replacing the battery
Screen appears blank
Screen
There’s a blinking bell in the upper-left corner
Synchronization
Palm Desktop info is damaged, you can
Can’t find my user folder
Make sure that HotSync manager is running
Palm Desktop software does not respond to a sync attempt
HotSync Manager
\Program Files\Palm\device name
Synchronization starts but stops without finishing
Mac HD/Users/user name/Documents/ Palm/Users/device name
Palm Desktop software, and then click Change/Remove
Synchronize
Have duplicate entries in Microsoft Outlook after I sync
Calendar, Contacts, Notes, and Tasks to be available offline
My appointments show up in the wrong time slot after I sync
If you’re using Microsoft Outlook sold separately
Click Change
Select Desktop overwrites handheld, and then click OK
Calendar
If you’re using Palm Desktop software
Uncheck the New events use time zones box if it’s checked
Other person hears an echo
Signal strength is weak
Phone
My smartphone won’t connect to the mobile network
Hear static or interference
My smartphone hangs up when I hold it to my ear
Hear my own voice echo
My voice is too quiet on the other end
Preferences Select Clear Voicemail Icon
My phone seems to turn off by itself
Confirm all the following
Hands-free devices
Can’t send or receive text messages
Can’t tell if data services are available
Can’t send or receive multimedia MMS messages
Web
My smartphone won’t connect to the Internet
Can’t access a web
Either of these icons, press
It takes a long time for a web page to load
An image or map is too small on my screen
Camera
Secure site refuses to permit a transaction
Making room on your Treo smartphone
Third-party applications
Getting more help
Error messages
O M M O N Q U E S T I O N S
Terms
Evdo Evolution Data Optimized
Device name
Dial-up networking DUN
Dialog box
Option key
NationalAccess
Palm Quick Install
MMS Multimedia Messaging System
Streaming
SMS Short Messaging Service
Pix Place
Slide
FCC Notice
Important safety and legal information
Battery safety information
Waste disposal
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Specifications
Specification S
Specification S
Specification S
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188, 236 accessing
Index
215 Calls 72, 76
168
129
180
143 To 60
185
Installing 181-183 211
109
208 189
Bell 179
Playing
122
Beaming
248
Service 75, 124
187
186
203
Restoring factory defaults for
212
Calculator icon 180 calculator modes 180 calendar
150 104
Tasks and 166, 167 102
210
216
For 54
222
124, 253
183
Coverage area 19, 44, 69
219
87, 124
103 205
Albums 143
Email 96
Photos 136, 143
233
Photos 135, 138
Dial Pad 37, 45 123
Events 67, 156, 161
Dialing 45-48, 53, 71
Attaching voice memos to
Troubleshooting 244 viewing attachments
171
138
For 156
Passwords 51, 217 162
Errors 235, 242
Displaying 67, 156
Finding
200, 249 opening files on 172 renaming
From Viewing information about Extended Network message
Feedback 240 fields 32, 35 file types
Email 95, 96 forwarding phone calls 57 freeing disk space
217
Formatting
202
Losing 202, 217
139
123 Entering 21, 36-37 Text 33
Saving 107
22, 183
123, 124, 253
198
36-37
Treo smartphone 216
M4V files 140 Mac systems Installing applications from
145, 146, 148 uninstalling desktop
Links
181
173
Masks 214
Memory 123, 160
79, 94
82, 83, 101, 153
196
116
116, 122 Note button 154 notes
145
Mute button Names
117
157
Installing 22, 183, 227 Microsoft Exchange
213, 216
Forgetting 83, 217
218
CD 8
61, 64
Ending 49, 52, 55
Dialing 45-48, 53
Making 45, 53, 55
Photo albums 135, 139
Entering 45-48, 66
72, 73 161
Sending 93, 135, 136
Music 120
Pausing 120, 138
149 182 181
Stopping 107, 149
Redialing most recent number
Saving
Renaming expansion cards
251 136
93, 103
Disabling 53, 214
Contacts 46, 66
Text 121
Text 33, 107
Messages 49, 101 168
Passwords 51, 217
Email 92, 106
Box 67 241 186
Screen 162
Resetting 217
213
Naming 24, 63
Photos 133
Symbols 37, 38 197 Static 241
Sounds 103, 163 Information 23, 177 185
191-193
Tasks list 33, 156, 166, 167
System resets 225, 228, 242
Setting preferences for Viewing due dates for 167
27 Tasks button
Trusted Devices button 127
250-251third-party utilities 23, 219 third-party VPN client
Message 75 VersaMail
From Setting up accounts for 89, 90
Untimed events 158, 159 Untimed Events check box Updating
USB ports
Sending 135, 138
Adding 136
Playing 120, 138
173-175
208
Volume button 13, 20, 69 volume conversions
124-126
Selecting home page for
121-123
Accessing 115, 117
121
83, 85
Wrap Search check box Year View
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