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