Section 1: Getting Started

This section explains how to start using your Samsung SCH-R311 phone by activating your service, setting up your Voicemail, or getting an understanding of how this manual is put together.

Understanding this User Manual

The chapters of this guide generally follow the same order as the menus and sub-menus in your phone. A robust index for quick reference to most features begins on page 149.

Also included is important safety information that you should know before using your phone. Most of this information is near the back of the guide, beginning on page 121.

Notes and Tips

Throughout this guide there is text that is set apart from the rest. These are intended to point out important information, quick methods for activating features, to define terms, and more. The definitions for these methods are as follows:

Notes — Explain alternative options within the current feature, menu, or sub-menu.

Tips — Provide quick or innovative methods for performing functions related to the subject at hand.

Important — Points out important information about the current feature that could affect performance, or even damage your phone.

Text Conventions

This manual provides condensed information about how to use your phone. To make this possible, the following terms and icon appear in place of repeatedly-used procedural steps:

highlight Use the Navigation key ( ) to move a highlighting effect onto a menu item or screen item of interest.

select After “highlighting” a menu item or screen item, press the OK key ( ) to launch, access, or save a highlighted menu item or screen field of interest.

Used in place of “select” in long “drill down” procedure steps.

Example: Select Settings Call Settings Call Answer.

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