User’s Guide
Table of Contents
2B. Controlling Your Phone’s Settings
Accessing the Security Menu
Menu Navigation Menu Structure Viewing the Menus
100
Using PCS Service Features
Safety Guidelines and Warranty Information
Index
Welcome to Sprint
Introduction
Getting Started
Setting Up Service
Activating Your Phone
Getting Started With PCS Service
Determine if Your Phone is Already Activated
Unlocking Your Phone
Setting Up Your Voicemail
Getting Help
Visit Our Website
PCS Directory Assistance
Reaching PCS Customer Solutions
PCS Operator Services
Receiving Automated Invoicing Information
Understanding Your PCS Phone
Your PCS Phone The Basics
Key Functions
Front View of Phone
Understanding Your PCS Phone
Viewing the Display Screen
Features of Your PCS Vision Ready Link Phone RL2000
Turning Your Phone On and Off
Turning Your Phone On
Turning Your Phone Off
Removingthe Battery
Using Your Phone’s Battery
Battery Capacity
Installingthe Battery
Charging when your phone is turned off
Chargingthe Battery
Using the TravelCharger
Charging when your phone is turned on
Displaying Your Phone Number
Making and Answering Voice Calls
Making Voice Calls
Answering Voice Calls
Using the Speakerphone
Answering a Roam Call With Call Guard Enabled
Ending a Call
Missed Call Notification
Changing Ringer Volume
Adjusting Volume During a Conversation
Muting a Call
Calling Emergency Numbers
Missed Ready Link Call Notification
Dialing Options
Mute or Unmute
In-Call Options
Saving a Phone Number
End-of-Call Options
Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses
Finding a Phone Number
Using Speed Dialing
Abbreviated Dialing
Dialing From the Internal Phone Book
Using PCS Ready Link
Setting PCS Ready Link Mode
PCS Ready Link Call Alerts
Selecting Contact Lists
Accessing the PCS Ready Link List
Making a PCS Ready Link Call 1-to-1 Call
Making a PCS Ready Link Call by Entering a Number
Making a PCS Ready Link Call Group Call
Receiving a PCS Ready Link Call 1-to-1 Call
Receiving a PCS Ready Link Call Group Call
Redialing a PCS Ready Link Call
Speaker/Car Kit medium high. Earpiece/Headset medium low
PCS Ready Link Options
Highlight Outgoing Calls, Incoming Calls, or Missed Calls
Copying an Entry to Your Personal List
Adding a New Contact
Saving a PCS Ready Link Number
Adding a New Group
Editing a Group in Your Personal List
Editing a Contact in Your Personal List
Erasing an Entry in Your Personal List
Controlling Your Phone’s Settings
Sound Settings
Ringer Types
Selecting Ringer Types for Voice Calls
Selecting Ringer Types for Messages
Selecting Ringer Types for Voicemail
Selecting a Tone Length
Setting a Start-up/Power-off Tone
Using Voice Prompts
Select the menu under Start-up Tone or Power-off Tone
Adjusting the Phone’s Volume Settings
Alert Notification
Silence All
Display Settings
Changing the Text Greeting
Changing the Backlight Time Length
Changing the Display Screen
Changing the Display for Incoming Calls
Changing the Display for Standby Mode
Changing the Screen Saver
Changing the Color of the PCS Ready Link Display
Changing the Contrast
Changing the Phone’s Main Menu Style
Changing the Theme Color
Changing the Font Size
Location Settings
TTY Use With PCS Service From Sprint
Airplane Mode
Important Notice 911 Emergency Calling
Select the menu under Car Kit/Headset or Speaker Phone
Phone Setup Options
Auto Answer Mode
Shortcut
Setting Speed Dialing
Setting Any Key Answer
Setting Abbreviated Dialing
Headset Mode
Select Voice Call or Ready Link and press
Sleep Mode
Setting Key Guard
Changing the Menu Language
Setting Message Notification
Setting Your Phone’s Security
Accessing the Security Menu
Locking Your Phone
Except IncomCall, and press
Restricting Calls
Calling in Lock Mode
Unlocking Your Phone
Changing the Lock Code
Highlight Hard Pause, 2-Second Pause, or Hyphen and press
Using Special Numbers
Resetting Your Phone
Erasing the Internal Phone Book
Erasing the Downloads
Changing the Passcode
Resetting and Locking Your Phone through SMS
Signing In and Out of PCS Vision Services
Security Features for PCS VisionSM
Controlling Your Roaming Experience
Understanding Roaming
Recognizing Icons on the Display Screen
Roaming on Other Digital Networks
Roaming on Analog Networks
Set Mode
Setting Your Phone’s Roam Mode
To answer incoming Roaming Calls with Call Guard on
To turn Call Guard on or off
To place Roaming Calls with Call Guard on
CallSpeaker On and press
Menu Navigation Menu Structure Viewing the Menus
Navigating Through Menus
Backing Up Within a Menu
Menu Navigation
Menu Structure
Selecting Menu Items
Viewing the Menus
Menu Diagram
Phone Info
Settings
Calendar VoiceService
Tools/Extras
Managing Call History
Call History Options
Viewing History
Saving a Phone Number From Call History
Making a Call From Call History
Prepending a Phone Number From Call History
Erasing Call History
Using the Internal Phone Book
Internal Phone Book Entry Options
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Entering Characters Using T9 Text Input
Entering Text
Adding a Word to the T9 Database
Spanish mode, characters scroll in the following order
Entering Characters by Tapping the Keypad
Entering Smileys
Entering Numbers, Symbols, and Smileys
Entering Symbols
Entering Numbers
Adding a New Internal Phone Book Entry
Finding Voice Dial Numbers
Finding Internal Phone Book Entries
Finding Names
Finding Speed Dial Numbers
Find Long Phone Numbers
Editing an Internal Phone Book Entry
Selecting a Ringer/Image Type for an Entry
Secret Internal Phone Book Entries
Dialing PCS Services
Personal Organizer
Calendar
Setting the Time/Date
Setting Holidays
Managing the Scheduler
Monthly, or Yearly
Adding an Event to the Scheduler
Editing an Event
Event Alerts
Event Alert Menu
Viewing the Event List
Adding a Call Alarm to the Scheduler
Call Alarm Alerts
Call Alarm Menu
Alternate appears instead of Save Phone#
Editing a Call Alarm
Erasing a Day’s Events or Call Alarms
Viewing a Future/Past Day’s Scheduled Events
Adding To Do Items
Viewing To Do List
Editing To Do Items
Adding a To Do Item to the Schedule
Deleting Items From the To Do List
Highlight Erase Selection or Erase All and press
Viewing Memory in Your Scheduler
Purging All Events, Call Alarms, or To Do List Items
Editing My Profile
Setting My Profile Secret
Personal Information Management
Checking My Profile
Displaying Your User Address
Getting to Know Icon Indication
Displaying the Version Information
Using Your Phone’s Tools
Using the Calculator
Using the World Clock
Downloading Files Through PCS Vision
With Caller ID or No Caller ID
Outgoing Calls, or Service Search
Confirming the Downloaded Data
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2H Personal Organizer 105
2H Personal Organizer 106
Sorting the Downloaded Data
Icon Indication
Viewing Available Memory Space for Downloading
Viewing the Downloaded Data Size
Erasing Old Downloaded Data
Using Your Phone’s Voice Services
Programming a Voice Dial Tag to Your Phone
Using Voice-Activated Dialing
Erasing All Voice Dial Tags
Reviewing Voice Dial Tags
Recording Voice Memos
Reviewing Voice Memos
Erasing Voice Memos
Activating Screen Call
Setting Up Screen Call
Custom
Selecting an Announcement for Screen Call
Recording a Custom Announcement
Using PCS Service Features
PCS Service Features Basics
New Voicemail Message Alerts
Using Voicemail
Setting Up Your Voicemail
Voicemail Notification
Voicemail Button Guide
Using One-Touch Message Access
Using a Phone Other Than Your PCS Phone to Access Messages
Retrieving Your Voicemail Messages
Using Expert Mode
Setting Up Group Distribution Lists
Voicemail Options
Voicemail-to-Voicemail Message Forwarding
PCS Callback
Voicemail-to-Voicemail Message
Voicemail-to-Voicemail Message Reply
Extended Absence Greeting
Clearing the Message Icon
Voicemail Menu Key
Responding to Call Waiting
Using Caller ID
Making a Three-Way Call
Using Call Forwarding
PCS VisionSM
Getting Started With PCS Vision
Your User Name
Finding Your User Name
News
Connecting as jsmith003@sprintpcs.com
Launching a PCS Vision Connection
PCS Vision Home
Net Guard
PCS Vision Connection Status and Indicators
Navigating the Web
Softkeys
Scrolling
Selecting
Going Back
Going Home
New Messages
Messaging
Messages
Message Types
Changing the Displayed Font Size of a Message
Displaying Messages
Prepending a Phone Number From a Message
Message Options
Extracting Phone Numbers From a Message
Extracting URLs From a Message
Extracting Email Addresses From a Message
Creating Folders for Messages
Moving a Message Into Another Folder
Adding a Folder for Messages
Editing Folders
Erasing a Folder
Don’t Erase
Signing Up for Updates
Erasing All Messages
Highlight In This Folder or In All Folders and press
Composing PCS Mail Messages
Using PCS Mail
Accessing PCS Mail Messages
PCS Mail
PCS Short Mail
Using PCS Short Mail
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Earthlink
Acccessing Email
Yahoo! Messenger
Accessing Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging
Select Instant Messaging
Chat
Select Messaging
Select Leave Room
Accessing the Download Menus
Selecting an Item to Download
Screen Savers, Applications, Others and press
Downloading an Item
Downloading Games
Games
Playing Games
Downloading Ringers
Ringers
Assigning Downloaded Ringers
Purchasing Ringers
No caller ID and press
Downloading Screen Savers
Screen Savers
Purchasing Screen Savers
Assigning Downloaded Screen Savers Images
Web
Opening the Browser Menu
Using the Browser Menu
Accessing a Bookmark
Creating a Bookmark
Editing a Bookmark
Deleting a Bookmark
Going to a Specific Website
Reloading a Web
Restarting the Web Browser
PCS Business ConnectionSM Personal Edition
Can I sign out of data services?
PCS Vision FAQs
When is my data connection active?
When is my data connection dormant?
PCS Voice CommandSM
Getting Started With PCS Voice Command
Creating Your Own Address Book
It’s Easy to Get Started
Making a Call With PCS Voice Command
Safety Guidelines and Warranty Information
Safety
Getting the Most Out of Your Reception
Keeping Tabs on Signal Strength
Understanding the Power Save Feature
Knowing Radiofrequency Safety
Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your Phone
Using Your Phone While Driving
Maintaining Your Phone’s Peak Performance
Using Your Phone Near Other Electronic Devices
Following Safety Guidelines
Restricting Children’s Access to your Phone
Turning Off Your Phone Before Flying
Turning Off Your Phone in Dangerous Areas
Caring for the Battery
Protecting Your Battery
Disposalof Lithium Ion LiIon Batteries
Body-Worn Operation
FCC Notice
FCC Radiofrequency Emission
Specific Absorption Rates SARfor Wireless Phones
User’s Guide Proprietary Notice
Owner’s Record
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Customer Limited Warranty
Manufacturer’s Warranty
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Index
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