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
Unlocking Your Phone
Getting Started With PCS Service
Determine if Your Phone is Already Activated
Activating Your Phone
Getting Help
Setting Up Your Voicemail
Visit Our Website
Receiving Automated Invoicing Information
Reaching PCS Customer Solutions
PCS Operator Services
PCS Directory Assistance
Understanding Your PCS Phone
Your PCS Phone The Basics
Front View of Phone
Key Functions
Understanding Your PCS Phone
Viewing the Display Screen
Features of Your PCS Vision Ready Link Phone RL2000
Turning Your Phone On
Turning Your Phone On and Off
Turning Your Phone Off
Installingthe Battery
Using Your Phone’s Battery
Battery Capacity
Removingthe Battery
Charging when your phone is turned on
Chargingthe Battery
Using the TravelCharger
Charging when your phone is turned off
Making and Answering Voice Calls
Displaying Your Phone Number
Making Voice Calls
Answering Voice Calls
Answering a Roam Call With Call Guard Enabled
Using the Speakerphone
Ending a Call
Muting a Call
Changing Ringer Volume
Adjusting Volume During a Conversation
Missed Call Notification
Missed Ready Link Call Notification
Calling Emergency Numbers
Dialing Options
In-Call Options
Mute or Unmute
End-of-Call Options
Saving a Phone Number
Finding a Phone Number
Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses
Abbreviated Dialing
Using Speed Dialing
Dialing From the Internal Phone Book
Setting PCS Ready Link Mode
Using PCS Ready Link
PCS Ready Link Call Alerts
Accessing the PCS Ready Link List
Selecting Contact Lists
Making a PCS Ready Link Call 1-to-1 Call
Making a PCS Ready Link Call Group Call
Making a PCS Ready Link Call by Entering a Number
Receiving a PCS Ready Link Call Group Call
Receiving a PCS Ready Link Call 1-to-1 Call
Redialing a PCS Ready Link Call
PCS Ready Link Options
Speaker/Car Kit medium high. Earpiece/Headset medium low
Copying an Entry to Your Personal List
Highlight Outgoing Calls, Incoming Calls, or Missed Calls
Saving a PCS Ready Link Number
Adding a New Contact
Adding a New Group
Editing a Contact in Your Personal List
Editing a Group in Your Personal List
Erasing an Entry in Your Personal List
Controlling Your Phone’s Settings
Ringer Types
Sound Settings
Selecting Ringer Types for Voice Calls
Selecting Ringer Types for Voicemail
Selecting Ringer Types for Messages
Select the menu under Start-up Tone or Power-off Tone
Setting a Start-up/Power-off Tone
Using Voice Prompts
Selecting a Tone Length
Adjusting the Phone’s Volume Settings
Alert Notification
Silence All
Changing the Text Greeting
Display Settings
Changing the Backlight Time Length
Changing the Display Screen
Changing the Display for Standby Mode
Changing the Display for Incoming Calls
Changing the Screen Saver
Changing the Theme Color
Changing the Contrast
Changing the Phone’s Main Menu Style
Changing the Color of the PCS Ready Link Display
Location Settings
Changing the Font Size
Airplane Mode
TTY Use With PCS Service From Sprint
Important Notice 911 Emergency Calling
Shortcut
Phone Setup Options
Auto Answer Mode
Select the menu under Car Kit/Headset or Speaker Phone
Setting Any Key Answer
Setting Speed Dialing
Headset Mode
Setting Abbreviated Dialing
Select Voice Call or Ready Link and press
Setting Key Guard
Sleep Mode
Setting Message Notification
Changing the Menu Language
Setting Your Phone’s Security
Locking Your Phone
Accessing the Security Menu
Except IncomCall, and press
Changing the Lock Code
Calling in Lock Mode
Unlocking Your Phone
Restricting Calls
Using Special Numbers
Highlight Hard Pause, 2-Second Pause, or Hyphen and press
Erasing the Internal Phone Book
Resetting Your Phone
Erasing the Downloads
Resetting and Locking Your Phone through SMS
Changing the Passcode
Security Features for PCS VisionSM
Signing In and Out of PCS Vision Services
Controlling Your Roaming Experience
Recognizing Icons on the Display Screen
Understanding Roaming
Roaming on Other Digital Networks
Roaming on Analog Networks
Setting Your Phone’s Roam Mode
Set Mode
CallSpeaker On and press
To turn Call Guard on or off
To place Roaming Calls with Call Guard on
To answer incoming Roaming Calls with Call Guard on
Navigating Through Menus
Menu Navigation Menu Structure Viewing the Menus
Selecting Menu Items
Menu Navigation
Menu Structure
Backing Up Within a Menu
Menu Diagram
Viewing the Menus
Tools/Extras
Settings
Calendar VoiceService
Phone Info
Managing Call History
Viewing History
Call History Options
Making a Call From Call History
Saving a Phone Number From Call History
Erasing Call History
Prepending a Phone Number From Call History
Using the Internal Phone Book
Internal Phone Book Entry Options
Entering Characters Using T9 Text Input
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Entering Text
Adding a Word to the T9 Database
Entering Characters by Tapping the Keypad
Spanish mode, characters scroll in the following order
Entering Numbers
Entering Numbers, Symbols, and Smileys
Entering Symbols
Entering Smileys
Adding a New Internal Phone Book Entry
Finding Speed Dial Numbers
Finding Internal Phone Book Entries
Finding Names
Finding Voice Dial Numbers
Editing an Internal Phone Book Entry
Find Long Phone Numbers
Selecting a Ringer/Image Type for an Entry
Dialing PCS Services
Secret Internal Phone Book Entries
Personal Organizer
Managing the Scheduler
Setting the Time/Date
Setting Holidays
Calendar
Adding an Event to the Scheduler
Monthly, or Yearly
Viewing the Event List
Event Alerts
Event Alert Menu
Editing an Event
Adding a Call Alarm to the Scheduler
Call Alarm Menu
Call Alarm Alerts
Alternate appears instead of Save Phone#
Erasing a Day’s Events or Call Alarms
Editing a Call Alarm
Viewing a Future/Past Day’s Scheduled Events
Viewing To Do List
Adding To Do Items
Editing To Do Items
Deleting Items From the To Do List
Adding a To Do Item to the Schedule
Highlight Erase Selection or Erase All and press
Purging All Events, Call Alarms, or To Do List Items
Viewing Memory in Your Scheduler
Checking My Profile
Setting My Profile Secret
Personal Information Management
Editing My Profile
Getting to Know Icon Indication
Displaying Your User Address
Displaying the Version Information
Using the Calculator
Using Your Phone’s Tools
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
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Icon Indication
Sorting the Downloaded Data
Viewing the Downloaded Data Size
Viewing Available Memory Space for Downloading
Erasing Old Downloaded Data
Using Your Phone’s Voice Services
Using Voice-Activated Dialing
Programming a Voice Dial Tag to Your Phone
Reviewing Voice Dial Tags
Erasing All Voice Dial Tags
Recording Voice Memos
Reviewing Voice Memos
Erasing Voice Memos
Setting Up Screen Call
Activating Screen Call
Selecting an Announcement for Screen Call
Custom
Recording a Custom Announcement
Using PCS Service Features
PCS Service Features Basics
Voicemail Notification
Using Voicemail
Setting Up Your Voicemail
New Voicemail Message Alerts
Retrieving Your Voicemail Messages
Using One-Touch Message Access
Using a Phone Other Than Your PCS Phone to Access Messages
Voicemail Button Guide
Setting Up Group Distribution Lists
Using Expert Mode
Voicemail Options
Voicemail-to-Voicemail Message Reply
PCS Callback
Voicemail-to-Voicemail Message
Voicemail-to-Voicemail Message Forwarding
Clearing the Message Icon
Extended Absence Greeting
Voicemail Menu Key
Using Caller ID
Responding to Call Waiting
Making a Three-Way Call
Using Call Forwarding
PCS VisionSM
Your User Name
Getting Started With PCS Vision
Finding Your User Name
PCS Vision Home
Connecting as jsmith003@sprintpcs.com
Launching a PCS Vision Connection
News
PCS Vision Connection Status and Indicators
Net Guard
Softkeys
Navigating the Web
Scrolling
Going Back
Selecting
Going Home
Message Types
Messaging
Messages
New Messages
Displaying Messages
Changing the Displayed Font Size of a Message
Message Options
Prepending a Phone Number From a Message
Extracting Phone Numbers From a Message
Extracting Email Addresses From a Message
Extracting URLs From a Message
Creating Folders for Messages
Adding a Folder for Messages
Moving a Message Into Another Folder
Erasing a Folder
Editing Folders
Don’t Erase
Erasing All Messages
Signing Up for Updates
Highlight In This Folder or In All Folders and press
PCS Mail
Using PCS Mail
Accessing PCS Mail Messages
Composing PCS Mail Messages
Using PCS Short Mail
PCS Short Mail
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Acccessing Email
Earthlink
Select Instant Messaging
Accessing Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging
Yahoo! Messenger
Select Messaging
Chat
Select Leave Room
Selecting an Item to Download
Accessing the Download Menus
Screen Savers, Applications, Others and press
Downloading an Item
Games
Downloading Games
Playing Games
Ringers
Downloading Ringers
Purchasing Ringers
Assigning Downloaded Ringers
No caller ID and press
Screen Savers
Downloading Screen Savers
Assigning Downloaded Screen Savers Images
Purchasing Screen Savers
Web
Using the Browser Menu
Opening the Browser Menu
Creating a Bookmark
Accessing a Bookmark
Editing a Bookmark
Going to a Specific Website
Deleting a Bookmark
Reloading a Web
Restarting the Web Browser
PCS Business ConnectionSM Personal Edition
When is my data connection dormant?
PCS Vision FAQs
When is my data connection active?
Can I sign out of data services?
PCS Voice CommandSM
Creating Your Own Address Book
Getting Started With PCS Voice Command
It’s Easy to Get Started
Making a Call With PCS Voice Command
Safety Guidelines and Warranty Information
Safety
Knowing Radiofrequency Safety
Keeping Tabs on Signal Strength
Understanding the Power Save Feature
Getting the Most Out of Your Reception
Using Your Phone While Driving
Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your Phone
Maintaining Your Phone’s Peak Performance
Following Safety Guidelines
Using Your Phone Near Other Electronic Devices
Turning Off Your Phone Before Flying
Restricting Children’s Access to your Phone
Turning Off Your Phone in Dangerous Areas
Protecting Your Battery
Caring for the Battery
Disposalof Lithium Ion LiIon Batteries
FCC Notice
Body-Worn Operation
Specific Absorption Rates SARfor Wireless Phones
FCC Radiofrequency Emission
Owner’s Record
User’s Guide Proprietary Notice
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Customer Limited Warranty
4B Warranty 181
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Index
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