Controlling Your Roaming Experience

Section 2D

Controlling Your Roaming Experience

In This Section

UnderstandingRoaming

SettingYourPhone’sRoamMode

ControllingRoamingChargesUsingCallGuard

Roamingistheabilitytomakeorreceivecallswhenyou’reoff theNationwideSprintPCSNetwork.Your new dual-band/tri- mode Sprint PCS Vision Phone VI-2300 by Sanyo works anywhere on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network and allows you to roam on other analog and 1900 and 800 MHz digital networks where we’ve implemented roaming agreements with other carriers.

This section explains how roaming works as well as special features that let you manage your roaming experience.

Roaming

Section 2D: Controlling Your Roaming Experience

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Contents

SafetyandWarranty SettingUpService PhoneBasicsPage Sprint PCS Service Page Table of Contents 111 2D. Controlling Your Roaming Experience2E. NavigatingThrough Menus 103 147 123159 211 185247 4B. Manufacturer’s Warranty 4A. SafetyPage Welcome and thank you for choosing Sprint Welcome to Sprint Introduction Getting Started Page Setting Up Service Setting Up Service Tounlockyourphone,followtheseeasysteps Getting StartedWith SprintPCS ServiceDeterminingifYourPhoneisAlreadyActivated UnlockingYourPhone Tosetupyourvoicemail Setting UpYour Voicemail 888-211-4PCS4727 SprintPCS AccountPasswordsAccount Password VoicemailPassword SprintPCSVisionPassword Getting Help ReachingSprintCustomerService TocallSprintPCSDirectoryAssistance ToaccessautomatedinvoicinginformationReceivingAutomatedInvoicingInformation SprintPCSDirectoryAssistance ToaccessSprintPCSOperatorServices SprintPCSOperatorServicesPage Your Sprint PCS Phone Page Your Sprint PCS Phone The Basics Your Sprint PCS Phone The Basics MENU/OK FrontView ofYour Phone Key Functions Your Sprint PCS Phone The Basics Viewing the Display Screen Your Sprint PCS Phone The Basics Features ofYour SprintPCS Phone Your Sprint PCS Phone The Basics Toturnyourphoneon TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOn TurningYourPhoneOff ToinstalltheLiIonbattery UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand ChargerBatteryCapacity InstallingtheBattery ChargingtheBattery RemovingtheBatteryToremoveyourbattery Chargingwhenyourphoneisturnedoff UsingtheTravelChargerTousethetravelchargerprovidedwithyourphone Chargingwhenyourphoneisturnedon Todisplayyourphonenumber DisplayingYour Phone Number Making and Answering Calls ToplaceacallusingyourkeypadMaking Calls Toplaceacallwiththeflipclosed Dialing Options Toansweranincomingcallwiththeflipopen Answering CallsToansweranincomingcallwiththeflipclosed Your Sprint PCS Phone The Basics AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabled Toresumethecall SettingAnsweronHoldEndingaCall TosetAnsweronHold Toturnthespeakerphoneoffduringacall Using the SpeakerphoneChanging the RingerVolume Toturnthespeakerphoneonduringacall Muting a Call AdjustingVolume During a ConversationMissed Call Notification ToexitEmergencymode Calling Emergency Numbers ToselectEmergencymodeoptions In-Call Options End-of-Call Options Tosaveanumberfromstandbymode Savinga Phone Number Tofindaphonenumber Findinga Phone Number Todialorsavephonenumberswithpauses Dialingand Saving Phone NumbersWith Pauses Plus Code Dialing TomakeacallusingPlusCodeDialingToremovetheplussignfromyourphone’sdisplay TodialdirectlyfromaContactsentry Dialing Fromthe ContactsDirectory Tousespeeddialforvoicecalls Using Speed DialingTousespeeddialforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls ToplaceacallusingAbbreviatedDialing Using Abbreviated Dialing Selecting a Character InputMode EnteringTextTochangethecharacterinputmode AddingaWordtotheT9Database Entering Characters Using T9TextInputToaddawordtotheT9TextInputdatabase TocustomizetheT9Settings SelectingtheT9Settings Spanish mode, characters scroll in the following order Entering Characters byTapping the Keypad Pressing Page Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Toselectaringertypeforvoicecalls Sound SettingsRingerTypes SelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Toselectadistinctiveringerforvoicecallswhileroaming SelectingRingerTypesforSprintPCSReadyLinkCallsToselectaringertypeforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls Selecting a Tone Length Select Voicemail, Messaging, or Calendar/Alarm, and pressToselectatonelength Toenableordisablevoiceprompt Setting a Start-up/Power-offToneUsing Voice Prompt Select Start-upTone or Power-offTone and press ToturnKeyPressEchoonoroff Setting Up Key Press EchoAdjusting the Phone’s Volume Settings Toadjusttheringerandkeyvolume Toadjusttheapplicationvolume Toadjusttheearpieceorspeakervolume Tosetalerts Alert Notification ToactivateSilenceAll Silence AllTodeactivateSilenceAll Todisplayorchangeyourcustomgreeting Display SettingsTodisplaythedefaultgreetingSprint Changing theTextGreeting Changing the BacklightTime Length Tochangethebacklightsetting Tosettheanimationdisplay Select Standby, OutgoingCalls, or ServiceSearch, and pressChanging the Display Screen Animation Changing the Display for Incoming Calls Tosetyourareanamedisplay Changing the Display for Area Name Tosetyourstandbydisplay Changing the Display for Standby Mode Tochangethedisplay’sbackground Changing the Screen SaverChanging the Background Toassignascreensaver Tochangethefontsize Changing the ContrastChanging the FontSize Tochangethedisplay’scontrast Tosetsleepmode Setting Return to StandbyModeSetting Sleep Mode Tosetthisfeature Toturnyourphone’sLocationfeatureonoroff Location Settings ToturnAirplaneModeonoroff Airplane Mode ToturnTTY modeonoroff TTY UseWith SprintPCS Service Toedittheshortcutname Phone Setup OptionsShortcut Toassignyourshortcutkey Select CarKit/Headset or Speakerphone and press Auto AnswerModeTounassigntheshortcut TosetAutoAnswermode Toassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplay Setting the CurrentTimeDisplay Language ToactivatetheOpenFlipfeature Setting the Open/Close Flip OptionToactivatetheCloseFlipfeature ToturntheSideKeyGuardonoroff Setting Any Key AnswerSetting the Side Key Guard Toturnanykeyansweronoroff Toactivatethisfeature Setting Abbreviated DialingTosetyourprependnumber Toconnecttheheadset Setting HeadsetModeTosetheadsetmode Tosetmessagenotification Setting Message NotificationEditingPresetMessages Toedityourphone’spresetmessages Tosetthecallbacknumber Setting a Callback Number Tosetyoursignature SettingYour Signature Setting Your Phone’s Security Setting Your Phone’s SecurityYour Phone’s Security LockingYour Phone Accessing the Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Features ToaccesstheSecuritymenu Tounlockyourphone UnlockingYour Phone Select VoiceCalls, PCSVision, or ReadyLink and press Lock ServicesToactivatelockservices Changing the Lock Code Torestrictcalls Calling in Lock ModeRestricting Calls Toplaceanoutgoingcallinlockmode Erasingthe Contacts Directory Using Special NumbersToaddorreplaceaspecialnumber ToerasealldatadownloadedfromtheWeb ResettingYour PhoneToresetyourphone ErasingAll Downloads Toactivatethisfeature,thefollowingpresettingisrequired ResettingandLockingYourPhone ThroughSMS ChangingthePasscode TodisableSprintPCSVisionservices Security Features for SprintPCSVisionSMToenableSprintPCSVisionservices Controlling Your Roaming Experience Controlling Your Roaming Experience RoamingonAnalogNetworks Understanding RoamingRecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen RoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks Roaming Tocheckyourvoicemailwhileroaming SettingYour Phone’s Roam ModeCheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming SetMode ToturnCallGuardonoroff ControllingRoamingChargesUsing CallGuard ToanswerincomingroamingcallswithCallGuardon ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon MenuNavigation MenuStructure ViewingtheMenus Navigating Through MenusNavigating Through Menus BackingUpWithinaMenu Menu NavigationMenu Structure SelectingMenuItems Viewing the Menus MenuDiagramShortcuts Downloads Settings100 Navigating Through Menus 101 102 Tools/Extras Managing Call History 103 Managing Call History ToviewaCallHistoryentry ViewingHistory104 Managing Call History 105 Call History Options CallSpeakerOn, and press Making a CallFrom Call HistoryToplaceacallfromCallHistory Select Outgoing, Incoming or Missed and press Managing Call History 107 TosaveaphonenumberfromCallHistory 108 ToprependaphonenumberfromCallHistory ToeraseCallHistory ErasingCall HistoryManaging Call History 109 110 Using the Contacts Directory 111 Using the Contacts Directory Toaddanewentry Displayingthe Contacts ListAddinga New Contacts Entry Todisplayyourcontactslist TofindContactslistentriesbyname Using the Contacts Directory 113FindingContacts ListEntries FindingNames 114 FindingSpeedDialNumbersTofindSprintPCSReadyLinkListentries Tofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinspeeddiallocations TofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinVoiceDial Using the Contacts Directory 115Contacts ListEntry Options FindingVoiceDialNumbers Toaddaphonenumbertoanentry Adding a Phone Numberto a Contacts Entry116 Toerasetheselectedentry Using the Contacts Directory 117Editinga Contacts Entry Tomakechangestoanentry ToassignSpeedDial AssigningSpeed Dial Numbers118 Toassignanimageforanentry Using the Contacts Directory 119 Toselectaringertypeforanentry Selecting a Ringer for an Entry120 Tomakeanentrypublic Using the Contacts Directory 121SecretContacts Entries Tomakeanentrysecret Todialaservice DialingSprintPCS Services122 123 Using the Phone’s Scheduler and Tools Managing the Calendar Setting HolidaysDisplayingYour Calendar 125 UsingYour Phone’s SchedulerAdding an Eventto the Scheduler Toaddanevent 126 Event Alerts Torespondtoaneventalert Event Alert Menu127 128 Using the Call AlarmFeatureAdding a Call Alarm to the Scheduler ToaddacallalarmtotheScheduler 129 Call Alarm AlertsCall Alarm Menu Torespondtoacallalarm 130 Editing an Eventor Call AlarmToeditaneventorcallalarm Toviewafutureorpastday’sscheduledevents Erasing an Eventor Call Alarm Using the To Do ListAddingTo Do ListItems EditingTo Do ListItems Viewing theTo Do ListAdding aTo Do ListItem to the Scheduler TodeleteToDoListitems Deleting Items From theTo DoList133 Toviewavailablememoryspaceandoptions Viewing Memory inYour Scheduler134 Personal Information Management Purging All Events, Call Alarms, or To Do ListItemsDisplayingYour User Address Toviewanexplanationoficonsthatappearonthedisplay Finding Icon DefinitionsDisplaying theVersion Information Displaying Advanced Information 137 UsingYour Phone’sToolsUsing the Alarm Clock Tousethealarmclock 138 Using the World ClockTostopthealarm Toviewtheworldclockdisplay Todisplaythestopwatchoptions Using the StopWatchTostartthestopwatch Torecordalaptimewhilethestopwatchisrunning Tousethecalculator Using the Calculator140 141 ToupdateyourphoneToupdateyourphonethroughtheTools/Extrasmenu UpdatingYour Phone Toconfirmthedownloadeddata Downloading FilesThrough SprintPCSVisionConfirming the Downloaded Data TodownloadafilefromtheDownloadsmenu 143 ToconfirmyourContentManager Downloaded Data Options SelectingDownloadSettingsAssigningtheDownloadedData Toviewthedatasize SortingtheDownloadedDataViewingtheDownloadedDataSize Tosortdownloadedfiles Toerasetheselecteddownloadeddata Erasingthe Downloaded DataViewingtheMemorySpace Toviewtheavailablememoryspace Using Your Phone’s Voice Services 147 Using Your Phone’s Voice Services 148 Using Voice-Activated DialingMaking a Call UsingVoice-Activated Dialing Touseavoicedialtagtocallaphonenumber Programming Voice DialTags Using Your Phone’s Voice Services 149Toprogramavoicedialtag 150 ReviewingVoice DialTagsToreviewvoicedialtags Select Review or ReviewSpeaker and press Erasing AllVoice DialTags Managing Voice MemosRecordingVoice Memos 152 ToendtherecordingofyourmemoTorecordtheotherparty’svoiceduringaphonecall Toendtherecordingduringaphonecall ReviewingVoice Memos Using Your Phone’s Voice Services 153Toplaythevoicememosyouhaverecorded 154 ErasingVoice MemosToeraseallvoicememos Toeraseindividualmemos TostartScreenCallwhenyouhaveincomingcalls Setting Up Screen CallUsing Your Phone’s Voice Services 155 Activating Screen Call Torecordyourname Selecting an Announcementfor Screen CallRecordingYourNameforaPre-Recorded Announcement ToselectaScreenCallannouncement Recording a Customized Announcement Using Your Phone’s Voice Services 157Torecordanannouncement Toeraseanannouncement Reviewing an AnnouncementErasing an Announcement Toreviewanannouncement Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 159 Using Sprint PCS Ready LinkSM 160 SettingSprintPCS Ready Link ModeToenableordisableSprintPCSReadyLinkmode Getting StartedWith SprintPCS Ready Link Ready Link Call Alerts Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 161 162 Making and Receiving a SprintPCS Ready Link CallDisplaying the SprintPCS Ready Link List SprintPCSReadyLinkDisplayScreens Selecting a Contacts List Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 163 ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkcallbyselectingacontact Making aSprintPCS Ready Link Call 1-to-1 Call164 Making aSprintPCS Ready Link Call Group Call Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 165ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkGroupcall ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkcallbyenteringanumber Making a SprintPCS Ready Link Call by Entering a Number166 TodisplaytheMissedReadyLinkCallLog Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 167MissedCallNotificationforSprintPCS ReadyLinkCalls TocallthelastMissedSprintPCSReadyLinkcall ToreceiveaSprintPCSReadyLinkcall Receiving aSprintPCS Ready Link Call168 TocopyanentryfromtheSprintPCSReadyLinkList Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 169 170 Saving aSprintPCS Ready Link NumberTosavethenumberfromtheendcalldisplay TofindaSprintPCSReadyLinkentry SprintPCS Ready Link Options Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 171 ToeditaPersonalListcontact Adding a New ContacttoYour Personal ListEditing a ContactinYour Personal List ToaddanewSprintPCSReadyLinkcontact Adding a New Group toYour Personal Group List Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 173ToaddanewSprintPCSReadyLinkgroupentry Toeditagroupname Editing a Group inYour Personal Group List174 Toeraseacontactoragroup Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 175ErasingReady Link ListEntries Erasing an Entry inYour Personal Listor Personal Group List 176 Erasing a SprintPCS Ready Link ListToeraseagroupmember ToeraseaSprintPCSReadyLinkList Updating the Company Lists and Personal Lists Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 177 178 Assigning Speed Dialingfor SprintPCS Ready Link EntriesToassignSpeedDialingforSprintPCSReadyLinkentries TouseSpeedDialforaSprintPCSReadyLinkentry Using Sprint PCS Ready Link 179 Restarting the SprintPCS Ready Link ServiceSetting Ready Link Guard TorestarttheSprintPCSReadyLinkservice 180 Setting an AlertNotification for SprintPCS Ready Link CallsSetting RingerTypesfor SprintPCS Ready Link Calls TosetalertsforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls Tosetthespeakerphoneonoroff Setting the Speakerphonefor SprintPCS Ready Link CallsUsing Sprint PCS Ready Link 181 Select ReadyLinkCalls or R-LinkMissed and press Toselectthefloordisplay Setting the DefaultView of the SprintPCS Ready Link ListSetting the Floor Display of the SprintPCS Ready Link Calls ToselectthedefaultviewoftheSprintPCSReadyLinkList Sprint PCS Service Features 184 185 Sprint PCS Service Features Basics 186 UsingVoicemailSetting UpYourVoicemail Voicemail Notification NewVoicemail Message Alerts UsingOne-TouchMessageAccessRetrievingYourVoicemail Messages 188 UsingtheMenuKeysonYourPhonetoAccessYour Messages 189 VoicemailButtonGuide ToturnExpertModeonoroff UsingExpertModeSettingUpGroupDistributionLists Voicemail Options 191 SprintPCSCallbackVoicemail-to-VoicemailMessage Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReply 192 Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwardingVoicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest ContinueRecording 193 Clearing the Message IconExtendedAbsenceGreeting Tocleartheiconfromthedisplayscreen 194 DisplayingYourVoicemail DetailsVoicemail Menu Key Todisplayyourvoicemaildetails 195 New Messages Using SMSTextMessaging196 Todisplayatextmessagefromthemainmenu Displaying Messages197 Tosendatextmessage SendingaTextMessage198 199 To enter a message, select Message and press 200 SavetoDrafts to save the message to a Drafts folder FolderListOptions Message Options201 202 MessageListOptions 203 MessageDetailsOptions Toaddaprefixtoaphonenumber ToadjustthedisplayfontsizeChanging the Display FontSize of a Message Prepending a Phone Number From a Message Toaddanewfolder Message Folders205 Toeraseselectedmessages Erasing MessagesToeditafolder Toeraseanindividualmessage Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall Using Caller IDToswitchbacktothefirstcaller Responding to CallWaiting 208 TorespondtoanincomingcallwhenAnsweronHoldisactivated TomakeaThree-WayCall Making a Three-Way Call209 210 Using Call ForwardingToactivateCallForwarding TodeactivateCallForwarding Sprint PCS Vision 211 Sprint PCS Vision Your User Name Getting StartedWith SprintPCSVision212 TofindyourUserName ToupdateyourUserNameUpdatingYourUserName FindingYourUserName TolaunchaSprintPCSVisionconnection Connecting...PleasewaitLaunchinga SprintPCSVision Connection TheSprintPCSVisionHomePage Net Guard TochangeyourNetGuardsettingsSprint PCS Vision 215 216 SprintPCSVision Connection Status and Indicators Softkeys Navigating theWebScrolling GoingBack Selecting Sprint PCS Vision 219 GoingHome ToviewSprintPCSPictureMailmessagesfromthemainmenu SprintPCS MessagingUnderstanding Messaging Viewing SprintPCS Picture MailSM Sprint PCS Vision 221 Signing Up for Updates 222 Using EmailAccessing Email Messages ToaccessEmailmessages TocomposeanEmailmessage Composing Email MessagesSprint PCS Vision 223 224 Accessing Alternate Email ProvidersUsing Alternate Email Providers ToaccessemailprovidersfromyourSprintPCSVisionPhone Accessing InstantMessaging Using InstantMessagingSprint PCS Vision 225 Topostamessage ExperiencingWireless Online ChatToaccessachatroomfromthebrowser Select Messaging Toexitachatroom TosetupaprivatechatroomSprint PCS Vision 227 228 AccessingtheDownloadMenusToaccesstheSprintPCSVisiondownloadmenus SelectinganItemtoDownload Todownloadaselecteditem DownloadinganItemSprint PCS Vision 229 Todownloadanavailablegametoyourphone Accessing GamesGames DownloadingGames Sprint PCS Vision 231 PlayingGamesToplayadownloadedgameonyourSprintPCSVisionPhone Toquitagame Todownloadanavailableringertoyourphone Accessing RingersRingers DownloadingRingers ToassignadownloadedringerfromtheDownloadsmenu AssigningDownloadedRingersSprint PCS Vision 233 PurchasingRingers ToassignadownloadedringerfromtheSettingsmenu234 TodownloadanavailableScreenSavertoyourphone Accessing Screen SaversScreen Savers DownloadingScreenSavers 236 AssigningDownloadedScreenSavers Sprint PCS Vision 237 PurchasingScreenSavers Exploring theWeb Web238 Sprint PCS Vision 239 Using the Browser MenuOpeningtheBrowserMenu Toopenthebrowsermenu Tocreateabookmark CreatingaBookmark240 Toeditabookmark AccessingaBookmarkToaccessabookmark EditingaBookmark Tomoveabookmark DeletingaBookmarkMovingaBookmark Todeleteabookmark ReloadingaWebPage GoingtoaSpecificWebsiteRestartingtheWebBrowser TosendaWebpage AdjustingtheBrowserSoundVolumeToadjustthebrowsersoundvolume SendingaWebPage Whenismydataconnectionactive? SprintPCSVision FAQsCanImakecallsanduseSprintPCS Visionservicesatthe sametime? HowdoIsign-inforthefirsttime? Whenismydataconnectiondormant? CanIsignoutofdataservices?246 Sprint PCS Voice Command 247 Sprint PCS Voice Command It’sEasytoGetStarted GettingStartedWithSprintPCSVoice Command248 CreatingYour Own Address Book Sprint PCS Voice Command 249 250 TomakeacallwithSprintPCSVoiceCommand ToaccessinformationusingSprintPCSVoiceCommand Accessing Information Using SprintPCS Voice CommandSprint PCS Voice Command 251 252 Safety Warranty Information 254 Safety 255 Safety 256 Getting the MostOutofYour Reception Safety 257 Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your PhoneUsingYourPhoneWhileDriving FollowingSafetyGuidelines 258 UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevicesTurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas Sanyo has an M3 rating Using Your Phone With a Hearing Aid DeviceRestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhone Safety 259 260 Getting the Best Hearing Device Experience With Your DisposalofLithiumIonLiIonBatteries Caring for the BatteryProtectingYourBattery Safety 261 Body-WornOperation Acknowledging Special Precautions and the FCC NoticeSpecificAbsorptionRatesSARforWirelessPhones FCC Notice FCCRadiofrequencyEmission Safety 263Owner’s Record Phone Guide Proprietary Notice 264 Manufacturer’sWarranty Manufacturer’s Warranty265 CustomerLimitedWarranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyWarranty 266 267 Warranty 268 269 Page 271 Index 272 Index 273 274