Using SMSTextMessaging, 149 | Sprint Nextel H 11/07 instruction

Using SMSTextMessaging

With SMS Text Messaging, you can send and receive instant text messages between your wireless phone and another messaging-ready phone. When you receive a new message, it will automatically display on your phone’s screen.

In addition, SMS Text Messaging includes a variety of preset messages, such as “I’m running late, I’m on my way,”that make composing messages fast and easy. Use your phone to customize your own preset messages (up to 160 characters).

ComposingSMSTextMessages

1.Press Menu>Messaging>SendMessage>TextMessage and select the entry method you prefer:

■GotoContacts to select a recipientfrom your internal Contacts. (Qualifying Contacts entries mustcontain a wireless phone number or an email address.)

■NewAddr (right softkey) to use the keypad to enter the wireless phone number or email address of the person to whom you wish to send a message.

■Multiple (left softkey) to add multiple recipients.

2.Press .

3.Compose a message or use the preset messages or smileys (emoticons) and press .

■To type a message, use your keypad to enter your message. Use the right softkey to select a character input mode. (See “Entering Text”on page 37.)

Tip	You can also use your phone's slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
	See page 151.

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Contents

11/07 Phone User Guide Table of Contents Controlling Your Roaming Experience Page 3B. SprintVision 4A. Important Safety Information4B. Manufacturer’s Warranty 3C. Sprint Music and Your PlayerPage Introduction Phone Guide Want to keep track of your minutes? Your Phone’s Menu Iii Media Player Call History Missed Alerts Contacts Mycontent SETTINGS/TOOLS Vii Viii Messaging Memory Card Manager Alarm Clock USE Menu Getting Started Setting Up Service Setting Up ServiceThis Section Setting UpYour Phone ActivatingYour Phone Tip Setting UpYourVoicemail Account Password VoicemailPassword Sprint Account PasswordsSprintVisionPassword ManagingYour Account Sprint Customer Service 1-800-SPRINT11-800-777-4681Getting Help FromYourSprintPhone Sprint SprintOperatorServicesToaccessSprintOperatorServices TocallSprint411 Using Your Phone Phone Basics Phone Basics Your Phone PhoneBasics Key Functions PhoneBasics Phone Basics Viewing the Display Screen Indicates you have voicemail messages. Press Phone Basics Features ofYour Phone Phone Basics TurningYourPhoneOn TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOff UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand Charger BatteryCapacity InstallingtheBattery PhoneBasics RemovingtheBattery ChargingtheBattery UsingthePhoneCharger NavigatingThrough Phone Menus SelectingMenuItems Togotothepreviousmenu DisplayingYour Phone NumberBackingUpWithinaMenu Toreturntostandbymode Making and Answering Calls Making Calls Dialing Options Answering Calls EndingaCall AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabledMissed Call Notification TodisplaytheMissedCallentryfromthenotificationscreen Calling Emergency Numbers ToexitEmergencymode Enhanced911E911Information In-Call Options Saving a Phone Number End-of-Call OptionsTosaveanumberfromstandbymode Finding a Phone Number Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses Using Abbreviated Dialing Todialorsavephonenumberswithpauses ToplaceacallusingContactsMatchabbreviateddialing ToplaceacallusingPrependabbreviateddialing Press MenuContactsFind/AddEntry Shortcut Using Speed DialingDialing From the Contacts List TouseOne-TouchDialingforspeeddiallocations1-9 EnteringTextWith the Numeric Keypad EnteringTextSelectingaTextInputMode EnteringCharactersUsingT9TextInput AddingaWordtotheT9Database EnteringCharactersUsingABCMode Charactersscrollinthefollowingorder Toenternumbers ToentersymbolsToenterpresetmessages Toenteremoticonssmileys EnteringTextWith the Qwerty Keyboard ToentertextwiththeQWERTYkeyboard Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings RingerTypes Sound SettingsYourPhone’sSettings SelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Adjusting the Phone’sVolumeSettings Selecting a KeyTone Silence All Selecting a Slide SoundAlertNotification ToactivateSilenceAll Changing theTextGreeting Display SettingsChanging the BacklightTime Length Tosettheincomingcallsdisplay Slide ShowChanging the Display Screen for Incoming Calls Select CallerID or NoCallerID Changing theTheme Color Changing the Display ScreenChanging the Phone’s Menu Style Select Black, BubbleGum, Glacial, or Tropicaland press Changing theTextInputFont TochangethekeypadlightsettingChanging the Clock Display Changing the Keypad LightTime Length Display Language Toassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplayChanging the Status LightMode Tochangethestatuslightmode Location Settings Toenableyourphone’sLocationfeature SettingMessageAlerts Messaging SettingsSettingMessageNotification Select Message&Icon or IconOnly Tip DeliveryReceipt CallbackNumberDeletingOldMessages Toautomaticallydeletereadmessages Toaddanewpresetmessage ManagingPresetMessagesToeditordeleteapresetmessage AddingaCustomizedSignature SMSVoiceOptions Airplane/Music ModeSelect Speakerphone or FromName and press TTYUseWith SprintService ToturnTTY Modeonoroff Auto Keyguard Phone Setup OptionsShortcuts Call Answer Mode Auto-Answer Mode TextEntry Contacts MatchAbbreviated Dialing TosetyourContactsmatchoptions Setting Your Phone’s Security Setting Your Phone’s Security LockingYour Phone Accessingthe Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature UnlockingYour Phone Locking Pictures Calling in Lock ModeLocking Data Changing the Lock Code Erasing Private Browser Data Using Special NumbersSelect Erase/ResetErasePrivateBrowserData Toaddorreplaceaspecialnumber ToresetyourPictureMailaccount ResettingYour Picture Mail AccountSelect Erase/ResetEraseContacts Select Erase/ResetResetPictureMail. a disclaimer appears Toresetdefaultsettings Resetting Default SettingsResettingYour Phone Select Erase/ResetResetAllSettings. a disclaimer appears TodisableSprintVisionservices Security Features for SprintVisionEnabling and Disabling SprintVision Services ToenableSprintVisionservices Controlling Your Roaming Experience RoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks Understanding RoamingRecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen Controlling Your Roaming Experience SettingYour Phone’sRoam Mode CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon Using Call GuardToturnCallGuardonoroff ToanswerincomingroamingcallswithCallGuardon TousedataserviceswhenDataRoamGuardisactive Using Data Roam GuardTosetyourDataRoamGuardnotification Managing Call History Managing Call History ViewingHistory Select an entry and press Call History Options Making a Call From Call History Savinga Phone Number From Call History ErasingCall History Prepending a Phone Number From Call HistoryPress MenuCallHistoryDeleteCallHistory Using Contacts Addinga New Contacts Entry Using ContactsPress MenuContactsFind/AddEntry FindingContacts Entries FindingContactsbyName Press MenuContactsSpeedDial#’s FindingSpeedDialNumbersFindingGroupEntries Press MenuContactsGroups Contacts Entry Options Adding a Phone Number to a Contacts Entry Editing a Contacts Entry’s Phone Number Assigning Speed Dial Numbers Toassignaspeeddialnumbertoanewphonenumber Editing a Contacts Entry Toassignaspeeddialnumbertoanexistingphonenumber Selecting a Ringer Typefor an Entry Selecting aTextTonefor an Entry Press MenuContactsServices Dialing SprintServicesTodialaservicefromyourContacts Todialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad ActivatingandDeactivatingWirelessBackupService Wireless BackupActivatingWirelessBackupDuringPhoneActivation Toactivatethewirelessbackupservice Todeactivatethewirelessbackupservice ViewingYourWirelessBackupStatusSettingtheWirelessBackupAlert Press MenuContactsWirelessBackupViewStatus Using the Phone’s Tools Using the Phone’sTools UsingYour Phone’s CalendarPress MenuSettings/ToolsToolsScheduler Adding an Eventto the Calendar Event Alert Menu Viewing Events Erasing PastEvents Going toToday’s Calendar MenuErasing a Day’s Events TogototheCalendarmenufortoday’sdate Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsAlarmClock UsingYour Phone’s Alarm ClockErasing All Events Tocomposeanote UsingYour Phone’s NotepadTousetheQuickAlarm Toreadasavednote Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsEzTipCalculator Using EZTipsUsing the Calculator Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsCalculator Using the Unit Converter Using theWorld ClockUsing the D-Day Counter Tosetacountdowntimerforanupcomingevent Using Your Phone’s Voice Services ManagingVoiceMemos ManagingVoice Memos Recording Voice Memos ErasingVoice Memos Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsVoiceMemoVoice Memo Options To play the voice memos you have recorded Using the microSD Card Using the microSD Card InsertingthemicroSDCard UsingYour Phone’s microSD Card and AdapterUsing the microSD Card RemovingthemicroSDCard ToinsertthemicroSDcardintothemicroSDadapter Using the microSD AdapterMicroSDIconIndicators ToremovethemicroSDcardfromthemicroSDadapter Viewing Memory in the microSD Card MicroSD SettingsCreating Folders in the microSD Card Formatting the microSD Card DisplayingYourmicroSDFolders MicroSD FoldersToremovetheconnection 105 Using the Built-in Camera Using the Built-in Camera Totakeapicturewiththephoneopen Taking Pictures107 RegisteringYour SprintPicture Mail Account Camera Mode Options 109 UsingtheZoom SettingtheSelf-timerTocanceltheSelf-timerafterithasstarted ViewingYour Camera’s Status Area Display Selecting Camera Settings111 Recording Videos Video Mode Options 113 Toselectyourvideosettings SelectingVideo SettingsVideoLength to select VideoMail or LongVideo Phone Folder Setting Storage OptionsStoring Pictures andVideos 115 ToreviewyourstoredpicturesandvideosinthemicroSD Memory Card FoldersPhone Folder and Memory Card Options Press MenuPicturesMyAlbumsMemoryCard Rotate Camera/CamcorderMode to activate Camera/Camcorder mode117 Tosavepicturesandvideostoanonlinealbum Online AlbumsZoom Toreviewyouronlinealbums OnlineAlbumOptions 119 Sending Sprint Picture Mail First time you send Sprint Picture Mail, you will be 121 Sending Pictures andVideos From Messaging Press MenuMessagingSendMessagePictureMail ManagingSprintPicture Mail Using the SprintPicture MailWeb SiteToaccesstheSprintPictureMailWebsite 123 Managing Online Pictures andVideos From Your Phone Toviewyouronlinepicturesfromyourphone DownloadingYour Online Pictures Uploading Pictures125 Select RecipientsOnlineAddr.Book TosendpicturesusingtheonlineAddress BookSending Online SprintPicture Mail Tosendanalbumfromtheonlinepicturesmenu Accessing Online Picture Options FromYour Phone 127 ToaccessyouronlineAlbumsoptionsfromyourphone Printing Pictures Directly FromYour Phone Press MenuPicturesPictBridge Toprintpicturesdirectlyfromyourphone129 Toaccessthesettingsandinfomenu Settings and InfoPress MenuPicturesSettingsandInfo Using Bluetooth 131 ToturnBluetoothon Turning Bluetooth On and OffBluetoothStatusIndicators ToturnBluetoothoff ToaccesstheBluetoothSettingsmenu Using the Bluetooth SettingsMenuBluetooth Settings Device Name Toset aBluetoothnameforyourphone Bluetooth Settings Device Info Bluetooth SettingsVisibilityTodisplayyourphone’sBluetoothaddress Bluetooth Profiles 135 Using Bluetooth TopairyourphonewithanotherBluetoothdevice PairingBluetooth DevicesWaitingforPairing PairedDevices ExchangeFolder Sending All Contacts Using BluetoothToaccesstheExchangeFolder TosendallContacts Sprint Service Features Sprint Service Features Basics Sprint Service Features The Basics Setting UpYourVoicemail UsingVoicemail141 To call your voicemail Voicemail NotificationNewVoicemail Message Alerts Todisplayyour Missed Log RetrievingYourVoicemail Messages UsingOne-TouchMessageAccessUsingAnotherPhonetoAccessMessages 143 Voicemail Options UsingExpertModeVoicemailButtonGuide Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessage SettingUpGroupDistributionListsSprintCallback 145 Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwarding Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReplyVoicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest ExtendedAbsenceGreeting Clearing the Message IconVoicemail Menu Key Press Menu MessagingVoicemailClearIcon Sprint Service Features The Basics ComposingSMSTextMessages Using SMSTextMessaging149 Sprint Service Features The Basics ToreadanSMSTextmessage AccessingSMSTextMessagesSendingaTextMessage Using the Qwerty Keyboard ToreplytoanSMSTextmessage Toaddpresetmessages Using SMSVoice MessagingUsing PresetMessages ActivatingSMSVoice Messaging ToreplytoanSMSVoicemessage AccessingSMSVoice MessagesComposingSMSVoice Messages 153 Responding to CallWaiting Using Caller IDToswitchbacktothefirstcaller Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall Making aThree-Way Call 155 ToactivateCallForwarding Using Call ForwardingTodeactivateCallForwarding Sprint Vision 157 SprintVision Applications Sprint Vision FindingYourUserName Getting StartedWith SprintVisionYour User Name 159 UpdatingYourUserName Press MenuSettings/ToolsSettingsMore...DataLaunching a SprintVision Connection SprintVision Home Net Guard TochangeyourNetGuardsettings161 SprintVision Connection Status and Indicators Softkeys Navigating theWebScrolling GoingBack SelectingGoingHome MessageTypes Accessing MessagingUsing Email GettingStartedWithEmail Sprint Vision AccessingEmail 167 AccessingWirelessChatrooms AccessingSprintInstantMessagingPress MenuMessagingInstantMessaging Press MenuMyContent AccessingtheDownloadMenus169 DownloadinganItem SelectinganItemtoDownloadTodownloadaselecteditem ToaccessMyContentManager UsingMyContentManager171 TodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager Exploring theWeb Using the Browser Menu173 OpeningtheBrowserMenu Toopenthebrowsermenu Select MyBookmarks AccessingaBookmarkCreatingaBookmark 175 ReloadingaWebPage DeletingaBookmarkGoingtoaSpecificWebsite Select Goto WebAddress Select Browser OptionsRestartBrowser SprintVision FAQsRestartingtheWebBrowser HowdoIsigninforthefirsttime? Whenismydataconnectionactive? CanIsignoutofdataservices?Whenismydataconnectiondormant? Sprint Music and Your Player 179 LaunchingSprintMusicManager Using SprintMusic ManagerGettingSprintMusicManager Sprint Music and Your Player Totransfermusictoyourphone OverviewofSprintMusicManagerTransferringMusictoYourPhone MusicandYourPlayer Playing MusiconYour Phone Press MenuMediaPlayer Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information Important SafetyInformation General Precautions185 FollowingSafetyGuidelines Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your PhoneUsingYourPhoneWhileDriving UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhoneTurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying 187 UsingYour PhoneWith a Hearing Aid Device A T3 rating Getting the Best Hearing DeviceExperience WithYour Phone 189 Caring for the Battery ProtectingYourBattery Radio Frequency RF Energy 191 Bluetooth QD ID B012917 SpecificAbsorptionRatesSARforWirelessPhonesFCCRadioFrequencyEmission FCCNotice 193 Owner’s Record Phone Guide Proprietary Notice Manufacturer’sWarranty Manufacturer’s WarrantyWarranty 195 Manufacturer’sWarranty Warranty Warranty 197 Whatlgwilldo Howtogetwarrantyservice Index Index199 Making Calls 25 Messaging Settings 52 microSD Card 100 Index