Phone Basics

Section 2A

In This Section

♦YourPhone(page 11)

♦ViewingtheDisplayScreen(page 15)

♦FeaturesofYourPhone(page 17)

♦TurningYour PhoneOnandOff(page 19)

♦UsingYourPhone’sBatteryandCharger(page 20)

♦NavigatingThroughPhoneMenus(page 23)

♦DisplayingYourPhoneNumber(page 24)

♦MakingandAnsweringCalls(page 25)

♦EnteringText (page 37)

Yourphoneispackedwithfeaturesthatsimplifyyourlife andexpandyourabilitytostayconnectedtothepeopleand informationthatareimportanttoyou.This section will guide you through the basic functions and calling features of your phone.

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Sprint Nextel H 11/07 manual Phone Basics

Contents

11/07 Phone User Guide Table of Contents Controlling Your Roaming Experience Page 3C. Sprint Music and Your Player 4A. Important Safety Information4B. Manufacturer’s Warranty 3B. SprintVisionPage Phone Guide Introduction Want to keep track of your minutes? Iii Your Phone’s Menu Media Player Call History Missed Alerts Contacts Mycontent Vii SETTINGS/TOOLS Messaging Viii Memory Card Manager Alarm Clock USE Menu Getting Started Setting Up Service Setting Up ServiceThis Section Setting UpYour Phone Tip ActivatingYour Phone Setting UpYourVoicemail Sprint Account Passwords Account Password VoicemailPasswordSprintVisionPassword FromYourSprintPhone Sprint Customer Service 1-800-SPRINT11-800-777-4681Getting Help ManagingYour Account TocallSprint411 SprintOperatorServicesToaccessSprintOperatorServices Sprint Using Your Phone Phone Basics Phone Basics PhoneBasics Your Phone Key Functions PhoneBasics Phone Basics Indicates you have voicemail messages. Press Viewing the Display Screen Phone Basics Features ofYour Phone Phone Basics TurningYour Phone On and Off TurningYourPhoneOnTurningYourPhoneOff BatteryCapacity UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand Charger PhoneBasics RemovingtheBattery InstallingtheBattery UsingthePhoneCharger ChargingtheBattery SelectingMenuItems NavigatingThrough Phone Menus Toreturntostandbymode DisplayingYour Phone NumberBackingUpWithinaMenu Togotothepreviousmenu Making Calls Making and Answering Calls Dialing Options Answering Calls TodisplaytheMissedCallentryfromthenotificationscreen AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabledMissed Call Notification EndingaCall ToexitEmergencymode Calling Emergency Numbers Enhanced911E911Information In-Call Options End-of-Call Options Saving a Phone NumberTosaveanumberfromstandbymode Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses Finding a Phone Number Todialorsavephonenumberswithpauses Using Abbreviated Dialing ToplaceacallusingPrependabbreviateddialing ToplaceacallusingContactsMatchabbreviateddialing TouseOne-TouchDialingforspeeddiallocations1-9 Using Speed DialingDialing From the Contacts List Press MenuContactsFind/AddEntry Shortcut EnteringText EnteringTextWith the Numeric KeypadSelectingaTextInputMode AddingaWordtotheT9Database EnteringCharactersUsingT9TextInput Charactersscrollinthefollowingorder EnteringCharactersUsingABCMode Toenteremoticonssmileys ToentersymbolsToenterpresetmessages Toenternumbers ToentertextwiththeQWERTYkeyboard EnteringTextWith the Qwerty Keyboard Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings SelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Sound SettingsYourPhone’sSettings RingerTypes Selecting a KeyTone Adjusting the Phone’sVolumeSettings ToactivateSilenceAll Selecting a Slide SoundAlertNotification Silence All Display Settings Changing theTextGreetingChanging the BacklightTime Length Select CallerID or NoCallerID Slide ShowChanging the Display Screen for Incoming Calls Tosettheincomingcallsdisplay Select Black, BubbleGum, Glacial, or Tropicaland press Changing the Display ScreenChanging the Phone’s Menu Style Changing theTheme Color Changing the Keypad LightTime Length TochangethekeypadlightsettingChanging the Clock Display Changing theTextInputFont Tochangethestatuslightmode Toassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplayChanging the Status LightMode Display Language Toenableyourphone’sLocationfeature Location Settings Select Message&Icon or IconOnly Tip Messaging SettingsSettingMessageNotification SettingMessageAlerts Toautomaticallydeletereadmessages CallbackNumberDeletingOldMessages DeliveryReceipt AddingaCustomizedSignature ManagingPresetMessagesToeditordeleteapresetmessage Toaddanewpresetmessage Airplane/Music Mode SMSVoiceOptionsSelect Speakerphone or FromName and press ToturnTTY Modeonoroff TTYUseWith SprintService Phone Setup Options Auto KeyguardShortcuts Auto-Answer Mode Call Answer Mode TosetyourContactsmatchoptions Contacts MatchAbbreviated Dialing TextEntry Setting Your Phone’s Security Setting Your Phone’s Security UnlockingYour Phone Accessingthe Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature LockingYour Phone Changing the Lock Code Calling in Lock ModeLocking Data Locking Pictures Toaddorreplaceaspecialnumber Using Special NumbersSelect Erase/ResetErasePrivateBrowserData Erasing Private Browser Data Select Erase/ResetResetPictureMail. a disclaimer appears ResettingYour Picture Mail AccountSelect Erase/ResetEraseContacts ToresetyourPictureMailaccount Select Erase/ResetResetAllSettings. a disclaimer appears Resetting Default SettingsResettingYour Phone Toresetdefaultsettings ToenableSprintVisionservices Security Features for SprintVisionEnabling and Disabling SprintVision Services TodisableSprintVisionservices Controlling Your Roaming Experience Controlling Your Roaming Experience Understanding RoamingRecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen RoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming SettingYour Phone’sRoam Mode ToanswerincomingroamingcallswithCallGuardon Using Call GuardToturnCallGuardonoroff ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon Using Data Roam Guard TousedataserviceswhenDataRoamGuardisactiveTosetyourDataRoamGuardnotification Managing Call History Managing Call History Select an entry and press ViewingHistory Making a Call From Call History Call History Options Savinga Phone Number From Call History Prepending a Phone Number From Call History ErasingCall HistoryPress MenuCallHistoryDeleteCallHistory Using Contacts Using Contacts Addinga New Contacts EntryPress MenuContactsFind/AddEntry FindingContactsbyName FindingContacts Entries Press MenuContactsGroups FindingSpeedDialNumbersFindingGroupEntries Press MenuContactsSpeedDial#’s Contacts Entry Options Editing a Contacts Entry’s Phone Number Adding a Phone Number to a Contacts Entry Toassignaspeeddialnumbertoanewphonenumber Assigning Speed Dial Numbers Toassignaspeeddialnumbertoanexistingphonenumber Editing a Contacts Entry Selecting aTextTonefor an Entry Selecting a Ringer Typefor an Entry Todialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad Dialing SprintServicesTodialaservicefromyourContacts Press MenuContactsServices Toactivatethewirelessbackupservice Wireless BackupActivatingWirelessBackupDuringPhoneActivation ActivatingandDeactivatingWirelessBackupService Press MenuContactsWirelessBackupViewStatus ViewingYourWirelessBackupStatusSettingtheWirelessBackupAlert Todeactivatethewirelessbackupservice Using the Phone’s Tools Adding an Eventto the Calendar UsingYour Phone’s CalendarPress MenuSettings/ToolsToolsScheduler Using the Phone’sTools Viewing Events Event Alert Menu TogototheCalendarmenufortoday’sdate Going toToday’s Calendar MenuErasing a Day’s Events Erasing PastEvents UsingYour Phone’s Alarm Clock Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsAlarmClockErasing All Events Toreadasavednote UsingYour Phone’s NotepadTousetheQuickAlarm Tocomposeanote Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsCalculator Using EZTipsUsing the Calculator Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsEzTipCalculator Tosetacountdowntimerforanupcomingevent Using theWorld ClockUsing the D-Day Counter Using the Unit Converter ManagingVoiceMemos Using Your Phone’s Voice Services Recording Voice Memos ManagingVoice Memos To play the voice memos you have recorded Press MenuSettings/ToolsToolsVoiceMemoVoice Memo Options ErasingVoice Memos Using the microSD Card Using the microSD Card RemovingthemicroSDCard UsingYour Phone’s microSD Card and AdapterUsing the microSD Card InsertingthemicroSDCard ToremovethemicroSDcardfromthemicroSDadapter Using the microSD AdapterMicroSDIconIndicators ToinsertthemicroSDcardintothemicroSDadapter Formatting the microSD Card MicroSD SettingsCreating Folders in the microSD Card Viewing Memory in the microSD Card MicroSD Folders DisplayingYourmicroSDFoldersToremovetheconnection 105 Using the Built-in Camera Using the Built-in Camera Taking Pictures Totakeapicturewiththephoneopen107 RegisteringYour SprintPicture Mail Account 109 Camera Mode Options SettingtheSelf-timer UsingtheZoomTocanceltheSelf-timerafterithasstarted Selecting Camera Settings ViewingYour Camera’s Status Area Display111 Recording Videos 113 Video Mode Options SelectingVideo Settings ToselectyourvideosettingsVideoLength to select VideoMail or LongVideo 115 Setting Storage OptionsStoring Pictures andVideos Phone Folder Press MenuPicturesMyAlbumsMemoryCard Memory Card FoldersPhone Folder and Memory Card Options ToreviewyourstoredpicturesandvideosinthemicroSD Camera/CamcorderMode to activate Camera/Camcorder mode Rotate117 Toreviewyouronlinealbums Online AlbumsZoom Tosavepicturesandvideostoanonlinealbum 119 OnlineAlbumOptions First time you send Sprint Picture Mail, you will be Sending Sprint Picture Mail 121 Press MenuMessagingSendMessagePictureMail Sending Pictures andVideos From Messaging 123 Using the SprintPicture MailWeb SiteToaccesstheSprintPictureMailWebsite ManagingSprintPicture Mail Toviewyouronlinepicturesfromyourphone Managing Online Pictures andVideos From Your Phone Uploading Pictures DownloadingYour Online Pictures125 Tosendanalbumfromtheonlinepicturesmenu TosendpicturesusingtheonlineAddress BookSending Online SprintPicture Mail Select RecipientsOnlineAddr.Book 127 Accessing Online Picture Options FromYour Phone Printing Pictures Directly FromYour Phone ToaccessyouronlineAlbumsoptionsfromyourphone Toprintpicturesdirectlyfromyourphone Press MenuPicturesPictBridge129 Settings and Info ToaccessthesettingsandinfomenuPress MenuPicturesSettingsandInfo 131 Using Bluetooth ToturnBluetoothoff Turning Bluetooth On and OffBluetoothStatusIndicators ToturnBluetoothon Toset aBluetoothnameforyourphone Using the Bluetooth SettingsMenuBluetooth Settings Device Name ToaccesstheBluetoothSettingsmenu Bluetooth SettingsVisibility Bluetooth Settings Device InfoTodisplayyourphone’sBluetoothaddress 135 Bluetooth Profiles Using Bluetooth PairedDevices PairingBluetooth DevicesWaitingforPairing TopairyourphonewithanotherBluetoothdevice TosendallContacts Sending All Contacts Using BluetoothToaccesstheExchangeFolder ExchangeFolder Sprint Service Features Sprint Service Features The Basics Sprint Service Features Basics UsingVoicemail Setting UpYourVoicemail141 Todisplayyour Missed Log Voicemail NotificationNewVoicemail Message Alerts To call your voicemail 143 UsingOne-TouchMessageAccessUsingAnotherPhonetoAccessMessages RetrievingYourVoicemail Messages UsingExpertMode Voicemail OptionsVoicemailButtonGuide 145 SettingUpGroupDistributionListsSprintCallback Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessage Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReply Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwardingVoicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest Press Menu MessagingVoicemailClearIcon Clearing the Message IconVoicemail Menu Key ExtendedAbsenceGreeting Sprint Service Features The Basics Using SMSTextMessaging ComposingSMSTextMessages149 Sprint Service Features The Basics ToreplytoanSMSTextmessage AccessingSMSTextMessagesSendingaTextMessage Using the Qwerty Keyboard ToreadanSMSTextmessage ActivatingSMSVoice Messaging Using SMSVoice MessagingUsing PresetMessages Toaddpresetmessages 153 AccessingSMSVoice MessagesComposingSMSVoice Messages ToreplytoanSMSVoicemessage Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall Using Caller IDToswitchbacktothefirstcaller Responding to CallWaiting 155 Making aThree-Way Call Using Call Forwarding ToactivateCallForwardingTodeactivateCallForwarding 157 Sprint Vision Sprint Vision SprintVision Applications 159 Getting StartedWith SprintVisionYour User Name FindingYourUserName SprintVision Home Press MenuSettings/ToolsSettingsMore...DataLaunching a SprintVision Connection UpdatingYourUserName TochangeyourNetGuardsettings Net Guard161 SprintVision Connection Status and Indicators Navigating theWeb SoftkeysScrolling Selecting GoingBackGoingHome GettingStartedWithEmail Accessing MessagingUsing Email MessageTypes Sprint Vision 167 AccessingEmail AccessingSprintInstantMessaging AccessingWirelessChatroomsPress MenuMessagingInstantMessaging AccessingtheDownloadMenus Press MenuMyContent169 SelectinganItemtoDownload DownloadinganItemTodownloadaselecteditem UsingMyContentManager ToaccessMyContentManager171 TodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager Using the Browser Menu Exploring theWeb173 Toopenthebrowsermenu OpeningtheBrowserMenu 175 AccessingaBookmarkCreatingaBookmark Select MyBookmarks Select Goto WebAddress DeletingaBookmarkGoingtoaSpecificWebsite ReloadingaWebPage HowdoIsigninforthefirsttime? SprintVision FAQsRestartingtheWebBrowser Select Browser OptionsRestartBrowser CanIsignoutofdataservices? Whenismydataconnectionactive?Whenismydataconnectiondormant? 179 Sprint Music and Your Player Sprint Music and Your Player Using SprintMusic ManagerGettingSprintMusicManager LaunchingSprintMusicManager MusicandYourPlayer OverviewofSprintMusicManagerTransferringMusictoYourPhone Totransfermusictoyourphone Press MenuMediaPlayer Playing MusiconYour Phone Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information General Precautions Important SafetyInformation185 UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your PhoneUsingYourPhoneWhileDriving FollowingSafetyGuidelines 187 RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhoneTurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas A T3 rating UsingYour PhoneWith a Hearing Aid Device 189 Getting the Best Hearing DeviceExperience WithYour Phone ProtectingYourBattery Caring for the Battery 191 Radio Frequency RF Energy SpecificAbsorptionRatesSARforWirelessPhones Bluetooth QD ID B012917FCCRadioFrequencyEmission 193 FCCNotice Phone Guide Proprietary Notice Owner’s Record Manufacturer’s Warranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyWarranty 195 Warranty Manufacturer’sWarranty Whatlgwilldo Warranty 197 Howtogetwarrantyservice Index Index199 Making Calls 25 Messaging Settings 52 microSD Card 100 Index