UsingYour SprintPhone as a Modem | Sprint Nextel LX160 specification

UsingYour SprintPhone as a Modem

Your phone’s data capabilities enable you to use your phone’s high-speed data connection as a modem for your desktop or laptop PC. You’ll be able to send and receive email, browse the Internet, and access your company’s network anywhere on the Sprint National Network.

Note: To use this service, you are required to sign up on a SprintVision with Phone as Modem plan. Go to www.sprint.com or visita SprintStore for phone as modem plan details and more information.

Setting Up a Data ConnectionWithYour PC

In order to use your phone as a modem, you’ll first need to load the Sprint Connection ManagerSM software on your PC, and then use the supplied USB cable to connect your phone to your PC.

Tosetupyourphone-to-PCdataconnection:

1.From your computer’s Internet browser, go to www.sprint.com and download the Sprint Connection Manager software. (The software and drivers can be downloaded free of charge.)

2.Double-click the downloaded file and follow the onscreen instructions to install the Sprint Connection Manager software and drivers to your PC.

3.Once the software has been fully installed, connect your phone to your PC using a USB cable (sold separately). (Your PC will detect the connection and an icon will appear in your system tray.)

4.Launch the Sprint Connection Manager software, select a profile, and click Connect.

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Sprint Nextel LX160 manual UsingYour SprintPhone as a Modem, Setting Up a Data ConnectionWithYour PC

Contents

Phone User Guide Sprint Vision Phone LX160 by LG Table of Contents Setting Your Phone’s Roam Mode Controlling Your Roaming Experience 110 109103 SprintVision SprintVoice Command Important Safety InformationManufacturer’s Warranty Page Introduction Your Phone USE Your PHONE’S WEB Browser Tools Bluetooth Add New Settings MessagingWeb Iii Call History Voice ServicesMy Content Contacts Settings Text Entry Auto-Capital Getting Started Setting Up Service Setting Up ServiceThis Section Setting UpYour Phone UnlockingYourPhone Getting StartedWith SprintServiceDeterminingifYourPhoneisAlreadyActivated Tounlockyourphone,followtheseeasysteps Setting UpYour Voicemail TosetupyourvoicemailVoicemailPasscode Sprint Account Passwords Account Password VoicemailPasswordSprintVisionPassword ReachingSprintCustomerService Getting Help SprintOperatorServices ReceivingAutomatedBillingInformationSprint411 Your Phone Your Phone The Basics Your Phone The Basics Your Phone Phone Basics Key Functions Earpiece lets you hear the caller and automated prompts Viewing the Display Screen Your Phone The Basics Features ofYour Phone Your Phone The Basics TurningYourPhoneOff TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOn Toturnyourphoneon UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand Charger BatteryCapacity ToinstalltheLi-Ionbattery InstallingtheBatteryRemovingtheBattery Toremoveyourbattery ChargingtheBattery UsingthePhoneChargerTousethephonechargerprovidedwithyourphone NavigatingThrough Phone Menus SelectingMenuItems Togotothepreviousmenu DisplayingYour Phone NumberBackingUpWithinaMenu Toreturntostandbymode Tomakeacallusingyourkeypad Making and Answering CallsMaking Calls Dialing Options Answering Calls Toansweranincomingcall AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabled Missed Call NotificationEndingaCall Calling Emergency Numbers Enhanced911E911InformationToexitEmergencymode In-Call Options End-of-Call Options Savinga Phone NumberTosaveanumberfromstandbymode Finding a Phone Number Mobile/Home/Office/Pager/Fax/NoneTofindaphonenumber Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses TodialorsavephonenumberswithpausesSelect either Hardpause or 2-secpause Dialing Fromthe Contacts TomakeacallusingPlusCodeDialingPlus + Code Dialing TodialdirectlyfromaContactsentry Using Speed Dialing TouseOne-TouchDialingforspeeddiallocations1-9TouseTwo-TouchDialingforspeeddiallocations10-99 EnteringText Selectinga Character InputModeTochangethecharacterinputmode Entering Characters Using T9TextInput ToenterawordusingT9TextInput ToaddawordtotheT9TextInputdatabase Entering Characters byTapping the KeypadAddingaWordtotheT9Database Toentercharactersbytappingthekeypad Toentersymbols ToenternumbersToenteremoticonssmileys Toenterpresetmessages ToenterpresetsuffixSelect SendMessageTextMessage Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings RingerTypes Sound SettingsYour Phone’s Settings SelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Selecting aToneVolume Selecting aTone LengthSelectingRingerTypesforMessages Press MenuSettingsSoundsVolume Adjusting the Phone’sVolume SettingsToadjustyourphone’svolumesettings Toenableordisablealertsounds Display Settings Silence AllChanging theTextGreeting Changing the BacklightTime Length TochangethebacklightsettingPress MenuSettingsDisplayMainScreenBacklight Changing the Display Screen Changing the Phone’s Menu Style Select CallerID or NoCallerID Select Preloaded or MyContentChanging the Display Screen for Incoming Calls Tosettheincomingcallsdisplay Tochangethedisplay’sthemecolor Changing theTheme ColorChanging the Clock Display Tochangetheclock’sappearanceonthestandbyscreen Changing theTextInputFont Changing the Keypad LightTime LengthChanging the Status LightMode Press MenuSettingsDisplayLanguage Location SettingsToassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplay Toenableyourphone’sLocationfeature DisplayingPop-upMessages Messaging SettingsSelect MenuSettingsMessagingNotification Todisplaypop-upmessages DeletingOldMessages SettingMessageRemindersCallbackNumber DeliveryReceipt AddingaCustomizedSignature ManagingPresetMessagesToeditordeleteapresetmessage Toaddacustomizedsignaturetoeachsentmessage Toaddanewpresetmessage Press MenuSettingsMessagingVoiceSMSOptionsSMSVoiceOptions Airplane Mode TosetyourphonetoAirplaneMode TTY UseWith SprintService To turn TTY mode off ToturnTTY Modeonoroff Call Answer Mode Phone Setup OptionsShortcuts using navigation key Toassignyourshortcutkey Auto Answer Mode Abbreviated DialingContacts Match Setting Your Phone’s Security LockingYour Phone Accessing the Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature UnlockingYour Phone Using Special Numbers Calling in Lock ModeChangingthe Lock Code ToeraseallthenamesandphonenumbersinyourContacts Erasingthe Contacts ListRestrictingYour Phone Torestrictyourphone TorestrictapplicationsuchasInternetbrowser Erasing Private Browser DataSelect ContactsOnly, Special#sOnly, or Unlock and press Toeraseprivatebrowserdata Erasing My Content ResettingFavoritesErasingVoicetags Toresetdefaultsettings Resetting DefaultSettingsResettingYour Phone Toresetphone Controlling Your Roaming Experience Controlling Your Roaming Experience Understanding Roaming RecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreenRoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming Tocheckyourvoicemailwhileroaming Press MenuSettingsMore...RoamingSetMode SettingYour Phone’s Roam ModeSet Mode Tosetyourphone’sroammode ToturnCallGuardonoroff Using Call GuardPress MenuSettingsMore...RoamingCallGuard ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon Using Data Roam Guard ToturnDataRoamGuardonoroff Managing Call History Managing Call History Viewing History ToviewaCallHistoryentry Call History Options Making a Call FromCall History ToplaceacallfromCallHistoryTosaveaphonenumberfromCallHistory Prepending a Phone NumberFrom Call History ToprependaphonenumberfromCallHistory ErasingCall History ToeraseCallHistoryPress MenuCallHistoryDeleteCallHistory Using Contacts Using Contacts Addinga New Contacts Entry ToaddanewentryPress MenuContactsFind/AddEntry FindingGroupEntries FindingContacts EntriesFindingNames TofindContactsentriesbyname FindingSpeedDialNumbers TofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinspeeddiallocationsPress MenuContactsSpeedDial#s Contacts Entry Options AddingaPhoneNumbertoaContactsEntry Toaddaphonenumbertoanentry Assigning Speed Dial Numbers Toeditanentry’sphonenumberToassignaspeeddialnumbertoanewphonenumber Toassignaspeeddialnumbertoanexistingphonenumber My Name Card ToaccesstoMyNameCardTosendContactsviaBluetooth ToeditMyNameCard Send All Contacts Editinga Contacts EntrySelecting a Ringer Type for an Entry Press MenuContactsServices Dialing SprintServicesTodialaservicefromyourContacts Todialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad Wireless Backup Press MenuContactsWirelessBackup Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Toaddanevent UsingYour Phone’s CalendarAdding an Eventto the Calendar Press MenuToolsScheduler Event Alerts Event Alert Menu Viewing Events Going toToday’s Calendar MenuErasing a Day’s Events Todeleteeventsscheduledbeforeaspecifictimeanddate Purging EventsPurging All Events Press MenuToolsSchedulerOptionsright softkey DeleteOld UsingYour Phone’s Alarm Clock TousethealarmclockPress MenuToolsAlarmClock UsingYour Phone’s Notepad UsingYour Phone’sToolsUsing EzTips Tousethecalculator Using the CalculatorWorld Clock Toviewthetimeinover52differentlocations ManagingVoiceMemos UsingVoice-ActivatedDialing Using Your Phone’s Voice Services Managing Voice Memos Recording Voice Memos To play the voice memos you have recorded Voice Memo OptionsErasingVoice Memos To erase all voice memos ProgrammingVoice DialTags UsingVoice-Activated DialingPress MenuVoiceServicesVoiceDial To program a voice dial tag Accessing theVoice Dial Prompt ReviewingVoice DialTagsErasing AllVoice DialTags Using Bluetooth 103 ToturnBluetoothon Turning Bluetooth On and OffBluetoothStatusIndicators ToturnBluetoothoff ToaccesstheBluetoothsettingsmenu Using the Bluetooth SettingsMenuBluetooth SettingsVisibility 105 Bluetooth Settings Device Name Bluetooth Settings Device InformationBluetooth transfer audio function Bluetooth Profiles 107 PairingBluetooth Devices TopairyourphonewithanotherBluetoothdeviceAddDevice Sprint Service Features Sprint Service Features Basics Sprint Service Features The Basics UsingVoicemail Setting UpYourVoicemail111 To call your voicemail Voicemail NotificationNewVoicemail Message Alerts To display your Missed Log UsingOne-TouchMessageAccess RetrievingYourVoicemail Messages113 VoicemailKeyGuide UsingExpertModeVoicemail Options ToturnExpertModeonoroff Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessage SettingUpGroupDistributionListsSprintCallback 115 Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReply Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwardingVoicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest ExtendedAbsenceGreeting Clearing the Message IconContinueRecording Tocleartheiconfromthedisplayscreen Voicemail Menu Key Composing SMSTextMessages Using SMSTextMessagingTocomposeanSMSTextmessageusingtheTEXTkey 119 Or use the preset messages or smileys emoticons and press TocomposeanSMSTextmessage ToreplytoanSMSTextmessage Accessing SMSTextMessagesToreadanSMSTextmessage 121 Toaddoreditpresetmessages Using SMSVoice MessagingUsing PresetMessages Playing an SMSVoice Message Accessing SMSVoice Messages Composing SMSVoice Messages Using Caller ID Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall ToswitchbacktothefirstcallerResponding to CallWaiting 125 Making aThree-Way Call TomakeaThree-WayCall TodeactivateCallForwarding Using Call ForwardingToactivateCallForwarding 127 Sprint Vision Sprint Vision SprintVision Applications 129 Getting StartedWith SprintVision Your User Name Launchinga SprintVision Connection FindingYourUserNameSprintVision Home VisionConnecting TochangeyourNetGuardsettingsNet Guard SprintVision Connection Status and Indicators 133 Navigating theWeb SoftkeysScrolling Selecting GoingBack MessageTypes Accessing MessagingSprint Messaging GoingHome Select Menu MessagingIM&Email Accessing SprintMailToaccessSprintMailfromyourphone 137 Toaccessemailprovidersfromyourphone AccessingAdditionalEmailProvidersAccessingWirelessChatrooms Toaccessachatroomfromthebrowser Press MenuMyContent AccessingtheDownloadMenusToaccesstheSprintVisiondownloadmenus 139 SelectinganItemtoDownload DownloadinganItemTodownloadaselecteditem UsingMyContentManager ToaccessMyContentManager141 TodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager Using the Browser Menu Exploring the Web143 OpeningtheBrowserMenu Toopenthebrowsermenu CreatingaBookmark Tocreateabookmark145 DeletingaBookmark AccessingaBookmarkToaccessabookmark Select ViewBookmarks GoingtoaSpecificWebsite ReloadingaWebPageRestartingtheWebBrowser SprintVision FAQs CanIsignoutofdataservices? 149 UsingYour SprintPhone as a Modem Setting Up a Data ConnectionWithYour PCTosetupyourphone-to-PCdataconnection 151 Sprint Voice Command Sprint Voice Command It’sEasytoGetStarted Getting StartedWith Sprint Voice CommandVoice Command 153 CreatingYour Own Address Book TomakeacallwithSprintVoiceCommand 155 Accessing InformationUsing SprintVoice Command ToaccessinformationusingSprintVoiceCommand Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information General Precautions 159 FollowingSafetyGuidelines Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your PhoneUsingYourPhoneWhileDriving UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhoneTurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying 161 Caring for the Battery ProtectingYourBattery Radio Frequency RF Energy 163 FCCRadioFrequencyEmission SpecificAbsorptionRateSARforWirelessPhonesBluetooth QD ID B012711 PCSmodePart24 Owner’s Record Phone Guide Proprietary Notice165 Manufacturer’s Warranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyWarranty Manufacturer’sWarranty Warranty 167 Whatlgwilldo Howtogetwarrantyservice Warranty 169 Index Index Index 171 Index