Phone Basics

Section 2A

In This Section

♦FrontViewofYourPhone(page 11)

♦ViewingtheDisplayScreen(page 15)

♦FeaturesofYourPhone(page 17)

♦TurningYour PhoneOnandOff(page 19)

♦UsingYourPhone’sBatteryandCharger(page 20)

♦NavigatingThroughPhoneMenus(page 24)

♦DisplayingYourPhoneNumber(page 25)

♦ChangingtheFaceplate(page 26)

♦MakingandAnsweringCalls(page 27)

♦EnteringText (page 43)

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

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Contents

Phone User Guide Table of Contents Setting Your Phone’s Security 105 161 4B. Manufacturer’s Warranty 3C. Sprint PCS Voice Command4A. Important Safety Information Page Welcome to Sprint Welcome and thank you for choosing Sprint Introduction Phone Guide Want to Keep Track of Your MINUTES? Iii Messaging Call HistoryContacts Calendar Web My ContentParental Control Settings Tools Vii Alert Learn More Location Off Sleep ModePCS Vision Viii Erase Content Roaming Set ModePreset Msgs Text Reset Phone Text Entry Others Airplane ModeHeadset Mode Any Key Answer Getting Started Setting Up Service This Section Tounlockyourphone,followtheseeasysteps DeterminingifYourPhoneisAlreadyActivatedUnlockingYourPhone Tip Setting UpYourVoicemail Tosetupyourvoicemail SprintPCSVisionPassword Sprint PCS AccountPasswordsAccount Password VoicemailPassword ReachingSprintCustomerService Getting Help Sprint411 ToaccessautomatedbillinginformationReceivingAutomatedBillingInformation TocallSprint411 SprintPCSOperatorServices ToaccessSprintPCSOperatorServices Using Your Phone Phone Basics Phone Basics FrontView ofYour Phone PhoneBasics Key Functions Web Key lets you launch the browser Faceplate Release Latch lets you remove the faceplate Phone Basics Viewing the Display Screen Phone Basics Features of Your Phone Phone Basics TurningYourPhoneOff TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOn Toturnyourphoneon UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand Charger BatteryCapacity ToinstalltheLi-Ionbattery InstallingtheBatteryRemovingtheBattery Toremoveyourbattery ChargingtheBattery UsingtheCharger Tousethetravelchargerprovidedwithyourphone NavigatingThrough Phone Menus SelectingMenuItems Togotothepreviousmenu DisplayingYour Phone NumberBackingUpWithinaMenu Toreturntostandbymode Removing and Installing the Faceplate Changing the Faceplate Making Calls TomakeacallusingyourkeypadMaking and Answering Calls Dialing Options Toplaceacallwiththeflipclosed Toansweranincomingcallwiththeflipclosed Answering CallsToansweranincomingcallwiththeflipopen Open the phone to use the earpiece TosetAnsweronHold AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabledSettingAnsweronHold Toresumethecall Todisconnectacallwhenyouarefinished UsingtheSpeakerphoneEndingaCall Toturnthespeakerphoneonduringacall MutingaCall ChangingtheRingerVolumeAdjustingVolumeDuringaConversation Tomuteacall TodisplaytheMissedCallentryfromthenotificationscreen Missed Call NotificationCalling Emergency Numbers TodisplayaMissedCallentryfromstandbymode ToselectEmergencymodeoptions Enhanced911E911InformationToexitEmergencymode In-Call Options Tosaveanumberfromstandbymode End-of-Call OptionsSavinga Phone Number Tofindaphonenumber Finding a Phone NumberDialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses Todialorsavephonenumberswithpauses TomakeacallusingPlusCodeDialingPlus + Code Dialing TodialdirectlyfromaContactsentry Using Speed DialingDialing Fromthe ContactsList Select ContactsFind/AddEntry Shortcut Using Abbreviated Dialing TousespeeddialforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls ToplaceacallusingPh.BookMatchAbbreviatedDialing ToplaceacallusingPrependAbbreviatedDialing Tochangethecharacterinputmode EnteringTextSelecting a Character InputMode Entering Characters UsingT9TextInput ToenterawordusingT9TextInput ToaddawordtotheT9TextInputdatabase Select SettingsOthersTextEntryMyWordsAddingaWordtotheT9Database Toeditorerasethewordsyouhaveadded TocustomizetheT9Settings CustomizingtheT9SettingsSettingtheDefaultInputMode Tosetthedefaultinputmode Entering Characters Using Alphabet Mode Hold to delete an entire entry B c B C Toenterpresetmessages Entering Numbers, Symbols, Smileys and Preset MessagesToentersymbols Toenternumbers Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings RingerTypes Sound SettingsYourPhone’sSettings SelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Toselectaringertypeformessages SelectingRingerTypesforMessagesSelectingRingerTypesforSprintPCSReadyLinkCalls ToselectaringertypeforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls Tosetastart-up/power-offtone Setting a Start-up/Power-offToneToselectaringertypeforvoicemailorcalendar/alarm Selecting aTone Length Toenableordisablevoiceprompt UsingVoice PromptSetting Up Key Press Echo ToturnKeyPressEchoonoroff Toadjusttheearpieceorspeakervolume Adjusting the Phone’sVolumeSettingsToadjusttheringerandkeyvolume Toadjusttheapplicationvolume Tosetalerts Select SettingsSoundsAlertsAlert Notification TodeactivateSilenceAll Silence AllToactivateSilenceAll Changing theTextGreeting Display SettingsTochangetheMainLCDorSubLCDbacklightsetting Changing the BacklightTime Length Changing the Display for Incoming Calls TochangetheKeypadbacklightsettingChanging the Display Screen Animation Tochangetheanimationdisplay Changing the Contrast Toadjustthedisplay’scontrastChanging the Display for Area Name Tosetyourareanamedisplay Toselectthedisplay’smenustyle Changing the Clock/Calendar Display for Standby ModeChanging the Phone’s Menu Style Tosettheclock/calendardisplayforstandbymode To change the text input font Changing theTextFont SizeChanging the Background To change the display’s background To set this feature Setting Return to Standby ModeSleep Mode To set sleep mode Location Settings Toenableyourphone’sLocationfeature Tosetthemessagenotificationdisplay Messaging SettingsSettingtheMessageNotificationDisplay Tochangethelanguageofthepresetmessages ManagingPresetMessagesToeditapresetmessage Select Englishor Spanish Tosetthecallbacknumber SettingaCallbackNumberAddingaCustomizedSignature Toaddacustomizedsignaturetoeachsentmessage SettingtheSender’sNameforSMSVoiceMessaging SettingDraftsAlertSettingtheSpeakerphoneforSMSVoiceMessaging Select Settings Messaging VoiceSMS Connection Alert Airplane ModeSettinganAlertNotificationforSMSVoiceMessaging TosetalertforSMSVoicemessaging TTY UseWith SprintPCS Service Select SettingsOthersTTY ToturnTTY Modeonoroff Toassignyourshortcutkey Phone Setup OptionsShortcutMy Favorites Toedittheshortcutname Display Language Auto-Answer ModeToassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplay TosetAuto-Answermode ToactivatetheOpenFlipfeature Setting the CurrentTimeSetting the Open/Close Flip Option ToactivatetheCloseFlipfeature SettingTextEntry Options Setting Any Key AnswerSetting the Side Key Guard Select SettingsOthersAbbrev.Dial Select Ph.BookMatch Setting Abbreviated DialingToactivatethePh.BookMatchfeature ToactivatethePrependfeature Toconnecttheheadset Setting HeadsetModeSelect SettingsOthersHeadsetMode Tosetheadsetmode ToactivatetheWirelessBackupservice Wireless BackupActivating and DeactivatingWireless Backup Service Select SettingsWirelessBackup TosettheWirelessBackupalert Setting theWireless Backup AlertTodeactivatetheWirelessBackupservice Select SettingsWirelessBackupAlert Setting Your Phone’s Security Setting Your Phone’s Security ToaccesstheSecuritymenu Accessing the Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature LockingYour Phone UnlockingYour Phone Lock ServicesCalling in Lock Mode Changingthe Lock Code Select OthersLimitUse Select OutgoingCalls or IncomingCalls Restricting CallsTorestrictcalls Using Special Numbers Toaddorreplaceaspecialnumber ToeraseallthenamesandphonenumbersinyourContacts ErasingMy ContentErasing Contacts Toerasealldownloads Toresetyourphone ResettingYour PhoneResetting and LockingYour Phone Through SMS Select ResetPhone Changing the Passcode Toactivatethisfeature,thefollowingpresettingisrequiredSelect OthersFoundMeReset/LockEnable Select OthersFoundMeChgPasscode TodisableSprintPCSVisionservices Security Featuresfor SprintPCSVisionEnabling and Disabling Sprint PCSVision Services ToenableSprintPCSVisionservices Torestrictoutgoingandincomingcalls Using the Parental Control FeatureTolockservices To edit Contacts Select Parental ControlSelect Special #s Select Edit Phone Book Tip Controlling Your Roaming Experience RoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks Understanding RoamingRecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen Controlling Your Roaming Experience RoamingonAnalogNetworks CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming Tocheckyourvoicemailwhileroaming Select SettingsRoamingSetMode SettingYour Phone’s Roam ModeSet Mode Tosetyourphone’sroammode ToturnCallGuardonoroff Using Call GuardSelect SettingsRoamingCallGuard ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon ToanswerincomingroamingcallswithCallGuardon Using Data Roam Guard Select SettingsRoamingDataRoamGuard Managing Call History Managing Call History Viewing HistoryToviewaCallHistoryentry Call History Options 101 Making a Call FromCall History ToplaceacallfromCallHistory 103 TosaveaphonenumberfromCallHistorySelect SavePhone# ToprependaphonenumberfromCallHistory Prepending a Phone NumberFrom Call HistoryErasingCall History ToeraseCallHistory Using Contacts 105 Toaddanewentry Using ContactsAddinga New Contacts Entry Select ContactsFind/AddEntry TofindContactsentriesbyname FindingContacts EntriesFindingNames TofindSprintPCSReadyLinkentries Tofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinspeeddiallocations Contacts Entry OptionsFindingSpeedDialNumbers Select ContactsSpeedDial#s Toaddaphonenumbertoanentry 109 Tomakechangestoanentry Editing a Contacts EntryErasing a Contacts Entry From the List Toeraseaselectedentry 111 AssigningSpeed Dial NumbersToassignaspeeddialnumber Assigning an Image to a Contacts Entry Toassignanimageforanentry 113 Selecting a Ringer Type for an EntryToselectaringertypeforanentry Select SetSecret SecretContacts EntriesTomakeanentrysecret Tomakeanentrypublic Todialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad Dialing SprintPCS ServicesTodialaservicefromyourContacts 115 Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Adding an Eventto the Calendar UsingYour Phone’s CalendarDisplayingYour Calendar Event Alerts Torespondtoaneventalert Event Alert MenuViewing Events Toviewyourscheduledevents Purging All Events Going toYour Desired DateErasing a Day’s Events Toaddacallalarmtothecalendar Using the Call Alarm FeatureAdding a Call Alarm to the Calendar Select Options right softkey AddEventCallAlarm Tocallthephonenumberatthetimeofacallalarmnotification Call Alarm MenuTorespondtoacallalarm Otherwaysofrespondingtoacallalarminclude ToaddanitemtoyourToDoList AddingTo Do ListItemsAdding aTo Do ListItem to the Calendar ToaddyourToDoListitemtothecalendar Tostopthealarm UsingYour Phone’s Alarm ClockTousethealarmclock UsingYour Phone’sTools Using the Stopwatch Tousethecalculator Using the CalculatorWorld Clock Toviewthetimein38differentlocations Select ToolsUpdatePhone TorespondtoanautomaticupdaterequestTomanuallyupdateyourphonethroughtheToolsmenu UpdatingYour Phone Finding Icon Definitions Personal Information ManagementDisplayingYour User Address DisplayingVersion Information Using Your Phone’s Voice Services 129 ProgrammingVoice DialTags UsingVoice-Activated DialingMaking a Call Using Voice-Activated Dialing To review voice dial tags ReviewingVoice DialTagsErasing AllVoice DialTags Toeraseallvoicedialtags To record a voice memo ManagingVoice MemosRecording Voice Memos Toendtherecordingofyourmemo Tostoprecordingduringaphonecall Select Tools Voice Services Voice Memo Play or PlaySpeakerReviewingVoice Memos To play the voice memos you have recorded Toeraseallvoicememos ErasingVoice MemosTo erase an individual voice memo Activating Screen Call Setting Up Screen CallTo start Screen Call when you have incoming calls To set Auto Screen Call To select a Screen Call announcement Selecting an Announcement for Screen CallRecordingYour Name for a Prerecorded Announcement Torecordyourname To record an announcement Recording a Customized AnnouncementReviewing an Announcement To review an announcement Erasing an Announcement To erase an announcement Sprint PCS Ready Link 139 Using Sprint PCS Ready Link Setting SprintPCS Ready Link ModeToenableordisableSprintPCSReadyLinkmode 141 PreparingYour Phone for Sprint PCS Ready Link ServiceReady Link Call Alerts MainLCDDisplayDuringaReadyLinkCall SprintPCSReadyLinkMainScreen Selecting a Ready Link Contacts List Making and Receiving a SprintPCS Ready Link CallDisplaying the SprintPCS Ready Link List 143 Makinga SprintPCS Ready Link Call One-to-One Call ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkcallbyselectingacontact 145 Making a Sprint PCS Ready Link Call Group CallToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkGroupcall Making a SprintPCS Ready Link Call by Entering a Number ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkcallbyenteringanumber TodisplaytheMissedReadyLinkCalllog Missed Call Notification for Sprint PCS Ready Link CallsTocallthelastMissedSprintPCSReadyLinkcall 147 Receivinga SprintPCS Ready Link Call ToreceiveaSprintPCSReadyLinkcall Sprint PCS Ready Link Options 149 Copying an Entry toYour Personal List or Personal Group List TocopyanentryfromtheSprintPCSReadyLinkList Tosavethenumberfromtheendcalldisplay Saving a SprintPCS Ready Link NumberFinding an Entry in the SprintPCS Ready Link List TofindaSprintPCSReadyLinkentry Select GotoPersonalListAddContact Adding a New Contact toYour Personal ListToaddanewSprintPCSReadyLinkcontact ToaddanewSprintPCSReadyLinkgroupentry 153 Editing a ContactinYour Personal ListToeditaPersonalListcontact Editing a Group inYour Personal Group List Toeditagroup Toeraseagroupmember ErasingReady Link ListEntriesToeraseacontactoragroup 155 Erasing a SprintPCS Ready Link List Select SettingsReadyLinkListUpdateUpdatingSprintPCS Ready Link Lists Updating the Company Listand Personal List TouseSpeedDialforaSprintPCSReadyLinkentry Assigning Speed Dialing for Sprint PCS Ready Link EntriesToassignspeeddialingforSprintPCSReadyLinkentries 157 Setting RingerTypes for SprintPCS Ready Link Calls Restarting the Ready Link ServiceSetting Ready Link Guard TorestarttheSprintPCSReadyLinkservice Tosetthespeakerphonemode Setting the Speakerphone for SprintPCS Ready Link CallsTosetalertsforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls 159 ToselectthedefaultviewoftheSprintPCSReadyLinkList Setting the DefaultView of the SprintPCS Ready Link ListSetting the Floor Display of the SprintPCS Ready Link Calls Toselectthefloordisplay Sprint PCS Service Features Sprint PCS Service Features Basics Sprint PCS Service Features The Basics 163 UsingVoicemailSetting UpYourVoicemail To call your voicemail Voicemail NotificationNewVoicemail Message Alerts 165 UsingOne-TouchMessageAccessRetrievingYourVoicemail Messages VoicemailButtonGuide UsingExpertModeVoicemail Options ToturnExpertModeonoroff Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessage SettingUpGroupDistributionListsSprintPCSCallback 167 Voicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReplyVoicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwarding ExtendedAbsenceGreeting Clearing the Message IconVoicemail Menu Key Tocleartheiconfromthedisplayscreen ReturntoPersonalOptionsMenu 171 Using SMSTextMessagingNew Messages TodisplayanSMStextmessagefromthemainmenu Displaying an SMSText MessageComposing and Sending SMSText Messages TocomposeandsendanSMSTextmessage 173 ToresetPresetmessages Editing PresetCanned MessagesToeditPresetmessages Message Options Message ListOptions 175 Message Details Options Prepending a Phone Number From a Message ToadjustthedisplayfontsizeChanging the Display FontSize of a Message Toaddaprefixtoaphonenumber Select MessagingTextMsgsOptions right softkey CreateFolder Message FoldersToaddanewfolder Toeditafolder Toeraseselectedmessages Erasing MessagesToeraseanindividualmessage 179 Composing SMSVoice Messages Using SMSVoice MessagingPlaying an SMSVoice Message ToplayanSMSVoicemessagefromthemainmenu ToplayanSMSVoicemessage Using Caller IDAccessing SMSVoice Messages ToreplytoanSMSVoicemessage Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall ToswitchbacktothefirstcallerResponding to CallWaiting TorespondtoanincomingcallwhenAnsweronHoldisactivated 183 Making aThree-Way CallTomakeaThree-WayCall TodeactivateCallForwarding Using Call ForwardingToactivateCallForwarding Sprint PCS Vision 185 Sprint PCSVision Applications Sprint PCS Vision Your User Name ToupdateyourusernameGetting StartedWith SprintPCSVision UpdatingYourUserName Sprint PCS Vision Home Launchinga SprintPCSVision ConnectionFindingYourUserName Tofindyourusername Net Guard TochangeyourNetGuardsettingsSelect SettingsPCSVisionNetGuard 189 Softkeys Sprint PCSVision Connection Status and IndicatorsNavigating theWeb Scrolling Selecting Toselectlinks GoingBackGoingHome Togobackonepage ToaccessSprintPCSMailfromyourphone Accessing MessagingAccessing SprintPCS Mail MessageTypes AccessingAdditionalEmailProviders Toaccessemailprovidersfromyourphone Toselecttheinformationyouwanttosendtoyourphone SigningUpforUpdatesViewingSprintPCSPictureMail 195 AccessingInstantMessaging Toaccessinstantmessagingclientsfromyourphone Select Chat&Dating AccessingWirelessChatroomsToaccessachatroomfromthebrowser Topostamessage Select MyContent AccessingtheMyContentMenusToaccesstheSprintPCSVisiondownloadmenus 199 SelectinganItemtoDownloadDownloadinganItem Todownloadaselecteditem UsingMyContentManagerToaccessMyContentManager TodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager 201 Using the Browser Menu Exploring theWeb 203 OpeningtheBrowserMenuToopenthebrowsermenu CreatingaBookmark AccessingaBookmarkToaccessabookmark Tocreateabookmark Toeditabookmark EditingaBookmarkDeletingaBookmark Todeleteabookmark RestartingtheWebBrowser GoingtoaSpecificWebsiteReloadingaWebPage ToreloadrefreshaWebpage SendingaWebPage AdjustingtheBrowserSoundVolumeToadjustthebrowsersoundvolume TosendaWebpage Tosetupyourphone-to-PCdataconnection UsingYour Phone as a ModemSettingUpaDataConnectionWithYourPC 209 HowdoIsigninforthefirsttime? Sprint PCSVision FAQsCanImakecallsanduseSprintPCS Visionservicesatthe sametime? Whenismydataconnectionactive? 211 CanIsignoutofdataservices?Whenismydataconnectiondormant? Sprint PCS Voice Command Sprint PCS Voice Command 213 Getting StartedWith SprintPCS Voice CommandIt’sEasytoGetStarted CreatingYour Own Address Book TomakeacallwithSprintPCSVoiceCommand 215 Accessing Information Using Sprint PCSVoice Command ToaccessinformationusingSprintPCSVoiceCommand Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information General PrecautionsMaintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your Phone DoNotRelyonYourPhoneforEmergencyCalls UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices UsingYourPhoneWhileDrivingFollowingSafetyGuidelines TurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying 221 RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhoneTurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas Using Your Phone With a Hearing Aid Device Your SCP-7000 by Sanyo has M3 andT3 ratings ProtectingYourBattery Caring for the BatterySelect Settings Display Backlight Getting the Best Hearing Device Experience With Your Phone DisposalofLithiumIonLi-IonBatteries UnderstandingHowYourPhoneOperates KnowingRadiofrequencySafetyRadiofrequency RF Energy Body-WornOperation SpecificAbsorptionRatesSARforWirelessPhones FCCRadiofrequencyEmission FCCNotice 227 Owner’s Record Phone Guide Proprietary Notice Manufacturer’sWarranty Warranty 229 Warranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyManufacturer’sLimitedWarranty Warranty 231 This warranty is valid only in the United States Warranty Index Index 233 Index Index Index Index