Making and Answering Calls, Making Calls | Sprint Nextel SCP-7000

Making and Answering Calls

Making Calls

Placing a call from your phone is as easy as making a call from

any landline phone. Just enter the number, press , and you’re on your way to clear calls.

Tomakeacallusingyourkeypad:

1.Make sure your phone is on.

2.Enter a phone number from standby mode. (If you make

a mistake while dialing, press to erase one digit at a time. Press and hold to erase the entire number.)

3.Press . (To make a call when you are roaming and Call Guard is enabled, see “Using Call Guard”on page 96.)

4.Press or close the phone when you are finished.

Tip:

To redial your lastoutgoing call, press

twice.

When making calls offthe Nationwide SprintPCS Network, always dial using 11 digits (1 + area code + phone number).

You can also place calls from your phone by using Sprint PCS Voice Command (page 212), speed dialing numbers from your Contacts (page 40), and using your Call History listings (page 102) and by using Voice-Activated Dialing (page 130).

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Section 2A: Phone Basics

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Contents

Phone User Guide Table of Contents 105 Setting Your Phone’s Security 161 4A. Important Safety Information 3C. Sprint PCS Voice Command4B. Manufacturer’s Warranty Page Welcome and thank you for choosing Sprint Welcome to Sprint Phone Guide Introduction Iii Want to Keep Track of Your MINUTES? Contacts Call HistoryMessaging Parental Control Web My ContentCalendar Tools Settings Vii Viii Sleep ModePCS Vision Alert Learn More Location Off Reset Phone Roaming Set ModePreset Msgs Text Erase Content Any Key Answer Others Airplane ModeHeadset Mode Text Entry Getting Started This Section Setting Up Service Tip DeterminingifYourPhoneisAlreadyActivatedUnlockingYourPhone Tounlockyourphone,followtheseeasysteps Tosetupyourvoicemail Setting UpYourVoicemail Account Password VoicemailPassword Sprint PCS AccountPasswordsSprintPCSVisionPassword Getting Help ReachingSprintCustomerService TocallSprint411 ToaccessautomatedbillinginformationReceivingAutomatedBillingInformation Sprint411 ToaccessSprintPCSOperatorServices SprintPCSOperatorServices Using Your Phone Phone Basics Phone Basics PhoneBasics FrontView ofYour Phone Web Key lets you launch the browser Key Functions Faceplate Release Latch lets you remove the faceplate Phone Basics Viewing the Display Screen Phone Basics Features of Your Phone Phone Basics Toturnyourphoneon TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOn TurningYourPhoneOff BatteryCapacity UsingYour Phone’s Batteryand Charger Toremoveyourbattery InstallingtheBatteryRemovingtheBattery ToinstalltheLi-Ionbattery ChargingtheBattery Tousethetravelchargerprovidedwithyourphone UsingtheCharger SelectingMenuItems NavigatingThrough Phone Menus Toreturntostandbymode DisplayingYour Phone NumberBackingUpWithinaMenu Togotothepreviousmenu Changing the Faceplate Removing and Installing the Faceplate Making and Answering Calls TomakeacallusingyourkeypadMaking Calls Toplaceacallwiththeflipclosed Dialing Options Toansweranincomingcallwiththeflipopen Answering CallsToansweranincomingcallwiththeflipclosed Open the phone to use the earpiece Toresumethecall AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabledSettingAnsweronHold TosetAnsweronHold Toturnthespeakerphoneonduringacall UsingtheSpeakerphoneEndingaCall Todisconnectacallwhenyouarefinished Tomuteacall ChangingtheRingerVolumeAdjustingVolumeDuringaConversation MutingaCall TodisplayaMissedCallentryfromstandbymode Missed Call NotificationCalling Emergency Numbers TodisplaytheMissedCallentryfromthenotificationscreen ToexitEmergencymode Enhanced911E911InformationToselectEmergencymodeoptions In-Call Options Savinga Phone Number End-of-Call OptionsTosaveanumberfromstandbymode Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses Finding a Phone NumberTofindaphonenumber Plus + Code Dialing TomakeacallusingPlusCodeDialingTodialorsavephonenumberswithpauses Select ContactsFind/AddEntry Shortcut Using Speed DialingDialing Fromthe ContactsList TodialdirectlyfromaContactsentry TousespeeddialforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls Using Abbreviated Dialing ToplaceacallusingPrependAbbreviatedDialing ToplaceacallusingPh.BookMatchAbbreviatedDialing Selecting a Character InputMode EnteringTextTochangethecharacterinputmode ToenterawordusingT9TextInput Entering Characters UsingT9TextInput Toeditorerasethewordsyouhaveadded Select SettingsOthersTextEntryMyWordsAddingaWordtotheT9Database ToaddawordtotheT9TextInputdatabase Tosetthedefaultinputmode CustomizingtheT9SettingsSettingtheDefaultInputMode TocustomizetheT9Settings Hold to delete an entire entry Entering Characters Using Alphabet Mode B c B C Toenternumbers Entering Numbers, Symbols, Smileys and Preset MessagesToentersymbols Toenterpresetmessages Controlling Your Phone’s Settings Controlling Your Phone’s Settings SelectingRingerTypesforVoiceCalls Sound SettingsYourPhone’sSettings RingerTypes ToselectaringertypeforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls SelectingRingerTypesforMessagesSelectingRingerTypesforSprintPCSReadyLinkCalls Toselectaringertypeformessages Selecting aTone Length Setting a Start-up/Power-offToneToselectaringertypeforvoicemailorcalendar/alarm Tosetastart-up/power-offtone ToturnKeyPressEchoonoroff UsingVoice PromptSetting Up Key Press Echo Toenableordisablevoiceprompt Toadjusttheapplicationvolume Adjusting the Phone’sVolumeSettingsToadjusttheringerandkeyvolume Toadjusttheearpieceorspeakervolume Alert Notification Select SettingsSoundsAlertsTosetalerts ToactivateSilenceAll Silence AllTodeactivateSilenceAll Changing the BacklightTime Length Display SettingsTochangetheMainLCDorSubLCDbacklightsetting Changing theTextGreeting Tochangetheanimationdisplay TochangetheKeypadbacklightsettingChanging the Display Screen Animation Changing the Display for Incoming Calls Tosetyourareanamedisplay Toadjustthedisplay’scontrastChanging the Display for Area Name Changing the Contrast Tosettheclock/calendardisplayforstandbymode Changing the Clock/Calendar Display for Standby ModeChanging the Phone’s Menu Style Toselectthedisplay’smenustyle To change the display’s background Changing theTextFont SizeChanging the Background To change the text input font To set sleep mode Setting Return to Standby ModeSleep Mode To set this feature Toenableyourphone’sLocationfeature Location Settings SettingtheMessageNotificationDisplay Messaging SettingsTosetthemessagenotificationdisplay Select Englishor Spanish ManagingPresetMessagesToeditapresetmessage Tochangethelanguageofthepresetmessages Toaddacustomizedsignaturetoeachsentmessage SettingaCallbackNumberAddingaCustomizedSignature Tosetthecallbacknumber SettingtheSpeakerphoneforSMSVoiceMessaging SettingDraftsAlertSettingtheSender’sNameforSMSVoiceMessaging TosetalertforSMSVoicemessaging Airplane ModeSettinganAlertNotificationforSMSVoiceMessaging Select Settings Messaging VoiceSMS Connection Alert TTY UseWith SprintPCS Service ToturnTTY Modeonoroff Select SettingsOthersTTY Toedittheshortcutname Phone Setup OptionsShortcutMy Favorites Toassignyourshortcutkey TosetAuto-Answermode Auto-Answer ModeToassignalanguageforthephone’sdisplay Display Language ToactivatetheCloseFlipfeature Setting the CurrentTimeSetting the Open/Close Flip Option ToactivatetheOpenFlipfeature Setting the Side Key Guard Setting Any Key AnswerSettingTextEntry Options ToactivatethePrependfeature Setting Abbreviated DialingToactivatethePh.BookMatchfeature Select SettingsOthersAbbrev.Dial Select Ph.BookMatch Tosetheadsetmode Setting HeadsetModeSelect SettingsOthersHeadsetMode Toconnecttheheadset Select SettingsWirelessBackup Wireless BackupActivating and DeactivatingWireless Backup Service ToactivatetheWirelessBackupservice Select SettingsWirelessBackupAlert Setting theWireless Backup AlertTodeactivatetheWirelessBackupservice TosettheWirelessBackupalert Setting Your Phone’s Security Setting Your Phone’s Security LockingYour Phone Accessing the Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature ToaccesstheSecuritymenu Changingthe Lock Code Lock ServicesCalling in Lock Mode UnlockingYour Phone Torestrictcalls Restricting CallsSelect OthersLimitUse Select OutgoingCalls or IncomingCalls Toaddorreplaceaspecialnumber Using Special Numbers Toerasealldownloads ErasingMy ContentErasing Contacts ToeraseallthenamesandphonenumbersinyourContacts Select ResetPhone ResettingYour PhoneResetting and LockingYour Phone Through SMS Toresetyourphone Select OthersFoundMeChgPasscode Toactivatethisfeature,thefollowingpresettingisrequiredSelect OthersFoundMeReset/LockEnable Changing the Passcode ToenableSprintPCSVisionservices Security Featuresfor SprintPCSVisionEnabling and Disabling Sprint PCSVision Services TodisableSprintPCSVisionservices Tolockservices Using the Parental Control FeatureTorestrictoutgoingandincomingcalls Select Edit Phone Book Tip Select Parental ControlSelect Special #s To edit Contacts Controlling Your Roaming Experience Controlling Your Roaming Experience Understanding RoamingRecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen RoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks RoamingonAnalogNetworks Tocheckyourvoicemailwhileroaming CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming Tosetyourphone’sroammode SettingYour Phone’s Roam ModeSet Mode Select SettingsRoamingSetMode ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon Using Call GuardSelect SettingsRoamingCallGuard ToturnCallGuardonoroff ToanswerincomingroamingcallswithCallGuardon Select SettingsRoamingDataRoamGuard Using Data Roam Guard Managing Call History ToviewaCallHistoryentry Viewing HistoryManaging Call History 101 Call History Options ToplaceacallfromCallHistory Making a Call FromCall History Select SavePhone# TosaveaphonenumberfromCallHistory103 ToeraseCallHistory Prepending a Phone NumberFrom Call HistoryErasingCall History ToprependaphonenumberfromCallHistory 105 Using Contacts Select ContactsFind/AddEntry Using ContactsAddinga New Contacts Entry Toaddanewentry TofindSprintPCSReadyLinkentries FindingContacts EntriesFindingNames TofindContactsentriesbyname Select ContactsSpeedDial#s Contacts Entry OptionsFindingSpeedDialNumbers Tofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinspeeddiallocations 109 Toaddaphonenumbertoanentry Toeraseaselectedentry Editing a Contacts EntryErasing a Contacts Entry From the List Tomakechangestoanentry Toassignaspeeddialnumber AssigningSpeed Dial Numbers111 Toassignanimageforanentry Assigning an Image to a Contacts Entry Toselectaringertypeforanentry Selecting a Ringer Type for an Entry113 Tomakeanentrypublic SecretContacts EntriesTomakeanentrysecret Select SetSecret 115 Dialing SprintPCS ServicesTodialaservicefromyourContacts Todialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools DisplayingYour Calendar UsingYour Phone’s CalendarAdding an Eventto the Calendar Event Alerts Toviewyourscheduledevents Event Alert MenuViewing Events Torespondtoaneventalert Erasing a Day’s Events Going toYour Desired DatePurging All Events Select Options right softkey AddEventCallAlarm Using the Call Alarm FeatureAdding a Call Alarm to the Calendar Toaddacallalarmtothecalendar Otherwaysofrespondingtoacallalarminclude Call Alarm MenuTorespondtoacallalarm Tocallthephonenumberatthetimeofacallalarmnotification ToaddyourToDoListitemtothecalendar AddingTo Do ListItemsAdding aTo Do ListItem to the Calendar ToaddanitemtoyourToDoList Tousethealarmclock UsingYour Phone’s Alarm ClockTostopthealarm Using the Stopwatch UsingYour Phone’sTools Toviewthetimein38differentlocations Using the CalculatorWorld Clock Tousethecalculator UpdatingYour Phone TorespondtoanautomaticupdaterequestTomanuallyupdateyourphonethroughtheToolsmenu Select ToolsUpdatePhone DisplayingVersion Information Personal Information ManagementDisplayingYour User Address Finding Icon Definitions 129 Using Your Phone’s Voice Services Making a Call Using Voice-Activated Dialing UsingVoice-Activated DialingProgrammingVoice DialTags Toeraseallvoicedialtags ReviewingVoice DialTagsErasing AllVoice DialTags To review voice dial tags Toendtherecordingofyourmemo ManagingVoice MemosRecording Voice Memos To record a voice memo To play the voice memos you have recorded Select Tools Voice Services Voice Memo Play or PlaySpeakerReviewingVoice Memos Tostoprecordingduringaphonecall To erase an individual voice memo ErasingVoice MemosToeraseallvoicememos To set Auto Screen Call Setting Up Screen CallTo start Screen Call when you have incoming calls Activating Screen Call Torecordyourname Selecting an Announcement for Screen CallRecordingYour Name for a Prerecorded Announcement To select a Screen Call announcement To review an announcement Recording a Customized AnnouncementReviewing an Announcement To record an announcement To erase an announcement Erasing an Announcement 139 Sprint PCS Ready Link ToenableordisableSprintPCSReadyLinkmode Setting SprintPCS Ready Link ModeUsing Sprint PCS Ready Link Ready Link Call Alerts PreparingYour Phone for Sprint PCS Ready Link Service141 SprintPCSReadyLinkMainScreen MainLCDDisplayDuringaReadyLinkCall 143 Making and Receiving a SprintPCS Ready Link CallDisplaying the SprintPCS Ready Link List Selecting a Ready Link Contacts List ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkcallbyselectingacontact Makinga SprintPCS Ready Link Call One-to-One Call ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkGroupcall Making a Sprint PCS Ready Link Call Group Call145 ToplaceaSprintPCSReadyLinkcallbyenteringanumber Making a SprintPCS Ready Link Call by Entering a Number 147 Missed Call Notification for Sprint PCS Ready Link CallsTocallthelastMissedSprintPCSReadyLinkcall TodisplaytheMissedReadyLinkCalllog ToreceiveaSprintPCSReadyLinkcall Receivinga SprintPCS Ready Link Call 149 Sprint PCS Ready Link Options TocopyanentryfromtheSprintPCSReadyLinkList Copying an Entry toYour Personal List or Personal Group List TofindaSprintPCSReadyLinkentry Saving a SprintPCS Ready Link NumberFinding an Entry in the SprintPCS Ready Link List Tosavethenumberfromtheendcalldisplay ToaddanewSprintPCSReadyLinkgroupentry Adding a New Contact toYour Personal ListToaddanewSprintPCSReadyLinkcontact Select GotoPersonalListAddContact ToeditaPersonalListcontact Editing a ContactinYour Personal List153 Toeditagroup Editing a Group inYour Personal Group List 155 ErasingReady Link ListEntriesToeraseacontactoragroup Toeraseagroupmember Updating the Company Listand Personal List Select SettingsReadyLinkListUpdateUpdatingSprintPCS Ready Link Lists Erasing a SprintPCS Ready Link List 157 Assigning Speed Dialing for Sprint PCS Ready Link EntriesToassignspeeddialingforSprintPCSReadyLinkentries TouseSpeedDialforaSprintPCSReadyLinkentry TorestarttheSprintPCSReadyLinkservice Restarting the Ready Link ServiceSetting Ready Link Guard Setting RingerTypes for SprintPCS Ready Link Calls 159 Setting the Speakerphone for SprintPCS Ready Link CallsTosetalertsforSprintPCSReadyLinkcalls Tosetthespeakerphonemode Toselectthefloordisplay Setting the DefaultView of the SprintPCS Ready Link ListSetting the Floor Display of the SprintPCS Ready Link Calls ToselectthedefaultviewoftheSprintPCSReadyLinkList Sprint PCS Service Features Sprint PCS Service Features The Basics Sprint PCS Service Features Basics Setting UpYourVoicemail UsingVoicemail163 NewVoicemail Message Alerts Voicemail NotificationTo call your voicemail RetrievingYourVoicemail Messages UsingOne-TouchMessageAccess165 ToturnExpertModeonoroff UsingExpertModeVoicemail Options VoicemailButtonGuide 167 SettingUpGroupDistributionListsSprintPCSCallback Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessage Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwarding Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReplyVoicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest Tocleartheiconfromthedisplayscreen Clearing the Message IconVoicemail Menu Key ExtendedAbsenceGreeting ReturntoPersonalOptionsMenu New Messages Using SMSTextMessaging171 TocomposeandsendanSMSTextmessage Displaying an SMSText MessageComposing and Sending SMSText Messages TodisplayanSMStextmessagefromthemainmenu 173 Message Options Editing PresetCanned MessagesToeditPresetmessages ToresetPresetmessages 175 Message ListOptions Message Details Options Toaddaprefixtoaphonenumber ToadjustthedisplayfontsizeChanging the Display FontSize of a Message Prepending a Phone Number From a Message Toeditafolder Message FoldersToaddanewfolder Select MessagingTextMsgsOptions right softkey CreateFolder 179 Erasing MessagesToeraseanindividualmessage Toeraseselectedmessages ToplayanSMSVoicemessagefromthemainmenu Using SMSVoice MessagingPlaying an SMSVoice Message Composing SMSVoice Messages ToreplytoanSMSVoicemessage Using Caller IDAccessing SMSVoice Messages ToplayanSMSVoicemessage TorespondtoanincomingcallwhenAnsweronHoldisactivated ToswitchbacktothefirstcallerResponding to CallWaiting Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall TomakeaThree-WayCall Making aThree-Way Call183 ToactivateCallForwarding Using Call ForwardingTodeactivateCallForwarding 185 Sprint PCS Vision Sprint PCS Vision Sprint PCSVision Applications UpdatingYourUserName ToupdateyourusernameGetting StartedWith SprintPCSVision Your User Name Tofindyourusername Launchinga SprintPCSVision ConnectionFindingYourUserName Sprint PCS Vision Home 189 TochangeyourNetGuardsettingsSelect SettingsPCSVisionNetGuard Net Guard Navigating theWeb Sprint PCSVision Connection Status and IndicatorsSoftkeys Selecting Scrolling Togobackonepage GoingBackGoingHome Toselectlinks MessageTypes Accessing MessagingAccessing SprintPCS Mail ToaccessSprintPCSMailfromyourphone Toaccessemailprovidersfromyourphone AccessingAdditionalEmailProviders 195 SigningUpforUpdatesViewingSprintPCSPictureMail Toselecttheinformationyouwanttosendtoyourphone Toaccessinstantmessagingclientsfromyourphone AccessingInstantMessaging Topostamessage AccessingWirelessChatroomsToaccessachatroomfromthebrowser Select Chat&Dating ToaccesstheSprintPCSVisiondownloadmenus AccessingtheMyContentMenusSelect MyContent DownloadinganItem SelectinganItemtoDownload199 ToaccessMyContentManager UsingMyContentManagerTodownloadaselecteditem 201 TodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager Exploring theWeb Using the Browser Menu Toopenthebrowsermenu OpeningtheBrowserMenu203 Tocreateabookmark AccessingaBookmarkToaccessabookmark CreatingaBookmark Todeleteabookmark EditingaBookmarkDeletingaBookmark Toeditabookmark ToreloadrefreshaWebpage GoingtoaSpecificWebsiteReloadingaWebPage RestartingtheWebBrowser TosendaWebpage AdjustingtheBrowserSoundVolumeToadjustthebrowsersoundvolume SendingaWebPage SettingUpaDataConnectionWithYourPC UsingYour Phone as a ModemTosetupyourphone-to-PCdataconnection 209 Whenismydataconnectionactive? Sprint PCSVision FAQsCanImakecallsanduseSprintPCS Visionservicesatthe sametime? HowdoIsigninforthefirsttime? Whenismydataconnectiondormant? CanIsignoutofdataservices?211 Sprint PCS Voice Command Sprint PCS Voice Command It’sEasytoGetStarted Getting StartedWith SprintPCS Voice Command213 CreatingYour Own Address Book 215 TomakeacallwithSprintPCSVoiceCommand ToaccessinformationusingSprintPCSVoiceCommand Accessing Information Using Sprint PCSVoice Command Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information DoNotRelyonYourPhoneforEmergencyCalls General PrecautionsMaintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your Phone Important Safety Information TurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying UsingYourPhoneWhileDrivingFollowingSafetyGuidelines UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhone221 Your SCP-7000 by Sanyo has M3 andT3 ratings Using Your Phone With a Hearing Aid Device Getting the Best Hearing Device Experience With Your Phone Caring for the BatterySelect Settings Display Backlight ProtectingYourBattery DisposalofLithiumIonLi-IonBatteries Body-WornOperation KnowingRadiofrequencySafetyRadiofrequency RF Energy UnderstandingHowYourPhoneOperates FCCRadiofrequencyEmission SpecificAbsorptionRatesSARforWirelessPhones 227 FCCNotice Phone Guide Proprietary Notice Owner’s Record Warranty 229 Manufacturer’sWarranty Manufacturer’sLimitedWarranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyWarranty This warranty is valid only in the United States Warranty 231 Warranty Index 233 Index Index Index Index Index