Phone Basics

Section 2A

In This Section

♦FrontViewofYourPhone(page 11)

♦ViewingtheDisplayScreen(page 15)

♦FeaturesofYourPhone(page 18)

♦TurningYour PhoneOnandOff(page 20)

♦UsingYourPhone’sBatteryandCharger(page 21)

♦UsingHolster(page 24)

♦NavigatingThroughPhoneMenus(page 26)

♦DisplayingYourPhoneNumber(page 27)

♦MakingandAnsweringCalls(page 28)

♦EnteringText (page 44)

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 104 143 116132 168 4B. Manufacturer’s Warranty 3C. SprintVoice Command4A. Important Safety Information 3B. SprintVisionPage Welcome to Sprint Welcome and thank you for choosing Sprint Introduction Phone Guide Want to keep track of your minutes? Iii Your Phone’s Menu Messaging 6WEB Calendar 8TOOLS Vii 5WIRELESS Backup Viii Lock Phone Inuse Menu Getting Started Setting Up Service This Section UnlockingYourPhone Getting StartedWith SprintServiceDeterminingifYourPhoneisAlreadyActivated Tounlockyourphone,followtheseeasysteps Setting UpYourVoicemail Tosetupyourvoicemail SprintVision Password Sprint Account PasswordsAccount Password Voicemail Password ReachingSprintCustomerService Getting Help Sprint411 ToaccessautomatedbillinginformationReceivingAutomatedBillingInformation TocallSprint411 SprintOperatorServices ToaccessSprintOperatorServices Using Your Phone Phone Basics Phone Basics FrontView ofYour Phone Phone Basics Key Functions Phone Basics Phone Basics Viewing the Display Screen PhoneBasics Phone Basics Phone Basics Features ofYour Phone Phone Basics TurningYourPhoneOff TurningYour Phone On and OffTurningYourPhoneOn Toturnyourphoneon UsingYour Phone’s Battery and Charger BatteryCapacity ToinstalltheLi-Ionbattery InstallingtheBatteryRemovingtheBattery Toremoveyourbattery Touse the phone charger provided with your phone Charging the BatteryUsing the Charger Using Holster Attachingthephonetotheholster Removingthephonefromtheholster NavigatingThrough Phone Menus Selecting Menu Items Togotothepreviousmenu DisplayingYour Phone NumberBackingUpWithinaMenu Toreturntostandbymode Making Calls TomakeacallusingyourkeypadMaking and Answering Calls Toplaceacallwiththephoneclosed Toredialwiththephoneclosed Dialing Options Toansweranincomingcallwiththephoneclosed Answering CallsToansweranincomingcallwiththephoneopen Answer or AnswerSpeaker to answer the call Todisconnectacallwhenyouarefinished AnsweringaRoamCallWithCallGuardEnabledEndingaCall TodisplayaMissedCallentryfromstandbymode Missed Call NotificationTocalltheMissedCallentryfromthenotificationscreen Select MissedAlerts Select ExitEmergency Calling Emergency NumbersToexitEmergencymode Enhanced911E911Information ToselectEmergencymodeoptions In-Call Options End-of-Call Options Saving a Phone Number Tosaveanumberfromstandbymode Tofindaphonenumber Finding a Phone NumberDialing and Saving Phone NumbersWith Pauses Todialorsavephonenumberswithpauses ToplaceacallusingPrependAbbreviatedDialing Using Abbreviated DialingToplaceacallusingPh.BookMatchAbbreviatedDialing Dialing From the Contacts List TomakeacallusingPlusCodeDialingPlus + Code Dialing TodialdirectlyfromaContactsentry Using Speed Dialing Tousespeeddial Tochangethecharacterinputmode EnteringTextSelecting a Character InputMode When entering text, press Shift*to change letter AddingaWordtotheT9Database Entering Characters UsingT9TextInputToenterawordusingT9TextInput ToaddawordtotheT9TextInputdatabase TocustomizetheT9Settings CustomizingtheT9SettingsSelect Mode right softkey Text Options My Words Select SettingsOthersTextEntryT9Settings Charactersscrollinthefollowingorder Entering Characters Using AlphabetModeToentercharactersusingAlphabetModemulti-tapkeyentry Controlling Your Phone’s Settings YourPhone’sSettings SelectingRingerTypesforIncomingCalls Sound SettingsRingerTypes SelectingRingerTypesforMessaging Toselectaringertypeforvoicemailorcalendar/alarmSelectingRingerTypesforSprintReadyLinkCalls ToselectaringertypeforSprintReadyLinkcalls Selecting aTone Length Select SettingsSoundsOthersToneLengthSelecting aVibrate Pattern Toselectavibratepattern Setting Up Key Press Echo Setting a Start-up/Power-offToneUsingVoice Prompt AdjustingtheAlertVolume Adjusting the Phone’sVolume SettingsAdjustingtheringervolume Toadjusttheringervolume Alert Notification Adjusting the Phone’s ReceiverVolumeTo adjustthe receivervolume To setalerts Todeactivate Silence All Silence AllToactivate Silence All Changing the BacklightTime Length Display SettingsChanging theTextGreeting Changing the Displayfor Incoming Calls Select SettingsDisplayIncomingCallsChanging the Display Screen Animation Tochangetheanimationdisplay Changing the Screen Saver Changing the Clock/Calendar Display for Standby ModeSelect SettingsDisplayScreenSaver Tosettheclock/calendardisplayforstandbymode Changing the Display for Area Name Power Save ModeChanging the Phone’sMenu Style Tochangethetextfontsize Changing theTextFontSizeChanging the Background Tochangethedisplay’sbackground Select SettingsDisplayOthersReturntoIdle Setting Return to Standby ModeSleep Mode Select Automatically or EndKey Select Settings Location On/Off Location SettingsTo enable your phone’s Location feature Select Settings Location Nmea Output Tosetmessagenotification Messaging SettingsSettingMessageNotification Tochangethelanguageofthepresetmessages ManagingPresetMessagesToeditapresetmessage Select SettingsMessagingPresetMsgs Tosetthecallbacknumber SettingaCallbackNumberAddingaCustomizedSignature Toaddacustomizedsignaturetoeachsentmessage To setthe delivery receipt Settingthe Delivery Receiptfor SMSTextMessagingSettingDraftsAlertfor SMSTextMessaging TosetDraftsAlert SettingAutoDeleteforSMSVoiceMessaging SettingtheSender’sNameforSMSVoiceMessagingSettinganAlertNotificationforSMSVoiceMessaging TosetyourphonetoAirplaneMode Airplane ModeSelect SettingsOthersAirplaneMode TTY UseWith SprintService ToturnTTY Modeonoroff Toactivatewirelessbackupservice Wireless BackupActivatingandDeactivatingWirelessBackupService Select ContactsWirelessBackup Todeactivatewirelessbackupservice ViewingYourWirelss Backup StatusSettingWireless Backup Alert Toviewyourwirelessbackupstatussign-instateonly Toassignashortcut Phone Setup OptionsMy Favorites MyFavoriteslistoptions DisplayLanguage Auto-Answer ModeSetting AnyKey Answer Select SettingsOthersOpen/CloseFlip Setting the Open/Close Flip OptionToactivatetheOpenFlipfeature ToactivatetheCloseFlipfeature ToturnPowerOntoAlertonoroff Setting Power On to AlertSetting the Side Key Guard ToturntheSide KeyGuardonoroff Tosetthenavigationkeyshortcut Setting Navigation Key ShortcutsSettingTextEntry Options Tosetyourtextentryoptions TosetAbbreviatedDialing Setting Abbreviated DialingSelect SettingsOthersAbbrev.Dial Toconnecttheheadset Setting HeadsetModeSelect SettingsOthersHeadsetMode Select TurboButton Tosettheheadsetmode Setting Your Phone’s Security LockingYour Phone Accessing the Security MenuUsingYour Phone’s Lock Feature UnlockingYour Phone Changingthe Lock Code Calling in Lock ModeLock Services Select OthersLimitUse Select OutgoingCalls or IncomingCalls Restricting CallsTorestrictcalls Select OthersSpecial#s Using Special NumbersToaddorreplaceaspecialnumber Erasing Phone Content Toerasephonecontent Toresetthebrowser Resetting the BrowserResetting Favorites ToresetFavorites Toresetyourphone ResettingYour PhoneResetting DefaultSettings Toresetdefaultsettings Select OthersFoundMeReset/LockEnable Resetting and LockingYour Phone Through SMSToenablelockingyourphonethroughSMS Changing the Passcode Select OthersFoundMeChangePasscode To disable SprintVision services Security Featuresfor SprintVisionEnabling and Disabling SprintVision Services Toenable SprintVision services Controlling Your Roaming Experience Controlling Your Roaming Experience RoamingonOtherDigitalNetworks Understanding RoamingRecognizingtheRoamingIconontheDisplayScreen CheckingforVoicemailMessagesWhileRoaming Tocheckyourvoicemailwhileroaming To setyour phone’sroam mode SettingYour Phone’s Roam ModeSet Mode Select Settings Others Roaming SetMode ToturnCallGuardonoroff Using Call GuardSelect SettingsOthersRoamingCallGuard ToplaceroamingcallswithCallGuardon TosetyourDataRoamGuardnotification Using Data Roam GuardTousedataserviceswhenDataRoamGuardisactive Managing Call History Managing Call History Viewing History ToviewaCallHistoryentry Call History Options ToplaceacallfromCallHistory ToplaceacallusingtheCallListkeyMaking a Call FromCall History 101 Saving a Phone Number FromCall History TosaveaphonenumberfromCallHistory ToprependaphonenumberfromCallHistory Prepending a Phone NumberFrom Call HistoryErasingCall History ToeraseCallHistory Using Contacts Using Contacts Select ContactsFind/AddEntryAddContact Addinga New Contacts EntryToaddanewentry 105 Select ContactsGroup Assigning a Group EntryToassignaContactentrytoagroup Toeditagroupentry TofindContactsentriesbyname FindingContacts EntriesFindingNames 107 TofindContactsentriesbyvoicetag FindingSpeedDialNumbersFindingGroupEntries Tofindphonenumbersyouhavestoredinspeeddiallocations Contacts Entry Options 109 Toaddaphonenumbertoanentry Toeditanentry’sphonenumber Select EraseContactYes AssigningSpeed Dial NumbersToeraseaselectedentry Toassignaspeeddialnumber Tomakechangestoanentry Editinga Contacts EntryAssigning an Imageto a Contacts Entry Toassignanimageforanentry 113 Selecting a RingerType for an EntryToselectaringertypeforanentry Tomakeanentrypublic SecretContacts EntriesTomakeanentrysecret Select ContactsServices Dialing SprintServicesTodialaservicefromyourContacts Todialaservicefromstandbymodeusingyourkeypad Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Using the Phone’s Calendar and Tools Displaying your Calendar UsingYour Phone’s CalendarChanging the Calendar Settings Select Calendar Adding an Eventto the CalendarToaddanevent Editing an Eventon the Calendar Event Alert Menu TosilencethealarmEvent Alerts Viewing Day’s Events Event List Options 121 TousetheCalendarmenutogettoaspecifieddate Going to a Specified DateErasing a Day’s Events Select CalendarOptions right softkey GotoDate Todeleteeventsscheduledbeforeaspecifictimeanddate Purging EventsPurging All Events Todeleteallscheduledevents Adding a Call Alarm to the Calendar Toaddacallalarmtothecalendar AddingTo Do ListItems TorespondtoacallalarmTocallthephonenumberatthetimeofacallalarmnotification ToaddanitemtoyourToDoList Adding aTo Do ListItem to the Schedule ToaddaToDoListitemtotheschedule Tousethealarmclock UsingYour Phone’sToolsUsing the Alarm Clock Select ToolsAlarmClock Select ToolsStopWatch Using the StopwatchTostartthestopwatch Torecordalaptimewhilethestopwatchisrunning World Clock Using the CountdownTimerTousethecountdowntimer Toviewthetimeindifferentlocations UpdatingYour Phone Using the CalculatorTo updateyour phonethroughtheTools menu To use the calculator Finding Icon Definitions Personal Information ManagementDisplayingYour User Address Displaying theVersion Information Using Your Phone’s Voice Services Using Your Phone’s Voice Services ProgrammingVoice DialTags UsingVoice-Activated DialingMaking a Call UsingVoice-Activated Dialing Erasing AllVoice DialTags Select Erase/ResetEraseVoiceTagReviewingVoice DialTags Toreviewvoicedialtags ManagingVoice/Call Memos RecordingVoice Memos Torecordacallmemo Recording Call MemosReviewingVoice/Call Memos Toplaythevoice/callmemosyouhaverecorded Setting the Recording Guard ErasingVoice/Call Memos Tosettherecordingmode Setting the Recording ModeSetting the Audio Quality Tosettheaudioquality 139 Voice Memo OptionsTodisplaythevoicememooptions Selecting an Announcementfor Screen Call Setting Up Screen CallActivating Screen Call TostartScreenCallwhenyouhaveincomingcalls Torecordyourname RecordingYour Name for a Prerecorded AnnouncementRecording a Customized Announcement Torecordanannouncement Toreviewanannouncement Reviewing an AnnouncementErasing an Announcement Toeraseanannouncement Using Sprint Ready Link 143 Using Sprint Ready Link Setting SprintReady Link ModeToenableordisableSprintReadyLinkmode GettingStartedWithSprintReadyLink 145 PreparingYour Phone for SprintReady Link ServiceReady Link Call Alerts Selecting a Contacts List Making and Receiving a Sprint Ready Link CallDisplaying the SprintReady Link List 147 Making a SprintReady Link Call One-to-One CallToplaceaSprintReadyLinkcallbyselectingacontact Using Sprint Ready Link 149 Making a SprintReady Link Call Group CallToplaceaSprintReadyLinkGroupcall Making a SprintReady Link Call by Entering a Number ToplaceaSprintReadyLinkcallbyenteringanumber Making a SprintReady Link Call Using the Call List Key Missed Call Notification for Sprint Ready Link Calls Receiving a SprintReady Link Call ToreceiveaSprintReadyLinkcall Sprint Ready Link Options 153 Adding and Editing Ready Link Contacts TocopyanentryfromtheSprintReadyLinkList Tosavethenumber Saving a SprintReady Link NumberFinding an Entry in the SprintReady Link List TofindaSprintReadyLinkentry Select Go to left softkey Personal List Add Contact Adding a New Contact toYour Personal ListTo add a new SprintReady Link contact Select Gotoleft softkey PersonalGrps.AddGroup Adding a New Group toYour Personal Group ListToaddanewSprintReadyLinkgroupentry 157 Editing a ContactinYour Personal List ToeditaPersonalListcontact 159 Editing a Group inYour Personal Group ListToeditagroupname orgroupmember Toeraseacontactoragroup Erasing Ready Link ListEntriesErasing an Entry inYour Personal Listor Personal Group List 161 Erasing a SprintReady Link ListToeraseaSprintReadyLinkList Updating the Company Listand Personal List Managing SprintReady Link SettingsUpdating SprintReady Link Lists Assigning Speed Dialing for Sprint Ready Link Entries Setting RingerTypes for SprintReady Link Calls Restarting Ready Link ServiceSetting Ready Link Guard TochangetheringervolumeforSprintReadyLinkcalls Setting the RingerVolume for Sprint Ready Link CallsSetting aVibrate Pattern for Sprint Ready Link Calls ToselectavibratepatternforSprintReadyLinkcalls Toadjustthefloortonevolume Setting an AlertNotification for Sprint Ready Link CallsSelect SettingsReadyLinkSoundsAlerts TosetalertsforSprintReadyLinkcalls ToselectthedefaultviewoftheSprintReadyLinkList Setting the Speakerphone for Sprint Ready Link CallsSetting the DefaultView of the Sprint Ready Link List Tosetthespeakerphonemode 167 Setting the Floor Display for Sprint Ready Link CallsToselectthefloordisplay Using Bluetooth Using Bluetooth ToturnBluetoothon Turning Bluetooth On and OffBluetoothStatusIndicators ToturnBluetoothoff ToaccesstheBluetoothSettingsmenu Using the Bluetooth Settings MenuBluetooth Settings My Device Name TosetaBluetoothnameforyourphone Select Settings Bluetooth Visibility Bluetooth SettingsVisibilityBluetooth SettingsVoice Priority To setthe voice priority Select Settings Bluetooth My Device Info Bluetooth Settings My Device InformationSetting Auto-Accept Select Tools Bluetooth Bluetooth Profiles 173 ToallowyourphonetobepairedwithanotherBluetoothdevice Pairing Bluetooth DevicesTopairyourphonewithanotherBluetoothdevice PairedDevices 175 Using theTrusted Devices OptionsTousethetrusteddevicesoptions Select ToolsBluetooth Printing Data via BluetoothToprintdataviaBluetooth Select HandsetDefault or PrinterDefault and press 177 Sending Data via BluetoothTosenddataviaBluetooth 178 Sprint Service Features Sprint Service Features Basics Sprint Service Features The Basics 181 UsingVoicemailSetting UpYourVoicemail Tocallyourvoicemail Voicemail NotificationNewVoicemail Message Alerts TodisplayyourMissedLog RetrievingYourVoicemail Messages UsingOne-TouchMessageAccessUsingaPhoneOtherThanYourWirelessPhoneto AccessMessages 183 VoicemailKeyGuide UsingExpertModeVoicemail Options ToturnExpertModeonoroff Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessage SettingUpGroupDistributionListsSprintCallback 185 Voicemail-to-VoicemailReceiptRequest Voicemail-to-VoicemailMessageReplyVoicemail-to-VoicemailMessageForwarding ExtendedAbsenceGreeting Clearing the Message IconVoicemail Menu Key Tocleartheiconfromthedisplayscreen Sprint Service Features The Basics TocomposeanSMSTextmessage Using SMSTextMessagingComposing SMSTextMessages Select MessagingSendMessageText Displays the SendMsg option ToreplytoanSMSTextmessage Accessing SMSTextMessagesToreadanSMSTextmessage 191 Using PresetMessages Tosendapresetmessage Composing SMSVoice Messages Using SMSVoice MessagingPlaying an SMSVoice Message Accessing SMSVoice Messages Sending SMSVoice Messages to Group Members Responding to CallWaiting Using Caller IDToswitchbacktothefirstcaller Torespondtoanincomingcallwhileyou’reonacall Making aThree-Way Call TomakeaThree-WayCall TodeactivateCallForwarding Using Call ForwardingToactivateCallForwarding 197 Sprint Vision Sprint Vision SprintVision Applications 199 Getting StartedWith SprintVision ToupdateyourusernameSelect SettingsDataUpdateProfile Your User Name SprintVision Home Launching a SprintVision ConnectionFindingYourUserName Net Guard TochangeyourNetGuardsettingsSelect SettingsDataNetGuard Softkeys SprintVision Connection Status and IndicatorsNavigating theWeb 203 Scrolling Selecting Toselectlinks GoingBackGoingHome Togobackonepage To access SprintMailfromyour phone Accessing MessagingAccessing Sprint Mail MessageTypes 207 Accessing Additional Email ProvidersTo access email providers from your phone ToviewSprintPictureMailmessagesfromthemainmenu SigningUpforUpdatesViewingSprintPictureMail Toselecttheinformationyouwantsenttoyourphone Select Messaging IM & Email Accessing InstantMessagingTo access instantmessagingclients from your phone 209 Select Chat&Dating AccessingWirelessChatroomsToaccessachatroomfromthebrowser Topostamessage 211 ToaccesstheSprintVisiondownloadmenusSelect MyContent SelectinganItemtoDownload DownloadinganItem Todownloadaselecteditem UsingMyContentManagerToaccessMyContentManager 213 Select MyContentApplicationMgr UsingApplicationManagerTodownloadpurchasedcontentfromMyContentManager TousetheApplicationManager 215 Using the Browser MenuExploring theWeb OpeningtheBrowserMenu Toopenthebrowsermenu CreatingaBookmark AccessingaBookmarkToaccessabookmark Tocreateabookmark Toeditabookmark EditingaBookmarkDeletingaBookmark Todeleteabookmark RestartingtheWebBrowser GoingtoaSpecificWebsiteReloadingaWebPage SendingaWebPage AdjustingtheBrowserSoundVolumeToadjustthebrowsersoundvolume TosendaWebpage Tosetupyourphone-to-PCdataconnection UsingYour Phone as a ModemSettingUpaDataConnectionWithYourPC 221 Disconnect the USB cable from your phone and your PC Whenismydataconnectionactive? SprintVision FAQsHowdoIsigninforthefirsttime? 223 Can I sign outofdataservices? Whenis mydataconnection dormant? Sprint Voice Command 225 It’sEasytoGetStarted Getting StartedWith Sprint Voice CommandSprint Voice Command CreatingYour Own Address Book 227 Making a CallWith Sprint Voice Command TomakeacallwithSprintVoiceCommand 229 Accessing Information Using SprintVoice CommandToaccessinformationusingSprintVoiceCommand 230 Safety and Warranty Information Important Safety Information Important Safety Information 233 General PrecautionsImportant Safety Information FollowingSafetyGuidelines Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to Your PhoneUsingYourPhoneWhileDriving UsingYourPhoneNearOtherElectronicDevices TurningOffYourPhoneinDangerousAreas RestrictingChildren’sAccesstoYourPhoneTurningOffYourPhoneBeforeFlying 235 UsingYourPhoneWithaHearingAidDevice Getting the BestHearing Device Experience WithYour Phone Caring for the BatteryProtectingYourBattery 237 DisposalofLithiumIonLi-IonBatteries UnderstandingHowYourPhoneOperates KnowingRadioFrequencySafetyRadio Frequency RF Energy Body-WornOperation SpecificAbsorptionRatesSARforWirelessPhones FCCRadiofrequencyEmission FCCNotice 241 Owner’s Record Phone Guide Proprietary Notice Manufacturer’sWarranty Warranty 243 Warranty Manufacturer’sWarrantyManufacturer’sLimitedWarranty Warranty 245 Copyright 2007 InnoPath Software. All rights reserved 247 IndexIndex Index Index Index