Verizon G2 Changing Messaging Settings, Using Direct message, Receiving and viewing messages

Communication 89

Using Direct message

If you placed a Direct message widget on your Home screen, simply tap the contact’s Direct message widget to automatically start a message to that contact.

Receiving and viewing messages

If you’re working in a message window, messages that you receive from that contact are displayed. Otherwise, you receive a new message notification and a new message icon appears in the Status Bar. When you tap the new message notification, the Message screen opens where you can reply to the message. If the New message pop-up setting is activated, you will receive a pop-up notification on the current screen where you can directly reply from.

Tap the Download button at the bottom of the screen if the Auto-retrieve setting is not checkmarked.

If the message contains a media file, tap the Play button to view, watch, or listen to it. Touch and hold the media file to open a Context menu with additional options.

To respond to messages you receive

While viewing the received message, tap the text field at the bottom of the screen, complete your response as necessary, then tap the Send button.

Changing Messaging Settings

To change the Messaging settings, open the Messaging application,

tap the Menu Key (in the Front Touch Keys bar) > Settings.

Storage

Delete old messages: Checkmark this setting to allow the phone to delete older messages in a thread when the Text message limit or Multimedia message limit is reached. Uncheckmark this setting to keep all messages.

Text message limit: Tap to set the number of text messages to save per thread.