Contents Quick guide 3 Easy access to certain functions. Getting started 6 Make and receive the first call. Getting to know your phone 9 Key functions, quick keys, entering letters. Personalizing your phone 16 Choose ring signal, create pictures and more. Calling 25 Use the phone book, call options.
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Improvements and changes to this manual necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB at any time and without notice. Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new editions of this manual.
Quick guide To... Do this: enter the Call list press to enter the first function in press and hold the menu My shortcuts from standby to enter the Find and call press and hold menu from standby Call your voice mail service press and hold from standby enter the + sign to make an press and hold...
Getting started About this User’s Guide Some services and functions described in this User’s Guide are network- and subscription-dependent. Because of this, all menus may not be available in your phone and the shortcut numbers to menus and functions may vary between phones. This symbol indicates that a service or function is network- or operator-dependent.
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Making and receiving calls SIM locked PIN: My Network 12:18 To turn on the phone • Press and hold until you hear a tone. • Enter your PIN (Personal Identity Number), if you have one for your SIM card. Your PIN is provided by your network operator. Getting started This is the Internet version of the user's guide.
Getting to know your phone Key functions Make and answer calls. Select a menu, submenu or an option. Press and hold to turn the phone on or off or to go back to standby mode. Press to end or reject a call, go back one level in the menus or leave an option unchanged.
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Moving through the menus There are two ways of moving through the menus: • Scrolling with the • Using shortcuts Scrolling by using Press... to... scroll left or up through the menus. scroll right or down through the menus. select a menu, submenu or an option. go back one level in the menus, leave an option unchanged.
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Display text • A text that is highlighted shows your position in the menu. If you press , you enter this menu or select this option. • Grey text indicates a function that is temporarily unavailable, for example due to your subscription or due to a certain setting which has not been turned on.
Menu overview Phone book Messages Find and call Call voice mail Add number Inbox Find and edit Write new CLI pictures Unsent Personal rings Templates Groups Sent items Email addresses Options Options Memory status Special numbers Getting to know your phone This is the Internet version of the user's guide.
Entering letters You can enter letters when you add names to the phone book, write text messages (SMS) or enter WAP addresses. You enter letters in your phone using multitap text input, which is default, or you can use T9™ Text Input, if the input language you select supports this.
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Press… to get… # *↵ to delete letters and numbers to shift between capital and lower-case letters press and hold to enter numbers – press and hold to switch to one of your selected input methods Example: • To enter an ‘A’, press once.
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If you do not find the word you want by pressing • press and hold to switch to basic text input (abc). Move the cursor by using then delete letters by pressing pressing the appropriate key the number of times needed until you get the letter you want.
Personalizing your phone You can adjust the phone settings to suit your own requirements. Ring signals You can specify the ring signal volume, choose among different ring signals or compose your own ring signals. Ring signal volume The ring signal volume can be set to six levels. You can also turn the ring signal off (0).
Tip: Use the volume keys on the side of the phone to scroll silently. Specific ring signals for personal calls If your subscription includes the Calling Line Identification service, you can assign a personal ring signal to up to ten callers. If the last seven digits of a caller’s number correspond to a number you have specified, then that caller’s ring signal is used.
To set the Vibrating Alert 1. Scroll to Settings, , Sounds & alerts, Vibrating alert, 2. Select the setting you want, and then press Message signal You can set the message signal to clicks, tones or silent. • Select Message alert from the Settings/Sounds & alerts menu and then select the signal you want.
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Pictures Your phone comes with a number of pictures. • Scroll to Extras, , Pictures, • Assign a picture to a number in the phone book. When that person calls, the picture appears in the display (provided your subscription supports the Calling Line Identification service).
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Select a picture as background when in standby mode. Your phone comes with 10 preset pictures. You can also save an additional 10 pictures in your phone, that you either create yourself or download from Sony Ericsson Mobile Internet. For more information, visit wap.SonyEricsson.com/.
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Phone number display You can check your own phone number(s). • Select My numbers from the Phone book/Special numbers menu. If your number is not stored on your SIM card, you can enter it yourself. Keypad lock You can lock the keypad to avoid dialling a number by accident.
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To add a function to My Shortcuts 1. Scroll to My shortcuts, , Edit shortcuts, 2. Select a function from the list by pressing 3. Enter the position number you want for your function in this menu and press To add another function, repeat steps 2 and 3. To remove a function, repeat steps 1 and 2.
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To change a profile setting 1. Scroll to Settings, , Profiles, 2. Select a setting and press 3. Change the profile settings and press You can reset all profile settings to the way they were set when you bought your phone. •...
Calling This chapter gives information about the calling functions that your phone supports. Making calls Before you can make and receive calls, you need to turn on the phone and be within range of a network. Making a call 1. Enter the area code and phone number. 2.
1. Enter (the international emergency number). 2. Press Your Sony Ericsson phone supports the international emergency number 112. This means that it can normally be used to make an emergency call in any country, with or without a SIM card inserted, if a GSM network is within range.
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The caller hears a busy tone if this is supported by the caller’s network. If “Divert calls When busy” is on, the call is diverted to the number you have specified. See “Diverting incoming calls” on page 34. Missed calls If you have missed a call, the message Missed calls: 1 appears in standby mode.
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Ciphering Ciphering is a built-in feature that encodes your calls and messages to provide additional privacy. An icon is shown in the display during a call to indicate that ciphering is currently not being provided by the network. Call list The Call List is a phone number log that saves information (time, date, phone number and name) about the last 20 dialled, answered and missed calls.
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Every phone number you save also gets a position number. If you want to, you can choose to sort your phone book entries according to their position number instead of the name. If you intend to use your phone both at home and abroad, it is a good idea to save all phone numbers as international phone numbers, i.e.
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Shortcuts to phone book entries You can call the phone numbers that you have saved in positions 1–9 by entering the position number in standby, and then pressing Example: • Press and then When in standby, you can find an entry by pressing and holding one of the keys entry beginning with the first letter on that key, or the closest following.
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To delete an entry from the phone book 1. Scroll to Phone book, , Find and edit, 2. Enter the name (or the first few letters) for the entry that you wish to edit and press 3. When the entry you want to delete is highlighted, press 4.
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Overwrite protection If you try to save a phone number in a position which already contains a phone number, the message Overwrite? appears together with the name saved in that position. You now have two options: • Press to replace the number with the new one. •...
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Your voice mail service The answering service of your network operator allows callers to leave a voice message when you cannot answer your calls. Depending on your operator, you are informed that someone has left a message in different ways. Most operators send a text message (SMS), asking you to call your voice mail service, for example.
Call cost You can check the cost of your Last call and the Total time of your calls. To check the call cost 1. Scroll to Call info, , Call costs, 2. Select a call cost and press 3. Select Clear total cost to reset the counter. Note: If you subscribe to cost information, you must enter your PIN2 to clear the cost or time counter.
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To turn on a call divert 1. Scroll to Settings, , Call options, Divert calls, 2. Select a divert option and press 3. Select Activate and press 4. Enter the phone number to which you want your calls to be diverted and press , or retrieve it from the phone book by pressing Note: When the Restricted Calls function is on, some...
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Receiving a second call If the Call Waiting service is on, you hear a beep in the earpiece if you receive a second call. A list of alternatives, Answer, Busy and Release&answer, is shown in the display. You can do one of the following: Put the ongoing call on hold and answer the waiting call •...
Conference calls You can include up to five participants in a conference call. To create a conference call, you must have one ongoing call and one call on hold. To join the two calls into a conference call • Scroll to Ongoing call, , Join calls, To add a new participant 1.
• all incoming calls, All incoming • all incoming calls when you are abroad (when roaming), Inc when roam To turn a call restriction on or off 1. Scroll to Settings, , Call options, Restrict calls, 2. Select an option and press 3.
Closed user groups The Closed User Group function is a way of lowering call costs. On some networks it is cheaper to make calls within a call group. Your network operator can place certain numbers in groups. You can have a maximum of 10 groups. To add a group 1.
Setting network preferences When you turn on the phone, it automatically searches for your home network. If this is not within range, you may use another network, provided your network operator has an agreement that allows you to do so. This is called roaming.
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To send a text message 1. Scroll to Messages, , Write new, 2. Enter your message and press See “Entering letters” on page 13. 3. Enter the recipient’s phone number or retrieve it from the phone book by pressing 4. Press to send the message.
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To send a text message to a group 1. Scroll to Messages, , Write new, 2. Enter your message and press 3. Press , select Groups and press 4. Select a group and press Note: You will be charged for each group member. Message options You can set a default value for the message options below, or you can turn on the Set on send option which...
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To send a template later, select it from the Templates list in the Messages menu, and proceed as described in “To send a text message” on page 41. Message counter You can check the number of text messages that you have sent.
To call a phone number found in a message • When the number is highlighted, press To call the sender of the message 1. When you have read the message, press 2. Select Call and press To read the next message 1.
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This information could, for example, be a local traffic report or the phone number of a local taxi company. To turn area information on or off 1. Scroll to Messages, , Options, Reception. 2. Select On or Off and press Area information codes Please refer to the information provided by your operator for more information about the area...
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Note: An IP address consists of four groups of digits, with a maximum of three digits in each group. If one of your digit groups consists of only one or two digits, you have to enter a zero (0) in front of the original digit for each digit that is missing.
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3. Select one of the following submenus, • Go to bookmark. Go to the marked WAP page. • Edit bookmark. Edit the name and/or the WAP address of the bookmark. • Delete. Delete the bookmark. • Send as link. This creates a text message in which the WAP address is sent as a link.
• View week. Press or previous week. • View month. Press or previous day. Press next or previous month. Press for the selected month. Press to the next or previous year. To delete a task 1. Scroll to the task that you want to delete as described in “To view a task”...
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Stopwatch The phone has a built-in stopwatch. To run the stopwatch 1. Scroll to Extras, , Time, 2. Press to start the stopwatch. 3. Press again to stop it. 4. Press to reset the stopwatch. Tip: By pressing when the stopwatch is running, you can store up to 9 lap times.
Security The SIM card lock The SIM card lock protects your subscription, but not your phone itself, from unauthorized use. If you change SIM cards, the phone still works with the new SIM card. Most SIM cards are locked at the time of purchase. If the SIM card lock is on, you have to enter a “PIN”...
Troubleshooting This chapter lists some problems that you might encounter while using your phone. Some problems require that you call your service provider, but most of the problems you can easily correct yourself. The phone cannot be switched on Recharge or replace the battery. See “Getting started”...
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The Fixed Dialling function is on and the number you have dialled is not on your fixed numbers list. See “Fixed dialling” on page 38. Charging, alien battery The battery you are using is not an Sony Ericsson- approved battery and is charging slowly for safety reasons. Troubleshooting...
Additional information Sony Ericsson Consumer web site On www.SonyEricsson.com/support/ you will find a support section where help and tips are only a few clicks away. Here you find the latest software updates, tips on how to use your product more efficiently, function guides for some of the products and additional help when you require it.
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Antenna Only use an antenna that has been specifically designed by Sony Ericsson for your mobile phone. Use of unauthorised or modified antennas could damage your mobile phone and may violate regulations, causing loss of performance and SAR levels above the recommended limits (see below).
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We recommend that you use only Ericsson or Sony Ericsson handsfree solutions intended for use with your product. Please note that because of possible interference to electronic...
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Personal medical devices Mobile phones may affect the operation of cardiac pacemakers and other implanted equipment. Please avoid placing the mobile phone over the pacemaker, e.g. in your breast pocket. When using the mobile phone, place it at the ear opposite the pacemaker.
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• Warning! May explode if disposed of in fire. • Use only Ericsson or Sony Ericsson branded original batteries and chargers intended for use with your mobile phone. Other chargers may not charge sufficiently or may produce excessive heat.
Product from the dealer. 2. If Sony Ericsson repairs or replaces the Product, the repaired or replaced Product shall be warranted for the remaining time of the original warranty period or for ninety (90) days from the date of repair, whichever is longer.
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Sony Ericsson instructions for use and maintenance of the Product. Nor does this warranty cover any failure of the Product due to accident, modification or adjustment, acts of God or damage resulting from liquid.
EU country where an identical Product is sold by an authorised Sony Ericsson distributor. To find out if your Product is sold in the EU country you are in, please call the local Sony Ericsson Customer Care Center.
Display icons Symbol Description Your personal phone book. Handling of text and voice messages. Handling of call time, call cost information and ongoing calls. Personal settings, profiles, divert calls and networks. Calendar, pictures, alarm clock and other extras. Gives you access to WAP services on the Internet.
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Symbol Description The phone book entry is saved in the phone memory. The phone book entry is a group. Unread text message. Unchecked voice message. You can enter the phone book by pressing The text message is saved in the SIM card memory.
Index Accept calls 39 Alarm clock 50 set time 50 turn off 50 Alarm indicator 64 Alarm signal 50 Answering a call 26 Answering mode 21 Answering service. See Voice mail service Area information 44 receiving area messages 45 Ask to save 30 Assembling the phone 6 Barring calls.
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Earpiece volume 25 Emergency calls 26 Emergency numbers 26 Ending a call 25 Fixed dialling 38 turn on 38 Fixed numbers 38 storing 38 Forwarding calls. See Call divert Groups. See Phone book Handsfree 21 Hiding your number 27 Int. emergency number 26 International calls 25 Key functions 9, 10 quick keys 3...
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32 unblocking 52 SIM card lock activating/cancelling 52 SMS counter 43 SMS. See Text messages Sony Ericsson Mobile Internet 20 Sony Ericsson web site 56 Stopwatch 51 Switching between two calls 36 T9 Text Input 14 key functions 15...