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 24 Use the phone book, call options.
Page 2
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 standby to enter the Find and call press and hold menu standby Call your voice mail service press and hold 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.
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.
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.
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 Messages Phone book 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.
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.
Page 15
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.
Page 18
To set the Vibrating Alert 1. Scroll to Settings, , Sounds & alerts, 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.
Page 19
To draw your own picture 1. Scroll to Extras, , Pictures, 2. Press to start drawing with the picture editor. 3. Press twice to save the picture. To edit a picture 1. Scroll to Extras, , Pictures, 2. Select a picture group and press 3.
To delete a picture from My Favourites 1. Scroll to Extras, , Pictures, 2. Select My favourites and press 3. Select a picture and press 4. Press to delete the picture. Background picture Select a picture as background when in standby mode. Your phone comes with 10 preset pictures.
2. Select an answering mode and press Start-up/Shut-down show When you turn your phone on or off, the Sony Ericsson start-up/shut-down show appears in the display. Your operator’s own greeting may be shown instead. If you want to interrupt the start-up show, press You can also create your own start-up show.
Note: Calls to the international emergency number 112 can still be made, even when the keypad is locked. The keypad remains locked until you: • answer an incoming call • unlock the keypad To lock the keypad manually 1. Press and hold 2.
Page 23
Profiles A profile is a group of settings which are set to suit a certain environment. For example, when you go to a meeting, you can simply choose the Meeting profile and a number of settings that suit a meeting are set –...
Master reset You can reset all the settings in the phone to the way they were when you bought your phone. Note: If you select Reset all, some pictures, melodies and templates which came with your phone are deleted. To reset the phone 1.
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.
Page 26
3. Press to go to Special numbers, numbers, 4. Press to go to the number you want, then press to make the call. Receiving calls When you receive a call, the phone rings and the display shows Answer? If your subscription includes the Calling Line Identification service and the caller’s network sends the number, the caller’s number is shown in the display.
When you enter the number, the person at the other end can hear the tones. You can turn the tones off (can only be done during a call). To turn the tone signals off during a call 1. Press until the Ongoing call menu appears. 2.
Tip: You can also select the Call list from the Call info menu. Clearing the call list • Select Clear call list from the Call info/Options menu. To turn the call list on or off 1. Scroll to Call info, , Options, 2.
To add a picture to a phone book entry 1. Scroll to Phone book, , CLI Pictures, 2. Select Add new?, press 3. Press to go to the phone book, 4. When the phone book entry is highlighted, press 5. This takes you to Pictures. Select a picture and press •...
To turn the Ask to Save function on or off 1. Scroll to Phone book, , Options, 2. Select On or Off and press Note: Your subscription must support the Calling Line Identification Service, if you want to save answered numbers.
You can also save your entries in the phone memory. The phone memory holds 100 positions in which your entries are saved when all SIM positions are occupied. If you save your entries in the phone memory, you still have access to them if you use another SIM card with your phone.
Page 32
Copy phone book entries You can copy the phone book entries between your phone’s memory and the SIM card. The number of entries that can be saved depends on the type of SIM card. • To copy entries to the SIM card, scroll to Phone book, , Options, , Copy all to SIM.
You can also select Call Voice Mail from the Messages menu. Receiving a voice mail When you receive a voice mail, your phone beeps and the message New voice mail appears in the display. • Press to listen to the voice mail. If you want to listen to it later, press Call time and call cost During a call, the duration of the call is shown in the...
Page 34
Credit limit for calls If supported by your network and your subscription, you can enter a total amount of money that can be used for making calls. When the amount reaches zero, no more calls can be made. Please note that the credit limit is only an estimated value.
More than one call Your phone can handle more than one call simultaneously. You can, for example, put an ongoing call on hold while you make or answer a second call, and then switch between the two calls. You can also set up a conference call to have a joint conversation with up to five people.
Page 36
End the ongoing call and return to the call on hold 1. Press 2. Press End both calls • Press twice. Connect the two calls • Scroll to Ongoing call, , Transfer call, The two calls are now connected to each other, and you are disconnected from both.
To release a participant 1. Scroll to Ongoing call, , Release part, 2. Select a participant and press To release all participants • Scroll to Ongoing call, , Release all, You can put a conference on hold and make a new call. You can switch between the calls in the same way as when switching between two normal calls.
Page 38
in the display. Fixed dialling requires a SIM card that allows fixed numbers to be saved. The fixed numbers are protected by your PIN2. • Partial numbers can be saved. For example, storing 0123456 allows calls to be made to all numbers starting with 0123456.
Accept calls With the Accept Calls service, you can choose to receive calls only from certain numbers. Other calls are rejected by a busy tone. You have to save the numbers that you want to receive in an Accepted Callers List. The numbers must first be saved in your phone book.
Messaging Text messages (SMS) You can use the Short Message Service (SMS) to send and receive text messages consisting of up to 160 characters. If the number to your service centre is not saved on your SIM card, you must specify the number yourself.
To format the text in a text message 1. Scroll to Messages, , Write new, 2. Write the text message. 3. Press and hold 4. Select Text format, . Then select Text size, Text style or Alignment, . Select a format and press Long messages A text message can contain up to 160 characters.
To turn set on send on or off • Repeat steps 1 and 2 above, then select Set on send, Templates If you have one or more messages that you send often, you can save these as templates. You can save 20 templates consisting of up to 60 characters each.
To reply to a message 1. When you have read the message, press 2. Select Reply in the option list and press 3. Select the message you want to send as a reply and press . You can choose between: •...
Page 44
To save an e-mail address 1. Scroll to Phone book, , Email addresses, new?, 2. Enter an e-mail address and press 3. Enter a name and press Area information The ordinary Short Message Service is a personal service that carries your private messages.
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.
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”...
Page 50
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” on page 6.
The Fixed Dialling function is on and the number you have dialled is not on your fixed numbers list. See “Fixed dialling” on page 37. Charging, alien battery The battery you are using is not an Sony Ericsson- approved battery and is charging slowly for safety reasons.
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.
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).
Page 57
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...
Page 58
Always give full attention to driving and pull off the road and park before making or answering a call if driving conditions so require. 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.
Page 59
• 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.
Page 61
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.
Page 64
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 49 set time 49 turn off 49 Alarm indicator 63 Alarm signal 49 Answering a call 26 Answering mode 21 Answering service. See Voice mail service Area information 44 receiving area messages 44 Ask to save 29, 30 Assembling the phone 6 Barring calls.
Page 66
Earpiece volume 24 Emergency calls 25 Emergency numbers 25 Ending a call 24 Fixed dialling 37 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 25 International calls 25 Key functions 9, 10 quick keys 3...
Page 67
SIM card copy contacts 32 unblocking 51 SIM card lock activating/cancelling 51 SMS. See Text messages Sony Ericsson Mobile Internet 20 Sony Ericsson web site 55 Stopwatch 50 Switching between two calls 35 T9 Text Input 14 key functions 15...
Need help?
Do you have a question about the 1102101-BV and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers