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Motorola 8700 User Manual

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  • Page 1 Phone Book Quick Access Options Menu ‡ Menu Menu English...
  • Page 2 Press E followed by the appropriate key, or press E, scroll to the feature and press O to select. Making an Emergency Call Enter 1 1 2 O . The call will be directed to a central emergency operator. Muting the Phone When in a call, press the mute button on the left hand side of the phone.
  • Page 3 SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is supplied by your Cellular Service Provider. All call billing is made to the subscriber number on the card whether it is used in this or any other GSM unit. ! Before you use your phone, please see the ‘Your Battery’ section for important information on charging a new battery.
  • Page 4 When you are requested to enter information, such as the feature that can be customised to meet your requirements. number of the phone you wish to call, this is represented in bold This symbol indicates a short key sequence for the feature.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Important information for the efficient and safe operation of your phone ................5 About Your Phone, Battery and SIM Card Introduces your phone, explains how to charge and maintain batteries and explains about your SIM Card ......9 Making and Receiving Phone Calls Explains how to call a number, how to redial and how to accept a call..................17...
  • Page 6 English Contents...

  • Page 7: Safety

    Do not hold the antenna when the phone is “IN USE”. Holding the antenna provided. affects call quality and may cause the phone to operate at a higher power level than needed. General Antenna Care and Replacement Your cellular telephone utilizes the GSM standard for cellular technology.

  • Page 8: Electronic Devices

    Children Do not allow children to play with your phone. It is not a toy. Children could hurt themselves or others (by poking themselves or others in the eye with the antenna, for example). Children could damage the phone, or make calls that increase your telephone bills.

  • Page 9: Battery Safety

    Safety Standards Battery Safety This Cellular Telephone complies with • To prevent injury or burns, do not allow metal objects to contact or short circuit the battery terminals. all applicable RF safety standards. • Make sure that the battery terminals do not touch greasy objects.
  • Page 10 European Union Directives Conformance Statement This product is in conformance with the requirements of the applicable EU Council Directives. Declarations of Conformance with the requirements are located at: Motorola Ltd. European Cellular Subscriber Division Midpoint, Alençon Link Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 7PL...

  • Page 11: About Your Phone, Battery And Sim Card

    Turns the phone on and off. Press to see more The Mute Button information on the The Mute button is on the left hand side of your operation currently phone. Press to switch privacy mute on and off displayed. during a call.

  • Page 12: Low Battery Warning

    Low Battery Warning telephone numbers. Battery Charge Indicator. The more segments When the battery level is low and only a few minutes of talk time displayed, the greater the battery charge. remain, a warning signal (two double beeps) will sound, the border of the battery symbol will begin to flash, and Signal Strength.
  • Page 13 Best battery performance will be achieved when you regularly To ensure maximum battery performance, it is recommended that a new battery (or battery that has not been used for several charge and discharge batteries as instructed in this manual. months) be charged for at least 14 hours before use.
  • Page 14 For maximum NiMH battery charging, you should double the Inserting a Spare Battery into the Charger charge time. If you wish to insert a spare battery at the same time as charging Desktop Charger Power Supply your phone, slide the battery into the rear slot, at the angle shown, until the upper indicator lights up.
  • Page 15 Charger Indicators The E•P Desktop Charger has two sets of indicators at the front A slow flashing of the upper indicators shows that the front to provide charging status information. The lower indicators slot has priority. Charging will not begin until the front slot represent the front slot, while the upper indicators show charge is fully charged.
  • Page 16 To charge your phone, connect your travel charger directly to your phone. Battery Type Charge Time ! If you are travelling, you must ensure that the mains voltage of Slim 600 mAh NiMH 1.5 hours the country to which you are travelling matches your travel...
  • Page 17 Fitting Your Battery Place the battery onto the rear of the phone just below the marked arrow indicators. Next, slide the battery upwards on the phone's moulded runners, until it locks into place. Removing Your Battery ! Switch off your phone before removing the battery. Failure to do so may damage your phone memory.

  • Page 18: Your Sim Card

    Cellular Service Provider when you bought your Switch off your phone by pressing phone. You will not be able to make or receive calls if you do not the S key and insert the SIM card have a SIM card inserted in your phone.

  • Page 19: Making And Receiving Phone Calls

    Making and Receiving Phone Calls Switching the Phone On and Off To switch the phone on or off press and hold the S key. If ! If the PIN number is entered incorrectly three times in a row, VibraCall is selected, the phone will vibrate when it is switched your phone will automatically lock-up and the Blocked message will be displayed.

  • Page 20: Making A Phone Call

    If you make a mistake, press and release the C key to It will not be possible to make a phone call unless you are in an remove the last digit. Holding the C key down will remove area where there is a GSM service.
  • Page 21 Details on how to call a number embedded in a message are given in the Messages Menu section. 1. The Phone Book entries that you are able to access will depend on the One-Touch Dial Setting option in the Phone Book menu.
  • Page 22 555-6911, with a mailbox number 1066 and password 2001. Then you may dial the following number: 5556911Ü1066Ü2001O. The first part of the number would be used to call the voicemail system. When the call is answered the first pause will produce a delay of...

  • Page 23: Receiving A Phone Call

    Your Call Diversion and Call Barring settings should not be set to divert or bar incoming calls. When your phone receives a call, it will ring or vibrate and the display will show the message (if you have Caller Line Call Identification, the caller’s number or name will be displayed...
  • Page 24 English Making and Receiving Phone Calls...

  • Page 25: Menu Navigation

    Leaving the Menus the other options using the scroll keys. To leave any of the menus, you can either press and hold the C To leave an option or sub-menu, press the C key. This will take key or repeatedly press the C key. Both of these actions will you back to the parent menu item.
  • Page 26 Off, the current setting will be shown with a character is next to Off, press # and character. If the then O to switch on the Extended Menus. If the character is next to On, press C to leave the setting as it is. English Menu Navigation...
  • Page 27 Extended Menus, and therefore personalise the menus, to suit your requirements. If you want to move a feature from the Short Menu to the Extended Menu (or from the Extended Menu to the Short Menu), go to the feature and then hold down the O key until a prompt appears offering the following choices: •...
  • Page 28 English Menu Navigation...

  • Page 29: Using The Phone Book Menu

    Cellular Service Provider. number from the Phone Book, delete the relevant digits and then You can also store up to 20 entries in a Fixed Dialling list if you enter the new number. have this feature. Fixed Dialling allows you to limit use of your...
  • Page 30 The 0, 1,..,8 and 9 keys are used to enter alphabetic characters, for example when storing names in the Space . ? ! , Ÿ & : " ( ) ' ` @ % ¡ ¢ 1 Phone Book or when creating messages.
  • Page 31 The Phone Book Menu English Using The Phone Book Menu...

  • Page 32: Personal Numbers

    The Personal Numbers sub-menu is used for creating and Press Q Location. managing your list of personal numbers. This option is used to select a telephone number from a list of numerically sorted Phone Book locations. Find Entry By Name...
  • Page 33 This option is used to add (store) entries to the Phone Book. You Once a Phone Book entry has been selected, it can be called, can choose to add the new entry to either the phone or SIM card modified or deleted.
  • Page 34 This option enables you to prevent access to the Personal Numbers list. Last Calls Made This option can be used to redial the phone number of any one To SIM Card Memory, To Phone Memory, To Phone & of the last ten calls made.

  • Page 35: My Phone Number(S)

    You may not be able to change these predefined entries. Up to 20 entries can be stored in the Fixed Dial list. The list is stored on your SIM card. ! This option may be affected by the Call Barring setting.

  • Page 36: One-Touch Dial Setting

    Setup Fixed Dialling One-Touch Dial Setting This option allows you to switch Fixed Dialling on or off and to This option allows you to specify which Phone Book list can be enter or change entries in the Fixed Dial list.

  • Page 37: Using The Options Menu

    Using the Options Menu English Using the Options Menu...

  • Page 38: Call Related Features Menu

    Call Related Features Menu Show Battery Meter This option displays the approximate amount of battery capacity remaining, for example: English Using the Options Menu...

  • Page 39: Call Diverting

    Restrict ID On Next Call Your phone number will not be sent with the next attempted call, after this your phone number will be sent with calls until you re-select this option. Call diverting is a network feature. If your phone is unavailable, or you do not wish to receive calls, incoming calls can be diverted to other phone numbers.
  • Page 40 Each option has two settings, or Off. delay while the phone asks the network for the current setting. If you change the setting to On, you will be asked to enter a Divert When Unavailable diversion phone number using the digit keys.
  • Page 41 Your phone is not fax-ready - you can only talk. 'Data' calls. • Your phone is fax-ready but Talk and Fax mode is off - the call Cancel All Diverting is automatically routed to your fax (you cannot talk). This option will enable you to cancel the diversion of incoming calls.
  • Page 42 To accept a waiting call, press O. The active call will be • If Call Waiting is On, you will be notified of a waiting call by an placed on hold. If you prefer to end the active call before...

  • Page 43: Call Barring

    Trying If you change the barring setting, you may be asked to enter your A request to hold the active call, or swap the active call with a barring password. There will be a short delay while the phone held call, has been made.
  • Page 44 After selecting this option, you will be asked to enter the current password. You will then be asked to enter, and then re-enter, your new, 4 digit, barring password. When the change has been made by the network, the phone will display a confirmation message.

  • Page 45: Messages Menu

    Vibrate’ setting). Displays the o (messages) icon. Stores the message for later viewing, if there is space. If there is not enough space, the o icon will flash. One or more messages must be removed before the message can be stored.

  • Page 46: Call Voicemail

    When the message has scrolled across the display, the beginning press O to send the message. of the message will be shown until you either remove it or a new message arrives. - Select this option to store your edited Store Message message in your Outgoing Messages list.
  • Page 47 Received Messages Return Call This option can be used to call the person who sent you the This option is used to view and manage any SMS messages that message, if their number has been included by the network, or a have been sent to your phone number.

  • Page 48: Message Settings

    Off. The maximum value you can enter is 10584, though the real limit If you change the setting to On, you will be asked to enter the will depend on your Message Service Centre. channel you wish to receive information from.

  • Page 49: Phone Setup Menu

    Phone Setup Menu Adjust Ring Volume This option is used to set the incoming call ring tone volume. The volume will be displayed as follows: Adjust the volume by pressing the volume keys on the side of your phone. Ring or Vibrate This option sets the way your phone alerts you to an incoming call.
  • Page 50 After selecting this option, you will be asked to enter the current security code before you can proceed. Standard Tone You can now enter a four digit code to replace the old code. Your phone makes a standard ringing tone. By pressing the M key, you can access this option even Single Ring Tone - Music Tone when the phone is locked.

  • Page 51: Change Sim Pin2 Code

    PIN code before you can proceed. code before you can proceed. You will be asked to enter a new, four to eight digit code to You will be asked to enter a new, four to eight digit code to replace the old PIN code.

  • Page 52: Language Selection

    This option can help you to conserve battery power. Also known You will then be asked to enter a new, six digit code to replace as DTX (Discontinuous Transmission), this feature will cause your the old security code.

  • Page 53: Phone Status

    ! This option should be used with extreme caution, for example Status Review it will clear all the Phone Book entries from your phone This option can be used to view the current setting of menu memory. options. This option is used to restore certain phone options to their When selected, your phone will display a list of menu items original settings.

  • Page 54: Network Selection Menu

    Network Selection Menu Network Selection In order for the phone to make and receive phone calls, it must register with one of the available networks. Your phone automatically searches for the last network used. If, for any reason, this network is unavailable, your phone will attempt to register with a new network.

  • Page 55: Network Search

    'Frequency Of Search' option. These options determine how often your phone tries to register If the phone is turned off and then on again, it will revert to with a network and how the attempt is made. Automatic Search mode and register with a network in the order of the sorted list.
  • Page 56 When selected, the 'Choose From Available' option will scan to list of those available. If the attempt fails, your phone will then try see which networks are operating in your current location. When to re-register with the previous network.

  • Page 57: Call Meters Menu

    Your phone can handle values up to 21 digits long, although during calls it can only display the last 12 digits. If the value exceeds 21 digits, then is displayed.

  • Page 58: Set Audible Call Timers

    This feature allows you to specify whether the time or charge If you receive the Advice of Charge service then all calls are meters are displayed during a call. If you do not have the Advice timed. If you do not receive the Advice of Charge service then, of Charge service, then only the time meter is available.

  • Page 59: Call Charge Settings

    Lifetime Timer If you switch the charge limit On, you will be prompted to enter a new limit. Enter the amount as either units or currency This option is used to display the total time of all calls made on...

  • Page 60: Accessory Setup Menu

    O Mute Car Radio This option can be used to mute your car radio when you make, or receive, a call when your phone is attached to the car kit. It must be enabled by your local dealer. This option has two settings, or Off.

  • Page 61: Automatic Handsfree

    This option has two settings, or Off. Safety Timer This option can be used to keep the phone on for a set period after the vehicle ignition has been turned off. This prevents the vehicle's battery from becoming drained and saves you from having to re-enter PIN and Unlock codes after every short stop.
  • Page 62 English Using the Options Menu...

  • Page 63: Using The Quick Access Menu

    1 to 9. To use a Quick Access feature, press the quick access key (E) followed by the number of the feature, or press < or > to scroll through the menu and then press O.
  • Page 64 Adjust Ring? The number will be stored in the next available phone memory This option is used to display and to set the incoming call ring location. See ‘Add Entry’ for more information. tone volume.
  • Page 65 Talk and Fax? Outgoing SMS? Switches Talk and Fax on for the next call only. See ‘Talk and Fax’ Your newest message will be displayed; you can then read, send, for more information. delete and edit messages as normal. See ‘Outgoing Messages’...
  • Page 66 Customising the Quick Access Menu You can change the features in the Quick Access menu to suit • Outgoing Messages your personal preferences. • Message Editor To customise the menu: • Last Calls Received Press E and scroll to the menu item you wish to change.

  • Page 67: Accessories

    CELLect™2 (S5253-UK, S5254-Germany) Travel Battery Charger - Wall Adapter Both PC Cards allow you to send and receive data and fax calls (SPN4221 - UK or SPN4222 - Euro) using your phone and a computer with a PCMCIA Type II slot.
  • Page 68 Compatible Accessories If you already have existing accessories for a MicroTAC phone, the following accessories are recommended for use with this phone: Simple Micro Car Kit (no hands free) S3060 Rapid Charger Base SLN9347 Transformer (UK) SPN4111 Transformer (Euro) SPN4112 * Requires a new connector cable (SKN4636).

  • Page 69: What To Do If

    You can’t make calls Check the antenna. Is it fully extended? Check the signal strength meter in the display. If the signal is weak, move to an open space or, if you are in a building, move closer to a window.
  • Page 70 Is your antenna fully extended? This helps use less battery power. Is it a new battery? A new battery will need two to three charge/discharge cycles to attain normal performance. See ‘Charging a New Battery’ Is it an old battery? Battery performance will decline after several years use. Replace the battery.
  • Page 71 SIM card release ........9 Cell broadcast ........46 volume ..........9 Messages ........44 Change bar password ......42 Change SIM PIN2 code ......49 Change unlock code ......48 Characters ...........28 Charge meters Resetting .........57 Charger indicators .......13 Check capacity (of the Phone Book) ..32 English Index...
  • Page 72 Erase name and number .......31 Selecting .........50 Message ........45 Extended menus ......25 Phone book entries ......31 Desktop charging of your battery ..12 Language selection ......50 Fault finding .........67 Detailed diverting ........ 38 Last ten calls .........32 Fax calls Dialling phone book numbers ....
  • Page 73 Modify name or number ....31 Network selection menu ....52 Preventing access to ......32 One-touch dial setting ......34 Options menu .........35 Storing numbers - see Add Entry ..31 One-touch dialling ......19 Personalised menus ......25 Phone book menu .......27 Options menu ........35 Phone book menu ......27...
  • Page 74 Service centre ........46 Transmission rate .........39 Receiving a phone call ......21 Set audible call timers ......56 Travel charger ........14 Redialling the last number called ..19 Set in-call display ........56 Troubleshooting ........67 Removing your battery ......15 Set ringer tone ........48 Require SIM card PIN ......

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