Communicating With Your Contacts; Sharing Your Contacts; Backing Up Contacts - Sony Xperia advance User Manual

To mark or unmark a contact as a favorite
1 From the Home screen, tap
Tap the contact you want to add to or remove from your favorites.
2
3 Tap .

Communicating with your contacts

To search for a contact
1
From your Home screen, tap
2 Enter the first few letters of the contact name in the Search field. All contacts
beginning with those letters appear.
The quick contact menu
Tap a contact's thumbnail to view quick communication options for a particular contact.
Options include calling the contact, sending a text or multimedia message, and starting a
chat using the Google Talk™ application.
For an application to appear as an option in the quick contact menu, you may need to set up
the application in your phone and be logged in to the application. For example, you need to
start the Gmail™ application and enter your login details before you can use Gmail™ from the
quick contact menu.

Sharing your contacts

To send your business card
1 From your Home screen, tap
2 Tap Myself.
3
Press , then tap Send contact > OK.
4 Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.
To send a contact
1
From your Home screen, tap
2 Tap the contact whose details you want to send.
3
Press , then tap Send contact > OK.
4 Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.
To send several contacts at once
1
From your Home screen, tap
2
Press , then tap Send contacts.
3 Mark the contacts you want to send, or select all if you want to send all contacts.
4 Tap Send, then tap OK to confirm.
5 Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.

Backing up contacts

You can use a memory card, a SIM card, or an online synchronization tool such as
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Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
To export all contacts to a memory card
1 From your Home screen, tap
2 Press , then tap Back up contacts > Memory Card.
Tap OK.
3
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to back up contacts.
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