Keyboard - Danger T-Mobile Sidekick Owner's Manual

Turning on Backlighting
To help you use your device in a dark environment, enable the automatic backlighting feature:
1 From the Jump screen, open the menu and select Settings.
2 Scroll down and select Battery & Display.
3 In the Backlight section of the screen, select the Automatically turn on when in use check box.
Note for color devices: To use the device's light meter while the backlight is on, select the Use light meter
to adjust brightness check box.
4 Select the length of time you want backlighting to stay on from the Turn on after pop-up menu.
5 Press Jump to return to the Jump screen.
Now, when you press any button or key on your device, or flip open the screen, backlighting will turn on for the
set amount of time. Note that as long as you press a key or button before the set time elapses, the backlight will
stay on.
Tip: Even if you have not enabled automatic backlighting, you can still quickly turn on backlighting by pressing
to open the Controls. The backlight turn on and remain on for the time specified in the
Menu + Back
Backlight pop-up menu.

Keyboard

Your device keyboard contains five rows of keys, including a key for the "at" symbol (@) and a Directional pad
("D-pad") that "rocks" into eight different directions or positions. The topics below describe the keyboard in more
detail.
Directional Pad (D-Pad)
The D-pad is the round navigational device in the lower-right corner of the keypad that you can "rock" in eight
directions: up, down, left, right, plus the 4 corners (northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast), which you
use by pressing two adjacent keys at the same time. You use the D-pad to navigate while playing games and to
text boxes
navigate within
examples of text boxes:
• To, From, Subject fields in an email, IM, or Phone Messages message
• Go To dialog box in the Web Browser
Press the up/down and left/right arrows to move in those directions among characters in a text box. Press the
corners of the D-pad (two adjacent arrows at the same time) to jump up/down one line and forward/backward
a character. Read more in
ALT Key
You type special characters (shown in red on some of the keys) by first pressing the ALT key, then the key
showing the special character. For example, if you need to type a semicolon (;), you would first press the ALT
key, then the J key. (This action is also represented in the user documentation as ALT, J.)
• Lock the ALT key to type a series of special characters by pressing the key twice.
• Unlock the ALT key by pressing it once again.
Note! You can also lock the Shift key by pressing it twice. Unlock by pressing once again.
April 15, 2003
. A text box is an area on the screen in which you can type characters. Here's a couple
Typing and Navigating in Text Fields
on page 26.
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