Samsung Galaxy Tab User Manual page 45

Managing Messages
Threaded View
Messages you send and receive to the same contact, number or
address are grouped together as a "thread". Threaded messages
allow you to see all the messages you exchanged with a contact
or other recipient, as a conversation, with the latest message
displayed first.
From the Home screen, touch Messaging
1.
Message threads display by contact, number, or address.
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While viewing message threads, you have these options:
• Touch and hold a thread to choose from:
– View Contacts / Add to contacts: View the contact record, or save
the sender/recipient's information as a new contact, or to update an
existing contact.
– Delete thread: Erase the entire message thread.
• Touch Menu for these options:
– Delete threads: Touch message threads to mark them for erasure, or
touch Select all to mark all message threads for erasure.
– Brightness setting: Enable or disable the display's automatic
brightness setting.
– Settings: Configure message settings.
Message Settings
Configure message settings.
From the Home screen, touch Messaging
1.
Touch Menu
2.
• Storage settings:
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• Multimedia message (MMS) settings:
• Notifications settings:
Settings to set:
– Delete old messages: Touch to enable or disable automatic erasure of
messages when stored messages reach default limits. When disabled,
the device will prompt you to delete old messages to make room.
– Text message limit: Touch to set a limit for the number of text
messages per conversation thread.
– Multimedia message limit: Touch to set a limit for the number of
multimedia messages per conversation thread.
– Auto-retrieve: Touch to enable or disable automatic retrieval of MMS
messages. When enabled, MMS messages download automatically.
When disabled, the device prompts to download new MMS messages.
– Roaming auto-retrieve: Touch to enable or disable automatic retrieval
of MMS messages when in Roaming mode. When enabled, MMS
messages download and display automatically. When disabled, the
device prompts you to download new MMS messages.
– Notifications: Touch to enable or disable alerts in the status bar.
– Select ringtone: Touch to select a ringtone for message alerts.
– Vibrate: Touch to enable or disable vibration for message alerts.
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