Setting News Autopreview; Alarms; Setting The Alarm - Motorola TalkAbout T900 User Manual

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While the communicator (PIC) retrieves the requested information, the icon for
the corresponding topic flashes. When the request is complete, the topic icon stops
flashing (or Request Failed is displayed on the Status screen accompanied by an
alert if the request was unsuccessful). If the request was successfully sent to the
system, a message is received (typically within 2-3 minutes). See "Reading Messages"
on page 29.

Setting News AutoPreview

When this feature is turned on, it causes the communicator (PIC) to automatically jump to
the News/Info InBox when you press any key after receiving an information service
message. To turn on News AutoPreview, proceed as follows.
Œ
From the Main menu, press

y z
Press or to highlight
Ž
y z
Press or to highlight

Alarms

The alarm can be set for either a specific time and date, or it can be used as a daily alarm.

Setting the Alarm

Œ
From the Main menu, press

y z
Press or to highlight
Ž
W
The alarm on
the alarm status, press

w x
Press or to move between fields and
each field.

At any time, press
H
press to exit without saving your changes.
• To set a Daily Alarm, increment the month (or day) field past 12 (or 31) to display
--/--/-- .
y z
or to highlight
r
News AutoPreview
? @
or
Yes
y z
or to highlight
K
Set Alarm
V
and alarm off symbols indicate the status of the alarm. To change
z z
or when the symbol is highlighted.
{
to save the changes and return to the Preferences menu. Or
t
Preferences
and press
{
and press .
No
t
Preferences
{
and press .
y z
or to increase to decrease the value in
{
and press
{
.
{
and press
.
.
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