Dell Streak 5 User Manual

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Contacts settings
In Contacts  or Phone →  Contacts, touch the Menu 
button .
Display optionsChoose from which accounts you want to 
display the contacts, or set your device to only 
display the contacts who have phone numbers.
AccountsContacts stored on your personal e-mail account 
like Gmail can be synchronized through an 
Internet connection.
• To select the data to synchronize:
1Select Background data to make all the sync 
options available.
2Select Auto-sync to let the...

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Messaging
To compose, send, and read text (SMS) or multimedia (MMS) 
messages, touch → Messaging  . The Messaging screen 
opens with a list of messages or message threads representing all the 
received, sent, and draft messages.
 NOTE: For information about the message thread, see Receiving text 
and multimedia messages.
To compose and send a text message
1On the Messaging screen, touch the New message thread. The 
composer screen opens.
2In the To field, type the mobile phone...

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matched contact, or continue manually typing the desired phone 
number or e-mail address. You can also touch   to select the 
recipient from the previous message recipients, or touch   to 
select from your contacts.
2You can add a subject line to the message by touching 
the Menu button → Add subject.
3To u c h  t h e Type to compose text field to start composing your 
message.
4While editing your message, you can touch the Menu button → 
Attach to insert media items into the...

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AudioOpen the Select audio menu. Touch a desired 
audio file, and then touch OK to attach the file to 
your message.
To attach an audio file stored on the SD card to 
your MMS:
1Create a folder named Ringtones in the SD 
card.
2Open the Ringtones folder.
3Copy the audio file you want to attach to your 
MMS into the Ringtones folder.
4On the MMS composer screen, touch the 
Menu button 
→ Attach→ Audio.
5Select the audio file to attach it to your MMS.
Record audio•Open the Music...

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SlideshowOpen the Edit slideshow screen to create a slide 
show and attach it to your message. 
1To u c h  Add slide to create new slides.
2Touch a created slide such as Slide 1 to open 
the slideshow editor screen.
3To u c h  Add picture, and then select the picture 
you want to add to the slide.
4You can touch the text field on the lower part 
of the screen to compose a caption for the 
displayed slide.
5Touch the Menu button   to preview the slide, 
remove the picture, add a...

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Receiving text and multimedia messages
Depending on your notification settings, the device rings, vibrates, or 
displays a message briefly in the status bar as a new text or multimedia 
message arrives.
A new message icon 
 appears and stays in the notifications area of 
the status bar to remind you of a new message.
 NOTE: To alter the notification settings for new messages, in the 
Messaging application touch the Menu button 
→ Settings→ 
Notification settings. You can then...

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• E-mail address — touch the e-mail address to open the 
Email/Gmail application and compose an e-mail to send to the 
address.
To  f o r w a r d  t h e  m e s s a g e
1Touch and hold the message. The Message options menu pops 
up.
2Select Forward to forward the message.
To view a multimedia message
1Touch and drag down the status bar where the new message icon 
 is displayed. A list of notifications opens. Touch a new 
message notification to open the message. 
Or
To u c h  →...

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To delete a message or a message thread
1In the Messaging list, touch and hold the message thread that you 
want to delete.
2To delete the entire thread, touch Delete thread and then touch 
Delete to confirm deletion.
To delete a message within a thread, touch and hold the message 
to delete, and then touch Delete message on the Message 
options menu. Touch Delete to confirm deletion.
 NOTE: To delete all messages in the Messaging list, touch the Menu 
button 
→ Delete threads....

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Android Keyboard
You can type text using the Android on-screen keyboard. The 
keyboard automatically rotates to either the portrait or landscape 
mode based on the device orientation.
To open the Android keyboard
Touch a text box, or touch and hold the Menu button .
 
NOTE: The Android keyboard is the default keyboard that opens when 
you touch a text box for the first time. To open the Swype keyboard:
• Touch and hold a text box to open the Edit text context menu
→ 
Input...

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Keyboard controls for composing an e-mail
1• Touch to type letters into the text box where the cursor appears.
• Touch and hold to type accented letters for applicable languages.
2• Based on the letters being typed, the keyboard shows suggested 
words along the top of the keyboard, the most probable one 
highlighted in color.
• You can touch a suggested word to enter it into the text box.
3• Touch once to show the uppercase keyboard for typing a capital 
letter.
• Touch twice to...