Nokia N971 Owners Manual
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To select whether the new contacts you enter are saved to your device or your SIM card, select Options > Settings > Default saving memory > Phone memory or SIM memory .Fixed dialingSelect Menu > Contacts and Options > SIM numbers > Fixed dial contacts . With the fixed dialing servic e, you can restrict calls from your device to certain phone numbers. Not all SIM cards support the fixed dialing service. For more information, contact yo ur service provider. When security features that restrict calls are in use (such as call barring, closed user group, and fixed dialing), calls may be possibl e to the official emergency number programmed into your device. Call restrictions and call forwarding cannot be active at the same time. You need your PIN2 code to activate and deactivate fixed dialing or edit your fi xed dialing contacts. Contact your service provider for your PIN2 code. Select Options and from the following: ● Activate fixed dialing — Activate the fixed dialing. ● Deactivate fixed dialing — Deactivate the fixed dialing. ● New SIM contact — Enter the contact name and phone number to which calls are allowed. ● Add from Contacts — Copy a contact from the list of contacts to the fixed dialing list. To send text messages to the SIM contacts while the fixed dialing service is acti ve, you need to add the text message centre number to the fixed dialing list.Contact groupsTo open the group list, open the contacts list, and tap . Create contact groups1.To create a new group, in the group list, select Options > New group . Use the default name or enter a new name. Select OK. 2. To add members to the group, select the group and Options > Add members . 3. Mark each contact you want to add, and select OK.Manage contact groupsTo send a message to all group members, to set a ringing tone for a group, or to rename or delete a group, tap and hold the group, and select Create message , Ringing tone , Rename, or Delete . To add a contact to a grou p, select the group and Options > Add members . To check which other groups a contact belongs to, select the group, scroll to the contact, and select Options > Belongs to groups. 51Contacts (phonebook)

To remove a contact from a group, select the group, scroll to the contact, and select Options > Remove from group .Ovi ContactsAbout Ovi ContactsWith Ovi Contacts, you can stay connected to the people who matter most. Search for contacts, and discover friends in the Ovi community. Keep in touch with your friends - chat, share your location and presence, and easily follow what your friends are up to and where they are. You can even chat with friends who use Google Talk™. Sync your contacts, calendar, and other content between your Nokia device and Ovi.com. Your important information is stored and kept up-to-date both in your device and on the web. With Ovi Contacts, you can make your contacts list dynamic and be confident that your contac ts are stored on Ovi.com. You must have a Nokia Account to use the service. Create an account on your mobile device, or go to www.ovi.com on your PC. Using Ovi Contacts may involve the transmission of large amounts of data thro ugh your service providers network. Contact your servic e provider for information about data transmission charges. Start using Ovi ContactsSelect Contacts , and open the Ovi tab. The Ovi Contacts service is part of Ovi, and uses the same account information. If you are new to Ovi and its services, to start using the Ovi Contacts application, you must register to Ovi by creating a Nokia account.Create a Nokia account1. Select Ovi Chat , and when prompted, connect to the internet. 2. Enter the required information. 3. In the My Profile view, enter your profile information. It is mandatory that you provide your first and last name. 4. Select Done. If you have already register ed with Ovi using your PC or mobile device, you can st art using Ovi Contacts with the same account details. Sign in to Ovi Contacts and activate the service — Select Ovi Chat , and enter your user name and password. If you have not yet provided your profile information for Ovi Contacts, do so, and select Done. It is mandatory that you provide your first and last name. 52Contacts (phonebook)

Connect to the serviceConnect to Ovi Contacts — Select Go online and the connection method. Use a wireless LAN (WLAN) connection where available. Cancel the connection — Select Options > Cancel connecting . A packet data connection may generate additional data transmission charges. For pricing details, contact your service provider. Select Go online > Options and from the following: ● Select — Select the item. ● Go online — Connect to the service if you are offline. ● My profile — Edit your profile information. ● Recommend to friend — Invite a contact to join Ovi Contacts. The invitation is sent as a text message. ● Settings — Change the Ovi Contacts settings. Available options may vary.Create and edit your profileEdit your profile information. — Select My profile . View the profiles of yo ur Ovi Contacts friends — Select a friend and Options > Profile. Your profile information is visible to your Ovi Contacts friends. Only the following profile details are displayed to other Ovi Contacts user s, for example during a search: first name and last name. To change your privacy settings, access Ovi on your PC, and sign in to your Nokia account. Change your profile image — Select the profile image, Select existing image , and the new image. You can also edit or remove the current profile image or capture a new one. Change your availability — By default, your availability is set to Available. To change your availability, select the icon. Tell your friends what you are doing at the moment — Select What are you doing? , and enter text in the field. Show your friends what music you are currently listening to — Select Now playing . To do this, you must allow your now playin g information to be shared in the presence settings. Edit your contact information — Select a field, and enter text. In the My profile view, select Options and from the following: ● Edit text — Cut, copy, or paste text. ● Change — Change your status (when the status field is selected). ● Activate — Start broadcasting your location or your now playing information to your friends (when either field is selected). 53Contacts (phonebook)

●Undo changes — Undo the changes you made in the profile view. ● Edit shared locations — Select the landmarks you want to broadcast to your friends (when the My location field is selected). ● Stop sharing — Stop broadcasting your location to your friends (when the My location field is selected). Available options may vary.Find and add friendsSelect Options > Invite friend . Search for a friend — Enter the name of the friend in the Search friends field, and select the search icon. You cannot search for friend s based on their mobile number or e-mail address. Browse the search results — Select Next results or Previous results . Start a new search — Select New search . If the friend you searched for could not be found, they either are not a registered Ovi member or have chosen to be invisible in searches. When prompted, send a text message to your friends to invite them to join Ovi Contacts. Send an invitation to join Ovi Contacts — Select Select service: and the service you know your friend uses. Enter your friend’s user name, and select the send icon. Select Options and from the following: ● Select — Select an item. ● Open — Open an item. ● Invite as friend — Send an invitation to the friend. ● Show profile — View the profile of the friend. ● Renew invitation — Resend an invitation to join Ovi Contacts to a pending friend. ● Search — Search for the friend whose name or other related keyword yo u entered in the Search friends field. ● Edit text — Cut, copy, or paste text. Available options may vary.Chat with your friendsStart a chat with a friend — Select the friend. Send a message. — Enter the text in the message field, and select the send icon. In the chat view, select Options and from the following: ● Send — Send the message. ● Add smiley — Insert a smiley. ● Send my location — Send your location details to your chat partner (if supp orted by both devices). ● Profile — View the details of a friend. ● My profile — Select your presence status or profile image, personalize your message, or change your details. ● Edit text — Copy or paste text. 54Contacts (phonebook)

●End chat — End the active chat. ● Exit — End all active chats, and close the application. Available options may vary. To receive location informat ion from your friend, you must have the Maps applicat ion. To send and receive l o c a t i o n i n f o r m a t i o n , y o u m u s t h a v e b o t h t h e M a p s a n d Positioning applications. View the location of your friend — Select Show on map . Return to the Ovi Contacts main view without ending the chat — Select Back. Add, call, or copy phone numbers from a chat — Go to a phone number in a chat, and select Options and the appropriate option.Ovi SyncTo sync your device with Ovi, you must have a Nokia account and activate the Ov i Contacts service on your device.Sync your device with Ovi.1. If you sync your device wi th Ovi for the first time, use the Sync wizard to select what content you want to sync, and the sync interval. 2. Select Synchronize. If your device is in the Offline profile, connect to the internet when prompted. Select Options and from the following: ● Start — Sync your device with Ovi. ● Cancel — Cancel an ongoing sync. ● Synchronization settings — Edit your sync settings. Available options may vary.Share your locationOpen the Contacts application and the Ovi tab. To share your location, select Options > Settings > Presence > Share my location and from the following: ● Sharing allowed — Allow your friends to see your location. ● My shared landmarks — Select the landmarks from where your location is broadcast to your friends. ● Refresh interval — Select how often you broadcast your current location.Add and select landmarks:To add a location to th e landmarks list, select Share my location > My shared landmarks > Options > New landmark . To add your current locati on as a landmark, select Current position . To browse for a location on a map, select Select from map . 55Contacts (phonebook)

To add a landmark manually, select Enter manually. To select the locations yo u want to share with your friends, select Share my location > My shared landmarks , and select the landmarks from the list. Select Options to edit, mark, and unmark items on the list. Whenever you are online with the Contacts on Ovi service, and in one of th e selected locations, your friends will see your location.Ovi Contacts settingsSelect Options > Settings . Select from the following: ● Account — Access your account details, and define your visibility to others in a search. ● Presence — Sh o w i nf o rma tio n about your location to your friends, and let them see when you are making a phone call (call status). ● Personalization — Edit the settings related to the startup and tones of the Ovi Contacts application, and automatically accept friend invitations. ● Connection — Select the network connection to use, and activate roaming warnings. Using GPRS may involve th e transmission of large amounts of data through your service providers network. For information about data transmission charges, contact your service provider. ● Exit — End all active chats, and close the application.Nokia account settingsSelect Options > Settings > Account . Edit your account details — Select My account . Define your visibility in searches — Select My account > Visibility in search . Y o u m u s t b e o n l i n e t o change your visibility.Presence settingsSelect Options > Settings > Presence .Modify presence settingsSelect from the following: ●Share my location — Allow your friends to see your location. ● Share now playing — Allow your friends to see what music you are current ly listening to on your mobile device. ● Share call status — Allow your friends to see your call status.Share your locationSelect Share my location and from the following: ● Sharing allowed — Allow your friends to see your location in selected landmarks. 56Contacts (phonebook)

●My shared landmarks — Select the landmarks from where your location is broadcast to your friends. ● Refresh interval — Select how often you broadcast your current location. Add a location to the landmarks list — Select Share my location > My shared landmarks > Options > New landmark . Add your current location as a landmark — Select Current position. Browse for a location on a map — Select Select from map . Add a landmark manually — Select Enter manually .Select locations you want to share with your friends1.Select Share my location > My shared landmarks . 2. Select the landmarks from the list. 3. Select Options to edit, mark, and unmark items on the list. Depending on your settings, your friends will see your location, wh en you are in one of the selected locations.Personalization settingsSelect Options > Settings > Personalization . Select from the following: ●Login on start-up — Sign in automatically to Ovi Contacts when you switch on your mobile device. ● Auto-accept friend invit. — A c c e p t f r i e n d r e q u e s t s automatically without notification. ● Auto-accept voice msgs. — Allow voice message to be accepted automatically. ● Message tone — Select a tone for new messages. ● Friend online tone — Select the tone that rings when a friend comes online. ● Icon on Home screen — Add the Ovi Contacts shortcut icon to your device home screen.Connection settingsSelect Options > Settings > Connection . Change connection settings — Select Network connection and the desired connection. To use the default connection defined in your device connection settings, select Default connection . Set the device to notify you when your home network is not available — To receive a warning when your device is tryi ng to connect to another network, select Roaming warning > On. 57Contacts (phonebook)

MessagingMessaging main viewSelect Menu > Messaging (network service). To create a new message, select New message. Tip: To avoid rewriting messages that you send often, use texts in the Templates folder in My folders. You can also create and save your own templates. Messaging contains the following folders: ● Inbox — Received messages, except e-mail and cell broadcast messages, are stored here. ● My folders — Organize your messages into folders. ● Mailbox — Connect to your remote mailbox to retrieve your new e-mail messages, or view your previously retrieved e-mail messages offline. ● Drafts — Draft messages that have not been sent are stored here. ● Sent — The last messages that have been sent, excluding messages sent using Bluetooth connectivity, are stored here. You can change the number of messages to save in this folder. ● Outbox — Messages waiting to be sent are temporarily stored in the outbox, for example, when your device is outside network coverage. ● Delivery reports — You can request the network to send you a deli very report of the text messages and multimedia messages you have sent (network service). Write and send messagesSelect Menu > Messaging . Important: Exercise caution when opening messages. Messages may contain malicious software or otherwise be harmful to your device or PC. Before you can create a multimedia message or write an e-mail, you must have the correct connection settings defined. The wireless network may limit the size of MMS messages. If the inserted pict ure exceeds this limit, the device may make it smaller so that it can be sent by MMS. Only devices that have compatible features can receive and display multimedia messages. The appearance of a message may vary depe nding on the receiving device. Check the size limit of e-mail messages with your service provider. If you attempt to send an e-mail 58Messaging

message that exceeds the size limit of the e-mail server, the message is left in the Outbox folder, and the device attempts to resend it periodically. Sending an e- mail requires a data connection, and continuous attempts to resend the e-mail may incur charges from your service provider. In the Outbox folder, you can delete such message, or move it to the Drafts folder. Messaging requires network services. 1. T o s e n d a t e x t o r a m u ltimedia message, select New message . To send an audio or e-mail message, select Options > Create message , and the relevant option. 2. T o s e l e c t r e c i p i e n t s o r g r o u p s f r o m t h e c o n t a c t s l i s t , select from the toolbar; or to enter the number or e-mail manually, tap the To field. 3. In the Subject field, enter the subject of the e-mail or multimedia message. If the Subject field is not visible, select Options > Message header fields to change the fields that are visible. 4. To write the message, tap the message field. 5. To add an object to a me ssage or e-mail, select and the relevant type of content. The message type may change to multimedia message based on the inserted content. 6. To send the message or e-mail, select , or press the call key. Your device supports text messages beyond the limit for a single message. Longer messages are sent as two or more messages. Your service provider may charge accordingly. Characters with accents, other marks, or some language options take more space, and limit the number of characters that can be sent in a single message.Messaging inboxReceive messagesSelect Menu > Messaging and Inbox . In the Inbox folder, indicates an unread text message, an unread multimedia message, an unread audio message, and data received through Bluetooth connectivity. When you receive a message, and 1 new message are displayed in the home screen. To open the message, select Show. To open a message in the Inbox folder, select the message. To reply to a received message, select Options > Reply . Multimedia messages Important: Exercise caution when opening messages. Messages may contain malicious software or otherwise be harmful to your device or PC. 59Messaging

You may receive a notification that a multimedia message is waiting in the multimedia message centre. To start a packet data connection to retrieve the message to your device, select Options > Retrieve. When you open a multimedia message ( ), you may see an image and a message. is shown if sound is included, or if video is included. To play the sound or the video, select the indicator. To see the media objects that have been included in the multimedia message, select Options > Objects . If the message includes a multimedia presentation, is displayed. To play the presentation, select the indicator. Data, settings, and web service messagesYour device can receive many kinds of messages that contain data, such as business cards, ringing tones, operator logos, calendar entries, and e-mail notifications. You may also receive settings from your service provider in a configuration message. To save the data from the message, select Options and the corresponding option. Web service messages are notifications (for example, news headlines) and may co ntain a text message or a link. For availability and subscription, contact your service provider. MailboxDefine e-mail settingsSelect Menu > Messaging and Mailbox . To use e-mail, you must have defined a valid internet access point (IAP) in the de vice and have defined your e-mail settings correctly. You must have a separate e-mail account. Follow the instructions given by yo ur remote mailbox and internet service provider (ISP). If you select Messaging > Mailbox and have not set up your e-mail account, you are prompted to do so. To start creating the e-mail settings with the mailbox guide, select Start. When you create a new mailbox, the name you give to the mailbox replaces Mailbox in the Messaging main view. You can have up to six mailboxes.Open the mailboxSelect Menu > Messaging and a mailbox. When you open the mailbox, the device asks if you want to connect to the mailbox. To connect to your mailbox and retrieve new e-mail headers or messages, select Yes . When you view messages online, you are continuously connected to a remote mailbox using a data connection. 60Messaging