T-Mobile T Mobile Color Sidekick Phone Instructions Manual

Phone Messaging
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Read a Text Message
To open an individual text message for reading, do the following:
1Make sure the folder in which you’ve stored the message is shown in expanded view. (Press the folder name 
to expand/collapse the messages contained in the folder.) 
2Use the wheel to highlight the message; a message preview shows in the lower half of the screen. To have 
the message display in full-screen view, then press the wheel. Your message...

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Send Text Messages
You can send text messages by doing any of the following:
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Compose a New Text Message on page 112
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Reply to a Text Message on page 113
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Forward a Text Message on page 113
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Resend a Text Message on page 113
Compose a New Text Message
To write a new text message you must first open the Compose screen:
1From the Browse Messages screen, press Menu   then select New Message... [ + N]. The Compose 
screen opens:...

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• From the Compose screen, press Menu   then select Send [ + M].
• Press Back  ; a dialog box appears asking you to select Discard or Send. Select Send .
4To  discard your message, either:
• From the Compose screen, press Menu   then select Discard.
• Press Back  ; a dialog box appears asking you to select Discard or Send. Select Discard.
Reply to a Text Message
To reply to a text message, do the following:
1From the Browse Messages...

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3The Add Contact to Address Book dialog box opens with the new contact’s phone number added:
4At this point you can:
•Add the new contact without any other information by pressing Back .
• Provide more contact information by filling in the fields in the dialog box.
• Simply select Cancel to return to the Phone Messages application without saving any of the new contact’s 
information.
Read more about editing contact information in the...

Phone Messaging
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Retrieve Messages from the Trash
As long as a message is in the Trash, you can retrieve it to another folder:
1From the Browse Messages screen, scroll to highlight the Trash folder.
2Press the whweel to expand the contents of the folder (if they are not already expanded). 
3Scroll to highlight the message you want to retrieve.
4Press Menu   then select Retrieve Message. The message now is restored to the folder from which you 
discarded...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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11.  Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
Organize all the information that helps you keep track contacts in the Address Book. Read all about the Address 
Book features in this chapter:
Note! All the contacts you keep in the Address Book on the Web are kept in sync with the contacts on your 
device. Read about using the Address Book on the Web (including how to import your existing Contacts lists) in 
20. Using...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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How Much Information Can I Store?
You can store 2000 contacts (on color devices) or 1000 contacts (on grayscale devices) in your 
Address Book. For each contact you can keep these categories of information:
•Ten Phone numbers
•Five Email addresses
• Three Web addresses (URLs)
• Three Street addresses
•One Note
The Browse Contacts Screen
The Browse Contacts screen is the main view into your Address Book. On this...

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• Trash Menu Shortcuts
• Settings - Add Category and Add Label Menu Shortcuts
Browse Contacts Menu Shortcuts
Contact Details Menu Shortcuts
Trash Menu Shortcuts
Settings - Add Category and Add Label Menu Shortcuts
Filter Contacts by Category
To view only one category of contacts on the Browse Contacts screen, do the following:
1From the Browse Contacts screen, press Menu .
2Scroll through the menu items until you...

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Sort Contacts
On the Browse Contacts screen, individual contacts can be sorted by:
•First Name
•Last Name
In addition, you can specify the sort order:
•A to Z (ascending)
• Z to A (descending)
To specify your sort preference, do this:
1From the Browse Contacts screen, press Menu   then select Sort... The Sort Options dialog box opens:
2Highlight the Sort Options By field; press and hold the wheel to open the pop-up...

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2The full contact screen appears:
From this screen you can:
• select the contact category (“Adventurers” in the example above)
• add phone numbers (up to ten)
• add email addresses (up to five)
• add Web addresses, or URLs (up to three)
•add a note
To add information, scroll the wheel to highlight the appropriate   button, and press. A screen opens in 
which you can add the information. For example, the following...