T-Mobile T Mobile Color Sidekick Phone Instructions Manual
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 31 Jump Shortcuts on page 38 • User-definable list of keyboard shortcuts to application screens. Jump shortcuts use the Jump button plus another key. Key Guard & Security on page 39• Automatic key guard setting and display message • Set your three-digit security code • Identification Tag display (Default message: “If found or if privacy code fails, call T-Mobile Customer Care at 1-800-937-8997.”) • Set your SIM PIN to lock your...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 32 Application-Specific Settings Application Settings ScreenCustomizable Items and Options Web Browser Settings on page 57• Home page URL text box and Use Current Page button • Custom search engine in Go To dialog box selection list. Select from: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite. • Show Pictures check box • Clear History, Clear Cache, Clear Cookies buttons Instant Messaging on page 87• Show Accept Message check box • Play...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 33 Controls The Controls contains device settings that you may want to open at any time, from any screen: Note for grayscale devices: The lower slider controls contrast rather than brightness. Open the Sound and Display Controls There are two ways you can open the Controls: •Method 1: Press the Menu and Back buttons together. The Controls open. You can use this method from any screen, in any application, at any time. •Method 2:...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 34 AutoText To help you type accurately, the AutoText screen includes rules that automatically correct common typing errors. You can add to or discard rules that are included by default. To open the AutoText screen, do the following: 1From the Jump screen, press Menu then select Settings. 2On the Settings menu, rotate the wheel to highlight AutoText, then press the wheel to open the AutoText screen: 3If you want the first letter...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 35 Battery & Display You can see how charged your battery is by checking the Battery & Display screen. You’ll also be able to set how long backlighting stays on after you press one of the control buttons or keyboard keys. You can also set backlighting to never automatically turn on. 1From the Jump screen, press Menu then select Settings. 2On the Settings menu, scroll to highlight Battery & Backlight, then press the wheel to open...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 36 3In the first section, Battery, you can observe the percentage of charge remaining in your battery (this number is approximate). If your battery is connected to the charger, however, you’ll see a lightning bolt on top of the battery icon instead of the charge-remaining percentage. For grayscale devices, in the Battery section you can enable Power-Saving Mode (screen will “blank”) by checking the box and setting an idle time....
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 37 Date & Time The T-Mobile service knows the Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC. (Note that UTC is also known as Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.) UTC reflects the mean solar time along the Earths prime meridian. The prime meridian is arbitrarily based on the meridian that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, where the present system originated. To set your device time correctly, you must select your time zone....
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 38 Override System Date & Time Settings If you are not connected to the network, you can override the system-set date and time settings by doing the following: 1On the Date & Time Settings screen, highlight either the date or time box then press the wheel to activate the pop-up selector. The first selectable field expands into a pop-up: 2Rotate the wheel until you see the correct value. 3To select the value, press the wheel. The...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 39 3Scroll to highlight the application for which you want to change a Jump shortcut, then press the wheel. The Key Mapping dialog box appears. In the illustration below, Address Book was highlighted when the Key Assignment dialog box opened: 4Press the key you want to use to jump to the application you’ve highlighted. The Key Mapping dialog box disappears and your shortcut is saved. 5Now, to use a Jump Shortcut from any screen...
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Customizing Your Device April 15, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 40 2On the Settings menu, scroll to highlight Key Guard & Security, then press the wheel to open the Key Guard & Security screen: 3In the Key Guard section, rotate the wheel to highlight the pop-up menu, as shown above. 4If you want to change the default setting, press the wheel to open the pop-up menu and reveal all the time- idle choices: • Guard after 2 minutes • Guard after 5 minutes • Guard after 15 minutes • Never...