T-Mobile T Mobile Color Sidekick Phone Instructions Manual

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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 contents display in the Read 
screen.
3To dismiss the message and return to the Browse Messages screen, press Back .
About Text Message Folders
Phone Messages uses three “system” folders--Inbox, Sent, and Trash.
Here’s a little more information about each system folder:
•Inbox - The Inbox folder is the default drop point for any new messages you receive.
•Sent - As you send a text message, the message is displayed in the Sent folder (expanded view), with its 
status just to the left. Possible status indicators include: message is being sent ( ), message is waiting 
to be sent ( ), and message was not sent due to a delivery problem ( ).
Note: After you send a message, a copy of it remains in the Sent folder until you explicitly delete it.
•Trash - Every message you discard from other folders is moved to the Trash folder. Discarded messages 
accumulate in the Trash until you explicitly use the menu option to Empty Trash. As long as a message 
stays in the Trash, however, you can retrieve it. (Read more in 
Retrieve Messages from the Trash on page 
115.)
Sort Text Messages
By default, the messages listed in the Browse Messages screen are organized with the newer messages at the 
top (ascending order). To change the order in which your messages are displayed in the Browse Messages 
screen, do the following:
1From the Browse Messages screen, press Menu   and select Sort.... The Sort Messages screen opens:
2Select the sort option you prefer: newer messages at the top or the bottom of the list.
3Press Done [ ] to save your setting. 
						

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Send Text Messages
You can send text messages by doing any of the following:
•
Compose a New Text Message on page 112
•
Reply to a Text Message on page 113
•
Forward a Text Message on page 113
•
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:
2Complete your message:
•To field - Start typing the first or last name of a contact in the To field, and the Phone Messages 
application will communicate with the Address Book and offer you completion suggestions (based on your 
existing Address Book contacts). The suggestions appear in a pop-up menu. Use the wheel to highlight, 
then press to select one of the address suggestions, or you can type a new one directly in the To field.
•Message body - Type your message body; you can only type 160 characters. At the bottom of the screen 
you’ll see a counter that keeps track of how many characters you’ve typed. Some special characters on the 
keyboard cannot be used in a text message; these include brackets ([]), braces ({}), tildes (~), and carets 
(^). If you happen to type one of the “illegal” characters, no entry will be made in the message body. A 
sample message is shown below:
3To  send your message, do one of the following: 
						

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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 screen, scroll to highlight the message you want to reply to. Open the message if 
you wish by pressing the wheel.
2From either the Read or Browse Messages screen, press Menu  then select Reply... [ + R].
3The Reply screen opens with the To field filled in.
4Complete and send your message, as described in 
Compose a New Text Message on page 112.
Forward a Text Message
To forward a text message to another individual, do the following:
1From the Browse Messages screen, scroll to highlight the message you want to forward. Open the message if 
you wish by pressing the wheel.
2From either the Read or Browse Messages screen, press Menu  then select Forward... [ + J].
3The Forward screen opens ready for you to address. The message is appended to the end of the new 
message.
4Complete and send your message, as described in 
Compose a New Text Message on page 112.
Resend a Text Message
You can only resend messages that are in the Sent folder. You can resend any of the messages in the Sent folder, 
whether or not they were successfully sent:
1From the Browse Messages screen, scroll to highlight the Sent message you want to resend. Open the 
message if you wish by pressing the wheel.
2Press Menu   then select Resend. Your message opens in a Compose screen, which means you can edit 
any of the fields, if you wish.
3When ready to resend, select Send [ + M].
Add Text Message Senders to the Address Book
If you receive a message from an individual you would like to include as a contact in your Address Book, do the 
following:
1From the Browse Messages screen, scroll to highlight the message whose sender you want to add as a 
contact. Open the message if you wish by pressing the wheel.
2From either the Read or Browse Messages screen, press Menu  then select Add Contact... 
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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 Address Book application in 
11. Keeping Contacts in the 
Address Book on page 116.
Call Back Sender of a Message
To use the Phone application to call the sender of an SMS message, do the following:
1From the Browse Messages screen, scroll to highlight the message from the person you wish to call back. 
Open the message if you wish by pressing the wheel.
2Press Menu  then select Call Back [ + P]. You enter the Phone application; verify the number and press 
Send Call.
Discard Messages
To discard a message:
1From the Browse Messages screen, scroll to highlight the message you want to discard. Open the message if 
you wish by pressing the wheel.
2From either the Read or Browse Messages screen, press Menu  then select Discard [].
3The message is moved to the Trash folder.
To empty all messages from the Trash, from the Browse Messages screen, press Menu   then select 
Empty Trash. The contents of your Trash folder are emptied after you confirm that you want to permanently 
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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 it.
Setting Phone Messages Ringtones
You can select the way your device lets you know (or “notifies” you) when a new text message has arrived. If 
you have a ringtone selected, you will also receive a balloon notification in the title bar when a new message 
arrives. To select a notification method, do the following:
1From the Browse Messages screen, press Menu   then select Settings. The Settings screen appears:
2The Ring when new message arrives check box is selected by default. If you would rather not be notified 
by a ringtone when a new message arrives, remove the check mark by using the wheel to highlight the check 
box, then press. (Pressing again will cause the check mark to appear once again.)
3Assuming you do want a ringtone to notify you of a new text message, select a ringtone “category” from the 
first pop-up menu. To open the category pop-up menu, use the wheel to highlight the first field (in the 
example above, “Beeps” is selected in the first field). Then press the wheel to open the pop-up menu. Rotate 
the wheel to select the category you want, then press. You can choose from Beeps, Silent, Tunes, and Voice.
4Depending on what category you’ve selected, you will have additional sound selections (“songs”) in the pop-
up menu to the right. You will hear a preview of the sound when you highlight it in the pop-up menu. Press 
the wheel to select a song.
5When finished setting up your ringtones, press Back   to save your changes. 
						

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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 Address Book on the Web on page 182.
Address Book Splash Screen
To open the Address Book application, first press Jump, then scroll to highlight the Address Book icon in the left-
hand “ring” of applications. You will see the Address Book “splash” screen on the right side of the screen when 
you’ve highlighted the Address Book application icon:•Address Book Splash Screen on page 116
•How Much Information Can I Store? on page 
117
•The Browse Contacts Screen on page 117
•T-Mobile Contact Information on page 117
•Keyboard Shortcuts on page 117
•Filter Contacts by Category on page 118
•Sort Contacts on page 119•Create a Contact on page 119
•Edit a Contact on page 121
•Discard/Retrieve a Contact on page 121
•Contact a Contact on page 121
•Find a Contact on page 122
•How Much Information Can I Store? on page 
117
•Empty the Address Book Trash on page 122
•Address Book Settings on page 123 
						

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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 screen, individual contacts are 
listed, along with the first phone number that appears in the Phone section of their contact information:
You can specify to show “All” your contacts on this screen or just one category of contacts. Read more in 
Filter 
Contacts by Category on page 118 and Sort Contacts on page 119.
T-Mobile Contact Information
Your device comes with T-Mobile Customer Care contact information already entered for you. To find this 
information, do the following while you are in the Address Book:
1On the Browse Contacts screen, scroll to the Customer Care entry; press the wheel to open the contact 
details screen.
Tip: If you don’t see the Customer Care entry, open the menu and make sure either the All or Work category 
is selected.
2To phone T-Mobile Customer Care:
• From the contact details screen, scroll to highlight the phone number.
• Press Menu   then select Call.
Keyboard Shortcuts
While in the Address Book application, you can use the keyboard shortcuts shown in the tables below to open 
options from the following menus:
• Browse Contacts Menu Shortcuts
• Contact Details Menu Shortcuts 
						

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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 find the list of categories. Individual categories are listed after All. 
The category of contacts currently displaying on the Browse Contacts screen is indicated by a bullet:
3Rotate the wheel to highlight the category you want to use to filter, then press. The Browse Contacts screen 
refreshes to show only the contacts in the category you selected. New Contact...
 + N
Discard
All
 + 0
Tr a s h
 + T
Done
Discard Contact
Cancel
 + .
All
 + 0
Tr a s h
 + T
Done
New Category...
 + N
Discard 
						

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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 menu. Scroll to highlight 
either the Last Name or First Name option; press to select.
3Highlight the Sort order field; again, hold the wheel down to open the pop-up menu. Then scroll to highlight 
either the A to Z or the Z to A order; press to select.
4Select Done  when finished, or select Cancel to cancel any changes you’ve made to the sort options.
Create a Contact
You can add a contact to your Address Book by starting from scratch; or by duplicating an existing contact’s 
information, then editing it. Both methods are described below.
Add a New Contact from Scratch
1From the Browse Contacts screen, press Menu   then select New Contact... [ + N]. The New Contact 
Identity screen opens:
The Identity screen holds basic contact information, including a pop-up menu of icons you can assign to the 
contact. Complete at least one of the fields, then select Done .  
						

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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 illustration is of the Phone Number screen:
3Add contact information to each screen, then select Done  . Continue through the Contacts screen until you 
have added all the information you wish. 
Note! Before you can save the contact information, you must have provided one of the following pieces of 
information:
• First or Last name
•Phone Number
•Email address
•Company name