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 SIM card (Default PIN: 1234) Keyboard on page 43 • Keyboard repeat delay slider bar • Keyboard repeat rate slider bar Network on page 44 • Scan for other networks Sound on page 45 • Device sound & music volume slider bar • Mute/Un-mute button • System Sounds check box and volume slider bar • Keyboard Clicks check box •Mute Options - Flash Wheel -Vibrate Device •Mute Schedule - Mute every day from.... time pop-up menus - Mute all day check box and options: Weekdays, Weekends System Info on page 46 In System Info you will find the following information about your account and device: •Username • Phone number • SIM ID • Device ID • Recovery ROM (version) •OS (operating system) • Versions of firmware and applications Wireless Options on page 47Select wireless options: • Wireless connection on/off • GPRS Data Roaming On check box Device Settings Screen Customizable Items and Options
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 Buddy Alert Rings check boxes - Ring when buddies sign on pop-up menu - Ring when buddies sign off pop-up menu - Ring when new message arrives pop-up menu • Block User(s) List Email Settings on page 104 • Show message count/size in Email screen check box • Ring for receipt of new email check box • Ringtone pop-up menus • Automatic Message Management - Save outgoing messages in Sent folder check box - Empty Trash every night check box - Auto-discard msgs when mailbox is full check box - Only discard messages older than 7 days check box • Attachment Limits - Remove attachments larger than... pop-up menu - Remove attachments of these types... check boxes Phone Settings on page 70 • Your device phone number • Accumulated Call Time and Reset button • Call volume slider bar • Call Forwarding & Voice Mail set-up screen • Ringtones set-up screen • Speed Dial set-up screen Setting Phone Messages Ringtones on page 115• Ring for Receipt of New Message check box • Ringtone pop-up menus Address Book Settings on page 123• Categories set-up screen. Use to create New Category, Edit Category, or Discard Category. • Labels set-up screen. Use to create New Label, Edit Label, or Discard Label. • Import Contacts from SIM button
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: Press Jump to open the Jump screen. Press Menu to open the Jump screen menu. Select Controls. The Controls Settings From the Controls you can do the following: •Mute button - Quickly switch to quiet mode by pressing this button. Press again to “un-mute”. •Volume slider - Adjust the volume of sound effects for new message notifications and games. After highlighting and pressing the slider, rotate the wheel up to increase volume; rotate down to decrease volume. •Contrast/Brightness slider - Adjust your display image contrast to complement your current lighting environment. Rotate the wheel to highlight the slider, then press to make the slider “editable”. For grayscale devices: Rotate the wheel up to increase contrast, rotate down to decrease contrast. For color devices: Rotate the wheel up to increase brightness, rotate down to decrease brightness.
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 in new sentences to be capitalized automatically, rotate the wheel to highlight the Capitalize first letter of sentences check box, then press the wheel to select it (a check will appear in the box). 4If you want the replacement rules listed on the screen to be in effect, use the wheel to highlight then select the Automatic Word Replacement check box. 5To discard any of the replacement rules, rotate the wheel to highlight the rule, press Menu then select Discard [ ]. You are prompted to confirm that you really want to remove the rule. Select either Cancel or Discard. 6To add a new replacement rule, press Menu then select New Rule. The New Replacement Rule dialog box opens: Type the word or phrase that you commonly misspell in the first text box, then type the correct spelling in the second box. For example: Select Done [ ] to save the replacement rule, or Cancel if you don’t want to save it after all. 7To return all AutoText settings to those set when you first received your device, press Menu then select Restore Defaults.
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 the Battery & Backlight screen. Note that this screen will differ, depending on whether you’re using a grayscale or color device: Grayscale Battery & Display screen: Color Battery & Display screen:
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. (For color devices, power-saving mode is not available.) Select from the following idle times: •5 minutes • 10 minutes • 30 minutes •1 hour •3 hours Note! You must first set a Key Guard time in order for power-saving mode to work! If your device goes into power-saving mode (the screen blanks), the wheel will glow a color, indicating the amount of charge left in the battery: • Green glow = 100 - 50% charge • Yellow glow = 50% charge • Orange/red glow = 25 - 0% charge! Connect your charger immediately! 4In the second section, Backlight, you can set your backlighting options: • If you want backlighting to turn on automatically after you press a control button or key, or open the display, then select the Automatically turn on when in use check box. • For color devices, you can choose to have the built-in light meter automatically turn the backlight on when required by light conditions. To choose this option, select the Automatically turn on only when needed check box. • If you never want backlighting to turn on automatically, then make sure you haven’t select any automatic backlight check box. Note: You can always manually turn on backlighting by pressing Menu + Back , which opens the Controls. 5When backlighting turns on (either automatically or if you turn it on manually), the backlight will stay on for the amount selected in the Tu r n o n a ft e r pop-up menu. To open the pop-up menu, rotate the wheel to highlight the menu, then press the wheel to open it. You can select from: • 15 seconds • 30 seconds •1 minute •2 minutes •5 minutes Scroll to highlight the time you want, then press the wheel to select it. Tip: As long as you press a key or button before the set time elapses, the backlight will stay on.
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. Note that you cannot change the Date and Time field settings unless you are disconnected from the network (read more in Override System Date & Time Settings on page 38). 1From the Jump screen, press Menu then select Settings. 2On the Settings menu, scroll to highlight Date & Time, then press the wheel to open the Date & Time screen: 3To open the Time Zone pop-up menu, rotate the wheel to highlight the menu, then press the wheel to open it. Use the wheel to highlight the time zone you want your device to reflect, then press the wheel. 4If your time zone is not shown, select GMT Offset... from the pop-up menu. The GMT Offset dialog box opens: • Use the wheel to highlight the Offset pop-up menu, then press to open the menu. • Rotate the wheel up (away from you) to select a higher offset than the default; rotate the wheel down (toward you) to decrease the offset amount. • Press the wheel to select the offset. • Select Done []. 5Press Back to save your settings.
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 pop-up selector collapses. 4Rotate the wheel to move to the next selectable field, then press to open the pop-up selector: 5Proceed until all fields are set as you wish. 6Press Back to save your settings. Jump Shortcuts You can always press Jump to return to the Jump screen, where you can then select one of the applications. However, if you want to jump to a specific application quickly, you can set a shortcut key. Your device comes with a default set of shortcut keys, but you can change them, as described below. Change Default Shortcuts 1From the Jump screen, press Menu then select Settings. 2On the Settings menu, scroll to highlight Jump Shortcuts, then press the wheel to open the Jump Shortcuts screen:
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 at any time, press Jump plus the shortcut key to open that application. 6To delete a shortcut key mapping, scroll the wheel to highlight the application name, then press the Delete key. Key Guard & Security The device’s Key Guard and Security screen allows you to do the following: •Set Up Key Guard •Turn On/Off Privacy Lock •Lock Your SIM Card Set Up Key Guard Key guard is a feature that allows you to protect the device’s control buttons from being pressed accidentally while your device is in your pocket or bag. While in key guard mode, your device is also in a power-saving mode, so you save battery power. Turn on Key Guard Manually You can turn on key guard manually in two ways: • Press and hold Back for three seconds. • Press Jump to return to the Jump screen, then press Menu and select Key Guard. Turn on Key Guard Automatically You can set key guard to turn on automatically by doing the following: 1From the Jump screen, press Menu then select Settings.
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 automatically guard (Note: This option is only available on grayscale devices.) 5Rotate the wheel to select the option you want, then press the wheel to select it. Note for color devices: To prevent device damage, after your device has been in key guard mode for 2 hours, a screen saver will appear. The screen saver is a small image that moves To dismiss the screen saver, press any key or open the device. Unlock Your Device To unlock your device (take it out of key guard mode), simply press Menu + Back . Set a Key Guard Display Message You can display a one-line personal message that displays on the screen while the device is in key guard mode: 1From the Key Guard & Security screen, scroll to highlight the Key Guard Display Message text box. 2Type your message. Your message must fit on one line, which is approximately 20-30 characters. 3Your settings are saved as soon as you make them. 4To remove your message, simply delete the text from the Key Guard Display Message box by pressing ALT + . About Privacy Lock and Key Guard If you have set a privacy lock (as described below), then you will be prompted to enter your 3-digit code before your device will unlock from key guard mode.