Motorola 6881031B05, 6881031B05-O User Manual

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Memo

EXPRESS II™

EXPRESS II

FLX™

USER’S GUIDE

Introduction

Controls.............................................. 2

Getting Started

Turning Your Beeper On .................... 3

Menu Icons.........................................4

Turning Your Beeper Off .................... 4

Messages

Types of Messages ............................ 5

Receiving/Reading Messages............5

Message Features

Scanning Your Messages................... 7

Duplicate Messages........................... 7

Time/Date

Setting the Time and Date.................. 8

Alerts

Setting the Incoming Message Alert... 9

Choosing an Audio Alert................... 10

Read Mode

Setting the Scroll Speed...................11

Contents

Message Features

Information Services

Other Features

Use and Care

Battery

Locking Personal Messages............. 12

Unlocking Personal Messages......... 13

Deleting Messages...........................14

Storing Messages............................. 15

Automatic Message Deletion............ 15

Reading Information Services .......... 16

Information Service Alert.................. 17

Information Service Bookmark ......... 18

Out of Range.................................... 19

Message Error Icons ........................ 19

Patent Information............................ 20

Cleaning Your Beeper...................... 20

Functionality and Use.......................21

Care and Maintenance..................... 21

Battery Information........................... 22

Congratulations on purchasing the Motorola Memo Express IITM or Memo Express II
FLXTM beeper. The Memo Express II FLX beeper incorporates the latest in paging
technology . FLEXTM technology extends battery life up to four times longer than
ordinary beepers and improves the ability to receive pages.

This compact beeper combines messaging and time keeping functions in a package
that is convenient to carry . Full understanding of what this product offers begins with
reading this user’s guide. This user’ s guide includes a detachab le Quic k Ref erence
Card on the back cover .

Effective Use of Your Beeper

Your beeper can help you keep in contact with e v eryone important to you. By giving
your beeper number to your business associates, f amily, and friends, y ou can be
contacted when necessary.

If you have a cellular phone, giv e your beeper number instead of y our cellular number .
Then you can decide who to call back on your cellular phone without paying f or
incoming calls.

Sending a Test Page to Yourself

After your beeper has been activated by your service provider , send y ourself a test
page.

INTRODUCTION

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Controls

Mode Button

Select Button

Mode Used to scroll through available choices, or to increment a

∞

CONTROLS

Select Used to select and confirm a value.

¡

Read/

º

Power On

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Read/Power On

Button

value.

Used to read a message, to save a setting, to turn on the
beeper, and to exit from a menu.

Turning Your Beeper On

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Press º to turn your beeper on.
A start-up message is displayed momentarily

and your beeper activates the currently selected
alert.

Note:

The start-up alert can be stopped by

pressing any button.

When the beeper is on and no activity is taking
place, the standby screen is displayed. The
standby screen displays the power indicator, the
time and date, the alert mode, and may display
other beeper indicators.

GETTING STARTED

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Menu Icons

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The three menu icons on the top row (

CONTROLS, DELETE ALL

The first time you press
icon w flashes, indicating that pressing ¡ will enter the controls menu.

Press and release ∞ to display the
prompts. Press ¡ to enter the corresponding menus, or press º to return to the
standby screen.

ALERTS

, and

these menu icons are displayed. The controls menu

∞

wie

.

) correspond to the three menus:

CONTROLS?, DELETE ALL?

, and

ALERTS?

T urning Y our Beeper Off

➊

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From the standby screen, press ∞ to display

. The controls menu icon w flashes.

CONTROLS?

CONTROLS?

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➋

Press ¡ to display

OFF?

.

OFF?

➌

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Press ¡ to turn the beeper off. The off screen
is displayed without any icons.

menu

Types of Messages

The message indicators define the type of message received and flash until the
message is read.

Personal messages:
Information services

when received:
when chirp is on:
when bookmark is on: Ω selected

¥ unselected å selected

π

or ∂
selected

≠

Receiving/Reading Messages

When a message is received, your beeper alerts with the selected alert (chirp, audio,
vibrate, musical, or no alert). A message indicator (for e xample1, 2, etc.) lets you
know how many messages you hav e receiv ed.

➊

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Press any button to stop the alert.
Press º to display the message indicator

➋

menu. The message indicators f or unread
messages flash until any part of the message is
read.

MESSAGES

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time the message

was received

continuation

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MESSAGES

message number

Note:

A message is considered read if any part of the message is displayed.

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message

indicator

➌

Press º to read the selected message or
press ¡ to select another message, then
press º.

Hint:

On this screen, pressing ∞ displays

the previous screen.

➍

If your beeper is set to scroll the message
automatically (
the remainder of the message is automatically
displayed at that speed.

Hint:

message, press º.
If the scrolling speed is set to

press º to view the next screen.

➎

Allow the beeper to automatically return to the
standby screen, or press

SCROLL 1, SCROLL 2

T o pause or restart a scrolling

LINE-BY-LINE

then º.

∞

, or

SCROLL 3

),

,

Scanning Your Messages

When the first line of a message is displayed, press ¡ to scan all other messages
that may be stored. The message number and the first line of the message are
displayed for each message.

Duplicate Messages

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1: DUPLICATE

When a duplicate message is received,

DUPLICATE is displayed after the message number

and before the message. The time the duplicate
message is received is displayed.

MESSAGE FEATURES

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Setting the Time and Date

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CONTROLS?

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OFF?

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TIME/DATE?

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TIME/DATE

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Hint:

Pressing and holding ∞ scrolls through selections quickly.

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➊ From the standby screen, press ∞ to display

CONTROLS?. The controls menu icon w flashes.

➋ Press ¡ to enter the CONTROLS menu.
➌ Press and release ∞ until TIME/DATE? is

displayed.

➍ Press ¡ to enter the TIME/DATE menu. The

hour field flashes.

➎ Press and release ∞ to adjust the hour.
➏ Press ¡ to move to the next field.

➐ Repeat steps 5 and 6 for the minutes,

AM/PM, day, and month fields.

➑ Press º from any field to save and return to

the standby screen.

Setting the Incoming Message Alert

You can set your beeper to alert with a chirp alert, a vibrating alert (vibration with no
alert tone), one standard audio (beep) alert, one of the musical alerts , or no alert (no
vibration or alert tone).

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ALERTS?

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➊ From the standby screen, press and release ∞

ALERTS? is displayed. The alert icon e

until
flashes.

➋ Press ¡ to enter the ALERTS menu. VIBRATE? is

displayed.

VIBRATE?

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AUDIO?

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Note:

If the audio alert mode is selected, your beeper automatically displays the

audio alert options screen.

➌ Press and release ∞ until your choice of

VIBRATE?, AUDIO?, CHIRP? or NO ALERT? is

displayed.

➍ Press ¡ to select the desired alert. The

standby screen is displayed with the
corresponding alert icon.

ALERTS

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Choosing an Audio Alert

If you select the audio alert mode, you can choose either a standard beep (audio) or
one of the musical alerts.

If you choose no alert or vibrate, your beeper emits an alert only if a priority message
is received.

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AUDIO?

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➊ From the ALERTS menu, press and release ∞

AUDIO? is displayed.

until

➋ Press ¡ to enter the AUDIO menu.
➌ Press ∞ to scroll through the alert choices. The

beeper emits a sample of each alert.

ALERT 1

ALERTS

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➍ Press ¡ to select the alert. The standby

screen is displayed with the audio alert icon

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Read Mode

This feature allows you to choose the most comfortable wa y to vie w messages .

Setting the Scroll Speed

You can choose the speed at which your messages scroll, or read them line by line.

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CONTROLS?

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SCROLL?

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LINE-BY-LINE

➊ From the standby screen, press ∞ to display

CONTROLS?. The controls menu icon w flashes.

➋ Press ¡ to enter the CONTROLS menu.
➌ Press and release ∞ until SCROLL? is displayed.
➍ Press ¡ to enter the SCROLL menu.
➎ Press and release ∞ to choose the scroll

speed.

➏ Press ¡ to select the scroll speed.

There are four scroll speeds to choose from:

LINE-BY-LINE, SCROLL 1 (slowest), SCROLL 2, and
SCROLL 3 (fastest).

READ MODE

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Locking Personal Messages

By locking messages, you can sav e personal messages to pre v ent them from being
replaced when the memory is full or from being deleted. Messages can be locked only
while reading them.

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➊ Press ∞ while reading a personal message to

LOCK?.

display

LOCK?

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¥¥¥∫

†

Note:

A maximum of five personal messages may be locked at one time. To lock

another message, you must first unlock at least one message.

➋ Press ¡ to lock the message. The message

∫ is displayed.

indicator

When a locked message is selected or read, the

y is displayed.

lock icon

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Unlocking Personal Messages

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➊ Press ∞ while reading a locked personal

message to display

UNLOCK?

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¥¥¥å

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➋ Press ¡ to unlock the message.

UNLOCK?.

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Deleting Messages

Messages may be deleted one at a time or all at once.

Deleting a Single Message

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DELETE?

Deleting All Messages

The DELETE ALL command deletes all read and unlocked personal messages and
information services. Locked or unread messages are not deleted.

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DELETE ALL?

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DELETE?

➊ While reading a message press and release ∞

DELETE? is displayed.

until

➋ Press ¡ to delete the message.

➊ From the standby screen, press and release ∞

DELETE ALL? is displayed. The delete icon

until

i

flashes.

➋ Press ¡ to enter the DELETE menu. The delete

confirmation

DELETE? is displayed.

➌ Press ¡ to delete all personal messages.

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Storing Messages

Your beeper can store up to ten personal messages. Each stored message is
assigned a number, which is display ed when the message is stored. The first
message received is 1, the second is 2, and so on.

Automatic Message Deletion

If all message slots are full and a new message is received, the oldest unlocked read
message is automatically deleted.

When the message memory is full,
return to the standby screen.

If all messages are unread, the oldest, unlocked message is deleted and
displayed.

MEMORY FULL is displayed. Press an y button to

OVERFLOW is

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MESSAGE FEATURES

Information Services

Information services are typically news or financial reports which provide information
that is relevant for a short time (a few hours). Your beeper may be equipped with one
information service message slot. Contact your service provider if you are interested
in receiving information services.

Reading Information Services

When an information service message is received, † flashes momentarily and the
unread information services is displayed. After a short time, the standby screen is
displayed.

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➊ Press º to displa y the message indicator

menu.

†

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π

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➋ Press º to enter the information service

menu. The inf ormation service message icon

∂ is displayed.

or

π

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DOW JONES STOCKS:

➌ Press º to read the message. The time the

information service was received is displayed
with the first screen of the message.

o indicates the message is continued on an

additional screen.

∞ and then º to display the previous

Press
screen.

Turning the Information Service Alert On and Off

You can set an incoming message alert for the information service message slot.

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CHIRP ON?

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➊ While reading an information service message,

∞ until CHIRP ON? or CHIRP OFF? is

press
displayed.

➋ Press ¡ to turn chirp on or off for the

information service message slot.

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INFORMATION SERVICES

Turning the Information Service Bookmark On

You can set a bookmark to hold your place in a lengthy information service while
reading it.

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➊ While reading an information service, press ∞

to display

BOOKMARK?.

BOOKMARK?

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➋ Press ¡ to activate the bookmark. The

message menu screen is displayed.

The next time you read the information service,
the last screen displayed while the message was
marked is the starting point of the display.

Ω indicates the message is bookmarked.

Ω

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Out of Range

If your beeper is equipped with this feature, and if you are outside y our paging
coverage area,
messages.

t is displayed. As long as tis displa yed, y our beeper cannot receive

Message Error Icons

If there is an error in the message received, the error icon ƒ is displayed at the end of
the message.

If this option is enabled, and if
message was too long, or there was not enough memory to store the message.

√ is displayed at the end of the message, either the

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OTHER FEATURES

Patent Information

This Motorola product is manufactured under one or more Motorola U.S . patents.
These patent numbers are listed inside the housing of this product. Other U .S. patents
for this product are pending.

Cleaning Your Beeper

To clean smudges and grime from the exterior of your beeper, use a soft, non­abrasive cloth moistened in a mild soap and water solution. Use a second cloth
moistened in clean water to wipe the surface clean. Do not immerse in water. Do not
use alcohol or other cleaning solutions.

USE AND CARE

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Functionality and Use of Your Beeper

For questions pertaining to the functions and use of your Motorola beeper please visit
our web site at www.motorola.com/LatinAmerica/Beepers. For questions pertaining to
your paging service, contact your paging service provider.

Care and Maintenance

The Memo Express II and Memo Express II FLX beepers are durable, reliable , and
can provide years of dependable service; how e v er , the y are precision electronic
products. Water and moisture, excessive heat, and extreme shock may damage the
beeper. Do not e xpose y our beeper to these conditions. If repair is required, the
Motorola Service Organization, staffed with specially trained technicians, offers repair
and maintenance facilities throughout the world.

You can protect your beeper purchase with an optional extended warranty covering
parts and labor. For more information about warranties or repair , please contact either
your paging service provider, retailer , or Motorola, Inc.

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USE AND CARE

Battery Information

Your Memo Express II or Memo Express II FLX beeper operates with one AAA-size
alkaline battery. When the battery is low, the low-battery icon
the time and date on the standby screen. Change y our battery within five days of
receiving a low-battery indication.

Note:

Messages are not retained when replacing the battery. Please transcribe

any information that you may wish to retain.

Replacing the Battery

➊ Turn your beeper off.
➋ T o remo v e the old battery, slide the

battery door lock towards the top of the
beeper to unlock the battery door.

➌ While pressing on the battery door,

BATTERY

slide the door until the groove on the
battery door aligns with the groove on
the back cover .

™ is displayed between

Slide to open

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Battery
Door Lock

Grooves

➍ Lift the battery door to free it from the housing.
➎ Remove the battery.
➏ Align the new battery so the positive (+) and negative (-) markings match the

polarity diagram in the battery compartment. Insert the battery.

➐ T o replace the battery door , align the groove on the battery door with the groov e on

the back cover and slide the battery door closed.

➑ Slide the battery door lock toward the bottom of the beeper to lock the battery

door.

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BATTERY

NOTES

NOTES

t, Motorola, Memo Express II, Memo Express II FLX, and F

are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc.

1500 Gateway Blvd., Boynton Beach, FL 33426-8292

Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.

© 1998 by Motorola, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Paging Products Group

Printed in U.S.A. 2/98

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Memo Express II™ and Memo Express II FLX™

Quick Reference Card

Icons and Indicators

s On

å Message, selected
¥ Message, unselected

w Control menu
i Delete All menu

- Audio alert
e A udio menu
u Vibrate
y Locked message
t Out of range
o Message continuation

™ Low battery
† Information service folder, selected
∆ Information service folder, unselected
π Information service message, Memo

Express II

∂ Information service message, Memo

Express II FLX

Ω Information service, Bookmark
∏ Information service, Chirp on
∫ Locked message, selected
¢ Locked message, unselected

Control Buttons

∞ Mode
¡ Select
º Read/Power On

Locking and Unlocking Messages

While reading a personal message, press

∞ to display LOCK? or UNLOCK?. Press ¡.

Deleting a Single Message

∞ while reading a message until

Press

DELETE? is displayed. Press ¡.

Memo Express II and Memo Express II FLX Menu Map

Controls Delete All Alerts

Off
Time-Date
Scroll

Delete

Vibrate
Audio
Chirp
No Alert