Motorola 99FT4090 User Guide

PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL TWO-WAY RADIO

MOTOTRBO™
SL7550 PORTABLE

USER GUIDE

Declaration of Conformity

This declaration is applicable to your radio only if your radio is labeled with the FCC logo shown below.

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

Per FCC CFR 47 Part 2 Section 2.1077(a)

Responsible Party
Name: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Address: 1303 East Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, IL 60196, U.S.A.
Phone Number: 1-800-927-2744

Hereby declares that the product:

Model Name: SL 7550

conforms to the following regulations:

FCC Part 15, subpart B, section 15.107(a), 15.107(d) and section 15.109(a)

Class B Digital Device

As a personal computer peripheral, this device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and

2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Declaration of Conformity

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Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part

15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the
following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Declaration of Conformity

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Contents

This User Guide contains all the information you need to
use the MOTOTRBO SL7550 Portable Radios.

Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Product Safety and RF Exposure Compliance . . .vi

Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Computer Software Copyrights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Open Source Software Legal Notices . . . . . . . . . vii

Handling Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

RF Energy Exposure and Product Safety Guidelines

and Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Operating Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

How to Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What Your Dealer/System Administrator

Can Tell You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Preparing Your Radio for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Attaching the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Attaching the Earpiece/Audio Accessory . . . . . . . . . 4

Powering Up the Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Identifying Radio Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Radio Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Programmable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Assignable Radio Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Assignable Settings or Utility Functions . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the 4-Way Navigation Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Accessing the Programmed Functions . . . . . . . . . 10

Using the Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Push-To-Talk (PTT) Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Capacity Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Identifying Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Display Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Call Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Utilities Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Mini Notice Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Sent Item Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Job Tickets Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

LED Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Audio Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Indicator Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Making and Receiving Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Selecting a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Selecting a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call . . . . . . 23

Receiving and Responding to a Group Call . . . . 23

Receiving and Responding to a Private Call . . . . 24

Receiving an All Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Making a Radio Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Making a Group Call with the PTT Button . . . . 26

Making a Private Call with the PTT Button . . . 26

Making an All Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Making a Group or Private Call with the One Touch

Access Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Making a Group, Private or All Call with the

Programmable Number Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Stopping a Radio Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Talkaround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Monitoring Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Monitoring a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Sticky Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Radio Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Sending a Radio Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Remote Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Initiating Remote Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Scan Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Viewing an Entry in the Scan List . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Viewing an Entry in the Scan List by Alias Search 36

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Editing the Scan List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Adding a New Entry to the Scan List . . . . . . . . 37

Deleting an Entry from the Scan List . . . . . . . . 37

Setting and Editing Priority for an Entry in the

Scan List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Setting an Active Scan List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Starting and Stopping Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Responding to a Transmission During a Scan . . 40

Deleting a Nuisance Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Restoring a Nuisance Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Contacts Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Making a Group Call from Contacts . . . . . . . . . . 42

Making a Private Call from Contacts . . . . . . . . . . 42

Making a Call by Alias Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Assigning an Entry to a Programmable

Number Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Removing the Association between Entry and

Programmable Number Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Adding a New Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Sending a Message to a Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Call Indicator Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Activating and Deactivating Call Ringers for

Call Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Activating and Deactivating Call Ringers for

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Private Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Activating and Deactivating Call Ringers for

Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Assigning Ring Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Ring Alert Type Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Escalating Alarm Tone Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Call Log Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Viewing Recent Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Missed Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Storing an Alias or ID from a Call List . . . . . . . . . 50

Deleting a Call from a Call List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Viewing Details from a Call List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Call Alert Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Receiving and Responding to a Call Alert . . . . . . 51

Making a Call Alert from the Contacts List . . . . . . 52

Making a Call Alert with the One Touch Access

Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Receiving an Emergency Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Responding to an Emergency Alarm . . . . . . . . . . 54

Sending an Emergency Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Sending an Emergency Alarm with Call . . . . . . . 55

Sending an Emergency Alarm with Voice to

Follow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Reinitiating an Emergency Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Exiting Emergency Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Text Message Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Writing and Sending a Text Message . . . . . . . . . 58

Sending a Quick Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Sending a Quick Text Message with the One

Touch Access Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Accessing the Drafts Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Viewing a Saved Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Editing and Sending a Saved Text Message . . 60
Deleting a Saved Text Message from Drafts . . 61

Managing Fail-to-Send Text Messages . . . . . . . . 61

Resending a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Forwarding a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Editing a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Managing Sent Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Viewing a Sent Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Sending a Sent Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Deleting All Sent Text Messages from

Sent Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Receiving a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Reading a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Managing Received Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . 65

Viewing a Text Message from the Inbox . . . . . 66

Replying to a Text Message from the Inbox . . . 66

Deleting a Text Message from the Inbox . . . . . 67

Deleting All Text Messages from the Inbox . . . 67

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Job Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Accessing the Job Ticket Folder . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Responding to the Job Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Deleting a Job Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Covert Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Entering Covert Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Exiting Covert Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

IP Site Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Locking Automatic Site Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Unlocking Automatic Site Search . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Starting a Manual Site Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Radio Disable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Radio Enable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Lone Worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Password Lock Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Accessing the Radio from Password . . . . . . . . . 77

Unlocking the Radio from Locked State . . . . . . . 77

Turning the Password Lock On or Off . . . . . . . . . 78

Changing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Bluetooth Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Turning Bluetooth On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Finding and Connecting to a Bluetooth Device . . 80

Disconnecting from a Bluetooth Device . . . . . . . 81

Switching Audio Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Viewing Device Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Editing Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Notification List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Accessing the Notification List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Turning the Radio Tones/Alerts On or Off . . . . . 83

Turning Keypad Tones On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Setting the Tone Alert Volume Offset Level . . . . 84

Turning the Talk Permit Tone On or Off . . . . . . . 84

Changing the Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Adjusting the Display Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Controlling the Display Backlight . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Wallpaper Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Screen Saver Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Audio Accessory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Locking and Unlocking the Keypad . . . . . . . . . . 87

Auto Keypad Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Turning the LED Indicator On or Off . . . . . . . . . . 88

Turning the Voice Operating Transmission (VOX)

Feature On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Turning the Option Board Feature(s) On or Off . 90

Identifying Cable Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

English

Voice Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Menu Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Digital Mic AGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Intelligent Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Accessing General Radio Information . . . . . . . . . 92

Accessing the Battery Information . . . . . . . . . . 92

Checking the Radio Alias and ID . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Checking the Firmware Version and Codeplug

Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Checking the Open-Source Software

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Batteries and Chargers Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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