Motorola DEXT user Manual

FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS.

MOTOROLA DEXT™ with MOTOBLUR™

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Congratulations

MOTOROLA DEXT with MOTOBLUR

MOTOROLA DEXT with MOTOBLUR brings your conversations, friends and favourite things to the forefront, so you spend less time managing your life and more time living it.

• Only MOTOBLUR syncs your favourite social

networking sites – all your contacts, all your messages and all the latest updates – straight to your MOTOROLA DEXT.

• Download thousands of cool apps from Android

Marketplace and the Motorola app store, to play and surf to your heart’s content.

• Backs it all up too. So just relax.

Caution: Before assembling, charging or using your

phone for the first time, please read the important legal and safety information packaged with your phone. Once your phone is up and running, press Menu > Settings > About phone > Safety &

Regulatory

to read the full information.

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More information

On your phone—Press Home > Help Centre.

On your computer—Go to www.motorola.com/

mydext.

After you create a MOTOBLUR account, you can also go to www.motorola.com/mymotoblur, log in and select “Help Centre.”

So, whether you want to read, watch or play, we can help.

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Your phone

the important keys & connectors

3.5mm Headset Jack

Ringer Off

Switch

Volume Keys

Micro USB

Connector

Charge or

connect to PC.

Paul Nicholson

Black polo neck and a beret and he thought I was serious?

5 min ago

London

Sunny intervals

298 minutes away from cake.

Victoria McManus

Ultra secret double-agent party agenda

15 min ago

MarketBMark

Menu Key

Microphone

Tip: To change the Notification LED, press Menu

> Settings > Display & security > Notification LED.

11:35

Browser

Notification LED

On=Charged. Flashing=New notification.

Power Key

Press to put the display to sleep or hold to turn off.

To u chscreen

Camera Key

Home Key

Back Key

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When you turn your phone, the home screen adjusts for you.

Scroll

Select

Alternative

Press for text

search, or hold

for voice search.

Space

Note: Your phone might look a little different.

4 Your phone

Delete

Return

Shift

Back

Symbols

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Contents

Your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Let’s go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Touchscreen & keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Home screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Social networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Messaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Tips & tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Personalise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Photos & videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Google Maps™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Apps for all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Bluetooth™ wireless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Wi-Fi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Safety, Regulatory & Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Let’s go

let’s get you up and running

Assemble & charge

1 cover off 2 SIM in

3 battery in 4 microSD in

(already done)

5 cover on 6 charge up

Caution: Please read “Battery Use & Safety” on

page 48.

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Set up & go

Create or log into a MOTOBLUR account to get your contacts, email, messages and status information, for all your accounts, all in one place, all the time. There’s more in “Your MOTOBLUR account” on page 19. Registration is secure and should only take a few minutes:

1 Turn on. 2 Select a language.

Your name:

e.g. John Smith

MOTOBLUR ID:

Enter email address

Password:

Password

Creating your

MOTOBLUR account...

NextBack

Tip: Open your phone

to type.

Please choose a language

English

To make an emergency call during

setup, press the “Menu” key.

NextEmergency Call

If you have not created a MOTOBLUR account, you’ll need to register: Enter your name, your current email address (where MOTOBLUR can send account information) and a new MOTOBLUR account password.

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4 Add your accounts. To add an account, tap

it. Then, enter the user

Facebook MyspaceGoogle

Last FM

Twitter

Mail

PicasaPhotobucket

name or email address and password that you set up on that account.

Tip: For more, or to

add accounts any time, go to “Add accounts” on page 20.

5 Import your SIM

contacts.

After you sign in, your phone shows your home screen. Tap

Contacts, then

press Menu > Settings > Import

from SIM card

. Tap OK

to confirm.

Turn it on & off

To turn on your phone, press Power (on the right side).

To turn off your phone, press and hold Power , then tap Power off in the menu that opens.

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Wi-Fi connect

If you want to use a Wi-Fi network for even faster Internet access, press Menu > Settings > Wireless controls > Wi-Fi settings. Tap Wi-Fi to search for and connect to wireless networks. There’s more in “Wi-Fi” on page 45.

Cool content & more

Browse and download thousands of the coolest apps on the planet from Android. On top of that, you get a full HTML browser, so you can surf in style.

Download new apps with “Android Market™” on page 43. Your phone comes with a microSD memory card installed—you can fill it with photos, videos and music from your computer.

Security

Your contacts are backed up on MOTOBLUR, so don’t worry. Even if you lose your phone, MOTOBLUR can help you find it or wipe it. When you receive your next MOTOBLUR product, your stored info makes it a breeze to set up with just a username and password.

Of course it doesn't stop there. There are plenty of ways to protect your phone and your information, in “Security” on page 46.

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Touchscreen & keys

a few essentials

Touch tips

Here are some tips on how to navigate around your phone.

Tap

To choose an icon or option, Ta p it. Try it: On the home screen, tap

Contacts.

Tap & hold

To open special options, tap and hold an icon or other item. Try it: On the home screen, tap

Contacts, then tap

and hold a contact to open options.

Contacts

Alex Pico

View contact

Call

Send Text Message

Delete contact

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Drag

To scroll through a list or move slowly, drag across the touchscreen. Try it: On the home screen, tap

Contacts, then drag

your Contacts list up or down.

Tip: When you drag or flick

a list, a scroll bar appears on the right. Drag the scroll

Contacts

Alex Pico

Dan Smith

Kate Shunney

Keith Zang

Luke Carmody

Mariana Bukvic

StatusHistory A-Z

bar to move the list to a letter A - Z.

Flick

To scroll through a list or move quickly, flick across the touchscreen (drag quickly and release).

Tip: When you flick a long list, tap the screen to stop it

from scrolling.

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Key tips

Menu, home & back

Press Home to close any menu or app and return to the home screen. Press and hold Home to show the last few apps you used, then tap an app to open

Menu Key

it. On the home screen, press Home to open or close the main menu.

Press Menu to open menu options, or Back to go back.

Sleep & wake up

To save your battery, prevent accidental taps or when you want to wipe smudges off your touchscreen, put the touchscreen to sleep by pressing Power . To wake up the touchscreen, just press Power , Menu , Home , or Back , or open the phone.

To change how long your phone waits before the screen goes to sleep automatically, press Menu > Settings > Display & security > Screen timeout.

Home

Key

Back

Key

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Power key menu

Press and hold Power to open the power key menu, where you can turn off the phone (Power off), or turn off features (Flight mode, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or

GPS).

Adjust volume

Press the volume keys to change the ring volume (on the home screen) or the earpiece volume (during a call).

Ringer Off

Switch

Volume Keys

Ringer off switch

To switch off your ring sound, slide down the Ringer off switch.

Spin the screen

The touchscreen can spin to stay the right way up when you rotate your phone:

Find it: Menu > Settings > Display & security

> Orientation

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Market

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Home screen

quick access to the things you need most

Quick start: Home screen

The home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on the phone or press Home from a menu. It’s basically like this:

298 minutes away from cake.

Trevor Gilley

Black turtleneck and a beret, and he thought I was serious?

5 min ago

London

Partly Sunny

Vanessa Eskridge

Ultra secret double-agent party agenda

Market

Status Indicators

11:35

Your Online Status

Tap to change your status.

15 min ago

Notifications

Flick this bar down to see details.

Widgets

Tap to open or tap & hold to move or delete.

Flick left or right to open more panels of widgets.

Browser

Shortcuts

Tap to open.

Open the main menu.

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Use & change your home screen

On your home screen, shortcuts are icons that you open your favourite apps, web bookmarks, contacts, mail labels or music playlists. Widgets show you news, weather, messages and other updates.

Flick the home screen left or right to open other panels of shortcuts and widgets.

• To open something, tap it. Press Home to

return to the home screen.

To change a widget’s settings, open it and then press Menu > Settings.

You can find details about the settings for

Happenings (“Add accounts” on page 20), Messages

(“Set up messaging” on page 29), Music (“Music” on page 39), Social status (“Update your status” on page 20) or News or Weather (“Set up widgets” on page 33).

• To add something or change your wallpaper, tap

and hold an empty spot until you see the Add to

Home screen

You can add a folder to organise your shortcuts.

• To move or delete something, tap and hold it until

you feel a vibration, then drag it to another spot, another panel or the trash at the bottom of the screen.

menu.

15Home screen

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To search, use a Search widget (if you have one on your home screen), or open your phone and press Search .

Type, then tap the icon for a

Google Search

Tip: In your main menu or Contacts, you can open your

phone (or press and hold Menu to open a display keypad), then type an entry name to find it.

text search.

Tap the icon, then speak for a voice search.

Phone status & notifications

At the top of the screen, icons on the left notify you about new messages or events (flick the bar down for details). Icons on the right tell you about phone status:

Bluetooth™ active network (full signal)

GPS active network (roaming)

Wi-Fi active GPRS (fast data)

downloading EDGE (faster data)

vibrate 3G (fastest data)

silent flight mode

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mute call battery (charging)

speakerphone active battery (full charge)

alarm set

Tip: To see today’s date, tap and hold the status

indicators.

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Main menu

Quick start: Main menu

The main menu shows you all of your applications. To open it from the home screen, press Home . To close it, press Home again.

Note: Your main menu will vary.

Tip: To find an app in the main menu, open your

phone (or press and hold Menu to open a display keypad), then type the app name.

Switching apps

Press and hold Home to see the last few apps you used, then tap the app you want. Press Home to close an app and return to the home screen.

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Social networking

my life, your life

Your MOTOBLUR account

The first time you turned on your phone, you registered for a MOTOBLUR account that manages your messages, contacts and more (“Set up & go” on page 7). You can log into this account from a computer to upload contacts, manage the account, get help or even locate your phone: www.motorola.com/ mymotoblur

What is MOTOBLUR?

MOTOROLA DEXT with MOTOBLUR is the first phone with social skills.

Only MOTOBLUR synchs contacts, posts, feeds, messages, e-mails, photos and much more—from sources like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, your work e-mail, Picasa, Photobucket—and automatically ser ves it up just the way you want it. No opening and closing apps and menus, it’s all front and centre on your home screen and integrated throughout the entire phone so you can communicate anyway you like.

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