Palm Treo 680 AT-T User Manual

Table of Contents

Welcome to Cingular 1

Overview: Your Palm

Setup 2

Insert the battery 2
Complete setup 3

Navigation 4

Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off 4

Move around the touchscreen 5

Use the keyboard 6
Open applications 8

You r p h one 9

Turn your phone on and off 9

Open the Phone application 10

Make and receive calls 11
Set up voicemail 12
What can I do when I’m on a call? 13

You r P u sh To Talk a p plica t i o n 15

How Push To Talk works 15
Set up PTT 15

Create a PTT contact list 17
Create a group 18

Responding to Invitations 18
Make a PTT call 19

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Choose the best email option 20

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Treo™ 680 smart device 1

Set up personal email 20
Set up corporate email 23

Synchronization 29

Why synchronize information? 29
Synchronize for the first time 29

Your Contacts, Calendar, messages, and web 31

Contacts 31
Calendar 33
Messaging 34
Web browser 35

Your music and pictures 37

Listen to music 37
Take pictures 40

Troubleshooting 42

Tips an d t r i c k s 44

Keyboard 44
Phone 44
Data 45
Typing 45
Browser 46
Navigation 46
General 46

Status indicators 47

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Welcome to Cingular

Indicator light (phone
and charge indicator)

Calendar

Microphone

Earpiece

Menu

Send

Phone

Side button

Volume

Power/End

Xpress Mail

Applications

5-way navigator and
Center button

Multi-connector

Headset jack

Stylus

Ringer switchInfrared (IR) port

Stylus

Overview: Your Palm®Treo™ 680 smart device

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Tip

Align battery
contacts with
compartment
contacts

Press battery door
release

Your phone won't
work without a SIM
card. The SIM card
is usually pre­installed in your
Treo 680, unless
you’re upgrading
from a Cingular
phone. Check the
SIM card tray to see
if the SIM card is
installed. The SIM
card tray is tucked
away in a drawer
in the battery
compartment. See
"I need to insert my
SIM card" on page
42 for more info.

If you need a SIM
card, call AT&T
Wireless at 1-800­331-0500.

Insert the battery

1. Remove the battery door.

2. Insert the battery into the compartment.

3. Slide the battery door back into place.

4. Connect the charger.

The touchscreen on your Palm
for the progress bar to fill and the language selection screen to appear.

Setup

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Treo™ 680 smart device turns on. Wait

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Complete setup

1. Select the language you want to use.

2. Follow the onscreen instructions to set the date and time.

Note: If you want your Treo 680 to obtain the date, time, and time zone from the
local network, accept the default setting on the Date & Time screen.

3. When the setup is complete, press Applications and select
Quick Tour .

4.

Recommended: Review the Basics and Phone sections of the Quick Tour

before using your Treo 680.

Note: If your Treo 680 doesn’t turn on after you charge it, do a soft reset by removing
the battery and reinserting it. For more information on resetting your Treo 680, see
User Guide: Your Palm

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Treo™ 680 Smart Device on the CD.

Tip

You need a high­speed data plan for
email, web
browsing, and
multimedia
messaging. Find
out if you have a
plan by checking
your AT&T Wireless
bill or calling AT&T
Wireless: dial 611
from your Treo 680
or call 1-800-331­0500 from any
phone.

Tip

Need help setting
up your Treo 680?
Call the Palm Setup
Help desk for AT&T
Wireless customers
at 1-800-331-

0500.

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Tip

Center

Power/End

Press Phone,

Calendar, or Xpress
Mail to wake up the

touchscreen and
open the
corresponding app.
Press Applications
to wake up the
touchscreen and
open Applications
View.

Did You Know?

You can set how
long the
touchscreen stays
on. Press

Applications, select
Preferences, select
Power, and then

adjust the Auto-off

after setting.

Navigation

Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off

The phone and the touchscreen of your Palm®Treo™ 680 smart device can
be turned off and on separately. When you wake up the touchscreen and
leave the phone off, you can continue to use the other wireless features;
for example, when you’re on a plane, you can still manage your calendar,
play MP3 files, or write email offline.

If you’re taking your Treo 680 out of the box and turning it on for the first
time, the phone is already on. You just need to wake up the touchscreen.

1. Press and release
Power/End to
wake up the touchscreen.

2. Press Center to
turn off Keyguard.

3. Press and release
Power/End to turn
off the touchscreen and
lock the keyboard.

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Move around the touchscreen

Up

Right

Left

Center

Down

To move around the touchscreen on your Treo 680, you can use the 5-way
navigator, or you can tap items on the touchscreen with the stylus. The 5-way
includes the following buttons:

Highlight and select items

The highlight identifies which item is affected by
your next action. Use Left , Right , Up ,
and Down on the 5-way to move the
highlight from one item to another. The
highlight can take two forms: A b

around an entire screen, an onscreen button, or

a pick list; and light text on a dark background.

After highlighting an item, you can select
(activate) it by pressing Center or by
tapping it with the stylus. When an entire screen
is highlighted, switch the highlight to the first
item by pressing Center .

order glow

Did You Know?

On most screens,
one item—a button,
a list entry, or a
check box—is
highlighted by
default.

Tip

If the item you want
doesn’t appear on
the touchscreen, try
tapping the
onscreen scroll
arrows to view
more info.

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Tip

Menu
shortcut
letter

Menu

Backspace

Return

Alt

Space

Option

Shift/Find

Backlight (Option

+ P)

Most menu items
have a shortcut. To
use a menu
shortcut, press

Menu + the

shortcut letter. For
example, in
Calendar, you can
press Menu + D to
delete an event.

Select menu items

Many applications have menus to
give you access to additional
features. These menus are usually
hidden from view, but they appear
when you press Menu .

1. Press Menu to display an
application’s menus.

2. Press Right and Left to
switch between menus.

3. Press Up and Down to highlight a menu item.

4. Press Center to select the menu item, or press Menu to close
the menu and cancel your selection.

Use the keyboard

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Enter lowercase and uppercase letters

Letter

Symbol

• To enter lowercase letters, press the key you want.

• To enter an uppercase letter, press Shift/Find and then press a letter

key—no need to hold Shift/Find while entering the letter.

• To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find twice. The following symbol

appears . To turn it off, press Shift/Find once.

Enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols

Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above
the letters on the keys. To enter these characters,
do one of the following:

• Press Option , and then press the key with the character—no need to

hold Option while pressing the second key.

• To turn Option Lock on, press Option twice. The following symbol

appears . To turn it off, press Option once.

Enter more symbols and accented characters

1. Enter the character that corresponds to the character you want.

2. Press Alt .

3. Highlight the character you want on the pop-up list, and then press
Center to select the highlighted character.

Note: To enter characters such as _ • \ % =, press Alt by itself, after a space or at
the beginning or end of a line.

Did You Know?

Some application
views automatically
default to Option
Lock, such as the
Dial Pad in the
Phone application.
In this case, you do
not need to press

Option to enter

numbers.

Tip

Alternate
characters are
grouped by their
similarity to the
base key. For
example, the
alternate
characters for the

E key are: É, È, Ë,

and Ê. You can find
a complete table of
the alternate keys
in the User Guide.

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Tip

Phone

Calendar Xpress Mail

Applications

In Applications
View, you can enter
the first few letters
of an application
name to highlight it.
For example, if you
press P,
you highlight
Phone; if you
quickly press PR,
you highlights
Prefs. If you pause
and then press R,
you highlight the
first application
that starts with R.

Did You Know?

Press Applications
repeatedly to cycle
through various
categories of
applications.

Open applications

When you open an
application, you
automatically close the
application you were
previously using and save
any information you created
in that app.

Use the quick buttons

The front of your Treo 680
has three quick buttons that
open applications. The
fourth button opens
Applications View.

Use Applications View

You can access all available applications
through Applications View.

1. Press Applications .

2. Use the 5-way to highlight the
application you want to use.

3. Press Center to open the selected
application.

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Your phone

Main tab

Signal-strength icon

Turn your phone on and off

When your phone is on, it is connected to the AT&T Wireless network
(provided you’re in a coverage area) so that you can make and receive phone
calls and use wireless services, such as email, messaging, and the web
browser.

During initial setup, your phone is automatically turned on, so you can use
wireless services right away. If you turn off your phone, you can still use the
organizer and media features such as Calendar and Pics&Videos.

1. Wake up the touchscreen.

2. If prompted, press Center to turn off
Keyguard.

3. Press and hold Power/End to turn
on your phone.

You know your phone is on and that you’re
inside a coverage area when you see the signal-
strength icon at the top of the Main tab of
the Phone app.

Note: If you’re prompted for a PIN code, your SIM
card is locked. If you don’t know your PIN code, ask
AT&T Wireless to provide you with the PIN code.

4. Press and hold Power/End again to turn off your phone.

You know your phone is off when you see Phone Off at the top of the Main
tab of the Phone app.

Tip

If you’re outside a
coverage area, the
name Cingular does
not appear in the
upper-left corner
and the indicator
light flashes red.

Tip

Don’t remember
your mobile phone
number? To find
your phone
number, press

Phone, press Menu,

select Options, and
then select Phone

Info.

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Open the Phone application

Dial Pad

Favorites

Main

Status icons

Contacts

Call Log

Press Phone to open the Phone application. The phone application
has five tabs.

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Make and receive calls

Center

Power/End

Number
keys

Send

Phone

To make and receive calls, your phone must be on. When your phone is off,
your incoming calls go to voicemail.

Dial using the keyboard

1. Press Phone .

2. If prompted, press

Center to turn off
Keyguard.

3. Use the number keys
on the keyboard to
enter the phone
number. (You must be
on the Main or Dial Pad
tab to enter the phone
number.)

4. Press Send to make the call.

5. Press Power/End to end the call.

Answer calls

To answer a call, press Send or
select Answer.

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Did You Know?

You can set which
tab of the Phone
app appears when
you open the
application. In the
Phone app, press

Menu, select
Options, and then

select Phone

Display Options.

Set the default
view to the tab
you want.

Did You Know?

If the headset is
attached, you can
press the headset
button to a nswer a
call and to end a
call. (

button may work
differently on
headsets other
than the one
provided with your
Treo 680.)

The headset

Tip

Pressing Phone
silences the ringer,
but it does not
answer the call.

Tip

You can also access
the AT&T voicemail
system by selecting
the Favorites tab
and then selecting
the Voicemail
favorite.

Tip

If you can’t connect
to the AT&T
Wireless voicemail
system, contact
AT&T Wireless for
assistance:
dial 611 from your
Treo 680 or call
1-800-331-0500
from any phone.

Ignore calls

To ignore a call, do one of the following:

Send the call to voicemail: Press Power/End or select Ignore.

Send the caller a text message: Select Ignore with Text. This option

sends the call to voicemail and opens a text message addressed to the
caller. (Sending text messages to land-line phones may not be supported.)

Silence the ringer

To silence the phone while it is ringing, do one of the following:

• Press any key except Send, Power/End, or the 5-way.

• Slide the Ringer switch to Sound Off .

Set up voicemail

Your AT&T Wireless service includes voicemail. Keep in mind that airtime
and other charges apply when using voicemail from your Treo 680.

1. Press Phone .

2. Press and hold 1 to dial the AT&T Wireless automated voicemail system.

3. Follow the voice prompts to set up your voicemail.

To retrieve your voicemail later, press Phone and then press and
hold 1.

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What can I do when I’m on a call?

Caller’s name and
number

Call duration

Button label

Call status

Caller ID photo (if assigned)

When you make or receive a call, Active Call View appears.

Use the 5-way or stylus to select any of the following onscreen
buttons:

0

Turns on the speakerphone so you can hear the caller
through the device’s speaker. This lets you check your
calendar, look up contact info, take notes, and use other
features during a call.

Turns off the speakerphone when it is on.

Replaces the Speakerphone button when you use a
Bluetooth
using the hands-free device.

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hands-free device. Select this button to stop

Tip

While a call is in
progress, press the

Volume button on

the side of your
Treo 680 to adjust
the call volume.

Did You Know?

You can add a
picture to a contact
entry. See the User
Guide for details.

Tip

If you’re using a
wired headset,
simply unplug the
headset to switch
to holding your Treo
to your ear.

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