Sony T105 User Manual

Quick guide 3

Easy access to certain functions.

Getting started 6

Make and receive the first call.

Getting to know your phone 9

Key functions, quick keys, entering letters.

Personalizing your phone 16

Choose ring signal, create pictures and more.

Calling 25

Use the phone book, call options.

Messaging 40

E-mail and text messages.

More features 49

Calendar, alarm clock, games and more.

Security 52

SIM card lock, phone lock.

Troubleshooting 54

Why doesn’t the phone work the way I want?

Additional information 56

Safe and efficient use, warranty, declaration of conformity.

Display icons 64

What do the icons mean?

Index 67

Using mobile Internet 46

WAP browser, bookmarks.

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Contents 1

Sony Ericsson T100/T105

First edition (May 2003) This manual is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, without any warranty. Improvements and changes to this manual necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB at any time and without notice. Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new editions of this manual.

©Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, 2002

Publication number: EN/LZT 108 6583 R1A IN NOVATRO N PAT ENT S

Please note:

Some of the services in this manual are not supported by all networks. This also applies to the GSM International Emergency Number 112.

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Please contact your network operator or service provider if you are in doubt whether you can use a particular service or not.

Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient use and the Limited warranty chapters before you use your mobile phone.

T9™ Text Input is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications.

T9™ Text Input is licensed under one or more of the following: U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,818,437, 5,953,541, 5,187,480, 5,945,928, and 6,011,554; Canadian Pat. No. 1,331,057, United Kingdom Pat. No. 2238414B; Hong Kong Standard Pat. No. HK0940329; Republic of Singapore Pat. No. 51383; Euro.Pat. No. 0 842 463(96927260.8) DE/DK, FI, FR, IT, NL, PT, ES, SE, GB; and additional patents are pending worldwide.

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Quick guide

To... Do this:

enter the Call list to enter the first function in

the menu My shortcuts to enter the Find and call

menu Call your voice mail service

enter the + sign to make an international phone call

set the phone to silent

turn off the microphone

speed dial (phone book positions 1–9)

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press from standby press and hold

from standby press and hold

during a call press any of the number

keys – and

from standby

To. .. Do th is :

find a phone book entry beginning with the first letter (or the closest following) on akey

find a phone book entry enter the position number

put a call on hold switch between two calls enter the Options menu

when writing a text message

press and hold any of the keys – from

standby

and press from standby

press press press and hold

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4 Quick guide

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Front Back

Indicator light

Volume key

Display

On/off key

Keypad

Microphone

Option key

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Back cover

Getting started

About this User’s Guide

Some services and functions described in this User’s Guide are network- and subscription-dependent. Because of this, all menus may not be available in your phone and the shortcut numbers to menus and functions may vary between phones.

This symbol indicates that a service or

function is network- or operator-dependent.

Please refer to the information provided by your network operator for more information about your subscription.

We recommend that you read the chapter “Getting to know your phone” on page 9 for information about how to move through the menus.

Warning! If your magnetic loudspeaker comes in contact with your credit card, it may impair the magnetism in the latter.

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The SIM card

When you register as a subscriber with a network operator, you get a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card. The SIM card contains a computer chip that keeps track of your phone number, the services included in your subscription, and your Phone Book information, among other things.

Assembly

Before you can use your phone you need to:

• insert the SIM card.

• attach and charge the battery.

Note: Always turn off the phone and detach the charger before you insert or remove a SIM card.

You have to insert the SIM card and

SIM card and battery information

charge the battery before you can use the phone.

It may take up to 30 minutes before an icon appears in the display when charging.

1. Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed under the silvery holders.

2. Place the battery on the back of the phone and push until you hear a click.

3. Connect the charger to the phone at the flash symbol. The flash symbol on the charger plug must face upwards.

4. It can take up to 30 minutes before an icon is shown in the display.

5. Wait approximately four hours or until you see the battery is fully charged.

6. Remove the charger by tilting the plug upwards.

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Making and receiving calls

SIM locked

PIN:

On/off

If you make a mistake while entering your PIN, delete the wrong number by pressing .

If you enter your PIN incorrectly three times in a row, the SIM card is blocked. This is indicated by the message PIN blocked. To unblock it you need to enter you PUK (Personal Unblocking Key). Your PUK is provided by your network operator.

My Network

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To make and receive calls

• Enter the area code and phone number, .

• Press to answer the call.

• Press to end the call.

To turn on the phone

• Press and hold until you hear a tone.

• Enter your PIN (Personal Identity Number), if you have one for your SIM card. Your PIN is provided by your network operator.

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Getting to know your phone

Key functions

Make and answer calls. Select a menu, submenu or an option.

Press and hold to turn the phone on or off or to go back to standby mode. Press to end or reject a call, go back one level in the menus or leave an option unchanged.

Move through the menus, lists and text.

Delete numbers and letters

(clear)

from the display. Delete an item from a list. To turn off the microphone during a call, press and hold the key.

Enter *.

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1–9, 0 Enter the digits 0–9 and

Volume key Increase or decrease the

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Enter #. Press and hold to enter the Option menu.

letters. Press and hold

to enter the international prefix +. Move through menus using shortcuts.

volume of the earpiece during a call. Scroll through menus, lists and text. Enter the Status menu. To reject an incoming call, slide the key up or down twice.

Moving through the menus

There are two ways of moving through the menus:

• Scrolling with the and keys

How to interpret the instructions

In this example of how to interpret the instructions, we are going to set the key sound to the tone option.

• Using shortcuts

To set the key sound

Scrolling by using or

Press... to...

scroll left or up through the menus. scroll right or down through the menus. select a menu, submenu or an option. go back one level in the menus, leave an

option unchanged. press and hold to go back to standby.

Using shortcuts

A quicker way to move through the menus is to use shortcuts. Enter the menus by pressing or and then simply enter the number of the menu to which you want to go. To get back to standby, press and hold .

1. Scroll to Settings, Key sound,

2. Select Tone and press

Interpret the instructions as follows:

1. From standby, press or to scroll to the Settings menu.

2. Press to select the Settings menu. The name of the menu that you have chosen is shown at the top of the display Settings.

3. Press to select the Sounds & alerts submenu. (You do not need to scroll with the arrow keys as this is the first submenu).

4. Press or to scroll to the Key sound submenu and press to select it.

5. Press or to scroll to the Tone option and press to select it. You have now set the key sound to tones.

YES

6. Press and hold to go back to standby.

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, Sounds & alerts,

YES

Display text

• A text that is highlighted shows your position in the menu. If you press , you enter this menu or select this option.

• Grey text indicates a function that is temporarily unavailable, for example due to your subscription or due to a certain setting which has not been turned on.

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Menu overview

My Network

12:18

Phone book

Find and call Add number Find and edit CLI pictures

Personal rings

Groups

Email addresses

Options

Memory status

Special numbers

Messages Call info

Call voice mail

Inbox

Write new

Unsent

Templates

Sent items

Options

Missed calls

Call list

Call costs

Call timers

Next call

Options

Turn off tones*

Hold call*

Switch calls*

Release active*

Join calls*

Transfer call*

Release all*

Settings

Sounds & alerts

Profiles

Call options

Networks

Display

Language

Time and date

Locks

Handsfree Phone name Master reset

Extras

Calendar

Time

Pictures

Calculator

Games

WAP services

Please note that some menus are network- and subscription-dependent. * Only available during a call.

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Homepage Bookmarks Push inbox

Enter address

Resume

Select profile

Clear cache

WAP settings

My shortcuts

Write new

Pictures

Ring volume

Edit shortcuts

Entering letters

You can enter letters when you add names to the

In the following example, we are going to write a

text message: phone book, write text messages (SMS) or enter WAP addresses.

You enter letters in your phone using multitap text input, which is default, or you can use T9™ Text Input, if the input language you select supports this. T9 Text Input is a quicker way to write texts. See “T9™ Text Input” on page 14.

Input language

Before you start entering letters, you need to select the input languages that you want to use when writing.

To select input language

1. Scroll to Settings,

, Language,

YES

, Input,

YES

2. Scroll to the language that you want to use for entering letters and press . Repeat step 2 if you want to use another language.

3. Press

to exit the menu.

YES

Multitap text input

When saving names in the phone book or when writing WAP addresses, you always enter letters using multitap text input.

To enter letters using multitap text input

1. Scroll to Messages,

YES

2. Press the appropriate key, repeatedly, until the character you want appears in the display.

Press… to get…

Space - ? ! ‚ . : ; " ’ < = > ( ) _ 1 A B C Å Ä Æ à Ç 2 Γ D E F è É 3 ∆ Φ G H I ì 4 J K L 5 Λ M N O Ñ Ö Ø ò 6 P Q R S ß 7 Π Σ T U V Ü ù 8 W X Y Z 9 + & @ / ¤ % $ £ ¥ § ¿ ¡ 0 Θ Ξ Ψ Ω

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, Write new,

–

, or

YES

Press… to get…

# *↵ to delete letters and numbers to shift between capital and

lower-case letters

press and hold to enter numbers

–

T9™ Text Input

You can use T9 Text Input when writing texts such as text messages and e-mail messages. The T9 Text Input method uses a built-in dictionary to recognize the most commonly used word for every sequence of key presses. This way, you press each key only once, even if the letter you want is not the first letter on the key. When you press the keys, a word is suggested.

press and hold to switch to one of your selected input methods

Example:

• To enter an ‘A’, press once.

• To enter a ‘B’, quickly press twice.

• To enter lower-case letters, press , enter the letter, for example an ‘A’. Lower-case letters appear until you press again.

• To enter numbers, press and hold any numeric key.

• To delete letters and numbers, press .

Note: When your enter letters in a WAP address, some of the characters show up in a different order.

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Note: T9 Text Input is not available in all languages.

To turn the T9 Text Input on or off

1. Scroll to Settings,

YES

2. Select On or Off.

To enter letters using T9 Text Input

1. Scroll to Messages,

YES

2. For example, if you want to write the word “Jane”, press , , , . If the word shown is the one you want:

• press to accept the word and add a space. If the word shown is not the one you want:

• press to view alternative words. Press to

accept the word and add a space.

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, Language,

, Write new,

, T9 input,

YES

If you do not find the word you want by pressing :

• press and hold to switch to basic text input (abc). Move the cursor by using or and then delete letters by pressing . Enter letters by pressing the appropriate key the number of times needed until you get the letter you want.

• Digits Press and hold

–

enter digits.

• Rel. caps lock Press to switch between capital and lower-case letters.

3. Continue writing your message. See also “To send a text message” on page 41.

Key functions when using T9 Text Input

• Input method Press and hold to switch input method.

• Accept word Press to accept the suggested word and add a space.

• Candidates Press repeatedly to scroll between the suggested words.

• Symbols Press to add symbols and punctuation marks such as ? and ,. Press repeatedly to scroll between symbols and punctuation marks.

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if you only want to

Personalizing your phone

You can adjust the phone settings to suit your own requirements.

To turn the ring signal on or off

1. From standby, press and hold .

2. Select Turn on silent and press

All signals except the alarm and timer signals are turned off.

Ring signals

You can specify the ring signal volume, choose

To cancel, repeat step 1, select Turn off silent and press

YES

among different ring signals or compose your own ring signals.

Increasing ring

You can choose a ring signal that rises in steps from

Ring signal volume

the lowest volume to the highest. The ring signal volume can be set to six levels. You can also turn the ring signal off (0).

To set the ring signal volume

1. Scroll to Settings, volume,

YES

, Sounds & alerts,

YES

, Ring

2. Press or to increase or decrease the volume.

to save the setting.

YES

3. Press

To turn the increasing ring on or off

1. Scroll to Settings, Increasing ring,

YES

2. Select On or Off and press

Ring signal type

You can choose a ring signal from a list of different sounds and melodies.

Tip: Use the volume keys on the side of the phone to change the volume silently.

To choose a ring signal

1. Scroll to Settings, Ring signals,

, All voice calls,

YES

2. Select a ring signal and press

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YES

, Sounds & alerts,

YES

, Sounds & alerts,

YES

Tip: Use the volume keys on the side of the phone to scroll silently.

Specific ring signals for personal calls

If your subscription includes the Calling Line Identification service, you can assign a personal ring signal to up to ten callers.

If the last seven digits of a caller’s number correspond to a number you have specified, then that caller’s ring signal is used.

You can include question marks in a phone number. For example, 012345??? means that calls from phone numbers between 012345000 and 012345999 will have the same personal ring signal. Press and hold

to insert a question mark.

To set a specific ring signal for a caller

1. Scroll to Settings, signals,

, Personal rings,

YES

2. Enter the caller’s number and press

, Sounds & alerts,

YES

, Add new?,

YES

, Ring

YES

Press to retrieve a number from the phone book.

3. Select a ring signal and press

YES

Composing your own ring signal

You can compose ten different ring signals.

To compose or edit a ring signal

1. Scroll to Settings, My melodies,

YES

2. Select one of the melodies and press

3. Press to remove notes.

4. Use the keypad to enter notes:

• Press and hold a key to enter a

long note.

• Press to raise the note

one octave.

• Press once to raise the note

one semitone.

• Press twice to lower

the note one semitone.

5. To listen to your melody, press

again to save it or press NO to continue

YES

6. Press composing.

Vibrating alert

You can choose to be notified of an incoming call by the buzzing of the Vibrating alert. You can set the phone’s Vibrating alert to one of the following:

• On (all the time)

• On if silent (on when the ring volume is turned off

or when you have set the phone to silent)

• Off (all the time)

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, Sounds & alerts,

YES

To set the Vibrating Alert

, Sounds & alerts,

1. Scroll to Settings, Vibrating alert,

YES

2. Select the setting you want, and then press

YES

Message signal

You can set the message signal to clicks, tones or silent.

• Select Message alert from the Settings/Sounds & alerts menu and then select the signal you want.

Key sound

You can set the key sound to clicks, tones or silent.

• Select Key sound from the Settings/Sounds & alerts menu and then select the key sound you want.

Minute minder

If you turn on the minute minder, you hear a beep once every minute during a call.

• Select Minute minder from the Call info/Call timers menu and then select On or Off.

Menu language

Most SIM cards automatically set the menu language to the language of the country where you bought your SIM card, Automatic. If this is not the case, the preset language is English.

To change the menu language

1. Scroll to Settings,

YES

2. Select a language and press

Note: You can always choose Automatic by pressing

8888 in standby.

You can always choose English by pressing 0000

in standby.

Display light

The display light can be set to automatic, off or on. In automatic mode, the display light is turned off a few seconds after you press the last key.

• Select Light from the Settings/Display menu, and then select the alternative you want.

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, Language,

YES

, Menus,

YES

Pictures

Your phone comes with a number of pictures.

• Scroll to Extras,

, Pictures,

YES

, where you can:

YES

• Assign a picture to a number in the phone book. When that person calls, the picture appears in the display (provided your subscription supports the Calling Line Identification service). See “To add a picture to a phone book entry” on page 29.

• Edit a picture.

To draw your own picture

1. Scroll to Extras, to start drawing with the picture editor.

YES

2. Press

3. Press

twice to save the picture.

YES

, Pictures,

YES

, My pictures,

YES

To edit a picture

, Pictures,

1. Scroll to Extras,

YES

2. Select a picture group and press

3. Select a picture and press

YES

to start editing with

YES

the picture editor.

twice to save the picture.

YES

4. Press

The picture is saved in My pictures.

YES

Picture editor keys and functions

This table lists the keypad functions.

Key Use

Move the cursor up and left. Move the cursor up. Move the cursor up and right. Move the cursor left. Lift up, or put down, the pen. Press and hold

to switch between zoom and full size view. Move the cursor right. Move the cursor down and left. Move the cursor down. Move the cursor down and right. Switch line thickness. Open the Options menu. Exit the picture editor Delete the picture Move the cursor 1, 5 or 10 spaces. Switch between black and white pen colour.

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To save a picture in My Favourites

, Pictures,

1. Scroll to Extras,

YES

2. Select a picture group and press

3. Select a picture and press .

to save the picture.

YES

4. Press

YES

To turn on the background picture

1. Scroll to Settings, Activate,

2. Select On and press

YES

Display sleep

To delete a picture from My Favourites

, Pictures,

1. Scroll to Extras,

YES

2. Select My favourites and press

YES

3. Select a picture and press . to delete the picture.

YES

4. Press

Background picture

Select a picture as background when in standby mode. Your phone comes with 10 preset pictures. You can also save an additional 10 pictures in your phone, that you either create yourself or download from Sony Ericsson Mobile Internet. For more information, visit wap.SonyEricsson.com/.

To set a picture as background

1. Scroll to Settings,

Select picture,

2. Select a picture and press

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YES

, Display,

YES

, Background,

YES

Turn on the sleeping display to save power.

To turn on the sleeping display

, Display,

1. Scroll to Settings,

2. Select On and press

YES

Time and date

The time is always displayed in standby mode.

To set the clock

, Time and date,

1. Scroll to Settings,

YES

2. Enter the time and press If you select the 12-hour clock, you can alternate between am and pm by pressing . You can choose a 12-hour or a 24-hour clock.

• Select Time format from the Settings/Time and date

menu, then select the time format you want.

, Display,

YES

, Background,

YES

, Display sleep,

YES

, Set time,

YES

Date

When the phone is in standby mode, you can press either of the volume keys to see today’s date.

To set the date

1. Scroll to Settings,

, Time and date,

YES

2. Enter the date, and then press

YES

, Set date,

YES

You can select another date format.

• Select Date format from the Settings/Time and date menu, then select the date format you want.

Answering mode

When using a portable handsfree unit, you can choose to answer a call by pressing any key (except the

key) or set the phone to answer the call automatically.

To select answering mode

, Handsfree,

1. Scroll to Settings, Answering mode,

YES

2. Select an answering mode and press

YES

Start-up/Shut-down show

When you turn your phone on or off, the Sony Ericsson start-up/shut-down show appears in the display. Your

YES

If you want to interrupt the start-up show, press

You can also create your own start-up show.

To select a start-up/shut-down show

1. Scroll to Settings,

2. Select an existing show, or write your own greeting by

selecting Custom, then press

YES

You can also turn off the start-up/shut-down show by selecting Off.

To turn the start up melody on or off

1. Scroll to Settings,

YES

2. Select a show and press

3. Select AnimationSound,

To create your own start-up show

1. Scroll to Settings,

YES

2. Select My animation,

3. Draw your own picture, then press

the picture.

4. Select AnimationSound,

5. Select Transition,

YES

start-up show to move across the display,

6. Select Preview to view the start-up show,

operator’s own greeting may be shown instead.

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, Display,

YES

, Display,

YES

. , On or Off,

YES

, Image,

, On or Off,

, User greeting,

YES

, User greeting,

YES

twice to save

YES

. Decide how you want the

YES

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