Sony ericsson K205I User Manual

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Set up your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Phone overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Phone language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Entering letters and characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Picture messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Infrared port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Sounds & Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Sony Ericsson K205i

GSM 900/1800 This User guide is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB or its local affiliated company, without any warranty. Improvements and changes to this User guide necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB or its local affiliated company at any time and without notice. Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new editions of this User guide.

Publication number: EN/LZT 108 9594 R1A Please note: Some of the services in this User guide are not supported by all

networks. This also applies to the GSM International Emergency Number 112.

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.

Your mobile phone has the capability to download, store and forward additional content, e.g. ringtones. The use of such content may be restricted or prohibited by rights of third parties, including but not limited to restriction under applicable copyright laws. You, and not Sony Ericsson, are entirely responsible for additional content that you download to or forward from your mobile phone. Prior to your use of any additional content, please verify that your intended use is properly licensed or is otherwise authorized. Sony Ericsson does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any additional content or any other third party content. Under no circumstances will Sony Ericsson be liable in any way for your improper use of additional content or other third party content.

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The Liquid Identity logo is a trademark or registered trademark of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Sony is a trademark or registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a trademark or registered trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. T9™ Text Input is a trademark or 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.

Other product and company names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Sony Ericsson advises users to backup their personal data information. All illustrations are for illustration only and may not accurately depict the actual phone. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

User guide symbols

The following instruction symbols appear in this User guide:

% This arrow points you to a page with more information.

Use the navigation key to scroll and the selection

}

key to select.

Note

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Set up your phone

Insert the SIM card and battery

1 Gently pull the battery cover away from the phone. 2 Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed

under the silver holders and that the contacts of the SIM card face downwards.

3 Place the battery on the back of the phone with the

label side up and the connectors facing each other.

4 Replace the battery cover.

If you have been using a SIM card in another phone, make sure that your information is saved to the SIM card before you remove it from that phone.

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Charge the battery

2.5 h

1 Connect the battery charger to the phone. It takes

approximately 2.5 hours to fully charge the battery. Press a key to view the screen.

2 Remove the battery charger by tilting it upwards.

The time and date are reset when you remove the battery.

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Turn on the phone

1 Press and hold down until the screen lights up. 2 Enter your PIN (Personal Identification Number) code

if requested and select OK. Each digit appears as *. Press the right selection key to correct mistakes. If the screen turns dark, press any key to illuminate the screen.

3 Scroll to a language and select Save. 4 Enter the time and select Save. 5 Enter the date and select Save.

If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the SIM card is blocked. To unblock it % 23 PIN blocked.

To turn off the phone

• Press and hold down .

Standby

After you have turned the phone on and entered your PIN, the name of your operator appears on the screen. This is called standby – you can now make and receive calls.

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Phone overview

1 Infrared port 6 Keylock

Strength of GSM network

(Five bars mean full network coverage)

3,9 Function of selection key 8

4,10 Selection keys 11

5 Call key 12 End and On/Off key

Headset and battery

charger connector

Battery status (a green battery means fully charged)

Navigation key with shortcuts

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Key functions

To go to the main menu

• From standby press to

select Menu you see is Messaging.

To navigate the menus

• Press the navigation key up

or down to scroll.

To use the selection keys

• Press to select the options shown immediately above

these keys on the screen.

To go back one level or end a function

• Press the right selection key to go back one level

in the menus.

• Press to end a function and go to standby.

To turn the screen light on

• Press any key.

Shortcuts

From standby, you can use the navigation key to go directly to a function:

• Press to write a text or picture message.

• Press to go to the camera.

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. The first menu

• Press to set the ring volume.

• Press to go to your contacts.

To set the ringtone to silent

• From standby press and select Silent.

To lock or unlock the keypad

• To avoid dialling a number by

accident, press and select

Lock keys.

• To unlock the keypad, press

and select Unlock.

You can still answer a call, and call the international emergency number 112 when the keypad is locked.

Icons

These icons appear on the screen to show status and new events.

Icon Description

You have received a new text or voice* message. % 14 Text messages and % 13 Voice messages

You have received a new picture message.

% 15 Picture messages The phone is set to silent. % 9 To set the ringtone

to silent The keypad is locked. % 9 To lock or unlock the

keypad

Icon Description

An alarm is activated. % 18 Alarms

Divert calls* is activated. % 13 Diverting calls

For more information, go to www.sonyericsson.com/support. * Some items may be operator-, network- and subscription-dependent.

Phone language

To change the phone language

• From standby select Menu } Settings } Language

and select a language.

Entering letters and characters

You can enter letters and characters using either the Multitap or the T9™ Text Input method. T9 text input uses a dictionary to recognise words.

To change writing method

• When you enter letters, press and hold down .

Common for both text input methods

• Press the right selection key to delete characters.

• Press and hold down to change the writing

language.

• Press to add a comma, full stop, question mark, etc.

• Press to shift between capitals and lower case letters.

• Press and hold down

– to enter numbers.

To enter letters using multitap text input

1 Press – repeatedly until the desired letter

appears.

2 When a word is finished, press to add a space.

To enter letters using T9 Text Input

1 Press each key only once, even if the letter you want

is not the first letter on the key. For example, to write the word “Jane”, press .

2 Accept a word and add a space by pressing .

To accept a word without adding a space, press . If the word shown is not the one you want, press

or repeatedly to view alternative words.

Calling

To make a call

1 Enter the area code and

phone number.

2 Press to call. Press

to end the call.

To answer or reject a call

• Press to answer a call.

• Press to reject a call.

To make international calls

1 Press and hold down until a “+” sign appears. 2 Enter the country code, area code (without the leading

zero), phone number and press .

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Sony ericsson K205I User Manual

Contents

Set up your phone

Phone overview

Key functions

Phone language

Entering letters and characters

Calling