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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
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changes will, however, be incorporated into new editions of this User
guide.
Publication number: EN/LZT 108 9390 R2A.
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.
The marble 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.
Note: 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.
The following instruction symbols appear in this User
guide:
This arrow points you to a page with more
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information.
Use the navigation key to scroll and the selection
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key to select.
Note
This symbol indicates that a service or function is
network-or subscription-dependent. Because of
this, all menus may not be available in your phone.
Please contact your network operator for more
information.
• To avoid dialling a number by accident, press and
select Lock keys.
• To unlock the keypad, press and select Unlock.
% 57 Keypad lock for more information.
To turn the screen light on
Press any key to turn the screen light on.
SIM card
When you register as a subscriber with a network
operator, you get a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card.
The SIM card keeps track of your phone number, the
services included in your subscription, and your contact
information, among other things.
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 the other phone.
You may need a PIN (Personal Identification Number) from
your network operator to activate the services in your
phone.
Each PIN digit appears as *, unless it starts with emergency
number digits, for example 112. This is so that you can
see and call an emergency number without entering a PIN
%17 Emergency calls. Press the right selection key
to correct mistakes.
If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the
SIM card is blocked and the message PIN blocked
appears. To unblock it, you need to enter your PUK
(Personal Unblocking Key) % 57 SIM card lock.
1 Connect the battery charger to the phone.
2 It may take up to 30 minutes before the battery icon
appears on the screen.
3 Wait approximately 2.5 hours or until the battery icon
indicates that the battery is fully charged. If you do not
see the battery icon after this time, press any key above
the number keys to activate the screen.
4 Remove the battery charger by tilting it upwards.
The time and date are reset when you remove the
battery.
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.
%54 Networks for details.
Navigating the phone menus
From standby select Menu to go to the main menu. The
first menu you will see is Messaging.
Press up or down to scroll through the menus.
You can change the appearance of the main menu.
Homepage
Bookmarks
Go to URL
Edit bookmark
Show pictures
Push access
Push inbox
Clear cache
Internet profile
Text message
Picture message
Settings
View contacts
Add contact
My number
Voicemail
Delete contacts
Speed dial
Copy all contacts
Send contacts
Settings
Sound & alerts
Wallpaper
Theme
Time and date
Language
Select network
Infrared port
Advanced
Phone status
Calling
Making and receiving calls
Turn on the phone and make sure you are within range of
a network to make and receive calls % 11 To turn on the phone.
If your subscription includes the Calling Line Identification
service and the caller’s number is identified, the number is
displayed. If you have saved the number in
name is displayed with an incoming call.
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 turn off the ringtone when receiving a call
Select Silent to turn off the ringtone without answering the
call.
Connect the headset to your phone, see % 5 Getting
started.
To answer a call with the handsfree
Press the button on the headset or presson the
phone.
Call list
Information about the last 30 calls is saved in Call list.
indicates that you have missed a call.
To call a number from the call list
1 From standby press and scroll to one of the
numbers.
2 Press to call.
To clear a number from the call list
1 From standby press and scroll to one of the
numbers.
2 Select Options } Delete } Yes.
Emergency calls
Your phone supports the international emergency
numbers, for example 112 and 911. This means that these
numbers can normally be used to make an emergency call
in any country/region, with or without a SIM card inserted,
if a GSM network is in range.
In some countries/regions, your network operator
may have saved additional local emergency numbers
on the SIM card.
1 To put the ongoing call on hold, press .
2 Enter the number you want to call and press .
3 To end the second call, press .
4 To continue the first call, select Retrieve.
My number
You can view and edit your own phone number(s).
To check your own phone number
From standby select Menu}Contacts}My number. If
your number is not automatically loaded from the SIM
card, you can enter it yourself.
Restricted dialling
Restrict outgoing and incoming calls when at home or
abroad. You need a password from your service provider.
If you divert incoming calls, you cannot activate
some restricted dialling options.
To activate call restriction
1 From standby select Menu } Calls } Call settings
} Restrict calls and select an option.
• All outgoing – all outgoing calls.
• Outgoing intl – all outgoing international calls.
• Outgoing intl roam. – all outgoing international
calls except to your home country/region.
• All incoming – all incoming calls.
• Inc. when roaming – all incoming calls when you
are abroad (when roaming).
• Deactivate all – enter password to deactivate all
Your phone supports various messaging services.
Contact your service provider about the services you can
use or for more information, see www.sonyericsson.com/support.
Before you start
If the number to your service centre is not saved on your
SIM card, you must specify the number yourself,
otherwise you cannot reply to received messages or send
your own. Your service centre number is usually provided
with your SIM card. If you do not have your service centre
number, please contact your service provider.
To check or add a service centre number
1 From standby select Menu } Messaging } Settings
} Text message } Service centre. The number is
shown if it is saved on the SIM card.
2 If there is no number, enter it, including the international
“+” sign and country/region code. Select
Text messages
Text messages can be sent to a mobile phone number or
to a contact.
To receive text messages
1 Read now? appears. Select View.
2 Scroll to the unread message and select Read.
4 Retrieve a recently used number, or look-up from
contacts, or enter phone number.
5 Select Send message.
To send the text message to an email address you
need to set the default message type to email
% 37 To set a default message type.
To enter letters using multitap text input
• Press – repeatedly until the desired letter
appears.
• Press to add a space.
• Press to add a comma, period, question mark, etc.
• Press to shift between capitals and lower case
letters.
• Press and hold – to enter numbers.
• Press to enter the + sign.
• Press the right selection key to delete characters.
• Press and hold to change text input method.
• Press and hold to change writing language.
Multitap input only applies when latin characters are
selected as input language.
T9™ Text Input
The T9™ Text Input method uses a dictionary to recognize
words. You press each key only once, even if the letter
you want is not the first letter on the key.
To enter letters using T9 Text Input
1 From standby press .
2 Select Text message.
3 Press and hold to switch between Multitap and