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Assembly, SIM card, battery, turning
on, help, Flight mode, calls, activity
menu, PC Suite, camera.
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Assembly
To use your phone
1 Insert the SIM card and the battery.
2 Charge the battery.
3 Turn on your phone.
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 items such as your
phone number, the services included
in your subscription, and names and
numbers in your contacts.
Save contact information on your SIM
card before removing it from another
phone. Contacts may have been saved in
the phone memory.
PIN
You may need a PIN (Personal Identity
Number) for your SIM card to start
your phone and activate services.
When you enter your PIN, each digit
appears as *, unless it starts with the
same digits as an emergency number,
for example 112. This allows for
emergency calls without entering a
PIN. Press to correct mistakes.
If you enter the wrong PIN three times in
a row, PIN blocked appears. To unblock
it, you need to enter your PUK (Personal
Unblocking Key) % 85 SIM card lock.
Battery
Some functions use more battery
power than others and may cause a
need for more frequent re-charging. If
talk time or standby time becomes
noticeably shorter, you may have to
replace the battery. Only use
approved batteries from Sony
Ericsson
Make sure the phone is charged and a
SIM card inserted before turning the
phone on. After turning on, use the
setup wizard to prepare the phone for
use.
To turn on the phone
1 Press and hold . The first start-up
may take a few minutes.
2 Select to use the phone in:
• Normal – full functionality or
• Flight mode – limited functionality with
network, FM radio and Bluetooth™
transceivers off
menu.
3 Enter your SIM card PIN, if requested.
4 At first startup, select the language for
your phone menus.
5 } Yes for the setup wizard to help you.
6 Follow instructions to complete setup.
Predefined settings may already exist in
your phone.
% 7 Flight mode
Standby
After you have turned the phone on
and entered your PIN, the name of the
network operator will appear on the
screen. This is called standby mode.
Help in your phone
Help and information is available in
your phone at any time.
To use the setup wizard
} Settings } the General tab
} Setup wizard and select an option:
mode menu is activated, select from
Normal with full functionality or Flight
mode with limited functionality. Flight
mode means that Network, Bluetooth
transceivers and FM Radio are turned
off to prevent disturbance to sensitive
equipment. You can, for example, play
music or write a text message to send
later but not make calls.
Follow onboard regulations, flight crew
instructions for use of electronic devices.
To view Flight mode menu options
} Settings and scroll to the General
tab }Flight mode and select an
option.
Making calls
The phone must be in normal mode
(not flight mode).
To make a call
1 Enter a phone number (with
international prefix and area code if
applicable).
2 } Call to make a voice call.
3 } More for options during the call.
4 } End call to end the call.
You can open the activity menu
almost anywhere in the phone menus
to view and handle new events, and
access bookmarks and shortcuts.
To open and close the activity menu
Press .
Activity menu tabs
• New events – such as missed calls
and messages. When a new event
occurs, the tab appears. Press
to dismiss an event from the event
tab. New events can also be set to
appear as pop-up text instead,
} Settings } the General tab
} New events } Pop-up.
• Running apps – applications that
are running in the background.
Select an application to return to it
or press to end it.
• My shortcuts – add, delete and
change the order of shortcuts.
When you select a shortcut and the
application opens, other programs
are closed or minimized.
• Internet – your Internet bookmarks.
When you select a bookmark and
the browser opens, other programs
are closed or minimized.
PC Suite software
Enhance the experience of your phone
by installing the PC Suite software on
your computer. This allows you to, for
example, synchronize your phone
calendar with a computer calendar.
To install the PC Suite software
1 Turn on your computer and insert the
CD that came with your phone into the
CD drive of your computer. The CD
starts automatically and the
installation window opens.
2 Computer: Select a language and
click OK.
3 Computer: Click Install in the PC Suite
section and follow the instructions on
the screen. When the installation is
complete, the PC Suite icon appears
on the desktop of your computer.
For the latest version of PC Suite, visit
www.sonyericsson.com/cn.
- From standby, press a number key and then } Call to speed dial.
Press for shortcuts when browsing
shortcuts or access keys.
View a shortcut guide when using the camera.
From standby, press and then } Lock keys or Unlock to lock or
unlock the phone keys.
Turn off the ringtone when receiving a call.
Press and hold to set the phone to silent. The alarm signals even if
the phone is set to silent.
View status information in standby.
Increase the volume during a call, or when using the WALKMAN.
Zoom out when using the camera or viewing pictures.
Press and hold to go back one music track.
Press twice to reject a call.
Press and hold to voice dial, alternatively say your magic word (if set)
% 71 To use Internet keypad
% 33 Voice dialling.
Decrease the volume during a call, or when using the WALKMAN.
Zoom in when using the camera or viewing pictures.
Press and hold to go forward one music track.
Press and hold to voice dial, alternatively say your magic word (if set)
% 33 Voice dialling.
} InfoFind more information, explanations or tips about selected features,
} MoreEnter a list of options. There are different alternatives in the list of
Battery charging, appears with
battery status icon.
Missed incoming call.
Text message received.
Email message received.
Picture message received.
Voice message received.
Ongoing call.
Keylock is on.
Handsfree is connected.
Radio playing in the background.
Calendar reminder.
Task reminder.
Shortcuts
Use keypad shortcuts to quickly go to
a menu, and predefined navigation
key shortcuts to quickly reach certain
functions. Edit the navigation key
shortcuts to suit your own needs.
Using keypad shortcuts
In standby, go to menus by pressing
and then enter the number of the
menu. Menu numbering starts from
the top left icon and moves across
and then down row by row, for
example, press for the fifth menu
item. For the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth items, press , and
respectively. To go back to
standby, press and hold .
Using navigation key shortcuts
In standby, go to a shortcuts menu or
function by pressing , , or .
To edit a navigation key shortcut
} Settings } the General tab
} Shortcuts and select a shortcut
} Edit.
The T9™ Text Input method uses a
built-in dictionary to recognize the
most commonly used word for each
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.
To enter letters using T9™ Text Input
1 For example, to write the word “Jane”,
press , , , .
2 If the word shown is the one you want,
press to accept and add a
space. 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. Accept a word and add a
space by pressing .
3 Continue writing the message. To
enter a punctuation mark, press
and then or repeatedly, press
to accept and add a space.
To add words to the T9™ Text Input
dictionary
1 When entering letters } More
} Spell word.
2 Edit the word by using multitap input.
Use and to move the cursor
between the letters. To delete a
character, press . To delete the
entire word, press and hold .
When you have edited the word
} Insert. The word is added to the
T9™ Text Input dictionary. Next time
you enter this word using T9™ Text
Input, it appears in alternative words.
Next word prediction
When writing a message, you can use
T9™ Text Input to predict the next
word, if previously used in a sentence.
To turn next word prediction on/off
When entering letters } More
} Writing options } Next word pred..
To use next word prediction
When entering letters, press to
accept or continue.
This mobile phone has different input
methods for entering Chinese
characters:
• Stroke input
• Pinyin input
You can use these methods, for
example, to enter Chinese names and
Chinese short messages.
Switching between Chinese input
methods
In the Chinese editing mode, you can
select and switch quickly to another
input method by pressing and holding
.
General instructions
Regardless of which input method you
choose, your phone has a function to
speed up the entry of Chinese
characters. Whenever you enter a
stroke or a Pinyin letter, a candidate
row of the most frequently used
characters containing that stroke or
relating to that letter appears at the
bottom of the screen.
If the character you want is not
displayed in the candidate row, press
to present another candidate row.
Continue pressing until the
character you want is displayed.
Alternatively, you can enter the next
stroke or Pinyin letter, and a new set
of characters will immediately be
displayed in the candidate row. To go
back to the previous row, press .
To select a character in the candidate
row, press the navigation key or press
and hold the key corresponding to the
number above the character you want
to enter.
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of
strokes. There are more than 30 basic
strokes, which are grouped into 5
stroke categories. Each category is
represented on the keypad by one of
the keys -. The Wild Card
key , is used when you are not
sure of which stroke to use.
The basic building units of Chinese
characters are components that are
made up of strokes. After entering the
first two strokes of the desired
character, the component and
character candidates that started with
that stroke are displayed in the
candidate row.
Using components is a fast method
for entering complex characters.
The smaller candidates surrounded by
dotted frames are components, and the
bigger candidates without dotted frames
are characters.
For example, to enter “
信息
”
1 Enter “ ”, “ ” and “ ”.
2 Move the cursor to “ 信 ”, press .
3 press again to select “ 息 ”.
Example of using the wild card key
The wild card key , is used to
supplement unclear strokes in
entering characters. If you want to
enter “互”, but you only know that “一”
is the first and the last stroke of the
character and that the total number of
strokes is four, enter , , ,
Press the keys containing the required
Pinyin letters, and the phone will make
various proposals on the screen,
according to the pronunciation rules of
Mandarin.
Below is the key mapping of Pinyin
letters on the keypad.
Number KeyPinyin Letter
a b c
d e f
g h i
j k l
m n o
p q r s
t u ü
w x y z
On the keypad, the letter ü is replaced
by v.
For example, to enter “
信息
”
1 Press , , .
2 When “xin” is highlighted, press or
and select “ 信 ”, then press .
(If you want to enter any of the other
suggested Pinyin combinations, scroll
up or down to the desired
combination, then press ).
3 Press again to select “ 息 ”.
Fuzzy Pinyin
Fuzzy Pinyin is an option for the Pinyin
input method, which contains
additional spelling alternatives.
When in Pinyin input mode, press
More } Fuzzy Pinyin } On.
Input punctuation, symbols and
smilies
Under any Chinese input mode, press
, to see the table of punctuation
marks, symbols and smilies. Use the
navigation key to make a selection.
Press to enter a space into the
text.
Use the file manager to handle items
such as pictures, videos, music,
themes, Web pages, games and
applications saved in the phone
memory or on the memory card.
Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™)
Your phone supports the Memory
Stick Micro™ (M2™) memory card
adding more storage space to your
phone to store files containing
pictures or music, for example.
To insert and remove a memory card
1 Open the lid.
2 Insert the memory card as shown (with
the contacts facing up). Press the
edge to release and remove the card.
You can also move and copy files
between a computer and the memory
card. When the memory card is
inserted, files are automatically saved
to it if you don’t select to save the files
to phone memory.
Create subfolders to move or copy
files to. Games and applications can
be moved within the Games and
Applications folders and from the
phone memory to the memory card.
Unrecognized files are saved in the
Other folder. When handling files, you
can select several or all files in a folder
at the same time for all items except
Games and Applications.
Memory status
If all available memory is full, you
cannot save any files until content is
removed. Check the memory status
for your phone and memory card by
highlighting a folder } More
} Memory status.
File manager menu tabs
The file manager is divided into three
tabs, and icons indicate where the
files are saved.
downloaded, or received using one of
the available transfer methods, may
be copyright-protected. If a file is
protected, you may not be able to
copy or send that file. A copyrightprotected file has a key symbol.
To use a file from the file manager
1 } File manager and open a folder.
2 Scroll to a file } More.
To move or copy a file to memory
1 } File manager and select a folder.
2 Scroll to a file } More } Manage file
} Move to move the file or } More
} Manage file } Copy to copy the file.
3 Select to move or copy the file to
Phone or Memory Stick } Select.
To move or copy files to a computer
% 77 Transferring files using the USB
cable.
To create a subfolder
1 } File manager and open a folder.
2 } More } New folder and enter a
name for the folder.
3 } OK to save the folder.
To select several files
1 } File manager and open a folder.
2 } More } Mark } Mark several.
3 Scroll to select files } Mark or
Unmark.
To select all files in a folder
} File manager and open a folder
} More } Mark } Mark all.
To delete a file or a subfolder from
the file manager
1 } File manager and open a folder.
2 Scroll to a file } More } Delete.
Memory card options
Check memory status or format the
memory card to delete all information.
To use memory card options
} File manager and select the On
Memory Stick tab } More for options.
Before you can make or receive any
calls, you must turn on your phone
and be within range of a network.
% 6 Turning on your phone.
Networks
When you turn on the phone, it
automatically selects your home
network if this is within range. If it is
not within range, you may use another
network, provided your network
operator has an agreement that allows
you to do so. This is called roaming.
Select the network to use, or you can
add a network to your preferred
networks. You can also change the
order in which networks are selected
during an automatic search.
To view available network options
} Settings and use or to scrol l t o
the Connectivity tab }Mobile
networks.
To make a call
1 Enter a phone number (with
international country/region code and
area code, if applicable).
2 } Call to make a voice call or } More
to view options.
3 } End call to end the call.
You can call numbers from your contacts
and call list
% 27 Contacts, and
% 31 Call list. You can also use your
voice to make calls
To make international calls
1 Press and hold until a + sign
appears.
2 Enter the country/region code, area
code (without the first zero) and phone
number. }Call to make a voice call.
To re-dial a number
If a call connection fails and Retry?
appears }Yes.
Do not hold the phone to your ear when
waiting. When the call connects, the
phone gives a loud signal.
1 Press and hold .
2 To resume the conversation press and
hold again.
To turn the loudspeaker on or off
during a voice call
} More } Turn on speaker or Turn off
speaker.
Do not hold the phone to your ear when
using the loudspeaker. This could
damage your hearing.
To change the ear speaker volume
Press to increase or to
decrease the ear speaker volume
during a call.
Missed calls
When the activity menu is set to
default, missed calls appear in the
New events tab in standby. If pop-up
is set to default Missed calls appears
in standby
% 8 Activity menu.
To check missed calls from standby
• If activity menu is set to default, press
and use or to scroll to the
New events tab. Scroll or to
select a number and } Call to call.
• If pop-up is set to default, } Calls and
use or to scroll to the Missed
tab. Scroll or to select a number
and }Call to call.
Emergency calls
Your phone supports international
emergency numbers, for example,
112, 911. These numbers can
normally be used to make emergency
calls in any country/region, with or
without a SIM card inserted.
In some countries/regions, other
emergency numbers may also be
promoted. Your network operator may
therefore have saved additional local
emergency numbers on the SIM card.
To make an emergency call
Enter 112 (the international emergency
number) }Call.
To view your local emergency
numbers
} Contacts } More } Options
} Special numbers } Emergency nos.
You can save your contact information
in the phone memory or on a SIM
card.
Choose which contact information –
Phone contacts or SIM contacts – is
shown as default.
For useful information and settings
} Contacts } More } Options.
Default contacts
If Phone contacts is selected as
default, your contacts show all the
information saved in Contacts. If you
select SIM contacts as default, your
contacts show information depending
on the SIM card.
To select default contacts
1 } Contacts}More}Options
} Advanced } Default contacts.
2 } Phone contacts or SIM contacts.
Phone contacts
Save contacts in the phone with
names, phone numbers and personal
information. You can also add pictures
and ringtones to contacts. Use , ,
and to scroll between tabs and
their information fields.
To add a phone contact
1 If Phone contacts is selected as
default, }Contacts}New contact
} Add.
2 Enter the name } OK.
3 Enter the number } OK.
4 Select a number option.
5 Scroll between tabs and select the
fields to add information. To enter
symbols such as @, } More } Add
symbol and select a symbol } Insert.
6 When all information is added } Save.
To delete a contact
1 } Contacts and scroll to a contact.
2 Press and select Yes.
To delete all phone contacts
If Phone contacts is selected as
default, }Contacts}More}Options
} Advanced } Delete all contacts
} Yes and } Yes. Names and numbers
on the SIM card are not deleted.
To automatically save names and
phone numbers on the SIM card
} Contacts } More } Options
} Advanced } Auto save on SIM and
1 } Contacts. Then enter the entire multi-letter name, pure initial or mixed initial pinyin
of Chinese contacts you want to call. For example:
Initial status
Full name search
Pure initial search
Mixed initial search
2 When the contact is highlighted, press or to select a number } Call.
To call a contact written in Latin characters
1 } Contacts. Scroll to, or enter the first letters or all letters of the contact you want to
call (a maximum of 10 letters).
Initial Input 'A' input 'AM' input 'AMY'
2 When the contact is highlighted, press or to select a number } Call.
Note: Phone supports Chinese and English contacts mixed search. When a contact
is written in Latin character, the entered letter can reach the Latin contact you want
to call; When a contact is written in Chinese characters, the entered letter can reach
the pinyin of Chinese contact you want to call.