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Note
Tip
Warning
A service or function is networkor subscription-dependent.
Contact your network operator
for details.
>Use a selection or navigation
key to scroll and select. See
Navigation on page 14.
The SIM (Subscriber Identity Module)
card, which you get from your network
operator, contains information about
your subscription. Always turn off your
phone and detach the charger before
you insert or remove the SIM card.
You can save contacts on the SIM card
before you remove it from your phone.
See To copy names and numbers to the
SIM card on page 30.
PIN
You may need a PIN (Personal
Identification Number) to activate the
services in your phone. Your PIN is
supplied by your network operator.
Each PIN digit appears as *, unless
it starts with emergency number digits,
for example, 112 or 911. You can see
and call an emergency number without
entering a PIN.
If you enter the wrong PIN three times in
a row, the SIM card is blocked. See SIM
card lock on page 69.
Startup screen
The startup screen appears when you
turn your phone on. See Using pictures
on page 46.
Standby
After you have turned your phone on
and entered your PIN, the name of the
network operator appears. This view is
called standby.
Help
In addition to this User guide, Getting
started guides and more information
are available at
www.sonyericsson.com/support.
Help in your phone
Help and information are available
in your phone. See Navigation on
page 14.
To view tips and tricks
1 From standby select Menu > Settings
> the General tab > Setup wizard.
2 Select Tips and tricks.
To view information about functions
• Scroll to a function and select Info, if
available. In some cases, Info appears
under Options.
Profiles
Time & date
Language
Update service
Voice control
New events
Shortcuts
Flight mode
Security
Setup wizard
Phone status
Master reset
* Some menus are operator-, network- and subscription-dependent.
** You can use the navigation key to scroll between tabs in submenus. For more information, see Navigation on
page 14.
Sounds & alerts
Ring volume
Ringtone
Silent mode
Increasing ring
Vibrating alert
Message alert
Key sound
Display
Wallpaper
Main menu layout
Theme
Startup screen
Screen saver
Clock size
Brightness
Edit line names*
Calls
Speed dial
Smart search
Forward calls
Switch to line 2*
Manage calls
Time & cost*
Show/hide my no.
Handsfree
Open to answer
Close to end call
Connectivity
Bluetooth
USB
Phone name
Network sharing
Synchronization
Device management
Mobile networks
Internet settings
Streaming settings
SIP Settings
Accessories
The Main menu layout must be set to Grid.
See To change the main menu layout on
page 68.
To edit a navigation key shortcut
1 From standby select Menu > Settings
> the General tab > Shortcuts.
2 Scroll to an option and select Edit.
3 Scroll to a menu option and select
Shortc.
Activity menu
The activity menu gives you quick
access to certain functions.
To open the activity menu
• Press .
Activity menu tabs
• New events – missed calls and new
messages.
• Running apps – applications that are
running in the background.
• My shortcuts – add your favorite
functions to access them quickly.
• Internet – quick access to the
Internet.
Memory card
You may have to purchase a memory card
separately.
Your phone supports Memory Stick
Micro™ (M2™) memory card adding
more storage space to your phone. It
can also be used as a portable memory
card with other compatible devices.
You can use the file manager to move
files between the memory card and the
phone memory. See To move a file in the file manager on page 65.
letter you want is not the first letter on
the key. For example, to write the word
“Jane”, press , , , .
Write the whole word before looking
at the suggestions.
4 Use or to view suggestions.
5 Press to accept a suggestion.
To enter text using multitap
1 From standby select, for example,
Menu > Messaging > Write new >
Text message.
2 If is displayed, press and hold down
to change to multitap text input.
3 Press – repeatedly until the
desired letter appears.
4 When a word is written, press to
add a space.
To add words to the built-in dictionary
1 When you enter text using T9 Text Input,
select Options > Spell word.
2 Write the word using multitap input and
select Insert.
Multitap input only applies when Latin
characters are selected as writing
language.
Chinese input
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.
Input method may be different when
Simplified Chinese has been selected
as the phone language.
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.
Stroke categories
The 5 stroke categories are defined in
the table below:
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.
信息
For example, to enter “
”
1 Enter “ ”, “ ” and “ ”.
2 Move the cursor to “信 ”, press Select.
3 Move the cursor to “ 息 ”, press Select
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 , , , . The
character is displayed in the
candidate row.
Pinyin input
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
1 Press , , .
2 When “xin” is highlighted, press or
and select “ 信 ”, then press Select.
(If you want to enter any of the other
suggested Pinyin combinations, scroll
up or down to the desire d combination,
then press ).
3 Press select again to select “息”, when
“ 息 ” is highlighted.
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.
”
Walkman® and music
You can listen to music, audio books
and podcasts. Use Sony Ericsson Media Manager to transfer content
to your phone. For more information
go to the Getting started section at
www.sonyericsson.com/support.
Sony Ericsson Media Manager software
is available for download at
www.sonyericsson.com/support.
Transferring content to and
from a computer
Required operating systems
You need one of these operating
systems to use the software included
on the CD:
• Microsoft® Windows Vista™
32 bit or 64 bit versions of:
Ultimate, Enterprise, Business,
Home Premium, Home Basic)
hold down and move the phone
to the right with a flick of your wrist
to go to the next track. To go to the
previous track, use the same action
to the left.
out in front of you facing upwards.
Press and hold down , and bend
your arm upwards towards you to
increase the volume. To decrease the
volume, repeat the action in the opposite
direction.
Browsing files
Music is saved and categorized.
• Artists – list music by artist.
• Albums – list music by album.
• Tracks – list all music tracks.
• Playlists – create own lists of tracks.
• SensMe™ – list tracks by mood. For the
SensMe™ function to work, the tracks
need to be transferred using Media
Manager.
• Genre – list music by genre.
• Year – list music by year.
• Audio books – list audio books you have
transferred from your computer.
• Podcasts – list all podcasts.
Playlists
You can create playlists to organize
music files. Files can be added to more
than one playlist.
Deleting a playlist, or a file from a playlist,
does not delete the file from the memory,
just the reference to the file.
To create a playlist
1 From standby select Menu > Media and
scroll to Music > Playlists.
2 Scroll to New playlist and select Add.
3 Enter a name and select OK.
4 For each track you want to add, scroll
To create playlists by mood, your music
tracks must be transferred to your phone
using Media Manager. For information on
how to analyze your music, see Media
Manager Help.
1 From standby select Menu > Media.
2 Scroll to Music > SensMe™ and select
Open.
3 Press the navigation , , or to
preview different tracks.
4 Select Add > Create > Options > Save
playlist.
5 Enter a name and select OK.
To add files to a playlist
1 From standby select Menu > Media and
scroll to Music > Playlists.
2 Select a playlist.
3 Scroll to Add music and select Add.
4 For each track you want to add, scroll
to the track and select Mark.
5 Select Add to add the tracks to the
playlist.
To remove tracks from a playlist
1 From standby select Menu > Media
and scroll to Music > Playlists.
2 Select a playlist.
3 Scroll to the track and press .
To view information about a track
• Scroll to a track and select Options
> Information.
Audio books
You can listen to audio books that you
have transferred to your phone from a
computer using Media Manager.
It may take a few minutes before a
transferred audio book appears in
the list of available audio books.
To play audio books
1 From standby select Menu > Media
> Audio books.
> Music
2 Select an audio book.
3 Scroll to a chapter and select Play.
Audio books in other formats than M4B
or audio books that do not have ID3v2
chapter tags can be found in the Tra ck s
folder.