Sony Ericsson Z550 User Manual

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Sony Ericsson Z550i

Getting started ................... 4

Getting to know

the phone ............................ 7

Calling ............................... 13

Messaging ........................ 24

Imaging ............................. 28

Entertainment ................... 31

Connectivity ...................... 35

More features ................... 40

Troubleshooting ............... 44

Important information ...... 46

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User guide symbols

The fol lowing instruction symbols appear in this user guide:

} Use the navigation key to scroll and

select %

Press the navigation key centre.

Press the navigation key up.

Press the navigation key down.

Press the navigation key to the left.

Press the navigation key to the right.

Getting started

To insert the SIM card

To charge the battery

1 Remove the battery cover. 2 Slid e the SIM ca rd into it s hol der with

the gold contacts facing down.

3 Insert the battery with the label side

up and the connectors facing in.

4 Slid e the battery cover into place.

4 Getting started

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1 Connect the charger plug to the phone

with the symbol facing upwards.

2 It may take 30 minutes for the battery

icon to appear.

3 Wait approximately 2.5 hours or until

the battery icon indicates that the battery is f ully charged. For an indication of charging, press to activate the screen.

4 Remove the charger by pulling it out.

Talk-time or standby time may become noticeably shorter due to wear and you may have to replace your battery. Only use approved batteries from Son y Eri css on 49 Battery.

Save contacts to your SIM card before you remove it from another phone. Contacts may have been saved in the phone memory 14 Contacts.

To turn the phone on and off

1 Press and hold . 2 Enter your SIM card PIN, if you have

one.

3 At first start-up, select the language

for phone menus.

4 Yes if you want the setup wizard to

help you with instructions and tips. The setup wizard is also available in the menu system Settings General

Setup wizard.

To make and receive calls

1 Enter the area code and phone number

Call to make the call.

2 End call to end the call. When the

phone rings Answer to answer the call. For more information

and receiving calls

Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™)

Use a memory ca rd to save , for example, pictures.

Your phone does not come with a memory card. You can buy a memory card to add more storage space to your phone.

If you use a memory card you can select to automatically store all pictures on the memory card

options

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

13 Making

29 Camera

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5Getting started

with emergency number digits, for example 112 or 911. The reason for this is to al ways let you make emergency calls.

cal ls

. Press to correct mistakes.

If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the SIM card is blocked 42 SIM card lock.

Standby mode

After you have turned the phone on and entered your PIN, the name of the network operator will appear on the display. This is called standby mode.

14 Emergency

To insert and remove the memory card

1 Remove the battery cover. 2 Insert the memory card in the slot. 3 Press the edge of the memory card

to release it from the slot.

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Getting to know the phone

Phon e overview

1 Came ra key

2 S elec tio n key

3Back key

4 Memory Stick Micro (M2) slot

5 Activity menu key

6Microphone

7 Earpiece

8Navigation key

9 Volume button

10 Selection key

11 Clear key

12 On/off key

13 Charger and USB connector

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Menu overview

PlayNow™* Internet services* Entertainment

Online services Games VideoDJ ™ PhotoDJ™ Music DJ™ Remote control Record sound Demo tour

Camera Messaging Media player

Write new Inbox My friends* Email Call voicemail Drafts Outbox Sent messages Saved messages Templates Settings

File manager*** Contacts**

Option s

All files

On Memory S tick

In phone

New co ntact

Radio

Calls***

Organizer

Settings***

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Alarms

All

Answered

Dialled

Missed

* Some menus ar e opera tor- , net work - and sub scripti on-dep en dent . ** Options when phon e conta cts are set to default . O ption s change wh en SIM cont acts ar e set to default . *** Use the navigation key right and left to move between tabs in submenus. For more information

10 Navigating the menus.

Calendar Tasks Notes Calculator Synchronization Timer Stopwatch Applications Code memo

General

Sounds & alerts

Display

Call s

Connectivity*

Status bar icons

Tells you the strength of the GSM network signal.

Tells you the status of the battery.

You have received a picture message.

You have an ongoing call.

You have an appointment remind er. Tells you the status of the battery charging.

You have missed an incoming call.

Call and messagi ng function alerts are off, alarm is sti ll on.

You have received a text message.

You have a task reminder.

The magic word is activated.

Handsfree is connected.

Radio playing in the background.

You have received an email message.

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Navigating the menus

The main menus are shown as icons on the desktop. Some submenus include tabs that appear on the screen.

• Press to go to the desktop or to

select items.

• Press , , or to move through

menus and tabs.

• Pre ss to go bac k one level in

the menus or to end a function or appl ication. Pres s and hol d to return to standby.

• Press to select the options shown

immediately above these keys on the screen.

• Press to delete items.

• Scroll to a menu item Info to get

help on selected features.

• More to enter a list of options.

Shortcuts

From standby, you can use , , or to go directly to a function.

To create a standby shortcut

1 Press and follow the instructions. 2 Scroll to a function Shortcut.

To edit a standby shortcut

1 Settings General Shortcuts and

select an shortcut Edit.

2 Scroll to a function Shortcut.

Activity menu

Use the activity menu to view and handle new events, and access bookmarks and shortcuts.

To open the activity menu

Press and use and to select a tab.

Activity menu tabs

• New events – such as missed calls

and messages.

• My shortcuts – applicati ons that are

running in the background and your shortcuts. You can add, delete and change the order of shortcuts.

• Bookmarks – your Internet

bookmarks.

If you want new events to appear as pop-up text instead of in the activity menu Settings General New

events Popu p.

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Shut down menu

Use the shut down menu to shut down the phone, turn on silent or activate a profile. For m or e information about profiles

To open the shut down m enu

Press an d sel ect a menu item .

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File manager

Files such as pictures, videos, sounds, themes, games and applications are saved in folders in the phone memory. If you have a memory card inserted you can save the files on the memory card. Unrecognized files are saved in the Other folder.

File manager menu tabs

The file manager is divided into three tabs, and icons indica te wher e the files are saved.

• All files – al l co nte nt in the phone and

on the memory card.

• On Memory Stick – all conte nt on the

memory card.

• In phone – all content in the phone

memory.

File information

If a file is protected, you may not be able to copy or send the file. View file information by highlighting the file

More Information.

To move or copy a file

1 File manager. Select a folder and

scroll to a file More Manage files.

2 Select Move or Copy. 3 Memory Stick or Phone memory. 4 Select a folder or New folder name

the folder OK.

5 Paste.

To select several files

1 File manager. Select a fold er and

scroll to a file More Mark.

2 Mark several or Mark all. To select

files, scroll and Mark or Unmark.

To check memory status

File manager More Memory

status.

Formatting the memory card

Format a mem ory card if you want to delete all information from it, or if it has been corrupted.

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To format the memory card

File manager More For mat M.S. Yes and enter yo ur phone lock code .

For m ore information

lock

Transferring files

For more information

Transferring files

43 Phone

Languages

Select the language for phone menus and for writing.

To change the phone language

• Settings General Language

Phone language, select a language.

• From standby, Press 0000 for

English, or press 8888 for Automatic language.

To select writing languages

• Settings General Language

Writing language.

• Mark to select languages Save.

Entering letters

Scroll to a function where text input is possible, for example, Messaging

Write new Text message.

To enter letters using multitap text input

• Press – until the desired

character appears.

• Press to shift between capitals

and lower case letters.

• Press and hold – to enter

numbers.

• Press to delete letters and

numbers.

• Press to add a space.

• Press for the most common

punctuation marks.

• P ress and hold to ch ange writing

method.

T9™ Text Input

The T9™ Text Input method uses a built-in dictionary to rec ognize 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

• For example, if you want to write the

word “Jane”, press , , , .

• If the word shown is not the one you

want, press or re peatedly to view alternative words. To accept and add a space, press . To accept a word without adding a space, press .

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• Continue writing your message.

To enter punctuation marks, press

and then or repeatedly.

To add words to the T9 Text Input dictionary

• While entering letters More Spell word.

• Edit the word by usi ng m ult ita p input.

Navigate between the letters with and . 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 Inp ut, it will appe ar as one of the alternative words.

To select another writing method

Before, or while entering letters, press and hold to select another writing method.

Options when entering letters

More to view options when ente ring

letters.

Calling

Making and receiving calls

Turn on the phone and make sure tha t you are withi n ran ge of a network

5 To turn the p hone on and off

your sub script ion includes the Ca lling Line Identification service and the calle r’s number is id entified, the n umber is displayed. If the number is saved in

Contacts, the name, number, and

picture are displayed. If the number is a restricted number, Withheld is displayed.

To make a call

Enter the phone number (with international country code and area code, if applicable) Call to make the call. End call to end the call.

To redial a number

If the connection failed , Retry? is displayed Yes.

Do not hold the phone to your ear while waiting. When a call connects, the phone giv es a loud si gnal.

To answer a call

Open your phone or Answer if your phone is alre ady open.

. If

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To reject a call

Close your phone Busy or quickly press twice on the volume button.

To change the ear speaker volume

During a call, press or to increase or decrease the volume.

To turn off the microphone

Press and hold . To resume, press and hold again.

To select more options during a call

More an d select an option.

Missed calls

A missed call appears in the Activity menu if New events is set to Activity

cal l the missed numbe r. If New events is set to Popup, Missed

calls: appe ars. Yes to view the

missed calls or No to do it la ter .

Call list

Information about the last calls is saved in the call list.

To call a number from the call list

Scroll to a name or number you want to call Call.

10 Activity menu

Calls from standby and select a tab.

. Call to

To add a call list number to contacts

1 Calls from standby and select a tab.

Scroll to the number you want to add

More Save number.

2 Select a contact to add the number to

or New contact.

Emergency calls

Your phone supports the international emergency numbers, for example, 112 and 911. These numbers can normally be used to ma ke an emergency call in any country, with or without a SIM card inserted, if a GSM network is in range.

In some cou ntries, other emergency numbers may also be promoted. Your network operator may have saved additional local emergency numbers on the SIM card.

To make an emergency call

Enter, for example, 112 Call.

To view your local emergency numbers

Contacts Options Special

numbers Emergency nos.

Contacts

Phone contacts contai n de tailed

information saved in the phone memory. SIM contacts contain names and numbers saved on the SIM card.

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To select default contacts

1 Contacts Options Advanced

Default contacts.

2 Phone contacts or SIM contacts.

To add a contact

1 Contacts New contact Add. 2 Name: Add enter the name OK. 3 New number: Add enter the

number OK.

4 For phone contacts only, select a

number type. Scroll between tabs and select fields to enter more informati on. To enter symbols such as @ More

Add symbol and sele ct the symbol Insert. To save the contact Save.

Enter the + sign and country code with all numbers.

To add a picture or a ringtone to a contact

1 Contacts and sele ct th e contact

More Edit contact.

2 Select the relevant tab, then Picture

or Ringtone Add. Select a file and

Save.

To set the default number for a contact

To set the phone number to be displayed first for a con tact Contacts and scroll to the contact More

Default number and sele ct a

number.

To add your own business card

Contacts Options My business

card and enter the information for your

business card Save.

To send your business card

Contacts Options My business

card Send my card.

To call a phone contact

Contacts. Enter the first letters of the

contact you want to call. Use or to select a number Call.

To call a SIM contact

• If SIM contacts is de fault Contacts

select the name and number from the list Call.

• If Phone contacts is default Contacts Options SIM contacts

select the name and number from the list Call.

Managing contacts

Copy contacts to and from the phone memory and the SIM card.

To copy names and numbers to the SIM card

1 Contacts Options Advanced

Copy to SIM.

2 Copy all or Copy a number.

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When copying all contacts from the phone to the SIM card, all existing SIM card information is replaced.

To copy SIM contacts to phone contacts

1 Contacts Options Advanced

Copy fro m SIM.

2 Copy all or Copy a number.

To automatically save to the SIM card

1 Contacts Options Advanced

Auto save on SIM.

2 On.

To back up contacts on memory card

Contacts Options Advanced Back up to M.S. Yes.

To restore contacts from memory card

Contacts Options Advanced Restore from M.S. Yes Yes.

To send contacts

• To send a selected contact More

Send contact and select a transfer

method .

• To send all contacts Contacts

Options Advanced Send all

contacts.

To edit a phone contact

1 Contacts and select a contact

More Edit contact.

2 Select a tab and edit the information

Save

To edit a SIM contact

1 If SIM contacts is default Contacts

or if Phone contacts is default

Contacts Options SIM contacts.

2 Select the name and number you want

to edit.

3 More Edit contact and edit the

name and number.

To delete contacts

• To delete a selected contact, press

• To delete all contacts Contacts

Options Advan ced Delete all

contacts Yes and Yes. Names

and numbers on the SIM card are not deleted.

To check the memory status

Contacts Options Advanced Memory status.

The number of entries you can save in the phone or on the SIM card depends on the available memory.

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