Motorola PCS telephone Quick Reference

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Quick Reference Options Menu Quick Access Menu ‡ ...

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Quick Reference Special Keys S Turns phone on and off. O Accepts call, or selects menu option or setting. E Accesses the Quick Access features. M Accesses the Options or Phone Book menus. C Clears numbers or rejec...

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Introduction 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of a PCS telephone from Motorola , the world leader in wireless communications. All Motorola PCS telephones are manufactured to exacting specifications and world-class ...

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Introduction 2 Getting Started In order to get started using your new StarTAC phone right away, follow these simple steps: Charge the Battery ! Before you use your phone, please see ‘Your Battery’ on page 11 for important informat...

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Contents 3 Contents Safety Important information for the efficient and safe operation of your phone................................................................................ 5 About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card Introduces...

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Contents 4 Understanding this Manual Most of your phone’s options are accessed through its simple menu system. Before moving on to Using the Options Menu , turn to Menu Navigation on page 25 to learn the basics of...

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Safety 5 Safety Hand-Held Portable PCS Telephone IMPORTANT Read this information before using your PCS Telephone. Exposure To Radio Frequency Signals Your wireless handheld portable telephone is a low power radio transmitter and ...

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Safety 6 Driving Check the laws and regulations on the use of PCS and cellular telephones in the areas where you drive. Always obey them. Also, if using the phone while driving, please: • Give full attention to driving -- driving saf...

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Safety 7 Blasting Areas To avoid interfering with blasting operations, turn your unit OFF when in a “blasting area” or in areas posted: “Turn off two-way radio.” Obey all signs and instructions. Potentially Explosive Atmosph...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 9 About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card Special Keys S Turns the phone on and off. O Accepts call, setting, option. E Accesses the Quick Access Menu. M Accesses the Options Menu. C Rejects call, setting, opt...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 10 The Display The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) on your phone shows alphanumeric characters (up to 2 rows of 12 characters) and informative symbols. The various elements of the display are as follow: *Network...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 11 Your Battery Charging a New Battery To ensure maximum battery performance, a new battery (or battery that has not been used for several months) should be charged for about 3-4 hours before use. A A new NiM...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 12 Fitting a Battery to Your Phone Fitting a Main Battery Position the battery as illustrated in the following diagram, and snap-lock it into place. Fitting an Auxiliary Battery 1 Place the hook on the battery...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 13 • With two batteries attached, total talk- and standby-time available is the sum of both main and auxiliary battery times. • Best battery performance will be achieved when you regularly charge and disc...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 14 Desktop Charging Your Battery The Desktop Charger can charge up to 3 batteries – 2 fitted to the phone, and an additional spare battery in the charger’s rear pocket. Batteries will be charged in the f...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 15 Charge Times Typical charge times for achieving a 95% charge level using the power adapter or desk charger are: *Part numbers listed are for charcoal batteries. A The batteries will continue to slow charge ...

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card 16 Your SIM Card Your credit card sized SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card is supplied by your Service Provider when you buy your phone. You will not be able to make or receive calls without a SIM card in...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 17 Making and Receiving Phone Calls Switching the Phone On and Off To switch the phone on or off, press the S key. If the phone displays Insert Card, there is no SIM card inserted. Once inserted, the phone will chec...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 18 Making a Phone Call To make a phone call, your phone must be switched on, unlocked and have the antenna fully extended. It will not be possible to make a phone call unless you are in an area where there is PCS se...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 19 Phone Book Dialing j One-Touch To quickly retrieve and dial a number stored in the first nine locations of your Phone Book * , press and hold the appropriate digit key. For example, pressing and holding 2 will ...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 20 Pauses tell your phone to wait for three seconds before sending the next string of numbers. Your phone will not begin the three second delay for the first pause until the call is answered. Pause - A Working Exam...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 21 Receiving a Phone Call To receive a phone call: • Your phone must be switched on and unlocked. • You must be in an area where there is PCS service. • Your Call Forwarding and Call Barring settings should not ...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 22 Conference Calling With conference calling, you can join up to five other parties to create a group call. A Conference calling is a network feature. Please contact your Service Provider for availability informat...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 23 Data and Fax Calls Security Features In addition to voice calls, your phone can also make data and fax calls when connected to a data peripheral device with a Motorola CELLect™ PCMCIA card and a StarTAC™ dat...

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Making and Receiving Phone Calls 24 ...

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Menu Navigation 25 Menu Navigation Introduction to Menus Many of your phone's options are accessed by using menus that have methods in common for selection, change, and cancellation. Please read this section carefully before moving on to Using...

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Menu Navigation 26 Menu Navigation - A Working Example As an example of Menu Navigation, try the following sequence to turn Extended Menus On or Off: 1 Make sure the phone is in standby mode so the Options Menu is accessible. 2 Press M. This will ...

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Menu Navigation 27 jShort, Extended, and Personalized Menus With the Personality™ interface, you can personalize your phone’s menus by choosing which features you want readily available. Remove from the short menu the options that you don’t ...

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Using the Options Menu 29 Using the Options Menu Scrolls down (forwards) through the menu list. Scrolls up (backwards) through the menu list. Selects the submenu, or accepts an option. Reverts to the parent menu, or cancels an option. Once in the Opt...

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Using the Options Menu 30 The Phone Book Menu §Pressing I automatically routes you to the ‘Add Entry’ submenu. ‡Pressing Q followed by an entry location allows you to quickly retrieve and dial a number. *Network dependent feature. ...

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Using the Options Menu 31 What is the Phone Book? You can store names along with telephone numbers in your phone’s internal Phone Book. Each entry is stored in a memory location in the Personal Numbers list of your phone’s or SIM card’s memo...

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Using the Options Menu 32 How to Enter Alphabetic Characters When you see the prompt Enter Name or when you are creating or editing an SMS message, you can use the digit keys, 0 through 9, to produce any character in the alphabet and various symbo...

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Using the Options Menu 33 Personal Numbers The Personal Numbers submenu is used for creating and managing your list of personal numbers. Find Entry By Name This option is used to select a phone number from a list of alphabetically sorted Phone Book...

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Using the Options Menu 34 Call Number, Modify Name Or Number or Erase Name And Number Options Once a Phone Book entry has been selected, it can be called, modified, or deleted. Call Number This option is used to call the selected Phone Book teleph...

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Using the Options Menu 35 Check Capacity This option is used to check the number of unoccupied Phone Book entries in the phone or SIM card memory areas. Check Phone Capacity, Check SIM Capacity Once selected, a timed message XX Unused Locations di...

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Using the Options Menu 36 My Phone Number(s) This option allows you to access your phone, fax, and data numbers so that you can retrieve or modify them when required. The My Phone Number(s) list is stored on your SIM card. When you select this item...

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Using the Options Menu 37 Setup Fixed Dialing This option allows you to switch Fixed Dialing on or off and to enter or change entries in the Fixed Dial list. You will be prompted to enter your PIN2 security code when you select this option. On Swit...

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Using the Options Menu 38 Call Related Features Menu Show Battery Meter This option displays the approximate amount of battery capacity remaining, for example: See ‘Your Battery’ on page 11 in the section, About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Car...

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Using the Options Menu 39 jCall Forwarding If you subscribe to Call Forwarding through your Service Provider, you can separate fax or data calls from voice calls, route all calls to wherever you may be reached, or forward calls when you cannot be ...

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Using the Options Menu 40 Detailed Forwarding You can use Detailed Forwarding to be sure you do not miss any calls when your phone is busy, unreachable, or not answered. A Detailed Forwarding settings are ignored while Forward All Calls or Forward ...

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Using the Options Menu 41 Call Waiting If Call Waiting is On, you will be notified of an incoming call by an audible alert and by the message Call Waiting - Answer? • To accept the incoming call, press O. The other caller will automatically be...

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Using the Options Menu 42 jCall Barring Call Barring is a network feature that can be used to selectively bar outgoing and incoming calls. If you change the barring setting, you may be asked to enter your barring password. There will be a short del...

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Using the Options Menu 43 Key Answer Only This feature has two options, On or Off. When a call is incoming, opening the phone normally answers it. If you wish to open the phone without answering calls, set Key Answer Only to On. Then, if your netw...

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Using the Options Menu 44 Messages Menu Overview of Messages and How to Use Them Your phone supports the two PCS message features: Short Message Services (SMS) and Cell Broadcast. SMS Messages These are text messages that are sent specifically to ...

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Using the Options Menu 45 Cell Broadcast Messages These are general messages, broadcast to a group of phones and can only be received when your phone is in standby mode. These messages are broadcast in numbered ‘channels’ and, in general, each ...

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Using the Options Menu 46 jCall Voicemail Once selected, this option will leave the Messages menu and automatically make a phone call to the current voicemail number. The display will show Calling and standard call operations can be performed. Th...

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Using the Options Menu 47 Outgoing Messages This option is used to view and manage any outgoing messages. These messages will be stored on your SIM card. When you select this option, the total number of messages will be displayed followed by the �...

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Using the Options Menu 48 Message Settings Voicemail Number This option is used to store a phone number which will be used by the ‘Call Voicemail’ option. The number can be manually entered or read automatically from your SIM card (depending on...

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Using the Options Menu 49 Phone Setup Menu Select Phone Line Alternate line service is a subscription feature that allows your phone to accommodate two different voice phone lines. This allows you to manage different types of calls (such as persona...

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Using the Options Menu 50 Ringer On or Off This option sets the way your phone alerts you to an incoming call. The options are: • On - the phone will ring with the tone specified by the set ringer tone option. • Off - the phone will just displa...

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Using the Options Menu 51 Change SIM PIN Code This option is used to change the SIM card PIN code. Require SIM Card PIN must be set to On and you must enter the old PIN code before you can proceed. You will be asked to enter a new, four- to eight-di...

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Using the Options Menu 52 jNew Security Code The security code is used to control access to security and other options within the menus. This option is used to change the security code, which is set by Motorola to 000000. Once selected, you will be...

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Using the Options Menu 53 Phone Status Status Review This option can be used to view the current setting of menu options. When selected, your phone will display the list of menu items that you have changed from the default setting. Master Reset ! ...

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Using the Options Menu 54 Network Selection Menu Network Selection In order for the phone to make and receive phone calls, it must register with one of the available networks. Your phone automatically searches for the last network used. If, for any...

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Using the Options Menu 55 Register Now Once selected, your phone will try to register with the selected network. If the registration fails, your phone will try to register in the normal way. Make Preferred Once selected, you will be asked where the...

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Using the Options Menu 56 jPreferred Networks Add Network To List This option enables you to add networks to your preferred list by either scanning the area, selecting from a preset list, or manually entering network codes. When selected, Choose F...

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Using the Options Menu 57 Call Meters Menu Call Metering Your phone has a variety of call meters that you can use to monitor individual and total call times or costs. A Call cost information is only available if you receive the Advice of Charge ser...

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Using the Options Menu 58 Total For All Calls Displays the cost of all your chargeable calls since the charge meters were reset to zero using Reset Call Charges. Credit Remaining Displays the difference between Total For All Calls and the limit s...

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Using the Options Menu 59 Show Charge Per Call, Show Total Call Charges A These menu items are only available if you receive the Advice of Charge service. Choose to display during calls either the total call charges since the meter was reset or the...

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Using the Options Menu 60 Accessory Setup Menu †Availability depends on the type of SIM card.This option can only be enabled by your local dealer. *You will only be able to access this menu only when your phone is mounted in a car kit. Car kit...

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Using the Quick Access Menu 63 Using the Quick Access Menu A The menu shown above represents the default features supplied with your phone. Although the features in your phone are available through easy access menus, some of the most commonly used ...

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Using the Quick Access Menu 64 Phone Lock Now E5 Prompts you to confirm that you want to lock the phone. If this is given, your phone becomes locked and you will not be able to use it again until the unlock code is entered. See ‘Phone Lock’ o...

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Using the Quick Access Menu 65 Outgoing Messages Your newest message will be displayed. You can then read, delete and edit messages as normal. See ‘Received Messages’ on page 46 for more information. Call Charge Displays the cost of your last ...

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Using the Quick Access Menu 66 Customizing the Quick Access Menu You can change the features in the Quick Access Menu to suit your personal preferences. To customize the menu: 1 Press E and scroll to the menu item you wish to change. 2 Press and hol...

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Accessories 67 Accessories The following accessories have been designed to work with your phone. Additional accessories may be available and are packaged separately. Please refer to your local Service Provider or retail outlet for more information...

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Accessories 68 Leather Pouch - Black (SYN4898) The Leather Pouch holds the phone while being worn on your belt, similar to your holster. Slimline Holster (SYN4653) For use without an auxiliary battery. Holster (SYN5378) For use with an auxiliary bat...

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What to do if... 69 What to do if... You can’t switch your phone on Check the battery. Is it charged, properly fitted and are the contacts clean and dry? See ’Important Battery Information’ on page 11. You can’t make calls Check the antenn...

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What to do if... 70 The battery won’t charge Check the charger. Is it properly connected? Are its contacts clean and dry? See ’Your Battery’ on page 11. Check the battery contacts. Are they clean and dry? Check the battery temperature. If it is...

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What to do if... 71 Regulations and Precautions The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Canadian Depart- ment of Communications regulate PCS radiotelephone service in their respective countries. It is important for you, the PCS radiotelep...

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What to do if... 72 Consumer Responsibilities Remember that wireline and radio regulations with respect to harassing calls, false distress calls, obscene language, etc., apply to PCS phone usage. Privacy As a telephone user, you have come to assume...

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What to do if... 73 5055803 5057762 5058136 5059885 5060264 5060294 5063340 5065408 5067139 5068625 5070310 5077757 5081674 5083304 5093632 D325028 5107487 5109536 5111162 5113400 5113436 5117441 5117449 5121047 5121288 5121412 5122722 D327062 512488...

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What to do if... 74 Motorola Limited Warranty For The United States PCS Subscriber Radiotelephone Products I. What this warranty covers and for how long: Motorola Inc. (Motorola) warrants the Motorola PCS Subscriber radiotele- phone products and acc...

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What to do if... 75 When the product is used in conjunction with ancillary or peripheral equipment not manufactured by Motorola, Motorola does not warrant the operation of the product /peripheral combination, and Motorola will honor no warranty cl...

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What to do if... 76 V General Provisions: This warranty sets forth our responsibilities regarding this product. Repair, replacement or refund of the purchase price at Motorola’s option, is your exclusive remedy. This warranty is given in lieu of ...

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Index 77 Index A Accessories ................................................. 67 Accessory setup menu ..............................60 Add entry To phone memory ........................... 34, 64 To SIM card memory ....................... 34, 64 Ad...

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Index 78 Entering characters ....................................32 Erase name and number ...........................34 Extended menus ................................. 27, 52 F Fault finding ...............................................69 Fax Acc...

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Index 79 Modify name or number ........................ 34 Preventing access to ............................... 35 Phone book entry key ................................. 9 Phone book lookup key .............................. 9 Phone book menu ..........

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Index 80 Viewing ....................................................58 Tones Selecting keypad tones ...........................52 Setting ringer tones ................................50 Troubleshooting .........................................69 U...