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Sony Ericsson K510a
Sony Ericsson
GSM 850/1800/1900
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Menu Overview Status Bar Icons Icon Description Alarms* Internet Entertainment One-Time Alarm Online Services* Services* Tells you the strength of the GSM network signal. Recurrent Alarm PlayNow?* Alarm Signal Games GPRS is within range and can be used. VideoDJ? PhotoDJ?* MusicDJ? Tells you the status of the battery. Remote Control Record Sound Tells you the status of the battery charging. Camera Messaging Camera Pictures Write New You have missed an incoming call. Inbox My Friends* Call and mes
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Contents Contents Getting to Know Your Phone . . . . . . . 4 Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Phone overview, assembly, SIM card, battery, Internet and email settings, synchronizing, Bluetooth, turning on, use the menus, activity menu, file manager, infrared, USB cable, update service. language, entering letters, Style-up covers. More Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Alarm clock, time and dat
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S 4 L x E Getting to Know Your Phone Getting to Know Your Phone Phone overview, assembly, SIM card, battery, turning on, use the menus, activity menu, file manager, language, entering letters, Style-up covers. Earpiece On/off key Infrared port External antenna connector behind mirror Camera key Activity Camera menu key Screen Navigation key Selection Selection key key Back key Clear key Stereo headset and charger Microphone connector 4 This is the Internet version of the user's guide. ©
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Getting to Know Your Phone User Guide Symbols Assembling Your Phone The following instruction symbols appear in this Insert the SIM card and attach the battery user guide: to use your phone. % See also page ... SIM card When you register as a subscriber with a service } Use the navigation key to scroll and select provider, you get a SIM (Subscriber Identity % 8 Navigating the Menus. Module) card. The SIM card contains a computer Note chip that keeps track of your phone number, the servic
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Getting to Know Your Phone To insert the SIM card and charge 1 Slide the cover open and lift it off. the battery 2 Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed under the silvery holders. 3 Place the battery in the phone with the label side up and the connectors facing each other. 4 Place the cover on the phone and slide it into place. 5 Connect the charger to the phone. The symbol on the charger plug must face upwards. 6 It may take 30 minutes for the battery icon to appear. 7 Wait
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Getting to Know Your Phone 1 Press and hold to turn on or off. PIN 2 Enter your SIM card PIN, if you have one. You may need a PIN (Personal Identification Number) from your service provider to activate 3 At first startup, select the language for phone the services in your phone. Each PIN digit appears menus. as *, unless it starts with emergency number digits, 4 Select Yes if you want the setup wizard to help for example 112 or 911. This is so that you can you with instructions and tips or
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Getting to Know Your Phone To create a standby shortcut Navigating the Menus 1 If, for example, has no predefined shortcut The main menus are shown as icons on the desktop. } Yes. Some submenus include tabs that appear on the 2 Scroll to a function to create a shortcut screen. to } Shortcut. To edit a standby shortcut 1 } Settings } General } Shortcuts and select an existing shortcut you want to edit } Edit. 2 Scroll to and select a function } Shortcut. Press the navigation key in the ce
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Getting to Know Your Phone Activity menu tabs To manage items and folders New Events such as missed calls and messages. 1 } File Manager and select a folder. My Shortcuts applications that are running in 2 Scroll to an item } More } Manage Files the background and your shortcuts. You can add, } Move. delete and change the order of shortcuts. 3 Select the folder you want to move the item to, Bookmarks your Internet bookmarks. or New Folder and name the folder } OK. If you want n
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Getting to Know Your Phone To change the phone language To add a space, press . } Settings } General } Language For the most common punctuation marks, } Phone Language, select a language. press . From standby, press: To enter the + sign, press . 0000 for English or To change input method, press and hold . 8888 for Automatic language T9 Text Input (SIM dependant). The T9 Text Input method uses a built-in dictionary to recognize the most commonly used To select writing langua
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Getting to Know Your Phone To add words to the T9 Text Input To change the front cover dictionary 1 While entering letters } More } Spell Word. 2 Edit the word by using multitap input. Navigate between the letters with and . To delete a character, press . To delete the entire word, press and hold . 3 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 will appear as one of the alternative words.
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S S L L E E 4 4 X X I I x x P P D D A A i i g g G G i i t t E E a a l l M M Z Z o o o o 3 3 m m . . 1 1 Calling To change the battery cover Calling Calls, contacts, voicemail, voice control, call options. Making and receiving calls Turn on the phone and make sure that you are within range of a network to make and receive calls % 7 To turn the phone on and off. If your subscription includes the Caller ID service a
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Calling To answer or reject a call Call list } Answer to answer a call. } Busy to reject a call. Information about the last calls is saved in the call list. To change the ear speaker volume During a call, press or to increase or decrease To call a number from the call list the volume. 1 } Calls from standby and select a tab. 2 Scroll to the name or number you want To select more options during a call to call } Call. Press and select an option. To add a call list number to contacts To turn o
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Calling To make an emergency call Managing contacts Enter, for example, 112 } Call. Save numbers, add pictures, ringtones and personal information. To view your local emergency To add a contact numbers 1 } Contacts } New Contact } Add. } Contacts } Options } Special Numbers } Emergency Nos. 2 Enter the name } OK. 3 Enter the number } OK. Contacts 4 For phone contacts only, select a number type. Choose your default contacts from one Scroll between the tabs and select fields to of the follow
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Calling To add your own business card To copy names and numbers to the SIM card } Contacts } Options } My Business Card 1 } Contacts } Options } Advanced and enter the information for your business } Copy to SIM. card } Save. 2 Select Copy All or Copy a Number. To send your business card When copying all contacts from the phone to the } Contacts } Options } My Business Card SIM card, all existing SIM card information is replaced. } Send My Card and select transfer method. To copy SIM cont
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Calling To edit a phone contact To set the default item for a contact 1 } Contacts and select a contact } More 1 } Contacts and scroll to a contact } More } Edit Contact. } Default Number. 2 Scroll to the relevant tab and edit the 2 Select the phone number, email address or information } Save. Web address that you want to be displayed first for the contact. To edit a SIM contact 1 If SIM Contacts is default } Contacts. Synchronizing contacts If Phone Contacts is default } Contacts For more in
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Calling To activate voice dialing and record Voicemail names If your subscription includes an answering service, 1 } Settings } General } Voice Control callers can leave a voice message when you cannot } Voice Dialing } Activate } Yes answer a call. } New Voice Cmd. Select a contact. 2 Select the phone number to add the voice To save your voicemail number command to. Record a voice command such Press and hold } Yes enter the number as John mobile. } OK. You can get the number from you
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Calling To activate voice answering and To use voice dialing record voice answer commands Without a handsfree: from standby, press and 1 } Settings } General } Voice Control hold Calls and say the name. } Voice Answer } Activate. With a handsfree: say your magic word or press 2 Instructions appear. } Continue and lift the the call handling button. Wait for the tone and phone to your ear. Wait for the tone and say say the name you recorded earlier, for example Answer, or another word.
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Calling To activate the call waiting service Forwarding Calls } Settings } Calls } Manage Calls } Call Waiting Forward calls, for example, to an answering } Activate } Select. service. When the Restrict calls function is activated, To make a second call some Forward calls options are not available. 1 } More } Hold to hold the ongoing call. 2 Enter the number to call } Call. To activate a call forward 1 } Settings } Calls } Forward Calls. Receiving a second call When you receive a second call,
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Calling Two voice lines You cannot answer a third call without ending Make separate calls with different phone numbers one of the first two calls or joining them into if your subscription supports alternate line service. a conference call. Conference calls To select a line for outgoing calls Start a conference call by joining an ongoing call } Settings } Calls and select line 1 or 2. and a call on hold. You then put the conference To change the name of a line on hold to call and add up to fi
