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Contents
Getting started 3 Transferring and exchanging information 54
Make and receive the first call. Bluetooth wireless technology, synchronization.
Getting to know your phone 6 More features 60
Key functions, quick keys, entering letters. Calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, timer, games.
Personalizing your phone 15 Security 67
Choose ring signal, theme and other settings. SIM card lock, phone lock.
Calling 23 Troubleshooting 69
Use the phone book, voice control, call options. Why doesn’t the ph
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Please contact your network operator or service Ericsson T68m First edition (October 2001) provider if you are in doubt whether you can use This manual is published by Ericsson Mobile a particular service or not. Communications AB, without any warranty. Improvements and changes to this manual Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies use and the Limited warranty chapters before you of current information, or improvements to programs
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Assembly Getting started Before you can use your phone you need to: • insert the SIM card. About this user’s guide • attach and charge the battery. See “SIM card and For ease of reference, the “Getting to know your phone” battery information” on page 4. chapter gives a quick overview of the main functions of the phone, shortcuts and general information. Note: Always turn off the phone and detach the charger before you insert or remove a SIM card. Available services Some services and function
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SIM card and battery information You have to insert the SIM card and charge the battery It may take up to 30 minutes before an icon before you can use the phone. appears in the display when charging. 1. Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed under the silvery holders. 2. Place the battery on the back of the phone and push until you hear a click. 3. Connect the charger to the phone at the flash symbol. 30 min. The flash symbol on the charger plug must face upwards. 4. It may
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Making and receiving calls If you make a mistake while entering your PIN, delete the wrong number by pressing . On/off If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the SIM card is blocked and the message PIN blocked appears. To unblock it, you need to enter your PUK (Personal Unblocking Key). Your PUK is provided by your network operator. • Enter the area code and phone number, and press to make the call. My Network • Press to end the call. 12:18 • When the phone rings, press to ans
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Getting to know your phone Key functions Volume Increase or decrease the volume Press the joystick up, down, key of the earpiece or handsfree left or right to move through loudspeaker during a call. the menus, lists and texts. Scroll through menus, lists Press the joystick as an and text. Enter the Status alternative to . menu. Slide up or down once Press and hold to turn the to temporarily turn off the ring phone on or off or to go back signal. Slide up or down twice to standby mode. Pres
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Quick keys To... When in standby: The table describes some of the most useful key speed dial a phone number press any of the number combinations. saved on the SIM card keys - and YES find a contact in the Call press and hold To... When in standby: contact list make an emergency call enter the appropriate enter the first submenu press and hold emergency number and of the My shortcuts menu press YES see which profile you are slide the volume key enter and move through press or using up
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To... During a call: To... When entering letters using multitap text input: put a call on hold press YES reach the second letter or slide the volume key up retrieve a call press YES again character of a key and hold and press any of turn off the microphone press and hold the number keys reach the third letter slide the volume key down To... When in the menus: or character of a key and hold and press any move through menus slide (and hold) the volume of the number keys or lists key up or d
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You can quickly and easily reach the settings you To... When entering letters use most by placing them in the menu My shortcuts. using T9 Text Input: See “My shortcuts” on page 21. view alternative words press accept a word and add press Help Texts aspace Some menus have help texts with explanations. enter a full stop press • To view help texts, highlight the menu item, press , select Help, YES. view alternative press , then punctuation marks repeatedly Delete, edit and rename shift be
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Online services Online services are customized services offered by network operators, independently of mobile phones and mobile phone manufacturers. A SIM card which supports Online services works in the same way as a normal SIM card. When you have inserted your SIM card and turned on your phone, your network operator can download data to your SIM card. After the first data download and after restarting your phone, a new menu appears in your phone as the first submenu under the Connect
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Menu overview Phone book Messages Calls Fun & Games Settings Ongoing call * Call contact SMS Missed calls Themes Sounds & alerts Transfer sound Find and send * Call voice mail Calling local Background Profiles Turn off tones Add contact E-mail Call list Games Call options Hold call Edit contact Options Call costs My Melodies Display Switch calls Business cards Call timers Pictures Language Release active Call from SIM Data counters Time and date Retrieve call Groups Next call Locks Join calls Ca
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Entering letters The list of options You can enter letters, for example, when you add If you press when writing, you enter a list names to the phone book, write text messages or enter of options: WAP addresses. • Add symbol – Symbols and punctuation marks such Apart from the way you normally enter letters as ? and , are shown. Move between the symbols in your phone, using multitap text input, you can use by using the joystick. T9™ Text Input for entering text messages and e-mail, Ins
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In the following example, we are going to write Press… to get… a name: + & @ / ¤ % $ € £ ¥ \ § ¿ ¡ 0 Θ Ξ Ψ Ω To enter letters using multitap text input # * ↵ ¶ 1. Scroll to Phone book, YES, Add contact, YES. Press YES again. to delete letters and numbers 2. Press the appropriate key, – , to shift between capital and lower- or , repeatedly until the character you want case letters appears in the display. See the table of the Latin alphabet below: - press and hold to enter numbers Press… to
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™ T9 Text Input • Delete the entire word by pressing , or delete You can use T9 Text Input when writing, for example, one letter at a time by pressing and holding the text messages and e-mail. The T9 Text Input method joystick to the right, and then repeatedly. uses a built-in dictionary to recognize the most • Write the new word using multitap text input and commonly used word for each sequence of key presses. press YES. This way, you press each key only once, even if the The word is
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Themes Personalizing your phone You can change the appearance of the display, You can adjust the phone settings to suit your own for example, the colors, by using themes. Your phone requirements. comes with some pre-set themes. To select a theme, select Themes from the Fun & Games menu. Note: If you change a setting which is included in a profile, the active profile is also changed. Pictures See “Profiles” on page 22. Your phone comes with a number of pictures. You can • Have a picture as ba
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To edit and save a picture Press… to… 1. Scroll to Fun & Games, YES, Pictures, YES, move the cursor down and right. select a picture group, YES. switch line thickness. 2. Select a picture, YES. view the Options menu. 3. You can now start to edit the picture. See the table below. save and exit the picture. 4. Press YES, select Save, YES. The picture is saved exit the picture editor. in My Pictures. press and hold to clear the picture. When editing or drawing a picture: move the cursor 1, 5 or
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Background pictures To send a picture Your phone comes with a number of background 1. Scroll to Fun & Games, YES, Background, YES, Send pictures but you can also download or receive pictures my picture, YES. sent by others. 2. Select a transfer method. If you use infrared, make sure that the infrared ports To view your background pictures are facing each other. 1. Scroll to Fun & Games, YES, Background, YES, Select picture, YES, select a picture and press YES to get a full To receive and save
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possible to download melodies via WAP, Bluetooth • Press once to raise the note one semitone. wireless technology, IR. • Press twice to lower the note one semitone. • Select Voice calls from the Settings/Sounds & alerts/ • Press to enter a pause. Ring signals menu and select a ring signal. 4. To listen to your melody, press YES. 5. Press YES again to save it, or press NO to continue To set the ring signal volume composing. 1. Scroll to Settings, YES, Sounds & alerts, YES, Ring volume, YES.
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Increasing ring Sounds & alerts You can choose a ring signal that rises in steps from You can choose to be notified of an incoming call the lowest volume to the highest. by the buzzing of the vibrating alert. You can set the • To turn increasing ring On or Off; scroll to Settings/ phone’s vibrating alert to one of the following: Sounds & alerts/Increasing ring. • On – all the time. • On if silent – on when the ring volume is turned off Specific ring signals for personal calls or when you have
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To change the menu language Date 1. Scroll to Settings, YES, Language, YES, Menus, YES. When the phone is in standby mode, you can slide the 2. Select a language, YES. volume key up or down to see today’s date in the Status menu.You can set the date and date format in the Note: You can always choose Automatic by pressing Settings/Time and date menu. 8888 in standby. You can always choose English by pressing 0000 Advanced time settings in standby. Under Time settings in the Settings/Time
