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Special Keys Redialing the Last Number Called Turns phone on and off. Press O to display the last number dialed. Accepts call or selects menu option or setting. Press O to call the number. Stores numbers to phone or SIM memory. One-Touch Dialing Recalls numbers from phone or SIM memory.
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Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of a PCS telephone from Motorola , a world leader in wireless communications. All Motorola PCS telephones are manufactured to exacting specifications and world-class quality standards, and are designed to withstand the rigors of the real world. Our commitment to Total Customer Satisfaction and over sixty-five years of experience in personal communications mean you can depend...
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Understanding this Manual Most of your phone’s options are accessed through its simple Prompts and Messages menu system. Before moving on to the Options menu section, turn When you press a key, you will see one of a couple responses. Your to Menu Navigation to learn the basics of navigating the menu phone will display either an easy to understand prompt to guide system.
Contents Safety Important information for the efficient and safe operation of your phone ................5 About Your Phone, Battery and SIM Card Introduces your phone, explains how to charge and maintain batteries and explains SIM Card functionality ....... 9 Making and Receiving Phone Calls Explains how to call a number, how to redial and how to accept a call ..................
Safety Hand-Held Portable PCS Telephone IMPORTANT Antenna Care Use only the supplied or an approved replacement antenna. Unauthorized Read this information before using antennas, modifications, or attachments could damage the phone and may your PCS Telephone. violate FCC regulations. Phone Operation NORMAL POSITION: Hold the phone as you would any other telephone with Exposure To Radio Frequency Signals the antenna pointed up and over your shoulder.
Driving Hearing Aids 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 Some digital wireless phones may interfere with some hearing aids. In the driving, please: event of such interference, you may want to consult your hearing aid •...
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 Atmospheres Turn your phone OFF when in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere and obey all signs and instructions.
About Your Phone, Battery and SIM Card Special Keys The Mute Button Turns the phone on and The Mute Button is the top button on the left off. hand side of your phone. Press it to switch privacy mute on and off during a call. Accepts calls or selects menu settings or options.
The Display Low Temperature Use The liquid crystal display screen used in your phone will behave differently at extremely low temperatures. You may notice that the display responds slowly to key presses; this is to be expected and does not affect the phone operation in any way. Low Battery Warning The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) on your phone can display up to When the battery level is low and only a few minutes of talk-time...
The higher voltage of Li-lon batteries, as compared to NiMH and NiCd, results in greater After this initial charge, you can recharge your battery normally, efficiencies for talk and standby times with this Motorola handset. b. Standby times are specified for DRX=2 to DRX=9.
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Charging Your Battery While Traveling When the battery is about 95% charged, the message Fast will be displayed and the q symbol will Charge Complete Your travel charger can be connected directly to your phone for stop flashing. convenient rapid battery charging. If the display is completely blank when the travel charger is connected, the battery is not being charged.
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Desktop Charging of Your Battery Inserting Your Phone into the Charger Guide your phone, parallel to the long angled edge of the Typical charge times for achieving a 95% charge level using the charger, into the front slot. The lower indicator will light up optional E•P Desktop Charger accessory are as follow: when the phone is fitted in the charger.
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Charger Indicators The two sets of indicators on the front of the E•P Desktop A rapid flashing of a red indicator shows a faulty battery Charger show the charging status. The lower indicators display that will not charge. the status for the front slot, while the upper indicators show A rapid flashing of a yellow indicator shows the battery is charge status for the rear slot.
Using Your Phone While Charging Fitting Your Battery Your phone can be left on in standby mode while charging. Place the battery onto the back of the phone just below the Remember that talking on the phone requires energy, so charging marked arrow indicators.
Your SIM Card Your credit card sized SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card was SIM Card Insertion supplied by your Service Provider when you bought your phone. Switch off your phone by pressing the S key and insert the SIM You will not be able to make or receive calls if you do not have a card into the slot in the base of the phone, as shown.
Making and Receiving Phone Calls Switching the Phone On and Off Simply press the S key to switch the phone on or off. When If the PIN Code entered is incorrect, you will see the warning the phone turns on, you will see a greeting message. If the message Wrong PIN , followed by...
Making a Phone Call First make sure that the antenna is fully extended. Then switch The most familiar method of making a phone call is to enter the number with the digit keys, then press O. the phone on and enter your unlock code if necessary. If you make a mistake, press and release the C key to delete It will not be possible to make a phone call unless you are in an the last digit.
Redialing the Last Number Called Calling an Embedded Number in a Message When in standby mode, press OO. Details on how to call a number embedded in a message are given in the Messages Menu section. You can also redial by using the ‘Last Ten Calls’ feature in the Phone Book menu.
Pause - A Working Example. If you had a tone-based voicemail system with an access number of 555-6911, a mailbox number of 1066, and a password of 2001, you could enter the following: 5556911Ü1066Ü2001 Your phone would dial . When the call was answered, 5556911 your phone would wait three seconds before sending the tones 1066...
Receiving a Phone Call To receive a phone call: Answering a Phone Call • Your phone must be switched on and unlocked. Press O or open the keypad cover (unless ‘Key Answer Only’ is turned on) to answer a call. If the signal strength is weak, •...
Conference Calling With conference calling, you can join up to five other parties to Separating Individual Calls create a group call. If you need to speak with an individual caller privately, you can Conference calling is a network feature. Please contact your isolate one call from the conference call.
Menu Navigation Introduction to Menus Menus and Sub-Menus Many of your phone's options are accessed by using menus that A menu is a simple list of options. Some of these options provide have methods in common for selection, change and cancellation. access to a further list of options called a sub-menu.
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Menu Navigation - A Working Example First make sure that the phone is in standby mode, then try the following sequence as an example of menu navigation. To turn Extended Menus Press M twice. You will see the first item, Phone Book Press # repeatedly until Phone Setup...
jShort, Extended and Personalized Menus With the Personality™ interface, you can personalize your phone’s menus by choosing which features you want readily available. If you move the options that you don’t often use to the extended menu, you can turn extended menus off to hide the option.
Phone Book Menu Pressing Q automatically routes you to the § “Add Entry” sub-menu. † Pressing R followed by an entry location allows you to quickly retrieve and dial a number. Network dependent option. Using the Options Menu...
The Phone Book Menu You can also use postscripting to quickly modify a similar number in your Phone Book to place a call to a new number. Just retrieve You can store names along with telephone numbers in your the similar number from the Phone Book, delete the unwanted phone’s internal Phone Book.
Personal Numbers Available Characters Press the appropriate keys to get the following characters: With the Personal Numbers sub-menu, you can create, access, and manage your list of personal numbers. 1 Space . ? ! , Ÿ & : " ( ) ' % ¢ ` @ 1 Space .
Call Number, Modify Name Or Number or Erase Name Find Entry By Location And Number Options Press R Location When you select a Phone Book entry from the Options menu, Use this option to find a telephone number by its memory you have the following options: location number.
When you select a memory type, you will see Enter Number To SIM Card Memory, To Phone Memory, To Phone & Enter the number to be stored and press O. You will see SIM Memory, No Memory Restrictions . Enter the name and press O. Finally you will Enter Name You can prevent access to all entries in the SIM card memory, the be asked to enter a memory location.
Last Calls Made Depending on your Service Provider, you may find that one or more of the entries in the My Phone Number(s) list are already Press O and * or # to view the Last Ten Calls defined. You may not be able to change these predefined entries. Made list.
One-Touch Dial Setting Setup Fixed Dialing Allows you to switch Fixed Dialing and to enter or This option allows you to specify which Phone Book list can be change entries in the Fixed Dial list. One-Touch Dialed. You will be prompted to enter your PIN2 security code when you To Phone Memory select this option.
Call Related Features Menu Show Battery Meter This option displays the approximate amount of battery capacity remaining, for example: Number of Approximate Bars Charge Level less than 5% (recharging needed) less than 20% less than 50% greater than 50% Using the Options Menu...
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jCall Forwarding Restrict My Phone Number ‘Restrict My Phone Number’ is a network dependent option. You will need to subscribe to one of the two Caller Line Identification restriction features with your Service Provider. Show ID On Next Call Your phone number will be sent with the next attempted call only and not with succeeding calls, until you reselect this option.
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After selecting any of the call forwarding options, there will be a Detailed Forwarding short delay while the phone asks the network for the current You can use Detailed Forwarding to be sure you do not miss any setting. calls when your phone is busy, unreachable, or not answered. You cannot change the call forwarding settings when you are Each option has two settings, out of PCS coverage.
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Forward All Data Calls Call Waiting Use this option to forward all data calls to a single number. If Call Waiting is , you will be notified of an incoming call by an audible alert and by the message Call Waiting - Answer? The option has two settings, To accept the incoming call, press O.
jCall Barring Call Holding and Call Waiting Messages During Call Holding and/or Call Waiting operations, your phone Call barring is a network dependent option which can be used to may display one or more of the following messages: selectively bar outgoing and incoming calls. Trying If you change the barring setting, you may be asked to enter your A request to hold the active call or swap the active call with a...
Key Answer Only Bar Incoming Calls After selecting this option, there will be a short delay while the The option has two options, phone asks the network for the current setting. When set to , this option allows the keypad cover to be When Roaming opened without answering an incoming call.
Messages Menu Your phone supports the two optional PCS network message features: Short Message Services (SMS) and Cell Broadcast. SMS Messages These are text messages that are sent specifically to and from your phone number. All SMS messages are stored on your SIM Card.
Typical cell broadcast channels have information on local weather Dialing prefixes and area codes may be required. conditions, traffic reports or stock market prices. Please contact Store Message - Select this option to store your edited your network operator for a list and description of available message in your Outgoing Messages list.
Once you have read a new message it will automatically become old. displayed followed by the first message in the list. See ‘How to Read SMS Messages’ for more information on You cannot send an outgoing message until the Message navigating through the messages.
Message Settings Message Editor E 7to access Message Editor. Voicemail Number You can use this option to enter a phone number which will be The Message Editor is used to create a new message or edit the used by the ‘Call Voicemail’ option. currently selected message and then to send the modified message and/or store it in your Outgoing Messages list.
Phone Setup Menu Select Phone Line Alternate Line Service is a subscription option which allows for two voice phone lines. Calls may be billed separately for each line. The outgoing line selection does not apply to data or fax outgoing calls. If you subscribe to this option, you may select either Line 1 Line 2...
jPhone Lock • Ring Only - the phone will ring with the tone specified by the Set Ringer Tone option. You can use this option to set and change the phone unlock • - the phone will vibrate using the VibraCall™ Vibrate Only code.
Require SIM Card PIN Enter the following key sequence to unblock your phone: * * 0 5 * This option is used to set and change the PIN code. Unblock Code New PIN Code New PIN Code The PIN code can be set to help protect your SIM card from The new PIN code must contain four to eight digits.
jExtended Menus If you receive the Blocked message when you try to enter your PIN2 code, you will need to unblock and change the code using Press and hold M. Extended Menus will be temporarily the following key sequence: activated until you exit the Options menu. * * 0 5 2 * Unblock Code O The option has two settings, New PIN2 Code O New PIN2 Code O...
Battery Saving Mode • Restore Keypad Tones to Normal, Ringer Tones to Standard, Volume Level to Medium and Network Search frequency to This option can help you to conserve battery power. Also known Medium. as DTX (Discontinuous Transmission), this option will cause your phone to operate at reduced power when you are not talking.
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 this network is unavailable for any reason, your phone will attempt to register with a new network.
Available Networks If registration is unsuccessful with one network in the list, your phone will try the next listed network. If your phone fails to When selected, this option will scan to see which networks are register with any of the listed networks, it will start at the operating in your current location.
jPreferred Networks Find New Network When selected, the phone will try to register with a network in Add Network To List the normal manner, with one exception. When the registration This option enables you to add networks to your preferred list. attempt is made, your current network will be excluded from the When selected, the ‘Choose From Available’...
Call Meters Menu Call Metering Your phone has a variety of call meters which you can use to monitor individual and total call times or costs. Call cost information is only available if you receive the Advice of Charge service. If you do not receive this service, then only time meters are available.
jSet Audible Call Timers Total For All Calls Displays the cost of all your chargeable calls since the charge Your phone provides two programmable audible call timers: meters were reset to zero using the ‘Reset Call Charges’ option. • The ‘Single Alert Timer’ will sound a beep just once during a Credit Remaining call, after a preset time has elapsed.
Show Charge Per Call, Show Total Call Charges Once a limit is set, the in-call display will show the remaining credit. When you reach your last two minutes, the warning These menu items are only available if you receive the Advice message Approaching Charge Limit will be displayed and a...
Accessory Setup Menu jMute Car Radio This option can be used to mute your car radio if your phone is attached to the car kit when you make or receive a call. It must be enabled by your local dealer. This option has two settings, This option will have no effect if your car radio does not have a mute option or if the car kit installation does not support this...
Using the Quick Access Menu The Quick Access Menu is a way to keep your favorite menu options ready to hand. There are nine numbered Quick Access Menu locations on your phone. If you know the location number of the feature, activating the feature takes only two button pushes! Just press the Quick Access key (E), then the number of the feature.
Battery Meter? Add to Phone? A bar graph indicating the approximate battery charge level will You will be prompted to enter a phone number and then a be displayed. The more bars displayed, the greater the charge name. level. If you already had a number displayed, it will automatically be See ‘Show Battery Meter’...
Customize the Quick Access Menu Outgoing SMS? This option automatically routes you to your outgoing messages file where you can read, edit, send or delete stored outgoing You can setup the features you use most often for Quick Access messages. by customizing the Quick Access Menu.
Accessories The following accessories have been designed to work with your Handsfree Car Kits (S6948 or S6110) PCS phone. Additional accessories may be available and are The Handsfree Car Kits provide convenient phone operation packaged separately. Please refer to your local service provider or while in the car.
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 ‘Battery Performance and Maintenance’. You can’t make calls Check the antenna. Is it fully extended? Check the signal strength meter in the display.
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The battery won’t charge Check the charger. Is it properly connected? Are its contacts clean and dry? See ‘Your Battery’. Check the battery contacts. Are they clean and dry? Check the battery temperature. If it is warm, let it cool before recharging. Is it an old battery? Battery performance will decline after several years use.
Regulations and Precautions The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Canadian Depart- License ment of Communications regulate PCS radiotelephone service in their If your home system is in the U.S., you do not require a separate license respective countries. It is important for you, the PCS radiotelephone user, to operate your PCS radiotelephone.
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(30) days from date of delivery of the product to you the owner. no obligation or liability for additions or modifications to this warranty unless made in writing and signed by an officer of Motorola. Unless made The warranty time period is specified by the last digit of the mechanical in separate written agreement between Motorola and you, Motorola does serial number found on each PCS product.
Motorola that there is no fault with the Motorola number, and place of purchase or installation if applicable.
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This warranty sets forth our responsibilities regarding this product. Repair, replacement or refund of the purchase price at Motorola’s option, is your Motorola will have no liability to you with respect to any claim of patent exclusive remedy. This warranty is given in lieu of all other express warranties,...
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Call forwarding ........36 Dialing phone book numbers ....19 Accessories ........... 61 Call holding .......... 38 Display ..........10 Accessory setup menu ......56 Call metering ........53 Display characters .........30 Add entry Call meters menu ......... 53 Displaying your own phone number ..33 To phone memory ......
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Reading SMS messages ....42 Phone book menu ........ 28 Key answer only ........40 Sending SMS messages ....43 Phone calls Keypad cover ..........9 Messages menu ........41 Automatic redial ......18 Keypad tones Mute button ........... 9 Dialing phone book numbers ... 19 Selecting ..........49 Mute car radio ........