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C389 User’s Guide
5 SENDING AND RECEIVING TEXT MESSAGES
This chapter describes how to send, receive, and erase text messages from your phone.
Important: The features and menus described in this chapter may vary depending on services
available in your area. In addition, usage charges may apply to each message. For clarification on
these issues, check with your service provider.
Sending text messages
Check with your service provider to find out if you are able to send text messages from your phone.
You can only send text messages to phones that are capable of receiving them.
Sending a simple message
To send a plain text message to a single recipient:
1. Select
Menu −−> MESSAGES −−> Create Message.
2. Enter your message. (See “Quick reference to text entry” on page 11.)
3. When you have completed your message, press Continue to enter the number manually
or select a
saved number from the
All Contacts List.
4. When you have input the number, select Continue and press OK to Send.
Forwarding a saved message
You can reuse a message you have stored in your Outbox. The Outbox contains all sent messages,
messages for which send attempts have been made as well as messages with failed send attempts.
1. Select
Menu −−>MESSAGES −−>Outbox.
2. Scroll through the list of messages and press
OK to select.
3. Select an option from the list:

Done to go back to previous screen

Erase the message

Send the message

Forward the message to another recipient
4. Enter the phone number manually or select from the
All Contacts List.
5. Press OK to continue.
6. To send the message as it is, press
OK again to Send.
-or-
To edit the message, enter your text accordingly.
When you have finished editing, press
OK to send the message.
If you cannot send messages
You may not be able to send or receive messages if your phone’s memory is nearly full, or if digital
service is not available at the time. To free up memory, erase old messages. See “Erasing messages”
on page 15.
Receiving incoming calls while creating messages
 If you don’t wish to answer the call, press End/Power key.
 To answer the call, press Call/
Send key. The message you were working on will be saved in the
Outbox folder. To return to the message, select Menu −−> Messages −−> Outbox and select it.
Viewing the Outbox
You can check the status of messages you have sent as long as they have been saved to the OutBox.
1. Select
Menu −−>MESSAGES −−> OutBox.
2. Scroll through the list of messages and press
OK to read the message.
Retrieving text messages
When a text message is received, your screen will display text similar to: “New message 1 Text Msg”.
This text will remain for about five minutes. After that, look for the symbol at the top of your screen.
The symbol flashes if the message is urgent.
If your phone is set to Direct View, the body of the message will appear on the phone screen
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