User's Manual

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attachments will automatically download to your phone. If you clear this check box, only
the multimedia message header will be retrieved and shown in your Messaging screen.
 Roaming auto-retrieve: Automatically retrieve all your messages completely when
roaming. This may incur significant phone charges.
Notifications
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Notifications:
Select this option if you want to receive a notification in the status bar
when a new text or multimedia message arrives.
● Sound: Select a ringtone that is specific to new text and multimedia messages. Note
that the ringtone briefly plays when selected.
● Vibrate: Select this option if you want the phone to vibrate when a new text or
multimedia message arrives.
Set Emergency Alerts
Your phone is compatible with federally supervised cell phone alert services to send out
broadcast SMS messages for public warning.
1. Touch > > Emergency Alerts .
– or –
Touch > > Messaging , and then touch > Emergency Alerts.
2. Touch > Settings. You can set the following:
 Presidential: Receives an emergency presidential alert. (Presidential is always
grayed out [not selectable] and cannot be excluded.)
 Imminent Threat - Extreme: Select this option if you want to receive emergency
alerts of extreme emergency situations (extraordinary threats to life or property).
 Imminent Threat - Severe: Select this option if you want to receive emergency
alerts of severe emergency situations (significant threats to life or property).
 Amber: Select this option if you want to receive alerts related to missing or
endangered children.
 Emergency Alerts Test: Select this option if you want to receive a test message to
make sure that the alert messages can be successfully received.
 Emergency Alerts Exercise: Select this option if you want to receive a test
message to make sure that the alert messages can be successfully received.