User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- SCH-a690 closed view
- SCH-a690 open view
- Introduction
- Understand your phone
- Antenna
- Backlight features
- Clear key
- End key
- Headset connector
- LED indicator
- Right soft key
- Left soft key
- Push to Talk Key
- Microphone
- Speaker phone
- Speaker phone key
- Alpha-Numeric keypad
- Send key
- Navigation key
- Volume Key
- Get it now
- Your phone’s display
- Install the battery
- Remove the battery
- Charge the battery
- Battery indicator
- Low battery indicator
- Your phone’s modes
- Get Started
- Menus and sub menus
- Accessibility
- Calls
- Call features
- Push to Talk
- Push to Talk Login
- Push to Talk prompts during a conversation
- Create and Manage your Push to Talk Contact List online
- Access the Push to Talk Contact List from your device
- Initiate a one-to-one Push to Talk Call
- End a one-to-one Push to Talk call
- Initiate a one-to-many Push to Talk call
- Initiate a Push to Talk call with the flip closed
- Initiate a Push to Talk call from the Recent calls list
- Initiate a Push to Talk call from the menu
- Push to Talk dialing through the keypad
- Receive a one-to-one barge call
- Initiate a Push to Talk alert
- Receive a Push to Talk alert
- Push to Talk Silent Mode
- The Phone Book
- Tip: One-Touch, Two-Touch, and Three-Touch Dialing makes it easy to call phone numbers stored in your Phone Book.
- Open the Phone Book
- Find
- Add information to your Phone Book
- Rename group
- Edit Phone Book numbers
- Pauses
- Pause dial from the Phone Book
- Manual pause calling
- Erase individual phone book entries
- Edit an existing e-mail address
- Assign speed dial numbers
- Store numbers after a call
- Store numbers from call logs
- Shortcuts to storing phone numbers
- One-touch dialing
- Two-touch dialing
- Three-touch dialing
- Memory dialing
- My phone #
- Messages
- Message folders
- Mobile web
- Get It Now
- Planner
- Display
- Sounds
- Voice kit
- Setup
- Location
- Network
- Data
- Security
- Important! If you change the NAM1 setting you set the phone to lock on power-up and don’t program a number into NAM2, you won’t be able to access your phone. You must call the Service Center to unlock your phone.
- Important! Because of various transmission methods, network parameters, and user settings used to complete a call from your wireless phone, a connection cannot always be guaranteed. Therefore, emergency calls may not be available at all times.
- Important! DO NOT depend on this phone as a primary method of calling 911 or for any other essential or emergency numbers.
- Tip: Press and hold to erase all characters from the screen.
- Call Answer
- Auto Answer
- Auto Retry
- Language
- Clock Set
- Version
- Usage guidelines: All about performance and safety
- Limited Warranty
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Understand your phone
Antenna
The antenna is a device for transmitting and receiving
signals. Use your phone only in the normal position and do
not touch the antenna unnecessarily when the phone
is active.
Backlight features
You can set the backlight for the keypad and display to
remain on for a specified period of time using the
Backlight
sub menu.
• In standby mode, press the left soft key ( )
Menu, then
press , to enter the backlight sub menu.
Clear key
is used to erase/clear numbers from the display. It can
also be used to return to a previous screen.
• If you enter an incorrect character, briefly press
to
backspace and delete.
• To erase all digits or characters from the display screen,
press and hold until the characters are erased.
• To back up one menu level, briefly press .
• To return to standby mode from any menu, press and
hold until you return to standby mode.
End key
is used to turn your phone on and off, to disconnect a
call, or to cancel any input and return to the standby mode
from any menu.
• Press and hold
to turn on your phone.
• Press and hold
to turn off your phone.