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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T9
®
Word mode
T9 Word recognizes the most commonly used words for a
sequence of keypresses and inserts that word into your
message. It’s much faster than the traditional method of text
entry (Abc) and requires only one key press per letter of the
word that you’re spelling.
1. In standby mode, press the left soft key ( )
Menu, then
press , .
2. Enter the phone number of the recipient, then press
.
3. Press the left soft key ( ) Option to
display a pop-up such as the one on
the right:
The arrows on either side of ABC indicate other text entry
modes are available.
4. Use the navigation left/right keys to display (and select)
T9 Word, then press .
• For practice, enter the word “Samsung” into your
message by pressing each of the following keys
only once:
, , , , , ,
S A M S U N G
T9 Word recognizes that the most commonly used word for
the sequence of keys that you just entered is “Samsung.” If
more than one word shares the same sequence, which is
often the case, T9 Word displays the most commonly used
word. Press to display other words, when available.