Sprint User Guide

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SENDING MESSAGES AND EMAILS
SENDING MESSAGES AND EMAILS
SMS and MMS are convenient and inexpensive means
of communication. You can send a text message to
other people via SMS service. MMS allows you to send
messages by including multimedia content such as
pictures, audio les, video les, and so on.
You can use the Messages in your phone to send an
SMS and MMS message to other mobile phones or any
other equipment that can receive SMS and MMS.
The MMS feature will be available only if
subscribed from your network operator.
To access the message function, from Home screen or
App screen, select Messages ( ).
SENDING SMS/MMS MESSAGE
You can send SMS and MMS messages to contacts
in your phonebook and to new numbers that are not
present in the phonebook.
1. To create a SMS message, from Home screen or
App screen, tap on Messages ( ).
2. Tap on New message ( ).
3. Enter the contact name or the phone number
in To eld. On entering an alphabet, contacts
starting and containing the entered alphabet is
displayed. Scroll down to select the required
contact.
4. Enter the message. When you add an attachment,
the message gets automatically converted to a
multimedia message. MMS charges are applied
based on the operator.
5. You can add any multimedia attachment up to
the size of <=1 MB. To add an attachment, tap on
Attach ( ). Select the attachment type from the
options in the next step.
ATTACHMENT
TYPE
DESCRIPTION
Smileys Attach a smiley from the available
list in the Message compose
screen.
Stickers Attach a sticker from the available
list in the Message compose
screen.
Camera Capture or attach the photos and
videos from the list or gallery by
tapping on the Gallery icon. Before
accessing the Gallery, user needs to
give access permissions to access
the gallery.
Location Attach your location details using
the Location mode. User needs to
give access permissions to access
the gallery.
Audio Attach an audio le by recording
using the Touch & hold option.
Also go to the specic audio le in
the File manager and share the le
using message option.
To record the audio, user needs to
give the access permissions.
MANAGING MESSAGE SETTINGS
You can customize the way you want to view and lter
the messages. You can also set the default messages
application.
To view and modify the message settings,
1. To edit message settings, from Home screen or App
screen, select Messages ( ).
2. Tap on Options ( ) > Settings.
3. View and edit the following settings:
SETTINGS DESCRIPTION
Default
message app
You can set the Messeges as a
default message app.
NOTIFICATIONS
Notications Enable this option to get the
notication and vibration settings
enabled.