User guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- User support
- Getting started
- Getting to know your phone
- Phone overview
- Charging the battery
- Using the hardware keys
- Home screen
- Status bar
- Notification panel
- Applications panes
- Recently used applications window
- Notification LED
- Sensors
- Using the touch screen
- Screen lock
- SIM card
- Memory
- Stereo portable handsfree
- Adjusting the volume
- Entering text
- Phone settings overview
- Internet and messaging settings
- Data traffic
- Network settings
- Calling
- Phonebook
- Multimedia and text messaging
- Gmail™
- Google Talk™
- Sony Ericsson Timescape™
- Applications and content
- Getting organized
- Synchronizing
- Connecting to wireless networks
- Web browser
- Connecting your phone to a computer
- Bluetooth™ wireless technology
- Back up and restore
- Music
- FM radio
- Videos
- Camera
- Camera album
- Location services
- Locking and protecting your phone
- Updating your phone
- Troubleshooting
- Legal information
- Index
Multimedia and text messaging
Using text and multimedia messaging
You can send and receive text messages from your phone using SMS (Short Message
Service). If your subscription includes MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), you can also
send and receive messages that contain media files, for example, pictures and videos. A
single text message may contain up to 160 characters. Longer messages are concatenated
and sent as multiple messages. You are charged for each of the messages sent. When you
view your messages, they appear as conversations, which means that the messages are
grouped per recipient.
To create and send a message
1
From the Home screen, tap .
2
Tap New message.
3
Tap Write message, enter your message text and tap Next.
4
To add a recipient, select a contact, or enter the full number manually in the text
input field and tap Done.
5
If you want to add a media file, tap
and select an option.
6
If you want to add, remove or edit the recipients further before sending the message,
press
, then tap Edit recipients. Tap a recipient field to edit the recipient number,
or tap next to a recipient field to remove the recipient. When you are finished, tap
Done.
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To send the message, tap Send.
If you exit a message before sending, it will be saved as a draft. The conversation will be tagged
with the word Draft.
To read a received message
1
From the Home screen, tap
.
2
Tap the desired conversation.
3
If the message is not downloaded yet, touch and hold the message, then tap
Download message.
When you receive a text or multimedia message,
appears in the status bar. To read the
message, you can also drag the status bar downward and tap the received message when the
status bar is open.
To reply to a message
1
From the Home screen, tap .
2
Tap the desired conversation.
3
Enter your reply and tap Send.
To forward a message
1
From the Home screen, tap
.
2
Tap the desired conversation.
3
Touch and hold the message you want to forward, then tap Forward message.
4
Select a recipient from the list, or tap New conversation to add a recipient who is
not in the list.
5
Edit the message and tap Send.
To delete a message
1
From the Home screen, tap
.
2
Tap the desired conversation.
3
Touch and hold the message you want to delete, then tap Delete message >
Yes.
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