Blackbe;rry GOOGLE TALK FOR SMARTPHONES User manual

User Guide
Google Talk for BlackBerry Smartphones
BlackBerry Smartphone with a Touch Screen
Version: 2.2

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Contents
Basics............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
About Google Talk for BlackBerry devices......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Sign in to Google Talk for BlackBerry devices................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Change your display picture................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Sign out of Google Talk for BlackBerry devices................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Delete Google Talk for BlackBerry devices........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Friends........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
About Friends......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Add a Friend........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
View a Friend's information................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Associate a Friend with contact in the main contact list on your BlackBerry device................................................................................................................. 5
Rename a Friend.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Delete a Friend....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Block a Friend......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Hide blocked Friends............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Save a Friend's display picture to your device.................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Hide display pictures in the Friends list............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Organize offline Friends....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
A Friend no longer appears in my Friends list................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Conversations.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Send a message..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Open a conversation............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Add an emoticon.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Send a file to a Friend........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Prevent conversations from appearing in the main message list.................................................................................................................................................. 9
Switch conversations............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Call or send an email message to a contact quickly during a conversation................................................................................................................................. 10
Send a conversation as an email message......................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Copy a conversation.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Clear a conversation.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10
End a conversation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
Stop grouping messages in conversations........................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
I am not receiving notification for incoming messages................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Text sometimes changes after I type it............................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Conversation history.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
View the conversation history for a contact...................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Delete a conversation history.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Availability.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
About the availability status................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15
Change your availability status........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Create a custom availability status..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Delete custom availability statuses.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Receive notification when a contact becomes available................................................................................................................................................................. 15
About sound profiles............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Change a sound profile......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Legal notice.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17

Basics
About Google Talk for BlackBerry devices
YoucanuseGoogleTalk™forBlackBerry®devicestochatwithotherGoogleTalk™usersfromyourdevice.TouseGoogleTalkforBlackBerry
devices, you must have a Google Talk user name and the Google Talk for BlackBerry devices application installed on your device. Your
Google Talk user name is the part of your Gmail® email address before the at sign (@). To get a Gmail account, visit mail.google.com. For
more information about Gmail, visit mail.google.com.
If you are signed in to Google Talk on your computer and on your device, and you reply to a Google Talk message on your device, subsequent
messages for that conversation are sent to your device. You can send and receive email messages and use other applications on your
device while the Google Talk for BlackBerry devices application is running. An indicator appears in the device status section of the screen
when you receive a new Google Talk message.
Sign in to Google Talk for BlackBerry devices
1. On the Home screen or in the application list, click Google Talk.
2. Type your Google Talk™ user name and password.
3. Click Sign In.
Note: If you cannot remember your Google Talk user name or password, visit www.google.com/support/talk.
Change your display picture
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Details.
3. Press the Menu key.
4. Click Change Picture.
5. Click a picture.
6. Center the picture in the box.
7. Press the Menu key.
8. Click Crop and Save.
Sign out of Google Talk for BlackBerry devices
When you sign out of Google Talk™ for BlackBerry®devices, you do not receive Google Talk™ messages on your device. If you sign out
without closing existing conversations, you can access the conversations the next time that you sign in to Google Talk for BlackBerry
devices.
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Sign Out.
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Delete Google Talk for BlackBerry devices
1. In the device options, click Advanced Options.
2. Click Applications.
3. Highlight the Google Talk™ for BlackBerry® devices application.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Delete.
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Friends
About Friends
The Friends list displays your list of individual contacts, or Friends. Google Talk™ for BlackBerry® devices uses your existing Friends list
from your Google Talk™ account.
Add a Friend
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Add a Friend.
3. In the user name field, perform one of the following actions:
• Type an email address.
• Type part of the name of a contact in the main contact list on your BlackBerry® device. Click a contact name.
4. Click OK.
5. To associate the Friend with a contact in the main contact list on your BlackBerry device, perform one of the following actions:
• If the Friend is in your main contact list, click Select Contact. Click an email address.
• If the Friend is not in your main contact list, click New Contact. Type the contact information. Press the Menu key. Click Save.
View a Friend's information
1. On the Friends list screen, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Friend Details.
Associate a Friend with contact in the main contact list on your BlackBerry device
You can associate a Friend with a contact in your main contact list who has an email address, phone number, or both. You can then call
or send an email message to the Friend quickly during a conversation.
1. In the Friends list, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Link to BlackBerry Contact.
4. Perform one of the following actions:
• If the contact is in your main contact list, click Select Contact. Click an email address.
• If the contact is not in your main contact list, click New Contact. Type the contact information. Press the Menu key. Click Save.
Rename a Friend
1. In the Friends list, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Rename.
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4. Type a name.
5. Click OK.
Delete a Friend
1. On the Friends list screen, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Remove.
Block a Friend
1. In the Friends list, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Block.
To unblock a Friend, press the Menu key. Click Unblock.
Hide blocked Friends
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Settings.
3. Change the Show Blocked Friends option to No.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
To view blocked Friends again, change the Show Blocked Friends option to Yes.
Save a Friend's display picture to your device
1. On the Friends list screen, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Friend Details.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save Picture.
6. Click Save.
Hide display pictures in the Friends list
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Settings.
3. Change the Show Pictures field to No.
4. Press the Menu key.
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5. Click Save.
To view display pictures again, change the Show Pictures field to Yes.
Organize offline Friends
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Settings.
3. Perform one of the following actions:
• To group offline Friends, change the Show Offline Friends field to Group.
• To hide offline Friends, change the Show Offline Friends field to No.
• To view offline Friends, change the Show Offline Friends field to Yes.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
A Friend no longer appears in my Friends list
Try performing the following actions:
• If you have set Google Talk™ for BlackBerry® devices to hide offline Friends, change the Show Offline Friends field on the
Settings screen to view offline Friends.
• If you have collapsed the group that the Friend is in, expand the group. On the Friends list screen, click the group.
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User Guide Conversations
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Conversations
Send a message
1. In the Friends list, click an online Friend.
2. Type a message.
3. Press the Enter key.
Open a conversation
Conversations appear in the Chats list and, by default, in the main message list on your BlackBerry® device.
In the Chats list, click a Friend.
Add an emoticon
1. When you are composing a message, press the Emoticon key.
2. Click an emoticon.
Send a file to a Friend
1. On the Friends list screen, highlight an online Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click Send File.
4. Perform one of the following actions:
• To send a picture, click Picture. Click a picture.
• To send a document, click File. Click a file.
• To send a voice note, click Voice Note. Record your message. Click Send.
• To send a vCard® contact attachment, click Contact.
• To send multiple files, click Multiple. Click a file. To add more files, click Add another file. Click another file. Click Send.
Note: To cancel a file transfer, click Cancel.
Prevent conversations from appearing in the main message list
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Settings.
3. Change the Show Chats in Message List field to No.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
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Switch conversations
1. During a conversation, press the Menu key.
2. Click Switch Chat.
3. Click a Friend.
Call or send an email message to a contact quickly during a conversation
To perform this task, the Friend must be associated with a contact in the main contact list on your BlackBerry® device.
During a conversation, perform any of the following actions:
• Press the Menu key.Click Call <Contact Name>.
• Press the Menu key.Click Email <Contact Name>.
Send a conversation as an email message
1. During a conversation, press the Menu key.
2. Click Email Chat.
Copy a conversation
1. During a conversation, press the Menu key.
2. Click Copy Chat.
Clear a conversation
1. During a conversation, press the Menu key.
2. Click Clear Chat.
End a conversation
1. During a conversation, press the Menu key.
2. Click End Chat.
Stop grouping messages in conversations
In a conversation, by default, consecutive messages that you send or receive are grouped together.
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Settings.
3. In the Group Messages In Chat drop-down list, click No.
4. Press the Menu key.
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5. Click Save.
I am not receiving notification for incoming messages
In the sounds application, try performing the following actions:
• Verify that the All Alerts Off sound profile is not selected.
• Verify that the Volume fields in the Google Talk New Message item are not set to Silent.
• Change the notification options for the Google Talk New Message item.
Text sometimes changes after I type it
If AutoText recognizes specific text, it is designed to replace the text that you type with the AutoText entry automatically.
• To view or change AutoText entries, during a conversation, press the Menu key. Click Edit AutoText.
For more information about AutoText, click Help on your BlackBerry® device.
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User Guide Conversation history
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Conversation history
View the conversation history for a contact
To perform this task, on the Settings screen, the Save Chat History field must be set to save conversations on your BlackBerry® device or
on a media card.
1. On the Friends list screen, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click View History.
4. Click a conversation history.
Delete a conversation history
1. On the Friends list screen, highlight a Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Click View History.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Perform one of the following actions:
• To delete the conversation history for an individual Friend, click Delete Contact's History.
• To delete the conversation history for all Friends, click Delete Complete History.
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User Guide Availability
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Availability
About the availability status
Your availability status is made up of a status message and an availability indicator. You can create a custom availability status by typing
your own status message and choosing an availability indicator. By default, the availability indicator appears as available.
Change your availability status
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Status.
3. Click an availability status.
Create a custom availability status
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Status.
3. Click Custom status.
4. Type a status message.
5. Perform any of the following actions:
• To change the availability indicator that appears beside your status message to busy, select the Show busy icon check box. By
default, the availability indicator appears as available.
• To add the custom availability status to the status list, select the Add to status message list check box.
6. Click OK.
Delete custom availability statuses
1. On the Friends list screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click My Status.
3. Click Clear all custom statuses.
Receive notification when a contact becomes available
1. In the Friends list, highlight an offline Friend.
2. Press the Menu key.
3. Perform one of the following actions:
• To turn on an availability alert, click Alert Me. Click OK.
• To turn off an availability alert, click Clear Alert.
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About sound profiles
You can set notification options, such as vibrate or tone, for Google Talk™ for BlackBerry® devices in the sounds application. The Google
Talk Alert sound profile specifies how you are notified when a Friend that you have set an availability alert for becomes available. The
Google Talk New Message sound profile specifies how you are notified of incoming Google Talk messages.
Change a sound profile
1. In the sounds application, perform one of the following actions:
• To change the Normal sound profile, click Ringtones.
• To change a custom sound profile, click Custom Profiles. Click a profile.
2. Click the application or item that you want to change.
3. Change the notification information.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
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