Kyocera Duramax Sprint Specification sheet

Get
Started
All you need to know to get going.

Welcome!
Sprint is committed to developing technologies that give you the ability
to get what you want when you want it, faster than ever before. This booklet
introduces you to the basics of getting started with Sprint and your
KYOCERA DuraMax.
Visit sprint.com/support for the complete User Guide, along with videos,
tutorials, and community forums for your phone.

Using This Guide
Get Ready − page 1 − Find out what
you need to do before you use your
phone the first time, including inserting
a battery and activating Sprint service
on your phone.
Use Your Phone − page 3 − Take
advantage of your phone’s features
and Sprint services, from the basics
(making calls) to the more advanced
(taking pictures, pairing with Bluetooth
devices, and more).
Get the Most Out of Sprint Direct
Connect − page 16 − Learn the basics
of using Sprint Direct Connect, which
lets you connect to other Sprint Direct
Connect users with the push of a button.
Tools & Resources − page 21 − Find
useful tips for your phone and discover
resources and other helpful Sprint
information. For additional information
including the full User Guide, videos,
tutorials, and community forums, visit
sprint.com/support.
Using This Guide
This Get Started guide is designed to help you set up and use your new
KYOCERA DuraMax. It’s divided into four sections to help you find the
information you need quickly and easily.

Your KYOCERA DuraMax
Earpiece
Main
Screen
Navigation
Key MENU/OK
Key
TALK Key
Microphone Internal Antenna
Internal
Antenna
Camera
Key
SPEAKER
Key
Keypad
Softkeys
BACK
Key
END/
POWER
Key
Call List Button
Volume
Button
External
Speaker
Button
Direct
Connect
Button
Speaker
Outer
Screen
LED
Indicator
Charger/
Accessory
Jack
micro SD
Card
(Internal)
Battery Cover Release Latch
Camera Lens
Flash
Headset
Jack

Get Ready
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Install the Battery
1. Insert the battery, contacts end first, and gently
press into place.
2. Replace the cover, making sure all tabs on the
cover align with the battery compartment slots
and press down until the cover snaps into
place.
3. Slide the battery cover release latch into the
locked position.
Charge the Battery
1. Plug the USB connector into the charger/
accessory jack on the left side of your phone.
2. Plug the AC adapter into an electrical outlet.
Turn the Phone On
►Press to turn your phone on.
Get Your Phone Ready

2
Activate Your Phone
• If you purchased your phone at a Sprint Store, it
is probably activated and ready to use.
• If you received your phone in the mail, and it is a
new Sprint account or a new phone number,
your phone is designed to activate automatically
when you first turn it on. You will see a Hands
Free Activation screen at startup. When it’s
finished, touch OK to continue. To confirm your
activation, make a phone call.
• If you received your phone in the mail and
it is going to be activated on an existing
number (you’re swapping phones), go to
sprint.com/activate and follow the instructions.
When you have finished, if your phone is still not
activated or you do not have access to the
Internet, contact Sprint Customer Service at
1-888-211-4727 for assistance.
Turn the Phone Off
• Press and hold to turn the phone off.
Activate Your Phone

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Set Up Your Voicemail
All unanswered calls are automatically transferred
to your voicemail, even if your phone is in use or
turned off. You should set up your voicemail and
personal greeting as soon as your phone is
activated:
1. Press and hold .
2. Follow the voice prompts to create your
password and record your name and greeting.
Sprint strongly recommends setting a voicemail
password. Without a password, anyone who has
access to your phone can access your
messages.
Retrieve Your Voicemail
►Press and hold .
From any other phone:
1. Dial your wireless phone number.
2. When your voicemail answers, press *.
Use Your Phone: Voicemail

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Make a Phone Call
1. Enter a number from standby mode.
2. Press to delete one or more digits.
3. Press , , or the external speaker button.
4. Press when you are finished.
Answer an Incoming Call
• Press to answer an incoming call.
In-Call Options
Pressing OPTIONS (right softkey) during a call
displays a list of available in-call features. To select
an option, highlight the option and press .
• Transfer Audio to switch the call to a
Bluetooth device (if applicable).
• Save to save the current call’s phone number
in your Contacts.
• Contact Details to display information about
the caller stored in your Contacts.
• Main Menu to display the phone’s main
menu.
• 3-Way Call to open a call with two other
parties.
• Contacts to display your Contacts list.
Phone Calls

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View Contacts
1. Press Contacts (right softkey) from the standby
screen.
2. Use the navigation key to scroll through the list
to view your contacts.
Add a New Contact
1. In standby mode, press CONTACTS (right
softkey) > Add New... > New Contact.
2. Enter a name for the new entry and press the
navigation key down.
3. Enter the phone number and press .
4. Highlight a number type for the entry (Mobile,
Mobile+DC, Home, Work, DC Only, Pager,
Fax, or Other) and press .
5. Press DONE (left softkey).
Edit Contacts
1. In standby mode, press CONTACTS (right softkey).
2. Highlight the entry you want to edit and press
OPTIONS (right softkey) > Edit Contact or Edit
Group.
3. Highlight the information you wish to edit.
4. Add or edit the information and press .
5. Press DONE (left softkey) or SAVE (left softkey)
to save your changes.
Delete a Contacts Entry
1. In standby mode, press CONTACTS (right softkey).
2. Highlight an entry or a group you want to delete.
3. Press OPTIONS (right softkey) > Delete
Contact or Delete Group.
4. Press DELETE (left softkey).
Contacts

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Messages
Send a Message
1. Press > Messaging.
2. Press Send Message.
3. Select a recipient from the list or from the
following options:
• Go to Contacts to select a recipient from your
Contacts. (Qualifying Contacts entries must
contain a phone number or an email address.)
• MULTIPLE (left softkey) to select multiple
recipients. Press CONTINUE (left softkey) when
you have finished selecting and entering
recipients. (You may include up to 40
recipients per message.)
• NEW ADDRESS (right softkey) to enter a
recipient’s phone number or email address
directly. Press CONTINUE (left softkey) to
proceed.
4. Compose a message.
• Press OPTIONS (right softkey) to select
additional options.
5. Select <Add Attachment> and select a
category of files you would like to attach
(Picture, Video, Voice, Audio, or File Manager).
6. Select a location where your file is stored. (You
can also choose to take a new picture or video,
or to record a new voice or audio clip.)
7. Select files you would like to attach.
8. Review your message and press SEND (left
softkey).

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To read a message
►When you receive a message, your phone will
display a notification message. Use your
navigation key or select View.
To reply to a message:
1. While the message is displayed, press REPLY
(left softkey).
• Select Reply to Sender, or select Reply All if
you are replying to a message with multiple
recipients.
2. Compose a reply and press SEND (left softkey).
Be a hero. Don’t drive distracted.
sprint.com/focusondriving

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Set Up an Email Account
1. Press > Web.
2. From the SprintWebSM home page, select
Messaging > Email.
3. Select Yahoo! Mail, AOL & AIM Mail, or MSN
Hotmail.
4. Use your keypad to enter the required sign-in
information for the selected provider, such as
user name, email address, or password, and
select Sign In. (Your mailbox for the selected
provider will be displayed.)
5. Follow the onscreen instructions to read, reply to,
compose, and send messages and manage
your email account.
Email Setup
Email allows you to stay connected 24 hours a day anywhere on the Nationwide Sprint Network. You
can set up email accounts through the email application.

Use Your Phone
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• Press > Web. (Your data connection starts
and you see the SprintWebSM home page.)
Note: If Net Guard is enabled and displayed, press
YES (left softkey) to continue and launch the Web.
• While connecting, you may see an animation
before the home page appears.
Tip: To change the default launch page to the last
page you viewed, press Options (right softkey)
and select Browser settings > Startup page >
Use the last page I visited > Confirm (left softkey).
Web
Find sports scores, news, and weather. Shop online. Browse the Web just the way you want to.

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Access the Download Menus
1. Press > My Stuff.
2. Select a download category (Games, Ringers,
Screen Savers, or Applications), and then
select Get New.
– or –
Select Call Tones. (The browser will start and
take you to the corresponding download menu.)
– or –
1. From the SprintWebSM home page, select
Downloads, and then select Sprint Downloads.
2. Select a download category (Call Tones, Games,
Ringers, Screen Savers, or Applications) to go
to the corresponding download menu.
Download an Item
Once you’ve selected an item you wish to
download, highlight it and press . You will see
a summary page for the item including its title,
the vendor, the download details, and the cost.
Links allow you to view the License Info page,
which outlines the price, license type, and length
of license for the download, and the Terms of Use
page, which details the Premium Services Terms
of Use and your responsibility for payment.
Download Games, Ringers, and More
You have access to a dynamic variety of downloadable content, such as games, ringers, screen
savers, and other applications. (Additional charges may apply.) Follow the basic steps below to
access and download these items.

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To download a selected item:
1. From the information page, use your navigation
key to move the cursor over Buy. When the
cursor changes from an arrow into a hand,
press . The item will download automatically.
When you see the NEW DOWNLOAD screen,
you have successfully downloaded the item to
your phone. (When you download a call tone,
you will not see the NEW DOWNLOAD screen.
Instead, you will see a screen giving you the
option to set the downloaded call tone as your
default.)
Note: If you have not previously purchased an
item, you will be prompted to create your
purchasing profile.
2. Select an option to continue:
• Select a menu such as Run/Open/Listen/
View/Play to start the downloaded item.
Your data session will end, and your phone
will redirect you to the appropriate phone menu
screen.
• Select Assign to assign a ringer or screen
saver to a phone function.
• Select Settings to configure downloaded
games or applications.
• Select Shop to browse for other items to
download.
• Press to quit the browser and return to
standby mode.

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Take a Picture
1. Press > Photos & Videos > Camera to
activate camera mode.
Shortcut: To activate camera mode, you can also
press and hold .
2. Using the phone’s main screen as a viewfinder,
aim the camera lens at your subject.
3. Press , , or CAPTURE (left softkey) until
the shutter sounds. The picture will automatically
be saved in the selected storage area.
• To return to camera mode to take another
picture, press CAMERA (left softkey) or .
Record a Video
1. Press > Photos & Videos.
Shortcut: Press to access the Photos & Videos
menus.
2. Press Camcorder > Video Mail or Long Video
to activate camcorder mode.
Note: Video Mail is limited to 50 seconds if Quality is
set to Fine and 70 seconds if set to Normal.
Note: The length of a Long Video will vary
depending on the quality settings and storage
type used (phone or memory card).
3. Using the phone’s main screen as a viewfinder,
aim the camera lens at your subject.
4. Press , , or RECORD (left softkey) to
begin recording.
5. Press or STOP (right softkey) to stop
recording. The video will automatically be saved
in your designated storage area.
• To return to camcorder mode to take another
video, press CAMCORDER (left softkey) or .
Camera & Camcorder

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Camcorder Settings
1. From camcorder mode, press OPTIONS (right
softkey) > Video Settings.
2. Select an option and press .
• Resolution to select video resolution from
QCIF (176x144) or Sub-QCIF (128x96).
• Quality to select video quality from Fine or Normal.
• Silent Movie to select On to record without
sound. Select Off to deactivate this feature.
• Cue Sound to select a cue sound (Default,
“Action & Cut,” or “Ready & Stop”).
• Auto Save to to select the storage area for the videos.
• Auto Review to select whether or not the video
is displayed for review after you finish recording.
Share Pictures and Videos Using Messaging
1. Press > Photos & Videos > My Photos &
Videos > In Phone or On Memory Card.
2. Select your pictures or videos to send.
• Press OPTIONS (right softkey) > Select
Multiple to select multiple pictures or videos.
3. Press SEND (left softkey) > Contact.
4. Select the recipient from the list or from the
following options:
• Go to Contacts to select a recipient from your
Contacts. (Qualifying Contacts entries must contain
a wireless phone number or an email address.)
• MULTIPLE (left softkey) to select multiple
recipients. Press CONTINUE (left softkey)
when you have finished selecting and
entering recipients. (You may include up to 40
recipients per message.)
• NEW ADDRESS (right softkey) to enter a
recipient’s wireless phone number or email
address directly. Press CONTINUE (left
softkey) to proceed.
5. Compose a message.
6. Confirm the recipients, message, and pictures
or videos. (You may also select additional
options by pressing the right softkey. Follow the
onscreen instructions to add available options.)
7. Press SEND (left softkey) to send the pictures
and videos.

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Turn Bluetooth On and Off
1. Press > Tools > Bluetooth > On/Off.
2. Press ON (left softkey) to enable Bluetooth. Press
OFF (left softkey) to disable Bluetooth.
Pair Bluetooth Devices
1. Press > Tools > Bluetooth > Add New.
2. Select the device you wish to pair with and
press .
3. Enter the passkey and press .
4. (Optional) Edit the device name and press SAVE
(left softkey).
Note: Due to different specifications and features
of other Bluetooth compatible devices, display
and operations may be different, and functions
such as transfer or exchange may not be possible
with all Bluetooth compatible devices.
Share Contacts, Files, or Pictures Using
Bluetooth
1. Press > Tools > Bluetooth > Trusted
Devices.
2. Select the device from the Trusted Devices list
and press TRANSFER... (left softkey).
3. Select an item (Contacts, Photos / Videos,
Music, Files, or Calendar Events) and press .
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to select items
to send.
5. Read the message and press SEND (left
softkey).
Bluetooth

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GPS Navigation
Note: Before using any navigation programs,
make sure your phone is set to allow location
detection.
Turn Location On/Off
1. Press > Settings > Others > Location >
On/Off. (You will see the Location disclaimer.)
2. Read the disclaimer and press .
3. Select On.
GPS Navigation
1. Press > Maps > Sprint Navigation.
2. If this is your first time, follow the onscreen
instructions to enter and submit the required
registration information.
3. Select an option and follow the onscreen
instructions to get directions or view maps.
• Drive To lets you enter an address (vocally or
using the keypad) or select from categories
such as My Favorites, Recent Places, or
Businesses to search for turn-by-turn
directions.
• Search provides a categorized list of locations
such as Gas Stations, Grocery Stores, and
Hospitals to help find local businesses and
services.
• Maps & Traffic lets you view maps and get
traffic information for your current location or for
any other location (same categories as Drive To).
• Share & More provides access to additional
services such as Share Address, Record
Location, and Preferences.
Your phone’s built-in GPS capability gives you access to a number of location-based services.

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Your Direct Connect Number
Your Sprint phone allows you two different
options for your Direct Connect number:
• Separate numbers (DC Only) – Your Direct
Connect number is a unique number (not your
wireless number). It is made up of three sets of
digits separated by asterisks (for example,
444*5555*111).
• A single number (Mobile+DC) – Your Direct
Connect number is the same as your wireless
number (for example, 555-555-1234).
Important: When the Direct Connect feature is
active, your phone’s data services are enabled
and the Net Guard feature is disabled (Settings >
Others > Data Settings > Data and Net Guard).
Display Your Direct Connect Number
►Press > Settings > Phone Info >
Phone#/User ID.
Get the Most out of Sprint Direct Connect
Sprint® Direct Connect® on your Sprint phone offers instant, two-way “walkie-talkie-style”
communication between you and your family, friends, and co-workers, all at the click of a button.