Motorola Timeport Phone User manual

User's Guide
DIGITAL WIRELESS TELEPHONE

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Welcome
Welcome to the world of Motorola digital wireless
communications! We are pleased that you have chosen the
Motorola 270c wireless phone.
Speakerphone Key
Activate/deactivate
the speakerphone.
Speakerphone
For hands-free
phone operation.
Display
Headset Jack
Insert headset
accessory.
End Key
End phone calls,
exit menu system.
Left Soft Key
Perform functions
identified by left
display prompt.
Earpiece Menu Key
Voice Key
Record voice notes,
phonebook and
shortcut names.
Right Soft Key
Perform functions
identified by right
display prompt.
4-Way
Navigation Key
Scroll through
menus and lists,
set feature values.
Send Key
Send and answer
calls, view recent
dialed calls list.
Accessory
Connector Port
Insert charger and
phone accessories.
Antenna
Extend for best
performance
Microphone
Power Key
Volume Keys
Adjust earpiece
and ringer volume.

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Personal Communications Sector
600 North U.S. Highway 45
Libertyville, Illinois 60048
1-800-331-6456 (United States)
1-888-390-6456 (TTY/TDD United States)
1-800-461-4575 (Canada)
www.motorola.com (United States)
www.motorola.ca (Canada)
MOTOROLA, the Stylized M Logo and all other trademarks indicated as
such herein are trademarks of Motorola, Inc. ® Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.
TrueSync, Sidekick, Starfish, and the Stylized Starfish Logo are registered
trademarks of Starfish Software, Inc., a wholly owned independent
subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by
their proprietor and used by Motorola, Inc. under license. All other
product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
© 2001 Motorola, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
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Manual number: 6809435A56-O
Cover number: 8988485L01-O

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Menu Map
Main Menu
• Recent Calls
• Received Calls
• Dialed Calls
• Notepad
• Call Times
• Phonebook
• Datebook
• Quick Dial
• Radio
• Messages
• Voicemail
• Text Msgs
• Browser Alerts
• Quick Notes
• Outbox
• Drafts
• Shortcuts
• Voice Notes
• Browser
• Settings
(see next page)
Note: This is the standard phone
menu layout. You or your service
provider may have changed the
menu layout or changed some
feature names. Not all features
may be available for all users.
For example, the Radio feature on
the main menu (left) is displayed
only when the optional FM Stereo
Radio Headset accessory is
plugged into the accessory
connector port on your phone (see
phone illustration, page 1).
Shortcuts
Change display zoom:
Press M , then
press and hold M
Lock/unlock keypad:
Press M *
Display my phone number:
Press M #
Dial voicemail number:
Press and hold 1
Go to dialed calls list:
Press N
Exit menu system:
Press O

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Settings Menu
• Ring Styles
• Style
•
Style Detail
• My Tones
• Phone Status
• My Tel. Number
• Battery Meter
• Other Information
• Connection
• Incoming Call
• In-Call Setup
• In-Call Timer
• Answer Options
• Security
• Phone Lock
• Lock Keypad
• Lock Application
• Restrict Calls
• New Passwords
• Other Settings
• Personalize
• Main Menu
• Keys
• Greeting
• Banner
• Quick Dial
• Initial Setup
• Time and Date
• Auto PIN Dial
• Auto Redial
• Backlight
• Zoom
• Scroll
• Animation
• Language
• Contrast
• DTMF
• Master Reset
• Master Clear
• Network
• Car Settings
• Headset

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Contents
Menu Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Safety and General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
What’s in the Box? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Removing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning Your Phone On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Sending a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Ending a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Receiving a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Displaying Your Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Changing the Zoom Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Volume Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4-Way Navigation Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Speakerphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Battery Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Sending and Receiving Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Redialing a Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Automatic Redial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Caller ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Returning an Unanswered Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Dialing an Emergency Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Entering Numbers in the Notepad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Terminating an Incoming Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Dialing With Speed Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Dialing With One-Touch Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Dialing a Number In a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Additional Dialing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Features While On a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using Call Waiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Making a Three-Way Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Additional On-Call Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Navigating to a Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting a Feature Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Entering Feature Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Choosing a Text Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Tap Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Symbol Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Predictive Text Entry with iTAP™ Software . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Menu Feature Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Recent Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Viewing the Received Calls or Dialed Calls List . . . . . . . . . 68
Using the Notepad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Viewing and Resetting Call Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Fields in a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Storing a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Recording a Voice Name For a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . 77
Dialing a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Editing a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Deleting a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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Contents
Synchronizing with TrueSync Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Setting Up the Phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Week View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Day View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Event View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Storing a New Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Changing Event Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Copying an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Deleting an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Turning the Radio On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Tuning a Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Storing a Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Selecting a Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Sending and Receiving Calls With the Radio On . . . . . . . . 91
Messages—Voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Storing Your Voicemail Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Receiving a New Voicemail Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Listening to a Voicemail Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Turning Off the Voice Message Waiting Indicator . . . . . . . 94
Messages—Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Setting Up the Text Message Inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Receiving a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Reading, Locking, or Deleting a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sending a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Sending a Quick Note Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Viewing the Status of Sent Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Standard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
User-Settable Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Creating a Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Using Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Voice Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Recording a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Viewing the Voice Notes List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Playing a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Locking and Unlocking a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Deleting a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Micro-Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Starting a Micro-Browser Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Interacting With Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Adjusting Your Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Ring Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Reminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Reordering Menu Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Customizing a Soft Key Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Hands-Free Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Data and Fax Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Connecting Your Phone to an External Device . . . . . . . . 129
Sending a Data or Fax Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Receiving a Data or Fax Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Assigning a New Code or Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
If You Forget a Code or Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Locking and Unlocking Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Locking and Unlocking Your Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139