Palm AT&T Treo 680 How to use

Getting Started Guide
Palm® Treo™ 680 smart device

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Table of Contents
Welcome to Cingular 1
Overview: Your Palm®Treo™680 smart device 1
Setup 2
Insert the battery 2
Complete setup 3
Navigation 4
Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off 4
Move around the touchscreen 5
Use the keyboard 6
Open applications 8
Your phone 9
Turn your phone on and off 9
Open the Phone application 10
Make and receive calls 11
Set up voicemail 12
What can I do when I’m on a call? 13
Your Push To Talk application 15
How Push To Talk works 15
Set up PTT 15
Create a PTT contact list 17
Create a group 18
Responding to Invitations 18
Make a PTT call 19
Your email 20
Choose the best email option 20

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Set up personal email 20
Set up corporate email 23
Synchronization 29
Why synchronize information? 29
Synchronize for the first time 29
Your Contacts, Calendar, messages, and web 31
Contacts 31
Calendar 33
Messaging 34
Web browser 35
Your music and pictures 37
Listen to music 37
Take pictures 40
Troubleshooting 42
Tips and tricks 44
Keyboard 44
Phone 44
Data 45
Typing 45
Browser 46
Navigation 46
General 46
Status indicators 47

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Welcome to Cingular
Overview: Your Palm®Treo™680 smart device
Indicator light (phone
and charge indicator)
Calendar
Microphone
Earpiece
Menu
Send
Phone
Side button
Volume
Power/End
Xpress Mail
Applications
5-way navigator and
Center button
Multi-connector
Headset jack
Stylus
Ringer switchInfrared (IR) port
Stylus

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Setup
Insert the battery
1. Remove the battery door.
2. Insert the battery into the compartment.
3. Slide the battery door back into place.
4. Connect the charger.
The touchscreen on your Palm®Treo™680 smart device turns on. Wait
for the progress bar to fill and the language selection screen to appear.
Tip
Your phone won't
work without a SIM
card. The SIM card
is usually pre-
installed in your
Treo 680, unless
you’re upgrading
from a Cingular
phone. Check the
SIM card tray to see
if the SIM card is
installed. The SIM
card tray is tucked
away in a drawer
in the battery
compartment. See
"I need to insert my
SIM card" on page
42 for more info.
If you need a SIM
card, call AT&T
Wireless at 1-800-
331-0500.
Align battery
contacts with
compartment
contacts
Press battery door
release

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Complete setup
1. Select the language you want to use.
2. Follow the onscreen instructions to set the date and time.
Note: If you want your Treo 680 to obtain the date, time, and time zone from the
local network, accept the default setting on the Date & Time screen.
3. When the setup is complete, press Applications and select
Quick Tour .
4. Recommended: Review the Basics and Phone sections of the Quick Tour
before using your Treo 680.
Note: If your Treo 680 doesn’t turn on after you charge it, do a soft reset by removing
the battery and reinserting it. For more information on resetting your Treo 680, see
User Guide: Your Palm®Treo™680 Smart Device on the CD.
Tip
You need a high-
speed data plan for
email, web
browsing, and
multimedia
messaging. Find
out if you have a
plan by checking
your AT&T Wireless
bill or calling AT&T
Wireless: dial 611
from your Treo 680
or call 1-800-331-
0500 from any
phone.
Tip
Need help setting
up your Treo 680?
Call the Palm Setup
Help desk for AT&T
Wireless customers
at 1-800-331-
0500.

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Navigation
Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off
The phone and the touchscreen of your Palm®Treo™680 smart device can
be turned off and on separately. When you wake up the touchscreen and
leave the phone off, you can continue to use the other wireless features;
for example, when you’re on a plane, you can still manage your calendar,
play MP3 files, or write email offline.
If you’re taking your Treo 680 out of the box and turning it on for the first
time, the phone is already on. You just need to wake up the touchscreen.
1. Press and release
Power/End to
wake up the touchscreen.
2. Press Center to
turn off Keyguard.
3. Press and release
Power/End to turn
off the touchscreen and
lock the keyboard.
Tip
Press Phone,
Calendar, or Xpress
Mail to wake up the
touchscreen and
open the
corresponding app.
Press Applications
to wake up the
touchscreen and
open Applications
View.
Did You Know?
You can set how
long the
touchscreen stays
on. Press
Applications, select
Preferences, select
Power, and then
adjust the Auto-off
after setting.
Center
Power/End

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Move around the touchscreen
To move around the touchscreen on your Treo 680, you can use the 5-way
navigator, or you can tap items on the touchscreen with the stylus. The 5-way
includes the following buttons:
Highlight and select items
The highlight identifies which item is affected by
your next action. Use Left , Right , Up ,
and Down on the 5-way to move the
highlight from one item to another. The
highlight can take two forms: A border glow
around an entire screen, an onscreen button, or
a pick list; and light text on a dark background.
After highlighting an item, you can select
(activate) it by pressing Center or by
tapping it with the stylus. When an entire screen
is highlighted, switch the highlight to the first
item by pressing Center .
Did You Know?
On most screens,
one item—a button,
a list entry, or a
check box—is
highlighted by
default.
Tip
If the item you want
doesn’t appear on
the touchscreen, try
tapping the
onscreen scroll
arrows to view
more info.
Up
Right
Left
Center
Down

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Select menu items
Many applications have menus to
give you access to additional
features. These menus are usually
hidden from view, but they appear
when you press Menu .
1. Press Menu to display an
application’s menus.
2. Press Right and Left to
switch between menus.
3. Press Up and Down to highlight a menu item.
4. Press Center to select the menu item, or press Menu to close
the menu and cancel your selection.
Use the keyboard
Tip
Most menu items
have a shortcut. To
use a menu
shortcut, press
Menu + the
shortcut letter. For
example, in
Calendar, you can
press Menu + D to
delete an event.
Menu
shortcut
letter
Menu
Backspace
Return
Alt
Space
Option
Shift/Find
Backlight (Option
+ P)

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Enter lowercase and uppercase letters
•To enter lowercase letters, press the key you want.
•To enter an uppercase letter, press Shift/Find and then press a letter
key—no need to hold Shift/Find while entering the letter.
•To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find twice. The following symbol
appears . To turn it off, press Shift/Find once.
Enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols
Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above
the letters on the keys. To enter these characters,
do one of the following:
•Press Option , and then press the key with the character—no need to
hold Option while pressing the second key.
•To turn Option Lock on, press Option twice. The following symbol
appears . To turn it off, press Option once.
Enter more symbols and accented characters
1. Enter the character that corresponds to the character you want.
2. Press Alt .
3. Highlight the character you want on the pop-up list, and then press
Center to select the highlighted character.
Note: To enter characters such as _ • \ % =, press Alt by itself, after a space or at
the beginning or end of a line.
Did You Know?
Some application
views automatically
default to Option
Lock, such as the
Dial Pad in the
Phone application.
In this case, you do
not need to press
Option to enter
numbers.
Tip
Alternate
characters are
grouped by their
similarity to the
base key. For
example, the
alternate
characters for the
Ekey are: É, È, Ë,
and Ê. You can find
a complete table of
the alternate keys
in the User Guide.
Letter
Symbol