Palm AT&T Treo 680 User manual

Palm®Treo™680 i
Table of Contents
Welcome to AT&T 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 9
Make and receive calls 10
Set up voicemail 11
What can I do when I’m on a call? 12
Your email 14
Choose the best email option 14
Set up personal email 14
Set up corporate email 16
Synchronization 22
Why synchronize information? 22
Synchronize for the first time 22

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Your Contacts, Calendar, Messages, and Web 24
Contacts 24
Calendar 26
Messaging 27
Web browser 28
Your music and pictures 30
Listen to music 30
Take pictures 33
Troubleshooting 35
Tips and Tricks 37
Keyboard 37
Phone 37
Data 38
Typing 38
Browser 39
Navigation 39
General 39
Status indicators 40

Palm®Treo™680 1
Welcome to AT&T
Overview: Your Palm®Treo™680 smart device
Indicator light (phone
and charge indicator)
Calendar
Microphone
Earpiece
Menu
Send
Phone
Side button
Volume
Power/End
Messaging
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 another AT&T
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
35 for more info.
If you need a SIM
card, call AT&T 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: Complete the Basics and Phone sections
before proceeding.
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
Your Palm Treo 680 Smart Device User Guide 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 bill or
calling AT&T: 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
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 use only the organizer features, for example,
when you’re on a plane and want to look at 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.
Did You Know?
Pressing Phone,
Calendar, or
Messaging wakes
up the touchscreen
and opens the
corresponding app.
Pressing
Applications wakes
up the touchscreen
and opens
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 tab 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.
Letter
Symbol

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Open applications
When you open an
application using a quick
button or Applications View,
you automatically close the
application you were
previously using and save
any information you created
in that app.
Use the quick buttons
The front of your Treo 680
has three quick buttons that
open applications. The
fourth button opens Applications View.
Use Applications View
You can access all available applications
through Applications View.
1. Press Applications .
2. Use the 5-way to highlight the
application you want to use.
3. Press Center to open the selected
application.
Tip
In Applications
View, you can enter
the first few letters
of an application
name to highlight it.
For example, if you
press P, it highlights
Phone; if you then
press R, it highlights
Prefs. If you pause
and then press R, it
highlights the first
application that
starts with R.
Did You Know?
Press Applications
repeatedly to cycle
through various
categories of
applications.
Phone
Calendar Messaging
Applications