Palm AT&T Treo 680 User manual

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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 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

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Synchronization 22
Why synchronize information? 22
Synchronize for the first time 22
Your Contacts, Calendar, Messages, and Web 24
Contacts 24
Calendar 26
Messaging 27
Web browser 28
Troubleshooting 30
Tips and Tricks 32
Keyboard 32
Phone 32
Data 33
Typing 33
Browser 34
Navigation 34
General 34
Status indicators 35

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Overview: Your Palm®Treo™680 smart device
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
Messaging
Applications
5-way navigator
and Center button
Multi-connector
Headset jack
Stylus
Ringer switchInfrared (IR) port
Stylus

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Insert the battery
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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
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 30 for more
info.
If you need a SIM
card, call Cingular
at: 1-800-331-0500.
Align battery
contacts with
compartment
contacts
Press battery
door release

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Complete setup
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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 Cingular bill
or calling Cingular:
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 Cingular
customers at
1-800-331-0500.

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Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off
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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
opensApplications
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
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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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Use the keyboard
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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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Use the keyboard
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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
viewsautomatically
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
. . . . . . . . . . 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