Palm Treo 755P User manual

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Contents
Chapter 1: Moving around on your smartphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Palm®Treo™755Psmartphone overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Upgrading from another Palm OS®device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Moving around on the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Using the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Opening applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Synchronizing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Maximizing battery life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2: Your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Turning your smartphone on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Making calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Receiving calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
What can I do when I’m on a call? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Creating a speed-dial favorite button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using a hands-free device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Customizing ringer settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
What are all those icons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Chapter 3: Your email, messages, and web browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The VersaMail®application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Web browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 4: Your contacts, calendar, and documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

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Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 5: Your pictures and music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Pocket Tunes™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 6: Check out these features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

CHAPTER
1
Moving around on your
smartphone
Palm®Treo™755Psmartphone overview
Front view
Indicator light (phone
and charge indicator)
Calendar
5-way navigator and
Center button
Earpiece
Menu
Send
Phone
Side button
Volume button
Power/End
Applications
Option
Email

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PALM®TREO™755PSMARTPHONE OVERVIEW
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Back view
IMPORTANT The Palm®Treo™755P
smartphone speaker includes a large
magnet, so be sure to keep your
smartphone away from credit cards or
other items that could be demagnetized.
To p v i e w
Camera
lens
Battery door
release
Speaker
Self-portrait mirror
Multi-
connector
Headset
jack
Microphone
Stylus
Infrared
(IR) port
MiniSD
expansion card
slot
DID YOU KNOW ? The Ringer switch silences all
sounds. When you need quiet, there’s no
need to navigate menus.
Ringer switch
Sound Off
Sound On

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Upgrading from
another Palm
OS®device
NOTE If you’re setting up your first Palm
OS®device, skip this section.
You can transfer all compatible apps and
info from your previous Palm OS device to
your new Treo 755p smartphone. This
includes your calendar events, contacts,
memos, and tasks, as well as your app
settings, any compatible third-party apps,
and any files that are compatible with the
Palm OS software version 5.4.9 on your
new Treo smartphone.
Incompatible files are quarantined.
Quarantined files are not installed on your
smartphone; they are placed in a new
folder on your computer: C:\Program
Files\Palm\device name\PalmOS5
Incompatible Apps. (On some systems
Palm may be replaced with palmOne or
Handspring.)
1Calculate how much space your apps
and info occupy on your previous Palm
OS device:
•From Applications View, open the
menus.
•Select Info on the App menu.
•At the bottom of the screen, select
Size.
•Look at the numbers on the Free
Space line and subtract the number
on the left from the number on the
right to calculate the space used. For
example, on the device shown on the
next page, 22.4 – 17.5 = 4.9. This
means that the space used on this
device is 4.9MB.
TIP Some third-party utilities let you back up
your old device’s info onto an expansion card
and then transfer the info to your Treo 755p
smartphone. We do not recommend this
method, because any incompatible apps are
also transferred to your smartphone.

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2If the space used on your previous
device is 60MB or less, go to step 3.
If the space used is greater than 60MB,
do any of the following to reduce the
space used before going to the next
step:
•Delete any third-party apps that you
no longer use.
•Move large files, such as eBooks and
images, to an expansion card.
•Move third-party apps to an expansion
card.
•Purge old info in apps such as
Calendar (Date Book), Tasks (To Do),
and email. For instructions, see the
documentation that came with your
previous device.
3Sync your previous device with your
previous desktop software to back up
your info one last time.
4Install the desktop synchronization
software from your new Palm Software
Installation CD (see the Read This First
booklet).
IMPORTANT Do not sync your new Treo
755p smartphone with any previous
versions of Palm®Desktop software.
5When prompted, do the following
during the installation process:
•Connect your new smartphone to
your computer (see the Read This
First booklet).
•Indicate whether you want to sync
only the info in your PIM apps
(Calendar, Contacts, Memos, and
Tasks) or all info and apps (excluding
apps known to be incompatible).
•Select a device name for your new
smartphone; be sure to select the
same name that you used for your old
device. (This is the name that appears
in the User list in Palm Desktop
software.)

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MAC ONLY If you have pictures on your
previous device, copy them from your
previous device to an expansion card or
beam them to your new Treo 755p
smartphone.
6If you plan to continue using your
previous device, perform a hard reset to
remove its device name. (See the
documentation that came with your
previous device for hard reset
instructions.) The next time you sync
your previous device with your
computer, assign it a new name.
If any third-party apps are quarantined
during the installation, do not manually
install them. Contact the developer for
software updates and info about
compatibility with your new smartphone.
Moving around on
the screen
To move around your smartphone screen,
you can use the 5-way navigator for
one-handed navigation, or you can tap
items on the screen with the stylus. With
use, you will find your own favorite way to
scroll, highlight, and select menu items.
The 5-way includes the following buttons:
Up
Right
Left
Down
Center

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Highlighting and selecting items
On most screens, one item—a button, a
list entry, or a check box—is highlighted by
default. 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.
Learn to recognize the highlight. It can take
two forms:
•Border glow: When an entire screen,
an onscreen button (such as Done,
New, or OK), or a pick list is highlighted,
a glow appears around its border. If an
entire list screen is highlighted, the
glow appears at the top and bottom of
the screen only; to highlight the first
item in the list, press Center .
•Colored background: When text, a
phone number, an email address, a web
link, or an item in a list is highlighted,
the item is displayed as white text
against a colored background.
After highlighting an item, you can select
(activate) it by pressing Center , or by
tapping the item with the stylus.
TIP If the item you want doesn’t appear on the
screen, try tapping the onscreen scroll arrows
to view more info.

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Selecting 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 the Menu key
in the lower-right corner of the keyboard.
1Press Menu to display an
application’s menus.
2Press Right and Left to switch
between menus.
3Press Up and Down to highlight a
menu item.
4Press Center to select the menu
item, or press Menu to close the
menu and cancel your selection.
Menu shortcut
TIP Most menu items have a shortcut. To use
a menu shortcut, press Menu + the shortcut
letter. You don’t have to open a menu to use a
menu shortcut. For example, in Calendar, you
can press Menu + Nto create a new event.

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USING THE KEYBOARD
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Using the keyboard
Entering lowercase and uppercase letters
•To enter lowercase letters, press the
desired keys.
•To enter an uppercase letter, press
Shift/Find and then press a letter
key. You don’t need to press and hold
Shift while entering a letter. When Shift
is active, an up arrow appears in the
lower-right corner of the screen.
•To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find
twice. To turn it off, press Shift/
Find once. When Caps Lock is on,
an underlined up arrow appears in
the lower-right corner of the screen.
Menu
Backspace
Return
AltSpace
Option
Shift/Find
Backlight
TIP When using the keyboard, most people
find it easiest to hold the Treo smartphone
with two hands and use the tips of both
thumbs to press the keys.

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Entering 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 desired character shown
above the letter. You don’t need to press
and hold Option while pressing the
second key. When Option is active, the
symbol appears in the lower-right
corner of the screen.
•To turn Option Lock on, press
Option twice. To turn it off, press
Option once. When Option Lock is
on, the symbol appears in the
lower-right corner of the screen.
Entering other symbols and accented
characters
Symbols and accented characters that do
not appear on the keyboard are sometimes
called alternate characters because you
enter them using the Alt key.
1Enter the character that corresponds to
the symbol or accented character you
want. See the table on the next page.
2Press Alt .
3Press Up , Down , Right , or
Left to highlight the desired
character.
4Press Center to insert the
character.
Letter
Symbol
DID YOU KNOW ? Some application views
automatically default to Option Lock, such as
the Dial Pad View in the Phone application or
the Calculator. In this case, you do not need
to press Option to enter numbers.
DID YOU KNOW ? Alternate characters are
grouped by their similarity to the base key. For
example, when you press Alt + E you can
access the following alternate characters:
e é, è, ë, ê, and .

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0
Symbols and accented characters
Enter… Then press
Alt to
select…
Enter… Then press
Alt to
select…
Enter… Then press
Alt to
select…
a á à ä â ã å æ n ñ u ú ù ü û
AÁ À Ä Â Ã Å Æ NÑ UÚ Ù Ü Û
b or B ß o ó ò ö ô œ õ x or X x ¤
cç ¢ © OÓ Ò Ö Ô Œ Õ yý ÿ
C Ç ¢ © p or P ¶ Y Ý Ÿ
eé è ë ê r or R ® ! ¡
E É È Ë Ê s ß š ? ¿
ií ì ï î Sß Š ::-) :-( ;-)
I Í Ì Ï Î t or T ™ $ £ ¥ ¢
l or L £
Press Alt by itself, after a space or at the beginning or end of a line, to select these
commonly used characters:
; _ • \ % = ° ÷ £ ¥ ¢ [ ] { } < > « » © ® ™ ~ ^ ø |

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Opening applications
When you open an application using either
Applications View or an application button,
you automatically close the application you
were previously using.
Using the quick buttons
The front of the Treo 755p smartphone has
three buttons that open applications. The
fourth button opens Applications View.
Using Applications View
You can access all available applications
through Applications View.
1Press Applications .
2Use the 5-way to highlight the
application you want to use.
3Press Center to open the selected
application.
TIP You can open a button’s secondary
application by pressing Option and then
pressing the quick button.
Phone
Calendar Messaging
Applications
TIP Enter the first few letters of an app 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 app that starts with R.
TIP Press Applications repeatedly to cycle
through the various categories of apps.

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SYNCHRONIZING INFORMATION
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Synchronizing
information
Synchronizing means that info you enter in
one place (your smartphone or your
computer) appears in the other, so there’s
no need to enter the info twice. We
recommend that you sync your
smartphone with your computer frequently
to keep your info up-to-date (and backed
up) in both locations.
The info from all the following applications
is updated by default each time you sync:
BEFORE YOU BEGIN You must install
Palm®Desktop software from the Palm
Software Installation CD that came with
your Treo 755p smartphone—even if you
sync with Outlook or another third-party
application. See the Read This First booklet
for instructions.
1Connect your Treo 755p smartphone to
your computer.
2
Press the sync button on the sync cable.
Messages on both your computer and
your smartphone indicate that
synchronization is in progress.
3Wait until you see the message on your
smartphone indicating that the
HotSync®operation is complete; then
disconnect the sync cable. Do not
disconnect the sync cable until you see
this message.
TIP Problems synchronizing? See your
Palm®Treo™755Psmartphone User Guide for
troubleshooting suggestions.
Sync cable
Sync
button
Use adapter if needed

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Maximizing battery
life
Battery life depends on how you use your
smartphone. You can maximize the life of
your battery by following a few easy
guidelines:
•Charge your smartphone whenever
you’re at your desk, or charge it
overnight. The lithium-ion battery has a
much longer useful life when it is
topped off frequently, versus charging it
after it is fully drained.
•Your smartphone’s wireless features
(phone, email, messaging, and web)
and media features (camera, media
players, eBooks, and games) consume
more power than its organizer features.
If you spend a lot of time using the
wireless and media features, keep an
eye on the battery icon and charge
when necessary.
•If you don’t plan to use the wireless
features on your smartphone for a
while, turn off your phone (see “Turning
your phone on and off” on page 16) and
let all calls be picked up by voicemail.
•As with any mobile phone, if you are in
an area with no wireless coverage, your
smartphone searches for a signal, which
consumes power. If you cannot move to
an area of better coverage, temporarily
turn off your phone. While your phone is
off, you can continue to use your
smartphone’s nonwireless features.
•Turn down the screen brightness.
•Decrease the settings in Power
Preferences and turn off Beam Receive.
•Turn off the Bluetooth®feature if you’re
not using it.
TIP You can buy an extra battery as a spare for
long airplane trips or periods of heavy use. To
purchase batteries that are compatible with
your smartphone, go to http://go.palm.com/
treo755p/.

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CHAPTER
2
Your phone
Turning your
smartphone on
and off
NOTE In this guide the term smartphone
describes your device and its physical
aspects. The term phone describes the
feature of your Palm®Treo™755P
smartphone that lets you connect to your
wireless service provider’s network to
make and receive calls and transmit data.
The phone and the screen of your
smartphone can be turned off and on
separately.
Waking up the screen
Wake up the screen and leave the phone
off to use only the organizer features, for
example, when you’re on an airplane and
want to look at your calendar.
1Press and release Power/End
to wake up the screen.
2Press Center to turn off Keyguard.
3Press and release Power/End
to turn off the screen and lock the
keyboard.
Center
Power/End

YOUR PHONE
TURNING YOUR SMARTPHONE ON AND OFF
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Turning your phone on and off
When your phone is on, it is connected to
your wireless service provider’s network (if
you are in a coverage area) so that you can
make and answer phone calls and use
wireless services, such as email,
messaging, and the web browser.
During initial setup, your phone is
automatically turned on, so you can use
wireless services right away. If you turn off
your phone, you can still use the organizer
and media features such as Contacts and
the Pocket Tunes™ application.
1Wake up the screen.
2Press and hold Power/End to
turn on your phone.
You know your phone is on and that
you’re inside a coverage area when you
see the signal-strength icon at the
top of the Main View in the Phone app.
3Press and hold Power/End
again to turn off your phone.
You know your phone is off when you
see Phone Off at the top of the Main
View in the Phone application.
Opening the Phone application
•Press Phone to open the Main
View in the Phone application.
TIP You can also press any of the quick buttons
or the Applications button to wake up your
smartphone screen.
TIP You can set how long the screen stays on.
Press Applications, select Preferences,
select Power, and then adjust the Auto-off
after setting.
TIP If you’re outside a coverage area, No
Service appears in the upper-left corner.
Favorite
buttons
Dial Pad
Status icons