Samsung Sph-a860 series User manual

BMC_UG_A860_060905_F9 - YC17 Build

SPH-a860 Series

PORTABLE Tri-Mode

TELEPHONE

User Guide

Please read this manual before operating your phone, and keep it for

future reference.

Intellectual Property

All Intellectual Property, as defined below, owned by or which is

otherwise the property of Samsung or its respective suppliers

relating to the SAMSUNG Phone, including but not limited to,

accessories, parts, or software relating thereto (the “Phone

System”), is proprietary to Samsung and protected under federal

laws, state laws, and international treaty provisions. Intellectual

Property includes, but is not limited to, inventions (patentable or

unpatentable), patents, trade secrets, copyrights, software, computer

programs, and related documentation and other works of authorship.

You may not infringe or otherwise violate the rights secured by the

Intellectual Property. Moreover, you agree that you will not (and will

not attempt to) modify, prepare derivative works of, reverse engineer,

decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to create source code

from the software. No title to or ownership in the Intellectual Property

is transferred to you. All applicable rights of the Intellectual Property

shall remain with SAMSUNG and its suppliers.

registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and its related

entities.

Licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated under one or more of the

following patents: U.S. Patent No. 4, 901, 307; 5, 056, 109; 5, 099,

204; 5, 101, 501; 5, 103, 459; 5, 107, 225; 5, 109, 390.

Printed in South Korea

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Disclaimer of Warranties; Exclusion of Liability

EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE EXPRESS WARRANTY CONTAINED ON THE

WARRANTY PAGE ENCLOSED WITH THE PRODUCT, THE PURCHASER TAKES THE

PRODUCT "AS IS", AND SAMSUNG MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY

OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING BUT

NOT LIMITED TO THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THE PRODUCT OR ITS FITNESS FOR

ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE; THE DESIGN, CONDITION OR QUALITY OF

THE PRODUCT; THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT; THE WORKMANSHIP OF

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THE PRODUCT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF ANY LAW, RULE, SPECIFICATION

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PRODUCT. IN ADDITION, SAMSUNG SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES

OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM THE PURCHASE OR USE OF THE PRODUCT OR

ARISING FROM THE BREACH OF THE EXPRESS WARRANTY, INCLUDING

INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF

ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR BENEFITS.

Table of Contents

Getting Started..............................................................................1

Closed View of Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Front View of Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Key Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Viewing the Display Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Features of Your Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Turning Your Phone On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using Your Phone’s Battery and Charger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Phone Basics..............................................................................14

Displaying Your Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Making and Answering Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Making Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Answering Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Missed Call Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Calling Emergency Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

In-Call Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

End-of-Call Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Saving a Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Finding a Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With Pauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Abbreviated Dialing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dialing From Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using One-Touch/Two-Touch/Three-Touch

Speed Dialing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Selecting a Character Input Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Entering Characters Using T9 Text Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Entering Characters by Tapping the Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Entering Numbers and Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Using Voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Setting Up Your Voicemail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Voicemail Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

New Voicemail Message Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Retrieving Your Voicemail Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Clearing the Message Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using Caller ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Responding to Call Waiting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Making a Three-Way Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

TTY Use With Handset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Roaming .....................................................................................31

Understanding Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Setting Your Phone’s System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Set NAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Navigating Through Menus.........................................................34

Menu Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Changing the Phone’s Menu Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Backing Up Within a Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Viewing the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Call History .................................................................................42

Viewing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Call History Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Making a Call From Call History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Saving a Phone Number From Call History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Prepending a Phone Number From

Call History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Erasing Call History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Air Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Contacts .....................................................................................46

Adding a New Contact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Finding Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adding a Phone Number to an Existing Contact Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Editing a Contact Entry’s Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Selecting a Ringer Type for an Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Secret Contacts Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Changing the Group Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Messaging ..................................................................................51

Text Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using Text Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Erasing Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Message Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Sending Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Preset Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Edit Signature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Message Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Save in Outbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Auto Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Alert Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Voice Mail Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Scheduler ...................................................................................63

Adding an Event to the Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Event Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Viewing Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Erasing a Single Event for a Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Erasing All Events for a Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Erasing All Events in your Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Web Services..............................................................................67

The Wireless Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Launching the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Web Guard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Web Connection Status and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Navigating the Wireless Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Downloading Games, Ringers, Screen Savers and Applications . . . . 72

Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Ringers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Screen Savers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Voice Services ............................................................................77

Activating Voice Recognition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Using voice Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Enabling/Disabling Choice Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using Name Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Phone Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Customizing Voice Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Adapting Voice Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Changing Voice Dial Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Changing Audio Prompts and Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Name Playback Speed or Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Changing Voice Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Managing Voice Memos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Recording Voice Memos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Reviewing and Erasing Memos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using Text to Speech (TTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Enabling/Disabling TTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Adjusting TTS Volume Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Tools...........................................................................................91

Using the Task List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Using the Memo Pad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

World Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Alarm Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using the Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Countdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Phone Settings ...........................................................................97

Display Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Changing the Text Greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Changing the Backlight Time Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Changing the Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Changing the Phone’s Menu Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Changing the Size of your Dialing Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Changing the Color of your Dialing Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Adjusting the Phone’s Volume Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Ringer Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Alert Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Selecting a Key Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Selecting Tone Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Application Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Silence All. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

TTS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Location Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Airplane Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Phone Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Call Answer Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Auto-Answer Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Display Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Phone Security .........................................................................112

Accessing the Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using Your Phone’s Lock Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Locking Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Unlocking Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Changing the Lock Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Calling in Lock Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Restricting Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Using Special Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Erasing the Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Erasing Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Resetting Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Safety .......................................................................................116

Getting the Most Out of Your Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Maintaining Safe Use of and Access to

Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Caring for the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Acknowledging Special Precautions and

Industry Canada Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Information to User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Owner’s Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

User Guide Proprietary Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Warranty...................................................................................125

Index.........................................................................................128

Getting Started 1

Getting Started

Closed View of Phone

2 Getting Started

Front View of Phone

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