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I. Pager Diagram
II. Symbols Illustration
OK Receiver In Range
Low Battery
Charging Battery (animated)
Bad/Incorrect Battery
Sounder On
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III. Guide to Operation
1. Power Up
To power up the pager, first fit the battery by
releasing the battery door lock, sliding
opening the battery door and inserting the
battery, observing the correct polarity. The
pager will beep to confirm. Note: pager is still
switched Off and will not yet receive calls.
Press and hold the [READ] key for at least 1
second. Pager will beep and screen will
display the Welcome message and time/date.
The pager is now powered up and ready to
receive calls.
2. Selecting Menus
Use the [SELECT] key to cycle through the
four main menus : (1) the greeting menu which
appears upon power up, the top line of which
shows the programmed "Welcome" message,
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whilst the bottom line shows the current time
and date; (2) & (3) the public message menu,
list of public messages available (only if
enabled by your Service Provider); (4) the
utilities menu.
3. Reading Private Messages
Press the [READ] key while at greeting menu.
The first message is the most recent message
received. Press [READ] again to read the
whole message and other earlier messages. You
may also use the [LEFT] and [RIGHT] key to
navigate through the messages. At the end of
every message the receiving time and date are
appended alongside the call tone (“A”, “B”,
“C”, or “D”) whose use is assigned by the
paging service provider. To save memory,
messages with the same content but with
different call tone (i.e. “repeated call”) will be
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stored as one message (if set by Service
Provider) with a duplicate tag
appended.
4. Protecting or Deleting Messages
Private messages can be deleted to free up
memory space. Important messages can be
protected to avoid accidental deletion. Use the
[READ] / [LEFT] / [RIGHT] key to locate the
message to be protected /deleted and then
press the [SELECT] key.
Three options are available :
(1) to protect( ) the message;
(2) to delete ( )the message;
(3) to delete all ( ) messages. Use
the [LEFT] / [RIGHT] key to choose an
option and then the [READ] key to confirm or
the [SELECT] key to exit without choosing
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any option. When the Delete All option is
chosen, the user will be prompted to re-
confirm. When a message is protected,
it will be placed at the end of the message
queue for ease of searching and it may be
unprotected ( ) by first locating the
message and then pressing the [SELECT] and
[READ] key. When a message is unprotected,
it will be placed ahead of any protected
messages.
5. Display Backlight function
The pager provides a backlight for reading
messages in low light. At any screen when the
pager is on, holding the [SELECT] key for two
seconds will turn the backlight on. The
backlight will remain on until no key is
pressed for a while. The user may turn off the
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backlight explicitly by holding the [SELECT]
key for another two seconds.
Flash Alert feature: if enabled by the Service
Provider, the backlight flashes when an
audible beep alert is received. Note: it will not
flash if a vibrate or Mute alert is received.
See also 8.4 Auto Backlight (below) for
selection of a different function.
6. New and Unread Messages
A message is regarded as unread if the user
does not press any key during the alert period.
An envelope icon will be displayed on the first
screen with the number of unread messages in
brackets. The sequence number for unread
messages will be marked in reverse video
mode. (Do not confuse with message content
received with error which is also marked in
reverse video).
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When a new message is received, it is
displayed on the screen and the pager will give
an alert tone (or vibrate, or Mute, dependent
on setting). The alert can be stopped by
pressing any key. If it is not stopped, the alert
will continue for the set period (as
programmed by the Service Provider). Note:
when a new message is received and the
memory is full, the last unprotected message
will be erased to make room for the new one).
7. Power Management
To save power, the LCD screen will blank
automatically if the pager does not detect key
activities after a short period (usually about 10
seconds, or as set by the Service Provider).
In this power saving mode the pager is still
able to receive messages as normal. If a new
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message is received, the screen will be turned
on automatically and the message will be
displayed. The user may also turn on the
screen explicitly by pressing any key.
8. Reading Public Messages
Note: this function is only available when
activated by the Service Provider.
Press the [SELECT] key while at the greeting
menu to go to the public message menu
and then use the [LEFT] / [RIGHT] key
to choose the expected item, then press the
[READ] key. Press [READ] again
to read the whole message and other messages
below. The user may also use the
[LEFT] and [RIGHT] key to navigate
through the messages. At the end of every
message the receiving time and date
are appended. Public messages may not
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be protected or deleted. Note that the
paging service provider may or may not
broadcast public messages and the number
they do is entirely at their discretion.
9. Menu Function Settings
9.1 Adjusting the Real-Time Clock
Use the [SELECT] key to go to the utilities
menu and then choose the clock option ( )
using the [LEFT]/[RIGHT] and then the
[READ]key. The user may change the hour,
minute, month, day and year in sequence. Use
the [RIGHT] key to increase the fields and the
[LEFT] key to decrease. Use the [READ] key
to save each setting and to sequence through
the various fields. To exit without saving,
press [SELECT]. Note: for the time, 12 or 24
Hr format is preset by the Service Provider.
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9.2 Choosing Audio or Vibration Alert
Use the [SELECT] key to go to the utilities
menu and then choose the alert option using
[LEFT] / [RIGHT] and then [READ] to toggle
between the audio ( ) , vibration ( ),
audio & vibration ( )or Mute ( )
mode. Note: some Alert modes might be fixed
or inhibited by the Service Provider.
9.3 Adjusting the LCD Contrast
Use the [SELECT] key to go to the utilities
menu and then choose the contrast option
()using the [LEFT] / [RIGHT] and then
the [READ] key. Adjust to the desired contrast
using the [LEFT] / [RIGHT] key and complete
by pressing [READ].
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