Sony Ericsson K205 User manual

K205
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Contents
Set up your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Phone overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Phone language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Entering letters and characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Picture messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Infrared port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Sounds & Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Sony Ericsson K205a
GSM 850/1900
This User guide is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
AB or its local affiliated company, without any warranty. Improvements
and changes to this User guide necessitated by typographical errors,
inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs
and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB or its local affiliated company at any time and
without notice. Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new
editions of this User guide.
All rights reserved.
© Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, 2007
Publication number: EN/LZT 108 9616 R1A
Please note:
Some of the services in this User guide are not supported by all
networks. This also applies to the GSM International Emergency
Number 112.
Please contact your network operator or service provider if you are
in doubt whether you can use a particular service or not.
Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient use and the Limited
warranty chapters before you use your mobile phone.
Your mobile phone has the capability to download, store and forward
additional content, e.g. ringtones. The use of such content may be
restricted or prohibited by rights of third parties, including but not
limited to restriction under applicable copyright laws. You, and not
Sony Ericsson, are entirely responsible for additional content that
you download to or forward from your mobile phone. Prior to your
use of any additional content, please verify that your intended use is
properly licensed or is otherwise authorized. Sony Ericsson does not
guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any additional content
or any other third party content. Under no circumstances will
Sony Ericsson be liable in any way for your improper use of additional
content or other third party content.
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The Liquid Identity logo is a trademark or registered trademark of
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Sony is a trademark
or registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a trademark
or registered trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
T9™ Text Input is a trademark or a registered trademark of Tegic
Communications.
T9™ Text Input is licensed under one or more of the following:
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,818,437, 5,953,541, 5,187,480, 5,945,928, and
6,011,554; Canadian Pat. No. 1,331,057; United Kingdom Pat. No.
2238414B; Hong Kong Standard Pat. No. HK0940329; Republic
of Singapore Pat. No. 51383; Euro. Pat. No. 0 842 463 (96927260.8)
DE/DK, FI, FR, IT, NL, PT, ES, SE, GB; and additional patents are
pending worldwide.
Other product and company names may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.
Sony Ericsson advises users to backup their personal data information.
All illustrations are for illustration only and may not accurately depict
the actual phone.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
User guide symbols
The following instruction symbols appear in this User
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key to select.
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Set up your phone
Insert the SIM card and battery
1Gently pull the battery cover away from the phone.
2Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed
under the silver holders and that the contacts of the
SIM card face downwards.
3Place the battery on the back of the phone with the
label side up and the connectors facing each other.
4Replace the battery cover.
If you have been using a SIM card in another phone,
make sure that your information is saved to the
SIM card before you remove it from that phone.
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Charge the battery
1Connect the battery charger to the phone. It takes
approximately 2.5 hours to fully charge the battery.
Press a key to view the screen.
2Remove the battery charger by tilting it upwards.
The time and date are reset when you remove the
battery.
2.5 h
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Turn on the phone
1Press and hold down until the screen lights up.
2Enter your PIN (Personal Identification Number) code
if requested and select OK. Each digit appears as *.
Press the right selection key to correct mistakes.
If the screen turns dark, press any key to illuminate
the screen.
3Scroll to a language and select Save.
4Enter the time and select Save.
5Enter the date and select Save.
To turn off the phone
•Press and hold down .
Standby
After you have turned the phone on and entered your PIN,
the name of your operator appears on the screen. This
is called standby – you can now make and receive calls.
If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the
SIM card is blocked. To unblock it %23 PIN blocked.
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Phone overview
1 Infrared port 6 Keylock
2
Strength of GSM network
(Five bars mean full
network coverage)
7Headset and battery
charger connector
3,9 Function of selection key 8
Battery status (a
green battery means
fully charged)
4,10 Selection keys 11 Navigation key with
shortcuts
5 Call key 12 End and On/Off key
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Key functions
To go to the main menu
To navigate the menus
To use the selection keys
•Press to select the options shown immediately above
these keys on the screen.
To go back one level or end a function
•Press the right selection key to go back one level
in the menus.
•Press to end a function and go to standby.
To turn the screen light on
•Press any key.
Shortcuts
From standby, you can use the navigation key to go directly
to a function:
•Press to write a text or picture message.
•Press to go to the camera.
•From standby press to
select Menu. The first menu
you see is Messaging.
•Press the navigation key up
or down to scroll.
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•Press to set the ring volume.
•Press to go to your contacts.
To set the ringtone to silent
•From standby press and select Silent.
To lock or unlock the keypad
Icons
These icons appear on the screen to show status and
new events.
You can still answer a call, and call the international
emergency number 112 when the keypad is locked.
Icon Description
You have received a new text or voice* message.
%14 Text messages and %13 Voice messages
You have received a new picture message.
%15 Picture messages
The phone is set to silent. %9 To set the ringtone
to silent
The keypad is locked. %9 To lock or unlock the
keypad
•To avoid dialling a number by
accident, press and select
Lock keys.
•To unlock the keypad, press
and select Unlock.
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* Some items may be operator-, network- and
subscription-dependent.
Phone language
To change the phone language
•From standby select Menu }Settings }Language
and select a language.
Entering letters and characters
You can enter letters and characters using either the
Multitap or the T9™ Text Input method. T9 text input
uses a dictionary to recognise words.
To change writing method
•When you enter letters, press and hold down .
Common for both text input methods
•Press the right selection key to delete characters.
•Press and hold down to change the writing
language.
•Press to add a comma, full stop, question mark, etc.
•Press to shift between capitals and lower case letters.
•Press and hold down – to enter numbers.
An alarm is activated. %18 Alarms
Divert calls* is activated. %13 Diverting calls
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To enter letters using multitap text input
1Press – repeatedly until the desired letter
appears.
2When a word is finished, press to add a space.
To enter letters using T9 Text Input
1Press each key only once, even if the letter you want
is not the first letter on the key. For example, to write
the word “Jane”, press .
2Accept a word and add a space by pressing .
To accept a word without adding a space, press .
If the word shown is not the one you want, press
or repeatedly to view alternative words.
Calling
To make a call
To answer or reject a call
•Press to answer a call.
•Press to reject a call.
To make international calls
1Press and hold down until a “+” sign appears.
2Enter the country code, area code (without the leading
zero), phone number and press .
1Enter the area code and
phone number.
2Press to call. Press
to end the call.
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To make an emergency call
•Enter, for example, 112 and press . Press the right
selection key to correct mistakes.
To check your missed calls
1When Missed calls: is displayed, select Details to display
the missed calls.
2To call a number, scroll to the number and press .
To change the ear speaker volume during a call
To set the vibrating alert
•From standby select Menu }Settings }Sound & alerts
}Vibration and select an option.
Call options
During a call you can use Options, for example, to turn
off the microphone.
Call list
Information about the last 30 calls is saved in Call list.
indicates that you have missed a call.
To call a number from the call list
1From standby press and scroll to one of the numbers.
2Press to call.
•Press to increase the volume
and to decrease the volume.
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Diverting calls
If you cannot answer incoming calls, you can divert them
to another number, for example, your answering service.
To activate a call divert
1From standby select Menu }Calls }Call settings
}Divert all calls.
2Scroll to one of the divert options and select Activate.
3Select an option.
Voice messages
If your subscription includes an answering service, callers
can leave a voice message when you cannot answer a call.
To call your voicemail service
•From standby press and hold down if you have
saved your voicemail number in the phone.
To enter your voicemail number
1From standby select Menu }Contacts }Voicemail.
2 Add voicemail number? appears. Select Yes.
3Enter the voicemail number that you get from your
service provider and select Save.
Contacts
You can save names and numbers in Contacts.
To add a contact
1From standby select Menu }Contacts }Add contact
and select an option.
2Enter the name and select Options }OK.
3Scroll to the icon below the name.
4Enter the number and select OK.
5Select Save contact.
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To call a contact
1From standby press .
2Scroll to the contact and press .
Contact options
When a contact is selected you can use Options, for example,
to delete it.
Text messages
Text messages can be sent to a mobile phone number
or to a contact.
To receive text messages
1Readnow?appears. Select View.
2Scroll to the unread message and select Read.
To read text messages
1From standby select Menu }Messaging }Text message
}Inbox.
2Scroll to a message and select Read.
To write and send a text message
1From standby press .
2Select Text message and write your message.
Select Options, for example, to add a symbol.
3When the message is ready, select Options
}Send message.
4Retrieve a recently used number, or look-up a number
from contacts or enter a phone number.
5Select Send message. If the message fails to be sent,
it is saved in Unsent.
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Text message options
When a text message is displayed you can use Options,
for example, to delete it.
Picture messages
Picture messages are used in a similar way as text messages
but can also contain pictures or camera pictures. If settings
are not in your phone %22 Why can’t I use Internet or
picture messages?.
To save an item in a received picture message
1Scroll to the item and select Options.
2Select Save picture or Save melody. Items are saved
in corresponding folders in Extras }My files.
Camera
Your phone has a digital camera to take pictures with, to save
them and to send them. Pictures taken with the camera are
saved in Camera }Camera pics. The format is JPEG.
To start the camera and take a picture
1From standby press . You can see the subject on the
phone screen.
2Select Capture to take the picture.
Sending and receiving phones must have subscriptions
that support picture messaging.
Pictures downloaded via picture messages, Internet or
Infrared are saved in Extras }My files }My pictures.
A strong light source such as direct sunlight or a lamp
can make the screen black out or the picture may
be distorted.
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To save a picture
•When you have taken a picture, select Save. The picture
is saved in Camera }Camera pics.
To delete a picture
1When you have taken a picture, select Delete.
2 Delete picture? appears. Select Yes.
Picture options
When you view a saved picture you can use Options,
for example, to delete or send it.
Infrared port
You can use infrared to send, for example, pictures
to another phone or to a computer.
To turn on infrared
•From standby select Menu }Settings }Infrared port
}On.
When the memory is full, you need to delete items
before you can save the picture.
If set to On but not used, the infrared port automatically
turns off after 10 minutes.
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To connect two devices
To transfer items using infrared
1Select an item to transfer.
2Select Options }Send via IR.
Internet
If settings are not in your phone %22 Why can’t I use
Internet or picture messages?.
To select an Internet profile
1From standby select Menu }Extras }Internet
}Internet profile.
2Select a profile to use.
To start browsing
•From standby select Menu }Extras }Internet }Go to
URL.Enter a Web address or select an already used
Web address.
You need a phone subscription that supports data
transmission.
1Turn on infrared
in both devices.
2Make sure the
infrared port on
your phone is
facing the infrared
port on the other
device with a
maximum distance
of 20 cm (8 in).
<20 cm (8 in)
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To stop browsing
•When you browse, select Back until you exit the Internet.
Internet options
When you browse you can select Options, for example,
to create bookmarks.
Sounds & Alerts
Your phone comes with a number of standard and
polyphonic melodies which can be used as ringtones.
To select a ringtone
1From standby select Menu }Settings }Sound & alerts
}Ringtone.
2Select a ringtone. The sound is played when selected.
To set the ring volume
1From standby select Menu }Settings }Sound & alerts
}Ring volume.
2Select an option. The sound is played when selected.
Alarms
The alarm sounds even if the phone is set to silent or
turned off.
To set an alarm
1From standby select Menu }Extras }Alarm clock.
2Enter a time for the alarm and select Save.
3Select if the alarm should recur or only sound on one
occasion.
Do not hold the phone to your ear when using high
ringtones as this can damage your hearing.
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To turn an alarm off when it sounds
•Select Stop or Snooze to snooze for 9 minutes. Snooze
is automatically turned on if you do not press any key.
To disable an alarm
•From standby select Menu }Extras }Alarm clock
}Alarm off.
Settings
To select a wallpaper
1From standby select Menu }Settings }Wallpaper
and select an option.
2Preview and select.
To select a theme
•From standby select Menu }Settings }Theme and
select a theme.
To set the date
1From standby select Menu }Settings }Time and date
}Date }Set date.
2Enter the date and select Save.
To set the time
1From standby select Menu }Settings }Time and date
}Time }Set time.
2Enter the time and select Save.
Master reset
You can reset all settings in your phone to the way they
were when you bought it.
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