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
guide:
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} Use the navigation key to scroll and the selection
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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