Nokia 8260 - Cell Phone - AMPS, User Manual

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Set up the way your phone selects a network
1 Press Menu 5 .
You see the following three options:
• Automatic : Your phone automatically searches for available
networks and chooses the appropriate one. Every time you turn on
your phone, it resets to
Automatic .
• Manual : The phone searches for networks and then displays a
listing of all of the possible networks on your phone’s screen. Next
to each network, one of the following appears:
Available or Not
available . If a network is designated as Not available , you cannot
use it.
• New Search : Your phone begins a new search for both private and
residential systems. When it finds the best system available, your
phone displays it on its screen. You can then select this system or
start another search by pressing
Next .
2 Use or to scroll through the choices, and press OK when you
see the one you want.
If you have two phone numbers, the Manual and New search features are
used only with your primary phone number.
Switch from a private system to a public
system
1 Press and hold Menu while you are not in a call.
Your phone displays the message Search public systems?
2 Press OK and your phone uses the public system for the next (and only
the next) outgoing call.
After you complete this call, your phone returns to the Automatic
system selection.