Samsung Galaxy Prevail LTE, User Manual

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Messaging and Internet 144
Text and MMS Options
The messages settings menu lets you control options for your text and MMS messages including
message limits, size settings, and notifications.
1. From home, tap Apps > Messages .
2. On the Messaging screen, tap More options > Settings . You can set the following:
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Default messaging app : Set your default messaging app.
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Quick responses : Create or edit existing quick responses which you can use to quickly reply
to new messages.
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Text message (SMS) settings :
• Auto combination . Re-assemble multi-segment messages so they can be shown as a
single message.
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Multimedia message (MMS) settings :
• Group conversation : When enabled, a single message is sent to multiple recipients.
When disabled, individual messages are sent to each recipient so that they cannot see
the other recipients.
• Auto retrieve : Select this option to automatically retrieve all your multimedia messages
completely. When selected, the multimedia message header plus the message body and
attachments will automatically download to your phone. If you clear this check box, only
the multimedia message header will be retrieved and shown in your Messaging screen.
• MMS alert : Receive an alert when mode changes to multimedia message.
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Delete old messages
: Automatically delete older messages when the following maximum
message limits are reached.
• Text message limit : Choose the maximum number of text messages to store in each
conversation.
• Multimedia message limit : Choose the maximum number of MMS messages to store in
each conversation.
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Notifications
:
• Notification sound : Select a ringtone that is specific to new text and multimedia
messages. Note that the ringtone briefly plays when selected.
• Vibrate : Select this option if you want the phone to vibrate when a new text or multimedia
message arrives.
• Repeat message alert : Select a time interval for message alerts to repeat.
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Lock screen
: Preview messages on the Lock screen.