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Sound Settings
You can use the Sound Settings feature to
customise various settings, such as the:
• Ringing volume and type.
• Sounds made when you press a key, make an
error or receive a message.
Note: When the phone is in silent mode (see
page 29), you cannot change the sound
settings.
Ring & Melody
(Menu 3.1)
This menu option contains the ring tones and
melodies for the ringer to alert an incoming call. A
tone or melody selected in this menu will be used
according to the setting in the
Alert Type menu
option (
3.3).
The following options are available:
Melody: you can choose from 25 melodies.
Tone: you can choose from 25 tones.
Use the navigation keys to listen to the available
sounds. Each time you select an item, it plays for a
few seconds.
Ring Volume
(Menu 3.2)
This option allows you to adjust the ringing volume
to one of five levels. Use the
and
keys or
the and keys on the left side of the phone.
The greater the number of bars, the greater the
volume.
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Alert Type
(Menu 3.3)
This option allows you to indicate how you are to be
informed of any incoming calls.
The following options are available:
Light only: only the backlight is switched on; the
phone neither rings nor vibrates.
Melody: the phone rings by using the ring tone or
melody selected via the
Ring & Melody menu
option (
3.1).
Vibration: the phone vibrates but does not ring.
Vibra+Melody: the phone first vibrates three
times and then starts ringing.
Keypad Tone
(Menu 3.4)
This option allows you to select the tone that the
keypad generates when you press a key.
The following options are available:
OFF: the keys do not make any sound.
Tone: each key, when pressed, makes a different
sound.
Beep: each key, when pressed, makes the same
sound.