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Personalizing your P800
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ETTINGS
Personalizing your P800
There are a number of ways you can give your P800 a personal
touch and change its settings to suit your requirements.
Changing your application
shortcuts
In flip closed
The standby screen displayed when the flip is closed shows five
short-cuts to applications. You can change them, rearrange them
as you prefer, or even hide them, if you wish.
Control panel > Device > Flip closed shortcuts
In flip open
It is possible to change all the icons shown in the Application
picker screen area except for the Application launcher icon
.
To change the icons, select
Applications
> View > Preferences
Setting a background picture
You can change the background image (wallpaper) for the
standby screen in
Control panel > Device > Display.
You can use
any image stored internally or on a Memory Stick Duo.
Tip
More background images can be found on the Multimedia
P800 CD, delivered with your P800.
You can obtain suitable background picture files by
downloading, beaming using Bluetooth or infrared, or
transferring them using cable from your PC.
Background picture images are 208 x 144 pixels and the picture
can be seen in the standby screen.(Any chosen picture will be
scaled to fit the screen).The images can be JPEG, GIF, BMP,
WBMP, MBM or PNG format.
Setting a Screen Saver
You can set a screen saver picture to be displayed after a period
of inactivity. See
on page 148. Key lock and device
lock may be used in combination with the screen saver. When
you press a key or touch the screen, you will be prompted to
activate keys and/or enter the device lock code.
The images can be JPEG, GIF (including animated), BMP,
WBMP, MBM or PNG format. Image format for the screen
saver is 208 x 320 pixels.
Note
Using animated GIF uses more power.