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Getting to know your phone

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Stroke categories

The 5 stroke categories and the mapping of stroke letters 
on the keypad are defined in the table below:

Number 

Key

Stroke 

Category

Basic 

Stroke

Stroke Name

Character

Over

王 十 在 
七 天

Lift

海 红 牡 
状 习

Down

中 业 上 
门 丑

Down-Hook

小 水 打 
子 承

Short 

Slope Down

直 真 质 

Long Left Slope

八 九 丹 
风 片

Over Slope

香 千 匕 
后 丢

Short left Slope

而 页 面 
学 殷

Dot

六 学 雷 
心 性

Right Slope

人 火 又 
送 林

Down-Curved-

Over

四 西 酉 

Down-Over

山 巨 屯 
母 凶

Left Slope-Over

么 去 公 
约 能

Left Slope-Dot

女 要 好 
巡 巢

Down-Lift

衣 以 饭 
收 长

Right Slope-

Hook

我 或 民 
成 伐

Down-Over-

Hook

心 必 思 

Down-Over-

Curved-Hook

电 也 毛 
兄 孔

Down-Over-Left 

Slope

专 传 转

Number 

Key

Stroke 

Category

Basic 

Stroke

Stroke Name

Character

Summary of Contents for T290c

Page 1: ...book call options Setting up Mobile Internet 44 Set up internet and e mail Messaging 50 Chat e mail text and picture messaging Using Mobile Internet 59 WAP browser bookmarks More features 63 Events al...

Page 2: ...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 downlo...

Page 3: ...ong 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 n...

Page 4: ...This symbol indicates that a service or function is network or subscription dependent Please consult your network operator for more information about your subscription The SIM card When you register...

Page 5: ...bottom of the phone and slide it up until it clicks into place 4 Connect the charger to the phone at the flash symbol The flash symbol on the charger plug must face upwards 5 It may take up to 30 minu...

Page 6: ...PIN is provided by your network operator If you make a mistake while entering your PIN delete the wrong number by pressing If your PIN starts with the same digits as an emergency number for example 91...

Page 7: ...ss and hold to enter the international prefix Move through menus using shortcuts Press and hold 2 9 to find a contact beginning with the first letter on that key Tilt the navigation key up down left o...

Page 8: ...d hold set the phone to silent or lock the keypad press and hold reach a contact beginning with a specific letter press and hold any of the keys reach a phone number at a specific position on the SIM...

Page 9: ...ress delete an item press when in lists go back to standby press and hold NO To When in standby To When entering letters using multitap text input reach the second letter or character of a key press a...

Page 10: ...d a space press enter a period press view alternative punctuation marks press then or repeatedly shift between capital and lower case letters press then the letter To When entering letters using multi...

Page 11: ...S To access the Icon glossary 1 Scroll to the menu or function and press 2 Select Icon glossary Delete edit and rename If you add items for example a contact an event or a Web bookmark it can be delet...

Page 12: ...call 8 Release all Extract part Release party Parties in conf 9 Calls 10 Phone status 4 Pictures Sounds 5 Settings 6 Web services 7 Organizer 8 Connect 9 Games 1 My pictures 2 More pictures 3 My soun...

Page 13: ...ct input languages 1 Scroll to Settings YES Language YES Input YES 2 Scroll to the language or alphabet that you want to use for entering letters and press for each language you want 3 Press YES to ex...

Page 14: ...t displayed in the candidate row press to present another candidate row Continue pressing until the character you want is displayed Alternatively you can enter the next stroke or Pinyin letter and a n...

Page 15: ...e defined in the table below Number Key Stroke Category Basic Stroke Stroke Name Character Over Lift Down Down Hook Short Slope Down Long Left Slope Over Slope Short left Slope Dot Right Slope Down Cu...

Page 16: ...of the character and that the total number of strokes is four Enter The character is displayed in the candidate row Down Over Down Hook Down Over Down Over Hook Over Down Over Down Hook Over Left Slop...

Page 17: ...r entering complex characters Note The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted frames are components and the bigger candidates without dotted frames are characters For example to enter 1 Enter and 2 M...

Page 18: ...aving names in the phonebook or when writing Web addresses you enter letters using multitap text input You press each key as many times as needed to show the letter you want The following example show...

Page 19: ...nd hold the lower side volume key and press T9 Text Input You can use T9 Text Input when writing for example text messages and e mail The T9 Text Input method uses a built in dictionary to recognize t...

Page 20: ...you want you can add a new word to the list during selection Note To enter a digit while typing text press and hold the digit key For example to enter a 5 press and hold To add a word to candidates 1...

Page 21: ...arlier Input method A list of input methods available for the current input language is shown Candidates For T9 Text Input only A list of alternative words is shown Help Personalizing your phone You c...

Page 22: ...ht protected material Pictures Your phone comes with a number of pictures You can Set a picture as background when in standby mode Assign a picture to a contact in the phonebook When that person calls...

Page 23: ...Display YES Wallpaper 2 Select Set picture YES 3 Select a picture YES Tip When viewing your pictures you can set a background by pressing To turn the background picture On or Off Scroll to Settings YE...

Page 24: ...e ring volume may damage hearing Answer the call or lower the volume before placing the phone at your ear To turn the ring signal on or off Press and hold from standby and select Turn on silent or Tur...

Page 25: ...item in a text message EMS on page 51 Increasing ring You can choose a ring signal that rises in steps from the lowest volume to the highest To turn increasing ring On or Off Scroll to Settings YES S...

Page 26: ...en using the keypad Minute minder to beep after every minute during calls Menu language Most SIM cards automatically set the menu language to the language of the country region where you bought your S...

Page 27: ...ur clock you can alternate between am and pm by pressing when setting the time Date When the phone is in standby mode you can press the upper or lower side volume key to see today s date in the Status...

Page 28: ...YES 2 Select a greeting YES Your selected greeting will be shown when the phone is turned on My phone numbers You can check your own phone number s To check your phone number Scroll to Phonebook YES S...

Page 29: ...ock the keypad Press when prompted with Unlock keypad press YES Master reset If Reset settings is chosen some of the phone settings will be deleted If you still want to delete phonebook information an...

Page 30: ...mute the ringer see To mute the ringer on page 32 Using the speakerphone during a call You can use your phone as a speakerphone during a call for example when you want others to participate in a conv...

Page 31: ...ode area code without the leading zero and phone number YES Tip It is useful to enter the sign and country region code for all numbers in the phonebook as they can then be easily used whether home or...

Page 32: ...the number from your service provider To enter a voice mail number Scroll to Messages YES Options YES Voice mail no Note The voice mail number can be obtained from your service provider Receiving cal...

Page 33: ...roll to Calls YES Options YES Clear call list YES To turn the call list on or off Scroll to Calls YES Options YES Call listing YES Phonebook You can store contact information names phone numbers e mai...

Page 34: ...nebook again To turn off Ask to save 1 Scroll to Phonebook YES Options YES 2 Select Ask to save by pressing YES 3 Select on or off by tilting the navigation key up or down 4 Press YES to select Pictur...

Page 35: ...YES 5 Select the number press YES To call a contact when English has been selected as phonelanguage For contacts written in Chinese characters 1 Select Phonebook YES 2 Select Call contact and press YE...

Page 36: ...ebook YES Advanced YES Delete all Then press YES twice insert your phone lock code and press YES Note Entries on the SIM card are not deleted when you select Delete all Default standard number Each co...

Page 37: ...To add your own business card Scroll to Phonebook YES Manage contact YES My card YES Select Add YES Exchanging business cards You can exchange business cards as a text message or a picture message To...

Page 38: ...Advanced YES Copy from SIM Tip When you have selected a name in the Call from SIM menu you can copy name and phone number to the phone by pressing and then selecting Copy to phone Speed dialling You c...

Page 39: ...you are unreachable No reply divert calls that you do not answer within a specified time limit operator dependent Note When the Restrict calls function is on some Divert calls options cannot be activ...

Page 40: ...rieve a number from the phonebook Note You can only put one call on hold You can also reach different options by pressing Receiving a second call To answer the second call and put the ongoing call on...

Page 41: ...cipant YES To end the conference call Press NO Having a private conversation You can have a private conversation with one of the participants and put the other participants on hold Press then select E...

Page 42: ...s on Partial numbers can be saved For example saving 0123456 allows calls to be made to all numbers starting with 0123456 Numbers with question marks can be saved For example saving 01234567 0 allows...

Page 43: ...calls only from certain numbers or from members of a group Other calls are automatically rejected by a busy tone The phone numbers of calls you have rejected are saved in the Call List To add numbers...

Page 44: ...as a WAP e mail user with your service provider or network operator Note This Sony Ericsson mobile phone does not support tethered data mode or synchronization Note It is strongly recommended that you...

Page 45: ...instructions are not necessarily mandatory please consult your network operator or service provider for more information A data account includes connection settings for access to a server at your ser...

Page 46: ...nline Note You need a subscription that supports GPRS GPRS settings that are available APN Access point name address the address of the external data network you want to connect to either an IP addres...

Page 47: ...unt YES 2 Select an account type for access 3 Enter a name for the data account 4 Enter the settings that you have received from your network operator or service provider Confirm each setting by press...

Page 48: ...ect an existing profile that you want to edit YES When selecting New profile enter a name for the profile YES Connect using YES select the data account to be used YES and enter the IP address YES A li...

Page 49: ...ncoming port if needed change the number of the port used by the protocol you are using Mailbox enter a user name for your e mail account Password enter a password for your e mail account Your service...

Page 50: ...Note Text messages with EMS functionality can only be sent to other compatible phones supporting the EMS standard Before you start First make sure that the number of your service centre is set The num...

Page 51: ...es YES Text YES Write new YES 2 While writing your message press 3 Select Insert item YES 4 Select Picture Sound effect Melody Animation or Picture YES 5 Select an item YES Then press YES again to con...

Page 52: ...lent mode and the message New messages Read now appears in the display If you receive a text message from someone you have saved as a contact in your phonebook the name of that contact appears in the...

Page 53: ...an send a longer message where two or more messages are linked together Note A text message can contain up to 160 Latin characters or 70 Chinese characters Note You are charged for the number of linke...

Page 54: ...P profile settings manually on page 48 for information how to create a WAP profile More Options You can set different options for sending and receiving picture messages To edit an option Scroll to Mes...

Page 55: ...ge press YES and select Page timing YES Colour Set the background colour Delete page Remove a page Preview page View a page before sending Preview View the message Receiving picture messages When you...

Page 56: ...send and receive e mail messages via the Internet as you would from a PC Note This Sony Ericsson phone supports e mail services using POP3 IMAP4 and SMTP protocols Certain e mail services use propriet...

Page 57: ...send Save to outbox The e mail message is saved in the Outbox Saved to drafts The e mail message is saved in the Drafts folder To receive and read e mail messages 1 Scroll to Messages YES E mail YES...

Page 58: ...ead it later or if you want to save important information You can archive only as much text as the display shows To archive an e mail message 1 Open the e mail message 2 Make sure that the text you wa...

Page 59: ...your phone for Mobile Internet WAP and or e mail messaging see Setting up Mobile Internet on page 44 You may additionally need to register as a WAP E mail user with your network operator or service pr...

Page 60: ...sit Save picture Save a picture from the site SendAsTextMsg Send a text message with a link to the current WAP page to another phone Send link Send a link to the current site to another phone Reload R...

Page 61: ...gnals from WAP sites directly to your phone To download from www sonyericsson com 1 Scroll to Web services YES Bookmarks YES Sony Ericsson YES 2 Select what you want to download and follow the instruc...

Page 62: ...message Postpone Save the message to be loaded later To receive a call when browsing When you are browsing and a call is received a menu will prompt you to answer the call or not Stored information Th...

Page 63: ...ff when it rings If you do not want the alarm to be repeated press YES To cancel the alarm scroll to Organizer YES Alarms YES One time alarm or Recurrent alarm YES Cancel To select an alarm signal scr...

Page 64: ...t you need to do You can choose to add reschedule edit send or delete events Note This Sony Ericsson phone does not support PC synchronization Note Events can only be sent as picture messages To add a...

Page 65: ...recording increasing Note Recordings are saved in Pictures Sounds YES My sounds To end the recording Press NO To set a recording as a ring tone Scroll to Pictures Sounds YES My sounds Press scroll to...

Page 66: ...t Delete or Rename YES Games Your phone has games and you can download additional games To start a game 1 Scroll to Games YES 2 Select a game YES 3 Select New game YES 4 Start the game Note Press to m...

Page 67: ...w PIN to confirm and press YES Note Your PUK is provided by your network operator To edit your PIN Scroll to Settings YES Locks YES SIM lock YES Change PIN Note If the message Codes do not match appea...

Page 68: ...one locked appears each time you turn on the phone You have to enter your code followed by YES to use your phone Automatic If the phone lock is set to automatic you do not need to enter your phone loc...

Page 69: ...battery icon appears in the display Chinese menus Press 0008 to reset the menu language to Chinese Grey menu options Grey text indicates a function is temporarily unavailable This may be because the...

Page 70: ...ess YES See SIM card lock on page 67 Codes do not match When you want to change a security code for example your PIN you have to confirm the new code by entering it again The two codes that you have e...

Page 71: ...r may be temporarily busy or experiencing problems Memory full Free memory by deleting unused files or information See the following section Memory Status You can check for example how many positions...

Page 72: ...you find the latest software updates tips on how to use your product more efficiently function guides for some of the products and additional help when you require it Carrying strap You can attach a c...

Page 73: ...ur product Do not paint your product Do not use your product near medical equipment without requesting permission Do not use your product in an area where the use of mobile phones is forbidden For exa...

Page 74: ...ny Ericsson mobile phone models are designed to operate within these stringent levels The levels include a safety margin designed to assure the safety of all persons regardless of age and health and t...

Page 75: ...nches is kept between the mobile phone and the pacemaker the risk of interference is limited If you have any reason to suspect that interference is taking place immediately turn off your mobile phone...

Page 76: ...few times it is used The talk and standby times depend on the actual transmission conditions when using the mobile phone If the mobile phone is used near a base station less power is required and talk...

Page 77: ...erials or workmanship Sony Ericsson authorised distributors or service partners in the country region where you purchased the Product will at their option either repair or replace the Product in accor...

Page 78: ...r repair or opening of the Product performed by a non Sony Ericsson authorised person 6 The warranty does not cover Product failures which have been caused by use of accessories or other peripheral de...

Page 79: ...EMC directive 89 336 EEC and Low Voltage directive 73 23 EEC We fulfil the requirements of the R TTE Directive 99 5 EC Icons The table below shows icons which may appear in standby or in the menus You...

Page 80: ...s of the battery You cannot receive any incoming calls Icon Description You have missed an incoming call All incoming calls are diverted to a defined number No calls or only certain calls from numbers...

Page 81: ...rently not being provided by the network The network is preferred and can be used The network is forbidden and cannot be used Your home network is within range and can be used Icon Description An ongo...

Page 82: ...e next time you connect to the server An unread message will be deleted the next time you connect to the server A damaged message A read picture message Icon Description An unread picture message The...

Page 83: ...ia message contains a melody A multimedia message contains a recorded sound Cursor in a multimedia message More message options Chat message prompt Icon Description Calls A missed call in the call lis...

Page 84: ...s guide Print only for private use 84 Icons Starts and stops a melody loop Increases and decreases the volume one step A volume between 0 and 15 has been selected Whole note half note 1 4 note 1 8 no...

Page 85: ...d 32 put on hold 40 receive 6 32 reject 32 restrict 41 speed dialling 38 Carrying strap 72 Charging battery 5 Chinese input 13 Conference calls 41 Contacts 34 Contrast display 27 D Declaration of conf...

Page 86: ...ngs 44 Multimedia messages 53 Multitap text input 18 Mute 7 8 9 30 My numbers 28 My own number 28 N Networks 6 P Pause 10 Personal ring signal 25 Phone lock 68 Phonebook 33 Picture messages 51 Picture...

Page 87: ...t only for private use Index 87 Stopwatch 63 Strap 72 Stroke input 14 T T9 Text input 19 Text messages 50 E mail gateway 45 51 Themes 21 Time settings 27 Timer 63 Turning the phone on off 6 V Vibratin...

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