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, 15, 18–19, 20

, 14

, 14, 22

, 14, 32

, 12, 30, 32, 33

, 14

, 14, 22

, 14, 18

, 15, 28

, 12

AC adapter, 17
activation, 1–3
ADDED field (recent history list),

airlines, phone use prohibited by,

airtime usage, 47,51
alerts. See beeps
Alerts menu, 57
All calls option (Call Info menu),

American National Standards

Institute (ANSI), 60

answering calls, 10,11,21
antenna, 18,59,61
Auto-hyphen option (Display

menu), 55

Auto-retry option (Features

menu), 53

automatic shutoff

low battery causes, 17
Power Save mode and, 19

Index

QCP1960 6/3/99 10:23 AM Page 69

Summary of Contents for QCP-196

Page 1: ...GP MS TS N C I S C O quirements checked es for accuracy in uction requirements ot specified on This EASING THIS ART N WORKS...

Page 2: ...Sprint PCS The clear alternative to cellular SM...

Page 3: ...print Personal Communication Services is a registered service mark of Sprint Communications Company L P used under license Sprint PCS Phone is a trademark of Sprint Communications Company L P used und...

Page 4: ...3 How to activate your phone There are two ways to activate your phone 1 The fastest way is to call from your new Sprint PCS Phone First fully charge your battery Turn on your Sprint PCS Phone Make su...

Page 5: ...se about an hour after this call is finished What you should have handy Your new Sprint PCS Phone The original packaging for your new phone Your billing address Your Social Security number or tax ID n...

Page 6: ...Customer Care at 1 888 211 4PCS 4727 In Southern California call 1 800 455 4551 How to get help If you need help with this or anything else we hope you ll call Sprint PCS Customer Care at 1 888 211 4P...

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Page 8: ...3 Welcome to Sprint PCS 9 Getting to know your phone 10 Function keys 11 Display indicators 14 Using the battery 16 Extermal battery 16 Charging the battery 16 Charging with the AC adapter 17 Turning...

Page 9: ...Directory Assistance 29 Dialing Sprint PCS Operator Assistance 29 Setting up your voicemail 30 Using voicemail text messaging and numeric paging 31 Finding out you have a message 32 The internal phon...

Page 10: ...tion 42 Advanced phone book features 43 Using the pause feature 43 Hyphens 44 Viewing a number 44 The recent history list 45 Placing a call from the recent history list 46 Editing the recent history l...

Page 11: ...aining your phone s peak performance 61 Resetting the phone 61 Protecting your battery 62 Using your phone while driving 63 Disposal of LiIon Batteries 63 Following safety guidelines 63 Using your pho...

Page 12: ...even more far reaching simplify your life Our advanced technology is designed to grow with your communications needs so that one day you will be able to rely entirely on your phone to stay connected...

Page 13: ...10 3 1 END 4 7 2 5 8 0 3 6 9 pwr C i Sprint PCS Phone Apr 20 Thu 8 43 am D R 7 8 2 1 9 10 5 4 11 S029_01A 6 MENU BOOK TALK QCP 1960 Getting to know your phone...

Page 14: ...The two Smart Keys change function depending on what screen you are in The word immediately above each Smart Key on the display identifies its current function In standby mode the Smart Keys are MENU...

Page 15: ...er to answer a call 7 Star Up Arrow Key Press this key to answer a call scroll up through menus and displays or move the cursor to the left when editing text 8 Information Key Press this key in standb...

Page 16: ...you do lots of things To erase one character from the display screen briefly press it once To erase all of them hold it down for one second To back up one menu level press it once To return to standby...

Page 17: ...his icon shows your current signal strength More lines means more signal strength This means the phone cannot find a signal because you re outside a service area When this is displayed you cannot make...

Page 18: ...harging the black bars scroll until the battery is fully charged Press the top part of the volume keys to increase the volume move the cursor to the right or scroll up through menu items Press the bot...

Page 19: ...llation and removal The phone uses all the power in the external battery before it starts to use the internal battery If the external battery runs out of power during a call the internal battery takes...

Page 20: ...tery level gets too low the phone will turn off automatically Unfortunately if this happens you ll lose whatever you were just doing Watch the battery icon and make sure your battery level is adequate...

Page 21: ...fully extend the antenna for optimal reception Press for approximately one second until you see Searching on the screen means the phone has found a signal Once the phone is on it enters standby mode w...

Page 22: ...phone book if it s already there Press at any time to return to standby mode Be careful if you re on a call when you press you ll return to standby mode because it also disconnects the call Press seve...

Page 23: ...e menu Making a call Whenever you make a call follow these simple steps 1 First check to see that your phone is on If you see the display indicators on the screen that means the power is on 2 Enter a...

Page 24: ...to answer To disconnect the call when you re through press Where you can use your phone Your Sprint PCS Phone is single band which means you can use it to make and receive calls in many places In any...

Page 25: ...make calls outside your local Sprint PCS Service Area Calling experience When you use your phone on other PCS CDMA networks your calling experience and call quality will be similar to what you experie...

Page 26: ...s customer service instead of Sprint PCS Customer Care To reach Sprint PCS Customer Care dial 1 888 211 4PCS 4727 in Southern California call 1 800 455 4551 Setting your phone s mode Your phone has a...

Page 27: ...l the outgoing phone number and press Responding to Call Waiting When you re on a call and another call comes in you hear two beeps The display informs you that a call is coming in and shows the calle...

Page 28: ...make 1 Simply dial your first number and press 2 When you have connected press to put the first caller on hold 3 Next dial the second number and press 4 When you re connected press again to begin your...

Page 29: ...number to which your calls should be forwarded 3 Press You will see a message and hear a tone that confirms you ve activated Call Forwarding To deactivate Call Forwarding Press then press Once again...

Page 30: ...e using the VOLUME menu To silence the ringer When the phone rings press or the volume keys on the side of the phone to silence the ringer The display momentarily reads RINGER SILENCED then returns to...

Page 31: ...ess and hold the key under MENU for approximately one and a half seconds The left Smart Key turns into the padlock icon The keypad is locked or 1 Press the key under MENU 2 Press The left Smart Key tu...

Page 32: ...1 as long as you re within your home service area but no other emergency numbers Dialing Sprint PCS Directory Assistance Dial to obtain residential business and government listings to get help complet...

Page 33: ...you pick a number that you ll remember Create the greeting that people will hear when they call you Record your name announcement Choose whether to activate One Touch Access After you ve set up your v...

Page 34: ...r voicemail when your phone is turned off or when you don t answer the phone When you receive a voice message the voicemail system sends a notification to your phone You must call Sprint PCS Voicemail...

Page 35: ...ou have a message Your Sprint PCS Phone alerts you when you have a new message in several ways by displaying a message on the screen sounding four beeps if the ringer is turned on and displaying at th...

Page 36: ...until it has enough memory to receive the new message s If all of your stored messages are locked new messages will be rejected 1 Press to display the text messages list 2 Scroll down to the Auto Del...

Page 37: ...umbers 1 Enter the phone number you want to save The MENU Smart Key changes to SAVE 2 Press the key under SAVE The Enter Name screen appears 3 Enter a name to go with the number up to 12 characters To...

Page 38: ...s entry 6 Press the key under SAVE to save the memory location number The Make Secret screen appears 7 Press the key under NEXT to cycle through the options Press the key under OK when you see the opt...

Page 39: ...A to return to capital letters Retrieving numbers from the internal phone book You can access the numbers in your internal phone book in several ways When your phone is in standby mode follow the ste...

Page 40: ...CALLS 2 Press the key under NAME The NAME Smart Key changes to FIND 3 Enter the first letter of the name or enter a part of a name such as ave for Dave and press the key under FIND The Name search is...

Page 41: ...consecutive digits If more than one phone number contains those digits the phone lists them all Use the volume keys to scroll up or down through the list 1 Enter any three sequential digits from the p...

Page 42: ...s the key under ERASE Then press the key under OK to confirm that you want to erase the memory location erased appears on the display to indicate that you successfully deleted the entry Erasing secret...

Page 43: ...al phone book entry you want to edit 3 Press the key under VIEW to see details of the entry The EDIT and ERASE Smart Keys appear 4 Press the key under EDIT The number appears by itself 5 Edit the phon...

Page 44: ...the key s that correspond to the memory location For example for memory location 10 press 2 Press The phone will find the number in the internal phone book display it on the screen and place the call...

Page 45: ...ed when it shows CONNECTING For locations 10 to 99 1 Press the first digit 2 Press and hold the key for the second digit for 1 5 seconds Dialing from a phone book memory location 1 Press the key under...

Page 46: ...phone book separated by special characters called pauses There are two kinds of pauses Timed pauses wait two seconds before sending the next string of digits Hard pauses cause the phone to stop dialin...

Page 47: ...North American numbering plan Entering a manual hyphen suspends any automatic hyphenation for that number Viewing a number If an internal phone book entry is too long to be displayed in its entirety o...

Page 48: ...p when the call occurred You may see one of the following entries when reviewing an entry but duplicate calls only appear once on the list Duplicate calls are the same number and the same type of call...

Page 49: ...ange existing phone numbers in your internal phone book or recent history list right before dialing This is helpful to add a prefix when you travel outside your local area code To add a prefix when ma...

Page 50: ...ions When reviewing a particular call select View for additional information or options You can select Save to store the number in the internal phone book Talk to place a call Time to see the time dat...

Page 51: ...section illustrates the menu structure explains how to use menus and defines each menu item Diagram Notice that each menu except the Keyguard menu contains a secondary list of menu items As usual the...

Page 52: ...u does not contain any menu items selecting the menu number is enough to toggle the setting In other cases selecting the menu opens a list of menu items To set a menu item 1 Press the key under NEXT t...

Page 53: ...s out quietly and gradually gets louder with each ring You can also use the volume keys on the side of the phone to adjust the volume while it s ringing To silence the ringer during an incoming call p...

Page 54: ...nt PCS Nationwide Network that is not roaming since the last reset Press the key under RESET to reset 3 2 ROAM CALLS Displays length of all calls you made outside the Sprint PCS Nationwide Network sin...

Page 55: ...ver on power up or now 4 2 RESTRICT Limits your outgoing calls to emergency numbers Sprint PCS Customer Care and the numbers in your internal phone book You may answer incoming calls and view or dial...

Page 56: ...through the earpiece speaker are not necessarily considered call failures if the call actually made it through the network only to encounter the called party s busy line You can choose off every 60 se...

Page 57: ...or long 5 6 ONE TOUCH Dial stored phone numbers by pressing and holding digit keys see page 41 42 You can choose enable or disable 5 7 RINGER TYPE Sets the sound of the incoming call alert Press the k...

Page 58: ...ion number choose location Your other choice is alphabetic 6 3 BANNER Lets you customize the 12 characters of text displayed on the first line of your phone s display screen in standby mode Press the...

Page 59: ...ss the key under MORE for the PRL Preferred Roaming List version 6 7 LANGUAGE Allows you to choose the language English Spanish French or Portuguese used to display your phone s menus see page 20 and...

Page 60: ...e during a call This helps you track your phone use You can turn this function on or off 7 3 SERVICE Sounds an audible alert when a network service parameter changes For instance it beeps if you are o...

Page 61: ...ons 8 1 SET SERVICE Determines which signals your phone will accept Automatic the default and recommended setting accepts whatever system the phone service provides No Roaming prevents you from making...

Page 62: ...er of bars next to the signal strength icon The more bars displayed the stronger the signal See page 14 for an illustration of the signal strength indicators Understanding Power Save mode If you re tr...

Page 63: ...signals More than 120 scientists engineers and physicians from universities government health agencies and industries developed this updated standard after reviewing the available body of research In...

Page 64: ...a damaged antenna Speak directly into the mouthpiece Avoid exposing your phone and accessories to rain or liquid spills If your phone gets wet turn the power off immediately and remove the battery If...

Page 65: ...light or in high humidity areas such as the bathroom Never dispose of the battery by incineration Keep the metal contacts at the top of the battery clean Do not attempt to disassemble or short circuit...

Page 66: ...NSTRUCTIONS MAY LEAD TO SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY AND POSSIBLE PROPERTY DAMAGE Disposal of LiIon Batteries Contact your nearest QUALCOMM authorized Service Center for safe disposal options Do not handle...

Page 67: ...any equipment that has been added to your vehicle Consult the manufacturer of any personal medical devices such as pacemakers and hearing aids to determine if they are adequately shielded from externa...

Page 68: ...hone when you are in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere It is rare but your phone or its accessories could generate sparks Sparks could cause an explosion or a fire resulting in bodily i...

Page 69: ...complex piece of hardware and can be broken Use common sense guidelines to avoid dropping hitting bending or sitting on it FCC notice The phone may cause TV or radio interference if used in close prox...

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Page 71: ...876 5 627 857 5 629 955 5 629 975 5 638 412 5 640 414 5 642 398 5 644 591 5 644 596 5 646 991 5 652 814 5 654 979 5 655 220 5 657 420 5 659 569 5 663 807 5 666 122 5 673 259 5 675 581 5 675 644 5 680...

Page 72: ...phone use prohibited by 64 airtime usage 47 51 alerts See beeps Alerts menu 57 All calls option Call Info menu 51 American National Standards Institute ANSI 60 answering calls 10 11 21 antenna 18 59 6...

Page 73: ...tane regulations 66 C Call Forwarding 26 call in progress indicator 14 Call Info menu 51 CALL TO field recent history list 45 Call Waiting 24 CALLED BY field recent history list 45 Caller ID 24 callin...

Page 74: ...15 See also icons at beginning of index Display menu 55 56 driving using phone while 63 Drop alert option Alerts menu 57 dropped calls 57 duration of calls 47 51 E earpiece 50 Earpiece volume option...

Page 75: ...attery 16 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 60 internal battery 16 17 internal phone book See phone book K Key beep length option Features menu 54 Key beep volume option Volume me...

Page 76: ...oicemail Message ring option Volume menu 50 microphone switching on off 27 53 Minute alert option Alerts menu 57 misdialing 12 13 22 MISSED field recent history list 45 movie listings 29 Mute unmute o...

Page 77: ...5 pause feature 43 retrieving numbers from 36 38 retrieving your own number from 27 saving numbers and names to 34 35 saving numbers from recent history list to 47 sorting 55 viewing long numbers from...

Page 78: ...u 57 roaming indicator 14 S safety 59 66 numbers to phone book 34 36 Scratch pad option Features menu 53 searching 36 38 secret numbers 35 Security menu 52 selecting menu options 10 12 15 47 service a...

Page 79: ...ower Save mode and automatic shutoff 19 TV interference 66 Two Touch dialing 41 42 54 U unlocking phone 1 3 28 50 52 Unmute option Features menu 27 V volume keys adjusting volume 10 11 15 27 voicemail...

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