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Personal Settings
Personal Settings
This section describes how to personalize your phone by, for example, adjusting the
various tones, background images, and screen savers.
Profiles
Select
Menu
>
Ctrl. Panel
>
Profiles
.
You can adjust and customize the ringtones, alert tones, and other device tones for
different events, environments, or caller groups. The active profile is shown at the top
of the display on the home screen. However, if the active profile is General, only
today's date is shown.
To create a new profile, select
Options
>
Create new
, then define the settings.
To customize a particular profile, select a profile and
Options
>
Personalize
.
To change to a particular profile, select a profile and
Options
>
Activate
.
The Offline profile prevents your device from accidentally switching on, sending or
receiving messages, or using wireless LAN, Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, or FM
radio; it also closes any Internet connection that may be in operation when the profile
is selected.
The Offline profile does not prevent you from establishing a wireless LAN or
Bluetooth connection at a later time or from restarting the GPS or FM radio, so comply
with any applicable safety requirements when establishing and using these features.
To set the profile to be active until a certain time within the next 24 hours, scroll to the
profile, select
Options
>
Timed
, then set the time. When the time expires, the profile
changes back to the previously active untimed profile. When the profile is timed, a
timer icon is displayed on the home screen. The Offline profile cannot be timed.
To delete a profile that you created, select
Options
>
Delete profile
. You cannot
delete the predefined profiles.
Select ringtones
To set a ringtone for a profile, select
Options
>
Personalize
>
Ringtone
.
Select a ringtone in the list, or select Download Sounds to open a bookmark folder
containing a list of bookmarks for downloading ringtones using the browser. Any
downloaded tones are saved to Gallery.
To play the ringtone for a selected contact group only, select
Options
>
Personalize
>
Alert for
, then select the desired group. Phone calls coming from outside that
group have a silent alert.
To change the message tone, select
Options
>
Personalize
>
Message alert tone
.
Customize profiles
Select
Menu
>
Ctrl. Panel
>
Profiles
.
Select
Options
>
Personalize
, then choose from the following:
•
Ringtone
— Select a ringtone in the list, or select Download Sounds to open a
bookmark folder containing a list of bookmarks for downloading ringtones using
the browser. If you have two alternate phone lines in use, you can specify a
ringtone for each line.
•
Video call tone
— Select a ringtone for video calls.
•
Say caller’s name
— When you select this option and someone in your contacts
list calls you, the device sounds a ringtone that is a combination of the spoken
name of the contact and the selected ringtone.
•
Ringing type
— Select how you want the ringtone to alert you.
•
Ringing volume
— Select the volume of the ringtone.
•
Message alert tone
— Select a tone for received text messages.
•
Email alert tone
— Select a tone for received email messages.
•
Vibrating alert
— Set the device to vibrate when you receive a call or message.
•
Keypad tones
— Select the volume of the keypad tones.
•
Warning tones
— Deactivate the warning tones. This setting also affects the
tones of some games and Java™ applications.
•
Alert for
— Set the device to ring only when receiving calls from phone numbers
that belong to a selected contact group. Phone calls coming from outside that
group have a silent alert.
•
Profile name
— You can give a name to a new profile or rename an existing
profile. The General and Offline profiles cannot be renamed.
