Introduction: Customizing Your Handheld
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Customizing Your Handheld
You can customize your handheld to do the following:
• Display personal information such as your name and address.
• Display the current date and time, and different date and time formats for other countries and time zones.
• Shut down after a certain amount of time to save battery life.
• Stay on while in the cradle.
• Play sounds at a certain volume level.
• Automatically receive any data beamed to it.
• Use a color theme.
Personalizing Your Handheld
In Owner Preferences, you can enter a name, company name, phone number, and any other information you want to include on
your handheld. If you use the Security application to lock your handheld with a password, information that you enter in Owner
Preferences appears each time you turn on your handheld.
To change Owner Preferences on your handheld:
1. Tap the
Home
icon
. Then tap the
Prefs
icon.
1. Tap the pick list in the upper right corner and choose
Owner
.
2. In the Owner Preferences screen, enter the text you want to associate with your handheld. If you enter more text
than can fit on one screen, a scroll bar appears at the right side of the screen.
NOTE:
If you have assigned a password to your device using the Security application, you must unlock the Owner Pref-
erences screen to change the information on it. For information about setting a password, see
in Chapter 3.
To unlock the Owner Preferences screen:
1. Display the Owner Preferences screen as described above.
2. Tap
Unlock
. The Unlock Message dialog box appears.
3. Enter your current password (the one you entered in the Security application) and tap
OK
.
4. Edit the Owner Preferences text as desired