User's Guide DIGITAL WIRELESS TELEPHONE Welcome Welcome to the world of Motorola digital wireless communications! We are pleased that you have chosen the Motorola 270c wireless phone. Earpiece Power Key Headset Jack Insert headset accessory. Display Volume Keys Adjust earpiece and ringer volume. Left Soft Key Perform functions identified by left display prompt. End Key End phone calls, exit menu system. Speakerphone Key Activate/deactivate the speakerphone. Accessory Connector Port Insert charger and phone accessories. Antenna Extend for best performance Menu Key Voice Key Record voice notes, phonebook and shortcut names. 4-Way Navigation Key Scroll through menus and lists, set feature values. Right Soft Key Perform functions identified by right display prompt. Send Key Send and answer calls, view recent dialed calls list. Speakerphone For hands-free phone operation. Microphone 1 Personal Communications Sector 600 North U.S. Highway 45 Libertyville, Illinois 60048 1-800-331-6456 (United States) 1-888-390-6456 (TTY/TDD United States) 1-800-461-4575 (Canada) www.motorola.com (United States) www.motorola.ca (Canada) MOTOROLA, the Stylized M Logo and all other trademarks indicated as such herein are trademarks of Motorola, Inc. ® Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. TrueSync, Sidekick, Starfish, and the Stylized Starfish Logo are registered trademarks of Starfish Software, Inc., a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by their proprietor and used by Motorola, Inc. under license. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © 2001 Motorola, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Software Copyright Notice The Motorola products described in this manual may include copyrighted Motorola and third party software stored in semiconductor memories or other media. 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Manual number: 6809435A56-O Cover number: 8988485L01-O 2 Main Menu · Recent Calls · Received Calls · Dialed Calls · Notepad · Call Times · Phonebook · Datebook · Quick Dial · Radio · Messages · Voicemail · Text Msgs · Browser Alerts · Quick Notes · Outbox · Drafts · Shortcuts · Voice Notes · Browser · Settings (see next page) Menu Map Note: This is the standard phone menu layout. You or your service provider may have changed the menu layout or changed some feature names. Not all features may be available for all users. For example, the Radio feature on the main menu (left) is displayed only when the optional FM Stereo Radio Headset accessory is plugged into the accessory connector port on your phone (see phone illustration, page 1). Shortcuts Change display zoom: Press M, then press and hold M Lock/unlock keypad: Press M * Display my phone number: Press M # Dial voicemail number: Press and hold 1 Go to dialed calls list: Press N Exit menu system: Press O 3 Settings Menu · Ring Styles · Style · Style Detail · My Tones · Phone Status · My Tel. Number · Battery Meter · Other Information · Connection · Incoming Call · In-Call Setup · In-Call Timer · Answer Options · Security · Phone Lock · Lock Keypad · Lock Application · Restrict Calls · New Passwords · Other Settings · Personalize · Main Menu · Keys · Greeting · Banner · Quick Dial · Initial Setup · Time and Date · Auto PIN Dial · Auto Redial · Backlight · Zoom · Scroll · Animation · Language · Contrast · DTMF · Master Reset · Master Clear · Network · Car Settings · Headset 4 Contents Menu Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Safety and General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 What's in the Box? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Installing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Removing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Turning Your Phone On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sending a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Ending a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Receiving a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Displaying Your Phone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 About Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Changing the Zoom Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Volume Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4-Way Navigation Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Speakerphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Battery Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Sending and Receiving Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Redialing a Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Automatic Redial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Caller ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Returning an Unanswered Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dialing an Emergency Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Entering Numbers in the Notepad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Terminating an Incoming Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 5 Contents Dialing With Speed Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dialing With One-Touch Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dialing a Number In a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Additional Dialing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Features While On a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Call Waiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Three-Way Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Additional On-Call Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Navigating to a Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting a Feature Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entering Feature Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Choosing a Text Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tap Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Symbol Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Predictive Text Entry with iTAPTM Software . . . . . . . . . . . . Menu Feature Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recent Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing the Received Calls or Dialed Calls List . . . . . . . . . Using the Notepad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing and Resetting Call Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fields in a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Storing a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recording a Voice Name For a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . Dialing a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deleting a Phonebook Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 34 35 36 36 39 39 39 40 42 42 43 44 47 47 48 51 52 57 68 68 71 72 74 74 75 77 79 80 81 Contents Synchronizing with TrueSync Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Setting Up the Phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Datebook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Week View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Day View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Event View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Storing a New Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Changing Event Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Copying an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Deleting an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Turning the Radio On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Tuning a Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Storing a Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Selecting a Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Sending and Receiving Calls With the Radio On . . . . . . . . 91 Messages--Voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Storing Your Voicemail Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Receiving a New Voicemail Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Listening to a Voicemail Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Turning Off the Voice Message Waiting Indicator . . . . . . . 94 Messages--Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Setting Up the Text Message Inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Receiving a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Reading, Locking, or Deleting a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . 97 Sending a Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Sending a Quick Note Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Viewing the Status of Sent Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 103 7 Contents Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Standard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . User-Settable Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voice Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recording a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing the Voice Notes List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playing a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locking and Unlocking a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deleting a Voice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Micro-Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Starting a Micro-Browser Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interacting With Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ring Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reordering Menu Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customizing a Soft Key Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hands-Free Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Data and Fax Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecting Your Phone to an External Device . . . . . . . . Sending a Data or Fax Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Receiving a Data or Fax Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assigning a New Code or Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If You Forget a Code or Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locking and Unlocking Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . ...