User Guide Nokia 8260 User Guide Legal information Part No. 9352530, Issue 3 © 2000­2001 Nokia Mobile Phones. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada 06/01. Nokia, Nokia Connecting People, and the Original Accessories logos are trademarks of Nokia Corporation and/or its affiliates. US Patent No 5818437 and other pending patents. T9 text input software Copyright © 1999. Tegic Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. FCC/Industry Canada Notice Your phone may cause TV or radio interference (for example, when using a telephone in close proximity to receiving equipment). The FCC or Industry Canada can require you to stop using your telephone if such interference cannot be eliminated. If you require assistance, contact your local service facility. This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the condition that this device does not cause harmful interference. Export Controls This product contains commodities, technology or software exported from the United States in accordance with the Export Administration regulations. Diversion contrary to U.S. or Canadian law is prohibited. Contents 1. For your safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Understand network services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Visit Nokia on the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Contacting Nokia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 3. Prepare your phone for use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Install the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 First, remove the back cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Next, insert the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Last, replace the back cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Charge the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 When the charger is not in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 When you need to remove the battery . . . . . . . . . . . .5 4. Get to know your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Keys and screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Power key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Start screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Navigation keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Selection keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Scroll key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Scroll bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Indicators and icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 [i] 5. Make and answer calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Make a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Answer a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Adjust the earpiece volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Redial the last-dialed number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Caller ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Get a strong signal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Keep calls private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. Use phone menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Navigate menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Scroll through menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Use a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Exit menu levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Get help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 List of shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7. Enter letters and numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Enter letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Edit names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Change from capital (uppercase) letters . . . . . . 21 Use punctuation and special characters . . . . . . 21 Enter numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 List of special characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 8. Use the phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 About the phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Use phone book menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Change views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 [ ii ] Add names and numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Change a stored telephone number. . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Recall and redial numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Erase stored names and numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Erase the entire phone book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Check memory status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 9. Use voice mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 When you have a message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Set up your voice mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Set greetings and passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Listen to your voice messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 10. Work with the call log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Check the call log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Check missed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Check previously dialed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Check received calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Clear call lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Check call timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Turn on a current call timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Clear call timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 11. Use advanced calling features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Set in-call options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Use call waiting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Store the call waiting feature code. . . . . . . . . . .37 Activate call waiting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Manage calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Make a conference call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 [ iii ] Recall a number from the phone book during a conference call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Use call forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Store the call forwarding feature code . . . . . . . 39 Activate call forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Redial automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Use a calling card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Save calling card information (step 1) . . . . . . . . 41 Save calling card information (step 2) . . . . . . . . 41 Choose a calling card to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Make a calling card call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Send your own number in caller ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Store the Send Own Number feature code . . . . 43 Set whether or not your number will appear . . 43 Select a phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Select the phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Set touch tones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Set manual touch tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Set touch tone length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Store touch tone sequences (strings) . . . . . . . . . 45 12. Customize your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 What is a profile? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Select a different profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Customize a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Set ringing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Set the ringing volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Set the ringing tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 [ iv ] Set a vibrating alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Set keypad tones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Set warning and game tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Set the message alert tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Set your phone to answer automatically . . . . . .52 Set the lights (car kit only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Rename profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Restore factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Set the display language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Set and display the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Set the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Display or hide the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Select the time format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Set automatic update of date and time . . . . . . . . . .55 Turn on automatic update of date and time . . .56 Automatic update of date and time: confirm first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Turn off automatic update of date and time . . .56 Add a welcome note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Use 1-touch dialing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Assign a name or number to a 1-touch dial key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Change 1-touch dialing numbers . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Erase 1-touch dialing numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Use emergency key 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Activate the emergency key 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 Make an emergency call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 [v] Use caller groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Add names to a caller group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Assign a ringing tone to a caller group . . . . . . . 60 Rename a caller group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Remove names from a caller group . . . . . . . . . . 60 Display caller group graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Receive a downloaded graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 View the new graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Save a received graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Discard a received graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 13. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Change your security code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Protect your phone with the lock code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Turn on the phone lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Store an unlocked phone number. . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Call the unlocked phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Answer a call with phone lock on. . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Change your lock code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Turn off phone lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lock the keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Activate keyguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Deactivate keyguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Answer a call while keyguard is active . . . . . . . 66 Restrict calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Restrict outgoing calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Restrict incoming calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [ vi ] 14. Set network services features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Set up how your phone selects a system . . . . . . . . .68 Set up the way your phone selects a network . .69 Switch from a private system to a public system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Roaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 15. Send and receive text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 About writing messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Write with standard text input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Write with predictive text input . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Turn on predictive text input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Keys and tools for predictive text input . . . . . . .73 Turn off predictive text input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Notes about predictive text input . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Write and send a text message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 Save a message in the saved folder . . . . . . . . . .76 Resend a message from the outbox . . . . . . . . . .76 Receive a text message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Read a text message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...