Kyocera Dorado Phones - Manuals

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 3 Getting to know your phone Volume control button adjusts the earpiece or loudspeaker volume. Home screen . Left softkey accesses menus and functions or press to silence an incoming data call. Back key erases characters in text entry. Returns to previous scre...

4 Getting Started Performing basic functions Turn the phone on and off: Press and hold until the phone beeps or plays a tone. Make a call: Enter the number and press . End a call: Press . Answer a call: Press . Access voicemail: Press and hold and follow the system prompts. Verify your phone number:...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 5 Using menus Navigating through menus • Press to select Menu . • Press left, right, up, or down to view menus and options.* • Press to select a menu item. • Press to back up a menu level. • Press to return to the home screen. In this guide, an arrow → tells y...

6 Getting Started Understanding screen icons These icons may appear on your phone’s home screen and the external LCD. The phone is operating in IS2000 (1X) digital mode.The phone is operating in IS95 digital mode.The phone is operating in Analog (FM) mode.The phone is receiving a signal. You can mak...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 7 2 M AKING AND A NSWERING C ALLS Making a call Make sure you are in an area where a signal can be received. Look for on the home screen. Note: The more bars you see in this symbol, the stronger the signal. If there are no bars, move to where the signal streng...

8 Making and Answering Calls 1. Press to answer the call and turn on the speakerphone simultaneously. “ Speaker is ON” displays on the screen.- or -Press to turn on the speakerphone at any time during a call. To turn off the speakerphone, press . Setting the phone to hold calls The Hold Call feature...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 9 Setting missed call alerts You can set an alert to beep every five minutes after you have missed a call. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Alerts → Missed Call Alert . 2. Select an option:– Vibrate , Beep , Freeway! , Game! , Bloop , Winner! , and Zilofon...

10 Making and Answering Calls Speed dialing Before you can use speed dialing, you must save a phone number as a contact and assign it a speed dial location. • To add a speed dial location to a saved or new contact, see “Customizing a phone number” on page 19. Using speed dialing To call a contact th...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 11 Note: You can set the phone to beep or vibrate every five minutes to remind you that you have a voicemail message. See “Setting message alerts” on page 31. Calling emergency services Regardless of your 3-digit emergency code (911, 111, 999, 000, etc.), your...

12 Making and Answering Calls 2. Press to select OK after reading the message. 3. Select Disabled or Enabled . Tracking calls You can track the number and duration of calls made and received on your phone. 1. Select Menu → Recent Calls . 2. Select a timer:– All Calls Timer tracks all calls you have ...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 13 • Select Menu → Settings → Convenience → Call Guard → Call Prompt . – The phone now emits a distinctive roam ring to indicate when you are roaming during calls. – To accept or place a call while roaming, you must press . Note: Call Prompt is disabled when t...

14 Entering Letters, Numbers, and Sy mbols 3 E NTERING L ETTERS , N UMBERS , AND S YMBOLS You can enter letters, numbers, and symbols in contacts, text messages, and your banner. Understanding text entry screens The current text entry mode (and capitalization setting, when applicable) are indicated ...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 15 Entering symbols While entering text, you can enter symbols by pressing until you see the symbol you want. Using this method, you have access to the following symbols: To access the full set of symbols: 1. From the text entry screen, select Options . 2. Sel...

16 Entering Letters, Numbers, and Sy mbols Quick reference to text entry This table gives general instructions for entering letters, numbers, and symbols. To... Do this... Enter a letter Use mode and press a key until you see the letter you want. For more information, see page 14. Enter a number Use...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 17 4 S TORING C ONTACTS Use your phone’s Contacts directory to store information about a person or company. Each contact entry can have up to six phone numbers, two email addresses, two Web addresses, two street addresses, and a space for notes. Creating a new...

18 Storing Contacts 5. Scroll down the list to hear the different ringers and press to select one. Assigning pictures 1. Press to select Contacts . 2. Highlight a contact and press . 3. Highlight the contact name and press to select Options . 4. Select Picture → Assign Picture → Images . 5. Select S...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 19 4. Enter your changes and press to select Save . Erasing a contact 1. Press to select C o n t a c t s . 2. Highlight the contact to erase and press . 3. Press to select Options . 4. Highlight Erase Contact and press . 5. Press to confirm. Sending a vCard Yo...

20 Storing Contacts Finding contact information To find a phone number or contact, you can (1) check the Frequent list, (2) search the Contacts directory, or (3) use Fast Find. Checking the Frequent List From the home screen, select Contacts . The last 15 of your most frequently called contacts appe...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 21 5 S ENDING AND R ECEIVING T EXT M ESSAGES This chapter describes how to send, receive, and erase text messages from your phone. For information on voicemail messages, see “Setting up voicemail” on page 10. Important: The features and menus described in this...

22 Sending and Receiving Text Messages 2. Select an option and press . – Insert QuickText: Scroll through the list of options and press to select one. – Add Symbol: Scroll through the list and press the corresponding number key to select it. – Add Smiley: Scroll through the list and press the corres...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 23 3. Press to select OK and save the setting. Note: The characters in the signature are included in the total character count of the message. See the note under step 5 in “Creating a text message” on page 21. If you cannot send messages You may not be able to...

24 Sending and Receiving Text Messages To view successfully sent messages: 1. Select Menu → Messages → Sent . 2. Press up or down through the list of messages. One of the following symbols appears next to each message: Viewing failed or pending messages Failed or pending messages are stored in your ...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 25 If you see the symbol 1. Select Menu → Messages → InBox . A list of all your received messages appears.– indicates an “Urgent” message. 2. Scroll through the list of messages and press to read one. Reading the message The options available to you may vary. ...

26 Sending and Receiving Text Messages 5. Select Erase to erase the message. A notification appears: “Erase this message?” 6. Select Yes to erase the message. Note: You can erase a scheduled message from the OutBox , but you cannot cancel delivery of the message. Erasing all messages 1. Select Menu ...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 27 1. Select Menu → Messages → Msg Settings → Edit QuickText . 2. To create a new pre-written message, select New Msg . -or-To edit an existing pre-written message, highlight the message and select Edit . 3. Enter or edit the text and press to select Done . Fo...

28 Customizing Your Phone 6 C USTOMIZING Y OUR P HONE The contents of the Settings menu are as follows. Silent Mode Vibrate OnlyVibe then RingLights OnlyNormal Sounds KeyguardSounds Ringer VolumeRinger TypeBusiness RingerPersonal RingerRoam RingerPwr On/Off SoundKey VolumeKey LengthKey SoundAlertsSm...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 29 Silencing all sounds Your phone is set to make sounds when you receive calls, press keys, navigate through menus, and receive alerts (such as new messages).You can silence all sounds and set the phone to vibrate or light up when you receive calls and alerts...

30 Customizing Your Phone Importing ringers You can download additional ringers to your phone using the Mobile Phone Tools for Kyocera software, if available (sold separately). To purchase this software and other accessories, visit www.kyocera-wireless.com/store . Setting sounds for your phone You c...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 31 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Key Length . 2. Choose Normal or Long and press . Setting key sound You can choose the sound the phone makes when you press the keys. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Key Sound . 2. Choose Tone , Click , or Off and p...

32 Customizing Your Phone Personalizing the screen Changing your banner Your personal banner appears on the home screen above the time and date and can be up to 14 characters long. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Display → My Banner . 2. Select Edit . 3. Press to clear the screen. 4. Enter your new text...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 33 Changing the display contrast 1. Select Menu → Settings → Display → Contrast . 2. Press left or right to adjust the contrast and select Save . Setting numbers to auto-hyphenate Auto-hyphenation, when enabled, automatically inserts hyphens into your phone nu...

34 Customizing Your Phone 3. Select New Lock Code . A message appears: “Change Code?” 4. Select Yes and enter a new four-digit code. 5. Enter your new lock code again. Locking your phone When your phone is locked, you can call only emergency numbers or your service provider’s number. You can still r...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 35 3. Select Erase Contacts . 4. Select Yes to erase all contacts. A message appears: “Erase ALL Contacts?” 5. Select Yes again to erase all contacts. Network settings Switching between phone lines Your phone can have two service accounts, or phone lines, asso...

36 Customizing Your Phone 2. Set the Com Port speed. 3. Select Menu → Settings → Network → Data/Fax Calls . 4. Select an option and press : – Voice only allows only voice calls. – Fax, next call or Data, next call sets the phone to fax mode or data mode for the next incoming call or the next 10 minu...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 37 7 U SING V OICE R ECOGNITION Voice recognition allows you to make and answer calls by speaking commands into the phone. Note: You cannot use voice recognition to end a call; you must press . Setting up voice dialing To make or receive calls using voice dial...

38 Using Voice Recognition Erasing all voice tags 1. Select Menu → Settings → Voice Features → Erase Voice Dial . 2. Select Yes . 3. Select Yes again at the confirmation. Calling using digit dialing You can speak the digits of a phone number to dial it. Note: You cannot speak a string of digits. You...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 39 If the phone does not recognize your “Wake up” command, see “Training voice recognition” on page 39. Answering the phone You can set the hands-free car kit to either (1) answer automatically or (2) answer using a voice command. Answering automatically • Sel...

40 Using Media Gallery 8 U SING M EDIA G ALLERY The media gallery stores and displays all the image and sound files in the phone. Accessing files 1. Select Menu → Media Gallery . 2. Highlight an option and press : – Images displays a list of categories that contain preloaded, downloaded, saved, or c...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 41 4. Highlight an option and press : – Erase the sound. – Assign a sound as a ringer. – Rename a ringer. – Details gives you the file size of the sound. – Erase All stored sounds. 5. Select or when done. Creating free space If your phone does not have enough ...

42 Using Tools and Games 9 U SING T OOLS AND G AMES Voice Memo The Voice Memo tool allows you to record and play back audio memos. Recording a voice memo 1. Select Menu → Tools & Games → Voice Memo → Record New . -or- Press and hold right. 2. Say your memo and press to select Stop . 3. Select Sa...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 43 3. Select Options, classify the type of event, and then press : Meeting , Phone Call , Birthday , Anniversary , Vacation , Medical , or Other . 4. Press to change the date of the event (the current date is the default date of the event).– Press left or righ...

44 Using Tools and Games 2. Highlight one of the alarms and select Set . 3. Use the phone keypad to enter numbers and to switch between AM and PM. – Press left or right to move between hours, minutes, and AM/PM fields. – Press up or down to change the hours, minutes, and AM/PM options. 4. Press to s...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 45 5. Press to return to the home screen. - or - Press to clear the screen. Timer This timer counts down for a specified amount of time. It beeps when that amount of time has elapsed. 1. Select Menu → Tools & Games → Timer . 2. Select Set . – Press to move...

46 Using Tools and Games 1. Select Search from the World Clock menu. The Search By menu is displayed. 2. Select your type of search.– Press search by City . – Press down, then press to search by Country . 3. If you search by City, the Find City screen is displayed. a. Use your number keys (2-9) to e...

48 Using Tools and Games 3. Select New Doodle to open the drawing screen The cursor is located in the middle of the screen. 4. Select Options to choose the Colors , Tools , Lines , or Shape you want to use. 5. Use keys 1–9 or to move the cursor around the screen as indicated. 6. When finished, selec...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 49 10 C ONNECTING TO THE I NTERNET Using the Mobile Web You can use your Dorado phone to browse the Internet if you have obtained phone Internet services from your service provider and if over-the-air Internet access is available in your area. Note: You cannot...

50 Connecting to the Internet Searching for a Web site How you search for a Web site depends on your service provider. For more information, contact your service provider. Going to a bookmarked site 1. Select Menu → Web Browser . If you see a message prompt, press to continue. 2. From your Web home ...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 51 11 G ETTING H ELP Customer support Your service provider’s customer support department may be accessible directly from your phone when you dial a number such as *611 (check with your service provider). They can answer questions about your phone, phone bill,...

52 Getting Help Qualified service If the problem with your phone persists, return the phone with all accessories and packaging to the dealer for qualified service. Phone accessories To shop for Dorado phone accessories, visit www.kyocera-wireless.com/store . You may also call us at 800-349-4188 (U.S...

User Guide for the Kyocera Dorado Phone 53 I NDEX Numerics 1-touch dialing , 10 A accessories , v, 52 alarm clock , 6, 43 alerts browser , 50 for messages , 31 for missed calls , 9 minute alert , 12 roaming , 12 analog mode , 6, 13 auto-hyphenation , 33 B banner , 32 battery , 1 blocking outgoing ca...