Kyocera K612b - Manuals

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 3 Getting to know your phone Your phone has two keypads—the number keypad and QWERTY keypad. Number keypad When the flip is closed, use the number keypad to enter numbers, letters and symbols. Antenna . External earpiece . External camera key activates Picture mode. E...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 7 Using menus Accessing menu items • From the home screen, press the left softkey to select Menu . • Press the right softkey to select Contacts . • Press left, right, up, or down to see menus and options. • Press to select a menu item. • Press to back up a menu level....

8 Getting Started Performing basic functions Note: The phone must be powered ON to perform the following functions. Flip closed To... From the external home screen... Turn the phone on Press and wait until the phone beeps. Turn the phone off Press and hold until the phone beeps. Make a call Enter th...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 9 Flip open To... From the internal home screen... Turn the phone on Press and wait until the phone beeps. Turn the phone off Press and hold until the phone beeps. Make a call Enter the number and press . End a call Press . Answer a call Press . Adjust volume during a...

10 Getting Started Understanding screen icons These icons may appear on your phone’s screen. 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 make and receive calls. F...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 11 2 M AKING AND A NSWERING C ALLS Phone calls Making a call Make sure you are in an area where a signal can be received. Look for the symbol on the home screen. The more bars you see in this symbol, the stronger the signal. If there are no bars, move to where the sig...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 13 Changing the hold message 1. Select Menu → Settings → Convenience → Hold Call → Re-Record Msg and follow the prompts. 2. Record the message twice. 3. Select Save or Options ( Play , Re-Record , or Exit ). Recent Calls Dealing with missed calls When you have missed ...

14 Speed dialing Calling recent calls 1. Press down and hold. 2. Highlight the number you want to call and press .-or- 1. Select Menu → Recent Calls → Outgoing Calls . 2. Highlight the number you want to call and press . Erasing recent calls 1. Select Menu → Recent Calls → Erase Call Lists . 2. Sele...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 15 1. From the home screen, press and hold to dial into your voicemail. 2. Follow the system prompts to record a greeting and complete the system setup. Note: If you are having trouble accessing your voicemail, contact your service provider. Checking voicemail message...

16 Understanding roaming – Home Calls Timer tracks calls you have made and received in your home network. To reset this timer to zero, press the right softkey to select Reset . – Roam Calls Timer tracks all roaming calls you have made and received. To reset this timer to zero, press the right softke...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 17 Setting the roam ringer You can set a ringer to indicate when an incoming call will be subject to roaming charges.• Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Roam Ringer → Enabled. Setting Call Guard You can set the phone to warn you before you answer or place a call while...

18 QWERTY keypad 3 E NTERING T EXT You can enter letters, numbers, and symbols in contacts, text messages, and your banner with either QWERTY keypad (flip open) or the number keypad (flip closed). Read the appropriate section for details. QWERTY keypad Understanding screen When the flip is open, ent...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 21 Quick reference to text entry This table gives general instructions for entering letters, numbers, and symbols. For QWERTY keypad To... Do this... Enter a letter Use mode and press a key, see page 18. Enter a number Use mode and press a key. For more options, see p...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 23 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 contact...

24 Editing a contact 4. Select Ringer → Assign Ringer . 5. Scroll down the list to hear the different ringers and press to select one. Assigning pictures 1. Press the right softkey to select Contacts . 2. Highlight a contact and press . 3. Highlight the contact name and press the right softkey to se...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 25 3. Press the right softkey to select Options . 4. Highlight Erase Contact and press . 5. Press the left softkey to confirm. Sending a vCard You can send contact information as a text messages. 1. Press the right softkey to select Contacts . 2. Highlight the contact...

26 Using groups 6. Enter the new information and follow the prompts. 7. Select Save , if necessary. Using groups You can create and save a list of multiple recipients. Your Strobe phone stores five group lists with up to 10 recipients per list. Creating Groups 1. Select Menu → Contacts → View Groups...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 27 2. Select a search method:– View All lists all saved contacts. – Find Name locates a specific name. Enter part of the contact name then select Find . – Speed Dial List, Voice Dial List , or Messaging Groups selects a contact from the specified list. 3. Highlight a ...

28 Sending text messages 5 T EXT M ESSAGING This chapter describes how to send, receive, and erase text messages from your phone. For information on voicemail messages, see “Voicemail” on page 14. Important: The features and menus described in this chapter may vary depending on services available in...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 29 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 or letter key to select it. – Add Smiley: Scroll through the list and press ...

30 Sending text messages Adding a signature The signature you create is included at the end of all outgoing messages and is counted as characters in your messages; however, it does not appear in the message creation screen. To create a signature: 1. Select Menu → Settings → Messaging → Signature . 2...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 31 To enable the Save to Sent setting 1. Select Menu → Messages → Msg Settings → Save to Sent . 2. Select an option and press . – Enabled automatically saves all successfully sent messages in the Sent folder. – Prompt allows you to choose whether or not to save your m...

32 Retrieving text messages Note: If you receive a new message while you are reading a message, the one you are reading will be replaced by the new one. You can find the older message in the InBox: • Select Menu → Messages → InBox . If you see the symbol 1. Select Menu → Messages → InBox . A list of...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 33 – If you select message a from Drafts , press the right softkey to select Erase . 4. Press the right softkey to select Options . 5. Select Erase to erase the message. A notification appears: “Erase this message?” 6. Select Yes to erase the message. Note: You can er...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 35 6 M ULTIMEDIA M ESSAGING Sending multimedia messages You can only send multimedia messages to and from phones that are capable of receiving them or to email addresses. For details on availibility, check with your service provider. Note: Size limits may apply to mul...

36 Receiving multimedia messages • Media Gallery to display a list of categories that contain saved or downloaded sounds and voice memos.– Highlight Saved Sounds . Press the left softkey to select Open. – Highlight a sound to add to the multimedia message. Press the left softkey to choose Select . 8...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 37 3. Press up or down through the list and highlight Disabled . Press . Viewing multimedia messages When you receive a multimedia message, a appears on your phone’s screen and remains until all messages are viewed. The message is stored in the InBox until the full me...

38 7 U SING THE C AMERA Tips before operating your camera • You cannot activate the camera while on a call. • Once the camera is active, the home screen acts as the viewfinder. • If you get a “Low memory” error, check your resolution and quality compression settings. See “Setting up the camera” on t...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 39 – White Balance allows the camera to adjust for different lighting. Options are Automatic, Fluorescent, Incandescent, or Daylight. – Color Tone allows you to capture pictures with different coloring. Options are Normal, Black & White, Negative, and Sepia. – Qua...

40 Taking a picture Camera mode indicators and icons The camera mode displays the following onscreen indicators and icons: Taking a picture 1. Select Menu → Camera . 2. Focus on the image using the phone’s display as a viewfinder. 3. Take the picture using one of several methods:– Press .– Press lef...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 41 8 M EDIA G ALLERY The Media Gallery stores camera pictures, images, sounds, and videos in the phone and displays those files on the phone’s screen. Accessing files 1. Select Menu → Media Gallery . 2. Select an option:– Camera Pictures displays thumbnails of the pho...

42 Accessing files Browsing images The images menu allows you to assign your files to various applications. 1. Select Menu → Media Gallery → Images . 2. Highlight an option and press : – Saved Images displays available images. – Wallpapers displays wallpaper selections. – Screen Savers displays avai...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 43 9 C USTOMIZING Y OUR P HONE The contents of the Settings menu are as follows:* Silent Mode Vibrate OnlyVibe then RingLights OnlyNormal Sounds Keyguard Guard on closeDisabled Sounds Ringtone VolumeRinger TypeBusiness RingerPersonal RingerRoam RingerFlip OpenFlip Clo...

44 Creating a custom menu Creating a custom menu You can create a custom menu that contains your favorite features with the internal keypad’s custom menu key. 1. Press . 2. Press the left softkey to select Edit . 3. Scroll through the available features and press to select or deselect options. – You...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 45 2. Highlight an option:– Guard on close – Disabled 3. Press to save. Choosing ringers Your Strobe phone has multiple ringers you can choose to use for incoming calls. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Ringer Type . 2. Scroll down the list to hear the different r...

46 Setting sounds for your phone Adjusting volume You can adjust the earpiece, speakerphone, and ringer volume as well as key tones. Adjusting the ringer volume 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Ringer Volume . 2. Press right to increase the volume, or left to decrease the volume. 3. Press the le...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 47 To set the earpiece volume: 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Earpiece Volume . 2. Press right to increase the volume, or left to decrease the volume. 3. Press the left softkey to select Save . Adjusting speakerphone volume 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → S...

48 Personalizing the screen 2. Highlight a wallpaper design and press . 3. Press the left softkey to assign the wallpaper. 4. Press to return to the home screen. Selecting a screen saver Screensavers appear on the home screen when the flip is open or closed and are activated 10 seconds after the las...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 49 Note: The battery charges more slowly when power backlighting is on. Setting numbers to auto-hyphenate Auto-hyphenation, when enabled, automatically inserts hyphens into your phone numbers to be consistent with the U.S. dialing plan. For example, 1-222-333-4444.• S...

50 Creating a secure environment Limiting calls You can limit the calls that can be made from your phone to emergency numbers, your contacts, and your service provider’s numbers. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Security . 2. Enter your four-digit lock code. 3. Select Limit Calls . 4. Choose an option an...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 51 Network settings Switching between phone lines Your phone can have two service accounts, or phone lines, associated with it. Each phone line has its own phone number.When you are using one line, you cannot receive calls from the other. It would be as if the phone w...

52 Connecting to a TTY/TDD device Connecting to a TTY/TDD device You can connect the phone to a TTY device for the hearing impaired. Note: Enable TTY only when using the phone with a TTY device. 1. Connect the TTY device to the phone. 2. Enter ##889 from your keypad. 3. Press the left softkey to sel...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 53 10 U SING T OOLS AND G AMES Games The games in this section may not be available on your phone. Check with your service provider for availability. If you receive an incoming call alert while you are playing a game, the game is paused and exited. You can return to p...

54 Voice Memo 4. Continue placing cards until you are satisfied with your selections. – You can pause or end the game at any time by pressing . – You lose points each time you exceed 21 in a column. – Select Skip to skip one card per round. 5. Press to select to get your score and advance to the nex...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 55 Erasing a saved voice memo 1. Select Menu → Tools & Games → Voice Memo → Recorded Memos . 2. Highlight the memo and select Options . 3. Select Erase . The prompt “Erase file?” appears. 4. Select Yes or No . Scheduler The Scheduler allows you to schedule events ...

56 Alarm Clock 4. Press the right softkey to select Options . 5. Select Edit , Erase , or Send and press . – For more information about editing the event, see “Scheduler” on page 55. – To erase the event, highlight Erase and press . Press the left softkey to confirm. – For more information about sen...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 57 5. To split the bill, right softkey to select Split . 6. Press to clear the default of 2 guests. 7. Enter the number of guests and press the left softkey to select Next . The amount each guest pays is calculated. 8. Select Done . Calculator Use the calculator for b...

58 Setting up voice dialing 11 U SING V OICE R ECOGNITION Voice recognition allows you to make and answer calls by speaking commands into the phone’s microphone. Setting up voice dialing To make or receive calls using voice dialing, contacts must be saved with associated voice tags. Creating a voice...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 59 Erasing voice tags To erase all voice name dial recordings in your phone: 1. Menu → Settings → Voice Features → Erase Voice Dial . 2. Select Yes . Making a call using digit dialing When using digit dialing, you speak digits to dial a phone number. Note: You cannot ...

60 Training voice recognition 2. Select Menu → Settings → Keyguard → Disabled , then press . To wake up the phone: 1. Say “ Wake Up ” and listen for a tone. 2. Say “ Wake Up ” again until you hear two tones. If the phone does not recognize your “Wake up” command, see “Training voice recognition” on ...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 61 12 C ONNECTING TO THE I NTERNET You can use your 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 receive incoming calls while you ar...

62 Searching for a Web site 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 pa...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 63 13 U SING B LUETOOTH ® W IRELESS T ECHNOLOGY The Bluetooth wireless technology on your Strobe phone enables wireless connectivity with accessories such as portable or installed hands-free car kits, headsets, handsets, computers, PC cards and adapters, PDAs, and spe...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 65 Bluetooth wireless technology settings You can change/review the information about each device you have set up on your phone. 1. Select Menu → Bluetooth → My Devices . 2. Scroll to the device and press the right softkey to select Options. 3. Use the following optio...

66 Services You can view a list of the available Bluetooth wireless technology service protocols supported by your Strobe phone: 1. Select Menu → Bluetooth → Settings → Services . 2. A list of supported service protocols is listed. 3. Press to return to the BT Settings menu. 82-N8758-1EN.book Page 6...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 67 14 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, call c...

68 Phone accessories To shop for Strobe phone accessories, visit www.kyocera-wireless.com/store . You may also call us at 800-349-4188 (U.S.A. only) or 858-882-1410. Become a product evaluator To participate in the testing and evaluation of Kyocera Wireless Corp. products, including cellular or PCS ...

User Guide for the Strobe Phone 69 I NDEX Numerics 1-Touch dialing , 14 A accessories , 2 alarm clock , 10, 56 alerts for messages , 46 for missed calls , 13 auto text , 34 auto-hyphenation , 49 B banner , 47 battery , 1 blocking outgoing calls , 50, 52 Bluetooth Deleting a Device , 65 Disconnecting...