Kyocera VMKX5C - Manual

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 3 Getting to know your phone To use the keys on the lower portion of your phone, you must slide the phone open as pictured here. When the phone is closed, the keys are locked to prevent accidental keypresses . Home screen. Left softkey accesses menus and functio...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 5 Using menus Accessing menu items (slide open) • 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 ba...

6 Getting Started Performing basic functions Slide closed Note: The phone must be powered ON to perform the following functions. To... From the home screen... Make a call Press and hold to initiate voice dialing. Contact must have voice tag assigned (see page 58). End a call Press . Adjust volume du...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 7 Slide open To... From the 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 . Access voicemail Press a...

8 Getting Started Understanding screen icons These icons may appear on your phone’s screen. The phone is operating in IS95 digital mode.The phone is receiving a signal. You can make and receive calls. Fewer bars indicate a weaker signal. A call is in progress. The phone is not receiving a signal. Yo...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 9 2 M Y A CCOUNT You can manage your Virgin Mobile account directly from your phone. The basic tasks are summarized in this chapter. For more information about your account, go to www.virginmobileusa.com . Checking your account balance You can check your Virgin ...

10 VirginXL 3 V IRGIN XL Accessing VirginXL With VirginXL, you can access a variety of exclusive music, entertainment, and information services from your Slider Sonic phone. Download the latest games, ringtones, wallpapers, screen savers, and other content.New VirginXL features are added all the tim...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 11 4 M Y STUFF My music The My music folder stores your favorite songs. You can drag and drop MP3 and WMA music files from your computer to the provided external memory card and listen to them on your Slider Sonic phone. For more information about the external m...

12 My stuff Assigning downloaded ringtones 1. Select Menu → My stuff → My ringtones . 2. Select a ringtone and press the left softkey to select Set Default . Note: The downloaded ringtone will also be listed in the Ringtones folder and available to assign to individual contacts or as the Personal or...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 13 Assigning downloaded graphics 1. Select Menu → My stuff → My graphics . 2. Select My pictures , VirginXL graphics , Wallpapers or Screen savers and press . 3. Scroll to the graphic you want to assign and press the right softkey to select Options . 4. Highligh...

14 Making and Answering Calls 5 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 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 signal strength is b...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 15 Answering calls using the slide You can set the phone to answer immediately when you open the slide. • Select Menu → Settings → Convenience → Open to answer → Enabled . – Select Disabled to have the phone continue ringing when you open the slide. Adjusting th...

16 Making and Answering Calls – If you have not recorded a hold message, you will be prompted to record one, such as “Please hold. I’ll answer in a minute.” 2. Record the message twice, as prompted. 3. Select Save or Options ( Play , Re-Record , or Exit ). The next time a call comes in, you will hav...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 17 Viewing recent calls 1. Select Menu → Recent calls . 2. Select a list: All calls , Incoming calls , Outgoing calls , or Missed calls . 3. Select a recent call item and press the right softkey to select Options : – Save adds the phone number to the Contacts li...

18 Making and Answering Calls Using 1-Touch dialing To call a contact that has a speed dial location:• From the home screen, press and hold the speed dialing number. If it is a two-digit number, press the first digit briefly, then press and hold the second digit. For example, if the speed dialing lo...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 19 To exit Emergency mode When you have completed the emergency call: 1. Press to select Exit . 2. Press again to confirm your choice. Note: To determine who has access to your location, see “Setting position location” on page 49. Tracking calls You can track th...

20 Entering Letters, Numbers, and Sy mbols 6 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 Slider Sonic Phone 21 3. When you see the word you want, press . 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 t...

22 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 20. Enter a number Use...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 23 7 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 c...

24 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 the right softkey to select Options . 4. Select Picture → Assign Picture → My...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 25 Erasing a contact 1. Press the right softkey to select Contacts . 2. Highlight the contact to erase and press . 3. Select Options . 4. Highlight Erase Contact and press . 5. Press the left softkey to confirm. Customizing a phone number 1. Press the right soft...

26 Storing Contacts Searching the Contacts directory 1. Select Contacts for a list of all contacts. To quickly get down the list, enter the first letter of the contact. The menu skips to that letter of the alphabet.- or -Select Menu → Contacts. 2. Select a search method:– View all lists all saved co...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 27 8 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 setti...

28 Using the Camera – Multishot allows you to take up to six multiple pictures while the camera key is pressed and held. A tone will play each time a picture is taken. A second tone will play when the final picture is taken. – Shutter Sound sets the sound used when the camera takes a picture. – Whit...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 29 – Frames allows you to add a frame or a stamp to your picture. A frame or stamp cannot be removed once it has been used in a picture. Note: The picture resolution changes to 160 x 120 while taking pictures with frames. The resolution returns to the original s...

30 Using the Camera Setting up the video camera Menu settings can only be accessed when the picture mode is activated. 1. Select Menu → Pictures. 2. Press the right softkey to select Options . 3. Press up or down to scroll through the vertical menu bar. 4. Highlight Video Mode and press . Menu optio...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 31 8. Press the Back or End key when finished taking videos. This will take you back to the main menu screen. Video key map Slide open or closed Key Video Camera Function Menu Function Left softkey “Record” – starts recording (plays a tone)“Stop” – stops recordi...

32 Removable Memory Card 9 R EMOVABLE M EMORY C ARD Your Slider Sonic phone comes with a Sandisk TransFlash removable memory card for storage of video and music files. You can easily drag and drop files stored on your computer directly onto the TransFlash card.• The removable memory card supports MP...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 33 Manual Note: Formatting or reformatting a card erases all data and music files that were previously saved on the TransFlash card. 1. Lift the TransFlash cover up. (See item 18 in the picture on page 4). 2. Hold the card with the metal contacts facing up and p...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 35 10 U SING THE M USIC P LAYER Use your phone’s Music Player to listen to your favorite songs and create Playlists. Store music files directly on an external storage card for your own portable music library. Playing music 1. From the home screen, press and hold...

36 Using the Music Player 2. Press the right softkey to select Options . 3. Select Shuffle On . The Shuffle icon appears. – This option changes to Shuffle Off if Shuffle On has already been selected. Repeat 1. Select Menu → Music Player. 2. Press the right softkey to select Options . 3. Select Setti...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 37 11 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 18. Important: The features and menus described in this ...

38 Sending and Receiving Text Messages 2. Select an option and press : – Insert AutoText: 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 corresp...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 39 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 37. If you cannot send messages You may not be able to send or receive messages if your phone’s memo...

40 Sending and Receiving Text Messages 2. Scroll through the list of messages and press to read one. Retrieving text messages When a text message is received, your screen displays “New Messages” with the symbol at the top of your screen. The symbol flashes if the message is urgent. If you see the “N...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 41 – Save as AutoText to save the text from the message as AutoText, which you can insert into other messages. Graphics and sound are not saved as part of AutoText.(For more about AutoText, see page 42.) – View Sender information. 3. Select Done . Note: The symb...

42 Sending and Receiving Text Messages Creating group lists You can create and save a list of multiple recipients. Your Slider Sonic phone stores five group lists with up to 10 recipients per list. 1. Select Menu → Messaging → Groups → Create new . 2. Enter a name for the list. For help entering tex...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 43 12 C USTOMIZING Y OUR P HONE 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 when you receive ...

44 Customizing Your Phone Turning sounds back on • Press and hold - or - • Press and hold up. Choosing ringers Your Slider Sonic phone has multiple ringers you can choose to use for incoming calls. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Sounds → Ringtones . 2. Scroll down the list to hear the different rings a...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 45 Adjusting the earpiece volume To adjust the earpiece volume manually during a call, press or up or down. 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. ...

46 Customizing Your Phone – Vibrate & Remind , Beep & Remind, FWY & Remind, Game & Remind, Bloop & Remind, Winner! & Remind, Zilofon & Remind sets the phone to notify you once when a new message is received and then notify you again every five minutes. To stop a reminder ...

48 Customizing Your Phone Note: Downloaded wallpapers are saved in Menu → My stuff → My graphics → Wallpapers . Selecting a color theme You can select a color theme for the display background of your phone. 1. Select Menu → Settings → Display → Color themes . 2. Scroll through the options to view th...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 49 5. Enter the phone number, including the area code. Do not enter 1 before the area code. 6. Press the left softkey to select Done . Notes: • You can view these numbers only when they’re being entered for the first time. • You cannot edit these numbers.• To ma...

50 Sending and Receiving Multimedia Messages 13 S ENDING AND R ECEIVING M ULTIMEDIA M ESSAGES Sending multimedia messages You can only send multimedia messages to phones that are capable of receiving them or to email addresses. For details, check with Virgin Mobile. Note: Size limits may apply to mu...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 51 – 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 . 9. Before sending your message, press the right softkey to select additional Options : – Preview ...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 53 14 U SING T OOLS Voice memo The Voice Memo tool allows you to record and play back audio memos. Recording a voice memo 1. Select Menu → Tools → Voice memo → Record new . -or- Press and hold right. 2. Say your memo and press the left softkey to select Stop . 3...

54 Using Tools 3. Select Options and classify the type of event and 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 right to move between the month, da...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 55 Setting an alarm clock 1. Select Menu → Tools → Alarm clock . 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. – P...

56 Using Tools 4. Press to calculate the result. Example : Enter 5, press left to select X , enter 2, then press to obtain the result of 10. 5. Press to return to the home screen. - or - Press to clear the screen. World clock The World clock lets you check times in cities around the world in relatio...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 57 3. Select Start to begin the countdown. Select Stop to pause the countdown. Select Reset to clear the timer. 4. Select Sound to set the alarm sound and press . 5. Press or the right softkey to silence the alarm. Stopwatch 1. Select Menu → Tools → Stopwatch . ...

58 Using Voice Recognition 15 U SING V OICE R ECOGNITION Voice recognition allows you to make and answer calls by speaking commands into the phone’s microphone. Note: You cannot use voice recognition to end a call; you must press when the slide is open. Setting up voice dialing To make or receive ca...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 59 Erasing voice tags To erase all voice name dial recordings in your phone: 1. Menu → Settings → Call options → 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 can...

60 Using 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 pag...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 61 16 G ETTING H ELP Customer support To contact Virgin Mobile’s customer support department for information about your phone, account history, call coverage area, and specific features available to you, such as call forwarding or voicemail:• Go to www.virginmob...

User Guide for the Slider Sonic Phone 62 I NDEX Numerics 1-Touch dialing , 17 A accessories , 2 Alarm Clock , 8 alarm clock , 54 alerts for messages , 45 for missed calls , 16 auto-hyphenation , 47 AutoText , 38, 41, 42 B banner , 46 battery , 1 blocking outgoing calls , 49 brightness , 47 C calcula...