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> Using the TouchFLO 3D Home Screen

> The TouchFLO 3D Home screen has the following tabs:

> Switching Between Tabs on the Home Screen

> | Touch or tap the desired tab on the Home screen.

> — or —

> | Press the Navigation Control right or left to move to the next or previous tab.

> — or —

> | Press and hold your finger on the active tab, and then slide your finger right or left over the tabs. Release when you have selected the desired tab.

> Note | Apply some pressure when pressing and holding on the active tab to be able to slide over the tabs.

> — or —

> | Swipe left across the screen to move to the next tab, and swipe right across the screen to move to the previous tab.

> Home

> The Home tab displays the current date, a digital clock, and an alarm icon that indicates whether the alarm is on or off. Missed calls and your upcoming calendar appointments are also shown on the Home tab.

> To select an item on the Home tab:

> |  | Touch the item.

> — or —

> Press the Navigation Control up or down first to navigate to the item you want to select and then press the Enter button.

> 1. | Touch the date or the large digital clock to open the Clock & Alarms screen where you can set the date, time, and alarm. (See “Changing Basic Settings” for details.)

> 2. | Touch this area to view details about missed calls in the Call History. (See “Call History” for details.)

> 3. | Swipe upward on the screen to display the small digital clock and view more appointments.

> 4. | One all-day appointment and up to two timed appointments can be displayed. Touch this area to create, edit, or view an appointment. (See “Calendar” for details.)

> 5. | Swipe downward on the screen to change back to the large digital clock.

> People

> On the People tab, you can add favorite contacts who you most frequently communicate with. This allows you to quickly make calls, send text messages, and send email messages to your favorite contacts.

> Tip | You can add up to 15 favorite contacts on the People tab.

> Adding Favorite Contacts

> You should already have created or synchronized contacts on your device before you can add them to the People tab.

> 1. | On the Home screen, slide your finger to the People tab.

> 2. | Touch the small or big Plus icon, or touch Add Favorite.

> 3. | On the Select a Contact screen, touch the name of the desired contact.

> Tip | To create a new contact, touch Menu > New Contact. See “Contacts” for details.

> 4. | Select a phone number or email address to associate with the favorite contact.

> Note | If there is no picture associated with the contact, the next screen prompts you to assign a picture to the contact.

> 5. | To add another favorite contact, touch the small Plus icon ( ) at the right side of the screen and repeat steps 3 and 4.

> Choosing from Your Favorite Contacts

> 1. | Do any of the following:

> |  | To flip through the contact pictures one at a time, swipe your finger up or down the screen. You can also press the Navigation Control up or down to flip through the contact pictures.

> |  | On the picture strip at the right side of the People screen:

> |  | Touch the picture of the desired favorite contact.

> — or —

> |  | Press and hold on the currently selected contact picture to display a slideout bar, and then slide up or down the picture strip. Release your finger when the desired contact is selected.

> 2. | After selecting a favorite contact, touch the icon on the left side of the contact name. The icon shown will depend on the contact information chosen for the contact. For example, a phone icon ( ) will be shown if a phone number is selected and you can tap this icon to call the favorite contact.

> 3. | Touch the picture of the contact on the center screen to access his or her contact card. On the contact card, you will see the last outgoing or incoming call as well as contact details such as phone numbers, email address, and more.

> Tip |

> | • | On the People tab, touch All People to access all contacts that are stored on your device.

> | • | To remove the current favorite contact, touch Menu > Remove Favorite.

> Messages

> On the Messages tab, you can read text messages as they arrive and create a new text message. When there are new incoming text messages, the icon on the Messages tab will show the number of new messages.
> For example, indicates that there is a new unread message.

> 1. | To view the entire message thread from the sender and reply, touch the message on the screen.

> 2. | Touch All Messages to access all text messages in your inbox and other folders.

> 3. | Touch Menu to remove the current message and access more options.

> 4. | To flip through received text messages, swipe your finger upward or downward, touch the up or down arrow on the screen, or press the Navigation Control up or down.

> 5. | Touch the New icon to create a new text message.

> For more information about working with text messages, see “Using SMS Text Messaging”.

> Mail

> The Mail tab is where you send and receive email messages. Including Outlook Email, you can add up to four POP3/IMAP4 and Web-based email accounts in this tab.

> To add an email account:

> 1. | On the Home screen, slide your finger to the Mail tab.

> 2. | If this is your first time to add an email account, touch New Account on the bottom right side of the screen.

> 3. | Set up your email account using the Email Setup wizard.

> 4. | To add another email account, touch Menu > Accounts > New Account and use the Email Setup wizard to set up your account.

> For detailed instructions on setting up email accounts using the Email Setup wizard, see “Email Setup Wizard”.

> To check email:

> |  | When there are new email messages, the icon on the Mail tab and the respective icons of the email accounts will show the number of newly received messages.

> 1. | To browse through received email messages, swipe up or down on the envelope image or press the Navigation Control up or down.

> Touch the email icon on the screen to open and read the message.

> 2. | Touch Inbox to access all email messages of the currently selected account.

> 3. | Touch Menu to access more options.

> 4. | These are your email accounts. Touch an icon to select an email account and view the new email messages received in that account.

> 5. | After selecting an email account, touch this icon to create and send a new email message.

> For more information about working with email, see “Email Messaging” and “Working With Company Email and Meeting Appointments”.

> Sprint Music

> The Sprint Music tab allows you to visually browse through albums and music tracks that are on your device and play music. The albums and music tracks that you see on this tab are from the Now Playing list of the Library.

> Note | Your device searches for all music files that have the following audio formats: MP3 (.mp3), WMA (.wma), AAC/AAC+ (.aac), and MPEG-4 (.m4a). It searches for music from the following locations: Device: \My Music (including all subfolders) \My Documents (including all subfolders)
> Storage: \Storage Card (including all subfolders)

> From the Sprint Music tab, you can also access the Sprint Music Store to purchase and download music. For more information about purchasing and downloading music onto your device, see “Sprint Music Store”.

> Playing Music

> |  | On the Sprint Music tab, flip through albums and all the music in each album, and then touch the Play icon ( ) to start playback.

> 1. | Swipe upward or downward on the screen or press the Navigation Control up or down to flip through albums and the music or songs in an album.

> 2. | Touch Library to access the Library. See “The Library” for details.

> 3. | Touch Menu to set music playback to repeat, turn shuffle on or off, and more.

> 4. | Touch the Down arrow icon to go to the next album or the next music in the current album.

> 5. | Touch the Play icon to play or the Pause icon to pause playback. You can also press the Enter key to play or pause.

> 6. | Touch the up arrow icon to go to the previous album or the previous music in the current album.

> 7. | Touch Sprint Music Store to download music from Sprint Music Store. See “Sprint Music Store” for details.

> To advance forward or backward in the music:

> | Touch and hold on the thin bar below the album art to display the progress bar:

> Drag your finger right or left on the progress bar to move forward or backward in the current music.

> — or —

> | Slide your finger around the Navigation Control as follows:

> Slide your finger clockwise to advance forward in the music.

> To move backward in the music, slide your finger counterclockwise.

> To set repeat and shuffle modes:

> The icons on the upper-right side of the Sprint Music tab show whether repeat and shuffle modes are enabled.

> | Repeat [One] |  | Repeat [All] |  | Shuffle [On]

> | Touch Menu > Repeat and choose whether to repeat once, repeat all, or do not repeat.

> | To toggle shuffle mode on and off, touch Menu > Shuffle and then select Shuffle On or Shuffle Off.

> The Library

> The Library organizes music into categories, such as Now Playing, Artists, Albums, Genres, All Songs, and more. When you add more albums or music tracks to your device, go to the Library to locate and play the new albums or music tracks.

> To browse and play music in the Library:

> 1. | On the Music tab, touch Library to open the Library screen.

> 2. | The tabs at the bottom of the Library screen correspond to the different categories. To browse music under a certain category, slide to the tab that corresponds to the desired category.

> 3. | Tap a music track to play it.

> Note | When you select a category in the Library such as Artists and play its music, the Now Playing list will be replaced with the music tracks from that category.

> Playlists

> You can group your favorite music into a playlist and then play back the playlist.

> To create a new playlist:

> 1. | Select the desired music on the Music tab or the Library.

> 2. | Touch Menu > Add to Playlist.

> 3. | Touch <New Playlist>, enter a Playlist name, and then touch OK.

> To add more music files to a playlist:

> 1. | On the Playlists tab, touch a playlist to open it.

> 2. | Touch Menu > Edit.

> 3. | Touch Menu > Add.

> 4. | Select the check boxes of the music you want to add to the playlist, or touch Menu > Select All to choose all the music.

> 5. | Touch OK three times and then touch Up to return to the Playlists tab.

> To play back a playlist:

> 1. | On the Playlists tab, touch a playlist to open it.

> 2. | Touch the first song in the playlist. The Music tab starts playing the first song. After each song, the next one in the playlist will be played.

> Note | Playlists are not automatically updated when music files have been deleted from the device memory or storage card.

> Types of Playlists

> There are two types of playlists that can be shown on the Playlists tab:

> | Custom playlists. Playlists that are created on the Music tab.

> | Windows Media Player playlists. Playlists that are in Windows Media Player Mobile’s Library (which is synchronized with Windows Media Player on your computer). They are indicated by the Windows Media Player icon ( ). These playlists cannot be edited.

> Note | If a Windows Media Player playlist contains a combination of music, video and image files, only music files in the playlist will be synchronized to your device and other media types will be filtered out.

> Photos and Videos

> The Photos and Videos tab lets you flip through your photos and video clips and view them full-screen. From this tab, you can also launch the camera so you can take pictures and record video clips.

> 1. | Touch the photo or video on the screen to view or play it full-screen.

> 2. | Touch Album to open the Album program. See “Viewing Photos and Videos” for details.

> 3. | Touch Slideshow to view the photos as a slideshow. If a video is selected, touch Play.

> 4. | To flip through photos and videos, swipe upward or downward, touch the up or down arrow, or press the Navigation Control up or down.

> 5. | Touch the video camera icon to shoot video.

> 6. | Touch the camera icon to take a photo.

> Tips |

> | • | For more information about viewing full-screen, see “Viewing an Image” and “Playing Back Video”. The file formats that can be viewed on the Photos and Videos tab are the same as the Album program.

> | • | To transfer media files from a computer and view them on the Photos and Videos tab, copy or synchronize them to a folder under \My Device (the device memory) or \Storage Card.

> Setting an Album as a Favorite

> The Photos and Videos tab displays pictures and video files from the current favorite album. By default, the Camera Shots album, which stores the pictures and videos that you captured using the device camera, is set as the favorite. You can change to another favorite album, if preferred.

> 1. | On the Photos and Videos tab, touch Album to open the Album program.

> 2. | Touch Albums and then select one of the listed favorite albums.

> 3. | Tap Menu > Set as Favorite. and then tap OK on the confirmation screen.

> Sprint TV

> On the Sprint TV tab, you can watch live TV and catch up on episodes of your favorite shows – anywhere on the Sprint National Network.

> 1. | Touch the displayed channel on the center of the screen to watch the channel.

> 2. | Touch Update Now to download the latest preset channel list from Sprint.

> 3. | Touch Launch to open the Sprint TV application so you can connect to Sprint data services, access all available channels, and choose to which channels you want to subscribe.

> 4. | Preset channel selections are listed on the strip at the right side of the screen.

> To watch a preset channel:

> |  | Touch the icon on the right that corresponds to the desired channel.

> — or —

> Press and hold on the highlighted channel icon to display a slide-out bar, and then slide your finger up or down. Release your finger when you have selected the desired channel.

> For more information about using Sprint TV, see “TV”.

> Internet

> On the Internet tab, you can open Opera Mobile™ to browse the Web and add Web favorites for one-touch access to your favorite Web sites.

> 1. | Swipe upward or press the Navigation Control down to scroll down the screen and access more Web favorites.

> 2. | Touch All Bookmarks to open Opera Mobile and add, view or delete Web favorites.

> 3. | Touch the globe image or touch Launch Browser to browse the Web using Opera Mobile.

> For more information about using Opera Mobile, see “Navigating the Web”.

> Weather

> The Weather tab shows you the current weather as well as weather information for the next five days of the week.

> Adding a City

> The Weather tab can display weather information of your local city and other added cities. Follow the steps below to add a city on this tab.

> Tip | You can add up to 10 cities in the Weather tab.

> 1. | On the Weather tab, touch Menu > Add Location.

> 2. | The Select Country screen then appears. Flick your finger on the screen or use the Quick Scroll bar on the right of the screen to choose the country. You can also slowly scroll through the country list by dragging your finger upward on the screen. Touch the desired country to select it.

> 3. | The Select City screen then appears. Flick your finger on the screen or use the Quick Scroll bar on the right of the screen to choose the city. You can also slowly scroll through the city list by dragging your finger upward on the screen. Touch the desired city to select it.

> Viewing Weather Information

> Your device automatically connects to the Internet via the data connection or Wi-Fi to download and display weather information. The current temperature, temperature range, type of weather (sunny, cloudy, showers, or other), and the time of day (daytime or nighttime) are shown on the Weather tab. To see the weather information for the next five days of the week, touch 5-day at the bottom left side of the screen.

> 1. | Touch 5-day at the bottom left side of the screen to see the weather information for the next five days of the week.

> 2. | Touch Menu to add or delete a city, change the temperature to Celsius or Fahrenheit, and more.

> 3. | To switch between cities, swipe your finger upward or downward, touch the up or down arrow on the screen, or press the Navigation Control up or down.

> 4. | Shows the last weather update. Touch this item to download the latest weather information.

> Choosing Download Options

> 1. | On the Weather tab, touch Menu > Settings.

> Tip | You can also slide to the Settings tab and then touch Data.

> 2. | You can choose from the following options:

> |  | Download weather automatically. When this option is selected, weather information is automatically downloaded from the AccuWeather Web site whenever you select the Weather tab, if the data has not been updated within the last three hours. Weather data is also downloaded every time an ActiveSync connection is established (through over-the-air or USB connections). Clear this option if you prefer to manually download weather information.

> |  | Download weather when roaming. Select this option only if you want to allow automatic download of weather data when roaming. This may incur additional costs.

> Settings

> The Settings tab allows you to synchronize information with your computer or the Exchange Server, change sound settings such as the ring tone, and choose a different wallpaper for the Home tab. You can also easily turn the communications features of your device, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, on or off.

> 1. | Touch to connect and synchronize your device with the computer or Exchange Server. (See “Synchronizing Information With Your Computer” and “Starting Synchronization” for details.)

> 2. | Touch to set the sound profile, ring tone, and more.

> 3. | Touch to change the wallpaper of the Home tab. (See “Changing the Background Image” below.)

> 4. | Touch to open Comm Manager where you can easily turn features such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on or off. (See “Comm Manager” for details.)

> 5. | Touch to set weather download options. (See “Choosing Download Options” for details.)

> 6. | Touch All Settings to access all the settings of your device. (See “Settings on Your Device” for details.)

> Changing the Background Image

> You can change the background image of the Home tab by following these steps:

> 1. | Slide your finger to the Settings tab of the Home screen, and then tap Wallpaper.

> 2. | On the Select a Picture screen, navigate to the folder where the image you want to use is located. When you have found your desired background image, tap the image to select it.

> 3. | Slide your finger to the Home tab. You will now see that the background image has changed.

> For more information about customizing other types of settings, see “Managing Your Device”.

> Programs

> The Programs tab allows you to add your favorite programs for one-touch access.

> 1. | Touch an empty slot to add a favorite program.

> 2. | Touch All Programs to access all the programs of your device.

> 3. | Touch Remove to choose which program to remove from the Programs tab.

> 4. | Touch a program icon to open the corresponding program.

> When you have filled up the screen with programs, scroll down the Programs tab to access more empty slots and add more programs. To scroll down, press and hold on the screen and then drag your finger upward. You can add up to 18 favorite programs.

> To scroll back up, press and hold on the screen and then drag your finger downward.

> Note | To replace a slot with another program, you must delete the occupying program shortcut first and then add your desired program.

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