To turn off the keypad
tone, slide tone and power on/off tone TOGETHER,
press down volume-keys on the left side of the phone till zero, from
the MAIN SCREEN. This is the quickest, and is the right method, if you
want to keep ‘Theme’ as the dialing display font.
Also you can turn
off (or change) keypad tones (menu 9-4-2) power
on/off tone (menu 9-4-4) and slide tone (menu 9-4-5)
independently. Thereafter, pressing volume key will not affect the
corresponding tone.
If the keypad
tone menu in your phone is INACTIVE, go
to display settings…dialing display…font type and
change ‘theme’ to ‘normal’.
Then go back to keypad tone menu to turn off/change tone.
TIP
# 02 : Default Password
The
default password of the phone is 00000000(eight
zeroes) for all purposes. You can change this at menu /
settings / security. For complete info, read security
& connectivity tips of X700
section.
TIP
# 03 : Searching contacts by first name
& last name
In this
mode, there is a separate box for first name and last name. Enter FIRST
LETTERS of first name and last name and all contacts with
that combination will be listed. For changing to normal search mode, go
to menu / phonebook / management /
’search’ and turn it OFF.
For e.g; to search Isaac Newton, enter I,s,a,a….with
search function OFF and enter I and N with search
function ON.
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04 : How to view either sim contacts or
phone contacts
alone
If
you enter contact list using shortcut –
pressing right soft key, all the contacts in phone
and SIM are viewed together in alphabetic order. To
show all contact numbers of SIM and phone's memory
separately: Select
Menu/Phonebook/Management/Memory
Status...
To show only SIM contacts, select SIM option ...
This will only show contact numbers present on SIM's memory...
To show only Phone contacts, select Phone option
... This will only show contact numbers present on phone's memory...
TIP
# 05 :
How to save/dial extension phone
numbers
Type the main number. Press and hold ‘*’ key. This
will introduce a pause of approximately 2 seconds.
Then type the extension numbers. Then save or dial. For example if you
want to dial 1234567 and then extension-1234,
type 1234567, press &hold * then
type 1234. You'll see
1234567P1234. Dial it. 1234567
will be dialed first, and 2 seconds after
answering, 1234 will be dialed. If you want to set
a delay of 6 seconds, press & hold * three
times-1234567PPP1234. After a few trials,
you can set the required time delay correctly.
TIP
# 06 :
How
to set more speed dial shortcuts
You already know how to use and manage the speed dials in phonebook.
But you are limited to only 8 speed dials. If you want, you can have
more shortcuts. But if the contact you want is stored in phone, you
should make a copy of it in SIM also.(This is only for shortcut
creation and will not affect features like caller id etc of original
entry) Select the contact, view, then from options, ‘copy to
SIM’.
NOTE DOWN THE LOCATION
number before saving. After
saving, come back to main screen. If the location was (for example,)7,
then press 7# and dial(green) button to call. If you want to copy a
contact ‘Peter’ to a LOCATION OF YOUR
CHOICE, say, to location 2, first press 2# to check whether
an entry already exists there. If exists, select
that contact from PHONEBOOK, and select copy
to ‘SIM’. It will be copied to first
available location. Then select ‘Peter’,
and from options, copy to SIM, edit location as 2
and save(Yes to overwrite conformation). To view SIM
contacts together : see TIP
# 04.
TIP
# 07 : How to block incoming calls from a
number
Go to call
log (from menu or pressing green button). From options, find
‘Reject List’ and add the numbers you
want. You can add upto 10 numbers at a time. (If you have more than 10
enemies in the world, Samsung is yet to make phones for tough guys,
like you!
TIP
# 08 : How to block text messages from a
number
Go to menu/messages/settings/text
messages/block number and enter the
number/contact. (Or select ‘block
number’ from inbox options.) You can block up to 10
numbers. You need to block either SMS or MMS only
and both will be blocked.
TIP
# 09 : How to enter/exit predictive text
input(T9)
Select ‘create messages’, then
press&hold * to switch between T9 and ABC
mode. Press * to switch between upper case(ABC),
lower case(abc), sentence case(Abc)
and number mode(123). Once you select T9
or ABC mode, the phone remembers
that setting for ever. Every time, the ‘create
message’ window opens in the mode in which you left
it last time.
TIP
# 10 : How to save/send a message quickly
After creating a message, to send only, press ok/i button.
To save and send, press options and 2
- it will be saved in sentbox. To save only in 'Drafts'
folder, press right soft key (back) and left soft
key (yes). (But once you SEND a
message stored in drafts, it disappears from
there). To save a message permanently, save in 'my folder'
from options.
