Motorola V51 - Manual (Page 67)

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Your Cellular Service Provider will transmit a message for a limited amount of time. If a memory
location is not made available before the message is removed from the network, then you will
not be able to receive or read it.
4 Displays the received message animation together with the word Message and the
prompt; Read Now?
• Press O to display the open envelope animation and the contents of the new
message.
• Press C to return to the screen that was present before you received the message.
• Press any other key to perform the function linked to that key.
If you do not press a key, then after 1 minute the display returns to the screen that was present
before you received the message.
Cell Broadcast Messages
These are general messages that your service provider broadcasts to all phones in a geographic
area. Your phone can only receive a cell broadcast message when it is in idle mode.
The messages are broadcast in numbered ’channels’. For example, channel 050 might be for
local weather, traffic reports or stock market prices. Please contact your service provider for a list
of available channels and the information they provide.
While a broadcast message is scrolling across the display, you can stop and start it by pressing
< . Press > to restart the message from the beginning. If you want to remove the message
from the display, press C .
A If you need to use the < and > keys for their normal functions while you are
receiving a cell broadcast message, you must first remove the message.
When the message has scrolled across the display, the beginning of the message remains until
one of the following occurs: you remove it; a new message arrives; or you leave the geographic
area. For set up details, see
Cell Broadcast on page 64.
How to Read SMS Messages
You can use the scroll keys ( < and > ) to scroll through messages in either the Received
Messages or Outgoing Messages lists.
To display a specific message, enter the message number, for example press
5 to display the
5th message. If the message does not exist, Invalid Msg Number will be displayed.
Alternatively, to display the next message, press O and select Go To Next Message .
How to Create and Edit SMS Messages
Use the Message Editor to create or modify text messages. When you enter the editor, the last
message that was edited will be displayed. Press and hold
C to clear the message and start a
new one, or modify the message displayed. For an explanation of how to enter text, see
Entering Text on Your Phone on page 43.
Press O once you have completed your message. You will then be presented with the
following options:
Send Message - If you select this option you will be prompted for a phone
number, enter the number and then press O to send the message.
Store Message - Select this option to store your edited message in your
Outgoing Messages list.
A If you don’t store the message after it has been edited, you will lose all your changes
as soon as you select another message to be edited.
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