Ericsson GA628 - Manual (Page 24)

Sending and Receiving Text Messages
This chapter describes SMS, what you need to do before you can send messages, how you
send messages, and how you read messages. This service is network dependent.
About Text
Messages
The Short Message Service (SMS) function al-
lows you to send and receive text messages that
contain up to 160 characters. Text messages can
be received when the phone is in standby mode,
when you are engaged in a call, or when incom-
ing calls are diverted to another phone number.
Also, if you have had your phone turned off for
a while the network will keep track of the mes-
sage and send it to your phone as soon as it is
turned on.
After a message is received, it is left in the
phone’s memory, which works similar to a com-
puter’s working memory. The message remains
in the phone’s memory until you read it. You
can even turn off the phone and the message
will remain intact. If you, on the other hand,
change SIM Card, you will lose the unread mes-
sage. This is because messages should be per-
sonal.
Note!
You need to set the service center number be-
fore you can send any messages. If you only
want to receive messages, you do not need to do
anything.
Checking
Subscription
● Call your service provider to see which serv-
ices your subscription supports, or check the
service provider’s manual.
Setting Service
Center Address
1. Check the service center address (number) for
your service provider.
2. Select Serv Cent in the Send menu.
3. Enter the service center address with the inter-
national prefix and press YES .
Sending SMS
1. Select New in the Send menu.
2. Enter your message and press YES . You can
also enter a phone number.
See Table 2 for all letters and symbols avail-
able.
3. Enter the phone number you want to send
your message to and press YES .
Or press the left arrow key to enter a name
you want to send to and press
YES .
The display now looks like this:
Mm Sent!
Receiving a Message
When you receive a message the display looks
like this:
At the same time you will hear a beep as loud as
the ring signal and the green light on top of the
phone will flash.
Reading an
Incoming Message
1. Press YES when you have received a message.
The display will show you the time of the in-
coming SMS, you can see the date by
pressing
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