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Text entry – Motorola Cell Phone User Manual

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7 Message Indicator – Shows when

you receive a new message.

Indicators can include:

8 Battery Level Indicator – Vertical bars

show the battery charge level. Recharge

the battery when your phone shows Low

Battery.

9 Ring Style Indicator – Shows the ring

style setting.

10 Location Indicator – Shows when

your phone can send location

information Ö or not Ñ.

r

= text message t = voicemail

message

s

= voicemail &

text message

d

= IM message

a

= active chat

session

y

= loud ring

z

= soft ring

|

= vibrate

= vibrate and

ring

}

= vibrate then

ring

{

= silent

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text entry

Some features let you enter text.

Press # in a text entry screen to select an

entry mode:

To set your primary and secondary text entry

modes, press a > Entry Setup in a text entry

screen and select Primary Setup or Secondary

Setup.

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entry modes
j

or g

Your Primary text entry mode can

be set to any iTAP

®

j or tap g

mode.

p

or m

Your Secondary text entry mode

can be set to any iTAP p or tap
m

mode, or set to None if you

don’t want a secondary entry

mode.

W

Numeric mode enters numbers

only.

[

Symbol mode enters symbols

only.

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Tip: WANT TO SHOUT YOUR MESSAGE?

Press 0 in a text entry screen to change text

case to no capital letters (U), next letter

capital (V with k, n, h, or q), or all

capitals (T with i, o, f, or l).

iTAP

®

mode

Press # in a text entry screen to switch to

iTAP mode. If you don’t see j or p, press
a

> Entry Setup to set iTAP mode as your

primary or secondary text entry mode.
iTAP mode lets you enter words using one

keypress per letter. The iTAP software

combines your keypresses into common

words, and predicts each word as you enter

it.

For example, if you press 7 7 6 4,

your display shows:

If you want a different word (such as

Progress), continue pressing keypad

keys to enter the remaining characters.

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To enter numbers quickly, press and

hold a number key to temporarily

switch to numeric mode. Press the

number keys to enter the numbers you

want. Enter a space to change back to

iTAP mode.

Press 1 to enter punctuation or other

characters.

tap mode

Press # in a text entry screen to switch to

tap mode. If you don’t see g or m, press
a

> Entry Setup to set tap mode as your

primary or secondary text entry mode.
To enter text in tap mode, press a keypad key

repeatedly to cycle through the letters and

number on the key. Repeat this step to enter

each letter.

For example, if you press 7 one time, your

display shows:

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