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OWNER’S MANUAL
Pronto Numeric Pager
Please read before using this pager.
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17-7060.fm Page 2 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM INTRODUCTION Your Pronto Numeric Pager lets you keep in touch with the office and with family and friends anywhere around town. It can store up to sixteen 20-digit mes- sages and alerts you with either a beep or a gentle vi- bration. It also has these features. 16-Message Memory — lets you store up to 16 mes- sages. Low Battery Message — lets you know when the battery is low. Clock — displays the current time, when you are not viewing a messag
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17-7060.fm Page 3 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM Message Protect — lets you protect up to eight mes- sages from accidental deletion. Message Deletion — lets you delete at one time all unprotected/read messages. Page Reminder — beeps or vibrates every 2 minutes to remind you to view unread pages. Extra Battery Storage Slot — lets you store an extra battery in the battery compartment for quick access when the current battery needs to be replaced. Note: You need one AAA battery (not supplied) t
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17-7060.fm Page 4 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM CONTENTS Getting Started ....................................................... 5 Subscribing to Service ...................................... 5 Installing a Battery ............................................ 6 Pager Quick Guide ................................................. 8 Indicators .......................................................... 8 Preparation ............................................................. 9 Setting the Ti
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17-7060.fm Page 5 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM GETTING STARTED SUBSCRIBING TO SERVICE You must subscribe to paging service through Mobile- Comm before you can start receiving messages. To activate your pager, call MobileComm or its asso- ciated carrier at the telephone number listed in the ac- tivation instructions provided with your pager’s activation packet. 5
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17-7060.fm Page 6 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM INSTALLING A BATTERY Your pager requires one AAA battery for power. For the best performance and longest life, we recommend an alkaline battery such as Radio Shack Cat. No. 23- 555. 1. Slide the battery cover latch away from the cover to unlock it, then slide the cover/belt clip in the direction of the arrow to remove it. 2. Insert a battery in the compartment slot closest to the pager’s display, according to the polarity sym- bols (+ and –) m
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17-7060.fm Page 7 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM Note: For quick access when the current battery needs to be replaced, you can store an extra AAA battery in the other slot in the compartment. 3. Replace the battery cover/belt clip and slide the latch toward the cover to lock it. When battery power becomes low, the pager displays LO bAttErY. You have about 1 week’s battery power left when this warning first appears. Caution: Removing the battery deletes all messages and settings (such as the
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17-7060.fm Page 8 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM Press the large button to turn on the pager, read messages, and select menu options. Press the small button to ac- cess the pager’s menu. INDICATORS Your pager displays these symbols. Audible alert mode Protected page Message continues 8
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17-7060.fm Page 9 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM PAGER QUICK GUIDE 9
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17-7060.fm Page 10 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM PREPARATION SETTING THE TIME Press the large button to turn on the pager, then fol- low these steps to set the current time. Note: If you do not set the time, the pager incorrectly reports the times of your pages. 1. At the time display, repeatedly press the small button until the pager displays SET TIME. 2. Press the large button. The hour digits flash. 3. Repeatedly press the small button to select the current hour. 4. Press the large butto
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17-7060.fm Page 11 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM 6. Press the large button. The second minute digit flashes. 7. Repeatedly press the small button to select the correct digit. 8. Press the large button. A or P flashes. 9. Press the small button to select the desired time of day (A for AM or P for PM). 10. Press the large button again to store the time you just set and return to the time display. 11
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17-7060.fm Page 12 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM SELECTING SILENT OR AUDIBLE ALERT To have the pager vibrate when you receive a page, at the time display, repeatedly press the small button until the pager displays SILENT?. Then press the large button. The pager vibrates, and disappears from the display. To have the pager beep when you receive a page, at the time display, repeatedly press the small button un- til the pager displays AUDIBLE?. Then press the large button. The pager beeps and
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17-7060.fm Page 13 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM OPERATION TURNING THE PAGER ON/OFF To turn on the pager, press the large button. The pag- er sounds an alert tone or vibrates and briefly turns on all display indicators, then dashes (– – –) appear. To turn off the pager, at the time display, repeatedly press the small button until the pager displays OFF?, then press the large button. The display goes blank. Notes: • The pager’s light turns on for a few seconds when you press the small button
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17-7060.fm Page 14 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM RECEIVING AND READING MESSAGES When the pager receives a message, it alerts (beeps or vibrates) for 8 seconds. To stop the alert sooner, press either button. The pager displays the number of unread messages. Press the large button. The pager displays the newest message (up to the first 12 digits). After about 12 sec- onds, the pager automatically displays that message’s number and time. To display the number and time sooner, press the large
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17-7060.fm Page 15 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM To read additional messages, repeatedly press the large button. The pager first displays all new messag- es in order (by the time they were received), then it displays all messages in order. Notes: • The time display automatically appears when you press the large button after reading the last mes- sage, or after about 20 seconds if you do not press any button. • The pager briefly alerts every 2 minutes until you read all new messages. 15
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17-7060.fm Page 16 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM Duplicate Messages If your pager receives a message that is the same as one already stored in memory (read or unread), dUPLICATE appears when you press the large but- ton to read that message. Press the large button again to read the duplicate message. Notes: • The time and message number do not appear the first time you read a duplicate message. • After you read a duplicate message, the pager saves all duplicate messages in one record, showi
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17-7060.fm Page 17 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM Unreadable Messages If your pager receives a message that is partially or to- tally unreadable, it does not display the unreadable parts. Overflow Message (Memory Full) Your pager can store up to 16 messages in its memo- ry. If the pager’s memory is full when it receives a new message, OVErFLOW appears and the new message replaces the oldest unprotected message in memory (see “Protecting and Unprotecting Messages” on Page18). 17
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17-7060.fm Page 18 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM PROTECTING AND UNPROTECTING MESSAGES Follow these steps to protect a message from being replaced (if the memory is full) or accidentally deleted. 1. Repeatedly press the large button until the pager displays the message you want to protect. 2. Repeatedly press the small button until the pager displays PROTECT. 3. Press the large button to protect the message. Note: To escape without protecting the message, press the small button again so ESC
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17-7060.fm Page 19 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM Notes: • You can protect up to eight messages. •If FULL appears when you press the large button in Step 3, eight messages are currently pro- tected. To protect another message, you must first unprotect one of those eight. 19
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17-7060.fm Page 20 Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:56 AM DELETING ALL UNPROTECTED/ READ MESSAGES Caution: This procedure deletes all unprotected mes- sages that you have read. Be sure you protect any messages that you want to save before you follow these steps. 1. At the time display, repeatedly press the small button until the pager displays ERASE ALL. Note: If there are no unprotected/read mes- sages, ERASE ALL does not appear. 2. Press the large button to delete all unprotected messages that yo
