K205
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Contents
Set up your phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Phone overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Phone language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Entering letters and characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Picture messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Infrared port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Sounds & Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Sony Ericsson K205i
GSM 900/1800
This User guide is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
AB or its local affiliated company, without any warranty. Improvements
and changes to this User guide necessitated by typographical errors,
inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs
and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB or its local affiliated company at any time and
without notice. Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new
editions of this User guide.
All rights reserved.
© Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, 2007
Publication number: EN/LZT 108 9594 R1A
Please note:
Some of the services in this User guide are not supported by all
networks. This also applies to the GSM International Emergency
Number 112.
Please contact your network operator or service provider if you are
in doubt whether you can use a particular service or not.
Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient use and the Limited
warranty chapters before you use your mobile phone.
Your mobile phone has the capability to download, store and forward
additional content, e.g. ringtones. The use of such content may be
restricted or prohibited by rights of third parties, including but not
limited to restriction under applicable copyright laws. You, and not
Sony Ericsson, are entirely responsible for additional content that
you download to or forward from your mobile phone. Prior to your
use of any additional content, please verify that your intended use is
properly licensed or is otherwise authorized. Sony Ericsson does not
guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any additional content
or any other third party content. Under no circumstances will
Sony Ericsson be liable in any way for your improper use of additional
content or other third party content.
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The Liquid Identity logo is a trademark or registered trademark of
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Sony is a trademark
or registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a trademark
or registered trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
T9™ Text Input is a trademark or a registered trademark of Tegic
Communications.
T9™ Text Input is licensed under one or more of the following:
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,818,437, 5,953,541, 5,187,480, 5,945,928, and
6,011,554; Canadian Pat. No. 1,331,057; United Kingdom Pat. No.
2238414B; Hong Kong Standard Pat. No. HK0940329; Republic
of Singapore Pat. No. 51383; Euro. Pat. No. 0 842 463 (96927260.8)
DE/DK, FI, FR, IT, NL, PT, ES, SE, GB; and additional patents are
pending worldwide.
Other product and company names may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.
Sony Ericsson advises users to backup their personal data information.
All illustrations are for illustration only and may not accurately depict
the actual phone.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
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key to select.
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Set up your phone
Insert the SIM card and battery
1 Gently pull the battery cover away from the phone.
2 Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed
under the silver holders and that the contacts of the
SIM card face downwards.
3 Place the battery on the back of the phone with the
label side up and the connectors facing each other.
4 Replace the battery cover.
If you have been using a SIM card in another phone,
make sure that your information is saved to the
SIM card before you remove it from that phone.
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Charge the battery
2.5 h
1 Connect the battery charger to the phone. It takes
approximately 2.5 hours to fully charge the battery.
Press a key to view the screen.
2 Remove the battery charger by tilting it upwards.
The time and date are reset when you remove the
battery.
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Turn on the phone
until the screen lights up.
1 Press and hold down
2 Enter your PIN (Personal Identification Number) code
if requested and select OK. Each digit appears as *.
Press the right selection key
If the screen turns dark, press any key to illuminate
the screen.
to correct mistakes.
3 Scroll to a language and select Save.
4 Enter the time and select Save.
5 Enter the date and select Save.
If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the
SIM card is blocked. To unblock it % 23 PIN blocked.
To turn off the phone
• Press and hold down
.
Standby
After you have turned the phone on and entered your PIN,
the name of your operator appears on the screen. This
is called standby – you can now make and receive calls.
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Phone overview
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2
Infrared port
Strength of GSM network
(Five bars mean full
network coverage)
6 Keylock
7 Headset and battery
charger connector
3,9 Function of selection key
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Battery status (a
green battery means
fully charged)
4,10 Selection keys
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Call key
11 Navigation key with
shortcuts
12 End and On/Off key
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