Messaging

Use Messaging to send and receive text messages (SMS) and multimedia message (MMS).

Sending a text or a multimedia message

  1. Make sure that a SIM card is installed. See Inserting and removing a SIM card and SD card.

  2. Tap the Messaging icon on the Home screen or in the Apps screen. The Messaging window opens, where you can create a new message or open an ongoing message thread.

  3. Tap the New message icon at the bottom of the screen to start a new text or multimedia message (or tap an existing message thread to open it).

  4. For a new message, do one of the following:

    • enter a phone number in the To field. As you enter the number, matching contacts appear. You can tap a contact to select it or continue to enter the number.

    • start to type the name of a contact in the To field. As you type, matching contacts appear. Tap a contact to select it.

  5. Tap the composition text box, and enter your message using the on-screen keyboard.

  6. For a multimedia message, press the paperclip icon to attach a file.

  7. Tap the Send icon to send the message.

Deleting message threads

To delete a specific message thread, tap-hold the message thread, then tap the rubbish bin icon at the bottom of the screen.

To delete all message threads, tap and then tap Delete.

Replying to messages

If you are working in a message window, messages that you receive are displayed in it. Otherwise, you receive a new message notification and a new message icon appears in the Status bar. See Managing notifications.

When you tap the new message notification, the Message window opens, where you can reply to the message.

If the message contains a media file, tap Play to view, watch, or listen to it. Tap-hold the media file to open a menu with an option for saving messages to your internal SD card.

Tap-hold a message to open a menu with a number of options for working with the message and its sender’s information.

Changing Messaging settings

Tap the Messaging icon in the Apps screen, then tap / Settings.

You can specify the following settings:

  • Default SMS app, to define the application to be used by default for messaging

  • Sounds or vibrate for outgoing / incoming messages

  • Notifications Yes / No

In Advanced Settings, you can specify the following:

  • For Text (SMS) messages and Multimedia (MMS) messages:

    • Delivery report, to request a delivery report for each message you send.

    • A Message template

  • For Multimedia (MMS) messages:

    • Auto-retrieve. When not selected, only the heading of multimedia messages is downloaded, which you can then tap to open a menu to download the whole message. This is useful for controlling how much data you download, for example, when connected to a slow data network.

    • Roaming auto-retrieve. When not selected, only the header of multimedia messages is downloaded when connected to other carrier’s data networks. This is useful for avoiding unexpected charges, if your contract has limits on data roaming.