Messaging
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service, and select Options > Settings >
Automatic login > On.
Saved conversations—to view, erase,
or rename the conversations that you
saved during an IM session
Connection settings—to edit the settings
needed for messaging and presence
connection
Connect
To connect to the IM service, access the
Instant messages menu, select the IM
service, if needed, and select Login. When
the phone has successfully connected,
Logged in is displayed.
To disconnect from the IM service, select
Options > Logout.
Sessions
When connected to the IM service your
status as seen by others is shown in a
status line: My status: Online, My status:
Busy or Status: Appear offline—to change
own status, select Change.
Below the status line there are three
folders containing your contacts and
showing their status: Conversations,
Online and Offline. To expand the folder
highlight it and select Expand (or press
scroll right), to collapse the folder select
Collapse (or press scroll left).
Conversations—shows the list of new and
read instant messages or invitations to
IM during the active IM session.
indicates a new group message.
indicates a read group message.
indicates a new instant message.
indicates a read instant message.
indicates an invitation.
The icons and texts on the display may
vary, depending on the IM service you
have selected.
Online—shows the number of contacts
that are online
Offline—shows the number of contacts
that are offline
To start a conversation, expand the
Online or the Offline folder, scroll to the
contact with whom you would like to
chat, and select Chat. To answer an
invitation or to reply to a message,
expand the Conversations folder, scroll to
the contact to whom you would like to
chat, and select Open. To add contacts,
see “Add IM contacts”, p. 38.
Groups > Public groups—the list of
bookmarks to public groups provided by
the service provider is displayed, but not
visible if groups are not supported by the
network. To start a IM session with a
group, scroll to a group, and select Join.
Enter the screen name that you want to
use as your nickname in the
conversation. When you have
successfully joined the group
conversation, you can start a group
conversation. You can create a private
group. See “Groups”, p. 38.