Messaging 45
Managing Messages
Threaded View
Messages you send and receive to the same contact, number or
address are grouped together as a “thread”. Threaded messages
allow you to see all the messages you exchanged with a contact
or other recipient, as a conversation, with the latest message
displayed first.
1. From a Home screen, touch
Applications
➔
Messaging
.
2. Message threads display by contact, number, or address.
While viewing message threads, you have these options:
•
Touch and hold a thread to choose from:
–
View Contact / Add to contacts
: View the contact record, or save the
sender/recipient’s information as a new contact, or to update an existing
contact.
–
Delete thread
: Erase the entire message thread.
•
Press the
Menu Key
for these options:
–
Delete threads
: Touch message threads to mark them for erasure, or
touch
Select all
to mark all message threads for erasure.
–
Brightness setting
: Enable or disable the display’s automatic
brightness setting.
–
Settings
: Configure message settings.
Message Settings
Configure message settings.
1. From a Home screen, touch
Applications
➔
Messaging
.
2. Press the
Menu Key
➔
Settings
to set:
• Storage settings
:
–
Delete old messages
: Touch to enable or disable automatic erasure of
messages when stored messages reach default limits. When disabled,
the device will prompt you to delete old messages to make room.
–
Text message limit
: Touch to set a limit for the number of text
messages per conversation thread.
–
Multimedia message limit
: Touch to set a limit for the number of
multimedia messages per conversation thread.
• Text message (SMS) settings
:
–
Delivery reports
: Touch to request notification when each text
message you send is delivered.
• Multimedia message (MMS) settings
:
–
Delivery reports
: Touch to request notification when each multimedia
message you send is delivered.
–
Auto-retrieve
: Touch to enable or disable automatic retrieval of MMS
messages. When enabled, MMS messages download automatically.
When disabled, the device prompts to download new MMS messages.
