Section 2B: Controlling Your Phone’s Settings 51Phone BasicsMessaging SettingsStaying connected to your friends and family has neverbeen easier. With your phone’s advanced messagingcapabilities, you can send and receive many different kindsof text messages without placing a voice call.Your phone’s messaging settings make text messaging evenfaster and easier by letting you decide how you would like tobe notified of new messages, create a signature with eachsent message, and create your own canned messages, toname just a few.Setting Message AlertsWhen new messages arrive, you can choose to have yourphone notify you by playing an audible alert.To hear an alert when you receive a new message:1. Select MENU > Messaging > Settings > MessageAlert.2. Select Alert Volume, Alert Type, or Reminder andpress .3. Select the desired options and press .Deleting Old MessagesYou can delete messages that you’ve already readwhenever you like, or you can have your phone delete themautomatically for you when your phone's message memorybecomes full.To automatically delete read messages:1. Select MENU > Messaging > Settings > Auto Erase.2. Select Yes or No and press .MENUOKMENUOKMENUOK
