Configure General Options To configure general phone options, select
General Options on the
Phone Options screen and click the trackwheel. The
General Options screen appears, providing access to several general phone options.
The first option on the
General Options screen is
Auto Answer Calls , which causes the device to automatically answer a call when the phone is out of its holster. Because I like to see who is calling before answering, I personally am not a big fan of enabling this option. So, I always set it to
Never . However, I'm a huge fan of the next option,
Auto End Calls , which automatically ends a call when you place the device in the holster. I set this second option to
Into Holster . I've found that enabling this option is extremely important to ensure that calls are ended when I place my device in the holster. Otherwise, I might put the device in the holster without pressing the
End button and inadvertently stay on a call.
The
Confirm Delete option is used to keep you from deleting call logs without a confirmation. If you want to be able to delete call logs without a confirmation, set this option to
No . Keeping it set to the default value of
Yes is the safer setting because it ensures that you won't inadvertently delete a call log by accidentally hitting the wrong key.
Speaking of safe settings, the
Restrict My Identity option is used to keep you anonymous on the caller ID of phones you call. This option is truly a personal option and depends on how guarded you are about people knowing you are calling. I generally don't mind people knowing I'm calling, so I leave the option set to
No on my device. An even more guarded option is the
Show My Number option, which determines whether your phone number is displayed on your device (on the main
Phone screen). If you have a reason for keeping your phone number ultraprivate, you might want to set this option to
No . Of course, your phone number is still accessible by viewing the
SIM Card settings (see
88 Secure the SIM Card) .
The
Phone List View option is one of the most useful options on the
General Options screen. It determines what kind of call information is displayed in the list on the main
Phone screen. By default, the
Phone List View option is set to
Call Log , which results in the call log list being displayed. Although this view is certainly useful for seeing the exact history of recent calls, you might prefer to set it to
Most Used so you can easily access commonly dialed numbers. Other possible settings include
Most Recent and
Name , which you might also find useful depending on how you plan to use the main phone list. In the case of the
Name setting, the names of people you have called or received calls from are listed in alphabetical order; numbers that don't have names associated with them are listed in numerical order after the names .
TIP
The Most Used setting for the Phone List View option isn't important if you've set up commonly dialed numbers in the speed dial list. See 58 Manage the Speed Dial List to find out how to quickly access numbers you use often.
The last option on the
General Options screen is
Default Call Volume , which determines the default volume of calls. Although you can set this value to a specific percentage of the maximum volumeincluding
25%, 50%, 75% , and
100% the default value of
Previous proves to be the most valuable option by far. This default option results in the phone adopting the volume of the previous call (which you set using the trackwheel as the volume control knob). The
Previous setting is ideal because you might need to adjust the volume based on your surroundings, connection quality, and so on.
After tweaking the general phone options, press the
Escape button to return to the
Phone Options screen. If you've made changes, a confirmation pop-up window appearsselect
Save to confirm the changes and then click the trackwheel.
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