Text Messaging
February 12, 2002
T-Mobile Device Owner’s Manual
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Browse Text Messages Screen
The Browse Text Messages screen is your main view into the Text Messages application:
The Browse Text Messages screen lists all your text messages, grouped into folders, ordered by date. (Read
more about ordering your lists in
In the illustration above you’ll see the three “system folders”--
Inbox
,
Sent
, and
Trash
--plus all the folders you
have created to organize your messages, identified by a folder-type icon:
To the right of the folder name, the number of
unread
versus
total
number of messages is shown in
parentheses. In the example above,
Inbox (1/3)
contains three messages, of which one is unread. The
Inbox
is
shown in “expanded” view (its list of messages is showing), with the first message in bold, indicating it is
“unread”. The
Sent
folder contents are expanded, showing one read message. The
Trash
folder is empty and
collapsed (empty folders are always shown collapsed, of course).
As shown in the illustration above, individual messages are grouped in collapsible folder lists. To open (expand)
a folder’s list of messages, use the wheel to highlight the folder name, then click. To collapse the list, click again.
Click again to expand, etc.
To open an individual message, highlight the message and click the wheel. To learn more about reading your
message, read
To the left of each item in the Browse Text Messages screen is an icon that indicates the status of the folder or
message. To interpret these icons, read the topic immediately following.
Status Indicators
Icons shown the to left of each folder name or text message tell you their status. Plus,
all unread messages
are shown in bold
. The table below explains what each status icon means.
This
indicator
Means
You have
replied
to this message.
