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5 Quick Shadow Productivity Tips
Here are a few tips that may save you time while using your Shadow. I’m sure some of them you know already, but you may find one or two to be new:
1. Holding down the 1 key will dial your voicemail.
2. You can quickly toggle through multiple numbers of your contacts (like home, work, mobile) instead of having to open their full contact information and scroll around. To do this for “James,” for example, type James from your Home screen, highlight James’ name, and use the right/left buttons to flip through m-h-w-txt, etc.
3. You can speed dial a program. This lets you tap and hold a number on your keypad to launch a program, rather than digging through the start menu. Go into the Start menu, highlight the program you want, then click the Menu soft key, and click Add Speed Dial.
4. Search through Outlook mobile mail just by typing in your Inbox. The Shadow will filter matches by both subject and sender.
5. Change your profile quickly by holding down the Home button.
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about 2 years ago
hahaha.. you were right, I knew all of them except for the profile one.
Keep these coming, I love these little “easter eggs” that make the phone easier to use. It keeps the phone fresh and new.
about 2 years ago
not for the people who already know them.
about 2 years ago
here’s one… if you hold down the *SYM button in almost any program you can change the typing settings, whether its t9, word, 123
about 2 years ago
I didn’t know about the toggle feature in contacts. This will be very helpful. Thanks!
about 2 years ago
I got a replacement Shadow and it actually has a voicemail icon on the 1 key. That and a few other things make it totally different from my first one.
about 2 years ago
I’ve found there are less steps to text someone, especially if you’ve recently called them.
Slide open phone(if it keylocks).
Go to your recent call list(tap the green button), highlight the contact, press the left side of the circle until TXT shows up for the contact, then press the center button twice.
Walla, empty eddressed text msg is ready for you.
That’s about 5 steps to get to that point(from a locked keypad.
Anyone else have a faster idea for texting???
about 2 years ago
“Keep these coming, I love these little “easter eggs” that make the phone easier to use. It keeps the phone fresh and new”
Doesn’t anyone read the Tips, Quick Start Guide, or Manual any more? Or is it more fun to operate in clueless mode for months only to be surprised by a “new” trick that was covered in the aforementioned documents?
about 2 years ago
To setup the fastest way to text someone.
1. go to a contact in the phone and select the person
2. highlight the “Send text message”
3. Select menu
4. Add to speed dial (Option 7)
5. Select the settings you want to use for that person.
Now all it takes is a slide and hold to open a text message to that favorite person.
*Note – you can add up to 99 hot keys.