Nokia 1261 - • Check the Start screen

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Basic operations

Understand the Scroll Bar

When you press Menu, a vertical

scroll bar

appears on the right side of

the screen. This scroll bar has a tab
which moves up or down to indicate
your location in the menu.

Understand indicators and icons

You have two types of identifiers on your phone: icons and indicators.

Indicators show the status of something. The phone uses three types of
indicators: signal strength, battery power and handset volume.

Icons

are graphical representations of a specific item or situation. For

example, an icon appears when you have a voice message in your mailbox.

Indicators

1

Signal strength –

shows the signal strength of the wireless network

at your current location. The higher the bar, the stronger the signal.

2

Battery power –

shows the battery charge level. The higher the bar,

the more power in the battery.

Scroll

bar

Signal

strength

indicator

Battery
power
indicator

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Icons

Screen

Icon

What it means

Active call in progress.

Silent has been selected as the current profile.

The phone’s keypad is locked to prevent any accidental key
presses.

One (or more) new voice messages waiting.

One or more new text messages waiting.
(If blinking, the text message memory is full.)

Digital service is available.

Standard text input mode for entering alpha characters.
Press

to switch between uppercase and lowercase

input.

Predictive text mode for quickly entering text messages.
Press

to switch between uppercase and lowercase

input.

123 mode. This icon appears when you press and hold

while entering text. You can now enter only numbers (not
alpha characters). Press and hold

again to return to text

entry mode.

Special character mode. This appears when you press

while entering text. Once the characters appear, you can
select a special character by selecting Insert.

Alarm clock is set.