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MOTOROLA ALPHA ADVISOR INSTRUCTIONS

Read Button: Far left/green
Function Button: Red/next to read
On/Reset Button: Right side/top
Lamp: Right side/bottom
Directional Control Buttons: Right side/front – Up and Down buttons

Turning the Pager On
Press the On/Reset Button to turn the pager on. The power-up screen shows during the 4-second power-up alert. After the power-up sequence, the message-status screen is displayed for eight seconds when there are messages in memory. After 8 seconds the display changes to the "blank" "standby" screen. The "ON" and speaker symbols at the left of the screen indicate that the pager is on and ready to accept messages.

Note: The speaker symbol is not shown if the pager is in the silent mode.

Turning the Pager Off
Press the On/Reset Button until the "PUSH FOR OFF" screen appears on the display. The "PUSH FOR OFF" screen displays an arrow pointing to the Function button. Press the Function button to turn the pager off.
Note: The "PUSH FOR OFF" screen automatically times out after 4 seconds. If the Function button is not pressed before time out occurs, the display reverts to the message-status screen, then to the blank screen.

Receiving a Message
When an incoming message is being received, the pager emits a 12-second alert, displays the incoming message symbol, and the date and time. The new message is represented by a flashing full arrow on the screen. To stop the alert and reset your pager, press any one of Advisor’s buttons. If the message is not read within 8 seconds, the screen blanks and the "on" symbol in the upper left corner blinks to indicate that you have an unread message.

Note: If a new message is received while there are unread messages in memory, the cursor is positioned to the most recent unread message.

Reading your Message
To read the message, press either the Read button or the On/Reset Button, then position the cursor on the memory location of the message you wish to read, and press the Read button.

Note: An incoming message may be read immediately by pressing the Read button during the 12-second alert.

Automatic Message Scrolling
When the Read button is pressed to read a message, the automatic-message-scrolling feature is activated. In this mode, the Advisor scrolls through each screen of the message at a rate of 4 seconds per screen. Preceding the message is a number and a colon showing the memory location of that message.

Manual Message Scrolling
To manually scroll through a message, press the Read button one additional time to activate the freeze/advance screen mode. In this mode, subsequent presses of the Read button advance through each screen of the message displayed, until the Advisor reverts back to the message-status screen.

Manual Scrolling Line by Line
When a message contains more than 4 lines of data, it can be read line-by-line using the Up and Down Directional Control buttons. Press the read button to display the first screen of the message. Press the Down Directional Control button to scroll forward one line. Press the Down Directional Control button again to scroll to the next line of the message. To scroll backward one line, press the Up Directional Control Button.

Additional Messages
When additional messages are received, a flashing full arrow is positioned on the memory location of the most recent message.

Moving through the Messages in Memory
The Left and Right Directional Control Buttons are used to move forward and backward through the memory locations in the message-status screen. As shown in the screen example, pressing the Left Directional Control button moves the cursor to memory location #2

Previewing the first Screen of the Messages in Memory
The Left and Right Directional Control buttons may be used to preview the first screen of each message in memory. Press the Read Button to go to the first screen of the message. Press the Right Directional Control button to see the first screen of the next message. The Left Directional Control Button will place you at the previous message.

FUNCTION MENU
The Advisor Function menu is displayed by pressing the Function button. The functions to the left of the Home position (double arrow) are used to activate the special pager settings - alerts, clock, alarm, and speaker. The functions to the right of the home position are used to activate the memory-management functions - lock, delete and the Personal Message File. The Left and Right Directional Control buttons are used to move between the functions. A flashing symbol indicates which function or field you are currently in. For example, if you wish to set the time and date, move the cursor until the time and date function symbol is flashing. As you select the fields of the time and date function screen, they flash to indicate which field you are in.

Alerts Function
The Advisor’s alerts are configured by selecting the Alerts symbol (music symbol) in the Function Menu. Choices are:
AUDIBLE SILENT
Escalate 12-second alert at increasing volume levels. Chirp Alert Chirp at loudest level.
Loud Long Alert 12-second alert at the loudest volume level. Chirp and vibrates.
Loud Short Alert 2-second alert at the loudest volume level. No Chirp Alert Vibrates only
Long Soft Alert 12-second alert at the softest volume level. No Alert No alert of any kind
Short Soft Alert 2-second alert at the softest volume level. on incoming messages.
Chirp Alert Chirp at the loudest volume level.
No Alert No alert on incoming messages.

To change or preview the current alert settings, press the Function button to bring up the Function menu. Use the Left Directional Control button to move the cursor to the alerts symbol. Press the Function button again to display the alerts screen. If the alerts are not set as desired, use the Up/Down/Left/Right Directional Control buttons to move the cursor through the choices in each field. You must press the Function button when the desired alert settings appear on the display and before the automatic time out occurs (or before the pager is reset) to save the new alert settings.

Clock Function
Press the Function button to display the function menu. Use the Left directional Control Button to move the cursor to the clock symbol. Press the function button to display the set-time-and-date screen. Use the Left and Right Directional Control buttons to move to the field(s) you wish to change (hours, minutes, am/pm/24hr, day, month, year); the Up and Down Directional Control buttons are used to change the value in the selected field. Once the new time and date is displayed on the screen, press the function button to save your changes.

Note: The set-time-and-date screen automatically times out after 12 seconds. The Function button must be pressed before time out occurs to save your changes.

Alarm Function
To set the alarm, press the Function button. Use the Left Directional Control Button to move the cursor to the alarm symbol (bell). Press the Function button to display the alarm screen. Use the Left and Right Directional Control Buttons to move to the field you wish to change, and the Up and Down Directional Control Buttons to set the hour and minutes fields. Use the Right Directional Control button to move to the "alarm off/alarm on" field. The Up and Down Directional Control buttons are used to select "alarm on" (bell w/lines) or "alarm off" (bell w/slash). Once the new alarm setting is shown on the display, press the Function button, before the display times out, to save your changes.

Speaker Function (Audible or Silent)
The Speaker Function is used to set the Advisor to either the audible mode or the silent mode of operation. If the speaker symbol is displayed in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, the pager is in the audible mode; if no speaker is displayed, the pager is in the silent mode. To change the mode of operation, press the Function button, move the cursor to the speaker symbol, then press the Function button again. The pager either vibrates or chirps to indicate which mode the pager is in.

The Lock Function
Up to 10 messages, or a total of 3200 characters, can be "locked" to prevent them from being overwritten when memory is full. To lock a message, press the Read button to display the message-status screen. Use the Left or Right Directional Control button to position the cursor on the memory location of the message you wish to lock. Press the Function button to display the Function menu. Move the cursor to the lock symbol, then press the Function button again. A special reversed lock symbol replaces the arrow symbol in the message-status screen. When the cursor is not positioned on the locked message, the standard lock symbol is shown. When you read the first line of a locked message, the memory location identifier is preceded by the lock symbol.

Note: Locked messages cannot be deleted or transferred to the Personal Message file. You must unlock the message before transferring or deleting it.

Unlocking a Message
To unlock a message, follow the same procedure used to lock it. An unlock symbol (open lock) is shown in place of the lock symbol in the Function menu.

Locking a Message While in the Read Mode
To lock a message while in the read mode, press the Read button then position the cursor on the memory location of the message you wish to read/lock. Press the Read button to display the message. While the message is displayed no the screen, press the Function button. (Only the memory management functions appear in the Function menu when the pager is in the read mode.) Move the cursor to the lock symbol, then press the Function button again. The Advisor then reverts to the message-status screen and the message becomes locked in memory. A lock symbol replaces the arrow cursor at the message location.

Unlocking a Message While in the Read Mode
To unlock a message while in the read mode, follow the same procedure used to lock it. An unlock symbol (opened lock) is shown in place of the lock symbol in the Function Menu.

Deleting a Message from the Message-Status Screen
Position the cursor on the memory location of the message to be deleted and press the Function button to bring up the Message Status screen with Function menu. Press the Function button to display the Function menu. Move the cursor to the delete symbol (box w/slash) then press the Function button. Then the delete prompt (DELETE?) appears on the display, press the Function button again to delete the message. The message symbol no longer appears in the message-status screen and the memory location remains unoccupied until the remaining memory locations to the right are filled. When all remaining memory locations are filled and a new message is received, it forces all stored messages to move to the first memory locations, and the new message is stored in the last, unoccupied memory location.

Deleting a Message while in the Read Mode
To delete a message while in the read mode, position the cursor on the memory location of the message you wish to delete, then press the Read button. When the first screen of the message appears on the display, press the Function button. Move the cursor to the delete symbol, then press the Function button again. When the delete prompt appears on the display, press the Function button again to delete the message. The Advisor leaves the read mode and the display changes to the message-status screen. The memory location is now unoccupied.

Personal Message File
With this option, up to 10 personal messages ( a total of 1000 characters) may be transferred and stored in one memory location. The Personal Message File area is located on the second line of the message-status screen in the 20th memory location. (The 20th memory location is the last right-hand position on the second line of the display).

Transferring a Message to the Personal Message File
To transfer a message to the Personal Message File, position the cursor at the memory location of the message you wish to transfer and press the Function button. Use the Right Directional Control Button to position the cursor on the Personal Message File symbol (stick figure), then press the Function button to transfer the message to the Personal Message File. The message will no longer be shown in the message-status screen. The arrow symbol (up arrow), which represents your message, is located in the Personal Message File area. The display then reverts to the message-status screen.

Note: Once a message is transferred is to the personal message file, the cursor remains in that file. To exit the Personal Message File and go back to the message-status screen, press the Up Directional Control button. To the return to the personal message file from the message-status screen, press the Down Directional Control button.

Transferring a Message from the Read Mode to the Personal Message File
To transfer a message to the personal message file while you are reading it, position the cursor on the message you wish to read, then press the Read button. When the message is displayed, press the Function button. Move the cursor to the Personal Message File symbol, then press the Function button again. The message is removed from its memory location and stored in the Personal Message File. The display reverts to the message-status screen

Reading the Personal Message File
To read the personal message file, position the cursor at the Personal Message File location and press the Read button. the pager automatically scrolls through all of the messages stored in the Personal Message File. Pressing the Read button one additional time allows you to manually scroll through the messages and activates the Freeze/Advance Screen mode. The Up and Down Directional Control buttons can be used to scroll through the Personal Message File line by line.

Note: The messages contained in the Personal Message File are stored in a vertical fashion in the order in which you transferred them; therefore, the Right and Left Directional Control buttons are inoperative.

Deleting a Message from the Personal Message File
The only way to remove a message from the Personal Message File is to delete it while viewing the file. Position the cursor on the Personal Message File symbol and press the Read button. Scroll through the messages until the message you wish to delete appears on the display. Press the Function button. Only the delete symbol appears. Position the cursor on t he delete symbol and press the Function button. When the delete prompt appears on the screen, press the Function button again to delete the message.

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