Note: To refresh your Buddy List, press M > Refresh List while viewing the list.
Setting Up AOL Instant Messenger
Adding and Removing Buddies
Your Buddy List can contain 30 names. To add a name, open your Buddy List or a conversation and press M > Add Buddy. If you are not in a conversation, enter the new screen name and press OK (+). AIM returns an error if it cannot verify the name on the server. To remove a name from your Buddy List, highlight the name and press M > Remove Buddy. Tip: To send a message to someone not on your Buddy List, open the list and press M > Send IM To...
Sending and Receiving Instant Messages
After you open your Buddy List to find people online, you can exchange messages. Press 1S 2 SEND IM (+) To scroll to a name on your Buddy List start a conversation with the person
Messages
or VIEW (+) open a conversation in progress Press WRITE (+) to enter new text. 3 keypad keys 4 SEND (+) enter message text send the message
Declining Buddies
To decline messages from someone on your Buddy List, highlight the name and press M > Decline IMs. This setting remains active until you sign off of AIM.
Setting an Alert for Offline Buddies
To receive notification when someone signs on to AIM, highlight the name in your Buddy List and press M > Alert Me.
Your phone displays the conversation history, where you can see the text you sent and the person�s replies as they arrive. In the conversation display, you can: Press WRITE (+) BACK (-) To enter and send more text return to the Buddy List, where you can open more conversations Note: You can have up to 5 open conversations. return to the home screen, without signing off of AIM or closing the conversation Note: Your phone displays
Setting Your Away Message
If you are signed on to AIM but not responding to new messages, you can set the F (away) indicator to display next to your name in everyone else�s Buddy List. From the AIM Online menu, select Away Message > On or Off. Note: The AIM Online menu displays when you sign on, and when you press BACK (+) from your Buddy List.
Setting Your AIM Alert
AIM plays an alert when new messages arrive, or when a person for whom you have set an alert signs on to AIM. To turn off the AIM alert, select Settings > Set Sounds from the AIM Online menu.
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# New IM if you receive a
message while on the home screen or in another application. view the screen name and online status of the person in this conversation add the screen name to your Buddy List end the conversation block messages from the screen name for the current session
Changing Your Password
To change the password for your sign-on name, select Settings > Change Password from the AIM Online menu.
M > Get Buddy Info
Signing Off of AIM
To sign off, select Sign Off from the AIM Online menu.
M > Add Buddy M > End Conversation M > Decline IMs
Note: If you sign off of AIM, you can still view the conversation text by pressing M > AIM > Offline Convs. from the home screen. Turning off your phone erases the conversations.
