My presence
With the presence service (network service) you can share your presence status with other users, for
example your family, friends and colleagues with compatible devices and access to the service.
Presence status includes your availability, status message and personal logo. Other users who have
access to the service and who are requesting your information are able to see your status. The
requested information is shown in
Subscribed names
in the viewers
Contacts
menu. You can
personalize the information that you want to share with others and control who can see your status.
Before you can use presence, you need to subscribe to the service. To check the availability, charging
and to subscribe to the service, contact your network operator or service provider, from whom you also
receive your unique ID and password and the settings for the service. To set the required settings for
the presence service, see IM and presence settings on page 109. While you have connected to the
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presence service, you can use the other functions of the phone, and the presence service is active in the
background.
Press
Menu
and select
Contacts
and
My presence
. Select
•
Connect to 'My presence' service
(or
Disconnect
) to connect to (or to disconnect from) the service.
•
My current presence
to change your presence status. Select
•
View current presence
and select
Private pres.
or
Public presence
to view your current private or
public status.
•
My availability
to set your availability status to
Available
indicated by
, or to
Busy
indicated
by
, or to
Not available
indicated by
.
•
My presence message
and key in the text to be shown to other persons or press
Options
and
select
Previous msgs.
and select an old message as the status message.
•
My presence logo
to select your personal logo from the
Graphics
folder in the gallery. If you
select the
Default
, the logo is not published.
•
Show to
to select the groups to whom you want to show your presence status or if not to show
them.
Select
Private and public
and contacts in your private list are able to see all your presence
information: availability, status message and logo. Other contacts can see only your availability.
Select
Private viewers
and the contacts in your private list can see all your presence information
(availability, status message and logo). Other users will not see any information.
If you select
No one
, no one can see your presence information.
•
Viewers
and select
•
Current viewers
to view all the persons who have subscribed to your presence information
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Private list
is a list of the persons who are allowed to view all your presence information,
including availability, status message and logo. You can manage your own private list. Other
persons who are not in the private list, can see only your availability.
•
Blocked list
to view all the persons you have blocked from viewing your presence information.
•
Settings
and select
•
Show current presence in idle
to show the current status indicator in standby mode.
•
Synchronise with profiles
to select whether you want to update your
My presence message
and
My availability
manually or automatically by linking them to the currently active profile. Refer
also to Profiles on page 96. Note that you cannot link a personalized status logo to a Profile.
•
Connection type
to select if the phone connects automatically to the service when the phone is
switched on.
•
Connect. settings
, see IM and presence settings on page 109.