How To Make Calls – Sony Xperia C3 Dual

How To Make Calls - Sony Xperia C3 Dual

Learn how to make calls on your Sony Xperia C3 Dual. You can make a call by manually dialling a phone number, by tapping a number saved in your contacts list, or by tapping the phone number in your call log view. You can also use the smart dial feature to quickly find numbers from your contacts list and call logs. To make a video call, you can use the Hangouts instant messaging and video chat application on your device.

How To Make Calls - Sony Xperia C3 Dual

  1. Open your contacts list
  2. View your call log entries
  3. View your favorite contacts
  4. View all contact groups saved to your device
  5. Delete number
  6. Dialpad
  7. View more options
  8. Call button
  9. Hide or show the dialer

To make a call by dialling

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Phone.
  • Enter the number of the recipient and tap Call icon.

To make a call using smart dial

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Phone.
  • Use the dialpad to enter letters or numbers that correspond to the contact you want to call. As you enter each letter or number, a list of possible matches appears.
  • Tap the contact you want to call.

To make an international call

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Phone.
  • Touch and hold 0 until a + sign appears.
  • Enter the country code, area code (without the initial zeros) and phone number, then tap Call icon.

To add a direct dial number to your Home screen

  • Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates and the customisation menu appears.
  • In the customisation menu, tap Apps > Shortcuts.
  • Scroll through the list of applications and select Direct dial.
  • Select the contact and the number that you want to use as the direct dial number.

Showing or hiding your phone number

  • You can select to show or hide your phone number on call recipients’ devices when you call them.

To show or hide your phone number

  • From the Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Settings > Call settings.
  • Select a SIM card.
  • Tap Additional settings > Caller ID.

Receiving calls

To answer a call

How To Make Calls - Sony Xperia C3 Dual

To decline a call

How To Make Calls - Sony Xperia C3 Dual

To mute the ringtone for an incoming call

  • When you receive the call, press the volume key.

Using the answering machine

You can use the answering machine application in your device to answer calls when you are busy or miss a call. You can enable the automatic answering function and determine how many seconds to wait before the calls get answered automatically. You can also manually route calls to the answering machine when you are too busy to answer them. And you can access messages left on your answering machine directly from your device.

Note: Before using the answering machine, you must record a greeting message.

To reject a call with the answering machine

  • When an incoming call arrives, drag Response options upwards, then select Reject with Answering Machine.

To record a greeting message for the answering machine

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Settings > Call settings.
  • Select a SIM card.
  • Tap Answering Machine > Greetings.
  • Tap Record new greeting and follow the on-screen instructions.

To enable automatic answering

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Settings > Call settings.
  • Select a SIM card and tap Answering Machine.
  • Mark the Answering Machine checkbox.

Note: If you don’t set a time delay for the automatic answering of calls, the default value is used.

To set a time delay for automatic answering

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Settings > Call settings.
  • Select a SIM card and tap Answering Machine.
  • Tap Pick up after.
  • Adjust the time by scrolling up and down.
  • Tap Done.

To listen to messages on the answering machine

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon.
  • Find and tap Settings > Call settings.
  • Select a SIM card.
  • Tap Answering Machine > Messages.
  • Select the voice message that you want to listen to.

Note: You can also listen to answering machine messages directly from the call log by tapping .

Rejecting a call with a text message

You can reject a call with a text message. When you reject a call with such a message, the message is automatically sent to the caller and stored in the Messaging conversation with the contact.

You can select from a number of predefined messages available on your device, or you can create a new message. You can also create you own personalised messages by editing the predefined ones.

To reject a call with a text message

  • When an incoming call arrives, drag Response options upwards, then tap Reject with message.
  • Select a predefined message or tap Compose icon and write a new message.

To reject a second call with a text message

  • When you hear repeated beeps during a call, drag Response options upwards, then tap Reject with message.
  • Select a predefined message or tap Compose icon and write a new message.

To edit the text message used to reject a call

  • From your Home screen, tap Apps icon..
  • Find and tap Settings > Call settings > General > Reject call with message.
  • Tap the message that you want to edit, then make the necessary changes.
  • Tap OK.

Ongoing calls

How To Make Calls - Sony Xperia C3 Dual

  1. Open your contacts list
  2. Turn on the loudspeaker during a call
  3. Put the current call on hold or retrieve the call
  4. Enter numbers during a call
  5. Mute the microphone during a call
  6. End a call

To change the ear speaker volume during a call

  • Press the volume key up or down.

To activate the screen during a call

  • Briefly press Power icon.

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