HI ED, TO CHECK THE BARS FOR YOUR POWER LEVEL OR SIGNAL LEVEL PRESS THE TALKS KEY AND KEY 2 THAT IS THE BUTTON TO THE RIGHT OF THE MENU BUTTON IN THE MIDDLE UNDER THE SCREEN, BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. TO TURN OFF THE DICTIONARY SO THAT YOU CAN SPELL WORDS NORMALLY PRESS THE TALKS BUTTON AND THE NUMBER 3. TALS WILL STATE THE STATUS OF THE DICTIONARY "ON" OR "OFF" GERRY ----- Original Message ----- From: Edmund Harty To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 2:21 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Talks Mobile Phone I have a Talks moble phone it is a N3okia. I am unable to check the bars in my battery as when I press the Talks buttton Menue comes up. This is after pressing the Talks button just once. The other thing is that when I send texts when I press the Charictor keys I get them telling me what they stand for. This confuses me. I would like to go back to just having the charcictor read out to me by talks but, this isn't happening. Can anybody help me with this? Any help would be wellcome. Edmund Harty.