 To select alert settings, press the red button on the home screen and select the music icon using the left arrow button. Once on the music icon, press the red button to select it. When you're on this screen, you'll be able to navigate through a lot of options on the menu on top of the screen using the up-down and left-right buttons. In the first section, you may select which folder you would like to set an alert for, emergency, admin, non-emergency. In the next section, you'll be able to set your message alert. These options are vibration mode, vibrate then alert mode, alert mode and vibrate, alert mode, silent mode, chirping alert. In the next category, you'll be able to choose one of 16 alert tones, categorized under urgent alert, standard alert and pleasing alert. And in the last category, you'll be able to select your vibration settings, assuming you've previously selected an alert with a vibration mode. Your options in this section are continuous and interrupted vibration. In the last category, you can select one of two tones, escalating and general.