What can I do during a call?

When a call is in progress, use the buttons onscreen to mute or unmute the microphone or to turn the speakerphone on or off. You can also press and choose whether to add a call, place the call on hold, mute the microphone, and more.

Putting a call on hold

Press and then tap Hold to put the call on hold. When you put a call on hold, the status bar displays the hold call icon .
Press , and then tap Unhold to resume the call.

Switching between calls

If you’re already on a call and accept another call, you can choose to switch between the two calls.

When you receive another call, tap Answer to accept the second call and put the first call on hold.
To switch between the calls, tap the person you want to talk to on the screen.
To end the current call and return to the other call, tap End call.

Turning the speakerphone on during a call

Warning: To decrease potential damage to your hearing, do not hold HTC Explorer against your ear when the speakerphone is on.

Do one of the following:

Flip HTC Explorer over during a call (be sure that Flip for speaker is selected in > > Settings > Sound).
On the call screen, tap .

The speakerphone icon

appears in the status bar when the speakerphone is on.

To turn the speakerphone off, just flip HTC Explorer over again, facing it up. Or tap again.

Muting the microphone during a call

On the call screen, tap

to toggle between turning the microphone on or off. When the microphone is turned off, the mute icon

appears in the status bar.

Ending a call

Do one of the following to end the call:

On the call screen, tap End call.
Note: If the display is off, press POWER to turn on the screen so you can tap End call.
Slide open the Notifications panel, then tap .

If the phone number of the person who called is not in your contacts list, you can choose to save the number to your contacts list after you hang up.

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