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Viewing the Display Screen

Your device’s display screen provides information about notifications and your device’s status. This list identifies the symbols you’ll see on your device’s display screen:


Status Bar – Notification Icons

New Text or Picture Message

New Voicemail

New Gmail message

New Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or POP3/IMAP email message

Problem with SMS/MMS delivery

New instant message from Google Talk

Upcoming event

Music is playing

General notification (for example, sync error)

Storage card is low on free space

Wi-Fi is on and wireless networks are available

Data synchronizing – connected to HTC Sync

New location detected

More (undisplayed) notifications

Call in progress (Voice Privacy locked/unlocked)

Missed call

Compass needs orientation

Uploading data (animated)

Downloading data (animated)

Waiting to upload

Content downloaded

Device connected to computer via USB cable

Storage card is safe to remove or storage card is being prepared

No storage card installed on the device.

New tweet

Updates available for an application downloaded from Android Market


Status Bar – Device Status Icons

Signal Strength
(More bars = stronger signal)

No Service

Device is “roaming” off the Nationwide Sprint Network

Sprint Mobile Broadband data service (EVDO) available
(when active, icon animated)

Sprint 1xRTT data service available (when active, icon animated)

Data service is currently unavailable

Device’s location feature is on and available for location-based services such as GPS Navigation

Device’s location feature off and your location available only for 911 (see “Enhanced 911 (E911) Information”)

Device microphone muted

Device speaker muted

Shows current battery charge level
(Icon shown is fully charged)

Bluetooth on

Connected to Bluetooth device

Airplane mode

Alarm set

Speakerphone on

Wired microphone headset connected

Wired headset connected

Connected to Wi-Fi network

Vibrate mode

 

Notifications Panel

Notification icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, alarms being set and ongoing settings such as call forwarding being on or the current call status. You can open the Notifications panel to access message, reminder, or event notification tabs.

To open the Notifications panel:

When a new notification icon displays in the status bar, press and hold the status bar, and then slide your finger downward to open the Notifications panel.

If you have several notifications, you can scroll down the screen to view more notifications.

Tip  

You can also open the Notifications panel from the Home screen by pressing and then tapping Notifications.

To close the Notifications panel:

 
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Press and hold the bottom bar of the Notifications panel, and then slide your finger up the screen.

– or –  

Press .

Notification LED

The Notification LED located at the right corner of the earpiece provides information on the device status or pending notifications.

LED Status

Indication

Solid green

Battery is fully charged.
(When the device is connected to the AC adapter/computer.)

Solid amber

Battery is charging.

Flashing amber

Battery is low. (Battery power is below 14%.)

Flashing green

You have a pending notification. (For example, new message or missed call.)


Note  

The indicators are listed in order of priority. For example, if your device is connected to a power adapter and is charging the battery, the LED will be solid amber and will not switch to a flashing green light even if there is a pending notification.


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