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Opening/Closing the Notication Panel
Notications report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, 
as well as ongoing events. You can open the Notication Panel to view the 
details of notications.
•   To open the Notication Panel, swipe your nger down from the top of  
the screen.
•   To close the Notication Panel, swipe your nger up from the bottom of the 
screen or press the Back key.
Responding to or removing a notication
In the Notication Panel, you can respond to a notication or remove the 
notications. The Notication Panel also supports expandable notications 
that let you perform additional actions right from the notication itself.
•   To respond to a notication, tap it.
•   Slide down with one nger to expand certain notications. You can also 
swipe two ngers vertically or pinch-zoom to expand or collapse certain 
notications.
•   To remove a notication, swipe it left or right.
•   To remove all notications, tap  .
•   To manage notications you have received, press and hold a notication 
to identify the application that created it. You can then tap   and enable 
Block all to hide future notications from some apps, tap Hide sensitive 
content to hide any sensitive content from some app’s notications when 
the phone is locked, or tap Treat as priority to show the app’s notications 
in priority mode. 
Note: If you block notications for an app, you may miss its important alerts 
and updates. The notications of some apps cannot be blocked.
Using Quick Settings
The Quick Settings in the Notication Panel make it convenient to view or 
change the most common settings for your phone.
Swipe down with two ngers from the top of the screen, or open the 
Notication Panel and drag the panel downward to view the following  
Quick Settings.
•  Auto-rotate/Portrait: Tap to turn on or off the auto-rotate screen feature.
•  Hotspot: Tap to turn on or off the mobile hotspot feature. Turning on mobile 
hotspot will disable Wi-Fi activity.
KNOWING THE BASICS
KNOWING THE BASICS
Indicator What it means
Updates available
Wired headset 
connected
New Wi-Fi network 
detected
Downloading data 
Sending data 
USB connected
Indicators and icons
Indicator
What it means
 
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New SMS/MMS
New message(s) from 
the Email app
 
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New message(s) from 
the Gmail™ app
Missed call
Call in progress
 
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Song playing
Managing notications
The Status Bar at the top of the home screen provides notication icons on 
the left side. Below are some of the icons you may see.