HP Veer 4G (AT&T) manual Receive calls, Dial your national emergency number, Answer a call

Dial your national emergency number

To dial 911, do the following:

1Press power to wake up the screen if needed.

2Drag up to unlock the screen if needed.

3Do one of the following:

•If Secure Unlock is not on (see Set options for unlocking the screen), tap the center of the gesture area to display Card view if Card view is not displayed. Enter the emergency number, and tap the number to dial. You don’t have to press Option to enter numbers.

•If Secure Unlock is on, tap Tap to dial emergency call, and then tap Emergency call. Edit the displayed number if needed, and then tap to dial.

NOTE If the phone is turned off (that is, if it’s in airplane mode), you don’t have to turn it on. It automatically tries to connect to a network to make the call.

Dial from another application

If a phone number appears in another application as an underlined link, you can begin dialing the number directly from that application. For example, you can dial phone numbers that appear in web pages; in messages (email, text, or multimedia); or in notes to calendar events.

1If a phone number appears as an underlined link, tap the number. This displays the dial pad with the number already entered.

2Tap to dial.

In Messaging, you can dial a contact from a conversation by tapping Text or the IM account name in the upper-right corner of the screen to open a list of phone numbers you have for that contact, and then tapping next to the number you want to call.

Receive calls

If you want to answer calls, the phone must be on. This is different from having only the screen turned on (see Turn your smartphone on/off). When the phone is off, your calls go to voicemail.

You can pick the ringtone for incoming calls (see Select a file from the ringtones folder as a ringtone). You can set a ringtone for individual contacts as well (see Add a ringtone to a contact).

Answer a call

Do one of the following:

•If the screen is on when the smartphone starts ringing, tap .

•If the screen is off, drag up to unlock the screen and answer the call.

•If a headset is attached, press the button on the headset.

•If the smartphone is placed on an HP Touchstone charging dock (sold separately), simply lift the smartphone off the dock to automatically answer the call.

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