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Android basics

Managing notifications

Notification icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as when call forwarding is on or the current call status.

When you receive a notification, its icon appears in the Status bar, along with a summary that appears only briefly. For a table of notification icons, see “Notification icons” on page 39.

Depending on your settings, you may also hear a notification sound, the phone may vibrate, and the LED may blink. These settings and adjusting sound volume and other general notifications settings is described in “Sound settings” on page 320.

You can open the Notifications panel to view a list of all your notifications.

Applications whose activities produce notifications, such as Gmail and Google Talk, have their own settings, which you can use to configure whether and how they send notifications, whether they sound a ringtone, vibrate, and so on. See the sections on those applications for details.

To open the Notifications panel

SDrag the Status bar down from the top of the screen.

On the Home screen, you can also press Menu and touch

Notifications.

The Notifications panel displays your wireless provider and a list of your current notifications. Notifications about ongoing activities are listed first, followed by Notifications about events, such as new mail notifications or Calendar reminders.

User’s Guide

T-Mobile G2

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HTC G2 manual Managing notifications, To open the Notifications panel