HTC Hero Managing your friends, To start a chat, To switch between active chats, To close a chat

To start a chat:

1.Tap a friend in the Friends list.

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Navigate to a friend using the trackball and press the trackball.

2.Chat with your friend by entering text using the onscreen keyboard.

Tip To insert a smiley, press and tap Insert smiley. Tap a smiley to insert it into your message.

3.After entering your message, tap Send.

To switch between active chats:

You can switch between chats if you have more than one chat going.

1.While on a chat screen or in the friends list, press and tap Switch chats.

Tap to switch chat with this friend.

2.On the panel that opens, tap the friend you want to chat with.

To close a chat:

 In your Friends list, press and hold a friend with an active chat and tap End chat on the menu.

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While on a chat screen, press and tap End chat.

Managing your friends

Friends in your friends list is sorted by their online status — active chats, online, busy, and offline. Within the status groupings, friends are listed alphabetically.

By default, only the friends that you frequently communicate with — the most popular — are in the Friends list.

If you want to display all your friends, press and tap All friends.

Tip To switch back to displaying only your most popular friends, press and tap Most popular.

To block a friend:

You can block a friend from sending you messages. When blocked, your friend is also removed from your Friends list.

1.In the Friends list, locate the friend you want to block.

Note If you cannot see the friend, Press and tap All friends.

2.Press and hold the friend’s name, and tap Block friend. Your friend is removed from your friends list and is added to the blocked friends list.

Note To unblock a friend, in the Friends list, press and tap Blocked. In the Blocked friends list, tap the name of the friend you want to unblock, and tap OK when prompted.

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