HTC HTCONEUNLOCKEDBLACK manual Using the phone’s buttons

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Using the phone’s buttons

The phone’s physical buttons and soft buttons offer a variety of functions and shortcuts. See “Getting to know your phone” on page 17 for a diagram showing the location of the buttons on the phone.

Button	Press	Press & hold
Back	Opens the previous screen you were
	working in. If the onscreen keyboard is
	open, closes the keyboard.
Menu	Opens a menu with items that affect
	the current screen or application.
Home	Opens the Home screen. If you’re view-	Opens the most recently used
	ing the left or right extended Home	applications screen.
	screen, opens the central Home screen.
Search	In some applications, opens Quick	Opens Google search by voice.
	Search Box for searching the phone
	and the web. In other applications,
	opens a search box for just that applica-
	tion. Press twice to open Quick Search
	Box from any application.
Power	Turns off the screen.	Opens a menu with options for
(top left)		Airplane mode, for Silent mode,
		and for powering off the phone.
Volume Up /	When a call is in progress, increases or	Quickly increases the ringtone
Down	decreases the call volume. When the	volume to maximum or mini-
(left side)	phone is ringing, silences the ringer. On	mum.
	the Home screen when no call is in
	progress, increases or decreases the
	ringtone volume, or sets the phone to
	be silent or to vibrate instead of ringing.
	In other applications, controls the vol-
	ume of music, spoken directions, and
	other audio.

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