Operation Manual
Chapter 2 : Basics 23
When you are inside a coverage area, the bars of the signal-strength
icon are filled in according to the strength of the signal. If you’re outside a
coverage area, the bars in the signal-strength icon appear dimmed with
an X.
Shut down your smartphone
Usually, turning your smartphone off and/or putting it in airplane mode is
sufficient for normal periods when you have the smartphone with you but
you’re not using it. On rare occasions, however, you may want to put your
smartphone into deep sleep because you are not going to use it for an
extended period. At those times, shut down the screen and wireless services
completely by doing one of the following:
• Open Device Info and tap Reset Options. Tap Shut Down, and tap
Shut Down again.
• Press and hold power , and tap Power. Tap Shut Down.
NOTE When you turn everything off, the smartphone’s alarms, ringer, and
notifications are also turned off.
To turn both the screen and wireless services back on, press and hold
power until a logo appears onscreen.
Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch
Gestures are an important, basic part of your smartphone. They’re easy to
learn, and they make working with the smartphone fast. You make most
gestures with one finger. For a few, you need two. Make gestures with the
tip of your finger. Do not use your fingernail. Don’t bear down.
You make gestures in two areas on your smartphone: the touchscreen and
the gesture area. The gesture area is the black area extending along the
bottom of the screen.
* Gesture area
When you’re working in an application, the center of the gesture area
displays a lighted bar.
• Tap the bar to minimize the app and display Card view (see Manage
applications in Card view).
• The lighted bar also appears when you tap the center of the gesture area
to maximize a card in Card view.
• When the screen is off, the lighted bar pulses when a notification arrives
and continues to pulse until you tap the notification or turn on the screen
(see Get notifications when the screen is locked or off).