Samsung T769 Galaxy S Blaze. Function Keys

Accessing Additional Panel Functions
In addition to notifications, this panel also provides quick and
ready access to five device functions. These can be quickly
activated or deactivated.
Clearing Notifications
1.
Tap the status bar to reveal the Notifications tab, and then
drag the tab to the bottom of the screen to open the
Notifications panel
2.
The following functions can either be activated (green) or
deactivated (white): Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Silent mode, or
Auto rotation.
Function Keys
Your phone comes equipped with four main function keys that
can be used on any screen: Home, Menu, Back and Search.
Tap Clear. The notifications are cleared from the panel.
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Home Key
The Home key (
) takes you back to your Home screen
(#4 of the 7 available screens).
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Press and hold to launch the Recent apps/Task manager
screen. For more information, refer to “Accessing
Recently-Used Applications” on page 38.
Menu Key
The Menu key (
) activates an available menu function for the
current screen or application. When on the Home screen, the
following menu options are available:
• Add (
) adds one of the following functions to a selected screen:
Widgets, Shortcuts, Folders, and Wallpapers.
• Wallpaper (
) lets you to customize the current screen’s
wallpaper image by choosing from either Gallery, Live Wallpaper or
Wallpaper gallery).
– You can obtain images from either your Pictures folder, from any of the
available images within the device’s Wallpaper gallery, or from the
animated Live Wallpapers.
Note: Wallpapers supports the following image types: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP,
and WBMP.
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• Search (
) displays the Google Search box that you can use to
search for a key term both on the phone and online.
• Notifications (
) allows you to expand popup notifications area to
provide more detailed information about the current on-screen
notification icons.
• Edit (
) allows you to add or
remove extended screens from
your device. You can have up to
six extended screens (one Home
screen and six Extended
screens).
• Settings (
) provides quick
access to the device’s settings
menu.
– The Settings menu can also be
accessed by pressing
and then tapping
➔
Settings.
Back Key
The Back key (
) returns you to the previously active screen.
If the on-screen keyboard is currently open, this key closes the
keyboard.
Search Key
Using Google Search
The Search key (
) displays the Google Search box that can
be used to search for either a key term both on the phone and
online. In some instances, this key opens a search box specific
only to the current application.
1.
Press
to launch the Google Search box.
– or –
Press
2.
and tap
➔
.
From the on-screen keyboard, tap
(top of screen) to
launch the Google Voice Search function.
Go to
Search
Field
Settings
Use the Google Search box to manually search for a term on both
your device and on the Web.
1.
Press
2.
Tap
to launch the Google Search box.
to select a search area:
• All searches your device, the Web, and the Android Market for your
search term.
• Web searches for your term only on the Web using the Google
search engine.
• Apps searches for your term only within the Android Market.
• Contacts searches for your term only within your current Contacts
entries.
• Settings configures the items that are searched against. Example:
Web, Apps, Memo, etc.
3. Enter a search term and tap a match from the list of
suggestions, phone search results, or previously chosen
Search
Options
search matches. Once touched, the item opens in the
appropriate application.
Search Results
– or –
From the on-screen keyboard, taping Voice Search (
)
lets you speak into your device's microphone to enter a
search term.
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