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Making a call with Smart dial
You can either dial a number directly, or use Smart dial to quickly place a call. Smart dial searches and calls a stored/synced contact or a number from your call history.
1. On the Home screen, tap .
2. Enter the phone number or first few letters of the contact’s name.
3. From the list, tap a contact to call.
beside the To check other phone numbers associated with the contact, tap contact name.
4. To hang up, tap End Call.
Using Speed dial
Use Speed dial to call a phone number with a single tap. For example, if you assign a contact’s number to the number 2 key, you can just press and hold 2 to dial the number.
The number 1 key is generally reserved for your voicemail. Press and hold this key to call voicemail and retrieve your voicemail messages.
Assigning a speed dial key
1. On the Home screen, tap .
2. Tap > Speed dial.
3. Tap , and then select a contact from the list.
4. On the Speed dial screen, choose the phone number of the contact to use, and a speed dial key to assign.
5. Tap Save.
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Calling a phone number in a text message
1. Tap the phone number within the message.
2. Tap Call.
To call the message sender, tap the received message, and then tap Call on the options menu.
Calling a phone number in an email
1. Tap the phone number in the email body.
2. Tap Call.
Calling a phone number in a Calendar event
1. Open an event in Calendar.
2. On the Event details screen, tap the phone number.
3. Tap Call.
4. When the call is received, tap to see event details such as the conference call ID or meeting PIN code on the Phone dialer screen.
Making an emergency call
In some regions, you can make emergency calls from HTC Desire C even if you don’t have a SIM card installed or your SIM card has been blocked.
1. On the Home screen, tap .
2. Dial the emergency number for your locale, and then tap Call.
Receiving calls
When you receive a phone call from a contact, the Incoming call screen appears.
You can use the polite ringer and pocket mode features for receiving calls.
Answering a call
Do one of the following:
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If the display is locked when you get a call, drag to the Lock screen ring.
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If the display is on when you get a call, tap Answer.
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Rejecting a call
Do one of the following:
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If the display is locked when you get a call, drag to the Lock screen ring. Then drag to the ring the Reminder icon to create a task or the Send message icon to send a text message to the caller.
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If the display is on when you get a call, tap Decline.
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Press the POWER button twice to reject a call.
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
Do one of the following:
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Press the VOLUME DOWN or VOLUME UP button.
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Press the POWER button.
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Place HTC Desire C face down on a level surface.
If HTC Desire C is already facing down, it will still ring when there are subsequent incoming calls.
Look who's calling
Every time you make a call or your friend gives you a ring, you get to see your friend’s latest social network status update right on the call screen. You’ll also see a birthday reminder, if your friend’s birthday will happen within one week.
Viewing a task reminder while on a call
Did you promise to babysit for a friend this weekend? If you associate a task to a contact, you'll see a task reminder on the call screen when you're on a call with that friend.
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What can I do during a call?
When a call is in progress, you can turn the speakerphone on, place the call on hold, and more.
Putting a call on hold
To put the call on hold, tap > Hold. The status bar then displays the hold call icon
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To resume the call, tap > Unhold.
Switching between calls
If you’re already in a call and you accept another call, you can switch between the two calls.
1. When you receive another call, tap Answer to accept the second call and put the first call on hold.
2. To switch between the calls, tap the person you want to talk to on the screen.
3. To end the current call and return to the other call, tap End Call.
Turning the speakerphone on during a call
To decrease potential damage to your hearing, do not hold HTC Desire C to your ear when the speakerphone is on.
Do one of the following:
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Flip HTC Desire C over during a call (be sure that Flip for speaker is selected in
Sound settings).
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On the call screen, tap .
The speakerphone icon appears in the status bar when the speakerphone is on.
To turn the speakerphone off, just flip HTC Desire C over again, facing it up. Or tap
again.
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Muting the microphone during a call
On the call screen, tap to toggle between turning the microphone on or off. When the microphone is turned off, the mute icon appears in the status bar.
Ending a call
Do one of the following to end the call:
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On the call screen, tap End Call.
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Slide open the Notifications panel, then tap .
If the phone number of the person who called is not in your contacts list, you can choose to save the number to your contacts list after you hang up.
Setting up a conference call
Conference calling with your friends, family, or co-workers is easy. Make the first call
(or accept a call), and then simply dial each subsequent call to add it to the conference.
Make sure your SIM card is enabled with conference calling service. Contact your mobile operator for details.
1. Make a call to the first conference call participant.
2. When connected, tap > Add call, and then dial the number of the second participant. The first participant is put on hold.
3. When connected to the second participant, tap .
4. To add another participant, tap , and then dial the number of the contact.
5. When connected, tap to add the participant to the conference call.
6. To talk to a person in the conference call in private, tap and then select
Private call.
To end the call with a participant, tap and then tap Finish this call.
To end the conference call, tap End Call.
Internet calls
When you're connected to a Wi-Fi network, you can make and receive calls through an Internet calling account.
Before you add an Internet calling account, make sure that you've registered with an Internet calling service that supports voice calls over Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP). Internet calls to phone numbers may incur additional fees.
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Adding an Internet calling account
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Call.
2. Under Internet call settings, tap Accounts.
3. Tap Add account.
4. Enter your account details.
5. Tap > Save.
6. To set HTC Desire C to receive Internet calls on your added account, tap the
Receive incoming calls check button.
Making an Internet call
Make an Internet call to either your contact's Internet calling account or phone number.
Call any of the following:
Internet calling account
Phone number
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In People, tap a contact who has an Internet calling account, and then tap Internet call.
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In Call History, tap an Internet call log.
First, enable Internet calling for your outgoing calls. Slide the
Notifications panel open, and then tap > Call. Tap Use Internet calling, and then select either For all calls when data network is available or Ask for each call.
Call history
Use Call History to check missed calls, your dialed numbers, and received calls.
Returning a missed call
You'll see the missed call icon in the status bar when you miss a call.
1. Slide open the Notifications panel to check who the caller is.
2. To return the call, tap the missed call notification.
3. Tap the caller’s name or number on the Call History screen.
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Checking calls in the Call History
1. On the Home screen, tap .
2. Tap > Call History.
3. On the Call History screen, you can:
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Tap a name or number in the list to call.
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Press and hold a name or number in the list to display the options menu.
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Tap to check only the call history of a particular contact.
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Tap > View to display just a particular type of calls such as missed calls or outgoing calls.
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from Call History
1. On the Call History screen, press and hold the phone number, and then tap Save to People.
2. Choose whether to create a new contact or save the number to an existing contact.
Clearing the Call History list
On the Call History screen, do one of the following:
Remove one name or number
Clear the entire list
Press and hold the name or number, and then tap Delete from call history.
Tap > Remove call history > Select all > Delete.
Home dialing
When you're on a trip abroad, it's easy to dial friends and family from home.
Your home country code is automatically added when you call your contacts while roaming. But when manually entering a phone number to call, you need to enter a plus
(+) sign and country code before the number.
Changing the default country code for Home dialing
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Call.
2. Tap Home dialing settings.
3. Select a country, and then tap OK.
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Turning off Home dialing
If you prefer to manually enter complete phone numbers to call while roaming, you can turn off Home dialing.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Call.
2. Under Other settings, clear the Home dialing check button.
Call services
You can change the settings of various phone services. Call services may include call forwarding, call waiting, voicemail, and more. Contact your mobile operator to find out about the availability of call services.
Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Call.
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