Home screen
Learn how to use and personalise your home screen, and organise the content to your liking.
About the home screen
On the home screen, you can:
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See notifications of missed calls and received messages
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Open your favourite applications
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Control applications, such as the music player
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Add shortcuts for different features, such as writing a message
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View your favourite contacts, and quickly call, chat, or send messages to them
You can have more than one home screen page, for example, separate home screens for work and private life.
The home screen elements are interactive. For example, if you select the clock, the clock application opens.
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Switch between home screens
You can have more than one home screen. For example, create separate home screens for work and private life, and personalise them to have different content.
To switch to another home screen, swipe left or right.
indicates which home screen you are in.
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Personalise the home screen
Want to see your favourite landscape or pictures of your family in the home screen background? You can change this wallpaper, and rearrange items in the home screen, to personalise it to your liking.
If you have more than one home screen, you can switch between them also while editing, and personalise all your home screens at the same time.
Change the wallpaper
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Tap and hold the home screen.
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Select Options > Change wallpaper > Image .
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Select the desired picture.
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Select Done.
Download more background images from Nokia's Ovi Store. To learn more about Ovi Store, go to www.ovi.com .
Rearrange items in the home screen
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Tap and hold the home screen.
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Drag and drop items to a new location.
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Select Done.
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Add a widget to the home screen
Interested in today's weather or what's currently in the news? You can add mini-applications (widgets) to your home screen, and see your most relevant information at a glance.
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Tap and hold the home screen.
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Select
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Select Done.
A widget can enhance the related application, and may also change the way the application works. For example, if you add a notification widget, received messages are notified in the widget.
To download more widgets, select Store.
Using the service or downloading content may cause transfer of large amounts of data, which may result in data traffic costs.
Some home screen widgets may connect to the internet automatically. To prevent this, select Options > Widgets to offline mode .
Remove a widget from the home screen
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Tap and hold the home screen.
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Select the widget, and from the pop-up menu, select Remove.
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Select Done.
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Add a shortcut to the home screen
Did you know that you can create shortcuts to your most used applications and features? You can add shortcuts to applications, web bookmarks, or actions, such as writing a message.
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Tap and hold the home screen.
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Select the shortcut widget and Settings.
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Select the shortcut you want to define, and select Bookmark or Application and the desired item.
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Select Back > Done .
To remove a shortcut, replace it with another one.
If you add empty shortcut widgets when editing a home screen, you can later define the shortcuts directly on the home screen.
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Add your important contacts to the home screen
Add your most important contacts to the home screen, so you can quickly call or send messages to them.
The contacts need to be stored in your device memory.
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In the Favourite contacts widget, select
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To mark the contacts to add to the home screen, select the desired contacts. You can add up to 20 contacts to the widget.
In the widget, select the contact.
In the widget, select 
and the contact to remove. The contact is deleted from the widget, but remains in your contacts list.