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• Tap the online status bar > select your online status:
Available, Busy, or Invisible.
• Enter a new status message.
3. Tap
Done
.
Your picture, online status, and message will be
updated anywhere your Talk status is displayed.
3. Adding and managing friends list
Online Status Indicators
Available
Busy
Away
Offline
Monitoring online status
The Talk friends list is sorted by online status: active
chats, online, away, busy, and offline. Within each status
group, friends are listed alphabetically. Icons in Talk,
Gmail, Maps, and other applications indicate Talk status.
Adding a friend to your friends list
1. From the Home screen, tap
Apps
>
Talk
.
2. Tap
Option
>
Add friend
.
3. Enter a Google Talk ID or a Gmail address >
Send
invitation
.
When your friend accepts the invitation, the friend is
added to your Talk contacts list. To view a list of pending
invitations to friends, tap
Option
>
More
>
Invites
.
Accepting chat invitations
When you are added to a friend’s Talk contact list,
you will receive a notification and an invitation appears
in your friends list.
1. From the Home screen, tap
Apps
>
Talk
.
2. From the Talk friends list, tap
Chat invitation
.
• Tap
Accept
to accept the invitation. The friend is
added to your friend list.
• Tap
Cancel
if you don’t want to chat or share your
Talk status with the sender.
• Tap
Block
to block and add the sender to your
blocked users list.
Viewing all friends or most popular friends
1. From the Home screen, tap
Apps
>
Talk
.
• Tap
Option
>
All friends
to view all your friends.
• When viewing All friends, tap
Option
>
Most
popular
to view only friends that you often chat with.
Managing a friend
1. From the Home screen, tap
Apps
>
Talk
.
2. Tap and hold a friend’s name to see more options
(
Start chat
/
Go to chat
/
End chat
,
Friend info
,
Block
friend
,
Remove friend
,
View contact
,
always show
friend
/
Auto show friend
,
Hide friend
).
NOTE
Block friend: This option will block a user from sending you
messages and add the user to your blocked friends list.
Always show friend: This setting will add the friend to your
Most popular list. To remove a friend from the Most popular
