HTC Desire Quick Start Guide

Your HTC Desire

Quick start guide

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Before you do anything else, please read this

Charge the battery

The battery in your phone hasn’t been charged yet. While your
phone is charging, it’s important that you do not remove the
battery pack. Doing so can damage your phone. Also, please don’t
try to take your phone apart. (If you do, it may invalidate your
warranty.)

Know about privacy laws

Some countries have strict laws about how and when you can
record phone conversations. For example, you may need to tell the
person you’re speaking to before you start recording. It’s a good
idea to find out what the laws are where you live before you use
your phone’s recording feature.

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This quick start guide will help you get started with
your phone. In this guide, we use the following
symbols to indicate important or useful information:

Notes Important information

Tips Safety precaution

For the complete user guide and other helpful
resources, check out the HTC support website at
www.htc.com/support.

Contents

1. What ’s in the box 4

2. Get to k now your p hone 4

3. Befo re you turn on your ph one 5

4. Get started 7

5. Add you r contacts 9

6. Make you r first c all 10

7. Status Bar and Notif icatio ns 10

8. HTC Sen se 11

9. Connect to the I nternet 13

10. Get your m essag es acros s 16

11. Managin g Your Appli cation s 18

12. Stay in touch with fri ends 19

13. Get files into your p hone 2 0

14. Sync your phone with your compute r 21

15. Factory resetti ng 23

16. Troublesho oting tip s 24

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1. What’s in the box

Here’s what you should find inside the box:

Phone

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Battery

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USB cable

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3.5mm stereo headset
Power adapter

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microSD™ card (pre-

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installed in the device)
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Safety and regulatory

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guide

2. Get to know your phone

Earpiece

Volume
Control

MENU

HOME

POWER

Touch Screen

3.5 mm
headset jack

Notification LED

Optical
trackball

BACK

SEARCH

USB connector

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3. Before you turn on your phone

1 Remove the back cover

Lift the top of the back
cover. There’s a narrow
opening (near the POWER
button) where you can use
your finger to remove the
back cover.

2 Insert the battery

Align the battery’s exposed copper contacts with the battery

1.
connectors inside the battery compartment.

Insert the contacts side of the battery first and then gently

2.
push the battery into place.

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3 Replace the back cover

Secure and press the bottom part of the back cover first by

1.
aligning into the two openings located at the bottom part of
the back of the phone.

Press the sides and the top part of the back cover down to

2.
lock the cover into place. You will hear a click when the back
cover is locked in place.

4 Charge the battery

Plug the power adapter

1.
into the USB connector at
the bottom of your phone.

Plug in the power adapter

2.
to an electrical outlet to
start charging the battery.
It will take about three
hours for the battery to be
fully charged.

After installing and charging the battery, you are now
ready to turn your phone on for the first time. Press the
POWER button to turn on your phone.

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Read on and start exploring what you can do with your
phone.

4. Get started

On the Home screen, tap > Setup .

1. Choose the phone language you want to use, and
then tap Next.

2. Your phone walks you through a tutorial on how
to use the onscreen keyboard. Follow through the
tutorial to learn how to use the onscreen keyboard.
Tap Skip to not go through the tutorial.

3. On the Internet connection screen, select how you
want to connect to the Internet, and then tap Next.

4. If there are Wi-Fi networks in range, you will be asked
if you want to connect to a Wi-Fi network. Tap Next
and then tap the wireless network that you want, or
clear the Connect to Wi-Fi network checkbox, and
then tap Next to set up your Wi-Fi connection at a
later time.

5. Some phone features such as Weather and Footprints
require Google’s location service to automatically
determine your current location. On the Location
consent screen, you can choose whether to allow
Google’s location service to collect information about
your location. Clear or select the checkbox, and then
tap Next.

6. On the Set up accounts screen, choose the type of
account you want to set up and follow the onscreen
instructions to complete the setup. Tap Skip to set up
accounts at a later time.

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To set up your Google Account, tap Google



account > Next > Sign in, enter your Google
Account details, and then tap Sign in.

To learn how to set up POP3 and Microsoft



Exchange ActiveSync accounts, see the Sync
and Email chapters to learn how to set up these
accounts.

After setting up an account, you will be taken back
to the Set up accounts screen so you can set up
more accounts. When you are done setting up your
accounts, tap Next

.

7. On the Set up social networks screen, choose the
type of social network account such as Facebook (for
HTC Sense) and Twitter that you want to access from
your phone. Follow the onscreen instructions to log
in to your social network account. Tap Skip to set up
social network accounts at a later time. See the Social
chapter for more information about Facebook for HTC
Sense.

When you are done setting up your accounts, tap
Next on the Set up social networks screen.