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HTC Desire 516c dual sim User Manual

HTC Desire 516c dual sim
User guide
2 Contents
Contents
Unboxing
HTC Desire 516c dual sim 7 Back cover 8 UIM and SIM cards 10 Storage card 11 Battery 13 Switching the power on or off 15
Setting up your phone
Setting up HTC Desire 516c dual sim for the first time 16 Installing an update 16 Checking for updates manually 16
Your first week with your new phone
Camera
Gallery and Video Highlights
Viewing photos and videos in Gallery 33 Editing photos 33 Viewing and editing Video Highlights 33
Personalizing
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Phone calls
Messages
Contacts
Search and web browser
Searching HTC Desire 516c dual sim and the Web 51 Getting instant information with Google Now 52 Browsing the Web 53 Bookmarking a webpage 54 Clearing your browsing history 54
Email
Music
Travel and maps
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Google Play and other apps
Getting apps from Google Play 67 Downloading apps from the web 68 Uninstalling an app 68 Using the Clock app 69 Viewing the Calendar 69 Watching videos on YouTube 70
Internet connections
Bluetooth
Storage
Backup and reset
Settings and security
Trademarks and copyrights
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Index
6 Conventions used in this guide
Safety precautions:
Conventions used in this guide
In this user guide, we use the following symbols to indicate useful and important information:
This is a note. A note often gives additional information, such as what happens when you choose to do or not to do a certain action. A note also provides information that may only be applicable to some situations.
This is a tip. A tip gives you an alternative way to do a particular step or procedure, or lets you know of an option that you may find helpful.
This indicates important information that you need in order to accomplish a certain task or to get a feature to work properly.
This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be careful about to prevent potential problems.
a) Use a wireless hands-free system (headphone, headset) with a low power
Bluetooth emitter.
b) Make sure the cell phone has a low SAR. c) Keep your calls short or send a text message (SMS) instead. This advice
applies especially to children, adolescents and pregnant women.
d) Use cell-phone when the signal quality is good. e) People having active medical implants should preferably keep the cell
phone at least 15 cm away from the implant.
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Unboxing

HTC Desire 516c dual sim

1. POWER
2. Front camera
3. USB connector
4. 3.5mm headset jack
5. Earpiece
6. VOLUME
7. BACK
8. HOME
9. MENU
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Back cover

Removing the back cover

1. Securely hold HTC Desire 516c dual sim facing down.
2. With your thumb or finger, open the back cover from the small opening at the
bottom of HTC Desire 516c dual sim.

Replacing the back cover

After installing the SIM or storage card, make sure to replace the back cover properly.
1. Place HTC Desire 516c dual sim face down on a flat and smooth surface.
2. Align the top part of the back cover with the back panel of
HTC Desire 516c dual sim.
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3. Gently press the back cover and then run your thumbs along the sides from the
top to the bottom.
You’ll hear clicks as the back cover locks into place.
4. Make sure that the back cover is tight and there are no gaps or bulges on any
side.
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UIM and SIM cards

HTC Desire 516c dual sim has two card slots that allow you to insert a UIM card and GSM SIM card.

Inserting the UIM and SIM cards

Inserting a smaller size UIM/SIM (such as a micro UIM/SIM with an adapter or a modified UIM/SIM) may cause the card to not fit properly or damage the card slot.
1. Take the back cover off.
2. Insert a CDMA or dual-mode UIM card in the UIM 1 slot. Insert a GSM SIM in the
SIM 2 slot.
When inserting, make sure the gold contacts on the card are facing down.

Removing the UIM and SIM cards

Make sure to switch off HTC Desire 516c dual sim before removing the card.
1. Take the back cover off.
2. Remove the battery.
3. Slide the UIM card or SIM card out from the slots.
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Storage card

Use a storage card to store your photos, videos, and music.

Inserting the storage card

1. Take the back cover off.
2. Make sure to remove the battery first before inserting the microSD™ card.
3. Insert the microSD card into the storage card slot with its gold contacts facing
down and push it all the way in.
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Removing the storage card

1. Take the back cover off.
2. Make sure to remove the battery first before removing the microSD card.
3. Slide the microSD card out from its slot.
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Battery

Removing the battery

1. Take the back cover off.
2. With your thumb or finger, lift the battery from the battery compartment.

Inserting the battery

Please use only original batteries that came in the box or replacements that we recommend.
1. Take the back cover off.
2. Insert the battery (with its exposed copper contacts first) into the battery
compartment.
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Charging the battery

Before you turn on and start using HTC Desire 516c dual sim, it is recommended that you charge the battery.
§ Use only the adapter and the USB cable that came with HTC Desire 516c dual sim to charge the battery. When the battery power is too low, make sure to use the power adapter to charge, not the USB cable connection with your computer.
§ Do not remove the battery from HTC Desire 516c dual sim while you are charging it using the power or car adapter.
1. Insert the small end of the USB cable into the USB connector.
2. Insert the other end of the USB cable into the power adapter.
3. Plug in the power adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.
§ As a safety precaution, the battery may stop charging to avoid overheating.
§ When you're using the Internet and charging the battery, HTC Desire 516c dual sim
may become warmer. This is normal.
§ To conserve energy, unplug the power adapter from the electrical outlet after you finish charging.
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Switching the power on or off

Switching the power on

Press and hold the POWER button until the screen turns on.
When you turn on HTC Desire 516c dual sim for the first time, you’ll need to set it up.

Switching the power off

1. If the display is off, press the POWER button to turn it back on, then unlock the
screen.
2. Press and hold the POWER button for a few seconds.
3. Tap Power off on the options menu.
4. Tap OK.
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Setting up your phone

Setting up HTC Desire 516c dual sim for the first time

When you switch on HTC Desire 516c dual sim for the first time, you’ll be asked to set it up.
Walk through the on-device setup to choose your Internet connection and more. You can also sign in to your Google® account.
Some features that need to connect to the Internet such as location-based services and auto-sync of your online accounts may incur extra data fees. To avoid incurring these fees, disable these features under Settings.

Installing an update

When Internet connection is on and there's a new software update available, you will receive a notification.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap the system update notification.
2. If you don't want to download the update using your data connection, select Update over Wi-Fi only.
3. Tap Download.
4. When download is complete, select Install now, and then tap OK.
After updating, HTC Desire 516c dual sim will restart.

Checking for updates manually

1. Go to Settings, and then tap About phone
2. Tap Software updates > Check now. HTC Desire 516c dual sim checks if updates
are available.
If you don't have Internet connection, you'll be prompted to turn on mobile data or connect to a Wi-Fi® network. Once connected, tap Check now to check for updates.
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Your first week with your new phone

Basics

Touch gestures

Use touch gestures to get around the Home screen, open apps, scroll through lists, and more.
Tap
Tap the screen with your finger when you want to select onscreen items such as application and settings icons, or press onscreen buttons.
Press and hold
To open the available options for an item (for example, a text message), just press and hold the item.
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Swipe or slide
Quickly swipe your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen to go to other Home screen, read the next e-mail, and more.
Drag
Press and hold your finger with some pressure before you start to drag. While dragging, don't release your finger until you have reached the target position.
Flick
Flicking the screen is similar to swiping, except that you need to swipe your finger in light, quicker strokes, such as when moving right and left on the Home screen, or flicking through a contacts or message list.
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Slide with two fingers
Slide two fingers together to zoom out of the picture or text.
In some apps, like Gallery or the web browser, slide two fingers apart to zoom in when viewing a picture or text.

Sleep mode

Sleep mode saves battery power by putting HTC Desire 516c dual sim into a low power state while the display is off. It also stops accidental button presses when HTC Desire 516c dual sim is in your bag.
Switching to Sleep mode
Briefly press the POWER button to turn off the display and switch to Sleep mode. HTC Desire 516c dual sim also automatically goes into Sleep mode when it’s left idle for a while.
You can change the time before HTC Desire 516c dual sim sleeps in the Settings > Display.
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Waking up from Sleep mode
To wake HTC Desire 516c dual sim up manually, press the POWER button. You may need to unlock the screen.
HTC Desire 516c dual sim automatically wakes up when you have an incoming call.

Unlocking HTC Desire 516c dual sim

If you're using the default screen lock, you need to unlock HTC Desire 516c dual sim before you can open HTC BlinkFeed™, app shortcuts on the widget panels, and more.
To unlock, press and hold the lock icon, and then drag it to the right.

Opening an app

§ Tap an app on the launch bar at the bottom of the Home screen.
§ To see the All Apps screen, tap . Then tap the app you want to use.
§ In the All Apps screen, tap and enter the name of the app you're looking for.
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Switching between recently opened apps

You can easily access apps you've just recently opened.
1. Double tap the button.
2. Slide your finger up or down to see recently-opened apps.
§ To remove an app from the list, drag it left or right.
§ To switch back to an app, just tap it.

Using Quick Settings

Tap the tiles in Quick Settings to easily turn on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®, and more. You'll also find a few shortcuts, such as for viewing your profile in the Contacts app.
1. Swipe down from the status bar to open the Notifications panel.
2. Tap to switch to Quick Settings.
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Notifications panel

Notification icons inform you of new messages, calendar events, alarms, and activities in progress such as files downloading. When you see notification icons, open the Notifications panel to check out details of the notifications that you've received.
1. To open the Notifications panel, slide down from the top of the screen.
If you have several notifications, scroll down the screen to see them all.
To quickly access the Notifications panel from Quick settings, tap
.
2. On the Notifications panel:
§ You can expand certain notifications to see more information, such as email previews and calendar events. Slide two fingers apart to expand a notification. To collapse it, slide two fingers together.
§ You'll see icons in some notifications that allow you to take immediate actions. For example, when you have a missed call, tap the available icons to return the call or reply with a text message.
§ Tap the notification icon on the left to open the corresponding app.
§ To dismiss just one notification in the list, drag it left or right.
3. To close the Notifications panel, slide up from the bottom bar of the panel or
press the button.
You can also tap to dismiss all notifications and close the Notifications panel.
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Capturing the HTC Desire 516c dual sim screen

Want to show off your high game score, write a blog post about HTC Desire 516c dual sim features, or post a status update about a song you're playing? It's easy to take a picture of the screen and share it from Gallery.
Simultaneously press and hold POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons. The screen is saved in the Screenshot album in Gallery.

Changing your ringtone, notifications, and sounds

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap Audio profiles, and then select a profile.
3. To customize a profile, tap the profile name and then set the ringtone and
notification sounds.

HTC BlinkFeed

Your dynamic Home screen

Stay in touch with friends or get the latest about your interests right on HTC BlinkFeed. Set up which social networks, news sources, and more will appear.
§ Tap a tile to view the content or to comment on a post or status update.
§ Scroll to the top and pull down on the screen to manually refresh the stream.
While on HTC BlinkFeed, you can press the button or button to scroll to the top.
§ On HTC BlinkFeed, swipe right to open the slideout menu to choose the type of feeds to display. Select Highlights to see a mix of articles from selected feeds and your favorite news sources.
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Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off

1. On HTC BlinkFeed or any widget panel, slide two fingers together to customize
the Home screen.
2. Tap BlinkFeed on/off to show or hide the Feeds panel.

Selecting feeds

Get updated with the most relevant content and posts with just a swipe. Choose which feeds to display on HTC BlinkFeed. You can select popular news channels and websites or choose a category like Entertainment. You can also show posts from friends in social networks.
1. On HTC BlinkFeed, swipe right to open the slideout menu.
2. Tap > Topics and services.
The first time you try to select content, you'll be asked if you want to sign in to your social network account to automatically select content based on your interests.
3. Swipe left or right to choose from the different types of feeds you can display
on HTC BlinkFeed. You can select news media sources, social networks, and more.
Content from feeds that have just been added may take a few minutes to appear on HTC BlinkFeed.
Customizing the Highlights feed
When you select topics and services for HTC BlinkFeed, the top trending articles from the selected sources, recent status updates, and more are shown. If you want to temporarily show fewer items in your Highlights feed, you can filter out some of your selected topics and services.
1. On HTC BlinkFeed, swipe right to open the slideout menu.
2. Tap > Settings.
3. Tap Choose Highlights topics.
4. Select the news sources and topics you want to appear in the Highlights feed.
Adding or removing locales
Want to keep up to date on current events in more than one locale? You can add several locales.
1. On HTC BlinkFeed, swipe right to open the slideout menu.
2. Tap > Topics and services.
3. While on the Featured headlines or Categories tab, press the button, and
then tap Add editions (or Remove editions).
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Adding topics of your interest
Looking for a more specific topic? Search for and select topics of your interest to display them on HTC BlinkFeed.
1. On HTC BlinkFeed, swipe right to open the slideout menu.
2. Tap > Topics and services.
3. Swipe to the Custom topics tab, tap and enter the topic you're looking for.
4. Tap a result, and then tap to add it to the Custom topics tab.

Reading articles in HTC BlinkFeed

1. While on HTC BlinkFeed, swipe up or down to find an article you want to read.
2. Tap the tile to view the article.
If related articles are found, you can scroll down to the end to see the links.
Saving articles for later
Don't have time to read that potentially interesting article? You can bookmark articles to your reading list.
Do one of the following:
§ While viewing an article, tap .
§ On the Feeds panel, press and hold the tile of the article you want to bookmark.
Then tap Read later.
You'll find the reading list in the slideout menu.

Deleting tiles on HTC BlinkFeed

Want to get rid of a tile? Now you can easily remove any tile on HTC BlinkFeed.
1. On HTC BlinkFeed, press and hold the tile you want to remove.
2. Tap Remove.

Posting to your social networks

You can easily post a status update from the Home screen.
1. On HTC BlinkFeed, swipe right to open the slideout menu.
2. Tap > Compose, and then choose a social network.
3. Compose your status update and post it on your social network.
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Working with text

Selecting, copying, and pasting text

In apps such as the web browser and Email, you can select and copy text, and then paste or share it.
1. Press and hold on a word.
2. Drag the start and end anchors to highlight the surrounding text you want to
select.
3. After you have selected the text you want to copy, tap > Copy (or tap ).
The selected text is then copied to the clipboard.
4. In a text entry field (for example while composing an email), press and hold at
the point where you want to paste the text.
5. Tap Paste.
To copy the address of a linked webpage, press and hold the link, and then tap
Copy link URL (or Copy link address).

Sharing text

1. After you have selected the text you want to share, tap > Share (or tap ).
2. Choose where to paste and share the selected text, such as in an email message
or social network status update.

The HTC Sense keyboard

Typing is fast and accurate with the HTC Sense™ keyboard.
§ Word prediction also saves typing time. As you type, you'll see word suggestions that you can choose from. You can even add words, phrases, and shortcuts to the word prediction dictionary. See Entering text with word
prediction on page 28.
§ You can type words by just speaking. See Entering text by speaking on page
30.
§ Turn on the Trace keyboard so you can type words by just sliding your finger from one letter to another. See Using the Trace keyboard on page 29.
§ Just swipe right to access the numeric and symbol keyboard. Or swipe left to switch between languages.
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§ The keys have secondary numbers, punctuation symbols, or other characters that you can insert without having to switch to the numeric and symbol keyboard.
For example, just press and hold a key on the first row to insert a number.
§ Choose from a wide selection of emoji.
§ Show or hide navigational arrow keys on the keyboard. If you enable the arrow
keys in Settings, they'll only appear on the portrait keyboard.

Entering text

The onscreen keyboard becomes available when you tap a text field in an app. Enter letters and numbers, change the keyboard layout or language, and more.
Tap the keys on the onscreen keyboard to enter letters and numbers, as well as punctuation marks and symbols.
§ Tap to enter an uppercase letter. Tap twice to turn on caps lock.
§ Press and hold keys with gray characters at the top to enter numbers, symbols,
or accented letters. Some keys have multiple characters or accents associated with them.
§ Swipe right to show number and symbol keys. To return to the main keyboard, swipe left.
§ Press the button to close the onscreen keyboard.
To open the keyboard settings, press and hold the comma key if you see above the key. Or go to Settings > Language & input and tap beside HTC Sense Input.
Selecting a keyboard layout
Choose a keyboard layout that suits your typing style.
1. Go to Settings, and then tap Language & input.
2. Tap beside HTC Sense Input.
3. Tap Keyboard selection > Keyboard types.
4. Select the keyboard layout that you want to use.
Choosing and switching between keyboard languages
If multiple keyboard languages are available on HTC Desire 516c dual sim, you can choose which languages to enable in the onscreen keyboard.
1. Go to Settings, and then tap Language & input.
2. Tap beside HTC Sense Input.
3. Tap Keyboard selection, and then choose the languages you want.
To change the keyboard language, do any of the following:
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