HTC Desire TELUS Owner's Manual

Your HTC Desire
User guide
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Please also read the Safety and regulatory guide that is included in the box for information on the proper usage of your phone to prevent injuries and to avoid damaging your phone. You can also refer to this guide for regulatory information about your phone.
You can also visit our support website at www.htc.com/ca/support to download the Safety and regulatory guide and to access other helpful resources for your phone.
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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 on your phone 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 that something is very important. Important information is something that you need to do in order to accomplish a certain task or to get a phone feature to work properly.
This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be careful about to prevent potential problems when using your phone.
Contents
Basics
Inside the box 12
Your Phone 12
Front panel 12 Back panel 13 Top panel 14 Left panel 14 Bottom panel 15
Before turning on your phone 16
Back cover 16 SIM card 17 Storage card 17 Battery 18 Finger gestures 20
Getting started 21
Turning on your phone 21 Turning off your phone 21 Setting up your phone for the first
time 21
Sleep mode 23
Home screen 24
Extended Home screen 24 Navigating the Home screen 24
Phone status and notifications 25
Phone status icons 25 Notification icons 26 Checking notifications 28
Using the optical trackball to interact with the touch screen 29
Going to an extended Home screen 29 Selecting an item onscreen 29 Selecting a tab 29 Moving the cursor when entering text 30 Selecting a link on a webpage 30
Searching your phone and the Web 34
Setting Web and Quick Search Box
options 34
Searching the Web and your phone using
the Quick Search Box 34
Personalizing
Making your phone truly yours 35
Changing the ringtone 35
Personalizing your phone with scenes 36
Using a preset scene 36 Customizing and saving a scene 36 Renaming or deleting a scene 37
Changing your wallpaper 38
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets 39
Adding a widget to your Home screen 39 Downloading HTC widgets 39
Adding application icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen 40
Adding folders on your Home screen 41
Creating a new folder and adding items
to it 41
Renaming a folder 41
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen 42
Moving a widget or icon 42 Removing a widget or icon 42
Adjusting the volume 31
Adjusting the ringer volume 31 Adjusting the media volume 31
Connecting your phone to a computer 32
Copying files to and from the storage card 33
Phone calls
Making calls 43
Calling somebody using your phone 43 Calling a speed dial number 44 Calling a phone number in a text
message 44 Calling a phone number in an email 44 Making an emergency call 45
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Receiving calls 46
Answering an incoming call 46 Rejecting an incoming call 47 Rejecting a call and sending a text
message 47
Using in-call options 48
Handling multiple calls 48 Setting up a conference call 49 Putting a call on hold 49 Muting the microphone during a call 49 Turning the speakerphone on or off
during a call 49
Ending a call 49
Using call history 50
Adding a new phone number to your
contacts from call history 50 Checking a missed call 51 Clearing the call history list 51
Call services 52
Turning Airplane mode on or off 53
People
About People 54
Contact groups 60
Creating a group and adding contacts 60 Deleting a group 60 Adding or removing contacts from a
group 60
Sending an SMS/MMS message or email
to a group 61
Contact information and conversations 62
People widget 63
Adding the People widget 63 Setting the default communication
method 63
Changing the default communication
method 63
Getting in touch with a contact 63
Keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard 64
Using the landscape onscreen
keyboard 64
Changing the onscreen keyboard
layout 64 Entering text 65 Entering words with predictive text 65
Ways of getting contacts into your phone 54
People screen 55
Setting up My contact card 55 Your contacts list 55 Adding a new contact 56 Importing contacts from your SIM
card 57
Importing contacts from an Exchange
ActiveSync account 57 Merging contact information 57 Editing a contact’s information 58 Searching for a contact 58 Backing up your contacts to the storage
card 58 Importing contacts from the storage
card 58 Deleting contacts 59 Sending contact information as a vCard
via MMS 59 Sending your contact information as a
vCard via MMS 59
Adjusting touch input settings 67
Touch Input settings 67 Text input 67
Messages
About Messages 69
Sending text and multimedia
messages 69
New message notifications 72
WAP push messages 73
Managing message conversations 74
Protecting a message from deletion 75 Deleting a message thread 75 Deleting several message threads 75 Deleting a single message 75 Viewing contact details and
communicating with a contact 75
Contents 7
Setting text and multimedia message options 76
Adding the Messages widget 77
Accounts and sync
Synchronizing with online accounts 78
Adding a social network account 78 Synchronizing with a Google Account 78 Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange
ActiveSync account 79 Managing your accounts 79
Using HTC Sync 81
Downloading and Installing the latest HTC
Sync 81 Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your
phone 81 Setting up synchronization 82 Setting up more sync options 82 Synchronizing your phone 83 Downloading the latest HTC Sync
upgrade 84 Installing apps from your computer to
your phone 84
Chatting in Google Talk 92
Signing in to Google Talk 92 Chatting with friends 92 Changing your online status and
picture 93 Managing your Friends list 94 Changing Google Talk settings 95
Email
Using Gmail/Google Mail 97
Viewing your Gmail/Google Mail inbox 97 Reading your messages 98 Sending a message 100 Managing conversations and
messages 101 Changing Gmail/Google Mail settings 102
Mail 104
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account 104 Viewing your email inbox 104 Exchange ActiveSync email 106 Composing and sending an email
message 107 Viewing and replying to an email
message 108 Editing email account settings 108 Deleting an email account 108 Adding the Mail widget 108
Social
Facebook for HTC Sense and Facebook for Android application 85
Facebook for HTC Sense 85 Facebook for Android application 85 Differences between Facebook for HTC
Sense and Facebook for Android application 86
Tweeting on your phone 87
Peep screen 87 Sending a tweet 87 Searching for Twitter users to follow 88 Sending a direct message 88 Setting Peep options 88 Adding the Twitter widget 89
Using Friend Stream 90
Friend Stream screen 90 Updating your status 91 Adding the Friend Stream widget 91
Calendar
About Calendar 109
Creating a calendar event 109
Inviting guests to your event (Google
Account only) 110 Sending a meeting request using
Calendar (Exchange ActiveSync
only) 110
Changing calendar views 111
Month view 111 Day and Agenda views 111 Week view 112
Viewing, editing or deleting an event 113
Viewing and editing an event 113 Deleting an event 113
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Calendar event reminders 114
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event
reminders 114
Displaying and synchronizing calendars 115
Showing or hiding calendars 115 Choosing which Google Calendars are
synchronized on your phone 115
Changing Calendar settings 116
Reminder settings 116 Calendar view settings 116
Sending a vCalendar 117
About the Calendar widget 117
Clock and Weather
About the HTC Clock widget 118
About the Clock application 119
Using Desk Clock 120
Internet
Data connection 127
Checking the data connection you are
using 127 Turning the data connection on or off 127 Creating a new access point 127 Enabling data roaming 127
Wi-Fi 128
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a
wireless network 128 Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-
TLS security 128 Checking the wireless network status 129 Connecting to another Wi-Fi network 129
Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets 130
Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN) 131
Preparing your phone for VPN
connection 131 Adding a VPN connection 131 Connecting to a VPN 131 Disconnecting from a VPN 132
Using World Clock 121
Setting your home city 121
Setting the time zone, date, and time 121
Adding a city to the World Clock
screen 122
Setting the alarm clock 123
Setting an alarm 123 Deleting an alarm 123 Changing alarm sound settings 124
Checking weather 125
Adding a city to the Weather screen 125 Changing the order of cities on the
Weather screen 126
Deleting cities from the Weather
screen 126
Changing weather options 126
About the Weather widget 126
Using your phone’s web browser 133
Opening the browser 133 Going to a web page 133 Setting your home page 133 Changing the screen orientation 133 Browsing full versions of all web sites 133 Navigating on a web page 134 Zooming in or out on a web page 134 Selecting a link in a web page 134 Opening a new browser window 135 Switching between browser windows 136 Finding text within a web page 136 Downloading applications from the
web 136 Copying text, looking up information, and
sharing 137 Viewing bookmarks and previously visited
pages 138 Setting browser options 139
Using your phone as a modem (tethering) 140
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Bluetooth
Using Bluetooth 141
Turning Bluetooth on or off 141 Changing the phone name 141
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit 142
Reconnecting a headset or car kit 142
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device 143
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device 143 Unpairing from a Bluetooth device 143
Sending and receiving information using Bluetooth 144
Sending information from your phone to
another device 144
Receiving information from another
device 145
Viewing a photo in landscape
orientation 157 Zooming in or out on a photo 157 Watching video 157
Viewing photos in your social networks 158
Viewing photos on Facebook 158 Viewing photos on Flickr 158
Working with photos 159
Rotating and saving a photo 159 Cropping a photo 159
Sharing 160
Sending photos or videos by email 160 Sending a photo or video by MMS 160 Sending photos or videos using
Bluetooth 160 Sharing photos on Facebook 161 Sharing photos on Flickr 161 Sharing photos on Picasa 161 Sharing videos on YouTube 161
Camera
Camera basics 147
Viewfinder screen 147 Using the optical trackball as the shutter
release 148
Review screen 148
Zooming 149
Taking a photo 150
Face detection 151
Capturing a video 151
Camera settings 152
Changing basic settings 152 Changing advanced settings 152
Photos
Music
About the Music application 162
Playing music 162
Browsing music in the Library 163
Creating a playlist 164
Playing the songs in a playlist 164 Managing playlists 164
Setting a song as ringtone 166
Checking if the song was added as a
ringtone 166
Sending music using Bluetooth 166
About the Music widget 166
About the Photos application 155
Selecting an album 155
Viewing photos and videos 156
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view 156
Maps and location
Using Google Maps 167
Viewing locations 167 Viewing map layers 169 Searching for a location 170 Getting directions 171
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Finding your friends with Google Latitude
(available by country) 172
Using HTC Footprints™ 175
Creating a footprint 175 Revisiting a footprint 175 Editing or deleting a footprint 176 Exporting your footprints 176 Importing footprints 177 Adding the Footprints widget 177
More apps
Watching videos on YouTube 178
Watching videos 178 Searching for videos 178 Sharing a video link 179 Capturing a video and sharing it on
YouTube 179
Viewing a PDF 180
Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets 181
Uninstalling an application 189 Getting help 189
Reading news feeds 190
News screen 190 Subscribing to a news channel from a
list 190 Subscribing to a news channel by
entering a URL 191 Setting update frequency for stories 191 Reading a story 191 Starring a story 191 Adding a keyword 192 Adding the News widget 192
Security
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN 193
Restoring a SIM card that has been
locked out 193
Protecting your phone with a screen lock 194
Keeping track of your stocks 182
Adding a stock quote or stock market
index 182 Changing the stock list order 182 Deleting stock quotes and indices 182 Setting stock information update
frequency 183 Manually updating stock information 183 Adding the Stocks widget 183
Listening to the radio 184
Listening to an FM station 184 Adding station names 185 Minimizing or turning off FM Radio 185
Recording your voice 186
Recording your voice 186 Sharing a voice clip 186 Setting a voice clip as a ringtone 186 Renaming a voice clip 186
Finding and installing apps from Android Market 187
Finding and installing an application 187 Creating a Google Checkout account 188 Requesting a refund for an
application 188 Opening an installed application 189
Settings
Settings on your phone 195
Changing display settings 197
Adjusting the screen brightness
manually 197
Adjusting the time before the screen
turns off 197 Preventing automatic screen rotation 197 Recalibrating the G-sensor 197 Keeping the screen on while charging the
phone 197 Switching animation effects on or off 198
Changing sound settings 199
Changing the phone language 200
Optimizing your phone’s battery life 201
Using the GSM network of your mobile
operator 201 Checking the power usage of
applications 201
Managing memory 202
Checking how much phone memory is
available for use 202
Checking the available storage card
space 202 Clearing application cache and data 202 Uninstalling third-party applications 202 Freeing up more phone memory or
storage card space 202
Checking information about your phone 203
Backup, update and reset
Backing up phone data 204
Checking if automatic backup is
enabled 204 Restoring backed up data to your
phone 204
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Updating your phone’s system software 205
Checking for phone system software
updates manually 205
Performing a hard/factory reset 206
Specifications
Index
Basics
Inside the box
You will find the following inside the box:
Phone
USB cable
AC adapter
3.5mm stereo headset
Battery
microSD card (pre-installed)
Quick start guide
Safety and regulatory guide
Your Phone
Front panel
1
8
2
3
7
6
5
4
1 Earpiece
Listen to a phone call from here.
2 MENU
Press to open a list of actions that you can do on the current screen.
3 HOME
While on any application or screen, press to return to the Home screen.
While on the main Home screen, press to show a snapshot of the Home screen.
Press and hold to open the recently-used applications window.
4 SEARCH
Press to open the Quick Search box. See “Searching your phone and the Web” in this chapter for more details.
5 BACK
Press to go back to the previous screen, or to close a dialog box, options menu, the Notifications panel, or onscreen keyboard.
6 Optical trackball
See “Using the optical trackball to interact with the touch screen” in this chapter for details.
7 Notification LED
This LED shows a:
Solid green light when the phone is connected to the power adapter or a computer and the
battery is fully charged. Flashing green light when you have a pending notification.
Solid red light when the battery is being charged.
Flashing red light when the battery level reaches very low.
8 Touch screen
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Back panel
9
12
11
10
9 5 megapixel camera
10 Back cover
11 LED flashlight
12 Speaker
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Top panel
Left panel
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13 POWER
When the phone is off, press to turn on the phone.
When the phone is on and the screen is unlocked, press to turn off or on the phone display.
With the screen unlocked, press and hold to open the phone options menu that lets you turn off
the phone, switch your phone to silent mode, vibration mode, or airplane mode, and turn on/off the data connection.
14 3.5mm audio jack
Connect a 3.5mm stereo headset for hands-free conversation or for listening to music.
15
16
14
15 VOLUME UP
While on a call, press to increase earpiece volume.
While not on a call, press to increase the ringer volume.
While watching videos or listening to the FM radio, press to increase the volume.
16 VOLUME DOWN
While on a call, press to decrease earpiece volume.
While not on a call, press to decrease the ringer volume.
While watching videos or listening to the FM radio, press to decrease the volume.
Bottom panel
17 USB connector
 
18 Microphone
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17
Connect the power adapter to charge the battery. Connect the supplied USB cable to transfer files to your phone from your computer or sync your phone with HTC Sync on your computer.
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Before turning on your phone
Back cover
Removing the back cover
Remove the back cover to access the battery compartment, SIM card slot, and storage card slot.
With the phone turned off, hold your phone securely with the front facing down.
1.
With your thumb or finger, lift up the top of the back cover from the small opening near
2.
the POWER button.
Replacing the back cover
Secure and press the bottom part of the back cover first by aligning into the two openings
1.
located at the bottom part of the back of the phone.
2. Press the sides and the top part of the back cover down to lock the cover into place. You will hear a click when the back cover is locked in place.
SIM card
The SIM card contains your phone number, service details, and phonebook/message memory. Your phone supports both 1.8V and 3 V SIM cards.
Some legacy SIM cards may not function with your phone. You should consult with your mobile operator for a replacement SIM card. There may be fees for this service.
Inserting the SIM card
Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”
1.
If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to “Removing the battery.”
2.
Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out.
3.
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4. Push the SIM card all the way in.
Removing the SIM card
Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”
1.
If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to “Removing the battery.”
2.
Push the SIM card out from the back of the slot, and then slide the SIM card out.
3.
Storage card
Store your pictures, music, and applications in the microSD card that is pre-installed on your phone.
Inserting the storage card
Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”
1.
If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to “Removing the battery.”
2.
Insert the microSD card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down and push it in until
3.
it clicks into place.
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Removing the storage card
Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”
1.
If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to “Removing the battery.”
2.
Push the storage card in to eject it from its slot.
3.
Removing the storage card while the phone is on
When you need to remove the storage card while the phone is on, unmount the storage card first to prevent corrupting or damaging the files in the storage card.
Press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings.
1.
Scroll down the screen, and then tap SD card & phone storage.
2.
Tap Unmount SD card.
3.
Remove the storage card by following the instructions in “Removing the storage card.”
4.
Battery
Your phone comes with a rechargeable Lithium-ion polymer or Lithium-ion battery and is designed to use only manufacturer-specified original batteries and accessories. Battery performance depends on many factors, including network configuration, signal strength, the temperature of the environment in which you operate your phone, the features and/or settings you select and use, items attached to connecting ports, and your voice, data, and other program usage patterns.
Inserting the battery
Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”
1.
Insert the contacts side of the battery first and then gently push the battery into place..
2.
Removing the battery
Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”
1.
Lift out the battery from the notch near the SIM card slot.
2.
Charging the battery
The battery is partially charged when shipped. Before you turn on and start using your phone, it is recommended that you charge the battery. Some batteries perform best after several full charge/discharge cycles.
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Attach the power plug to the AC adapter.
1.
Connect one end of the USB cable to the sync connector on your phone.
2.
3. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB port of the AC adapter.
4. Plug in the AC adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.
As the battery is being charged, the notification LED shows a solid red light when the battery is being charged. The light turns to solid green when the phone is fully charged.
When you charge the battery while the phone is on, the charging battery icon ( ) is displayed in the status bar of the Home screen. After the battery has been fully charged, a full battery icon ( ) will be displayed in the status bar of the Home screen.
Only the AC adapter and USB sync cable provided with your phone must be used to charge the
battery. Do not remove the battery from the phone while you are charging it using the AC or car adapter.
As a safety precaution, the battery stops charging when it overheats.
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Finger gestures
Tap
When you want to type using the keyboard, select items onscreen such as application and settings icons, or press onscreen buttons, simply tap them with your finger.
Press and hold
To open the available options for an item (e.g. contact or link in a web page), simply press and hold the item.
Swipe or slide
To swipe or slide means to quickly drag your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen or optical trackball.
Drag
Press and hold your finger with some pressure before you start to drag. While dragging, do not 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. This finger gesture is always in a vertical direction, such as when flicking the contacts or message list.
Rotate
For most screens, you can automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by turning the phone sideways. When entering text, you can turn the phone sideways to bring up a bigger keyboard. Refer to the Settings chapter for more details.
Pinch
For some applications, like Photos or the web browser, you can “pinch” the screen using 2 fingers (for example, thumb and index fingers) to zoom in or zoom out when viewing a picture or a web page.
Getting started
Once you’ve installed your SIM card and battery, you can turn on your phone and start using it.
Turning on your phone
Press the POWER button.
When you turn on the phone for the first time, you will be prompted to set up your phone. For more information on how to set up your phone for the first time, see “Setting up your phone for the first time.”
Entering your PIN
If your SIM card is preset with a PIN (personal identification number), you will be prompted to enter the PIN to proceed. Enter the SIM PIN, then tap OK.
To learn how to enable or disable the SIM PIN, see “Protecting Your Phone” in the Security chapter.
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Most SIM cards are preset with a PIN (personal identification number) that is provided by your mobile operator. When prompted, enter the preset PIN, then tap Enter. If you enter the wrong PIN three times, the SIM card is blocked. If this happens, you can unblock it with the PUK (PIN Unblocking Key) obtained from your mobile operator.
Turning off your phone
If you do not need to use your phone, you can turn the power off to save battery life.
1. If the display is off, press the POWER button to turn the display back on.
2. Unlock your phone if the Lock screen is displayed. See “Unlocking the screen” in this
chapter for details.
3. Press and hold the POWER button for a few seconds.
4. When the Phone options options menu appears, tap Power off.
5. Tap OK when prompted to turn off the phone.
Setting up your phone for the first time
When you turn on your phone for the first time, your phone displays tutorials and guides you to set up your email accounts and favorite social networks such as Facebook®, YouTube™, and Twitter™. You can follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, or skip the setup and do it at another time.
Choose the phone language you want to use, and then tap Next.
1.
Your phone first sets up GPRS/3G, MMS, and WAP connections automatically based on
2.
your SIM card.
If you did not insert your SIM card and you turned on your phone for the first time, your phone displays a tutorial showing how to install the SIM card and battery. Turn off your phone and insert your SIM card before proceeding to use the phone.
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3. 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.
4. On the Internet connection screen, select how you want to connect to the Internet, and then tap Next.
5. Select if you want to automatically or manually synchronize data such as your email, contacts, weather and some other data, and then tap Next.
6. 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.
7. 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.
This service may incur additional data transfer fees from your provider. You can enable or disable this service later in your phone’s location settings.
8. 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.
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
Accounts and 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.
9. 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.
10. Some data and settings are automatically backed up to the storage card. Clear the check box if you do not want to automatically back up data and settings to the storage card, and then tap OK. See the Backup, update, and reset chapter to learn what items are backed up to the storage card.
11. The final screen shows you where you can learn more about using your phone. Tap Finish.
Sleep mode
Sleep mode suspends your phone to a low power state while the display is off in order to save battery power. You will still be able to receive messages and calls while the phone is in. You will still be able to receive messages and calls while the phone is in Sleep mode.
For information on how to adjust the time before the screen turns off, see “Adjusting the time before the screen turns off” in the Settings chapter.
Switching to Sleep mode
Briefly press the POWER button to turn off the display temporarily and switch your phone to Sleep mode. Your phone also automatically goes into Sleep mode when you leave the phone idle after a certain period of time. Switching to Sleep mode also prevents accidental button or touch screen presses when the phone is in your bag or pocket.
Waking up from Sleep mode
Your phone wakes up automatically when you have an incoming call. To wake up your phone manually, press the POWER button. You will then see that the phone has locked the screen. To find out how to unlock the screen, see “Unlocking the screen.”
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Unlocking the screen
Press the bar on the lock screen and then slide your finger down to unlock the screen or to answer an incoming call.
You can also press MENU while on the lock screen to unlock the screen.
If you have set up a screen unlock pattern, you will be prompted to draw the pattern on the screen before it unlocks. For more information on how to create and enable the screen unlock pattern, see “Protecting your phone with a screen lock” in the Security chapter.
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Home screen
The Home screen provides you with a weather clock that shows the time and weather of your current location. Tap the respective item to open the associated application.
The Home screen also lets you add the items you want and need on the Home screen. Add items like application icons, shortcuts, folders, and widgets to give you instant access to information and applications. To learn how to personalize your Home screen, see the Personalizing chapter.
Extended Home screen
The Home screen extends beyond the screen width to provide more space for adding icons, widgets, and more. There are 6 “additional” screens apart from the main Home screen.
You cannot add more screens.
Navigating the Home screen
You can go to the extended Home screen by sliding your finger horizontally across the screen to go to the left or right side of the Home screen. While on an extended Home screen, press HOME to return to the main Home screen.
Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view
1. On any Home screen, pinch the screen to show the Leap view that shows all 7 screens as
thumbnails.
On the main Home screen, you can press HOME to show the Leap view.
2. Tap the screen you want to open.
Phone status and notifications
Phone status icons
These are the icons that may appear on the phone status area of the status bar:
GPRS connected
GPRS in use
EDGE connected
EDGE in use
3G connected
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3G in use
HSPA connected
HSPA in use
Connected to a Wi-Fi network
Bluetooth is on
Connected to a Bluetooth device
Airplane mode
Alarm is set
Speakerphone on
Data synchronizing
Signal strength
Roaming
No signal
No SIM card installed
Vibrate mode
Phone speaker is mute
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Notification icons
These are the icons that may appear on the notifications area of the status bar:
Phone microphone is mute
Battery is very low (10% remaining)
Battery is low (20% remaining)
Battery is full
Battery is charging
Wired microphone headset connected
Wired headset connected
New Gmail/Google Mail message
New Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or POP3/ IMAP email
New SMS/MMS
Problem with SMS/MMS delivery
New Google Talk instant message
New voicemail
Upcoming event
Song is playing
General notification (for example, Phone connected to computer via USB cable.)
Storage card is low on free space
Wi-Fi is on and wireless networks are available
Data synchronizing or connected to HTC Sync
New tweet
FM Radio application in use
More (not displayed) notifications
Call in progress
Missed call
Call on hold
Call forwarding on
Compass needs orientation
Uploading data (animated)
Downloading data (animated)
Waiting to upload
Downloaded Android Market application installed successfully
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Update available for an application downloaded from Android Market
Storage card is safe to remove or storage card is being prepared
No storage card installed on the phone
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Checking notifications
Notification icons on the status bar report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, alarms set and ongoing settings such as when call forwarding is on or the current call status. You can open the Notifications panel to open the message, reminder, or event notification and see the mobile operator name.
Opening the Notifications panel
When a new notification icon displays in the status bar, press and hold the status bar, then slide your finger downward to open the Notifications panel.
If you have several notifications, you can scroll down the screen to view more notifications.
You can also open the Notifications panel on the Home screen by pressing MENU and then tapping
Notifications.
Closing the Notifications panel
Do one of the following:
Press and hold the bottom bar of the Notifications panel, then slide your finger up the
screen.
Press BACK.
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Using the optical trackball to interact with the touch screen
Besides using finger gestures on the touch screen, you can also use the optical trackball to interact with your phone’s touch screen.
Be sure to place your finger over the optical trackball first (covering it completely), and then slide your finger across the optical trackball.
Going to an extended Home screen
To go to the extended Home screen on the right, slide your finger to the right. Slide your finger to the left to go to the extended Home screen on the left.
Selecting an item onscreen
For most screens, slide your finger to the left, right, up, or down, depending on the direction you want to go. For example, if you want to select (highlight) an item above, slide your finger upward. Press the optical trackball to open the item.
Selecting a tab
For screens that have tabs at the bottom, slide your finger to the left or right to go to a tab.
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Moving the cursor when entering text
To go back or forward one character in a word, slide your finger left or right. Slide your finger up or down to go up or down between lines of text.
Selecting a link on a webpage
Slide your finger down to go to the next link on a webpage.
1.
When a link is selected, press the optical trackball to open the link.
2.
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