HTC Detail User 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.)

Choose a rate plan wisely

Your phone Before you use your phone, we strongly recommend that you talk to your mobile operator about data rates. If you’re on a standard data plan, the costs could really add up. Switching to a flat-rate plan could be a lot cheaper.

Know about privacy laws

Some countries 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.

And finally, a few important words from our legal team (LIMITATION OF DAMAGES)

To the HTC or its affiliates be liable to you, any user, or third party for any indirect, special, consequential, incidental or punitive damages of any

can use up a lot of Internet bandwidth really quickly.

have strict laws about how and when you can record

maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall

kind, arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, including, but not limited to, injury, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of business opportunity, loss of data, and/or loss of profits, regardless of the foreseeability thereof or whether HTC or its affiliates have been advised of the possibility of such damages. And in no event shall the total liability of HTC or its affiliates exceed the amount received from you, regardless of the legal theory under which the cause of action is brought. The foregoing does not affect any statutory rights which may not be disclaimed.

Please also read the Product Safety & Warranty Brochure 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 brochure for warranty information about your phone.

Notice

Screen images and icons are simulated. Actual display may vary. Instructions in this guide may change depending on the software version on your phone.

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Trademarks and copyrights

HTC Sense, and HTC Sync are trademarks or service marks of HTC Corporation.

Google Inc. Used with permission. Google, the Google logo, Android, the Android logo, Android Market, the Android Market logo, Google Apps, Google Calendar, Google Checkout, Google Earth, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Talk, Gmail, Picasa, and YouTube are trademarks of Google Inc.

Microsoft, Windows, ActiveSync, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Windows Media, Windows Vista, and Word are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

is a registered trademark of the Wireless Fidelity Alliance, Inc.

Wi-Fi microSD is a trademark of SD Card Association. Bluetooth and the Bluetooth logo are trademarks owned by Bluetooth

SIG, Inc. Facebook is a trademark of Facebook, Inc. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc., and is used under license. Flickr is a trademark of Yahoo! Inc. iTunes is a trademark of Apple Inc. This device contains Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® Reader® Mobile

All other company, product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

HTC shall contained herein, nor for incidental or consequential damages resulting from furnishing this material. The information is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind and is subject to change without notice. HTC also reserves the right to revise the content of this document at any time without prior notice.

No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without prior written permission of HTC.

not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions

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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 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.

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Inside the box

You will find the following inside the box:

Phone

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USB cable

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microSD™

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Battery

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AC adapt

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Quick start guide

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Product safety and warranty brochure

card (preinstalled)

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Your phone

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1 Slideout keyboard

2 Proximity sensor

This sensor automatically switches the display off when you hold your phone near your face during a call.

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3 Notification LED

This front indicator light (LED) shows a:

Solid green light when the phone is connected to the power adapter

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or a computer and the battery is fully charged. Flashing green light when you have a pending notification.

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Solid red light when the battery is being charged.

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Flashing red light when the battery level reaches very low.

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4 Earpiece

en to a phone call from here.

List

5 Touch screen

6 HOME

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While on any screen, press to return to the Home screen.

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While on the main Home screen, press to show Leap view. This displays the Home screen panels as thumbnails and lets you easily jump to any screen panel.

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Press and hold to see recent apps you’ve used and open them.

7 MENU

Press

to open a list of actions that you can do on the current screen.

8 BACK

Press to go back to the previous screen, or to close a dialog box, options menu, the Notifications panel, or onscreen keyboard

9 Microphone

10 SEARCH

Press to use Google search.

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11 POWER

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When the phone is off, press to turn on the phone.

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When the phone is on and the screen is unlocked, press to turn the phone display off or on. With the screen unlocked, press and hold to open the phone options

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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.

12 3.5mm audio jack

Connect a 3.5mm stereo headset for hands-free conversation or for listening to music.

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13 Flash

14 Camera

15 Speaker

16 VOLUME UP/DOWN

17 USB connector

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Connect the power adapter to charge the battery.

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Connect the supplied USB cable to transfer files to your phone from your computer or sync your phone with HTC Sync on your computer.

Before turning on your phone

Make sure you prepare your phone correctly before you press the POWER button.

Removing the back cover

Remove the back cover to access the battery compartment and storage card slot.

With the phone turned off, hold your phone securely with the

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front facing down. Starting from the small opening at the bottom of the phone, lift

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the back cover and remove it completely.

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Removing the battery and thin film

The battery, which is wrapped in a thin film, is preinstalled inside your phone. Make sure you remove this thin film.

1. Lift the battery out at the notch just below the camera lens.

2, Peel off the thin film.

Inserting or removing the storage card

The microSD card is already inserted into your phone. If you need to remove the storage card:

Lift the latch located at the bottom center of the battery

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compartment to unlock it.

Gently pull the microSD card out from the storage card slot.

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To insert the storage card:

Lift the latch of the storage card slot, and then carefully insert

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the microSD card into the slot. Press down on the latch to lock it and secure the card in place.

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Inserting the battery

Insert the battery, contacts end first, and gently press the battery into place.

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Replacing the back cover

Replace the battery compartment cover and press until it snaps into place, making sure all the locking tabs are seated and there are no gaps around the cover.

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.

Attach the power plug to

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the AC adapter.

Connect one end of the

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USB cable to the sync

connector on your phone.

Connect the other end of

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the USB cable to the USB

port of the AC adapter.

Plug the AC adapter into

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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 ( After the battery has been fully charged, a full battery icon ( ) will be displayed in the status bar of the Home screen.

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Use only an approved charging accessory to charge your phone.

Do not remove the battery from the phone while you are charging it

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using the AC or car adapter.

As a safety precaution, the battery stops charging when it overheats.

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) is displayed in the status bar of the Home screen.

Getting started

Once you’ve charged your battery, you can turn on your phone and start using it.

Turning on your phone

Press the POWER button.

Setting up your phone for the first time

When you turn on your phone for the first time, just follow the onscreen instructions to set up your phone.

Be sure to sign in to your Google Account so you can use Google apps like Gmail™ and Android Market™. You can also set up your other email accounts, favorite social networks like Facebook® and Twitter™, and more.

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Getting around your phone

There are different ways to navigate around your phone’s Home screen, menus, and application screens.

Tap When you want to type using the onscreen keyboard, select

Press and hold To open the available options for an item (e.g. contact or link in

Swipe or slide To swipe or slide means to quickly drag your finger vertically or

Drag Press

Flick Flicking the

Rotate In most

Pinch In some

items onscreen such as application and settings icons, or press onscreen buttons, simply tap them with your finger.

a web page), simply press and hold the item.

horizontally across the screen or optical joystick.

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.

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.

applications, you can automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by rotating the phone left or right.

When entering text, you can open and use the slideout keyboard which automatically changes the screen orientation to landscape. If you’re using the onscreen keyboard to enter text, you can turn the phone sideways to bring up a larger onscreen keyboard. Refer to the Settings chapter for more details.

applications, like Gallery or the web browser, you can “pinch” the screen using two fingers (for example, thumb and index fingers) to zoom in or zoom out when viewing a picture or a web page.

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What is 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 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 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 and unlocking the screen

Your phone To wake up your phone manually, press the POWER button.

wakes up automatically when you have an incoming call.

You will then see that the lock screen. Drag the

bar down to unlock the screen or to answer an incoming call.

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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Turning off your phone

If you do not need to use your phone, you can turn the power off to save battery life.

If the display is off, press the POWER button to turn the display

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back on. Unlock your phone if the lock screen is displayed.

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Press and hold the POWER button for a few seconds.

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When the Phone options options menu appears, tap

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5.

Tap OK

when pr

ompted to turn off the phone.

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.

You can personalize your Home screen with everything you. 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.

Power off.

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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 main Home screen.

Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view

To jump straight to the screen that you want, press HOME or pinch the screen to show the Leap view. It reveals all eight Home screen panels as thumbnails. Just tap the one you want and you’ll leap right there.

to return to the

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Phone status and notifications

Phone status icons

These are the icons that may appear on the phone status area of the status bar:

3G data transfer Roaming

3G connected No signal

3G in idle mode

1xRTT data transfer

1xRTT connected

1xRTT in idle mode

Connected to a Wi-Fi network Phone microphone is mute

Bluetooth is on Battery is very low (10% remaining)

Connected to a Bluetooth device Battery is low (20% remaining)

Airplane mode Battery is full

Alarm is set Battery is charging

Speakerphone on

Data synchronizing

Signal strength

Vibrate mode

Location setting on

Location setting off

Phone speaker is mute

Wired microphone headset connected

Wired headset connected

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Notification icons

These are the icons that may appear on the notifications area of the status bar:

New Gmail message More (not displayed) notifications

New Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or POP3/IMAP email

New SMS/MMS Missed call

Problem with SMS/MMS delivery Call on hold

New Google Talk instant message Call forwarding on

New voicemail Uploading data (animated)

Upcoming event Downloading data (animated)

4G is on and 4G networks are available

Connected to a 4G network

Wi-Fi is on and wireless networks are available

Wi-Fi Hotspot is on and the phone is ready to share its 4G connection

Wi-Fi Hotspot is on and the phone is ready to share its 3G connection

Song is playing

General notification (for example, Phone connected to PC via USB)

Data synchronizing or connected to HTC Sync

Call in progress

Waiting to upload

Downloaded Android Market application installed successfully Update available for an application downloaded from Android Market

Storage card is low on free space

Storage card is safe to remove or storage card is being prepared No storage card installed on the phone

New tweet

FM Radio application in use

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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 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.

new notification icon displays in the status bar, press and

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

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the bottom bar of the Notifications panel, then

slide your finger up the screen. Press BACK

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Ways of getting contacts into your phone

There are several ways you can add contacts to your phone. You can sync your phone with contacts from your Google Account, computer, Facebook, and more.

Gmail Gmail contacts are imported to your phone after you

Phone contacts Create

Facebook Log in

HTC Sync First s

Exchange ActiveSync You can

sign in to your Google Account. You can also create more Google contacts right from your phone. For details, see the People and Accounts and sync chapters.

new contacts on your phone. See “Adding a new

contact” in the People chapter for details.

to your Facebook account through Facebook for HTC Sense to import your Facebook friends’ contact information. See “Adding an account” in the Accounts and sync chapter for details.

ync the contacts from your old phone to your computer, and then use the HTC Sync software to sync them from your computer to your new phone. See “Using HTC Sync” in the Accounts and sync chapter for details.

sync your work contacts from the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Server in your workplace to your phone. See “Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account” in the Accounts and sync chapter for details.

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Adjusting the volume

Adjusting the ringer volume changes the volume level of the phone ringtone, whereas adjusting the media volume changes the volume level of sound notifications, music or video playback. The ringer volume and media volume can be separately adjusted.

Adjusting the ringer volume

Press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN buttons on the left

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panel of the phone to adjust the ringer volume to your desired level. The Ringer volume window appears on the screen to display the volume levels. While in the lowest ringer volume level (Silent mode), press VOLUME DOWN once to set your phone to Vibrate mode. The phone vibrates and the vibrate mode icon ( ) appears on the status bar.

While in Vibrate mode, press VOLUME UP once to switch to silent

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mode. The speaker mute icon (

To quickly switch your phone to silent mode, press and hold the POWER button, and then tap Silent mode on the options menu.

Adjusting the media volume

When playing music or watching video, press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN buttons on the left panel of the phone to adjust the media volume. The Media volume window appears on the screen to display the volume level.

You can also adjust the media volume on the Settings screen.

Press HOME

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> MENU, and then tap Settings > Sound >

) displays on the status bar.