HTC T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide User Guide

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

User guide

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 can use up a lot of Internet bandwidth really quickly. Before you use your phone, we strongly recommend that you talk to T-Mobile 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 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.

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

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall HTC or its affiliates be liable to you, any user, or third party for any indirect, special, consequential, incidental or punitive damages of any 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 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/support to download the Safety and regulatory guide and to access other helpful resources for your phone.

Trademarks and copyrights

T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG.

The HTC logo, the HTC quietly brilliant logo, HTC Sense, HTC Sync, and HTC Care are trademarks and/or service marks of HTC Corporation.

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Bluetooth and the Bluetooth logo are trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc.

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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.

Swype is a registered trademark Swype, Inc.

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HTC shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions 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.

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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 ............................................................................................................................. 14

Your Phone .................................................................................................................................. 14

Front panel with keyboard opened ..............................................................................................14

Back panel ......................................................................................................................................... 15

Top panel .........................................................................................................................................16

Left and right panels ................................................................................................................16

Bottom panel .................................................................................................................................. 17

Before turning on your phone...............................................................................................18

Back cover.....................................................................................................................................................18

SIM card..........................................................................................................................................................18

Storage card .................................................................................................................................................19

Battery............................................................................................................................................................20

Finger gestures............................................................................................................................................ 21

Getting started ...........................................................................................................................22

Turning on your phone ............................................................................................................................22

Turning off your phone............................................................................................................................ 22

Setting up your phone for the first time........................................................................................... 22

Sleep mode...................................................................................................................................................23

Home screen................................................................................................................................25

Extended Home screen ...........................................................................................................................25

Navigating the Home screen................................................................................................................. 25

Phone status and notifications.............................................................................................26

Phone status icons.....................................................................................................................................26

Notification icons ....................................................................................................................................... 27

Checking notifications.............................................................................................................29

Adjusting the volume.............................................................................................................. 30

Adjusting the ringer volume..................................................................................................................30

Adjusting the media volume..................................................................................................................30

Connecting your phone to a computer .............................................................................31

Changing the connection type after connecting your phone to the computer................. 31

Copying files to and from the storage card....................................................................32

Searching your phone and the Web..................................................................................33

Searching using the Genius button..................................................................................................... 33

Setting Web and Quick Search Box options...................................................................................33

Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box .........................................33

Personalizing

Making your phone truly yours........................................................................................... 34

Changing the ringtone ...........................................................................................................34

Personalizing your phone with myModes........................................................................35

Using a preset mode.................................................................................................................................35

Creating and saving a new mode........................................................................................................ 35

Renaming or deleting a mode ..............................................................................................................35

Changing your wallpaper........................................................................................................................ 35

Changing the lock screen wallpaper ..................................................................................................36

Changing the theme .................................................................................................................................36

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Personalizing your Home screen with widgets..............................................................37

Adding a widget to your Home screen.............................................................................................37

Downloading widgets.............................................................................................................................. 37

Adding application icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen..................38

Adding application icons........................................................................................................................ 38

Adding a shortcut...................................................................................................................................... 38

Adding folders on your Home screen .............................................................................. 39

Creating a new folder and adding items to it................................................................................. 39

Renaming a folder ..................................................................................................................................... 39

Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen.................... 40

Moving a widget or icon .........................................................................................................................40

Removing a widget or icon....................................................................................................................40

Phone calls

Making calls ................................................................................................................................. 41

Calling somebody using your phone .................................................................................................. 41

Calling a contact in your phone using the Genius button .......................................................... 41

Calling a speed dial number................................................................................................................... 41

Calling a phone number in a text message ..................................................................................... 42

Calling a phone number in an email...................................................................................................42

Making an emergency call...................................................................................................................... 42

Receiving calls ........................................................................................................................... 43

Answering an incoming call................................................................................................................... 43

Rejecting an incoming call.....................................................................................................................44

Rejecting a call and sending a text message..................................................................................44

Using in-call options................................................................................................................ 45

Handling multiple calls.............................................................................................................................45

Setting up a conference call.................................................................................................................. 45

Putting a call on hold ...............................................................................................................................46

Muting the microphone during a call.................................................................................................46

Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call ........................................................................46

Ending a call ................................................................................................................................................46

Using call history....................................................................................................................... 47

Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history ..........................................47

Checking a missed call ............................................................................................................................48

Clearing the call history list ...................................................................................................................48

Call services ................................................................................................................................ 49

Turning Airplane mode on or off ....................................................................................... 49

Contacts

About Contacts......................................................................................................................... 50

Ways of getting contacts into your phone....................................................................50

Contacts screen ..........................................................................................................................51

Setting up My contact card .................................................................................................................... 51

Your contacts list........................................................................................................................................ 51

Adding a new contact ............................................................................................................................. 52

Importing contacts from your SIM card ...........................................................................................52

Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account.................................................... 53

Merging contact information ................................................................................................................ 53

Editing a contact’s information............................................................................................................ 53

Searching for a contact...........................................................................................................................54

Backing up your contacts to the storage card .............................................................................. 54

Importing contacts from the storage card ......................................................................................54

Deleting contacts.......................................................................................................................................54

Sending contact information as a vCard via Picture Message.................................................54

Sending your contact information as a vCard via Picture Message ......................................55

Contact information and conversations...........................................................................56

Keyboard

Using the hardware QWERTY..............................................................................................57

Shift key.........................................................................................................................................................57

Fn key ............................................................................................................................................................. 57

Search key ....................................................................................................................................................57

Menu key ....................................................................................................................................................... 58

Home key ...................................................................................................................................................... 58

Setting keyboard shortcuts ...................................................................................................................58

Using the onscreen keyboard...............................................................................................59

Using the landscape onscreen keyboard .........................................................................................59

Entering text ................................................................................................................................................59

Entering words using Swype.................................................................................................................60

Switching to another input method ...................................................................................................60

Adjusting keyboard settings................................................................................................ 60

Touch Input settings.................................................................................................................................60

Text input.......................................................................................................................................................61

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Messages

About Messages ........................................................................................................................62

Sending text and picture messages ...................................................................................................62

New message notifications....................................................................................................65

WAP push messages ...............................................................................................................65

Managing message conversations..................................................................................... 66

Protecting a message from deletion.................................................................................................. 67

Deleting a message thread ....................................................................................................................67

Deleting several message threads ......................................................................................................67

Deleting a single message......................................................................................................................67

Viewing contact details and communicating with a contact ................................................... 67

Setting text and picture message options ..................................................................... 68

Adding the Messages widget.............................................................................................. 69

Accounts and sync

Synchronizing with online accounts................................................................................. 70

Adding a social network account........................................................................................................70

Synchronizing with a Google Account..............................................................................................70

Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account .............................................. 71

Managing your accounts.......................................................................................................................... 71

Using HTC Sync..........................................................................................................................72

Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade .................................................................................... 72

Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone ............................................................................. 72

Setting up synchronization .................................................................................................................... 73

Setting up more sync options...............................................................................................................73

Synchronizing your phone .....................................................................................................................74

Installing apps from your computer to your phone.....................................................................74

About Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist..........................................................................75

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Social

Facebook for HTC Sense........................................................................................................76

Tweeting on your phone ........................................................................................................76

Peep screen ..................................................................................................................................................77

Sending a tweet ..........................................................................................................................................77

Searching for Twitter users to follow .................................................................................................77

Sending a direct message...................................................................................................................... 78

Setting Peep options................................................................................................................................ 78

Adding the Twitter widget .................................................................................................................... 78

Using Friend Stream.................................................................................................................79

Friend Stream screen............................................................................................................................... 79

Updating your status................................................................................................................................80

Adding the Friend Stream widget ......................................................................................................80

Chatting in Google Talk ...........................................................................................................81

Signing in to Google Talk ........................................................................................................................ 81

Chatting with friends................................................................................................................................. 81

Changing your online status and picture .........................................................................................82

Managing your Friends list..................................................................................................................... 82

Changing Google Talk settings............................................................................................................ 83

Using Gmail..................................................................................................................................85

Viewing your Gmail inbox ...................................................................................................................... 85

Reading your messages.......................................................................................................................... 86

Sending a message ................................................................................................................................... 87

Managing conversations and messages ........................................................................................... 88

Changing Gmail settings.........................................................................................................................90

Mail .................................................................................................................................................. 91

Adding a POP3/IMAP email account.................................................................................................. 91

Viewing your email inbox........................................................................................................................ 91

Exchange ActiveSync email .................................................................................................................. 92

Composing and sending an email message.................................................................................... 93

Viewing and replying to an email message..................................................................................... 94

Editing email account settings.............................................................................................................94

Deleting an email account......................................................................................................................94

Adding the Mail widget...........................................................................................................................94

Calendar

About Calendar......................................................................................................................... 95

Creating a calendar event..................................................................................................... 95

Inviting guests to your event (Google Account only) ................................................................ 96

Sending a meeting request using Calendar (Exchange ActiveSync only)..........................96

Changing calendar views .......................................................................................................97

Month view................................................................................................................................................... 97

Day and Agenda views............................................................................................................................ 97

Week view.................................................................................................................................................... 98

Viewing, editing or deleting an event .............................................................................. 99

Viewing and editing an event............................................................................................................... 99

Deleting an event.......................................................................................................................................99

Calendar event reminders................................................................................................... 100

Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders .................................................................... 100

Displaying and synchronizing calendars.........................................................................101

Showing or hiding calendars................................................................................................................ 101

Choosing which Google Calendars are synchronized on your phone .................................101

Changing Calendar settings ................................................................................................102

Reminder settings.................................................................................................................................... 102

Calendar view settings........................................................................................................................... 102

Sending a vCalendar ..............................................................................................................103

About the Calendar widget.................................................................................................103

Clock and Weather

About the Clock application...............................................................................................104

Using Desk Clock.....................................................................................................................105

Using World Clock ..................................................................................................................106

Setting your home city ..........................................................................................................................106

Setting the time zone, date, and time ............................................................................................. 106

Adding a city to the World Clock screen ....................................................................................... 107

Setting the alarm clock .........................................................................................................108

Setting an alarm .......................................................................................................................................108

Deleting an alarm..................................................................................................................................... 108

Changing alarm sound settings.......................................................................................................... 109

Checking weather ....................................................................................................................110

Adding a city to the Weather screen................................................................................................110

Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen ...................................................................111

Deleting cities from the Weather screen...........................................................................................111

Changing weather options......................................................................................................................111

About the Weather widget ................................................................................................... 111

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Internet

Data connection ....................................................................................................................... 112

Wi-Fi.............................................................................................................................................. 112

Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets ......................................................... 114

Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)............................................................ 115

Using your phone’s web browser....................................................................................... 116

Turning the data connection on or off ..............................................................................................112

Enabling data roaming.............................................................................................................................112

Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network ...........................................................112

Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security .............................................................113

Checking the wireless network status ...............................................................................................113

Connecting to another Wi-Fi network...............................................................................................113

Preparing your phone for VPN connection .....................................................................................115

Adding a VPN connection......................................................................................................................115

Connecting to a VPN................................................................................................................................115

Disconnecting from a VPN.....................................................................................................................115

Opening the browser................................................................................................................................116

Going to a web page ................................................................................................................................116

Setting your home page .........................................................................................................................116

Changing the screen orientation .........................................................................................................116

Browsing full versions of all web sites...............................................................................................116

Navigating on a web page .....................................................................................................................116

Zooming in or out on a web page.......................................................................................................117

Selecting a link in a web page ..............................................................................................................117

Opening a new browser window.........................................................................................................118

Switching between browser windows...............................................................................................118

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Finding text within a web page ...........................................................................................................118

Downloading applications from the web.........................................................................................119

Copying text, looking up information, and sharing......................................................................119

Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages ......................................................................120

Setting browser options .........................................................................................................................121

Bluetooth

Using Bluetooth ....................................................................................................................... 122

Turning Bluetooth on or off.................................................................................................................. 122

Changing the phone name.................................................................................................................... 122

Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit ................................................................... 123

Reconnecting a headset or car kit..................................................................................................... 123

Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device...............................................124

Disconnecting a Bluetooth device.....................................................................................................124

Unpairing from a Bluetooth device ...................................................................................................124

Sending and receiving information using Bluetooth................................................. 125

Sending information from your phone to another device........................................................125

Receiving information from another device ..................................................................................126

Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen ....................................................126

Camera

Camera basics .......................................................................................................................... 127

Zooming...................................................................................................................................... 129

Taking a photo..........................................................................................................................130

Capturing a video..................................................................................................................... 131

Camera settings ....................................................................................................................... 132

Gallery

About the Gallery application ............................................................................................134

Selecting an album .................................................................................................................134

Viewing photos and videos ................................................................................................. 135

Viewing photos in your T-Mobile Album and social networks ..............................137

Working with photos .............................................................................................................138

Sharing.........................................................................................................................................139

Viewfinder screen.....................................................................................................................................127

Using the camera button as the shutter release ..........................................................................128

Review screen............................................................................................................................................128

Face detection...........................................................................................................................................130

Changing basic settings.........................................................................................................................132

Changing advanced settings................................................................................................................132

Browsing in filmstrip or grid view......................................................................................................135

Viewing a photo in landscape orientation......................................................................................135

Zooming in or out on a photo .............................................................................................................135

Watching video .........................................................................................................................................136

Viewing photos on your T-Mobile Album .......................................................................................137

Viewing photos on Facebook..............................................................................................................137

Viewing photos on Flickr.......................................................................................................................137

Rotating and saving a photo................................................................................................................138

Cropping a photo .....................................................................................................................................138

Sending photos or videos by email...................................................................................................139

Sending a photo or video by picture message.............................................................................139

Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth ................................................................................... 139

Sharing photos on Facebook ..............................................................................................................140

Sharing photos on Flickr....................................................................................................................... 140

Sharing photos on Picasa .....................................................................................................................140

Sharing videos on YouTube.................................................................................................................140

Music

About the Music application................................................................................................ 141

Playing music............................................................................................................................. 141

Browsing music in the Library ...........................................................................................142

Creating a playlist....................................................................................................................143

Playing the songs in a playlist............................................................................................................. 143

Managing playlists ................................................................................................................................... 143

Setting a song as ringtone...................................................................................................145

Checking if the song was added as a ringtone ............................................................................ 145

Sending music using Bluetooth......................................................................................... 145

About the Music widget ....................................................................................................... 145

Maps and location

Using Google Maps.................................................................................................................146

Viewing locations..................................................................................................................................... 146

Viewing map layers................................................................................................................................. 147

Searching for a location ........................................................................................................................ 148

Getting directions .................................................................................................................................... 149

Finding your friends with Google Latitude.................................................................................... 150

Viewing your friends’ locations ..........................................................................................................150

Changing privacy settings......................................................................................................................151

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More apps

Watching videos on YouTube............................................................................................ 152

Watching videos .......................................................................................................................................152

Searching for videos................................................................................................................................152

Sharing a video link..................................................................................................................................153

Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube...............................................................................153

Viewing a PDF .......................................................................................................................... 154

Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets............................................ 155

Keeping track of your stocks.............................................................................................. 156

Adding a stock quote or stock market index ............................................................................... 156

Changing the stock list order.............................................................................................................. 156

Deleting stock quotes and indices.................................................................................................... 156

Setting stock information update frequency.................................................................................157

Manually updating stock information ...............................................................................................157

Adding the Stocks widget.....................................................................................................................157

Recording your voice............................................................................................................. 158

Recording your voice ..............................................................................................................................158

Sharing a voice clip ..................................................................................................................................158

Setting a voice clip as a ringtone .......................................................................................................158

Renaming a voice clip .............................................................................................................................158

Finding and installing apps from Android Market...................................................... 159

Finding and installing an application ............................................................................................... 159

Creating a Google Checkout account..............................................................................................160

Requesting a refund for an application........................................................................................... 160

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Opening an installed application....................................................................................................... 160

Uninstalling an application.....................................................................................................................161

Getting help .................................................................................................................................................161

Security

Protecting your SIM card with a PIN ............................................................................... 162

Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out............................................................................162

Protecting your phone with a screen lock..................................................................... 163

T-Mobile Applications

Faves Gallery............................................................................................................................. 165

Adding Faves contacts...........................................................................................................................165

Communicating with a Faves contact..............................................................................................165

Editing a Faves contact .........................................................................................................................165

Changing the order of Faves contacts.............................................................................................166

Removing a Faves contact ...................................................................................................................166

Adding the Faves/Family widget.......................................................................................................166

T-Mobile My Account.............................................................................................................167

Opening My Account ..............................................................................................................................167

My Account tabs.......................................................................................................................................167

T-Mobile Help............................................................................................................................ 167

Opening My Account ..............................................................................................................................167

My Account tabs.......................................................................................................................................167

Settings

Settings on your phone ........................................................................................................168

Changing display settings....................................................................................................170

Changing sound settings....................................................................................................... 171

Changing the phone language ........................................................................................... 172

Optimizing your phone’s battery life............................................................................... 173

Managing memory ..................................................................................................................174

Checking information about your phone.......................................................................175

Adjusting the screen brightness manually .....................................................................................170

Adjusting the time before the screen turns off ............................................................................170

Preventing automatic screen rotation..............................................................................................170

Recalibrating the G-sensor ...................................................................................................................170

Keeping the screen on while charging the phone .......................................................................170

Switching animation effects on or off ..............................................................................................170

Setting a sound profile ............................................................................................................................171

Enabling or disabling audible selection ............................................................................................171

Choosing the notification sound..........................................................................................................171

Using the GSM network of T-Mobile .................................................................................................173

Checking the power usage of applications....................................................................................173

Checking how much phone memory is available for use .........................................................174

Checking the available storage card space....................................................................................174

Clearing application cache and data ................................................................................................174

Uninstalling third-party applications.................................................................................................174

Freeing up more phone memory or storage card space..........................................................174

Backup, update and reset

Backing up phone data......................................................................................................... 176

Checking if automatic backup is enabled .......................................................................................176

Restoring backed up data to your phone .......................................................................................176

Updating your phone’s system software ....................................................................... 177

Checking for phone system software updates manually ..........................................................177

Performing a hard/factory reset ....................................................................................... 178

Specifications Index

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Basics

Inside the box

You will find the following inside the box:

 myTouch 3G Slide phone  USB cable  AC adapter  3.5mm stereo headset  Battery  microSD card  Quick start guide  Safety and regulatory guide

Your Phone

Front panel with keyboard opened

1. Hardware QWERTY

See "Using the hardware QWERTY" to learn how to use the hardware QWERTY keyboard.

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 (center) Home screen, press to show a snapshot of the Home screen and

extended Home screen.

 Press and hold to open the recently-used applications window.

4. GENIUS button

Press to activate voice recognition to let you use your voice to call people on your Contacts list, open applications, do a search, and more.

5. BACK

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

6. Trackpad

Swipe your finger over to highlight items or press to select items onscreen.

7. Earpiece

Listen to a phone call here.

8. 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.

9. Touch screen

Back panel

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10.LED flashlight

11. Speaker

12.5 megapixel camera

13.Back cover

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Top panel

14.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.

15.3.5mm audio jack

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

Left and right panels

16.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, press to increase the volume.

17. 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, press to decrease the volume.

18.CAMERA

 When not using the camera, press and hold to open the camera.  When using the camera to take photos, press to take the shot.  When using the camcorder to shoot videos, press to start recording. Press again to stop

recording.

Bottom panel

19.USB connector

 Connect the power adapter to charge the battery.  Connect the supplied USB cable to transfer files to your phone from your computer  Connect the supplied USB cable to sync your phone with doubleTwist on your computer.

See "About Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist" for details.

20.Microphone

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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.

1. With the phone turned off, hold your phone securely with the front facing down.

2. With your thumb or finger, lift up the back cover from the small notch at the bottom of the phone .

Replacing the back cover

1. Secure and press the top part of the back cover first by aligning it into the two openings located at the top 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.

Inserting the SIM card

1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2. If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to "Removing the battery."

3. Slide the SIM card holder to the direction of “OPEN” (etched on the SIM card holder), and then flip it open.

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4. Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out the SIM card slot. Slide the SIM card completely into the slot. Make sure the SIM card goes through the 2 “guides” on the SIM card slot.

5. Close the SIM card holder and then slide it to the direction of “LOCK” (etched on the SIM card holder) to lock it.

Removing the SIM card

1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2. If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to "Removing the battery."

3. Slide the SIM card holder to the direction of “OPEN” (etched on the SIM card holder), and then flip it open.

4. Pull out the SIM card.

Storage card

Store your pictures, music, and applications in the microSD card that came with your phone.

Inserting the storage card

1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2. Insert the microSD card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down and push it in until it clicks into place.

Removing the storage card

1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2. Push the storage card in to eject it from its slot.

3. Pull out the storage card.

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.

1. Press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap SD & phone storage.

3. Tap Unmount SD card.

4. Remove the storage card by following the instructions in "Removing the storage card."

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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

1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2. Insert the contacts side of the battery first and then gently push the battery into place.

Removing the battery

1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2. Lift out the battery from the notch on the back of the phone.

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.

1. Attach the power plug to the AC adapter.

2. Connect one end of the USB cable to the sync connector on your phone.

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.

Finger gestures

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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 trackpad.

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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 Gallery 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.

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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

Your T-Mobile 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 SIM card with a PIN.".

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 T-Mobile. Refer to "Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out" in the Security chapter for details.

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" to learn how to unlock the screen.

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 guides you to set up your Home screen with widgets and shortcuts and email accounts. You can follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, or skip the setup and do it at another time.

1. Your phone first sets up GPRS/3G, Picture Message, and WAP connections automatically based on your T-Mobile SIM card.

If you did not insert your T-Mobile 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 T-Mobile SIM card before proceeding to use the phone.

2. Read the introduction to your new T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide phone, and then tap Next.

3. Slide your finger across the screen to choose a theme, and then tap Select.

4. The following screens let you personalize your Home screen by adding widgets and shortcuts such as email, calendar, music, and more. Select (by tapping) the items you want to add to the Home screen, and then tap Next to continue adding other items.

5. Some phone features such as Weather require Google’s location service to automatically determine your current location. On the Use Google Location screen, you can choose whether to allow Google’s location service to collect information about your location and use

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your location for searches and other Google services. Clear or select the checkboxes, and then tap Next. The phone then sets up your phone according to the choices you have made.

This service may incur additional data transfer fees from T-Mobile. You can enable or disable this service later in your phone’s location settings.

6. After you are done selecting the items to add and location preferences, wait a few seconds for the phone to set up your Home screen.After the phone is done setting up your Home screen, do one of the following:

 Ta p Continue or a setup item onscreen to continue setting up your phone. Tapping

Continue takes you to setting up email accounts. Go to step 7 to learn how to set up your

email accounts.

 Ta p Home Screen to skip the remaining steps and go straight to the Home screen.

7. 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.

You need to be connected to the Internet to set up accounts.

 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 Done.

8. Tap I use Social Networks and want to sync them. 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. See the "Social" chapter for more information about Facebook for HTC Sense. After setting up an account, you will be taken back to the Set up social networks screen so you can set up more accounts. When you are done setting up your social network accounts, tap Done.

9. Tap Set up my Faves to add contacts to your Faves. Refer to "Faves Gallery" in the T-Mobile Applications chapter to learn more about Faves.

10. Tap Home Screen to go to the Home screen.

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."

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.

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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 or the trackpad. You will then see that the phone has locked the screen. To find out how to unlock the screen, see "Unlocking the screen."

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 unlock the screen by:

 Pressing MENU.  Opening the hardware QWERTY.

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."

Home screen

The items that you will see on your Home screen depends on the that items that you have chosen to include when you first set up the phone. Your Home screen may include shortcuts and widgets. Tap the respective item to open the associated application.

The Home screen also lets you add more items to the Home screen. Add items like application icons, shortcuts, folders, and widgets to give you instant access to information and applications that you use most often. 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 4 “additional” screens apart from the main Home screen.

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You can choose to add 2 more screens to your Home screen for a total of 7 screens. To add 2 more screens, press HOME > MENU, tap Settings > Personalize, and then select the Home screen pages check box. However, if you want to revert back to the default number of screens, you need to perform a factory data reset. To learn how to perform a factory data reset, see "Performing a hard/factory reset."

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 5 (or 7) screens as thumbnails.

On the main (center) Home screen, you can also press HOME to show the Leap view.

2. Tap the screen you want to open.

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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:

GPRS connected

GPRS in use

EDGE connected

EDGE in use

3G connected

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

Phone microphone is mute

Battery is very low (10% remaining)

Notification icons

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

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Battery is low (20% remaining)

Battery is full

Battery is charging (animated)

Wired microphone headset connected

Wired headset connected

New Gmail message

New Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or POP3/IMAP email

New SMS/Picture Message

Problem with SMS/Picture Message 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

Voice is being recorded using Voice Recorder

More (not displayed) notifications

Call in progress

Missed call

Call on hold

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Call forwarding on

Compass needs orientation

Uploading data (animated)

Downloading data (animated)

Waiting to upload

Downloaded Android Market application installed successfully

Faves event notification

Driving mode activated using Genius button

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

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, see the mobile operator name, and access recently-opened applications.

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.

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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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Adjusting the volume

Adjusting the ringer volume changes the volume level of the phone ring tone, 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

1. Press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN buttons on the left 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.

2. While in Vibrate mode, press VOLUME UP once to switch to silent mode. The speaker mute icon ( ) displays on the status bar.

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 Music/video volume window appears on the screen to display the volume level.

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

1. Press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings > Sound & display > Media volume.

2. When the Media volume window appears, drag the slider to the left to lower the volume or to the right to increase the volume.

3. Tap OK to close the window.

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