HTC T-Mobile myTouch 4G User Guide

Your T-Mobile myTouch 4G

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 www.htc.com/support to download the Safety and regulatory guide and to access other helpful
resources for your phone.

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 ............................................................................................................................... 8

Your phone .................................................................................................................................... 8

Back cover.................................................................................................................................... 10

SIM card......................................................................................................................................... 10

Storage card..................................................................................................................................11

Battery ............................................................................................................................................12

Switching your phone on or off........................................................................................... 14

Entering your PIN...................................................................................................................... 14

Finger gestures .......................................................................................................................... 14

Using the trackpad ................................................................................................................... 14

Getting started

Setting up your phone for the first time ...........................................................................15

Home screen.................................................................................................................................15

Status and notifications ...........................................................................................................16

Notifications panel.....................................................................................................................18

Connecting your phone to a computer........................................................................... 20

Searching your phone and the Web...................................................................................21

Adjusting the volume ..............................................................................................................22

Sleep mode ..................................................................................................................................22

Personalizing

Personalizing your phone with myModes....................................................................... 24

Changing the theme................................................................................................................ 24

Changing your Home screen wallpaper ...........................................................................25

Personalizing your Home screen with widgets .............................................................25

Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen..........................................26

Adding folders on your Home screen...............................................................................26

Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen ....................27

Phone calls

Making calls .................................................................................................................................28

Receiving calls ........................................................................................................................... 30

HTC Caller ID................................................................................................................................31

Using in-call options.................................................................................................................32

Using Call log ..............................................................................................................................33

Wi-Fi calling................................................................................................................................ 34

Call services................................................................................................................................ 34

Turning Airplane mode on or off.........................................................................................35

Contacts

About Contacts..........................................................................................................................36

Setting up My contact card...................................................................................................36

Ways of getting contacts into your phone.....................................................................37

Merging contact information ................................................................................................38

Your contacts list.......................................................................................................................39

Contact information and conversations........................................................................... 41

Keyboard

Using the onscreen keyboard ............................................................................................. 43

Entering text by speaking..................................................................................................... 44

Editing text ................................................................................................................................. 45

Adjusting touch input settings............................................................................................ 46

Messages

About Messages ....................................................................................................................... 47

Sending a text message (SMS) ........................................................................................... 47

Sending a picture message (MMS).................................................................................... 48

Resuming a draft message ................................................................................................... 50

Viewing and replying to a message.................................................................................. 50

Managing message conversations......................................................................................52

Setting message options........................................................................................................53

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Accounts and sync

Synchronizing with online accounts ..................................................................................55

About Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist..........................................................................57

Social

Facebook for myTouch...........................................................................................................58

Tweeting on your phone ........................................................................................................59

Friend Stream ..............................................................................................................................61

Chatting in Google Talk ..........................................................................................................63

Email

Using Gmail................................................................................................................................. 66

Using Mail .................................................................................................................................... 70

Calendar

About Calendar..........................................................................................................................77

Creating calendar events .......................................................................................................77

Changing calendar views .......................................................................................................78

Managing calendar events.................................................................................................... 80

Calendar event reminders.......................................................................................................81

Displaying and synchronizing calendars..........................................................................82

Changing Calendar settings ..................................................................................................82

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About the Calendar widget...................................................................................................83

Clock and Weather

About the Clock app............................................................................................................... 84

Using Desk Clock...................................................................................................................... 84

Using World Clock ....................................................................................................................85

Setting the alarm clock .......................................................................................................... 86

Checking weather......................................................................................................................87

Internet connections

Data connection........................................................................................................................ 90

Wi-Fi.............................................................................................................................................. 90

Adding connection widgets ................................................................................................. 92

Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN) ........................................................... 92

Using your phone as a modem (tethering).................................................................... 93

Using your phone as a wireless router............................................................................. 93

Web browser

Using your phone’s web browser ...................................................................................... 95

Copying text and sharing...................................................................................................... 98

Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages ...................................................... 99

Setting browser options...................................................................................................... 100

Bluetooth

Bluetooth basics .......................................................................................................................101

Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit ....................................................................101

Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device ...............................................102

Sending information using Bluetooth..............................................................................103

Receiving information using Bluetooth ......................................................................... 104

Camera

Camera basics ..........................................................................................................................106

Taking a photo..........................................................................................................................107

Recording video.......................................................................................................................109

Adding effects...........................................................................................................................110

After capturing..........................................................................................................................110

Changing camera settings ....................................................................................................110

Photos, videos, and music

Browsing your Gallery............................................................................................................ 112

Listening to music ....................................................................................................................119

Sharing media on your home network............................................................................ 122

Maps and location

Turning on location services............................................................................................... 123

Google Maps ............................................................................................................................. 123

More apps

Watching videos on YouTube............................................................................................130

Reading news feeds ................................................................................................................ 131

Working on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations .................................... 133

Keeping track of your stocks..............................................................................................134

Listening to FM Radio............................................................................................................ 135

Recording your voice ............................................................................................................137

Using Flashlight........................................................................................................................ 138

Using Desk dock ...................................................................................................................... 138

Finding and installing apps from Android Market...................................................... 139

T-Mobile Applications

Faves Gallery............................................................................................................................. 142

T-Mobile My Account.............................................................................................................143

T-Mobile My Device................................................................................................................144

T-Mobile AppPack ..................................................................................................................144

T-MobileTV ................................................................................................................................ 145

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Security

Protecting your SIM card with a PIN ...............................................................................146

Protecting your phone with a screen lock.....................................................................146

Settings

Settings on your phone ........................................................................................................ 148

Changing display settings....................................................................................................149

Changing sound settings......................................................................................................150

Changing the phone language............................................................................................ 151

Optimizing your phone’s battery life............................................................................... 152

Managing memory.................................................................................................................. 152

Checking information about your phone....................................................................... 153

Update and reset

Updating the phone software ............................................................................................ 154

Restarting or factory resetting your phone ..................................................................154

Trademarks and copyrights

Index

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Basics

Inside the box

You will find the following inside the box:

T-Mobile myTouch 4G phone
Battery (preinstalled)
microSD
USB cable
3.5mm stereo headset
Power adapter
Quick start guide
Safety and regulatory guide

Your phone

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card (preinstalled)

Front panel

1 Notification LED

2 Proximity sensor

3 MENU

4 HOME

5 Microphone

6 GENIUS button

7 BACK

8 Trackpad

9 Touch screen

10 Earpiece

11 Second camera

Left and right panels

1

2

3

4

5

1

2

3

4

1

2

Back panel

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1 VOLUME UP

2 VOLUME DOWN

3 Dock contacts

4 USB connector

5 CAMERA

1 LED flashlight

2 5 megapixel camera

3 Speaker

4 Back cover

Top panel

1 POWER

2 3.5mm headset jack

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Back cover

Removing the back cover

Remove the bottom cover to access the battery compartment, SIM card slot, and
storage card slot.

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

2. With your finger, lift up the back cover from the small opening at the back of the
phone to remove it.

Replacing the back cover

1. Secure the top part of the back cover first by aligning into the two openings
located at the back of the phone (right below the camera lens).

2. Press the sides and bottom part of the back cover towards the phone. You’ll hear
a click when the bottom cover is locked in place.

SIM card

The SIM card contains your phone number, service details, and phonebook/message
memory. Your phone supports both 1.8 V and 3 V SIM cards.

Inserting the SIM card

1. Take the back cover off. See "Removing the back cover" to find out how.

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2. With the SIM card’s gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out,
push the SIM card all the way into the SIM card slot.

Removing the SIM card

1. Take the back cover off. See "Removing the back cover" to find out how.

2. If the battery is installed, remove the battery. See "Removing the battery" to find
out how.

3. Push the SIM card out from the back of the slot, and then slide the SIM card out.

Storage card

Use the microSD card to store your photos, videos, and music. You’ll find the microSD
card already inserted in your phone.

Inserting the storage card

1. Take the back cover off. See "Removing the back cover" to find out how.

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

Removing the storage card

1. Take the back cover off. See "Removing the back cover" to find out how.

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

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3. Slide the storage card out from its slot.

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. On the Home screen, press 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 steps in "Removing the storage card".

Battery

Your phone uses a rechargeable battery. Please use only original batteries and
accessories that came with your phone or replacements that we recommend.

How long the battery can last before it needs recharging depends on how you use
your phone. Among these are the phone features and accessories you use
(for example, leaving your Bluetooth connection always on uses more power). Long
phone calls and frequent web browsing use up much battery. Also, consider your
location: poor signal strength from your mobile network and extreme temperature
make the battery work harder.

Removing the battery

Right after you take your phone out from the box for the first time, don’t forget to remove the
thin film wrapped around the battery that’s inside your phone.

1. Take the back cover off. See "Removing the back cover" to find out how.

2. With your thumb or finger, lift the battery compartment cover off from the small
opening on the left side of your phone.

3. Pull the battery out from the battery compartment.

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Inserting the battery

1. Remove the back cover. See "Removing the back cover" to find out how.

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

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.

Do not remove the battery from the phone while you are charging it using the power or car
adapter.

1. Plug the power adapter into the USB connector of your phone.

2. Plug in the power adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.

As the battery is being charged, the notification LED shows a solid red light. 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 your phone’s status bar. After the battery has been fully charged, the
charging battery icon turns to a full battery icon ( ).

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

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Switching your phone on or off

Switching your phone on

Press the POWER button. Easy.

When you turn on the phone for the first time, you’ll need to set it up. See the Getting started
chapter for details.

Switching your phone off

1. If the display is off, press the POWER button to turn it back on, then unlock the
screen by sliding down the bar on the lock screen.

See "Unlocking the screen" in the Getting started chapter for details.

2. Press and hold the POWER button for a few seconds.

3. When the Power options menu appears, tap Power off.

Entering your PIN

Your SIM card comes with a PIN (personal identification number) set by T-Mobile. If
you’re asked for a PIN, enter it and then tap OK.

To find out how to enable, disable, or change the PIN, see "Protecting your SIM card
with a PIN" in the Security chapter.

If you enter the wrong PIN three times, your SIM card is blocked. No problem. Just contact
T-Mobile and ask for the PUK (PIN Unblocking Key).

Finger gestures

Ta p 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 (for example, a 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.

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.

Pinch In some apps, like Gallery or the web browser, you can “pinch” the screen

using two fingers (for example, thumb and index finger) to zoom in or
zoom out when viewing a picture or a web page.

Using the trackpad

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

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Getting started

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 add email, Mobile Web Cam, and social
network accounts. You can follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, or
skip the setup and do it at another time. Just follow the onscreen instructions and
you’ll be up and running with your phone in no time.

Some features that need to connect to the Internet such as location-based services and
auto-sync of your online accounts may incur extra data fees from T-Mobile. Don’t worry. You
can enable or disable them in your phone’s settings as you go along later on. To find out how,
see the Settings chapter.

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 find out how to personalize
your Home screen, see "Personalizing".

Extended Home screen

As you start to do more things with your phone, you might find that one Home screen
is not enough. No problem. You can use up to four extra screens. It should be plenty.

Slide your finger horizontally to the left or right and you’ll discover more space for
adding icons, widgets, and more.

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Press HOME to return to the main Home screen (that is, the center home screen).

Need more? You can 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.

Using Leap view

To jump straight to the screen that you want, press HOME while on the main Home
screen or pinch the screen to show the Leap view. It reveals all five (or seven) Home
screens as thumbnails.

Just tap the one you want and you’ll leap right there.

Status and notifications

Status icons

You can tell a lot about your phone by checking the icons in its status bar. Here’s what
each one means:

Signal strength Battery is full

GPRS connected Battery is charging

GPRS in use Battery is low (20% remaining)

EDGE connected Battery is very low (10% remaining)

EDGE in use Silent mode

3G connected Vibrate mode

3G in use Phone microphone is mute

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HSPA+ connected Speakerphone on

HSPA+ in use Wired microphone headset connected

Roaming Wired headset connected

No signal Bluetooth is on

No SIM card installed Connected to a Bluetooth device

Connected to a Wi-Fi network Airplane mode

Data synchronizing GPS is on

Alarm is set

Notification icons

A busy life means a busy phone. Notification icons on the status bar make it easy for
you to keep on top of your messages, calendar events and alarms. Here’s what each
one means:

New Gmail message Call in progress

New Microsoft Exchange
ActiveSync or POP3/IMAP email

Problem with email delivery Call on hold

New SMS/picture message Call forwarding on

Problem with SMS/picture
message delivery

New Google Talk instant message Wi-Fi is on and wireless networks are

New voicemail Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot is on

Upcoming event Uploading data (animated)

New updates from your social
networks

Desk mode Waiting to upload

Matched contacts suggestion Downloaded Android Market app

New push message Update available for an app

Missed call

The phone is connected to a computer
via USB cable

available

Downloading data (animated)

installed successfully

downloaded from Android Market

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Bluetooth pairing request Storage card is safe to remove or

Phone software update available No storage card installed on the phone

Faves event notification Storage card is low on free space

Song is playing General notification

FM Radio app in use More (not displayed) notifications

Voice recording is on Car dock app in use

Compass needs orientation Wi-Fi calling ready

Notification LED

storage card is being prepared

The notification 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.

Notifications panel

When you get a new notification, you can open the Notifications panel to see the
message, reminder or event notification. The Notifications panel also lets you switch
between recently-opened apps as quickly as possible.

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Opening the Notifications panel

Press and hold the status bar, then slide your finger downward to open the
Notifications panel.

If you have several notifications, you can scroll down the screen to see them all.

You can also open the Notifications panel on the Home screen by pressing MENU and then
tapping Notifications.

Switching between recently-opened apps

On the Notifications panel, you can easily access up to eight apps you just recently
opened.

1. Press and hold the status bar, then slide your finger downward to open the
Notifications panel.

2. In the Recent apps section, slide your finger left or right to see recently-opened
apps.

3. Tap an app to open it.

You can also go to the Recent apps screen when you press and hold HOME.

Closing the Notifications panel

Press and hold the bottom bar of the Notifications panel, then slide your finger up the
screen. Or just press BACK.

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Connecting your phone to a computer

Whenever you connect your phone to a computer using the USB cable, the Connect
to PC screen opens and lets you choose the type of USB connection. Select one of
the following choices, and then tap Done:

Before you can use USB tethering, you need to install the HTC driver first on your computer.
You can find the HTC driver in the microSD card that is installed on your phone. To install the
driver on your computer, just connect your phone to your computer, copy the HTCDriver.exe
file to your computer, and then double-click the file.

Charge only Select this option if you only want to charge the battery while your

phone is connected to your computer.

Disk drive This mode is available only when there’s a microSD card on your phone.

Select this mode when you want to copy files between your phone’s
storage card and your computer. For more information, see "Copying
files to or from the storage card" in this chapter.

USB tethering When Disk drive mode is enabled while your phone is connected to the

computer, you will not be able to use apps on your phone to access the
storage card.
When you do not have Internet connection on your computer, you can
select this mode to share your phone’s mobile data connection with
your computer. For more information, see "Using your phone as a
modem (tethering)" in the Internet connections chapter.

You can also change the type of USB connection on-the-fly, without having to
disconnect and reconnect your phone. Slide open the Notifications panel, and then
tap the notification that says “Select to change USB connection type” to open the
Connect to PC screen again.

To change the default connection type, press MENU from the Home screen, and then tap
Settings > Connect to PC.

You can also use Multimedia Sync to synchronize media files from your computer to
your phone. For more information, see "About Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist" in the
Accounts and sync chapter.

Copying files to or from the storage card

You can copy your music, photos, and other files to your phone’s storage card.

1. Connect your phone to your computer using the supplied USB cable.

If you change the default connection type, follow the procedure in "Connecting your phone to
a computer" to change the connection type to Disk drive.

2. On your computer, the connected phone is recognized as a removable disk.

3. Navigate to the removable disk and open it.

4. Do one of the following:

Copy the files from the computer to the phone’s storage card’s root folder.
Copy the files from the phone’s storage card to a folder in your computer.

5. After copying the files, unmount the removable disk (that is, the connected
phone) as required by your computer’s operating system to safely remove your
phone.

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6. Do one of the following:

Disconnect the phone from the computer.
 If you want to keep the phone connected to the computer but want the

phone to be able to access the storage card, open the Notifications panel,
tap Disk drive, select an option except Disk drive, and then tap Done.

Searching your phone and the Web

Use the GENIUS button or the Quick Search Box to search for information on your
phone and on the Web.

Searching using the Genius button

1. Press the GENIUS button.

2. Hold the phone near your mouth.

3. In a clear voice, say:

Search [search item] to open the web browser and search the Internet using

Google.

Find [search item] to open Google Maps and locate the item you are

searching for near your location.

For example, you can say “Find pizza” to open Google Maps and show places
related to pizza near your current location.

Setting Web and Phone search options

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

2. Tap Google search, and then do the following:

Select Show web suggestions if you want to include suggestions from

Google when doing a search.

Select Use My Location to include your location when using Google search

and other Google services.

Select Search history to enable personalized search history. You need to sign

in to your Google Account to use this feature. The Show web suggestion
check box needs to be selected for this option to be enabled.

Press BACK when you are done.

3. Tap Searchable items, and then select the items you want included when doing a
search.

Searching your phone using the Quick Search Box

Some applications, such as Contacts or Mail, have their own search box, which you
can use to search within those applications (the application’s icon is at the left of the
search box.)

1. In an application such as Mail, tap .

2. Enter what you want to search for in the Quick Search Box. As you type,
matching items on your phone are shown.

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Adjusting the volume

Adjusting the ringer volume changes the volume level of the phone ringtone, while
adjusting the media volume changes the volume level of sound notifications and
music or video playback.

Adjusting the ringer volume

 Press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN button 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 in the status bar.

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

The speaker mute icon ( ) displays in the status bar.

Adjusting the media volume

When playing music or watching video, press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN
button 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.

Adjusting the earpiece volume for phone calls

During a phone call, press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN button.

Adjusting the volume via settings

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Sound > Volume.

2. Drag the volume sliders to the left or right to adjust the volume levels of your
phone’s ringtone, media playback, alarms, and notifications.

Your phone briefly plays a sample tone with the volume being adjusted as you
drag a slider.

3. If you want the same volume for your ringtone and notifications, select Use
incoming call volume for notifications.

4. When you’re done, tap OK.

Sleep mode

Sleep mode saves battery power by putting your phone into a low power state while
the display is off. It also stops accidental button presses when the phone’s in your bag
or pocket. You’ll still receive messages and calls though.

To change the delay before your screen turns off, see "Adjusting the time before the screen
turns off" in the Settings chapter.

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Switching to Sleep mode

Quickly 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 it’s idle for a
while.

Waking up from Sleep mode

Your phone automatically wakes up when you have an incoming call. To wake it up
manually, press the POWER button. You’ll need to unlock the screen.

Unlocking the screen

Press the bar on the lock screen and then slide your finger down to unlock the screen
or answer an incoming call.

If you have set up a screen unlock pattern, pin, or password, you will be asked to draw the
pattern on the screen or enter the PIN or password before it unlocks. See "Protecting your
phone with a screen lock" in the Security chapter for details.

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Personalizing

Personalizing your phone with myModes

Your phone becomes multiple phones in one when you use myModes. By using
myModes, you instantly turn your phone into a perfect kid-centric phone, work phone,
or when-you’re-at-home phone.

Using a preset mode

Your phone features preset modes, each preconfigured with a different wallpaper and
collection of widgets that reflect different moments in your life.

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap myModes.

3. Tap the mode you want to use, and then tap Apply.

Creating and saving a new mode

Create your own modes for your phone. You can add widgets and other elements,
arrange the layout, change the wallpaper, and save the whole Home screen as your
personalized mode.

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap myModes.

3. Press MENU, and then tap New mode.

4. Enter the myMode name you want to use and then tap OK.

5. Change the theme, wallpaper, ringtone, and other stuff to what you want.

6. Press HOME, and then add widgets and other elements that you want.

7. Arrange the layout of your Home screen according to your preference.

8. When you are done designing your Home screen, tap > myModes.
If you don’t see the myModes screen, press BACK.

9. Select another mode from the list except the one you have just created.

Renaming or deleting a mode

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap myModes

3. Tap the name (not the circle) of the mode you want to rename or delete.

4. Press MENU, and then tap Edit mode to rename the mode or Delete mode to
delete the mode. You can’t delete modes that came with the phone.

Changing the theme

Change the look and feel of your phone with themes.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Personalize > Set
theme.

2. Select the theme you want to use, and then tap Select.

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Changing your Home screen wallpaper

Personalizing your wallpaper with your favorite photo is a quick and easy way to
change the feel of your phone and give it a fresh look. Browse the collection of
wallpapers included in your phone or choose from photos that you have taken with
the camera. You can also change your Home screen to use an animated wallpaper.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Wallpaper > Home.

If you want to change the lockscreen wallpaper, select Lock screen.

2. Tap one of the following:

Gallery Choose a photo that you have taken using the camera or copied to

your storage card. Crop the photo and then tap Save.

Live
wallpapers

Shop Go to the T-Mobile website to buy a wallpaper to use on your

Wall paper
gallery

Choose from preset animated wallpapers.

phone.

Select from wallpapers that came from T-Mobile.

Personalizing your Home screen with widgets

Widgets put at-a-glance important information and media content up front on your
Home screen. Some widgets are already added to your Home screen for your
convenience. You can add more from the available selections of widgets, or download
more widgets.

Adding a widget

1. Go to a part of the Home screen where there’s space to add a new widget.

2. Press MENU, and then tap Add to Home > Widget.

3. Select a widget that you want.

4. Most widgets are available in a variety of designs and sizes to suit your needs.
Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to view the different styles, and
then tap Select to choose one.

You can also add widgets that allow you to quickly switch on or off certain settings of
your phone, such as Wi-Fi, Mobile Network, Bluetooth, and more. Scroll down the
widgets list, tap Settings, and then tap the widget that you want.

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Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen

Place app icons on your Home screen to open apps quicker. You can also add
shortcuts to settings and specific information such as a bookmarked webpage,
someone’s phone number, a music playlist, and many other items, to your Home
screen.

The shortcuts available depend on the apps that are installed on your phone.

1. Go to a part of the Home screen where there’s space to add a new icon or
shortcut.

2. Press MENU, and then tap Add to Home > Shortcut.

3. Do one of the following:

To add a shortcut, choose from the list of shortcuts.
To add an app icon, scroll down the screen, tap Program, and then choose an

app.

To add an app icon on the Home screen, you can also press HOME, tap , and then
press and hold an app icon. Without lifting your finger, drag the icon to an empty area on the
Home screen, and then release it.

Adding folders on your Home screen

Use folders to group related apps and other shortcuts to keep your Home screen tidy
and organized. You can also add information folders that show up-to-date
information such as Bluetooth received files, your Facebook phonebook, and more.

Creating a new folder and adding items to it

1. Go to a part of the Home screen where there’s space to add a new folder.

2. Press MENU, and then tap Add to Home > Folder > New Folder.

3. Press and hold an app icon or a shortcut that you want to move to the folder.
The phone then vibrates. Don’t lift your finger just yet.

4. Drag the app icon or shortcut and drop it on top of the folder.

Simply tap the folder to open it so you can access the apps and shortcuts inside the
folder.

Renaming a folder

1. Tap the folder to open it.

2. Press and hold the folder window’s title bar.

3. Enter a new folder name and then tap OK.

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Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on
your Home screen

Rearrange the widgets and icons on your Home screen to give room for adding more
items to the Home screen. You can also remove widgets and icons that you don’t
frequently use.

Moving a widget or icon

1. Press and hold the widget or icon you want to move.

The phone vibrates and you’ll see a colored box around the widget or icon. Don’t
lift your finger just yet.

2. Drag the widget or icon to a new location on the screen.

You can pause at the left or right edge of the screen to drag the widget or icon
onto another Home screen panel.

3. When the widget or icon is where you want it, lift your finger.

Removing a widget or icon

1. Press and hold the widget or icon you want to remove.

The phone vibrates and you’ll see a colored box around the widget or icon. Don’t
lift your finger just yet.

2. Drag the widget or icon to .

3. When the widget or icon also turns red, lift your finger.

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Phone calls

Making calls

Your T-Mobile SIM card is preset with a PIN (personal identification number) that is provided
by T-Mobile. When prompted, enter the preset PIN, then tap Enter. If you enter the wrong PIN
three times, the SIM card is blocked. If this happens, you can unblock it with the PUK (PIN
Unblocking Key) obtained from T-Mobile. See "Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out"
in the Security chapter for details.

Making a call on the Phone dialer screen

You can either dial a number directly, or use the Smart dial feature to search and call a
stored contact or a number from your call log.

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. Begin entering the first few digits or characters by tapping the keys on the
phone keypad. The top of the Phone dialer screen then displays numbers and
names that match the keys you tapped.

If you enter a wrong digit or letter, tap to delete it. To erase the entire entry,
press and hold .

3. To browse through the filtered list on the top of the screen, slide your finger to
the left or right.

4. To place a call, do one of the following:

Tap a phone number or contact from the list.
After entering a complete number, tap Call.

When dialing or the call is in progress, the status bar displays the Call in progress icon
( ) and its color changes to pulsing green.

What is Smart dial?

The phone dialer’s Smart Dial feature makes it quick and easy for you to place a call.
Simply enter the phone number or first few letters of the person’s name you want to
call. Smart Dial automatically searches and filters your contacts list (stored on your
phone, SIM card, and online accounts such as Google Account and Exchange
ActiveSync) and the phone numbers from the call log.

For example, if you tap number “2” on the phone dialer, which is associated with [a, b,
and c] on the phone dialer, contact names such as the following will be considered
matches: “Ben Miller”, “George Adams”, “John-Carter”, “Carter, Ellen”, “Dixon, Allan”,
“Thomas_Clark”, “JaneCampbell”.

If the matching list is long and you want to narrow down the search further, enter
another letter. Using the same example above, if you continue to tap “3” which is
associated with [d, e, f], the matching list will be narrowed down to the following
names: “Ben Miller”, “George Adams”, “Carter, Ellen”, “Dixon, Allan”.

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Calling a contact in your phone using the Genius button

1. Press the GENIUS button.

2. Hold the phone near your mouth.

3. In a clear voice, say “Call [contact name].” If there is more than one match, you
will be asked to confirm onscreen.

Using Speed dial

Use Speed dial to call a phone number with a single tap. For example, if you assign a
contact’s number to the number 2 key, you can simply press and hold this key on the
Phone dialer keypad to dial that number.

Assigning a speed dial key

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. Press MENU, and then tap Speed dial > Add new.

3. Enter the name of the contact you want to add. When the name comes up in the
list, tap the name.

4. On the Speed dial screen, choose the phone number of the contact to use, and a
speed dial key to assign.

5. Tap Save.

Calling a speed dial number

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. On the phone keypad:

 The number 1 key is generally reserved for your voicemail. Press and hold

this key to call voicemail and retrieve your voicemail messages.

Press and hold the key that is associated with the contact you want to call.

Calling a phone number in a text message

1. On the Home screen, tap Messages.

2. Tap the number or name of the person who sent you the text message.

3. Tap the phone number within the message.

4. Tap Call.

To call the message sender, press and hold the sender or the received message, and then tap
Call on the options menu.

To find out more about text messaging, see the Messages chapter.

Calling a phone number in an email

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. In your email account’s inbox, tap the email that contains the phone number to
call.

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3. In the email body, tap the phone number. A selection menu then pops up and
the phone number is highlighted.

The phone will recognize a number as a phone number if the number has a
minimum of 5 digits and have at least one of the following:

Numbers starting with a plus sign (+). For example, [phone] or
[phone].

Numbers starting with an area or country code enclosed in a parenthesis. For
example, (02)987654321 or [phone]-321.

Numbers separated by dashes. For example, [phone]-321 or
0987-654-321.

4. Tap Call.

5. When the phone dialer screen opens with the phone number already entered,
tap Call.

To find out more about using email on your phone, see the Email chapter.

Making an emergency call

You can make emergency calls from your phone even if you don’t have a SIM card
installed or your SIM card has been blocked.

1. On the Home screen, tap .

2. Dial the international emergency number for your locale (for example, 000),
and then tap Call.

Additional emergency numbers may be included in your SIM card. Contact T-Mobile for
details.

If you enabled but forgotten your lock screen password, lock pattern, and/or the SIM
lock, you can still make emergency calls by tapping Emergency call on the screen.

Receiving calls

When you receive a phone call from a contact, the Incoming call screen appears and
displays the caller ID icon, name, and phone number of the calling party.

When you receive a phone call from someone who is not stored in Contacts, only the
default caller ID icon and phone number appear on the Incoming call screen.

You can use your phone’s polite ringer and pocket mode features for receiving calls. To find
out how, see "Turning on or off automatic ring volume adjustment" in the Settings chapter.

Answering, deferring, or rejecting an incoming call

If To answer the call To reject the call To defer the call

Display is on Ta p Answer. Ta p Decline. Ta p Defer

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Display is off When the Lock screen

appears, drag the bar
that shows the caller
name or number
downward.

You can use also press the POWER button twice to reject an incoming call.

Drag the bar upward.
Or, press MENU and
then tap Decline.

Press MENU and then
tap Defer. To find out
what to defer mean, see
"Deferring a call".

Deferring a call

When you defer a call, you also reject the call but it gives you the option to send a
message and set a reminder to call the person back.

Changing the text message to send out for rejected calls

1. On the Phone dialer screen, press MENU.

2. Tap Settings > Edit default message.

3. Enter the new message, and then tap OK.

Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call

Do one of the following:

Press the VOLUME DOWN or VOLUME UP button.
Press the POWER button.
Place the phone face down on a leveled surface.

If the phone is already facing down, the phone will still ring when there are subsequent
incoming calls.

HTC Caller ID

Everytime you make a call or your friend gives you a ring, you get to see your friend’s
latest status update from social networks like Facebook or Twitter right on the call
screen.

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You also won’t miss people’s birthdays. You’ll see a birthday reminder, if your friend’s
birthday will occur sometime within the next seven days.

Using in-call options

When a call is in progress, use the buttons onscreen to mute or unmute the
microphone or to turn on or off the speakerphone. You can also press MENU and
choose whether to add a call, place the call on hold, mute the microphone, and more.

Putting a call on hold

Press MENU and then tap Hold to put the call on hold. When you put a call on hold,
the status bar displays the Hold call icon ( ) and its color changes to pulsing red.
Press MENU, and then tap Unhold to resume the call.

Switching between calls

If you’re already on a call and accept another call, you can choose to switch between
the two calls.

1. When you receive another call, tap Answer to accept the second call, and to put
the first call on hold.

2. To switch between the calls, tap the person you want to talk to on the screen.

3. To end the current call and return to the other call, tap End call.

Setting up a conference call

Conference calling with your friends, family, or co-workers is easy. Make the first call
(or accept a call), and then simply dial each subsequent call to add to the conference.

Make sure your SIM card is enabled with conference calling service. Contact T-Mobile for
details.

1. Make a call to the first conference call participant.

2. When connected, press MENU, tap Add call, and then dial the number of the
second participant. The first participant is put on hold when you dial the second
participant.

3. When connected to the second participant, tap (merge).

4. To add another participant to the conference call, tap on the conference call
screen, and then dial the number of the contact you want to invite to the
conference call.

5. When connected, tap to add the participant to the conference call.

6. When you want to talk to a person in the conference call in private, tap , and
then select Private call on the options menu.

7. When finished, tap End call.

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Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call

To turn the speakerphone on, you can do any of the following:

Flip your phone over during a call (be sure that Flip for speaker is selected in

HOME > MENU > Settings > Sound).

On the call screen, tap .

The speakerphone icon ( ) appears in the status bar when the speakerphone
is on.

To turn the speakerphone off, just flip the phone over again, facing it up. Or tap
again.

To decrease potential damage to your hearing, do not hold your phone against your ear when
the speakerphone is on.

Muting the microphone during a call

On the call screen, tap to toggle between turning the microphone on or off.
When the microphone is turned off, the Mute icon ( ) appears in the status bar.

Ending a call

Do one of the following to end the call:

On the call screen, tap End call.

If the phone display is off, press POWER to turn on the screen so you can tap End call.

Slide open the Notifications panel, then tap .
If you are using the provided wired headset, press the button to end the call.

If the phone number of the person who called is not in your contacts list, you can
choose to save the number to your contacts list after you hang up.

Using Call log

Use the Call log to check missed calls, your dialed numbers and received calls.

Checking a missed call

You will see the missed call icon in the status bar when you miss a call.

1. Slide open the Notifications panel to check who the caller is.

2. To return the call, tap the missed call notification. Then tap the caller’s name or
number on the Call log screen.

Checking calls in the call log

1. From the Home screen, tap > Call log. Or, slide to on the Phone
dialer screen.

2. On the Call log screen, you can:

Tap a name or number in the list to call.
 Press and hold a name or number in the list to display the options menu

where you can select to check the call log details, view contact information
(if the number is stored in your contacts list), send a text message, delete
from call log, or block the caller.

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Press MENU, then tap View to display just a particular type of calls such as



Missed calls or Outgoing calls.

You can also access Call log from the Contacts app. For details, see the Contacts chapter.

Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call log

1. On the Call log screen, tap beside the phone number that you want to save
to your contacts.

2. Choose whether to create a new contact or to save the number to an existing
contact on your phone.

3. Do any of the following:

 When creating a new contact, enter the contact name, contact type, and

other information in the blank contact record that appears. The phone
number is automatically added to the Mobile field in the Phone section.
To store it as another type of number, for example a home number, tap the
Mobile button.

 When saving the number to an existing contact, tap a contact stored on

your phone, and then select the number type.

4. Tap Save.

To find out how to add new contacts or edit the contact information, see the Contacts
chapter.

Clearing the call log list

On the Call log screen, you can do the following:

To remove one name or number from the list, press and hold the name or

number, and then tap Delete from call log.

To clear the entire list, press MENU, and then tap Delete all.

Wi-Fi calling

With Wi-Fi calling, you can use your Wi-Fi connection to make calls. To find out more
about Wi-Fi calling, ask T-Mobile.

Call services

Your phone can directly link to the mobile phone network, and enable you to access
and change the settings of various phone services for your phone. Call services may
include call forwarding, call waiting, voicemail, and more. Contact your mobile
operator to find out about the availability of call services for your phone.

To open call services, press MENU from the Home screen, and then tap Settings >

Call.

Fixed Dialing Numbers Restrict outgoing calls to a fixed set of numbers. To

enable this feature, you must know your SIM card’s PIN2
code.

Voicemail service Shows the current voicemail service being used.

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Voicemail settings Specify another voicemail number aside from the voice

mail number on your SIM card.

Clear voicemail notification If you have a notification of a new voicemail, you can

clear the notification with this option.

Hearing aids Select to enable HAC (Hearing Aid Compatible)

Phone settings Edit the call reject message, choose whether to open

the message editor when you reject a call with a
message, and choose whether to allow automatic
saving of an unknown contact number when a call with
that number ends.

Cell broadcast Enable or disable receipt of cell broadcast messages

from your service provider.

Cell broadcast settings Configure channels and language for cell broadcast

messages.

Call forwarding Select how you want your phone to handle busy,

unanswered, and unreachable calls. You can also set the
call forwarding option for all incoming calls.

Additional settings Enable or disable operator services such as caller ID and

call waiting.

Turning Airplane mode on or off

In many countries, you are required by law to turn off the phone while on board an
aircraft. A way to turn off the phone function is to switch your phone to Airplane
mode. When you enable Airplane mode, all wireless radios on your phone are turned
off, including the call function, data services, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

To turn Airplane mode on or off, you can:

Press and hold POWER, and then tap Airplane mode.
From the Home screen, press MENU. Tap Settings > Wireless & networks, and

then select or clear the Airplane mode check box.

When enabled, the Airplane mode icon ( ) is displayed in the status bar.

When you disable Airplane mode, the call function is turned back on and the previous state of
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is restored.

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Contacts

About Contacts

With the Contacts app, you can sync your phone with contacts from your Google
Account, computer, and Facebook. You can also sync with work contacts from the
Exchange ActiveSync Server in your workplace. To find out how, see "Ways of getting
contacts into your phone".

Per contact, link the person’s information from all these different sources as one so
you won’t have duplicated entries in your contacts list. To find out how to link, see
"Merging contact information".

And that’s not all. You can manage your communications with your contacts via
phone, messaging, and email without the need to jump from one app to another. After
you’ve linked contacts to their social network accounts like Facebook, Twitter, and
Flickr, you’ll also see their updates and events from these accounts all in one place.

Contacts screen

The Contacts screen has the following tabs:

Contacts Gives you access to all contacts on your phone, including Google contacts,

Exchange ActiveSync contacts, Phone contacts, contacts stored on your SIM
card, and Facebook contacts. You can also use this tab to open or update My
contact card. For more information, see "Setting up My contact card" in this
chapter.

Faves Gives you access to your Faves contacts. For more information about adding

Faves contacts, see "Faves Gallery" in the T-Mobile Applications chapter.

Phone Make a call. See the Phone calls chapter for details.

Gallery Lists all your dialed numbers and received and missed calls. "Using Call log" in

the Phone calls chapter.

Voi cema i l Check your voicemails and activate visual voicemail.

Setting up My contact card

My contact card provides a convenient way to store your personal contact

information so that you can easily send it via SMS, picture message, email, or
Bluetooth.

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, tap Me.

If you are logged in to your Facebook account through Facebook for myTouch, instead of Me,
you will see the name you use in Facebook. Tap your name, press MENU, and then
tap Edit.

3. Enter your name and contact details.

4. Tap Save.

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Ways of getting contacts into your phone

Gmail Google contacts are imported to your phone after you sign in

to your Google Account.
You can also create more Google contacts right from your
phone. To find out how, see "Adding a new contact"in this
chapter.

Facebook See "Adding a social network account and other accounts"in

the Accounts and sync chapter for details.

Qik See "Adding a social network account and other accounts"in

the Accounts and sync chapter for details.

Yahoo! See "Adding a social network account and other accounts"in

the Accounts and sync chapter for details.

SIM card See "Importing contacts from your SIM card" in this chapter.

Exchange ActiveSync
Server

Adding a new contact

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, and then tap Add contact.

3. Select the Contact type, for example T-Mobile or Google. This determines which
account the contact will sync with. For more information, see "Ways of getting
contacts into your phone" in this chapter.

4. In the Name field, enter the first and last name of the contact, then tap OK.

5. Enter the contact information in the fields provided.

Press BACK if you want to close the onscreen keyboard first and easily scroll
through the other fields.

6. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and then tap Save.

See "Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account" in the
Email chapter.

Importing contacts from your SIM card

You can copy all your SIM contacts to your phone. You can import them as T-Mobile
contacts, Google contacts, or Exchange ActiveSync contacts, if you have set up the
relevant accounts.

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, and then tap Import/Export > Import from
SIM card.

3. If you have Google or Exchange ActiveSync accounts set up on your phone, tap
the type for the imported contacts.

4. Do one of the following:

To import all contacts, press MENU, and then tap Select all.
To import a contact, tap the contact.

5. Tap Save.

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Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account

You can search for a work contact from your Exchange ActiveSync account, and then
copy it to your phone.

You need to have your Exchange ActiveSync account set up on your phone first. To
find out how, see "Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account" in the Email
chapter.

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, tap at the upper-right corner of the screen.

3. Enter the name, and then tap Search contacts in your Company directory.

4. In the list, tap the name of the contact you want to copy to your phone.

5. Tap Save to People.

Merging contact information

If you have stored contacts with the similar contact information such as name, email
address, or mobile number in your phone and online accounts, your phone will try to
link them as one automatically or create a list of matched contact suggestions. If it
doesn’t, you can manually link them so that you won’t have duplicated entries in your
contacts list.

Also link your contacts with other social network accounts such as Twitter and Flickr.
You’ll then see their updates and events from these accounts all in one place.

Accepting matched contacts suggestions

When your phone finds contact information that can be merged, you’ll see the
Matched contact suggestions icon ( ) in the notification area of the status bar.

1. Slide down the Notifications panel, and then tap Matched contacts suggestion.
Your phone displays all suggested contacts that you can merge.

2. Review the suggested links.

3. When there are contacts you don’t want to merge, tap to break the contact
information link.

4. Tap OK.

If you don’t want to merge any of your contacts, tap Dismiss all.

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2

3

6

7

5

Viewing a list of all your linked contacts

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, and then tap More > Linked contacts.

3. The All linked contacts list then opens where you can check the account types
and information merged. You can choose to tap beside an account type to
break the link.

4. When you’re done, tap OK.

Manually merging contact information

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) you
want to link.

3. On the upper-right corner of the screen, tap or (if there are
suggested links).

4. On the screen, you can:

Under Suggest links, tap to link the contact to an account.
Under Add contact, tap one of the options to link to another contact.

5. Tap Done.

Breaking the contact information link between contacts

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) whose
contact information link you want to break.

3. On the upper-right corner of the screen, tap .

4. Under the Linked contacts section, tap beside an account type to break
the link.

5. Tap Done.

Your contacts list

The Contacts tab of the Contacts screen shows all your contacts, including Google
contacts, Exchange ActiveSync contacts, Phone contacts, contacts stored on your
SIM card, and Facebook contacts.

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1 Tap to edit your My contact card.

2 SIM card contact

3 Online status of a contact whom you are friends with in Google Talk, Qik, or Yahoo!. Online

status icons are displayed if you’re signed in to Google Talk, Qik, or Yahoo!.

4 This icon appears when the contact:

Has sent you a new text or email message, or tried to call you but you missed the call.
Has updated his or her Facebook profile or has added photos on Flickr or Facebook.
Has upcoming Facebook events or birthday.

5 Tap to open the contact details screen for that contact.

6 Instant status update appears when you’ve linked the contact to his or her social network

account.

7 Tap the photo or icon to open a menu where you can quickly choose how to communicate

with the contact. Depending on the contact information stored, you can call, send a
message or email, see the contact’s Facebook profile, and map his/her address in Google
Maps.

Filtering your contacts list

You can choose to display contacts of a particular type only, for example Google
contacts or Facebook contacts.

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, then tap View.

3. Select the types of contacts you want to show in your contacts list.

You can also choose how you want to display and sort your contacts.

4. Tap Done.

Searching for a contact

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. Press at the upper-right corner of the screen, then enter the first few letters
of a contact’s first or last name, email, or company name.

You can also type in the first few digits of your contact’s phone number.
Matching contacts are displayed.

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3. Tap the contact to open his or her contact details screen. See "Contact
information and conversations"in this chapter for details.

Backing up your contacts to the storage card

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, and then tap Import/Export > Export to SD
card.

3. Select an account or type of contacts to export, then tap OK.

Importing contacts from the storage card

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, and then tap Import/Export > Import from SD
card.

You can only import contacts that were exported to the storage card using the Export to SD
card feature on the phone. See "Backing up your contacts to the storage card".

3. If you have Google or Exchange ActiveSync accounts set up on your phone, tap
the type for the imported contacts.

Deleting contacts

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press MENU, and then tap Delete.

3. Select the contacts you want to delete, and then tap Delete.

4. When prompted, tap OK.

Contact information and conversations

When you tap a contact on the Contacts screen, the contact details screen opens,
showing you the information stored for that contact, exchanged messages and phone
calls with that contact, updates and events from social networks, and more.

The contact details screen has the following tabs:

Details Shows the information you have stored for the contact, and allows you to

get in touch with the contact directly by tapping any of the displayed
methods. For example, if the contact has a stored work phone number, tap

Call work to call that number.

Messages tab Shows your exchanged SMS messages with the contact. You can reply to

the contact’s message directly from this tab. To send a new message, press
MENU, and then tap Compose. See the Messages chapter for details.

Mail tab Shows all the email you have received from the contact. Tap an email to

view it. To send a new email, tap New mail. To find out more about sending
email, see the Email chapter.

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Updates tab Shows the contact’s updates and events from social network accounts like

Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr.
You’ll be able to see updates such as posted status messages, uploads, and
profile changes from all these accounts. To find out more about Facebook
for myTouch, see the Social chapter.

Gallery tab Shows the contact’s Facebook and Flickr photo albums. Tap an album to

look at the photos in the album.
You need to be logged in to the same social networks on your phone to see
the updates and events. If you are not logged in, tap the relevant link on the
screen to sign in.

Call log tab Lists all your incoming, outgoing, and missed calls to and from the contact.

Tap a list item to call the contact using the displayed number.

Editing a contact’s information

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press and hold the contact, and then tap Edit contact.

You cannot edit the contact information of a Facebook friend.

3. Enter the new information for the contact.

4. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen, and then tap Save.

Sending contact information as a vCard

Share the contact information on your phone in different ways such as a text or
multimedia message, email, and Bluetooth. To find out about how to send through
Bluetooth, see the Bluetooth chapter.

Sending someone’s contact information

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, press and hold the name of the contact (not the icon or
photo) whose contact information you want to send, and then tap Send contact
as vCard.

You cannot send contact information that’s from your Facebook account.

3. Choose how you want to send it.

4. Select the contact details you want to share, and then tap Send.

Sending your contact information

1. On the Home screen, tap Contacts.

2. On the Contacts tab, tap [Your name] My contact card.

3. Press MENU, then tap Send my contact info.

4. Choose how you want to send it.

5. Select the contact details you want to share, and then tap Send.

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Keyboard

Using the onscreen keyboard

When you start an app or select a field that requires text or numbers, the onscreen
keyboard becomes available.

After entering your text, press BACK to close the onscreen keyboard.

Entering text

Use the following keys while entering text using the onscreen keyboard:

Press and hold keys with white characters at the top to enter numbers, symbols, or
accented letters. The gray character displayed on the key is the character that will be
inserted when you press and hold that key. Some keys have multiple characters or
accents associated with them.

Shift key. Tap to enter an uppercase letter. Tap twice to turn on caps lock.

Tap to switch to the numeric and symbol keyboard.

Enter key. Tap to create a new line.

Backspace key. Tap to delete the previous character.

This is the Swype key. After entering a word using Swype, tap to open a small
window where you can choose a word to replace the word that you have entered.
Press and hold to open a window where you can view a tutorial on how to use
Swype, see tips, and set Swype options.

Entering words using Swype

Instead of tapping the keys on the onscreen keyboard, you can use Swype® to type
words. Swype lets you slide your finger on the onscreen keyboard to enter words. For
example, if you want to type “the”, you would put your finger on the “t” key, and then
trace the word (by sliding your finger) “the” on the onscreen keyboard.

Learn more about how to use Swype by pressing and holding .

Adjusting Swype settings

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap Language & keyboard > Swype.

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Switching to another input method

By default, the Swype input method is used. You can choose to change the input
method so you can use the compact QWERTY, phone keyboard, or voice to enter
text.

1. On an application (for example, Messages) that lets you enter text, press and
hold the field with the “Tap to add text” text.

2. Relase your finger. On the balloon that opens, tap Input method.

3. Select the input method you want to use.

Enabling multiple keyboard languages

If there are multiple keyboard languages available on your phone, you can choose
which languages to enable in the onscreen keyboard so that you can switch to these
languages and use them to enter text.

1. On the Home screen, press MENU, and tap Settings > Language & keyboard >
To u ch In pu t.

2. Tap International keyboard.

3. Choose the languages that you want.

Changing to the landscape onscreen keyboard

When entering text, you can choose to use the landscape orientation of the onscreen
keyboard. Turn your phone sideways to use a larger keyboard for easy typing.

The Auto-rotate screen check box in HOME > MENU > Settings > Display needs to be

selected for the screen orientation to automatically change.

The landscape orientation keyboard is not supported in all apps.
Press BACK to close the onscreen keyboard.

Entering text by speaking

You need to be using the Touch Input keyboard layout to enter text through speaking. To
switch to the Touch Input keyboard layout, follow the procedure in "Switching to another
input method".

No time to type? Try speaking the words to enter it in most text fields that let you use
the onscreen keyboard.

While using the Touch Input keyboard layout, press and hold . When your phone
cues you to “Speak now”, tell your phone what you want to be typed in.

First, make sure to select the language you’ll be using in the Voice input & output settings.

See “Setting the voice input language”.

Since your phone uses Google’s speech-recognition service, you need to be connected to

the Internet to enter text by speaking.

Setting the voice input language

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, then tap Settings > Voice input & output >
Voice recognizer settings.

2. Tap Language, then choose the language you want.

Available languages depend on the voice input languages supported by Google.

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Editing text

You can select, copy, or cut the text you enter using the onscreen keyboard, then
paste it in another text field within or across apps.

Some apps may offer their own way of selecting or copying text.

Selecting text

Highlight a portion of a text or select all that you want to copy or cut.

1. Press and hold the text field that contains the text to select. Don’t lift your finger
just yet to display the magnifier.

2. Drag your finger to move the text cursor to a letter within the text that you want
to select. It should be easy since the magnifier gives you a bigger view of the
text.

3. After positioning the text cursor, lift your finger. The text selection menu then
pops up.

4. Do one of the following:

 Ta p Select text. When the word where you’ve placed the text cursor is

highlighted, drag the start and end markers to select the text you want.

Ta p Select all to select everything in the text field.

Copying and pasting text

1. After you have selected the text you want to copy, tap Copy or Cut.

The selected text is then copied to the clipboard.

2. Within the same or another app, press and hold a text field where you want to
paste the text. Don’t lift your finger just yet to display the magnifier.

3. Drag your finger to move the text cursor to where you want to paste the text.

4. After positioning the text cursor, lift your finger. The text selection menu then
pops up.

5. Tap Paste.

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Adjusting touch input settings

To open the keyboard settings, on the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap

Settings > Language & keyboard > Touch Input.

Touch Input settings

Keyboard types Select the keyboard layout to use. You can choose from

QWERTY, Phone Keypad, or Compact QWERTY.
The Phone Keypad and Compact QWERTY keyboard layouts are
only available when you are using the Touch Input input method.
To learn how to switch to the Touch Input input method, see
"Switching to another input method".

International keyboard Add or remove languages from the onscreen keyboard language

list.

Bilingual prediction Select a secondary keyboard language to use.

Text input Set text input options when entering text, calibrate the keyboard,

and set a sound and/or vibration feedback whenever you tap a
key. See "Text input" for details.

Tutorial Learn how to use the onscreen keyboard with this interactive

tutorial.

Personal dictionary Add, edit or remove words in the predictive text dictionary.

Text input

QWERTY

Prediction Select to enable the word prediction feature which provides a list

of possible words that reflect the characters of the keys you have
tapped as well as characters of nearby keys.

Spell correction Select to correct typographical errors by selecting from a list of

possible words that reflect the characters of the keys you have
tapped as well as characters of nearby keys.

Phone keypad & compact QWERTY

Spell correction Select to correct typographical errors by selecting from a list of

possible words that reflect the characters of the keys you have
tapped as well as characters of nearby keys.

Word co mple tion When using the Compact QWERTY or Phone keypad, lets you

select from a list of possible combinations based on the
characters that appear on the keys that you tapped.

Other settings

Sound feedback Select to hear a clicking sound whenever you tap a key on the

keyboard.

Vibrate when typing Select to enable vibration feedback whenever you tap a key on

the keyboard.

Finger touch precision

Calibration tool Tap to re-calibrate the keyboard touch accuracy. Re-calibrate the

keyboard if you feel that the keyboard keys are not responding
accurately to your taps.

Reset calibration Tap to reset the calibration back to factory default.

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Messages

About Messages

Keep in touch with important people in your life. Use the Messages app to compose
and send text (SMS) and picture messages (MMS).

On the Home screen, tap Messages.

On the All messages screen, all your sent and received messages are neatly grouped
into conversations, by contact name or phone number. You can:

Scroll up or down the list of conversations by swiping your finger on the

screen.

Tap a contact name or number to view the exchange of messages.
Tap the photo or icon to open a menu where you can quickly choose how to

communicate with the contact.

You can also view your messages on the Home screen with the Messages widget. If
this widget is not there already, you can add it by following the steps in "Adding a
widget" in the Personalizing chapter.

Sending a text message (SMS)

If you exceed the limit on the number of characters for a single text message, your
text message will be delivered as one but will be billed as more than one message.

1. On the Home screen, tap Messages.

2. On the All messages screen, tap Compose message.

3. Fill in one or more recipients. You can:

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Enter the first few letters of a contact name or starting digits of a mobile



number. As you type, matching names with phone numbers from your
stored contacts are displayed. Tap a name or one of the contact’s number.

 Tap the icon, and then select the phone numbers of the contacts to

whom you want to send the message. You can also select contact groups
as recipients.
When you have selected all the message recipients, tap OK.

Enter the complete phone numbers directly in the To field.

4. Tap the box that says “Tap to add text”, and then enter your message [VERIFY].

5. Tap Send.

Or press BACK to save it as a draft. To open and edit a draft message, see
"Resuming a draft message".

Your text message automatically becomes a multimedia message when you enter an email
address as the recipient, add a message subject, attach an item, or compose a very long
message.

Sending a picture message (MMS)

To compose a picture message, start by creating a new text message. Then choose
the type of attachment to include in your message.

1. On the Home screen, tap Messages.

2. On the All messages screen, tap Compose message.

3. Fill in one or more recipients. You can:

 Enter the first few letters of a contact name or starting digits of a mobile

number. As you type, matching names with phone numbers and email
addresses from your stored contacts are displayed. Tap a contact’s number
or email address.
Email addresses will be displayed when Show email address is selected in
Recipient list settings. To find out more about message settings, see
"Setting message options".

 Tap the icon, and then select the phone numbers of the contacts to

whom you want to send the message. You can also select contact groups
as recipients. When you have selected all the message recipients, tap OK.

Enter the complete phone numbers or email address directly in the To field.

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4. To add a subject line, press MENU and then tap Add subject.

5. Tap the box that says “Tap to add text”, and then enter your message.

6. Tap and then choose the type of attachment.

Photo Select Camera to take a photo and attach it, or

Gallery to attach a photo from your storage card.

Video Select Camcorder to capture a video and attach it, or

Videos to attach a video from your storage card.

Emotion Add an emoticon to your message.

GPS Add your current location (requires GPS to be turned

on), or a location you pick on a map to your message.
See the Maps and location chapter for more details.

Contact Select a contact, and then select the information to

attach.

Press MENU, and then tap Attach to see more things you can attach to your message.

7. To make changes to your attachment, tap or (depending on the type
of file you’ve attached).

You can also press MENU, and then tap Remove to start over.

8. Tap Send. Or press BACK to save it as a draft. To open and edit a draft message,
see "Resuming a draft message".

Creating a slideshow

In a picture message, you can add slides, each containing a photo, video, or audio.

1. In the picture message you’re composing, press MENU, and then tap Attach >
Slideshow.

2. On the Edit slideshow screen, tap Add slide.

3. Tap Slide 1.

4. To compose your slideshow, do any of the following:

Add a picture Ta p Insert picture.

Add a video Press MENU, and then tap Add video (you cannot

add both a picture and a video on the same slide).

Add music or a voice recording Press MENU, and then tap Add video.

Add a caption Tap the box that says “Tap to add text”.

Add a new slide Ta p Add slide.

View the next or previous slide Tap or .

Preview your slideshow Press MENU, and then tap Preview.

For more options, press MENU, and then tap More.

5. When finished, tap Done to attach the slideshow to your message.

6. Tap Send.

Or press BACK to save it as a draft. To open and edit a draft message, see
"Resuming a draft message".

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Resuming a draft message

1. On the All messages screen, press MENU, and then tap Drafts.

2. Tap the message to resume editing it.

3. When you finish editing the message, tap Send.

Viewing and replying to a message

Depending on your notification settings, the phone plays a ringtone, vibrates, or
displays the message briefly in the status bar when you receive a new message.
A new message icon is also displayed in the status bar.

You can change the notification for new messages. See "Setting message options" for details.

Viewing a message

To open and read your received messages, you can:

Press and hold the status bar, and then slide your finger down to open the

Notifications panel. Then tap the new message notification.

Open the Messages app to access and read the message.

While reading the message, you can:

Call or save a phone number
contained in the message

Open a link in the message Tap the link to open it in the web browser.

Send to or save an email address
contained in the message

Forward a message Press and hold the message to open the options

Check message details Press and hold the message to open the options

Tap the phone number. Then choose whether to dial
the number or add it to your contacts.

Tap the email address. Then choose whether to
send an email, send a multimedia message, or save
the email address to your contacts.

menu, and then tap Forward.

menu, and then tap View message details.

Replying to a message

1. On the All messages screen, tap a contact (or phone number) to display the
exchange of messages with that contact.

2. To reply to the message, tap the text box at the bottom of the screen, then enter
your reply message.

You can also reply with a multimedia message. See "Sending a picture message
(MMS)" for details.

3. Tap Send.

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Replying to another phone number of the contact

When a contact has multiple phone numbers stored on your phone, you’ll see the
particular phone number used within the message. There’s also a bold letter before
the phone number to indicate the number type (for example, M stands for Mobile).

Keep in mind that your response will be sent to the phone number of the latest
message you’ve received from this contact.

If you want to change the phone number before you send out your reply, press MENU,
then tap More > Recipient phone number. Select another phone number of this
contact, and then tap OK.

Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message

If you are concerned about the size of your data downloads, check the multimedia
message size first before you download it.

When Auto-retrieve in MMS settings is disabled, only the message header is downloaded. To
download the entire message, tap the Download button at the right side of the message. To
find out more about message settings, see “Setting message options.”

If there’s a media attachment such as a photo or video in a received message,

tap it to view the content.

If the attachment is a contact (vCard), tap it to view the contact information,

then tap Save to add to your contacts.
Open the Contacts app to view the contact. See the Contacts chapter.

If the attachment is an appointment or event (vCalendar), tap it and then

choose the calendar where to save it. Tap Import.
Open the Calendar app to view the appointment or event. See the Calendar
chapter.

To save the attachment to your storage card, press and hold the multimedia

message, and then tap Save [attachment type] on the options menu.

Viewing push messages

Push messages contain a web link. Often, the link will be to download a file that you
have requested, for example a ringtone.

When you receive a push message, a notification icon is displayed in the status
bar.

Opening and reading a new push message

1. Press and hold the status bar, and then slide the status bar down to open the
Notifications panel.

2. Tap the new message.

3. Tap Visit website.

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Viewing all your push messages

1. On the Home screen, tap Messages.

2. Press MENU, and then tap Push messages.

Managing message conversations

Protecting a message from deletion

You can lock a message so that it will not be deleted even if you delete the other
messages in the conversation.

1. On the All messages screen, tap a contact (or phone number) to display the
exchange of messages with that contact.

2. Press and hold the message that you want to lock.

3. Tap Lock message on the options menu.

A lock icon ( ) is displayed at the right hand side of the message.

Copying a message to your SIM card

1. On the All messages screen, tap a contact (or phone number) to display the
exchange of messages with that contact.

2. Press and hold a message, and then tap Copy to SIM.

A SIM card icon ( ) is displayed at the right hand side of the message.

Deleting a single message

1. On the All messages screen, tap a contact (or phone number) to display the
exchange of messages with that contact.

2. Press and hold the message that you want to delete.

3. If the message is locked, tap Unlock message on the options menu, and then
press and hold the message to display the options menu again.

4. Tap Delete message on the options menu.

5. When prompted to confirm, tap OK.

Deleting several messages within a conversation

1. On the All messages screen, tap a contact (or phone number) to display the
exchange of messages with that contact.

2. Press MENU and then tap Delete.

3. Delete by selection.

You can also tap Delete by phone number if the contact used multiple phone numbers
throughout the conversation and you want to delete the messages sent from a particular
number.

4. Select the messages you want to delete and then tap Delete.

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Deleting a conversation

1. On the All messages screen, press and hold a contact (or phone number) whose
messages you want to delete, and then tap Delete.

While looking at the exchange of messages in a conversation, you can also press
MENU and then tap Delete > Delete thread.

Any locked messages in the conversation thread will not be deleted unless you
select the Delete locked messages check box.

2. When prompted to confirm, tap OK to delete the entire thread.

Deleting several conversations

1. On the All messages screen, press MENU, and then tap Delete.

2. Select the conversation threads you want to delete.

3. Tap Delete.

Any locked messages will not be deleted.

Setting message options

On the All messages screen, press MENU and then tap Settings. You’ll find several
groups of settings.

Storage settings

Delete old messages Automatically delete older messages, except for locked messages,

when the set limits are reached.

Tex t mes s ag e lim it Choose the maximum number of text messages to store in each

conversation thread (this does not include locked messages).

Multimedia message
limit

Recipient list settings

Show email address Search and display the email addresses of stored contacts when

Choose the maximum number of picture messages to store in each
conversation thread (this does not include locked messages).

you’re adding message recipients.

SMS settings

Delivery reports Receive a report on the delivery status of your message.

Service center Displays the message service center number used. Tap to change

the number. It is recommended that you do not change the number
here for it may cause problems in receiving and sending messages.

Manage SIM card
messages

View text messages stored on your SIM card. You can also delete or
copy these messages to your phone’s memory.

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MMS settings

Delivery reports Receive a report on the delivery status of your message.

Read reports Receive a report whether each recipient has read the message or

deleted it without reading.

Auto-retrieve Automatically retrieve all your picture messages completely. When

selected, the picture message header plus the message body and
attachments will automatically download to your phone. If you
clear this check box, only the picture message header will be
retrieved and shown on the All messages screen.

Roaming auto-retrieve Automatically retrieve all your picture messages completely when

roaming. This may incur significant phone charges.

Priority setting Set the message priority of picture messages sent.

Maximum message
size

Display preview Select to show a preview of the message on the lock screen.

Set the maximum file size of a picture message. The picture
message will not be sent out if it exceeds the file size set here.

Received messages

Received notification Receive a notification in the status bar when a new message

arrives.

Play notification sound Set your phone to play a sound when a new message arrives.

Notification sound Choose a sound that will play when you receive a message.

Vibrate Set your phone to vibrate when a new message arrives.

Sent messages

Sent notification Receive a notification in the status bar when a message is sent

Failure notification Receive a notification in the status bar when a message is not sent

Play notification sound Set your phone to play a sound when a sent or failure notification is

Notification sound Choose a sound that will play when there’s a sent or failure

Vibrate Set your phone to vibrate when a new message arrives.

Display message on
screen

successfully.

successfully.

received.

notification.

Set your phone to show pop-up notifications (not just in the status
bar) when your messages are sent successfully or not. You can also
select None to disable this option.

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Accounts and sync

Synchronizing with online accounts

About online accounts

These are some of the types of information your phone can sync with your online
accounts:

Gmail™, Yahoo!®, and Exchange ActiveSync email.
Google and Exchange ActiveSync contacts, as well as your friends’ contact

information in Facebook®, Twitter™, Qik™, and Yahoo!. For information on
contacts, see the Contacts chapter.

Calendar events from your primary Google Account, from Exchange

ActiveSync, and from your Facebook account. For information on using
Calendar, see the Calendar chapter.

Status updates and links shared by your friends and yourself on social

networks such as Facebook and Twitter. For details, see the Social chapter.

Flickr™ and Facebook photo uploads. For information on viewing photos, see

the Photos, videos, and music chapter.

You can set up an Exchange ActiveSync account on your phone either in the Mail app or the
Accounts & sync setting.

To set it up in the Mail app, see "Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account" in the
Email chapter.

Synchronizing with a Google Account

Signing in to your Google Account lets you sync Gmail and your Google contacts and
calendars between your phone and the Web. You also need to sign in to a Google
Account to use Google apps such as Google Talk™ and Android Market™.

If you skipped signing in to a Google Account when you first set up your phone, you may
encounter problems when using some Google apps. If these problems persist, you may need
to factory reset your phone and enter your Google Account details when you set up the
phone again. To factory reset your phone, see "Restarting or factory resetting your phone" in
the Update and reset chapter.

Adding more Google Accounts

You can add more than one Google Account on your phone. However, subsequent
Google Accounts can only sync contacts, emails, and calendar events. Other Google
services use the first Google Account you added.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

2. Tap Add account > Google.

3. Follow the onscreen instructions to sign in to an account or create a new
account.

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Forgot your Google Account password?

You need your Google Account password to sync Gmail, Calendar, and Google
contacts to your phone. You also need this password to use Google Talk and
download apps from Android Market.

You need your Google Account password to sync Gmail, Calendar, and Google
contacts to your phone. You also need this password to use Google Talk and
download apps from Android Market.

If you have forgotten your Google Account password, you can try to recover it by
going to the Google website.

1. On your phone or computer, open your web browser and go to

https://www.google.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd.

2. Enter the email address or username that you use to sign in to your Google
Account.

3. Complete the word verification process. Enter the characters that you see
onscreen and click Submit.

An email will be sent to the alternate email address you provided when you created
your Google Account. Follow the instructions in the email to reset your password.

If you don’t have an alternate email address or cannot access the email account you
used to create your Google Account, you can reset your Google Account after 24
hours by answering the security question for password recovery.

Adding a social network account and other accounts

If you skipped setting up your social network account such as Facebook, Twitter, or
Flickr or other accounts such as Qik or Yahoo! when you first turned on and set up
your phone, you can still sign in to these accounts through your phone’s settings.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

2. Tap Add account, and then tap the account type you want to add.

3. Follow the onscreen instructions to enter your account information.

Your social network account will be added to the list on the Accounts & sync screen.
Depending on how you set up the account, the new information may start
synchronizing with your phone.

Managing your online accounts

Changing general sync settings

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

2. Select or clear the following:

Background data If this is selected, apps can send and receive online account

information even if you are not currently using them.

Auto-sync If this is selected, apps can use the sync schedule defined in the

account settings. If this is cleared, you will need to sync accounts
manually. For instructions on doing this, see “Synchronizing an
account manually”.

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Synchronizing an account manually

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

2. Tap the account that you want to sync.

3. Tap Sync now.

Changing account settings

You can change settings such as the sync frequency and the types of information
synchronized, the kinds of notification you receive, and the way that account
information is displayed.

1. On the Accounts & sync screen, tap the account that you want to edit.

2. Tap the type of information you want to sync or select an item to edit its
settings.

Removing an account

You can remove an account to delete it and all information associated with it from
your phone, for example messages, contacts, or settings. Removing an account does
not delete information from the online service itself.

You cannot remove some accounts, such as the first Google Account you signed into on the
phone, except by deleting all personal information from your phone with a hard reset. For
instructions on doing this, see "Restarting or factory resetting your phone" in the Update and
reset chapter.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

2. Tap the account that you want to remove.

3. Tap Remove account, and then confirm that you want to remove the account.

About Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist

Use Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist™ to synchronize media files such as photos and
music on your computer with your phone. Multimedia Sync will be installed on your
computer when you first connect your phone (with the microSD card inserted) using
the supplied USB cable with your computer. For more information about the
Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist application, visit the doubleTwist website.

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Facebook for myTouch

If you signed in to your Facebook account when you turned on and set up your phone
for the first time, that means your Facebook account is linked to Facebook for
myTouch on your phone. (If you did not do this, see the Accounts and sync chapter to
find out how to sign in to Facebook for myTouch.)

With Facebook for myTouch, you can:

See all your Facebook contacts and their instant status updates in Contacts.

When you tap a contact on the Contacts tab in
Contacts, slide to the Updates tab to see updates such
as posted status messages, uploads, and profile
changes.

When there is a notification of the contact’s birthday,
you can tap the notification to call the contact directly
or send a message greeting.

See Facebook photos right on the Gallery app.

You can also upload one or more photos from your
storage card to Facebook, then tag and add captions
that go with it.

When you’re viewing the albums of a Facebook friend,
you can also share a link to a particular album, or
comment on the album photos.

To know more about viewing Facebook photos, see the
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Check your friends’ Facebook status updates in Friend Stream. See "Friend

Stream"to find out the things you can do on the Friend Stream app.

Add your Facebook events and your friends’ birthdays to the Calendar app.

See the Calendar chapter for details.

Tweeting on your phone

You can post and read tweets, send and receive direct messages, search for new
Twitter users to follow using the Peep app. Peep is a Twitter client that lets you enjoy
“tweeting” on your phone.

You can also link your contacts in Contacts to their Twitter profiles (if you’re following
them). To find out how, see “Merging contact information” in the Contacts chapter.

If you did not sign in to your Twitter account when you first turned on the phone, you
can add the Twitter for myTou ch account in Settings > Accounts & sync. To find out
how, see “Adding a social network account” in the Accounts and sync chapter.

Twitter for myTouch and Peep share the same login credentials. This means that when you
use Peep on your phone for tweeting, you can also link your contacts to their Twitter profiles
via Twitter for myTouch.

Using Peep

When you tap a tweet in Friend Stream, Peep opens.

1 Tap in this area to compose and send a tweet.

2 Tap a person’s name to check profile details and all of his or her tweets.

3 If you have linked the contact in Contacts, tap the photo or icon to open a menu where you

can quickly choose how to communicate with the contact.

4 Press and hold a tweet to open an options menu to reply, send a direct message, retweet,

and more.

5 All tweets tab. View all the tweets from people you follow and tweets that you have posted.

6 Mentions tab. View all tweets that mention your username using the “@[your username]”

convention.

7 Direct message tab. View all private/direct messages that you have received or sent.

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8 Favorites tab. View tweets that you have marked as favorites.

Sending a tweet

1. On the All tweets tab, tap the box that says “What’s happening?”.

2. Type your tweet.

3. Add a picture or location to your tweet.

 Tap to post a picture from Gallery or Camera to your default photo

hosting site and add the link to the picture in your tweet.

Tap to insert your location into the tweet. You can choose to add a map

link, insert your location name, or insert your position coordinates.

4. Tap Update.

Unfollowing a Twitter user

1. On the Peep screen, tap the name of the Twitter user you want to stop following.

2. Press MENU, and then tap Unfollow.

Sending a direct message

You can only send a direct message to someone who is following you.

1. On the Peep screen, press MENU, and then tap New message.

2. Tap the To field, and then enter the name. As you enter characters, the names of
the Twitter users that match the characters you enter will appear. Tap the name
when you see it.

3. Enter your message, and then tap Update.

4. You can also send a direct message when you press and hold a tweet of the
person you want to send the direct message to, and then tap Send direct

message on the options menu.

Setting Peep options

On the Peep screen, press MENU, and then tap More > Settings. You can set these
options:

Account settings Sign out of your Twitter account.

General settings Choose whether to show the screen name or the real name of the

people you follow.

Send & receive Set the frequency to check for new tweets and set the number of

tweets to download.

Services Set your photo hosting site, photo quality, location options, and

URL shortening host.

Notification settings Select when and how you want to be notified.

About the Twitter widget

Use the Twitter for myTouch widget to send and follow your tweets right on your
Home screen.

To find out how to add a widget to the Home screen, see "Adding a widget" in the
Personalizing chapter.

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Friend Stream

Friend Stream connects you to your social networks. Share and get updates from
friends in popular networks like Facebook and Twitter in a single feed. With Friend
Stream, you can easily track your friends’ status messages, photo uploads,
notifications, and more — or comment and post your own.

You must be signed in to at least one social network account to use Friend

Stream. To find out how, see "Adding a social network account and other
accounts" in the Accounts and sync chapter.

To use your Facebook account on Friend Stream, you need to be signed in via

Facebook for myTouch. See "Facebook for myTouch" in this chapter.

1 Tap in this area to compose and send a status update.

2 If you have linked the contact in Contacts, tap the photo or icon to open a menu where you

can quickly choose how to communicate with the contact.

3 When you tap someone’s status update, you can:

Open Peep and view all tweets. See "Tweeting on your phone" in this chapter.
Write a comment. Like or unlike someone’s Facebook posts.
Look at someone’s album photos.

4 When you tap someone’s name, you can:

Check the person’s profile details.
Look at the person’s Facebook wall.
Check the person’s posted tweets.

5 Slide to the other tabs to view social network updates grouped as status updates only,

photo uploads, links, updates from members of your Facebook list, or social network
notifications.

Updating your status

You can update your status simultaneously on all the social network accounts you are
signed in to.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Friend Stream.

2. On the All tab, tap the box that says “What’s on your mind?”.

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3. Enter your status update.

4. If you do not want to send the status update to all your social network accounts,
tap and clear the check boxes of the social networks to exclude.

5. Tap and then choose what you want to attach to your tweet or status
update.

App recommendation Choose an app you’ve installed from Android Market that you

want to share with others. The URL from which the app can be
downloaded will be inserted to your status.

Picture Select From Camera to take a photo and attach it or From

Gallery to attach a photo from your storage card.

Location Add your current location or a location you pick on a map. See

the Maps and location chapter for details.

6. Tap Share.

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Commenting on and liking Facebook posts

After tapping someone’s status update on the All updates tab, you can do the
following:

1 Tap a photo or the album name shown in the status update to view and comment on the

album photos using the Gallery app. See the Photos, videos, and music chapter.

2 Type what you think about the person’s status update.

3 Like or unlike the person’s status update.

Checking notifications from your social networks

Slide to the Notifications tab to easily see a single feed of your notifications from
different social networks. It can be a comment on your Facebook post, a mention or
direct message in Twitter, a tagged photo of you, and more.

About the Friend Stream widget

Use the Friend Stream widget so you can easily update your status and view other
people’s status updates right on the Home screen.

If you don’t have this widget on your Home screen, see "Adding a widget" in the
Personalizing chapter to find out how to add it to the Home screen.

Chatting in Google Talk

Google Talk is Google’s instant messaging program. It lets you communicate with
other people that also use Google Talk.

If you signed in to your Google Account when you first set up the phone, you are
already signed in to Google Talk.

Chatting with friends

1. From the Home screen, tap > Ta lk .

2. Tap a friend in the Friends list.

3. Enter your message in the text box. You can also insert a smiley by pressing
MENU, and then tapping More > Insert smiley.

4. Tap Send.

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5. While chatting, press MENU and then tap any of these options:

Chat off record Your Google Talk messages are stored in the Chats folder of

your Gmail account. Tap this option if you don’t want to store
your chat messages.

Switch chats If you have more than one chat going, tap this to switch chat

with another friend.

Friends list Return to the Friends list.

Add chat Add another friend to your chat. The friend you invited and

the friend your currently chatting with receive an invitation to
a group chat. Each one who accepts the invitation joins the
group chat.

End chat End your current chat.

More Clear the chat history, insert a smiley or view your friend’s

contact details.

Accepting chat invitations

When a friend sends you a Google Talk message, you receive a notification. Their
entry in the Friends list turns white and displays the message.

Do one of the following:

In the Friends list, tap the friend who sent you the invitation to chat.
Open the Notifications panel, and then tap the chat notification. See

"Opening the Notifications panel" in the Getting started chapter.

Changing your online status and picture

1. From the Home screen, tap > Ta lk .

2. In the Friends list, tap your name to open the Set Status screen.

3. Enter your new status message, or press BACK to choose a custom status from
the list.

4. Tap the online status beside your picture, and then select the status you want on
the menu.

5. Tap your picture, and then tap Remove to remove your photo, or Change to
select another picture on the storage card. Note that if you’ve selected a big
picture, you will be asked to crop it.

6. Tap Done.

Your online status, message, and picture appear in your contact’s Friends lists and in
other apps where your Google Talk status are displayed.

Adding and managing friends

The Friends list is where you add and manage your friends in Google Talk.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Ta lk .

2. In the Friends list, do any of the following.

Invite a friend 1 Press MENU, and then tap Add friend.

2 Enter the Google Talk instant messaging ID or Gmail address

of the friend you want to add.

3 Tap Send invitation.

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View all friends Initially, only those friends that you often chat with — the most

popular — are shown in the Friends list. To view all your
friends, press MENU, and then tap All friends. To view only
friends that you often chat with, press MENU, and then tap

Most popular.

Make a friend popular 1 Press MENU, and then tap All friends.

2 Press and hold a friend’s name, and then tap Always show

friend.

Block a friend You can block a friend from sending you messages. When

blocked, your friend is removed from the Friends list and is

added to the blocked friends list.
1 Press MENU, and then tap All friends.
2 Press and hold a friend’s name, and then tap Block friend.

Unblock a friend 1 Press MENU, and then tap More > Blocked.

2 Tap the name of the blocked friend, and then tap OK.

View all invited
friends

Press MENU, and then tap More > Invites. Friends who have

not yet accepted your invitation are listed in the screen.

Changing the settings and signing out

1. From the Home screen, tap > Ta lk .

2. In the Friends list, press MENU and then tap:

Settings to change the app and notification settings.
Sign out to sign out from Google Talk.

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Using Gmail

Gmail is Google’s web-based email service. When you first set up your phone, make
sure you sign into your Google Account so you can send and receive Gmail messages.
If you didn’t do so, go to the Accounts & sync setting to sign in.

You can also set up more than one Google Account on your phone, and then switch
between accounts in Gmail. To find out how to set up several Google Accounts, see
"Adding more Google Accounts" in the Accounts and sync chapter.

Viewing your Gmail Inbox

The Inbox conversations list is your default Gmail view. All your received emails are
delivered to your Inbox.

Gmail groups each message you send with all the responses you receive. This
conversation list continues to grow as new replies arrive, so you can always see your
messages in context. A new message or a change to the subject of a current message
will begin a new conversation.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail. Your inbox appears.

2. Do any of the following:

View more email messages If the Inbox is full, swipe your finger up the screen to

view more messages and conversations.

Read a new email message Tap the unread message or the conversation with an

unread message (just arrived items display in bold). For
more information, see "Reading and replying to an email
message".

Select messages and
conversations

View the Inbox of your other
Gmail account

Refresh the Inbox Press MENU, and then tap Refresh.

Tap the box ( ) before the email or conversation.

Press MENU, tap Accounts, and then tap the account
you want to view.

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Sending a new message

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox, press MENU and then tap Compose.

3. Enter the message recipient’s email address in the To field. If you are sending the
email to several recipients, separate the email addresses with a comma.

As you enter email addresses, any matching addresses from your contacts list
are displayed. Tap a match to enter that address directly.

If you want to send a carbon copy (Cc) or a blind carbon copy (Bcc) of the email to other
recipients, press MENU and then tap Add Cc/Bcc.

4. Enter the email subject, and then compose your email.

5. If you want to attach a picture, press MENU and then tap Attach. Locate and
then tap the picture you want to attach.

6. After composing your message, tap Send.

While composing the message, tap Save as draft or press the BACK button to save it as a

draft. To view your draft email messages, in the Inbox, press MENU and then tap Go to
labels > Drafts.

To view your sent messages, in the Inbox, press MENU and then tap Go to labels > Sent.

Reading your messages

Depending on your notification settings, the phone plays a ringtone or vibrates when
you receive a new email. A new email icon ( ) also appears on the notifications
area of the status bar to tell you that you have a new email. For more information on
email notification settings, refer to "Changing Gmail settings" later in this chapter.

1. Press and hold the status bar, and then slide down your finger on the screen to
open the Notifications panel.

2. Tap the new email.

3. In the Inbox, tap the unread email or the conversation with the unread email to
view it.

4. On the email message or conversation, do any of the following:

 Scroll through the messages in the conversation by swiping your finger up

or down the screen.

If you have two or more email messages in the conversation, tap

to expand all message headers in the conversation.

 Tap the star ( ) to star the message. See "Searching and organizing your

emails" for more information.

 If the sender is a friend in Google Talk, check the button ( ) before the

star in the message header to know your friend’s online status.

 Ta p Archive to remove the conversation from your Inbox and transfer it to

the All mail folder in your Google Account.

Ta p Delete to delete the conversation from your Inbox.

If you’ve archived or deleted a conversation by accident, tap Undo at the top of the

conversations list. The conversation is returned to your Inbox.

To view your archived or deleted messages, in the Inbox, press MENU and then tap Go to

labels > All Mail (for archived messages) or Trash (for deleted messages).

Tap or to see the previous or next conversation in your Inbox.
Press MENU to see more options.

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Replying to or forwarding an email message

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox, tap the email message or conversation.

If the email message is long, swipe your finger up the screen.

3. Tap Reply, Reply to all, or Forward.

4. Do one of the following:

If you selected Reply or Reply to all, enter your reply message.
If you selected Forward, specify the message recipients.

5. Tap Send.

Searching and organizing your emails

Searching for messages

You can search for messages that contain one or more words in their contents or in
their addresses, subjects, labels, and so on. When you search for messages, all of the
messages in your Gmail account on the web are included (except those labeled Trash
or Spam), not just those that you’ve synchronized onto your phone.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox, press MENU, and then tap Search.

3. Enter the word or words to search for.

4. Tap , or tap on the keyboard.

A conversation list opens, displaying all of the conversations with messages that
contain the words you searched for. The words you searched for are displayed below
the status bar. You work with the conversations in this list just as you would with the
conversations in your Inbox or any other conversation list.

Starring an email message or conversation

You can star an important message or a conversation so that you can easily find it
again. To view just starred messages or conversations with starred messages, see
"Filtering conversations" in this chapter.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. Do one of the following:

 In the Inbox, tap the star ( ) to the right of the conversation subject to

star the latest message in the conversation. Conversations with starred
messages are displayed with a star in your Inbox and in other conversation
lists.

 In the inbox, tap a conversation and then go to the message that you want

to star. Touch the star ( ) in the message header.

To unstar a message or conversation, touch its star again. You can also tap a star in a
conversation list to unstar all messages in that conversation.

Labeling a conversation

You can organize conversations by labeling them. Gmail has several preset labels you
can use, and you can also add your own labels, using Gmail on the web.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. Tap a conversation to view the messages in it.

3. Press MENU and then tap Change labels.

4. Select the labels that you want to assign to the conversation, and then tap OK.

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Filtering conversations

You can choose to display conversations that have the same label or only those that
are starred.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox or in another conversation list, press MENU, and then tap
Go to labels.

3. Tap a label to view a list of conversations bearing that label.

The conversation list resembles your Inbox, but the label replaces “Inbox” below the
status bar. You work with labeled conversations lists in the same way as with your
Inbox.

Cleaning up your Inbox

You can clean up your Inbox by archiving, deleting, or muting conversations. You can
also report a conversation as spam to stop receiving any future messages from that
sender.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox, tap the box ( ) before the conversations you want to work on,
and then do any of the following:

Delete Ta p Delete.

If you’ve deleted the conversation by accident,
tap Undo at the top of the screen to move the
conversation back to the Inbox.

Archive Ta p Archive.

If you’ve archived the conversation by accident,
tap Undo at the top of the screen to move the
conversation back to the Inbox.

Mute Press MENU, and then tap Mute.

If you ‘mute’ a conversation, you will not receive
any future messages for that conversation

Report as spam Press MENU, and then tap Report spam.

The Gmail webmail service works hard to prevent
spam (unwanted and unsolicited “junk” mail)
from reaching your Inbox. But when spam makes
it through, you can help improve the service by
reporting the conversation as spam.

Changing Gmail settings

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox, press MENU and then tap More > Settings.

3. Set the following options:

Signature Enter a signature that automatically appears at the end of

your email messages.

Confirm actions Show a confirmation box when you archive, delete or send

a conversation.

Auto-advance Select which conversation to display after you delete or

archive a conversation.

Message text size Adjust the size of text in your email messages.

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Batch operations When selected, this adds a check box to the left of each

conversation so you can add it to a batch.

Clear search history Remove the searches you have performed.

Labels Set how many days and which Gmail labels to synchronize.

See "Changing Gmail synchronization settings" in this
chapter.

Email notifications Show a notification icon on the status bar when you receive

a new email.

Select ringtone Choose a notification sound for new email messages.

Vibrate Make your phone vibrate when you receive a new email

message.

Notify once When cleared, you are notified every time you receive a

new email message.

Changing Gmail synchronization settings

1. From the Home screen, tap > Gmail.

2. In the Inbox, press MENU, and then tap More > Settings > Labels.

3. To set the number of days to synchronize, tap Number of days to sync.

4. To set synchronization for a particular message label, tap the label, and then
select whether you want messages bearing that label to sync according to the
default number of days you selected earlier, sync all, or sync none of them.

Using Mail

Use the Mail app to add your webmail and other POP3 or IMAP email accounts. You
can also set up and use your Exchange ActiveSync email on your phone.

Adding a POP3/IMAP email account

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. Do one of the following:

 If this is your first time to add an email account in Mail, tap Other (POP3/

IMAP) on the Choose a mail provider screen.

If you’ve already added an email account in Mail, press MENU, and then tap

More > New account. If the Choose a mail provider screen is displayed, tap
Other (POP3/IMAP).

3. Enter the email address and password for your email account and then tap Next.

4. If the account type you want to set up is not in the phone database, you’ll be
asked to enter more details.

5. Enter the account name and your name and then tap Finish setup.

Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account

You can add one or more Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts on your phone.
You can sync with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later.

You can add up to 15 Exchange ActiveSync accounts on your phone.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. Do one of the following:

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 If this is your first time to add an email account in Mail, tap Microsoft

Exchange ActiveSync on the Choose a mail provider screen.

If you’ve already added an email account in Mail, press MENU, and then tap

More > New account. If the Choose a mail provider screen is displayed, tap
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.

3. Enter the Exchange ActiveSync account details, and then tap Next. Your
corporate Exchange Server must support auto-detect for the phone to
automatically set up the Exchange ActiveSync account. If your corporate
Exchange Server does not support auto-detect, you will need to enter your
Exchange Server settings after you tap Next. Ask your Exchange Server
administrator for details.

4. Choose the types of information you want to sync, and then tap Finish setup.

Checking your Mail inbox

When you open the Mail app, it displays the inbox of one of your email accounts that
you’ve set up on your phone. To switch between email accounts, tap the bar that
shows the current email account, and then tap another account.

Viewing the unified inbox of all your email accounts

You can view email from all your accounts just in one place without having to switch
to different accounts.

Just tap the bar that shows the current email account, and then tap All accounts.

Up to 15 email accounts can be shown in the unified inbox.

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Different views of your inbox

If you have lots of email messages, it may take you some time to browse through the
long list and find a single email or related email messages. To skim through your email
messages easier, tap one of the following tabs to change the view of your inbox:

Displays email messages as individual items.

Displays all email messages from your Faves.

Displays unread messages.

Displays all messages that have attachments.

Displays email messages as conversations, grouped according to the subject
line. Tap a subject in the list to show the email conversation.

Refreshing your email account

Whatever your automatic synchronization settings are, you can also synchronize your
sent and received emails manually at any time.

While in the account you want to sync, press MENU, and then tap Refresh.
If you have several email accounts, you can refresh them all at the same time.

Go to the unified inbox first. Then press MENU and tap Refresh.
To find out how to display the unified inbox, see "Viewing the unified inbox of
all your email accounts".

Sorting email messages

You can sort email messages by date received, priority, subject, sender, or size.

On the email account inbox, press MENU, tap Sort, and select from the sorting
options.

Quickly browsing your inbox

If have a long list of email messages in your inbox, it may not be easy to browse the
list and find an email that you want.

You can quickly browse through your inbox by using finger gestures.

1. Choose a sorting order for displaying your email messages. See "Sorting email
messages".

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2. Press and hold your two fingers on any email message, and then slightly drag
downward without lifting your fingers.

Your screen then jumps to the next or previous set of email messages based on your
chosen sorting order. For instance:

If your email messages are arranged by date, your screen jumps to the email

messages received on the previous or next date, depending on your sorting
order.

If your email messages are arranged alphabetically by sender name or

subject, your screen jumps to the previous or next sender or subject,
depending on what’s your sorting order.

Managing email messages

Deleting an email message

1. On the inbox, press and hold the message you want to delete.

2. On the options menu, tap Delete.

Selecting several email messages

1. Tap the check boxes of email messages to select them.

2. Choose what you want to do with the selected messages: Mark unread/read,
Delete, or Move to.

You cannot move email messages when you’re in the unified (All accounts) inbox.

Moving several email messages to another folder

1. Switch to the email account you want to use.

2. Go to Inbox tab or any other tab (except for the Conversations tab).

3. Tap the check boxes of email messages you want to move.

4. Tap Move to, and then tap the folder where to move the email messages.

Moving an email message after reading

In the open message, press MENU, and then tap More > Move to.

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Deleting all messages

1. First tap the check box of any email message.

2. Press MENU, and then tap Select all.

3. Tap Delete.

Switching to other mail folders

1. Without any email message selected, press MENU, and then tap Folders.

2. Tap the mail folder whose messages you want to view.

Sending an email message

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. Switch to the email account that you want to use for sending email.

3. On the email account inbox, tap Compose mail.

4. Fill in one or more recipients. You can:

 Enter email addresses directly in the To field, separating them with a

comma. As you enter email addresses, any matching addresses from your
contacts list are displayed. Tap a match to enter that address directly.

 Tap the icon, and then choose the contacts to whom you want to send

the message. You can also select contact groups as recipients, or add
contacts from the company directory if you have set up an Exchange
ActiveSync account on your phone. When you have selected all the
message recipients, tap OK.

If you want to send a carbon copy (Cc) or a blind carbon copy (Bcc) of the email to other
recipients, press MENU, and then tap Show Cc/Bcc.

5. Enter the subject, and then compose your message.

6. To add an attachment, press MENU, tap Attach, and choose from the following
options:

Picture Select Camera to take a photo and attach it, or Gallery to

attach a photo from your storage card.

Video Select Camcorder to capture a video and attach it, or

Videos to attach a video from your storage card.

Audio Select Voice Recorder to make a voice recording and

attach it, or Files to attach a music file or voice recording
from your storage card.

App recommendation Choose an app you’ve installed from Android Market that

you want to tell other people about. The URL from which
the app can be downloaded will be inserted in your email.

Location You can attach location information. Send your current

location (requires GPS to be turned on) or a location you
pick on a map. For more information, see the "Maps and
location" chapter.

Document Attach a PDF file or an Office document such as a text file

or a spreadsheet.

Contact (vCard) Attach someone’s contact information.

Appointment (vCalendar) Attach a calendar event.

File Attach any file from your storage card.

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7. Tap Send to send the message immediately, or tap Save as draft to send it later.

If there’s no Wi-Fi or data connection available or Airplane mode is on when you send your
email, the email will be saved to the Outbox folder. Once there’s Wi-Fi or data connection
available, the saved email will be sent automatically next time your phone syncs.

Resuming a draft email message

1. In the email account inbox, press MENU, and then tap Folders > Drafts.

2. Tap the message.

3. When you finish editing the message, tap Send.

Reading and replying to an email message

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. Switch to the email account you want to use.

3. On the email account inbox, tap the email you want to read.

4. Do any of the following:

Reply to the message Ta p Reply or Reply all.

Forward the message Press MENU, and then tap More > Forward.

Delete the message Press MENU, and then tap Delete.

Mark the message as unread Press MENU, and then tap Mark unread.

Setting the priority for an email message

You can set the priority for an email message that you send.

1. While composing the message, press MENU.

2. Tap Set priority.

3. Select the priority for the message.

If you selected High or Low priority, the priority appears below the subject line of the
message.

Working with Exchange ActiveSync email

If you sync your phone with your work Exchange ActiveSync account, you can read,
reply, send, and manage email in the same easy way as with a POP3/IMAP account. In
addition, you can also use some powerful Exchange features.

To find out how you can set up your Exchange ActiveSync account, see "Adding a
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account" in this chapter.

Flagging an email

While viewing the inbox, tap the white flag icon that appears on the right of an
email message. The icon turns red after you flagged the email.

While reading an email, you can also tap the flag icon in the email.

Setting out of the office status

You can set your out of office status and auto-reply message right from your phone.

1. Switch to your Exchange ActiveSync account.

2. Press MENU and then tap More > Out of the office.

3. Tap the box, and then select Out of the office.

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4. Set the dates and times for the period when you will be out of the office.

5. Enter the auto-reply message.

6. Tap Save.

Sending a meeting request

1. Switch to your Exchange ActiveSync account.

2. Press MENU, and then tap More > New Meeting invitations.

3. Enter the meeting details,

4. Tap Send.

Changing email account settings

1. Switch to the email account whose settings you want to change.

2. Press MENU and then tap More > Settings.

3. Select from the following:

Account settings Change the email account settings such as the name, email

address, password, and description.

General settings Set the font size when reading emails, enable, disable or set

the signature, set the account as the default email account,
and set where to save email attachments.

Send & Receive Set the maximum email file size limit when receiving and

frequency to check for new emails and how many to check
for. You can also set to have emails that you send bcc’d to
yourself.

Notification settings Set email notification settings.

Delete account Tap to delete the email account.

4. Press BACK to save your changes.

Deleting an email account

1. Switch to the email account you want to delete.

2. Press MENU, and then tap More > Settings > Delete account.

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Calendar

About Calendar

Never miss an important date again. Use your phone’s Calendar to schedule your
events, meetings, and appointments.

You can set up your phone to stay in sync with the following types of calendars:

On your phone, sign in to your Google Account so you’ll be able to sync your

phone’s Calendar with your Google Calendar online. You can add multiple
Google accounts. If you have not signed in to your Google Account yet, see
the Accounts and sync chapter to find out how to sign in.

If you have a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account and you have added it

on your phone, you can sync your phone’s Calendar with your Exchange
ActiveSync calendar events. See the Email and Accounts and sync chapters
for details.

If you’ve signed in to your social network accounts such as Facebook, birthdays and
events of friends from your social networks will appear in Calendar. To find out how to
sign in to your social networks, see "Adding a social network account and other
accounts" in the Accounts and sync chapter.

Creating calendar events

You can create events that appear on your phone only, as well as events that sync
with your Google Calendar, your computer’s Outlook Calendar, or Exchange
ActiveSync calendar.

1. On the Home screen, tap Calendar.

2. On any Calendar view, press MENU and then tap New event.

When you are in the Month or Agenda view, you can also tap at the bottom-right of the
screen to create a new event.

3. If you have more than one calendar, select a calendar in which to add the event:

Select your Google Account to create a Google Calendar event. If you have

several Google Calendars on the Web, select one in which to add your
event.

 Select PC Sync to create an Outlook Calendar event to sync with your

computer.

 Select your Exchange ActiveSync account to create an Exchange

ActiveSync calendar event.

4. Enter a name for the event.

5. To specify the date and time of the event, do one of the following:

If there is a time frame for the event, tap the From and To date and time to

set them.

 If it is a special occasion such as a birthday or a whole-day event, set the

From and To date, then select the All day check box.

6. Enter the event location and description.

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7. Set the reminder time.

You can add another reminder time in a Google Calendar event. Press MENU and then tap
Add reminder.

8. If the event occurs on a regular basis, tap the Repetition box and then choose
how often the event occurs.

9. Tap Save.

Inviting guests to your event (Google Account only)

If you want to invite guests to your event, you need to create and add the event in
your Google Calendar. An invitation email will be sent to your guests using your
Google Account.

1. Open Calendar and create a new event. Tap the Calendar field and then select
your Google Account (or one of your other Google Calendars). For the steps, see
"Creating calendar events" for details.

2. Add details about the event, such as date and time, location, and more.

3. In the Guests field, enter the email addresses of everyone you want to invite to
the event. Separate multiple addresses with commas ( , ).

If the people to whom you send invitations use Google Calendar, they’ll receive
an invitation in Calendar and by email.

4. Tap Save to add the event to your Google Calendar.

Sending a meeting request using Calendar (Exchange ActiveSync only)

If you have an Exchange ActiveSync account set up on your phone, you can use
Calendar to create a meeting appointment and send a meeting request email to the
people you want to invite to your meeting.

1. Open Calendar and create a new event. Tap the Calendar field and then select
your Exchange ActiveSync account. For the steps, see "Creating calendar
events" for details.

2. Add details about the meeting, such as date and time, location, and more.

3. Press MENU and then tap Meeting Invitation.

4. Tap and choose attendees from your contacts or Company directory.

5. Enter your message and then tap Send.

Changing calendar views

When you open Calendar, it displays the Month view by default. You can also display
the Calendar in Agenda, Day, or Week view. To change between calendar views, press
MENU, and then choose the type of view that you want.

Month view

In Month view, you’ll see markers on days that have events.

When in Month view:

Tap on the bottom left of the screen to switch to Agenda view. Tap

on the bottom right to create a new event.

Tap a day to view the events of that day.
Press and hold a day to open an options menu from which you can also

choose to create an event or switch to either Day or Agenda view.

Slide your finger up or down the screen to view earlier or later months.

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Day and Agenda views

Day view displays a list of the events of one day and also shows weather information
at the bottom of the screen when you’re viewing events of the current day. Agenda
view shows a list of all your events in chronological order.

The color bars on the left side of the events indicate the type of calendar in which the
event is part of. To find out what each color represents, press MENU and then tap
More > Calendars.

When in Day view, slide left or right across the screen to view earlier or later days.

In Day view, the weather information appears only if the event is within the five-day

forecast of the Weather app.

Weather information does not appear in Day view when you change Day view to display as

a time list. See "Changing Calendar settings" for details.

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Week view

Week view displays a chart of the events of one week.

When in Week view:

You can press and hold on a time slot to create a new event at that time.
Tap an event to view its details.
Slide left or right across the screen to view earlier or later weeks.

Managing calendar events

You can view, edit, delete, or share events that you created. You can also view and
share event invitations that other people sent to you.

Viewing an event

1. On the Home screen, tap Calendar.

2. In Month view, tap the day when the event takes place, and then tap the event to
open it.

3. The Event details screen then opens and shows the summary of the event.

When viewing the event summary, you can do the following:

Find the event’s location in Maps.
Call any phone number included in the event location or description.
Check the participants of the event you sent or are invited to.
Respond whether you’ll attend the event you’re invited to.
If it’s an Exchange ActiveSync calendar meeting event, reply by email to the

organizer or to all the guests. Press MENU, and then either tap Reply or
Reply all.

Tap the reminder time to change it. Press BACK to save changes.

Editing an event

1. While viewing an event, press MENU, and then tap Edit event.

2. Make your changes to the event.

3. When you’re done editing, tap Save.

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Deleting an event

There are a number of ways to delete an event.

While viewing the summary of an event on the Event details screen, press

MENU and then tap Delete event.

In Day, Agenda or Week view, press and hold an event and then tap Delete.
When editing an event, scroll down to the bottom of screen and then tap

Delete.

If the event repeats, you’ll be asked whether you want to delete just that occurrence,
this and all future occurrences, or all past and future occurrences in your Calendar.

Sharing an event (vCalendar)

You can share a calendar event as a vCalendar to someone’s phone using Bluetooth
or by sending it as a file attachment with your email or message.

1. While viewing an event, press MENU, and then tap Share.

2. Do one of the following:

 Ta p Bluetooth. you’ll be asked to turn on Bluetooth on your phone and

connect to the receiving Bluetooth device. Follow the steps in "Sending
information using Bluetooth" in the Bluetooth chapter.

 Tap Mail. A new message window opens and automatically includes the

vCalendar as an attachment. Your default email account that’s selected in
the Mail app will be used to send. For more information, see the Email
chapter.

Tap Message. A new message window opens and automatically includes the

vCalendar as a picture message (MMS) attachment. For more information,
see the Messages chapter.

Calendar event reminders

If you have set at least one reminder for an event, the upcoming event icon will
appear in the notifications area of the status bar to remind you of the upcoming
event.

Dismissing or snoozing event reminders

1. Tap the status bar, then slide your finger down the screen to open the
Notifications panel.

2. Do one of the following:

Ta p Clear to dismiss event reminders and all other notifications. Other types

of notifications such as new messages and missed calls will also be deleted.

 After sliding open the Notifications panel, tap the calendar event reminder.

You’ll then see a list of all pending event reminders. Tap Snooze all to
snooze all event reminders for five minutes, or tap Dismiss all to dismiss all
event reminders.

 Press BACK to keep the reminders pending in the notifications area of the

status bar.

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Displaying and synchronizing calendars

You can select which calendars to show or hide on your phone’s Calendar, and which
ones to keep synchronized.

Showing or hiding calendars

In any Calendar view, press MENU, tap More > Calendars, and then select or clear a
calendar to show or hide it. Tap All calendars to display all calendars.

The calendars are kept synchronized on your phone, whether or not you hide them.

Choosing which Google Calendars are synchronized on your phone

You can choose which Google Calendars to keep synchronized on your phone or
which ones to stop synchronizing.

Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar

1. In any Calendar view, press MENU and then tap More > Calendars.

2. Press MENU again and then tap Remove calendars.

3. Select a Google Calendar to remove from your calendars list, and then tap OK.

4. Press BACK to update Calendar with the new changes and return to the
Calendar view you were viewing.

The calendars that you remove from your calendars list will no longer be synchronized
on your phone, but you remain subscribed to them and can work with them in Google
Calendar on the Web.

Adding a Google Calendar to sync with

Only the calendars that you’ve created or subscribed to on the Web, but previously
removed from your calendars list, are shown in the list of calendars that you can add.

1. In any Calendar view, press MENU and then tap More > Calendars.

2. Press MENU again and then tap Add calendars.

3. Select a Google Calendar to add to your calendars list, and then tap OK.

4. Press BACK to update Calendar with the new changes and return to the
Calendar view you were viewing.

Changing Calendar settings

You can change Calendar settings to specify how it displays events and how it notifies
you of upcoming events. In any Calendar view, press MENU and then tap More >

Settings to access Calendar’s settings.

Reminder settings

Choose how you want Calendar to issue event reminders when there are upcoming
events.

All calendars Select this check box to use the same event reminder settings for

all types of calendars. If you clear this check box, you can set
different reminder settings for each calendar.

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Set alerts & notifications Configure event reminders to open an alert, send you a

notification, or turn off event notifications on your phone.

Default reminder time Choose how soon before an event you want to be notified.

Select ringtone Choose a ringtone to sound when you receive an event reminder.

Vibrate Choose whether you want your phone to vibrate when you

receive an event notification.

Hide declined events Choose whether to show or hide events to which you’ve declined

invitations.

Calendar view settings

Choose what appears in Calendar when opened and what’s shown in Day, Week, and
Month views.

Start in Choose the default Calendar view that is displayed when you

open Calendar.

Day views Choose whether to display Day view in the form of an event list

or time list.

First day of week Set the Month and Week views to start on a Sunday or Monday.

Include weather Make sure this check box is selected so that weather information

is shown in Day view’s event list.

City By default, Day view displays your current location’s weather.

You can change it to display the weather of another city.

About the Calendar widget

There’s a Calendar widget available that you can add to your Home screen, and it
comes in different calendar views. Tapping a day or event on the widget brings you to
the Calendar app. To find out how you can add a widget, see "Adding a widget" in the
Personalizing chapter.

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Clock and Weather

About the Clock app

Get more from the Clock app than just the regular date and time. Use your phone as a
desk clock complete with weather information. Or let it serve as a night clock or a
screensaver. As a world clock, see what time it is in several cities across the globe. You
could also use it as an alarm clock, stopwatch, and countdown timer.

To open the Clock app, on the Home screen, tap > Clock.

Tap the tabs at the bottom row or slide your finger across the tabs to switch between
the different functions of the Clock app.

Using Desk Clock

Opening the Clock app brings you directly to the Desk Clock screen.

The Desk Clock displays the current date, time, and weather. It also an alarm clock
indicator and a battery charging indicator. You can dim the screen to show only the
time and date on the Desk Clock.

1 Tap to dim the screen and go into screensaver mode. When in screensaver mode, the

time and date will change position on the screen after every few minutes. To light up
the screen again, tap anywhere on the screen or press the BACK button on your phone.

2 Tap to dim the screen and display only the time and date on the Desk Clock. To light up

the screen again, tap anywhere on the screen or press the BACK button on your phone.

3 Shows the battery charge level. You’ll see it only when your phone is plugged with the

power adapter or connected to your computer.

4 Shows the weather information of your current location. Tapping it brings you to the

Weather app where you can see weather forecasts of the next few days. See "Checking
weather" for more information about the Weather app.

5 Shows whether the alarm clock is on or off. To find out how to turn on and set the

alarm clock, see "Setting the alarm clock" for details.

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You can change the Desk Clock screen to display the date and time of another time
zone. To find out how to select a different time zone, see "Setting the time zone, date,
and time".

Using World Clock

Use the Clock app’s World Clock screen to check the current time in several places
around the globe simultaneously. You can also set your home city, add more cities to
the world clock list, and manually set your time zone, date, and time.

Setting your home city

1. From the Home screen, tap > Clock.

2. Tap the World Clock tab.

3. Press MENU and then tap Home settings.

4. Enter your home city’s name. As you enter letters, the list is filtered to show
matching cities and countries.

5. Scroll through the list and tap your home city.

Setting the time zone, date, and time

To set the time zone, date, and time on your phone manually, you need to turn off
auto time synchronization first.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Clock.

2. Tap the World Clock tab.

3. Press MENU and then tap Local time settings to open the Date & time settings
screen.

4. Clear the Automatic check box.

5. Tap Select time zone. Scroll through the list and then tap the time zone that you
want.

6. To change the date, tap Set date. Adjust the date by rolling the day, month, and
year scroll wheels onscreen and then tap OK.

7. To change the time, tap Set time. Adjust the time by rolling the hour and minute
scroll wheels onscreen and then tap OK.

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8. Tap the Use 24-hour format check box to toggle between using a 12-hour or a
24-hour time format.

9. Tap Select date format then select how you want dates to be displayed. (The
selected date format also applies to the date displayed in the alarm clock.)

From the Home screen, you can also press MENU and then tap Settings > Date & time to
open the Date & time settings screen.

Adding a city to the World Clock screen

Add more cities to the World Clock screen so you can instantly check the date and
time in these cities. In addition to the current and home cities, the World Clock screen
can display up to 15 cities.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Clock.

2. Tap the World Clock tab.

3. Tap Add city. Enter the city name you want to add. As you enter letters, the list is
filtered to show matching cities and countries.

4. Scroll through the matching list and tap the city that you want to add.

Setting the alarm clock

You can use the Clock app’s Alarms screen to set up one or more wake-up alarms.

Setting an alarm

1. From the Home screen, tap > Clock.

2. Tap the Alarms tab.

3. Select the check box of an alarm. and then tap that alarm.

4. On the Set alarm screen, drag your finger up or down to roll the time scroll
wheels and set the alarm time.

5. Scroll through the Set alarms screen to see all the available alarm options. You
can:

Enter the alarm Description and choose the Alarm sound to use.
 Ta p Repeat. Select what days of the week to sound the alarm and then tap

OK.

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 Select the Vibrate check box if you want your phone to also vibrate when

the alarm goes off.

6. When you’ve finished setting the alarm, tap Done.

To turn off an alarm, tap (clear) the check box of that alarm.
If you need to set more than three alarms, press MENU while you’re on the Alarms screen

and then tap Add alarm.

Deleting an alarm

1. From the Home screen, tap > Clock.

2. Tap the Alarms tab.

3. On the Alarms screen, press MENU and then tap Delete.

4. Select the alarms you want to delete and then tap Delete.

Changing alarm sound settings

If you’ve set one or more alarms, you can change their settings such as the alarm
volume, how long to snooze the alarm, and more.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Clock.

2. Tap the Alarms tab.

3. On the Alarms screen, press MENU and then tap Settings. You can change the
following settings:

Alarm in silent mode Selected by default, this option allows the alarm to

sound even when your phone’s volume is set to silent
mode. Clear this check box if you want to silence the
alarm when the volume is in silent mode.

Alarm volume Set the volume level that you want for the alarm.

Snooze duration Set how long to snooze between alarms.

Side button behavior Choose what happens to the alarm when pressing

the side button (VOLUME UP/DOWN) of your
phone. You can set the button to snooze, dismiss the
alarm, or disable the button.
The side button works only when the phone’s screen
is not locked. While on the lock screen, tap the
onscreen Snooze button to snooze, or slide down
the screen to dismiss the alarm.

Checking weather

You can use the Weather widget to check the current weather and weather forecasts
for the next four days of the week. In addition to your current location’s weather, this
widget also displays the weather forecasts of other cities around the globe.

If you declined to turn location service on during first-time setup of your phone, turn location
service on in your phone’s settings so that you’ll be able to check your current location’s
weather on the Weather widget. From the Home screen, press MENU, tap Settings >
Location, and then select the Use wireless networks check box.

1. Connect to the Internet using your phone’s Wi-Fi or data connection. To find out
how, see the Internet connections chapter.

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2. On the Home screen, slide to the panel where the Weather widget is located.

3. On the Weather widget, you’ll first see your current location’s weather. To check
the weather in other cities, swipe your finger up or down the screen.

4. The Weather widget automatically downloads and displays the latest weather
updates. Tap bottom bar that shows the time to update the information anytime.

Adding a city to the Weather widget

Add more cities to the Weather widget so you can instantly check the weather
forecasts in these cities.

1. On the Home screen, slide to the panel where the Weather widget is located,
and then tap the widget.

2. On the Weather screen, tap .

You can also open the Weather screen through the Clock and Desk dock apps. In Clock, tap
the weather part in the middle of the screen. In Desk dock, tap Weath er.

3. Enter the location you want to add. As you type, the list is filtered to show the
possible locations based on the letters you entered.

4. Tap the desired city to select it.

Changing the order of cities on the Weather widget

1. On the Home screen, slide to the panel where the Weather widget is located,
and then tap the widget.

2. On the Weather screen, press MENU and then tap Rearrange.

You can also open the Weather screen through the Clock and Desk dock apps. In Clock, tap
the weather part in the middle of the screen. In Desk dock, tap Weath er.

3. Press and hold at the end of the item you want to move. When the row is
highlighted in green, drag it to its new position, then release.

4. Tap Done.

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Deleting cities from the Weather widget

1. On the Home screen, slide to the panel where the Weather widget is located,
and then tap the widget.

2. On the Weather screen, press MENU and then tap Delete.

You can also open the Weather screen through the Clock and Desk dock apps. In Clock, tap
the weather part in the middle of the screen. In Desk dock, tap Weath er.

3. Select the cities you want to remove and then tap Delete.

Changing weather options

1. On the Home screen, slide to the panel where the Weather widget is located,
and then tap the widget.

2. On the Weather screen, press MENU and then tap Settings.

3. You can change the following weather settings:

Update automatically Select this check box to automatically download

weather updates.

Update schedule Set an auto update schedule.

Te m pe rat u re sc a le Choose whether to display weather in Celsius or

Fahrenheit.

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Internet connections

Data connection

Your phone will be automatically set up to use T-Mobile’s data connection when you
turn on your phone (if the SIM card is inserted) for the first time.

Turning the data connection on or off

Turning your data connection off can help save battery life and save money on data
charges. However, if you don’t have data connection turned on and you’re also not
connected to a Wi-Fi network, you won’t receive automatic updates to your email,
social network accounts, and other synchronized information.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks.

3. Select the Mobile network check box to turn on the data connection; clear the
check box to turn off the data connection.

Enabling data roaming

Connect to T-Mobile’s partner networks and access data services when you’re out of
your mobile operator’s coverage area.

Using data services while roaming will be costly. Check with T-Mobile for data roaming rates
before you use data roaming.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks > Mobile networks, and then select the Data roaming
check box.

Select the Data roaming sound check box if you’d like your phone to play a
sound so you’ll know when it’s connecting to a roaming network.

Wi-Fi

To use Wi-Fi on your phone, you need access to a wireless access point or “hotspot”.
The availability and strength of the Wi-Fi signal will vary depending on objects, such
as buildings or simply a wall between rooms, the Wi-Fi signal has to pass through.

Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks, and then select the Wi-Fi check box to turn Wi-Fi on.
The phone then scans for available wireless networks.

3. Tap Wi-Fi settings. The network names and security settings of detected Wi-Fi
networks are displayed in the Wi-Fi networks section.

4. If the wireless network you want to connect to is not in the list of detected
networks, scroll down the screen, and then tap Add Wi-Fi network. Enter the
wireless network settings, and then tap Save.

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5. Tap the Wi-Fi network you want to connect to.

 If you selected an open network, you’ll be automatically connected to the

network.

 If you selected a network that is secured with WEP, enter the key and then

tap Connect.

Depending on the network type and its security settings, you may also need to enter more
information or choose a security certificate.

When your phone is connected to a wireless network, the Wi-Fi icon appears in
the status bar and tells you the approximate signal strength (number of bands that
light up).

The next time your phone connects to a previously accessed secured wireless
network, you won’t be asked to enter the key or other security information again,
unless you reset your phone to its factory default settings.

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

You may need to install a network certificate (*.p12) to your phone before you can
connect to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS authentication protocol.

1. Save the certificate file to the root folder of the storage card.

2. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

3. Tap Security > Install from SD card.

4. Select the network certificate needed to connect to the EAP-TLS network.

5. Follow the steps in the previous section to connect to the Wi-Fi network.

Checking the wireless network status

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks.

3. On the Wireless & networks screen, tap Wi-Fi settings, and then tap the wireless
network that the phone is currently connected to.

A message box is then displayed showing the Wi-Fi network name, status, speed,
signal strength, and more.

If you want to remove the wireless network settings on your phone, tap Forget. You’ll need to
enter the settings again if you want to connect to this wireless network.

Connecting to another Wi-Fi network

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings. Detected Wi-Fi networks are
displayed in the Wi-Fi networks section.

3. To manually scan for available Wi-Fi networks, on the Wi-Fi settings screen,
press MENU and then tap Scan.

4. Tap another Wi-Fi network to connect to it.

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Adding connection widgets

Add the Mobile Network and Wi-Fi widgets or the Data dashboard widget to the
Home screen to make it faster for you to turn on or off these connections. Tap the
widget or icon on the dashboard to turn on or off the connection.

To find out how to add widgets, see "Adding a widget" in the Personalizing chapter.

Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)

Add, set up, and manage virtual private networks (VPNs) so you can connect and
access resources inside a secured local network, such as your corporate network.

Depending on the type of VPN you’re using at work, you may be asked to enter your
login credentials and install security certificates before you can connect to your
company’s local network. You can get this information from your network
administrator.

Also, your phone must first establish a Wi-Fi or data connection before you can start a
VPN connection. For information about setting up and using these connections on
your phone, see "Data connection" and "Wi-Fi" in this chapter.

Setting up secure credential storage

If your network administrator tells you to download and install security certificates,
you must first set up the phone’s secure credential storage.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Security > Set password.

3. Enter a new password for the credential storage.

4. Scroll down and confirm the password, and then tap OK.

5. Select the Use secure credentials check box.

You can then download and install the certificates needed to access your local
network. Your network administrator can tell you how to do this.

Adding a VPN connection

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks > VPN settings.

3. Tap Add VPN, and then tap the type of VPN you want to add.

4. Tap the VPN settings and set them up according to the security details your
network administrator gave you.

5. Press MENU, and then tap Save.

The VPN is then added to the VPNs section of the VPN settings screen.

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Connecting to a VPN

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks > VPN settings.

3. In the VPNs section, tap the VPN that you want to connect to.

4. When asked, enter your log in credentials, and then tap Connect.

When you’re connected, the VPN connected icon appears in the notification
area of the title bar.

You can then open the web browser to access resources such as your corporate
network intranet.

Disconnecting from a VPN

1. Press and hold the title bar, and then slide down your finger to open the
Notifications panel.

2. Tap the VPN connection to return to the VPN settings screen, and then tap the
VPN connection to disconnect from it.

When your phone has disconnected from the VPN, the VPN disconnected icon is
displayed in the notification area of the title bar.

Using your phone as a modem (tethering)

Before you can use USB tethering, you need to install the HTC driver first on your computer.
You can find the HTC driver in the microSD card that is installed on your phone. To install the
driver on your computer, just connect your phone to your computer, copy the HTCDriver.exe
file to your computer, and then double-click the file.

No Internet connection available for your computer? No problem. Use your phone’s
data connection to connect to the Internet using your computer.

You need your SIM card inserted on your phone to use the data connection. To find
out how to set up and use the data connection, see "Data connection" earlier in this
chapter.

1. Make sure your phone’s data connection is turned on. See "Turning the data
connection on or off" earlier in this chapter to find out how to turn on the
phone’s data connection.

2. Connect the phone to the computer using the provided USB cable.

3. On the Connect to PC screen, select USB tethering, and then tap Done.

Using your phone as a wireless router

Share your data connection with other devices by turning your phone into a wireless
router. Make sure your phone’s data connection is turned on before you use it as a
wireless router. To find out how to turn on your phone’s data connection, see "Data
connection" earlier in this chapter.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Wireless & networks > Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings.

The first time you open Portable Wi-Fi hotspot, a brief introduction describing the application
is displayed. Tap OK.

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3. Enter a name in Router name (SSID), or use the default router name.

4. Choose the type of Security and set the Password (key) for your wireless router.
If you selected None in Security, you don’t need to enter a password.

The password is the key other people need to enter on their device so they can
connect and use your phone as a wireless router.

5. Select the Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot check box to turn on your phone’s wireless
router.

Your phone is ready to be used as a wireless router when you see on the status
bar. Only two devices can connect to your phone’s wireless router at one time so if a
third device tries to connect to your phone, it won’t be able to.

Please note that personal hotspot capabilities are enabled only in 802.11 b/g/n channel 1 ~ 11.
The personal hotspot capabilities are always disabled by firmware on 802.11 b/g/n channel 12
~ 14, and all 802.11a sub-bands, 5150 ~ 5250MHz, 5250 ~ 5350MHz, 5350 ~ 5470MHz and 5725
~ 5850MHz.

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Web browser

Using your phone’s web browser

You must have an active data connection or Wi-Fi connection to access the Internet.

To open the web browser and start surfing the Web, on the Home screen, tap Internet.

Going to a webpage

1. On the browser screen, press MENU and then tap the URL field on top of the
screen.

2. Enter the webpage address using the keyboard. As you enter the address,
matching webpage addresses will appear on the screen. Tap an address to go
directly to that webpage or continue entering the webpage address.

3. Tap the Enter key on the onscreen keyboard.

Setting your home page

1. From the browser screen, press MENU, and then tap More > Settings > Set home
page.

2. On the Set home page screen, select the home page you want to use.

Changing the screen orientation

The phone automatically changes the screen orientation depending on how you’re
holding your phone.

Turn your phone sideways to display the web browser in landscape orientation.

If the screen orientation doesn’t change automatically, please switch automatic screen
orientation on. From the Home screen, press MENU, tap Settings > Display, and then select
the Auto-rotate screen check box.

Browsing full versions of all websites

Some websites display a mobile version of their pages on phone web browsers. You
can choose to view the full version of all pages, even for these sites.

From the browser screen, press MENU, tap More > Settings, and then clear the Mobile
view check box.

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Choosing when to show Flash content

Choose which Flash® content you want to see by switching to On demand. By
switching to On demand, you decide when Flash content appear on a webpage.

1. From the browser screen, press MENU, and then tap More > Settings > Enable
plugins.

2. Tap On demand.

After switching to On demand, you can show the Flash content by tapping on the
web page.

Navigating on a webpage

You can swipe your finger on the screen to navigate and view other areas of the
webpage.

Zooming in or out on a webpage

Tap the screen twice quickly to zoom in, then tap the screen twice quickly again to
zoom out. You can also use your fingers to spread or pinch the screen to zoom in and
out.

Selecting a link in a webpage

You can tap a link with your finger to open it, or press and hold a link for more
options.

Link What to do

Webpage address (URLs) Tap the link to open the webpage.

Press and hold the link to open a menu that allows you to

open, bookmark, copy to the clipboard, or share the link via
email or your social networks.

Email address Tap to send an email message to the email address.

Press and hold, then tap Copy on the menu to copy the

email address to the clipboard. You can paste the email
address later when creating a new contact or sending a
new email message.

Selecting an address or phone number in a webpage

You can map an address or call a phone number on a webpage.

Link What to do

Location address Tap the address to copy it or map it using Google Maps™.

Phone number Tap the phone number to copy, call, send a text message to

that number, or save the number to a contact in Contacts.

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Opening a new browser window

Open multiple browser windows to make it easier for you to switch from one website
to another. You can open up to 4 browser windows.

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU and then tap Windows.

2. Tap .

A new browser window opens and goes to the home page that is set.

Switching between browser windows

1. While viewing a web page, do one of the following:

Press MENU and then tap Windows.
Pinch the screen (zoom out) until you see the other browser windows.

2. Select the browser window you want to view by sliding your finger on the screen
from right to left.

You can also do the following:

1 Tap a webpage to display it in full

screen.

2 Tap to close a webpage.

Downloading applications from the web

All downloaded applications are saved to the storage card. Before you download an
application from the web, make sure that you have installed a storage card on your phone.
For information on how to install a storage card, refer to the Basics chapter.

Before you can download applications from the web, you must first enable
downloading from the phone settings.

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

2. Tap Applications, and then select the Unknown sources check box.

3. When the Attention dialog box opens, tap OK.

Applications downloaded from the web can be from unknown sources. To protect your
phone and personal data, download applications only from trusted sources such as Android
Market. Refer to "Finding and installing an app" in the More apps chapter for details.

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Viewing your downloads

While viewing a webpage, press MENU and then tap More > Downloads.

Copying text and sharing

You can select text and then:

Copy it.
Share the text in a new email, text, or multimedia message or in your status

update on a social network.

Finding text within a webpage

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU and then tap More > Find on page.

2. Enter what you want to search for. As you enter characters, matching characters
will be highlighted. Tap the left or right arrow to go to the previous or next
matching item.

Selecting text

1. Press and hold on a word.

2. Drag the start and end markers to highlight the surrounding text you want to
select.

1 Start and end markers. Drag to

increase or decrease the text
selection area.

To select text in a link, press and hold the link, and then tap Copy link URL.

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Copying and pasting text

1. After you have selected the text you want to copy, tap . The selected text is
then copied to the clipboard.

2. In a text entry field (for example while composing a message), press and hold at
the point where you want to paste the text.

3. Tap Paste.

Pasting text in a new message or social network status update

1. After you have selected the text you want to share, tap .

2. Select an option to paste the selected text in a new email, text or multimedia
message or in your status update on a social network such as Twitter. See the
Email, Messages, and Social chapters for more information on using these
features.

Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages

You can store as many bookmarks as you want on your phone. You can also access a
convenient History list of the sites you have visited, or quickly view the pages that you
access most often.

Bookmarking a webpage

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Add bookmark.

2. Edit the bookmark name if needed, and then tap Add.

Opening a bookmark

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the Bookmarks tab , navigate to the bookmark you want to open, and
then tap it.

Editing a bookmark

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the Bookmarks tab , press MENU and then tap Edit.

3. Tap the bookmark you want to edit.

4. Enter your changes, and then tap Add.

Viewing a previously visited page

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the History tab , navigate to the page you want to view and then tap the
page.

Clearing the list of previously visited pages

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the History tab , press MENU, and then tap Clear history.

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Viewing a page that you often visit

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the Most visited tab , navigate to the page you want to view, and then
tap the page.

Clearing the list of most visited pages

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the Most visited tab , press MENU, and then tap Clear all.

Changing the view of bookmarks or most visited pages

1. While viewing a webpage, press MENU, and then tap Bookmarks.

2. On the Bookmarks tab or the Most visited tab, press MENU, and then tap
Thumbnails, List, or Grid to change the view. For example, if you are in
Thumbnails view and you want to view bookmarks in a grid, press MENU > List,
and then press MENU > Grid.

Setting browser options

Customize the web browser to suit your browsing lifestyle. Set display, privacy, and
security options when using the web browser.

From the browser screen, press MENU, and then tap More > Settings.