HTC Wildfire S Quick Start Guide

Catch up with friends

Snap, tag, and share

Enjoy apps with your friends

Email

Get HTC Sync

Battery saving tips

Your HTC Wildfire S

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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.

Updating your status

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

2. Tap the text box that says What’s on your mind? and
enter your status update.

3. Tap and then choose what you want to attach to
your tweet or status update. You can attach a picture, a
location on a map, or an app recommendation.

4. Tap Post.

Commenting on and liking Facebook posts

Tap a person’s status update and do any of the following:

Tap a photo or the album name in the status update to

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view and comment on the album photos.
Tap Like or Unlike to rate the person’s status update.

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Tap Write a comment and enter what you think about

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the person’s status update.

It’s easy to share photos you’ve snapped with the
camera on Facebook and other social networks. Before
uploading, you can give it a title and then tag it for all
your friends to see.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Camera.

2. Point the camera at your friends and tap to take the
photo.

3. Tap and then tap Facebook for HTC Sense.

4. Enter a caption if you want and then tap Tag this photo.

5. Tap anywhere near a friend.

From the list that shows, select the friend’s name.

6. When finished tagging the photo, tap Done.

7. Tap Upload.

8. Select which album to upload to and set privacy
settings for the uploaded photo.

9. Tap Done.

The Android Market has thousands of games and
apps that you can download to your phone. You can
recommend your favorites instantly to your circle of
friends so that they can download them too.

For your friends to find the app and download it from
Android Market, they must be using an Android phone.

1. From the Home screen, tap .

2. Press , and then tap Share. You’ll see the list of
games and apps that you’ve downloaded and installed
from Android Market.

3. Tap an app, and then choose how to share it.

When your friends see the link in your sent message,
email, or status update, they can just tap the link to
go directly to the game or app in Android Market to
download it.

If you signed into your Google Account when you first set
up your phone, you’ll be able to send and receive Gmail
messages. From the Home screen, just tap > Gmail.

Use the Mail app to set up and manage your other email
accounts such as webmail, POP3, IMAP, or Exchange
ActiveSync accounts.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. On the Choose a mail provider screen, choose the type
of email account to set up.

If you don’t see this screen, press , tap More > New

account, and then choose the type of email account.

3. Enter the Email address and Password for your email
account.

4. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish setting up
your email account.

In the Mail app, you can
check your email messages
just in one place without
having to switch to different
accounts. Just choose the
All accounts inbox. Email
messages are color coded
so you can easily distinguish
which email accounts they
belong to.

You can use the HTC Sync software to sync contacts,
calendar, and other information between your computer
and your phone. Copy HTC Sync from the microSD card
that came with your phone and install it on your computer.

1. Connect your phone to your computer using the USB
cable that came with your phone.

2. When the Connect to PC screen appears, tap Disk
drive, and then tap Done.

3. On your computer, access your phone’s storage card
which is recognized as a removable disk.

4. Copy HTCSync.exe to your computer.

5. Unmount your phone as required by your computer’s
operating system to safely remove it.

6. On your computer, double-click HTCSync.exe and follow
the onscreen instructions to install HTC Sync.

Visit our support website (www.htc.com/support) from
time to time to check for the most recent HTC Sync
upgrade so you can download and install it.

Opening and reading
documents

You can download a PDF viewer from Android market to
open PDF documents or PDF email attachments.

Your user manual is stored on the SD card or available on
our website (www.htc.com/support).

Download Quickoffice from the HTC Hub to open and
view documents (.doc), spreadsheets (.xls), Microsoft
PowerPoint (.ppt) and text (.txt) files.

Here are some things you can do to get the most out of a
single charge.

Turning off automatic updates

For some apps such as Weather, turn off automatic
update. In the Weather app, press , tap Settings, and
then clear the Update automatically check box.

Turning on power saver

Set your phone to automatically switch to power saver
mode when the battery level reaches a certain level.

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

2. Tap Power, and then select the Enable power saver
check box.

3. Tap Turn power saver on at and Power saver settings to
set and select power saver options.

Quick guide

For the complete user guide and other helpful resources,
go to www.htc.com/support. Please also read the Safety
and regulatory guide that’s included in the box.

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

Depending on how you use your phone, it can use up a lot of
Internet bandwidth really quickly. Before you use your phone, we
strongly recommend that you talk to your mobile operator about
data rates.

Know about privacy laws

Some countries have strict laws about how and when you can
record phone conversations. 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.

Get to know your phone Before you turn on your phone

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

3.5mm
headset jack

Volume
control

Touch
screen

USB
connector

MENU

Earpiece

BACK

Power

Notification
LED

Proximity
sensor

SEARCHHOME

Removing the thin film from the battery

1. With your finger, open the back cover from the small
opening near the POWER button.

2. Take the battery out and remove the thin film that’s
wrapped around it.

Inserting your SIM card

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

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

3. Close the SIM card holder and then slide it in the
opposite direction of “OPEN” to lock it.

Replacing the battery and back cover

1. Insert the battery (with its exposed copper contacts
first) into the battery compartment.

2. Press the bottom part of the back cover first by aligning
into the openings located at the bottom part of the
back of the phone.

3. Press the sides and the top part of the back cover down
to lock the cover into place. You will hear a click when
the back cover is locked in place.

Charging the battery

Use the supplied power adapter and USB cable to charge
your phone.

Where’s the microSD card?

The microSD card is already inserted into your phone. If
you need to remove the microSD card, just slide it out.
To reinsert, push it in until it clicks into place.

Set up your phone

The first time you turn on your phone, you’ll be guided to
transfer contacts to your new HTC phone using Bluetooth,
set up your email and social network accounts, and more.
Be sure to sign in to your Google™ Account so you can
use Google apps such as Gmail™ and Android Market™ on
your phone.

Your Home screen

It’s easy to personalize the HTC Wildfire S with colorful
skins, useful widgets, and notification sound sets that you
can download directly to your phone.

Personalizing your Home screen

Your Home screen has seven
panels that you can customize.
(Just pinch the Home screen to
see all seven.)

On the Home screen, tap the
personalize button
and choose what you want to
change.

Connect to the Internet

Get online using your phone’s data connection or Wi-Fi.

Using a data connection

It’s simple. When you turn your phone on for the first
time (with the SIM card inserted), it should connect
automatically to your mobile operator’s data service. If
presented with a list of mobile operators to choose from,
make sure that you select the correct one for your SIM
card. If you’re not sure, contact your service provider.

Using Wi-Fi

1. From the Home screen, press .

2. Tap Settings > Wireless & networks.

3. Select the Wi-Fi check box to turn Wi-Fi on.

4. Tap Wi-Fi settings, and then choose a Wi-Fi network to
connect to.

Surfing the web made easy

HTC Wildfire S makes it fun and easy to browse the web
on the go. Enjoy multi-window browsing, and see text on
web pages resize and wrap automatically as you zoom in
and out.

You can even quickly look up stuff on Google or Wikipedia
just by highlighting it.

Keep in contact

In the People app, you’ll see
your contacts from your Google
Account, Facebook®, and even
your Exchange ActiveSync®
account if you’re signed in to
these accounts on your phone.
Aside from their contact details,
you’ll also see their status
updates and birthday reminders
if they’re your Facebook or
Twitter™ friends.

If you have more contacts in your SIM card, you can
import them all to your phone in one go:

1. From the Home screen, tap > People.

2. Press , and then tap Import/Export > Import from
SIM card.

If you have a Google and/or Exchange ActiveSync
account on your phone, choose the account where to
put your contacts.

3. Press , and then tap Select all > Save.

You can also add new contacts:

1. From the Home screen, tap > People.

2. Tap Add contact. Then enter the contact information in
the relevant fields.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the screen. Then tap Save.