HTC 2 user manual Connecting Your Device to a Computer, ActiveSync, Disk Drive, WModem

26  Getting Started

1.14  Connecting Your Device to a Computer

Whenever you connect your device to the computer with the USB cable, the Connect to PC screen displays and prompts you to choose the type of USB connection:

ActiveSync

Select this mode when you need to do the following:

•Synchronize Outlook e-mail messages, contacts, calendar appointments, files, and other data between your device and your computer.

•Have read and write access to the whole device.

For more information about using ActiveSync, see Chapter 5.

Disk Drive

This mode is available for selection only when you installed a microSD card on your device. Select this mode when you want to use your storage card as a USB thumb drive, and copy files between your device’s storage card and your computer faster.

When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your device is connected to the computer:

•You will not be able to use your device to access files from the storage card or run applications that are installed on the storage card.

•Your computer will only connect to the device’s storage card. When you access your device from the computer, you will only see the contents of the device’s storage card.

WModem

When you do not have Internet access on your computer, you can select this mode to use your device as a modem for your computer. For more information about using your device as a wireless modem, see “Using Your Device As a Modem (Wireless Modem)” in Chapter 8.