Windows Phone 8S by HTC
 Contents
 Photos, videos, and music
 Sync and Backup
 Trademarks and copyrights Index
 Conventions used in this guide
 Other helpful resources
 Your phone
Unboxing
 Removing the bottom cover
Bottom cover
 Inserting the SIM card
SIM card
Replacing the bottom cover
 Inserting the storage card
Storage card
Removing the SIM card
 Removing the storage card
Unmounting the storage card
 Charging the battery
Battery
 Switching the power off
Switching the power on or off
Switching the power on
 Setting up your phone for the first time
Setting up your phone
Account setup
Setting up an account
 Deleting an account
Getting contacts into your phone
Syncing an account
 Your first week with your new phone
Features youll enjoy
 Rearranging and resizing tiles
Start screen
Pinning items to the Start screen
Unpinning a tile
 Tap
Touch gestures
 Drag
 Motion gestures
Pick up to lower volume
 Silencing your ringer
Adjusting the volume
 Switching to Sleep mode
Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
Lock screen
 Customizing your lock screen notifications
Changing the ringtone
Changing your lock screen wallpaper
 Taking a screenshot
Switching between apps
Changing the theme
 Windows Store
Using speech on your phone
Turning on more speech commands
 Your first week with your new phone
 Camera
Changing settings
Camera basics
Viewfinder screen
 Recording video
Taking a photo
 After capturing
 Making a call
Phone calls
Making an emergency call
Making an international call
 What can I do during a call?
Receiving calls
 Starting a conference call
Switching between calls
Putting a call on hold
Muting the microphone during a call
 Clearing the call history
Call history
Checking calls in the call history
 Turning airplane mode on or off
 Keeping in touch
People
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Adding a new contact
 Filtering your contacts list
Jumping to a section in the contacts list
Merging contact profiles
Unlinking contact profiles
 Searching for a contact
Searching, editing or deleting
Editing a contacts information
Deleting a contact
 Creating a new room
Sharing with a group of contacts in real-time
Inviting contacts to a room
Rearranging room tiles
 Managing a room
Organizing your contacts into groups
Leaving a room
Creating a new group
 Removing a contact from a group
Adding contacts to a group
Changing a members contact preference
Rearranging group tiles
 Posting to social networks
What is the Me tile?
Posting a message
Commenting on a post
 Checking
Filtering social updates
 Entering numbers and symbols
Using the onscreen keyboard
Keyboard
Turning caps lock on
 Moving the cursor
Entering words with predictive text
Changing the keyboard language
 Texting and chatting in one place
Messaging
 Sharing pictures, videos, and more in a message
Setting your chat status
 Viewing and replying to a message
 Copying and pasting a message
Managing conversations
Forwarding a message
Deleting a message
 Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Adding your Microsoft account
 Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
 Linking inboxes as one
Checking email
Replying or forwarding email
 Sending email
Setting the priority for an email message
Saving or discarding the email
Resuming an email draft
 Switching to another mail folder
Changing email account settings
Managing email messages
Deleting, moving, flagging, or marking one email
 Photos
Photos, videos, and music
About the Photos hub
Adding a photo to your favorites
 Sharing
Using Photo Enhancer
Changing the background on the Photos hub
 Playing music, videos, and podcasts
Music + Videos
Making your music sound better
Copying and deleting music
 Freeing up phone storage
Storage
Types of storage
 Erasing the SD card
Checking phone and SD card storage
Keeping tabs on phone storage
 Backing up your files
Sync and Backup
Keeping things in sync
 Internet connections
Using Connection Setup
Data connection
Turning the data connection on or off
 Adding a new access point
Wi-Fi
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network
Enabling data roaming
 Disconnecting from a Wi-Fi network
Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network
 Using your phone as a mobile hotspot
 Searching for information
Search and Web browser
Ways you can search the Web
 Scanning a QR Code
Scanning codes, tags, and text
Scanning a Microsoft Tag
Searching by scanning a barcode, book, CD, or DVD cover
 Selecting from previous image search results
Searching by scanning text
Copying and pasting scanned text
 Opening and navigating web pages
Using tabs to open multiple web pages
Opening a web
Sharing a link
 Selecting from previous music search results
Music search
Searching for recorded music thats playing
 Maps
Location services
Maps and location
 Finding an address or place
Finding your location
 Sharing an address
What are pushpins?
 Downloading and managing maps
Getting directions
 About Local Scout
Local Scout
Finding places near your location
Finding places in another location
 Maps and location
 Creating a calendar appointment
Calendar
What you can do in Calendar
 Sending an invitation
Creating a new to-do task
Quickly creating an appointment on a time slot
 Choosing which calendars are synced on your phone
Displaying and syncing calendars
Showing or hiding calendars
 Checking weather
More apps
What can I do in the HTC hub?
 Keeping track of your stocks
 Want instant updates to just one stock quote or index?
 Reading news feeds
 Want instant updates to a subscribed news channel?
 Creating and editing Office documents
Whats in the Office hub?
What types of files can be opened in Office Mobile?
 Adding a SharePoint site
Xbox Live in the Games hub
 Downloading and installing Xbox Extras
 Disconnecting a Bluetooth accessory
Bluetooth
Connecting a Bluetooth accessory
 Unpairing
 Turning Battery Saver on
Settings
Attentive phone features
 Changing sound settings
Changing display settings
 Changing application settings
Accessibility settings
Changing the language
Managing apps
 Checking phone info
Uninstalling an app
 Security
Protecting your phone with a password
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
 Launching Kids Corner
Setting up Kids Corner
Making your phone safe for kids
 Closing and disabling Kids Corner
 How to get and install updates
Update and reset
Preparing for a software update
Setting update notification and downloading option
 Factory reset
Installing an update
Performing a factory reset via settings
Correcting the date and time
 Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
 Trademarks and copyrights
 Index
Symbols
 Index
 Index