User guide
Your HTC Desire
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Contents
People
Keyboard
Messages
Accounts and sync
Social
Calendar
Bluetooth
Clock and Weather
Internet
Photos
Camera
Music
Maps and location
Settings
More apps
Security
Specifications Index
Backup, update and reset
Inside the box
Basics
Your Phone
Front panel
Home
Back panel
Left panel
Top panel
Bottom panel
Back cover
Before turning on your phone
Removing the back cover
Replacing the back cover
Storage card
SIM card
Inserting the SIM card
Removing the SIM card
Inserting the battery
Battery
Removing the storage card
Removing the storage card while the phone is on
Charging the battery
Removing the battery
Finger gestures
Getting started
Setting up your phone for the first time
Turning on your phone
Turning off your phone
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Switching to Sleep mode
Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Home screen
Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view
Extended Home screen
Navigating the Home screen
Phone status icons
Phone status and notifications
Notification icons
Basics
Checking notifications
Opening the Notifications panel
Closing the Notifications panel
Going to an extended Home screen
Selecting an item onscreen
Selecting a tab
Selecting a link on a webpage
Moving the cursor when entering text
Adjusting the volume
Adjusting the ringer volume
Adjusting the media volume
Connecting your phone to a computer
Copying files to and from the storage card
Setting Web and Quick Search Box options
Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box
Searching your phone and the Web
Personalizing
Making your phone truly yours
Changing the ringtone
Using a preset scene
Personalizing your phone with scenes
Customizing and saving a scene
Renaming or deleting a scene
Changing your wallpaper
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Downloading HTC widgets
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Adding folders on your Home screen
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Renaming a folder
Removing a widget or icon
Moving a widget or icon
Phone calls
Calling somebody using your phone
Making calls
Smart Dial
Calling a phone number in a text message
Calling a speed dial number
Calling a phone number in an email
Adding a contact to speed dial
Making an emergency call
Receiving calls
Answering an incoming call
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
Editing the default message
Rejecting an incoming call
Rejecting a call and sending a text message
Handling multiple calls
Using in-call options
Putting a call on hold
Setting up a conference call
Muting the microphone during a call
Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history
Using call history
Clearing the call history list
Checking a missed call
Call services
Turning Airplane mode on or off
People
About People
Ways of getting contacts into your phone
Setting up My contact card
People screen
Your contacts list
Adding a new contact
Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Merging contact information
Manually merging contact information
Searching for a contact
Editing a contact’s information
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Importing contacts from the storage card
Deleting contacts
Sending contact information as a vCard via MMS
Sending your contact information as a vCard via MMS
Creating a group and adding contacts
Contact groups
Deleting a group
Adding or removing contacts from a group
Sending an SMS/MMS message or email to a group
Contact information and conversations
Changing the default communication method
Setting the default communication method
People widget
Adding the People widget
Using the landscape onscreen keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard
Keyboard
Changing the onscreen keyboard layout
Entering words with predictive text
Entering text
Editing or deleting a word in the user dictionary
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary
Touch Input settings
Adjusting touch input settings
Text input
Phone keypad & compact Qwerty
Finger touch precision
Other settings
About Messages
Messages
Sending text and multimedia messages
Sending a text message
Sending a multimedia MMS message
Saving and resuming a draft message
New message notifications
WAP push messages
Opening the link contained in a WAP push message
Viewing all your WAP push messages
Reading a text message
Managing message conversations
Viewing a multimedia message
Replying to a text or multimedia message
Deleting a message thread
Protecting a message from deletion
Deleting several message threads
Deleting a single message
Storage settings
Setting text and multimedia message options
SMS settings
MMS settings
Adding the Messages widget
Received messages
Sent messages
Synchronizing with online accounts
Accounts and sync
Adding a social network account
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Changing account settings
Changing general sync settings
Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Managing your accounts
Removing an account
Installing HTC Sync that came with the microSD card
Using HTC Sync
Setting up synchronization
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone
Setting up more sync options
Installing apps from your computer to your phone
Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade
Synchronizing your phone
Synchronizing your phone with your computer automatically
Accounts and sync
Social
Using the Facebook application
Facebook for HTC Sense and Facebook for Android application
Facebook for HTC Sense
Adding the Facebook widget
With the Facebook application, you can
Tweeting on your phone
Peep screen
Sending a tweet
Searching for Twitter users to follow
Setting Peep options
Sending a direct message
Unfollowing a Twitter user
Adding the Twitter widget
Friend Stream screen
Using Friend Stream
Adding the Friend Stream widget
Updating your status
Chatting in Google Talk
Signing in to Google Talk
Chatting with friends
Changing your online status and picture
Managing your Friends list
Setting notifications for new Google Talk messages
Changing Google Talk settings
Making a friend popular
Blocking a friend
Setting whether you sign into Google Talk automatically
Showing or hiding the mobile indicator to friends
Viewing your Gmail/Google Mail inbox
Using Gmail/Google Mail
Reading your messages
Switching to another Google Account
Replying to or forwarding an email message
Muting a conversation
Reporting a conversation as spam
Adding a signature to your messages
Sending a message
Managing conversations and messages
Changing Gmail/Google Mail settings
Changing Gmail/Google Mail synchronization settings
Working with conversations in batches
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Mail
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Viewing your email inbox
Refreshing an email account
Inbox filter tabs
Sorting email messages
Deleting an email message
Setting the priority for an email message
Setting out of the office status
Exchange ActiveSync email
Sending a meeting request
Composing and sending an email message
Viewing and replying to an email message
Editing email account settings
Deleting an email account
Adding the Mail widget
Calendar
About Calendar
Creating a calendar event
Set the reminder time
Inviting guests to your event Google Account only
Changing calendar views
Month view
Day and Agenda views
Week view
Viewing, editing or deleting an event
Viewing and editing an event
Deleting an event
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
Calendar event reminders
Showing or hiding calendars
Displaying and synchronizing calendars
Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar
Adding a Google Calendar to sync with
Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
Calendar view settings
About the Calendar widget
Sending a vCalendar
About the HTC Clock widget
Clock and Weather
About the Clock application
Using Desk Clock
Using World Clock
Setting your home city
Setting the time zone, date, and time
Adding a city to the World Clock screen
Setting the alarm clock
Setting an alarm
Deleting an alarm
Changing alarm sound settings
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Checking weather
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
About the Weather widget
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Changing weather options
Data connection
Internet
Wi-Fi
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
Checking the wireless network status
Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets
Connecting to a VPN
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Setting up secure credential storage
Preparing your phone for VPN connection
Disconnecting from a VPN
Using your phone’s web browser
Navigating on a web
Zooming in or out on a web
Selecting a link in a web
Opening a new browser window
Finding text within a web
Switching between browser windows
Downloading applications from the web
Viewing your downloads
Selecting text
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Setting browser options
Using your phone as a modem tethering
Using Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Changing the phone name
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Sending information from your phone to another device
Sending and receiving information using Bluetooth
Receiving information from another device
Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen
Camera
Camera basics
Viewfinder screen
Review screen
Using the optical trackball as the shutter release
Zooming
Camera flash doesn’t turn on?
Taking a photo
Face detection
Capturing a video
Camera settings
Changing basic settings
Changing advanced settings
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Photos
About the Photos application
Selecting an album
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
Viewing photos and videos
Viewing a photo in landscape orientation
Zooming in or out on a photo
Watching video
Viewing photos in your social networks
Viewing photos on Facebook
Viewing photos on Flickr
Working with photos
Rotating and saving a photo
Cropping a photo
Sharing
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sending photos or videos by email
Sending a photo or video by MMS
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing photos on Picasa
Sharing videos on YouTube
Music
About the Music application
Playing music
Browsing music in the Library
Playing the songs in a playlist
Creating a playlist
Managing playlists
Adding more songs to a playlist
Rearranging songs in a playlist
Deleting songs from a playlist
Deleting playlists
Sending music using Bluetooth
Setting a song as ringtone
About the Music widget
Checking if the song was added as a ringtone
Using Google Maps
Maps and location
Viewing locations
Clearing the map
Looking at a location in Street View
Viewing map layers
Tap . The search results are displayed on the map
Searching for a location
Getting directions
Opening Latitude
Joining Latitude
Inviting friends to share their locations
Responding to an invitation
Viewing your friends’ locations
Connecting with and managing friends
Changing privacy settings
Using HTC Footprints
Creating a footprint
Revisiting a footprint
Exporting your footprints
Editing or deleting a footprint
Adding the Footprints widget
Importing footprints
Watching videos on YouTube
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Watching videos
Searching for videos
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
Sharing a video link
More apps
Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Keeping track of your stocks
Changing the stock list order
Deleting stock quotes and indices
Setting stock information update frequency
Manually updating stock information
Adding the Stocks widget
Listening to an FM station
Listening to the radio
Minimizing or turning off FM Radio
Adding station names
Recording your voice
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
Recording your voice
Sharing a voice clip
Finding and installing an application
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Requesting a refund for an application
Creating a Google Checkout account
Opening an installed application
Uninstalling an application
Getting help
Reading news feeds
News screen
Subscribing to a news channel from a list
Subscribing to a news channel by entering a URL
Setting update frequency for stories
Reading a story
Starring a story
Adding the News widget
Adding a keyword
Security
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
Protecting your phone with a screen lock
Settings on your phone
Settings
Settings
Changing display settings
Switching animation effects on or off
Setting a sound profile
Changing sound settings
Enabling or disabling audible selection
Choosing the notification sound
Changing the phone language
Optimizing your phone’s battery life
Using the GSM network of your mobile operator
Checking the power usage of applications
Managing memory
Checking information about your phone
Checking if automatic backup is enabled
Backup, update and reset
Backing up phone data
Restoring backed up data to your phone
Updating your phone’s system software
Checking for phone system software updates manually
Performing a hard/factory reset
Performing a factory reset via settings
Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
HSPA/WCDMA
Specifications
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