Your HTC Flyer
User guide
Contents
Personalizing
Search and Web browser
Getting started
Snapbooth and Camera
HTC services
Tablet pen and fun apps
Photos, videos, and music
Maps and location
People
Messages
Market and other apps
Bluetooth
Settings
HTC Sync
Keyboard
Trademarks and copyrights Index
Update and reset
6 Contents
Conventions used in this guide
7 Conventions used in this guide
Getting started
Inside the box
HTC Flyer
Front panel
Right panel
Back panel
Top panel
1. Microphones 2. VOLUME UP 3. VOLUME DOWN
Removing the top cover
Top cover
Replacing the top cover
Inserting the SIM card
SIM card
Removing the SIM card
Storage card
Inserting the storage card
Removing the storage card
Unmounting the storage card
Battery
Switching the power on or off
Charging the battery
Switching the power on
Entering your PIN
Switching the power off
Finger gestures
Setting up HTC Flyer for the first time
Ways of getting contacts into HTC Flyer
Home screen
Extended Home screen
Just tap the one you want and you’ll leap right there
Using Leap view
17 Getting started
Adjusting the volume
Sleep mode
Adjusting the media volume
Adjusting the volume via settings
Status and notifications
Unlocking the screen
Opening an app from the lock screen
Status icons
Notification icons
Notification LED
Switching between recently opened apps
Notifications panel
Using Quick Settings
Connecting HTC Flyer to a computer
Closing the Notifications panel
Copying files to or from the internal storage or storage card
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Selecting text
Copying and pasting text
Searching or translating text
Pasting text in a new message or social network status update
Printing
Using a preset scene
Personalizing
Making HTC Flyer truly yours
Personalizing HTC Flyer with scenes
Renaming a scene
Changing your wallpaper
Deleting scenes
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Applying a new skin
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Changing the settings of a widget
Adding folders on your Home screen
Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
Renaming a folder
Moving a widget or icon
Removing a widget or icon
Customizing the launch bar
33 Personalizing
Choosing a preset sound set
Using sound sets
Rearranging the Home screen
Customizing a sound set
Creating a sound set
35 Personalizing
Deleting sound sets
Rearranging or hiding application tabs
Adding a tab back
Customizing the lock screen
37 Personalizing
Setting search options
Search and Web browser
Searching HTC Flyer and the Web
Performing searches on the Web and HTC Flyer
Translating words to other languages
Quickly looking up information on the Web
39 Search and Web browser
Using the web browser
Going to a webpage
Changing the screen orientation
Navigating and zooming on a webpage
Switching between browser windows
Opening a new browser window
Link
What to do
Downloading from the Web
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Downloading apps from the Web
Viewing your downloads
Opening a bookmark
Editing a bookmark
Viewing a previously visited page
Clearing the list of previously visited pages
Setting your home page
Setting browser options
Choosing when to show Flash content
Tablet pen and fun apps
Inserting a battery into the tablet pen
About the tablet pen
Choosing your pen type, color, and stroke
What your tablet pen can do
Changing the settings for the tablet pen
While youre using the tablet pen
47 Tablet pen and fun apps
Highlighting and drawing in pen-integrated apps
Highlighting text
Drawing over text
Drawing over a photo
About Notes
Creating a notebook
Writing a note
Syncing notes
Adding a photo or attachment to your note
Clipping an app screen or a web page
Taking notes during meetings or discussions
Saving a note
Reviewing a note
Playing an audio recording in Notes
Setting your Zoodles Kid Mode options
Switching to Kid Mode
Sharing a note
Scribble mode
Closing Kid Mode
After scribbling
Snapbooth
Snapbooth and Camera
Using Snapbooth
Camera
Camera basics
Zoom bar Auto focus indicator Photo/Video mode switch Shutter release
Taking a photo
Recording video
Changing camera settings
Adding effects
After capturing
60 Snapbooth and Camera
61 Snapbooth and Camera
Photos, videos, and music
Gallery
About the Gallery app
Selecting an album
Viewing photos
Watching videos
Editing your photos
Sending your photos and videos
65 Photos, videos, and music
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web
66 Photos, videos, and music
67 Photos, videos, and music
Viewing photos in your social networks
68 Photos, videos, and music
69 Photos, videos, and music
Music
Listening to music
Playing music from the Lock screen
Browsing music in the library
Creating a playlist
Sharing music using Bluetooth
73 Photos, videos, and music
Finding music videos on YouTube
Connected Media
Sharing media on your home network
Controls To
4. Choose the device on your network where you want to play the media
HTC services
HTC Watch
HTCSense.com
Watching movies on the go
Using HTCSense.com
Deleting your HTCSense.com account
78 HTC services
Accounts and sync
About online accounts
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Adding more Google Accounts
Forgot your Google Account password?
Changing general sync settings
Adding a social network account
Managing your online accounts
Changing account settings
Synchronizing an account manually
Removing an account
81 Accounts and sync
Social
Facebook for HTC Sense
Facebook app
Using the Facebook app
Adding the Facebook widget
Twitter for HTC Sense
Using Friend Stream
Updating your status
Commenting on and liking Facebook posts
About the Friend Stream widget
Checking notifications from your social networks
87 Social
Sending a tweet
Tweeting in Friend Stream
Sending a direct message
Chatting in Google Talk
Chatting with a friend
Changing your online status and picture
Accepting a chat invitation
Adding and managing friends
Changing settings or signing out
91 Social
Email
Using Gmail
Gmail
Mail
About the Mail app
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
94 Email
Checking your Mail inbox
Group
Managing email messages
Sending an email message
98 Email
Reading and replying to an email message
Setting the priority for an email message
99 Email
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email
Changing email account settings
100 Email
Set email notification settings
settings
1. Switch to the email account you want to delete
2. Press , and then tap More Settings Delete account
About Calendar
Calendar
Creating an event
Sending a meeting request using Calendar Exchange ActiveSync only
Inviting guests to your event Google Calendar only
Using month view
Using day and agenda views
Using week view
Changing Calendar views
Managing Calendar events
Viewing an event
Editing an event
Deleting an event
Showing or hiding calendars
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders
Sharing an event vCalendar
Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
Calendar view settings
About the Calendar widget
Location settings
Turning on location services
Maps and location
Locations
Searching for a place of interest
Searching for an address
Viewing maps
109 Maps and location
Using the compass
Recording favorite places as footprints
111 Maps and location
112 Maps and location
Getting directions
113 Maps and location
Using turn-by-turn navigation Premium navigation
114 Maps and location
Managing Locations services
Downloading maps or purchasing services
Using Car Panel
Car Panel
About Google Maps
Google Maps
Getting around maps
Searching for a location
117 Maps and location
Before using Places, you need to enable location sources
Searching for a place of interest near you
Getting directions
Getting help
Finding your friends with Google Latitude available by country
People
Transferring contacts from your old phone
About the People app
Your contacts list
Filtering your contacts list
Setting up your profile
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Adding a new contact
123 People
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Searching for a contact
124 People
Accepting matched contacts suggestions
Merging contact information
Viewing a list of all your linked contacts
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Contact information and conversations
Manually merging contact information
Breaking the link
Deleting contacts
Editing a contact’s information
127 People
Sending contact information as a vCard
Contact groups
Creating a group
To send
Editing a contact group
Sending a message or email to a group
Rearranging your contact groups
129 People
Rearranging the members of a contact group
Adding People widgets
Deleting groups
Getting in touch with a contact
Adding group members to a People widget
Opening Messages
Messages
Sending a text message SMS
Sending a multimedia message MMS
133 Messages
Creating a slideshow
134 Messages
Resuming a draft message
Viewing and replying to a message
Forwarding a message
Replying to another phone number of the contact
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message
Previewing message conversations
137 Messages
Opening and reading a new push message
Push messages
Viewing all your push messages
Managing message conversations
Protecting a message from deletion
Copying a message to your SIM card
Deleting a single message
Deleting a conversation
Setting message options
Deleting several conversations
141 Messages
Finding and installing an app
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Market and other apps
Opening an installed app
Uninstalling an app
Getting help
143 Market and other apps
Using the Clock app
Using the Clock
About the HTC Clock widget
Using Desk Clock
Using World Clock
Setting an alarm
Checking Weather
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Reading eBooks
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Changing Weather options
Adding a note or highlighting selected text
Viewing notes and highlights youve created
Downloading an eBook
About the My Shelf widget
Reading news feeds
Subscribing to news channels
Adding a keyword
Reading a story
About the News widget
Changing update schedule and content settings
TapTo
Keeping track of your stocks
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Changing update schedule and color settings
Working on documents
About the Stocks widget
Viewing a document
Watching videos on YouTube
Viewing a PDF
155 Market and other apps
Searching for videos
Clearing the search history
Sharing a video link
Capturing and sharing videos on YouTube
Sharing games and apps
HTC Sync
Installing HTC Sync
About HTC Sync
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize HTC Flyer
Getting to know the workspace
Setting up synchronization
Music sync options
Gallery sync options
Calendar sync options
People sync options
Bookmarks sync options
Synchronizing HTC Flyer
Documents sync options
Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade
Installing an app from your computer to HTC Flyer
Synchronizing another device with your computer
Keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard
Entering text
Enabling multiple keyboard languages
Entering words with predictive text
Changing to the landscape onscreen keyboard
Setting a second language for the keyboard
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary
Editing or deleting a word in the predictive text dictionary
Backing up your personal dictionary to your storage card
Setting the voice input language
Entering text by speaking
Entering text by tracing
Importing your personal dictionary from your storage card
Editing text
Selecting text
Copying and pasting text
169 Keyboard
Adjusting input settings
Checking the data connection youre using
Adding a new access point
Internet connections
Data connection
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network
Wi-Fi
Enabling data roaming
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Checking the wireless network status
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
173 Internet connections
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Setting up secure credential storage
About connection widgets
Adding a VPN connection
Connecting to a VPN
Using HTC Flyer as a modem USB tethering
Disconnecting from a VPN
Using HTC Flyer as a wireless router
176 Internet connections
Bluetooth
Bluetooth basics
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Sending information using Bluetooth
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Where sent information is saved
180 Bluetooth
Receiving information using Bluetooth
Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen
Protecting HTC Flyer with a screen lock pattern, PIN, or password
Security
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
Changing your screen lock
Forgot your screen lock pattern?
Settings
Settings on HTC Flyer
Changing display settings
Adjusting the screen brightness manually
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
Switching animation effects on or off
Turning automatic screen rotation off
Recalibrating the G-sensor
Changing sound settings
Optimizing battery life
Checking the power usage of applications
Changing the language
Uninstalling third-party applications
Managing memory
Checking how much internal storage is available for use
Checking the available storage card space
Stopping running applications using Task Manager
Checking information about HTC Flyer
Update and reset
Software updates
Installing an update
Checking for updates manually
Resetting HTC Flyer
Performing a factory reset via settings
Restarting HTC Flyer
HTC Flyer not responding?
Performing a factory reset using the tablet buttons
Trademarks and copyrights
Symbols
Index
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197 Index