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