User guide
Your HTC Flyer
Getting started
Contents
Personalizing
Search and Web browser
Photos, videos, and music
Snapbooth and Camera
HTC services
Tablet pen and fun apps
Market and other apps
Maps and location
People
Messages
Keyboard
Bluetooth
Settings
HTC Sync
Update and reset
Trademarks and copyrights Index
6 Contents
7 Conventions used in this guide
Conventions used in this guide
Front panel
Getting started
Inside the box
HTC Flyer
1. Microphones 2. VOLUME UP 3. VOLUME DOWN
Right panel
Back panel
Top panel
Top cover
Removing the top cover
Replacing the top cover
SIM card
Inserting the SIM card
Removing the SIM card
Unmounting the storage card
Storage card
Inserting the storage card
Removing the storage card
Switching the power on
Battery
Switching the power on or off
Charging the battery
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
Adjusting the volume via settings
Adjusting the volume
Sleep mode
Adjusting the media volume
Status icons
Status and notifications
Unlocking the screen
Opening an app from the lock screen
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
Searching or translating text
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Selecting text
Copying and pasting text
Printing
Pasting text in a new message or social network status update
Personalizing HTC Flyer with scenes
Using a preset scene
Personalizing
Making HTC Flyer truly yours
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
Removing a widget or icon
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
Renaming a folder
Moving 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
Performing searches on the Web and HTC Flyer
Setting search options
Search and Web browser
Searching HTC Flyer and the Web
Quickly looking up information on the Web
Translating words to other languages
39 Search and Web browser
Navigating and zooming on a webpage
Using the web browser
Going to a webpage
Changing the screen orientation
What to do
Switching between browser windows
Opening a new browser window
Link
Viewing your downloads
Downloading from the Web
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Downloading apps from the Web
Clearing the list of previously visited pages
Opening a bookmark
Editing a bookmark
Viewing a previously visited page
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
Drawing over a photo
Highlighting and drawing in pen-integrated apps
Highlighting text
Drawing over text
Creating a notebook
About Notes
Syncing notes
Writing a note
Saving a note
Adding a photo or attachment to your note
Clipping an app screen or a web page
Taking notes during meetings or discussions
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
60 Snapbooth and Camera
Changing camera settings
Adding effects
After capturing
61 Snapbooth and Camera
Selecting an album
Photos, videos, and music
Gallery
About the Gallery app
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
Watching movies on the go
HTC services
HTC Watch
HTCSense.com
Using HTCSense.com
78 HTC services
Deleting your HTCSense.com account
Adding more Google Accounts
Accounts and sync
About online accounts
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Managing your online accounts
Forgot your Google Account password?
Changing general sync settings
Adding a social network account
81 Accounts and sync
Changing account settings
Synchronizing an account manually
Removing an account
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
2. Press , and then tap More Settings Delete account
Set email notification settings
settings
1. Switch to the email account you want to delete
Calendar
About Calendar
Creating an event
Inviting guests to your event Google Calendar only
Sending a meeting request using Calendar Exchange ActiveSync only
Changing Calendar views
Using month view
Using day and agenda views
Using week view
Deleting an event
Managing Calendar events
Viewing an event
Editing an event
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders
Showing or hiding calendars
Sharing an event vCalendar
About the Calendar widget
Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
Calendar view settings
Locations
Location settings
Turning on location services
Maps and location
109 Maps and location
Searching for a place of interest
Searching for an address
Viewing maps
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
Car Panel
Managing Locations services
Downloading maps or purchasing services
Using 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
123 People
Setting up your profile
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Adding a new contact
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
Breaking the link
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Contact information and conversations
Manually merging contact information
Editing a contact’s information
Deleting contacts
127 People
To send
Sending contact information as a vCard
Contact groups
Creating a group
129 People
Editing a contact group
Sending a message or email to a group
Rearranging your contact groups
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
Deleting a single message
Managing message conversations
Protecting a message from deletion
Copying a message to your SIM card
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
143 Market and other apps
Opening an installed app
Uninstalling an app
Getting help
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 Weather options
Reading eBooks
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Viewing notes and highlights youve created
Adding a note or highlighting selected text
About the My Shelf widget
Downloading an eBook
Reading a story
Reading news feeds
Subscribing to news channels
Adding a keyword
Changing update schedule and content settings
About the News widget
TapTo
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Keeping track of your stocks
Viewing a document
Changing update schedule and color settings
Working on documents
About the Stocks widget
Viewing a PDF
Watching videos on YouTube
155 Market and other apps
Capturing and sharing videos on YouTube
Searching for videos
Clearing the search history
Sharing a video link
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
Backing up your personal dictionary to your storage card
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
Importing your personal dictionary from your storage card
Setting the voice input language
Entering text by speaking
Entering text by tracing
169 Keyboard
Editing text
Selecting text
Copying and pasting text
Adjusting input settings
Data connection
Checking the data connection youre using
Adding a new access point
Internet connections
Wi-Fi
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network
Enabling data roaming
173 Internet connections
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Checking the wireless network status
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
Adding a VPN connection
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Setting up secure credential storage
About connection widgets
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
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Bluetooth
Bluetooth basics
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
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
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
Protecting HTC Flyer with a screen lock pattern, PIN, or password
Security
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Forgot your screen lock pattern?
Changing your screen lock
Settings on HTC Flyer
Settings
Adjusting the screen brightness manually
Changing display settings
Recalibrating the G-sensor
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
Switching animation effects on or off
Turning automatic screen rotation off
Changing the language
Changing sound settings
Optimizing battery life
Checking the power usage of applications
Checking the available storage card space
Uninstalling third-party applications
Managing memory
Checking how much internal storage is available for use
Checking information about HTC Flyer
Stopping running applications using Task Manager
Checking for updates manually
Update and reset
Software updates
Installing an update
HTC Flyer not responding?
Resetting HTC Flyer
Performing a factory reset via settings
Restarting HTC Flyer
Performing a factory reset using the tablet buttons
Trademarks and copyrights
Index
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