User guide
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Contents
Contacts
Phone calls
Messages
Keyboard
Accounts and sync
Calendar
Social
Internet
Clock and Weather
Camera
Bluetooth
Gallery
Maps and location
Music
More apps
Mobile Applications
Settings
Backup, update and reset
Security
Performing a hard/factory reset 178
Specifications Index
Updating your phone’s system software 177
Front panel with keyboard opened
Basics
Inside the box
Your Phone
Back
Back panel
Left and right panels
Top panel
Bottom panel
Back cover
Before turning on your phone
SIM card
Removing the storage card
Storage card
Removing the SIM card
Inserting the storage card
Charging the battery
Battery
Inserting the battery
Removing the battery
Finger gestures
Turning off your phone
Setting up your phone for the first time
Getting started
Turning on your phone
Switching to Sleep mode
Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Navigating the Home screen
Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view
Home screen
Extended Home screen
Phone status icons
Phone status and notifications
Notification icons
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Opening the Notifications panel
Checking notifications
Closing the Notifications panel
Adjusting the ringer volume
Adjusting the volume
Adjusting the media volume
Connecting your phone to a computer
Copying files to and from the storage card
Searching your phone and the Web
Searching using the Genius button
Setting Web and Quick Search Box options
Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box
Making your phone truly yours
Personalizing
Changing the ringtone
Personalizing your phone with myModes
Using a preset mode
Creating and saving a new mode
Renaming or deleting a mode
Changing the theme
Changing the lock screen wallpaper
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Downloading widgets
Adding a shortcut
Adding application icons
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Adding folders on your Home screen
Renaming a folder
Removing a widget or icon
Moving a widget or icon
Making calls
Calling somebody using your phone
Calling a contact in your phone using the Genius button
Phone calls
Adding a contact to speed dial
Calling a phone number in a text message
Calling a phone number in an email
Making an emergency call
Answering an incoming call
Receiving calls
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
Rejecting an incoming call
Editing the default message
Rejecting a call and sending a text message
Setting up a conference call
Using in-call options
Handling multiple calls
Ending a call
Putting a call on hold
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
Turning Airplane mode on or off
Call services
About Contacts
Contacts
Ways of getting contacts into your phone
Contacts screen
Setting up My contact card
Your contacts list
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Adding a new contact
Manually merging contact information
Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Merging contact information
Editing a contact’s information
Deleting contacts
Searching for a contact
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Importing contacts from the storage card
You cannot send a vCard using SMS
Contact information and conversations
Fn key
Using the hardware Qwerty
Keyboard
Shift key
Home key
Setting keyboard shortcuts
Using the shortcut
Menu key
Using the landscape onscreen keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard
Entering text
Touch Input settings
Adjusting keyboard settings
Entering words using Swype
Switching to another input method
Phone keypad & compact Qwerty
Other settings
Text input
Hardware Qwerty
Sending a text message
Messages
About Messages
Sending text and picture messages
Sending a picture message MMS
Saving and resuming a draft message
Viewing all your WAP push messages
New message notifications
WAP push messages
Opening the link contained in a WAP push message
Replying to a text or picture message
Managing message conversations
Reading a text message
Viewing a picture message
Deleting a single message
Protecting a message from deletion
Deleting a message thread
Deleting several message threads
SMS settings
Setting text and picture message options
MMS settings
Received messages
Adding the Messages widget
Sent messages
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Accounts and sync
Synchronizing with online accounts
Adding a social network account
Managing your accounts
Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Using HTC Sync
Setting up more sync options
Setting up synchronization
Synchronizing your phone with your computer manually
Installing apps from your computer to your phone
Synchronizing your phone
Synchronizing your phone with your computer automatically
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Social
Tweeting on your phone
Sending a tweet
Peep screen
Searching for Twitter users to follow
Unfollowing a Twitter user
Setting Peep options
Sending a direct message
Adding the Twitter widget
Friend Stream screen
Using Friend Stream
Adding the Friend Stream widget
Updating your status
Signing in to Google Talk
Chatting in Google Talk
Chatting with friends
Managing your Friends list
Changing your online status and picture
Changing Google Talk settings
Setting whether you sign into Google Talk automatically
Showing or hiding the mobile indicator to friends
Switching to another Google Account
Using Gmail
Viewing your Gmail inbox
Reading your messages
Reporting a conversation as spam
Sending a message
Replying to or forwarding an email message
Muting a conversation
Searching for messages
Managing conversations and messages
Adding a signature to your messages
Viewing your sent messages
Viewing conversations by label
Changing Gmail synchronization settings
Starring a message
Labeling a conversation
Changing Gmail settings
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Mail
Viewing your email inbox
Exchange ActiveSync email
Composing and sending an email message
Setting the priority for an email message
Sending a meeting request
Adding the Mail widget
Editing email account settings
Viewing and replying to an email message
Deleting an email account
About Calendar
Calendar
Creating a calendar event
Inviting guests to your event Google Account only
Month view
Changing calendar views
Day and Agenda views
Week view
Viewing and editing an event
Viewing, editing or deleting an event
Deleting an event
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
Calendar event reminders
Adding a Google Calendar to sync with
Displaying and synchronizing calendars
Showing or hiding calendars
Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar
Reminder settings
Changing Calendar settings
Calendar view settings
About the Calendar widget
Sending a vCalendar
About the Clock application
Clock and Weather
Using Desk Clock
Setting your home city
Using World Clock
Setting the time zone, date, and time
Adding a city to the World Clock screen
Setting an alarm
Setting the alarm clock
Deleting an alarm
Changing alarm sound settings
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Checking weather
Changing weather options
About the Weather widget
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Internet
Wi-Fi
Data connection
Checking the wireless network status
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets
Preparing your phone for VPN connection
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Connecting to a VPN
Disconnecting from a VPN
Using your phone’s web browser
Selecting a link in a web
Zooming in or out on a web
Opening a new browser window
Switching between browser windows
Finding text within a web
Selecting text
Downloading applications from the web
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Viewing your downloads
Copying and pasting text
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Searching or translating text
Setting browser options
Changing the phone name
Bluetooth
Using Bluetooth
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting or unpairing from 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 basics
Camera
Viewfinder screen
Review screen
Using the camera button as the shutter release
Zooming
Camera flash doesn’t turn on?
Taking a photo
Face detection
Capturing a video
Changing basic settings
Camera settings
Changing advanced settings
Camera
About the Gallery application
Gallery
Selecting an album
Zooming in or out on a photo
Viewing photos and videos
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
Viewing a photo in landscape orientation
Watching video
Viewing photos on Flickr
Viewing photos in your T-Mobile Album and social networks
Viewing photos on your T-Mobile Album
Viewing photos on Facebook
Rotating and saving a photo
Working with photos
Cropping a photo
Sending a photo or video by picture message
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sharing
Sending photos or videos by email
Sharing videos on YouTube
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing photos on Picasa
About the Music application
Music
Playing music
Browsing music in the Library
Adding more songs to a playlist
Creating a playlist
Playing the songs in a playlist
Managing playlists
Deleting songs from a playlist
Rearranging songs in a playlist
Deleting playlists
Checking if the song was added as a ringtone
Setting a song as ringtone
Sending music using Bluetooth
About the Music widget
Maps and location
Using Google Maps
Viewing locations
Looking at a location in Street View
Viewing map layers
Clearing the map
Tap . The search results are displayed on the map
Searching for a location
Getting directions
Viewing your friends’ locations
Finding your friends with Google Latitude
Connecting with and managing friends
Changing privacy settings
Searching for videos
More apps
Watching videos on YouTube
Watching videos
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
Sharing a video link
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Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
Deleting stock quotes and indices
Keeping track of your stocks
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Changing the stock list order
Manually updating stock information
Setting stock information update frequency
Adding the Stocks widget
Sharing a voice clip
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
Recording your voice
Recording your voice
Finding and installing an application
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Do one of the following
Opening an installed application
Creating a Google Checkout account
Requesting a refund for an application
Getting help
Uninstalling an application
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Security
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
Protecting your phone with a screen lock
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Communicating with a Faves contact
Mobile Applications
Faves Gallery
Adding Faves contacts
Adding the Faves/Family widget
Setting or changing the default communication method
Changing the order of Faves contacts
Removing a Faves contact
My Account tabs
Mobile My Account
Mobile Help
Opening My Account
Settings on your phone
Settings
Settings
Changing display settings
Choosing the notification sound
Changing sound settings
Setting a sound profile
Enabling or disabling audible selection
Changing the phone language
Using the GSM network of T-Mobile
Optimizing your phone’s battery life
Checking the power usage of applications
Managing memory
Checking information about your phone
Restoring backed up data to your phone
Backup, update and reset
Checking if automatic backup is enabled
Backing up phone data
Updating your phone’s system software
Checking for phone system software updates manually
Performing a factory reset via settings
Performing a hard/factory reset
Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
HSPA/WCDMA
Specifications
Index
Symbols
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