Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
User guide
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 Conventions used in this guide
 Contents
 Phone calls
Contacts
 Keyboard
Messages
Accounts and sync
 Social
Calendar
 Clock and Weather
Internet
 Bluetooth
Camera
Gallery
 Music
Maps and location
More apps
 Security
Settings
Backup, update and reset
Mobile Applications
 Specifications Index
Performing a hard/factory reset 178
Updating your phone’s system software 177
 Your Phone
Basics
Inside the box
Front panel with keyboard opened
 Back panel
Back
 Top panel
Left and right panels
 Bottom panel
 Before turning on your phone
Back cover
SIM card
 Inserting the storage card
Storage card
Removing the SIM card
Removing the storage card
 Removing the battery
Battery
Inserting the battery
Charging the battery
 Finger gestures
 Turning on your phone
Setting up your phone for the first time
Getting started
Turning off your phone
 Sleep mode
Switching to Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
 Unlocking the screen
 Extended Home screen
Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view
Home screen
Navigating the Home screen
 Phone status and notifications
Phone status icons
 Notification icons
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 Checking notifications
Opening the Notifications panel
Closing the Notifications panel
 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
 Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box
Searching using the Genius button
Setting Web and Quick Search Box options
Searching your phone and the Web
 Personalizing
Making your phone truly yours
Changing the ringtone
 Renaming or deleting a mode
Using a preset mode
Creating and saving a new mode
Personalizing your phone with myModes
 Changing the lock screen wallpaper
Changing the theme
 Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Downloading widgets
 Adding application icons
Adding a shortcut
 Adding folders on your Home screen
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Renaming a folder
 Moving a widget or icon
Removing a widget or icon
 Phone calls
Calling somebody using your phone
Calling a contact in your phone using the Genius button
Making calls
 Making an emergency call
Calling a phone number in a text message
Calling a phone number in an email
Adding a contact to speed dial
 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
 Using in-call options
Setting up a conference call
Handling multiple calls
 Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
Putting a call on hold
Muting the microphone during a call
Ending a call
 Using call history
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history
 Checking a missed call
Clearing the call history list
 Call services
Turning Airplane mode on or off
 Contacts
About Contacts
Ways of getting contacts into your phone
 Setting up My contact card
Contacts screen
Your contacts list
 Adding a new contact
Importing contacts from your SIM card
 Editing a contact’s information
Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Merging contact information
Manually merging contact information
 Importing contacts from the storage card
Searching for a contact
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Deleting contacts
 You cannot send a vCard using SMS
 Contact information and conversations
 Shift key
Using the hardware Qwerty
Keyboard
Fn key
 Menu key
Setting keyboard shortcuts
Using the shortcut
Home key
 Using the onscreen keyboard
Using the landscape onscreen keyboard
Entering text
 Switching to another input method
Adjusting keyboard settings
Entering words using Swype
Touch Input settings
 Hardware Qwerty
Other settings
Text input
Phone keypad & compact Qwerty
 Sending text and picture messages
Messages
About Messages
Sending a text message
 Sending a picture message MMS
 Saving and resuming a draft message
 Opening the link contained in a WAP push message
New message notifications
WAP push messages
Viewing all your WAP push messages
 Viewing a picture message
Managing message conversations
Reading a text message
Replying to a text or picture message
 Deleting several message threads
Protecting a message from deletion
Deleting a message thread
Deleting a single message
 Setting text and picture message options
SMS settings
MMS settings
 Adding the Messages widget
Received messages
Sent messages
 Adding a social network account
Accounts and sync
Synchronizing with online accounts
Synchronizing with a Google Account
 Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Managing your accounts
 Using HTC Sync
 Setting up synchronization
Setting up more sync options
 Synchronizing your phone with your computer automatically
Installing apps from your computer to your phone
Synchronizing your phone
Synchronizing your phone with your computer manually
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 Social
Facebook for HTC Sense
Tweeting on your phone
 Peep screen
Sending a tweet
Searching for Twitter users to follow
 Adding the Twitter widget
Setting Peep options
Sending a direct message
Unfollowing a Twitter user
 Using Friend Stream
Friend Stream screen
 Updating your status
Adding the Friend Stream widget
 Chatting in Google Talk
Signing in to Google Talk
Chatting with friends
 Changing your online status and picture
Managing your Friends list
 Changing Google Talk settings
 Showing or hiding the mobile indicator to friends
Setting whether you sign into Google Talk automatically
 Using Gmail
Switching to another Google Account
Viewing your Gmail inbox
 Reading your messages
 Muting a conversation
Sending a message
Replying to or forwarding an email message
Reporting a conversation as spam
 Viewing your sent messages
Managing conversations and messages
Adding a signature to your messages
Searching for messages
 Labeling a conversation
Changing Gmail synchronization settings
Starring a message
Viewing conversations by label
 Changing Gmail settings
 Mail
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Viewing your email inbox
 Exchange ActiveSync email
 Setting the priority for an email message
Composing and sending an email message
Sending a meeting request
 Deleting an email account
Editing email account settings
Viewing and replying to an email message
Adding the Mail widget
 Calendar
About Calendar
Creating a calendar event
 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
 Calendar event reminders
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
 Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar
Displaying and synchronizing calendars
Showing or hiding calendars
Adding a Google Calendar to sync with
 Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
Calendar view settings
 Sending a vCalendar
About the Calendar 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
 Checking weather
Adding a city to the Weather screen
 Deleting cities from the Weather screen
About the Weather widget
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Changing weather options
 Wi-Fi
Internet
Data connection
 Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Checking the wireless network status
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
 Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets
 Disconnecting from a VPN
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Connecting to a VPN
Preparing your phone for VPN connection
 Using your phone’s web browser
 Zooming in or out on a web
Selecting a link in a web
 Switching between browser windows
Opening a new browser window
Finding text within a web
 Viewing your downloads
Downloading applications from the web
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Selecting text
 Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Copying and pasting text
Searching or translating text
 Setting browser options
 Turning Bluetooth on or off
Bluetooth
Using Bluetooth
Changing the phone name
 Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
 Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
 Sending and receiving information using Bluetooth
Sending information from your phone to another device
 Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen
Receiving information from another device
 Camera
Camera basics
Viewfinder screen
 Using the camera button as the shutter release
Review screen
 Zooming
 Taking a photo
Camera flash doesn’t turn on?
Face detection
 Capturing a video
 Camera settings
Changing basic settings
Changing advanced settings
 Camera
 Gallery
About the Gallery application
Selecting an album
 Viewing a photo in landscape orientation
Viewing photos and videos
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
Zooming in or out on a photo
 Watching video
 Viewing photos on Facebook
Viewing photos in your T-Mobile Album and social networks
Viewing photos on your T-Mobile Album
Viewing photos on Flickr
 Working with photos
Rotating and saving a photo
Cropping a photo
 Sending photos or videos by email
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sharing
Sending a photo or video by picture message
 Sharing photos on Picasa
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing videos on YouTube
 Music
About the Music application
Playing music
 Browsing music in the Library
 Managing playlists
Creating a playlist
Playing the songs in a playlist
Adding more songs to a playlist
 Rearranging songs in a playlist
Deleting songs from a playlist
Deleting playlists
 About the Music widget
Setting a song as ringtone
Sending music using Bluetooth
Checking if the song was added as a ringtone
 Using Google Maps
Maps and location
Viewing locations
 Viewing map layers
Looking at a location in Street View
Clearing the map
 Searching for a location
Tap . The search results are displayed on the map
 Getting directions
 Finding your friends with Google Latitude
Viewing your friends’ locations
 Changing privacy settings
Connecting with and managing friends
 Watching videos
More apps
Watching videos on YouTube
Searching for videos
 Sharing a video link
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
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 Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
 Changing the stock list order
Keeping track of your stocks
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Deleting stock quotes and indices
 Setting stock information update frequency
Manually updating stock information
Adding the Stocks widget
 Recording your voice
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
Recording your voice
Sharing a voice clip
 Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Finding and installing an application
 Requesting a refund for an application
Opening an installed application
Creating a Google Checkout account
Do one of the following
 Uninstalling an application
Getting help
 Security
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
 Protecting your phone with a screen lock
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 Adding Faves contacts
Mobile Applications
Faves Gallery
Communicating with a Faves contact
 Removing a Faves contact
Setting or changing the default communication method
Changing the order of Faves contacts
Adding the Faves/Family widget
 Opening My Account
Mobile My Account
Mobile Help
My Account tabs
 Settings
Settings on your phone
 Settings
 Changing display settings
 Enabling or disabling audible selection
Changing sound settings
Setting a sound profile
Choosing the notification sound
 Changing the phone language
 Optimizing your phone’s battery life
Using the GSM network of T-Mobile
Checking the power usage of applications
 Managing memory
 Checking information about your phone
 Backing up phone data
Backup, update and reset
Checking if automatic backup is enabled
Restoring backed up data to your phone
 Checking for phone system software updates manually
Updating your phone’s system software
 Performing a hard/factory reset
Performing a factory reset via settings
Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
 Specifications
HSPA/WCDMA
 Symbols
Index
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