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