User guide
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Contents
Contacts
Phone calls
Keyboard
Messages
Accounts and sync
Calendar
Social
Internet
Clock and Weather
Bluetooth
Camera
Gallery
Music
Maps and location
More apps
Backup, update and reset
Settings
Security
Mobile Applications
Specifications Index
Performing a hard/factory reset 178
Updating your phone’s system software 177
Inside the box
Basics
Your Phone
Front panel with keyboard opened
Back
Back panel
Left and right panels
Top panel
Bottom panel
Before turning on your phone
Back cover
SIM card
Removing the SIM card
Storage card
Inserting the storage card
Removing the storage card
Inserting the battery
Battery
Removing the battery
Charging the battery
Finger gestures
Getting started
Setting up your phone for the first time
Turning on your phone
Turning off your phone
Sleep mode
Switching to Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Home screen
Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view
Extended Home screen
Navigating the Home screen
Phone status icons
Phone status and notifications
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
Setting Web and Quick Search Box options
Searching using the Genius button
Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box
Searching your phone and the Web
Personalizing
Making your phone truly yours
Changing the ringtone
Creating and saving a new mode
Using a preset mode
Renaming or deleting a mode
Personalizing your phone with myModes
Changing the theme
Changing the lock screen wallpaper
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Downloading widgets
Adding a shortcut
Adding application icons
Adding folders on your Home screen
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Renaming a folder
Removing a widget or icon
Moving a widget or icon
Calling a contact in your phone using the Genius button
Calling somebody using your phone
Phone calls
Making calls
Calling a phone number in an email
Calling a phone number in a text message
Making an emergency call
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
Muting the microphone during a call
Putting a call on hold
Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
Ending 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
Contacts
About Contacts
Ways of getting contacts into your phone
Setting up My contact card
Contacts screen
Your contacts list
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Adding a new contact
Merging contact information
Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Editing a contact’s information
Manually merging contact information
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Searching for a contact
Importing contacts from the storage card
Deleting contacts
You cannot send a vCard using SMS
Contact information and conversations
Keyboard
Using the hardware Qwerty
Shift key
Fn key
Using the shortcut
Setting keyboard shortcuts
Menu key
Home key
Using the onscreen keyboard
Using the landscape onscreen keyboard
Entering text
Entering words using Swype
Adjusting keyboard settings
Switching to another input method
Touch Input settings
Text input
Other settings
Hardware Qwerty
Phone keypad & compact Qwerty
About Messages
Messages
Sending text and picture messages
Sending a text message
Sending a picture message MMS
Saving and resuming a draft message
WAP push messages
New message notifications
Opening the link contained in a WAP push message
Viewing all your WAP push messages
Reading a text message
Managing message conversations
Viewing a picture message
Replying to a text or picture message
Deleting a message thread
Protecting a message from deletion
Deleting several message threads
Deleting a single message
Setting text and picture message options
SMS settings
MMS settings
Adding the Messages widget
Received messages
Sent messages
Synchronizing with online accounts
Accounts and sync
Adding a social network account
Synchronizing with a Google 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
Installing apps from your computer to your phone
Synchronizing your phone with your computer automatically
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
Sending a direct message
Setting Peep options
Adding the Twitter widget
Unfollowing a Twitter user
Friend Stream screen
Using Friend Stream
Adding the Friend Stream widget
Updating your status
Chatting in Google Talk
Signing in to 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
Using Gmail
Switching to another Google Account
Viewing your Gmail inbox
Reading your messages
Replying to or forwarding an email message
Sending a message
Muting a conversation
Reporting a conversation as spam
Adding a signature to your messages
Managing conversations and messages
Viewing your sent messages
Searching for messages
Starring a message
Changing Gmail synchronization settings
Labeling a conversation
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
Viewing and replying to an email message
Editing email account settings
Deleting an email account
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
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
Calendar event reminders
Showing or hiding calendars
Displaying and synchronizing calendars
Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar
Adding a Google Calendar to sync with
Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
Calendar view settings
About the Calendar widget
Sending a vCalendar
About the Clock application
Clock and Weather
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
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Checking weather
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
About the Weather widget
Deleting cities from 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
Connecting to a VPN
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Disconnecting from a VPN
Preparing your phone for VPN connection
Using your phone’s web browser
Selecting a link in a web
Zooming in or out on a web
Switching between browser windows
Opening a new browser window
Finding text within a web
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Downloading applications from the web
Viewing your downloads
Selecting text
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Copying and pasting text
Searching or translating text
Setting browser options
Using Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Changing the phone name
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting 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
Camera basics
Viewfinder screen
Review screen
Using the camera button as the shutter release
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
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
Viewing photos and videos
Viewing a photo in landscape orientation
Zooming in or out on a photo
Watching video
Viewing photos on your T-Mobile Album
Viewing photos in your T-Mobile Album and social networks
Viewing photos on Facebook
Viewing photos on Flickr
Working with photos
Rotating and saving a photo
Cropping a photo
Sharing
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sending photos or videos by email
Sending a photo or video by picture message
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing photos on Picasa
Sharing videos on YouTube
Music
About the Music application
Playing music
Browsing music in the Library
Playing the songs in a playlist
Creating a playlist
Managing playlists
Adding more songs to a playlist
Rearranging songs in a playlist
Deleting songs from a playlist
Deleting playlists
Sending music using Bluetooth
Setting a song as ringtone
About the Music widget
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
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
Watching videos on YouTube
More apps
Watching videos
Searching for videos
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
Sharing a video link
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Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Keeping track of your stocks
Changing the stock list order
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 an application
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Creating a Google Checkout account
Opening an installed application
Requesting a refund for an application
Do one of the following
Getting help
Uninstalling an application
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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Faves Gallery
Mobile Applications
Adding Faves contacts
Communicating with a Faves contact
Changing the order of Faves contacts
Setting or changing the default communication method
Removing a Faves contact
Adding the Faves/Family widget
Mobile Help
Mobile My Account
Opening My Account
My Account tabs
Settings on your phone
Settings
Settings
Changing display settings
Setting a sound profile
Changing sound settings
Enabling or disabling audible selection
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
Checking if automatic backup is enabled
Backup, update and reset
Backing up phone data
Restoring backed up data to your phone
Updating your phone’s system software
Checking for phone system software updates manually
Performing a hard/factory reset
Performing a factory reset via settings
Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
HSPA/WCDMA
Specifications
Index
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