Your HTC Wildfire S
User guide
Contents
Personalizing
Phone calls
Getting started
Search and Web browser
Accounts and sync
People
Social
Photos, videos, and music
Market and other apps
Messages
Email
Bluetooth
Settings
HTCSense.com
Keyboard
Trademarks and copyrights Index
Update and reset
6 Contents
Conventions used in this guide
7 Conventions used in this guide
Getting started
Inside the box
HTC Wildfire S
Front panel
Left panel
Back panel
Top panel
1. VOLUME UP 2. VOLUME DOWN 3. USB connector
Back cover
Removing the back cover
Replacing the back cover
SIM card
Inserting the SIM card
12 Getting started
Removing the SIM card
13 Getting started
Storage card
Inserting the storage card
Removing the storage card
Unmounting the storage card
Removing the battery thin film
Battery
Removing the battery
Inserting the battery
16 Getting started
Charging the battery
Switching the power on or off
Switching the power on
Entering your PIN
Switching the power off
Finger gestures
Setting up HTC Wildfire S for the first time
Ways of getting contacts into HTC Wildfire S
Home screen
Using Leap view
Extended Home screen
Adjusting the volume
Adjusting the ringer volume
Adjusting the media volume
Adjusting the earpiece volume for calls
Switching to Sleep mode
Sleep mode
Status and notifications
Waking up from Sleep mode
Notification icons
New Gmail message
Notifications panel
Notification LED
Switching between recently opened apps
Using Quick Settings
Closing the Notifications panel
26 Basics
Copying files to or from the storage card
Connecting HTC Wildfire S to a computer
27 Basics
Pasting text in a new message or social network status update
Copying and sharing text
Selecting text
Copying and pasting text
Using a preset scene
Personalizing
Making HTC Wildfire S truly yours
Personalizing HTC Wildfire S with scenes
Renaming a scene
Changing your wallpaper
Deleting scenes
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Applying a new skin
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
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Renaming a folder
Rearranging the Home screen
Removing a widget or icon
Using sound sets
Choosing a preset sound set
Creating a sound set
Customizing a sound set
Changing your ringtones and alarms
Changing the alarm sound
Changing the ringtone
Changing notification sounds
Rearranging or hiding application tabs
Adding a tab back
Different ways of making calls
Phone calls
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen
Using Speed dial
What is Smart dial?
Calling a phone number in a text message
Assigning a speed dial key
Making an emergency call
Calling a phone number in an email
40 Phone calls
Receiving calls
Answering a call
Rejecting a call
Changing the text message to send out for rejected calls
What can I do during a call?
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
HTC Caller ID
Putting a call on hold
Switching between calls
Turning the speakerphone on during a call
Muting the microphone during a call
Ending a call
Internet calls
Setting up a conference call
Adding an Internet calling account
Using Call history
Making an Internet call
Checking a missed call
Checking calls in the Call History
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from Call History
Using Home dialing
Clearing the Call History list
Call services
Turning off Home dialing
Turning Airplane mode on or off
48 Phone calls
Setting search options
Search and Web browser
Searching HTC Wildfire S and the web
Performing searches on the web and HTC Wildfire S
Using the web browser
Going to a webpage
Changing the screen orientation
Navigating and zooming on a webpage
Selecting an address or phone number on a webpage
Opening a new browser window
Link
What to do
Downloading from the Web
Switching between browser windows
Downloading apps from the Web
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Viewing your downloads
Bookmarking a webpage
Opening a bookmark
Setting browser options
Setting your home page
Viewing a page that you often visit
Clearing the list of most visited pages
Choosing when to show Flash content
Accounts and sync
About online accounts
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Adding more Google Accounts
Forgot your Google Account password?
Changing general sync settings
Adding a social network account
Managing your online accounts
Changing account settings
Synchronizing an account manually
Removing an account
58 Accounts and sync
People
Transferring contacts from your old phone
About the People app
Importing contacts from your SIM card
Setting up your profile
Your contacts list
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Adding a new contact
62 People
Accepting matched contacts suggestions
Merging contact information
Viewing a list of all your linked contacts
Filtering your contacts list
Manually merging contact information
Breaking the link
Searching for a contact
Contact information and conversations
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Importing contacts from the storage card
Sending contact information as a vCard
Editing a contact’s information
Deleting contacts
To send
Creating a group
Contact groups
Editing a contact group
Sending a message or email to a group
Rearranging your contact groups
Rearranging the members of a contact group
68 People
Adding People widgets
Setting the default communication method
Deleting a group
Getting in touch with a contact
Changing the default communication method
70 People
Social
Facebook for HTC Sense
Facebook app
Using the Facebook app
Adding the Facebook widget
73 Social
Tweeting on the go using Peep
Sending a tweet
Sending a direct message
Setting Peep options
Searching for Twitter users to follow
Using Friend Stream
Updating your status
Commenting on and liking Facebook posts
Chatting in Google Talk
Checking notifications from your social networks
About the Friend Stream widget
Chatting with a friend
Changing your online status and picture
Accepting a chat invitation
79 Social
Adding and managing friends
Changing settings or signing out
80 Social
Camera basics
Camera
Viewfinder screen
Auto focusing
Taking a photo
Zooming
Taking your closeup shot
Recording video
Adding effects
After capturing
Changing camera settings
85 Camera
Select to record audio when capturing videos
Reset to default
Change the camera settings back to default
Record with audio
Photos, videos, and music
Gallery
About the Gallery app
Selecting an album
Viewing photos
88 Photos, videos, and music
Watching videos
Editing your photos
Sending your photos and videos
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web
91 Photos, videos, and music
92 Photos, videos, and music
Viewing photos in your social networks
93 Photos, videos, and music
Music
Listening to music
Browsing music in the library
Creating a playlist
96 Photos, videos, and music
Setting a song as a ringtone
Sharing music using Bluetooth
Finding music videos on YouTube
97 Photos, videos, and music
Finding and installing an app
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Market and other apps
Opening an installed app
Uninstalling an app
Getting help
99 Market and other apps
Using the Clock app
Using the Clock
About the HTC Clock widget
Using Desk Clock
Using World Clock
Setting an alarm
Checking Weather
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Changing Weather options
About the Weather widget
Keeping track of your stocks
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Watching videos on YouTube
Changing update schedule and color settings
Searching for videos
Listening to FM Radio
Clearing the search history
Sharing a video link
Capturing and sharing videos on YouTube
Tuning in to an FM station
Recording your voice
Closing or turning off FM Radio
Do this
Sharing a voice clip
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
109 Market and other apps
Sharing games and apps
Opening Messages
Messages
Sending a text message SMS
Sending a multimedia message MMS
112 Messages
Creating a slideshow
113 Messages
Viewing and replying to a message
Resuming a draft message
114 Messages
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message
Replying to another phone number of the contact
Push messages
Managing message conversations
Opening and reading a new push message
Viewing all your push messages
Deleting a single message
Deleting several messages within a conversation
Deleting a conversation
Deleting several conversations
Setting message options
118 Messages
Using Gmail
Email
Gmail
Viewing your Gmail Inbox
Mail
Replying to or forwarding an email message
About the Mail app
Getting help
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
121 Email
Checking your Mail inbox
Managing email messages
Sending an email message
125 Email
Setting the priority for an email message
Reading and replying to an email message
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email
126 Email
Changing email account settings
127 Email
About Calendar
Calendar
Creating an event
Sending a meeting request using Calendar Exchange ActiveSync only
Inviting guests to your event Google Calendar only
Using month view
Using day and agenda views
Using week view
Changing Calendar views
Managing Calendar events
Viewing an event
Editing an event
Deleting an event
Displaying and synchronizing reminders
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders
Sharing an event vCalendar
Showing or hiding calendars
Adding a Google calendar to sync with
Stop synchronizing a Google calendar
133 Calendar
Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
Calendar view settings
About the Calendar widget
Turning on location services
Location settings
Maps and location
About Google Maps
Google Maps
Getting around maps
Searching for a location
137 Maps and location
Searching for a place of interest near you
Getting directions
Getting help
Finding your friends with Google Latitude available by country
5. Tap an item to view the directions on the map
HTC Sync
About HTC Sync
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize HTC Wildfire S
Installing HTC Sync that came with the storage card
141 HTC Sync
Getting to know the workspace
Setting up synchronization
Music sync options
Gallery sync options
Calendar sync options
People sync options
Bookmarks sync options
Synchronizing HTC Wildfire S
Documents sync options
Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade
Installing an app from your computer to HTC Wildfire S
Synchronizing another device with your computer
Using HTCSense.com
HTCSense.com
Signing up for your HTCSense.com account
Signing up from HTC Wildfire S
Turning on Device finder
Forwarding calls and messages
Making HTC Wildfire S ring
Locating HTC Wildfire S
Erasing the contents of HTC Wildfire S
Deleting your HTCSense.com account
Using Swype
Entering text using Swype
Keyboard
Choosing between Swype and the Onscreen Keyboard
Adjusting Swype settings
Entering text by typing
Selecting a keyboard layout
Using the onscreen keyboard
Entering text
Enabling multiple keyboard languages
Entering words with predictive text
Changing to the landscape onscreen keyboard
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
Backing up your personal dictionary to your storage card
Entering text by speaking
Setting the voice input language
Importing your personal dictionary from your storage card
Editing text
Selecting text
Copying and pasting text
156 Keyboard
Adjusting input settings
Checking the data connection youre using
Adding a new access point
Internet connections
Data connection
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network
Wi-Fi
Enabling data roaming
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Checking the wireless network status
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
Setting up secure credential storage
Connecting to a VPN
Disconnecting from a VPN
Adding a VPN connection
Using HTC Wildfire S as a wireless router
Using HTC Wildfire S as a modem USB tethering
162 Internet connections
163 Internet connections
Bluetooth
Bluetooth basics
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Sending information using Bluetooth
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Where sent information is saved
Receiving information using Bluetooth
168 Bluetooth
Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen
169 Bluetooth
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
Security
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
Changing your screen lock
Forgot your screen lock pattern?
Settings
Settings on HTC Wildfire S
173 Settings
Changing display settings
Adjusting the screen brightness manually
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
Turning automatic screen rotation off
Changing sound settings
Switching animation effects on or off
Switching between silent, vibration, and normal modes
Lowering the ring volume automatically
Optimizing battery life
Switching to speakerphone automatically
Changing the language
Making HTC Wildfire S ring louder with Pocket mode
Using the GSM network of your mobile operator
Checking the power usage of applications
Managing memory
Checking how much phone memory is available for use
Checking information about HTC Wildfire S
Uninstalling third-party applications
Moving applications to or from the storage card
179 Settings
Update and reset
HTC Wildfire S software updates
Installing an update
Checking for updates manually
Resetting HTC Wildfire S
Performing a factory reset via settings
Performing a factory reset using hardware buttons
Restarting HTC Wildfire S
Trademarks and copyrights
Symbols
Index
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YouTube sharing videos
187 Index