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