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