Your HTC Wildfire
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Trademarks and copyrights
Conventions used in this guide
Contents
Social
Keyboard
Messages
Accounts and sync
Camera 141
Bluetooth 134
Internet connections 120
Web browser 125
More apps
Settings 188
Update and reset 195
Specifications 197 Index 198
Front panel
Basics
Inside the box
Your phone
Back panel
Top panel Left panel
Removing the back cover
Back cover
Replacing the back cover
Removing the thin film from the battery
Battery
Inserting the battery
Charging the battery
Removing the battery
Removing the storage card while the phone is on
Storage card
Inserting the storage card
Removing the storage card while the phone is off
Getting started
Switching your phone on or off
Switching your phone on
Switching your phone off
Setting up your phone for the first time
Home screen
Using Leap view
Extended Home screen
Unlocking the screen
Sleep mode
Switching to Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
Status icons
Status and notifications
Notification icons
Notification LED
Opening the Notifications panel
Closing the Notifications panel
Finger gestures
Selecting an item onscreen
Navigating the Home screen
Selecting a tab
Selecting a link on a webpage
Moving the cursor when entering text
Adjusting the earpiece volume for phone calls
Adjusting the volume
Adjusting the ringer volume
Adjusting the media volume
Connecting your phone to a computer
Searching your phone and the Web
Copying files to or from the storage card
Searching within an application
Setting search options
Personalizing your phone with scenes
Using a preset scene
Personalizing
Changing the ringtone
Renaming or deleting a scene
Customizing and saving a scene
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Changing your wallpaper
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Downloading HTC widgets
Personalizing
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Adding folders on your Home screen
Renaming a folder
Removing a widget or icon
Moving a widget or icon
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen
What is Smart Dial?
Phone calls
Making calls
Calling a speed dial number
Using speed 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
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
Receiving calls
Answering or rejecting an incoming call
Changing the sent message for rejected calls
HTC Caller ID
Setting your phone to automatically adjust the ring volume
Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
Using in-call options
Switching between calls
Setting up a three-way call
Ending a call
Muting the microphone during a call
Checking a missed call
Using Call history
Checking calls in the call history
Clearing the call history list
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history
Turning Airplane mode on or off
Call services
About People
People
Ways of getting contacts into your phone
Transferring contacts from your old phone
People screen
Setting up My contact card
Filtering your contacts list
Your contacts list
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Adding a new contact
Merging contact information
Breaking the contact information link between contacts
Importing contacts from the storage card
Editing a contact’s information
Searching for a contact
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
To send Do this
Sending contact information as a vCard
Editing a contact group
Contact groups
Creating a group
Deleting a group
Sending a message or email to a group
Contact information and conversations
People
Adding People widgets
Setting the default communication method
Changing the default communication method
People widget
Getting in touch with a contact
Entering text
Using the onscreen keyboard
Keyboard
Selecting a keyboard layout
Changing to the landscape onscreen keyboard
Enabling multiple keyboard languages
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary
Entering words with predictive text
Editing or deleting a word in the user dictionary
Touch Input settings
Adjusting touch input settings
Text input
Finger touch precision
About Messages
Messages
Sending a text message SMS
Sending a multimedia message MMS
Creating a slideshow
Viewing and replying to a message
Resuming a draft message
Viewing contact details and communicating with a contact
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message
Deleting a single message
Managing message conversations
Viewing push messages
Protecting a message from deletion
MMS settings
Setting message options
Storage settings
SMS settings
Sent messages
Received messages
Adding a social network account
Accounts and sync
Synchronizing with online accounts
About online accounts
Managing your online accounts
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Removing an account
Forgot your Google Account password?
About HTC Sync
Installing HTC Sync that came with the microSD card
Synchronizing with your computer
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone
Music
Setting up synchronization
Photos and videos
Contacts
Calendar
Bookmarks
Files and documents
Synchronizing another phone with your computer
Synchronizing your phone
Installing apps from your computer to your phone
About Facebook for HTC Sense
Social
Updating your status
Using Friend Stream
About the Friend Stream widget
Commenting on and liking Facebook posts
Unfollowing a Twitter user
Tweeting on your phone
Sending a tweet
Searching for Twitter users to follow
Sending a direct message
Setting Peep options
About the Twitter widget
Chatting with friends
Chatting in Google Talk
Changing your online status and picture
Managing your Friends list
Viewing your Gmail/Google Mail inbox
Using Gmail/Google Mail
Reading your messages
Switching to another Google Account
Reporting a conversation as spam
Sending a message
Replying to or forwarding an email message
Muting a conversation
Searching for messages
Managing conversations and messages
Adding a signature to your messages
Viewing your sent messages
Working with conversations in batches
Changing Gmail/Google Mail synchronization settings
Labeling a conversation
Viewing conversations by label
Changing Gmail/Google Mail settings
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Using Mail
About Mail
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Refreshing an email account
Checking your Mail inbox
Sorting email messages
Quickly browsing your inbox
Sending an email message
Managing email messages
Resuming a draft email message
Reading and replying to an email message
Flagging an email
Setting the priority for an email message
Setting out of the office status
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email
Deleting an email account
Changing email account settings
About Calendar
Calendar
Creating a calendar event
Inviting guests to your event Google Account only
Month view
Changing calendar views
Day and Agenda views
Week view
Viewing and editing an event
Viewing, editing or deleting an event
Deleting an event
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
Calendar event reminders
Adding a Google Calendar to sync with
Displaying and synchronizing calendars
Showing or hiding calendars
Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar
Reminder settings
Changing Calendar settings
Calendar view settings
About the Calendar widget
Sending a vCalendar
About the HTC Clock widget
Clock and Weather
About the Clock application
Using Desk Clock
Setting your home city
Using World Clock
Setting the time zone, date, and time
Setting an alarm
Setting the alarm clock
Adding a city to the World Clock screen
Changing alarm sound settings
Deleting an alarm
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Checking weather
Changing weather options
About the Weather widget
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Internet connections
Wi-Fi
Data connection
Checking the wireless network status
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
Using the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets
Adding a VPN connection
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Setting up secure credential storage
Connecting to a VPN
Disconnecting from a VPN
Opening the browser
Using your phone’s web browser
Setting your home
Web browser
Zooming in or out on a web
Changing the screen orientation
Browsing full versions of all web sites
Navigating on a web
Link What to do
Selecting a link in a web
Opening a new browser window
Switching between browser windows
Viewing your downloads
Downloading applications from the web
Finding text within a web
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Selecting text
Searching or translating text
Copying and pasting text
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Changing the view of bookmarks or most visited pages
Setting browser options
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Bluetooth
Bluetooth basics
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
What to send Application How to send
Sending information using Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Receiving information using Bluetooth
Adding the Bluetooth Received folder to the Home screen
Viewfinder screen
Using the optical trackball as the shutter release
Camera
Camera basics
Zooming
Auto focusing
Camera flash doesn’t turn on?
Taking a photo
Changing basic settings
Camera settings
Capturing a video
Changing advanced settings
Camera
About the Gallery application
Gallery
Selecting an album
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
Viewing photos and videos
Zooming in or out on a photo
Viewing photos and videos in landscape orientation
Rotating and saving a photo
Editing your photos
Cropping a photo
Sending a photo or video by MMS
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sending your photos and videos
Sending photos or videos by email
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing videos on YouTube
Sharing photos on Picasa
Viewing photos on Facebook
Viewing photos in your social networks
Viewing photos on Flickr
Commenting photos in your social networks
Playing music
Music
Creating a playlist
Browsing music in the Library
Managing playlists
Playing the songs in a playlist
Deleting playlists
Trimming an MP3 ringtone
Setting a song as ringtone
About the Music widget
Sending music using Bluetooth
Checking if the song was added as a ringtone
About Google Maps
Turning on location services
Maps and location
Google Maps
Zooming in or out of a map
Moving on the map
Clearing the map
Looking at a location in Street View
Viewing map layers
Viewing search results
Searching for locations and places
Getting directions
Responding to an invitation
Joining Latitude
Opening Latitude
Inviting friends to share their locations
Changing privacy settings
Connecting with and managing friends
Revisiting a footprint
HTC Footprints
About HTC Footprints
Creating a footprint
Exporting your footprints
Editing or deleting a footprint
About the Footprints widget
Importing footprints
Clearing the search history
More apps
Watching videos on YouTube
Searching for videos
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
Sharing a video link
Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
Deleting stock quotes and indices
Keeping track of your stocks
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Changing the stock list order
About the Stocks widget
Changing update schedule and color settings
Listening to an FM station
Using FM Radio
About the FM Radio widget
Closing or turning off FM Radio
Renaming a voice clip
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
Recording your voice
Sharing a voice clip
Subscribing to news channels
Reading news feeds
Adding a keyword
Reading a story
Manually checking for new stories
Starring a story
Changing update schedule and font settings
Using Flashlight
Adding the News widget
Finding and installing an application
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Requesting a refund for an application
Creating a Google Checkout account
Getting help
Opening an installed application
Uninstalling an application
Sharing games and applications
More apps
Changing your screen unlock pattern
Changing unlock pattern settings
Security
Protecting your phone with a screen unlock pattern
Forgot your screen unlock pattern?
Settings on your phone
Settings
Turning automatic screen rotation off
Changing display settings
Adjusting the screen brightness manually
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
Changing sound settings
Choosing the notification sound
Turning on or off automatic ring volume adjustment
Quiet ring on pickup
Checking the power usage of applications
Optimizing your phone’s battery life
Changing the phone language
Managing memory
Checking information about your phone
Checking for phone system software updates manually
Update and reset
Updating the phone software
Performing a factory reset via settings
Restarting or factory resetting your phone
Restarting your phone soft reset
Performing a factory reset hard reset
GPS
Specifications
Index
Index
MMS
SMS
Index