Your HTC Wildfire
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Trademarks and copyrights
Conventions used in this guide
Contents
Messages
Keyboard
Accounts and sync
Social
Internet connections 120
Bluetooth 134
Web browser 125
Camera 141
Update and reset 195
Settings 188
Specifications 197 Index 198
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Inside the box
Basics
Your phone
Front panel
Back panel
Top panel Left panel
Back cover
Removing the back cover
Replacing the back cover
Battery
Removing the thin film from the battery
Inserting the battery
Charging the battery
Removing the battery
Inserting the storage card
Storage card
Removing the storage card while the phone is off
Removing the storage card while the phone is on
Switching your phone on
Switching your phone on or off
Switching your phone off
Getting started
Setting up your phone for the first time
Using Leap view
Home screen
Extended Home screen
Switching to Sleep mode
Sleep mode
Waking up from Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Status icons
Status and notifications
Notification icons
Opening the Notifications panel
Notification LED
Closing the Notifications panel
Finger gestures
Navigating the Home screen
Selecting an item onscreen
Selecting a tab
Selecting a link on a webpage
Moving the cursor when entering text
Adjusting the ringer volume
Adjusting the volume
Adjusting the media volume
Adjusting the earpiece volume for phone calls
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
Using a preset scene
Changing the ringtone
Personalizing your phone with scenes
Renaming or deleting a scene
Customizing and saving a scene
Changing your wallpaper
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Downloading HTC widgets
Personalizing
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
Phone calls
What is Smart Dial?
Making calls
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen
Calling a phone number in a text message
Using speed dial
Assigning a speed dial key
Calling a speed dial number
Making an emergency call
Calling a phone number in an email
Answering or rejecting an incoming call
Receiving calls
Changing the sent message for rejected calls
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
HTC Caller ID
Setting your phone to automatically adjust the ring volume
Switching between calls
Using in-call options
Setting up a three-way call
Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
Ending a call
Muting the microphone during a call
Using Call history
Checking a missed call
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
People
About 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
Adding a new contact
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Merging contact information
Breaking the contact information link between contacts
Searching for a contact
Editing a contact’s information
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Importing contacts from the storage card
To send Do this
Sending contact information as a vCard
Creating a group
Contact groups
Deleting a group
Editing a contact group
Sending a message or email to a group
Contact information and conversations
People
Changing the default communication method
Setting the default communication method
People widget
Adding People widgets
Getting in touch with a contact
Keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard
Selecting a keyboard layout
Entering text
Changing to the landscape onscreen keyboard
Enabling multiple keyboard languages
Entering words with predictive text
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary
Editing or deleting a word in the user dictionary
Adjusting touch input settings
Touch Input settings
Text input
Finger touch precision
Messages
About 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
Viewing push messages
Managing message conversations
Protecting a message from deletion
Deleting a single message
Storage settings
Setting message options
SMS settings
MMS settings
Sent messages
Received messages
Synchronizing with online accounts
Accounts and sync
About online accounts
Adding a social network account
Managing your online accounts
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Removing an account
Forgot your Google Account password?
Installing HTC Sync that came with the microSD card
About HTC Sync
Synchronizing with your computer
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone
Setting up synchronization
Music
Photos and videos
Calendar
Contacts
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
Sending a tweet
Tweeting on your phone
Searching for Twitter users to follow
Unfollowing a Twitter user
Setting Peep options
Sending a direct message
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
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
Labeling a conversation
Changing Gmail/Google Mail synchronization settings
Viewing conversations by label
Working with conversations in batches
Changing Gmail/Google Mail settings
About Mail
Using Mail
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Checking your Mail inbox
Refreshing an email account
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
Setting out of the office status
Setting the priority for an email message
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email
Flagging an email
Deleting an email account
Changing email account settings
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
Clock and Weather
About the HTC Clock widget
About the Clock application
Using Desk Clock
Using World Clock
Setting your home city
Setting the time zone, date, and time
Setting the alarm clock
Setting an alarm
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 the order of cities on the Weather screen
About the Weather widget
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Changing weather options
Wi-Fi
Internet connections
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
Setting up secure credential storage
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Connecting to a VPN
Adding a VPN connection
Disconnecting from a VPN
Setting your home
Using your phone’s web browser
Web browser
Opening the browser
Browsing full versions of all web sites
Changing the screen orientation
Navigating on a web
Zooming in or out 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
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Finding text within a web
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
Bluetooth basics
Bluetooth
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
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
Camera
Using the optical trackball as the shutter release
Camera basics
Viewfinder screen
Zooming
Auto focusing
Camera flash doesn’t turn on?
Taking a photo
Camera settings
Changing basic settings
Capturing a video
Changing advanced settings
Camera
Gallery
About the Gallery application
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
Editing your photos
Rotating and saving a photo
Cropping a photo
Sending your photos and videos
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sending photos or videos by email
Sending a photo or video by MMS
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing videos on YouTube
Sharing photos on Picasa
Viewing photos in your social networks
Viewing photos on Facebook
Viewing photos on Flickr
Commenting photos in your social networks
Playing music
Music
Creating a playlist
Browsing music in the Library
Playing the songs in a playlist
Managing playlists
Deleting playlists
Trimming an MP3 ringtone
Setting a song as ringtone
Sending music using Bluetooth
About the Music widget
Checking if the song was added as a ringtone
Maps and location
Turning on location services
Google Maps
About 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
Opening Latitude
Joining Latitude
Inviting friends to share their locations
Responding to an invitation
Changing privacy settings
Connecting with and managing friends
About HTC Footprints
HTC Footprints
Creating a footprint
Revisiting a footprint
Exporting your footprints
Editing or deleting a footprint
About the Footprints widget
Importing footprints
Watching videos on YouTube
More apps
Searching for videos
Clearing the search history
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
Sharing a video link
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
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
Recording your voice
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
Sharing a voice clip
Renaming a voice clip
Subscribing to news channels
Reading news feeds
Manually checking for new stories
Reading a story
Starring a story
Adding a keyword
Using Flashlight
Changing update schedule and font settings
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
Uninstalling an application
Opening an installed application
Sharing games and applications
Getting help
More apps
Security
Changing unlock pattern settings
Protecting your phone with a screen unlock pattern
Changing your screen unlock pattern
Forgot your screen unlock pattern?
Settings on your phone
Settings
Adjusting the screen brightness manually
Changing display settings
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
Turning automatic screen rotation off
Changing sound settings
Turning on or off automatic ring volume adjustment
Choosing the notification sound
Quiet ring on pickup
Optimizing your phone’s battery life
Checking the power usage of applications
Changing the phone language
Managing memory
Checking information about your phone
Update and reset
Checking for phone system software updates manually
Updating the phone software
Restarting your phone soft reset
Restarting or factory resetting your phone
Performing a factory reset hard reset
Performing a factory reset via settings
GPS
Specifications
Index
Index
MMS
SMS
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