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