HTC HD2 Quick Start Guide
Quick Start Guide Please Read Before Proceeding THE BATTERY IS NOT FULLY CHARGED WHEN YOU TAKE IT OUT OF THE BOX. DO NOT REMOVE THE BATTERY PACK WHEN THE PHONE IS CHARGING. YOUR WARRANTY IS INVALIDATED IF YOU DISASSEMBLE OR ATTEMPT TO DISASSEMBLE THE DEVICE. PRIVACY RESTRICTIONS Some countries require full disclosure of recorded telephone conversations, and stipulate that you must inform the person with whom you are speaking that the conversation is being recorded.
Quick Start Guide Contents 1. Inside the Box................................................................4 2. Get to Know Your Phone..........................................4 3. Before You Turn On Your Phone........................... 5 4. Get Started.....................................................................8 5. Start Screen...................................................................9 6. Lock Screen....................................................................9 7.
Quick Start Guide 1. Inside the Box • HTC HD2 phone with battery • USB sync cable • AC adapter • Power plug • • • • 3.5 mm stereo headset microSD card Pouch Quick Start Guide 2. Get to Know Your Phone You will find the following controls on the front panel: Notification LED Earpiece Touch Screen END/POWER TALK/SEND HOME START BACK VOLUME UP and DOWN buttons for adjusting volume are located on the left panel of the phone.
Quick Start Guide 3. Before You Turn On Your Phone Take the back cover off 1. Hold your phone securely with the front facing down. 1 . With your thumb or finger, open the back cover by lifting up from the left side of the cover. Remove the thin film and battery 1. Pull the upper flap of the thin film to disengage the battery from the phone, along with the film. 2 . Remove and discard the film. micro SD 3 SIM CAR D micro SD . Remove the battery. Put the SIM card in 1.
Quick Start Guide 4 microS D Put the battery back in 1. Align the battery’s exposed copper contacts with the battery connectors inside the battery compartment. . Insert the contact side of the battery first then gently push the battery into place. 5 SIM microS D 6 microS D Insert the microSD card Insert the microSD card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down and push it in until it clicks into place.
Quick Start Guide 7 Charge the battery 1. Attach the power plug to the AC adapter. . Connect one end of the USB sync cable to the sync connector on your phone. . Connect the other end of the USB sync cable to the USB port of the AC adapter. . Plug in the AC adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery. After installing the SIM card, battery, and microSD card and charging the battery, you are now ready to turn on your phone for the first time.
Quick Start Guide 4. Get Started Press the END/POWER button to turn on your phone. When you turn on your phone for the first time: • If you did not insert your SIM card and you turned on your phone for the first time, your phone displays a tutorial showing how to install the SIM card and battery. Turn off your phone, insert your SIM card, and reinsert the battery before proceeding to use the phone. • Your phone automatically sets up GPRS/3G, MMS, and WAP connections based on your SIM card.
Quick Start Guide 5. Start Screen Tap the Start icon ( ) on the top-left corner of the screen or press the START ( ) button on your phone to open the Start screen. The Start screen gives you access to the essential features and programs of your phone. 6. Lock Screen The Lock screen is displayed whenever your phone is locked. This prevents accidental button or touch screen presses.
Quick Start Guide 7. Get Your Contacts into the Phone There are several ways you can add contacts to your phone. Creating new contacts You can create new contacts and enter their phone number, email address, and other details on your phone. 1. On the Home screen, slide to the People tab, tap All People, and then tap New. 2. To add a photo of the contact, tap the Contact Photo icon ( ) on the upper-right corner of the New Contact Card screen.
Quick Start Guide 11 8. Experience HTC Sense HTC HD2 is the first Windows Mobile® phone to embody HTC Sense™, a holistic experience based on three core principles — make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected. Make it mine Personalized Home screen See the time and weather of your current location on the weather clock of the Home screen. The Home screen also displays your upcoming appointment.
Quick Start Guide Stay close It’s all about people Bringing people who matter most closer to you – that’s what your phone is all about. Put people you keep in touch with often up front on your Home screen’s People tab. Simply tap the photo of a contact to quickly place a call or create a new message to send to this contact.
Quick Start Guide 13 Text messages Email Calls Facebook updates and events Sending messages to multiple contacts is made easier, too. Slide to the Groups tab and create a group of selected contacts so you can easily send a text, multimedia, or email message to the group without having to add the addressed contacts to your message one by one.
Quick Start Guide Social networking Enjoy twittering directly from your phone. With the phone’s high-resolution camera, you can take a photo and immediately upload it to your Facebook album. While twittering, you can also send a photo with your tweet message. What’s more, you can capture a video and share it on YouTube. See “Share Photos and Videos on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube” in this guide for details.
Quick Start Guide 15 Onscreen keyboard To enter text, choose from three onscreen keyboard layouts: Full QWERTY, Compact QWERTY, and Phone Keypad. The onscreen keyboard offers word prediction and auto correction features, helping you type faster and more accurately. Don’t worry about pressing the right key every time—just get close and let the onscreen keyboard do the rest.
Quick Start Guide Internet and multimedia entertainment on the big screen With the high-resolution, extra large screen of your phone, you get full enjoyment when surfing the Web and playing multimedia. When viewing Web pages, glancing through your photos and videos, or browsing through music albums, you can turn your phone sideways to the left to change the screen to landscape view.
Quick Start Guide 17 Tap the center photo or video to view it in full screen, or tap the center album to display the music tracks in that album and start listening to the music. Pinch zooming The capacitive touch screen of your phone is built for pure finger touch control. When you’re viewing Web pages, photos, messages, or documents, zoom in and out freely with just a simple pinch of your fingers. Using your thumb and index finger, press on the touch screen and spread your fingers apart to zoom in.
Quick Start Guide drag your finger around this window to pan around the zoomed screen. Normal screen Zoomed screen Note When holding your phone in one hand and scrolling with the thumb of the same hand, be careful not to touch the screen with your other fingers or palm, as the phone may interpret this as a pinch zooming gesture.
Quick Start Guide 19 HTC Footprints Use HTC Footprints™ to record the chronicles of your life. Wherever you go, you can take photos of the places you visited and store their GPS location and other details to your phone. From the Home screen’s Footprints tab, you can then easily flip through the photos and find your favorite places again. For more information about using Footprints, refer to the “Finding and Recording Places” chapter in the User Manual PDF.
Quick Start Guide 9. Get On the Internet Connect to the world through a data connection or Wi-Fi connection. Browse the Web, download applications from Windows® Marketplace, and send/ receive email. Using a data connection Your phone automatically connects to the Internet using 3G/GPRS/EDGE when you begin using a function that accesses the Internet such as email or the Web browser. To save battery life, you can switch off the data connection when not in use.
Quick Start Guide 21 Browsing the Web Experience rich Internet browsing with Opera Mobile™. On the Home screen, slide to the Internet tab and then tap Launch Browser to open Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile displays in two modes: full-screen and normal viewing modes. Full-screen mode hides the address bar and the browser controls. To change from full-screen to normal viewing mode, tap the Restore icon ( ) at the bottom right corner of the browser screen.
Quick Start Guide 10. Get Your Messages Across Keep in touch with the important people in your life. Sending text messages Send short text messages (SMS) to other mobile phones. If you exceed the limit on the number of characters for a single text message, your text message will be delivered as one but will be billed as more than one message. 1. On the Home screen, slide to the Messages tab and then tap the New Message icon ( ) on the upper right side of the screen. 2.
Quick Start Guide 23 3. Tap the Attach button ( ) and then choose what you want to insert to the multimedia message: photo, video, audio, contact details, calendar appointment, or slideshow. 4. When you have finished composing your multimedia message, tap Send. Setting up and using email Set up email accounts on your phone, which can include your personal email and your work accounts. (Refer to the User Manual PDF to learn how to set up your Outlook work account.) To set up an Internet email account 1.
Quick Start Guide To send email 1. On the Home screen, slide to the Mail tab and tap an email account to use on the right side of the screen. 2. Tap the New Email icon ( email message. ) to create a new 3. Tap To and then select a contact or an email group. In the To field, you can also enter the first few letters of the recipient’s name to display a matching list of names from your stored contacts, and then tap a recipient to automatically fill in the person’s email address. 4.
Quick Start Guide 25 11. Use the Camera Whether traveling for business or fun, enjoy taking photos and capturing videos of your trip and encounters with your phone’s 5 megapixel camera. Taking a photo 1. On the Home screen, slide to the Photos and Videos tab and then tap the Camera icon ( ). 2. Let the camera auto focus on your subject at the center of the viewfinder screen, or you can freely select any area to focus on by tapping the area that you want on the viewfinder screen.
Quick Start Guide 3. Press the Virtual Camera button ( ) shortly to immediately take the photo, or press and hold the Virtual Camera button to refocus and then take the photo. Capturing video 1. On the Home screen, slide to the Photos and Videos tab and then tap the Camcorder icon ( ). 2. Point the camera at your subject. 3. Press the Virtual Camera button ( ) shortly to immediately start capturing video, or press and hold the Virtual Camera button to refocus and then begin capturing. 4.
Quick Start Guide 27 12. Share Photos and Videos on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Directly from your phone, you can easily share your photos on Facebook and Twitter. You can also upload videos to YouTube. Logging into your social networks If you skipped setting up your social network accounts when you turned on your phone for the first time, you need to log in first to your accounts before you can upload and share your photos and videos. 1.
Quick Start Guide You will see them on the main Home page. You will also find them grouped under the “Mobile Uploads” album. Uploading a photo to Twitter You can upload only one photo at a time on Twitter. Create a new tweet first, and then select a photo or use the Camera to take a photo. Your phone uploads the photo to a photo hosting service and then inserts its URL location into the tweet. 1. On the Home screen, slide to the Twitter tab. 2. Tap Menu > New Tweet.
Quick Start Guide 29 Uploading videos to YouTube You can use Camera to capture a video and immediately share it on YouTube. Use Albums when you want to upload several videos at the same time. 1. Open the Camera and capture a video. For instructions, see “Use the Camera” in this guide. 2. After capturing a video, tap the Send icon ( ), select Upload to YouTube, and then tap Send. 3. On the Video Upload screen, enter a descriptive title and tags for the video.
Quick Start Guide 13. Manage Your Phone’s Wireless Controls Comm Manager lets you easily turn on and off the wireless communication features of your phone such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, data connection, and more. On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap Wireless controls to open Comm Manager. On the Comm Manager screen, tap the left side to configure the listed settings. Tap the Off/On slider on the right to turn a function on or off.
Quick Start Guide 31 14. Sync With Your Computer You can take information from your computer wherever you go by synchronizing it to your phone. To find out how you can download and install Microsoft ActiveSync (for Windows XP) or Windows Mobile Device Center (for Windows Vista) on your computer, visit the following website: http://www.windowsmobile.com/getstarted Setting up ActiveSync 1. Connect your phone to your computer. The Synchronization Setup Wizard automatically starts. Click Next to proceed. 2.
Quick Start Guide 15. How to Reset Your Phone Perform a soft reset to clear all active program memory and shut down all active programs. This is useful when your phone is running slower than normal, or a program is not performing properly. 1. With your thumb or finger, open the back cover by lifting up from the left side of the cover. 2. The RESET button is located at the bottom left below the battery compartment and SIM card slot.
Quick Start Guide 33 16. Troubleshooting Tips Below are basic troubleshooting tips and additional information to help you understand more about your phone. Q. What should I do if the phone hangs or is operating slowly? • You can try restarting your phone or free up memory on the phone. • Try uninstalling extra plug-ins from the phone to eliminate any functional instability that they may cause. • After backing up your data and files, restore the phone to its factory default settings.
Quick Start Guide Q. The phone heats up when I’m charging the battery or when I’m making long duration calls. • It is normal for the phone to heat up during charging. After charging, it will return to its normal temperature. • It is normal for the phone to heat up when you are using the same function for a long time, such as making long duration calls or recording a long video clip. • Please rest assured that all HTC phones are factory tested before released.
Quick Start Guide 35 Appendix: Safety and Other Notices Disclaimers THE WEATHER INFORMATION, DATA AND DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OR TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF ANY KIND FROM HTC.
Quick Start Guide Important Health Information and Safety Precautions When using this product, the safety precautions below must be taken to avoid possible legal liabilities and damages. Retain and follow all product safety and operating instructions. Observe all warnings in the operating instructions on the product. To reduce the risk of bodily injury, electric shock, fire, and damage to the equipment, observe the following precautions.
Quick Start Guide 37 WARNING: Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. To reduce risk of fire or burns, do not disassemble, crush, puncture, short external contacts, expose to temperature above 60° C (140° F), or dispose of in fire or water. Replace only with specified batteries. Recycle or dispose of used batteries according to the local regulations or reference guide supplied with your product.
Quick Start Guide PREVENTION OF HEARING LOSS CAUTION: Permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume for prolonged periods of time. NOTE: For France, Earphone (listed below) for this device have been tested to comply with the Sound Pressure Level requirement laid down in the applicable NF EN 50332-1:2000 and/or NF EN 503322:2003 standards as required by French Article L. 5232-1. • Earphone, manufactured by HTC, Model RC E160.
Quick Start Guide 39 ROAD SAFETY Vehicle drivers in motion are not permitted to use telephony services with handheld devices, except in the case of emergency. In some countries, using hands-free devices as an alternative is allowed. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR RF EXPOSURE • Avoid using your phone near metal structures (for example, the steel frame of a building). • Avoid using your phone near strong electromagnetic sources, such as microwave ovens, sound speakers, TV and radio.
Quick Start Guide Use only the supplied integral antenna. Use of unauthorized or modified antennas may impair call quality and damage the phone, causing loss of performance and SAR levels exceeding the recommended limits as well as result in non-compliance with local regulatory requirements in your country. To assure optimal phone performance and ensure human exposure to RF energy is within the guidelines set forth in the relevant standards, always use your device only in its normal-use position.
Quick Start Guide 41 • Damage requiring service Unplug the product from the electrical outlet and refer servicing to an authorized service technician or provider under the following conditions: • Liquid has been spilled or an object has fallen onto the product. • The product has been exposed to rain or water. • The product has been dropped or damaged. • There are noticeable signs of overheating. • The product does not operate normally when you follow the operating instructions.
Quick Start Guide • Adjust the volume Turn down the volume before using headphones or other audio devices. • Cleaning Unplug the product from the wall outlet before cleaning. Do not use liquid cleaners or aerosol cleaners. Use a damp cloth for cleaning, but NEVER use water to clean the LCD screen. Regulatory Agency Identifications For regulatory identification purposes, your product is assigned a model number of PB81100.
Quick Start Guide 43 Other Medical Devices If you use any other personal medical device, consult the manufacturer of your device to determine if they are adequately shielded from external RF energy. Your physician may be able to assist you in obtaining this information. Turn the phone OFF in health care facilities when any regulations posted in these areas instruct you to do so. Hospitals or health care facilities may be using equipment that could be sensitive to external RF energy.
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