Your HTC Legend Quick start guide
Quick start guide Before you do anything else, please read this Charge the battery The battery in your phone hasn’t been charged yet. While your phone is charging, it’s important that you do not remove the battery pack. Doing so can damage your phone. Also, please don’t try to take your phone apart. (If you do, it may invalidate your warranty.) Choose a rate plan wisely Your phone can use up a lot of Internet bandwidth really quickly.
Quick start guide This quick start guide will help you get started with your phone. In this guide, we use the following symbols to indicate important or useful information: Notes Important information Tips Safety precaution For the complete user guide and other helpful resources, check out the HTC support website at www.htc.com/support. Contents 1. What’s in the box 4 2. Get to know your phone 4 3. Before you turn on your phone 5 4. Get started 8 5. Add your contacts 9 6.
Quick start guide 1. What’s in the box Here’s what you should find inside the box: • Phone • microSD™ card* • Battery • Power adapter • USB cable • This quick start guide, Warranty card, Safety and Regulatory Guide, EULA • 3.5mm stereo headset *Micro SD card is pre loaded in phone. 2. Get to know your phone 3.
Quick start guide 3. Before you turn on your phone 1 Take the bottom cover off Hold your phone securely with the front facing down, and then with your right and left thumbs, push the bottom cover out to remove it. 2 Open the battery compartment door Open the battery compartment door by flipping it open from the right side. 3 Insert the SIM card 1. Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out. . Push it all the way in until you hear a click.
Quick start guide 4 Insert the microSD card 1. Insert the microSD card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down. . Push it all the way in until you hear a click. 5 Insert the battery 1. Insert the battery with its exposed copper contacts into the phone first. The exposed copper contacts should be on the right when you insert the battery. . Push the battery all the way in. 6 Close the battery compartment door 1. Flip the battery compartment door back into place to close it. .
Quick start guide 7 Put back the bottom cover 1. Align the two openings underneath the bottom cover with the two notches on the bottom of the phone. . Place the bottom cover on the phone, and then push the bottom cover (from the center) until it clicks into place to secure it. 8 Charge the battery 1. Plug the power adapter into the USB connector at the bottom of your phone. . Plug in the power adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.
Quick start guide 4. Get started When you turn on your phone for the first time, your phone displays tutorials and guides you to set up your email accounts and favorite social networks. You can follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, or skip the setup and do it at another time. 1. Some data and settings are automatically backed up to the storage card. Clear the check box if you do not want to automatically back up data and settings to the storage card, and then tap OK. 2.
Quick start guide This service may incur additional data transfer fees from your provider. You can enable or disable this service later in your phone’s location settings. 8. On the Set up accounts screen, choose the type of account you want to set up and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup. Tap Skip to set up accounts at a later time. When you are done setting up your accounts, tap Next. 9.
Quick start guide Adding a new contact 1. On the Home screen, tap > People. 2. On the All tab, tap Add contact. 3. Tap the Name field, enter the first and last name of the contact, and then tap OK. to hide the onscreen keyboard, tap the 4. Tap Display name box, and then choose how you want the contact name to be displayed in your contacts list. 5. Tap OK. 6. Choose the Contact account under which to create your contact. 7. Enter the rest of the contact information into the relevant fields. 8.
Quick start guide 11 7. HTC Sense Discover HTC Sense™ on your phone, an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles — make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected. Personalized Home screen The Home screen is highly customizable and extends beyond the screen width, giving you lots of room to add the information that matters most to you and tools or applications that make your life easier.
Quick start guide To add widgets to the Home screen, tap select Widget. , and then Scenes Can’t decide how to set up your Home screen? Check out Scenes that we’ve included in the phone. Scenes are preset Home screen layouts that you can quickly apply. On the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Scenes to check out the presets. After selecting a preset, you can customize it and save it as a new scene. 1. Customize the Home screen by changing the wallpaper.
Quick start guide 13 Friend Stream Streamline your social network accounts through Friend Stream. With Friend Stream, you can post what’s on your mind simultaneously across your social network, view status updates and tweets, and look through photos from your social network accounts. News Subscribe to news feeds to keep up with the latest buzz on the Internet. News monitors RSS feeds from your favorite news sites, blogs and more, and downloads the most current updates.
Quick start guide 8. Connect to the Internet Your phone puts the whole Internet in your pocket. You can get online using a data connection or Wi-Fi. Using a data connection It’s simple. When you turn your phone on for the first time (with the SIM card inserted), it should connect automatically to your mobile operator’s data service. If you don’t get a connection automatically, there are two things to try. Check that the data connection is turned on.
Quick start guide 15 4. Tap a Wi-Fi network to connect to. If you select an open network, you’ll be automatically connected. If you select a secured network, enter the key, and then tap Connect. Browsing the Web Your phone’s Browser makes web browsing easy and fun. 1. On the Home screen, tap Browser. 2. On the Browser screen, press MENU, and then tap the URL field on top of the screen. 3. Enter the web address. As you enter the address, matching web addresses will appear on the screen.
Quick start guide 9. Get your messages across Access your email accounts right from your phone. Adding a POP3/IMAP email account 1. On the Home screen, tap , and then tap Mail. 2. On the Choose a mail provider screen, tap Other (POP3/IMAP). If the account type you want to set up isn’t already in your phone’s database, you’ll be asked to enter a few more details. Have your incoming/outgoing server information ready, to save time.
Quick start guide 17 10. Stay in touch with friends Your phone has everything you need to stay in contact with your friends online. People and Friend Stream give you direct access to all the leading social networks. You can update your status on Facebook, look at photos in your online albums, and follow your tweets on Twitter. It’s all built in and really easy to use.
Quick start guide 11. Get files into your phone Bring your files with you wherever you go. With your phone, you can view Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files. You can also listen to music and look at your prized gallery of photos and videos. You’ll need to plug in your microSD card before you can copy files into your phone. 1. Connect the phone to your computer using the supplied USB cable. 2. When the Connect to PC dialog box appears, select Disk drive, and then tap Done. 3.
Quick start guide 19 12. Sync your phone with your computer You can use HTC Sync to sync Outlook contacts and calendar or Outlook Express contacts between your computer and your phone. Installing HTC Sync from www.htc.com/ca/support Download HTC Sync from www.htc.com/ca/support. On your computer, double-click HTCSync.exe and follow the onscreen instructions to install HTC Sync. Setting up HTC Sync After installing, set up HTC Sync to recognize and sync with your phone. 1.
Quick start guide information to sync (contacts and/or calendar), and choose to sync them automatically with your phone. 9. Click Finish. Synchronizing your phone and computer automatically Do the following first to make sure your phone will sync automatically with your computer: 1. Press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings > Applications > Development. 2. Make sure the USB debugging check box is selected. Whenever you connect your phone to your computer, synchronization starts automatically.
Quick start guide 21 3. Make sure that the Back up my data check box is selected. The phone will back up the following: Text and MMS messages Keyboard’s dictionary Browser bookmarks Settings See the Backup chapter of the user guide on our website to see a complete list of types of information your phone can back up to the microSD card and how to restore them back to your phone.
Quick start guide 14. Factory resetting Need to start over? If you’re passing your phone on to someone else or just want a fresh start, you can factory reset your phone. It’s not a step to be taken lightly. Factory resetting your phone will delete all your data, including any applications you’ve downloaded and installed. It returns the phone to the state it was in before the first time you turned it on. Be sure to back up any data that you want to keep before you factory reset your phone.
Quick start guide 23 15. Troubleshooting tips If you ever have any problems using your phone, here are some things you can do to set things right again. Check whether there is enough free space on the phone to run the application. To check free space, go to the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > SD card & phone storage. Clear your data and cache of applications. To clear the data and cache, go to the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Applications > Manage applications.
