User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Basics
- Front panel with keyboard opened
- Back panel
- Top panel
- Left and right panels
- Bottom panel
- Before turning on your phone
- Back cover
- SIM card
- Storage card
- Battery
- Finger gestures
- Getting started
- Turning on your phone
- Turning off your phone
- Setting up your phone for the first time
- Sleep mode
- Home screen
- Extended Home screen
- Navigating the Home screen
- Phone status and notifications
- Phone status icons
- Notification icons
- Checking notifications
- Adjusting the volume
- Adjusting the ringer volume
- Adjusting the media volume
- Connecting your phone to a computer
- Changing the connection type after connecting your phone to the computer
- Copying files to and from the storage card
- Searching your phone and the Web
- Searching using Voice Control
- Setting Web and Quick Search Box options
- Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box
- Personalizing
- Personalizing your phone with profiles
- Using a preset profile
- Creating and saving a new profile
- Renaming or deleting a profile
- Changing the wallpaper, lock screen wallpaper, and theme
- Changing your wallpaper
- Changing the lock screen wallpaper
- Changing the theme
- Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
- Adding a widget to your Home screen
- Downloading widgets
- Adding application icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen
- Adding application icons
- Adding a shortcut
- Adding folders on your Home screen
- Creating a new folder and adding items to it
- Renaming a folder
- Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
- Moving a widget or icon
- Removing a widget or icon
- Phone calls
- Calling somebody using your phone
- Calling a contact in your phone using Voice Control
- Calling a speed dial number
- Calling a phone number in a text message
- Calling a phone number in an email
- Making an emergency call
- Receiving calls
- Answering an incoming call
- Rejecting an incoming call
- Rejecting a call and sending a text message
- Using in-call options
- Handling multiple calls
- Setting up a conference call
- Putting a call on hold
- Muting the microphone during a call
- Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
- Ending a call
- Using call history
- Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history
- Checking a missed call
- Clearing the call history list
- Call services
- People
- People screen
- Setting up My contact card
- Your contacts list
- Adding a new contact
- Importing contacts from your SIM card
- Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account
- Merging contact information
- Editing a contact’s information
- Searching for a contact
- Backing up your contacts to the storage card
- Importing contacts from the storage card
- Deleting contacts
- Sending contact information as a vCard via Picture Message
- Sending your contact information as a vCard via Picture Message
- Contact information and conversations
- Keyboard
- Messages
- Accounts and sync
- Adding a social network account
- Synchronizing with a Google Account
- Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
- Managing your accounts
- Using HTC Sync
- Installing HTC Sync that came with the microSD card
- Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone
- Setting up synchronization
- Setting up more sync options
- Synchronizing your phone
- Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade
- Installing apps from your computer to your phone
- Social
- Facebook for HTC Sense
- Facebook for Android application
- Differences between Facebook for HTC Sense and Facebook for Android application
- Tweeting on your phone
- Peep screen
- Sending a tweet
- Searching for Twitter users to follow
- Sending a direct message
- Setting Peep options
- Adding the Twitter widget
- Using Friend Stream
- Friend Stream screen
- Updating your status
- Adding the Friend Stream widget
- Chatting in Google Talk
- Signing in to Google Talk
- Chatting with friends
- Changing your online status and picture
- Managing your Friends list
- Changing Google Talk settings
- Email
- Viewing your Gmail inbox
- Reading your messages
- Sending a message
- Managing conversations and messages
- Changing Gmail settings
- Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
- Viewing your email inbox
- Exchange ActiveSync email
- Composing and sending an email message
- Viewing and replying to an email message
- Editing email account settings
- Deleting an email account
- Adding the Mail widget
- Calendar
- Inviting guests to your event (Google Account only)
- Sending a meeting request using Calendar (Exchange ActiveSync 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
- Calendar event reminders
- Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
- Displaying and synchronizing calendars
- Showing or hiding calendars
- Choosing which Google Calendars are synchronized on your phone
- Changing Calendar settings
- Reminder settings
- Calendar view settings
- Sending a vCalendar
- Clock and Weather
- Using Desk Clock
- Using World Clock
- Setting your home city
- Setting the time zone, date, and time
- 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
- Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
- Deleting cities from the Weather screen
- Changing weather options
- Internet
- Turning the data connection on or off
- Enabling data roaming
- Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network
- Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
- Checking the wireless network status
- Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
- Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets
- Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)
- Preparing your phone for VPN connection
- Adding a VPN connection
- Connecting to a VPN
- Disconnecting from a VPN
- Using your phone’s web browser
- Opening the browser
- Going to a web page
- Setting your home page
- Changing the screen orientation
- Browsing full versions of all web sites
- Navigating on a web page
- Zooming in or out on a web page
- Selecting a link in a web page
- Opening a new browser window
- Switching between browser windows
- Finding text within a web page
- Downloading applications from the web
- Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
- Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
- Setting browser options
- Bluetooth
- Turning Bluetooth on or off
- Changing the phone name
- Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
- Reconnecting a headset or car kit
- Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
- Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
- Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
- Sending and receiving information using Bluetooth
- Sending information from your phone to another device
- Receiving information from another device
- Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen
- Camera
- Gallery
- Viewing photos and videos
- Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
- Viewing a photo in landscape orientation
- Zooming in or out on a photo
- Watching video
- Viewing photos in your T-Mobile Album and social networks
- Viewing photos on your T-Mobile Album
- Viewing photos on Facebook
- Viewing photos on Flickr
- Working with photos
- Rotating and saving a photo
- Cropping a photo
- Sharing
- Sending photos or videos by email
- Sending a photo or video by picture message
- Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
- Sharing photos on Facebook
- Sharing photos on Flickr
- Sharing photos on Picasa
- Sharing videos on YouTube
- Music
- Maps and location
- More apps
- Watching videos
- Searching for videos
- Sharing a video link
- Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
- Viewing a PDF
- 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
- Setting stock information update frequency
- Manually updating stock information
- Adding the Stocks widget
- Recording your voice
- Recording your voice
- Sharing a voice clip
- Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
- Renaming a voice clip
- 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
- Getting help
- Security
- T-Mobile Applications
- Settings
- Changing display settings
- Adjusting the screen brightness manually
- Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
- Preventing automatic screen rotation
- Recalibrating the G-sensor
- Keeping the screen on while charging the phone
- Switching animation effects on or off
- Changing sound settings
- Setting a sound profile
- Enabling or disabling audible selection
- Choosing the notification sound
- Changing the phone language
- Optimizing your phone’s battery life
- Using the GSM network of T-Mobile
- Checking the power usage of applications
- Managing memory
- Checking how much phone memory is available for use
- Checking the available storage card space
- Clearing application cache and data
- Uninstalling third-party applications
- Freeing up more phone memory or storage card space
- Checking information about your phone
- Backup, update and reset
- Specifications
- Index
Personalizing 37
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Widgets put at-a-glance important information and media content up front on your Home
screen. Some widgets are already added to your Home screen for your convenience. You can
add more from the available selections of widgets, or download more widgets.
Adding a widget to your Home screen
A wide selection of widgets is available for you to choose from, such as Calendar, Music, Photo
Album, Friend Stream, Twitter, and more.
1. Press HOME. Go to the part of the Home screen where there’s space to add a new widget. To
find out how, see "Navigating the Home screen" in the Basics chapter.
2. Press MENU, and then tap Add to Home to open the Add to Home options menu.
3. Tap Widget and then select a widget that you want.
4. Most widgets are available in a variety of designs and sizes to suit your needs. Tap the right
or left arrow button at the bottom of the screen to view the different styles, and then tap
Select to choose one.
You can also add widgets that allow you to quickly switch on or off certain settings of your
phone, such as Wi-Fi, Mobile Network, Bluetooth, and more. Scroll down the widgets list, tap
Settings, and then tap the widget that you want.
Downloading widgets
A selection of fun and useful widgets are also available for download.
1. Press HOME. Go to the part of the Home screen where there’s space to add a new widget. To
find out how, see "Navigating the Home screen" in the Basics chapter.
2. Press MENU, and then tap Add to Home to open the Add to Home options menu.
3. Tap Widget and then tap Get More Widgets.
4. Tap to select a widget.
5. Tap Details to see a short description about the widget. After reading, press BACK.
6. When you’re ready to download and add the widget to your Home screen, tap Download.
Ta p T-Mobile My Account to add widgets that let you keep track of your T-Mobile account usage,
messages, and payment information.