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Table Of Contents

Contents
Basics
- Inside the box
- Your phone
- Back cover
- SIM card
- Storage card
- Battery
- Switching your phone on or off
- Entering your PIN
- Finger gestures
Getting started
- Setting up your phone for the first time
- Home screen
- Status and notifications
- Notifications panel
- Connecting your phone to a computer
- Searching your phone and the Web
- Adjusting the volume
- Sleep mode
Personalizing
- Making your phone truly yours
- Personalizing your phone with scenes
- Changing your wallpaper
- Applying a new skin
- Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
- Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen
- Adding folders on your Home screen
- Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
- Rearranging the Home screen
- Changing your ringtones and alarms
- Rearranging or hiding application tabs
Phone calls
- Making calls
- Receiving calls
- HTC Caller ID
- Using in-call options
- Using Call history
- Call services
- Turning Airplane mode on or off
People
- About People
- Setting up My contact card
- Ways of getting contacts into your phone
- Merging contact information
- Your contacts list
- Contact information and conversations
- Contact groups
- People widget
Keyboard
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Entering words with predictive text
- Entering text by speaking
- Editing text
- Adjusting touch input settings
Messages
- About Messages
- Sending a text message (SMS)
- Sending a multimedia message (MMS)
- Resuming a draft message
- Viewing and replying to a message
- Managing message conversations
- Setting message options
Accounts and sync
- Synchronizing with online accounts
- Synchronizing with your computer
Social
- Facebook for HTC Sense
- Facebook for Android
- What’s the difference between Facebook for Android and Facebook for HTC Sense?
- Tweeting on your phone
- Friend Stream
- Chatting in Google Talk
Email
- Using Gmail
- Using Mail
Calendar
- About Calendar
- Creating calendar events
- Changing calendar views
- Managing calendar events
- Calendar event reminders
- Displaying and synchronizing calendars
- Changing Calendar settings
- About the Calendar widget
Clock and Weather
- About the HTC Clock widget
- About the Clock app
- Using Desk Clock
- Using World Clock
- Setting the alarm clock
- Checking weather
- About the Weather widget
Internet connections
- Data connection
- Wi-Fi
- Adding connection widgets
- Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)
- Using your phone as a modem (tethering)
- Connecting your phone to the Internet through a computer (Internet Pass-through)
- Using your phone as a wireless router
Web browser
- Using your phone’s web browser
- Downloading from the Web
- Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
- Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
- Setting browser options
Bluetooth
- Bluetooth basics
- Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
- Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
- Sending information using Bluetooth
- Receiving information using Bluetooth
Camera
- Camera basics
- Taking a photo
- Recording video
- Adding effects
- After capturing
- Changing camera settings
Photos, videos, and music
- Browsing your Gallery
- Listening to music
- Sharing media on your home network
HTCSense.com
- About HTCSense.com
- Signing up for your HTCSense.com account
- Using HTCSense.com
- Signing out from or deleting your HTCSense.com account
Maps and location
- Turning on location services
- Locations
- Google Maps
More apps
- Watching videos on YouTube
- Reading news feeds
- Reading eBooks
- Working on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
- Keeping track of your stocks
- Listening to FM Radio
- Recording your voice
- Using Flashlight
- Finding and installing apps from Android Market
- Sharing games and apps
Security
- Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
- Protecting your phone with a screen lock
Settings
- Settings on your phone
- Changing display settings
- Changing sound settings
- Changing the phone language
- Optimizing your phone’s battery life
- Managing memory
- Checking information about your phone
Update and reset
- Updating the phone software
- Restarting or factory resetting your phone
Trademarks and copyrights
Index

17 Getting started

Status and notifications

Status icons

You can tell a lot about your phone by checking the icons in its status bar. Here’s what

each one means:

Signal strength Battery is full

GPRS connected Battery is charging

GPRS in use Battery is low (20% remaining)

EDGE connected Battery is very low (10% remaining)

EDGE in use Silent mode

3G connected Vibrate mode

3G in use Phone microphone is mute

HSDPA connected Speakerphone on

HSDPA in use Wired microphone headset connected

Roaming Wired headset connected

No signal Bluetooth is on

No SIM card installed Connected to a Bluetooth device

Connected to a Wi-Fi network Airplane mode

Data synchronizing GPS is on

Network sharing is on Alarm is set