Your HTC Wildfire 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. Please also read the Safety and regulatory guide that is included in the box. Contents 1. What’s in the box 4 2. Get to know your phone 4 3.
Quick start guide 1. What’s in the box Here’s what you should find inside the box: • HTC Wildfire • Power adapter • Battery (preinstalled) • Power plug • microSD™ card (preinstalled) • This quick start guide • USB cable • Safety and regulatory guide • 3.5mm stereo headset Please make sure to copy HTCDriver.exe from your phone’s microSD card and install it to your computer. See the user guide for more details. 2. Get to know your phone 3.
Quick start guide 3. Before you turn on your phone 1 Take the back cover off On the top of your phone, there’s a narrow opening where you can use your finger to lift the back cover off the phone. 2 Remove the thin film and battery Pull the upper flap of the thin film to release the battery. Then take the battery out of the phone and peel off the thin film. 3 Put the SIM card in SIM CARD Insert your SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out.
Quick start guide 4 Put the battery back in Line up the battery’s copper contacts with the connectors inside the battery slot. Then gently push the battery into place. 6 Put the back cover on 2 1. Dock the phone onto the inside bottom of the back cover. 1 . To close the back cover, press the sides and the top part of the back cover towards the phone. You’ll hear a click when the back cover is locked in place. 7 Charge the battery 1. Attach the power plug to the power adapter. .
Quick start guide After installing the SIM card and battery and charging the battery, you’re now ready to turn your phone on for the first time. Press the POWER button to turn on your phone. 4. Set up your phone When you switch on your phone for the first time, just follow the onscreen instructions to set up your phone. If you haven’t inserted your SIM card, your phone will show you how to install it. Turn off your phone and insert your SIM card. Then turn it on again to start the setup.
Quick start guide 5. Add your contacts There are several ways you can add contacts to your phone. Transferring contacts from your old phone Easily transfer contacts from your old phone to your HTC Wildfire through Bluetooth. Depending on your old phone’s model, HTC Wildfire may also allow you to transfer other types of data such as calendar events. Visit our support website (http://www.htc.
Quick start guide 6. On your old phone, enter this passkey or simply confirm it. 7. Select the Contacts check box (and other types of data you want to import), and then tap Next. 8. When HTC Wildfire finishes importing data, tap Done. Importing all contacts from your SIM card 1. On the Home screen, tap > People. 2. On the All tab, press MENU. Then tap Import/Export > Import from SIM card.
Quick start guide Combining same contacts If you have the same contacts stored in your phone, Google, and Facebook accounts, your phone will try to combine them as one automatically. If it doesn’t, you can manually combine them. 1. On the Home screen, tap > People. 2. On the All tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) that you want to combine. 3. On the upper-right corner of the screen, tap (if there are suggested links.) or 4.
Quick start guide 11 6. 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. There are up to seven Home screens available.
Quick start guide 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. You can also add widgets, shortcuts, and more. 2.
Quick start guide 13 People Stay in touch with different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. You can add several People widgets on the Home screen, with a different group of contacts on each widget. Your phone organizes all text exchanges, email, Facebook status, online photo albums and phone logs of a contact all in one place. In the People application, tap the name of a contact and you can see all your recent communications with that person at a glance.
Quick start guide App Sharing Having fun with a game or application that you downloaded from Android Market? Share it instantly with your circle of friends. It’s simple. On the Home screen, tap > App Sharing and then choose the game or application that you want to tell your friends about. Share via Friend Stream so that the link to the game or application can be posted to your social networks at the same time. You can also send the link by email or text message.
Quick start guide 15 7. 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. Using Wi-Fi 1. On the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Wireless & networks. 2. Select the Wi-Fi check box to turn Wi-Fi on.
Quick start guide 4. On the webpage, use finger gestures to browse the webpage or to zoom in or out. Spread your thumb and index finger across a webpage to zoom in. Pinch your thumb and index finger on a webpage to zoom out. 8. Get your messages across Send text messages and access your email accounts from your phone. Sending a text message 1. On the Home screen, tap > Messages. 2. On the All messages screen, tap New message. 3. In the To field, enter one or more phone numbers.
Quick start guide 17 Adding a POP3/IMAP email account 1. On the Home screen, tap > Mail. 2. On the Choose a mail provider screen, tap Other (POP3/IMAP). If you don’t see this screen, tap on the upper-left side of your screen, and then tap New account > 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 9. Stay in touch with friends Social networking in Friend Stream Friend Stream gives you direct access to leading social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. With Friend Stream, you can post what’s on your mind simultaneously across your social networks, view status updates and tweets, and look at photos in your online albums. It’s all built in and really easy to use. Calling your friends 1. On the Home screen, tap Phone. 2.
Quick start guide 19 10. 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. Make sure there’s a microSD card in your phone before you start copying files. 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 12. Lock your phone Locking your phone turns the display off and puts your phone into sleep mode. This helps prevent accidental presses and saves battery power. When you’re not using your phone, press the POWER button to lock your phone. Your phone also automatically locks when it’s idle for a while. Unlocking your phone 1. Press the POWER button to wake up your phone. 2. Press the bar on the lock screen, and then slide your finger down to unlock the screen.
Quick start guide 21 13. 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 14. 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.
Quick start guide If your phone becomes unresponsive, remove the battery, wait for three seconds, then reinsert the battery and turn the phone on. Or back up your important data and factory reset the phone. To factory reset, press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset. Check for additional updates and useful tips on our website: www.htc.com/support.
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