HTC Desire S User manual

Your HTC Desire S
User guide

Contents
Getting started
Inside the box 8
Your phone 8
Bottom cover 10
Battery compartment door 12
SIM card 13
Storage card 14
Battery 15
Switching your phone on or off 18
Entering your PIN 18
Finger gestures 18
Setting up your phone for the first time 19
Ways of getting contacts into your phone 19
Home screen 20
Basics
Adjusting the volume 22
Sleep mode 23
Status and notifications 24
Notifications panel 27
Connecting your phone to a computer 28
Copying files to or from the storage card 29
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing 29
Personalizing
Making your phone truly yours 32
Personalizing your phone with scenes 32
Changing your wallpaper 33
Applying a new skin 34
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets 34
Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen 35
Adding folders on your Home screen 36
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen 36
Rearranging the Home screen 37
Using sound sets 38
Changing your ringtones and alarms 39
Rearranging or hiding application tabs 40
Phone calls
Different ways of making calls 41
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen 41
Using Speed dial 42
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Calling a phone number in a text message 42
Calling a phone number in an email 43
Making an emergency call 43
Receiving calls 44
What can I do during a call? 45
Setting up a conference call 47
Internet calls 47
Using Call history 48
Using Home dialing 49
Call services 50
Turning Airplane mode on or off 51
Messages
Opening Messages 52
Sending a text message (SMS) 52
Sending a multimedia message (MMS) 53
Resuming a draft message 55
Viewing and replying to a message 55
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message 56
Push messages 57
Managing message conversations 57
Setting message options 59
People
Transferring contacts from your old phone 60
About the People app 61
Setting up your profile 62
Importing contacts from your SIM card 62
Adding a new contact 63
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account 63
Merging contact information 64
Filtering your contacts list 65
Backing up your contacts to the storage card 66
Contact information and conversations 66
Sending contact information as a vCard 67
Contact groups 68
Adding People widgets 70
Email
Gmail 72
Mail 73
Calendar
About Calendar 81
Creating an event 81
Changing Calendar views 83
Managing Calendar events 84
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders 85
Displaying and synchronizing reminders 85
Changing Calendar settings 87
About the Calendar widget 87
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Search and Web browser
Searching your phone and the web 88
Using your phone’s web browser 89
Downloading from the Web 92
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages 92
Setting browser options 94
Camera
Camera basics 95
Taking a photo 96
Recording video 97
Adding effects 98
After capturing 98
Changing camera settings 98
Photos, videos, and music
Gallery 100
Music 107
Connected Media 113
Accounts and sync
About online accounts 115
Synchronizing with a Google Account 115
Adding a social network account 116
Managing your online accounts 116
Social
Facebook for HTC Sense 118
Facebook app 119
Tweeting on your phone using Peep 120
Using Friend Stream 122
Chatting in Google Talk 125
Maps and location
Location settings 128
Locations 128
Google Maps 138
Market and other apps
Finding and installing apps from Android Market 142
Using the Clock 144
Checking Weather 147
Reading eBooks 148
Reading news feeds 151
Keeping track of your stocks 153
Working on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations 154
Watching videos on YouTube 155
Listening to FM Radio 156
Recording your voice 157
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Using Flashlight 158
Sharing games and apps 159
HTC Sync
About HTC Sync 160
Installing HTC Sync that came with the storage card 161
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone 161
Getting to know the workspace 162
Setting up synchronization 162
Synchronizing your phone 165
Installing an app from your computer to your phone 166
Synchronizing another phone with your computer 166
Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade 166
HTCSense.com
Signing up for your HTCSense.com account 167
Using HTCSense.com 167
Deleting your HTCSense.com account 169
Keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard 170
Entering words with predictive text 171
Entering text by speaking 173
Editing text 174
Adjusting input settings 175
Internet connections
Data connection 176
Wi-Fi 177
About connection widgets 179
Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN) 179
Using your phone as a modem (USB tethering) 180
Connecting your phone to the Internet through a computer (Internet Pass-through) 181
Using your phone as a wireless router 181
Bluetooth
Bluetooth basics 182
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit 182
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device 183
Sending information using Bluetooth 184
Receiving information using Bluetooth 186
Security
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN 188
Protecting your phone with a screen lock pattern, PIN or password 188
Settings
Settings on your phone 190
Changing display settings 191
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Changing sound settings 193
Changing the phone language 194
Optimizing your phone’s battery life 194
Managing memory 195
Checking information about your phone 196
Update and reset
Phone software updates 197
Restarting your phone 197
Resetting your phone 198
Trademarks and copyrights
Index
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Conventions used in this guide
In this user guide, we use the following symbols to indicate useful and important
information:
This is a note. A note often gives additional information, such as what happens on
your phone when you choose to do or not to do a certain action. A note also
provides information that may only be applicable to some situations.
This is a tip. A tip gives you an alternative way to do a particular step or procedure,
or lets you know of an option that you may find helpful.
This indicates important information that you need in order to accomplish a certain
task or to get a phone feature to work properly.
This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be
careful about to prevent potential problems when using your phone.
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Getting started
Inside the box
You will find the following inside the box:
§Phone
§Battery (preinstalled)
§microSD™card (preinstalled)
§USB cable
§3.5mm stereo headset
§Power adapter
§Quick start guide
§Safety and regulatory guide
§Call center card (hotline card)
§Warranty card
Your phone
Front panel
1. Earpiece
2. Proximity sensor
3. Notification LED
4. Front camera
5. Touch screen
6. HOME
7. MENU
8. BACK
9. SEARCH
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Left panel
1. VOLUME UP
2. VOLUME DOWN
3. USB connector
Back panel
1. Speaker
2. 5 megapixel camera
3. LED flash
4. Microphone
5. Bottom cover
6. Microphone
Top panel
1. 3.5mm headset jack
2. POWER
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Bottom cover
Removing the bottom cover
Remove the bottom cover to access the battery, SIM card slot, and storage card slot.
1. With the phone turned off, hold your phone securely with the front facing down.
2. With your right and left thumbs, push the bottom cover out to remove it.
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