HTC EVO 4G Sprint Specification sheet

Get
Started
All you need to know to get going.
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All you need to know to get going.

Welcome!
Sprint is committed to developing technologies that give you the ability
to get what you want when you want it, faster than ever before. This booklet
introduces you to the basics of getting started with Sprint and your
HTC EVO™ 4G LTE.
Visit sprint.com/support for the complete User Guide, along with videos,
tutorials, and community forums for your phone.
Note: Available applications and services are subject to change.

Using This Guide
Get Ready − page 1 − Find out
what you need to do before you use
your phone the first time, including
activating Sprint service on your phone.
Android™ Basics − page 4 − Learn
some basics about how to move
around on your phone, use the Home
screen, and enter text. If you’re familiar
with Android phones, you can probably
skip these pages (although a refresher
course never hurt anyone).
Use Your Phone − page 10 − Take
advantage of your phone’s features
and Sprint services, from the basics
(Making Calls) to the more advanced
(using Facebook, Email, and more).
Tools & Resources − page 33 − Find
useful tips for your phone and discover
resources and other helpful Sprint
information. For additional information
including the full User Guide, videos,
tutorials, and community forums, visit
sprint.com/support.
Using This Guide
This Get Started guide is designed to help you set up and use your new
HTC EVO 4G LTE. It’s divided into four sections to help you find the information
you need quickly and easily.

Your HTC EVO 4G LTE
Volume
Button
Flash
Camera
Lens
Kick
Stand
Front
Indicator
Light
(LED)
3.5 mm
Headset
Jack
Power
Button
Back Key
Recent
Apps Key
Camera
Key
Home Key
Earpiece
Touchscreen
Front Camera
Speaker
Charger/
Accessory
Jack

Get Ready
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Charge the Battery
1. Insert the small end of the USB cable into
the charger/accessory jack on the left side
of your phone.
2. Insert the larger end of the USB cable into
the AC adapter.
3. Plug the AC adapter into an electrical outlet.
(Note: charging may take up to three hours.)
Turn the Phone On
►Press and hold the Power button to turn your
phone on.
Turn the Screen On and Off
• To quickly turn the display screen off, press the
Power button on top of the phone.
• To turn the screen on and display the unlock
screen, press the Power button.
Unlock the Screen
►Flick the ring up to unlock the screen.
Turn the Phone Off
►Press and hold the Power button on top of
the phone and then touch Power off to turn
the phone off.
Get Your Phone Ready

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Activate Your Phone
• If you purchased your phone at a Sprint Store,
it is probably activated and ready to use.
• If you received your phone in the mail, and it is a
new Sprint account or a new phone number,
your phone is designed to activate automatically
when you first turn it on. You will see a Hands
Free Activation screen at startup. When it’s
finished, touch OK to continue. To confirm your
activation, make a phone call.
• If you received your phone in the mail and
it is going to be activated on an existing
number (you’re swapping phones), go to
sprint.com/activate and follow the instructions.
When you have finished, make a phone call to
confirm your activation. If your phone is still not
activated or you do not have access to the
Internet, contact Sprint Customer Service at
1-888-211-4727 for assistance.
The setup application helps you set up various
options and applications, including setting up
your Google™ Account.*
Complete the Setup Application
1. When the phone is first turned on, you will see
the Hands Free Activation screen, which may
be followed by a PRL Update screen and a
Firmware Update screen. Touch OK after each
of these steps. (Your phone may reboot after
activation or updates.)
2. After restart, touch the android icon to begin.
Note: You can touch Skip or Next to postpone setting up
any or all of the options listed below. Later on, you can
launch the setup application from the All Apps panel.
• Scheduled sync — Choose to sync data for
mail, contacts, calendar, and other services
automatically or manually.
Activate Your Phone Setup Application

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• Set up Wi-Fi network — Select an available
Wi-Fi network or Add Wi-Fi network to add a
new one.
• Get an HTC Account – Choose to sign in with
your HTC Account or create a new one.
• Tell HTC — Choose whether to allow HTC to
collect anonymous data in the background
about how you use your phone.
• Use Google location — Choose to allow
Google’s location service to collect anonymous
information, to use My Location for Google
searches and other features, or both.
• Set up your free 25 GB Dropbox account –
Choose to create a Dropbox account or sign
into an existing one.
• Set up accounts — Touch any of the services
listed to set up an account for Google,
Exchange ActiveSync, Mail, Dropbox, Evernote
for HTC Sense, Facebook, and more.
• Transfer my stuff — Move contacts, messages,
and calendar events from your old phone to
your new one.
3. When you have finished transferring your stuff,
touch Finish.
* You do not need to sign up for a Google Account to use
your phone; however, to download apps from Google
Play™, you must link your phone to a Google Account.

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Move Around Your Phone’s Menus
and Screens Using Gestures
Your phone’s touchscreen lets you control
everything through various types of touches, or
gestures.
Touch: When you want to press onscreen
buttons, select items such as application and
settings icons, or type, simply touch the screen
with your finger. A light touch works best.
Touch and hold: To open the available options for
an item (for example, options for a contact),
simply touch and hold the item.
Drag: To move items on your phone’s
touchscreen, drag across the touchscreen
horizontally or vertically. For example, touch and
hold a widget on your Home screen and then
drag it to another area on the Home screen.
Flick: To scroll quickly through a list, flick across
the touchscreen (drag quickly and release). When
you’re flicking through a long list, touch the
screen to stop scrolling.
Tip: When you drag or flick a list, a scroll bar may
appear. Drag the scroll bar to move quickly to a
specific letter (A-Z).
Pinch and Spread: “Pinch” the screen using your
thumb and forefinger to zoom out, or “spread” the
screen to zoom in when viewing a picture or a
Web page. (Move fingers inward to zoom out and
outward to zoom in.)
Android™ Basics: Getting Around Your Phone

Android Basics
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Your Home Screen
Home Screen
Touch to display your Home screen.
Notifications Panel
When you see a notification icon on the left side
of the status bar, drag
the status bar down
to display the
Notifications panel.
Touch a notification to
open the related
application, such as
Messages, Call
History, or Calendar.
To close the panel,
drag the bottom
bar up or just
touch < .

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Your Home Screen
Viewing Your Extended Screens
Your phone’s Home screen extends horizontally
to seven full screens. This gives you room to
customize your phone and put the things you
need front and center, just a swipe away.
• To display the Home screen, touch from
any screen.
• To view extended screens, flick the screen left or
right. There are three additional screens on each
side of the Home screen.
Add Items to Your Home Screen or
Extended Screen
1. Touch and hold an empty spot on
either the Home screen or an extended screen.
2. Touch the Widgets, Apps, or Shortcuts tab.
3. Drag a widget, app, or
shortcut to a Home
screen thumbnail where
you want to add it.
Note: Touching from
the Home screen brings
up a thumbnail view of
all screens. Touch a
thumbnail to display
a screen.

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Keys
Just below the touchscreen, you’ll find a row of
static keys that let you perform specific functions.
• Back Key ( ) – Touch to return to the previous
screen view.
• Home Key ( ) – Touch to return to the
Home screen.
• Recent Apps Key() – Touch to open
context-specific menus.
Open Applications
• If an application is on one of your screens, just
touch it to open it.
• If an application is not available from your Home
screen, touch (if you’re not already on the
Home screen), touch to display the
applications list, and then touch the application
from the alphabetical list. You may have to scroll
down to find the application you’re looking for.
Keys and Icons
Home Key
Recent
Apps
Key
Back
Key

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Onscreen Keyboards
Your phone lets you choose between two
onscreen keyboards: HTC Sense Input and Swype.
Language and Keyboard Settings
You can change your text entry options through
the Language & keyboard settings menu. These
may include selecting onscreen keyboard options
(HTC Sense Input or Swype), word prediction,
user dictionary, and locale (language and region).
►Touch > > Settings > Language &
keyboard and then touch an option.
• To select a HTC Sense Input keyboard type,
touch HTC Sense Input > Advanced settings>
Keyboard types and select Standard, Phone,
or Compact.
• To change Swype settings, touch Swype.
• To change the language and the style for your
keyboard, touch System language.
• To change your predictive text input
settings for the HTC Sense Input keyboard,
touch HTC Sense Input > Advanced settings>
Word prediction.
HTC Sense Input Keyboard
Use the HTC Sense Input keyboard to enter text
one letter at a time.
Typing

Android Basics
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Swype Keyboard
Swype® lets you enter a word with one
continuous motion. To enter a word, just drag
your finger over the letters.
• To enter the small number or symbol at the top
of a key, touch and hold the key.
• To enter several symbols, touch .
• To enter apostrophes in common words
(like “I’ll”), drag through the apostrophe key.
• To correct a word, double-tap it. Swype shows a
small menu of other word options. Swype might
also show a menu if it can’t guess your word.
• If Swype doesn’t know a word, touch individual
letters to enter it. Swype remembers, so next
time you can just drag over the letters.
Typing

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Set Up Your Voicemail
All unanswered calls are automatically transferred
to your voicemail, even if your phone is in use or
turned off. You should set up your voicemail and
personal greeting as soon as your phone is
activated:
1. Touch > to display the phone dialpad,
and then touch and hold .
2. Follow the voice prompts to create your
password and record your name and greeting.
Sprint strongly recommends setting a voicemail
password. Without a password, anyone who has
access to your phone can access your
messages.
Retrieve Your Voicemail
►Touch > and then touch
and hold .
From any other phone:
1. Dial your wireless phone number.
2. When your voicemail answers, press *.
Visual Voicemail
You can also use your phone’s Visual Voicemail
application, which lets you see and choose which
messages you want to listen to.
►Touch > > Voicemail and then touch
a message to listen to it.
Use Your Phone: Voicemail

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Make a Phone Call
1. Touch > to display the phone dialpad.
2. Touch the digits of the number you want to call
on the dialpad. Touch to delete one or more
digits.
3. As you enter digits, any matches with numbers
already in People will appear. Touch an entry to
call the matching number or continue entering
the rest of the phone number.
4. Touch to place the call.
Make Phone Calls

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Answer an Incoming Call
• If the display is active, touch Answer.
• If the display is not active, drag into the ring to
answer the call.
Note: While on a call and holding the phone near
your face to speak, the touchscreen automatically
turns off to avoid accidental screen presses. When
you move the phone away from your face, the
touchscreen automatically turns back on.
• Touch to mute the microphone. Touch to
unmute the microphone.
• Touch to route the phone’s audio through the
speaker or through the earpiece.
Warning: Because of higher volume levels, do
not place the phone near your ear during
speakerphone use.
In-Call Options
Touch during a call to display a list of available in-call
features. Touch an option to select it. The following
options may be available through the Options menu:
• Add call initiate a three-way call and touch to
join two currently active calls.
• Flash to accept another incoming call and put the
first caller on hold. Touch Flash again to talk to the
first caller.
• People to display your contacts list.
• Contact card to bring up the contact information
of the person you are talking to.
Answer Calls

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View Contacts
1. Touch > > People.
2. Scroll through the list to view your contacts.
People
Your phone’s People application lets you access and manage contacts from a variety of sources,
including Gmail, Exchange, Facebook, contacts synced from your computer, and old-fashioned
contacts entered by hand.

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Add a New Contact
1. Touch > > People > .
2. Add as much or as little information as you want.
• To add information in a field, touch the field to
display the onscreen keyboard.
• To assign a number type (such as Home,
Mobile, Work, etc.), touch the label next to the
number field.
• To assign a picture, touch the icon next to the
name, select photo source, and touch or take
a picture.
3. Touch Save when you’re finished.
Note: If you have contacts associated with your
Gmail Account, they are automatically synced with
your phone.
Edit Contacts
1. Touch > > People.
2. Touch a contact to open it, and then touch Edit.
• Touch a field to add or edit information.
3. Touch Save when you’re finished.
Note: To delete a contact, touch > Delete.
Sync Contacts
When you change one of your contacts on your
phone, your phone automatically updates your
other social networking accounts. Also, your
phone updates your People and social
networking accounts whenever you change a
friend in your social networking accounts.
People

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Send a Message
1. Touch > > Messages > Compose.
2. Enter a phone number or email address, or
search for and select a contact.
3. Type your message.
4. Touch and then attach a photo, video, or
audio to your message.
5. When you are finished, touch Send.
Note: For information on taking pictures and
recording videos with your phone, see “Camera &
Camcorder” on page 24.
Access Messages
View all your text and multimedia messages
in one place.
►Touch > > Messages > All messages.
Messages

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Read and Reply to Messages
►Touch > > Messages.
• To open a message, touch it.
• To reply to a text or multimedia message,
open it and enter your reply in the text box
at the bottom.
• To forward a text message, touch the message
(do not touch a link or a phone number) to
open the options menu, and then touch
Forward.
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