HTC HTC Amaze 4G User manual

Your HTC Amaze 4G
User guide

Contents
Getting started
Inside the box 8
HTC Amaze 4G 8
Back cover 10
SIM card 12
Storage card 13
Battery 14
Switching the power on or off 16
Setting up HTC Amaze 4G for the first time 17
Entering your PIN 17
Finger gestures 17
Ways of getting contacts into your phone 18
Home screen 19
Basics
Adjusting the volume 21
Sleep mode 22
Status and notifications 23
Notifications panel 26
Where apps, data, and files are stored 28
Connecting your phone to a computer 28
Copying files to or from the phone storage or storage card 29
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing 30
Printing 31
Personalizing
Making HTC Amaze 4G truly yours 32
Personalizing HTC Amaze 4G with scenes 32
Changing your wallpaper 33
Applying a new skin 33
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets 34
Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen 36
Adding folders on your Home screen 36
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen 37
Rearranging the Home screen 38
Using sound sets 38
Rearranging or hiding application tabs 40
Customizing the lock screen 41
Phone calls
Different ways of making calls 42
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen 42
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Using Speed dial 43
Calling a phone number in a text message 43
Calling a phone number in an email 44
Making an emergency call 44
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
Forwarding a message 56
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message 57
Push messages 57
Managing message conversations 58
Setting message options 59
Search and Web browser
Searching HTC Amaze 4G and the Web 61
Using the web browser 62
Downloading from the Web 64
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages 65
Setting browser options 66
Camera
Camera basics 68
Taking a photo 69
Recording video 70
Adding effects 71
After capturing 71
Camera scenes 72
Taking a panoramic photo 72
Taking a high dynamic range (HDR) photo 73
Changing camera settings 73
Photos, videos, and music
Gallery 75
Music 83
Connected Media 89
HTC services
HTC Watch 91
HTCSense.com 95
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Accounts and sync
About online accounts 98
Synchronizing with a Google Account 98
Adding a social network account 99
Managing your online accounts 99
People
About the People app 101
Your contacts list 102
Setting up your profile 103
Importing contacts from your SIM card 103
Adding a new contact 104
Searching for contacts 104
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account 105
Merging contact information 106
Backing up your contacts to the storage card 107
Contact information and conversations 107
Sending contact information as a vCard 109
Contact groups 110
Adding People widgets 112
Social
Facebook for HTC Sense 114
Tweeting on the go using Peep 116
Using Friend Stream 118
Chatting in Google Talk 121
Email
Mail 124
Gmail 131
Calendar
About Calendar 134
Creating an event 134
Changing Calendar views 135
Managing Calendar events 136
Accepting or declining a meeting invitation 137
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders 137
Showing or hiding calendars 138
Changing Calendar settings 138
About the Calendar widget 139
Maps and location
Turning on location services 140
About Locations 140
Finding your location and what’s around you 140
Searching for a place of interest 141
Searching for an address 141
Choosing the map to search from 141
Viewing maps 142
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Recording favorite places with HTC Footprints 143
Planning your trips 145
Getting directions 147
Using turn-by-turn navigation (Premium navigation) 149
Managing Locations services 150
Downloading maps or purchasing services 150
Adding navigation widgets 150
About Google Maps 150
Getting around maps 151
Searching for a location 152
Searching for a place of interest near you 152
Getting directions 153
Getting help 154
Finding your friends with Google Latitude (available by country) 154
Android Market and other apps
Finding and installing apps from Android Market 155
Using the Clock 157
Checking Weather 160
Reading news feeds 161
Keeping track of your stocks 164
Watching videos on YouTube 165
Using Tags 166
Listening to FM Radio 168
Using Flashlight 169
HTC Sync
About HTC Sync 170
Installing HTC Sync 170
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize HTC Amaze 4G 171
Getting to know the workspace 171
Setting up synchronization 172
Synchronizing HTC Amaze 4G 175
Installing an app from your computer to HTC Amaze 4G 175
Synchronizing another device with your computer 176
Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade 176
Keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard 177
Entering words with predictive text 178
Entering text by speaking 180
Entering text by tracing 181
Editing text 181
Adjusting input settings 182
Internet connections
Data connection 184
Wi-Fi 185
Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN) 186
Using HTC Amaze 4G as a modem (USB tethering) 188
Connecting HTC Amaze 4G to the Internet through a computer (Internet Pass-through) 188
Using HTC Amaze 4G as a wireless router 189
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