HTC HTC Desire X Owner's manual

Your HTC Desire
What’s new?

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What you’ll find in this guide
HTC Desire uses the latest Android 2.2 (Froyo)
platform which makes your mobile experience more
exciting and engaging than ever.
Whether you bought a new phone already with
Android 2.2 or you upgraded your phone platform,
read this “What’s new” guide to find out the great
features you can now get out of your phone.
Contents
1. Find information where you want 3
2. Record videos in HD 4
3. See your friend’s Facebook status and birthday
on the caller ID 5
4. Recommend apps from your phone 6
5. Use the Flashlight 7
6. Use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot 8
7. Change your keyboard language on the fly 9
8. Type messages easier 10
9. See enhancements in apps 11
10.Lock your phone in more than one way 12
11. When setting up your phone 13

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1. Find information where you want
Before, you could do a sweeping search on your phone
or on the Web and get several results that you weren’t
exactly looking for. With Google Search, you can target
your search to a particular app on your phone or to the
entire Web. This will save you time and data connection
charges.
Searching for information
1. From the Home screen, press the SEARCH button.
The Google search box opens.
2. Tap . Then choose where
you want to target your
search.
3. Enter the information you
want to search in the text box
and then tap .
4. Tap a search result to open it in the related app.
For example, if you searched for a contact, tap the
contact to open People.
5. If you couldn’t find the information, tap the item to do
a Web search.
The phone browser opens and lists results of your
search.
Telling your phone where to search
1. From the Home screen, press MENU , and then tap
Settings > Search > Searchable items.
2. Select the apps you want to include in the Google
search options.
3. Press BACK.

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2. Record videos in HD
Capture great moments in HD video. You can use your
phone’s camera to record videos in 720p resolution.
Low-light situations? No problem. Set the camera to turn
on the light at the back of your phone when recording
videos.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Camcorder.
2. On the Viewfinder screen, tap to open the menu
panel.
3. Tap , and then tap Resolution.
4. Select 720p (1280 x 720). Then tap the screen to
close the menu panel.
5. Tap the Flash button to switch the camera light on or
off depending on your lighting conditions:
Light on Light o
6. Frame your subject on the Viewfinder screen.
7. You can either let the camera autofocus on the center
of the screen, or you can touch another area on the
screen that you want to focus on.
8. Press the optical trackball to start capturing video.

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3. See your friend’s Facebook status
and birthday on the caller ID
Everytime you make a call or your friend gives you a ring,
you get to see your friend’s latest status update from
social networks like Facebook or Twitter right on the
Phone dialer or incoming call screen.
You also won’t miss people’s birthdays. You’ll see a
birthday reminder, if your friend’s birthday will occur
sometime within the next seven days.
You have to set up Facebook for HTC Sense on your
phone to receive your contacts’ status updates and other
personal information from Facebook. You can do this
when you set up your phone for the first time or through
the Accounts & sync option in Settings.

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4. Recommend apps from your phone
Want to tell your friends about an app? Send them a link
straight from your phone to theirs. There’s plenty of apps
available on Android Market — including games, social-
networking apps, and more.
Your friends must be using an Android phone to link to
the app and download it from Android Market.
1. From the Home screen, tap
2. Tap App Sharing. Or, press MENU and then tap Share.
You’ll then see the list of apps that you downloaded
and installed from Android Market.
3. Tap an app, and then choose how to share it.
You can share the link to the app using Twitter (Peep),
Facebook, or Bluetooth, or you can send the link
directly by email or text message.
When your friends see the link in your sent text, email, or
status update, they can simply tap the link to go directly
to the app in Android Market to download it.

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5. Use the Flashlight
Never get caught in the dark again. The Flashlight app
turns on the camera light at the back of your phone to
shine a light whenever you need it.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Flashlight.
2. To turn the flashlight on or off, or to adjust the light
intensity, tap the switch on the flashlight handle.

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6. Use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
Turn your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot and share
your data connection with up to eight Wi-Fi enabled
devices.
1. From the Home screen tap > Wi-Fi Hotspot.
2. The first time you open Wi-Fi Hotspot, a brief
introduction describing the app is displayed. Tap OK.
3. Enter a router name (SSID) to easily identify your
phone’s Wi-Fi network, or use the default name.
4. Under Security, choose the security protocol to use,
or select None to create an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot.
5 Enter a password to use to secure the Wi-Fi network,
or use the provided password.
The password must be 13 characters long when using
WEP security, and at least 8 characters long for WPA
or WPA2 security.
6. Select the Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot check box to
enable your phone as a wireless router.
The Wi-Fi Hotspot icon ( ) then appears in the status
bar. Follow the onscreen instructions to connect your
computer or other device to your phone’s Wi-Fi hotspot.

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7. Change your keyboard language
on the fly
Because your HTC phone gives you global presence, you
can change the onscreen keyboard layout to a number
of languages you frequently use.
Before you can switch the onscreen keyboard layout
to another language, you must first choose which
languages you want to use.
1. From the Home screen, press MENU and tap Settings
> Language & keyboard.
2. Tap Touch Input > International keyboard.
3. Choose the languages you want to switch the
onscreen keyboard with.
4. Press BACK.
5. Open an app such as Messages to enter text.
6. To switch to a different keyboard language, tap the
language switch key and then choose another
language.

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8. Type messages easier
With a bigger text box, you can compose longer text
messages (SMS) and fully express your thoughts.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Messages.
2. Tap New message.
3. Fill in one or more message recipients.
4. Enter your text message, and then tap .
Your text message automatically becomes a multimedia
message (MMS) when you include an attachment.
Adding an attachment to your multimedia message is
made easier, with a slideout bar that lets you choose the
type of file to include in your message.

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9. See enhancements in apps
We’ve improved apps on the phone to better your
experience.
Your phone’s web browser
You can save or use as wallpaper any image you’re
viewing in the phone’s browser.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Internet and go to
a website.
2. Press and hold an image. Then tap Save image or Set
as wallpaper from the options menu.
People
Because a lot of your contacts are also present in social
networking sites or have online albums, you can now link
them to their social network accounts such as Facebook
and Twitter. Make sure first that you have set up your
social network accounts before you proceed.
1. From the Home screen tap > People.
2. Tap a contact to open the contact details screen.
3. Tap and then select the account you want to link
the contact with.
You can then go to the Updates and Events tab ( )
in People to view your contact’s status updates, tweets,
or changes to their online albums.
FM Radio
In addition to the FM Radio app, there’s a FM Radio
widget that you can add to your Home screen.

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10.Lock your phone in more than
one way
Your privacy is important to us. That’s why we’ve given
you more choices to lock your phone and prevent access
to your most personal information.
1. From the Home screen, press MENU and tap Settings
> Security.
2. Tap Set up screen lock.
3. Choose how you want to lock your phone:
Pattern Follow the onscreen instructions to
draw a screen unlock pattern.
PIN Enter a PIN with at least 4 numbers.
Password Enter a password containing at least a
letter and numbers or symbols.
The next time you turn on your phone or wake up the
screen, you must draw your unlock pattern or enter your
PIN or password to unlock the screen.
Removing the pattern, PIN, or password lock
1. From the Home screen, press MENU and tap Settings
> Security.
2. Tap Change screen lock.
3. Draw the correct screen unlock pattern, or enter your
PIN or password.
4. Tap None.

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11. When setting up your phone
You’ll find that the paths to some settings on your phone
have changed. See the table below for the new ways of
accessing and changing these settings.
To Do this on the Settings screen
Change sound
settings, such as
ringtone, notifications,
and more
Tap Sound. Then choose the
sound setting you want to
change.
Change display
settings, such as
brightness, screen
timeout, and more
Tap Display. Then choose the
display setting you want to
change.
Turn location services
and GPS on or off
Tap Location. Then select or
clear their check boxes.
Set up credential
storage to manage
Wi-Fi and VPN
security certificates
Tap Security.
Under the Credential storage
section, tap Set password.
Reset your phone Tap SD & phone storage >
Factory data reset.

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