HTC One A9s User manual

User guide
HTC One A9s

Contents
Features you'll enjoy
What's new and special with Camera 8
The best from HTC and Google Photos 10
What's different with the onscreen keyboard 10
Sound 11
Truly personal 11
Boost+ 12
Android 6.0 Marshmallow 12
Software and app updates 13
Unboxing
HTC One A9s 14
nano SIM card 15
Storage card 16
Charging the battery 18
Switching the power on or off 18
Phone setup and transfer
Setting up HTC One A9s for the first time 20
Restoring from your previous HTC phone 20
Transferring content from an Android phone 21
Ways of transferring content from an iPhone 22
Transferring iPhone content through iCloud 22
Other ways of getting contacts and other content 22
Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer 23
Using Quick Settings 23
Getting to know your settings 24
Fingerprint scanner 24
Updating your phone's software 25
Getting apps from Google Play 27
Downloading apps from the web 28
Uninstalling an app 29
Your first week with your new phone
Basics 30
HTC Sense Home widget 38
Lock screen 40
Notifications 42
Working with text 43
HTC Help 46
Personalizing
Themes 48
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Home screen layout 51
Wallpapers 51
Home screen panels 53
Stickers, widgets and app shortcuts 54
Apps screen 57
Sounds 58
Camera
Camera basics 60
Selfies and people shots 65
Zoe camera 67
Panoramic shots 68
Hyperlapse 68
Pro mode 68
Google Photos and apps
Google Photos 71
Google Now 73
Google Search 76
Google apps 77
Power and storage management
Battery 79
Storage 83
Boost+ 87
Sync, backup, and reset
Online sync 91
Backup 92
HTC Sync Manager 95
Reset 97
HTC BlinkFeed
What is HTC BlinkFeed? 99
Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off 100
Restaurant recommendations 100
Ways of adding content on HTC BlinkFeed 101
Customizing the Highlights feed 103
Playing videos on HTC BlinkFeed 103
Posting to your social networks 103
Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed 104
Phone calls
Making a call with Smart dial 105
Making a call with your voice 105
Dialing an extension number 106
Returning a missed call 106
Speed dial 106
Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event 106
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Making an emergency call 107
Receiving calls 107
What can I do during a call? 107
Setting up a conference call 108
Call History 109
Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes 109
Home dialing 110
Messages
Sending a text message (SMS) 111
Sending a multimedia message (MMS) 111
Sending a group message 112
Resuming a draft message 112
Replying to a message 113
Forwarding a message 113
Moving messages to the secure box 113
Blocking unwanted messages 114
Copying a text message to the nano SIM card 114
Deleting messages and conversations 115
People
Your contacts list 116
Setting up your profile 117
Adding a new contact 117
Editing a contact’s information 118
Getting in touch with a contact 118
Importing or copying contacts 119
Merging contact information 120
Sending contact information 120
Contact groups 121
Private contacts 122
Email
Checking your mail 123
Sending an email message 124
Reading and replying to an email message 124
Managing email messages 125
Searching email messages 125
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email 126
Adding an email account 127
What is Smart Sync? 127
Other apps
Clock 128
Weather 129
Voice recorder 129
FM Radio 130
Internet connections
Turning the data connection on or off 131
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Managing your data usage 131
Wi-Fi connection 133
Connecting to VPN 134
Using HTC One A9s as a Wi-Fi hotspot 135
Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering 136
Wireless sharing
HTC Connect 137
Bluetooth 141
NFC 143
Settings and security
HTC BoomSound profile 145
Turning location services on or off 145
Do not disturb mode 145
Airplane mode 147
Automatic screen rotation 147
Setting when to turn off the screen 147
Screen brightness 147
Touch sounds and vibration 148
Changing the display language 148
Installing a digital certificate 149
Disabling an app 149
Controlling app permissions 150
Setting default apps 150
Setting up app links 150
Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card 151
Accessibility features 151
Accessibility settings 152
Turning Magnification gestures on or off 152
Navigating HTC One A9s with TalkBack 152
Trademarks and copyrights
Index
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About 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 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 feature to work properly.
This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be careful
about to prevent potential problems.
Some apps may not be available in all regions or with your mobile operator.
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Important note on recoverable data
Files and other data that have been deleted, cleared, removed, or erased from your device
may still be recoverable by third-party data recovery software. Even a factory reset may not
permanently erase all data from your mobile device, including personal information.
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Features you'll enjoy
What's new and special with Camera
Enjoy taking great camera shots on HTC One A9s. The camera interface has a fresh new look, neatly
organized to make it faster for you to switch modes and change your settings.
Leaner, cleaner, camera interface
The new camera interface groups related capture modes together—such as photo capture modes—
so that you can quickly find the mode you want, and puts modes and their settings side by side for
easy access.
Without having to open the slideout menu, you can easily switch back to Photo or Video mode from
other modes by tapping or below the shutter button. You can also just tap to quickly
switch between the front and main camera.
See Camera on page 60.
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Quickly adjust image brightness and focus
Easily adjust the focus and brightness—or
exposure value—before taking a shot.
Just tap the screen to set the focus, and
then drag your finger up or down.
See Taking a photo on page 62.
Selfies
§Live Makeup – Before taking your selfie, use Live Makeup to smoothen your skin. See
Applying skin touch-ups with Live Makeup on page 66.
§Instant selfie shots – Flash a smile, and the camera instantly captures your smiling face. Or,
just say "Cheese!" See Using Auto Selfie on page 66 and Taking selfies with voice commands
on page 66.
RAW enhancement
With RAW image enhancement, you can take your photos to a whole new level. After snapping a
shot in Pro mode, the camera saves a RAW file in DNG format. The RAW file provides more image
information for post processing in the Google Photos™app or a graphics program on your computer.
See Taking a RAW photo on page 70.
Hyperlapse
Hyperlapse lets you speed up the action up to 12 times, and select sections of the video to change its
speed. See Recording a Hyperlapse video on page 68.
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The best from HTC and Google Photos
To give you the best experience from HTC and Google®apps yet still provide optimal storage out of
the box, HTC is starting to minimize preloading duplicate apps. One example is HTC Gallery.
Instead of preloading this app, HTC has extracted its unique features to make them accessible from
Google Photos. In HTC One A9s, you can use HTC's special photo and video editing tools right from
Google Photos.
With Google Photos, manage your photos and videos, back them up to your cloud storage, and enjoy
all of its cool features. For details, see What you can do on Google Photos on page 71.
What's different with the onscreen keyboard
HTC is using TouchPal as the onscreen keyboard for HTC One A9s due to its popularity and
extensive features.
Here are some of the features you'll enjoy with the TouchPal keyboard:
§Download keyboard themes to personalize the keyboard background.
§Choose from a variety of emoji art to add fun to your messages and social updates.
§Back up and sync your personal dictionaries as well as input patterns and data to TouchPal
Cloud.
§Keyboard is resizable. You can also reposition the keyboard.
§When you’re typing in landscape, you can split the keyboard so it’s easier and faster for you to
type with just your thumbs.
To learn the basics of using the keyboard, see Entering text on page 44.
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