HTC T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide User manual

Your T-Mobile
myTouch 3G Slide
What’s new?

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What you’ll find in this guide
Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide uses the Android 2.2
(Froyo) platform which makes your mobile experience
more exciting and engaging.
Whether you bought your T-Mobile myTouch 3G
Slide already with Android 2.2 or you upgraded your
current phone, 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. Use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot 4
3. Use your phone as a modem (tethering) 5
4. Call using Wi-Fi 5
5. Change your keyboard language 6
6. Type messages easier 7
7. Set webpage image as wallpaper 8
8. Listen to online music 8
9. Find places near your location 8
10.Lock your phone in more than one way 9
11. When setting up your phone 10

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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. While on the the Home screen, open the hardware
keyboard, and then press . The Google search box
opens.
2. Tap , and 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 Contacts.
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. 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 four Wi-Fi enabled
devices.
Important: Using your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot may be
costly. Ask T-Mobile first about data rates before using
your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot.
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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3. Use your phone as a modem
(tethering)
No Internet connection available for your computer?
No problem. Use your phone’s data connection to
connect to the Internet using your computer. You need
your T-Mobile SIM card inserted on your phone to use
the data connection.
Before you can use USB tethering, you need to install
the HTC driver first on your computer. You can find the
HTC driver in the microSD that came with the phone.
To install the driver on your computer, just connect your
phone to your computer (make sure the microSD card
is inserted in your phone), copy the HTCDriver.exe file to
your computer, and then double-click the file.
Important: Using your phone as a modem may be costly.
Ask T-Mobile first about data rates before using your
phone as a modem.
1. Make sure your phone’s data connection is turned on.
2. Connect the phone to the computer using the
provided USB cable.
3. Slide open the Notifications panel, and then tap Disk
drive (or the current connection you are using.)
4. On the Connect to PC screen, select USB tethering,
and then tap Done.
4. Call using Wi-Fi
With Wi-Fi calling, you can use your Wi-Fi connection
to make calls. To call using Wi-Fi, from the Home screen,
tap > Wi-Fi Calling.
To find out more about Wi-Fi calling, ask T-Mobile.

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5. Change your keyboard language
Change the onscreen keyboard layout (when using
Touch Input) 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 then 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
and then choose another language.

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6. Type messages easier
With a bigger text box, it’s easier to compose longer text
messages (SMS).
1. On 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 picture
message (MMS) when you include an attachment.
Adding an attachment to your picture 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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7. Set webpage image as wallpaper
You can set an image you’re viewing on the Web
browser as your Home screen’s wallpaper.
1. On the Home screen, tap Internet and go to a website.
2. Press and hold an image, and then tap Set as
wallpaper from the options menu.
8. Listen to online music
Listen to the latest beats on your phone with myTouch
Music. You’re going to need an Internet connection to
use myTouch Music.
To open myTouch Music, from the Home screen, tap
> myTouch Music. If you want to request the
next song on the playlist, tap on the screen.
9. Find places near your location
Looking to grab a bite to eat in a new city? You can
use Places to check places of interest near your current
location.
To open Places, from the Home screen tap >
Places.

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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 then 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 then 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.