HTC Touch Cruise User manual

Quick Start Guide

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Table of Contents
Contents
1. Welcome to the Touch Cruise Quick Start Guide.......................6
2. Inside the Box.........................................................................................6
3. Getting to Know the Touch Phone .................................................7
4. Installing the SIM Card and Battery................................................8
5. Installing a Storage Card ....................................................................9
6. Charging the Battery......................................................................... 10
7. Using the In-Car Holder ................................................................... 10
8. Starting Up ........................................................................................... 13
9. The TouchFLO™ Home Screen ....................................................... 15
10. Making Your First Call ....................................................................... 17
11. Entering Information ........................................................................ 18
12. Basic Settings....................................................................................... 19
13. Adding Favorite Contacts................................................................ 22
14. Sending a Text Message .................................................................. 23
15. Sending an MMS Message.............................................................. 23
16. HTC Footprints™ ................................................................................. 24
17. Using Wi-Fi............................................................................................ 27
18. Setting Up Your Internet E-mail Account .................................. 28
19. Mobile Internet ................................................................................... 29
20. Bluetooth .............................................................................................. 30

Table of Contents
21. Keeping Track of Appointments................................................... 32
22. Keeping Track of Things to Do....................................................... 33
23. Taking Photos and Shooting Videos ........................................... 34
24. Viewing Photos and Videos............................................................ 36
25. When Connecting Your Device to a Computer ....................... 38
26. Synchronizing Your Device with Your Computer.................... 38
27. Copying Files to Your Device.......................................................... 40
28. Synchronizing Music Files .............................................................. 41
29. Listening to Music on Your Device............................................... 42
30. Resetting Your Device....................................................................... 43

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1. Welcome to the Touch Cruise Quick Start Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of the Touch Cruise device. This Quick Start
Guide walks you through the basics of using your device, from setting it up to
getting started with using some of the great functions and programs such as
HTC Footprints™, Internet, messaging, and multimedia.
For a more complete guide to using your device, please refer to the User
Manual PDF that we have included in the Application disc that came with the
device.
2. Inside the Box
You should find the following items inside the box.
HTC Touch Cruise
Battery
Power adapter
Screen protector
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Wired stereo
headset
USB sync cable
Pouch
In-car holder
Car charger
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1 GB microSD card
(with pre-loaded map
content for bundled
GPS software)
Quick Start Guide
Getting Started and
Application discs
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3. Getting to Know the Touch Phone
Earpiece
Touch
Screen
END
NAVIGATION
WHEEL/ENTER
TALK/SEND
Speaker
Strap Holder
Back Cover
3.2 Megapixel
Camera
POWER
Sync Connector/Earphone Jack
Microphone
Stylus
VOLUME UP
VOLUME DOWN
LED
GPS
FOOTPRINTS

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4. Installing the SIM Card and Battery
Make sure your device is turned off before installing the SIM card and
battery. You also need to remove the back cover before you can install these
components.
To remove the back cover
Hold the device securely with the front
facing down.
With your thumb or finger, lift up the
bottom of the back cover.
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To install the SIM card
Locate the SIM card slot, then insert the SIM
card with its gold contacts facing down and
its cut-off corner facing in the card slot.
Slide the SIM card completely into the slot.
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Cut-off
corner
RESET
To remove the SIM card
Remove the battery if it is installed.
From the opening near the top of the device,
push the SIM card partially out with the
stylus.
Slide the SIM card out the rest of the way
from the SIM card slot with your thumb or
finger.
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To install the battery
Align the battery’s exposed copper
contacts with the battery connectors inside
the battery compartment. Ensure that the
free end of the ribbon strip is visible above
the battery.
Insert the contacts side of the battery first
and then gently push the battery into
place.
Replace the back cover.
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Ribbon strip
5. Installing a Storage Card
To have additional storage for your images, videos, music, and files, you can
purchase a microSD™ card and install it into your device.
To install a microSD card
Remove the back cover.
Insert the microSD card into
the slot with its gold contacts
facing down until it clicks into
place.
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RESET
Note To remove the microSD card, press it to eject it from the slot.

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6. Charging the Battery
New batteries are shipped partially charged. Before you start using your device,
it is recommended that you install and charge the battery.
To charge the battery
1. Connect the USB connector of the AC adapter to the sync connector on your
device.
2. Plug in the AC adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.
The battery is fully charged after about 3 hours of charging.
7. Using the In-Car Holder
Assemble and install the supplied in-car holder so you can use your device while
inside a vehicle.
Put together the in-car holder
1. Put the cradle on the base so that the
two tabs on the base insert into the
corresponding slots on the cradle.

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2. Slide the cradle firmly down on the base
so that the tabs click into place.
Fix the holder in the car
1. Place the suction pad on the base on a
smooth surface such as the windshield of
the car.
2. Push the lever on the base so that the
suction pad attaches firmly to the surface.
Warning! Always ensure that the base of the in-car
holder is attached firmly to a smooth,
stable surface, otherwise it may become
detached and fall, causing damage to
your device.

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Put the device in the holder
1. Place the bottom edge of the
device in the bottom part of the
cradle.
Bottom
2. Push on the top edge of the
device so that it clicks into the top
part of the cradle.
Top
Note When the device is on and you put it in the holder, NaviPanel automatically opens
and offers you a convenient, one-touch interface to Footprints, the phone, and
the GPS navigation software. For more information about NaviPanel, refer to the
“Finding and Recording Places” chapter in the User Manual PDF. For information
about using Footprints, see the “HTC Footprints™”section in this Quick Start Guide.

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Remove the device from the holder
1. Pull the upper edge of the cradle
slightly upwards, and with your fingers
in the hole behind the cradle, push so
that the device clicks out.
2. Lift the device out of the cradle,
holding it firmly.
8. Starting Up
After installing your SIM card and battery and charging the battery, you can now
power on and start using your device.
Turn on the power
Press the POWER button.
A Quick Start Wizard guides you through the calibration of the screen and
the setup of time zone, date and time, and password. Follow the onscreen
instructions to finish the Quick Start Wizard. After the Quick Start Wizard
finishes, the device installs customization settings, then restarts.
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Auto configure data connection settings
After the device restarts, you will be asked
if you want to automatically configure your
device’s data connections.
Follow the onscreen instructions to go through
the configuration process so that you do not
need to enter the settings for 3G/GPRS, MMS,
and WAP manually. After the configuration is
completed, tap Restart.

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9. The TouchFLO™ Home Screen
Your device’s main screen is the TouchFLO™ Home screen which allows finger-
touch access to the most important functions such as favorite contacts, text
messages, e-mail, Internet, and more.
The following are some of the tabs you will find on the TouchFLO Home screen:
Home People Messages Mail
Footprints Internet Photos and Videos Music

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To switch between the tabs of the Home screen
Do one of the following:
Touch or tap the desired tab on the Home screen.
Press Navigation Right or Left.
Press and hold your finger on the active tab, then slide your finger right or left
over the tabs.
Note Apply some pressure when pressing and holding on the active tab to be able to
slide over the tabs.
The subsequent sections in this Quick Start Guide will show you how to use
some of the Home screen tabs. For complete information about using TouchFLO,
refer to the User Manual PDF on the Application disc.
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10. Making Your First Call
To place a call
1. Press the TALK/SEND button to open the
Phone screen.
2. Tap the keys on the keypad to enter the phone
number.
Tip If you tapped a wrong number, tap to erase
each subsequent digit of a number. To erase
the entire number, tap and hold .
3. Press the TALK/SEND button again to place theTALK/SEND button again to place the
call.
Tip When in a call, use the VOLUME button on the side of the device to adjust the
phone volume.
To check missed calls
When you have missed calls, you will see the
icon in the title bar and the number of missed
calls on the Home tab. To check who the caller
was, touch the missed call item on the Home tab.

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11. Entering Information
When you need to enter text, choose one of the available onscreen input
methods. Here are some examples of onscreen input methods.
Tap the Up arrow icon to open a
selection menu and choose the
desired input method.
Full QWERTY Compact QWERTY Phone Keypad
To enter text, simply tap the keys on the onscreen keyboard. Depending on the
keyboard layout selected, you may need to tap the same key more than once to
select the desired character.
Tip When using T9 mode, tap the SPACE key to select the first word in the predicted
word list.
For more information about using the different input methods, refer to the
“Entering Text” chapter in the User Manual PDF.

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12. Basic Settings
Customize your device settings to suit your personal needs.
Ring tone
Press TALK/SEND to open the Phone screen and then tap Menu > Options.
From the Ring tone list, select the desired ring tone and then tap OK.
Alarm clock
On the Home screen, select the Home tab
and then tap the time display.
Tap the Alarms tab.
Select a check box to enable an alarm.
Edit the Description of an enabled alarm
by tapping the default description and
changing the text.
Tap the days you want the alarm to sound.
Tap the time to set the time you want the
alarm to sound.
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Phone profile
A profile is a preset that determines how your device will alert you when there
are incoming phone calls. To select a profile:
On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap Sounds.
Choose one of the following: Normal, Vibrate, Silent, or Automatic.
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Notes • Automatic sets your device to vibrate only when you receive phone calls during
scheduled appointments in your Calendar.
• If your device has been set with the alarm clock and you set the profile to Vibrate
or Silent mode, you will not hear any sound from the alarm. To enable the alarm
sound, make sure you turn on the Alarm Sound option on the Sound Profiles
screen.
Wallpaper
You can change the background image of the Home tab.
On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap Wallpaper.
On the Select a Picture screen, navigate to the folder where the image you
want to use is located. When you have found the desired image, tap the
image to set it as the wallpaper for the Home tab.
Device lock
Enabling device lock requires you to enter a password to unlock your device
after it has been left idle for a set period of time.
On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab
and then tap All Settings.
On the Personal tab, tap Lock.
Select the Prompt if device unused for check
box and choose the time to elapse before your
device requires password entry.
Select the Password type.
Enter and confirm the password and then tap
OK.
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