HTC U Play User manual

User guide
HTC U Play
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Contents
Features you'll enjoy
What's special with Camera 10
Immersive sound 11
Fingerprint sensor 12
Boost+ 12
Truly personal 13
Android 6.0 Marshmallow 14
Unboxing and setup
HTC U Play overview 16
Card tray 17
nano SIM card 18
Storage card 21
Charging the battery 24
Switching the power on or off 24
Choosing which nano SIM card to connect to the 4G LTE network 25
Managing your nano SIM cards with Dual network manager 25
Setting up HTC U Play for the first time 25
Adding your social networks, email accounts, and more 26
Fingerprint scanner 27
Your first week with your new phone
HTC Sense Home 29
Sleep mode 29
Unlocking the screen 30
Motion gestures 30
Touch gestures 32
Getting to know your settings 36
Using Quick Settings 36
Capturing your phone's screen 37
Travel mode 37
Restarting HTC U Play (Soft reset) 37
Notifications 38
Motion Launch 40
Selecting, copying, and pasting text 43
Entering text 43
How can I type faster? 44
Getting help and troubleshooting 46
Updates
Software and app updates 47
Installing a software update 48
Installing an application update 48
Installing app updates from Google Play 48
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Home screen layout and fonts
Adding or removing a widget panel 49
Changing your main Home screen 49
Setting your Home wallpaper 50
Changing the default font size 50
Widgets and shortcuts
Launch bar 51
Adding Home screen widgets 51
Adding Home screen shortcuts 52
Grouping apps on the widget panel and launch bar 52
Moving a Home screen item 53
Removing a Home screen item 53
What is the HTC Sense Home widget? 54
Sound preferences
Changing your ringtone 57
Changing your notification sound 57
Setting the default volume 57
Tuning your HTC USonic earphones 58
Taking photos and videos
Camera screen 59
Choosing a capture mode 60
Taking a photo 61
Setting the photo quality and size 62
Tips for capturing better photos 62
Recording video 63
Quickly adjusting the exposure of your photos 64
Taking continuous camera shots 64
Using HDR 65
Selfies 65
Taking a panoramic selfie 67
Taking a super wide-angle panoramic selfie 69
Taking a panoramic photo 70
Advanced camera features
Using Zoe camera 71
Recording a Hyperlapse video 71
Choosing a scene 72
Manually adjusting camera settings 72
Taking a RAW photo 73
How does the Camera app capture RAW photos? 73
Phone calls
Making a call with Smart dial 74
Dialing an extension number 75
Speed dial 75
Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event 75
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Receiving calls 75
Emergency call 76
What can I do during a call? 76
Setting up a conference call 77
Call History 78
Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes 78
Home dialing 79
SMS and MMS
Sending a text message (SMS) 80
How do I add a signature in my text messages? 81
Sending a multimedia message (MMS) 81
Sending a group message 82
Forwarding a message 82
Moving messages to the secure box 83
Blocking unwanted messages 83
Copying a text message to the nano SIM card 84
Deleting messages and conversations 84
Contacts
Your contacts list 85
Adding a new contact 86
Editing a contact’s information 87
Getting in touch with a contact 88
Importing or copying contacts 88
Merging contact information 89
Sending contact information 90
Contact groups 90
Private contacts 91
Battery
Tips for extending battery life 93
Using power saver mode 95
Extreme power saving mode 95
Displaying the battery percentage 95
Checking battery usage 95
Checking battery history 96
Battery optimization for apps 96
Storage
Freeing up storage space 97
Types of storage 98
Should I use the storage card as removable or internal storage? 98
Setting up your storage card as internal storage 99
Moving apps and data between the phone storage and storage card 99
Moving an app to the storage card 100
Copying files between the phone storage and storage card 100
Copying files between HTC U Play and your computer 101
Unmounting the storage card 102
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Backup and reset
Ways of backing up files, data, and settings 103
Using Android Backup Service 104
Restoring from your previous HTC phone 105
Backing up contacts and messages 105
Resetting network settings 107
Resetting HTC U Play (Hard reset) 108
Transfer
Ways of transferring content from your previous phone 109
Transferring content from an Android phone 109
Transferring iPhone content through iCloud 110
Other ways of getting contacts and other content 110
Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer 111
Installing and removing apps
Getting apps from Google Play 112
Downloading apps from the web 113
Uninstalling an app 113
Managing apps
Arranging apps 114
Controlling app permissions 115
Setting default apps 115
Setting up app links 116
Disabling an app 116
HTC BlinkFeed
What is HTC BlinkFeed? 117
Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off 118
Restaurant recommendations 118
Ways of adding content on HTC BlinkFeed 119
Customizing the Highlights feed 120
Playing videos on HTC BlinkFeed 120
Posting to your social networks 121
Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed 121
Themes
What is HTC Themes? 122
Downloading themes or individual elements 122
Creating your own theme 122
Finding your themes 123
Editing your theme 123
Deleting a theme 124
Choosing a Home screen layout 125
Using stickers as app shortcuts 125
Multiple wallpapers 126
Time-based wallpaper 127
Lock screen wallpaper 127
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Boost+
About Boost+ 128
Turning Smart Boost on or off 128
Manually clearing junk files 129
Optimizing apps running in the foreground 129
Managing irregular activities of downloaded apps 130
Managing apps running in the background 130
Creating an unlock pattern for some apps 130
Weather and clock
Checking Weather 132
Using the Clock 132
Google Photos
What you can do on Google Photos 134
Viewing photos and videos 134
Editing your photos 135
Enhancing RAW photos 135
Trimming a video 135
Editing a Hyperlapse video 136
Mail
Checking your mail 137
Sending an email message 138
Reading and replying to an email message 138
Managing email messages 139
Searching email messages 139
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email 140
Adding an email account 141
What is Smart Sync? 141
Voice Recorder
Recording voice clips 142
Internet connections
Turning the data connection on or off 143
Managing your data usage 143
Wi-Fi connection 145
Connecting to VPN 146
Using HTC U Play as a Wi-Fi hotspot 147
Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering 148
Wireless sharing
What is HTC Connect? 149
Using HTC Connect to share your media 150
Streaming music to AirPlay speakers or Apple TV 151
Streaming music to Blackfire compliant speakers 151
Streaming music to speakers powered by the Qualcomm AllPlay smart media platform 152
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Turning Bluetooth on or off 152
Connecting a Bluetooth headset 153
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device 153
Receiving files using Bluetooth 154
Using NFC 155
Common settings
Do not disturb mode 157
Turning location services on or off 158
Touch sounds and vibration 159
Setting when to turn off the screen 159
Changing the display language 159
Airplane mode 160
Screen brightness 160
Automatic screen rotation 160
Night mode 161
Installing a digital certificate 161
Security settings
Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card 162
Setting a screen lock 162
Setting up Smart Lock 163
Turning the lock screen off 163
Accessibility settings
Accessibility features 164
Accessibility settings 164
Turning Magnification gestures on or off 165
Navigating HTC U Play with TalkBack 165
Trademarks and copyrights
Index
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About this guide
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to do or not to do a certain action. A note also provides information that may only be applicable
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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 special with Camera
Enjoy taking great camera shots on HTC U Play. The Camera app has a simple interface, neatly
organized to make it faster for you to switch modes and change your settings.
Lean and clean camera interface
The 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 Taking photos and videos on page 59.
Two ways to adjust exposure
Tap the screen, and then drag your
finger up or down to manually
adjust the exposure. Or turn on the
Touch autoexposure option in the
camera settings so you can simply
tap the screen to automatically set
the exposure.
See Quickly adjusting the exposure of your photos on page 64.
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