Verizon HTC Windows Phone 8X User manual

User Guide

Contents
Unboxing
Your phone 14
SIM card 15
Battery 18
Switching the power on or off 19
Setting up your phone
Entering your PIN 21
Setting up your phone for the first time 21
Account setup 22
Getting contacts into your phone 23
My Verizon Mobile 24
Your first week with your new phone
Features you'll enjoy 26
Start screen 27
Touch gestures 29
Motion gestures 33
Adjusting the volume 35
Sleep mode 35
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Lock screen 36
Changing the ringtone 38
Changing the theme 38
Taking a screenshot 39
Switching between apps 39
Windows Store 40
Using speech on your phone 40
Camera
Camera basics 42
Taking a photo 44
Recording video 45
After capturing 46
Phone calls
Making a call 47
Receiving calls 49
What can I do during a call? 50
Starting a three-way call 51
Call history 52
Turning airplane mode on or off 53
Global Ready 54
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People
Keeping in touch 56
Importing contacts from your SIM card 57
Adding a new contact 57
Jumping to a section in the contacts list 58
Filtering your contacts list 58
Merging contact profiles 59
Searching, editing or deleting 60
Sharing with a group of contacts in real-time 62
Organizing your contacts into groups 65
What is the Me tile? 67
Posting to social networks 68
Filtering social updates 70
Keyboard
Using the onscreen keyboard 71
Entering words with predictive text 73
Changing the keyboard language 73
Messaging
Texting and chatting in one place 75
Sharing pictures, videos, and more in a message 78
Viewing and replying to a message 79
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Managing conversations 81
Email
Adding your Microsoft account 82
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account 83
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account 83
Checking email 84
Sending email 86
Managing email messages 88
Changing email account settings 89
Photos, videos, and music
Photos 90
Music + Videos 94
Sync and Backup
Keeping things in sync 95
Backing up your files 95
Backing up your contacts 96
Setting up Backup Assistant Plus 96
Internet connections
Data connection 97
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Wi‑Fi 98
Using your phone as a mobile hotspot 101
Managing your data usage 102
Search and Web browser
Ways you can search the Web 105
Searching for information 105
Scanning codes, tags, and text 107
Opening and navigating web pages 110
Music search 112
Maps and location
Location services 114
Maps 115
Local Scout 120
Calendar
What you can do in Calendar 122
Creating a calendar appointment 122
Creating a new to-do task 125
Displaying and syncing calendars 126
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More apps
What can I do in the HTC hub? 127
What's in the Office hub? 136
Creating and sharing notes 137
Xbox LIVE in the Games hub 139
Bluetooth and NFC
Connecting a Bluetooth accessory 141
Disconnecting a Bluetooth accessory 142
Unpairing 142
Sharing content with NFC 143
Turning NFC on and off 143
Using NFC 144
Settings
Attentive phone features 146
Turning Battery Saver on 147
Changing display settings 147
Changing sound settings 148
Managing apps and storage 149
Security
Assigning a PIN to help protect your SIM card 152
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Setting a password to help protect your phone 153
Making your phone safer for kids 154
Update and reset
How to get and install updates 156
Preparing for a software update 157
Installing an update 158
Factory reset 159
Trademarks and copyrights
Index
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IMPORTANT CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Please be advised that many services and applications offered through this
unique device are provided by various device, operating system, software
and application developers (e.g. Google, Motorola, Microsoft, Palm,
Research In Motion). If you use, link to or download such a service, or an
application such as a non-Verizon Wireless location based GPS-type
service, chat room, marketplace or social network from this device, you
should carefully review the terms of such service or application. If you use
any of these non-Verizon Wireless services or applications, personal
information you submit may be read, collected, or used by the service or
application provider and/or other users of those forums.
Verizon Wireless is not responsible for your use of those applications or
information you choose to submit or share with others. Specific terms and
conditions, terms of use, and privacy policies apply to those applications
and services. Please review carefully any and all terms and conditions
applicable to those applications and services including those related to any
location-based services for any particular privacy policies, risks or waivers.
Your Verizon Wireless Customer Agreement Terms and Conditions and
certain other specifically identified terms govern your use of any Verizon
Wireless products and services.
IMPORTANT CUSTOMER INFORMATION 9

Conventions used in 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.
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