User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Unboxing
- Setting up your phone
- Setting up your new phone for the first time
- Transferring content from an Android phone
- Transferring content from an iPhone
- Transferring contacts from your old phone through Bluetooth
- Getting contacts and other content into HTC Desire 500
- Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer
- Home screen
- Getting to know your settings
- Updating your phone's software
- Your first week with your new phone
- About your phone
- Basics
- Home screen feeds
- Notifications
- Working with text
- Battery
- Camera and Gallery
- Camera
- Gallery
- Personalizing
- Making HTC Desire 500 truly yours
- Changing your wallpaper
- Adding a widget to your Home screen
- Adding apps and other shortcuts on your Home screen
- Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
- Personalizing the launch bar
- Grouping apps into a folder
- Adding a Home screen panel
- Changing your ringtone, notifications, and sounds
- Rearranging application tabs
- Customizing the lock screen style
- Hiding missed calls and messages on the lock screen
- Securing HTC Desire 500 with a personal touch
- Phone calls
- Making a call with Smart dial
- Dialing an extension number
- Returning a missed call
- Using Speed dial
- Calling a phone number in a text message
- Calling a phone number in an email
- Calling a phone number in a Calendar event
- Making an emergency call
- Receiving calls
- What can I do during a call?
- Setting up a conference call
- Checking calls in the Call History
- Changing ringtone settings
- Home dialing
- Messages
- Sending a text message (SMS)
- Sending a multimedia message (MMS)
- Sending a group message
- Resuming a draft message
- Replying to a message
- Saving a text message in the Tasks app
- Forwarding a message
- Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message
- Moving messages to the secure box
- Blocking unwanted messages
- WAP push messages
- Copying a text message to your SIM card
- Deleting messages and conversations
- Search and web browser
- Entertainment
- Storage
- Sync, backup, and reset
- Online sync
- Backup
- HTC Sync Manager
- Syncing your media and data with HTC Sync Manager
- Installing HTC Sync Manager on your computer
- Transferring iPhone content to your HTC phone
- Copying or removing media on your phone
- Syncing data between your phone and your computer
- Syncing music, photos, and videos from your phone to your computer
- Syncing playlists between your phone and your computer
- Syncing documents from your computer to your phone
- Getting help
- Reset
- People
- Travel and maps
- Google Play and other apps
- Internet connections
- Wireless sharing
- Settings and security
- Turning Airplane mode on or off
- Turning automatic screen rotation off
- Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
- Adjusting the screen brightness manually
- Playing a sound when selecting onscreen items
- Changing the display language
- Accessibility settings
- Working with certificates
- Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
- Protecting HTC Desire 500 with a screen lock
- Checking your phone's HTC Sense version
- Trademarks and copyrights
- Index
Wireless sharing
Connecting a Bluetooth headset
You can listen to music over a Bluetooth stereo headset, or have hands-free
conversations using a compatible Bluetooth headset.
§ To listen to music with your headset, the headset must support the A2DP
Bluetooth profile.
§ Before you connect your headset, make it discoverable so HTC Desire 500 can
find it. Refer to your headset manual for details.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. If Bluetooth is off, tap the Bluetooth On/Off switch to turn it on.
3. Tap Bluetooth. The Bluetooth screen opens.
4. If you don't see your headset listed, tap and then tap Scan to refresh the list.
5. When you see the name of your headset in the Available Devices section, tap
the name. HTC Desire 500 pairs with the headset and the headset connection
status is displayed in the Paired Devices section.
If automatic pairing fails, enter the passcode supplied with your headset.
When the Bluetooth headset is connected to HTC Desire 500, the Bluetooth
connected icon is displayed in the status bar.
Reconnecting a Bluetooth headset
Normally, you can easily reconnect your headset by switching on Bluetooth on
HTC Desire 500, and then turning on the headset.
However, you might have to connect manually if your headset has been used with
another Bluetooth device.
Make sure that the headset is discoverable. Refer to the headset manual for details.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. If Bluetooth is off, tap the Bluetooth On/Off switch to turn it on.
154 Wireless sharing