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
Your first week with your
new phone
About your phone
Features you'll enjoy on HTC Desire 500
HTC Desire 500 gives you options for quick and easy setup. Transferring your old
phone's content such as your contacts, messages, and media can be done right from
HTC Desire 500.
On this phone, enjoy taking shots with the camera, checking personalized content
with HTC BlinkFeed
™
, and more.
Easy phone setup and transfer
§ With our HTC Get Started service, you can set up and personalize
HTC Desire 500 from your computer, and just download your settings to
HTC Desire 500. See Setting up your new phone for the first time on page 14.
§ Easily transfer your contacts, messages, music, photos, videos, and more from
an Android phone to HTC Desire 500. See Transferring content from an Android
phone on page 15.
By using HTC Sync Manager, you can even migrate content from an iPhone. See
Transferring iPhone content to your HTC phone on page 105.
§ Back up HTC Desire 500 to the cloud so it'll be a lot easier to restore your
content to a new phone next time. See Using HTC Backup on page 101.
Live Home screen
With HTC BlinkFeed, personalize your Home screen with the information and updates
that matter most to you. See a variety of content such as feeds about news and your
interests, social network updates, HTC Desire 500 tips, and more. The content is
constantly refreshed when you're connected to the Internet. See Checking feeds on
your Home screen on page 30.
New way to share memories
Create highlight videos without editing or share your photos to friends and family on
the fly.
20 Your first week with your new phone