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
Trimming an MP3 ringtone
Use the Music app's ringtone trimmer if you want to set only a part of the song as
ringtone.
1. When you find the song that you want, tap > Set as ringtone > Trim the
ringtone.
2. Drag the trim sliders to the part where you want the ringtone to begin and
end.
For a more precise trimming, tap the left or right arrow buttons. Time markers
indicate where you are on the song.
3. When you're done trimming, tap Set as.
4. Choose whether to set your trimmed song as your Phone ringtone or Contact
ringtone.
You can see your new ringtone in the phone settings. Slide the Notifications panel
open, and then tap > Sound > Ringtone.
Searching for lyrics, music videos, and more
Looking up related music info
SoundHound can find info about the song you're listening to.
While a song is playing, tap > Get info.
You can look up the lyrics, learn about the artist's tour dates, and more.
Finding music videos on YouTube
It's easy to find music videos of the song you’re listening to on YouTube
®
.
On the Now playing screen, tap > Search > YouTube.
Wireless display
Sharing on a big screen
Share what you're viewing on HTC Desire 500 onto a big screen TV.
§ If you have a home theater system that's DLNA
®
compliant, you can share your
photos, videos, movies, and music from HTC Desire 500 to your TV through
your home Wi‑Fi network.
§ Don't have a DLNA setup at home? Don't worry. Just purchase the HTC Media
Link HD and hook it up to your HDMI TV. You can then wirelessly share what
you're viewing or listening on HTC Desire 500 to your TV.
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