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
- Location settings
- Google Maps
- HTC Car
- 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
Using HTC Backup
Save the time and frustration of re-creating your personalized HTC Desire 500
experience when you do a factory reset or you lose, damage, or buy another phone.
On HTC Desire 500, use HTC Backup to do a daily backup to the cloud so you can
easily restore your content and settings next time.
HTC Backup uses your Dropbox storage to keep your content and settings. It can
back up and restore the following:
Home screen
settings
These include your categories and headlines in HTC BlinkFeed,
widgets, and Home screen layout.
Accounts and
passwords
HTC Backup stores the login credentials for many popular email
and social network accounts, including Exchange ActiveSync,
Microsoft Hotmail
®
, Flickr
®
, LinkedIn
®
, Evernote
®
, and POP/IMAP.
Apps and settings These include your web bookmarks, personal dictionary, Wi‑Fi
networks, apps you've installed, grid size and sort order in the All
apps view, and over 150 other settings.
Backing up HTC Desire 500
Turn on HTC Backup to do a daily backup of your phone over Wi‑Fi. You can turn it
on by selecting Back up phone daily while doing the on-device setup, or enable it in
Settings.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap Backup & reset.
3. Tap the Backup On/Off switch.
4. Choose HTC Account as your backup account, and sign in to your account.
§ You can sign in with your HTC Account or Facebook
®
account.
§ If you're already signed into your Google Account, tap it to change your backup
account to your HTC Account.
5. Sign in to Dropbox, if you haven't done so.
Once your phone has finished backing up, you'll see the last backup date and time
under Backup history.
To manually start a backup, tap Back up now under Backup history.
Depending on the amount of content, doing a manual backup may incur additional
data costs and take a long time. Using a Wi‑Fi connection is recommended.
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