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
Getting directions
Get detailed directions to your destination. Google Maps can provide directions for
travel by foot, public transportation, or car.
1. While viewing a map, tap .
2. Do any of the following:
§ Use your current location as the starting point, or enter a location from
where to start in the first text box. Then enter your destination in the
second text box.
§ Tap to select an address from your contacts or a point that you tap on a
map.
If the place you’ve set as your destination has several locations available, choose
which one to go to.
3. Choose how you want to get to your destination.
If you're taking public transportation, select your transit preferences.
4. Tap Get directions.
If driving or walking, tap Directions list to view the directions in a list. You can also
tap the arrow buttons on the map to follow the directions.
When you’re finished viewing or following the directions, tap to reset the map.
Your destination is automatically saved in the Google Maps history.
Finding your friends with Google Latitude (available by country)
Google Latitude
®
user location service lets you and your friends share locations and
status messages with each other. It also lets you get directions to your friends’
locations, send your location details by email, and more.
Your location is not shared automatically. You must join Latitude, and then invite your
friends to view your location or accept their invitations. Only friends that you have
explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.
Opening and joining Latitude
1. Open the Maps app.
2. If you haven't signed in to your Google Account, tap > Join Latitude.
You can access Latitude from Maps whenever you have an Internet connection. In
Maps, tap > Latitude.
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