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
Preventing notifications from unsecured Wi-Fi networks
You can prevent getting notified by unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap the Wi-Fi On/Off switch to turn Wi‑Fi on.
3. Tap Wi-Fi.
Detected Wi‑Fi networks will be listed.
4. Press and hold an unsecured Wi‑Fi network you want stop being notified about,
and tap Block network notification.
5. To unblock an unsecured Wi‑Fi network, press and hold the network name and
tap Unblock network notification.
Connecting to a Wi‑Fi network via WPS
If you're using a Wi‑Fi router with Wi‑Fi Protected Setup (WPS), you can connect
HTC Desire 500 easily.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap the Wi-Fi On/Off switch to turn Wi‑Fi on.
3. Tap Wi-Fi.
4. Tap > WPS Push, and then press the WPS button on your Wi‑Fi router.
To use the Wi‑Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN method, tap > WPS Pin Entry.
Disconnecting from the current wireless network
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap Wi-Fi.
3. You can:
§ Tap the wireless network that HTC Desire 500 is connected to, and then
tap Disconnect.
§ If you want to remove the settings for this network, press and hold the
network name, and then tap Forget network.
Connecting to a different Wi‑Fi network
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap Wi-Fi. Detected Wi‑Fi networks are displayed.
To manually scan for available Wi‑Fi networks, tap > Scan.
3. Tap a Wi‑Fi network to connect to it.
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