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 Desire 500 as a wireless router
Share your data connection with other devices by turning HTC Desire 500 into a
wireless router.
§ Make sure the data connection is turned on.
§ You must have an approved data plan associated with your account from your
mobile service provider to use this service.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Under Wireless & networks, tap More.
3. Tap Mobile network sharing > Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings.
4. Enter a router name or use the default router name.
5. Choose the type of security and set the password (key) for your wireless router.
If you selected None in Security, you don’t need to enter a password.
The password is the key other people need to enter on their device so they can
connect and use HTC Desire 500 as a wireless router.
6. Select the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot option to turn on the wireless router.
HTC Desire 500 is ready to be used as a wireless router when you see on the
status bar.
To help minimize security risks, use the default security settings and set a secure
and unique password.
Sharing your phone's Internet connection by
USB tethering
No Internet connection available for your computer? No problem. Use the data
connection of HTC Desire 500 to connect to the Internet.
§ To make sure that the USB drivers for HTC Desire 500 are up-to-date, install the
latest version of HTC Sync Manager on your computer.
§ Make sure a SIM card with a data plan is inserted in HTC Desire 500.
§ You may need to have USB tethering added to your data plan, and it may incur
additional cost. Contact your mobile service provider for details.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Make sure that mobile data is turned on.
3. Under Wireless & networks, tap More.
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