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
Entering text by speaking
No time to type? Try speaking the words to enter them.
1. Tap an area where you want to enter text.
2. On the onscreen keyboard, press and hold .
3. When you see the microphone image, speak out the words you want to type.
To set the voice input language, tap the language bar above the microphone
image. You can choose one or more languages. Available languages depend on the
voice input languages supported by Google.
4. If a word doesn't match what you've spoken and it's underlined, tap the
underlined word to delete it or to see more choices.
5. Enter punctuation marks by saying the name (for example, say "comma").
Battery
Checking battery usage
See a ranking list of apps that are using the battery. You can also see how much and
how long the battery has been used for each app.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap Power > Usage.
3. Tap an app to check how it's using the battery. You'll see how much battery
power is used by resources such as the CPU for the app and other use details.
If you see buttons while viewing an app's battery use details, you can tap them to
adjust settings that affect battery usage, stop the app, and more.
Checking battery history
Check how long you've been using HTC Desire 500 since the last charge. You can also
see a chart that shows how long the screen has been on, and how long you've been
using connections like the mobile network or Wi‑Fi.
1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap .
2. Tap Power > History.
3. If you've used HTC Desire 500 for a long time since the last charge, swipe left or
right to scale the graph that details battery usage over time.
You can also spread your fingers or pinch to scale the graph.
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