Your HTC Aria™ Quick start guide
Quick start guide Before you do anything else, please read this Charge the battery The battery in your phone hasn’t been charged yet. While your phone is charging, it’s important that you do not remove the battery pack. Doing so can damage your phone. Also, please don’t try to take your phone apart. (If you do, it may invalidate your warranty.) Choose a rate plan wisely Your phone can use up a lot of Internet bandwidth really quickly.
Quick start guide This quick start guide will help you get started with your phone. In this guide, we use the following symbols to indicate important or useful information: Notes Important information Tips Safety precaution For the complete user guide and other helpful resources, check out the HTC support website at www.htc.com/support. Contents 1. What’s in the box 4 2. Get to know your phone 4 3. Before you turn on your phone 5 4. Get started 8 5. Add your contacts 9 6.
Quick start guide 1. What’s in the box Here’s what you should find inside the box: • Phone • microSD™ card • Battery • Power adapter • USB cable • This quick start guide • 3.5 mm stereo headset 2. Get to know your phone 3.
Quick start guide 3. Before you turn on your phone Take the back cover off 1. Hold the device securely with one hand and the back panel facing you. . Gently push the speaker with your thumb until the back cover disengages from the device. .Carefully pull the back cover to remove it. Insert the SIM card 1. Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out from the slot. . Slide the SIM card completely into the slot.
Quick start guide Insert the battery 1. Insert the battery with its exposed copper contacts into the phone first. The exposed copper contacts should be on the right when you insert the battery. . Push the battery all the way in. Insert the microSD card 1. Insert the microSD card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down. . Push it all the way in until you hear a click. Put the back cover on 1. Insert the tabs inside the back cover into the holes at the bottom panel of the phone. .
Quick start guide Charge the battery 1. Insert the power adapter plug into the USB connector at the bottom of your phone. . Connect the power adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery. It will take about three hours for the battery to be fully charged. If the AC adapter that comes with your phone has interchangeable plugs, you must first attach the plug to the AC adapter before charging the battery.
Quick start guide 4. Get started When you turn on your phone for the first time, your phone displays tutorials and guides you to set up your email accounts and favorite social networks. You can follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, or skip the setup and do it at another time. 1. Choose the phone language you want to use, and then tap Next. 2. Your phone walks you through a tutorial on how to use the onscreen keyboard.
Quick start guide 6. On the Set up accounts screen, choose the type of account you want to set up and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup. Tap Skip to set up accounts at a later time. When you are done setting up your accounts, tap Next. 7. On the Set up social networks screen, choose the type of social network account, such as Facebook® and Twitter™, that you want to access from your phone. Follow the onscreen instructions to log in to your social network account.
Quick start guide Adding a new contact 1. From the Home screen, tap > People. 2. On the All tab, tap Add contact. 3. Tap the Name field, enter the first and last name of the contact, and then tap OK. to hide the onscreen keyboard, tap the 4. Tap Display name box, and then choose how you want the contact name to be displayed in your contacts list. 5. Tap OK. 6. Choose the Contact account under which to create your contact. 7. Enter the rest of the contact information into the relevant fields. 8.
Quick start guide 11 7. HTC Sense Discover HTC Sense™ on your phone, an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles — make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected. Personalized Home screen The Home screen is highly customizable and extends beyond the screen width, giving you lots of room to add the information that matters most to you and tools or applications that make your life easier.
Quick start guide Scenes Can’t decide how to set up your Home screen? Check out Scenes that we’ve included in the phone. Scenes are preset Home screen layouts that you can quickly apply. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Scenes to check out the presets. After selecting a preset, you can customize it and save it as a new scene. 1. Customize the Home screen by changing the wallpaper. You can also add widgets, shortcuts, and more. 2.
Quick start guide 13 Friend Stream Streamline your social network accounts through Friend Stream. With Friend Stream, you can post what’s on your mind simultaneously across your social network, view status updates and tweets, and look through photos from your social network accounts. News Subscribe to news feeds to keep up with the latest buzz on the Internet. News monitors RSS feeds from your favorite news sites, blogs and more, and downloads the most current updates.
Quick start guide 8. Connect to the Internet Your phone puts the whole Internet in your pocket. You can get online using a data connection or Wi-Fi. Using a data connection It’s simple. When you turn your phone on for the first time (with the SIM card inserted), it should connect automatically to your mobile operator’s data service. If you don’t get a connection automatically, there are two things to try. Check that the data connection is turned on.
Quick start guide 15 4. Tap a Wi-Fi network to connect to. If you select an open network, you’ll be automatically connected. If you select a secured network, enter the key, and then tap Connect. Browsing the Web Your phone’s browser makes web browsing easy and fun. 1. From the Home screen, tap > Internet. 2. On the Browser screen, press MENU, and then tap the URL field on top of the screen. 3. Enter the web address. As you enter the address, matching web addresses will appear on the screen.
Quick start guide 9. Get your messages across Access your email accounts right from your phone. Adding a POP3/IMAP email account 1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail. 2. On the Choose a mail provider screen, tap Other (POP3/IMAP). If the account type you want to set up isn’t already in your phone’s database, you’ll be asked to enter a few more details. Have your email server information ready to save time. Your email provider can help you with this information. 3.
Quick start guide 17 10. Stay in touch with friends Your phone has everything you need to connect with your friends online. People and Friend Stream give you direct access to all the leading social networks. You can update your status on Facebook, look at photos in your online albums, and follow your tweets on Twitter. It’s all built in and easy to use. See the Social chapter of the user guide on our website to learn more about Friend Stream, Facebook, and Peep (the Twitter client on your phone).
Quick start guide 11. Get files into your phone Bring your files with you wherever you go. You can view Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files on your phone. You can also listen to music and look at your prized gallery of photos and videos. You’ll need to plug in your microSD card before you can copy files into your phone. 1. Connect the phone to your computer using the supplied USB cable. 2. When the Connect to PC dialog box appears, select Disk drive, and then tap Done. 3.
Quick start guide 19 12. Sync your phone with your computer You can use HTC Sync to sync Outlook contacts and calendar or Outlook Express contacts between your computer and your phone. Installing HTC Sync that came with the microSD card Use the HTC Sync installer that’s in the supplied microSD card to install. 1. Make sure the microSD card is inserted on your phone. 2. Connect your phone to your computer using the USB cable that came with your phone. 3.
Quick start guide 3. When your phone finds HTC Sync, your computer will display the Phone Connection Wizard. Click Next. 4. Enter a name for your phone, and then click Finish. 5. Check the HTC Sync icon on the computer. If it’s green in color, that means your phone is connected with your computer and HTC Sync recognizes the phone. 6. Double-click the green HTC Sync icon. Then click Synchronize Now (or Sync Manager > Settings). 7. In the Synchronization Settings Wizard, click Next. 8.
Quick start guide 21 13. Make your phone truly yours Change the way your phone looks and sounds. You can personalize your phone using your own photos as Home screen wallpaper or your favorite music as your ring tone. You can also use pre-installed wallpapers or ring tones. Changing the Home screen wallpaper 1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Wallpaper > Home. 2. Tap HTC wallpapers or Photos. 3.
Quick start guide 14. Factory resetting Need to start over? If you’re passing your phone on to someone else or just want a fresh start, you can factory reset your phone. It’s not a step to be taken lightly. Factory resetting your phone will delete all your data, including any applications you’ve downloaded and installed. It returns the phone to the state it was in before the first time you turned it on. Be sure to back up any data that you want to keep before you factory reset your phone.
Quick start guide 23 15. Troubleshooting tips If you ever have any problems using your phone, here are some things you can do to set things right again. Check whether there is enough free space on the phone to run the application. To check free space, go to the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > SD & phone storage. Clear your data and cache of applications. To clear the data and cache, go to the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Applications > Manage applications.
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