HTC ThunderBolt User Guide

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MASTER YOUR DEVICE

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Conventions used in this guide

In this user guide, we use the following symbols to indicate useful and important information:

～～～

This is a note. A note often gives additional information, such as what happens on your phone when you choose to do or not to do a certain action. A note also provides information that may only be applicable to some situations.

△18

This is a tip. A tip gives you an alternative way to do a particular step or procedure, or lets you know of an option that you may find helpful.

7

This indicates that something is very important. Important information is something that you need to do in order to accomplish a certain task or to get a phone feature to work properly.

△！

This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be careful about to prevent potential problems when using your phone.

Contents

asics 20
Inside the box .....20
Your phone .....21
Front panel .....21
Right panel .....22
Back panel .....23
Back cover .....24
Removing the back cover .....24
Replacing the back cover .....24
SIM card .....25
Inserting the SIM card .....25
Removing the SIM card .....27
Battery .....28
Inserting the battery .....29
Charging the battery .....30
Removing the battery .....31
Storage card .....32
Inserting the storage card .....32
Removing the storage card .....33
Removing the storage card while the phone is on .....33
Switching your phone on or off .....34
Switching your phone on .....34
Switching your phone off .....34
Finger gestures .....35

etting started 36
Setting up your phone for the first time 36
Home screen 37
Extended Home screen 37
Using Leap view 38
Status and notifications 39
Status icons 39
Notification icons 40
Notification LED 42
Notifications panel 42
Opening the Notifications panel 42
Switching between recently-opened apps 43
Closing the Notifications panel 44
Connecting your phone to a computer 44
Copying files to or from the storage card 46
Searching your phone and the Web 47
Setting your phone's search options 48
Quickly looking up information on the Web 49
Translating words to other languages 50
Adjusting the volume 50
Adjusting the ringer volume 51
Adjusting the media volume 51
Adjusting the earpiece volume for phone calls 51
Adjusting the volume via settings 51
Sleep mode 52
Switching to Sleep mode 52
Waking up from Sleep mode 52
Unlocking the screen 53

personalizing 54
Making your phone truly yours 54
Personalizing your phone with scenes 54
Using a preset scene 55
Creating a new scene 56
Renaming a scene 56
Deleting scenes 56
Changing your wallpaper 57
Applying a new skin 58
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets 59
Adding a widget 59
Changing the settings of a widget 60
Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen 61
Adding folders on your Home screen 62
Creating a new folder and adding items to it 62
Renaming a folder 62
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen 63
Moving a widget or icon 63
Removing a widget or icon 64
Rearranging the Home screen 64
Changing your ringtones and alarms 65
Choosing a preset sound set 65
Creating a sound set 66
Customizing a sound set 66
Deleting sound sets 68
Rearranging or hiding application tabs 68
Putting back the tabs you've removed 69

Phone calls 70
Making calls 70
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen 70
Using Speed dial 71