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Settings, Changing display settings, Adjusting the screen brightness manually

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250 Settings Settings Changing display settings Adjusting the screen brightness manually 1. From the Home screen, press MENU , and then tap Settings. 2. Tap Display > Brightness. 3. Clear the Automatic brightness check box. 4. Drag the brightness slider to the left to decrease or to the right to increase the screen brightness. Adjusting the time before the screen turns off After a period of inactivity, the screen turns off to conserve battery power. You can set the idle time before the screen turns off. 1. From the Home screen, press MENU , and then tap Settings. 2. Tap Display > Sleep. 3. Tap the time before the screen turns off.

Section	Page
Getting started	14
Inside the box	14
HTC Rezound with Beats Audio	15
Front panel	15
Top panel	16
Left and right panels	16
Back panel	17
Back cover	18
Removing the back cover	18
Replacing the back cover	19
SIM card	20
Inserting the SIM card	20
Removing the SIM card	21
Storage card	22
Inserting the storage card	22
Removing the storage card	22
Unmounting the storage card	23
Battery	24
Removing the battery	24
Inserting the battery	24
Charging the battery	26
Switching the power on or off	27
Switching the power on	27
Switching the power off	27
Finger gestures	27
Setting up HTC Rezound with Beats Audio for the first time	29
Ways of getting contacts into HTC Rezound with Beats Audio	30
Home screen	32
Extended Home screen	32
Using Leap view	33
Plugging in your Beats headphones	34
Want some quick guidance on using your wireless device?	34
Searching Show Me	35
Basics	36
Adjusting the volume	36
Adjusting the ringer volume	36
Adjusting the earpiece volume for calls	36
Adjusting the media volume	36
Sleep mode	37
Switching to Sleep mode	37
Waking up from Sleep mode	37
Unlocking the screen	37
Opening an app from the lock screen	38
Status icons	39
Notifications	40
Notification LED	40
Notification icons	41
Notifications panel	42
Switching between recently opened apps	43
Using Quick Settings	44
Where apps, data, and files are stored	45
Connecting your phone to a computer	46
Copying files to or from the phone storage or storage card	47
Copying and sharing text	48
Selecting text	48
Copying and pasting text	49
Sharing text	49
Printing	50
Printing a photo	51
Adding a printer	51
Personalizing	53
Making HTC Rezound with Beats Audio truly yours	53
Personalizing HTC Rezound with Beats Audio with scenes	53
Using a preset scene	53
Creating a new scene	54
Renaming a scene	54
Deleting scenes	55
Changing your wallpaper	55
Applying a new skin	56
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets	57
Adding a widget to your Home screen	57
Changing the settings of a widget	58
Adding apps and other shortcuts on your Home screen	59
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen	59
Moving a widget or icon	59
Removing a widget or icon	60
Personalizing the launch bar	61
Grouping apps into a folder	62
Renaming a folder	62
Removing items from a folder	63
Rearranging the Home screen	63
Removing a Home screen panel	64
Adding back a Home screen panel	65
Personalizing with sound sets	65
Creating a sound set	65
Changing your ringtone, notifications, and sounds	66
Deleting sound sets	66
Rearranging application tabs	67
Customizing the lock screen style	68
Securing HTC Rezound with Beats Audio with a personal touch	68
Phone calls	70
Making a call with Smart dial	70
Using Speed dial	71
Assigning a speed dial key	71
Calling a phone number in a text message	71
Calling a phone number in an email	72
Calling a phone number in a Calendar event	72
Making an emergency call	72
Receiving calls	73
Answering a call	73
Rejecting a call	73
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call	73
Look who's calling	74
What can I do during a call	74
Turning the speakerphone on during a call	75
Muting the microphone during a call	75
Ending a call	75
Setting up a three-way call	76
Internet calls	77
Adding an Internet calling account	77
Making an Internet call	78
Call history	78
Returning a missed call	78
Checking calls in the Call History	79
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from Call History	79
Clearing the Call History list	79
Using Assisted dialing	80
Editing a country’s international call settings	80
Resetting the reference country to the default	81
Turning off Assisted dialing	81
Call services	82
Messages	83
About the Messages app	83
Sending a text message (SMS)	83
Sending a multimedia message (MMS)	84
Creating a slideshow	85
Can't find your contacts' email addresses in Messages?	86
Resuming a draft message	86
Checking your messages	87
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message	87
Saving a text message in the Tasks app	88
Replying to a message	88
Replying to another phone number of the contact	89
Forwarding a message	89
WAP push messages	90
Opening and reading a new WAP push message	90
Viewing all your WAP push messages	90
Managing message conversations	91
Locking a message	91
Copying a text message to your SIM card	91
Deleting a single message	91
Deleting several messages within a conversation	92
Deleting a conversation	92
Deleting several conversations	92
Backing up your text messages	93
Importing text messages	93
Setting message options	93
Search and Web browser	94
Searching HTC Rezound with Beats Audio and the Web	94
Setting search options	94
Performing searches on the Web and HTC Rezound with Beats Audio	94
Browsing the Web	95
Opening a new browser window	95
Switching between browser windows	96
Viewing the full version of a website	97
Private browsing	97
Downloading files and apps	97
Viewing your downloads	98
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages	98
Bookmarking a webpage	98
Opening a bookmark	98
Editing a bookmark	99
Viewing a previously visited page	99
Clearing the list of previously visited pages	100
Viewing a page that you often visit	100
Clearing the list of most visited pages	100
Changing the view of bookmarks or most visited pages	100
Syncing your bookmarks with Google Chrome	101
Setting browser options	101
Setting your homepage	101
Choosing when to show Adobe Flash content	102
Camera	103
Camera basics	103
Before capturing	104
Zooming	104
Auto focusing	104
Switching between the front and rear camera	104
Choosing an effect	105
Setting the resolution	105
Choosing a flash mode	105
Taking a photo	105
Recording video	106
Camera scenes	107
Improving people shots	107
Taking a panoramic photo	107
Taking continuous camera shots	108
Taking a high dynamic range (HDR) photo	109
Changing camera settings	109
Photos, videos, and music	111
Gallery	111
About the Gallery app	111
Viewing photos and videos	111
Starting a photo slideshow	112
Watching a video	112
Editing your photos and videos	113
Rotating a photo	113
Cropping a photo	113
Adding photo effects	114
Trimming a video	114
Viewing photos in your social networks	115
Sending your photos and videos	116
Sending photos or videos by email	116
Sending a photo or video by MMS	116
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth	117
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web	118
Sharing photos or videos on Facebook	118
Sharing photos and videos on Flickr	119
Sharing photos on Picasa	119
Sharing videos on YouTube	120
Music	121
Browsing music in the library	121
Listening to music	121
Finding music videos on YouTube	122
Updating album covers	122
Playing music from the Lock screen	123
Creating a playlist	124
Playing the songs in a playlist	124
Managing playlists	125
Deleting playlists	125
Setting a song as a ringtone	126
Trimming an MP3 ringtone	126
Sharing music using Bluetooth	127
Connected Media	128
Sharing media on your home network	128
HTC services	130
HTC Watch	130
About HTC Watch	130
Creating or signing in to your HTC Watch account	130
Watching movies and TV shows	131
Renting or purchasing a video	132
Managing your downloads	133
Changing settings	133
Checking what's linked to your HTC Watch account	133
Deleting your HTC Watch account	134
Top questions on HTC Watch	134
Why am I asked to sign in again to my account?	134
How long is the rental period of a video?	134
Why won't HTC Watch allow me to remove a device and add a new one?	134
Accounts and sync	135
Adding a social network account	135
Adding more Google Accounts	135
Forgot your Google Account password?	136
Managing your online accounts	136
Changing sync settings	136
Syncing an account manually	137
Managing synced account settings	137
Removing an account	137
People	138
About the People app	138
Your contacts list	138
Filtering your contacts list	139
Setting up your profile	140
What you can see on your profile	140
Importing contacts from your SIM card	141
Adding a new contact	141
Setting contact search options	142
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account	142
Merging contact information	143
Accepting matched contacts suggestions	143
Manually merging contact information	143
Breaking the link	144
Backing up your contacts to the storage card	144
Importing contacts from the storage card	144
Contact information and conversations	145
Editing a contact’s information	146
Deleting contacts	146
Sending contact information	147
Sending multiple contact cards	147
Contact groups	148
Creating a group	148
Editing a contact group	148
Sending a message or email to a group	149
Rearranging your contact groups	149
Rearranging the members of a contact group	150
Deleting groups	150
Adding People widgets	151
Setting the default communication method	151
Getting in touch with a contact	152
Social	153
Facebook for HTC Sense	153
Twitter for HTC Sense	153
About Friend Stream	154
Checking notifications from your social networks	155
Updating your status in Friend Stream	155
Enjoying Facebook in Friend Stream	155
Posting a message on a friend's Facebook wall	155
Commenting on and liking Facebook posts	156
Checking in to a place	156
Tweeting in Friend Stream	157
Searching for Twitter users to follow	157
Unfollowing a Twitter user	157
Sending a direct message	158
Replying to or retweeting a tweet	158
Chatting in Google Talk	159
Using Google+	159
Email	160
Gmail	160
Viewing your Gmail Inbox	160
Sending an email message in Gmail	161
Replying to or forwarding email messages in Gmail	161
Getting help	162
Mail	162
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account	162
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account	163
Checking your Mail inbox	164
Viewing the unified inbox of all your email accounts	164
Switching between different views of your inbox	165
Manually refreshing an email account	166
Sorting email messages	166
Sending an email message	167
Resuming a draft email message	167
Reading and replying to an email message	168
Where are my unread email messages?	168
Saving an email message in the Tasks app	169
Searching and filtering email messages	169
Searching for emails from a contact	169
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email	170
Flagging an email	170
Setting your Out of the office status	170
Sending a meeting request	170
Managing email messages	171
Moving email messages to another folder	171
Deleting email messages	171
Switching to other mail folders	171
Changing email account settings	171
Calendar	173
About Calendar	173
Creating an event	173
Calendar views	174
Month view	174
Day and agenda views	174
Week view	175
Managing Calendar events	175
Editing an event	175
Deleting an event	175
Sharing an event	176
Accepting or declining a meeting invitation	176
Setting reminders for your events	176
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders	177
Showing or hiding calendars	177
Changing Calendar settings	178
Maps and location	179
Location settings	179
Turning on location services	179
VZ Navigator	180
Using VZ Navigator	180
HTC Footprints	182
Recording favorite places with HTC Footprints	182
Adding a location as a footprint	182
Revisiting a footprint	182
Editing or deleting a footprint	183
Sharing your footprints	183
Deleting multiple footprints	183
Exporting your footprints	183
Importing footprints	184
Google Maps	184
About Google Maps	184
Getting around maps	185
Searching for a location	185
Clearing the map	186
Checking the details of a location	186
Searching for a place of interest near you	187
Getting directions	187
Finding your friends with Google Latitude (available by country)	189
Opening and joining Latitude	189
Getting help	189
Google Play and other apps	190
Getting apps from Google Play	190
Finding and installing an app	190
Uninstalling an app	191
Getting help	191
Using the Clock	192
About the HTC Clock widget	192
Changing the location on the Clock widget	192
About the Clock app	193
World Clock settings	193
Setting your home city	193
Setting the date and time manually	193
Adding a city to the World Clock screen	193
Setting an alarm	194
Deleting an alarm	194
Checking Weather	195
Adding a city to the Weather screen	195
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen	196
Deleting cities from the Weather screen	196
Reading news feeds	196
Subscribing to news channels	196
Adding a keyword	197
Reading a story	197
Changing update schedule and content settings	198
Keeping track of your stocks	198
Adding the Stocks widget to your Home screen	198
Adding a stock quote or stock market index	199
Managing your stock quotes and indexes	199
Watching videos on YouTube	200
Searching for videos	200
Clearing the search history	201
Sharing a video link	201
Capturing and sharing videos on YouTube	201
Sharing games and apps	202
Productivity	203
Working on documents	203
Viewing a document	203
Creating a document	203
Editing a document	204
Recording your voice	204
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone	205
Completing tasks	206
Viewing the unified task list	206
Filtering tasks	206
Creating a task list	206
Managing task lists	207
Creating a task	207
Managing tasks	208
Changing Tasks settings	209
HTC Sync	210
About HTC Sync	210
Installing HTC Sync	211
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize HTC Rezound with Beats Audio	211
Syncing songs and playlists	212
Syncing photos and videos	213
Syncing your calendar events	213
Syncing your contacts	214
Syncing your web bookmarks	215
Syncing documents and email attachments	216
Installing an app from your computer to HTC Rezound with Beats Audio	217
Syncing another device with your computer	217
Keyboard	219
Using the onscreen keyboard	219
Selecting a keyboard layout	219
Entering text	220
Choosing multiple keyboard languages	220
Changing the keyboard language	220
Entering words with predictive text	221
Setting a second language for the keyboard	222
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary	222
Editing or deleting a word in the predictive text dictionary	222
Backing up your personal dictionary to your storage card	223
Importing your personal dictionary from your storage card	223
Entering text by speaking	224
Entering text by tracing	224
Turning on trace input	225
Internet connections	226
Data connection	226
Checking the data connection you're using	226
Turning the data connection on or off	226
Adding a new access point	227
Enabling data roaming	228
Keeping track of your data usage	228
Wi‑Fi	229
Turning Wi‑Fi on and connecting to a wireless network	229
Checking the wireless network status	230
Connecting to a different Wi‑Fi network	231
Connecting to a Wi‑Fi network using enhanced security	231
Wi‑Fi Enhanced Connectivity	232
Turning off Wi‑Fi Enhanced Connectivity	232
Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)	233
Adding a VPN connection	233
Connecting to a VPN	234
Disconnecting from a VPN	234
Sharing your mobile data connection by USB tethering	235
Using HTC Rezound with Beats Audio as a wireless router	236
Connecting to the Internet through a computer	237
Bluetooth	238
Bluetooth basics	238
Turning Bluetooth on or off	238
Changing the device name	238
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit	239
Reconnecting a headset or car kit	240
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device	240
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device	240
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device	241
Sending information using Bluetooth	241
Where sent information is saved	243
Receiving information using Bluetooth	244
Security	246
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN	246
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out	246
Protecting HTC Rezound with Beats Audio with a screen lock	247
Forgot your screen lock pattern?	248
Encrypting data on HTC Rezound with Beats Audio	249
Settings	250
Changing display settings	250
Adjusting the screen brightness manually	250
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off	250
Turning automatic screen rotation off	251
Recalibrating the G-sensor	251
Keeping the screen on while charging	251
Changing sound settings	252
Switching between silent, vibration, and normal modes	252
Playing a sound when selecting onscreen items	252
Lowering the ring volume automatically	252
Making HTC Rezound with Beats Audio ring louder in your pocket or bag	253
Switching to speakerphone automatically	253
Changing the display language	254
More ways to extend battery life	254
Switching to CDMA network mode	254
Checking the power usage of applications	254
Managing memory	255
Checking how much phone memory is available for use	255