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118 Messages  Tap a contact name or number to view the exchange of messages.  Tap the photo or icon to open a menu where you can quickly choose how to communicate with the contact. You can also view your messages on the Home screen with the Messages widget. If this widget is not there already, you can add it by following the steps in "Personalizing your Home screen with widgets" in the Personalizing chapter. Sending a text message (SMS) If you exceed the limit on the number of characters for a single text message, your text message will be delivered as one but will be billed as more than one message. 1. Press HOME , and then tap > Messages. 2. On the All messages screen, tap Compose message. 3. Fill in one or more recipients. You can:  Enter the first few letters of a contact name or starting digits of a mobile number. As you type, matching names with phone numbers from your stored contacts are displayed. Tap a name or one of the contact's number.

Section	Page
Basics	1
Inside the box	1
Your phone	1
Front panel	1
Right panel	1
Back panel	1
Back cover	1
Removing the back cover	1
Replacing the back cover	1
SIM card	1
Inserting the SIM card	1
Removing the SIM card	1
Battery	1
Inserting the battery	1
Charging the battery	1
Removing the battery	1
Storage card	1
Inserting the storage card	1
Removing the storage card	1
Removing the storage card while the phone is on	1
Switching your phone on or off	1
Switching your phone on	1
Switching your phone off	1
Finger gestures	1
Getting started	1
Setting up your phone for the first time	1
Home screen	1
Extended Home screen	1
Using Leap view	1
Status and notifications	1
Status icons	1
Notification icons	1
Notification LED	1
Notifications panel	1
Opening the Notifications panel	1
Switching between recently-opened apps	1
Closing the Notifications panel	1
Connecting your phone to a computer	1
Copying files to or from the storage card	1
Searching your phone and the Web	1
Setting your phone’s search options	1
Quickly looking up information on the Web	1
Translating words to other languages	1
Adjusting the volume	1
Adjusting the ringer volume	1
Adjusting the media volume	1
Adjusting the earpiece volume for phone calls	1
Adjusting the volume via settings	1
Sleep mode	1
Switching to Sleep mode	1
Waking up from Sleep mode	1
Unlocking the screen	1
Personalizing	1
Making your phone truly yours	1
Personalizing your phone with scenes	1
Using a preset scene	1
Creating a new scene	1
Renaming a scene	1
Deleting scenes	1
Changing your wallpaper	1
Applying a new skin	1
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets	1
Adding a widget	1
Changing the settings of a widget	1
Adding icons and other shortcuts on your Home screen	1
Adding folders on your Home screen	1
Creating a new folder and adding items to it	1
Renaming a folder	1
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen	1
Moving a widget or icon	1
Removing a widget or icon	1
Rearranging the Home screen	1
Changing your ringtones and alarms	1
Choosing a preset sound set	1
Creating a sound set	1
Customizing a sound set	1
Deleting sound sets	1
Rearranging or hiding application tabs	1
Putting back the tabs you’ve removed	1
Phone calls	1
Making calls	1
Making a call on the Phone dialer screen	1
Using Speed dial	1
Calling a phone number in a text message	1
Calling a phone number in an email	1
Making an emergency call	1
Using Assisted Dialing	1
Receiving calls	1
Answering or rejecting an incoming call	1
HTC Caller ID	1
Using in-call options	1
Putting a call on hold	1
Switching between calls	1
Setting up a three-way conference call	1
Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call	1
Muting the microphone during a call	1
Ending a call	1
Using Call history	1
Checking a missed call	1
Checking calls in the call history	1
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history	1
Clearing the call history list	1
Call services	1
Visual Voice Mail	1
Setting up Visual Voice Mail	1
Using Visual Voice Mail	1
Turning Airplane mode on or off	1
People	1
About People	1
People screen	1
Setting up My contact card	1
Ways of getting contacts into your phone	1
Adding a new contact	1
Importing contacts from your SIM card	1
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account	1
Merging contact information	1
Accepting matched contacts suggestions	1
Viewing a list of all your linked contacts	1
Manually merging contact information	1
Breaking the contact information link between contacts	1
Your contacts list	1
Filtering your contacts list	1
Searching for a contact	1
Backing up your contacts to the storage card	1
Importing contacts from the storage card	1
Deleting contacts	1
Contact information and conversations	1
Editing a contact’s information	1
Sending contact information as a vCard	1
Contact groups	1
Creating a group	1
Editing a contact group	1
Sending a message or email to a group	1
Rearranging your contact groups	1
Rearranging the members of a contact group	1
Deleting a group	1
People widget	1
Adding People widgets	1
Setting the default communication method	1
Changing the default communication method	1
Getting in touch with a contact	1
Keyboard	1
Using the onscreen keyboard	1
Selecting a keyboard layout	1
Entering text	1
Enabling multiple keyboard languages	1
Changing to the landscape onscreen keyboard	1
Entering words with predictive text	1
Setting a second language for the keyboard	1
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary	1
Editing or deleting a word in the predictive text dictionary	1
Backing up your personal dictionary to your storage card	1
Importing your personal dictionary from your storage card	1
Entering text by speaking	1
Setting the voice input language	1
Editing text	1
Selecting text	1
Copying and pasting text	1
Adjusting touch input settings	1
Touch Input settings	1
Text input	1
Messages	1
About Messages	1
Sending a text message (SMS)	1
Sending a multimedia message (MMS)	1
Creating a slideshow	1
Resuming a draft message	1
Viewing and replying to a message	1
Viewing a message	1
Replying to a message	1
Replying to another phone number of the contact	1
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message	1
Viewing push messages	1
Managing message conversations	1
Protecting a message from deletion	1
Copying a message to your SIM card	1
Deleting a single message	1
Deleting several messages within a conversation	1
Deleting a conversation	1
Deleting several conversations	1
Setting message options	1
Accounts and sync	1
Synchronizing with online accounts	1
About online accounts	1
Synchronizing with a Google Account	1
Adding a social network account	1
Managing your online accounts	1
Synchronizing with your computer	1
Installing HTC Sync	1
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone	1
Setting the Music sync options	1
Setting the Gallery sync options	1
Setting Calendar sync options	1
Setting People sync options	1
Setting Bookmarks sync options	1
Setting Documents sync options	1
Setting Maps sync options	1
Synchronizing your phone	1
Installing apps from your computer to your phone	1
Synchronizing another phone with your computer	1
Social	1
Facebook for HTC Sense	1
Tweeting on your phone	1
Using Peep	1
Sending a tweet	1
Searching for Twitter users to follow	1
Sending a direct message	1
Setting Peep options	1
About the Twitter widget	1
Friend Stream	1
Updating your status	1
Commenting on and liking Facebook posts	1
Checking notifications from your social networks	1
About the Friend Stream widget	1
Chatting in Google Talk	1
Chatting with friends	1
Accepting chat invitations	1
Changing your online status and picture	1
Adding and managing friends	1
Changing the settings and signing out	1
Email	1
Using Gmail	1
Viewing your Gmail Inbox	1
Sending a new message	1
Reading your messages	1
Replying to or forwarding an email message	1
Searching and organizing your emails	1
Changing Gmail settings	1
Getting help	1
Using Mail	1
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account	1
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account	1
Checking your Mail inbox	1
Managing email messages	1
Switching to other mail folders	1
Sending an email message	1
Reading and replying to an email message	1
Setting the priority for an email message	1
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email	1
Changing email account settings	1
Calendar	1
About Calendar	1
Creating calendar events	1
Inviting guests to your event (Google Account only)	1
Sending a meeting request using Calendar (Exchange ActiveSync only)	1
Changing calendar views	1
Month view	1
Day and Agenda views	1
Week view	1
Managing calendar events	1
Viewing an event	1
Editing an event	1
Deleting an event	1
Sharing an event (vCalendar)	1
Calendar event reminders	1
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders	1
Displaying and synchronizing calendars	1
Showing or hiding calendars	1
Choosing which Google Calendars are synchronized on your phone	1
Changing Calendar settings	1
Reminder settings	1
Calendar view settings	1
About the Calendar widget	1
Clock and Weather	1
About the HTC Clock widget	1
About the Clock app	1
Using Desk Clock	1
Using World Clock	1
Setting your home city	1
Setting the time zone, date, and time	1
Adding a city to the World Clock screen	1
Setting the alarm clock	1
Setting an alarm	1
Deleting an alarm	1
Changing alarm sound settings	1
Checking weather	1
Adding a city to the Weather screen	1
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen	1
Deleting cities from the Weather screen	1
Changing weather options	1
About the Weather widget	1
Internet connections	1
Data connection	1
Checking the data connection you are using	1
Turning the data connection on or off	1
Creating a new access point	1
Enabling data roaming	1
Wi-Fi	1
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network	1
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security	1
Checking the wireless network status	1
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network	1
Adding connection widgets	1
Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)	1
Setting up secure credential storage	1
Adding a VPN connection	1
Connecting to a VPN	1
Disconnecting from a VPN	1
Using your phone as a modem (Internet Connection Mode)	1
Connecting your phone to the Internet through a computer (Internet Pass-through)	1
Using your phone as a mobile hotspot	1
Web browser	1
Using your phone’s web browser	1
Going to a webpage	1
Setting your home page	1
Changing the screen orientation	1
Browsing full versions of all websites	1
Choosing when to show Flash content	1
Navigating on a webpage	1
Zooming in or out on a webpage	1
Selecting a link in a webpage	1
Selecting an address or phone number in a webpage	1
Opening a new browser window	1
Switching between browser windows	1
Downloading applications from the web	1
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing	1
Finding text within a webpage	1
Selecting text	1
Copying and pasting text	1
Searching or translating text	1
Pasting text in a new message or social network status update	1
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages	1
Bookmarking a webpage	1
Opening a bookmark	1
Editing a bookmark	1
Viewing a previously visited page	1
Clearing the list of previously visited pages	1
Viewing a page that you often visit	1
Clearing the list of most visited pages	1
Changing the view of bookmarks or most visited pages	1
Setting browser options	1
Bluetooth	1
Bluetooth basics	1
Turning Bluetooth on or off	1
Changing the phone name	1
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit	1
Reconnecting a headset or car kit	1
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device	1
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device	1
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device	1
Sending information using Bluetooth	1
Where sent information is saved	1
Receiving information using Bluetooth	1
Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen	1
Camera	1
Camera basics	1
Viewfinder screen	1
Using the front camera	1
Zooming	1
Taking a photo	1
Auto focusing	1
Recording video	1
Adding effects	1
After capturing	1
Changing camera settings	1
Photos, videos, and music	1
Browsing your Gallery	1
About the Gallery app	1
Selecting an album	1
Viewing photos	1
Viewing videos	1
Editing your photos	1
Sending your photos and videos	1
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth	1
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web	1
Listening to music	1
Flipping through your albums	1
Browsing music in the Library	1
Creating a playlist	1
Setting a song as ringtone	1
Sharing music using Bluetooth	1
Finding music videos in YouTube	1
About the Music widget	1
Sharing media on your home network	1
Maps and location	1
Turning on location services	1
Using Google Maps	1
About Google Maps	1
Getting around maps	1
Searching for a location	1
Searching for a place of interest near you	1
Adding a place to search	1
Getting directions	1
Finding your friends with Google Latitude (available by country)	1
Using HTC Footprints	1
Adding a location as a footprint	1
Revisiting a footprint	1
Editing or deleting a footprint	1
Sharing your footprints	1
Deleting multiple footprints	1
Exporting your footprints	1
Importing footprints	1
Using Car Panel	1
Using VZ Navigator	1
More apps	1
Watching videos on YouTube	1
Searching for videos	1
Sharing a video link	1
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube	1
Reading news feeds	1
Subscribing to news channels	1
Reading a story	1
Manually checking for new stories	1
Starring a story	1
Adding a keyword	1
Changing update schedule and content settings	1
Adding the News widget	1
Working on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations	1
Viewing a document, spreadsheet, or presentation	1
Editing a document or worksheet	1
Creating a new document or worksheet	1
Keeping track of your stocks	1
Adding a stock quote or stock market index	1
Changing the stock list order	1
Deleting stock quotes and indices	1
Manually updating stock information	1
Changing update schedule and color settings	1
About the Stocks widget	1
Listening to FM Radio	1
Tuning in to an FM station	1
Closing or turning off FM Radio	1
Adding the FM Radio widget	1
Recording your voice	1
Sharing a voice clip	1
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone	1
Renaming a voice clip	1
Using Flashlight	1
Finding and installing apps from Android Market	1
Finding and installing an app	1
Creating a Google Checkout account	1
Opening an installed app	1
Uninstalling an app	1
Getting help	1
Sharing games and apps	1
Security	1
Protecting your SIM card with a PIN	1
Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out	1
Protecting your phone with a screen lock	1
Changing your screen lock	1
Forgot your screen lock pattern?	1
Settings	1
Settings on your phone	1
Changing display settings	1
Adjusting the screen brightness manually	1
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off	1
Turning automatic screen rotation off	1
Recalibrating the G-sensor	1
Keeping the screen on while charging the phone	1
Switching animation effects on or off	1
Changing sound settings	1
Switching between silent, vibration, and normal modes	1
Enabling or disabling audible selection	1
Choosing the notification sound	1
Turning on or off automatic ring volume adjustment	1
Switching to speakerphone automatically	1
Changing the phone language	1
Optimizing your phone’s battery life	1
Checking the power usage of applications	1
Managing memory	1
Checking how much phone memory is available for use	1
Checking the available storage card space	1
Clearing application cache and data	1
Uninstalling third-party applications	1
Moving applications to or from the storage card	1
Checking information about your phone	1
Back up, update and reset	1
Backing up your contacts	1
Setting up Backup Assistant	1
Changing the backup schedule	1
Manually backing up your contacts	1
Updating the phone software	1
Checking for phone system software updates manually	1
Restarting or factory resetting your phone	1
Restarting your phone (soft reset)	1
Performing a factory reset (hard reset)	1
Trademarks and copyrights	1