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Setting up HTC One V for the first time, Creating your account and picking your plan - virgin mobile

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13 Unboxing Setting up HTC One V for the first time When you switch on HTC One V for the first time, you'll be asked to set it up. Just follow the onscreen instructions and you'll be up and running in no time. When HTC One V has started, you'll see Quick Tips on some screens (such as the Home screen) that will guide you in using HTC One V. The tips for a screen won't display again after you've closed them. To view the Quick Tips again, slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > About > Help > Show all quick tips. Creating your account and picking your plan 1. From your computer, visit virginmobileusa.com and click Activate. 2. Choose an activation option and click Next. 3. Enter your zip code and click Next. 4. When prompted, enter the serial number (MEID) printed on the sticker located on the back of HTC One V in the battery compartment. 5. Follow the remaining instructions to choose your plan and select a payment method. 6. Follow the activation instructions below after creating your account in order to be able to start using HTC One V. Activating HTC One V Before you can start making calls, send messages, and more, you need to activate service with Virgin Mobile. 1. From the Home screen, tap > Activate. 2. Follow the onscreen prompts to complete the activation process. After you've completed the wizard, make a phone call to confirm your activation.

Section	Page
Unboxing	8
HTC One V	8
Bottom cover	9
Removing the bottom cover	9
Replacing the bottom cover	10
Storage card	10
Inserting the storage card	11
Unmounting the storage card	11
Removing the storage card	11
Charging the battery	12
Switching the power on or off	12
Switching the power on	12
Switching the power off	12
Setting up HTC One V for the first time	13
Creating your account and picking your plan	13
Activating HTC One V	13
Your first week with your new phone	14
Features you'll enjoy on HTC One V	14
Home screen	15
Extended Home screen	15
Touch gestures	15
Sleep mode	16
Switching to Sleep mode	16
Waking up from Sleep mode	16
Unlocking the screen	17
Opening an app or folder from the lock screen	17
Getting contacts into HTC One V	18
Transferring contacts from your old phone	18
Making your first call	18
Sending your first text message	19
Getting photos, videos, and music on or off HTC One V	19
Copying and sharing text	20
Selecting text	20
Copying and pasting text	20
Sharing text	20
Capturing the HTC One V screen	21
Switching between recently opened apps	21
Notifications	21
Notification LED	21
Notification icons	22
Notifications panel	22
Getting to know your settings	23
Getting the battery to last longer	23
Updating the HTC One V software	23
Installing an update	24
Checking for updates manually	24
Syncing your media and data with HTC Sync Manager	24
Camera	25
Camera basics	25
Zooming	25
Choosing an effect	25
Setting the resolution	26
Choosing a flash mode	26
Taking a photo	26
Recording video	26
Taking a photo while recording a video	26
Taking continuous camera shots	27
Camera scenes	27
Improving portrait shots	27
Taking a group shot	28
Taking a panoramic photo	28
Using HDR	28
Shooting in low light	29
Recording videos in slow motion	29
Changing camera and video settings	29
Personalizing	30
Making HTC One V truly yours	30
Personalizing HTC One V with scenes	30
Creating a new scene	30
Renaming a scene	30
Deleting scenes	31
Changing your wallpaper	31
Applying a new skin	31
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets	32
Adding a widget to your Home screen	32
Changing the settings of a widget	32
Resizing a widget	33
Adding apps and other shortcuts on your Home screen	33
Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen	33
Moving a widget or icon	33
Removing a widget or icon	33
Personalizing the launch bar	34
Grouping apps into a folder	34
Renaming a folder	35
Removing items from a folder	35
Personalizing with sound sets	35
Creating a sound set	35
Changing your ringtone, notifications, and sounds	35
Deleting sound sets	36
Rearranging application tabs	36
Phone calls	37
Making a call with Smart dial	37
What is Smart dial?	37
Using Speed dial	37
Assigning a speed dial key	37
Calling a phone number in a text message	38
Calling a phone number in an email	38
Calling a phone number in a Calendar event	38
Making an emergency call	38
Receiving calls	38
Answering a call	38
Rejecting a call	39
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call	39
Look who's calling	39
Viewing a task reminder while on a call	39
What can I do during a call	40
Switching between calls	40
Turning the speakerphone on during a call	40
Muting the microphone during a call	40
Ending a call	40
Turning off automatic prepend	41
Making international calls	41
Changing the international dialing code	41
Internet calls	42
Adding an Internet calling account	42
Making an Internet call	42
Call history	42
Returning a missed call	42
Checking calls in the Call History	43
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from Call History	43
Clearing the Call History list	43
Call services	43
Messages	44
About the Messages app	44
Sending a text message (SMS)	44
Sending a multimedia message (MMS)	44
Can't find your contacts' email addresses in Messages?	45
Creating a slideshow	45
Resuming a draft message	46
Checking your messages	46
Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message	46
Saving a text message in the Tasks app	46
Replying to a message	47
Replying to another phone number of the contact	47
Forwarding a message	47
WAP push messages	48
Opening and reading a new WAP push message	48
Viewing all your WAP push messages	48
Managing message conversations	48
Locking a message	48
Deleting a single message	48
Deleting several messages within a conversation	49
Deleting a conversation	49
Deleting several conversations	49
Backing up your text messages	49
Backing up text messages via mail	50
Restoring text messages	50
Setting message options	50
Search and Web browser	51
Searching HTC One V and the Web	51
Setting search options	51
Performing searches on the Web and HTC One V	51
Browsing the Web	51
Switching to Reading mode	52
Viewing the full version of a website	52
Opening or switching between browser tabs	52
Private browsing	53
Adding and managing your bookmarks	53
Bookmarking a webpage	53
Opening a bookmark	53
Editing a bookmark	53
Syncing your bookmarks with Google Chrome	54
Saving web content for later	54
Viewing items in your Reading list or Watch list	54
Viewing your browsing history	54
Clearing your browsing history	55
Viewing a page that you often visit	55
Clearing the list of most visited pages	55
Downloading files and apps	55
Viewing your downloads	55
Setting browser options	56
Setting your homepage	56
Choosing when to show content compatible with Adobe Flash	56
Photos, videos, and music	57
Gallery	57
About the Gallery app	57
Viewing photos and videos	57
Starting a photo slideshow	57
Watching a video	58
Taking a photo while watching a video	58
Editing your photos and videos	58
Rotating a photo	58
Cropping a photo	58
Adding photo effects	59
Adding custom photo effects	59
Trimming a video	59
Viewing photos in your social networks	60
Sending your photos and videos	60
Sending photos or videos by email	60
Sending a photo or video by MMS	61
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth	61
Sharing your photos and videos on the Web	61
Sharing photos or videos on Facebook	61
Sharing photos and videos on Flickr	62
Sharing photos on Picasa	62
Sharing videos on YouTube	63
Music	63
Browsing music in the library	63
Listening to music	64
Finding music videos on YouTube	64
Updating album covers	64
Playing music from the Lock screen	64
Making your music sound better	65
Creating a playlist	65
Playing the songs in a playlist	65
Managing playlists	65
Deleting playlists	66
Setting a song as a ringtone	66
Trimming an MP3 ringtone	66
Sharing music using Bluetooth	67
Accounts and sync	68
Adding your social networks, email accounts, and more	68
Adding one or more Google Accounts	68
Forgot your Google Account password?	68
Managing your online accounts	69
Syncing all your accounts automatically	69
Syncing an account manually	69
Changing the synced data or settings for an account	69
Removing an account	69
People	70
About the People app	70
Your contacts list	70
Filtering your contacts list	70
Setting up your profile	71
Adding a new contact	71
Importing a contact from an Exchange ActiveSync account	71
Merging contact information	72
Accepting contact link suggestions	72
Manually merging contact information	72
Breaking the link	72
Contact information and conversations	72
Editing a contact’s information	73
Deleting contacts	73
Sending contact information	73
Sending multiple contact cards	74
Contact groups	74
Creating a group	74
Editing a contact group	74
Sending a message or email to a group	75
Rearranging your contact groups	75
Rearranging the members of a contact group	75
Deleting groups	75
Backing up your contacts to the storage card	75
Restoring contacts	76
Social	77
Facebook for HTC Sense	77
About Friend Stream	77
Updating your status in Friend Stream	77
Enjoying Facebook in Friend Stream	78
Posting a message on a friend's Facebook wall	78
Commenting on and liking Facebook posts	78
Checking in to a place	78
Chatting in Google Talk	79
Using Google+	79
Email	80
Gmail	80
Viewing your Gmail Inbox	80
Sending an email message in Gmail	80
Replying to or forwarding email messages in Gmail	80
Getting help	81
Mail	81
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account	81
Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account	81
Checking your Mail inbox	82
Viewing the unified inbox of all your email accounts	82
Organizing email messages	82
Manually refreshing an email account	83
Sorting email messages	83
Sending an email message	83
Resuming a draft email message	83
Reading and replying to an email message	84
Where are my unread email messages?	84
Saving an email message in the Tasks app	84
Searching email messages	85
Searching for emails from a contact	85
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email	85
Flagging an email	85
Setting your Out of the office status	85
Sending a meeting request	85
Managing email messages	86
Moving email messages to another folder	86
Deleting email messages	86
Switching to other mail folders	86
Changing email account settings	86
Syncing email less frequently	86
Calendar	88
About Calendar	88
Creating an event	88
Viewing the Calendar	88
Month view	89
Day and agenda views	89
Week view	89
Managing Calendar events	89
Editing an event	89
Deleting an event	90
Sharing an event	90
Accepting or declining a meeting invitation	90
Setting reminders for your events	91
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders	91
Showing or hiding calendars	91
Changing Calendar settings	91
Online storage and services	92
Dropbox	92
Using Dropbox on HTC One V	92
About the additional free Dropbox storage offer	92
Setting up your Dropbox account	93
Sharing your photos and videos on Dropbox	93
Uploading your photos and videos to Dropbox from Gallery	93
Auto uploading camera shots	93
Viewing your uploaded photos and videos from Gallery	94
Sharing the link to your Dropbox	94
Sending the links to Dropbox files by email	94
Keeping your documents in Dropbox	95
Saving an Office document to Dropbox	95
Editing an Office document in Dropbox	95
Checking your Dropbox storage space	95
Unlinking HTC One V from Dropbox	96
HTC Car	97
On the road with HTC Car	97
Playing music in HTC Car	97
Listening to Internet radio with TuneIn	98
Finding your way with HTC Car	98
Exploring what's around you	98
Getting directions in HTC Car	98
Staying connected to your contacts	99
Handling incoming calls in HTC Car	99
Making phone calls in HTC Car	99
Changing HTC Car settings	99
Travel and maps	100
Location settings	100
Turning on location services	100
Google Maps	100
About Google Maps	100
Getting around maps	100
Searching for a location	101
Clearing the map	101
Checking the details of a location	101
Searching for a place of interest near you	102
Getting directions	102
Finding your friends with Google Latitude (available by country)	103
Opening and joining Latitude	103
Getting help	103
Essential apps	104
Using the Clock	104
About the HTC Clock widget	104
Changing the location on the Clock widget	104
About the Clock app	104
World Clock settings	105
Setting your home city	105
Setting the date and time manually	105
Adding a city to the World Clock screen	105
Setting an alarm	105
Deleting an alarm	105
Checking Weather	106
Adding a city to the Weather screen	106
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen	106
Deleting cities from the Weather screen	106
Working on documents	107
Viewing a document	107
Creating a document	107
Editing a document	107
Editing a presentation	107
Editing a worksheet	108
Completing tasks	108
Creating a task	108
Linking a task to a contact	109
Linking a task to a location	109
Managing tasks	110
Viewing the unified task list	110
Filtering tasks	110
Creating a task list	110
Managing task lists	111
Backing up or restoring tasks	111
Changing Tasks settings	111
Google Play and other apps	112
Getting apps from Google Play	112
Finding and installing an app	112
Uninstalling an app	113
Getting help	113
Watching videos on YouTube	113
Searching for videos	113
Clearing the search history	113
Sharing a video link	114
Capturing and sharing videos on YouTube	114
Recording voice clips	114
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone	114
Sharing games and apps	115
Your phone and computer	116
Where apps, data, and files are stored	116
Connecting HTC One V to a computer	117
Copying files to or from the storage card	117
HTC Sync Manager basics	118
Installing HTC Sync Manager	118
Installing on a Windows computer	118
Installing on a Mac computer	119
Getting started	119
The HTC Sync Manager main screen	119
Importing more media to the library	120
Adding new media to your library automatically	120
Checking for new software updates	121
What file formats are supported by HTC Sync Manager?	121
Playing music in HTC Sync Manager	121
Creating a playlist	122
Viewing photos and videos in HTC Sync Manager	122
Editing your photos	123
Setting up HTC Sync Manager to recognize HTC One V	123
Setting up HTC One V to sync with your computer	124
Syncing music	124
Syncing photos and videos	124
Syncing documents and email attachments	125
Syncing your contacts	125
Syncing your calendar events	125
Syncing your web bookmarks	126
Syncing HTC One V and your computer	127
Ripping music from a CD with HTC Sync Manager	127
Internet connections	128
Data connection	128
Turning the data connection on or off	128
Wi‑Fi	128
Turning Wi‑Fi on and connecting to a wireless network	128
Disconnecting from the current wireless network	129
Connecting to a different Wi‑Fi network	129
Connecting to a Wi‑Fi network using enhanced security	129
Connecting to a virtual private network (VPN)	130
Adding a VPN connection	130
Connecting to a VPN	130
Disconnecting from a VPN	131
Bluetooth	132
Bluetooth basics	132
Turning Bluetooth on or off	132
Changing the device name	132
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit	132
Reconnecting a headset or car kit	133
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device	133
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device	133
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device	134
Sending information using Bluetooth	134
Where sent information is saved	135
Receiving information using Bluetooth	135
Settings and security	137
Choosing which app opens when you tap a data item	137
Turning Airplane mode on or off	137
Changing display settings	137
Adjusting the screen brightness manually	137
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off	138
Turning automatic screen rotation off	138
Recalibrating the G-sensor	138
Keeping the screen on while charging	138
Switching animation effects on or off	138
Changing sound settings	139
Switching between silent, vibration, and normal modes	139
Playing a sound when selecting onscreen items	139
Lowering the ring volume automatically	139
Making HTC One V ring louder in your pocket or bag	139
Switching to speakerphone automatically	139
Changing the display language	140
Checking battery usage	140
Backing up settings to Google	140
Accessibility settings	140
Protecting HTC One V with a screen lock	141
Forgot your screen lock pattern?	141
Encrypting data on HTC One V	142
Checking information about HTC One V	142
Managing memory	143
Checking how much phone memory is available for use	143
Checking the available storage card space	143
Making more storage space (internal storage)	143
Clearing application cache and data	143
Uninstalling an app	144
Moving an app to or from the storage card	144
Stopping running applications using Task Manager	144
Other essentials	145
Status icons	145
Using the onscreen keyboard	146
Selecting a keyboard layout	146
Entering text	146
Choosing multiple keyboard languages	146
Changing the keyboard language	147
Entering words with predictive text	147
Setting a second language for predictive text	147
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary	147
Editing or deleting a word in the predictive text dictionary	148
Backing up your personal dictionary	148
Restoring your personal dictionary	148
Entering text by speaking	148
Restarting HTC One V	149
HTC One V not responding?	149
Resetting HTC One V	149
Performing a factory reset from settings	149
Performing a factory reset using hardware buttons	150
Trademarks and copyrights	151