HTC Wildfire S Virgin Mobile User guide

Brand: HTC

Model: Wildfire S Virgin Mobile

Type: User guide

Your HTC Wildﬁre S

Quick guide

For the complete user guide and other helpful

resources, go to www.htc.com/support.

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Contents

1. Your HTC Wildfire S .........................................................................................5

2. Before you turn on your phone ..................................................................... 8

3. Activate your phone ...................................................................................... 10

4. Manage Your Account ...................................................................................10

5. Your Home screen .......................................................................................... 12

6. Connect to the Internet ................................................................................ 13

7. Surfing the web made easy ......................................................................... 13

8. Keep in contact ............................................................................................... 15

9. Catch up with friends .................................................................................... 16

10. Snap, tag, and share ...................................................................................... 17

11. Enjoy apps with your friends ....................................................................... 18

12. Email .................................................................................................................. 19

13. Get HTC Sync ................................................................................................. 20

14. Open and read documents ......................................................................... 20

15 Managing memory ......................................................................................... 21

16. Battery saving tips .........................................................................................22

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1. Your HTC Wildfire S

Front panel

1 Notification LED

2 Proximity sensor

3 Earpiece

4 Touch screen

5 Home

6 Menu

7 Back

8 Search

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Left panel

1 VOLUME UP

2 VOLUME DOWN

3 USB connector

Top panel

1 3.5mm headset jack

2 POWER

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Back panel

1 LED flash

2 5 megapixel camera

3 Speaker

4 Microphone

5 Lanyard hole

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2. Before you turn on your phone

Make sure you prepare your phone correctly before you press the POWER

button.

Inserting the battery

1. With your finger, open the back cover from the small opening near the

POWER button.

2. Insert the battery (with its exposed copper contacts first) into the

battery compartment.

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Replacing the back cover

1. Dock the phone onto the inside bottom of the

back cover.

2. Press the sides and the top part of the back cover

down to lock the cover into place. You’ll hear a

click when the back cover is locked in place.

Charging the battery

Use the supplied power adapter and USB

cable to charge your phone.

Where’s the microSD card?

The microSD card is already inserted into your phone. If you need to

remove the microSD card, just slide it out.

To reinsert, push it in until it clicks into place.

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3. Activate your phone

1. Tap the Activate icon on the Home screen

2. Follow the onscreen prompts to complete the activation process.

3. After you have completed the wizard, make a phone call to confirm

your activation.

4. Manage Your Account

From your phone

Dial *86 on your phone or just tap My Account on the Home screen to

access your account where you can do any of the following things:

• Check your minutes

• Add money (Top-Up)

• Change plans ... and a lot more

From your computer

where you can do everything above, and a lot more.

Top-Up your account

To add money to your account and pay for your service, buy Virgin Mobile

Top-Up cards at thousands of retailers. Or, make it really easy by registering

your credit/debit card or PayPal account.

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Auto Top-Up

Auto Top-Up is the easiest way to keep your service working. Set it to Top-Up

your account once a month so you can keep emailing, IMing, Tweeting with

Twitter, surfing, and talking. No interruptions, no sweat. Activate Auto Top-Up

and adjust your settings anytime by logging in at virginmobileusa.com.

One-Time Top-Ups

From Your Computer:

If you don’t want to set Auto Top-Up, you can still log in at

virginmobileusa.com whenever you need a quick Top-Up.

From Your Phone:

Just dial *729 on your phone or tap My Account on the Home screen.

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5. Your Home screen

It’s easy to personalize the HTC Wildfire S with

colorful skins, useful widgets, and notification sound

sets that you can download directly to your phone.

Personalizing your Home screen

Your Home screen has seven panels that you can

customize. (Just press when on the main Home

screen or pinch the Home screen to see all seven.)

On the Home screen, tap the personalize button

and choose what you want to change.

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6. Connect to the Internet

Get online using your phone’s data connection or Wi-Fi.

Using a data connection

It’s simple. When you turn your phone on for the first time and activate it, it

should connect automatically to your mobile operator’s data service.

Using Wi-Fi

1. From the Home screen, press .

2. Tap Settings > Wireless & networks.

3. Select the Wi-Fi check box to turn Wi-Fi on.

4. Tap Wi-Fi settings, and then choose a Wi-Fi network to connect to.

7. Surfing the web made easy

HTC Wildfire S makes it fun and easy to browse the web on the go. Enjoy

multi-window browsing, and see text on web pages resize and wrap

automatically as you zoom in and out.

You can even quickly look up stuff on Google or Wikipedia just by

highlighting it.

Do one of the following to open the web browser and start surfing the Web:

• On the Home screen, tap Internet.

• From the Home screen, tap > Internet.

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Changing the screen orientation

Turn HTC Wildfire S sideways to display the web browser in landscape

orientation.

Navigating and zooming on a webpage

• You can swipe your finger on the screen to navigate and view other

areas of the webpage.

• Tap the screen twice quickly to zoom in, then tap the screen twice

quickly again to zoom out. You can also use your fingers to spread or

pinch the screen to zoom in and out.

Opening a new browser window

Open multiple browser windows to make it easier for you to switch from

one website to another.

1. While viewing a webpage, press and then tap Windows.

2. Tap to open a new browser window.

Switching between browser windows

1. While viewing a webpage, do one of the following:

•Press and then tap Windows.

•Pinch the screen (zoom out) until you see the other browser windows.

2. Select the browser window you want to view by sliding your finger on

the screen from right to left.

3. Tap a webpage to display it in full screen.

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8. Keep in contact

In the People app, you’ll see your contacts from

your Google Account, Facebook®, and even

your Exchange ActiveSync® account if you’re

signed in to these accounts on your phone.

Aside from their contact details, you’ll also see

their status updates and birthday reminders if

they’re your Facebook or Twitter™ friends.

To add new contacts:

1. From the Home screen, tap > People.

2. Tap Add contact. Then enter the contact information in the relevant

fields.

3. Tap Save.

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9. Catch up with friends

Friend Stream connects you to your social

networks. Share and get updates from friends

in popular networks like Facebook and Twitter

in a single feed. With Friend Stream, you can

easily track your friends’ status messages, photo

uploads, notifications, and more — or comment

and post your own.

Updating your status

1. From the Home screen, tap > Friend Stream.

2. Tap the text box that says What’s on your mind? and enter your status

update.

3. Tap and then choose what you want to attach to your tweet or

status update. You can attach a picture, a location on a map, or an app

recommendation.

4. Tap Post.

Commenting on and liking Facebook posts

Tap a person’s status update and do any of the following:

• Tap a photo or the album name in the status update to view and

comment on the album photos.

• Tap Like or Unlike to rate the person’s status update.

• Tap Write a comment and enter what you think about the person’s

status update.

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10. Snap, tag, and share

It’s easy to share photos you’ve snapped with the camera on Facebook and other

social networks. Before uploading, you can give it a title and then tag it for all your

friends to see.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Camera.

2. Point the camera at your friends and tap to take the photo.

3. Tap and then tap Facebook for HTC Sense.

4. Enter a caption if you want and then tap Tag this photo.

5. Tap anywhere near a friend.

From the list that shows, select the friend’s name.

6. When finished tagging the photo, tap Done.

7. Tap Upload.

8. Select which album to upload to and set

privacy settings for the uploaded photo.

9. Tap Done.

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11. Enjoy apps with your friends

The Android Market has thousands of games and apps that you can

download to your phone. You can recommend your favorites instantly to

your circle of friends so that they can download them too.

For your friends to find the app and download it from Android Market, they

must be using an Android phone.

1. From the Home screen, tap .

2. Press , and then tap Share. You’ll see the list of games and apps that

you’ve downloaded and installed from Android Market.

3. Tap an app, and then choose how to share it.

When your friends see the link in your sent message, email, or status

update, they can just tap the link to go directly to the game or app in

Android Market to download it.

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12. Email

If you signed into your Google Account when you first set up your phone,

you’ll be able to send and receive Gmail messages. From the Home screen,

just tap > Gmail.

Use the Mail app to set up and manage your other email accounts such as

webmail, POP3, IMAP, or Exchange ActiveSync accounts.

1. From the Home screen, tap > Mail.

2. On the Choose a mail provider screen, choose the type of email

account to set up.

If you don’t see this screen, press , tap More > New account, and then

choose the type of email account.

3. Enter the Email address and Password for your email account.

4. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish setting up your email

account.

In the Mail app, you can check your email

messages just in one place without having to

switch to different accounts. Just choose the

All accounts inbox. Email messages are color

coded so you can easily distinguish which

email accounts they belong to.

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13. Get HTC Sync

You can use the HTC Sync software to sync contacts, calendar, and other

information between your computer and your phone.

1. On your computer, download the HTC Sync installer (HTCSync.exe)

from htc.com/us/support.

2. Double-click HTCSync.exe and follow the onscreen instructions to

install HTC Sync on your computer.

3. Connect your device to your computer using the supplied USB cable.

4. On the Choose a connection type screen, tap HTC Sync and then tap

Done.

5. Enter the name you want for your device, and then click Save.

6. Choose the information to sync between your computer and your

device and how you want to sync your selections..

7. Unmount your phone as required by your computer’s operating

system to safely remove it.

Visit our support website (htc.com/us/support) from time to time to check

for the most recent HTC Sync upgrade so you can download and install it.

14. Open and read documents

You can download a PDF viewer from Android market to open PDF

documents or PDF email attachments.

Your user manual is available on our website (www.htc.com/support).

Download Quickoffice from the HTC Hub to open and view documents

(.doc), spreadsheets (.xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) and text (.txt) files.

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HTC Wildfire S Virgin Mobile User guide

HTC Wildfire S Virgin Mobile User guide

HTC Wildfire S Virgin Mobile User guide

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