Basics. HTC Gratia

Basics

Inside the box

You will find the following inside the box:

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Phone

USB cable

AC adapter

3.5 mm stereo headset

Battery microSD card

Quick start guide

Your Phone

Front panel

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1 Notification LED

This LED shows a:

 Solid green light when the phone is connected to the power adapter or a computer and the

 battery is fully charged.

Flashing green light when you have a pending notification.

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Solid red light when the battery is being charged.

Flashing red light when the battery level reaches very low.

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2 MENU

Press to open a list of actions that you can do on the current screen.

3 HOME

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While on any application or screen, press to return to the Home screen.

While on the main Home screen, press to show a snapshot of the Home screen.

Press and hold to open the recently-used applications window.

4 BACK

Press to go back to the previous screen, or to close a dialog box, options menu, the Notifications panel, or onscreen keyboard.

5 SEARCH

 Press to open the Quick Search box.

See “Searching your phone and the Web” in this chapter for more details.

6 Optical trackball

Swipe your finger over or press to highlight or select items onscreen.

7 Earpiece

Listen to a phone call from here.

8 Touch screen

Back panel

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9 Speaker

10 5 megapixel camera

11 Back cover

The two prongs underneath the back cover act as the antenna for your phone. You must install the back cover properly for the antenna to function.

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Top panel

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12 3.5mm audio jack

Connect a 3.5 mm stereo headset for hands-free conversation or for listening to music.

13 POWER

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When the phone is off, press to turn on the phone.

When the phone is on and the screen is unlocked, press to turn off or on the phone display.

With the screen unlocked, press and hold to open the phone options menu that lets you turn off the phone, switch your phone to silent mode, vibration mode, or airplane mode, and turn on/off the data connection.

Left panel

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14 VOLUME UP

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While on a call, press to increase earpiece volume.

While not on a call, press to increase the ringer volume.

While watching videos or listening to the FM radio, press to increase the volume.

15 VOLUME DOWN

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While on a call, press to decrease earpiece volume.

While not on a call, press to decrease the ringer volume.

While watching videos or listening to the FM radio, press to decrease the volume.

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Bottom panel

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16 Microphone

17 USB connector

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Connect the power adapter to charge the battery.

Connect the supplied USB cable to transfer files to your phone from your computer or sync your phone with HTC Sync on your computer.

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Before turning on your phone

Back cover

Removing the back cover

Remove the back cover to access the battery compartment, SIM card slot, and storage card slot.

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Hold the phone securely with one hand and the back panel facing you.

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Gently push the speaker with your thumb until the back cover disengages from the phone.

3. Carefully pull the back cover to remove it.

Replacing the back cover

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Insert the tabs inside the back cover into the holes on the bottom panel of the phone

2. Press the phone against the back cover until it clicks into place.

The two prongs underneath the back cover act as the antenna for your phone. You must install the back cover properly for the antenna to function.

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SIM card

The SIM card contains your phone number, service details, and phonebook/message memory.

Your phone supports both 1.8V and 3 V SIM cards.

Some legacy SIM cards may not function with your phone. You should consult with your mobile operator for a replacement SIM card. There may be fees for this service.

Inserting the SIM card

The SIM card slot is located below the battery compartment.

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Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out from the slot.

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Slide the SIM card completely into the slot.

Removing the SIM card

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Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”

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Pull the SIM card out of the slot using your finger,

Storage card

All your pictures, music, and applications are stored on the pre-installed storage card.

Removing the storage card

If your storage card is full, you can replace it with a new one.

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Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”

The storage card slot is located below the battery compartment and to the right of the

SIM card slot.

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Push the storage card in to eject it from its slot.

See “Inserting the storage card.”

Removing the storage card while the phone is on

When you need to remove the storage card while the phone is on, unmount the storage card first to prevent corrupting or damaging the files in the storage card.

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Press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings.

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Scroll down the screen, and then tap SD & phone storage.

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Tap Unmount SD card.

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Remove the storage card by following the instructions in “Removing the storage card.”

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Inserting the storage card

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Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”

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Insert the replacement storage card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down and push it in until it clicks into place.

Battery

Your phone comes with a rechargeable Lithium-ion polymer or Lithium-ion battery and is designed to use only manufacturer-specified original batteries and accessories. Battery performance depends on many factors, including network configuration, signal strength, the temperature of the environment in which you operate your phone, the features and/or settings you select and use, items attached to connecting ports, and your voice, data, and other program usage patterns.

Inserting the battery

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Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”

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Align the battery’s exposed copper contacts with the battery connectors inside the battery compartment.

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Insert the battery, contacts side first, and then gently push the battery into place.

Removing the battery

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Remove the back cover. Refer to “Removing the back cover.”

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Lift the battery up from the groove at the top of the battery compartment.

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Charging the battery

The battery is partially charged when shipped. Before you turn on and start using your phone, it is recommended that you charge the battery. Some batteries perform best after several full charge/discharge cycles.

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Attach the power plug to the AC adapter.

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Connect one end of the USB cable to the sync connector on your phone.

3. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB port of the AC adapter.

4. Plug in the AC adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.

As the battery is being charged, the notification LED (located on the right side of the earpiece) shows a solid red light when the battery is being charged. The light turns to solid green when the phone is fully charged.

When you charge the battery while the phone is on, the charging battery icon ( ) is displayed in the status bar of the Home screen. After the battery has been fully charged, a full battery icon ( ) will be displayed in the status bar of the Home screen.

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 Only the AC adapter and USB sync cable provided with your phone must be used to charge the battery.

Do not remove the battery from the phone while you are charging it using the AC or car adapter.

As a safety precaution, the battery stops charging when it overheats.

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Finger gestures

Tap

When you want to type using the keyboard, select items onscreen such as application and settings icons, or press onscreen buttons, simply tap them with your finger.

Press and hold

To open the available options for an item (e.g. contact or link in a web page), simply press and hold the item.

Swipe or slide

To swipe or slide means to quickly drag your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen or optical trackball.

Drag

Press and hold your finger with some pressure before you start to drag. While dragging, do not release your finger until you have reached the target position.

Flick

Flicking the screen is similar to swiping, except that you need to swipe your finger in light, quicker strokes. This finger gesture is always in a vertical direction, such as when flicking the contacts or message list.

Rotate

For most screens, you can automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by turning the phone sideways. When entering text, you can turn the phone sideways to bring up a bigger keyboard. Refer to the Settings chapter for more details.

Pinch

For some applications, like Gallery or the web browser, you can “pinch” the screen using

2 fingers (for example, thumb and index fingers) to zoom in or zoom out when viewing a picture or a web page.

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Getting started

Once you’ve installed your SIM card, battery, and microSD card, you can turn on your phone and start using it.

Turning on your phone

Press the POWER button.

When you turn on the phone for the first time, you will be prompted to set up your phone. For more information on how to set up your phone for the first time, see “Setting up your phone for the first time.”

Entering your PIN

If your SIM card is preset with a PIN (personal identification number), you will be prompted to enter the PIN to proceed. Enter the SIM PIN, then tap OK.

To learn how to enable or disable the SIM PIN, see “Protecting your SIM card with a PIN” in the Security chapter.

Most SIM cards are preset with a PIN (personal identification number) that is provided by your mobile operator. When prompted, enter the preset PIN, then tap Enter. If you enter the wrong PIN three times, the SIM card is blocked. If this happens, you can unblock it with the PUK (PIN Unblocking Key) obtained from your mobile operator.

Turning off your phone

If you do not need to use your phone, you can turn the power off to save battery life.

1. If the display is off, press the POWER button to turn the display back on.

2. Unlock your phone if the Lock screen is displayed. See “Unlocking the screen” in this chapter for details.

3. Press and hold the POWER button for a few seconds.

4. When the Phone options menu appears, tap Power off.

5. Tap OK when prompted to turn off the phone.

Setting up your phone for the first time

When you switch on your phone for the first time, you’ll be asked to set up your phone. You can choose your language, how you want to connect to the Internet, and whether you want your current location to be automatically detected.

Be sure to sign in to your Google Account so you can use Google apps like Gmail™/Google

Mail. You can also set up your other email accounts, favorite social networks like Facebook® and Twitter™, and more.

Just follow the onscreen instructions and you’ll be up and running with your phone in no time.

Some features that need to connect to the Internet such as location-based services and auto-sync of your online accounts may incur extra data fees from your mobile operator. Don’t worry. You can enable or disable them in your phone’s settings as you go along later on. To find out how, see the

Settings chapter.

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Sleep mode

Sleep mode suspends your phone to a low power state while the display is off in order to

Sleep mode.

For information on how to adjust the time before the screen turns off, see “Adjusting the time before the screen turns off” in the Settings chapter.

Switching to Sleep mode

Briefly press the POWER button to turn off the display temporarily and switch your phone to

Sleep mode. Your phone also automatically goes into Sleep mode when you leave the phone idle after a certain period of time. Switching to Sleep mode also prevents accidental button or touch screen presses when the phone is in your bag or pocket.

Waking up from Sleep mode

Your phone wakes up automatically when you have an incoming call. To wake up your phone manually, press the POWER button. You will then see that the phone has locked the screen.

To find out how to unlock the screen, see “Unlocking the screen.”

Unlocking the screen

Press the bar on the lock screen and then slide your finger down to unlock the screen or to answer an incoming call.

If you have set up a screen unlock pattern, you will be prompted to draw the pattern on the screen before it unlocks. For more information on how to create and enable the screen unlock pattern, see

“Protecting your phone with a screen lock” in the Security chapter.

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Home screen

The Home screen provides you with a weather clock that shows the time and weather of your current location. Tap the respective item to open the associated application.

The Home screen also lets you add the items you want and need on the Home screen.

Add items like application icons, shortcuts, folders, and widgets to give you instant access to information and applications. To learn how to personalize your Home screen, see the

Personalizing chapter.

Extended Home screen

The Home screen extends beyond the screen width to provide more space for adding icons, widgets, and more. There are 6 “additional” screens apart from the main Home screen.

You cannot add more screens.

Navigating the Home screen

You can go to the extended Home screen by sliding your finger horizontally across the screen to go to the left or right side of the Home screen. While on an extended Home screen, press HOME to return to the main Home screen.

Directly going to a particular screen

1. From any Home screen, pinch the screen to bring up a snapshot of the Home screen.

On the main Home screen, you can press HOME to show the snapshot of the Home screen.

2. Tap the screen you want to open.

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Phone status and notifications

Phone status icons

These are the icons that may appear on the phone status area of the status bar:

GPRS connected

GPRS in use

EDGE connected

EDGE in use

3G connected

3G in use

HSPA connected

HSPA in use

Connected to a Wi-Fi network

Bluetooth is on

Connected to a Bluetooth device

Airplane mode

Alarm is set

Speakerphone on

Data synchronizing

Signal strength

Roaming

No signal

No SIM card installed

Vibrate mode

Phone speaker is mute

Phone microphone is mute

Battery is very low (10% remaining)

Battery is low (20% remaining)

Battery is full

Battery is charging

Wired microphone headset connected

Wired headset connected

Notification icons

These are the icons that may appear on the notifications area of the status bar:

New Gmail message

New Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or POP3/

IMAP email

New SMS/MMS

Problem with SMS/MMS delivery

New Google Talk instant message

New voicemail

Upcoming event

Song is playing

General notification (for example, Phone connected to computer via USB cable.)

Storage card is low on free space

Wi-Fi is on and wireless networks are available

Data synchronizing or connected to HTC Sync

New tweet

FM Radio application in use

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More (not displayed) notifications

Call in progress

Missed call

Call on hold

Call forwarding on

Compass needs orientation

Uploading data (animated)

Downloading data (animated)

Waiting to upload

Downloaded Android Market application installed successfully

Update available for an application downloaded from Android Market

Storage card is safe to remove or storage card is being prepared

No storage card installed on the phone

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Checking notifications

Notification icons on the status bar report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, alarms set and ongoing settings such as when call forwarding is on or the current call status.

You can open the Notifications panel to open the message, reminder, or event notification and see the mobile operator name.

Opening the Notifications panel

When a new notification icon displays in the status bar, press and hold the status bar, then slide your finger downward to open the Notifications panel.

If you have several notifications, you can scroll down the screen to view more notifications.

You can also open the Notifications panel on the Home screen by pressing MENU and then tapping

Notifications.

Closing the Notifications panel

Do one of the following:

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Press and hold the bottom bar of the Notifications panel, then slide your finger up the screen.

Press BACK.

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Adjusting the volume

Adjusting the ringer volume changes the volume level of the phone ring tone, whereas adjusting the media volume changes the volume level of sound notifications, music or video playback. The ringer volume and media volume can be separately adjusted.

Adjusting the ringer volume

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Press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN buttons on the left panel of the phone to adjust the ringer volume to your desired level. The Ringer volume window appears on the screen to display the volume levels. While in the lowest ringer volume level (Silent mode), press VOLUME DOWN once to set your phone to Vibrate mode. The phone vibrates and the vibrate mode icon ( ) appears on the status bar.

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While in Vibrate mode, press VOLUME UP once to switch to silent mode. The speaker mute icon ( ) displays on the status bar.

To quickly switch your phone to silent mode, press and hold the POWER button, and then tap

Silent mode on the options menu.

Adjusting the media volume

When playing music or watching video, press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN buttons on the left panel of the phone to adjust the media volume. The Music/video volume window appears on the screen to display the volume level.

Adjusting the earpiece volume for phone calls

During a phone call, press the VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN button.

Adjusting the volume via settings

1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Sound > Volume.

2. Drag the volume sliders to the left or right to adjust the volume levels of your phone’s ringtone, media playback, alarms, and notifications.

Your phone briefly plays a sample tone with the volume being adjusted as you drag a slider.

3. If you want the same volume for your ringtone and notifications, select Use incoming call volume for notifications.

4. When you’re done, tap OK.

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Connecting your phone to a computer

Whenever you connect your phone to a computer using the USB cable, the Connect to PC dialog box displays and prompts you to choose the type of USB connection. Select one of the following choices, and then tap Done:

Charge only

Select this mode if you only want to charge the phone’s battery using your computer.

HTC Sync

When selected, the phone automatically uses HTC Sync when connected to your computer and lets you synchronize Outlook and Windows Address Book (Outlook Express), contacts and calendar events between your computer and your phone. For more information, see

“Synchronizing with your computer” in the Accounts and sync chapter.

Disk drive

This mode is available only when you have installed a microSD card on your phone. Select this mode when you want to use your storage card as a USB thumb drive, and copy files between your phone’s storage card and your computer.

When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your phone is connected to the computer, you will not be able to run applications that use the storage card, such as Music or Gallery. For more information, see “Copying files to and from the storage card” in this chapter.

Internet sharing

When you do not have Internet connection on your computer, you can select this mode to share your phone’s mobile data connection with your computer. For more information, see

“Using your phone as a modem (tethering)” in the Internet chapter.

If you do not want to show the Connect to PC dialog box everytime you connect the phone to the computer, clear the Don’t ask again checkbox in the Connect to PC dialog box. The default connection type will be used when you connect the phone to the computer.

To check or change the default connection type and to show or hide the Connect to PC dialog box, press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings > Connect to PC.

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Copying files to and from the storage card

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Connect the phone to your computer using the supplied USB cable.

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When the Connect to PC dialog box appears, tap Disk drive, and then tap Done.

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On your computer, the connected phone is recognized as a removable disk. Navigate to this removable disk and open it.

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Do one of the following:

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Copy the files from the computer to the phone’s storage card’s root folder.

Copy the files from the phone’s storage card to a folder in your computer or computer desktop.

5. After copying the files, unmount the removable disk (that is, the connected phone) as required by your computer’s operating system to safely remove your phone.

6. Do one of the following:

 Disconnect the phone from the computer.

 If you want to keep the phone connected to the computer but want the phone to be able to access the storage card, open the Notifications panel, tap Disk drive, select an option except Disk drive, and then tap Done. See “Opening the Notifications panel” in this chapter to learn how to open the Notifications panel.

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Searching your phone and the Web

You can search for information on your phone and on the Web by using the Quick Search

Box. Some applications, such as People or Mail, have their own search box, which you can use to search within those applications (the application’s icon is at the left of the search box.)

Setting Web and phone search options

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From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings.

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Scroll down the screen, and then tap Search.

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Tap Google search, and then do the following:

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Select Show web suggestions if you want to include suggestions from Google when doing a search.

Select Use My Location if you want to include your location when doing a search and using other Google services.

Select Search history to enable personalized search history. You need to sign in to your

Google Account to use this feature. The Show web suggestion check box needs to be selected for this option to be enabled.

Press BACK when you are done.

4. Tap Searchable items, and then select the items you want included when doing a search.

Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box

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From the Home screen, press SEARCH.

2. Enter the search item in the Quick Search Box. As you type, matching items on your phone and suggestions from Google web search are shown as a list.

The suggested items that appear will depend on the options that you have selected in the search settings. See “Setting Web and phone search options” for details.

3. To target your search to just the Web or to a single application’s information, tap at the left of the search box, and then tap the icon representing where you want to search.

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If what you’re searching for is in the list of suggestions, tap it in the list. The item opens in the appropriate application.

If what you’re searching for is not in the list, tap to search the Web or, if you’ve targeted your search to a single application, within that application.