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Personalizing
Making HTC Flyer truly yours
Make HTC Flyer look and sound just the way you want it. Personalize it with a different wallpaper, skin, and notification sound for events such as incoming email and calendar reminders.
Tap the Personalize button right on the Home screen to get started.
Personalizing HTC Flyer with scenes
Use scenes to create different Home screen arrangements that reflect different aspects of your life. Customize different Home screens for your work, play or travel, and easily switch between them.
Everytime you add or modify something on the Home screen, HTC Flyer automatically saves your changes to the current scene.
Using a preset scene
HTC Flyer features preset scenes, each preconfigured with a different wallpaper and collection of widgets that reflect different moments in your life. You can choose a scene that is suitable for work, play, travel, or your social life.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Scene.
2. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to select the scene you want.
3. Tap Apply.
To download more scenes, tap > Scene > Get more.
Creating a new scene
You’ll start with an empty Home screen when you create a new scene.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Scene.
2. Tap > New.
3. Enter a new scene name, then tap Done.
4. Personalize the scene by adding widgets and other elements, arranging the
Home screen layout, and changing the skin or wallpaper. All of your changes will be automatically saved to this scene.
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Renaming a scene
1. From the Home screen, tap > Scene.
2. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to select the scene you want to rename.
3. Press and hold a scene thumbnail, then tap Rename.
4. Enter a new scene name, then tap Done.
Deleting scenes
1. From the Home screen, tap > Scene.
2. Tap > Delete.
3. Slide from right to left to browse through scenes, then tap one or more scenes you want to delete.
4. Tap Delete.
Changing your wallpaper
Personalizing your wallpaper with your favorite photo is a quick and easy way to give
HTC Flyer a fresh look. Browse the collection of wallpapers included in HTC Flyer or choose from photos that you have taken with the camera. You can also change your
Home screen to use an animated wallpaper.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Wallpaper.
2. Tap one of the following:
HTC wallpapers Choose a preset wallpaper, then tap Preview > Apply.
Live wallpapers Choose from preset animated wallpapers. Tap Preview to view the animation, and then tap Apply.
Gallery Choose an existing photo. Crop the photo and then tap Save.
To download more wallpapers, tap > Wallpaper > HTC wallpapers > Get more.
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Applying a new skin
Personalize beyond the Home screen by applying a new skin. Skins are set to give a different look and feel to most onscreen buttons, application screens, option menus, and other items.
1. From the Home screen, tap > Skin.
2. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to select the skin you want.
3. Tap Apply.
To download more skins, tap > Skin > Get more.
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Widgets put at-a-glance important information and media content up front on your
Home screen. Some widgets are already added to your Home screen for your convenience. You can add more from the available selections of widgets.
Adding a widget to your Home screen
1. From the Home screen, tap > Widgets.
2. Scroll down the widgets list, and then tap the widget that you want.
3. Slide from right to left to view different widget styles and options.
4. Drag an item to a home screen thumbnail where you want to add a new widget.
You can also add widgets that allow you to quickly switch on or off certain settings such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Scroll down the widgets list, tap Settings, and then tap the widget that you want.
To download more widgets, tap > Widgets > Get more.
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Changing the settings of a widget
You can modify basic settings of some widgets (for example, the People and Mail widgets) from the Home screen.
1. Press and hold a widget on the Home screen. HTC Flyer vibrates and you’ll see a colored box around the widget. Don’t lift your finger just yet.
2. Drag the widget to the button (if it’s enabled).
The relevant screen where you can change some settings for this widget then opens.
3. Customize the widget settings.
Adding icons and other shortcuts on your
Home screen
Place app icons on your Home screen to open apps quicker. You can also add shortcuts to settings and specific information such as a bookmarked webpage, someone’s phone number, a music playlist, route directions, and many other items, to your Home screen.
The shortcuts available depend on the apps that are installed on HTC Flyer.
1. From the Home screen, tap .
2. Tap Apps to add an app icon, or Shortcuts to add a shortcut to a setting or information.
To add an app icon on the Home screen, you can also tap , and then press and hold an app icon. Without lifting your finger, drag the icon to an empty area on the
Home screen, and then release it.
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Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
Rearrange the widgets and icons on your Home screen to make room for adding more items. You can also remove widgets and icons that you don’t frequently use.
Moving a widget or icon
1. Press and hold the widget or icon you want to move. HTC Flyer vibrates and you’ll see a colored box around the widget or icon. Don’t lift your finger just yet.
2. Drag the widget or icon to a new location on the screen.
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You can pause at the left or right edge of the screen to drag the widget or icon onto another Home screen panel.
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When you drag an icon to a spot that’s occupied by another icon, the occupant automatically moves away to give room.
3. When the widget or icon is where you want it, lift your finger.
Removing a widget or icon
1. Press and hold the widget or icon you want to remove. HTC Flyer vibrates and you'll see a colored box around the widget or icon. Don’t lift your finger just yet.
2. Drag the widget or icon to the button.
3. When the widget or icon also turns red, lift your finger.
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Rearranging the Home screen
Reorder your Home screen panels in any way that fits how you use them. For example, move the panels with frequently-used widgets and shortcuts closer to the main Home screen.
The center thumbnail in Leap view is always the main Home screen.
1. Pinch the Home screen to show the Leap view.
2. Press and hold the thumbnail of the home screen you want to move. HTC Flyer then vibrates. Don’t lift your finger just yet.
3. Drag the thumbnail to its new position, and then lift your finger.
Using sound sets
Personalize HTC Flyer to use different sound notifications. By switching between sound sets, you can instantly make HTC Flyer alert you with fun sounds when you're out with friends or change to subtle sounds while you're at work. Each sound set gives you a different combination of sounds for different notifications such as incoming email, calendar event reminders, and more.
Choosing a preset sound set
1. From the Home screen, tap > Sound set.
2. On the Sound sets screen, tap a sound set name.
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3. You can tap to listen to the different sounds for that sound set.
4. Tap Apply.
To download more sound sets, tap > Sound set > Get more.
Creating a sound set
1. From the Home screen, tap > Sound set.
2. Tap > Add.
3. Enter a new sound set name, and then tap Done.
The newly created sound set is then added to the list of sound sets. You can assign different tones to the sound set to your preference.
Customizing a sound set
Customize a sound set by choosing different sounds for different notifications such as for new email, calendar reminders, and more. You can choose from the preset selection or your sound files (except for notification sounds).
1. From the Home screen, tap > Sound set.
2. Choose a sound set you want to customize or create a new one, and then tap
Apply.
3. Change the notification sound and alarm from the Personalize screen. Go to the respective apps such as Mail and Calendar to choose notification sounds to use for these apps.
HTC Flyer automatically saves your choices to the current sound set.
Changing notification sounds
1. From the Home screen, tap > Notification sound.
2. Choose the type of notification that you want to change.
3. Tap the sound you want to use. A sample tone briefly plays when selected.
4. Tap Apply.
Although you can't import notification sounds, you can tap Get more to download more audio files from HTC Hub.
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Changing the alarm sound
1. From the Home screen, tap > Alarm.
2. Tap a preset sound you want to use.
To use your sound file, tap > Add, select the item you want to import to the
Alarms list, and then tap OK.
3. Tap Apply.
Deleting sound sets
1. From the Home screen, tap > Sound set.
2. Tap > Delete.
3. Tap one or more sound sets you want to delete.
4. Tap Delete.
Rearranging or hiding application tabs
You can rearrange the tabs at the bottom of some apps to prioritize the types of information you frequently use or remove the tabs you don’t really need.
1. Open an app that has the usual tabs at the bottom of its screen (for example, the library screen in Music).
2. Press and hold a tab. When the screen changes and shows you an empty area, lift your finger.
3. Do any of the following:
Move a tab Press and hold the tab you want to move, and then drag it to its new position.
Remove a tab Press and hold a tab you want to hide, then drag it up. When you see a colored box, lift your finger.
4. When you’re done, tap .
Adding a tab back
1. Open the app from which you previously removed some tabs.
2. Press and hold a tab. When the screen changes and shows you some of your hidden tabs, lift your finger.
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3. Press and hold the tab you want to show, then drag it down to where you want to position it again.
4. When you’re done, tap .
Customizing the lock screen
Choose from a selection of lock screen styles. You can also choose what apps you want for your lock screen so you can unlock the screen straight into your favorite app.
1. From the Home screen, tap .
2. Tap Lock screen.
3. Slide your finger left or right to choose a lock screen type.
4. Tap Settings, and then customize the items you want to display on your selected lock screen.
To customize apps for your lock screen, tap an app that you want to change, and then choose another app to replace it.
5. When done, tap Apply.
