HTC 8X User Manual

Windows® phone 8x by htc

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Unboxing
- Your phone
- SIM card
  - Inserting the SIM card
  - Removing the SIM card
- Battery
  - Charging the battery
- Switching the power on or off
Setting up your phone
- Entering your PIN
- Setting up your phone for the first time
- Account setup
- Getting contacts into your phone
Your first week with your new phone
- Features you'll enjoy
- Start screen
- Touch gestures
- Motion gestures
- Adjusting the volume
  - Silencing your ringer
- Sleep mode
  - Switching to Sleep mode
  - Waking up from Sleep mode
- Lock screen
- Changing the ringtone
- Changing the theme
- Taking a screenshot
- Switching between apps
- Windows Store
- Using speech on your phone
  - Turning on more speech commands
Camera
- Camera basics
- Taking a photo
- Recording video
- After capturing
Phone calls
- Making a call
  - Making an emergency call
  - Making an international call
- Receiving calls
- What can I do during a call?
- Starting a conference call
- Call history
- Turning airplane mode on or off
People
- Keeping in touch
- Importing contacts from your SIM card
- Adding a new contact
- Jumping to a section in the contacts list
- Filtering your contacts list
- Merging contact profiles
  - Unlinking contact profiles
- Searching, editing or deleting
- Sharing with a group of contacts in real-time
- Organizing your contacts into groups
- What is the Me tile?
- Posting to social networks
- Filtering social updates
Keyboard
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Entering words with predictive text
- Changing the keyboard language
Messaging
- Texting and chatting in one place
  - Setting your chat status
- Sharing pictures, videos, and more in a message
- Viewing and replying to a message
  - Why can't I reply to my friend using Facebook or Messenger on the same thread?
  - Copying and pasting a message
- Managing conversations
Email
- Adding your Microsoft account
- Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
- Adding a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
- Checking email
  - Replying or forwarding email
  - Linking inboxes as one
    - Unlinking an inbox
- Sending email
- Managing email messages
- Changing email account settings
Photos, videos, and music
- Photos
- Music + Videos
  - Playing music, videos, and podcasts
  - Making your music sound better
Sync and Backup
- Keeping things in sync
- Backing up your files
Internet connections
- Data connection
  - Turning the data connection on or off
  - Enabling data roaming
- Wi-Fi
- Using your phone as a mobile hotspot
Search and Web browser
- Ways you can search the Web
- Searching for information
- Scanning codes, tags, and text
- Opening and navigating web pages
- Music search
  - Searching for recorded music that's playing
  - Selecting from previous music search results
Maps and location
- Location services
  - Turning on location services
- Maps
- Local Scout
Calendar
- What you can do in Calendar
- Creating a calendar appointment
  - Quickly creating an appointment on a time slot
  - Sending an invitation
- Creating a new to-do task
- Displaying and syncing calendars
  - Showing or hiding calendars
  - Choosing which calendars are synced on your phone
AT&T apps
- AT&T myWireless
- AT&T U-verse Mobile
- AT&T Navigator
- AT&T Code Scanner
- AT&T Radio
More apps
- What can I do in the HTC hub?
- What's in the Office hub?
  - What types of files can be opened in Office Mobile?
- Xbox LIVE in the Games hub
  - Downloading and installing Xbox LIVE Extras
Bluetooth and NFC
- Connecting a Bluetooth accessory
- Disconnecting a Bluetooth accessory
- Unpairing
- Sharing content with NFC
- Turning NFC on and off
- Using NFC
Settings
- Attentive phone features
- Turning Battery Saver on
- Changing display settings
  - Adjusting the screen brightness manually
  - Setting the time delay before the screen turns off
- Changing sound settings
  - Setting your phone to silent mode
  - Choosing notification sounds
- Managing apps and storage
Security
- Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
  - Restoring a SIM card that has been locked out
- Protecting your phone with a password
- Making your phone safe for kids
- Setting up Kid's Corner
- Launching Kid's Corner
- Closing and disabling Kid's Corner
Update and reset
- How to get and install updates
  - Setting update notification and downloading option
- Preparing for a software update
- Installing an update
  - Correcting the date and time
- Factory reset
  - Performing a factory reset via settings
  - Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
Trademarks and copyrights
Index

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