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T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
User guide
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Before you do anything else, please read this Charge the battery The battery in your phone hasn’t been charged yet. While your phone is charging, it’s important that you do not remove the battery pack. Doing so can damage your phone. Also, please don’t try to take your phone apart. (If you do, it may invalidate your warranty.) Choose a rate plan wisely Your phone can use up a lot of Internet bandwidth really quickly. Before you use your phone, we strongly recommend that you talk to T-Mobile abou
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Trademarks and copyrights Copyright © 2010 T-Mobile. All Rights Reserved. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG. Copyright © 2010 HTC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The HTC logo, the HTC quietly brilliant logo, HTC Sense, HTC Sync, and HTC Care are trademarks and/or service marks of HTC Corporation. Copyright © 2010 Google Inc. Used with permission. Google, the Google logo, Android, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Android Market, and Google Talk are t
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Conventions used in this guide In this user guide, we use the following symbols to indicate useful and important information: This is a note. A note often gives additional information, such as what happens on your phone when you choose to do or not to do a certain action. A note also provides information that may only be applicable to some situations. This is a tip. A tip gives you an alternative way to do a particular step or procedure, or lets you know of an option that you may find helpfu
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Contents Basics Inside the box ............................................................................................................................. 14 Your Phone .................................................................................................................................. 14 Front panel with keyboard opened ..............................................................................................14 Back panel ........................................
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6 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide Personalizing your Home screen with widgets..............................................................37 Adding a widget to your Home screen.............................................................................................37 Downloading widgets.............................................................................................................................. 37 Adding application icons and other shortcuts on your Home scree
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Contents 7 Importing contacts from the storage card ......................................................................................54 Deleting contacts.......................................................................................................................................54 Sending contact information as a vCard via Picture Message.................................................54 Sending your contact information as a vCard via Picture Message .........................
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8 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide Social Facebook for HTC Sense........................................................................................................76 Tweeting on your phone ........................................................................................................76 Peep screen ..................................................................................................................................................77 Sending a tweet ........
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Contents 9 Showing or hiding calendars................................................................................................................ 101 Choosing which Google Calendars are synchronized on your phone ................................. 101 Changing Calendar settings................................................................................................102 Reminder settings................................................................................................
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10 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide Finding text within a web page ...........................................................................................................118 Downloading applications from the web.........................................................................................119 Copying text, looking up information, and sharing......................................................................119 Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages ........
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Contents 11 Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth ................................................................................... 139 Sharing photos on Facebook ..............................................................................................................140 Sharing photos on Flickr.......................................................................................................................140 Sharing photos on Picasa .........................................
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12 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide Opening an installed application....................................................................................................... 160 Uninstalling an application.....................................................................................................................161 Getting help .................................................................................................................................................161
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Contents 13 Checking if automatic backup is enabled .......................................................................................176 Restoring backed up data to your phone .......................................................................................176 Updating your phone’s system software ....................................................................... 177 Checking for phone system software updates manually.........................................................
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Basics Inside the box You will find the following inside the box: myTouch 3G Slide phone USB cable AC adapter 3.5mm stereo headset Battery microSD card Quick start guide Safety and regulatory guide Your Phone Front panel with keyboard opened 8 1 7 9 2 6 3 5 4 1 Hardware QWERTY See "Using the hardware QWERTY" to learn how to use the hardware QWERTY keyboard. 2 MENU Press to open a list of actions that you can do on the current screen. 3 HOME While on any application or screen
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Basics 15 5 BACK Press to go back to the previous screen, close a dialog box, options menu, or the Notifications panel, or hide the onscreen keyboard. 6 Trackpad Swipe your finger over to highlight items or press to select items onscreen. 7 Earpiece Listen to a phone call here. 8 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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16 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide Top panel 15 14 14 POWER 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. 15 3.5mm audio jack Connect a 3.5mm stereo headset
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Basics 17 Bottom panel 19 20 19 USB connector Connect the power adapter to charge the battery. Connect the supplied USB cable to transfer files to your phone from your computer Connect the supplied USB cable to sync your phone with doubleTwist on your computer. See "About Multimedia Sync by doubleTwist" for details. 20 Microphone
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18 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide 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. 1. With the phone turned off, hold your phone securely with the front facing down. 2. With your thumb or finger, lift up the back cover from the small notch at the bottom of the phone . Replacing the back cover 1. Secure and press the top part of the back cover first by aligning it into t
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Basics 19 4. Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out the SIM card slot. Slide the SIM card completely into the slot. Make sure the SIM card goes through the 2 “guides” on the SIM card slot. 5. Close the SIM card holder and then slide it to the direction of “LOCK” (etched on the SIM card holder) to lock it. Removing the SIM card 1. Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover." 2. If the battery is installed, remove the
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20 Your T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide user guide 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 o
