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3.
 Touch  Stop. 
Language & Keyboard Settings  
Your phone’ s Language  & keyboard settings let you select a language for the phones screens 
and menus , as well as manage a personal user dictionary. The Language & k eyboard settings 
let you select a preferred input method, control keyboard settings, and more.  
Language Settings  
Keyboard Settings  
Language Settings  
Changing the language adjusts the keyboard  layout, date and time formatting, and more. 
1.  Open  the Notifications panel, and then t ouch  >  Language & keyboard.  
2.  Touch  System  language.  
3.  Touch  the language you want to use, and then touch   to apply the language.  
Keyboard Settings  
For details on the onscreen keyboard, see  Enter Text. 
Date & Time  Settings  
By default, your phone  automatically uses the network -provided date, time zone, and time. 
However, you can set the date, time zone, and time manually if you need to.  
1.  Open  the Notifications panel, and then t ouch  >  Date & time . 
2.  Clear the  Automatic  date & time  and  Automatic time  zone  check  buttons . 
3.  Touch  Set date . In the Change date window, scroll the date wheel to change the date. 
Touch  OK  when finished.  
4.  Touch  Set time . In the time window, scroll the time wheel to adjust the time. T ouch OK 
when finished.  
5.  Touch  Select time zone , and then select the time zone in the list. Scroll down the list to 
view more time zones.  
6.  Select the Use 24 -hour format  check box to toggle between using a 12 -hour or 24 -hour 
time format.  
7.  Touch  Select date format, and then select how you want dates to displ ay on your 
phone. The selected date format also applies to the date displayed in the Alarm Clock.  
Connect to PC Settings 
See Connect to a Computer  for more information.   
						

							 
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System Updates 
From time to time, system software upda tes for your phone may be available. Your phone  can 
automatically check and notify you if an update is available. You can download and install the 
update to your  phone. Depending on the type of update, the update may erase all your personal 
data and custom ized settings, and it could also remove any programs you have installed. Make 
sure that you have backed up the information and files you want to keep.  
Note:  Checking and downloading system software updates may incur additional data 
transfer fees.  
Check for System Software Updates Manually  
1. Open  the Notifications panel, and then t ouch  >  S oftware update . 
2.  On the Software update screen, touch Check ne w. 
About  Your Phone  
The About menu lets you access important  phone information and view legal and safety 
information.   
						

							 
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People 
In People, you can easily manage your communications with contacts through phone, 
messaging, email , and social networks . And, if you have the same contacts from different 
sources, you can me rge their contact information so you won’  have duplicate entries.  
Getting Contacts Into Your Phone  
Your People List  
Your People App Profile  
Add Entries to People App 
Merge Entries in People  
Contact Information and Conversations  
Manage People Entr ies 
Contact Groups  
Use People Widgets  
Send Contact Information 
Back Up and Restore Your Contacts  
Getting Contacts Into Your Phone 
There are several ways you can add contacts to your  phone. 
  HTC Sync Manager . Sync the contacts from your old phone to your computer, and then 
use HTC Sync Manager to sync your phone with your computer ’s Microsoft
®  Outlook®, 
Outlook  Express or Windows® Contacts. For more information, see HTC Sync  Manager.  
  Gmail ™. Google contacts are imported to your phone after you sign in to your Google 
Account. You can also create more Google contacts right from your phone . For more 
information, see  Gmail. 
  Facebook. Log in to your Facebook account to import your Facebook friends ’  contact 
information.  
  Phone contacts . You can choose to create and store contacts directly in your phone  or 
transfer existing ones from your old phone. For more information, see Add a New People 
Entry  and  Transfer Contacts from Your Old Phone.    
						

							 
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 
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
®. Your phone  syncs your work contacts from the 
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Server in your workplace. For more information, see  
Email.  
Transfer Contacts  from Your Old Phone  
Easily transfer contacts from your old phone to your new phone  through Bluetooth. Depending 
on your old phone’ s model, you may also transfer other types of data such as calendar events 
and text messages to your new phone.  
1.  Touch   >   >  Transfer . 
2.  Touch  Next  and then choose your old phone’ s name and model. 
3.  On your old phone, turn Bluetooth on and set it to discoverable mode.  
4.  On your new phone,  touch Next  to continue. Your phone  automatically turns Bluetooth 
on and searches for Bluetooth phones.  
5.  From the phone  list, choose your old phone and then touch  Next . Your new phone  then 
tries to pair with your old phone. You’ ll see a security passkey on the screen.  
6.  On your old phone, enter this passkey or simply confirm it.  
7.  Select the Contacts check box (and other supported types of data you want to import), 
and then touch  Next . 
8.  When your new phone  finishes importing data, touch  Done.  
Your People List  
The People app lists all contacts stored on your  phone and from the online accounts you’ re 
logged in to.  Touch   >   >  People.  
 
You can:   
						

							 
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View your profile and edit your contact in formation. 
  Create, edit, or find contacts.  
  See status updates.  
  Touch  a name to see that contact ’s stored information.  
  See a notification icon when a contact has s ent you new messages or when it’s the 
contact ’s birthday.  
Check out who’ s online in Google  Talk
™. Online status icons are displayed if you’ re signed in to 
Google Talk.  
Filter Your People List  
Choose which account contacts to show.  
1.  On the People tab, touch   on the top bar.  
2.  Select the online accounts that contain the contacts you want to display.  
3.  Touch  . 
Tip:   To set your contact sorting options, touch   >  Settings.  
Set Contact Search Options  
In addition to searching contacts by name, you can also search by other criteria such as by their 
group name or company. 
1.  On the People tab, touch   >  Settings . 
2.  Touch  Search contacts by , and then choose the types of criteria to search for.  
Your People App  Profile 
Your profile stores your personal contact information in an easy -to -access location.  
Set Up Your Profile  
Your Profile  
Set Up Your Profile  
Store your personal contact information  to easily send it to other people.  
1.  Touch   >   >  People  >  My profile . 
2.  Touch  Edit my contact card.  
3.  Enter or  edit your name and contact details.  
4.  Touch   (or the current photo) to change your contact photo.   
						

							 
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5.
 Touch  Save. 
Your Profile  
When you touch My profile , you’ll see the following tabs . 
 
  Details . Shows your contact details. You’ ll also see your most recent posts in social 
networks (if you’ re signed in to social networks.) You can also edit your profile or share it 
with others.  
  Updates. Shows the updates that you’ ve posted in your social networks. 
  Gallery . Shows your social network albums and photos.  
Add Entries to People App  
You can add new contacts to the People app or add existing ones from your social network or 
Exchange ActiveSync accounts.  
Add a New People Entry  
Find People You Know on Social Networks  
Import or Copy Contacts  
Add a New People Entry  
Start adding your contacts on your phone. If you’ ve set up an email account on your phone, you 
can sync your new contacts with that account.  
1.  Touch   >   >  People . 
2.  Touch  . 
3.  Touch  Name  field , and then  enter the contact  name.  
						

							 
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Note:
 Touch   if you want to separately enter the contact ’s first, middle, and last name.  
Depending on the contact type, you may also be able to add a name prefix ( such as 
Dr.) or a name suffix (such as Ph.D).  
4.  Select the Contact type. This determines which account the contact will sync  with. 
5.  Enter the contact information in the fields provided.  
6.  Touch  Save. 
Tip :  ICE - In Case of Emergency  
To make it easier for emergency personnel to identify important contacts, you can list 
your local emergency contacts under “ ICE” in your phone’ s People list. For example, 
if your mother is your primary emergency contact, list her as  “ICE -Mom ” in your 
Contacts. To list more than one emergency contact, use  “ICE1 -___, ” “ ICE2 -___, ” etc.  
Find People You Know on Social Networks  
Your phone  automatically searches for your phone contacts on different social networks you’ re 
signed into. Based on matching email addres ses and contact details, you can send requests to 
your contacts to join your social network.  
To turn this feature on or off, touch   >  Settings  on the People tab, and then select or clear the 
Find people you know  option.  
Tip:   To manually refresh the list o f people suggestions, touch   >  Manage contacts  > 
Linked contacts . On the Notifications tab, touch   >  Refresh.  
Send Social Network Requests to Your Contacts  
1. Touch the People you know  notification (when it ’s available on the People tab).  
2.  Select the people  to follow or send friend requests using the social networks you’ re 
signed into.  
Import or Copy Contacts  
It’s easy to import or copy contacts from your online accounts and save them directly to your 
phone.  
Import a Contact from an Exchange ActiveSync Account  
1. On the People tab, enter the contact ’s name or email address in the search box.  
2.  Touch  Search contacts in your Company Directory . 
3.  Touch the name of the contact you want copied to your phone.  
4.  Touch   to save the contact to your Exchange ActiveSync account.  
Copy Contacts from One Account to Another 
1. On the People tab, touch   >  Manage contacts .  
						

							 
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2.
 Touch  Copy contacts, and then choose a contact type or online account to copy from.  
Note:  Contacts from your social network accounts may not be copied.  
3.  Select a contac t type or account you want to save to.  
Merge Entries in People 
If you have the same contacts on your phone,  Google Account, and social network accounts 
such as Facebook and Twitter, your phone  will try to combine them automatically or let you 
decide which contacts to combine. Combining the same contacts avoids duplicated entries in 
your contacts list.  
Accept Contact Link Suggestions  
Manually Merge Entries  
Break the Link  
Accept Contact Link Suggestions  
When your phone finds contacts that can be merged, you’ ll see a link notification when you 
open the People app.  
1.  On the People tab, touch  the  Contact link suggestion  notification when available. 
You ’ll see a list of suggested contacts to merge.  
2.  Select  the contacts you want to merge.  
 
Note:  If you don’ t want to receive contact link suggestions, on the People tab, touch   > 
Settings . Clear the Suggest contact link  option. 
Manually M erge Entries  
You can merge your entries manually and choose the accounts to link the contact.   
						

							 
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1.
 On the People tab,  touch the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) you want to link.  
2.  Touch  . 
3.  You can:  
   Under  Suggest links , touch   to link  the contact to an account.  
   Under Add contact, t ouch one of the options to link to another contact.  
Break the Link 
When contact information has changed, you can choose to break the contact ’s link from another 
account   
1.  On the People tab, touch  the name of th e contact (not the icon or photo) whose  link you 
want to break.  
2.  Touch  . 
3.  Under the Linked contacts section, t ouch   beside an account to break the  link. 
Contact Information and Conversations  
When you touch a contact on the People tab , the Contact details  screen opens. 
The  Contact details screen has the following tabs:  
 
  Details . Shows the information you’ ve stored for the contact. Get in touch with the 
contact by touching  an option. 
  Thread. Shows SMS messages and emails you’ ve received from the contact. It also lists 
all your incoming, outgoing, and missed calls to and from the contact.  
  Updates. Shows the contact ’s updates and events from social network accounts. If you 
see a notification of the contact ’s birthday under the Events section, you can touch  the 
notification and choose how you want to greet your contact.  
  Gallery . Shows the linked contact ’s albums and photos.  
Manage People Entries 
Make sure your contacts ’  information are up to date. You can edit or delete an entry in People.  
Edit a People Entry  
Delete an Entry  
Delete Multiple Entries   
						

							 
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Edit a People Entry 
You can add another phone number, email address, or assign a photo to a contact in People.  
Note :  Facebook and Twitter
™ contacts cannot be edited.  
1.  On the People tab, touch  and hold the contact, and then t ouch Edit contact . 
2.  Enter the new information.  
3.  Touch  Save . 
Delete an Entry  
Follow these steps to delete an entry in your contacts list.  
1.  On the People tab, touch  and hold the contact, and then t ouch Delete contact . 
2.  Touch  OK  to  confirm.  
Delete Multiple Entries  
Clean up your contacts list by deleting entries that you no longer need.  
1.  On the People tab, touch   >  Delete  contacts.  
2.  Select the entries you want to delete, and then  touch Delete . 
3.  Touch  OK  to confirm.  
Contact Groups 
Assign contacts to groups so you can easily send a message or email to a whole  group. You 
can also sync groups on  your phone  with the groups in your  Google Account, accessible via 
your computer ’s web browser. We ’ve also added the Frequent  group as a special group type 
that automatically stores the contacts you dial or get  calls from the most.  
Create a Group  
Edit a Contact Group  
Send a Message or Email to a Group  
Rearrange Your Contact Groups  
Delete Groups  
Create a Group  
Create a group for your sporting buddies or family members so you can easily send them a 
message or email.  
1.  Touch   >   >  People .