HTC One E8 User Manual

User guide

Table of contents

Document Outline

What's new
- Android 5.0 Lollipop update
- The HTC Eye Experience
Unboxing
- HTC One (E8)
- Slots with card trays
- nano SIM card
  - Inserting a nano SIM card
  - Removing a nano SIM card
- Storage card
- Charging the battery
- Switching the power on or off
  - Switching the power on
  - Switching the power off
- Want some quick guidance on your phone?
Phone setup and transfer
- Setting up your new phone for the first time
- Restoring your backup from your online storage
- Transferring content from an Android phone
- Transferring content from an iPhone
- Transferring contacts from your old phone through Bluetooth
- Other ways of getting contacts and other content
- Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer
- Home screen
- Using Quick Settings
  - Customizing Quick Settings
- Getting to know your settings
- Updating your phone's software
- Getting apps from Google Play
  - Finding and installing an app
  - Restoring apps from Google Play
- Downloading apps from the web
- Uninstalling an app
Your first week with your new phone
- Basics
- Motion Launch
- Notifications
  - Notifications panel
  - Notification LED
    - Choosing when to flash the notification LED
- Working with text
- Battery
- HTC Dot View
- HTC Guide
  - Having hardware or connection problems?
HTC BlinkFeed
- Your dynamic Home screen
- Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off
- Ways of adding content on HTC BlinkFeed
- Customizing the Highlights feed
- Saving articles for later
- Posting to your social networks
- Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed
Personalizing
- Making HTC One (E8) truly yours
- Ringtones, notification sounds, and alarms
- Home wallpaper
- Launch bar
- Adding Home screen widgets
  - Changing the settings of a widget
  - Resizing a widget
- Adding Home screen shortcuts
- Editing Home screen panels
- Changing your main Home screen
- Grouping apps on the widget panel and launch bar
  - Removing items from a folder
- Arranging apps
- Lock screen
Camera
- Camera basics
- Selfies and people shots
- Split Capture
  - Using Split Capture mode
- Panoramic shots
  - Taking a Pan 360 photo
  - Taking a panoramic photo
- Other camera features
- Camera settings
  - Manually adjusting camera settings
  - Saving your settings as a camera mode
Gallery
- Viewing photos and videos in Gallery
- Adding photos or videos to an album
- Copying or moving photos or videos between albums
- Tagging photos and videos
- Searching for photos and videos
- Finding matching photos
- Editing your photos
  - Drawing on a photo
  - Applying custom filters to photos
- Using Face Fusion
- Viewing Pan 360 photos
- Creating an animated gif
- Creating an action sequence shot
- Editing a group shot
- Removing unwanted objects in a photo
- Trimming a video
- Saving a photo from a video
- Changing the video playback speed
- Viewing a Zoe in Gallery
Video chat and phone calls
- Video chat
  - Face Tracking
  - Sharing your phone screen
- Making a call with Smart dial
- Dialing an extension number
- Returning a missed call
- Speed dial
- Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event
- Making an emergency call
- Receiving calls
  - Answering or rejecting a call
  - Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
- What can I do during a call?
- Setting up a conference call
- Call History
- Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes
- Home dialing
  - Changing the default country code for Home dialing
  - Turning off Home dialing
Messages
- Sending a text message (SMS)
- Sending a multimedia message (MMS)
- Sending a group message
- Resuming a draft message
- Replying to a message
  - Replying to a contact's other phone number
- Saving a text message as a task
- Forwarding a message
- Moving messages to the secure box
- Blocking unwanted messages
- Copying a text message to the nano SIM card
- Deleting messages and conversations
  - Preventing a message from being deleted
Search and web browser
- Getting instant information with Google Now
- Searching HTC One (E8) and the Web
- Browsing the Web
- Bookmarking a webpage
- Using your browsing history
- Clearing your browsing history
  - Private browsing
Entertainment
- HTC Music
- YouTube
  - Watching videos on YouTube
  - Creating video playlists
- FM Radio
  - Listening to FM Radio
- Wireless media
Storage and files
- Phone storage
- File Manager
  - About File Manager
- Google Drive
Sync, backup, and reset
- Online sync
- Backup
- HTC Sync Manager
- Reset
  - Restarting HTC One (E8) (Soft reset)
    - HTC One (E8) not responding?
  - Resetting HTC One (E8) (Hard reset)
    - Performing a factory reset from settings
People
- Your contacts list
  - Filtering your contacts list
  - Finding people
- Setting up your profile
- Adding a new contact
  - How do I add an extension number to a contact number?
- Editing a contact’s information
- Getting in touch with a contact
- Importing or copying contacts
- Merging contact information
- Sending contact information
  - Sending multiple contact cards
- Contact groups
- Private contacts
  - Adding a contact to the private contacts list
  - Organizing your private contacts
Email
- Mail
- Gmail
Calendar
- Viewing the Calendar
- Scheduling or editing an event
  - Checking your schedule for an event
- Choosing which calendars to show
- Sharing an event
- Accepting or declining a meeting invitation
- Dismissing or snoozing event reminders
Travel and maps
- Location settings
  - Turning location services on or off
- Google Maps
- HTC Car
Other apps
- Using Scribble
- Using the Clock
  - Setting the date and time manually
  - Setting an alarm
- Checking Weather
- Recording voice clips
- Keeping track of your tasks
- Kid Mode
Internet connections
- Turning the data connection on or off
- Managing your data usage
- Wi‍-Fi
- Connecting to VPN
- Using HTC One (E8) as a Wi‍-Fi hotspot
- Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering
Bluetooth
- Turning Bluetooth on or off
- Connecting a Bluetooth headset
  - Reconnecting a Bluetooth headset
- Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
- Receiving files using Bluetooth
Settings and security
- Airplane mode
- Scheduling when to turn data connection off
- Automatic screen rotation
- Setting when to turn off the screen
- Screen brightness
- Changing the display font
- Touch sounds and vibration
  - Turning touch sounds and vibration on and off
  - Turning off keyboard sounds and vibration
- Changing the display language
- Accessibility settings
- Turning Magnification gestures on or off
- Installing a digital certificate
- Disabling an app
- Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card
  - Restoring a nano SIM card that has been locked out
- Setting a screen lock
- Setting up Smart Lock
- Hiding sensitive info from the lock screen
  - Hiding the caller from the lock screen
- Navigating HTC One (E8) with TalkBack
Trademarks and copyrights
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