HTC Hero Android 2.1 Owner's manual

New Features Guide

2 New Features Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of the HTC Hero.

Your new phone is shipped with an upgraded Android

platform. This New Features Guide will help you

understand some of the updated features so you can

maximize the use of your new phone. Let’s get started.

Contents

1. Phone Basics..............................................................3

2. Using Phone Features............................................5

3. People..........................................................................6

4. Using Mail...................................................................8

5. Connecting to a VPN ........................................... 11

6. Using Internet........................................................ 12

7. Using Bluetooth.................................................... 13

8. Camera and Multimedia .................................... 18

9. Google Apps........................................................... 20

10. Other Applications ............................................ 22

11. Using Calendar.................................................... 22

12. Using Clock........................................................... 23

13. Managing Your Phone...................................... 24

14. Technical Updates.............................................. 26

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1. Phone Basics

View all the home screens

Bring up a snapshot of all the home screens and easily

jump from one home screen to another.

1. Do any of the following:

While on the main Home screen, press HOME.

While on any home screen, pinch the screen.

2. A snapshot of all the home screens are displayed. Tap

the home screen you want to go to.

Download and add a widget

1. Press HOME, and then tap .

2. Tap Widget > Get more HTC widgets.

3. Tap a widget, and then tap Download. The widget

downloads to your phone. When finished, “Installed”

appears on the right of the widget name.

4. Press BACK, and then tap the new widget to add it to

the phone’s home screen.

Connect your phone to a computer

Whenever you connect your phone to a computer using

the USB cable, the Connect to PC dialog box displays

and prompts you to choose the type of USB connection.

Select one of the following choices, and then tap Done.

• Charge only

Select this mode if you only want to charge the

phone’s battery using your computer.

• HTC Sync

When selected, the phone automatically uses HTC

Sync when connected to your computer and lets you

synchronize contacts and calendar events in Outlook

and Windows Address Book (Outlook Express)

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between your computer and your phone. For more

information, see“Using HTC Sync” in the User Guide.

• Disk drive

This mode is available only when you have installed a

microSD card on your phone. Select this mode when

you want to use the storage card as a USB thumb

drive, and copy files between your storage card and

your computer faster. For more information, see

“Copy files to and from the storage card”.

NOTE When Disk drive mode is enabled while your phone

is connected to the computer, you will not be able

to open or save files on the storage card using your

phone.

• Internet sharing

When you do not have Internet access on your

computer, you can select this mode to use your

phone as a modem for your computer.

Copy files to and from the storage card

1. Connect the phone to your computer using the

supplied USB cable.

2. When the Connect to PC screen appears, tap Disk

drive, and then tap Done.

3. On your computer, the connected phone is

recognized as a removable disk. Navigate to this

removable disk and open it.

4. Transfer files between the computer and the

removable disk.

5. After copying the files, unmount the removable disk

(that is, the connected phone) as required by your

computer’s operating system to safely remove your

phone.

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6. Press and hold the status bar, and then slide your

finger downward to open the Notifications panel.

7. Tap Disk drive to open the Connect to PC screen.

8. Select Charge only to turn the Disk drive mode off,

and then tap Done.

9. Disconnect the phone from the computer.

Search information anywhere

Press SEARCH to open the Quick Search Box and

search information on your phone and on the web. The

improved search function can now sift through your

applications, email messages, calendar events, contacts,

and more.

You can also control which items or applications to

include in the Quick Search function.

1. Press HOME > MENU.

2. Tap Settings > Search > Searchable items.

3. Select or clear the items you want to include to or

exclude from the search function.

2. Using Phone Features

Take advantage of phone enhancements that make every

communication smarter and discrete, whenever you wish.

Quiet ring on pickup

Your phone is automatically set to scale down the ring

volume whenever you pick it up to answer calls. To use

this feature, the phone must be on a flat surface when

you receive an incoming call.

NOTE To disable Quiet ring on pickup, press HOME > MENU,

and then tap Settings > Sound & display. Clear the

Quiet ring on pickup option.

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3. People

Managing your contacts is made more intuitive with the

People application that puts important people at the

center of your everyday communications.

Use Quick contact

Quick contact lets you quickly choose how to

communicate with a contact. Tap the photo or icon of

the contact in the contacts list to open Quick contact.

Depending on the contact information stored, you can

call, send a text message or email, chat, or locate the

contact’s address in Google Maps.

Tap the

contact

photo or

icon.

Tap how

you want to

communicate

with the

contact.

Merge contact information

Merge duplicated contacts on your phone to avoid

clutter and confusion. If you have the same contact on

your phone, Google, and Facebook accounts, the phone

automatically merges contacts that it finds to have

similar data.

You can also manually merge contacts.

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap People.

2. On the All tab, tap the name of the contact (not

the contact photo or icon) you want to merge with

another contact on your phone.

3. At the upper right corner of the screen, tap or

(if there are suggested links).

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4. On the screen, you can:

If there are suggested links, tap to link the

contact to the selected account.

Tap one of the options available in the Add

contact section.

5. Tap Done.

Break the contact information link between

contacts

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap People.

2. On the All tab, tap the name of the contact (not the

contact photo or icon) whose contact information

link you want to break.

3. On the upper right corner of the screen, tap .

4. On the Linked contacts section, tap beside the

name of the contact to break the link.

5. Tap Done.

Back up your contacts to the storage card

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap People.

2. On the All tab, press MENU, and then tap

Import/Export > Export to SD card.

3. Select the contact account type to export. When

asked to confirm, tap OK.

Import contacts from the storage card

You can only import contacts that were exported to the

storage card using the Export to SD card feature on your

phone. See “Back up your contacts to the storage card”.

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap People.

2. On the All tab, press MENU, and then tap

Import/Export >Import from SD card.

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3. If you have added a Google or Exchange ActiveSync

account set on your phone, tap the contact account

type for the imported contacts.

NOTE If you have several vCard files on the storage card, you

will be prompted to select an import option from the

Select vCard file window. Tap an import option, and

then tap OK.

The contact information is added to your contacts list.

4. Using Mail

View your email messages

Setting up a POP3/IMAP or Microsoft Exchange

ActiveSync email account on your phone lets you

sync conveniently with your web or work-based email

account.

With new and intuitive tabs, you can now enjoy

powerful email management right on your phone.

NOTE See the User Guide for information on setting up a

POP3/IMAP or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email

account on your phone and details about switching

email accounts in Mail.

• Conversations tab ( )

The Conversations tab lists all your email

conversations. Each conversation is expandable so

you’ll see all email messages in a conversation. Tap a

conversation to view all email messages within, and

then tap an email to read it.

• VIP group tab ( )

This tab contains all your received email messages

from contacts that you have grouped as VIP. You can

also use this tab to add contacts to your VIP group.

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• Unread tab ( )

The Unread tab displays all unread email messages

so you can quickly check new email without scrolling

through your long message list. Tap an unread email

to open it. Read messages are removed from this tab.

• Meeting invitations tab ( )

*For Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email only.

All received meeting invitations show on this tab. Tap

a meeting invitation to view the meeting or event

details and accept or decline the invitation. When

you accept the invitation, the meeting or event is

added to your calendar. After accepting or declining

an invitation, the meeting invitation disappears from

this tab.

Enable the Out of the office auto-reply

If you have added a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

email account on your phone, you can enable the out

of the office auto-reply and automatically send an

auto-reply message when you’re not available. You can

retrieve and change your out of the office status and

message.

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap Mail.

2. Switch to the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email

account.

3. Press MENU, and then tap More > Out of the office.

Your phone retrieves the out of the office setting

from the Exchange server.

4. Tap the field below “I am currently”, and then select

Out of the office.

5. Set the start and end date and time when you are

not in the office.

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6. Tap the reply box, and then enter your out of the

office reply.

7. Tap Save.

Set the email priority

You can now set the priority of all email messages that

you compose and send via your Microsoft Exchange

ActiveSync email account.

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap Mail.

2. Switch to the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email

account.

3. Compose a new email message. See the User Guide

for more information.

4. Before sending your email, press MENU, and then tap

Set priority.

5. Tap the priority you want to assign to the email.

If you selected High or Low priority, the priority

appears below the subject line of the email.

6. Tap Send.

Send a meeting invitation

You can send meeting invitations to your contacts

through your Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email

account.

1. Press HOME, tap , and then tap Mail.

2. Switch to the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email

account.

3. Press MENU, and then tap More > New meeting

invitation.

4. Tap To, and then enter the email addresses of the

contacts you want to invite. You can also tap to

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