HTC One A9s User manual

User guide

HTC One A9s

Contents

Features you'll enjoy

What's new and special with Camera 8

The best from HTC and Google Photos 10

What's different with the onscreen keyboard 10

Sound 11

Truly personal 11

Boost+ 12

Android 6.0 Marshmallow 12

Software and app updates 13

Unboxing

HTC One A9s 14

nano SIM card 15

Storage card 16

Charging the battery 18

Switching the power on or off 18

Phone setup and transfer

Setting up HTC One A9s for the first time 20

Restoring from your previous HTC phone 20

Transferring content from an Android phone 21

Ways of transferring content from an iPhone 22

Transferring iPhone content through iCloud 22

Other ways of getting contacts and other content 22

Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer 23

Using Quick Settings 23

Getting to know your settings 24

Fingerprint scanner 24

Updating your phone's software 25

Getting apps from Google Play 27

Downloading apps from the web 28

Uninstalling an app 29

Your first week with your new phone

Basics 30

HTC Sense Home widget 38

Lock screen 40

Notifications 42

Working with text 43

HTC Help 46

Personalizing

Themes 48

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Home screen layout 51

Wallpapers 51

Home screen panels 53

Stickers, widgets and app shortcuts 54

Apps screen 57

Sounds 58

Camera

Camera basics 60

Selfies and people shots 65

Zoe camera 67

Panoramic shots 68

Hyperlapse 68

Pro mode 68

Google Photos and apps

Google Photos 71

Google Now 73

Google Search 76

Google apps 77

Power and storage management

Battery 79

Storage 83

Boost+ 87

Sync, backup, and reset

Online sync 91

Backup 92

HTC Sync Manager 95

Reset 97

HTC BlinkFeed

What is HTC BlinkFeed? 99

Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off 100

Restaurant recommendations 100

Ways of adding content on HTC BlinkFeed 101

Customizing the Highlights feed 103

Playing videos on HTC BlinkFeed 103

Posting to your social networks 103

Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed 104

Phone calls

Making a call with Smart dial 105

Making a call with your voice 105

Dialing an extension number 106

Returning a missed call 106

Speed dial 106

Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event 106

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Making an emergency call 107

Receiving calls 107

What can I do during a call? 107

Setting up a conference call 108

Call History 109

Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes 109

Home dialing 110

Messages

Sending a text message (SMS) 111

Sending a multimedia message (MMS) 111

Sending a group message 112

Resuming a draft message 112

Replying to a message 113

Forwarding a message 113

Moving messages to the secure box 113

Blocking unwanted messages 114

Copying a text message to the nano SIM card 114

Deleting messages and conversations 115

People

Your contacts list 116

Setting up your profile 117

Adding a new contact 117

Editing a contact’s information 118

Getting in touch with a contact 118

Importing or copying contacts 119

Merging contact information 120

Sending contact information 120

Contact groups 121

Private contacts 122

Checking your mail 123

Sending an email message 124

Reading and replying to an email message 124

Managing email messages 125

Searching email messages 125

Working with Exchange ActiveSync email 126

Adding an email account 127

What is Smart Sync? 127

Other apps

Clock 128

Weather 129

Voice recorder 129

FM Radio 130

Internet connections

Turning the data connection on or off 131

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Managing your data usage 131

Wi-Fi connection 133

Connecting to VPN 134

Using HTC One A9s as a Wi-Fi hotspot 135

Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering 136

Wireless sharing

HTC Connect 137

Bluetooth 141

NFC 143

Settings and security

HTC BoomSound profile 145

Turning location services on or off 145

Do not disturb mode 145

Airplane mode 147

Automatic screen rotation 147

Setting when to turn off the screen 147

Screen brightness 147

Touch sounds and vibration 148

Changing the display language 148

Installing a digital certificate 149

Disabling an app 149

Controlling app permissions 150

Setting default apps 150

Setting up app links 150

Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card 151

Accessibility features 151

Accessibility settings 152

Turning Magnification gestures on or off 152

Navigating HTC One A9s with TalkBack 152

Trademarks and copyrights

Index

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About 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 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 helpful.

This indicates important information that you need in order to accomplish a certain task or to

get a feature to work properly.

This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be careful

about to prevent potential problems.

Some apps may not be available in all regions or with your mobile operator.

6 About this guide

Important note on recoverable data

Files and other data that have been deleted, cleared, removed, or erased from your device

may still be recoverable by third-party data recovery software. Even a factory reset may not

permanently erase all data from your mobile device, including personal information.

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Features you'll enjoy

What's new and special with Camera

Enjoy taking great camera shots on HTC One A9s. The camera interface has a fresh new look, neatly

organized to make it faster for you to switch modes and change your settings.

Leaner, cleaner, camera interface

The new camera interface groups related capture modes together—such as photo capture modes—

so that you can quickly find the mode you want, and puts modes and their settings side by side for

easy access.

Without having to open the slideout menu, you can easily switch back to Photo or Video mode from

other modes by tapping or below the shutter button. You can also just tap to quickly

switch between the front and main camera.

See Camera on page 60.

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Quickly adjust image brightness and focus

Easily adjust the focus and brightness—or

exposure value—before taking a shot.

Just tap the screen to set the focus, and

then drag your finger up or down.

See Taking a photo on page 62.

Selfies

§Live Makeup – Before taking your selfie, use Live Makeup to smoothen your skin. See

Applying skin touch-ups with Live Makeup on page 66.

§Instant selfie shots – Flash a smile, and the camera instantly captures your smiling face. Or,

just say "Cheese!" See Using Auto Selfie on page 66 and Taking selfies with voice commands

on page 66.

RAW enhancement

With RAW image enhancement, you can take your photos to a whole new level. After snapping a

shot in Pro mode, the camera saves a RAW file in DNG format. The RAW file provides more image

information for post processing in the Google Photos™app or a graphics program on your computer.

See Taking a RAW photo on page 70.

Hyperlapse

Hyperlapse lets you speed up the action up to 12 times, and select sections of the video to change its

speed. See Recording a Hyperlapse video on page 68.

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The best from HTC and Google Photos

To give you the best experience from HTC and Google®apps yet still provide optimal storage out of

the box, HTC is starting to minimize preloading duplicate apps. One example is HTC Gallery.

Instead of preloading this app, HTC has extracted its unique features to make them accessible from

Google Photos. In HTC One A9s, you can use HTC's special photo and video editing tools right from

Google Photos.

With Google Photos, manage your photos and videos, back them up to your cloud storage, and enjoy

all of its cool features. For details, see What you can do on Google Photos on page 71.

What's different with the onscreen keyboard

HTC is using TouchPal as the onscreen keyboard for HTC One A9s due to its popularity and

extensive features.

Here are some of the features you'll enjoy with the TouchPal keyboard:

§Download keyboard themes to personalize the keyboard background.

§Choose from a variety of emoji art to add fun to your messages and social updates.

§Back up and sync your personal dictionaries as well as input patterns and data to TouchPal

Cloud.

§Keyboard is resizable. You can also reposition the keyboard.

§When you’re typing in landscape, you can split the keyboard so it’s easier and faster for you to

type with just your thumbs.

To learn the basics of using the keyboard, see Entering text on page 44.

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