HTC U Play User manual

User guide

HTC U Play

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Contents

Features you'll enjoy

What's special with Camera 10

Immersive sound 11

Fingerprint sensor 12

Boost+ 12

Truly personal 13

Android 6.0 Marshmallow 14

Unboxing and setup

HTC U Play overview 16

Card tray 17

nano SIM card 18

Storage card 21

Charging the battery 24

Switching the power on or off 24

Choosing which nano SIM card to connect to the 4G LTE network 25

Managing your nano SIM cards with Dual network manager 25

Setting up HTC U Play for the first time 25

Adding your social networks, email accounts, and more 26

Fingerprint scanner 27

Your first week with your new phone

HTC Sense Home 29

Sleep mode 29

Unlocking the screen 30

Motion gestures 30

Touch gestures 32

Getting to know your settings 36

Using Quick Settings 36

Capturing your phone's screen 37

Travel mode 37

Restarting HTC U Play (Soft reset) 37

Notifications 38

Motion Launch 40

Selecting, copying, and pasting text 43

Entering text 43

How can I type faster? 44

Getting help and troubleshooting 46

Updates

Software and app updates 47

Installing a software update 48

Installing an application update 48

Installing app updates from Google Play 48

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Home screen layout and fonts

Adding or removing a widget panel 49

Changing your main Home screen 49

Setting your Home wallpaper 50

Changing the default font size 50

Widgets and shortcuts

Launch bar 51

Adding Home screen widgets 51

Adding Home screen shortcuts 52

Grouping apps on the widget panel and launch bar 52

Moving a Home screen item 53

Removing a Home screen item 53

What is the HTC Sense Home widget? 54

Sound preferences

Changing your ringtone 57

Changing your notification sound 57

Setting the default volume 57

Tuning your HTC USonic earphones 58

Taking photos and videos

Camera screen 59

Choosing a capture mode 60

Taking a photo 61

Setting the photo quality and size 62

Tips for capturing better photos 62

Recording video 63

Quickly adjusting the exposure of your photos 64

Taking continuous camera shots 64

Using HDR 65

Selfies 65

Taking a panoramic selfie 67

Taking a super wide-angle panoramic selfie 69

Taking a panoramic photo 70

Advanced camera features

Using Zoe camera 71

Recording a Hyperlapse video 71

Choosing a scene 72

Manually adjusting camera settings 72

Taking a RAW photo 73

How does the Camera app capture RAW photos? 73

Phone calls

Making a call with Smart dial 74

Dialing an extension number 75

Speed dial 75

Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event 75

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Receiving calls 75

Emergency call 76

What can I do during a call? 76

Setting up a conference call 77

Call History 78

Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes 78

Home dialing 79

SMS and MMS

Sending a text message (SMS) 80

How do I add a signature in my text messages? 81

Sending a multimedia message (MMS) 81

Sending a group message 82

Forwarding a message 82

Moving messages to the secure box 83

Blocking unwanted messages 83

Copying a text message to the nano SIM card 84

Deleting messages and conversations 84

Contacts

Your contacts list 85

Adding a new contact 86

Editing a contact’s information 87

Getting in touch with a contact 88

Importing or copying contacts 88

Merging contact information 89

Sending contact information 90

Contact groups 90

Private contacts 91

Battery

Tips for extending battery life 93

Using power saver mode 95

Extreme power saving mode 95

Displaying the battery percentage 95

Checking battery usage 95

Checking battery history 96

Battery optimization for apps 96

Storage

Freeing up storage space 97

Types of storage 98

Should I use the storage card as removable or internal storage? 98

Setting up your storage card as internal storage 99

Moving apps and data between the phone storage and storage card 99

Moving an app to the storage card 100

Copying files between the phone storage and storage card 100

Copying files between HTC U Play and your computer 101

Unmounting the storage card 102

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Backup and reset

Ways of backing up files, data, and settings 103

Using Android Backup Service 104

Restoring from your previous HTC phone 105

Backing up contacts and messages 105

Resetting network settings 107

Resetting HTC U Play (Hard reset) 108

Transfer

Ways of transferring content from your previous phone 109

Transferring content from an Android phone 109

Transferring iPhone content through iCloud 110

Other ways of getting contacts and other content 110

Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer 111

Installing and removing apps

Getting apps from Google Play 112

Downloading apps from the web 113

Uninstalling an app 113

Managing apps

Arranging apps 114

Controlling app permissions 115

Setting default apps 115

Setting up app links 116

Disabling an app 116

HTC BlinkFeed

What is HTC BlinkFeed? 117

Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off 118

Restaurant recommendations 118

Ways of adding content on HTC BlinkFeed 119

Customizing the Highlights feed 120

Playing videos on HTC BlinkFeed 120

Posting to your social networks 121

Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed 121

Themes

What is HTC Themes? 122

Downloading themes or individual elements 122

Creating your own theme 122

Finding your themes 123

Editing your theme 123

Deleting a theme 124

Choosing a Home screen layout 125

Using stickers as app shortcuts 125

Multiple wallpapers 126

Time-based wallpaper 127

Lock screen wallpaper 127

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Boost+

About Boost+ 128

Turning Smart Boost on or off 128

Manually clearing junk files 129

Optimizing apps running in the foreground 129

Managing irregular activities of downloaded apps 130

Managing apps running in the background 130

Creating an unlock pattern for some apps 130

Weather and clock

Checking Weather 132

Using the Clock 132

Google Photos

What you can do on Google Photos 134

Viewing photos and videos 134

Editing your photos 135

Enhancing RAW photos 135

Trimming a video 135

Editing a Hyperlapse video 136

Mail

Checking your mail 137

Sending an email message 138

Reading and replying to an email message 138

Managing email messages 139

Searching email messages 139

Working with Exchange ActiveSync email 140

Adding an email account 141

What is Smart Sync? 141

Voice Recorder

Recording voice clips 142

Internet connections

Turning the data connection on or off 143

Managing your data usage 143

Wi-Fi connection 145

Connecting to VPN 146

Using HTC U Play as a Wi-Fi hotspot 147

Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering 148

Wireless sharing

What is HTC Connect? 149

Using HTC Connect to share your media 150

Streaming music to AirPlay speakers or Apple TV 151

Streaming music to Blackfire compliant speakers 151

Streaming music to speakers powered by the Qualcomm AllPlay smart media platform 152

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Turning Bluetooth on or off 152

Connecting a Bluetooth headset 153

Unpairing from a Bluetooth device 153

Receiving files using Bluetooth 154

Using NFC 155

Common settings

Do not disturb mode 157

Turning location services on or off 158

Touch sounds and vibration 159

Setting when to turn off the screen 159

Changing the display language 159

Airplane mode 160

Screen brightness 160

Automatic screen rotation 160

Night mode 161

Installing a digital certificate 161

Security settings

Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card 162

Setting a screen lock 162

Setting up Smart Lock 163

Turning the lock screen off 163

Accessibility settings

Accessibility features 164

Accessibility settings 164

Turning Magnification gestures on or off 165

Navigating HTC U Play with TalkBack 165

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.

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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 special with Camera

Enjoy taking great camera shots on HTC U Play. The Camera app has a simple interface, neatly

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

Lean and clean camera interface

The 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 Taking photos and videos on page 59.

Two ways to adjust exposure

Tap the screen, and then drag your

finger up or down to manually

adjust the exposure. Or turn on the

Touch autoexposure option in the

camera settings so you can simply

tap the screen to automatically set

the exposure.

See Quickly adjusting the exposure of your photos on page 64.

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