HTC U11 life User manual

User guide

HTC U11

Contents

Features you'll enjoy

Edge Sense 11

What's special with Camera 11

Immersive sound 13

HTC Sense Companion 13

Fingerprint sensor 14

Truly personal 14

Boost+ 16

Android 7 Nougat 16

Unboxing and setup

HTC U11 overview 18

Card tray 19

nano SIM card 20

Storage card 22

Charging the battery 26

Water and dust resistant 26

Switching the power on or off 28

Setting up HTC U11 for the first time 29

Adding your social networks, email accounts, and more 30

Choosing which nano SIM card to connect to the 4G LTE network 31

Managing your nano SIM cards with Dual network manager 31

Fingerprint scanner 31

Your first week with your new phone

HTC Sense Home 33

Sleep mode 33

Lock screen 34

Motion gestures 34

Touch gestures 36

Getting to know your settings 39

Using Quick Settings 40

Capturing your phone's screen 41

Travel mode 41

Restarting HTC U11 (Soft reset) 41

Notifications 42

Motion Launch 44

Selecting, copying, and pasting text 47

Entering text 47

How can I type faster? 48

Getting help and troubleshooting 50

Edge Sense

What is Edge Sense? 51

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Taking camera shots using Edge Sense 52

Changing the action to take when you squeeze the phone 52

Enabling Advanced mode 53

Typing with your voice with Edge Sense 54

Adjusting the squeeze force level 54

HTC Sense Companion

What is HTC Sense Companion? 55

Setting up HTC Sense Companion 55

Viewing the detail cards 56

Updates

Software and app updates 57

Installing a software update 58

Installing an application update 58

Installing app updates from Google Play 58

Home screen layout and fonts

Adding or removing a widget panel 59

Changing your main Home screen 59

Setting your Home wallpaper 60

Changing the default font size 60

Widgets and shortcuts

Launch bar 61

Adding Home screen widgets 61

Adding Home screen shortcuts 62

Grouping apps on the widget panel and launch bar 62

Moving a Home screen item 63

Removing a Home screen item 63

Sound preferences

Changing your ringtone 64

Changing your notification sound 64

Setting the default volume 64

HTC BoomSound for speakers 65

Tuning your HTC USonic earphones 65

Taking photos and videos

HTC Camera 67

Choosing a capture mode 68

Taking a photo 70

Setting the photo quality and size 70

Tips for capturing better photos 71

Recording video in 3D Audio or high resolution audio 72

Recording video using Acoustic Focus 73

Selfies 74

Quickly adjusting the exposure of your photos 76

Taking continuous camera shots 77

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Using HDR Boost 77

Taking a panoramic selfie 77

Taking a super wide-angle panoramic selfie 79

Taking a panoramic photo 80

Advanced camera features

Recording videos in slow motion 81

Recording a Hyperlapse video 81

Choosing a scene 81

Manually adjusting camera settings 82

Taking a RAW photo 83

How does the Camera app capture RAW photos? 83

Phone calls

Making a call with Smart dial 84

Dialing an extension number 84

Speed dial 85

Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event 85

Receiving calls 85

Emergency call 86

What can I do during a call? 86

Setting up a conference call 87

Call History 88

Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes 88

Home dialing 89

SMS and MMS

Sending a text message (SMS) 90

How do I add a signature in my text messages? 91

Sending a multimedia message (MMS) 92

Sending a group message 92

Forwarding a message 93

Moving messages to the secure box 93

Blocking unwanted messages 94

Copying a text message to the nano SIM card 94

Deleting messages and conversations 95

Contacts

Your contacts list 96

Adding a new contact 97

Editing a contact’s information 98

Getting in touch with a contact 99

Importing or copying contacts 99

Merging contact information 100

Sending contact information 101

Contact groups 101

Private contacts 102

Battery

Tips for extending battery life 104

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Using power saver mode 106

Extreme power saving mode 106

Displaying the battery percentage 106

Checking battery usage 106

Checking battery history 107

Battery optimization for apps 107

Storage

Freeing up storage space 108

Types of storage 109

Should I use the storage card as removable or internal storage? 109

Setting up your storage card as internal storage 110

Moving apps and data between the phone storage and storage card 110

Moving an app to or from the storage card 111

Copying or moving files between the phone storage and storage card 111

Copying files between HTC U11 and your computer 112

Unmounting the storage card 113

Backup and reset

Ways of backing up files, data, and settings 114

Using Android Backup Service 115

Restoring from your previous HTC phone 116

Backing up contacts and messages 116

Resetting network settings 118

Resetting HTC U11 (Hard reset) 119

Transfer

Ways of transferring content from your previous phone 120

Transferring content from an Android phone 120

Transferring iPhone content through iCloud 121

Other ways of getting contacts and other content 121

Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer 122

Installing and removing apps

Getting apps from Google Play 123

Downloading apps from the web 124

Uninstalling an app 124

Working with apps

Arranging apps 125

App shortcuts 126

Multi-tasking 127

Controlling app permissions 128

Setting default apps 128

Setting up app links 128

Disabling an app 129

HTC BlinkFeed

What is HTC BlinkFeed? 130

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Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off 131

Restaurant recommendations 131

Ways of adding content on HTC BlinkFeed 132

Customizing the Highlights feed 133

Playing videos on HTC BlinkFeed 133

Posting to your social networks 134

Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed 134

Themes

What is HTC Themes? 135

Downloading themes or individual elements 135

Creating your own theme 135

Finding your themes 136

Editing your theme 136

Deleting a theme 137

Choosing a Home screen layout 138

Using stickers as app icons 138

Multiple wallpapers 139

Time-based wallpaper 140

Lock screen wallpaper 140

Boost+

About Boost+ 141

Turning Smart Boost on or off 141

Manually clearing junk files 142

Using Power optimizer for your apps 142

Managing irregular activities of downloaded apps 143

Creating an unlock pattern for some apps 143

Weather and clock

Checking Weather 145

Changing the city on the weather clock 145

Turning on location services from the weather clock 145

Using the Clock 146

Setting the date and time manually 146

Setting an alarm 146

Google Photos

What you can do on Google Photos 147

Viewing photos and videos 147

Editing your photos 148

Enhancing RAW photos 148

Trimming a video 148

Changing the playback speed of a slow motion video 149

Editing a Hyperlapse video 149

Mail

Checking your mail 151

Sending an email message 152

Reading and replying to an email message 152

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Managing email messages 153

Searching email messages 153

Working with Exchange ActiveSync email 154

Adding an email account 155

What is Smart Sync? 155

Voice Recorder

Recording voice clips 156

Enabling high resolution audio recording 156

Internet connections

Turning the data connection on or off 157

Managing your data usage 157

Wi-Fi connection 159

Connecting to VPN 160

Installing a digital certificate 162

Using HTC U11 as a Wi-Fi hotspot 162

Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering 163

Wireless sharing

What is HTC Connect? 164

Using HTC Connect to share your media 165

Streaming music to AirPlay speakers or Apple TV 166

Streaming music to Blackfire compliant speakers 166

Streaming music to speakers powered by the Qualcomm AllPlay smart media platform 167

Turning Bluetooth on or off 167

Connecting a Bluetooth headset 168

Unpairing from a Bluetooth device 168

Receiving files using Bluetooth 169

Using NFC 170

Common settings

Do not disturb mode 172

Turning location services on or off 174

Airplane mode 174

Automatic screen rotation 175

Setting when to turn off the screen 175

Screen brightness 175

Night mode 175

Adjusting the display size 176

Touch sounds and vibration 176

Changing the display language 177

Glove mode 177

Security settings

Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card 178

Setting a screen lock 178

Setting up Smart Lock 179

Turning the lock screen off 179

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Accessibility settings

Accessibility features 180

Accessibility settings 181

Turning Magnification gestures on or off 181

TalkBack 181

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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