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HTC Desire 520
Guide Downloads
Getting Started
Features you'll enjoy
Personalization
Imaging
Sound
Unboxing
HTC Desire 520
Back cover
Battery
nano SIM card
Storage card
Switching the power on or off
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Your first week with your new phone
HTC Sense Home
Onscreen navigation buttons
Adding a fourth navigation button
Rearranging the navigation buttons
Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Motion gestures
Touch gestures
Opening an app
Sharing content
Switching between recently opened apps
Refreshing content
Capturing your phone's screen
Adding apps to the HTC Sense Home widget
Turning smart folders on and off
What is the HTC Sense Home widget?
Setting up the HTC Sense Home widget
Setting your home and work locations
Manually switching locations
Pinning and unpinning apps
Turning the lock screen off
Setting a screen lock
Setting up Smart Lock
Turning lock screen notifications on or off
Interacting with lock screen notifications
Changing lock screen shortcuts
Notifications panel
Managing app notifications
Selecting, copying, and pasting text
The HTC Sense keyboard
Entering text
Entering text with word prediction
Using the Trace keyboard
Entering text by speaking
Having hardware or connection problems?
Personalizing
Phone setup and transfer
Setting up HTC Desire 520 for the first time
Transferring content from an Android phone
Ways of transferring content from an iPhone
Transferring iPhone content through iCloud
Other ways of getting contacts and other content
Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer
Using Quick Settings
Getting to know your settings
Updating your phone's software
Getting apps from Google Play
Downloading apps from the web
Uninstalling an app
Personalizing
What is the Themes app?
Downloading themes
Bookmarking themes
Creating your own theme from scratch
Mixing and matching themes
Finding your themes
Sharing themes
Deleting a theme
Personalization settings
Ringtones, notification sounds, and alarms
Home wallpaper
Changing the display font
Launch bar
Adding Home screen widgets
Adding Home screen shortcuts
Editing Home screen panels
Changing your main Home screen
Grouping apps on the widget panel and launch bar
Arranging apps
Camera
Camera
Zooming
Turning the camera flash on or off
Taking a photo
Using the volume buttons for taking photos and videos
Closing the Camera app
Tips for capturing better photos
Recording video
Taking a photo while recording a video—VideoPic
Camera screen
Choosing a capture mode
Tips for taking selfies and people shots
Using Auto Selfie
Using Voice Selfie
Taking photos with the self-timer
Taking a panoramic photo
Using HDR
Saving your settings as a capture mode
Applications
HTC BlinkFeed
What is HTC BlinkFeed?
Turning HTC BlinkFeed on or off
Restaurant recommendations
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
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
Trimming a video
Saving a photo from a video
Viewing, editing, and saving a Zoe highlight
Photo Editor
Choosing a photo to edit
Applying photo filters
Retouching photos of people
Adjusting your photos
Shapes
Photo Shapes
Prismatic
Double Exposure
Elements
Face Fusion
Entertainment
Updating album covers and artist photos
Setting a song as a ringtone
Viewing song lyrics
Finding music videos on YouTube
Listening to music
Music playlists
Adding a song to the queue
Listening to FM Radio
What is HTC Connect?
Using HTC Connect to share your media
Streaming music to Blackfire compliant speakers
Streaming music to speakers powered by the Qualcomm AllPlay smart media platform
HTC BoomSound Connect app
Calendar and Email
Managing email messages
Searching email messages
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email
Adding an email account
What is Smart Sync?
Viewing the Calendar
Scheduling or editing an event
Choosing which calendars to show
Sharing an event
Accepting or declining a meeting invitation
Dismissing or snoozing event reminders
Checking your mail
Sending an email message
Reading and replying to an email message
Google Search and apps
Getting instant information with Google Now
Searching HTC Desire 520 and the Web
Browsing the Web
Bookmarking a webpage
Clearing your browsing history
Using Google Drive on HTC Desire 520
Activating your free Google Drive storage
Checking your Google Drive storage space
Uploading your photos and videos to Google Drive
About Google Maps
Getting around maps
Searching for a location
Getting directions
Watching videos on YouTube
Creating video playlists
Other apps
Using the Clock
Checking Weather
Calls, Messages, and Contacts
Phone calls
Making a call with Smart dial
Making a call with your voice
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
What can I do during a call?
Setting up a conference call
Call History
Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes
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
Forwarding a message
Copying a text message to the nano SIM card
Deleting messages and conversations
People
Your contacts list
Setting up your profile
Adding a new contact
Editing a contact’s information
Getting in touch with a contact
Importing or copying contacts
Merging contact information
Sending contact information
Contact groups
Private contacts
Battery and Storage
Power and storage management
Displaying the battery percentage
Checking battery usage
Tips for extending battery life
Checking battery history
Extreme power saving mode
Types of storage
Copying files to or from HTC Desire 520
Making more storage space
About File Manager
Backup, Transfer, and Reset
Sync, backup, and reset
Adding your social networks, email accounts, and more
Syncing your accounts
Removing an account
Ways of backing up files, data, and settings
Using HTC Backup
Backing up your data locally
About HTC Sync Manager
Installing HTC Sync Manager on your computer
Transferring iPhone content and apps to your HTC phone
Getting help
Restarting HTC Desire 520 (Soft reset)
Resetting HTC Desire 520 (Hard reset)
Connectivity
Internet connections
Turning the data connection on or off
Managing your data usage
Wi-Fi connection
Connecting to VPN
Using HTC Desire 520 as a Wi-Fi hotspot
Wireless sharing
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Connecting a Bluetooth headset
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Receiving files using Bluetooth
Settings
Settings and security
Turning location services on or off
Do not disturb mode
Airplane mode
Scheduling when to turn data connection off
Automatic screen rotation
Setting when to turn off the screen
Screen brightness
Turning Magnification gestures on or off
Navigating HTC Desire 520 with TalkBack
Touch sounds and vibration
Changing the display language
Installing a digital certificate
Pinning the current screen
Disabling an app
Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card
Accessibility features
Accessibility settings
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Other apps
Clock
Using the Clock
Weather
Checking Weather
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