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HTC U Play
Guide Downloads
Getting Started
Features you'll enjoy
What's special with Camera
Immersive sound
Fingerprint sensor
Boost+
Truly personal
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
HTC Sense Companion
Unboxing and setup
HTC U Play overview
Card tray
nano SIM card
Storage card
Charging the battery
Switching the power on or off
Choosing which nano SIM card to connect to the 4G LTE network
Managing your nano SIM cards with Dual network manager
Setting up HTC U Play for the first time
Adding your social networks, email accounts, and more
Fingerprint scanner
Your first week with your new phone
HTC Sense Home
Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Motion gestures
Touch gestures
Getting to know your settings
Using Quick Settings
Capturing your phone's screen
Travel mode
Restarting HTC U Play (Soft reset)
Notifications
Motion Launch
Selecting, copying, and pasting text
Entering text
How can I type faster?
Getting help and troubleshooting
Updates
Software and app updates
Installing a software update
Installing an application update
Installing app updates from Google Play
Personalizing
Home screen layout and fonts
Adding or removing a widget panel
Changing your main Home screen
Setting your Home wallpaper
Changing the default font size
Widgets and shortcuts
Launch bar
Adding Home screen widgets
Adding Home screen shortcuts
Grouping apps on the widget panel and launch bar
Moving a Home screen item
Removing a Home screen item
What is the HTC Sense Home widget?
Sound preferences
Changing your ringtone
Changing your notification sound
Setting the default volume
Tuning your HTC USonic earphones
Camera
Taking photos and videos
Camera screen
Choosing a capture mode
Taking a photo
Setting the photo quality and size
Tips for capturing better photos
Recording video
Quickly adjusting the exposure of your photos
Taking continuous camera shots
Using HDR
Selfies
Taking a panoramic selfie
Taking a super wide-angle panoramic selfie
Taking a panoramic photo
Advanced camera features
Using Zoe camera
Recording a Hyperlapse video
Choosing a scene
Manually adjusting camera settings
Taking a RAW photo
How does the Camera app capture RAW photos?
Applications
Installing and removing apps
Getting apps from Google Play
Downloading apps from the web
Uninstalling an app
Managing apps
Arranging apps
Controlling app permissions
Setting default apps
Setting up app links
Disabling an app
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
Playing videos on HTC BlinkFeed
Posting to your social networks
Removing content from HTC BlinkFeed
Themes
What is HTC Themes?
Downloading themes or individual elements
Creating your own theme
Finding your themes
Editing your theme
Deleting a theme
Choosing a Home screen layout
Using stickers as app icons
Multiple wallpapers
Time-based wallpaper
Lock screen wallpaper
Boost+
About Boost+
Turning Smart Boost on or off
Manually clearing junk files
Optimizing apps running in the foreground
Managing irregular activities of downloaded apps
Managing apps running in the background
Creating an unlock pattern for some apps
Weather and clock
Checking Weather
Using the Clock
Google Photos
What you can do on Google Photos
Viewing photos and videos
Editing your photos
Enhancing RAW photos
Trimming a video
Editing a Hyperlapse video
Voice Recorder
Recording voice clips
HTC Sense Companion
What is HTC Sense Companion?
Setting up HTC Sense Companion
Viewing the detail cards
Calls, Messages, and Contacts
Phone calls
Making a call with Smart dial
Dialing an extension number
Speed dial
Calling a number in a message, email, or calendar event
Receiving calls
Emergency call
What can I do during a call?
Setting up a conference call
Call History
Switching between silent, vibrate, and normal modes
Home dialing
SMS and MMS
Sending a text message (SMS)
How do I add a signature in my text messages?
Sending a multimedia message (MMS)
Sending a group message
Forwarding a message
Moving messages to the secure box
Blocking unwanted messages
Copying a text message to the nano SIM card
Deleting messages and conversations
Contacts
Your contacts list
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
Mail
Checking your mail
Sending an email message
Reading and replying to an email message
Managing email messages
Searching email messages
Working with Exchange ActiveSync email
Adding an email account
What is Smart Sync?
Battery and Storage
Battery
Tips for extending battery life
Using power saver mode
Extreme power saving mode
Displaying the battery percentage
Checking battery usage
Checking battery history
Battery optimization for apps
Storage
Freeing up storage space
Types of storage
Should I use the storage card as removable or internal storage?
Setting up your storage card as internal storage
Moving apps and data between the phone storage and storage card
Moving an app to or from the storage card
Copying files between the phone storage and storage card
Copying files between HTC U Play and your computer
Unmounting the storage card
Backup, Transfer, and Reset
Backup and reset
Ways of backing up files, data, and settings
Using Android Backup Service
Restoring from your previous HTC phone
Backing up contacts and messages
Resetting network settings
Resetting HTC U Play (Hard reset)
Transfer
Ways of transferring content from your previous phone
Transferring content from an Android phone
Transferring iPhone content through iCloud
Other ways of getting contacts and other content
Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer
Connectivity
Internet connections
Turning the data connection on or off
Managing your data usage
Wi-Fi connection
Connecting to VPN
Using HTC U Play as a Wi-Fi hotspot
Sharing your phone's Internet connection by USB tethering
Wireless sharing
What is HTC Connect?
Using HTC Connect to share your media
Streaming music to AirPlay speakers or Apple TV
Streaming music to Blackfire compliant speakers
Streaming music to speakers powered by the Qualcomm AllPlay smart media platform
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Connecting a Bluetooth headset
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Receiving files using Bluetooth
Using NFC
Settings
Common settings
Do not disturb mode
Turning location services on or off
Touch sounds and vibration
Setting when to turn off the screen
Changing the display language
Airplane mode
Screen brightness
Automatic screen rotation
Night mode
Installing a digital certificate
Security settings
Assigning a PIN to a nano SIM card
Setting a screen lock
Setting up Smart Lock
Turning the lock screen off
Accessibility settings
Accessibility features
Accessibility settings
Turning Magnification gestures on or off
Navigating HTC U Play with TalkBack
< < Menu
Setting default apps
In Settings, you can choose default apps for web browsing, text messaging, and more.
From the
Home
screen, tap
, and then find and tap
Settings
.
Tap
Apps
.
Tap
>
Configure apps
>
Default apps
.
Choose your default assist and voice input, web browser, phone, and text messaging apps.
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