HTC Non-Touchscreen Tips and Tricks

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Contents 1 Applications 2 Calls 3 Contacts 4 Email 5 Homescreen 6 Pictures 7 Ringtones

Applications

• Open a ton of applications in 1 step
  • This is primarily an exercise in cleaning up the start menu.
  • Sync the phone with the computer. Navigate to Windows\Start Menu.
    • Create a new folder named Shortcuts and place your favorite 8 applications (or less if you are already using speed dial for some of your favorite telephone numbers) into that folder using cut/paste. Navigate to that folder on your phone by clicking the Start soft key and then the Shortcuts folder. Pair each application to a speed dial number (2-9) by clicking the right soft key and selecting Add Speed Dial. ***Now, navigate to Settings/Accessibility and change ‘Multipress time out’ to ½ second. Now, when you hold down any number, 2-9, from your home screen for one-half second, the corresponding application will launch.
  • To set the next 8 ‘quick-launch’ applications, go back to your pc and place all of the remaining ‘loose’ applications that are located in Windows\Start Menu into an existing folder or a new folder.
    • You may use categories such as Utilities, Games, Internet, etc. for naming the new folders or renaming existing ones. Make sure that there are no more than 8 total folders and that you have placed each application from the start menu into one of them.
    • Now choose your next 8 favorite applications and copy/ paste them directly into Windows\Start Menu as loose applications. Look at the start menu on your Dash and you will see the 8 applications that you just chose. If you click More (the left soft key) you will see the 8 (or less) folders you just created. The phone automatically places the loose applications before the folders.
  • How is it possibly to access this second group in two clicks? The top row in the Start menu corresponds to the letters Q, W, E, and R on your Dash keypad, and the bottom row corresponds to the letters A, S, D, and F. Just click the corresponding letter (after navigating to the start menu) and your application will launch.
  • For added control over the order that the applications and folders appear on the start menu, rename the applications with a number, 1-8, then rename the folders with a number, 1-8, and they will appear in the designated order. For example, 1. Comm Manager will appear in the top left corner, followed by 2. Solitaire. You can even write 1Q. Comm Manager and 2W. Solitaire in order to clearly show which keyboard shortcut corresponds with which application/folder.
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Calls

• Find Numbers Fast:
  • You can start calling any number right from the Today Screen, just by pressing any number. On top of that, while dialing numbers you see a listof available contacts starting with these digits and for any number you press you gradully filter results to that specific number dialed!
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• In Contacts, Find Numbers Fast:
  • While in the Contact list you can press "left" of "right" on the D-pad or joystick, depending what you have on your device and select between any phone numbers saved in the highlighet contact!
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Contacts

• Shadow: Get First Name Last Name instead of Last Name, First Name
  • Edit the name by putting the full name in the first name slot and nothing in last name slot, like this:
    • First name: George Washington
    • Last Name:
  • Using outlook 2007 you can easily change your contacts using your computer add pictures etc. when you save the contact, while connected to active sync it will automatically save on the phone including the contact picture.
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Email

• Free Push Hotmail
  • You can easily get free push hotmail on any supported Windows Mobile phone. Simply download Windows Live for Windows Mobile from here, install it and set up with your account. Then in settings, set the Sync Frequency to "As Item Arrives". This gives you free push e-mail.
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Homescreen

• Quick access to Comm Manager
  • Instead of clicking the start button, looking for Comm Manager App and clicking it, just hold down the Home button for 2 seconds. It works from the home screen or within any app.
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Pictures

• HTC S710 Photo ID Caller
  • When your contacts are located at the simcard, you cannot connect a photo to a contact. Yust copy your contacts to the device and you can!
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• HTC Libra 720 (Verizon xv5800) - Zoom in/out of pictures
  • When you have a picture open, use the # key to zoom in and the * key to zoom out.
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Ringtones

• Shadow: Make your own ringtones
  • First connect your phone to your pc. Once connected, instead of syncing your music using windows media player, go to my computer, and then to mobile device.
  • In the mobile device, find the folder marked My Ringtones, this folder is found in My Documents.
  • Save your music in there, and then restart your phone. Than when you go to assign a ringtone your songs you put in that folder should be there!
  • You can also install HTC MP3 Trimmer
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• HTC S710/Vox: Make your own ringtones
  • Use the same advice as for the Shadow or try this.
  • Sync your music to your phone as you normally would
  • Then on the S710, open Audio Manager (not the mobile WMP), choose the song you want to use, hit the Menu key, and choose "Set as Ring Tone."
  • This will copy the file to your My Ringtones directory, but the directory won't be clogged with all your music, which should make selecting a ringtone using the standard the Settings > Sounds method a bit easier.
  • One bit of advice: choose a song with a rousing opening, not one with a long, building lead-in, or you may never hear your phone!
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