Changing Display Settings - HTC Wildfire User Manual

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Changing display settings

Adjusting the screen brightness manually
1. From the Home screen, press MENU, and then tap Settings > Sound & display.
2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap Brightness.
3. Clear the Automatic brightness check box.
4.
Drag the brightness slider to the left to decrease or to the right to increase the screen
brightness. Tap OK.
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
After a period of inactivity, the phone screen turns off to conserve battery power. You can set
the idle time before the screen turns off.
1. From the Home screen, press MENU, then tap Settings > Sound & display.
2. Scroll down the screen, and then tap Screen timeout.
3. Tap the time before the screen turns off.
Turning automatic screen rotation off
By default, the screen orientation automatically adjusts depending on how you hold the
phone.
Not all application screens support automatic rotation.
1. From the Home screen, press MENU, then tap Settings > Sound & display.
2. Scroll down the screen, and then clear the Orientation check box.
Set the date and time, time zone, and date or time format. To turn off
auto time synchronization and be able to manually change time zone
settings, see "Setting the time zone, date, and time" in the Clock and
Weather chapter.
Set the operating system language and region. You can also set
onscreen keyboard options.
This option appears only after you've downloaded and installed
an accessibility tool, such as a screen reader that provides voice
feedback. You can turn accessibility functions or services on or off.
If you have installed a text-to-speech (voice data) application, use this
option to configure the text-to-speech settings.
Turn on or off scheduled checks for system software updates, or
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manually check for updates.
View different information about your phone, such as the mobile
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network type, signal strength, battery level, battery use of individual
applications, software version of your phone, and more. See
"Checking information about your phone" in this chapter.