HTC M8 - Your First Week with Your New Phone; Basics

Your first week with your
new phone
Basics
HTC Sense Home
After you've turned on and set up HTC One (M8) for the first time, you'll see the Home screen.
§ Set up the HTC Sense Home widget to experience the convenience of a Home screen that
automatically adjusts when you're at home, work, or outdoors. See What is the HTC Sense
Home widget? on page 35.
§ Swipe right and you'll find HTC BlinkFeed
®
. You can customize HTC BlinkFeed to show
posts from your social networks, headlines from your favorite news media, and more. For
details, see What is HTC BlinkFeed? on page 60.
§ Swipe left and you’ll discover space for adding your favorite widgets, apps, and more so
they’re just a tap away. You can also add panels. For details, see Adding or removing a widget
panel on page 56.
§ You can change the apps on the launch bar at the bottom of the Home screen. See Launch bar
on page 54.
While you're in another screen or app, press
to return to the last Home screen you visited.
Sleep mode
Sleep mode saves battery power by putting HTC One (M8) into a low power state while the display is
off. It also stops accidental button presses when HTC One (M8) is in your bag.
Switching to Sleep mode
To turn off the display and switch to Sleep mode, briefly press the POWER button. You can also
double-tap the lock screen.
HTC One (M8) also automatically goes into Sleep mode when it’s left idle for a while. You can
change the time before HTC One (M8) sleeps by setting the screen timeout. For details, see Setting
when to turn off the screen on page 188.
Waking up from Sleep mode
§ Press the POWER button.
§ Use Motion Launch
™
to wake up and unlock your phone directly to an app or screen. See
What is Motion Launch? on page 37.
27 Your first week with your new phone