HTC 10, User Manual

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Getting Started Set Up Your Phone 23
Transfer Content to Your New Phone
You can easily transfer content, contacts, messages, calendar events, music, photos, videos, and
more from other phones or your computer to your new phone using the HTC Transfer Tool,
Bluetooth
®
, or direct USB connection.
Transfer Content from an Android Phone
On your old Android phone, download the HTC Transfer Tool and use it to transfer your content to
your new HTC phone.
The types of locally stored content on your old phone that the HTC Transfer Tool can transfer
include contacts, messages, calendar events, music, photos, videos, and some settings. More types
of data such as call histories, email accounts, and some HTC app settings can be transferred from
HTC phones that have HTC Sense 5.5 or higher.
Note : You need Android version 2.2 or later to use the HTC Transfer Tool on your old phone.
1. Tap
> > Settings > Get content from another phone .
2. Choose whether to transfer from an old HTC Android phone or other Android phone.
3. On the Get content from another phone screen, tap Next .
4. Follow the steps shown on your new phone to download and install the HTC Transfer Tool from
Google Play to your old phone, install it, and open the tool.
5. When you see a PIN on your old phone, make sure the same PIN also appears on your new
phone before you continue.