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[Hero, G2 Touch General] Switchbitch:
Go to messages. Click compose. Click your type message box and start typing something. Now tilt your phone landscape and oh.... the highlighted field is now the 'To:' field, so you have to hide the keyboard and re-select the type message box. Bit annoying at first.

I can also confirm that Task Manager by Wing Tseng causes the homescreen bug to appear on my handset.

I've had the contacts Facebook association disappear aswell. It's only happened once and I don't know why but I pray it's not a recurring problem. One thing I did find odd, is that if I go to my 'People' app, and view the Facebook integrations, one of my Facebook friends who WASN'T a contact in the phone had mysteriously appeared. Only one of them too, and why that one? Very strange.

As for the keyboard, I like to use the phone pad layout with T9 switched on. If I want to enter a word and have it remembered, I switch T9 off at the side and multi-tap type the word in. Then I click it in the pop-up list and it's saved. I'll only need to do this for the first few days until all of my non-dictionary words are saved.

As for the HTC email app, I'd really like to be able to use a notification sound that isn't the default notification sound. I can do this in the Google mail app, but not the HTC one.

I'd also like to have the phone vibrate when in silent, but not vibrate when the ringer is on without having to go in to the notification settings to do disable/enable the vibrate function.

On to the HTC weather app.... and this is annoying. I live in Edinburgh. The weather app, for some reason, knows I'm in Edinburgh but has no weather information available. It perpetually displays 'no weather data available'. However, if I manually select 'Edinburgh, United Kingdom' from the list, it will display Edinburgh's weather. Now if I go back to my homescreen, then go back to the weather app, I find that 'Edinburgh, (current) is in the list, as usual displaying no data, but 'Edinburgh, United Kingdom' has disappeared. Obviously the 'Edinburgh' as per the location service is conflicting with 'Edinburgh' the listed location. Why this would be, I have no idea. Also, my weather widget does not refresh, ever, unless I force refresh it. I've had to remove it for these reasons.

When I receive a message, I get the message icon in the notification bar, and the trackball glows. The notification and trackball light do not go away until I actually look at the notification, even if I have already read the message by accessing it through the message app itself. So basically, I'll have no new, unread messages but the trackball will still light up on and off telling me I have a message. This only goes away if you pull down the notification bar.

I also found out the hard way today that pressing the home button after screen timout during a call will drop that call. Only the 'call' button will bring it back safely. This is not exactly intuitive but it's a mistake you only make once :p
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
Some issues I've been seeing on my device:

1. Mail widget not updating at times

2. Mail icon in notification not going off despite having read the mail from the widget (i.e. tap on mail item, message opens, system marks it as read, but mail icon in notification bar doesn't go away)

3. In the People app, selecting the Facebook updates keeps showing that I have 2 more linked contacts despite the fact that these contacts only just happen to share the same name but are really different people.

4. Clock widget fails to update correctly. Mine is currently showing 2.40 pm when the system clock in the top right corner shows 3.41 pm.

They work okay for awhile after a reboot, and then things break again. Seems to be a problem with the widgets themselves as the Mail, Clock and People apps are working just fine
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Jivebunny:
Just tried it, nothing whatsoever. Works just fine when I press it again.

1.0.0.A6288
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mwatson:
Do you think we'll get paid for being HTC's beta testers? Its well known they read this forum.

Morning HTC! hows the new rom coming on? :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frymaster.127:
you have to enter your google details in initial setup. If you try to do this afterwards, it will fail with variations along the line of "no reliable connection" or "your SIM might not have a data tariff". Workaround: reset phone to factory defaults.

Oh, and after I did that, I noticed some apps had disappeared (and yes, they were default apps... as I'd not been able to enter google account details, i'd not installed any apps myself). The only one I noticed was "Locale" but I wouldn't swear to any others being missing. Don't suppose someone fancies listing the apps they can see? I'm assuming if they were important enough to pre-install, they are quite useful...

I'm also in Edinburgh and get that issue. It's worth noting that there's multiple entries for "Edinburgh" in the browser version of the app (one for the airport, for example) and they don't have the same data. Maybe it's not being specific enough when getting weather for the current location, and getting mutiple options back? You'd think other cities would suffer from this, though...

As an android noob: is there any way to close running programs other than a 3d-party app? Or if they don't appear in the notifications tab, can I assume they aren't really using any CPU and I shouldn't care?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] David Horn:
Just had the Facebook associations break as well.

Also, turning on the speaker during a call, then off again, mutes the microphone and there's no way to unmute it without disconnecting.

Finally, the new text message sound is stuck on the T-Mobile default, which is really loud and REALLY annoying.

But apart from that, good.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] herman3101:
I've had the home button press problem on both G2 and orange Hero. I didn't install that task manager on either of them.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mwatson:
Volume up and down brings the back light on during a call. Its the easiest button to press when you're on a call
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Donge900:
Sms Bug

Well, couldn't find it in thread, so here is my possible bug:

When you make a new textmessage in landscape mode, try to put a name in the adress field. When i want to do this, the keys with letters on it, are showing numbers. So when you press the letter "E" for instance, you see the letter E on the screen, but the telephone is searching youre contacts by the number 3. Letter "R" = 7, "T"= 8 etc...

So you can not send a text message to someone in landscape mode by typing their name.

I like to know of there are more people who can confirm this.

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Switchbitch:
I've spotted a few SMS bugs too with the landscape/portrait feature. Hopefully soon we can have all the current bugs covered and we can all put together a list and sent it to HTC :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frymaster.127:
I don't quite see that. If I type "steve", say, I see Steve's number among the suggestions, but ONLY the number ie if I don't know what number goes with his name I'm screwed. I also see a suggestion that looks like it could be the phone assuming I wanted to type the number but didn't press the "12#" key first (even when typing v)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Donge900:
Frymaster, youre right!

I looked to the numbers and regonized them as numbers of my contacts. Still i think it isn't programmed very smart. What if you have two or three persons with the same name, or a contact you don't often text. In that case, you HAVE to know wich number belongs to wich contact.

Of course it's simple to switch to normal mode, but it still have to work better than this in landscape.

Let's call it a not serouis Android bug.

Also when i turn touchflo off, i notice a little performance boost within the Hero.

Beside this, i still get used better and better too android. It work prety good!!! Like it very much!!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frymaster.127:
it's still a serious bug imo... it's just it's a bug that makes sense, rather than being totally insane as first appeared ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Raspster:
How did u turn touch-flo off?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frymaster.127:
app management -> flo -> clear presets. Now turn the phone off. When it restarts, select the "always use this" checkbox and the appropriate app :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] droidrage:
Hmm, I've been running Sense UI on my Magic for about a month now. I haven't experienced the Facebook bug. There's no way to fix the notification sound, but I've been using ChompSMS which has all those options and more.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stilghar:
Ok, Here's my bug:

In the HTC Mail Widget when I get an e-mail from one of my contacts it displays the picture of that contact, the same happens in the HTC People Widget. However, I only see pictures in the HTC Mail Widget for the contacts that have a picture in my Google contact. Meaning the Mail Widget is not using the Facebook pictures for my contacts:confused:

This leads to a strange behaviour:

- I have mails with no pictures for contacts that have a Facebook picture in the People app/widget :eek:

- I have mails with pictures (stored in google contacts) that are different that the Facebook picture that they display in the People app :eek::eek:

- I have mails with no picture for contacts that have a Facebook picture in the People app :eek::eek::eek:

Besides this I'm pretty happy with my phone. The only other gripe I have is that I've found no way to install other languages for the keyboard prediction besides the ones that came with. Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
I too have just experienced the Facebook bug...some (not all for some reason) of my contacts listed in People lost their picture and status (though the app still thinks that they're linked to the relevant FB profile).

Has anyone found a fix for this? I tried updating both individual contacts and doing an update from the Updates page, but no luck...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] SquiffSquiff:
Custom sounds

Right, I HAVE set a custom sound for HTC mail; SMS and Gmail as per http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=543268 I would say that the 'bug' for HTC mail notification sound is that it's in a really unlikely place-

Home screen/ Settings/ Sound and display/Notification Sound/. By creating 'media/audio/notifications/' on my sd card and putting an mp3 in there, I am then able to select it for HTC mail by setting it as default for the phone- It is possible to set a different notification sound within the gmail and messaging apps themselves for those services.

Now the problem that I have (as per my linked thread above) is that I cannot change the calendar notification sound at all. I have changed the phone default notification as above, accessed notification sounds in the calendar app and 'changed' it but no joy. NO matter whether I chose a different HTC preset or custom sound, my selection is ignored and I get the factory default 'T-Mobile' calendar sound. Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
I just had this 'bug' show up as a result of tampering with my Facebook login. Some contact pics were not updated, though the Facebook link is there. To fix this, I had to manually unlink the Facebook profile and the relink. Annoying.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] christonge:
One thing I've found in tethering mode is that if the phone switches of the screen you lose connection :( So I have to enter the screen time-out settings before using it as a modem... a bit annoying.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
It's odd, because I've tried doing that with some of the contacts that are seemingly no longer connected to Facebook, with no success. While it seems to link them successfully, for some reason it's unable to actually pull any information (profile pic, birthday, status updates etc) from that profile. I can't see a pattern to the contacts that are now broken, but it is highly irritating!

I'll eventually try a hard reset if it doesn't fix itself, but I'm not going to be in a position to do that for another week...would be curious to know if/how this is affecting others.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] zombiefly:
i swear i have a different hero to a) people here b) review sites.

I came from a G1. I had windows mobile phones. Talk of lag with the hero just makes me laugh after using these phones before this...

i have occasional "glitches" in the smoothness of sliding the screens or menus. Its a milisecond glitch, certainly not lag.

If using the browser heavily, it does slow down, especially with flash on the page. Still, its fully usable and i'd class the lag as "very mild"

I have no issues with contact pictures, mms, twitter, etc etc

All very odd....
[Hero, G2 Touch General] [jon]:
the SMS app is slow when viewing a conversation. i mean really slow. sometimes you can't drag up/down to see SMS history for maybe ~20secs or something... absurd

all facebook pics have gone again...

alarm volume is measly (and can't be changed)...

some updates really needed!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Tomzibad:
Music lags...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] trice1921:
I get no noticable lag what so ever. Im wondering if their's something different between my hero and others. People with lag, are your hero's unbranded and what class of memory card are you using?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pcBaktus:
I dont know if this is a bug, or bad hw, but i've had my Hero for four days now, and 3-4 times i've have been prompted to enter my pin code and entering time and date settings. It does not load Sense UI after entering pin, like you would experience after a reboot.

1?: It has rebooted, and loaded the Sense UI in the background, while waiting for pin.

2?: It has lost contact with sim card, but i cant explain why time and date has to be adjusted again.

It's not the 3 button soft reset, becouse that reset doesnt ask for time and date.

Anyone else experienced the same thing with their Hero?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] minogue:
nope. i don't seem to have any problems at all with my Hero. Better do a hard reset of the Hero and see if that works, and if not then try getting an exchange.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] shrimp3r:
Someone on Twitter had the same problem, they're getting a replacement on Monday.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ChrisiMA:
Hi,

having the same issues here with 2 of my FB friends.

Hard reset doesn't help. The connection of FB to the friends is done in just the same way as with the others (Gmail contacts free text field).

Greets.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
Yeah, I thought as much. I think the problem is not in creating the connection with a given Facebook contact, but retrieving the information from that contact. I noticed that if you choose to browse the list of friends when linking a contact, some of the pictures don't resolve in that list. The same contacts that don't have a picture are the ones that are not being updated once connected to a contact on the phone. Don't know if this is a Facebook bug or an HTC bug, but it's particularly odd as when I first set my Hero up all of my contacts were being updated successfully, and now only recently is it that only some are working...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
for those that are still getting the home button bug, and do not have task manager installed, do you have Astrid? Seems that will cause the bug as well.

Now my own one has turned up instead of the work one, i can test a bit more and both the task manager and astrid seem to do it on the ones i have access to.

Thankfully, work have SIM free devices, I have t-mobile, and the guy on the desk next to me has an orange one, so i can test on all three if i can be bothered....!

still no sign of the facebook thing on the ones i have seen, have you got any facebook apps installed any of you?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
WooHoo! Finally - thank you! I never had the task manager app installed, so hadn't been able to get rid of the problem. Uninstalled Astrid (which I wasn't using anyway, very poor sync with RTM), and now my home button is free!

I had Bloo installed, though can't remember if the problem started after I installed it. Just tried uninstalling it and rebooting, but the problem is still there.

To be clear, the Facebook problem I am experiencing is not with the connection of a contact with a FB friend, but with the subsequent retrieval of any associated information from that FB friend. The contact is apparently connected to the relevant friend, but it can't retrieve a picture, birthday, status update or albums.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
now that bloo is gone, have you tried signing out of facebook and signing back in to see if that will kick it back in?

I've not had bloo or any other facebook app installed on mine cos i only really use it for birthdays, and so i don't know if that could have anything to do with it.

Oh, and if anyone still wants access to android home, i recommend bar control to add a shortcut to the notification tray.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
Just tried it - after signing back in and going back to link a contact with a facebook profile, the list of FB friends fully reloaded, with the same missing profile pictures as before.

Furthermore, if I do connect one of the problem friends with the relevant contact, then choose edit, click on the picture placeholder, choose Facebook profile in the 'select photo:' box, it sits there with a spinning circle for ages. In comparison, doing the same process with a working contact finds the picture almost instantly.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
how odd. i dunno what to suggest....

could it be something that the contacts have set in their privacy settings on facebook? Isn't there something that lets you block access to your profile from other websites and applications??
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
Could be, but the fact that these contacts were working when I first got the phone, and now not, suggest otherwise (also, one of the one's that have stopped working is my girlfriend, and I know she hasn't changed any settings!)

Not really sure what's causing this - I'm going to maybe wipe the phone and start again, to see if it is a 3rd party app interfering, but in the mean time I'd still be really curious as to other's experiences with this problem...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
certainly doesn;t sound like it then. if they had never worked it would be a possibility, but i don't think so now you say that.

hopefully someone will get to the bottom of this.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
I take it back - just went into my girlfriend's application privacy settings on FB and pretty much everything was turned off. Enabled it and suddenly my Hero was able to get the info again.

What's strange is how it all worked and then suddenly a whole bunch of contacts suddenly stopped working. I doubt everyone suddenly adjusted their privacy settings at once - unless this is a new addition to the FB privacy settings...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
I wonder if FB have been mucking around with the site again.....they really are a PITA sometimes!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jamesking420:
In the google mail app, if you wish to use a contact that is in the "To" field of an email you've received, (eg, other than yourself), you can select the contact and copy the email address or reply to them with no problems, so long as their email address shows up as an email address, eg, "jamesking420@mydomain.com". If it shows up as a "name", eg, "James King", then you can't use this functionality. Not sure if this is an HTC problem or an Android problem, but it's very annoying.

Email addresses show up as names when that person is in the senders address book, so you lose a lot of useful ability to add them to your own address book too if this happens!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Nemo0815:
Emails from my non-google POP account are not deleted from the Hero when they have already been deleted from the server (e.g. by downloading them on my PC with Outlook).

Really disgusting.:mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mwatson:
Unless you are using exchange they wouldn't anyway. Same as many other devices and clients.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
I set up my MobileMe account with the HTC Mail client.

Hitting refresh always reflects the inbox as it appears on my Mac. Any messages I've deleted on my Mac email client disappear from the HTC client's inbox once refreshed.

Even if I have notification on the Hero of unread emails, these go if I've read the email on my Mac.

Only thing I found is when you 'delete' an email on the Hero, it moves the email to the deleted messages folder (on MobileMe) and does not actually delete it.

Not a problem as I can then review these deleted messages before finally deleting them - great in case I get phone finger trouble ;)

Overall very impressed with the HTC Mail client.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RussST24:
I had this at first on my White unlocked Hero but after a couple of days it stopped buggin me and now a week later I have not seen the issue again???

Russ
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RussST24:
Found this setting that solves this issue (I used it for a EZCam in the car while charging)

Applications - Development - Stay Awake while charging!

This does what it says and makes sure it wont sleep when plugged in.

Well odd its not under power or display management.

Russ
[Hero, G2 Touch General] phel21:
And it still doesn't load the messages in mailboxes other than the inbox on server that don't require a prefix. Folders are visible, but no messages.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dkodr:
Under Settings > Wireless controls > Wi-Fi Settings > Menu (button) > Advanced > Wi-Fi sleep policy you need to change the setting to "Never". Hope that helps.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RussST24:
I can not figure out how to stop the Alarm making a noise! I want it just to vibrate only and not actually make any sounds as this wakes up my whole house rather than just me.

There is no setting for NONE on the sound and even if the media volume is set to 0 and the ringer on vibrate it still goes off with the selected sound..

Any ideas or another bug/feature.

Russ
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RussST24:
It Posted twice. ignore this one.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Donge900:
Another bug in android

Bug has nothing to do with the Hero, but i think with Android, so here we go:

Possible bug:

- Try to set up a ringtone from youre sdcard.

- Check by calling youre phone if the ringtone is correctly set.

- Plug youre device on to you're computer.

- Choose for the option to connect the usb to the pc.

- Call the phone again, Notice that there is another ringtone wich rings (ok, could be logical, because the phone cannot see the SD card when it's connected)

- Unplug the phone, call youre phone again

You should expect that the ringtone wich you set in first case should sound again, but it's gone and you still hear the second ringtone:eek:.

Who can/wants to confirm this?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] suisen:
when u go into the sound selection menu, if you press the volume rocker it will give you the Alarm volume up/down option, you probably should be able to turn the sound off there
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RussST24:
Now I never thought to try the volume while in the pick a sound screen.

They so need to add that to the sounds section in the settings on the phone as although this is a great place to put it, its the last thing I would have thought of doing..

Worked like a charm, thank you so much my wife will now not curse my phone every morning!

Russ