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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mils69:
from experience:

find the app you're interested in... contact the owner.. ask them if they'll sell it to you 'offline'..

find some way to pay them.. usually Paypal

they'll send you the .apk

use HTC Sync or ADB to install via a USB cable

you're done

Japan isn't on the list of countries where 'paid-for' apps are available in the Market so I've had no choice but to use this technique with mostly positive results.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
I can download .APK files to my mac - but how can I et them onto my phone?

If I plug in my phone to my mac, I can see the SD card, and can copy the file over to it. But how can I get the phone to see and run the App?

HTC Sync as far as I know is PC only ( not Mac ) - what is ADB?

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Download a file explorer from the market. This will allow you to see the contents of your SD card and run any APKs you have on there (though you will need to switch on the option to allow non-Market apps).

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Bit new to this - how do I allow non-market Apps

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Menu -> Settings-> Applications -> Unknown Sources - just tick this to allow non-Market apps.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quattro_rs:
good idea, i hope Google speed things up and unlock the market for rest of us, dont they know HTC are selling official unlocked android phones by now!?!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quattro_rs:
one question to who did this: how will you update the software will it show in my downloads in maker app ??
[General Questions and Answers] hargibi:
hello!

i just wonder as ive never seen a thread about it before.

is it possible to alter the delivery report to just be a system notification rather then a new sms in my inbox?

sony ericsson style?

also i wonder if its possible to have the delivery report telling me what name the report was for rather then the number? (who remebers numbets? :P )

thanks for your help!

best regards joakim!
[General Questions and Answers] hargibi:
bump i guess as i think more people want to know this :)
[General Questions and Answers] PhilPassmore:
I'm afraid I don't know the answer, but I hope you don't mind me adding a second question in the same area.

Is it possible to set delivery notification so that it is on by default for all messages, rather than setting it 'on' for an individual message?

Thanks, Phil
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] daubury:
Hi Everyone,

Is there a way to tweak it so that when I click on a link to a YouTube video I have been emailed it is opened in the HTC YouTube app instead of the default browser?

Thank for your help,

David
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] n8w1ng:
Hey,

As the title says...how do i do it?ive tried to search the forum for similar threads,but couldnt find anythin. Feel free to share your modified taskbar icons...Any help will b deeply appreciated:)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Lamsebamsen:
Just use the built in SEARCH...

If you type Taskbar Icons, you will get plenty of hits.

This is the one I am using myself: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=520132
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] n8w1ng:
hmm thats what i did..anyway thx for help:)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Lamsebamsen:
No problemas ;)
[Touch Cruise 2 General] gear22:
In My Device I Have 2 Navigator

PAPAGO AND GArmin

But Garmin Cant Detect GPS In The First Time Of Running

but PaPaGo Can And When PapaGo Can Detect GPS So Garmin Can To

I was So Confuse Bcuz I Want To Use Garmin Only

Thank for Answer
[Touch Cruise 2 General] torrentonly:
I have got this problem only once. From that time, it works with no problem at all. What option do you use for GPS in Garmin? GPS Intermediate Driver?
[Touch Cruise 2 General] dancer_69:
I don't use garmin, but usually these programs, if haven't a gps configuration window, they have a configuration ini file and there you can put the info about gps if the program fail to detect the gps port. Usually is port 4, maybe you can see this info from papago.
[Touch Cruise 2 General] torrentonly:
dancer_69: GPS can be set directly in Garmin. No need for editing INIs etc. I am using "GPS intermediate driver" and it works without problems.

gear22: One more thing. Look into Start->Settings->System->External GPS and look, which COM port are you using (it is on first tab). Setting it to another value may solve your problem (i.e. I am using COM7).
[Touch Cruise 2 General] gear22:
thank ูู^^" I Change Com4 TO Com7 And then Restart

And Change Com 7 To Com4 So It Can Detect Now ู^^"

Thank~~~
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Switchbitch:
.. is really starting to p*ss me off. I'm going to get really sick really quickly of having to re-associate all my contacts with their Facebook profiles every time the Hero decides to spontaneously delete them.

Has anyone found a workaround?

Edit: Hmmm... seems if you close all the background HTC processes like com.htc.socialnetwork.provider and com.htc.album:remote with TasKiller, it'll re-update everything when the processes start back up again.

It's still stupid!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] piflechien:
And if you decided not to update your contact picture when you linked them, it will overwrite your specific photo anyway ! that's also very anoying if you don't want the facebook photos !
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dondula:
That's funny I was just logging in to report this problem. It happened to me for the first time today. It really pissed me off that for no reason all my facebook associations got deleted from contacts, rebooting the phone and killing the process didn't bring them back either. I don't even have the process com.htc.album:remote running in task killer. They need to get an improved rom out and fast, i've had this phone less than a week and i'm really starting to miss my iphone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
This happened to me today, but it was because for some reason I had been logged out of FB. Otherwise, I have not experienced this 'deletion' issue...

Strange.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dondula:
Does anyone know why the phone would just log you off of facebook? Is there any good way to avoid this? I hope logging on to facebook on a computer doesn't kick you off.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Sku11y:
I'm glad I saw this thread and that I am not the only one!

It is getting very annoying but I expect it will be fixed eventually, I just hope it doesn't take too long!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] trice1921:
This happened to me the first time yesterday. And 2 other people in this thread had it happen yesterday. Maybe it's something at facebooks end. There could be some sort of timeout and were all getting logged out at the same time.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rhedgehog:
it is very odd.

Sat here at work, there's four of us with hero's now.

one of us gets it, the other three don't.

the two G2 devices don't, and only one of the Orange Hero's gets it.

very strange.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] SquiffSquiff:
Okay I think that I can guess what is happening here. I have the same problem with my Facebook contacts losing their picture status and albums about every 24 hours (on stock G2). I know that when I leave my browser up overnight on my Facebook page, Facebook will log me out. I presume that it is doing the same thing with this phone and suspect that HTC did not spend long enough testing the ‘people’ application to observe this. I further guess that when the phone is logged out by Facebook it does not try to sign in again, deleting the information previously retrieved when a refresh is unsuccessful. I am not a developer and don’t have any way to back all this up but if I am correct then HTC would need to implement a workaround for this behaviour in order to fix it. Probably the easiest way to do this would be to have the application:

1.	Automatically sign in again (signing out if necessary) every 12 hours or so.

2.	Retain previously cached data, e.g. pictures, unless explicitly deleted even when Facebook refresh is unavailable.

This doesn’t fix the problem of the now-permanently unlinked Facebook contact (as per Don Vincenzo on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4276194#post4276194) but it would be an improvement.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Sku11y:
I hard reset earlier which had previously fixed it, but now it only shows that I have one Facebook contact to choose from and no one else can be linked from.

It shows it as if I have only one Facebook friend.

Very strange.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] veejayjameson:
Yep had the same issues.

Ultimately I found the best cure is just to wait for the two hours before it automatically updates everything.

I've only gone through my contact list once and linked all the profiles, however I have appeared to have "lost" the link many times...

So basically don't do anything, just wait.. lol they will return :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] R3PUBL1K:
Never had this issue yet but all my facebook - contact information is also sync'd with the exchange server :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] roakes:
I was afraid that after my master reset I would have to reassociate all of my contacts but it seems that the association is stored on google contacts too, so they just all came back again :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dondula:
Its been 2 days now and my associations have not come back, man that's gonna suck if it resets them every couple of days. The facebook integration was one of the main selling points for me for the phone. I sync my contacts with outlook so I don't have any under my gmail name. Is it better to import all my contacts in to gmail so it retains my facebook links? If so is there a way I can sync the contacts that are already on my phone to my gmail account from my phone?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Switchbitch:
I may or may not have found a solution, or a way of preventing it. I'm using TasKiller to close all my running processes every few hours to preserve battery life etc. I noticed that when I put some of the system processes in the ignore list, (com.htc.socialnetwork.provider for example) the Facebook problem happened again. If I don't have any processes in the ignore list, and make sure to kill them once or twice a day, my contacts stay associated with Facebook.

Last time my contacts associations disappeared, I killed all running processes, took everything out the ignore list and went into the People app, and scrolled along to the facebook updates page. I hit menu, then 'update now'. This restored everything back to the way it was.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Don Vincenzo:
The disassociation just happened for me again - all my contacts suddenly needed reconnecting.

This is a different problem to the one I was discussing in the other thread 'It's a wee bit buggy...', where previously available contact data (profile pic, birthday, albums etc) can now not be retrieved by the Hero once a contact is linked. This functionality has not returned since it first occurred for me, and means that, irrespective of the associations holding, only about 75% of those contacts on the device that should be able to sync actually successfully sync. From what I can tell, this could possibly be an issue with Facebook privacy settings, though why it only happened a week after having the device I'm not sure.

With regard to the associations holding after a hard reset, the People app on the device stores the Facebook association data in the 'Notes' field of the contact, which is then synced to Google Contacts. If you wipe and then re-download your contacts from Google, this info comes back with it, and the People app then sees those contacts as linked. Given this, it seems even stranger that the links get broken in the first place, as it suggests that for some reason that the data in that field is not persistent...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] theking:
Have the association loss occasionally but I find if you ignore it then the association comes back after a little while.

In relation to some (but not all) friends losing associations it is due to the friend changing their Facebook application settings. My girlfriend's photo disappeared a week ago, so I got her to change her fb settings and it came back. Not sure why it happened a week ago cause she changed the setting longer ago than that, but guess it is Facebook, not HTC.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mrjeffery:
Has anyone reported this to HTC? Its happening far too frequently on my gf's (pink) Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Fritti:
So maybe it's not the same but it's definitely related:

I've now gotten to the point where I can not view my own contact details when I'm logged into facebook. That is, if I am signed in, and I try to view my contact card, I get a crash in process "android.process.acore" (this also happens when trying to update my status). If I edit my details and make sure I'm signed out of facebook, everything is fine except that all details of all linked profiles disappear...

Can anybody else confirm this?

BTW, I noticed that if you sign out using your contact card, and then sign in again (miraculously this does work!) the People app will retry to link friends to your facebook friends, so you can "force" a resync this way...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ammurad:
I keep getting this issue too. What i do is go to contacts, then on to the 'updates' tab, my contact card still shows my pic and me as logged in. I then press menu and update now. This resyncs all my contacts straight away. Annoying i know but at least it recognises them again after a bit.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ewans:
I get the problem and crash since resetting. What about everyone else? Could be to do with the facebook link being left in Google or Outlook?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mrjeffery:
After 3 days without facebook association on my GF's Hero, I've managed to get them back.

The way I did it was to log off from facebook via the settings>social networks option, then open the people list and reassociate 1 of her contacts with a facebook profile. It asked me to log her back in to be able to set up the association, once that was done the rest followed. I may have had to select the update option to get the ball rolling as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Sausageman:
Is there a reason why not all my friends appear when I link to my facebook profile?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kiz:
Yeah this is annoying. You can't view any of their albums either, it seems like the app can't parse or read their profiles properly or something similar. I've had to end up manually setting photos for them.

And as for the facebook logging itself out, it's ridiculous! It doesn't even store my details so I have to type my password in again when I go in to settings. It has no problem keeping me logged in to twitter.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jpalo:
I sync my contacts from Exchange and I noticed that the Facebook association is actually stored in the Exchange contact's "Notes" field in format: "<sn>id:[FRIENDID]/friendof:[MYID]</sn>", where [FRIENDID] is the Facebook user id of the contact and [MYID] is my Facebook user id.

Having said that, I do lose some contacts FB association every now and then. I will have to monitor my contacts for few more days to really confirm that associations are still being lost, as I first synced my contacts from Outlook (8 days ago), then after few days set up the Exchange sync (5 days ago), so association might have broken during that and been broken since then.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
After weeks of using this phone, it logged me out of FB last night without any notification. Spotted it this morning and logged myself back in, Facebook contacts photos were not updated into my People data, but things sorted themselves out after a couple of hours
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frymaster.127:
I've synced from exchange from the get-go and not a single exchange contact has ever lost associations. So I suspect the issue is related to how the details are stored in whatever system people use (gmail, outlook sync etc.)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] domi55:
I still have this facebook log-in/people app problem.

see this post

Is there a workaround or has somebody informed HTC? Because its still really annoying to lose you facebook people pictures every day.

Is there probably a chance that Paul (from MoDaCo) will have a look into it?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] robertosandros:
I don't seem to have any problems with my facebook associations, and nor do I ever lose them. Hmm strange. When you guys do lose your associations you do realise there is a way to mass associate all your contacts back to their facebook profiles? Go into "people" and then go into the "Updates and events" tab and it'll have a button that says it recognize X amount of people it can associate with in your contacts.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] domi55:
I lose my associations because I lose the connection to facebook inexplicably:

see this scrennshot
[Hero, G2 Touch General] trice1921:
I was having the facebook problem. But since updating to the new rom 3 days ago i haven't had a single issue.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] les741:
I seem to have a slightly different but possibly related problem, I've synced all my contacts with their facebook profiles and so far no problems with any of them except 1, just 1 contact is showing as synced but won't show any updates or a profile picture, I wouldn't worry about it if it wan't my girlfriend! Any ideas why just this one contact won't update? Could it be privacy settings?

I'm using the stock Orange ROM if it makes a difference.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xsirhc6x:
Try un doing the link, then spell the name as it is on Facebook, then. Re link.. if u spelled it correctly it should be the first contact shown after u click link to face book
[Hero, G2 Touch General] les741:
Just double checked but it was already spelt the same, I unlinked and relinked it anyway, it was the first contact shown but still no joy. Thanks anyway
[Hero, G2 Touch General] les741:
If anyone else has this same problem it's down to the contacts privacy settings, specifically the application privacy settings. Mine's all sorted now :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bigbamboo5:
Can you please clarify what you mean by this and detail what you did to sort out the problem? Many thanks :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xrrkrrkx:
facebook girlfreind issue...

funny that you should have this issue with your lady too!!! (maybe facebook is against monogamy??)

i have it, but its with my wife's contact card.

the only thing that i can figure out is this...

prior to mustering up the energy to link my friends/ family to their respective facebook accounts, i had a different selected photo for my wife in the contacts.

after linking the facebook account to her contact card, it would choose when it wanted to show the original photo or the facebook one.

i unlinked the facebook profile from her account, deleted the original photo i used for her, then relinked the facebook account and it semed to be ok from then onwards.

BUT every once in a while (even after updating to the new HTC ROM,) i get a standard silhouette and NOT the facebook profile pic that i linked...

something smells funny about that whole ordeal...maybe someone should report it to HTC
[Hero, G2 Touch General] woobit:
Strange thing is that I am still missing the same people I was missing pre the new update. OK. But before i updated I installed the new Facebook app, and tried the Facebook Phonebook live folder (makes a list of all Facebook friends that has added a phone number to their profile). The exact same people missing a picture in my Hero People was missing a picture in this Phonebook.

The weird part is that after I updated to the new update, these profile pictures suddenly appeared in the Facebook Phonebook, but not in the Hero's People app.

Am I missing something?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] justbabu:
Today, all of a sudden I had lost my Facebook link photos from my Google contacts. I found that I was not logged into Facebook under Menu > Setting > Social Networking.

After logging in, the photos came up on the People app and Phone app.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bigbamboo5:
I would LOVE to know how to stop the phone from logging out of Facebook. Someone suggested turning off the auto-updates, but that seems to make no difference... :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kille9:
I'm to having this problem - With my girlfriend to!!!!!

This is the only contact I can't se any updates (and she updates like every hour)...Anyone solving this???
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kille9:
How did you do it?

What privacy setting was she changing?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
With different custom roms, I experience very lag system and with very fast power lost. The device getting hot and less responsive. Even after reset (complete power down and restart), the system is slow. And it will use up 50% of power in an hour (without 3G / wifi / bluetooth).

Any idea on how to debug?

Thanks.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] D'rath:
After HardReset? All Cookers suggest to make HardReset after flash; sometime they suggest to flash official ROM then Reflash the Cooked (some files after multiple flashing could bring some conflict, official ROM erase all of they).

D'rath
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
I don't think hard reset is a viable solution every time this happened.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] D'rath:
No solution but I tell you to try:

1- Flash Official ROM

2- Make HR

3- Flash Cooked ROM

4- Make HR

5- Use device to see if you have solved problems (also install few apps, sometime problems isn't by ROMs).

If it doesn't solve then HTC Warranty ^^

D'rath
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
I am pretty sure it is a software issue.

And HR really doesn't make sense to me (as I did try sometimes before)

Could it be the reason that it always trying to establish internet connection but can't? I did just remove my SIM card yesterday.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
leaving my phone on and wifi on AC plugged for an hour do solve the problem.

It is now responsive again.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
Now I am suspecting the version of SPL makes the difference.

my stock SPL is 1.54 and I uses USPL 2.5 to flash new rom.

Most recent rom may based on SPL 1.56 and therefore 1.54 is not totally compatible.

Will test it for more days.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
1.54 is compatible. If you use USPL and put stock rom (RUU_Signed_Blackstone_stockSPL154.zip) onto device and get SPL 1.54.0000 anf then re-use USPL before flashing any rom based on 1.56+ you are fine.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tuxhero:
Which Radio ROM are you using?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
Still testing if SPL is the factor.

My current Radio ROM is 1.14.25.24

I guess this is a very common one.

But after flashing 1.56 HSPL, the machine is now more responsive.

The battery did not drain now. Let's see in the coming days.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
Note - I'm sure your already aware of this but after flashing HSPL 1.56 you must use a 1.56+ based rom or your colours will be distorted and phone would appear in flight mode.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tuxhero:
I suggest you to try latest stock rom avalible for your region.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
It happens between 1.04 and 1.54.

But not sure if 1.54 and 1.56 is fully compatible.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] mcdull:
I'd try the stock rom but I really can't use it for long. (bad functions)

The Radio ROM came from the stock ROM. HKCSL.