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[Desire General] madmossy:
I wouldnt hold my breath for anything MPD do or say.

My experience of them has been a total nightmare that still isnt over yet.

Pre-ordered my Desire 1st March, they changed the plans available on the website to a better offer, so I requested they cancel the order on the 1st April.

No reply from them at all regarding the cancellation request, 6 days later and 5 emails later still no reply from them. They have since dispatched the phone to me, even though I requested the order be cancelled (got a better offer through t-mobile upgrades).

Now the MPD phone arrived yesterday pre-activated (mobile number shows up on my tmo account) and I still have not been able to get in contact with them or had any replies to my half a dozen emails.

Its getting to the point where I will have no choice but to get Consumer Direct or Citizens Advice involved as I am being charged for something I had cancelled, meaning MPD are in breach of contract.
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
I have just spoke to MPD because my phone which was apparently dispatched on the 6th has still not arrived.

They told me that they had only just found out that Parcel Force had not dealt with two batches of orders which means they are being dispatched tomorrow and will get here Monday 12th as they cannot do Saturday delivery even though I have paid for next day delivery and ordered on the 1st of april.

They don't seem to have a clue whats going on. Just to let anyone that is still waiting that it will be Monday now.

I wish i could change supplier but unfortunately MPD have the best deals.
[Desire General] hystryxen:
yup :D , it is
[Desire General] shure2:
i have a good one too!

I originally set up a contact through them which I then cancelled to go direct through tmobile. My credit rating isn't that established so because tmobile did another check I failed it, so I phoned up MPD to reinstate my order, which they said was fine and the website would update soon - it didn't and I phoned 2 times after this saying they would update it. On the 3rd call I found out they hadn't even reinstated the order! but said they would do it now and it would be delivered wednesday. Wednesday came and no arrival, so I phoned up and they said they would look into it and get back to me in 30 mins. I waited 3 hours and called them back myself to find that I had failed the 3rd credit check but for some reason they didn't tell me this!

Maybe we should compile a thread with stories like ours just to make it aware to the other guys before they rush into what appears to be a good deal!
[Desire General] madmossy:
my frustrations come from requesting they cancel the order 6 times and each time they have been ignored. now i have a phone I don't want a contract I'm being charged for end a head ache from all the stress.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] it_ferret:
Thats excellent news mine being ordered tomorrow. Thanks for the info.
[Desire General] lewyharvey:
Finally got mine today, what an arse on! Provided MPD with Voda PAC code when ordering, they sent me a PAYG limited sim. Managed to get through to some alien at a T-mobile call centre in outer Mongolia, only to be told there was nothing registered in my name! Was cut off 3 times. An hour later got through to MPD who decided to tell me that this was a dummy sim and that my PAC activated sim will take 3 days to come! Still got the use of my original Voda sim but have no Data access. Suppose I will have to wait til it comes. Ignoring all the hassle the phone is without doubt the fastest smartest phone on this Earth at the moment. Even my 2 (iphone freak) sons have conceeded the fact their iphones are now "pants":)
[Desire General] fezster:
Yup ! Tried my T-mob PAYG phone from MPD too, and it's unlocked and unbranded. Tried my o2 sim in it briefly before sticking it on charge.

So a bargain at £352, and good on the MPD reps who told it as it was - sorry I doubted you.
[Desire General] TH1882FC:
No real suprise....

My MPD order status remains: "New (Contract)" why advertise the next day delivery thing for orders placed before 3pm....

In no real rush for it, just hope they don't mess up the porting of the number...
[Desire General] panda986:
Well, my phone and sim card arrived without the number ported at all (and I did gave them my O2 pac code when placing the order). Anyway, I think it is probably better to just call TMob myself to get this sorted out tomorrow as they are less likely to screw up.

From what the other guy says, I can get a free booster too... that would be cool along with the unlimited data that I already get hehe.
[Desire General] LPT:
Same situation here, except I didnt give them my O2 PAC code. However, when I called T-mobile today, the phone teller told me that my application is not done yet, so they coudn't help me. So atm, i just can call but cant text or surf net :(...Mailed to MPD and waiting for their reply:(
[Desire General] TH1882FC:
From looking on the t-mobile website it says all customers get the flexible boosters. I'll be calling them as and when I get my phone/sim to find out about whether I'm entitled to the new 3gb limit for android phones.
[Desire General] dougsdir:
no texts or internet for me either on tmobile

i phoned and was told it would take a couple of days for that to work as they normally send out sims a couple of days after they send out the phone but for the Desire they included the sim in the box.
[Desire General] foyrtcw:
Mine started working this morning. I also got this email that came through a few minutes ago from them -

We have experienced some problems in connecting to T-Mobile just recently and are working hard to get everyone connected properly. If you are still not connected by 4PM today then please call 0845 470 400 and we will see what the exact problem is with the connection.
[Desire General] itsamac:
I have ordered a T-Mobile PAYG phone in the hope it was unlocked. I am on O2 Simplicity 20 and the T-mobile/Orange SIM only deals are not as competitive. Thanks to the guys who have confirmed.

I am hoping it will arrive on Monday/Tuesday. Not really in any rush but it is a bit like waiting for Christmas.
[Desire General] rovex:
MPD always blame Parcel Force. The exact same excuse was used when the HD2 was launched and there was a rush of orders. They sent out despatch notification emails but no phones arrived. By the time you complain the phone arrives. Simply put.. They dont have enough phones or staff to deal with the orders. They lie to you to keep you 'happy' about the delay. Expect this from MPD whenever you order a newly launched phone.
[Desire General] callummc:
Can anyone confirm if T-mobile tariffs get 3gb or 1gb internet on the MPD deals?
[Desire General] XDAgeek:
I have two HTC Desire's. One has the nicest, crispest, contrasty screen you could hope for with beautiful colours, blacks and whites.

The other has a pink cast to everything which is very noticeable when they are side by side, but still quite noticeable when viewing individually. It really detracts from the experience.

I'm thinking of returning it for a swap-out.

Has anyone else experienced this?
[Desire General] abats:
Could you take a picture of them side by side showing the issue? I'm getting a Desire soon probably and would be nice to know if my device will have this issue or not.

Also maybe people with just one device can relate to a picture more, because most people probably just have one Desire ;-)
[Desire General] XDAgeek:
I could take a picture, but I couldn't show it to you as I am a junior member here and not allowed to post urls.

The cast is only 'annoying' if you are swapping from one phone to another, as I was doing repeatedly as I set them up. In use, I am now finding that the eye adjusts well enough that the cast isnt actually a problem, soI am going to stick with these phones and not swap - I could end up with a worse one!

Colour is very subjective, and it could be that my other phone is actually slightly blue in cast, exaggerating the difference.
[Desire General] irkan:
yes, post a pic if possible,

and make sure the brightness of both screens are the same, because sometimes if the brightness was low on the AMOLED display could generate a slight pinkish hue to the screen
[Desire General] irkan:
no need to upload them to other sites, ... you can "attach" pictures directly from your PC to here!
[Desire General] XDAgeek:
Something else is going on here. The screens seem to drift in colour SLIGHTLY over time. Both are on auto-brightness, and the one which was lightly pink is now fine, and the one which was fine is now slightly blue.

Like I say, dont all overreact to this. It is slight, and you would never spot it unless you had the two machines side-by-side as I have.

It is not an issue; more of an observation. They both make my Kaiser look SO old and lacking in the screen department. :-)
[Desire General] khyasad:
Hi,

please check this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=654539

I've posted up a pic.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Edward Lowy:
Agree with pretty much all you have said. Specifically

1 important to concentrate all all issues with this ROM in one thread

2 these are some key other threads on XDA that I think are relevant with issues from this ROM, at least can be referred to from here :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=648510

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=631563

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=634536

3 SOD is the biggest issue for me. Happens frequently during the day. HTC want me to send the device for repair, but I do not believe this to be a hardware issue. Phone has functioned perfectly since new in May 2009, SOD has only arisen on moving to this March 18th ROM

4 HTC posting data in our Contacts : terrible. This was certainly the cause of lock ups I had when first installing the ROM as that data got more and more corrupted.

5 I cannot get Facebook auto update working. I have about 1,000 contacts, about 50 of them synced to Facebook

6 Twitter does not fully update for me

7 Overall, when it works, I think Sense 2.5 is very good. I haven't had any issues with the SMS client which I think is a very good improvement over 2.1

8 as it stands, phone is unusable. I cannot rely on it for people to contact me as it is often SOD. A phone that people can't ring? That's not progress

9 Facebook albums - doesn't work, have never been able to get this working. Link to patch on HTC Europe website is broken, do HTC know?

Come on HTC, accept that you have an issue, agree to investigate and fix it.

Am in the UK, unlocked, unbranded phone, I use O2.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ridolfo:
Calendar

The slowness in the Agenda seems to be negatively influenced by having all-day, and/or recurring appointments.

One thing I noticed is that when editing a single occurrence of an recurring appointment, you can change the time, but not the date of the occurrence (which is possible in the default client).

Messaging

Although I like the messaging app, it takes an awful long time to load one thread. Why didn't they implement this the same way as the default client (limited number of messages shown, with a link to "older messages")?

Other issues

Memory usage is ok after a soft reset (around 50%), but after a day of use it easily reaches 75-80%, even with all programs closed.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Allen Mead:
I concur with that. That's going to be a bit of a problem for me as I have several re-ocurring appointments.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] reflecs:
I have issues with the new rom also.

I have the same issues you have. In addition my speakerphone function doesn't work most of the time. I have to turn it of and back on again and sometimes even redial.

Regards,

Rob
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Allen Mead:
I've not tried the speakerphone issue yet, will have a go later.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] reflecs:
another issue, file activity like installing apps or copying files is unacceptable slow.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ridolfo:
Personally, I haven't noticed any difference with previous ROM's in this respect.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] reflecs:
Hmm. Seems after a soft reset file activity is better now.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ridolfo:
Wow, editing favorite contacts is really slow. I added a few lines to the notes of one of my favorites, and it took literally 5 minutes to get back to the Home screen. :eek:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mhurg:
For me it helped reflashing the ROM; flash the Sense 2.5 ROM and then immediately flash it again. Made it slightly more responsive. Other than that, I have the same issues as you do.

Contacted HTC about it and they told me UPS should pick up the phone since it's a hardware problem... Yeah right.

For me the most annoying part is the speaker phone issue, annoying when ppl can't hear me.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] reflecs:
I've contacted support through HTC's website. I've putted in 4 problems and got an awnser on 2.

The speaker problem is a hardware failure according to the support desk. Such a nonsens!

This ROM is broken and they should fix it!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] dan_tmx:
Other issues

Memory usage is ok after a soft reset (around 50%), but after a day of use it easily reaches 75-80%, even with all programs closed.[/QUOTE]

Hy.what about Call History in Home Screen?i don't have CH
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ridolfo:
Hy.what about Call History in Home Screen?i don't have CH[/QUOTE]

That's not really an issue; that's how the new Sense is designed. If you want it back, look for C00kie's Home Tab Mod.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mhurg:
You don't need Call History, just tap "Phone" and it's there.

They told me that as well, wanted me to ship them the phone by UPS since it was a hardware problem... even though I told them lots of others have that problem with 2.5 and that it was JUST FINE before upgrading.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] maron1981:
Found errors and one worth to add, too.

Error - Calendar:

I've tried to insert a birthday reminder in July 20th, and set it up for "ever July 20th" but i wont listet in July, the reason is, its added in april, i think its the current Month, seems to like an variableerror or an programmingerror. Defently worth to fix.

Worth to add - General / Shortlinks:

A shortlink to settingstab/menu, its annoying to have 5 tabs to access the real options + the loading time of the differnt tabs/menus.

Optional - Found something helpful - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=285366

Very worth to add - Onlinerules (maybe there is a programm that provides this):

It's annoying when i at home that, in the second i tab on the power button my w-lan and bei umtsmodule begins to initiate simultanly an internet connection, there could be some rule, w-lan before umts or something, the device got A-GPS, maybe set a home zone where the UMTS lets the w-lan the higher priority and get into the internet. But i've always use the shortcut FN+Commandcenter(rightkey) to deactivate the UMTS, because i doenst recognize that the wlan is 5 times faster.

Maybe we could all errors to the first post, for a better overview.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] simnl:
Since the new update, the task-manager-icon(little thing with the arrow), showing running programs and memory usage has disappeared :confused: anyone know how to get it back? I've already tried installing the HTC Task Manager 2, but it didn't help :(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] darkic:
Find Duttys Task Manager for Leo, install and it should work, but, it cuoldnt close all apps(opera, AS,etc) so you have to check it with builtin task manager from time to time to really close them.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ::RiL:::
Completely agree with all in the above post, especially the SOD which is completely random on my device which is only 3 weeks old (bought from clove and shipped with the latest official HTC ROM) I have been naggin my boss to buy me a tp2 for months as my tytn2 was becoming unreliable and now i find the tp2 even worse, even though im a die hard HTC fan i fear i might have to consider sending the device back and getting a blackberry as this is totally unacceptable for a business tool. Have also reported the issue to HTC to which i got a reply of "try a hard reset" which isnt very good when the device was only 4days old at the time.

Tony
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Edward Lowy:
That your new phone is SOD'ing is very bad news indeed. Mine is heading back to HTC tomorrow, quite why I don't know as categorically the issues are with the March 18th ROM. Have simply lost the will to live in corresponding with HTC's "technical support".

Technical support, my arse.

Right - let us try and be constructive.

My TP2 which works flawlessly with ROM's up to March 18th

It has only ever had HTC stock ROM's

it was bought unlocked and unbranded from Clove in May 2009. I am on O2

It has a 6 Gb Micro SD card

I have never used HardSPL

I use Commontime mSuite software to link the TP2 with our Lotus Notes installation, syncing Contacts, email and calendar

even without installing any software whatsoever on top of March 18th ROM I have had SOD

Sense 2.5 places unauthorised (by me!) data in the Comments field of your contacts with details of Facebook & favourites Sense entries. This data gets appended to the Comments field in Lotus Notes and renders that field corrupted.

In the 10 months between May 2009 and March 2010, I never had a single SOD incident. Since the March 18th ROM, I would get at least 6 SOD's per day. I do not feel that I am being Sherlock Holmes by suggesting that the SOD issue is linked exclusively to the March 18th ROM.

In sheer frustration and because I actually need to use the TP2, I recently reverted to the previous ROM. No SOD's.

Anyway, all you SOD'ers out there (or is it just me), what is the precise make up of your TP2, can we find anything in common?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mhurg:
The common denominator seems to be autoupdating Facebook/Twitter/Weather from what I've read, some say especially so with older makes. It's fine until it tries to update in standby mode, resulting in SOD.

I usually have all auto updates off so I didn't have this problem... until I tried it and sure, got my first SOD. Turned it all off and it was fine.

That being said, there's so many other problems I hate the damn thing now and it is being repaired appearantly. Not that they will find any hardware errors since it was completely overhauled just 4 weeks ago, but still they insist on it being hardware problems.

"But dear HTC, when I install your previous ROM it works FINE!"

"Ok good, it's still a hardware problem."

It's just rediculous, but on the other hand it should mean everyone who flashes the 2.5 ROM should get their money back since it is, according to HTC themselves, faulty hardware in their phones.

Demand your money back guys and I'm pretty sure they will fix the ROM pretty fast... Because that's what I am going to do when I get my "fixed" phone back in a couple days and it will be, surprise surprise, the same buggy crap as before.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] RADRaze2KX:
I had SOD quite a few times on stock Sprint 6.1 ROM, not so much on 6.5.

However, SOD isn't just an issue on the Rhodium, but perhaps an issue with other aspects of HTC's software. My girlfriend's friend has an Android-based phone (think it's the Hero) and it get's SOD occasionally, too. I was surprised to hear this, because we first started talking about how we like our HTC phones, text messaging looks, etc, then she asked me if my phone ever suspended and didn't come back without the removal of the battery.

The main issue I noticed after updating to Sprint's WinMo 6.5 was extremely slow responsiveness when initially switching tabs on the new Sense, and painfully, PAINFULLY slow loading of contacts (I have near 500 now) and even WORSE with loading up any text messages, even if the inbox was clear.

I turned off Sense 5 days ago now, and the phone is extremely responsive and all the issues I had were gone.

The only programs I've ever bothered to load onto my phone (WinMo 6.1 and 6.5) are as follows:

Google Maps

Opera Mobile 10

Tethering cab Fix

Total Commander

MS MyPhone

Swype

I think HTC's new release is just a bit flawed, or maybe more generalized for multiple phones, and not specifically polished enough for the Rhodium.

There's my 2 cents. - Mark

PS - One thing I hate about Sense is I can't copy/paste text from HTC's text app. For instance, someone texts me an address, and I need to look it up in Google Maps.. I have to write it all down and then re-type it into Google.

PPS - One thing I hate about the Rhodium in general is the lack of the "CTRL" key, which I used frequently to copy/cut/paste, as it was much faster to select text with the shift key, then use standard windows shortcuts to manipulate it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Edward Lowy:
Very frustrating. Machine works perfectly pre March 18th ROM. Persistent SOD on multiple machines thereafter.

If HTC would at least acknowledge there was a software issue and that they are investigating, I would keep the faith with them. This pathetic attitude of "problem, what problem, must be hardware" just does not wash with anyone. In my view, they should withdraw the ROM from download until the significant issues have been resolved.

I was thinking of buying an HTC Desire, but frankly can't see any reason for spending any more money with HTC.

It may well be Apple time.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mhurg:
The most dreaded sentence in the universe, yet it seems like it emits a rosy glow of blissful heaven to me at the moment.

I too was thinking of the Desire but now, not so much.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] azuka:
On SOD, this is my 1 cent.

3 days ago i installed, this new ROM. The only times i had SOD was when i tried to use restore the backups i made with Sprite Backup of my device before the installation. The first time it happened i was perplexed. So i did a hard reset and tried to restore again and the same thing happened. After doing another hard reset i did not bother trying to bring back the earlier backups. And since then, 3 days counting i have not had a single SOD and the device runs smoothly.

My point is, did you all try to restore your earlier backups after installed this new ROM?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mhurg:
Update on my TP2 being "repaired" (a.k.a. HTC claiming Sense 2.5 faults are due to hardware):

Just got my device back after it spending a week at the service center. The report says "Upgraded ROM, test OK".

A quick check shows it was not so much upgraded as sidegraded; before I sent it in it had ROM 2.07.409.1 installed and it still has.

Haven't had time to check for the same old bugs, but I'm rather sure nothing has changed... How peculiar!

This means I have to send another complaint to HTC... wish me luck, 3rd time's the charm.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Edward Lowy:
Mine is on it's way back from HTC - I don't hold out much hope of improvement and of course hope I am pleasantly surprised