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[Desire General] Nightstalker79:
Don't know if anyone has mentionned this before, but here goes, when on a home screen I accidentally pinch it and the screen start to zoom out to 7 home page miniatuur view, like the double tap on the home button function. To me this make it faster to move from home screens than it would have taken to use the swipe gesture or the home button.
[Desire General] jauhari:
Yes is it.. this is my favorite shortcut ;)
[Desire General] dexteral:
dont know if it is mentioned

when taking a photo by the camera

tap and hold on the screen to take a photo instead of presing the optical pad
[Desire General] Cyaegha:
Sliding notification panel

When I first got the Desire I found sliding the notification bar down to be fiddly as I would often end up moving the clock or whatever icons were on the top of the home screen around. I found that if you start sliding from the HTC logo just above the screen, then it works flawlessly.

Probably more of a problem if you have big fingers.
[Desire General] catmorry:
mail tip

Regarding earlier post about not wanting to receive push mail during the night, go into mail application, settings, send&receive, schedule where it allows you to change the peak time for mail, set peak to push & off peak to manual. No more middle of the night notification sounds for mail.
[Desire General] fdrzrich:
Thanks for that, I always seemed to blur the photo when pressing the trackball, this stops that happening!

The other easy way of getting to the notifications is by pressing Menu when on one of the homescreens - Notifications is the middle button! I find it quicker to use that than reach up with my thumb to swipe downwards.
[Desire General] breytex:
Dont do that, it drains your battery ;-)
[Desire General] madsere:
My old HTC Tattoo did that but the HTC Desire doesn't. Is this controlled by a setting somewhere that I might have overlooked?
[Desire General] huleboeren:
I actually think its carrier specific.

Perhaps a feature the network has to support, not the vibrating thing but that call is set up and ready.

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[Desire General] dexteral:
indeed very helpful thanks
[Desire General] madsere:
But I use the same carrier that I used with the Tattoo where it worked...
[Desire General] hlpdt10:
TO day i found a new trick:

If i use two finger zoom out my home screen <==> press double home

:D
[Desire General] 3722:
The vibration does occur, but only when the display is on, which means if you put the phone to your ear the proximity sensor activates and turns off the display, therefore it doesn't have to vibrate because you're already expecting to hear the other line.

But if you hold the phone in your hand without activating the "proximity sensor turn off function" (note - the sensor is to the left from the "htc" sign, you can experiment and find it by putting your finger there) then the device vibrates when the other line answers.

Hope this helps.
[Desire General] zandbergen:
Lock screen open with password

Due to business policy I have to unlock my Desire with a password. With my formal phones, HTC Polaris and Touch HD it was possible to enter a simple pin code with a numeric touch panel with big buttons. Now I have to use the standard qwerty touch panel with very tiny buttons. Is there someone who knows a solution to get back the big button numeric panel after unlock the screen?

:confused:
[Desire General] 3722:
zandbergen,

I don't know where is this option to unlock it with password, but if it's the standard keyboard layout go to settings (the second button to the left from the spacebar, with the cog wheel icon) then "keyboard types" and choose "phone keypad" or "compact qwerty".

Then when you're typing the password press "12#" button (the second to the right from the spacebar), this will bring a bigger numeral keyboard.

An easier solution is to consider setting unlock pattern from settings>security

You can try searching the market for some security/locking app, too.
[Desire General] Tawm:
The password thing is for Enterprise customers, people who use Microsoft Exchange email for example can be forced to use text-based passwords on their phones, it's a new feature in Android 2.1/2.2
[Desire General] Giland:
Have a look here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6430132#post6430132

Hope it helps :)
[Desire General] Joshhudsy:
The android power control widget is really useful for enabling/ disabling features such as bluetooth and wifi:D
[Desire General] donald-c:
Found this by accident :P

If you drag a program/widget etc. over the bin and hold it (as opposed to quickly dropping it in to delete the icon), it shows "drop to uninstall". A much faster way to uninstall programs :).
[Desire General] :
Doesnt work here, donald :p

Sure it isn't your ROM? ^^
[Desire General] espariz:
Very good trick, thanks! (and I am testing without App killers and all goes very well, thanks too!!)
[Desire General] donald-c:
It was on a stock ROM I found it, now that I think of it I might have been using Launcher Pro, works on ADWLauncher as well though :/.

Maybe it's removed from Sense :P

Edit: Doesn't work on stock (Froyo) launcher either. Sorry :p
[Desire General] :
i dunno wether this is a trick.. but lock your phone, click the power (don't unlock), press the optical sensor, press the volume up five to ten times (while holding the sensor), release the sensor, press the power button, press it again (the display should now be turned on), and last click and hold the optical sensor, if nothing happends in a few secs, release it xD
[Desire General] Marv-in:
What is this supposed to do? For me its not doing anything.
[Desire General] :
Can anyone with the std testimage verify that there will occur weird vibrations ?

I'm getting 6 short vibrations though :p

And really can't explain why O.o
[Desire General] jauhari:
Use Launcher Pro and it's work ;)
[Desire General] Ghisy:
Guys, I need some user experience on My Backup Pro.

So I'm thinking of getting the app but I'm wondering if it restores everything the way it's supposed to.

Like if I do a hard reset or decide to root the phone and wipe it, will I get everything back with My Backup Pro in a few minutes?

Thanks!
[Desire General] MyKeymoo:
Same here, nothing happened
[Desire General] :
Still works here :p and I'm not even on same rom And I don't use sense as I did last time:/
[Desire General] Pietje_1985:
Haha sooo funny :P I found out that you just copied your trick from another website ;)

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/motorola-droid/545-power-control-widget.html

3rd post

n e way, good trick!
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
Much better is SwitchPro Widget.
[Desire General] gswarbrick:
One of my great frustrations with WinMo phones - and htc WinMo phones in particular - was that when a phone call was active for more than a couple of seconds, the screen was blanked and getting it back - to enter a touch tone, typically - was a real PITA.

With the Desire - Android in general? - shaking the phone brings the display back, which works really well.
[Desire General] rogershroed1991:
The screen should turn off when the phone is held vertically, so you don't accidentally press any buttons with your ear. When you stop holding it vertically, the screen turns back on.
[Desire General] Marv-in:
Just for your information: There is a proximity sensor, that turns display on/off dependently on the proximity from you head (or any other subject). So its not about vertical or another holding of device.
[Desire General] larbac:
How to take screenshots on the HTC Desire

http://www.knowyourcell.com/htc/htc...ow_to_take_screenshots_on_the_htc_desire.html
[Desire General] rogershroed1991:
Oh ok, that's good to know. thanks.

Also, I found this today that in the Messaging app, if you click on the contact icon of any of the people you're texting, it brings up a quick list of links to view their details, call them, or text them (so you don't actually have to long press and click on "view").
[Desire General] slyb2:
I`m new with desire so please forgive me but...

how do I edit a forwarded/ reply email? in the gmail app or more important on the exchange account app?

It`s really annoying! Is the problem solved in 2.2?

also..if I have the configuration pattern set why do I have to do the "unlock" gesture to get to the security pattern?
[Desire General] :
this is not a q and a thread!

... bottom of the mail window
[Desire General] Pegray1:
make sure you make the phone discoverable, on android devices making it discoverable only lasts for 120 seconds. you can access this in the wireless & network settings.
[Desire General] tolis626:
Found by me,approved by my girlfriend...

With screen on press the volume rocker down and hold it.As soon as it gets to Vibrate keep holding it.It will continue vibrating for as long as you hold the button.Doesn't really improve anything,but really could be...pleasant for some! :D

Don't mean to offend anyone btw!
[Desire General] jdebunt85:
just wanted to say, thanks for all the input in this thread :)

i'm new to Android aswell, and a few tips & tricks are always welcome :)
[Desire General] MasDroid:
LOL... you should have just bought a vibrator instead of wasting so much money on a phone ;)
[Desire General] tolis626:
Consumerism my friend,consumerism... :p

Well,I just find it a useful bonus that we all have and no one has paid for it!Bet some girls will love it...To me it's no use anyway...when I'm alone! ;)
[Desire General] antu_pogroms:
great.. nice trick.. my girl friend will like it.. hahaha...
[Desire General] tolis626:
That's the point my friend!You got it!Mine loved it by the way... ;)
[Desire General] :
why don't you just use the dildroid app?
[Desire General] rogershroed1991:
It's always opening it at random times and doing weird stuff, that's why I uninstalled it.
[Desire General] jenom:
Well just be warned. This can burn out the vibrator thingy in your phone if overdone. They are not meant to be used for longer. Moreover your desire is not water proof.
[Desire General] twe69:
hehehe

:D:D:D
[Desire General] Kermode:
And if you don't have a sim card in the phone you will be frozen at that point ;)
[Desire General] Kermode:
I close things because they are supposed to close, and not talk with other stuff in the background.

Funny though, that my desire starts to slowdown unless i stop some of the apps - wonder if someone has an explanation for that.
[Desire General] Pikkierello:
answer.....but...why if android doesn't need task killers...in the market we got LOT'S of task killers???i use one....because some1 who knows much than me told me to use it...i'm 1 of those who thinks that if don't need a task i have to kill it instead of lack of memory and better battery....

i'm wrong???????^^:confused:
[Desire General] Miisca:
you should study the OS. You really think you know better than the people that work for google?

Let me explain something

- the active processes that actually consume processor time are the ones seen in the notification bar (where you get the messages)

- the other processes that you see in a task killer do not actually run, they're configuration is saved, it works like a cache so that when you return or reopen an app it's much faster and the resources are better managed and used.

- the OS algorithms where tested for a very long time and in many ways to give the best performances (like which process should be removed from memory when the memory is full and others that you can't imagine)

- to sum up : killing a process every time is just OVERHEAD :)

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-I pay attention to the services that are running on your phone settings -> applications -> running services and to the synchronization interval of different accounts settings -> accounts and sync.
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
I agree that killing application is not good idea but I released that Desire loads some application in memory which I never used! Also, sometimes after long uptime, Desire starts to slowing down. Lag is noticed until restart or free some memory with killing applications.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I just stumbled upon this accidentally and was pleasantly surprised:

When composing an email using the Mail application and you have multiple email accounts configured, you can select which account to send from. This applies even if you are replying to an email.

For example, if someone sends an email to your Gmail account, you can reply to it with your Hotmail account.

In the email composing screen, scroll all the way to the top. Above the "To" field, there's a button that indicates which account the email will be sent from. Tap that button to pop-up a menu that lets you select an alternate account.
[Desire General] :
this works for defrost :)

when you are on a home screen you can hide the top bar by sweeping your finger up towards the top of the screen :) same move to get it back :p
[Desire General] llopmesquer:
And is not possible to change it? I have a widget to on/off Bt, but is useless if my Phone are not discoverable to the other people. Then I have to go to menu, settings, etc... The widget don not sert for nothing, isn't? Is not possible to do this with a widget?
[Desire General] rogershroed1991:
My Desire seems to be fast enough to not need a task killer anyway, I haven't had to use one. However, with my Hero I used one because if I didn't, the phone slows down considerably, and after killing them it speeds back up.
[Desire General] scorror:
pls could someone explain how to disable javascripts to make my browser faster, i'm a noob to android. Secondly, how to get a data connection on the present gsm network i'm using because the htc desire i have is a branded O2 type as itconnects to the internet only on wifi at the moment. Thanks in advance.
[Desire General] ap27:
Someone may have mentioned this before, but while you are typing and if it brings up the prediction/suggestion box with words in it, if you long press any of the suggested words you can shift the position of the box up or down.

Not really useful unless you want the predictions to appear somewhere else, but interesting nonetheless :)

Tried this while typing up an SMS msg.
[Desire General] PowerPee:
I'm a newbie here, recently got my Desire (about a week) and would just like to say thanks to the contributors here ... =D

I am currently using the Desire with ATK installed. After reading the posts here I will probably test it out without using the the said application and see what happens.

The only thing I noticed was the significant increase of battery life after I installed ATK. I do not know if this is due to some other factors but so far the battery life outweighs that of my previous iphone.
[Desire General] prodygee:
HTC android phones have a ringtone trimmer installed. You just select 'set as ringtone' and you will get the option to trim your mp3.
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Is there any way to delete sms messages outside of the sms apps?

I have conversation that has grown to over 1700 messages. When i try to delete it, handcent and the htc app take forever and stop responding, then im eventually asked if i want to force close... which i do.

So, is there a way to delete them? Are they stored in a file somewhere that i can easily access?

Thanks
[Desire General] wulls:
Delete One Calendar Event

Has anyone found a way to delete just one calendar event in a series (Like a birthday) it only allows you to delete every occurrance which defeats the purpose of having a series
[Desire General] STANNY08:
Am i being thick? I really dont understand this. The volume buttons on the desire are just a rocker on the side. What do you mean "press the outside" or the "inside"?
[Desire General] djston:
The volume rocker will control the volume for the current application settings. i.e. if your at the home screen it will be the Ringer volume, if you're watching a video etc, it will adjust the Media volume...thats what I've gathered anyway :) HTH
[Desire General] griefman:
I want to ask you guys a couple of things and i am not very sure if this is the best place to ask, but... i hope you will help me

1. How could I convert my sd partition from ext2 to ext3, and save the data? Is it worth trying? (for ex. : back it up with nandroid, then repartition; or if using tune2fs, will the data remain?)

2. What can i wipe without loosing data or applications?

3. In case of using Titanium backup, does it really backup all apps and their data? What if i do a complete wipe of everything and install a different ROM distro? Will Titanium backup restore the apps?

4. I noticed that there are really lots of mounts on the system. As i look at them i am guessing there is a mount for every app that is installed on the ext2. Is this normal? I think that because of this, the system acts a little slower when mounting all of them and it takes more time to recognize all those apps installed on the ext2.

I would really appreciate your answers, or at least guidance to help me ask in the correct place

I have an OpenDesire 3.0.4 ROM and 5.*.20 Radio

Cheers

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[Desire General] STANNY08:
Yeah thats what i thought also but his post doesnt seem to be explaining that!
[Desire General] :
yup, everything :)
[Desire General] omerta1988:
How can I automaticaly remove e-mail adresess from gmail, twitter contacts... from the "People" or "Search people" app?
[Desire General] griefman:
thanks for the tip ;)
[Desire General] mi3x:
Hi guys, just want to let you know that I am glad I found your forum, today I received my desire, and I've leant aloooot of good stuff here. Many many thanks!
[Desire General] DRMON:
I would also like to know this.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I would suggest searching the Market for "delete sms". Lots of choices to choose from.
[Desire General] olaxe:
Be carefull with this.

of course Titanium backup is creating a backup of everthing and writing it on the FAT32 partition of your SD but to restore everything on another Distro is not always good.

If you talk only about the Apps you are probably fine but if you restore also the System settings you may have problems if the 2 Distros are based on different Kernels or Sense/NonSense

bye
[Desire General] shani248:
Was trying it out just yesterday, this would be an awesome feature
[Desire General] Ik Desire:
On my pinky desire official froyo it works (dragging home screens in overview)

Edit: But not on a friends unrooted official froyo.

Sent from my Evil Lair using Doomsday Device
[Desire General] solox:
Save your buttons

If you'r afraid your devices button's will stop working because of dust. Here is some prevention. Find a good transparent tape and simply put a strip of tape over the 3 buttons and the optical trackball. They all still work.
[Desire General] shoemeistah:
Handcent has a decent sms popup built in which works just fine.
[Desire General] Game-R:
I'm surprised no one in here mentioned this very unique and useful tip:

Or maybe I'm just a n00b and didn't realize this is standard for all Android phones :P

When you're going through your (possibly very long) list of contacts, HTC doesn't give you something like iPhone's tiny alphabet bar on the right.

Instead, they did one better.

Instead of scrolling with one finger, use two fingers to scroll, this will scroll through groups of your contacts categorized by the first letter in their name.

You only need to start the scrolling function with two fingers, then after that you can use one finger to continue scrolling through the categorized contacts (as long as that first finger is still on the screen)
[Desire General] wibbletron:
That is really handy. Thanks!

It isn't standard for Android phones. My LeeDroid rom has the Google Contacts app as well as the HTC People one, and Google's doesn't have the two finger superscrolling feature. Shame, as I prefer the way Google handles phone number entries (one line per number, with options to call or text depending on where you tap - HTC lists each number twice, once as a phone number and once as a message number).
[Desire General] mayurh:
THERE an app in the market now that puts the phone in silent before it switchs off then there is no sound

when it boots up it returns the sound to the normal volume?

its called silent boot
[Desire General] snupKD:
Thank You all

Thanks to all who've contributed to this thread. I just got my Desire and this thread sure helps Android and HTC noobs like me.

Cheers

:)
[Desire General] Procyon_82:
Not sure if already mentioned, but if you press and hold the home button it shows you the last 6 apps (or less if you haven't opened 6 since the last reboot).

If you press and hold the search button it starts a google voice search.
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
that is a very well known android feature.
[Desire General] code72:
Browser Trick

This is a very useful (at least for me) trick to change user agent (android, desktop, iphone... etc.) and change many other options in browser:

Type in browser URL bar "about:debug" (without quotes) then press enter; it seems nothing happens but if you go into settings you'll see many new options including UAString
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
I'll be surprised if it hasn't been mentioned before, but a quick way to reboot:

Power button, vol down and press the track pad at the same time.

Helps if your phone ever freezes :)
[Desire General] Game-R:
Made another discovery with my sweeet new Desire:

This is not so much a trick, but smoking gun evidence as to the sheer attention to detail HTC gives to their phone UI.

Everyone knows the pinch to zoom out and see the overview of all your home screens, yes?

If you're used to the cheap half-arsed way Microsoft does its Windows Mobile software, one expects to just be able to do that gesture to zoom out and tap on the screen to zoom into. Nothing else.

With your HTC Sense, pinch slowly! and watch the animation happen before your eyes.

Then while zoomed out, reverse-pinch a specific screen slowly and watch it again.

Pause half way (before its completely zoomed in) and pinch back the screen and then reverse-pinch another screen.

This is HTC!! Quietly

BRILLIANT!!!!!
[Desire General] trunks986:
Hi guys, is it possible to increase the max volume of our desire???
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] angusmcb:
Trawling around last night, I found some API docs and code here on the S1D13774 display controller.

These are directed at the Epson USB evaluation board and windows, but they might have some valuable info in the init/deinit sequences for the panel and the MDDI implementation.

What I can't find is a definitive answer that it actually is the S1D13774 that is in the X1 :)

How certain are we that this is the case?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] _Sensible:
interesting doc! thanks man. I guess we can only go on the technical doc and references allready made on this forum.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] scholbert:
~~~~\__U_/~~~~

Where have you been trawling....;)

Here's the big fish:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5588369&postcount=27

Once started a thread to collect all datasheet from the internal components of X1 device.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=569111

Best regards,

scholbert
[General Questions and Answers] EuMestre:
I know there is a way to put this doodle animator in htc touhc pro HD, with the WVGA plugin, but dispite of that, it doesn't work at all, some programs like morphgear or picodrive works the same, the screen appears, and nothing more can't be be done:(. I lock at the compability list and I see that works, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong :(. This is my first post, I hope i didn't breack any rules :S.
[Desire General] firedup:
Hi

Just got mine delivered this morning (well was meant to have 2 but they sent me a Desire and an HD2 by mistake).

Anyway, I'm going to have a play and then will post up a review later.

Please post your reviews / first impressions here!:D
[Desire General] firedup:
First impressions - FAST! Probably faster than my N1!