yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] n-j-f:
Lock screen wallpaper

Am I right that it is not possible to have a different lockscreen picture from the homepage wallpaper? I liked having that option on my HD2 as on the lockscreen you see nearly all the picture while on the homepage it is usually obscured by all the widgets etc. I had a picture of my wife on the lockscreen (no comments, please!) but if I put it on the homepage you could only see bits between the icons.

Is there an app for that?
[Desire General] babyshaq:
I was trying to find this topic, its a shame it hasn't been stickied like the hd2 version,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=583638

Things I've found:

holding the Home button shows you the last 6 apps you've used.

holding the menu button brings up the keyboard (not sure what use this is especially on the home screen)

holding the search button brings up voice search (as long as you've enabled it i think)
[Desire General] Guitarfreak26:
I didnt know about sms popup! thanks for the headsup..

But i keep getting a 1 on my message icon, is it best to disable notifications in the messaging app and put them on in sms popup or? I actually like the htc messaging app just missed the popups.. reply from pop up is especially handy
[Desire General] cez10:
i used to get that and it used to annoy me quite a lot, so i disabled sms popup :rolleyes:
[Desire General] vilbs:
Nice one! The home button trick is nice and genuinely useful :)
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Handy link: http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/59664-htc-desire-tips-tricks.html
[Desire General] micks_address:
i cant access links from work.. could you summarise the main reason for not using a task killer? i downloaded one yesterday as it was highlighted as one of the Top 10 android apps on reghardware... will take it off if doing damage..
[Desire General] FloatingFatMan:
Basically, Android handles memory management differently to Windows Mobile. When you "close" a program in Android, it will stay in memory for a while in case other things are using its services, and will either close automatically once it's been dormant for a while, or will be closed by Android if anything else needs the resources. If you close it manually, then anything that might have been using its services will have to start it up again in the background, and that hits both performance and battery.

Best to let Android handle memory as it's meant to, and not go around killing tasks. Especially as odds are you don't know what you're killing anyway.
[Desire General] nprussell:
I found a good one...

On the HTC Hero, when in a game/video etc, the hard volume buttons on the side of the phone only allow you to alter the volume of EITHER the Ringer or Media. It was almost random...

On the Desire, if you press the outside of the volume buttons, it alters the media volume. The inside alters the Ringer.

Really nice hidden feature :)
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
To quickly move widgets across screens.

1. Tap and hold a widget.

2. With another finger, swipe across the optical pad to the screen you want to land on.

3. Release the widget.

The Home button also functions when you're holding a widget. So if you want to move a widget from the far left to the center screen, you just have to tap and hold, press Home, and then release the widget.

Speed up your browser!

I've been doing this since Opera Mobile on my Touch Diamond and I'm pleasantly surprised I can still do this on Android's browser. The browser on the Desire is actually already quite fast. But

try disabling Javascript

. Many sites work just fine with this disabled and you'll definitely feel the difference in loading speeds.

Select and delete multiple messages at once in Mail application

This may already be well-known but it took me a while to figure it out so I'll include it here.

1. Press the Menu button.

2. Tap Delete.

3. Select the messages by tapping on the "X" on the right of each message.

4. Tap Delete.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Care to explain a bit more please? I've pressed almost every part of the volume rocker on my Desire and it has the same effect.

The volume that it alters seems to depend on what's active. If you're listening to music, it'll change the media volume. If not, then it'll change the ring volume.
[Desire General] crazyman6:
you can unlock and navigate through your phone using a blacklight.
[Desire General] kry-23:
thanks for tips :)
[Desire General] davidross:
ICS sandvold

I would flash the BCM 0.3.7 without hwa. its isn't so buggy and in my everyday use I haven't got anyproblems with random reboots and so on
[Desire General] Sklblue:
I've been trying the ICS 0.4.0RC5 and got multiple reboots which were seemingly random. I've also tried flashing the latest (0.4.1.5) but it's lost the google credentials - I didn't do a full reset just cache and dalvik because I couldn't face setting up my apps again!

May take your advice and use one of the 0.3.x ones without HWA because they appear more stable or go back to 2.3.7 and wait until a really stable one appears.
[Desire General] Andreyq123:
Thank you for the tips!
[Desire General] monsm:
I have just installed pics 0.4.1.5 (the sandvold rom). Using titanium backup. It reasonably stable on my phone. Remember to wipe beforehand.

Mons
[Desire General] CCC92:
Haha, so this is the topic where you can get one of your 10 first posts!

Thanks for the tips guys!! ;)
[Desire General] Maddin2905:
Thx a lot for hints =)
[Desire General] Xani.e:
Its atm the most stable ICS ROM. Even better than the actual RC2U1 update.
[Desire General] logox01:
I'm using Sandvold's ICS 0.3.9 as my daily rom atm and it is really stable for me. Everything works just fine and i haven't had any problems yet ;)
[Desire General] abraxas69:
Thanks for all tips.

Small one from me: if you're often short on internal memory and want to quickly access apps list in settings menu, make direct shortcut to it with xShortcut app
[Desire General] hfinlay10:
Good tips here thx :)
[Desire General] Einander:
Thanks guys, very helpful thread
[Desire General] JasDA:
Never thought that my old Desire is still that powerful. Thanks
[Desire General] nikhilm:
Awesome help bro...thanks a lot :)

\m/ :)
[Desire General] benjarmin:
Thanks for the tips guys! As someone already said, if your feeling bored and wanting something to do, root your desire and try some different ROMs! It's good to know our plucky desire can still run the latest stuff (sort of)..
[Desire General] stormleader:
I moved Dalvik cache to SD, it saved me good 50MB :)
[Desire General] jazznaura:
Root, s-off, partition table & love ur desire ;-)
[Desire General] Omcho:
+1 sandvold's ics rom is really stable for me as well.
[Desire General] andy.smith:
and how's the performance so far? i'm quite curious about it.
[Desire General] denko555:
Yeah! Yeah!
[Desire General] hashgb:
that's great
[Desire General] mld0491:
some good tips, thanks
[Desire General] orthello:
It looks like it. :)

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Looks like it
[Desire General] andysor:
A2SD

Can anyone explain what the benefits of the different A2SD scripts are? I've read up on them, and currently using Amarullz on Sandvold ICS 0.4.4.

Previously I was using A2SD+ on InsertCoin 2.3.3 and it was stable, but I started getting low space notifications after a while. I don't have that problem now, but opening apps seems slower. I only have around 500MB of apps on my phone.
[Desire General] katestar:
Thank you so much for the tips :)
[Desire General] borsa1994:
the reboot tip is awesome! :D

i didn't know it!

thank you boys:)
[Desire General] andy.smith:
this is an ICS feature, not one of the desire, but anyway, here it is:

menu -> settings -> about phone -> and tap quickly on "android version" tab :D
[Desire General] tehcyx:
Hey guys, is there any way i can check my HBOOT version? Running Sandvolds ICS 0.4.4.3

Thanks guys.
[Desire General] borsa1994:
You can turn off your device and go into the bootloader!;)
[Desire General] tehcyx:
that helped indeed, thanks :-)

could have thought of that on my own
[Desire General] highdro:
haha I never knew that. Thanks
[Desire General] roomate:
not sure why this happen, but i face the exact same problem.

my solution was to reflash the ROM once the low space notification came up, which is quite annoying.

now i use Alex-V 1.8 with INT2SD, seems like a superior version of A2SD
[Desire General] draculyan:
Good to know. Thanx!!:)
[Desire General] hachel:
thats awesome!

Felt stupid in the beginng, tapping my phone like a madman.

Makes you wonder though how people find out about these things
[Desire General] pewbeef:
haha, thats nice :) does it have any function at all?
[Desire General] mdwbeex:
Good question - what does that do? Only running CM7 so won't be able to do anything with that until CM9 comes out for the desire/inspire... speaking of - haven't even seen any nightlies or anything else on the CyanogenMod downloads area for CM9 for this device. Has anyone heard whether it will available, or should I suck it up and just get something newer and use the inspire for a vehicular MP3 player and GPS?
[Desire General] katestar:
Thank you for the tips :-)
[Desire General] naetarf:
Sound is very low with internet phone

With Sandvold beta 0.6 is the sound of all internet phone application very low (e.g. in Mobile Voip and Viber) With earlier betas was it the same. Has anyone experienced the same problem?
[Desire General] igzorn:
Thank you for the tips. Those easter eggs are really funny.
[Desire General] niktey:
Thanks
[Desire General] marange:
Thanks for the tip.
[Desire General] andy.smith:
:)) no function at all, as far as i can tell. maybe one of those funny things by google. :D
[Desire General] Skrilow:
Thanks for all your tips :D
[Desire General] kameleon20:
ICS Users Move All Apps To SD

When u are using ICS on your Desire you'll notice some apps can't be moved to your SD card anymore.

Download DroidSail Super App2SD (Root) and you'll be able to even move the apps to SD wich are greyed out in the system apps menu.
[Desire General] andy.smith:
nice tip. i, 4 one, use titanium backup.
[Desire General] sypack:
thanx for the tips !
[Desire General] cdeaton:
Thanks to all of you for your helpful advice
[Desire General] zisoft:
Using my good old Desire since 2010 and found some useful tipps here. Thank you

Just flashed Sandvolds ICS Beta 0.9 which runs very smooth and stable.
[Desire General] illuminatus52:
thanks, some very good stuff in here...
[Desire General] alucarpd86:
nice topik guys :D

lots of usefull tips
[Desire General] kmetek:
how do you that?
[Desire General] DZYR:
You need to flash a ROM which has an A2SD/A2SDEXT script.

Ofcourse, you also need to have a SD Card with an EXT partition.

You can take a look in the development forums.
[Desire General] eleon216:
almost every ICS rom has some sort of app2sd or mount2sd because it's not really possible to run ICS on the devices otherwise. Ok ICS will run, but I guess you want to install apps, too.
[Desire General] McDope:
Thanks for those tips! Really helped me...
[Desire General] Oossaa:
thanks, good tips found here :)
[Desire General] zotyo85:
i have installed marenge rom but i cant install igo plz help
[Desire General] nLeXeR:
thx for share
[Desire General] Bingley:
Simple, free sms backup to pc

Seems there's always a good reason to backup your txts/smses to your pc.

I created a simple, two-line backup .bat file you can run and it will pull/copy your phone's smsmms.db file to your pc. Also included is a restore one - to push the smsmms.db file from pc to phone :)

It simply runs these two commands:

adb remount

adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

Many have perhaps posted this before but it's easier in a .bat file :)
[Desire General] stefantomic:
Thanx for tips!
[Desire General] KhI:
lol

Took me a while and finally .... . Tapping is the most fun part
[Desire General] panpjp:
OK, repeating.....

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

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

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

Doesn't work. Stock/custom ROMS?
[Desire General] M-A-X:
Most likely a Custom ROm.. Cant do it with my Desire either :)
[Desire General] ImBarryScott:
There is a parallel feature in CM if you tap the mod version, which I discovered BY ACCIDENT. Serious o.O moment.
[Desire General] l_uk_e:
Hi there!

i need a tip with backups...

I installed Mybackup root to backup my apps and data before installing a new Rom.

Well, i have done a backup on my SD-Card and wiped my phone...NOT the SD-Card.

After installing my new Rom, all apps are deleted, that's normal.

I installed Mybackup root again to restore all my apps. But it sais, there is no Backup found on the Phone/SD-Card and I had to install all my apps again.

Anyone knows a good method to make a backup and restore it after installing a new Rom?

Sorry for my bad english. I didn't need it since a few years...
[Desire General] devicer:
it works
[Desire General] bjarkimg:
Grate thread

Grate thread!

p.s. im not using this thread to boost up my post count to be able to comment on development threads.
[Desire General] Borat38:
Use Titanium Pro, available at the Google PLay Store. I recommend you purchase the paid version, it's VERY useful. Thank me later ☺
[Desire General] dvsk69:
Turning off dialer vibration and sound

Currently running Runnymede GB ROM with sense3.5. ROM is very good.

Only nagging thing is that I cant turn off dialer vibration and sound (though I unchecked vibration and sound from settings-language & input-touch input-text input-sound feedback/vibrate when typing)

Unchecking them turns off sound & vibration while typing messages but not on the dialer. please help
[Desire General] jmcclue:
Settings/ sound/ uncheck audible touch tones and vibrate feedback

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] NorteX:
Hi,

Have you tried download a different dialer app from the market?
[Desire General] dvsk69:
Thanks mate. It worked! :good:

I tried a different dialer and also the Sense 4 dialer. Didnt fix the problem. It did by following the above tip.
[Desire General] vyrizuje.struncova:
What's the best setup with ext partition speed wise?

I have 1 GB ext4 partition on class 10 microSD, and this ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1813745 with DiskManager.

What can I move to ext?
[Desire General] Salty Wagyu:
Wiping Dalvik Cache

I've had Oxygen ROM on my phone for well over a year now and found it to be slowing down in the past few weeks. I wiped the Dalvik cache out of curiosity, and this surprisingly put a new lease of life in my Desire. For example, going into Applications from Settings loads the app list almost instantly, whereas before it would take roughly 10 seconds. :good:

Good thing I tried that before doing a wipe and reinstall!
[Desire General] vyrizuje.struncova:
what readahead value are you using?
[Desire General] jimmkind:
cwm recovery 6

Available for our device!:)
[Desire General] subtel:
thank and godluck
[Desire General] wadken1:
I'm using the same ROM and card but with 1.5GB ext 4 partition (makes no difference except having more space of course). My preferred configuration is to use "rmount" (tells the OS to swap the NAND Data partition with the SD Ext partition) then select System Applications, Dalvik and System Dalvik to be placed on internal memory - that way they run at full speed and because this is where most read/writes are done you avoid lagging. Any apps you install, along with their data will go to SD Ext automatically. Runs pretty well for me although inevitably with any use of the SD card it will be a bit slower than normal so in this case the initial app load can take a couple of seconds - after than it'll be perfect.

BTW set your SD read ahead to 2048 minimum and ramp your max processor speed to 1113 (cost nothing in terms of battery but but gives a nice performance boost when you need it)

Cheers

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[Desire General] Badger48:
another recovery

Thanks for sharing jimmkind! :highfive:

Have you checked out 4ext?

It's touch screen and pretty cool.
[Desire General] droritos:
4EXT touch recovery

I have installed it recently, since RSK rom required it, It is very smooth and works great.

It has many cool features like SD card partitioning, which makes life so easy!
[Desire General] abder wax:
thank you is very helpful
[Desire General] wild_oscar:
Some interesting tips here. My desire is 2.5 years old and it's on it's last legs: battery dies at 15% (haven't been able to calibrate it successfully) and even when using links2sd the free space is usually under 30 mb...
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Why not use mounts2sd?
[Desire General] Br0mZ:
thx for the tips
[Desire General] sverfaillie:
the CTRL-ALT-DEL

when phone is locked and not reacting anymore

press power + vol-down + trackball

better than opening the case each and every time to take out battery
[Desire General] Holland1994D:
Thanks for the tips guys, though I'm having troubles with my volume buttons, they are losing their responsiveness.
[Desire General] kuntz_1985:
Root htc desire

Hy I'm a new user of this forum,

please is there anywore who can help me for ROOT my htc Desire?

I've got an htc desire whit Android 2.3.3

I found this tutorial for root my htc ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1016084 ), but I've this problem:

when I run the 3 step and then I use unrevoked, one message of error compare and says that : " Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new? "

How can I do to solve this problem??

Thank you
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Use revolutionary.
[Desire General] efs12:
Why revolutionary, when u can unlock the phone with original htc-dev possibilities?

I unlocked a HTC Legend bout 4 month ago and it was much more comfortable with htc-dev, than unlocking my Desire with alpharev bout 2 years ago.
[Desire General] killphillxr:
thx for tips
[Desire General] ady78692:
Thanks for this :laugh:
[Desire General] becreative:
Thanks Mate !
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Because , with htc dev unlock, you don't gain s-off.
[Desire General] VVAREZ:
And Revo is so fast you just have to click a its finish.
[Desire General] Anishmonteiro:
ROM

Which is the best custom rom for the drsire?
[Desire General] HrL:
For me:

[ROM/4.1.2] [Dec 03 2012] MIUI 2.11.30 Jelly Bean v4.1 | Multi-Lang Pack | Soft-Nav
[Desire General] lc0ne:
If you want stable Rom with SENSE use InserCoin - fastest and stable with Sense. 1.3 + 1.4 + kernel update.

If you want AOSP I recomended Redux ZM and 2.6.35.14-mod8 kernel - fast and stable, comfortable statusbar and best AOSP ICS theme... much more compact, IMO better than MildWild :)
[Desire General] xsreality:
Amongst Jelly Bean ROMs, Vijendra's v2.9.1 is the fastest and by far the stablest ROM for now. Although it does have a data connection issue.
[Desire General] HrL:
It's just plain cool to run JB on the old desire ;)
[Desire General] modigangster:
very true it is...
[Desire General] aaaaaaahhhhhhhh:
How do I get it?
[Desire General] modigangster:
you can find these ROMs and a lot of informations about flashing a Rom, how-to-root, s-off etc in the developer section of this forum.

read the stickies =)

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=628
[Desire General] HrL:
from the dev forum.
[Desire General] heraSK:
if you're running custom rom and feel like you're running out of space although you haven't installed anything, it's most probably your cache and data filling up.

of course, you don't wanna clear app data, but you can clear cache. you can use titanium backup for that. under batch options there's "clear app cache", which should make some space for you. yesterday I had 38mb free space, after I cleared cache now I have 59mb free. of course, this size might vary for you, but there you go.

hope this helps someone.
[Desire General] tefaa89:
The most stable ROM for me is MildWild CM-7.0 JG Stable :)
[Desire General] tracyn:
I wholeheartedly agree! Is very smooth so far, way better than 5.0. I might try VJ sometime, just for the fun of it, though. What I dislike about JB in general is the new power control, I like it more when it's in the status bar, not in an extra drop-down menu.
[Desire General] Tony Clifton:
True say

Confirmed.
[Desire General] jpde:
I've actually had it crash once but it has been stable since and it's working really well so far :)
[Desire General] Ard-Jan:
I'm using Vijendra's v3.0 i like it verry much! The only problem is that its sometimes stuck after hanging up a call. Then i have to restart it by getting the battery out of it. After restarting its re-installs(it says optimization apps) my rom and all my apps are gone. Sometimes it does just boot normally without the re install. Does somebody recognizes this?
[Desire General] BorisNik:
For me too. This ROM made my old Desire like new!:good:
[Desire General] jbi1031:
thanks

Thanks for the tips. Really helpful guys.
[Desire General] sagebrush:
thanks

thanks, cool and fun tricks:cyclops:
[Desire General] marcinx89:
Fastest ROM

I've had MIUI ROM 2.4.13 X-part (Android 2.3.7) at the beggining. It was pretty but not stable so changed to Runnymede AIO 6.1.1 . I've been using The RunnyMede for over half a year it was stable but too slow after installing more applications.

Then I've found MildWild 9-Redux . It's the fastest ROM and stable ROM I've ever used so far !!

Sorry for my English but I still learning it ;)
[Desire General] Ape_D:
My Tips

I´m using VJ´s Roms for a while now (before it was Elk)

have been on VJ CM10 for a while (V3.1 lastly) and now changed to VJCM10.1 V5.3 even when its pre-alpha, it runs smooth.

my tips in General:

- use Juice Defender (Ultimate) so safe battery, tweak your phone and stuff. (Some features require root). Really worth it!

- use Android Assistent to take care of background apps, ram usage and apps in system start

- if you use a2sd (or similar) get yourself a Class10 SD. For me this runs smoothest even with Y-Y-Y Script (if Rom supports)

- Use max. 1,5GB Ext3 or Ext4 for your SD

- you can play with Kernels to tweak CPU and storage performance (backup before, can cause crashes/Reboots)
[Desire General] ffusion:
I've installed VJCM10.1 V5.3 too after one year still using 2.3 and it's amazing. Two days after I think I've bricked it :(
[Desire General] M@c|-|oR:
Are you kidding me? :confused::silly:

Does it work on any ROM, or on stock only, because I can't get anything out of it. :( Does it work on other phones, too, because I've tried it on One X, too - without any success.

How quickly it should be tapped? Immediately after "about phone", or once the new screen is on? How many taps?

What is the result of tapping?

Damn it!
[Desire General] irbis_triffle:
Great topic) much thx!!

PS very glad that Desire is very alive)))
[Desire General] harakiri576:
Another issue I've solved over the years: dirt.

If you have dropped your phone a few times and there are little gaps on the side of the phone through which dirt can get in. These connectors are also quite unreliable, just the fact of lugging your phone with you all the time can make the cards (SD and SIM) move around enough to get an unreliable connection (e.g. when you go running with a gps tracking app). This coupled with the dirt from the gaps, and you might get really weird errors.

Solution:

- for SD card: very hard. cleaning is close to impossible because the connectors are really tiny. Generally removing, blowing some air on it and reinserting helps (for a while).

Symptoms: random hangs, most likely when waking the device, you only get a black screen, and only battery removal helps.

- for SIM card: just take some washing benzine or alcohol and a clean cloth, and rub it throughly, then reinsert.

Symptoms: 'new sim card inserted, reboot now' messages, generic GSM failures.

When you decide to clean, it's worthwhile to throughly clean the whole interior, and also check the battery connections.