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[Desire General] Rowanbeach:
solvent free cleaning of SIM

Good advices. I found a webpage giving the advice to use a pencil eraser instead of solvents to clean the SIM card. Regarding cleaning the interior, I would be careful with the benzine, so that the plastic of the phone doesn't dissolve.
[Desire General] darkmall:
Good phone

I've had my Desire for well over a year now and I have to say it's still absolutely OK from all the possible aspects. I've been taking good care of it and though it has seen some falls, the screen is still without a scratch. I have rooted it, done the S-OFF and installed a couple of custom Roms on it. Up to this day the best Rom for me is MildWild Redux2 - MW9.5. Some comments keep saying it is an old device, but I tend to disagree. The design is 2 years old I think, but it is still offering better quality than many other phones that are newly available at the providers these days. I still have the premium kind of feeling when I use my phone and I haven't got bored of it by far. It is a stable set for everyday use and the battery is still doing well, too.
[Desire General] vasanthrg:
Desire on Jelly Bean 4.2.2

I have been using HTC's Desire for the past 2 years, this is quite a brilliant phone. Once rooted there is quite a lot of options to upgrade to Jelly Bean 4.2.2 with a lot of custom ROMs available right now, the longevity of desire has increased, I don't have to buy a new phone now.

Many thanks to all the developers for their brilliant work, really appreciate it.... especially Nikez Lente and his Evervolv team
[Desire General] orangekid:
Please do NOT post "thanks" as there is a button for that. Let's go for helpful posts that have some social redeeming value.

Thanks :)
[Desire General] capitano666:
I've been using Oxygen but it sometimes went into boot loop, recently switched to AOKP VJ 2.2 but I'm having problems with the sounds becoming lower after some time the device is on (even though the volume level stays at max), does anyone knows any fix for that?

(also, the "disable shutter sound" option doesn't seem to work for me)
[Desire General] dvsk69:
Low sound issue has been existing on all JB ROMs for sometime now.

Install low sound notification apk by Tytung. It resets volumes to max after every call. Thats the only fix for now.
[Desire General] capitano666:
Oh, so the low sound issue is happening after calls?
[Desire General] tobytones:
Install a proper launcher like Apex or Nova, or maybe try the new Buzz Launcher Beta. They all are easy to understand and customize. Well the latter is different, but try Nova Launcher :)
[Desire General] lamdaxi007:
Guys need help...i was using jb 4.1.2 oriola sony xperia z rom....decided to revert back to sense rom...installed cool droid v3 but my home wifi network is not displayed but far of neighbouring wifi are being displayed and am able to coonect to it...i checked with my dad s samsung phone..it displays home network and gets conncted to wifi...i had nandroid of oriola and did a restore and wifi is WORKING....and again flashed coll droid v3 with exact instructions again no home wifi display...i tried another sense rom by neophyte 360,again same problem....something is going wrong with sense roms...plz guys...help me out....
[Desire General] Chromium:
Stop posting your question in multiple threads.
[Desire General] CJ0206:
These are not really desire but general tips, I'm running CM10 VJ Jelly Bean 4.1.2 v3.1 so assuming you are already rooted with s-off...

Rooting Tips:

Before loading a ROM make sure you have a back up of your stock (just in case) and create an SD partition.

If your ROM has A2SD you will need to activate it otherwise install a third party version.

Jelly Bean Tips:

First of all you probably found the easter egg:

Menu > System settings > About Phone > Android version (tap three times quickly)

If you hold the image a lot of small ones come up which you can move by swiping them.

If you think your apps are slowing you down or you've installed a dodgy one you can now reboot into safe mode which will only load system apps:

Hold the power button > Hold Reboot > Click OK

General Tip:

Get an app like Prey just in case you lose your phone so you can track it.

Use Titanium Backup (preferably pro, there is also a FREE version) to back up apps and data as well as delete files from uninstalled apps.
[Desire General] Parte:
I´m using the "Runnymede AIO V6.0.4.3 Special Edition [Stable]".

Its very stable, fast an smooth.

I installed this rom a few months ago and it still runs good ;) (Daily use, camera, whatsapp, facebook, twitter, etc.).

And thanks for the lot of tips ^^
[Desire General] humanshadow:
USB Brick

Hello,

i didn't know, where to post this realy, i try it here.

Since 2011 i rooted my Desire and used different Roms.

Last week, while i flashd the new CyanoMod007 (v31) rom, my beauty got ah curios USB Brick. The rom didnt work, no other Rom from the Developer Section worked. Until the ~15 trys (=roms now on sdcard), the mildwild rom bootet *woohoo party* but usb didnt work :/ The Fastboot Solution (fastboot oem enableqxdm 0) repaird it ah little bit. Now USB worked sometimes ramdomly, but not when i need it...

After many trys, crys and setbacks, i tried to flash ah new recovery. Didnt work, because all solutions i know, need adb/running usb debug mode connection. Then i find 4Ext, which alows to flash ah new recovery from the App. Also didnt work, because S was on (S-on). So i tried to make my lovely Baby S-Off with the alpharev18 boot CD. It needed many many many tries, to run the process complete over it, because the usb connection (yes it works with the cd! *woho*) always interrupts the connection random different. After hours of that, i could flash a new recovery (4ext replaced clockworkmod, fastboot, and the bios thing which name i cannot remember ("includes the USB Firmware thing"). Now its going up.

Tried all Roms on my SdCard, and use now the Pixeldroid V3, Android 4.2.2, wich i think is the fastest, smoothesd and most extensivesd. My personal reccomendation and currently favourit :) As you can read in the Rom-Thread, i also have the Youtube and USB Bug on V3, like others already discribed (I dont have permissions to post in the Thread to inform about it).

I hope it helps maybe someone sometimes.

regards
[Desire General] Chromium:
Long story short...s-off your phone before you start flashing. Anyways, glad you were finally able to revive it :)

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[Desire General] Dr_Livesey:
Hi all!

I have some trouble with my Desire.

When it charging bottom part of the phone is very hot. When I start browsing due charging phone going to reboot.

The same when I use phone on a summer day, bottom stay hot and phone gone to reboot due I try to upload some photos. Sometime

phone reboot due call.

I contact with local service of HTC, they just clear my phone inside from oxides. And recommend roll back to official ROM.

But phone still reboot with the same reasons.
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Could be a motherboard issue that makes your phone overheat, in which case it needs changing.
[Desire General] lejnfns:
Do you use a task killer?
[Desire General] Dr_Livesey:
that's sad :(

No. Widges with weather, 2do planning and alarms.
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Well, I don't mean the whole phone. Just the motherboard.
[Desire General] Dr_Livesey:
In my country change motherboard it's the same cost as you by the new phone :D
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Same in mine. I didn't want to disappoint you completely.
[Desire General] hakydakillah:
Thank you for those great tipps. I made everything from this list, now I have to choose a good rom, and will install it today. I think it will be the MIUI one :D
[Desire General] iik-71:
I had the same problem with my tablet. Try to change the type of the WiFi into the router. For example from WEP to WPA, etc.

---------- Post added at 11:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 AM ----------

If you have overclocked it, why not trying to set the freq. to normal.

---------- Post added at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 AM ----------

I think by far, the Supernova 2.4.0.1. is the most stable and even though it is a little bit old and doesn't have much of the new customization possibilities
[Desire General] Arikuzo:
I am using JellyTime, the same developer is working on taktiK a 4.4 ROM( there is trainwreck edition availible).

I think those are Berry nice ROMs I recomend them to every DHD user.

Sent from my HTC Desire HD with JellyTime 4.3 beta 3
[Desire General] Erenjag:
Download Greenify so that your battery will last longer! Besides, it's not a Task Killer app, its function is to hibernate the apps which you are not using but in stay in the background not force closing them. ;)
[Desire General] molexus:
Very nice tips from everyone.

Thank you all!
[Desire General] Kronik69:
Than you. There are some interesting tips:cyclops:
[Desire General] pimpyoass:
This is a very nice tip, since Desire has low ram for now-a-days- apps :) thank you very much!
[Desire General] htc desier:
H t c d 728
[Desire General] Guitarfreak26:
Ahh you little star! I didnt know this lol

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[Desire General] OnlinePredator:
Does anyone know how to do a bulk 'mark as read' on emails? I have just set up my email and it says 100 new emails, the only way I can get mark as read is tap and holding each email individually to mark as read........
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Yeah, I'd like to know as well.

I find I can only select multiple messages to mark-as-read in the Gmail application.

This is quite annoying. You can do certain things in Gmail application that you can't in the normal Mail application and vice-versa.

Gmail application

1. Can't select text to copy to clipboard.

2. Can flag emails with stars

3. Can select multiple emails to action upon (ie, mark as read/unread, delete, add star, label)

4. Can't specify sync schedule.

5. The number of unread emails does not show on the Gmail application shortcut icon.

Mail application

1. Can selct text to copy to clipboard

2. Can flag emails but it won't sync to Gmail as stars

3a. Can select multiple emails for delete or move

3b. Can't select multiple emails for flagging or mark as read/unread.

4. Can specify sync schedule

5. The number of unread emails is shown on the Mail application shortcut icon.

Because of these differences, I set up my Gmail account on both the Gmail application and the Mail application (using Google's Exchange server). This is quite silly since this means I have 2 applications with the same emails.
[Desire General] discohero11:
Yes, while I didn't go that far I am extremely disappointed in the quality of the Gmail application ... no cut and paste, no unread count on home screen icon and no bulk delete/mark either. Google really needs to address this. I foolishly assumed that native Gmail app on Android would be better than using Gmail on BB or iPhone ... sigh. I didn't like HTC's mail app either, so I fire up Gmail in browser when I need cut and paste.
[Desire General] boge:
Gmail using true push method. It's much better than sync function in mail application; because the server will push the email immediately to your phone without the phone actively synchronize to the gmail server. Just like the way sms works.

It will save the battery life, and there is no delay at all.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Yeah, I was in the same mindset that you were in. Coming from Windows Mobile, I thought the Gmail application would rock in Android.

Anyway, I'd just like to point out that you can bulk delete and mark in the Gmail application. You just tap the check-marks on the left of each message you want to select and then tap Delete on the bottom. To mark as read or unread, you do the same and then press menu to bring up the option to mark.

Yes, I understand that it's push email. But I don't want to enable the push functionality 24-7. The reason is because I like my device to play a notification sound when it receives a new email. So, I don't want it to retrieve mail in the middle of the night.
[Desire General] Guitarfreak26:
you could turn off data mate then it will push them in the morning

Also do you guys realise HTC mail can push gmail? you set it up as a exchange server the same way you would on an iPhone

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Yes, I know. I can also just turn off my phone at night. But this means I'm adjusting my lifestyle according to the way my phone behaves. It shouldn't have to be this way.
[Desire General] SteveEdson:
Put your phone on silent at night?

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[Desire General] MasDroid:
Set Wi-Fi Standby/Sleep Policy

By default when enabled, Wi-Fi will stay on even when the phone is in sleep mode. You can change this setting by doing the following:

Go to Menu > Settings > Wireless & Networks > Wi-Fi Settings. Click the Menu button again and select the Advanced option. Select Wi-Fi sleep policy and then set the relevant option.
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Add the Power Control widget to your home screen, quick and easy way to toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Backlight, GPS, etc on/off.

Go to Menu > Add > Widgets > Power Control.

I use it all the time.

It saves 3-4 button clicks for most settings.

Trust me -- the more you use it the more you learn to like it :)
[Desire General] Wekkel:
The backlight button won't leave the automatic setting alone. It would be great if you could switch from low light to automatic to full.
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Hmm... does it not do that if you press it more than once?
[Desire General] carrige:
No :/ all it does is cycle through low-medium-full brightness. At first I thought the medium setting was actually automatic, but then I went to the settings when the screen was supposedly set at 'automatic' and found that the checkbox was disabled - meaning it was actually manual. I'm just leaving it on auto for now, seems to be doing the job quite well.
[Desire General] keekje:
Just found this out by exedend. If u press and hold the home button it wil show u 6 last opend and running apps. mabye some one didnt know this yet:p
[Desire General] K 7:
Guys...

In last 5 or 6 pages of this thread how many TIPS & TRICKS can we see... there are more people telling their problems than

sharing T&Ts... So can we please post in this thread what it is supposed to have... It is understandable that some

time when a person shares a TIP the other user can ask/tell about the problem he may have with this TIP...but the whole

thread should not change the direction to a new side... Plz post accordingly & if you don't agree with what I've

said simply ignore this post plz (so that a new discussion doesn't start in here). Thanks.

K7
[Desire General] ninja.rogue:
I am using a UK (Clove) Desire, but long-press on "Search" key, saying "call ...." doesn't call-up speed dial nor does the phone do anything.

It just says (in italian, my native language) "Speed Dial has not been enabled. Run the configuration process."

Where should I enable this?
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Ringtones tip

If you add the Music Program (not Widget) to the Home screen, for example, while listening to a piece of music, press "menu" and you can assign it as a ringtone for the phone or a contact.

Get Ringdroid from the app market and you can make a ringtone from any sound file from your phone.
[Desire General] Nersha:
Not sure if this has been posted yet / is common knowledge but I'll post it anyway:

dial : *#*#4636#*#*

Gives you lots of statistics / info. Gives good battery statistics without the use of an app which is nice.
[Desire General] Noghar:
In the SMS or people app, if you tap a contact picture, options pop up offering quicklinks to certain actions - phone, email, SMS or find on map - according to the data contained in the contact's details. Just discovered that there now. neat.

Sorry if this is common knowledge...
[Desire General] malmosyd:
Well,if u for example has installed the excellent sms app Handcent u can use tha searchkey for speedsending sms... very handy!
[Desire General] Eggcake:
It's not really a "trick", but if you call someone, the moment he picks up the phone vibrates for a short time. That way you don't have to hold the phone to your ear and wait til he picks up. Just a small thingy, but I like that - with my old phone I always turned the loudspeaker on to hear when the other person picks up the phone..
[Desire General] MasDroid:
I think we are all getting a little desperate now for new tips and tricks :p
[Desire General] 513:
When using the Sense audio player, press Menu and set the music as a ringtone, then you have 3 options.

With one of the 3 you can cut the ringtone you're listening to.
[Desire General] patasenko:
I found an article that sums up a bit of tricks and tips with instruction: http://www.androidforums.com/htc-desire/59664-htc-desire-tips-tricks.html
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Tip: Manage Bookmarks

In the Bookmark Widget, you can manage your Bookmarks in the following way:

Tap a bookmark, click Menu and then select Bookmarks. Click the Menu button once again and then select the relevant option (i.e. Sort By, Edit, or Delete).
[Desire General] Loccy:
Excellent tip is excellent. I'm actually hanging around here in the Desire forum on the basis I've got one arriving tomorrow, so wanted to get in the proverbial "mood", but in the meantime I've tried this on my Magic and it makes a BIG difference. Nice one.
[Desire General] nikosrs4:
wherever you are, if you hold menu button, the keyboard pops up and if there is something searcable, then you can write and search.

ex. the menu.
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Battery Saving tips

Tip 1: Force the device to use 2G networks (GSM band) instead of 3G (WMCDA band) if your 3G coverage isn't close to 100% - otherwise it will ramp up the power for 3G transmission instead of using a 2G cell that is much closer (and therefore needs less power to send to).

Tip 2: Try unmounting the SD card, with most things disabled and light use it goes down about 10%-20% a day now as opposed to 50% a day when the SD card is mounted (in use).
[Desire General] zamolxees:
did not know there were codes for the desire. always used them on nokias. thank you :)

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] david_inuk:
Something I learnt from a post somewhere on this forum:

To unlock the screen press the menu key after pressing the power button. Handy for when the novelty of the slide has worn off! (or when u r in the car and the slide is too fiddly!). It's so much faster!!

But if somebody can point me in the direction of a way toi remove the slide lock completly, I'd be overjoyed!
[Desire General] Gripenstedt:
Disable boot/startup sound?

Hi,

I read somewhere on the forum that there is no way to disable the awful boot sound? Is this really true? How about deleting the wave-file?

Thx in advance.
[Desire General] sh500:
When the phone rings, pressing the big green button will answer the call :D

Joking aside, I'm sure the 'trick' may be of use to someone.
[Desire General] mrdo:
check in the market for silentboot - it disables all sounds when booting up. the silence is beautiful !
[Desire General] chaos42:
I've tried it, and it does not seem to work in the browser, mail or the sms app.

Could you please tell me where it works? right now, all it does is to pop up the keyboard, which is nice if you miss your keyboard and need some haptic vibration beneath your fingertips, but beside from that it seems kind of useless. or am i doing something wrong?
[Desire General] Gripenstedt:
Great!

Thanks a million, mrdo! Now I'm happy!
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Just a little remark there:

It just "silences" the phone before shutting down and resets it again after boot up to the previous option. So if your Desire crashes or something, don't wonder when it's not working, it has to shut down properly.

I really like that little thingy. Now it is actually quiet ;)
[Desire General] callummc:
this doesnt happen for me...
[Desire General] cgrec92:
I'm not sure if people are aware of these but i'll share because i'm bored :D

1) Google Maps: if you open up street view, tap menu and enable compass, this allows you to look around on street view by simply pointing the phone, seems to impress people very much!

2) Google Sky Map: it's actually right! for example if you can see the moon, point your phone at it and it will be displayed on the phone! the location is actually right which is very impressive, and in fact if your put your phone on a flat service everything moves to represent the earth spinning.

3) When entering text, you can use the trackball to easily edit your text by moving the cursor.

:)
[Desire General] al89nut:
Just looked for Sky Map in the market and not there, though I saw it earlier today. ?

Streetview - is it different from streetview on standard google maps? I know my street has been done, but it doesn't show the little man icon for it on the map on the Desire.

PS

Just tried streets in London - no Streetview icon either. Does it depend on signal strength - I am indoors
[Desire General] cgrec92:
You have to have your data connection enabled - wifi should work - personally my gps is disabled

Street view on my updated google maps working perfect
[Desire General] al89nut:
Sorted - stupid but I thought the blue circle around a location was just a target, never thought to tap in it!

Sky map is back
[Desire General] patasenko:
Another one, if it is not posted yet, pinch to zoom on the specific home screen in the leap view will zoom on that screen.
[Desire General] zonkkk:
1. You can organise your icons into folders. Long press on an empty place on any screen, then click Folder, then choose New Folder.

A folder named 'Folder' will appear. Tap on it, something like a popup window will appear, this is empty for now. Long press on the Popup bar to rename the folder. To Add a shortucut/app, etc... drag it from the screen and drop it on top of the Folder.

2. You can have Navigation Shortcuts, where you just click on it and it will open up Google Navigation and you start navigating straight away.

- For this Long Press on any empty space on a screen, select Shortcuts, select Directions & Navigation, enter address, select icon... and voila...

These 2 are together 'couse I just created a Folder and Added some navigation shortcuts into it... I was not aware of any of these before...
[Desire General] snudel:
still you can't be more wrong.

you are right, that android could handle everything.

BUT: if you let him do it, than you will quickly note, that battery drains. desire has so much memory, that every app will remian loaded forever. using taskkiller will close them and they wont use cpu and save battery.

it's not required but helps to save battery.
[Desire General] K 7:
Hi

Help me 4 few points plz...

When I created a Folder last time . Renamed it & moved some apps which I have installed b4 ... They were showing this folder but then they were still there in All Programs (screen u get after u press bottom-left-triangle-soft-button)... Can I not just MOVE them in folder so that they only are in folder not in All Program... or am I missing something...caz I don't want 2 make a copy/shortcut of apps in that folder I want 2 move them in folder 2 keep my All Program page neat & precise not 22222222 long. Help appreciated.

K7
[Desire General] zonkkk:
As far as I know you can't remove icons from the All Programs lists... they will be automatically deleted when you unistall the application.

This is why it is called All Programs :-)))

What you did is not 'moved' the apps but created a shortcut for those apps in your folder. It is the same principle as adding an app to any of the 7 screens.
[Desire General] K 7:
Aright... so we can only create shortcuts of apps in that folder BUT WE CAN'T MOVE THEM into folder...(Like we could in WinMo)... Thanks 4 clarifying.

K7
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
Hey,

I've just rooted my phone, can i now flash this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622087

Or only Desire roms?

Thanks
[Desire General] mrdo:
thanks for the link - very helpful ...