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[Desire General] Kashban:
68. No privacy settings for calendar entries

Hi there!

Since I use my calendar for both work and private I usually mark those private with the corresponding flag. This is not possible with the HTC calendar or the android calendar app.

This is a major drawback for me.

Regards,

Kashban
[Desire General] IceBone:
You have to first create the corresponding calendar by going to www.google.com/calendar and sync the calendar on your phone. After doing this, you'll have the option of selecting the calendar at the very top of the new entry field.
[Desire General] Chronic404:
Since i've updateed to the MoDaCo Froyo ROM R5 when i use the Wifi Hotspot i have found it goes into a reboot loop, and i cannot switch off the Wifi because it keeps rebooting when i do, is there anyone else with this experience, and is there a fix?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Chronic404: Sorry, I use IEF's OTA based rom, which works flawlessly.

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Ok, here's another one that's really really bugging me and I really hope this gets noticed and not burried like a lot of the other posts in this thread. I've submitted this also to the android support google group, where there are others with this problem and noone knows of a fix.

2nd google account on my phone won't push gmail.

I have 2 google accounts on my Desire. The primary one is set to sync the calendar and gmail (but not contacts since the images get borked), which works fine. The second account is set to sync just gmail, which it doesn't. It only pulls the email off the server when I refresh manually, push doesn't work.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?
[Desire General] Red_Toyol:
Facebook Birthdate Not Sync Correctly in Contact

Hi there,

When I sync/link my Contact with Facebook, I got wrong birth date for all of my contacts. The birth date shown in contacts are earlier by 1 day. Example, if my friend put their birth date in Facebook 5th November, when I sync my contact, it will shown as 4th November.

I wonder if there are others experiencing the same and is there any workarounds? TQ in advance.

-Red-
[Desire General] RLP06:
The biggest annoyance that I've had with almost every phone (besides iPhone) is that if you're listening to music on headphones and you get a call, if you unplug your headphones during the call, your music doesn't stop, when you end the call your music is playing out your loud speaker!

This is definitely a bug because if you unplug your headphones any other time, the music will just stop!
[Desire General] RLP06:
I think that may be a time zone issue, I had a similar experience when syncing contact birthdays from blackberry to outlook... after I moved from Eastern Time zone to GMT
[Desire General] IceBone:
You mean the music resumes playback automatically when the call is over?
[Desire General] dik23:
Does anyone else have a problem with the screen turning off while typing in landscape ?

I had a TP2 and there was a hack to prevent the power button working when the keyboard was out to prevent exactly this from happening
[Desire General] Lord_Phoenix:
Issue with Talk application

Hello guys,

starting mid day yesterday by Desire started to mess up Gtalk conversations. If person replies to me within same minute as I wrote person the reply appears ABOVE my message. If the minute is changed than it's okay. It's something to do with a time stamps within the messages, but it's irrelevant to the phone's clock. Any ideas what happened and how to fix it? I already went back to factory defaults twice within one month and don't really want to do it again. As I said it started yesterday mid day (GMT +4) and was fine in the morning...
[Desire General] wibbletron:
I attempted to search for this, but it is quite hard to come up with a way to phrase the search so I have no idea whether this has already been mentioned or not.

When you receive a call and the screen is already on (i.e. you are using the phone), instead of the swipe to accept/reject, you have tap to accept/reject.

The problem is that if you are in the middle of typing something, and your finger is about to tap the right hand side of the portrait keyboard, if you get a call whilst your finger is in motion, you'll have tapped the "reject" button before you even realise there is a call incoming (i.e. the letter you were going to tap has changed to a "reject call" button before your finger reaches the screen, not giving you time to react), and then can't undo it.

Really annoying.

Either some way of confirming the tap when rejecting a call, or having it always use the swipe way of doing it would be fantastic.
[Desire General] RLP06:
Yeah, it'll play on the loud speaker.
[Desire General] Nuntius:
Desire HD is out and we still get this problem. Bigger screen just to have a bigger look at flaws! That's great!
[Desire General] xdadev-jt:
Contacts: vCard not importing

I've now had two instances of a vCard with contact details being SMS'ed to me get listed in the messaging application as a VCard attachment, when tapping on it, it doesn't open or view the content, but comes back with "the vCard has been imported successfully" - but the information doesn't show up anywhere in the list of contacts or doesn't get added to an existing contact... seems "successfully" means something different to some people... ?! Am I missing something....
[Desire General] oliverjames:
My take on flaws & annoyances

My gripes in no particular order:

1. The lack of an HID bluetooth stack. This prevents the use of an external keyboard and hence prohibits the device being used as a productive mini-office when traveling.

2. Gmail not fully integrated with the other communications options - for example, cannot send contact details via mail if one uses Gmail configured via the Gmail app. This is surprising given the Google-centric nature of the OS. I have tried using Mail instead and like its pinch zoom and download advantages but dislike it's lack of push for new mail.

3. When searching one cannot select the previous search phrase and edit it.

4. Inability to move some large apps to the MC. With Flash, Google Maps, Google Earth etc weighing in at around 10Mbytes apiece, this severely limits the number of useful apps that can be loaded.
[Desire General] vpraveenis:
Dialer vibration

There is no option to disable the vibration in the Phone's dialer. The vibration does not turn off even if all vibrations are disabled in settings->Sound and Display :(
[Desire General] sgtbanjo:
Outgoing call notification

I would like OUTGOING call notifications on my Desire. They work on the Nokia phone I've just stopped using but the Desire seems unable to notify me that the person I'm calling is on a call already.

Anyone got any ideas?
[Desire General] STomko:
I "use" only short vibration when the phone call is connected, that works perfectly for me. I thinks it's basic part of system... (not sure whether you mean this ...)
[Desire General] silv3r4sh:
Item 10 under 'General' section, this app turns on the speaker automatically upon placing the phone face down.

http://www.androlib.com/android.application.hk-cllam-autospeakerphone-Dpnz.aspx

Cheers
[Desire General] Eradorius:
You simply need to use ActiveSync to get push (like it was on Windows Mobile), create ActiveSync mail account in mail app, set schedule to push, set peak times (when push will work (like from 6am to 10 pm) and disable gmail sync in Google account settings.

Here is how to configure ActiveSync account: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] senis1:
Bluetooth Car Kit Parrot CK3200LS, MKi9100

Pairing successful on both. Autosync of contacts takes very long time or fails. Parrot Car Kit's microphone doesn't work on both.

NEED HELP!!!

HTC Desire

LeeDroid_v2.1a
[Desire General] gogol:
Since v22, YES :)
[Desire General] angues:
Brilliant! I had the IME Mod keyboard installed but did not know about this option, thanks! I much prefer it this way! The beauty of Android I guess is being able to customise the device to exactly how you want it :o
[Desire General] mrdo:
perhaps i'm being thick here but i find setting a new appointment in the calendar very annoying. rather than a proper calendar picker that shows a monthly calendar to pick the date from i'm given a numeric date changer which is little use if i don't know the actual date 3 weeks on tuesday.

is there a way round this ?
[Desire General] dawmuz:
Go to the date on the monthly calendar first, then create new appointment. Simples
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
SMSs STILL dont show in the rigth order! A problem thats been around since before htc took on android. A user here just recently released a fix for the issue in WM... im awaiting a fix for the problem in android. :)

(this is only a problem with the sence sms handler. hancent doesnt have this problem)
[Desire General] mrdo:
cheers. a bit counter intuitive for me but better than nothing ...
[Desire General] jayshah:
I'm not sure if you'll include this, but coming from a G1, I really didn't like the clunky and comparatively slow (I had the Nexus for a while) home screens.

Like the Gmail Unread Count (which I didn't even think of), I hope this is something people will now think about and try the alternative, rather than stick with the default. It's nice, but really slow for me :( I also really like the default launcher with the non-moving blue grass wallpaper. Makes me all fuzzy inside :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_zJREAzso&feature=youtube_gdata - this has a video of the 'native' launcher, link to download and a small demo.
[Desire General] streetdaddy:
Can't press menu button twice to turn on and unlock.

Not a huge issue, but I liked having this on my Hero and I miss it. Having to press the power button and then the menu button seems awkward.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I'm in Hong Kong but my Desire is European (purchased from Clove.co.uk). I've no problems with my FM Radio application. Perhaps it's because of your particular location...

How widespread is this? I don't see any problems on my device. Does it only happen with large message counts? Or perhaps when traveling across timezones?

If you say the Nexus One is faster than the Desire, I'll take your word for it since I've not played with the N1. But all reviews praise the Desire for it's fast performance. So I don't think "Slow homescreen performance" is something that many users would agree on.

This is an extension of 16. Only standby button wakes the screen.
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
ohyeahar,

the problem is situational. if you recieve sms from others on the same network or in the same time zone, you wont have any problems. if you recieve sms from others on different networks or in different time zones, they will have the wrong time stamp and wont display in order. this is a known problem with htc messaging.

heres the fix for the windows mobile side.
[Desire General] Smackhacker:
How do you disable the Facebook account?

Thanks.
[Desire General] Unfriendly:
There is no way to

disable the slide lock screen

and only have the pattern lock.

I find it really annoying. :(
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
The only real annoyance I have with the Desire is that for Gmail I can't have just a notification, it automatically comes with a sound. It is strange that exchange and imap mail can have just the notification without sound.

I have not found a workaround other than adding my Gmail account as an imap account.
[Desire General] sajcobitsj:
There are some apps that solve this

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.jackdoit.lockbot/
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.google.code.p.slideunlocker2d/
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Not sure if you misunderstood me. What I meant was I used to use Facebook but not anymore. I'd went into the settings page in Facebook (on desktop browser) and disabled my account so that I no longer appear on the Facebook network.

FYI, Facebook doesn't provide an option to delete your account. It just disables it and tells you that you can enable it again by logging back in with your email and password.

Anyway, this is very off topic...

Haha, I gotta say, this is getting very nit-picky. But you're right. It's now on the list!
[Desire General] kuailan:
Wifi wont work with hidden setup

I just cant believe the HTC desire cant even detect/connect to hidden wifi setup! Even my old HTC touch HD with "supposedly crappy but doing great" windows mobile can do it with ease. Is this really a problem with all Android device??? or just Desire???
[Desire General] Jade_user:
Issues handling certificates

Android is unable to handle certificates properly, especially .p7b or .pcs certificates. These certificates are necessary to connect to WiFi networks (found a work-around here), and e-mail servers.
[Desire General] lukacs.attila:
Just a stupid thought, but maybe worth trying it: create a silent .wav, .mp3 (with any sound editor software), then set that to google mail notification sound. I don't know if this works or not, just a thought.
[Desire General] kuailan:
Where is the work around?? Please enlighten me? Thanks....:)
[Desire General] patp:
Is this solved if you use the Mail app and Google Exchange server rather than the GMail app?
[Desire General] BlueVD:
Music player with default handsfree

When using the included handsfree, pressing the play/answer button on it, the default music player starts after quite a delay (sometimes taking up to 30 secs; Latest official Froyo).

The workaround I found was to press play on the HF and then the powerbutton to wake the phone from standby and thus the music player starts with minimal delay. Quite managable even if the phone is in my pocket while I'm riding my scooter =)
[Desire General] sandkiller:
But, if you click long on the message you sent and click on "View Report" it shows the status as received when it has been delivered.

This is on HTC Desire with latest version of Froyo.

I do agree that there is no notification but at least it works.
[Desire General] sandkiller:
I do have one problem, it happened today.

Connected the headphones, started the music player, locked the mobile (htc desire).

After a while i pressed the control buttons on the headphones cable and it didn't work, any of them...

Did this happen with anyone already?

Cheers.
[Desire General] silv3r4sh:
Sorry guys I can no longer recommend this app - it appears to draw a significant amount of battery, overtaking cell standby in the battery usage bar charts. There are quite a few other similar freebies in the market that accomplish the same goal, so have a look at those.

Cheers
[Desire General] shoemeistah:
I have no flaws anymore to my personal taste.

I fixed all things that I found annoying.
[Desire General] baraduim:
Sorry if reported before, didn't spot it in the big list at the start of the thread.

One niggle I have with contacts I discovered today is that you can't see the whole address for a contact, and if you click on it you get taken to the Maps application rather than expand out to read it all.
[Desire General] Beaverman20:
to #14

please at that you can just make a pattern screenlock, then it won't unlock in your pocket ;)
[Desire General] PureLoneWolf:
I may have missed it...apologies if it has already been mentioned..

Notifications (SMS, Email etc) play in full, no amount of interaction with the phone stops them. Every other phone I have had would stop the sound playing by pressing a button or unlocking etc..

By no means a deal breaker..I just have a shorter notification now..but definitely annoying :)
[Desire General] 66mustang:
Talking about the poor autocomplete of SMS address:

Couldn't agree more. Very frustrating. Even a 'recently used' bias would be helpful.
[Desire General] Nemo0815:
This is my main flaw:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=800376
[Desire General] iL_FeD:
Bluetooth volume issue

Sory if posted but could'nt find it even searching for it

I have a Jawbone bluetooth dongle wich I use in the car, sometimes the in-call volume is low so I turn it up for listening well. When I get out of the car I turn off the bluetooth, but the mentioned operation results in a very highg/similar to loudspeaker in-call volume for every call I make or receive, even if the volume is set to minimum. The only workaround I found is to reboot the phone, but it's quite annoying
[Desire General] Um3r:
Random SMS sending problem

Sometimes when you open the default messaging app and tap on an existing thread to send/reply to a message...the phone opens up the wrong persons thread.

For example i have people A B C D E F G in my sms messages inbox. If i open the messages inbox and quickly tap on person E to send him a message the phone will open up person B or maybe C instead of E..resulting in the message being sent to the wrong person...

I have factory restored my phone twice but this still happens... I think maybe it happens if you try to send a message too quickly! and the phone is loading threads, but an annoyance when you write the reply, hit send and its sent to the wrong person.

Wonder if anyone else has this issue...
[Desire General] koider:
SD card speed is slow in Froyo and this causes audio glitches. This problem has been reported by quite a few people - see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765567
[Desire General] mrdo:
happens to me quite a lot too - very annoying ! and sometimes very embarassing. :-(
[Desire General] lovfors:
Skip track with headset.

Hey, I tried to look through the list and I couldn't find anyone who was annoyed by the fact that dubble pressing on a headset with only one button redials, and that there is no way to change this to skip track instead.

Have I just missed the solution, or does anyone have a good fix for this?
[Desire General] 66mustang:
You can't set a default reminder of 'none' in the reminder settings in the calendar, meaning you have to set each reminder manually to none...
[Desire General] kartnite:
I have noticed this "issue" (?) on my device and I thought I'd mention it here in this thread -

The apps that have been downloaded from the Market are not being displayed/listed under the "Downloads" tab of the Market App.

I have a total of 9 apps (of which 8 were downloaded from the Market) and I have been noticing for the past 3-4 days that the "Downloads" tab displays apps at random: sometimes one/three/six.

This was NOT the case earlier.

Created a thread for this, too.

PS: I thought this could be resolved by a simple reboot. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

And btw, am running FroYo on an un-rooted device. WWE ROM. Flashed the original Arab ROM while manually upgrading from Éclair to FroYo.
[Desire General] Taimur:
Time Zones have a Fault/defective

For some regions the timezones are incorrect. For Example i am in Karachi/Islamabad in Paskistan, which is GMT +5. The timezone available for my city is +6 where as it should be +5. I was doing a search and found that the same issue is there for some other countries and other time zones as well.

As little as this sounds its a massive defect for a smartphone which is also used as an organizer. Since it affects calendar, SMS time Stamps, Call timestamps and more. i am always left guessing whether i missed a call 1 hour ago or less/more. I nearly missed my flights twice because my alerts were set to go off but since i was on roaming the alerts didn't go off at the right time.

Above is my biggest gripe with the phone right now other issues / features that i wish were there:

2. File Browser

3. inadequate music and media management

4. missing camera button

5. no voice dialing (was on a Blackberry and the voice dialing was flawless for me near 90% success)

6. contact linking sometimes overlaps customized entries but does not show in dialer. Example i linked facebook to a contact. facebook number was without +/00 before the number. I personally added it after edit. The number exists but when i want to dial out the quickest way is to dial the number once through contacts then long press the last dialed to bring up edit before call. add 00 and dial again.

needless to say i still love the Desire and will hold on to it till desire 2.0 ;) but will continue to hope they fix some of the annoyances soon
[Desire General] regua:
The time zone in Pakistan changed in 2008 and 2009 for Daylight Saving Time, so I guess that HTC or Android developers assumed that DST will be in effect in 2010 as well.

All of these can be fixed with either freely available Market applications or freely available MODs.
[Desire General] seto862:
vibrate

Hey guys... Does anyone else get the issue i have? Here it is, I have a desire and when typing on the on screen keyboard i will get vibration feedback like normal but like 10 words in to typing the vibration feedback will stop completely. Then I have to tap the phone gently and it'll start back... I really don't know if its a hardware issue or just an issue with all desires.

When receiving a call it never stops vibrating till i answer no matter how i tap the phone so thats what makes me think its not a hardware problem.... (it only occurs while typing) i have tried hundreds of roms and get the same problem in all.

Any input would be helpful thank you
[Desire General] Taimur:
No thats incorrect: Pakistan time did not change, they only introduced daylight saving for the first time. Which meant during summers Pakistan Standard Time went back 1 hour from +5 to +4. Now thats opposite of what Android/Desire brings in the form of +6.

I admit i haven't tried very hard for solutions but would be interested to know how to work around the "erroneous linking of contacts" and Voice dialing. I will search again.
[Desire General] regua:
You adjust the clocks forward one hour for DST, otherwise it'd be called Daylight Wasting Time. Check your Desire settings - maybe you do have a DST setting on, simply uncheck it to bring the time zone to normal.

I don't fully understand the issue you have with contacts, but if it's purely with number formatting (00 before the numbers), you can try the app called Contacts Clean-up to fix the numbers.

As to voice dial, you can either get an app called Choice Dialer, or install a ROM with all Google apps in it (Google Voice Dial and Voice Search are included in non-HTC Android ROMs).
[Desire General] sheiner:
Hi, i'm not sure if this one has been mentioned before:

By adding a new date in the calendar the start and end time 'chooser' looks quite nice. But is it really necessary to have a one minute scale? I'd prefer to have a 5 or 15 minute scale so it would be faster to set the schedule.

Cheers

Sascha
[Desire General] kokoon:
i'm not sure if this has been fixed with the 2.2 update, but i have complained about snoozing the alarm clock - you can't do it with the volume rocker.

well, it turns out you can snooze the alarm by pressing the power key, and i'm almost sure it also works with every other hardware key as well (except volume)...

which is great!
[Desire General] leungalv:
Not sure if this was mentioned anywhere ... but there seems to be no way to "send tones" while in a call? I'm not talking about pre-set tones in a contact or via the dialpad though.

I mean there's no way to send a contacts number if you're using a calling card or other long distance service.
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
If you wish to send some DTMF after you made call, just add DTMF after number. For example: +38511234567p123456789. Tap # few times to get p or w.
[Desire General] leungalv:
Hehe I knew I'd be misunderstood :D ... I'm not talking about one specific number.

For example, let's say I travel outside of my country and wish to call people in my contact list, there seems to be no way to send the tones on the fly from your contact list after you enter a calling card number.

On my Nokia 5800, after I dial the calling card number, when it says "please enter the long distance phone number you wish to call", I can go to my contact list, select the contact then have the option to "send number as tones". The calling card end will recognize the tones as the number you wish to dial.
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
You can put calling card number before contact number. Tap to call contact, end it, tap to edit and put prefix. I know it's not the same but at least it's something :)