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[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Anyone else can confirm this Facebook issue? I would imagine that the full desktop version of the Facebook site would work fine on the default browser. I can't test since I'm not a Facebook user.

Added.

Sounds like this is because you're syncing with Google Contacts. Disable that and you should be fine.

Anyone else can test and confirm this?

Haha, I don't know if I should add this to the list! Your particular Exchange server requires a password each time. You may find it annoying but your device is only doing its job by providing you with the password prompt. If it didn't, then that would be a problem.

I'm glad you found a way to bypass the password prompt, but it probably isn't recommended for security reasons. You should post this in the Tips and Tricks thread.

This is an issue with your carrier. I've no problems switching from HSDPA to WIFI and the back to HSDPA.

In Gmail application, hit "Menu" button and then tap "View Labels". There you can see your drafts and sent messages.

I find that many people try to catch the bar. They flick the contact list to make the bar appear and while the bar is moving, they try to catch it.

You don't have to to that.

Just tap on the contact list and then gesture up or down. Then stop and let go so that the list doesn't continue scrolling when you let go. The bar is now visible and stationary for you to just get it. Note that it's available for only about 2 seconds.
[Desire General] OnlinePredator:
I typed in touch.facebook.com and it worked fine. I do have "mobile view" in the settings unticked.....
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Facebook worked fine for me too, mobile and full.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks for confirming!

al89nut, you've been overruled! :)
[Desire General] sawfoot:
Cannot sync my contacts in google contacts - can only sync all contacts (which can mean which is over a 1000 people in my case!)

Apparently ability to sync google contact groups was available in earlier sense versions but not in 2.1

See threads 656839 662949 663513

SOLVED! (partially)

I have a fix for this now (it is was really bugging me and the reason why I registered here!).

If you set up an exchange sync with the google servers (pretty straightforward, just use m.google.com for the server name along with email address as username etc...), when you sync contacts it just syncs "my contacts" and not "all contacts". On the people application you can then just view exchange contacts, and I have switched off the google sync and just use the exchange sync instead (which is much better anyway as you get more options).
[Desire General] sawfoot:
Also this issue

"It seems that you can add contacts to the default groups on the phone but they will be removed from the "All" contacts list [BUG??!! - I'm sure my wife's Hero doesn't do this]."

thread 662545
[Desire General] andycted:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 26, 2010]

thank you for the tip on gmail. I had also an idea that the WiFi-3G problem was carrier related, but I have to say that with my touch hd this almost never happened ... but I've also found out that my problems from yesterday were a temporary downtime of the net, so it isn't probably that bad.
[Desire General] madmossy:
Not sure if this has been mentioned before,

When my phone goes into stand-by, waking it up presents the usual unlock slider, but the pattern unlock also appears after even though its disabled (have to just press anywhere on screen to unlock).

Going into settings to disable it again, results in the "enable check box" turning back on when the phone goes back into stand-by.
[Desire General] gogol:
How about this:

HTC FootPrint app/widget cannot turn off the shutter sound.

That is really annoying. I set my camera to turn off shutter sound, but this has no effect on HTC FootPrint app/widget.
[Desire General] tifosi256:
Not an ideal work around but I got into the habit of swiping down towards the top of the screen. Although there is that bar across the screen, you don't need to swipe where the bar is, you can swipe anywhere on the screen.
[Desire General] vfrvulcan:
NO 21. HTC Clock with weather widget sometimes wont load weather in current location

Think I may have solved this one...

I find that if I have no phone signal and tell it to refresh (or auto refresh) the weather when at home it decides that I'm in Burnley - around 200 miles away from my actual location.

After a bit of discussion with friends and the appearance of all the Google spy stories about them logging wifi MAC adresses while taking pictures under the guise of Street View - I/we worked out that, in my case, the router that I'm using must have been in use in Burnley at the time of the Street View spying trip. I bought this router off eBay a few months ago hence a very good bet as to the cause.

I didn't have this router when Street View came here by so Google location services must think that its still up there! I know of no way to correct this other than somebody mooted that if I left GPS on with Google Maps active enough times it may eventually realise that that particular MAC adress has moved.

Perhaps others could confirm with their experiences...

Aaron
[Desire General] yeepeekai:
Contacts birthday...

another issues :

1. You can't just sync the facebook birthday with the linked gmail contact without installing a 3rd party app...

2. When you add a contact's birthday, it doesn't sync with your gmail account, even if you do a manual sync.

But if you do this in your gmail account, it sync on your phone.

This is annoying when you use the birthday calendar...

3. To update this calendar, you must add the contact's birthday on your gmail account, then switch to your google agenda, then delete the birthday calendar and readd it to add the new birthday into it, and then waiting a long time to be sync with your phone because even a manual sync doesn't work to update the birthday calendar of your phone at least in all try I made.
[Desire General] rd87:
Another issue:

My car integrated handsfree function (Blue&Me) does not recognize accentuated names from the Desire's phonebook.

I believe this is cause by the Desire sending contacts encoded in UTF-8 but the car does only understand ISO-8859-1.

There should be an option to select the encoding of vCards or ISO should be used.
[Desire General] Fon22:
Go to google calendar on your pc,

Choose to view other peoples calenders (like Chinese holidays etc)

Within this option is a add on calender that will sinc your contacts birthdays into the calender.

Fon22
[Desire General] thingr:
Not sure this is already known:

When you unplug the phone from the charger during a call, the phone won't recognize the charger when you reconnect it after ending the call.

Workaround: With the phone not connected to the charger, pull the charger from the wall plug. Then put it back in. Connect charger to the phone. Done.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
You mean you can't disable pattern lock? Try a hard reset. Pretty sure this is an isolated incident. Otherwise, we would have a lot more people complain about this.

Yes, this is annoying. Added to 1st post.

Haha, that's actually quite funny. Wonder what Google does with all this MAC address info...

Good tip. Added to 1st post.

1. Already stated in #29 of 1st post.

2. Added.

3. Sorry, don't understand.

While your situation sounds valid, I'm not familiar with it. So, I don't know how to word it! Word it for me, and I'll add it to the 1st post!

I tested this, and it doesn't happen to me...
[Desire General] spooky75:
Another workaround - to create new contact in the phone memory with hi-res picture and link it with existing Google contact.
[Desire General] Borgini:
£ sign

My htc desire, which cannot get a gps signal at all, bought in uk used in uk has the uk £ sign as the furthest possible character with the $ sign (no good to me) being first up in the keyboard. If a Japanese person buy s one in Japan and selects Japanese as the language does he also get the dollor sign instead of yen as the default first up option? I find it really irritating that its hard to find the £ sign. Would it really have been so revolutionary to have had language/country specific keyboards?
[Desire General] Borgini:
Only 4!!!

Only 4 browser windows at a time!! coming from iphone which can have 8 this is a limitation I have found frustrating.
[Desire General] eaglesteve:
I use Atomic browser for my iPhone which allows 11 tabs and I do use all of them wishing for more. I heard Dolphin browser is better but would like to know the maximum number if tabs it can have. Can someone tell me please?
[Desire General] kinkade:
another solution for gmail copy /paste, hyperlinks etc is to use gmail through the browser, thats what i do so i get the benefit of push and threading through the gmail app and i can have the web version up ion a jiffy for the other things, also it allows you to view pictures inline
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks, added.

I feel for you, but this isn't going to make the list. It's specific to your geographic location, so it doesn't apply to everyone. Also, I'm sure it won't be that bad after a while. To input the £ sign, it's just 3 taps (ie, symbol, next page, £). So it's not the end of the world! :D

The 4-tab limitation in the browser is true. But I'd argue that it's better than the iPhone's 8. 2 reasons:

1. On the Desire, you can set new tabs to be opened in the background. On the iPhone, if you want to open 3 links from one page in new tabs, you have to press&hold, open in new tab, switch back to the original tab, and repeat. On the Desire, you don't have to switch back. You're allowed to stay on the current page.

2. On the Desire, the new tabs start loading in the background immediately even if you don't switch to them. On the iPhone, the tabs only start loading when you switch to them, forcing you to wait.

Anyway, I've added this to the 1st post.
[Desire General] Snowskip:
Please add the weather issue: the preloaded locations are not enough, and it is impossible to add a custom location even if it's available on accuweather.com (the widget is based on accuweather).
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Details would help. What weather issue?
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
please add these to the top list

The video quality is not very good. I was under the impression (from reviews) before I bought my Desire that it would record at close to 30 frames per second (fps), but I'm only getting frame rates of 13 - 16fps which is brutal. My nokia used to record at 28 - 30fps.

Was I wrong to think the Desire would do 30fps? I know the HD recording was not coming etc, but I thought 30fps was standard. (source http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=671014)
[Desire General] xerath:
Exchange 2003 + Global Addres List (GAL) search

I have seen a couple of other posts about this online, and I spoke to HTC who confirmed the following:

When using Exchange ActiveSync towards an account on Exchange 2003 (I have not tested with Exchange 2007), the Exchange Global Address List is not searchable (i.e. it does not return any results). This worked excellently on my iPhone, and I've seen it work on colleagues Hero-phones with TouchDown.

This is a major issue for me since I use my phone to send a lot of emails (i.e. the short status-update you promised to send off before the end of the day to some person you don't necessarily have in your phone contact list).

It is probably just a bug (since this is supposed to work according to HTC), but a very annoying one.

I also find it extremely annoying that the passcode unlock screen (not the pattern one, but the code enforced by some Exchange policies) can't be configured to be a numbers-keyboard (like the dialpad in the dialer). Most (if not all?) Exchange passcodes need to contain numbers, usually a PIN, and it's cumbersome to have to go via the numbers-screen on the QWERTY keyboard every time you want to unlock the screen. I know you can configure the keyboard to be XT9, but that affects the keyboard in the SMS/Mail apps as well...
[Desire General] eaglesteve:
Xerath, if Touchdown solves the problem why not just use it?
[Desire General] vfrvulcan:
It may be funny but it is also a valid resolution/explanation of the issue that some peeps are seeing.
[Desire General] MissStabby:
i have a problem with telephone number recognition in websites,

If a website or email lists its number as +3123456789 it can recognise it,

but if a website or email lists the number as +3123-456789 it will only be able to call +3123 or 456789, resulting in a failed call.

also its impossible to select the text and copypaste it into the dialer

it would be good if a long press on a piece of text or numbers gives you the option to "dial" or "message"
[Desire General] DaddyCee:
anyone used the Blink app for changing the colours and the timings on the LED alert system?
[Desire General] bradavon:
Has anyone sent this link to HTC for their A: Feedback and B: So they can get this stuff fixed?

Keep up the good work guys. I've spotted several of these problems myself.

I've found this too. One of the birthdays is often 01/01 too.

I think this appears if they're showing a birthday.

This is really annoying.

I've noticed this too. Would this sync your labels properly too?

Presumably you could use Gmail's IMAP server too.
[Desire General] bradavon:
I cannot seem to delete calendar event reminders. If I add on to a calendar event, there is no option to delete it.

I have to delete it at Google Online and then it syncs back.
[Desire General] xerath:
Because:

1) TouchDown costs money

2) It is *supposed* to work with the included client. I'm no fan of using third party apps for stuff that should work with the included client, especially if they cost money. Another downside of this is that you can't search these contacts from within your "People" app, you have to specifically use the TouchDown app.
[Desire General] DaddyCee:
http://101bestandroidapps.com/app/Blink/695/
[Desire General] andycted:
Strange, this has never happened to me...
[Desire General] :
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 27, 2010]

Blink doesn't work for me.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] al89nut:
Nope,doesn't seem to work on the Desire
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
You're right. I just tested this by scanning for bluetooth devices in my office. I was able to locate 3.

Removed from the list.

(fyi, this is regarding how the bluetooth scan supposedly stops after locating one device.)

Sure you can.

Open the event > Menu > tap "Edit event" > tap "Reminders" > Scroll up and select "None" > tap "Save"

Added.

I'm thinking about adding "can't paste from clipboard into the dialer". But I can't think any other device can do this. So I don't know if we should fault HTC or Google for this...

Added.

It's not like the video quality is so poor that it's embarrassing. I agree that the video recording quality is not the best on the Desire. But this issue is a mix of hardware limitations and high expectations. Historically, neither HTC nor Android has ever been associated with high quality cameras, let alone video recording.
[Desire General] evilangelic:
My video seems to go at smooth fps at 480x800.

If the camera isn't adjusting exposure & white balance or flicker, then it's smooth as silk.

So, if you stay in one place in a constantly lit room, with a subject lit to a similar level as the background, then it runs smooth.

I find that it's when you move around or the camera has to do it's software adjustments that the video slows right down.

i.e when you point it at something black, everything goes lighter so you can see the details of the darkness = shuddering SLOW Fps

But I guess that if you're filming a standard scene that's not really what one might call... film! hehe

Some sort of smooth videos... lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_ASIp0Nw8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5iflrf3yfU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPyzxwVLDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPptSNJ_RbI
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
You may want to add this issue that I mentioned in another thread. In short:

The phone is way too easy to turn on. It should require a long press rather than a quick tap.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=670628
[Desire General] ldti:
Just checked it with my exchange 2003 / SP2 server , GAL search seems to work fine...
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Added to 1st post
[Desire General] arminius.locustus:
category: Multimedia

The default media player has difficulties with id3tags (for mp3 files) and vorbis comments (for ogg files).

With Vorbis Comments "Genre" and "Year" can't be read.

With id3tags "Genre" can only be read if ALL of the following conditions are met:

- You use one of the predefined genres (like "Punk" or "Rock"; "Funny Rock" wouldn't work)

- Tags are written in the latest ID3Tag-Version (ID3.2v4)

- Genre tags have an internal number of <100.

Explanation of the last condition: The predefinded genre tags of ID3.2v4 have internal numbers (e.g. the tag "Indie" has the internal number "131"). The information of the genre is not written in plain text, but in the internal number, which the audio player translates into the correct genre. However, even all of these predefined genres of id3.2v4 the desire can't read. Is the internal number higher than 99 (like the internal number of the "Indie" tag), the player lists "Unknown Genre".
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Great. Thanks for confirming. I've removed the respective item from the list. Perhaps you should help out xerath who was experiencing problems with that? :D
[Desire General] arminius.locustus:
category: multimedia

If you use high quality in ear headphones (headphones where you have to listen at the lowest volume levels because otherwise it would be to loud), there are severals annoying noises: There is all the time a hissing noise. If any data connection is active, there is also a hammering noise.

Both can only be heard when using high quality headphones and listening not to loud music (like rock music).

Workaround: Use a dampener with your in ear headphones.
[Desire General] Snowskip:
The weather application is based on accuweather.com (this is where it gets its informations). There are plenty of cities available on accuweather.com, but only a few can be added to the weather application on the Desire.

For instance the city of Granville (in Normandy, France), is available: www dot accuweather dot com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&loccode=EUR|FR|FR004|GRANVILLE , but I can't add it on the HTC weather widget using the "+" button: the city is unknown!

The issue is the same with many cities, we're limited to the cities preloaded on the Desire. That's very annoying and I think it should be really easy to fix for HTC engineers.

On the HTC touch is was possible by editing an xml file: www dot htc-touch-info dot com/en/weather/

(sorry for the links but the forum don't let me post url...)

edit 29/04:

Additional information: when I am in a city that I can't add manually to the weather application (i.e. "unknown"), and I allow the Desire to locate myself using 3G or GPS, the weather application actually display the city and the weather associated!

Unfortunately there is no way to "save" the city, and when I move away it's lost...
[Desire General] Smirge:
11. Autocomplete in the "To" field of the SMS application is not very smart. It shouldn't list the Home or Work numbers as options to select when you start typing a name.

Install Handcent SMS - there is an option to "Show Mobile" only...
[Desire General] NZtechfreak:
Workaround for the SIM contacts is to just delete them all, seriously, just sync with Google/Outlook and forget having Contacts on your SIM.
[Desire General] bazzix:
The snooze function is triggered by the optical trackpad. It would be great to be able to disable this "feature".

For example, an alarm/calendar reminder pops up, then you pull out the Desire out of your pocket, and there is not even a notification on the screen when the screen is unlocked!
[Desire General] lambrospower:
and what if you use another phone ?????? do you memorize all your contacts or are you going online to find the contact you want from google contacts ?
[Desire General] SirGadden:
I just noticed that when I'm at the default lockscreen, if I press the menu button, my phone is unlocked without touching the screen... :(

Don't know if this has been reported before but it's not on the list afaik.

A solution would be to activate the pattern recognition lock.
[Desire General] Scottland:
Can't see it's been mentioned anywhere here, but the Music player will only play tracks in the correct order (via track or file number/name) if you actually go into the album and play the first track. If you hold down and select play album, or play all it will sort the tracks by title name.
[Desire General] aljwatson69:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 28, 2010]

Ok, so I was just using Handset SMS to batch delete some messages. when I clicked delete selected, it froze for a few seconds, then when it came back all my messages here gone. 2 questions. Is this a common thing with Handcent, and is it likely that the messages were backed up anywhere? Thanks
[Desire General] Fiouz:
VPN state not consistent accross reboot

If you turn off/on your phone while being connected to a VPN and you come back to the VPN settings screen, the phone thinks it's still connected to the VPN (VPN icon suddenly appears in notification bar and the VPN is shown as "Connected"), you have to "disconnect" before connecting to that VPN again.

(I can confirm that the connection isn't established at reboot as I have access to the server logs)

Tested with PPTP VPN over WiFi as my data plan doesn't allow IP GRE protocol.
[Desire General] DeliriumTr:
[B]Events from calendars with long names are not shown[/B

Events from calendars with long names are not shown

If a Calendar has a very long name its events are not shown. I dont know how long is too long but for example: "F1 Calendar 2010 - Formula One Race Times and Dates for Google Calendar, iCal & Outlook" is.

You can replicate this behavior renaming any of your calendars to a long name. It will be appear in the list and you can even place a check mark on it, but the events will not be shown.
[Desire General] david_inuk:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 28, 2010]

Can't save vcards received via SMS!

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Someone had previously mentioned problems about tagging audio files. There's just too many different ways to tag these files that's it's quite unrealistic to expect every device or music application to recognize every type of tag.

I just did a quick test with my Sennheiser buds (which aren't too shabby). I hear no hissing. I definitely don't hear any hammering noise when data connection is active. If I max the volume, then there's a hissing during silent portions of the audio. Still no hammering noise.

I'll test again tonight using my Shure SE530.

But I think this is very insignificant. If you have your headphones on, you wouldn't be listening to silence.

I don't know if it's realistic to expect HTC or Google to accomodate for every every single city and town in the world. But it would have been nice to have an easy way to key in your own city. Added to the first post.

Thanks, added as workaround.

Believe it or not, that is a deliberately designed feature. On devices where there's no dedicated standby key, you can double press the Menu key to unlock as an alternative.

That is a strange one indeed. Added to the list.

Added

I just tested this. This isn't true for me. I used the name in your example and my events show up just fine. Your example has 87 characters. I also tested one with 90 characters and it's still fine.