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[Desire General] ohyeahar:
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Your statement is valid. But it's not HTC's fault. It's Android/Google. There isn't even a native tasks or notes application. Added 1st post.

Agree with you regarding the monthly calendar style date picker. Added to 1st post.

But not sure what you mean by the other things you mentioned. I can clearly see the days of the week in every different views of the Calendar application.

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On the contrary, I think the icon labels are displayed correctly. They're just cut off because they're too long. So this isn't really a problem but more of an aesthetic preference. This also happens in WinXP. I doubt anyone complained to Microsoft about this!

Yes! That's a good one! Google should really make a native file browser.

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3. Is there even a video player that supports multiple audio tracks on any of the smartphone platforms?

4. Happens only sometimes. I've had it happen to me only once.

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Already mentioned. It's #25.

Doing that only affects the view of the People list. It doesn't affect the list in the dialer.
[Desire General] OnlinePredator:
Hey guys, I am finding the material used on the back/bottom front picks up marks very easily. For instance I put the cheap nexus one gel case on the phone which fit quite well, although has now left marks on the bottom corners and on the chin. This is only after 1 day.

By marks I mean that they are not scratches, but you look closely you can tell the surface is different from the rest of the device. I will try and post up pictures of in the next day or two.

Edit: Just took the gel case off and there is evident marks on the gel case of remnants of the back rubbery part of the phone. It's rubbing off!

REEDIT: Aha, used my desire to take a pic of the case lol
[Desire General] Fiouz:
Works fine here:

802.11g

Channel 4

Hidden SSID

WPA PSK CCMP/AES

Worth noting that current Linux wireless support may happen to be channel restricted (Google CRDA/regulatory domain) making some channels inaccessible depending on various parameters (driver dependent) whereas Windows can connect to them. As an example, channel 13 is allowed in France but isn't in the US. Maybe Android has the same issue.
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 23, 2010]

awesome don't know how I could have missed that, thanks.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] vlad69uk:
I only have Google accounts so cant test this any other way. When you create a new contact, you can add numbers email address etc, but there is no option to add a website address? i can log into gmail from a browser, add the website address there and that then sync's back to the phone, but i cant add from the phone!

anybody else experiancing this?

cheers

paul
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
You're right. That is very strange.

In fact, I kept digging in the Contacts application and discovered a couple of other bugs.

-Google Contacts and Android use different identifiers for Microsoft's instant messaging system. Android sees labels it as "Windows Live" while Google Contacts labels it as "MSN". So, once it syncs, the IM type changes to "None" in Google Contacts and on your device.

-If your contact info includes a website, tapping on it does not open your browser to take you there as you would expect. It doesn't do anything! That's not very well thought out.

I'll add these items to the 1st post on next update tmr.
[Desire General] Simon143:
Contact Default SMS Number

Where contacts have more than one number (even if they're not 'mobile' numbers), if you select "New message" from the messages tab in the phonebook, you get a "Phone numbers" prompt like you do with standard Android asking which to use. This is fine, but it does not have a "use this as default" checkbox like it should.

I raised this with HTC and got the following reply:

Sounds positive (ish), but does anyone know of a workaround in the meantime? The functionality definitely exists in the standard messaging/contacts application (I assume the contacts app is responsible, but I'm not sure).
[Desire General] NZtechfreak:
Number 40 is incorrect, it is not a matter of non-standard Genre's, as many of mine are stock (not to mention that some of the same genre display correctly). Its a matter of non-unicode tagging. Can be fixed with things like Media Monkey that allow to you clean all of one kind of tag by tagging standard, but if your collection is large like mine requires quite a bit of work re-tagging things.
[Desire General] andycted:
Some issues after a couple of days of use, maybe some are already mentioned, take them as confirmation:

- htc music widget/app only reads 100 songs max.

- (minor issue) when in airplane mode (mostly) I get a notification of not being able to set my time zone and must set it manually

- (minor issue) the browser is excellent, however when I select some text it shows me options for searching wikipedia/translate/can't remember, however I almost always need to search that term in google so I must copy text and paste in search bar

- no way to extend maximum browser windows (tabs) ?

and things I've discovered about android which I was quite shocked about, but I guess everybody knew and can be solved with rooting...

- no Obex Bluetooth file transfer

- market fingerprint issues prevent some application to show

- no native file explorer, no extended 'send as' as (for example) resco file explorer on winMo
[Desire General] Yogi Bear:
hey, anyone else find they have an audio lag when watching videos on applications like youtube, and sky news... anyone know a fix for this???

thanks
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Yup, I do have a slight lag sometimes on Youtube.
[Desire General] al89nut:
Default browser issues

A couple of annoyances in the HTC browser?

If you go to Google and search, you can't tap the little search magnifying glass to start the search after entering - you have to hit return on the keyboard. Or I do anyway.

And it seems impossible to visit Facebook natively? If I google it and then go there, I get a version identified in the address as http://touch.facebook.com/?w2m which is blank but tells me I can download for my Nexus One or go to the full site, but tapping none of the options buttons does anything. I can navigate to www.facebook.com/home.php and get the full display, but then there is no option at the bottom of the page to explore "older posts", it just carries the 20 or so most recent posts.

Why does it matter? Facebook for HTC only has the newsfeed, not most recent.

PS as you can check, touch.facebook works fine on laptop. On my desire = blank screen and dead buttons
[Desire General] angerized:
pink and scrambled camera

(moved to own thread, it's more than a small annoyance)
[Desire General] daesimps:
I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean. I used Tag'n'rename to set a lot of my tags to a genre of "Spanish", which is what confuses the Desire. What should I set them to in order for it to work?

I spend a lot of time making sure my ID3 tags are exactly to my liking. I have around 20,000 tracks so have invested a lot of time over the years to make sure they are spot on and really don't want to change the tags from "Spanish" to something else as they work fine on my media center, SONOS and my iPod touch.
[Desire General] NZtechfreak:
I have a large collection too, also meticulously tagged, also working perfectly in every other device I use, or have used (PC, PS3, HD2, i8910, N900, Xperia X1, N82 etc).

The problem is that some programs use more than one tag standard when applying tags, embedded album art appearing to be a particular problem (presumably wasn't available on earlier standards), rather than being non-standard tags. I know its not a non-standard tags issue (or at least not just a non-standard tags issue), as most of mine are reasonably standard, for instance some Rock and Metal albums not showing up in their respective genres, whereas others with exactly the same tag do. I have fixed it for some albums, by cleaning back to a single old tag standard, and then re-tagging album art (with Media Monkey). Doing the same should mean you can keep your Spanish tag.

Is is a serious hassle though, needs sorting ASAP. Quite a surprise having owned several HTCs before (although no Android, admittedly), and also knowing how robust my tagging is over so many different devices and operating systems...
[Desire General] ascot17:
Have you tried downloading the latest version of HTC synch?

http://www.htc.com/uk/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=312&act=sd&cat=all
[Desire General] daesimps:
Yep - on the latest version.

It's definitely the phone that's at fault. It doesn't show any form of connection options (the usual Charge Only, Disk Drive, Sync etc). A reboot of the phone immediately kicks it in to life.
[Desire General] MaTiCeK-:
Poor audio quality

Hi I just bought a Desire today, comming from an iPhone 3GS, I must say I am very dissapointed in the audio quality when recording videos or even only voice.

Is there any workaround or third-party app to get clearer audio?
[Desire General] joeboyc2:
Unable to specify end date for repetition in calendar

When setting up a repeating calendar entry, I.E days of the week for work, I am unable to specify an end date so the appointment runs forever and fills the calendar.

The only way I can see round this is to sync the calendar with Google and edit it when I'm at a computer.
[Desire General] Fiouz:
Display name for linked contacts forgotten

I use linked contacts (phone memory + Gmail + Facebook) and I like keeping different display names per service (Facebook+phone use realnames, Gmail uses nicknames).

For that I hit the Menu button on the link page of my contact and choose "Select contact name", then I can choose which name to display in the main people list and save the modification.

Well that appears to work but it doesn't: it happens that some time later the name of some of my contacts is restored to the Gmail nickname and I have to redo my modification.

How can I persist the contact name change?

Because of that issue I can't make sure I'll find my contacts by typing their name in search (since Gmail nickname doesn't match phone memory realname).
[Desire General] paulruk:
Sounds fine for me. I wouldnt gauge sound quality via the built in speaker as its poor (all treble and no mid/bass). But from headphones or watching on a PC the quality is perfectly acceptable.
[Desire General] daming:
VPN is not stable

I have PPTP accout, I setup a VPN connection works OK in first 3 to 5 minutes, and then the VPN still shows connection, but the fact I can not connect anything. I test the connection in my pc, it works fine.
[Desire General] Caister:
Anyone notice this post?!?!
[Desire General] Mike Philippens:
I didn't see this annoyuance in the OP:

When syncing with an Exchange server and this server demands a password on the device, you're forced to set a password to unlock the Desire. Even if you have pattern/gesture set to unlock it. Very annoying, because typing in a 4 character password everytime you pick up the device is not very handy. The pattern/gesture is easier and just as safe.

Fortunately, fellow countryman Jeroen Bossens has created Lockpicker that picks the lock of Exchange and disables the forced password.

Works like a charm! Just install and set it to run at startup and you're done. No more lockscreen!
[Desire General] MadKetch:
I have disabled google sync and even deleted all my contacts from there but still photos keep change to blury ones. So after further investigation I found out that same thing happens if you sync with outlook as well.

Further more even if :

i) you have not changed anything in outlook

ii) you have checked to keep the contact that have changed latest (phone side in my case)

contact photos in the phone will be updated to the "high quality" outlook ones.

If you place photos in your contacs (phone) then sync with oulook everything is fine. Next sync though, contacts in the phone will become blury(oulook ones propably) even if you have not made any changes in outlook or have checked to keep the most recently.

So as it is now no sync with google or outlook (2007) if you want to use photos for the contacts....
[Desire General] aljwatson69:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 23, 2010]

Does anyone else find that the homescreen Messages shortcut sometimes displays 1 unread message, even if you've read them all? Deleting the shortcut and adding it again resets it.
[Desire General] andycted:
I've solved a similar situation by enabling auto-sync, enabling Google sync, but disabling contact sync in the Google submenu. If I disabled auto-sync contacts would sometime sync anyway and the picture get blurred
[Desire General] MadKetch:
True but I am talking about outlook.

In both cases (Google-Outlook), the way out is not to sync which is hardly a solution in my mind since you don't use the feature at all.
[Desire General] cez10:
ok im confused,

if now i have got blurred contacts to get normal ones this is what i have to do, correct me if wrong:

1. export all the contacts to google

2. wipe all the contacts on the phone

3. sync/import contacts from google

4. disable contact sync

did i get that right?

thanks
[Desire General] andycted:
What I did was only disabling contact sync, then reselect contact pictures on the phone itself
[Desire General] andycted:
big issue I think

As mentioned in other posts, enabling WiFi is a one way process. When you disable it your 3g data connection isn't restored and you need to reboot or turn airplane mode on and then off.

Now my problem is that last time this happened it didn't recover not even after 3 reboot ! My 3g connection doesn't work anymore...
[HD2 General] deio:
Hello, My HD2 phone has weirdest issue, when someone calls me, I can still hear the ring, the sound of the ringtone, but also I can hear the caller if he or she says something, or if the caller is not talking to someone near him, I hear in the background hie environment or some day day I have heard a police car siren, or today I have heard people speaking, the caller was in a office with people talking. The funny thing is that the caller does not know that the phone is answering, otherwise he or she would say hello to me so I guess that the call is not established. I have tried the ghost writer cab with reduced sensitivity but without success. Could it be a carrier issue? I'm on Vodafone RO with HD2 ROM 1.66.405 and radio 2.08.50.08.
[HD2 General] digitalhater:
Very strange. I think my phone sometimes answers by itself...not sure if I press the button or something cause I keep it in the pouch all the time.

Keep us posted :)
[HD2 General] deio:
I have S2U2 installed , and the issue happens even when I leave the phone on a table. Maybe it has something to do with vibrating? Somehow the Answer/Ignore slider get itself moved when vibrating?
[HD2 General] deio:
Nobody? Everybody has a perfect phone? Please help.

Ok, so I have heard on this forum that other people have strange screen behavior, and a fellow member has same problem as me. Now I have installed the ghost fix 3.2 and I am waiting for improvements. There is still no fix for automatic answer, and someone confirmed that the talking is heard in speaker, not in earpiece.
[G1 General] Binary100100:
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for Android Notification

You just need to sign up and when the beta is released we should be notified.

Click here to sign up!
[G1 General] in_da_cloud:
signed up for the beta hope that our androids have full flash support next :D
[G1 General] lbcoder:
This is a TERRIBLE thing.

Flash should be boycotted.

Its only effect is to hinder the advancement of open web standards and keep us locked in 90's type content.

Flash appeared in 1996 to take advantage of missing web functionality and provide more interactivity (not to play videos). Nowadays, it doesn't actually provide anything useful -- videos can be played by MEDIA plugins and don't need to be flash-packaged. Interactivity can be provided by TONS of different mechanisms. There is NO USE for flash.

The only reason why ANYONE still uses it is because certain websites are TOO STUPID to ditch it! I.e., they got used to using it when it *was* useful, and never bothered to learn the RIGHT WAY to do things when it became possible to ditch it!

I VERY VERY STRONGLY suggest that you do NOT use flash plugins. LET FLASH DIE!!!
[G1 General] Binary100100:
I think that is pretty much along the same thing that Steve Jobs said about not implementing Flash to iPhone/iPad/iTouch devices. Although I agree with it but like you said yourself there are so many websites that won't ditch it. When something better comes around (not saying that there isn't already) then I'm sure that they will look forward to that as well. Until then... I want HULU! :D

Plus, I know that Netflix is wanting to implement their movie streaming services to Android sometime soon too! Can't wait!
[G1 General] mrollg:
I will be notified when its up ;)
[G1 General] bunu:
LOL. Calm down. I do agree with you that flash slows down web browsing with ads but that is why I downloaded AdFree from the market.:p HTML-5 is slowing taking over and Android 2.0+ is compatible with that already (or just need a simple plug-in). Anyway, we can use our phones to enjoy the FULL internet experience.
[G1 General] philosophics:
Signed up and ready!

And flash can die when I can have the ENTIRE web experience given to me by something else.

Until then, LONG LIVE FLASH!!!
[G1 General] cloverdale:
Finally, someone in the android community that understands this. Flash is not only guilty of the above, it also murders puppies.
[G1 General] Meltus:
Flash isn't gonna die any time soon.

It's like mp3. It's an awful lossy format that sounds terrible, yet, because it's so small everyone uses it, despite the fact formats such as OGGVORBIS give much better sound quality in a smaller file. Also, it's completely open source, which is always nice :)
[G1 General] lbcoder:
mp3 is open source.

flash, though the specifications are free, is NOT OPEN.

It is closed -- only decodable by a piece of proprietary garbage.

mp3 does NOT have this problem.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
... not if complete **IDIOTS** keep using it!!!
[G1 General] boostnek9:
Are you a anti-flash movement or something? geez leave it alone.. one guy on a XDA forum will not make a piece of software die so stop crying.

Too many people use it so instead of being close minded and say it's terrible blah blah open your mind and think, why not have flash AND others like plugins so everyone can enjoy or chose to use what they want. It's called best of both worlds.
[G1 General] Meltus:
"If you decide to sell your music in MP3 format, you are responsible for paying Fraunhofer a percentage of each sale because you are using their patents."

OggVorbis is completely free, which is what i was trying to explain :)

I'm not sure if that was aimed at me, but if so, well done for completely missing the point of my post...
[G1 General] Burko:
Translation:

" Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh. :'( "

A few people on a forum not downloading flash for Android will change absolutely nothing.

We are accessing the content, not publishing it........
[G1 General] lbcoder:
YOU are missing the point. This ISNT ABOUT distributing. This is about USING. MP3 encoders and decoders are available, FOR FREE. *ANYONE* can use it. Distributing commercial content in that format is subject to licensing fees. So what?

The point is that ADOBE is TERRIBLE at supporting their product -- flash. They took the better part of a DECADE TO SUPPORT AMD64, and that is only on linux.

Their software is terrible and buggy.

Only a MINORITY of web users are *ABLE* to use flash content (whether due to use of a platform adobe doesn't support, or due to DEFECTS in flash plugin).

It is also a HORRIBLE resource hog!

And to top it all off, there is NO REASON to use it! Everything it does can be done BETTER with things that are STANDARD. And FYI: These standard things actually WORK and use VERY LITTLE RESOURCES.

So please explain HOW it is to anyone's benefit to keep using this CRAP!

To kill it requires that EVERYBODY DOES NOT USE IT. Already right now MOST PEOPLE do NOT USE IT.

The more people do NOT use flash, the more web developers will realize that they are shooting themselves in the foot by using it!

If developers use the SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVES, then those sites will work for EVERYBODY, and flash will finally die.

Which means that people won't need to wait for adobe to support new platforms (without exception, this takes YEARS), or fix bugs (again, typically takes YEARS).

Also realize this: flash sites ***ARE VANISHING***. I can't think of ONE SINGLE SITE that still requires flash, except for youtube -- and it is going to vanish from there very soon... as soon as they decide on the appropriate video format (going to be ON8, theora, or h264).
[G1 General] Tawm:
Flash runs amazingly for me, until something better can do everything it does and better, Ill keep using it.

End of story.
[G1 General] Binary100100:
So you're saying that only YouTube uses Flash? Are you on crack?

One word... PORN. There are millions of sites out there that uses Flash based content too.

Then there are other sites such as Hulu. Huge site that is generating revenue off of their adds and soon as a paid membership service.

There are streaming sites like local news stations that deliver real time content to your hands.

Then there are Flash games as well.

Many cell phones are beginning to support Flash content because it is so common on websites. The more people that stare at their cell phones the more hooked they are on the service that their cellular company provides. Which mean more customers, more money, more profit. Notice that many of the phones these days are getting thinner but the screens are getting wider? Do you think it's because people just want to have a nice bright 4" screen on their hip or in their pocket? People use these new devices for multimedia and web browsing and not just for texting and making phone calls. Web browsing isn't complete if you can only browse wap and mobile friendly web pages. Flash is also a smaller file that is easy to stream... which is cheaper for cellular providers. Sure they may have to upgrade their network for the 34,000,000 subscribers that are watching last nights episode of Lost on their phones (hypothetical)... but they are investing in all of that anyway. Why do you suppose that is? For situations such as this. Should Flash disappear it would be an awful waste of research, development, sales and technology. Yes, there are alternatives... but are they more convenient than what we already have in place that works? If it's not broke, don't fix it. If Flash was going to become obsolete it'll more than likely be replaced by mp4. I can see your point of view but I can see how this multimedia evolution is progressing.

text> html colors > jpeg > gif > flash > mp4? > 3Dmp4 > Virtual Reality > Brain Implants
[G1 General] Meltus:
Wtf are you having a go at me for? i agree with you. :confused:

My point was, that like flash, there are better audio formats available that can do the job much better than mp3s, but because the majority of people don't really care and are not very knowledgeable on the subject, they see no reason to change. It's the same with flash. They don't know that there are any alternatives and, so they see no point in using anything different.

For developers, flash may not be the best thing to use, but EVERYONE has heard of it. From a marketing point of view, it's best to use a brand that you have heard of than one you haven't.

Why are you actually getting so worked up about this? You seem to be the ONLY person who actually cares, and next time, please actually READ my posts before you have a massive rant at me when i actually ****ing agree with you.

Also, only a minority of web users can use Flash? wtf? I'd quite confidently say the majority of web users are either on Windows or on a Mac. Both of which have fantastic flash support.