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[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Ok guys. Enough discussion on the 3g signal issue. It's obvious that there are people who suffer from the problem and some who don't. It may or may not be location or carrier specific. But the point is that this isn't a consistent issue that everybody experiences. As such, this won't make the list. But feel free to independently seek assistance from HTC.
[Desire General] Flaggie:
Regarding number 32, the news thing. It appears that the update released in the beginning of june solved that problem. On my phone it now shows publication time (in widget, I only use that), the only thing is that it doesn't update it self
[Desire General] bobpeers:
Exchange Meeting conflicts not shown

If you receive a meeting request in the mail application from your exchange account you are not warned that the meeting may conflict with another.

I've almost accepted meetings on top of each other and it's annoying to have to look in the calendar before I accept.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Found another one.

If you want to share something via gmail and have more than gmail 1 account set up on the phone, you have to go into gmail first and change account to the one you want to share with.
[Desire General] benleong2008:
This might be the solution. http://gszyszka.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-browse-internet-from-behind.html

Cant try it myself as I don't have a Desire yet. :p
[Desire General] ortonnorth:
Calendar notification sound.

A the moment I've got 2 separate calendars in my Desire (phone based and Google one) and I'm using HTC's calendar widget. Is it possible to set different notification sounds for each of the calendars?
[Desire General] tomvdp:
SMS Received Notification does not work, see this bug (and please star it) code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2305 (new user, cannot post a direct link)

Volume Buttons cannot be de-activated. I hate them. The volumes of things should be set using profiles and then it should be easy to switch between these profiles. Now I hit these buttons at every occasion. There is an app that switches volume back to some preset value, but it has no profiles. (and it doesn't really disable the buttons)

Cannot switch off the internet connection easily. I have a limited data plan and want to reduce internet traffic. Merely switching off the autosync is not enough to be sure no applications connect and do things I do not want them to do. E.g. Market just notified me it found some updates.
[Desire General] kimlindo:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Jun 10, 2010]

Dude, get some widgets. SwitchPro and Audio Manager Pro (think that's the name).

And maybe it's possible to disable the volume buttons in the system files. I f.e. have the power button disabled when the phone is locked and unlock it with menu instead.

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[Desire General] IceBone:
And if you hold down the power button, you can disable the Mobile Networks. It's right under the Airplane mode.

Or you could, you know, read a manual.
[Desire General] tomvdp:
Dudes, the power button...! Ok, thanks. :) Duh, there is even a default widget for it!

About the volume buttons, I 'll check the widgets kimlindo lists. But I swear I searched for a solution and could only find other users complaining about this problem.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
This reminds me that I should test out each of these issues since latest OTA update. I'll do that over the next couple of days and update the 1st post.

hmm...I'm 50/50 on this.

On 1 hand, this is what I'd expect the device to do if I have 2 Google accounts. That is, just use the default account to share (ie, whichever account is active).

On the other hand, I can see how this might annoy you. It would be good if the device prompts you to pick an account when you want to share something.

Anyone else want to chime in on this? Want this issue to make the list?

This isn't a Q&A thread...

But the answer is no (to the best of my knowledge, at least).

1. Added the SMS Received Notifications issue.

2. Every phone has volume rockers. I think you're going to have to learn to live with them...

3. As pointed out already, yes, you can switch off the internet connection easily. Long-press the power button to toggle "Mobile network". Or you can even use the "Mobile network" settings widget which is preinstalled.
[Desire General] penthane:
Try K-9 Mail. It supports multiple emailaccounts and it's free.
[Desire General] nokli:
Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong with genres for the music?

I used mp3tag to change to ID3 2.4, as stated to do on the workaround on page 1, but INDIE still shows up as UNKNOWN! :mad:
[Desire General] hubogoss62:
picasa international code

I had the same issue the second day I had my desire. Next day I tried again, it was okay. Don't know what happened

Another anoying thing one desire: when you want to share to people some picture, you can only send to first the email address of gmail contact. that's stupid

next stupid thing if you start typing whitout international code (and if your contact list has international phone only) it doesn't work

e.g: +3341234567890 is not identifiedautomatically by 04123456789 (french number with +33 code replaced by 0 locally)

I tried to find those "bug", I hope they were not already identified
[Desire General] mjoyce:
Contact photo cropping

I have tested this a few times.

Add a large jpg as a contact photo and crop a small section.

When the contact is saved the cropping is lost.
[Desire General] smrau:
HTC desire phone book

Hi to all!

I have uploaded my mobile contacts from prev phone to HTC desire, but now i have all of them under Gmail contacts. I'd like to move them under Phone contactsm but i don't know how. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks!

Andrej
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
1. Don't know what you're talking about. When you're in the Photos application and use Share and then pick either Mail or Gmail, you are just presented with a blank email with the photo attached. You can type whatever you want in the "To" field...

2. Your international code thing is a carrier issue. I'm in Hong Kong and I have some numbers that include the intl code +852 and my carrier recognizes it just fine as a local number.

May have something to do with the photo file used. But anyway, this isn't a consistent issue that plagues everyone.

Did something happen while I was away that I didn't know about? When did this become a Q&A thread?! :)

Don't know the answer to your question. But what would be the advantage of having your contacts under Phone rather than Google?
[Desire General] ljesh:
I don't think you understood his complaint :)

That cannot be fixed and I think it's a normal thing, but you still didn't understood his complaint :)
[Desire General] clarkgable:
I've just had my phone mini-crash, which has needed me to reinput my sim pin code, and now I've lost my text messages! Not sure why, but all non-SIM card text messages have disappeared?! Has anyone had anything similar happen? Is there a way of getting them back? Not a major problem, as I have them backed-up on Gmail, but just interested to know of anyone has suffered something similar.
[Desire General] ljesh:
This is not a Q&A thread damn it.

I am subscribed to this thread and got tired at visiting it just to see someone having individual problems. Open a new thread with your issue, that is not general Desire problem.
[Desire General] clarkgable:
calm down. you sound like an tired old woman.

...and it may be more of a problem than you realise, unless you know of each individual HTC Desire and how they are used out there. That is why this is a DISCUSSION forum (damn it)

:-)
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Ok guys, let me step in before this turns into a flame war. Here are my thoughts:

1. No name calling please.

2. While this is a discussion forum, please stay on topic.

3. This isn't a Q&A thread.
[Desire General] hubogoss62:
No I tried to share pictures using picasa.

After sending pictures to picasa web, you can share with your contacts. But you can only select the first email adress included in your gmail contact. The other one are not displayed. So you can't select them

No let me explain again.

When I tried to call a contact starting with 04 12..., it should show me all the contact starting with +33 4 12...

That function doesn't work.

I have to start typing +33 4 12 ...which is not user frindly in my opinion.

My previous phone (HTC HD2) had that function

First use.. no luck! :)
[Desire General] ediflyer:
I can confirm this bug on Desire in the UK too. I actually hadn't noticed it until now as I tend to dial by name (e.g., 4 6 6 3 gives 'home'), but you're quite correct (I have my contacts all listed in international format).
[Desire General] lolleren:
week number bug when start of week is set to monday

Calendar bug

There's a week number bug when "start of week" is set to monday it starts counting weeks, one week early in december.

Workaround: set start of week to sunday.
[Desire General] drdino:
Hello!

I asked the same thing in the general Android thread, but maybe it is more appropriate here...

Is there any known issue with pairing bt devices? I have a bt obd dongle for my car and my Desire doesn't seem to be able to recognize it, let alone pair with it.

The dongle works fine with my D2, so it is not broken itself...
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
1. I've never used Picasa. I'm more of a Flickr user, so I've never even set up Picasa on my Desire. And I can't figure out how to do it. So I can't comment on your issue. Perhaps someone else can chime in on this to verify?

2. Ok, I got it now. Added to 1st post.

I know what you're referring to. But I'm not convinced this is a bug. I don't know how to explain this. But just go to Jan 1 in week view. Compare it if you start the week on Monday vs Sunday. You'll see what I mean.

Again, this isn't a Q&A thread. I've had no issues pairing my bluetooth headset.
[Desire General] ediflyer:
There are definitely some issues with the Desire's BT implementation though - see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=658929. It's by no means universal, but it does seem to have issues with some systems (my Desire pairs with a Jabra headset fine but has recurrent issues with my Audi A3). In my case this has gone to escalated support within HTC and they sent me an error report form from a technology company called 'novero' to complete regarding the issues.
[Desire General] andycted:
Read the first post and skimmed the whole thread again, don't think I've seen these very minor issues:

- Calendar widget in month view sometimes gets stuck, especially at reboot, and doesn't populate events, i.e. the entire month is empty. Wait a couple of minutes and it goes back to working.

- Calendar widget week starts with sunday even if calendar application is set to monday. Maybe due to phone language being english ?

- People widgets sometimes acts strange, possibly repopulating/refreshing itself, contacts are misplaced for an instant and then moved back to normal order.

By the way, about the bluetooth stack, I seemed to have some rare problems with 1.15 but none since last update and/or installing richardtrip kernels.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
1. Yes, I get this sometimes too. But like you said, it's not consistent.

2. Strange, I don't experience this. If I change the start of week to Monday or Sunday, the widget changes accordingly as well.

3. Yes, same here. But again, it can't be consistently reproduced and the issue goes away in about a second.
[Desire General] andycted:
Tried changing locale, no luck. Nevermind. I find the not populating calendar widget way more annoying

[EDIT] now, that's strange: I've tried changing start day to sunday and then back to monday, and now it works !!
[Desire General] Jinson7:
VPN

I see a lot of messages about VPN dropping the connection but I cannot even get the initial connection to my vpn. Anyone else have this issue (PPTP)?
[Desire General] kimlindo:
My connections drops often. And when I get out from the tube sometimes it takes like 5-10 minutes before I get a connection at all. Pretty annoying when your going somewhere and want to use Google maps straight away.

This may be because of my carrier (three) though, not sure.

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[Desire General] soupbones:
I think you may be correct here. I have a similar issue. Im in Australia, in NSW in outer south west Sydney at a place called Narellan. I find that when I refresh my weather a lot of the time it defaults to a place not to far away called Menangle which is about 20km away. It may do this, because the router I have also I bought of a friend of mine, who, you guessed it, lives near Menangle. So you may be right, Googles street view has taken the MAC address of this router and tried to pin me at the routers old location.
[Desire General] drdino:
I don't think that that's the case... Google maps has placed me several times in Central USA, other ones somewhere in Africa. I am certain that my router hasn't been there... Perhaps it's a glitch within the algorithm...
[Desire General] YaPaY:
I do not like the email system of Android. Gmail is good but I can not add any different email like pop3. Therefore, I'm using K9-Mail with gmail and pop3. When I receive an email I mixed up which program downloaded it. I find to use two different email program is meanless.

Also I find the wireless receiver of desire a bit weak.
[Desire General] smacdo11:
Calendar: 54. events not sync properly- only one month of calendar events are synced in past. This is problem of Goolge and Android as it seems that only 30 plus days of past events are set.

Workaround is here on xda developers I think. It involves switching off sync and wifi and 3g. Changing date manually to say 2006 or 2002. Flush out cache of calendar and then restart wifi and 3g with a manual sync. Then you can change time to current and set up auto sync. seems to work fine for me...
[Desire General] adrianx26:
hello to all

please add this

for the video camera

the camera from desire can record 800x480 and 640x480 but no 720x480 support (aka 480p), for the 720p will wait the froyo update.

also on video recording menu are missing one big option and this is the frame rate setting

for the photo meniu....

we have face detection but no eye close detection or smile detection

and no burst mode

on the wifi ... no setting for b or g standard, I also dont know if the desire support n standard
[Desire General] desiregeek:
Contacts:

1)Under phone contacts you can not another mobile number or customize the details like you can with other phones. You can do this with Google contacts but if you do not want to sync your details with google this should not mean that one can not have more then 1 mobile number. As an example I have many friends that have more then 1 mobile number that travel in Asia. Many have different mobile numbers in different countries but the HTC contacts only allows you to have 1 mobile number.

2) Under contacts if you put a number under fax or home it lists is again on the bottom once saved for texting purposes. I believe this is an error that needs to be fixed. Why on earth would one want to text a home,work or fax number? Texting should be an option that comes up for mobile numbers only. When I open up my contacts list I have a whole list of numbers of which are basically duplicates due texting option for each number.
[Desire General] mercianary:
sim/sdcard

you can put the sim card in any direction, on most phones there is a physical block stopping you from putting it in wrong, if you dont have very good eyes you could be forgiven for not seeing the very small pic on the back showing you which way to insert.

you need to remove battery to get at the sdcard, even though android would let you remove it while still on.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
1. You need to properly config your notification settings.

2. Wireless receiver performance is subject to location and carrier.

This doesn't seem related to item 54. But it's a good tip nonetheless for getting the calendar to sync more than 30days in the past. (very bruteforce method...)

1. It was never officially stated that the Desire will support 720p video recording.

2. Frame rates are controlled automatically and fluctuate depending on amount of light. More light means higher frame rates. Less light means lower frame rates to compensate.

3. You need to manage your expectations. Nobody expects the Desire to replace your digital cam. And again, it was never advertised to have these features.

4. Your wifi receiver will automatically detect and switch between B and G. Never stated to support N.

1. I honestly don't know the reason for this. But I suspect that there's a legitimate one. Besides, the device actually warns you that "some contact fields may be lost" if you switch to Phone contact. Anyway, here's what you can do. Add your contacts as Google contacts. Then just toggle off the Google Contacts sync.

2. Read 1st post?

1. You're right on this one. I actually loaded it wrong the 1st time. But it can only potentially happen once; unless you swap SIM cards all the time and you forget which way the card goes in every single time.

2. Hardware limitation. Every text/video reviewer mentioned the non-hot-swapable microSD.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Would be nice if there was an option to mount the sd card again, if you unmount it by accident, so you don't have to reset the phone.
[Desire General] dragonithe:
i don't know if it's mentioned already, but if your phone memory drops below 10% you can't install or update apps through the android market.

so on the desire you always have to keep about 15mb free so you can just update apps trough the maket ...
[Desire General] IceBone:
Found another one which is quite bizzare or might be just my phone... I added some mp3s to my sdcard/Podcasts/ and played them just fine with the built-in music player, however they didn't show up in the album (different issue). If I pressed back or home, the playback would stop. Then I moved the files to sdcard/Music/Podcasts/, they suddenly appeared in the album and if I pressed home or back during playback this time, the playback would continue in the background. Is this cause the album did not update or because they were just not in the music dir?

I'm puzzled about this one.

EDIT: figured it out. If you start the file from a browser or download section of the browser, the file will play in a chizzled down version of the player (no playlist or album buttons, just play and pause) and if you back or home out of that one, the playback will stop.
[Desire General] sebob:
Hello all,

I found something that I didn't see in the forum (or I didn't search enough !) and is a "flaw".

When I'm watching video on youtube (with the dedicated app), the video is "cropped" (like zooming in, so that some part are out of the screen).

Does anyone noticed that ? Is there a fix ?

Thank you.

Seb.
[Desire General] WhiT3Kr0w:
Didn't see it listed in the first post. A very annoying issue that seems to bother HTC Desire owners.

We cannot select a wallpaper for the Lock Screen without changing the Home Screen wallpaper as well.

As per HTC Desire manual we should be able to do so under Settings-Personalize-Lock Screen Wallpaper. The problem is that there is no such option there. Only Home Wallpaper is there.
[Desire General] RicardoPT:
android it's a chiel on the world of windows phone....he needs grow up
[Desire General] slyb2:
1. I can`t edit/ copy/ cut an email that I want to forward or reply. (not in gmail app, nor in exchange mail) to use apps like K9 for this is joke. I didn`t expect this from android &this is really a dealbreaker for me if I don`t solve it.:eek:

2. if I set a unlock pattern I still have to do the "standard" unlock gesture first (is this from the sense ui?) :confused:
[Desire General] wssa01:
Have the same problem. Searched posts but unable to find reply or fix. Have you found the problem and workaround??
[Desire General] faceN:
In reply to:

Browser

2. Internet bookmarks can't be organized into folders...

May I suggest a nice solution for organizing your bookmarks into folders: BookmarkTree app. Find it on the Market.
[Desire General] chasepack:
Hi All,

is there any way to 'fix' the video recoding frame rate of the Desire camera?

say fix it t 15fps or 25fps or 30fps rather than having it dynamic as default?
[Desire General] tims31:
Hey Quicksite,

Do you have a link to the "Rock on" player please?

Can't find this player at all.

Ta
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
RockPlayer
[Desire General] quicksite:
I have to look. sorry. With these darn apps, it is easy to become "unfaithful" to your mate, and start screwing around with another app while still playing with the previous one.

I wonder if I have used ROCK ON since being on THE HERO... I don't recall seeing it on DESIRE. The Music Player I am using on the DESIRE that I love is called "CUBED" -- but is is found via search as "3" -- the number 3, and in the exponent 3, or cubed.

Great great interface and i think the best 2x2 home widget i have ever seen on any music play on android in terms of efficiency and layout, for easy access in a car, or walking, or in a cradle by your desk or bedside.

As the full app, it has multiple BROWSE METHODS, including its original "cube" -- which was its original gimmick --- it's cool, but i moved on from that long ago, its' not efficient. It has FAR better choices now re browsing. And it's angled album covers just add visual interest.

I like it a lot --- but as to equalizer, i don't think so... SO i now need to go back and revisit ROCK ON. I still have my Hero so i will look and see.

ANOTHER SUGGESTION: Have you checked MORTS PLAYER?

"Mort" is one of the real veterans of XDA-devs - and he pioneered some of the great Windows Mobile apps back in the day -- THANK GOD HE TOO HAS GONE ANDROID! because he brings almost a decade of deep deep experimentation and experience with his MORT PLAYER music player for Windows Mobile.

Why is that relevant? because he learned through so many iterations, from PEOPLE USAGE, all of the variations of feature sets people really want and use... This is not a PORT. He built his android app from ground up, of course. But he condensed all those years of experience into building his music player.

I don't think it's THE BEST, YET. But it may well become the best, and Im saying check to see if it has an equalizer, because that would be something he would do. He may not have gotten to it yet, but i can guarantee he will. His even larger contribution to the WM ecosystem was creation of Mort Script -- a highly configurable user friendly set of action scripts that app developers could use to access common functions across multiple apps, or introdudce some uniformity in usability design for people wanting to add all sorts of customizability to various apps whose controls you couldn't easily get to -- but HE GOT TO , and then let you get to easily with Mort Script.

Android is its own beast so we will see how he approaches this OS, but just a (lengthy) head's up that when you see MORT as developer's name in Android Market, ALWAYS worth a try.
[Desire General] quicksite:
Hi, just clarifying, since you are a minimalist :)

You are simply taking this opportunity to let people know about this great new VIDEO multimedia player, right? --- as opposed to suggesting this is the Rock On app the previous poster was asking about, right?
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
OK. I've got the message. Actually, I made mistake because I thought that conversation is about video player. Everything else can be seen on my link. But yes, you have right :)