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[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

Seems weird and inconsistent...

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Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] IceBone:
Yeah, mine's a bit to the right too.

The trackpad as well.
[Desire General] danielch:
will you guys send this list to HTC so they can include the fix in the next update?
[Desire General] Jon_010:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

Has anyone else got an issue where they wake up in the morning and the phone seems to think it doesn't have any signal? It has the no network icon (empty bars with cross above) but it still works! I'm writing this with that very issue right now!

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[Desire General] msetten:
Removing contact from Favorites group removes it from the list of all contacts

Not sure if this is a problem everyone has, or just me: yesterday, I removed a contact from the group "Favorites" (so it woundn't show up on the HTC contacts widgets anymore). I did this by editing the contact, and clicking on the groups button and deselecting the Favorites groups. After saving it disappeared completely from the list of all contacts.

I could still find the contact via another group that it was assigned to, but not in the list of all contacts. Even when going to Google Contacts via a webbrowser, I could not find it in the list of all contacts, but only in a group that it was also assigned to.

I also did find a way to solve the problem if this happened. In Google Contacts, just edit the contact from another group it it assigned to and save it again. That will add it to the list of all contacts again. But it is still annoying that it happens in the first place.
[Desire General] lathamj:
Mic mute problem

My wife and I both have the Telstra HTC desire with stock Roms.

Both our phones have the problem of about half incoming calls when answered, our microphone is muted. We can hear the other person but they can not hear us... no matter how loud we yell. The mic is not covered and when the other party hangs up and calls back, it always works.

It appears that when coming out of sleep mode to answer the call, the mic is sometimes muted but not always. If the device is on, there is never a problem.

Really need some help on this as it makes the phone almost useless.

We sent one back to Telstra for testing and it came back as no faults found. But the problem still continues.

Any help very much appreciated.
[Desire General] IceBone:
I fear this one might have gotten lost as the last post of a page. Anyone have any clue?
[Desire General] Mikeyy:
Probably some of these already got mentioned, but I'll write when I have entered into my bug list:

1. Calendar not having landscape (horisontal mode)!! Very annoying since I use it good part of day.

2. In calendar AGENDA view, when you delete and entry it takes you back to latest calendar entries... I'm usully deleting OLD (month or two entries) and every time I delete one I must go back to delete another.

3. Answering call by vertical pull, every time I pull it from pocket I either dissmis it or answer... I wanted to use different lock screen but couldn't find tutorial on how to do. I'm new to android and everything on my phone is on default.

4. I'm unable to sync phone contacts with gmail, more exactly, I'm unable to transfer contacts from PHONE to GMAIL, it works other way around... not sure why.

5. Unable to send contacts via SMS... Why!? Nokia has it since forever.

6. Unable to sort contacts globaly by last name

7. VCARD import from SMS not working. Picture is shown, when I press it it says "Contact imported sucessfuly", but there is no new entry in phone contacts.

8. Unable to search/add new contacts in landscape (horisontal) mode

EDIT:

9. Unable to set DEFAULT alarm sound to some custom song, I can add custom alarm sound but I pick it from dropdown list every time I set new alarm
[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

yea this is annoying cos video quality in the youtube app is so much better and smoother.

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[Desire General] TractorMatty:
Workaround for not being able to sync the Google World Cup calendars

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[Desire General] TractorMatty:
Workaround for not being able to sync the Google World Cup calendars

With regards to not being able to sync Google Sports calendars, I found this site which will add the schedule for you.

Just click on the Google Calendar link below "Choose your calendar below" to add it, and it it'll sync to the phone just fine. :D
[Desire General] Mikeyy:
Thank you! :)
[Desire General] poldie:
There's a bug which seems to affect different phones which is that vibrate stops working for text messages, emails, phone calls etc. People have resorted to factory resetting their phone to fix it. Following from recommendations I've read online I installed `sound manager` and this can be used to fix it. Clearly something somewhere turns off the `vibrate during alert` option in a way which cannot then be re-enabled via standard settings. This is probably something which can be fixed in a few mins by Google.
[Desire General] Nightstalker79:
There is the issue where the sd card would unmount randomly, for some its ebuddy for others there is just no good cause for it as they do not have ebuddy installed. Then there is the annoying unmount button in sd card settings, they let you unmount but there is no need for it since you have to yank the damn battery to get it out anyway and they just forgot to put a button to mount the sd card back, which would have helped with the random unmount problem a little bit, now we need to find works around for it for some it means rebooting the phone.
[Desire General] ediflyer:
Happens to me too on an unrooted Desire - going into airplane mode doesn't always fix it either, sometimes needs a full reboot. Seems more of an issue when leaving WiFi when in an area of mobile poor reception.
[Desire General] cnic:
Am I the only one that has real real bad reception on his Desire ?

It shows me 2bars in 3G, i start downloading something from the internet .. it goes to NoBars in 3g, then switches to 2bars in H and gets the job done, or worse from H to G..

And it fluctuates like hell... Dropped calls inside the house where my Nokia 6300 has full stable signal..

Maybe you can point me to another thread ... We should HTC now about this really really anoying issue.. it is A PHONE after all ...
[Desire General] kobe1326:
My keyboard,both normal and HTC_IME doesn't seem to work sometimes.I type and while the letters look like they are pressed,no text appears on screen.Anybody else has this problem and knows how to fix it?Phone not rooted,restored recently, problem remains.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Something that annoyed me today. I was doing a lengthy video to test out the video capabilities of the phone. The total length of it was 33 minutes, it was recorded at 800x480 and in mpeg4. The actual video ended up without an audio stream and the video stream broke at 17:33 and just showed the 1st frame for the last 15 minutes. I tried it in mpc, vlc, mplayer and adobe premiere, mpc and vlc both crashed, mplayer and premiere displayed the problems I described above. First I thought that after 17:33, the video just breaks due to format restrictions, but I did another 25 minute video and it was fine. Then I thought that maybe an email notification might have broken it, but I did a test where I sent myself an email while recording and you can hear the notification just fine in the video and nothing breaks.

Anyone have any clue what might have happened?
[Desire General] poldie:
Orange UK?
[Desire General] benko286:
Anybody can confirm that Auto update in RSS News does NOT work?
[Desire General] Krpano:
Yeah, this 3G/wifi switch thing is awful and annoyiiiiiing.

I noticed that it will happen when i spend too much time on Wifi.

I believe the 3G lose its registration with the network and when leaving the wifi, it wont re-register automatically.

The easiest way is to have a shortcut to the APN options, then go to NETWORK OPERATORS > SELECT AUTOMATICALLY.

This will register with the network and get your 3G going as it should.
[Desire General] cnic:
Vodafone RO...
[Desire General] andycted:
Big image quality in browser

I think you skipped this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=669663

which relates to big image quality on any browser/connection (not just stock one/3G)

Any advice ?
[Desire General] Jayne:
email notifications

Can't seem to be able to change the email notification sound to a different sound than for a text.... not sure why as the se xperia 10 can do this and that has the lower android system any ideas??
[Desire General] al89nut:
Not for me. Manual only
[Desire General] benko286:
So yet another bug in HTC Desire....
[Desire General] simon12:
I posted this in its own thread but perhaps this is a better place:

I added a gmail ac and now I get no notifications for emails from my non-gmail ac via the flashing led or a vibrate, although I do get an envelope in the notification bar. I got them all before and all the correct settings are ticked for vibrate and flashing led. Have read others have this problem and it seems to be linked to having a gmail ac and not a googlemail which I had previously. All other notifications are fine - just email where it doesn't work. Anyone have any answers?
[Desire General] badgerz:
Does anyone else have the issue that the 'Messages' icon seems to have a '1' on it sometimes, even when I have no unread messages?
[Desire General] cnic:
+1 , yes and not only in messages. Some time it shows on contacts .. or even a "2" .. and if I enter and exit it dissapears ... funny :|
[Desire General] naguz:
49 is false. It does take a "long" pres to turn in the phone?

Another problem:

The phone sometimes refuses to connect to mobile data. It seems like it is happening sometimes when I walk out of wifi range.

I then have to turn airplane mode in and off, or swhtch from WCDMA+GSM to only GSM and then back in network settings, before it will connect again. Extremely irritating.

A pastebin can be found here, sorry it is som messy, I'l try to grab the log faster next time, so I can filter out the nonrelevant stuff. You can se me try to connect to miside.uib.no as well as a few other adresses without luck. It seems like the phone doesn't even TRY to make a data connection.

I have Mobile data always on, and Iæm thinking that might trick the phone to think it's still connected to mobile data, even when it isn't because it has been connected to wifi for a long period of time. So instead of making a new connection (which it should), it think it already has a mobile data connection.Does that make any sense?
[Desire General] Fon22:
This is alerting you to something

Go into the contact using contacts, (not messaging app etc)

And swipe the bottom of the phone to look at different options.

It will be telling you to send them a birthday message, or link two contacts that android think are the same person etc.

Fon22
[Desire General] naguz:
Confirmed. Same problem I just reported, and I have stock generic ROM.
[Desire General] Tsjoklat:
I have tagged my MP3 files with the album art embedded inside each one for quick loading. Unfortunately, it seems like the default HTC music widget will only display album art up to the first 100 songs it finds in alphabetical order. Any albums after the 100 songs are not scrollable within the widget.

Another bug I have found is that some of the installed program's data does not get fully removed after the program is uninstalled. I had 40MB of internal storage free at first, then I performed a factory wipe and reinstalled the exact same applications.. now I have almost 80MB free. That is a huge difference and it was not cache taking up the disk space.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Is it possible to increase the quality of the recorded audio in the camcorder app? Currently it's pathetic.
[Desire General] Mike Philippens:
I know it's a feature of Exchange and setup by the administrator. It's not the security mease itself I don't like, but the fact that I have to go through it every time I pick up the device. And it also forces me to use a password of at least 4 characters. It's a pain when you have to do that just when you want to check something.

To secure the device, I setup the 'gesture' or pattern to unlock the Desire. Quite safe enough for me, and a lot easier to do than a 4 character password. Unfortunately the Exchange program on Android doesn't know/recognize the patter unlock as a security measure.

So...in the end I'm still secure with Lockpicker.
[Desire General] Lekselius:
This is by far the most annoying thing with the desire. Ive tried a number of suggested solutions but no one has been totally satisfying for me. I would like an app that would allow me to access the alarms/alerts put in snooze. This should be possible since if you have one or more alarms on snooze and get a new event that you do not snooze you will still have the alert on the status bar and from that you can access also the snoozed events.

Is there an app that can bring upp allpending events, including the snoozed?

Apart from that I'm very pleased with the device.
[Desire General] tifosi256:
This one drove me nuts until I discovered a couple of apps from the Market Place: EboBirthday and EboBirthday Contact Sync.

This pretty much solves the problem, as well as giving a nice notification of upcoming birthdays in the notification area.
[Desire General] sogasa76:
General:

The color is able to change of the light of notifications and choose if it blinks or not, please.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Is it possible to change the colour of the calendar entries in the agenda (colour of the actual calendar)? I have 1 main calendar, which has blue entries, then every other calendar I add shows as red and red only. :( It would be nice if one could distinguish the different ones.

EDIT: it would seem the Desire doesn't support as many colours as gcal and it clumps some colours into standard red. For instance, the top right green doesn't work and shows up red, but the green 2nd from left 2nd from bottom works as green. There's some other colours that don't work either, so it's an issue of trial and error to find a colour that does work.
[Desire General] wjp:
calendar

Desire calendar does not support Private and Personal settings, any workarounds?
[Desire General] alio993:
When i try and connect to my university login page (https://now.ntu.ac.uk) i get the following error:

In a box headed: Data connectivity problem "The server failed to communicate. Try again later"

It happens every single time. Any way to get round this?
[Desire General] Nightstalker79:
Capacitative screen annoys the hell out of me in games, I love the responsiveness, but bejeweled or mahjong is near impossible without the accuracy of a resisitive screen. Its only passable as a keyboard input because of the smart auto complete, auto corrections of HTC software, otherwise I would have thrown my desire out of the window long ago.
[Desire General] samac92:
The iPhone does a capacitive keyboard very well, and google have admitted the android keyboard needs work. So hopefully we'll see an improvement in the future.
[Desire General] iyanic:
Picasa uploads corrupted

I just uploded some pictures from my desire to picasaweb.

It uploads, but the fotos are cut off(gray bar like 1/5 of the foto size) :confused:
[Desire General] gurdian:
could someone confirm with me that i'm not the only one who thinks that the desire sound quality (when phone is to ear) is pretty lousy?

people on the other end of the line sound 'metallic' and 'robotic'

would appreciate some feedback on this. thanks
[Desire General] ronaldo9_r9:
guys i want to delete all google contacts and want to keep phone contact how do i do that. i cant find option to delete google contacts.
[Desire General] butterwo:
The Calendar Snooze app does it for me.
[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

Can't say that I've had any problems with sound quality when in a phone call. It's quite clear for me.

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[Desire General] technogeek:
android.process.media

My Desire fails with the following error message:

Sorry! The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. [Force close]​

This problem started when I added (a lot) of photos to my SDcard. I have over 60,000 photos in 1024x768 resolution.

Any suggestions? At the moment I am using JustPictures to view my photos, but I would like to see this resolved.
[Desire General] poldie:
It's hard to see how changing the `android keyboard` will do anything about the capacitive screen, what with it being a piece of hardware. Personally I have no problem with accuracy, though. What's supposed to be the problem. Do you press somewhere but the event is registered somewhere else?
[Desire General] poldie:
What app are you using? If you've got a lot of photos and are using an app to process them then perhaps it's taking a long time and Android thinks there's a problem and kills the app that's processing them.

Actually, thinking about it, how many pictures do you have? See if you can locate the point where there are `too many` pictures. One possibility is that the limit is 65535 pictures - that number is the highest which can be represented with 16bits. If your phone is ok with fewer pics, and magically goes wrong with more then that could be the issue.
[Desire General] poldie:
Are you asking a question? It's a short press to turn on the phone, in case you are.
[Desire General] technogeek:
No, I haven't gone past 65,000 (yet).

The JustPictures viewer works just fine, but the OS based functionality is broken. I seems that the internal process wants to scan all directories for pictures and index them somehow. I guess the process times out.

Why so many pictures? I travel a lot, and like to take my picture collection with me, much like others who travel with their audio collection.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Hey guys, I'm just back from my holiday. I'll need some time to go through all the posts since my last one. Will update 1st post shortly afterwards!
[Desire General] Gana1991:
I think I've found another flaw. When low on battery and listening to music, you need to unlock screen to change track. This is because when you press the power button, you get a message saying 'Please connect to charger'.

Any workarounds?
[Desire General] Blackxx:
There is another inconvenience with Google Calendar on Android (HTC Desire): You cannot move an event between calendars. This can only be done in the web app.

(For example, I am using to to move events from the main calendar to the secondary "Main - Done" calendar.)
[Desire General] killer1313:
Mail and sms flaws

I didnt find anybody write about this:

1. Cant edit forward mail

2. Cant copy/paste part of sms only the whole

3. Cant send/receive vcard (workaround is to install app from market)

4. Anoying loud sound when powering on device

5. Htc gallery cant multiselect photos but nexus 3d gallery can

6. Cant remove facebook/flicker/picassa on share window

7. Very easy to unlock in pocket

8. Bad sound call (my device)

9. Sometimes contact synch works only one way (gmail account to phone)

Thats for now. Hope I dint duplicate some flaws from earliers post. :)
[Desire General] Nightstalker79:
On point 4, use silent boot, its a free app in the android market, silence the phone when powering down.
[Desire General] Nightstalker79:
Its very hard getting an accurate press when there are several buttons packs together like the keyboard. It would often register an I when I needed the U for example, its only the autocompletions/word suggestions that is making it bearable.
[Desire General] Azurael:
Okay, this one's driving me mad. Look at the bottom of your desire - compare with HTC Logo and USB port placement; notice that the optical trackball isn't _exactly_ in the middle?! How irritating :p
[Desire General] IceBone:
Not only that, my trackball isn't even right in the middle of its socket, either... :(
[Desire General] cnic:
+1 yes ... I lost my vibration for sms/calls/etc also
[Desire General] psycho.ro:
cannot disable "face down silent" feature. - missing calls
[Desire General] psycho.ro:
I feel the same way about this. +1
[Desire General] cpainchaud:
Why did you tell me that ??? I am about to throw it by the window now :p
[Desire General] acidoverflow:
I don't know if it's a general problem, but if I'm connected to wifi and phone goes to Standby, I can't surf after activating it again. I have to shutdown wifi manual and reconnect again.

Does anybody else have this problem?
[Desire General] fmervin:
Is there any way to change the settings location in the HTC desire? Currently it puts everything in the root of the SD card making it a pain to search for my folder (personal, highlighted in red below). These are the list of folders I currently have in my SD card and it is only 1 I'm just interested in :confused:

It would be nice if it could confine all settings folders under one folder like HTC_Settings or similar then I wouldn't have to hunt for my data :mad:

Anyone else finds this annoying? Any workarounds?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Nope, works just fine here.
[Desire General] refelian:
Some issues I encountered today (not sure if they are isolated to my phone)

When turning of my bluetooth headset bt3030 while playing music made the phone freeze and than suddenly restart. First time I remember it happening to me

Second weird thing is that I got a text message from myself...... (I am not kidding) It said 'to call me back'. Which in itself is weird since I can't even find that template on my phone. Furthermore the phone was locked while being in my pocket. (Although I'll admit, I'm a bit tempted to call :D)

Some perspective would be nice guys!
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Don't worry...mine isn't either! It took me a few days and a couple of failed attempts to move it over with my fingernail to realize...it is just the design :mad:

Anyone else having trouble getting a "playlist" to sync correctly onto their phone?

I tried to sync a rather large "playlist" with WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER and when I checked it on my phone...it was completely out of order...WTF?!
[Desire General] refelian:
Wrong forum? HTC Desire is an Android phone, not an windows mobile phone...
[Desire General] benchMarc:
Yes, if it's recognized as a phone number it will. It's even not necessary to hold then, you can also just tap on it. But my question is about when it's nog recognized as a phone number. So for example, it won't see 443 as a phone number in the browser. But let's say i just want to copy/past that number into the dialer. How i'm going to do that? There seems no way for it.
[Desire General] marksteel:
I can't edit or view my contact card.

I have contacts synced via google mail and facebook HTC Sence. Also due to this, when browsing my SMS with contacts pics on show, my picture is now blank!

I've searched and searched for a fix for this. Seems many people are having the same problem.

Can anybody help??
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
No! I'm in the right forum with the right phone...I just said the wrong thing. I meant to say WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER.

Now that that is clear...anyone have any "helpful" advice?
[Desire General] psycho.ro:
sound quality is pretty low for this high end terminal. My old P1i was better.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Oh, ****ing great, I just broke my scroll pad on my phone, I actually managed to push it to the middle with my finger nail, but now it won't respond...
[Desire General] refelian:
Right, in what order was it in? alphabetically by any chance?

I know that in regard to album playlists it works properly, but I will give it a try later and sync it with my playlist and see in what order it will play on my desire