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[Desire General] Giland:
Exchange Security

If you want to use the lock pattern (Gesture) instead then you can do the following:

1. Delete your exchange Setup on the phone.

2. Go into Security and setup a lock pattern.

3. Once that is done and tested readd your exchange account.

4. Download the app called LockPicker from Market place.

5. Go into the program and enable the Override.

6. Enjoy the new way of unlocking your phone.

Looks like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1HsLRBGvdw
[Desire General] Fiouz:
Contact name feature not persisted

I disabled Google Contacts syncing and that did not fix the problem.

As mentioned, if the feature is here, it should just work, not pretending to get the work done.
[Desire General] SlightlyFrustratedUser:
HTC Sense People App Flaw

An additional comment to message #155. Surely HTC Sense's "People" app should not even be presenting the user with the option to "Send message" to a non-mobile number? I have several times picked the wrong phone number to send a text message to. Very annoying.
[Desire General] flyingv:
This happened to me, and is very intrusive first thing in the morning. Here's how to turn it off:

Tap on the alarm you wish to set in the alarm clock tab.

Set the time, alarm sound and days to repeat.

Scroll down and uncheck the Vibrate box. (It is very well hidden!)

Sorry if this has already been answered, long thread and still making my way through it :)
[Desire General] andycted:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 7, 2010]

completely agree, remember: there are companies that basically don't listen to any feedback and don't put out more than one update per year, they are touted as user-friendly or user-centered, but they actually are way more closed and unresponsive than HTC... and when you buy an HTC you have a lot more options here at xda and other forums...

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[Desire General] CheopsChefren:
Don't know if its been said before in here. What I dont like about Favourites is, that I can not "sort" my favouritesthe way I want it. It shows your favourites the way you added them to you favourites, and if you want to change the sequence of your favourites, move the first to the 5th place or the 7th to the first, I cant get that to work... Even in WinMo thats possible. Is there a workaround for that, or is it something i do wrong?
[Desire General] sandst0rm:
I've not found a way to search by filename for photos. Anybody know how to do this?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Astro file manager has that.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks, added.

Hardware limitation! (And besides, every manufacturer puts the volume rocker on the side; so, you really should have gotten used to it by now.)

Excellent workaround! Added to the 1st post. Thanks!

Thanks. While I understand that you're trying to contribute, many of your items are either carrier specific or isolated incidents. Here are my comments on those that are not:

3. Already on the list.

7. This is interesting. Does this happen when there's a lot of notifications? Or is it just when there's 1 particular notification?

8. This list is going to get out of hand if I start listing problems that are specific to certain sites. This is a mobile browser on a mobile device. Despite how capable it is, it's still not at the point where you can experience full desktop browsing. So, I guess we just have to manage our expecations on this.

9. Correct me if I'm wrong, but having the "3G" icon on the taskbar doesn't necessarily mean your device is pulling data. When mine pulls data, the "3G" icon switches to the "H" icon. Also, I'm not getting your rationale on this. You've set everything to manual. This means you don't want the device to pull data on it's own. But you want to leave the data connection active? Why not just close the data connection and turn it on when necessary?

Here's my take on this. If you want 2 things to synchronize, then that means they should be the same. If that's the case, then there's no problem. It wouldn't be called synchronizing if only certain fields are synced while others are ignored.

I understand the frustration you're feeling, but the problem is not in the syncing. Rather, the real issue for you is that there's no separate field for nickname.
[Desire General] butterwo:
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!

Yes this is really annoying. I use the calendar all the time in work for meeting reminders etc. By the time I've taken it out of my pocket the reminder has snoozed and the only solution is to place it on the desk and wait for the next reminder so I can swipe the screen. Drives me mad!
[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 10, 2010]

I don't know is this is my device only but my contact photos from Facebook don't update in the contacts for some reason...

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[Desire General] Geggan:
Possible bug found regarding the lock pattern.

When I make a call and I get a busy tone, or no answer the phone prompts for the lock pattern when leaving the call screen even if the phone is unlocked (I made the call, so of course).

Am I the only one having this problem or can you reproduce it too?
[Desire General] jamfitz86:
Somthing that strikes me as odd/stupid is that the screen will auto rotate if you turn to from upright to 90degrees left (so the buttons are on the right handside of the screen) but it doesnt of you rotate it right, or flip it upside down (so the buttons are at the top). Just seems stupid not to include it as its so easy...

JAmes.
[Desire General] TractorMatty:
You cannot add additional Google "Other Calenders" that were not there when you first sync'd the phone...

See this thread for more details:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=678460

I'm fairly sure now that this is a general issue, and not just me. If anyone's got a fix that does not involve a full reset then I'd love to hear it! :)

Matt
[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 10, 2010]

Also has the fact that you cannot just use your Google reader account with the HTC news widget been mentioned? It's a major annoyance to me. Had to download newsrob to do that...

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[Desire General] setspeed:
SMS notifications don't clear

I've got a sporadic issue with the SMS app and notifications.

Now and again (approx 5 or 6 times in the last week, out of a total of 100 or so received messages) when i access the SMS inbox from the shortcut on the homescreen, the little number "1" on the shortcut doesn't clear off. It still shows "1" to indicate a new message, even though I've already viewed it.

It has also happened when I've accessed the SMS via the notification in the pull-down window shade. Eventually it does go away on it's own, or a reboot gets rid of it.

Not a biggie, but ever so slightly annoying, because I'm getting on pretty well with all the built in apps, and don't have any real desire to change them for 3rd party ones like I did on my Dream...

Anyone else had this issue?
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Can't replicate this...

Agreed. Although I'd say rotating the device 180 degrees such that it's upside-down in portrait mode is probably not very useful. Rotating 90 degrees clockwise would come in handy in certain situations though. Added to 1st post.

Another good one. You'd think that Android being a Google OS would translate to full support of their Google Applications. Added to 1st post.

While you're right, it's hard to fault the News application. This was just an RSS reader provided by HTC. If anyone is to take a fall for this, it should be Google not providing an application for Google Reader.

Are you saying the message counter gets stuck at a particular number? Never happened to me...
[Desire General] NZtechfreak:
Weird, I have 5 calenders on mine, 4 of them since I originally set up the phone. Thats sync'ing via Google, not exchange (because CallTrack doesn't work if you sync via Exchange).
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Yes, you can add as many calendars as you want under "My Calendars" in Google Calendar. These will sync just fine regardless of when you add them. What he's referring to is the calendars that you add under "Other Calendars".

See below image for more an example. I just added the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics calendars. These don't get synced to my device unless I already had them subscribed when I set up the device after a hard reset.
[Desire General] Yaraslau:
Concerning blurry pictures in contacts...

Not sure whether it was mentioned or not but I solved the blurry picture problem without disabling contacts sync.

This way is rather perverted though...

I don't have lots of contacts with photos (about 40) so I created 40 empty contacts in my phone's internal memory (not 'Google') called something like "contact_name (photo)". Then I applied hi-res photos from within the contacts app and linked them to the original Google contacts, choosing Google's name and PHONE's picture.

So now my Google part of the contacts sync with Google and pictures in caller-id screen remain hi-res.

P.S.: Disable Outlook sync (or make it phone to PC only) as Outlook also degrades picture resolution.
[Desire General] HighSnobility:
What do you guys think the chances are of all these problems being fixed? They are really starting to add up now :/
[Desire General] Geggan:
Hmm, thats wierd, I get the bug from time to time and tested it atleast 10 times before posting yesterday. Every time the same bug.

After rebooting the phone I can´t make it happen again.

That´s a good thing I guess.

Thanks for testing it on your device.
[Desire General] bradavon:
The alarm won't activate when the phone is switched off. Can this be added please.

I've just e-mailed this thread to HTC Support, so they at least know.
[Desire General] kris_cs1:
I just added China's Holidays to my 'Other Calendars' and it worked as soon as I synced.

However the other day I added contacts birthdays and it didn't. I was going to hard reset but then I read something about deleting all of the Calendar cache in the application settings and it worked. No need for a hard reset I don't think.
[Desire General] Joh@n:
I am searching for an application or possibility to let the screen also rotate clockwise. It only rotates when you move it counterclockwise, but when I do that, the Desire will partly disappear behind my steering wheel if I use my Brodit active holder...annoying :(

I see here that is not possible in android?

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...om/297918/faq-rotatin-clockwise/#entry1133188

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3431&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
[Desire General] TractorMatty:
I've tried both...

Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications

Calendar storage -> Clear data

Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications

Calendar -> Clear data

...and neither has allowed any "Other Calendars" to appear when I sync the phone. :(

When you say "deleting all of the Calendar cache in the application settings" can you confirm precisely which option you selected and cleared? It's quite possible there is a way to do this, as just such a fix has already been documented on other boards for the HTC Hero. The trouble is the suggestion there is not relevant for the Desire.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Happened to me once, fixed it by removing the messaging shortcut from the home screen and readding it.
[Desire General] TractorMatty:
OK, it looks like this calendar problem is not an issue with the Desire, but with Google... As kindly posted by mroek on the original thread:

A full reset wouldn't help either.

This is actually a Google limititation that only affects (their) sports calendars. They even state (expand Sports to see it) it outright:

I tried adding a moon phase calendar via "Browse interesting calendars - more", and that did show on the phone as it should.

This thread also mentions the same issue.

I concur - I've tried this too and I can see the Moon Phases calendar. So I guess us sports fans will just have to copy the fixtures to our own calendars!

Presumably this issue needs taking off the list, or a comment added to state that it's actually a Google Calendar limitation.
[Desire General] kris_cs1:
Darn those are the exact options I cleared..

No idea why it worked for me then :(

Seems very strange how it would work for the Hero and not the desire though..

EDIT: oh just seen your new post - at least they are aware of the problem then and you could probably get (non-google) sports calendars elsewhere.
[Desire General] micks_address:
apparently the next version of android addreses this issue.. but not sure what the timeframe will be for getting it on the desire
[Desire General] supasye:
default htc clock/ weather widget and app does not display local weather.. :L
[Desire General] TractorMatty:
That's because the Hero fix supposedly involved...

Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications

com.android.providers.calendar -> clear data

...and there is no com.android.providers.calendar on the Desire. Whether the other calendar options are equivalent or not, I don't know - but it seems that's academic now. It's quite possible clearing them may well have resolved your problem and others like it, and I'll probably try that again if I ever have problem syncing (non-sports) related calendars in future.
[Desire General] DeliriumTr:
As a matter of fact, that clearing solved a problem I had adding a calendar from a website. The calendar was added but the events didnt show up on the Desire... so thanks for the tip ;)

DT
[Desire General] MITTUN_SHARMA:
Exchange emails

I downloaded touchdown and that seems to be working fine.

Just to take a step back for a sec, When I used HTC's own mail for exchange email, everything worked fine but it needed a password. Put a numeric one but every time the phone locked it asked for a password and would show the whole qwerty keyboard instead of just a numeric keypad.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this, I just found it annoying having to unlock the phone with buttons that small every time it went to sleep.
[Desire General] angues:
A couple of things that annoy me:

1. Not able to use the text correction on all text entries on the phone (for example when searching on the internet). If anyone knows a way around this I'd love to know!

2. One touch calling in the 'phone' view. This might sound weird and might just be because its my first touch screen device and I'm not used to it, but I would really like to have a confirmation come up before a call is made. I have found myself a number of times call someone by mistake when I actually want to press the other icon on the far right or scroll the list. Anyone know if this is an option that can be enabled somewhere?

Generally a great phone though, finding something new to like every day, latest is voice search :)
[Desire General] setspeed:
I love Dolphin too. But it doesn't support Flash like the native browser :-(
[Desire General] gogol:
Yupe, I like the native browser because of the Flash support.

For example when I browse to the sites below, I dont want to miss all the Flash videos:

- Endgadget.com

- Gizmodo.com

- IGN.com

- GameSpot.com

- Facebook.com (Yes, I like to browse to normal FB page because I can play all the posted videos!).
[Desire General] :
just thinking about number 11, where it shows all numbers in the messaging app.

In the UK at least, you can send SMS messages to any BT Landline (and possibly vigirin and other suppliers as well), and i am sure this has probably spread to other countries. That would be one reason why it shows all numbers??
[Desire General] leoni1980:
Text messages failing

Anyone else having this problem? I send a message and often it will say its failed. Its a bit annoying when it keeps beeping to tell you this...

Eventually they usually send by themselves if I leave it to it but its not something ive seen happen on any other android devices very often; on the Desire it happens many times a day.

Just FYI I'm on T-Mobile UK and I use Handcent
[Desire General] HoneyBeFly:
Coz you are stuck on 3G (as in it doesn't go to H or GPRS). When this happens, make sure you force your connection to 2G and it will get sent. This 3G issue affects all android T Mo phones apparently, at least that's what the technical support guy told me.
[Desire General] leoni1980:
I think your tech support guy is talking billy bollocks. I've been swapping between a Hero that I bought for a song and my Desire over the past week and haven't had a single failure notification on the Hero. They are both running near identical setups with Handcent.
[Desire General] HoneyBeFly:
I experience it myself. When my texts don't get sent, I realise that my connection is stuck on 3G (which btw doesn't happen THAT often). When I force it to 2G, then the texts will get sent. Anyway, this is not an isolated case, a quick browse to the T Mobile forum will tell you the same thing. Yeah, it probably doesn't affect ALL android phones but it does affect a large number (including mine sadly). The point is, when the connection is STUCK (not going up to H or down to G) at 3G, then the propensity of not being able to receive/send texts will increase exponentially. T Mobile has acknowledged it.
[Desire General] gens6200:
I have an issue with awake time being very high, meaning that the phone never goes to sleep correctly.. This causes battery life to be less than stellar.

Is anyone experiencing the same?
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Never heard of this before...:o

But despite that, the device should prioritize mobile numbers ahead of landlines when composing SMS. That just seems to make more sense to me.

1. Text correction is great. But I wouldn't want it on all the time. It would be good to be able to manually toggle it (like with Windows Mobile). But I don't think this causes enough frustration to be classified as a flaw or annoyance...

2. This is just because you're not used to it. Use firm touches and avoid tapping. That way, you'll be able to realize you touched the wrong spot and you can compensate by just dragging your finger a bit so that the device doesn't recognize your touch as a "select" action but rather as a "scroll" action.
[Desire General] Bart1981:
What I fiend annoying, but it's not specific for the Desire, but for HTC, of what I understood. The LED indicator only flashes for about 5 minutes when I've received a new e-mail (using K9mail) instead of flashing all the time until you've actually seen the onscreen notification.

Not quite sure if this is only with e-mail or also with missed calls, sms, etc.
[Desire General] TurkzZ:
... cant control which contacts come up on the "phone" screen, get facebook contacts on there which id rather not have, there seems to be a sync and quality issue on streaming video, and finnaly volume has been limited by some companies (T-mob)
[Desire General] calvin_sy:
Sense Clock Weather widget on homescreen fails to update weather.

Press the sun/moon (forecast opens) > press menu > I check the box Update Automatically > it prompts to confirm it will eat data > press yes > Box is checked.

I press back or home and go back in it is not checked anymore. Tried 1hr, 3hr, 6hr. This is on 3G/H active connection.

I've tried both "search my location" and set the location as Melb Australia. Same issue.

Initially I thought the Update Automatically check dropped off when i went onto roaming but testing it at lunch standing in queue it drops off immediately.

I have to manually update the weather. Anyone else or is this just mine and I need to do a factory reset =/
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I'll add this one to the list.

FYI, I don't think it's HTC's fault. Their Windows Mobile devices allow you to specify how long the notification light flashes via the settings or registry. Perhaps this is more of an Android issue.

Anyone know of an application that allows you to customize the notification light?

I've disabled my Facebook account long ago (bc of security concerns) so I can't really comment on this. Are there any other Facebook users out there that consider this a problem?

Please clarify on the this sync & quality issue. I've not had any problems watching streaming video so far.

If your device volume is limited, then you've got a valid reason to be annoyed. But that would be directed at your carrier and not the device, so I won't include that in the list.

I think it's just you. The weather on my clock/weather widget performs as expected. Did you enable "Background data" and "Auto sync"?

"Settings" - "Accounts & sync" - Toggle on "Background data" and "Auto sync"
[Desire General] calvin_sy:
thanks for that - coming from the g1 it would auto update regardless of whether sync was on or not. noticed the weather was greyed out.. works now
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Same here. I had it twice now.

Yesterday, time since turning the device on: 3hrs

Time device was active: 3hrs (up to the second the same time)

Something was blocking the phone from going to standby. I had it twice (second time, the phone lost about 25% in airplane mode during night). I could not find out what the problem was (I used a task killer afterwads (so that isn't the reason) and it couldn't solve it). Only solution this far: reboot.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Not going to add these to the list. Items on the list should be applicable to everybody's device. If it can be fixed with a reboot or hard reset, it would seem to be due to a 3rd party application or it's an isolated incident.
[Desire General] gens6200:
I did a factory reset last night and it didn't change anything. So it's definitely not an app or a user setting, but a FW or HW issue. But I've heard of several people with this issue now.
[Desire General] gens6200:
Could you check the battery console? (press *#*#4636#*#* in dialer).

If you go to battery history and change the top drop down to partial wake, you can see which app is preventing the phone from sleeping.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Your workaround is already in the 1st post.

Don't hold your breath on this. Besides, do you really consider all of these to be "problems"? I'd say they're more like limitations of the device. Even with all these limitations, you would be hard-pressed to find a Desire owner who's not satisfied with his/her device.

1. If you're device is off, then it should really be off. It shouldn't suddenly turn on just to sound the alarm. If you want the alarm to go off, then don't turn off your device. I know this was actually possible with some old-school phones back in the Nokia days. But what modern smarphone actually still has this "feature"?

2. Somebody else has also sent HTC support a link to this thread and received just a vague company-approved response. So don't expect miracles. And again, do these "issues" really bother people enough to make the device a pain to use?

Re-worded in 1st post. Thanks

Doesn't this fall under #23 or #51?

Is anyone even reading the 1st post before posting issues or workarounds? Or am I just wasting my own time with the updates?
[Desire General] waynefield:
I find that my Desire does not get good coverage a lot of the times and I'm not aware of this until I get a message saying that I've had a missed call. Is there a way that the LED can be set to flash when in coverage area also when it is connected to bluetooth? I use my phone connected to a b/tooth headset and sometimes I'm not aware if it's still connected or not and have to double check it.
[Desire General] dgattenb:
3G +

The only issue I have is the poor 3G+ on the phone, I tried this with my old Touch HD .. the touch connected in fine with 3G /H ... but my Desire just sat there with 3G blank.. then it went onto edge .. and again sat there doing nothing .... any one have any ideas re this ??