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[Desire General] Borgini:
No Cut & Paste!!!

I'm really quite staggered that there is no cut & paste within emails on my htc desire!! How can that be in 2010? A colleague used to rip me terribly over my iphone prior the it having the "revolutionary" feature apllied. I only noticed last night when I tried to take a portion of text from an email and couldnt! dumbfounded by that I really am.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
See #5 in 1st post.
[Desire General] benko286:
In News cannot select multiple/all news as read!
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Oh oh oh! Just remembered one because of what I'm doing.

On my previous phone, when the phone was on but locked (phone lock not key lock), if you plugged in the usb cable it would not access the phone or SD contents. You had to unlock the phone, and then you could access phone contents and all the syncing features. If the phone went back into phone lock, as it was timed to, then the connection would remain open because essentially you have authorized the connection.

I have a phone lock (pattern lock) on my Desire but, no only does it offer less security than the PIN (to be honest, I would like the option to have one or the other), but it doesn't give any security to stripping info from the phone by someone who doesn't need to bypass any locks or open the phone.

Someone like my brother is the kind of person that will try to do a drive-by download to strip content from the phone when I've popped out for whatever reason!
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Oh oh oh! Just remembered one more thing!

I gotta give big respect to the OP for taking the time and maintaining this thread. Labour of love or not, it takes time and energy to go through all the posts and re-edit everything.

Thanks dude.
[Desire General] top_banana123:
Outlook always creates a reminder even if not selected.

HTC told me it's my phone that needs replacing when I had a Hero, now they say it's microsofts fault! I could live with it except that all day events (including holidays etc) go off at midnight. Only workaround is to remove all day events and holidays from my work PC and only have meetings at a civilised time!
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks. Added.

I can't test this right now since I don't have a USB cable with me. But are you saying that you can access your microSD contents by simply connecting your locked device to a computer?

What happens if you do this? Go to "Settings" > "Connect to PC". Set "Default connection type" to "Charge only". Toggle on "Ask me".

I would imagine that the device should prompt for your pattern lock before it displays the options to connect as disk drive.

Let us know how it goes. If the pattern lock prompt doesn't show up until after you can select to connect as disk drive, then that's a pretty big problem...

Thanks for the kind words! I figured I'd do something to contribute to the community. After all, I did benefit from all the ROMs and tweaks offered here.

Anybody else can confirm this problem please?
[Desire General] Snowskip:
This is exactly what I'm looking for, a way to enter the city code (EUR|FR|FR00...) in the Desire ;)
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
If you set it up as you said, you will not get access to the SD card and the phone will not prompt you until you've unlocked it. So the problem is that chronic!

But the whole point of setting it to (for example, in my case) disk drive, and do not ask me, is because it's meant to cut out steps to regularly used features. But ideally, without sacrifising security.

People are free to agree or disagree with me, but after using it on my last device, I think it shouldn't grant access to the SD card if the phone is locked, until the phone is unlocked - i.e. showing the user has initiated the connection, rather than a random.
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
This one is for the calendar.

If you go to any day in the future, and tap on it, you'll see what's going on on that day.

Now, if you tap on "Add event" at the top of the screen, it will add an event for the day you are on. However, if you click "Menu" - "New event" it will always show the screen to add an event for today.

Now, this may be desireable for some people to have the two, but one thing I think is undeniable is that it is unclear. Especially as when you press "Menu", to the right of "New event" is "Today". I.e. if you want to do something for today, you go to today.
[Desire General] arminius.locustus:
Very true! No one should expect this. However the problem I mentioned is not that the Desire should read every queer kind of id3-tag.

First, the problem with vorbis comments (the tags of the supported OGG Vorbis codec): the Desire CAN read them all - except the "Genre" and the "Year". So it is not a missing feature, but a bug. And a bug totally independent of the tagging programm used (or the standard used if there are any for vorbis comments).

Now, MP3s: The Desire can read Id3-Tags (at least some versions). But the genre can't be read, if you don't use preset genres (and the correct standard, but as you mentioned correctly, this is not a problem of the Desire). In contrast to vorbis comments you could say now that the Desire doesn't support non-preset-genre-tags. This might be true, but I think that the root of it is a simple mistake in code, not a lack of code. And then it would be a bug.

Oh, by the way: Thanks for your effort to keep this thread up to date!
[Desire General] Krpano:
After the screen enter the first stage before turning off (when it dims) and you touch the screen so it won't turn off...the brightness is not as it should....it is always dimmer, to get the correct brightness again you need to lock/unlock it.

I use auto adjust brightness.

Anyone can confirme me this.
[Desire General] cezarL:
I just tested now, the brightness returns to 'normal'. However, last evening I noticed the same thing you reported, I thought it was just a glitch (I've rebooted the phone since then, and now it seems fine). Or maybe it's caused by the room's light level?
[Desire General] Krpano:
A quick test revealed that it only happen to me if the Auto Adjust Brightness is ON.

If i set the brightness to manual, the screen returns to the value i set.
[Desire General] DeliriumTr:
Tested it again and now its working as it should... strange since I tried several times with one of my own calendars and even made a reset in between... weird.
[Desire General] benko286:
You wrote it wrong

53. Can select multiple or all to mark as read in News application. Submitted by benko286.

it should be

53. Cannnot select multiple or all to mark as read in News application. Submitted by benko286.

Big thank you for taking the time and maintaining this thread :)

We will need someone to maintine tip's and tricks thread;)
[Desire General] Snowskip:
Additional information: when I am in a city that I can't add manually to the weather application (i.e. "unknown"), and I allow the Desire to locate myself using 3G or GPS, the weather application actually display the city and the weather associated!

Unfortunately there is no way to "save" the city, and when I move away it's lost...
[Desire General] well0549:
Let's say my wife is calling me with her iPhone.

But i am busy or have no network. So my wife decides to hang up without a speaking a voice mail.

I will get a notification that i have an unanswered call. However... this call is always logged to the wrong (same) person.

So I get the green 1 in my Favorite Contacts Widget but with the wrong person ?

Is there anybody who knows what i am talking about ? or even better has a cure ?
[Desire General] jimmymagix:
The compass is terrible. Needs constant calibration and resets as soon as you exit the program that used it. Seems to point due south on start every single bloody time.
[Desire General] xerath:
Are you absolutely sure? I've seen three other posts online where others experience the same as me, and a colleague at work also experiences the exact same issue... Do you know of any setting on Exchange that might affect this?

Just to let it be said; GAL search on my iPhone works just fine on the same Exchange server.
[Desire General] jayshah:
Works fine for me. Are you sure you're not sitting next to a huge magnet?
[Desire General] david_inuk:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 29, 2010]

Something to do with the contact whose name IS showing having incorrect information in one or more field. try editing that contact and see what happens. This problem has been mentioned before somewhere on this site. Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks, corrected.

Yeah, I wouldn't have mind maintaining a Tips & Tricks thread. That woulld have been more fun because the overall vibe would be more positive since we would be listing good things about the device we all love. But there was one already started. It's unfortunate that it's quite a mess (compared to this one!).

I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert in tagging audio files, so it might be best if you can provide the wording and I'll just put it in the 1st post!

Please make it consistent with the style in the 1st post. Thanks!

(I still buy my music as CD's and they get tagged automatically when I import them to iTunes. Old fashioned, yes I know. But I don't know of any other legal way to buy American or European music here in Hong Kong!)

That's true. It is unclear. But I'd hardly label this as a fault in the OS.

If it's a fault, then a typical reaction of a user when they hit Menu and then "New event" would be: "What the?...damn it!"

I don't know, but my reaction was more like: "What the?...oh..."

I think there needs to be a balance when it comes to security and convenience. If you're really concerned about securing your microSD contents, then you shouldn't mind having to unlock and then select "Connect as disk drive".

But anyway, if anyone else agrees that Cleargrey's issue is legitimate enough to go to 1st post, speak up and I'll comply!
[Desire General] mroek:
This is probably not a Desire specific problem, but annoying nonetheless.

My wife and I both have Google calendars, and we have both shared them (read only) with each other. On my phone, I can therefore see her events in my calendar.

She had one recurring event (every two weeks) in her calendar that was only relevant to her. I therefore asked her to change it to a private event instead. She did that (on the Google calendar web page), and the event then disappeared from my calendar on the web (as expected), but not on the phone. Refreshing, forcing sync, deselecting her calendar temporarily, nothing works. That annoying event still showed on my phone.

There is no explicit option for a forced sync afaik, but it is possible to delete the phone calendar database:

Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> Calendar storage -> Clear data

This will force the phone to re-download all the calendar events, and it fixed my problem. That annoying event is now gone from my phone. The workaround will (probably) also delete any local (phone only) events, but for me that was not an issue, since I have all my events on Google.

There may be other workarounds too, for all I know.
[Desire General] Laban:
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned:

If I download pictures from an FTP or over the network the pictures doesn't show up in the album. Also, when deleting an album with a File browser the album mlist is not updated and it looks like the pictures are still there.

I would like to see a way to refresh the picture albums. Only way to do that now is to restart the phone or connect it to the computer and then disconnect.
[Desire General] david_inuk:
Turn off Device

What is it so difficult to turn the phone off??

Hold down power button. I'm OK with that!

Then select power off on the next screen, that's just about cool too! (although in my opinion, a long press on the button should really be enough to turn the phone off!)

The next step howeever drives me nuts.

The phone then needs me to press ok on a notification that it's going to shut down before it will actually do so.

How many times to I have to tell it that I want to turn the bl**dy thing off!

What on earth were HTC thinking? If I have selected "power off" then thats exactly what I want. Why the need for yet ANOTHER confirmation!!???
[Desire General] Mac.uni:
Calendar Issue (HTC, Exchange):

Create an appointment with attendees.

First try: Enter all data and then create the meeting request. Results into two appointments in the calendar.

Second try: Don't enter any data and create a meeting request directly. Can't set starting and ending time.
[Desire General] jayshah:
I perfer it the way it is. Easy to switch to silent/vibrate modes, and if I accidentally pressed power off and it shut down without confirmation, THAT would annoy me. Everyone has their own requirements, mine fit the implementation.
[Desire General] david_inuk:
Just a thought. There's a much faster way of switching to vibrate. Use one of the available widgets! One click on a widget. Easy. two seconds. Your way, you have to wait until the menu comes up!
[Desire General] jayshah:
I normally use it most from inside applications (games :p). Mine main homescreen is nice and full anyway, so I'd have to hit home then slide which is just more effort.
[Desire General] lambrospower:
you can hold the volume buttons if you want to silence or only vibration the phone!!!
[Desire General] jayshah:
If the application issues sounds, the volume toggle will chance the Media Volume property and not the ringer one. I suggest you actually check this before posting such generalisations.
[Desire General] arminius.locustus:
I did some further research and achieved to specify the bug (I updated my initial posting; #228).

Here is my suggestion for the 1st post:

The default music application does not display the genre tag of MP3 files correctly. It writes "Unknown Genre" instead. With OGG vorbis files the year tag is also buggy.

Workaround:

Switch your complete music collection to mp3. Tag the files according to the last standard (id3.2v4). Only use predefined genre tags. And even then: Pray that the internal number of the genres you listen to is below 100.
[Desire General] arminius.locustus:
And some more bugs with the audio player (really buggy this application!):

1. Navigation via "Composer" and "Genre" is buggy: If I chose to navigate by composer or genre, after selecting one composer or genre, as the next step I can select an interpret (which is good and correct). But if I do so, I can't select an album of this interpret. I'm directed immediatly to all the songs of the interpret listed in alphabetical order. If you have many albums of one interpret this is bad, cause you can't select which album you wan't to listen to. But even if you have only one album of the interpret, it is still a problem: Because all songs are listed in alphabetical order, not in there natural order, if navigated by this way (this last part of the problem is quite similar to bug 50 listed in the 1st post)

My guess: The code base doesn't support more than three layers for sorting the files. I can sort by Interpret->Album->Songs. But I can't sort Genre (or Composer)->Interpret->Album->Songs.

2. No slide mode for the songs, if navigation isn't alphabetically: The audio player allows to slide the covers of the songs via sliding on the touch screen. This doesn't work however, if you have chosen the actual song by navigating in any way that doesn't display the songs in an alphabetical order. If I select Interpret->Album, all the songs are listed in there natural order (the order they have on the album). Cover slide is now impossible. If I select simply by Songs, cover slide functions properly.

3. Cover display flawed: Only a minority of all my album covers are displayed. I can't tell here any rule which the display of covers works correctly by. I have in every lowest folder layer (the folders where the actual audio files are) an AlbumArt.jpg. But only a small minority is shown at all. This is independent of size of the JPEG, the actual folder layer or the number of audio files in the folder. The only rule I can tell is: If the cover is shown for one file in the folder correctly, it is for all in the particular folder.
[Desire General] jimmymagix:
I don't think so. My Brother's HTC Magic sits right next to it and indicates the correct position of North every time. Even if I exit compass and restart it - no problems at all.

What concerns me is that even when my Desire indicates what it thinks is North, when I rotate the phone, the pointer does not rotate - it just sticks.
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Cant sync contacts from phone to google account.

Have seen a couple threads about this along with complicated solutions. Dont know how google/htc could let such an ugly issue persist.
[Desire General] andycted:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Apr 29, 2010]

I have absolutely no problem doing that apart for the picture quality issue. what's your problem?

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
When i first set up the phone i imported all my contacts from my sim and i saved them as phone contacts in the htc app. I read somewhere that i would have had to save them as google contacts when i did that in order for them to sync up. Now that they are in as phone contacts, i cant change them, maybe i'll have to erase them all and start over.
[Desire General] andycted:
I see, in this case I think there must be some application on the market that can do it I guess. A longer workaround would be to sync your contacts with outlook (with the enclosed application) and then follow one of the many tutorials online to transfer them to your google mail contacts. Briefly you export again your contacts from outlook in CSV, go to your gmail account and import the CSV, then let your phone sync the contacts with your online google account. Before doing the last step you would probably do well to erase the contacts from the phone...

But please check the tutorial, I might be wrong about some steps.
[Desire General] gogol:
New issue found:

Cannot use custom image as home screen wallpaper.

I took couple of images from zedge.net and I have no idea how to use it as home screen wallpaper.

I put them in the "DCIM" folder, together with the images took by the camera, but the Settings -> Personalize -> Home wallpaper -> Photos does not recognize them.

I renamed the images as IMAG?????.jpg, but it still does not recognized.

The image size is 960x800, 24 bit, sRGB and they are the same as the images taken by the camera. Permissions are -rw (checked with EStrongs file manager).

When I launch the "Photo" application, it does not recognized that images.

BUT, when I launch

the "Camera", it does recognize the image

as it is shown as tiny photo album icon in the lower right corner!!!

What went wrong here? Really annoying :(
[Desire General] andycted:
I really don't know if it's just me that I'm lucky but I can see every image I save/transfer to my phone when trying to select a wallpaper. Maybe you could try installing astro and/or the original gallery app and see if you can navigate with those image explorers.
[Desire General] jayshah:
Agreed, this is definitely not a global issue.

I just tested it and it works fine. I have a library of photos in the root of my SD Card taken by a normal digital camera. Try uploading smaller images, although the ones I used I even use the inbuilt cropping option and all was fine.
[Desire General] gogol:
Certainly this is a "bug".

User Laban pointed me a workaround which fixed this issue:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6366300&postcount=15

If you went through the above thread from the beginning, you will notice that I did not have this kind of problem in the past. And certain it was not only me getting this issue (OP EddyOS got this issue as well).

But as recently, I put 3 images (.jpg) that I downloaded from zedge.net and the HTC "Photo" album app did not recognize them.

I tried to kill the Photo album app, but that does not help either.

Workaround

is by connecting and disconnecting the phone to a PC. That will refresh the HTC "Photo" album app for reading the added images to the DCIM folder.

I dont know what causing this, but as user Laban pointed out he has this issue when he transferred the image via FTP ... And I transferred those 3 images from LAN (share-folder) via WiFi using EStrong file manager. But, the Camera apps did recognized them.

So, I think this qualify to be a bug (more users got this issue), annoyance or flaw of the default HTC Photo album app which is being used to get the image for home screen wallpaper.
[Desire General] gogol:
Another issue:

Sometimes, you cannot install an application via sd-card because the Android OS says you dont have enough space anymore. While in fact, you do have.

Workaround: REBOOT the phone.
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Thanks. Im going to erase all contacts and start over. I'll make sure to save everything as a google contact.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Added to 1st post.

On a side note, what's that recurring event that's so annoying to you that you need it hidden from your view?! Bi-weekly visits to the club? Hehe, I'm just kidding around!

Seems to me that the problem is because only specific events trigger the Album to update. Nonetheless, this is a problem. Added to 1st post.

Added with slight modifications (just to make it sound less controversial).

Over the weekend I notice there's several posts about various issues. I'm not going to quote each and respond since it takes too much time and effort. To make a long story short, they're not issues that are appropriate to add to this list.

Compass issue - Isolated incident. I've no problems as did another forum user who posted.

Powering off takes too many steps - This is a personal preference. And as stated, this is because the long-press-standy-button menu include other phone options (ie, Silent mode, vibration mode, Airplane mode, Mobile network). If I wanted to go into Silent mode via this menu and I accidentally hit "Power off", I'd appreciate the extra prompt.

Can't use custom image as homescreen wallpaper - That statement is just not true. The problem is because the Album didn't update (added as issue #55 as per above). Going forward, I'd suggest to not draw such blunt conclusions and post it large bold fonts because it's very misleading, especially for noobs.

The thing about syncing with Google Contacts - nonissue.

No space when installing applications from SD card - It only happens sometimes. This list is for consistent and replicable events.
[Desire General] jfran:
install OI filemanager and you will be able to download and open most file types when browsing
[Desire General] s.t.s:
Hi guys

I am sorry to go with such a "lazy" post but I have reached my limit of reading posts after post to get my HTC Desire rooted ... all I can say is ... phew!! thankfully that is done.

A few of my annoyances that I have picked up on are:

Voice dial is hardly straight forward (I still can't get it working)(I know this is already mentioned ... just adding my frustration to the mix)

can't seem to sync multiple google calendars? (would love to be corrected on this one)

Car dock is not automatic when in car (hardware dependant I know ... but still)

no battery percentage in the battery icon (tiny thing that can be worked around with apps but just not as slick as what I am used to with WinMo or iPhone)

Cheers

Sam
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
The problem is not with downloading. It's uploading. Does installing OI File Manager allow you to upload files (for example, to this forum)?
[Desire General] jfran:
Hi, only the first google account listed can have its calendar displayed, and getting Quick settings from the market acts link the winmo com mamager, but also shows battery percentage levels and can be launched from the Status bar.
[Desire General] jfran:
never tried uploading, but its worth a go anyway, there's nothing to loose either way