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[Desire General] andycted:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 11, 2010]

I've done the same comparison to my touch hd after a couple of days that my network had problems, only to find out thay they had same coverage, no problems here.
[Desire General] TjPhysicist:
not sure if this has been answered yet, but if you go to google readerr, export as opml (then rename the file to .opml, it will save as a .xml file). put it in sdcard, open up the news app, import, select the now *.opml file from the sdcard, and wait to load all the rss settings, and wallah done.
[Desire General] PseudoReal:
Facebook profile pictures not updating phone's contact pics

Hi,

I have linked my phone contacts to some facebook contacts. When the facebook contact changes his profile picture, the new picture is not updated in the contacts in the phonebook.
[Desire General] vivus:
Problem 35 solved

Hi,

the problem 35 is finally solved using the application "Calendar snooze". Free and pay application (Ad free). Really useful! Thanks to the developer!
[Desire General] Erik1:
I noticed the following, assuming you have your contacts synced with google:

When you view an e-mail in the Gmail program, there is no option to call the person. (There is of course a phone number in the contacts information)

I think this is a very useful function, that should work out of the box.

Does anyone know a work-around for this?
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Like most other issues with the Gmail application, don't use it. Use the Mail application. Set up the Mail application to connect to Google's Exchange server. Links provided in the 1st post.

In Mail or Messages application, tapping on the contact picture brings up several icons for you to do one of the following:

- Call the contact

- View the person's contact card

- Send SMS

- Send email

- Send IM via Google Talk
[Desire General] PseudoReal:
unfortunately, you cannot open attachments with the HTC Mail application and a googlemail account setup as active sync.
[Desire General] PseudoReal:
2 more bugs

I think, the HTC Sence SMS App has two issues:

1. Sending a SMS to a multiple numbers of a contact (e.g. private and business mobile) creates in this case two separate threads, one to the private number and one to the business number. Afair, in WM the HTC Sense APP has combined those.

2. Sending a SMS to multiple recipients, creates one thread, but if one of those recipients replies, it creates another threas, where my initial message cannot be seen any longer.

Afair, this was also working in WM.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
That's odd. I can open and save attachments just fine using the Mail application while connected to Google's Exchange server.
[Desire General] PseudoReal:
what are your settings for attachments? download always, never or depending on the size.

In a german forum (android-hilfe.e), there are some more that have this issue.

Can you post your settings, so I/we can compare?
[Desire General] vivus:
[Solved] Calendar Snooze

Yes, you can use "Calendar Snooze" (Free or pay for AdFree). It's really useful!
[Desire General] andycted:
Google page minor annoyance

probably not only related to the desire, but:

- search for anything on google in the stock browser

- now go in the top search box in the results page

- enter some other text

- press enter

- instead of starting the search, focus shifts to the lower search box, which by the way, has the old search text

I've found this happening on a couple more websites but can't remember which.
[Desire General] mrdo:
great spot ! i've installed the paid app and will see how it goes - looks very promising.

thanks again - this was a real problem for me.
[Desire General] top_banana123:
57. Reminders for Outlook all-day events starts going off at midnight.Submitted by anthonyeeles.

I've tried to tell HTC about this but they say it's not an issue or that it's microsoft's problem. Funny but when it was happening on my hero/g2 they told me it was a faulty phone! All day event's obviously includes national holidays if they appear on your outlook. This only seems to happen when all day event is created in outlook. Workaround is to delete all day events from outlook, sync phone then create them on your phone and sync again. I use gmail calendar for my national holiday all day events and deleted them from my office outlook.
[Desire General] @MARK:
I have always had this problem on all my previous Windows Mobile devices for as long as I have been syncing with Outlook or Exchange. I do believe it is the default Outlook setting when creating all day appointments
[Desire General] bradavon:
I had this on my HTC Windows Mobile handheld but if you think about it, it makes sense.

"All Day" starts at Midnight. You can also see in the Outlook appointment, when ticking "All Day" it says 00:00.

I've seen this too but I can see the original message. Annoyingly it's disconnected from the replies.
[Desire General] vivus:
Yes, for me too! I can't believe that Google hasn't fixed yet! It was in Windows Mobile since 1999 or before I think.. :confused:
[Desire General] bradavon:
I've heard back from HTC. I contacted them, pointing them to this thread:

[FONT=&quot]"Thank you for contacting HTC regarding the comments of users of the Desire on forums. We very much appreciate you bringing this to our attention directly, as this is the best way to instigate research into finding a fix to resolve any problems the phone may be having. I have passed on your email, along with a copy of the web page you mentioned, to the research team.[/FONT]"

It's not much but at least we now know, they know of this thread.
[Desire General] Jon_010:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 11, 2010]

Better response than I got!

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[Desire General] randommonth:
Hi Guys,

I've recently purchased a UK-spec Desire from Clove.co.uk and am using it on the 3 network in Australia. Gotta say that I LOVE it (gave up on my Touch PRO 3 months ago) and am loving showing it off to all my (now jealous) iPhone-owning friends.

However, browsing this thread did prompt me to consider things that I'd love HTC to have a look at for future updates.

1. Battery life needs improvement. Already well documented so I'll leave it at that.

2. Contacts management. I synced my phone up with Facebook and Google first, then hooked it up to my computer to sync with my Outlook contacts folder (which was my primary list from my old phone). I was left with a massive list of contacts of which the phone intelligently suggests which should be 'linked'. However once they are linked there are some strange priorities in information sharing going on which cannot be controlled by me. For example:

a. The Primary email address doesn't appear to be able to be set within the phone.

b. Photos - It appears that the priority on Photos rests with Facebook profile pics. If I set the picture for any of my contacts to the 'Phone' picture, once I re-sync with Facebook these photos are changed back to that Contact's Facebook profile picture. Very annoying.

c. Birthdays - Syncing with Facebook brings the Contact's birthday in but it doesn't appear to actually do anything useful. It would be great if the birthday date brought in from Facebook was then loaded into your Calendar with an alarm.

3. Streaming video synchronisation - Almost every video I've downloaded has had obvious a/v sync issues. This may be the 256k internet hookup I've been using but I still think it's ordinary.

4. Streaming video buffering - Because of my slow internet, I want to be able to wait for the video to buffer before pressing play. I haven't found any capability to do this yet.

5. Would love an equalizer for the audio program, but I think I can download one from the Market.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I just have some comments before I respond to posts and update the thread for today.

(I'll also put this in the 1st post.)

Thanks everyone for contributing! Just a reminder for everyone: Please try not to think of these "issues" as problems. Consider them limitations that we have to work around. There's no such thing as the perfect device and I'm not sure there ever will be. Don't let this list worry you. I don't think there's a single HTC Desire user who thinks that his/her device is absolutely un-useable because of these limitations.

That being said, thanks for those who contacted HTC about this thread. But do manage your expectations because it's unlikely anything will get done since these are such minor things.

Let me redefine the purpose of this thread:

-Identify limitations

-Foster discussion of such limitations in order to find workarounds

For those of you who don't have the HTC Desire, don't be put off by the sheer number of issues listed here. Most are minor nit-picky things. Some have workarounds. Others you might not even care about.

Please read the 1st post before submitting an item. It's being updated for a reason. I'm going to ignore all submissions if it's already mentioned in the 1st post.

Some of you are posting tips and tricks for items that are not in the 1st post. That's fine; I'll just add them to my Tips & Tricks blog entry. Link is in my signature.

Ok, on to replies and updates!~

Great tip! However, according to the committee (of 1), the issue that this solved didn't make the list. But I'll add this tip to the list on my blog. Link in my sig.

Thanks, added to 1st post.

Thanks, added to 1st post.

Under Account settings

Email address: xxx@gmail.com

Server address: m.google.com

Username: xxx@gmail.com

Password: Google password

SSL: yes

Under Send & Receive

Mail size limit: 20KB

Message format: HTML

Schedule: As items arrive (Push

Download past mail: 14 days

Include file attachment: Never

I can't replicate this...

I don't think it's an Outlook-specific thing. I've set up my wife's birthday as an annual recurring event in Google Calendar and it's set to remind me 1 week prior to the actual date. This triggers my device to sound the reminder at midnight 1 week prior to the date. So it still happens even though I've never touched Outlook.

While I think it's not very smart or practical, I have to agree with you that it makes sense and the device is really only doing what it is told...haha
[Desire General] IceBone:
Just a follow up on the contacts search issue, I just bought Contact Search+ and it does indeed work as seamlessly as it should. Search nicely integrates into the quicksearch (but not people search) and searches through notes, organisation and postal addresses. If, like me, you don't have access to paid apps, it's available on the slideme market as well for 4 usd.
[Desire General] andycted:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

Sometimes it's hard to long press on a link in the browser and the select text interface pops up. Solution: zoom in a lot more on the link before long pressing
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks for the follow up. I've linked here from the 1st post for others to know how to get it.

This is more of a tip&tricks thing...

btw, alternatively, you can select the link with your trackpad and just long-press on the trackpad to bring up the context menu.

Wow, not much updating today! How does one get a thread stickied around these parts? Getting this stickied will probably cut down on those new threads I keep seeing pop up about contact photos getting blurry or Gmail issues....sigh...

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[Desire General] khaytsus:
Also you can tap EACH individual one and it goes out of the list, right? At least that's how it's working on my XDAndroid with a Sense build. So if I have two:

Work meeting 6:30

CR1

Pick up Milk 6:30

Store

And I tap the first one, it shows me the details, hit back/home whatever.. Pick Up Milk remains in the list.
[Desire General] The Jones:
After all the Exchange ActiveSync issues and the limit on 4 windows in the browser this is my number 1 annoyance. It is seriously irritating!
[Desire General] Henz77:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

I cant update or comment on facebook status via friendstream while i can with twitter. It said. Unable to update facebook status please try again later. So i have to use android fb apps for it.

Wats the point of facebook friendstream if cNt post or comment status?

Any other experience this problem?

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[Desire General] PseudoReal:
It seems like on manual download of attachments, you can specify the download folder, so it works. On the ALWAYS flag, it definetly does not work!

Workaround 1: Manual Download

Workaround 2: Use gmail app for viewing attachments....
[Desire General] refelian:
I havent read every post in this thread apart from the opening thread but I wonder if I am the only one who has trouble with the slow shutdown speed.

It took me 1 hour this morning before my phone finally shutdown (in case you are wondering, the reason I shut it off was because it couldnt find my sd card anymore....)

At first I thought it was some drawback off android or the desire. But my colleague (who has the same phone) turned it off in roughly a minute or 2.

So I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and if so, what can be done about it?
[Desire General] veryjiggy:
One hour??!! It takes 10-15secs for me to shut it down.
[Desire General] refelian:
Decided to give it another try and it turned off in roughly a minute...

In the morning the screen went off after 30 seconds or so, I didnt bother to keep the screen on while going to work (checked on it every now and than). Could this be a factor? that turning off the screen while shutting down stops the process, by putting the phone in some kind of standby state?

Edit: I kept the screen on this time by tapping on it.
[Desire General] veryjiggy:
that indeed must have been the reason. the phone does go into standby when the screen goes off.
[Desire General] bisko:
So here are two more annoyances i found recently:

1. When ending call, the screen unlocks and becomes active, even if it is in your pocket and you locked it during the call.

2. There is no way to disable Redial last number from your handsfree (wired). It's reproduced if you double-tap the Pause/play/answer key then it starts dialing the last called number, no matter how long ago you dialed it or if the screen is locked or unlocked.

I believe both bugs are not specific to desire, but Sense as a whole as i managed to reproduce them on Hero too.
[Desire General] Henz77:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

Sliding the screen from left to right some times buggy n not change to another screen. But not happened from another side

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[Desire General] PseudoReal:
This is really annoying, especially when connected to bluetooth or wired headset, because it will open apps randomly. Is there any Locksoftware which becomes active only when connected to a headset?
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Indeed the screen turning on after a call is annoying and just not very smart. It's added in the 1st post.

Your 2nd issue is actually a specifically designed feature.

By the way people, this will be the last update for a while. I'm off on 2 weeks vacation to NYC, my hometown. I'll have internet access but I probably wouldn't spend too much time in front of a PC during my time there. Rest assured, I'll be reading this thread and will update again when I return. Hopefully, this would be stickied by then...
[Desire General] cez10:
when uploaded photos via facebook for sense all my links in contacts got wiped and had to sync google contacts and facebook about 10 times to get it working again properly :(

+ syncing with facebook replaces the phone number from facebook and it cannot be removed, you can only add a new one and make it as a primary one however when you're picking a contact when sending text it doesnt give you any feedback which number is the primary one, reckon its the top one but it doesnt even say :S
[Desire General] cosmicharade:
When I set up Exchange it forced me to use a screen lock password, and now when the screen times out after one minute I have to re-enter my password. Would be nice to be able toset a longer password time-out than the screen time-out.
[Desire General] Giland:
What you can do is delete your exchange account from your phone.

Then you can go into settings and then security and set the timeout time.

I would recommend using some sort of lock you can do as the following bellow :

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
[Desire General] cosmicharade:
I did this but installed it before removing the account although I have set up a lock pattern ok. Set up Exchange account but getting password prompt still.u
[Desire General] supasye:
does anyone knowwwww.... its probably a known problem..

in the HTC weather app; current location doesnt work? ive set it to london but it would be nice if current location did work.

thanks!
[Desire General] IceBone:
Current location does pull the data for your current location, or the closest to it, even though it doesn't say it.
[Desire General] supasye:
huh?

all i ever get for it is: no weather data available. even though if i add the location seperately it will find the data.
[Desire General] IceBone:
That's odd, it works for me, finds my town and shows its weather, even through it only states the country and the town isn't selectable in the menu.
[Desire General] pascanu:
Mobile Terminated SMS -> random contact

Can you please add this issue to the list?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=669021
[Desire General] cez10:
the issue with current location is very strange, it seems like having enabled 3g all the time it manages most of the time to get the current location, though it sometimes still gives the no weather data available error
[Desire General] pleiv:
Make it sticky

Great topic and followup.

can somebody make this thread sticky?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Is there a way to refresh the thumbnails in the photo app? If you replace a photo, it will still show the old thumbnail in grid view.

EDIT: has also anyone experienced choppy scrolling in messaging threads? I have about 500+ messages in all and scrolling any one is getting very choppy. I tried a factory reset, to no avail.
[Desire General] syinner:
Cannot change voicemail number

I am having trouble changing the voicemail number on my desire. I keep getting the error

"Voicemail number change unsuccessful. Please contact your carrier if this problem persists."

Any ideas?
[Desire General] pina_:
I think we may call this a serious bug on the Desire since it affects many people, from all kind of countries and providers:

- When you have been using Wifi, and you want to switch back to 3G, the Desire can't connect to the mobile network anymore, unless you reboot the phone, or go to airplane mode, or reset default values of the APN-settings...

Really annoying! Perhaps we can check whether it has to do with rooting or upgrading the rom:

My Desire has been rooted and is using the following radio: 32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2
[Desire General] rolfd:
Doesn't happen to me now on a new handset, and it didn't happen to me before on a rooted desire with the updated radio! I'd like to say I'm lucky, but I know better :p
[Desire General] IceBone:
Doesn't happen to me either.

Anyway, anyone know how to install the standard 2.1 messaging app (mms.apk) on the Desire without rooting? Or have it install like handcent, even.
[Desire General] benko286:
It's a bug that sometimes happens(there is additional thread about this)..I hope HTC will resolve it!
[Desire General] Krpano:
The hardware buttons do not turn off while playing videos.

Quite annoying if you are watching videos in the dark with the screen in low light mode. The buttons will be much brighter than the actual video.

The wifi/3g switching is buggy and i happens to a lot of ppl.

The only way to the 3G back is to go to the options and re-select the 3G network, annoyiiiiing. (i am on a default Desire)

And i think the 3.5mm TRRS/TRS problem should be mentioned too, because i see there is more ppl complaining around.
[Desire General] mpsamuels:
i THINK i found a workaround for this. It's not ideal but I found that removing my facebook account, re-adding it and rebooting the handset helped. There were still two contacts that refused to play nicely after this but deleting and re-creating them in gmail sorted the problem.

I do now find that the people app keeps "forgetting" that i want it to show my facebook contacts as well as my gmail ones every time facebook syncs but this is less annoying than having everyones name change every other hour!!
[Desire General] Erik1:
I've been using the exchange sync instead of gmail's own sync for about a week now. Mail seems a little slower, but functionality is better. Calendar sync works properly. Contacts sync not used yet, but i expect no problems.
[Desire General] cosmicharade:
I keep hearing about this fabled Exchange Gmail sync that is 'better' than the stock sync. How do we set this up? Is any functionality broken by doing this? What gains in particular are there by using the Exchange Sync instead of the stock sync?
[Desire General] Erik1:
settings -> accounts and sync -> Google

Turn off the three checkboxes, go back, add account, choose exchange and set it up.

After sync you have double items in the calendar (if you use it), solved by turning off the display of GMail sync leaving exchange on.

There are a number of differences, most notable by the majority of users is that you can use the HTC email widget.
[Desire General] cosmicharade:
But we only get one Exchange account to set up don't we? We can't set up multiple Exchange accounts? At least we can have multiple gmail accounts.

And the 'labels' concept is a bit strange too, taking some getting used to. Although it may have advantages over IMAP folders, as I am struggling to work out how to filter and categorise mail. Perhaps Gmail labels are the best option.
[Desire General] bioskop:
i have a problem with vibration response when typing sms. Vibrations are slow and not following typed letters in 'phone keypad' method. It's very annoying.

Im not using T9.
[Desire General] benchMarc:
Ok, here's my input. I can't find a way to paste a number i've copied from somwhere on the phone (internet or mail), to the dialer. It just seems impossible to do that.

I hope i'm doing something wrong.
[Desire General] IceBone:
In the browser at least, if you long hold on the number, you'll get an option to dial it or save it to contacts.
[Desire General] benko286:
Just saw it, after I imstalled asphalt game I have all it spngs in music app-.-

Any idea how to hide it?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Yeah, that's really annoying as they're all installed on the sd card in .ogg format. But what's even more annoying is they aren't deleted when you uninstall the game. *facepalm*
[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

Am I the only one who thinks that the track pad could be more sensitive? Tried playing replica island using the track pad and its close to impossible...switched to using their accelerometer to move the little android.

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[Desire General] cezarL:
Just create an empty file in the asphalt folder on the SDcard, called .nomedia (don't miss the dot at the beginning). This will result in the Music player ignoring the game folder completely, including any subfolders (I think it might also apply to the Photos app, if there are any pics in the folder).
[Desire General] IceBone:
Nice tip. :)
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Mine is overly sensitive :confused:

I hardly use the trackpad though. The only complaint I have about it is that it is slightly "off-center":mad: