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[Desire General] ohyeahar:
That's not true. I can create and display on my device as many calendars I want under my Google account. My wife also uses Google Calendars. She can share as many calendars as she wants and I can display them all on my device.

"OI File Explorer" is not a solution for #36.

Basically, problem A is identified.

You suggested an application that can solve problem B.

I reiterated that the problem is A, not B.

And you're telling me to try it anyway?
[Desire General] s.t.s:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 3, 2010]

hi

thanks - I had sussed that was the case with the calendars, just a shame there is no option for multiples ... that's the point of this thread, to fund the genuine flaws right?

same goes for the battery thing ... I use battery minder from the app store as that puts the percentage in a separate icon in the notifications area but it would be nice to have it in the middle of the battery icon itself :)

on the voice dial thing ... anyone point me to a detailed post to help me set this up? rooted modaco Rom with voice search 2.1 installed currently

cheers

Sam

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
1. Others and myself can display multiple Google Calendars just fine.

2. Regarding displaying the battery as a percentage in the top bar, I find a hard time classifying this as a flaw. To the best of my knowledge, none of the other smartphone platforms has this by default. Besides, there's numerous widgets and applications that allows you to view your battery level as a percentage.

3. I did a search for "voice dialing" and found this thread. Seems they've found a solution.
[Desire General] anthonyeeles:
re: outlook all day events.

Long time since I posted on this site! I can confirm the issue with all day events - I had a days annual leave marked in my exchange cal for tomorrow with the default 18 hour reminder. So my Outlook reminder popped up yesterday as you'd expect however the HTC desire reminder started going off at 00:00 last night. Which was nice...
[Desire General] neekos:
Beep at end of call

Hi all.

Has anyone noticed the phone make a beep when a call ends (wether ended by the caller or by yourself)? That has been happenning to me but I can't see any options to remove it in any menus. Any help appreciated.

Thanks :)
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Added to 1st post.

Seriously?:cool:
[Desire General] kimjor:
I didn't see it in the list, but one thing i find pretty anoying is when you write something and you accidently 'missspelled' now you want to go delete that one or two chars or replace them, but clicking with your fat finger can be quite difficult..

I friend of mine has an Iphone and says they have some sort of magnifying glass when holding down on the screen, so that placing the cursor is much easier.
[Desire General] gogol:
New issue:

After using the phone for quite some times (a day or days), the phone cannot be turned-off (shutdown). It will stay on shutdown animation for hours.

This happens to a lot of users, including me. There were several threads created and here is one of them:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=660764

Workaround:

Unmount the sd-card via Settings before turning-off the phone.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Use the optical track-pad for precise cursor placement.

For whatever reasons, lots of reviewers say that the optical trackpad (on the Desire and Legend) or trackball (on the Nexus One) is useless and they can do without it. I find it extremely useful in editing text. I use it all the time for cursor placement and for selecting text.

Tip: Long-press on the track-pad brings up the context menu, just as it would if you tapped and held on the screen. This helps if where you want to tap is very small.

I've had this problem before as well. But it can't be consistently replicated and it doesn't apply to everybody's device.
[Desire General] neekos:
Beep at end of call

Yeh, seriously! :) Just wondered if there was an option to turn it off, that's all. I personally find it annoying but others may not and I can accept that. If there isn't an option to remove it then that's fine! :)
[Desire General] poldie:
I don't think that's a reason for it not to be in the list. It affects a lot of people - certainly it affects me - it's a bit crap really. Even when it's not taking 5+ mins (which it routinely does) it takes more than 10 seconds all the time, and even that is not good enough. It's reproducable enough that HTC could, if they wanted, get hold of a phone that's doing it and diagnose it from there. I think it should be on the list. It wouldn't be so bad except that I'm trying to spend the first few weeks conditioning my battery by using it until it runs out of power and then charging it fully, overnight, so I'm experiencing this problem to a certain extent every day.
[Desire General] gogol:
Yes, because it is intermittent (but I have this 100% all the time) and you must use your phone for quite a long time. In fact people don't reboot their phone.

I still consider this as annoyance even if it is intermittent. It happened to a lot of people, not just me.
[Desire General] MaTiCeK-:
Sort contacts by last name

I can't seem to find a setting to sort my contacts in the people app by their last name. Is it only me or is there really no such option?
[Desire General] andycted:
your friend can be a lot envious of your optical trackball, mine are.

By the way nice tip on long pressing it. I use it all the time to change desktop since it takes less finger motion to move from one to the other. The best thing would be if they tweaked the scrolling in the browser for it, at the moment it works ok, but it's more like jumping through links.
[Desire General] pympster:
why has this not been made a sticky yet.... lol
[Desire General] IceBone:
Dunno if this has been mentioned yet... The camera (photo quality) goes only up to 4 MP, not 5 as is stated in the specs and the software. 2592x1552 pixels come up as 4022784 or 4.0 MP.

What the hell? Someone at HTC doesn't know how to multiply?
[Desire General] HighSnobility:
Don't know if these are issues are not, but I can't see a way around them if anyone could help that would be great:

.bookmark_thumb1 folder

This folder is filling up with thumbnails of any site I have bookmarked in the stock browser, it seems any time I visit the site it saves an updated thumbnail but doesn't delete the previous thumbnail.

Stock browser bookmark thumbnails are sometimes wrong

For example the xda developers bookmark thumbnail might be a picture of microsoft.com bookmark and vice versa.

Unable to change the stock browser download directory.

This option is greyed out for me, I want to save the downloads to a different directory on my SD card.

Unable to add a home shortcut to an SD Card folder.

There must be a way to do this but I haven't figured it out.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
No such option.

I knew someone was going to bring this up!

Disable widescreen mode and the pixel count will be 2592x1952 which equals 5059584.

1. Yes, but it's not like it's using up a significant amount of space. Mine is about 1MB. I don't know why it saves so many images but certainly they're used in some way we don't understand? If this folder took up several hundred MB of space, then I'd consider this a problem. But 1MB on a 8GB card? Nonissue.

2. I've never seen this. I'll add this if you can reproduce the issue consistently after a hard reset. That is, the flaw would need to be worded like this: "If you do this, then the bookmark thumbnails will not be accurate."

3. I'm guessing this is because of #36: No native file explorer.

4. Again, the reason you can't do this right out of the box is because of #36: No native file explorer. You can however do this via 3rd party file explorers. Astro works. On homescreen > "plus" button > Shortcut > Astro > long-press on a folder > name it accordingly > tap "Ok".
[Desire General] gumbald:
Tried searching, can't seem to find this elsewhere - if I reply to an SMS instantly, the reply goes above the received message, as if the granularity on the timings is wrong, or there's a time synchronisation issue with them happening close together. Anyone else got this?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Ah, I see. I'm keeping it at 5:3, as that's closer to 3:2, which is the AR that a 35mm camera or a 1.5x crop DSLR (which I have) shoots at. Thanks for the clarification.
[Desire General] gogol:
Workaround for 55:

SDRescan app:

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.bero.sdrescan/
[Desire General] jimbouk:
The HTC Calendar Agenda widget doesn't display the day of the week just the date.
[Desire General] drtkettle:
I have the same issue. well, i say "issue", its more of an annoyance really. the suggested workaround makes no difference to me, still have an achingly slow shutdown. I can see how it could be a huge problem, luckily for me though it just means i have to keep it on and play with it all the time :0)
[Desire General] cgrec92:
this is most likely due to files being cached to the sd card which are then deleted when the phone is shutting down

this was the case with my old HD2

use a file explorer such as astro or estrong and see what's in your sd card
[Desire General] mhewitson:
No support for standard UK date. dd/mm/yy when adding an event to thecalendar.

The dials are fixed as mm/dd/yy
[Desire General] IceBone:
Did you set your locale to English UK?
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I had actually noticed another thread that mentioned manually triggering an SD card scan with the same application!

"Settings" > "Date & Time" > "Select date format" > choose accordingly
[Desire General] gogol:
Yes, indeed, and that fixed issue no 55.

It is better for putting the link to that SDRescan app in the #1 post for "easy" find out. That will make this thread less annoyance :D
[Desire General] well0549:
Unread marker for mail doesn't work correct.

Hotmail read on the Desire is still marked as unread on the server. Even if you sync over and over again. See issue : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4193

Please vote for the issue ( hit the star ) so it will get more prio...
[Desire General] jimbouk:
Originally Posted by jimbouk View Post

The HTC Calendar Agenda widget doesn't display the day of the week just the date.

"Settings" > "Date & Time" > "Select date format" > choose accordingly[/QUOTE]

Many Thanks for this would love for it to show the full day as theres plenty of room but its much better.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks, added.
[Desire General] chris5304:
Multimedia: default media player

Picks up all audio files on the SD Card thus getting e.g. CoPilot sounds in your audio library. Workaround is to drop a blank text file named .nomedia into the folder where the unwanted media files are stored. The media files will then be ignored. Also works for photos. Interesting (to me) also works for audiobooks if you put them in a separate folder, drop .nomedia in it then Music ignores them while MortPlayer picks them up.

If this is well known please forgive me and ignore, Desire is my first Android phone!
[Desire General] Krpano:
I think the issue with the auto brightness should be listed too.

I explained a few posts before and it seems this happens to others too.

Here is the issue again:

When in auto brightness.

When the screen enters the first dim state before OFF, you touch the screen so it wont turn off and the brightness of the screen wont return to the correct value.

It will always be dimmer.

The only way to get the correct brightness is to let stand by and unlock it again.

You can check it by yourself easily.
[Desire General] bisko:
@Krpano i cannot reproduce this. When i touch the screen, brightness returns to normal. With autobrightness enabled.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I'd hardly call this a flaw. The music player was designed to pick up all audio files on your microSD.

Nonetheless, you're correct and it's a good tip. If there was a well maintained Tips & Tricks thread, this should be there!

I'll put it in my Tips & Tricks post in my blog though. Link to it is in my signature.

I can't reproduce this either. Maybe it's my eyesight...
[Desire General] mhewitson:
Set to English, no option for UK that I can see.
[Desire General] IceBone:
My old Diamond had a whole plethora of selections available, but this localised version of the Desire only has 3 too... Sucky...

Anyway, how can I get the youtube application to open youtube videos from the browser? Right now they're force opened by the flash player, which sucks for youtube... :/
[Desire General] silent_killa:
A couple of issues im having that I cant see listed

1) HTC mail application unable to display some emails. Just appears to be a blank email. If I open the same message in the GMail app it displays fine. One example of this is my confirmation email from mymemory of my order. Strange thing is the dispatch confirmation email displays fine.........

2) I recieve voicemail notifications via SMS. For some reason the messages say they are from a facebook contact and not the standard voicemail number. This facebook contact doesnt even have a mobile number listed nor is it stored in my local contacts. Its being pulled down from the HTC facebook sync!!
[Desire General] Wekkel:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 5, 2010]

I got the same 'flaw' with auto brightness and dimmed screen. Most of the time, the screen eventually returns to normal brightness after a short period. It is just as if the auto brightness takes some time to adjust again after the dim.
[Desire General] doggie123:
The Gmail app

Have these been mentioned already, all for the built-in Gmail app?

Looking for 'em in all 34 pages is a bit much :)

* Compose new message and Reply always use Rich Text format.

Can't seem to find a way to use Plain Text, like I can do with the Web edition.

* Compose new message does not resolve contacts if I have disabled syncing phone contacts and gmail contacts.

It might ask the Gmail server, but it does not.

* Reply always includes a full copy of the message that was received.

Can't seem to find a setting for this, or a way to edit or remove the copy.

* Label color is always blue.

In the Web edition I use dozens of colors.

* While reading a message there are always buttons showing for Archive, Delete and Older.

Very annoying, especially in Landscape mode because it takes away 20% of the screen.
[Desire General] doggie123:
Market app

The Market app shows only App Comments that were submitted in the language that is selected for my UI (Dutch). Very often there aren't (m)any comments in this language.

It also submits my comments using this language setting, so nobody but my fellow countrymen will see my comment (even if I typed it using English).
[Desire General] Zappza:
I will hardly call this a bug. The reason for this is so that English users don't have to browse through comments in every language in the world. However, I think it would be great if English comments was shown aswell in the localized language, so that you got both english and ex. dutch comments for dutch users.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
1. I've never experienced this. Are you sure it's not because of the download size limit that you specified in the mail application?

2. This is because of a combination of your carrier and your own contact list.

1. I'm of the belief that it's not necessarily a bad thing for a device not to be able to do something if that something is unnecessary. If you can explain to me an instance where composing in plain text is more appropriate than using rich text, then this will be added to the list.

2. Sorry, don't understand. What do you mean by "resolve contacts"?

3. This is true. You indeed cannot remove the email trail when replying. Again, I'll need some more convincing on this. When is this a bad thing? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this crucial to how the "conversation view" of Gmail works?

4. Odd. My Gmail labels only come in 1 color using the web client.

5. This is true. But then the Mail application also has this, with buttons for Next, Reply, Reply All, and Previous. While I don't consider this a problem, I can understand it. This will be added if one more person supports this!
[Desire General] mpsamuels:
I'm having this problem too and as much as turning off google contact synch sounds like it would stop the change of contact name it doesn't sound like a true resolution. Turning off google synch would mean not synching any new manually added contacts to google.

Abandoning google mail's contacts all together and using facebook as my primary contact store for anyone with an account is not really an option either as this prevents me from easily finding a copntact in gmail if i want to e-mail them and means i can't fill in information i have on a contact that facebook doesnt share.

Surely if the option is there to change the displayed contact name the phone should be able to cope with the idea that it doesn't need to make changes if a contact is already in memory.
[Desire General] Jon_010:
I've contacted HTC directly about this thread, here's the response:

Just thought you ought to know that if you want something official doing about it, you'll have to contact them directly.

Jon
[Desire General] IceBone:
Is it possible to expand the people search to include all the contact fields, not just name and email? :S
[Desire General] john014:
Interesting read, although it might be an idea to "re-check" if these faults exist, even in the newest rom versions, as htc seem to be pushing out small updates, which i think may be fixing these small issues, as they dont seem to be adding/modding anything major on the rom itself
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Jon, that response from HTC was exactly what you, myself, or anyone should expect. There's no chance that they'll say something like:

"Oh, thanks! We'll have our dev team look at that link you sent us right away! I promise, we'll release an OTA update by Q3 to fix all those things!"

So, of course, they would give you a company-approved answer.

Anyway, I don't expect HTC to fix these issues. Besides, I highly doubt that anybody here enjoys there's device any less because of these issues. I guess this thread is really just to point out the limitations of the Desire, so that users can recognize them and work around them.

It seems to only search the contact name. It would have been better if it can also search other fields (eg, Organization). I've added this to the list. Although you didn't really submit it, I'll credit you for bringing it to light!

Where are these small updates that you're referring to? I've only had 1 OTA update since I purchased my device.
[Desire General] IceBone:
ohyeahar: Appears this is a general Android issue, not just with the Desire. There's a paid app called Contact Search+ which integrates with the existing search bar and allows you to search all the fields, but I don't have access to paid apps on my phone. I'd gladly pay 3 bucks for this feature.

EDIT: also, one consolation regarding the inability to choose a location on the map for the weather app, the current location actually is your current location. I've been tracking its information and comparing to accuweather for my town and it always matches.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks. Added.
[Desire General] amak_ot:
I have been trying to find a Calendar function which can display Year View but so far no luck. Some of the members in here are saying year view is no use, others are saying year view will be too small to view.

It is interesting to note that when I was using HTC Diamond (a Windows Mobile running 6.1 !!!), the Calendar Year View function is there. Diamond screen is smaller than Desire, screen resolution is not as good as Desire, yet the Year View can be displayed with good quality.

A logical assumption will be Desire should be able to do this as well. Yet I cannot find such application. Any comment?
[Desire General] auldreekie:
Don't know if this has already been mentioned, 35 pages to go through just to find out is a bit much so I'm going to post it anyway.:rolleyes:

I love this phone compared to my old Sony erricson, only thing that niggles me is the volume control on the left side of the phone. I keep inadvertantly pressing it while holding the phone doing other things and the ringer volume gets turned way down low.

Had a similar problem on my old sony too but on the right side, why oh why can the makers not put the volume control on the top or bottom as most users I think grip the sides of the phone Being on top makes it less likely to be accidently adjusted.
[Desire General] Eggmoon:
for No. 45... the no end date on calendar recurring appointments.... what I did was just select the one after the final occurence I wanted, and select delete. It then asks if you want to delete all future occurrences. Ok, so it's an extra step, but same result.

So.... if setting a weekly reminder that you want to go for 4 weeks... just set it up... it will go forever. Then, select the 5th occurence... the first week you DONT want to be reminded, and ask to delete it. The system asks if you also want to delete all the future events... so say yes. Job done.

:-)

I love my HTC Desire.... easily the best phone/pda device I have ever owned... and by a long way the best.
[Desire General] brandall:
This is a good thread, thanks for the effort you’re putting in.

I have some problems/annoyances, some that are already mentioned, but I’ll list anyway:

1) I receive a blank text message that is stored on the SIM card from ‘Anonymous’ whenever I get a voicemail. I delete it and no further problems, but worth mentioning. I found this thread where others are experiencing variations of this http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/69070-reappearing-blank-anonymous-sms-ad-card.html

2) +1 for ages to shut down.

3) Phone contacts that are linked to Facebook profiles stop updating the contact picture and I’m unable to add ‘Facebook’ in ‘accounts & sync’ - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=668423

4) After zooming (pinch and/or double tap) in standard browser or PDF viewer, screen sometimes turns white and restart is needed. I cannot replicate when it happens, it just does sometimes.....

5) Standard browser closes. This happens normally after a double-tap-zoom but again I cannot replicate, it just happens sometimes. I’m returned to the sense home screen and when I select the browser again it restarts, so it has force-closed rather than ‘minimising’ or running in the background.

6) My LED alerts do not appear to work. I admit I haven’t looked into this much, but although they are turned on, I still get blinking green when I have a missed call for example, or no blinking at all.

7) I’m unable to make outgoing calls when I have a number of ‘un-dismissed’ items in the taskbar, the phone just hangs on dialling. When they are dismissed/cleared I can make calls. Again, I can’t replicate which taskbar items as yet.

8) On http://touch.facebook.com I have issues sending messages. When I select the text input box that says ‘write a message’, sometimes this text remains and I have to delete it. If this happens the message won’t send and it will clear all the input text when you try!

9) My device is pulling data even when I’m certain I have everything set to manual. This happens every time I wake the device up – the taskbar shows it change to 3g+ and when I disconnect from WIFI it does it too. Anyone know of a program that can show me what data it is fetching? I’ve done the obvious testing without sense widgets etc, but it’s none of them. I’m off abroad soon and want to leave my data on, but don’t want to pay for something random!

All of the above said, I love this device. I was a diehard WM fan and a flashing and tweaking junkie. I’m amazed that I’m happy on a stock ROM even if Orange have ruined it a little.