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[Desire General] nicelad_uk:
I was going to start my own thread, but this one seems to have taken off quite well, so I'll add mine on here.

1. Facebook contact issue... If I have a contact in Facebook with a phone number of 07??? ?????? then everytime after I press the "Phone" button it will show that I've called that contact and it will also show the number I actually called. If I go to call history screen, it shows the right contact.

2. Facebook phone numbers... Auto syncing the facebook contact details is great, but I end up with two birthdays, two mobile numbers etc and sometimes the mobile number brought from facebook is a rubbish one, yet it seems to default to that one.

3. Speakerphone volume is so low, when using it to talk to contacts via a phone call I cannot hear them

4. Menu scrolling still seems to have a lag. Nothing comapred to my old Hero, but compared to something like the HD2 or iPhone, it is a considerable lag.

5. Signal drops randomly, I presume this will be followed up by a Rom update, but still annoying at the minute.

6. Voicemail after a call... When I call someone and they don't answer, but try to call me back straight away, they will go to my voicemail for about 30 seconds and then they can actually get back through to my phone. Not sure if this is network or Phone...?

7. Alarm issues...

a) Sometimes the alarm will not actually work and no, I have not used any Task Managers, I don't use them as Android doesn't need them. But sometimes and I don't know if its me thats just ignoring it without realising, but the alarm doesn't seem to go off on a morning. This could be related slightly to point b) below...

b) The alarm is snoozed by either the light sensor or the proximity sensor. When my alarm sounds, if I put my hand over the top of my phone, it snoozes. This is very bad if I have the phone in my pocket, turned on its face or under the douvet with me while in bed as it will snooze as soon as the phone is moved if the sensor is blocked. Poor design!

I've missed a lot of alarms with this problem and would love to get a fix for it.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Sorry! My mistake. Actually, most hyperlinks work. But some links like this one doesn't: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=666332&goto=newpost

I'll amend the wording of #18...

Everyone else, I'll go through your comments to update the 1st post tmr!
[Desire General] Unfriendly:
I want to remove the slide lock, not change it.
[Desire General] Jon_010:
I guess you've installed Handcent sms? That has a built in sound picker, if you use that to change the tone then you have the option of a choosing a silent tone.

ohyeaha - above is a workaround for the problem to 28.

Edit1: Wait... just noticed silent is a valid option in the default sound selection app, 2nd one from the top!
[Desire General] Karolis:
16. Only standby button wakes the screen.

Download No Lock. It will disable the lock screen and then you can wake the phone up with any of the buttons, including trackpad.
[Desire General] flux:
101. No way to rescan the sdcard with the default music app.

102. No way to mount a samba shares onto the sdcard.

103. The biggest problem actually is the screen. Don't trust anyone who says that the screen is fantastic. Your fantastic screen turns into sht as long as you are outside in sun. And this is where you use the phone because indoors you usually have better equipment to access the internet. Haven't you?
[Desire General] spooky75:
Isn't possible to turn off vibration during alarm sound... or is it?
[Desire General] vlasac:
Compared to? Can you name phones which are better than Desire under sun? And are you talking direct sun or even if sun is blocked?
[Desire General] msetten:
Maybe it is just me, but what I find annoying is that notifications for Mail use the same sound as for text messages. I really like to use a different sound for incoming mail messages.
[Desire General] flux:
I don't care about other phones I do own a desire, ok? Saying "the phone screen is ok because others aren't better" is stupid. And no, I cannot block the sun
[Desire General] EroThraX:
You can change the sound used inside most mail applications, otherwise it uses the default you have set.

You can also set a specific notification sound for text messages in the messages application, and then the default notification sound would only be used for Mail.
[Desire General] jayshah:
I'm sure it's exactly the same (if the Desire isn't better) for everything but the homescreen. You should notice, when you swoosh left and right, there's a lag/isn't perfectly smooth, unlike the stock launcher. It's only slow on a relative scale, I mean that's how we compare things. It isn't slow by definition, far from it, but for me speed, functionality, and not been blinded by the shine HTC have added to everything are key over an eye-pleasing homescreen UI. I'm probably one in a million with this phone though :p
[Desire General] jayshah:
This application scares me slightly. IIRC, Android sends the CPU to sleep when the screen is off (i.e., it doesn't tick). It sounds very much like the application is setting a WakeLock and therefore preventing Android from doing its job properly - thereby consuming more battery in the process.

If anyone counters my argument, the application is mine :D I'm just worried about my battery juice, tbh.
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Of course it's possible...or what kind of alarm do you mean?
[Desire General] streetdaddy:
29. (possibly?) Alarm is snoozed on dismiss

Confirmed by a few ppl here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=667819

including myself...

this thread should be sticky!
[Desire General] Karolis:
I used it since day one and I used keyguard disabler before. No impact on battery performance. My desire lasts 2 days easily.
[Desire General] tibey:
can you add this flaw : "after a dozen of android apps installed, my internal memory is almost full" :/
[Desire General] al89nut:
Is there any way to lock the volume settings so that every time I turn the phone on its side I don't adjust them by mistake?
[Desire General] mrdo:
i do this ALL the time ! very annoying ...
[Desire General] flogger:
Bluetooth problems

Does anyone had noticed something strange with bluetooth?

On my Desire, when I start searching for devices, as soon as it finds one device, it simply just stops searching. I can't have a list of all devices!!!

I installed several different apps of bluetooth sharing to confirm this and happens the same.

I can have a dozen devices with bluetooth on, but as my device finds the first one the search stops and i can't choose another one.... Damn!
[Desire General] eaglesteve:
I'm seriously bothered by this flaw.
[Desire General] al89nut:
Here's another I don't quite get.

I go to All Programs and start, say Calendar.

Silly question, but how do I get out of it (or minimise it) to start another program?

If I hit the back arrow key, then I go back to the home page, not to All Programs.
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
My question is...do you still have to hit the top "awake" button to turn on the screen? Or does this app remove the need for it.

I know that on the MyTouch, all you had to do was hit the "home" or "menu" button (can't remember right now since I sold it and do not have it in front of me) and the screen would come on.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Anyone else can confirm this? I'll disable broadcasting my router's SSID later this week to give this a test...

Need more information about this. Would be good if you can provide examples.

This has nothing to do with Gmail. It's with Google Contacts.

Great find! I overlooked this one. This issue is now removed from the list.

Added.

For all Facebook issues, I'll have to take your word on it and add it since I don't use Facebook. Anyone who has any disputes regarding Facebook issues on the list, please speak up!

Not everyone will agree with your view on the speakerphone volume and OS performance, so they won't be added.

Your #5 is likely a carrier issue.

Your #6 is a carrier issue. From my experience, it's been happening since voicemail was invented on cell phones!

#7 is interesting. But I wasn't able to replicate exactly what you said. My alarm goes off every time. But it does seem to snooze using one of the sensors. I'll add this to the list.

Excellent! Added as workaround!

1. You're right, you can't manually instruct the default music application to scan for new music. But if you make any changes, they're automatically reflected in the application. It may take some time, but it does work (at least for me)...

2. Not familiar with Samba. I'll take your word that it's a problem. But before I add this to the list, just how prevalent is this for smartphones in general?

3. Outdoor screen visibility is obviously not where we would like it to be. But I'll classify this as a hardware limitation.

Ah, another nit-picky one! While you're right, I don't think being able to set the alarm to not vibrate adds any value. It'll be on the list if one other forum user supports this!

Hmm, I get the feeling that this is because it's difficult to navigate a touchscreen when you're barely awake. So, instead of a downward gesture, users accidentally press the snooze button near the bottom of the screen. If anything, I'll add "Poor button placement for Snooze when alarm activates".

Hardware limitation!

Haha, we're getting a bit desperate trying to find flaws for our superphones, eh? How would you suggest this be solved? If the volume rocker was locked, then that means they have to be unlocked if the user wants to simply adjust the volume. That's not very convenient. I'll suggest both of you to relax your grip on the device! :D

Good one. I'll have to test it to confirm it myself. But sounds like you didn't come to this conclusion lightly, so it's on the list!

Hmm, so what you're saying is that if you open the Programs tray, you want it to stay opened until you manually swipe it back down? I doubt many users would be happy with that...

My advice to you is to put shortcuts of your often-used programs on your middle homescreen. So you just have to press the Home button in the middle of an opened application to launch another one.
[Desire General] spooky75:
Please tell me how to turn off vibrating during morning wake up alarm.

The phone vibrates way too loud on the hard surfaces!
[Desire General] gogol:
I do not think this is an issue ... but a limitation for current Android 2.1.

Workaround: Wait for root + system partition write access then use app2sd.

But, this should not be in the list :)

Yeah, I hate this as well.
[Desire General] tibey:
Well, i would'nt say that. First, on my diamond i had far less phone storage but it was no big deal because we could install apps on sd card.

Then, there might also be a problem caused by the system creating automaticaly an apk backup on phone storage when installing application, look at the end of this thread

edit :link edited.
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Just open the Alarm settings, where you set up time, sound etc. There you can scroll down a bit. There is a Vibrate Option :)
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Looks like you provided the incorrect thread link...

Anyway, here's the thing. One of the flaws of the Desire is that, for whatever reason, HTC decided not to include several GB's of internal storage. This is well known to everyone by just looking at the specs. It's also mentioned in many reviews that the puny ROM size will limit the number of applications you can install. So, I consider this a hardware limitation that we all accepted when we made the decision to put our cash down to purchase this lovely device.

Besides, as mentioned, we will inevitably gain the ability to install applications to microSD when the devices is rooted.

Nice find! Didn't notice that you can actually scroll on that page!
[Desire General] andycted:
Disable contact syncing to prevent picture blurring

Hi, thanks for all the suggestions. I can't seem to make this workaround stick however. After I sync the contacts (and restore pictures), I disable:

Settings->Accounts and Sync->Auto-Sync

but after some time or at reboot the phone automatically syncs the contacts with my gmail account and pictures become blurry again. Am I doing something wrong ?

The only way that I've had working was changing my gmail account password, so that when it tries to sync it shows a password error notification.

Thanks
[Desire General] msetten:
Thanks, that works. Not the most immediately clear way to do it, but it works.
[Desire General] tibey:
The link has been corrected ^^. (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=667717)

I read a lot of review about the desire and never seen something about this limitation, but well..guess we'll have to live with this..
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Detailed instructions:

1. Sync contacts from Google as normal.

2. Disable syncing of contacts from Google. (Settings > Accounts & sync > Google > uncheck "Sync contacts")

3. Restore pictures.
[Desire General] spooky75:
Thank you very much! Didn't notice settings can be scrolled!
[Desire General] andycted:
Thanks again, but I don't see any checkmarks to use in the Google settings page... maybe I'm overlooking something ?

Step-by-step this is what I do from the home screen:

- click 'Menu' key

- tap 'Settings'

- tap 'Accounts & Sync'

- tap 'Google'

- Here I only see 'Sync Calendar', 'Sync Contacts' and 'Sync Gmail' but there are no checkmarks, they are button which start the sync when pressed.

Is my desire weird or is it my head ? hehe

[EDIT] Now I see it ! If you disable 'Auto-Sync' in the page before, you don't have checkmarks on those items. That was my case. Re-enabling 'Auto-Sync' made the checkmarks reappear so now I'm going to try it properly
[Desire General] andycted:
Maybe something...maybe not

Update: after reapplying 'auto-sync' and disabling 'Sync contacts' pictures stay there as suggested.

Now here are some very small issues that maybe someone knows how to fix.

- turning the phone on the HTC animation has a very loud jingle which can't be disabled or the volume lowered. Could be a bit annoying in some situations

- don't know if it was just random: connecting and disconnecting audio-gateway via bluetooth automatically calls the last number called !

Something about widgets:

- HTC News widget sometimes sorts news very randomly. Also doesn't update automatically

- HTC weather settings don't stick to 'update automatically' (already mentioned I think)

Best regards

Andy
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
- For the boot up jingle, see this thread. Seems like they figured it out.

- I've actually not tried connecting my BT headphones, so I'll give that a try tonight to see if it starts making strange calls.

- Regarding the widgets updating, you need to enable "Background data" and "Auto-sync". The settings are found in [Settings > Accounts & sync]

- Regarding the ordering of News, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they are sorted in the order they arrive. I don't think it's very useful if it's displaying several different feeds. Might as well just go into the main application.
[Desire General] andycted:
Thanks

Right, this probably was caused by me removing 'auto-sync' because of the contact pictures. Thanks

I've also read this in some reviews: the ordering is a bit random, changes inconsistently on refreshes and sometimes it's just plain reversed, i.e. older news on top (shown first). Actually when I've chosen ansa.it rss feed the order was always reversed, no matter what. With engadget it seems to have problems after it updates. I'll check again anyway, maybe it happens only in some feeds.

One last thing, but I guess this is just me not very practical with the thing and there is already a solution somewhere: I have handcent sms installed, now whenever I receive an sms I get two simultaneous notifications one for handcent the other from the built-in sms functionality...

Thanks again
[Desire General] gogol:
+1 to this, I experienced the same issue.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Open the default messaging application. Press the Menu button. Scroll down and disable all the notifications you don't want to receive.
[Desire General] david_inuk:
There's no way of syncing tasks or notes with outlook!!

This is a HUGE loss of functionality for me. Even Palm have been doing this for decades!

Come on HTC!!!

Help us business users!!!
[Desire General] Raul Duke:
The news widget confused me a bit, it did seem pretty random.

I can recommend an app called NewsRoom for checking your RSS feeds. There's a free version in the market. Not sure what the pro one does as the free one seems to do everything I need.
[Desire General] jayshah:
Awesome; thank you.

Got the app :D
[Desire General] andycted:
That is indeed nice as a news reader but doesn't have a comparable widget... maybe in the commercial version?
[Desire General] mrdo:
i completely agree but i'm not sure whose fault it is - google ? htc ? it seems that google are pushing people towards storing all their data in the cloud which is just unrealistic for business.

this might help with your notes though - it's very clunky but better than nothing ...

http://groups.google.com/group/nitrodesk/web/nitronote-notes-syncing
[Desire General] mrdo:
i also hate the fact that it's difficult to find out what day it is in the calendar.

if i choose to scroll through the calendar entries it displays the date but not the day making it difficult to keep track.

also, a monthly calendar-style date picker in the calendar app rather than the scrolling thing would make choosing dates much easier ...
[Desire General] david_inuk:
Indeed, but even Google dont have a task feature! Their Gmail tasks are not worth the pixels on my screen, no alarms or reminders, and no abilty to sync back to outlook! Oh, and I forgot! They don't even have an Android app either!!!!
[Desire General] mrdo:
only being able to snooze all or dismiss all event reminders is rather annoying.

is the only option to select and then edit each event individually or is there an easier way ?
[Desire General] david_inuk:
I tried it at the begining. It doesn't have reminders for tasks!!!
[Desire General] ascot17:
Program Shortcuts don't diaplay correctly on Home Pages

Is everyone alse having this problem? Program icons on the Homepages don't display correctly if the program name is too long:

The names display correctly on the All Programs page as the names wrap to two lines if they are long. On the Homepages the names take up a single line and just disappear. Is there a solution?
[Desire General] al89nut:
Yep, not just you.
[Desire General] ascot17:
I have just received a reply from HTC about this:

This is purely down to the way the icons are displayed on the different screens.

on the home screen, the icons are spaced differently to the all applications drawer and do not use 2 line labels, so anything over a certain length will scroll the name.

highlight the icon with the optical controller and you'll see the name of the app move to show the whole thing.

if this was not done, apps with longer names would over lap all over the place and look truly terrible. This is simply how it is. There is no 'fix' for this as it is as it was designed to be.

I'll feed it back to HQ, but as this is the first email i have ever seen from anyone complaining about this particualr visual effect, i cannot imagine much will happen, but you never know....

I think that it looks terrible as it is. Why can't the icons display the same on the home pages as they do on the apps page.....??? Also, I cannot highlight anything on the home screen with the optical trackball!
[Desire General] EroThraX:
Doesn't bother me, I hadn't actually noticed it.
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
I'm pretty put out that I cannot "browse" to a file on my SD card to upload to a forum while using the standard browser. An issue thats around since 1.5 android apparently. No file system browser so no uploads at all. Thats dire.
[Desire General] daesimps:
I've noticed a couple of minor issues/omissions myself.

1. If you sync with Exchange (Activesync) and you have "Exchange Managed Folders" in your mailbox, they don't sync to the phone. These are folders that are put there by the Exchange server with the content managed (e.g. how many days before items deleted). They work with both WinMo and iPhone using Activesync, but the Desire simply doesn't even show them up.

2. The calendar function doesn't support setting appointments to free/busy/out of office. A major PITA when your calendar is sync'd with your Exchange Server and you want an appointment to sync back but not mark you as busy.

3. Video playback - doesn't support having multiple audio tracks (e.g. foreign languages).

4. Sometimes when plugged in to USB in order to sync the phone doesn't realise that it's full USB. It says charging, but doesn't offer the "connect as" option. A reboot sorts it.

5. Inbuilt music player only supports a "standard list" of Genre. If you have an MP3 with a genre set to something you've made up (e.g. I have a load set to "Spanish") they show up as "unknown genre".

6. Inbuilt music player will not display lyrics which are embedded into an MP3 in the standard "Lyrics" ID3 field.

Still love the Desire though :)
[Desire General] lolomin:
Hi,

I have some problems with SMTP Auth with HTC mail client, it simply ignore SMTP Authentication and so SMTP server reject purely my connection ...

Another user also confirmed me this problem (check this post : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=667455), anyone here could please confirm this behaviour so it can be added to the first page of this topic ( I don't see any workaround other than using another mail client ? )

I also noticed some problems with News widget, first this one seems to ignore the setting for Frequency to update RSS feeds and second when I force it to refresh feeds and grab new articles, these one are set with their date as the date and time when refresh occured rather than the real date/time of when the article was published/written. Anyone also having this behaviour please ?

Thks,

Laurent
[Desire General] ascot17:
If you select Menu > Notifications and then select the 'Charge only' line it will bring up the other USB options.
[Desire General] gogol:
Anyone see the image quality of the stock browser?

It is bad...

Try to zoom it, the image is quite blurry.
[Desire General] Eggcake:
True. Someone posted a big picture in a Forum with Text and Symbols on it. It was impossible to read...
[Desire General] Caister:
I've noticed that even when the phone is in silent mode it turns the speaker on when a sound would normally be played. eg if you get a call when its in silent then the speaker turns on and you just hear a fizzing noise. Its quite annoying.

I've also noticed a background hiss when you have headphones connected but nothing is playing.

Anyone else have the above?
[Desire General] daesimps:
That's the issue. There are no notifications and it simply won't acknowledge that it's connected via USB. It's like it's on a charge only cable and not a full data cable. The wife's Desire also does it sometimes.

After a reboot it works perfectly for a while and gives full notifications. It seems to happen approximately every 10 connections via USB.
[Desire General] lambrospower:
the contacts of the sim card cannot be hidden....when you search a contact in phone the you see contacts from everywhere, phone sim etc....how do you completely disable the sim contacts without deleting them????
[Desire General] coochan8:
Go into your phone dialer, menu, people, menu, view.

Just untick/tick what you want to view i.e. SIM, Google or phone
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Thats already been tried, they still show up.