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[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Brutal! Yea I actually had to convince myself to let it go before I caused serious damage to the phone.

My thing is that it orders the songs by their numbers...which is weird because even in the ROOT folder on my computer where they are stored...they do not have any numbers.

I have been looking for a program like DOUBLETWIST that syncs through iTunes :confused:

I think their is a couple floating around, I just haven't tried any and really do not feel like dropping $25-30 for a freaking "sync-my-playlist" program.
[Desire General] IceBone:
I only needed it to move the text cursor around. I guess I'll just have to get used to hitting the right spot with my finger now (insert your own double entendre here :P)
[Desire General] Lekselius:
Update released from HTC!

HTC update 1.21.405.2 disables the optical trackpad as a snooze input! :)

Now my Desire works perfect, just as I want it to!
[Desire General] mrdo:
i updated to 1.21.405.2 a few days ago and my alarms still snooze when i try and take the phone out of my pocket. :-(
[Desire General] Henz77:
HTC friendstream not working for updating or making comment on facebook status, while its perfect for twitter

it always says unable to update status, try again later bla bla bla, but always succeed for twitter. i cant even upload photo via HTC sense from the share option. always failed, while using facebook via android is piece of cake.

i tryto HR the device but problem still there. try contacting HTC they said its software error n suggest me to HR which bring me nowhere.

anyone got this problem too?
[Desire General] ediren:
how to get .asx/.wmv streams working

Hi,

Would like to watch some mediastreams in the tvthek from orf (google "tvthek orf") but somehow it is not working due to the missing asx plugin.

Does anybody have a hint, how to get asx stream working? Is there a plugin or a special app which i have to use?

Thanks, ed
[Desire General] Tenhi:
Facebook photos for contacts are not updating when people change their pictures, and there's no way to fix that besides removing facebook sync account and add it again...:(
[Desire General] madman1520:
for #27... i have pattern-lock enabled without the standard slide lock....
[Desire General] ZiCoN:
How do you do that?
[Desire General] madman1520:
just turned on the pattern lock and the other one disabled.
[Desire General] ZiCoN:
Not here... I too have unlock pattern...
[Desire General] IIIIkoolaidIIII:
SMS

No option for send on enter for SMS messages, really annoying especially if using in landscape mode as the send button does not appear. Been looking for a fix for this on a none rooted device.
[Desire General] Tenhi:
It's not that hard to press back key and press enter :). But one-press-send would be great too :)...
[Desire General] IIIIkoolaidIIII:
I know it's only a small things, but I got so used to having it on my G1. :-)
[Desire General] Lekselius:
There is still the snooze button on the lock screen so you have to avoid touching the screen when taking it out of your pocket.
[Desire General] mrdo:
which i have never managed to do yet - i'm sure that it's impossible !
[Desire General] ponde:
I haven't yet red the whole threat and I don't know if its mentioned here before, but when in browser the text selection is great and easy to hi-light words and copy paste or translate the word. It doesn't work anywhere else. Only in the browser :mad:
[Desire General] IceBone:
Yes, because it's a feature of the browser, not android.
[Desire General] Borgini:
Funny one

This is a funny one. Three times today when typing an email I hit the space bar just as someone was calling me and inadvertantly hung up on them! Just as striking the space bar was impossible to stop and in doing so rejected the call. Small irritation and had I been typing letters would have been ok as could then have selected answer option after tapping letter but if your finger is about to hit the space bar then you reject the call by accident. Could do with that being configured so as to answer or reject call from another area of screen when typing.
[Desire General] Oggeh:
I'm not sure if this has been noticed in this thread. But I searched (hopefully good enough) and didn't find anything.

What's up with HTC Sense not allowing for programmers work around and access HID bluetooth? I'm thinking of apps like WiimoteController etc. so a fix would be nice because I kinda like Sense and don't really wanna root :/

Oh well, positive thoughts for the Froyo update perhaps =)
[Desire General] dirkr07:
couldnt see it in the list

Unable to change calendar on an existing event.

You're only able to choose which calendar to add the event to when creating the event but cannot change it when editing the event.
[Desire General] ugmeme123:
my cheeck hits the end call button once in a while.
[Desire General] yike:
My problem is related to flaw 49.

It's too easy to reject calls.

If the power button is touched, calls are rejected.

Anyone can help?
[Desire General] kimlindo:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated May 13, 2010]

I don't know if this is considered a flaw, but I don't want to keep creating new topics everytime I have a new question. :P

My Desire is getting pretty hot around the physical buttons area. It's worse when I'm charging but it's kinda hot now too (not charging). Is this normal? And what can I do to make it cool down?

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[Desire General] Dexil:
Can't find mp3

Ok, I'm getting really irritated. The device doesn't want to find my mp3's. I have over 200 songs and it just finds a 100. I tried several apps to force refresh the musicplayer but it doesn't work with every song.

I tried other apps but most of them have the same problem. Only the ones that play the songs directly from the folder plays all of them. But there just a few that do that. And have serious shortcomings when compared to the other players.

Help anyone?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Do you have a file called .nomedia in the dir? Or maybe weird characters in the filenames?
[Desire General] Dexil:
I do have Japanese songs. But most of them do get found by the player. Just did a factory reset hope it solves the problem.

Edit: Still the same problem.....

Edit 2: went back to the meridian which keeps closing on me. But that the only app that scans the files decently. Even if I have to keep refreshing the same folder.

Shame on you google for not making a decent media scanner !

Edit 3: OK I know the problem seems like an mp3 caused the media scanner to crash. For others having the same problem use meridian and look which mp3 it doesn't add. Convert the file to acc, or check the tag for problems. This will solve it.
[Desire General] VVV850:
Annoyance

Android or the Desire has the inability to cancel an ongoing download. I tried everything but no luck.
[Desire General] node35:
I've got one, that I've read tons of others posts on, but no one has found a work around.

When I set up a recurring event in the calendar, say a card game every wednesday, and one wednesday is cancelled - I cant edit that single event and delete it, I only get two options, delete/edit this and future events, or delete/edit all events.

While I realize the difference between the two (one keeps past events), then its not quite what I am looking for. I've read plenty of responses that some have a third option - the one im looking for - delete/edit this event. But this option is not present on my HTC desire with Android 2.1 stock( I think its called stock, i havent messed around with it, and its just as when I bought it a few days ago)

Any ideas?
[Desire General] matt246:
Hey guys, I've only got one major problem, read a lot of the posts and can't find a solution.

At the moment I only have SIM contacts enabled because if I import them to phone, then I get double ups obviously. I can set the People app to to only view the contacts on phone and not the contacts on SIM, but if I send a message or dial a number, this preference is obsolete and I see both contacts.

This is annoying because the SIM contact field has much less information and cannot have photos, but I get pissed off with seeing two of everyone.

This problem is magnified when adding Facebook contacts because then I have THREE of every contact, and a whole bunch of contacts that I will never text or call because they are just Facebook friends!

So long story short, is there a way to filter what contacts you see when using dialer or text?

Thanks!
[Desire General] node35:
Wow, i hadnt even tried this yet. Im still using my old phone, because my number isnt moved for another 20 days. But I'd like a solution to this as well, I have some contacts show up 7 times, because of google contacts, sim contacts and facebook, and with emails attacked the SMS app doesnt know which one you want to use. Theres gotta be a way of cleaning this up some how?
[Desire General] kokoon:
snoozing a clock alarm by pressing one of the side buttons (volume rocker) doesn't work if the phone is locked.
[Desire General] Dominikm:
Two problems

there are two biggest problem with Desire:

- poor 3G recpeption, very poor...

- poor voice quality during talking
[Desire General] Jiia:
I've been having the same kind of bug in two different applications now in my Desire. I can't seem to find anyone with a similar problem and the HTC support couldn't help me at all.

1. I got an SMS from my friend, and suddenly the smilie in the message wasn't the regular orange face. Instead it was a green android. At the same moment all the previous smilies turned into text and my Messages application's FPS got extremely low. I rebooted and then did a factory reset on my phone leaving no messages in it, but the FPS in the Messages application is still horrible and scrolling is very hard. Also now all of the smilies are in plain text, no pictures anymore.

2. Today I went to my favourites category in the People program. I wanted to remove a contact so I pressed the contact long and selected "delete contact". The contact didn't get deleted but instead the favourites category turned as slow as the Messaging program is. If I go back to the regular groups window the FPS is good as well as in any other category like co-workers. The FPS gets slow when I go to the favourites folder. I got the contact deleted by pressing menu and selecting "delete contacts" but the problem still occurs. Reboot nor factory reset won't work.

Is there way I can reflash my phone again with the official ROM? I can't seem to find it anywhere. I bought my phone abroad so it would be very hard to send it back for repair.
[Desire General] jxleung:
has there been a solution to the texting threaded view problem?

I have no clue how to fix it for my Desire : (
[Desire General] ugmeme123:
weak wifi signal.
[Desire General] bigbamboo5:
You can try putting it in the fridge.

I tried leaving mine in a cool bath for a few minutes, but that didn't seem to work.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I just tried to delete a recurring event to test this. I indeed have the missing 3rd option. That is, I can delete "Only this event". I did recently installed the OTA update to 1.21.405.2. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Thanks, added.

Yes, you can. Just long-tap on the download item to stop it.
[Desire General] node35:
That is good to know, im pretty sure I am running 1.21.405.2 as well, that is what it says under software number when i look at software information, I am using the HTC calender - and I dont have this third option, is there something I can do to perhaps fix this?

Perhaps I should take a screenshot of it somehow
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Ok, I think I know what you mean.

You're using "My Calendar" in the Calendar application rather than Google Calendars. For whatever reason, when editing recurring events in local calendar, you can't edit/delete just that one particular event.
[Desire General] node35:
I see, okay. So to use google calender(something im not overly optimistic about - Id prefer to keep my data on my phone instead of some online calender) do i need to install another calender app?

update: Apparently, if I go into Agenda, view - I can both edit and delete a single event, in a recurring event.

update2: and when viewing the event itself, when opening the event from the HTC calender agenda style
[Desire General] masi0:
people, you cannot blame crappy network provider for your htc desire voice quality/reception! comparing to my previous 3gs reception is much better than on the iphone with no worse voice quality!
[Desire General] kimlindo:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Jun 10, 2010]

I was thinking something more like turning off the backlight on the physical buttons.. But I've read now that it can't be done.

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[Desire General] VVV850:
Thanks, Don't know how I missed this but thanks again.
[Desire General] cyleo:
One major issue i found is that my news widget doesn't auto-update, althoug i set it to do so. I know there are more people with this problem, and i haven't found a workaround yet, i just don't know if all phones are affected with this problem.
[Desire General] ljesh:
I'm with you! It's not that weak... it's terrible!

In order to have good wifi connection, you need to be close to the router, otherwise the connection is true disaster.

In my room (which is separated with 2 walls from the router) I used to have great wifi connection with my previous phones (Nokia and HTC). But the Desire is disaster, many times I lose connection completely.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Must be your phone. I'm 3 walls away from the router, roughly 30m and still get (indicated poor) a stable and fast connection. No worse than my laptop.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Agreed. That's why this won't be making the list. I'm 3 walls away from the router as well. It gets better reception than my ipod touch.
[Desire General] reaperSKD:
Is there anywhere in the 58 pages the problem that data connectivity on this phone is terrible when not on WiFi. I can't browse longer than 2 minutes on the browser without the phone "locking" in 3g with the up arrow highlighted. This means I have no data connectivity and can't send/receive calls or texts. I know for a fact it isn't the service provider as this is a major problem with the hero and desire that they can't seem to fix!

Considering I got this phone for the internet, I think its disgusting.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
How do you know for a fact it isn't your service provider that's the root of your problem? I ask because it sounds like it is.

My device has no problems with browsing via 3G and can make/receive calls just fine while doing so. Except for rare isolated instances, my network connection holds strong all the time.
[Desire General] reaperSKD:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Jun 10, 2010]

Because I know loads of people with the same issue, its a well known issue and users on t mobile, orange, and 3 have experienced it. I emailed HTC and its a known software problem that they have no intention of fixing. HTC are terrible for support.

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[Desire General] Alex_bg:
Freezing FM Radio application. (serious problem)
[Desire General] freddyemmer:
20. Can't select a group in contact to sync only (example my contacts). In android 1.5 1.6 and 2.1 this is a standard future but in HTC sense contacts app not.
[Desire General] gogol:
How do you replace the photo in the contact?

When I go to "People" -> Edit Contact ... I cannot see any way to replace the photo.
[Desire General] Zappza:
Ah, excellent!

Did not know that Google had ActiveSync setup for Gmail. However, I am going to miss being able to archive messages and mark as spam, but that is not crucial. In a worst case scenario I just manually update in the Gmail app. Thanks a lot for this post!
[Desire General] Zappza:
Press the photo.

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Issue #21:

Notification LED only works for 5 minutes after notification is started. I do not see why they couldn't just leave the LED on until the notification was checked like in all other Android devices.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
In the Edit Contact screen, tap the contact photo in the top left corner.
[Desire General] gogol:
Here is the solution:

Use HTC IME Mod keyboard:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=663608

HTC IME Mod is the same HTC virtual keyboard like the one in the HTC Desire, but it has been modified in a very nice way, added couple of useful features.

In your situation, enable:

Prediction & dictionary -> [x] Ignore autocomplete flag

With this, the prediction works on the search button as well as Market search!
[Desire General] gogol:
Another solution (or enhancement?):

Voice input does not work

Workaround:

Use HTC IME Mod keyboard:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=663608
[Desire General] Zappza:
You might want to add the link for how to setup Exchange with Gmail.

Here is for WinMo, but it is exactly the same for Android.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Re: Flaws and annoyances with the HTC Desire (updated Apr 20, 2010)

Will do that next time it happens. I already knew the command, didn't see anything special though.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Updated in first post! Thanks.

Done! Thanks.

FM Radio works just fine for me. I'll classify this as an isolated incident, similar to the user who says their device won't go into standby.

Wouldn't make sense to have it on this list. If I add these issues, then I would also be adding things like having dust under the screen. More than 1 device has been reported here with that problem but nonetheless, it is an isolated incident.

Sorry, I'm fairly new to the Android environment. Are you saying that in non-HTC devices, you can specify your device to just sync particular Groups in Google Contacts? For example, I can choose to just sync "Friends" and not "Coworkers"?
[Desire General] freddyemmer:
Jup on the HTC Magic 1.5 and 1.6, the HTC Hero 1.5, the Samsung Galaxy Spica 1.5 and 2.1.
[Desire General] Tearlow:
Most say that I too have found some things that can get really annoying. Mind you, I'm fairly new to Android in General.

But first and foremost- Wifi + 3G.

Let's say you are at home and using Wifi, You'll most likely leave it at that for a few hours if not more. At some point when you disable that you can no longer connect via 3G and forced to restart the device.

Second is the Wonderful yet dreadful sensor that goes on once you answer a call. In my case I use a Headset (Bluetooth) at all time and having the phone in my pocket. But the Sensor seems to go on and off and sometimes even cancels the call.

Third out, I'd say there are Third party applications for this but... Since this device will most likely to everyone stay connected 70%+ via 3G why isn't there a bandwidth counter or at least a way to set warnings/limits? Or even Disconnect it unless in use for the last 5-10min?

Since I moved (From my last phone) a Kaiser (HTC P4550) with Hardware keyboard I like the idea of tilting the screen for a bigger keyboard to have that Feel Kaiser did, but most of the time it's not possible (Or is this just something the application needs to support?)

Not sure if it's a sync issue or not, but if you add information about a contact. Say- Birthday and then Sync that. It erases that new entry- Sometimes it works right away thought...

Other then these smaller annoyance I most say- Just like the OP that this is a Dream Device!

EDIT: Forgot to add the "Current City" which is not showing the right City at all. Is that possible to force?
[Desire General] Alex_bg:
I suspect that problem only exist for european HTC Desire owners. It is not an isolated incident. Manu european users have this same problem :(
[Desire General] Phil750123:
NO 21. HTC Clock with weather widget sometimes wont load weather in current location :

this annoyed me very much so as i loved the weather widget and didnt want to add a seperate widget with no graphics when you turn it on :

work around: to remove widget, add new and set it to a specific location (not good if you move around a lot)
[Desire General] Phil750123:
Another one :

When using the comact qwerty keyboard ( i use this because i like typing one handed and i used this on my old htc diamond so im used to it)

when typing in a word , it doesnt automatically put up the last word you put up with those letters.

e.g. when typing got ( very common word i use a lot) the first word comes up is hot (which i dont use alot!)

on my old htc diamond if i typed got more then hot, got would come up first so i wouldnt havent to select it again from the dropdown menu.
[Desire General] pato:
Are you able to install it on Desire without root?
[Desire General] snapilica2003:
3G Watchdog does exactly the things you pointed above. It's indispensable to people who don't have an unlimited data plan (like me).

I think no other mobile operating system has this feature build in, so Android doesn't have it either. The difference is this app is the best i ever used no matter the platform.
[Desire General] eaglesteve:
It's built-in in iPhone. However you must manually reset the counter on period cut off. Also it does not give you warning. You must check it visually yourself. I would still use a proper monitoring software instead of using though. Proper monitoring software will also monitor the cellular call quota and gives details of call history for you to audit the total amount.
[Desire General] cworrall:
how about hiding sim contacts? I have tried and tried to hide them - but in the actual phone dialer it now displays a mixture of my face book contacts my google contacts my sim contacts and my phone contacts, I have tried disabling sim contacts in people but there still in my dialer, I like to keep a backup on a sim for fear of the worst, if i break my desire I dont want to be limited to android or indeed any mobile os just to keep my contacts, oh and where the hells google earth! and installing apps to sd, - another thread i guess :(
[Desire General] IceBone:
That sounds like BS to me.
[Desire General] reaperSKD:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Jun 10, 2010]

How about before you accuse someone of 'bs' you actually try google. It's not hard, and you'll find loads of people with similar issues. Some people don't use 3g/H enough to notice it in a lot of cases either.

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[Desire General] node35:
Id second that.

I've used 3g/H every day for the last week, so far I havent had a slow connection or no connection when in an area where the signal can reach ( I sometimes work on a basement level)
[Desire General] reaperSKD:
Re: Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire (with workarounds!) [updated Jun 10, 2010]

Clearly these people are BS aswell http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/64652-htc-desire-3g-problem.html

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[Desire General] node35:
Theres plenty of posts on that link, that dont have problems either, perhaps it would suffice to say, I am not on T-mobile, or in the UK. Perhaps that is some of the reason why I do not have any problems.
[Desire General] IceBone:
I have had poor 3G reception as well, but that's always due to location. Where I live we don't have uber coverage, it's ok, but not the best. When I go to uni, I get really good coverage and speeds.

What if it's not the phone, but where those people live?
[Desire General] ljesh:
Well, all of us cannot live, work and go to coffee under 3G antenna.

The reception should be optimal. If I, on my Nokia E52 on the same spot have had pretty good 3G reception, while Desire jumps back and forth between 3G and GSM, that is obviously device (Desire) issue. We can say that "Desire reception is worse than X model", but we cannot call that BS.

Or we can, but that would make us not look so good in the eyes of others.