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[Hero CDMA General] Chaid:
Hey guys.........with your help,

I F'ING DID IT! After 6 days of pain and anguish my phone is actually FIXED!!!

Of course my eyes are bleeding from reading so many posts, but who cares, I don't have to take my phone in and "try" to get a replacement. It wasn't a hardware failure after all.....

For whatever reason, that bastard satanic 2.1 "official my ass" RUU, messed with my menu buttons. If the phone was asleep while unplugged and I hit the menu or power button, it would vibrate once and reboot. What I am noticing now that I have my phone back to stock is that, when my phone is asleep while unplugged and I hit the menu or power button it WON'T vibrate. Now the lights turn on, THEN the lock screen comes up. So it somehow broke the waking up park I guess.

I wish I could remember what steps and or ORDER that I used to fix it, but ultimately what worked was:

http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-hero-roms-hacks/9542-how-repair-your-bootloader-after-using-2-1-ruu.html

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=583291

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=657086

And lastly, a quote This absolutely will restore your phone to the stock 1.5 Android that came on the phone. One additional step is to factory reset the phone after restoring the nandroided 1.5 (##786# in dialer >> menu >> reset >> enter MSL >> select reboot phone twice in recovery when it pops up). This will get rid of your 2.10 PRI that was installed with the 2.1 ruu

I hope this never happens to anyone, but it was fixable......

Thanks again for all your help and support, you guys really rocked!
[Hero CDMA General] unCoRrUpTeD:
That's great to hear.

Now since you've got it back to stock and have actually rooted it now, try rooting your phone with Fresh Kitchen. You can stick with 1.5 ROMS or use his kitchen to add or remove apps.

Just a thought
[Hero CDMA General] Chaid:
Even though I had a hell of a time through all this, I did LOVE the 2.1 stuff. I need a day to rest my brain, but you read my mind. Since I have pretty much done all this stuff over and over, I'm pretty comfortable now. But I did it so many times and in so many different orders, I'm completely confused now. Before I would even consider doing it again:

IF I were to root again, it would be to use a 2.1 ROM (otherwise I'll just stick with stock till Sprint updates) Does anyone think my problem would be recreated by rooting, flashing a custom 2.1 ROM? Or was it probably that RUU that did it. Just not sure if my phone just plain didn't like 2.1.

But before that, my brain is fried...but I do have a list of questions.
[Hero CDMA General] Chaid:
It is just so darned strange! After getting back to stock, I decided that I am good enough at this **** to try again from scratch. So I rooted and flashed RagawMod 2.0.1. The phone worked perfect for about 3 hours, then boom! Same old bull**** rebooting problem. My phone just doesn't like 2.1, period. It is just the oddest thing and I hope this isn't a problem that Sprint is actually having with some phones out there and that's why it is getting pushed back. Because of strange bugs like mine.

Anyway, wiped and downloaded fresh, cooked a ROM....Liked it....downloaded Gumbo 1.5c Bare with Sense Patch and I like it even more because it has some ram hack program that makes my 1.5 phone way faster. If I have to live with 1.5 at least this ROM makes it way more livable.

I just wish now, that I could have the looks and stuff of Fresh, with the speed of Gumbo.
[Hero CDMA General] danaff37:
I was reading another thread and thought I would ask... You partition your card for a2sd?

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[Hero CDMA General] Chaid:
If I did, I'm unaware of it.

Edit: Let me put in a bit more detail.

I had a stock phone, saw the "official test 2.1 RUU" and clicked that. So I don't know if it automatically partitioned my SD card, and don't really know how to check. Of the many guides I followed to get it back to stock, I don't recall ever doing it in the shell thing, or from the Recovery menu.

Just today I was reading about a2sd and App2sd and was thinking about doing it, but haven't yet. You think that I needed to do that for 2.1 to work on phone? Now I'm curious why you asked, Danaff.
[Hero CDMA General] danaff37:
Was just reading about some one who had a similar problem and it was a bad ext partition. But if you never set it up then you never had an ext partition. So not the issue... Just thought about it when I read. It's a very weird problem you have - I'm floored

I'm extremely curious what would happen if, now that it works ok for you, you flashed a custom 2.1 rom

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[Hero CDMA General] tkirton:
It was probably the RUU. Remember, those RUUs are still beta for the most part. The ROM developers do a fantastic job of fixing the stuff that HTC and Sprint somehow don't fix. If you have to use an RUU, use only the 1.5 ones (since those are officially released).
[Hero CDMA General] tkirton:
If you're having issues with your phone, I wouldn't recommend partitioning your phone yet. It's possible that could make the problem worse (or introduce a new problem, which means you're tracking two problems at once).

2.1 Roms should work just fine without partitioning your sd card with an ext3 partition. What applications did you load after you installed the 2.1 Rom? I'm thinking it is an app issue.
[Hero CDMA General] Chaid:
Well, to be honest I didn't install any apps before OR after I got my phone back to stock. Then on Saturday, I decided to reroot and start from scratch. I'm going to quote myself from Yesterday.

It is just so darned strange! After getting back to stock, I decided that I am good enough at this **** to try again from scratch. So I rooted and flashed RagawMod 2.0.1. The phone worked perfect for about 3 hours, then boom! Same old bull**** rebooting problem. My phone just doesn't like 2.1, period. It is just the oddest thing and I hope this isn't a problem that Sprint is actually having with some phones out there and that's why it is getting pushed back. Because of strange bugs like mine.

Anyway, wiped and downloaded fresh, cooked a ROM....Liked it....downloaded Gumbo 1.5c Bare with Sense Patch and I like it even more because it has some ram hack program that makes my 1.5 phone way faster. If I have to live with 1.5 at least this ROM makes it way more livable.

I just wish now, that I could have the looks and stuff of Fresh, with the speed of Gumbo.

I didn't install any apps after installing, RAGAWMOD 2.0.1. and a few hours later it happened again.

So I re-wiped and installed Gumbo 1.5c and the phone is perfect. I honestly think it is the HBOOT that was installed with that 2.1 RUU. That is the ONLY thing I can't get back to stock. , and is probably causing my issue, since I can't test it with the original Hboot.
[Desire General] Jabalpuri:
I will be in Amsterdam for the weekend only.

I need a HTC retail store for the SILVER Desire. Help Pls!

Any Dutch guys here who can help me out?
[Desire General] Hasanovic:
Go to belcompany, they sell the silver htc desire

.belcompany.nl
[Desire General] stefh:
Or let it deliver to your hotel from http://www.smartphoneshop.nl/product/91189/htc-desire-silver.html

But the silver one has cheaper looks than the brown one. But maybe that's just me...
[Desire General] patasenko:
I have a silver one, and it is i believe more scratch resistant, cuz its tougher to see any scratches... and the back site doesnt show smudgy fingerprints :p
[Desire General] Jabalpuri:
do they sell sim-free unlocked desire's?
[Desire General] RaptorRVL:
Yep they do!
[Desire General] papasieg:
yes

:DQUOTE] buy xperia x10 desire sucks
[Desire General] irkan:
why?

because the Desire is cheaper than X10?

because the Desire has a display with 16M colors while X10 has only 65k colors?

because the Desire has AMOLED beautiful display while X10 has TFT?

because the Desire has pinch-to-zoom while the X10 doesnt?

because the Desire has 576MB RAM while X10 only has 384MB RAM?

because the Desire has Android 2.1 while X10 is dreaming about it and only has Android 1.6?

because the Desire has Radio with Radio Data System RDS while the X10 doesnt have RDS?

please tell me which part of what i mentioned that makes the Desire sux and x10 rocks

P.S. sorry for OT it just get on my nerves when someone spams such a clue-less comment
[Desire General] SuppleX:
You can find the belcompany at the streets "Dam" and "Rokin".

Better said,its almost impossible for a tourist to miss it ;) They've got a bunch of stores in Amsterdam. If you buy a phone without a contract it is sim free.
[HD2 General] flyingscouser:
bought a new HD2 from o2, and trying to update it to 6.5.5 so that the start button is down at the bottom, is this a cooked Rom i have seen or is it an actual update,

Cheers

Oliver
[HD2 General] syre:
no, these are cooked roms were the start button below is
[HD2 General] otester:
Some of the newer 6.5.5's have the on-screen start button removed (LeoPard).
[Desire General] samac92:
the iPhone has access to BBC iPlayer website (far better quality than beebplayer) and tvcatchup.com (where you can watch any freeview channel for free - live - over 3G or wifi) amongst other video websites.

now these must be working on H.264 or something similar for it to work on the iPhone, and doesn't android support this?

so why can't we access these sites? is there a way of tricking the websites into thinking the desire is an iPhone?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] inertone:
everyone is starting to copy us lol

http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-working-on-this-quietly-in.html
[Touch CDMA Android Development] egzthunder1:
Jobs having a melt down in 5...4....3
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mrkite38:
lol! yep. I could actually see getting an ipod touch now.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] *M*:
Hah imagine it running Sense UI
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dude4:
thats why jobs wont have a melt down

for one not to many people will do it

look at hackintoshes there will be more people using them than unofficially running android on the iphone and apple hasnt stopped them (except for trying with psystar but thats because they are trying to profit off it)

apple's software has alway been to sell hardware(osx sell macs, itunes sells ipods and now digital merchandise like music)

all this will mean is a few thousand more people to sell stuff to

and some people will buy the hardware that they wouldnt have otherwise
[Hero CDMA General] Danokan:
Ok folks.. here is a new one (I think)

Running Fresh 2.0d (thanks flipz)

Flashed apps2sd 2.5 (thanks darktremor) and it moved a ton over.

Now running about 110 megs free

HOWEVER.

I am using SENSE UI and the thumbing between screens is a little glitchy. Pauses for a nanosecond and then moves. Get through all of the screens this way and it is smooth transition going back.

This was working FINE before the apps2d 2.5 was installed.

I used SPARE PARTS and changed it to "slow" on the transitions and now it is smooth again.

Any suggestions / ideas?

Dalvik Cache maybe?

thanks
[Hero CDMA General] lv2bll:
isnt rosie a system app, a2sd doesnt move the system apps. I believe the memory killer might have something to do with this though!
[Hero CDMA General] Danokan:
Haven't changed the "autokiller" settings....

and I thought you could move dalvik cache.. although I really don't know whether it has been moved or not.
[Hero CDMA General] danaff37:
well, especially depending on your sd card, the ram in the phone is probably going to read/write faster than the card, so moving cache and activating swap could have negative effects, especially on a lower end card. Like what came with the phone.
[Hero CDMA General] Danokan:
Anyone else want to take a shot?
[Hero CDMA General] tkirton:
Your SD card, what class is it? Class 2, 4, 6 or some other variant?

I'm suspecting that Class 2 cards can't handle the dalvik-cache being on the SD card.

Do this...in the ADB shell, type /system/bin/a2sd nocache and see if that improves it. If it does, it is definitely the dalvik-cache.
[Hero CDMA General] Danokan:
Grrrrr.... "no such directory exists" :confused:

EDIT: got it.. thanks
[Hero CDMA General] Danokan:
Ummm...WOW

Went from 110 to 38 gig free space on phone.

I don't like that at all and can live with the glitchy screens.

How do I undo and put the dalvik cache back on?

/system/bin a2sd cache

???

Will wiping the dalvik cache help?
[Hero CDMA General] tkirton:
Yes.../system/bin/a2sd cache puts the cache back on.

You can erase it once it gets back on the sd card, but you'll need to reboot the phone and it will take up to 10 minutes to boot (as the dalvik-cache gets recreated).
[Hero CDMA General] Danokan:
Thanks a mil!

:D
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
I must say that I love my Desire (have had it for about a week), except for some small kinks and I'm not the big fan of the HTC Sense lock-screen (I don't like the vertical "handle", I would much prefer the default Android one.. [any tips to get it is welcome]).

But there is one thing that annoys me, and I don't understand why they didn't implement. And that is birthday "reminders" in the calendar..

I like the HTC Calendar and I "love" the integration between Google Contacts (& Calendar), the phone and Facebook... For me (as a developer) it couldn't be much more work to integrate that into that calendar as well (the data is already there, you just have to show it [more or less..]).

Anybody know if there's a way to "fix" this (a setting I've missed) or a better calendar app that can handle this?

I know that you can include birthday info in your Google Calender from your Google contacts, but that's not "good enough". For one thing, I don't have all my friends (that I have on Facebook) in my Google Contacts and I have no intention to add them to it (or go through them and add their birthdays..)

I'm glad for any input..

All the best to you..

/Chris

(I used "Google [Service]" to be clear on what I was talking about)
[Desire General] zamolxees:
I have the same problem. How do i make my device remimd me of my contacts b-day?

thanl you

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[Desire General] meson1:
You have to do it via Google.

First you have to sync your contacts with your Google contacts. The birthday and anniversary details will be carried up to your Google contacts from your phone.

Then switch to your Google calendar. On the left hand side in the Other calendars section, click "Add", select "Browse Interesting Calendars" and click the "More" tab. From the displayed list click the "subscribe" link against "Contacts' birthdays and events."

This adds your contacts' birthdays to your Google Calendar, which when sync'd with your phone will appear on you phone's calendar.

I admit this is not straightforward and I would have liked to have seen the phone do this by itself.
[Desire General] Julian1984:
And what can we do with the contacts stored on the phone and no as a gmail contact?

Thanks!
[Desire General] kevano22:
Wonder if someone could help me with this. I had this all setup and it showed my birthdays fine.

Then I added a couple more birthdays to contacts and they didnt show even after syncing rebooting an taking off the calendar and putting it back on.

Now I cannot at all get the calendar to show ANY birthdays. Ive got it all set up right, and i;ve syncd. They show on the google calendar on the laptop here, it shows all tasks and birthdays, however the calendar on the phone doesnt show anything other than uk holidays. Ive messed with every setting possible...HELP!
[Desire General] meson1:
On your phone you have three types of contacts: SIM contacts, Phone contacts and Google. Obviously, SIM contacts reside on your SIM card; Phone contacts in the phone and Google contacts on Google Mail.

As you have pointed out only Google contacts will synchronize with your Google Mail account. But all is not lost. You won't have to type in all your contact details again because you can link contacts together in the phone.

What you do is to create Google contacts that duplicate each of your phone contacts. Just create each Google contact on your phone with the same name as each existing phone contact. You do not need to include any details, just create them as empty contacts. Once you've done this, they will appear as two separate contacts in the contact list.

Now the magic. For each person, edit either one of their two contacts. You will see that you can link each contact with another contact. If you've used the same name for your Phone and Google contacts it will already be suggesting that these two can be linked together. So link them.

Now you will find your two linked contacts now appear as one in your contact list. And these linked contacts will now synchronize with your Google Mail account contacts and carry all the details from your original Phone contact with them.

Hope this helps.
[Desire General] mouth:
eboBirthday from the Marketplace. Free.
[Desire General] tifosi256:
I had this too. Only birthdays that were assigned to contacts at the time I created the calendar online show now.

I'm going to try and delete that calendar and re-create it but something is definitely wrong when you subsequently add birthdays after making that calendar.
[Desire General] tifosi256:
Right, one thing I've found is that the birthdays I've added on the phone have NOT made their way back into Google's cloud. I've re-entered them in GMail online and re-created the calendar to show birthdays but they still aren't showing, not online and not in my phone!
[Desire General] tifosi256:
Right, just re-added the calendar again online and it's now showing in the web calendar. After a refresh of the calendar on the phone, it's now showing there too.

So numerous bugs. If you want to see your birthdays, the process seems to be:

1) Enter them all online in your Gmail contacts

2) Delete then recreate your "friends birthdays" calendar in Google Calendar online

3) Refresh your phone

If you add any new birthdays, you'll need to do this all again. Pretty poor :mad:
[Desire General] mrdo:
sounds like a horror story - here was i thinking that someone would have written an app to read birthdays from built-in phone contacts ... :-(
[Desire General] tifosi256:
Well, it's certainly sub-optimal. I'd say the main bug is the phone not sending birthdays entered on it back to Google. The non-refreshing calendar thing I can kind of understand. I guess the additional calendars are assumed to be static (like UK Public holidays etc). Just a guess. I'd heard about the birthday syncing bug on another android phone, kinda hoped it would be sorted on the Desire.
[Desire General] kevano22:
Thanks tif I will try it later. Got that birthday program and its cool but I'd like to see them in my calendar too!
[Desire General] watercool:
For me it takes about 12-18 hour until birthdays are synched with my calendar, but only when i refresh the calendar manually (menu -> more -> refresh)

Try to add a birthday @ google contacts, wait 24 hours, refresh the calendar.

The only way it works for me.

When i add a birthday to a contact (when creating the contact), the contact disappers lol.
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
@meson1: I thank you for your post, and I guess it could be helpsome for someone but as I said in the original post. I know that you can do that, bit I don't want that.. Don't want to go through and manually add a hundred people to my Google contacts.. First there are already too many posts in there, second: too much work for too litle result and för something that more or less should be given..

I will check out that app. But I'm still looking för a good solution to this problem.. (anybody know if there's än API för the calendar?)

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[Desire General] meson1:
I'm afraid I don't know a way to do this for all your contacts enmasse. My experience with this stuff is limited. I looked into all this shortly after I got my Desire not having had any experience of Google Mail or Android before. After some experimentation that is what I have found.

I do agree that this part of the functionality is extremely lacking and it seems from other peoples' posts that it is also extremely buggy too. I do not like having to go via Google to do this stuff. I think this stuff should be integrated into the phone by itself and then linking to Google and anything else should be an extra.

It's all the more annoying that it's an obvious function to include, but that no-one has connected the dots. Or at least connected them in a technically competant fashion.

If I knew how, I'd knock up a really simple app to let you sync birthdays and anniversaries in the contacts to the calendar. As it is I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Android SDK and Java let alone doing anything practical.

Perhaps there's someone out there that is further up the Android Development learning curve that can put something together.
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
If I had the time (and not already too many projects to work with) I could perhaps put something together (If I knew there was some nice APIs)...

But I tried eboBirthday and it works ok.. (Far from ultimate and I can't even call it "good"..). First it downloaded all the birthdays from Facebook (and displays it in a extremely plain interface). But I can't say that it went smooth.. It was a bit "buggy" and I got an error at the end (even if it seemed to have downloaded all the info fine).

Then by using eboBirthday Contact Sync (also free in the market) that match my Google Contacts with my Facebook contacts and updated them..

And when I looked at my Google Calendar, the info was already there (no need to remove the Contacts birthdays calendar etc).

And then I just synced my calendar in the phone and now, at least, got all the birthdays for my Google Contacts in my calendar (plus reminders from eboBirthday).
[Desire General] Marcus_de_zwarte:
as title say is it possible to exchange the pictures, or directly to picasaweb?
[Android Software Development] h0ttz:
How To Track Bandwidth Usage On My Android Phone ???

Most existing applications shows the total used (in/out).

I'd like to show the use by each application.

I want to find the application that consumes more bandwidth from my internet.

:confused::confused::confused:
[Android Software Development] cauli:
SpareParts has an option to view network usage by app, but it's the only aspect of SpareParts that has never worked for me. This on an Hero with MCR 3.2, so maybe this aspect need a more recent Android version.
[Android Software Development] fiissio:
AFAIK that would require one to intercept the packets, and you need to be root to do that.
[Android Software Development] cauli:
I have root & afaicr SpareParts has never asked to be given root access.
[Desire General] DarsVaeda:
Just a quick question.

Can i flash the original android 2.1 to this phone?

So i have android 2.1 without sense.

Thanks
[Desire General] samac92:
no possible yet as far as i know - the phone needs to be rooted first

you can install helixlauncher2 which replaces the home screen and app drawer with the nexus one type though
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] h0ttz:
How To Track Bandwidth Usage On My Android Phone ???

Most existing applications shows the total used (in/out).

I'd like to show the use by each application.

I want to find the application that consumes more bandwidth from my internet.

:confused::confused::confused::confused:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mattisdada:
I dont know of any application that also tracks the ammount of usage apps use, but 3G watchdog and netcounter are very good apps for tracking internet useage.