yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] quicksite:
And here's a different video of HANDCENT's many customizable settings -- again, this one does not show the date & time specifically --- but it's there --

WARNING: Initial 5 seconds of loud annoying pointless music INTROS this video, then stops and it's just person speaking clearly. It's a good video overall.

[YOUTUBE]W83-4cMBrjE[/YOUTUBE]

COMMENT:

This reviewer says he actually prefers the native SMS app -- and says handcent does use more resources than native app -- and thus, he says, on OLDER android phones (hah hah, older = 1 year old!, the Android OS is growing so fast!) it could lag a bit. I don't know. I ran it last year on my HERO just fine. Now I run it on the Desire and I can assure you with this phone it's immaterial, a totally moot point. But as to whether one prefers the native app, that's of course a valid choice.
[Desire General] jammy1:
I'm not sure whether this is an AVL or just a very weak internal amp on the Desire. I noticed a huge difference from the HTC Touch HD (very loud, lot's of bass, and the ability to use the in built EQ to ramp the bass +6db without distortion) to the Desire (no EQ, relatively low max volume)

I think the desire just has a **** amp as it struggles to make my Bose headphones shake, so when you have a powerfull section of a tune the volume drops due to the lack of oomph.

I'm also quite dissapointed I can't damage my ears with this phone.
[Desire General] HTCPaul:
Hands free control

Cant set up for auto answering when using a hands free bluetooth device. Should be able to set number of rings before it answers too. Needs to keep screen locked during and after hands free call. Best if it can be configured.
[Desire General] matisamd:
that thet didnt use a normal mini usb, really was stupid and yet another reason i am coming to hate this thi thing work around dont buy this POS.
[Desire General] IceBone:
micro usb = new standard, mandated by the EU. Everybody is/will use it, it's the law.
[Desire General] Pikkierello:
got same problem....where i work it works fine....@ home,even if i'm nearer my town than @ work,it tells me i'm in the next town in the opposite direction...

i think is a phone problem...couldn't be google..
[Desire General] ediflyer:
Agreed - I see this as a good thing, not a bad thing! One less charger required!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7894763.stm
[Desire General] huleboeren:
By your logic we wouldnt even have usb because we'd be stuck with serial/vga connections(or whatever theyre called) due to you not wanting to progress lol
[Desire General] mikelward:
Thanks for putting this list together.

Some others to consider:

- music player "Album" view is actually Album + Artist, so albums by multiple artists have many separate entries for the same album and there is no easy way to play the album

- plus sign to save a dialed number to contacts is too small - very easy to accidentally make a call instead (which is the default action)

Similar to 43, clicking on a person's birthday or Facebook status in the People app does nothing.

And once I couldn't update someone's home address - I think either the Facebook or Google server details kept overwriting my changes.
[Desire General] mikelward:
- need a Gmail account to buy apps - Google Apps For Your Domain plus Google Checkout is not enough

- can't play music using some Nokia headset that work with Nokia phones - mine's an old HS-26W mono headset, so I guess it wouldn't sound too good anyway

- the play/pause button on the included wired headset only controls the Music app - weird things happen if you are using Google Listen to play podcasts
[Desire General] monsterfly:
Froyo OTA update 2.09.405.8 removed 2 flaws from the first post:

10. Turning the device facedown on a surface during a call does not activate speakerphone.

62. Can't have the screen rotated 90 degrees clockwise. It only recognizes portrait and landscape in 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

One new flaw.

When using russian keyboard pressing space bar inputs exclamation mark " ! "
[Desire General] kekkle:
56. The default music application may not display the genre tag of MP3 files correctly

Can also be removed.
[Desire General] ZoZo2:
Is "22. Can't specify particular contact groups within Google Contacts to sync." still valid for the Froyo update?

It was a deal-breaker for me and made me abandon Sense for custom ROMs.
[Desire General] freaksey:
What's with "hide facebook contacts at contacts app"?

Because I have some guys on facebook I will never call but can't get rid of them. This works with the stock dialer (tells you that this contact can't be removed but will be hidden) but not with sense.
[Desire General] JPDyno:
An annoyance i have is that ringtones do not play through bluetooth when connected to a bluetooth car kit - It will still mute the stereo, but the ringtone only plays through the phone and not the speakers, but when answered the voice comes through fine. Taken for granted with my previous couple of nokias I've had.
[Desire General] IanKay:
This happened to me once, wanna know the simple fix that I have used ever since?...

Put the phone in your pocket upside down, that way when you pull it out any "accidental swiping" on the phone would be like swiping your finger upwards instead of down.

I have not answered a call by mistake since.
[Desire General] assimilator:
Bugbears:

1. No scene selection options in camera i.e. sports, portrait etc.

2. As already mentioned, problem with bookmarks in internet.

3. Alarm only seems to work when the phone is switched on.

4. Accelerometer only works anti-clockwise and does not work in album art in music player.

That's all folks
[Desire General] IceBone:
One thing I found annoying, but don't think made the list, was fixed with the Froyo update. When playing a youtube video in the browser, before it would without fail open in the flash player which sucked. Now it plays right there in the browser and if you tap on it, you get the prompt to open it in the standalone youtube app.
[Desire General] MihneaM:
Actually Froyo fixes that.
[Desire General] IceBone:
Can someone try this for me please?

I have 2 1 column people widgets, one for fave group, one for family group, and when I set a widget action of send message to one of the people in family, they were automatically added to the favourite group and when I manually deleted them from the group, the widget action would be gone as well.

Is this just me or is it a bug in android?

Also, it would be nice if you could have a widget that would pop up the menu with the possible actions instead of choosing a default one.

I'm running 2.2.

EDIT: actually, it doesn't matter what widget action you assign, the contact is automatically added to the faves group. :S

EDIT #2: however, if I assign a default action by the prompt when pressing the pic (not by context menu), it doesn't do this...
[Desire General] sudkcoce:
This issue is still there in Froyo. :(

Workaround: use Proximity Tool.

Info and download here:

http://code.google.com/p/proximitytoolextension/

Best regards!
[Desire General] IceBone:
Froyo fixed this too. :)
[Desire General] drew2d1:
Pretty big problem with my network dropping using 2.2.

Before upgrading I'd get full bars in my room/house. On T Mobile now but was the same with o2. Now it's usually between 0 bars to 2.

Any ideas?
[Desire General] aliensub:
I'm having the issue that when calling the voicemail, the phone keeps ringing (hearing the beep.....beep......beep tone) even when it's connected. And it continues until I reboot the phone.

Doesn't matter if i call the voicemail via keeping 1 pressed or just dialing the number

This is with the official 2.2 rooted (nickiberli rom)
[Desire General] andycted:
I think the update fixed the news sorting order problem too
[Desire General] Zaphodski:
Incorrect ringtone played when call without CLI presents.

My Desire plays the ringtone of the first (in alphabetical order) entry in my favourites list when an anonymous call arrives. Has anyone else come across this and have found a solution...? Thanks in advance.
[Desire General] Xene55:
It's extremely irritating that you cannot specify 'add original email in-line' within the native exchange app when forwarding email.

Not sure if it does this for everyone (maybe its our cacky Kerio mail server?) but if I try and forward an email to someone it bungs the original email thread in an attachment that no-one seems to be able to read (calls it 'noname' or something).
[Desire General] kozjegyzo:
Hi All,

I'm experiencing extremely high data usage 20+ MB per day after I installed Froyo. Before my daily max was 6 MB.

Has anyone experienced this behavior?

Can you suggest a data monitoring app that tells me data usage app by app? I have watchdog, and Netcounter and Netmonitor, but they are general, and cant tell me what app is doing all the mischief.

I have an unrooted HTC Desire with OTA Froyo

I live in Hungary and unlimited plans have bee abolished years ago, so I'm stuck with a caped one that get very expensive if I overrun.

All help would be appreciated greatly...

Thanks
[Desire General] bubblesmoney:
for data monitoring try netcounter or 3gwatcgdog etc. you can set up alerts for daily use or weekly or monthly use. both are free downloads. also try apndroid for cutting off connection if you exceed data limits. switch off the synching by using power control widget that can be found on your desire, when not on wifi or change the synching frequency for each app if that facility exists on that app.

use opera mini browser (free from market) for browsing as it compresses data by 90%.

if using stock browser then switch off in options setting on the browser the plug ins and only switch it on when you need flash. the flash adverts will be using updata.

there also is an adblock app on the market but i havent tried it out yet. hope others can give feedback on the adblock app.

as a side note many newbies to smartphones will be breaching data limits easily if they dont watch out their use. htc should have preinstalled some apps like netcounter or 3gwatchdog or designed a similar app with features of auto cutting off data connection when limit breached etc. this should be basic features preinstalled on all smartphones.
[Desire General] hubbub:
Hi all,

Has anyone else noticed an issue on Froyo, when composing text messages at the end of a thread the phone will occasionally scroll/jump right back to the first message, as you're typing? I've noticed this while using both Swype and SwiftKey keyboards and it's really annoying. If you're replying to a thread with 50 or more messages it takes a while to scroll all the way back down to the text box at the bottom to carry on typing.

Cheers,

hubbub

P.S. Long time browser first time poster, so quick thanks for all the valuable info you guys put out there.
[Desire General] Dirky:
Bluetooth dropping out?

I've noticed that when I have Wi-Fi turned on and drive past an open wireless network

the link to my bluetooth headset drops out?

I've not checked to see if this is fixed by turning off the notification of the open wireless networks?

Anyone?

D
[Desire General] dwardu:
Multi Touch bug not as accurate as droid incredible, (enable that setting that Cyanogen had talked about.)
[Desire General] kozjegyzo:
Thanks Guys for the replies...

The massive data consumption is *SOLVED*

"Facebook for HTC Sense" is the problem.

It has a bug that make it sync all the time, and draw massive amounts of data.

The solution.

Remove the the "Facebook for HTC Sense" account form your synced accounts. This should cure the data drawl immediately.

You can then reboot and put it back, and it should be fine. However I had to do the removal-reboot-reinstate account procedure several times before everything normalized.

I suggest using WiFi when you reinstate the account and monitoring data consumption that way before switching on mobile broadband.

I hope this helped...
[Desire General] iCEION:
Facebook profile pictures has higher priority than google contacts

Here goes...

Say I wanna use facebook sync. I got my own profile images for my contacts in google contacts. But the facebook pictures are always the preferred ones in the system, which I certainly don't want.

Right now I have to dissabled facebook sync, but that also means that I can't use the the facebook feature in the gallery app.

Now how come that you can't select which image to be chosen on a global basis? And how come theres no options at all for which facebook information to sync. I mean it's the same for say... birthday I guess. Totally unbelievable, it's not like it would be hard to add these options.

It really a show stopper for me concerning the facebook integration. I wonder if I am the only one annoyed by this, also if someone changes hes or hers profile picture in facebook it's updated on my phone as well, which is fine if you like that, but for me it would be totally confusing because when the phone rings, part of the quick identification when I look at the screen is the picture, which again I would prefer to be my own selected one in google contacts.

Am I missing some workaround for this??
[Desire General] cyleo:
big annoyance: LED doesn't blink while charging and receiving text/call etc.
[Desire General] kozjegyzo:
You can set the preferred images person by person to the Google images, but there is no setting option to do that globally (at least on my HTC Desire I couldn't find it)
[Desire General] Phantom1275:
Youtube app sucks when watching videos over 3G connection

Videos in Youtube app don't get buffered when you pause them, they load only when playing, so they lag a lot and eventually can't be played.
[Desire General] Xene55:
By the way a lot of other people are getting this. A partial workaround is to hit reply instead of forward then change the recipient.
[Desire General] preller:
the desire throttles wlan speed as soon as i turn off the display, this makes it impossible to listen to radio streams.

how can i fix this odd behaviour?

streaming over 3G works without problems.
[Desire General] iCEION:
yeah i know.. but I got LOTS :(

each and every sync field should be optional!
[Desire General] El Soap:
After FROYO update i can't download apps from the Market?

Hi guys,

I'm struggling with this issue:

After the 2.2 android update my market doesn't download/update applications anymore.

Not by 3g or by WIFI, so it's not connection related i guess.

Facebook, gmail, etc. works fine.

Every single download gives me a "download failed" notification after a few secs.

There is enough space left internally so, that should be enough (40mb)

Clearing the market cache en rebooting (JAK!! so MS) helped in the beginning, but sadly not anymore :(

So you guys know a solution to this????

Tx in advance for helping me out

update:

found this here: /xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=699651&page=2

So only option is factory reset?
[Desire General] fredlamour:
I want to add : impossible to choose a specific music/tone for SMS/MMS/notification/email
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
To select custom sound files for notifications, put them in the following folders in the root of the microSD

Ringtones

Alarms

Notifications

hmm...I don't know how ride a motorcycle. Does that mean that it's impossible to ride a motorcycle?

I'm just kidding! But do be careful about making such absolute statements when you're not sure!
[Desire General] HighSnobility:
I think he wants an individual tone for an SMS message, individual tone for MMS message, individual tone for e-mail. Note you can change the gmail e-mail "ring tone" in gmail settings.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I think Mail is the only application that doesn't let you set a unique notification tone. So just set the default notification tone to whatever you want your Mail application to use. Every other application I've come across allows me to set a unique notification tone (ie, Peep, Facebook, Gmail, Messages,etc).

(You're right in that you can't have a tone for SMS and then a different one for MMS.)
[Desire General] dancunder:
Hi,

I do have one issue that is rather bothering me on the TouchFlo interface. It is the fact that you are limited only to 7 home screens. If you want to employ many of the widgets that take up the whole home screen, you quickly run out of space. Yes, there is the theme function, but the implementation is rather complicated, because any change you make to the theme has to be saved when changing the theme. Since you cannot modify the original themes, you have to always type the custom name for the particular theme you have modified.

I would prefer to have, say, 12 screens that I can easily slide in between than 7 screens per theme. I miss the TouchFlo implementation on the good old HTC Touch Pro 2.

Any ideas how to go about this?
[Desire General] brianius:
Wow great thread!

What about USB audio output???

Not built in, so far I know and are there any workarounds?

Of course there is 3.5 jack, but what is with coming music docks? so you want to put in the jack also every time?!?!
[Desire General] Pikkierello:
i don't understand the problem.....you got a 3,5mm jack,if the "coming" docks will be for desire they'll have a 3,5mm jack....

if you got an ipod/iphone dock the situation is similar everytime you got to put che usb in....

maybe i didn't understand...:confused:
[Desire General] baldmosher:
SMS from a word (not a number) appears as a random contact

When I receive a text message from T-Mobile, or MCFC, or my gym, in fact anyone whose messages originate from a name, rather than a number, they appear in my messages as being from "Rob Orr" who is one of my contacts. I don't have Rob's number - he's a Facebook contact - but this is very strange. Another friend of mine with a Desire on T-mobile has a similar issue, although I don't know if he also gets his system messages from Rob Orr, or from someone else in his contacts. The messages do appear in separate threads for separate originators, and I don't normally get messages from Rob, so it's quite handy to scroll through my messages looking for his icon. But it's not ideal.

Does anyone else have this bizarre issue? Could it be a problem with the minor T-mobile branding on my handset?
[Desire General] baldmosher:
Typing shift L shift O shift L results in Lzozl

This glitch happens every time I try to quickly type (two-handed) any short capitalised word using shift instead of caps lock. Despite me hitting the exact same spot on the touch screen each time, the keyboard registers the second and any subsequent presses of shift as a 'z'.

I think it might be me typing too fast for the screen.... typing it very slowly helps, and I just did a few speed tests, and a couple of times it came up with Lzog (g!?!!) so I think in that case it pinpointed my finger halfway between shift and L. Doesn't explain the Z thing though, that's just weird.

The obvious workaround is to use caps lock, or type with only one finger, or just type slowly.
[Desire General] bukka1:
Does anymore know how to stop the news and weather app from refreshing? I have un-ticked the auto-refresh in the settings yet it still refreshes. There is a service called GenieRefreshService and once I kill that it stops that app from refreshing. But I do not want to keep killing this service everytime i switch off and on my phone.

Any Idea's?
[Desire General] IceBone:
Maybe it has to be disabled in accounts & sync too.
[Desire General] bukka1:
There isn't one there for news and weather only the seperate news rss feed one which is already disabled.
[Desire General] doppers:
Facebook Contact Syncs

Hi,

Not sure if this has been asked before but is there anyway to change the photos of your contacts to match the correct photos from facebook on the internet?

I originally did the syncing when i got the phone but the photos do not match up anymore!

Thanks
[Desire General] Hilman:
I used to hate that but it seems to have stopped after I calibrated the keyboard. Give it a try, Settings, Language & Keyboard, Touch Input, Text Input and then select Calibration Tool at the bottom. This will make you type a sentence and will calibrate the keyboard to your touch.
[Desire General] chrissic38:
bluetooth

Hello,

I am a bit surprise that nobody in this thread speaks about bluetooth issues with Desire and also legend.

If you google this issue you can see that a lot of us aren't able to use bluetooth connectivity with cars and other devices without having a lot of disconnections.

It seems bluetooth stack is the issue, don't know if it's a hardware of a software issue but it's the first time that I am not able to fix this issue on an htc phone.

Chris:eek:
[Desire General] freaksey:
what about the multitouch issue?

is there a fix somewhere?
[Desire General] crash74:
17. HTC removed multiple Exchange accounts support.

I installed the stock email 2.2 from Nexus and it work fine in Desire.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2365767/Email.rar
[Desire General] alanp30:
sms

Does anyone have sms problems like me: if I go into sms reply from the notifications bar at the top of the screen it reply to the mobile number with 44 but no + meaning it doesn't work. I avoid this problem by never using the notifications bar but sometimes I forget. Then I have to delete the last few messages and then turn phone off and on to guarantee it doesn't happen again. Desire is a great phone but this one thing is really annoying. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it HTC uk can't!
[Desire General] ishoong:
I have my htc desire for 2 weeks and I still have 3 issues that really bother me...

1, The music player keep stop playing by itself after ~2 min.

2, The fm tuner won't able to turn on "again" unless I restart the device

3, The stream player will stop playing after screen shut off

Any idea will there be any solution?
[Desire General] ediflyer:
Well from my POV the 2.2 update has actually solved my BT connection issues - with 2.1 my Desire wouldn't pair with my Audi A3 but now it will :)
[Desire General] landwomble:
None of these are "normal" operation - i.e. there's something up with your phone, they aren't outstanding bugs as such. Try a factory reset and/or ROM upgrade.
[Desire General] Kurusawa:
Anyone have "Unknown" contacts appearing in their Google Gmail contact? I have a total of 69 google contacts after a while the phone will upload 71 "Unknown" contact to my google account which is only viewable in Gmail under "Other Contacts" and the phone will say i have 140 google contacts in total but I cant view them on the phone.
[Desire General] dik23:
Ok - I have a rather annoying issue to do with favourites

I have pretty much the original set up with the favourites widget to the right of main. If I want to add a favourite I tap the plus and add. All good.

Apart from one favourite. This one kept disappearing from the list, sometimes it'd do it right in front of my eyes. This has never happened with any of the others.

The irritating thing is that the only one I have any problems with is my girlfriend, so when she looks at the phone she discovers she's not one of my favourites. I bet you can imagine how that pans out.

Anyway, after a bit of messing I discovered that I had to add her as a fav through my PC and my Google account - make her "Starred in Android". Odd (stupid) that this didn't need doing with any of the others.

Anyway, it then all seemed good.

However now, maybe a week or so later with everything working fine, if I click on her fav icon I get a message "Call not sent, no valid number entered". What is it ? It seems that between Google and my Desire there's a conspiracy to make it difficult to phone my girlfriend.

I think this is a flaws and / or annoyance
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
Sorry for off topic but LOL.
[Desire General] sHin0bi:
Unable to Send PDF file via Bluetooth

Hi I think I may have found another annoyance with desire.

it is Unable to Send PDF file via Bluetooth... or am I missing something like for example if i wanted to share a song with a friend via bluetooth. I have to send it via bluetooth through the media player. kinda weird for me i guess... is there any workarounds for this?