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[Desire General] The Equalizer:
Hey Y'all

I didn't want to Root my phone, I didn't have the confidence.

Yesterday though, I took a bravery pill & tried something.

I Debranded my phone from Orange uk.

This allowed the phone to update to the new Froyo. (or android 2.2)

All in all, its not a great deal different.

I have installed all my apps, but so far Froyo has only allowed me to move 1 of my Apps to the SD card, so no huge space saving as yet.

I assume its the apps that need to be modded to allow them to be moved to the SD card?
[Desire General] williap:
Films that I have converted to run on my iphone and desire 2.1 now no longer work on my phone as tend to crash all the time.
[Desire General] mikelalala:
When receiving a call and the screen is locked, there is a slider to accept/reject the call. Now it does have two stripes: green and red. Not a bug, but does not suite a Sense UI style.

But there is also a BUG: when rejecting a call (sliding up), the slider moves also all the background behind it, which looks very ugly.
[Desire General] mornixuur:
Market seems to be ok now. All my purchased apps show up again.
[Desire General] jorglund:
Email/Sms notification

The only "problem" i have noticed is that the sound is "clipped" in email/sms notification, the sound (mp3) is only playing about half it contents :confused:

..JL
[Desire General] sudkcoce:
1) Compass application does not work anymore

2) Gmail syncing does not work correctly, via the built in Mail application and exchange

3) Was present in 2.1 as well but it's very annoying:

When headphones connected, the proximity sensor does not turn off screen during call...

In short: when you have headphones on, you usually have the phone in your pocket. So the screen (IMHO) should never turn on if proximity sensor senses an object.

4) Built-in browser double tap worked better in 2.1. Now it sometimes displays a different area of the page than the one I've double tapped.

This thread should be made sticky!!

PS: Apart from the above bugs, I see much speed improvement and battery lasts longer. I also love the additions the update brought. HTC must just polish the bugs and push another OTA Update.
[Desire General] Shohou:
HTC_Ru posted on twitter that they are stopping OTA update for 2.2 on Desire until version is fixed - twitter.com/HTC_Ru/statuses/20210592349
[Desire General] Aitese:
Before, unless you read the whole manual there was no way a new user could tell what way to slide from a quick glance. Now you can see, Green to answer, Red to reject. If the phone was unlocked you'd see large green and red buttons for this so it is in line.
[Desire General] chichoko:
Is that only for the russian update or all in general?

As fas as i am concerned.. they just need to fix the compass and the awfull gps locking.. i have no other issues with it whats so ever..

And maybe enable paid apps in Greece some time... -.-
[Desire General] mnaeh:
+1 buy I think I can live with that.

It's obviously not tested enough before the release since this kind of error is just silly. HTC needs to fix this ASAP! It looks unprofessional. I also noticed one more missing border: animated attach icon in new message rolls out a few buttons. Rightmost button (edit slideshow) is missing its bottom border.

GREEN line is on top of the "slider" and RED line is on the "bottom". Doesn't look particulary nice but it has a point. It can stay if you ask me. There are more serious issues than this.

+1

Just tried to update from Serbia and it says that there is an update so I guess it's only stopped in Russia.

So, I currently have two Desires with me: one with 2.1 and one with 2.2 (stock). I did some testing and I can say this:

- battery life is completely THE SAME! (don't be fooled by the placebo effect)

- 2.2 is NOT faster like advertised in every aspect I tested (Google Earth, Gmail, web browsing using stock browser, general usage of Sense widgets - same widgets on both phones etc.)

- web browser in 2.2 IS SLOWER: rotate test shows around 0.4 seconds of difference. So in 2.1 browser rotates faster (tested on few flash and non-flash sites).

Browsing experience

: yes browser is slower if you are browsing site with flash content and you enable flash plugin. On the other hand if you disable it you don't have flash, which sucks. And your third option is to enable it on demand in which case you see some ugly green arrows until you click on one of them, after which flash content loads. So if you have a web site with some "lite" flash content it looks much better with the old version. I think they should put a fourth otion: "enable lite flash" which should work like it did in version 2.1

- screen rotation in few other applications (e.g. Gmail, IMDB) shows different results from which I cannot draw a clear conclusion.

- Widgets problem: When I connect my phone to PC via USB cable and then some time later I dissconnect it my widgets reload (weather, agenda, news...) and weather full-screen weather widget dies. I have a friend with official 2.2 ROM and he does not experience these problems. Any advice???

- GPS locking works as it did before the update.

- Embeded Youtube videos now play within a page which is just stupid and slow. HTC, please fix this, at least for Youtube videos. Or make it optional since I guess there are people who like this behaviour... or not :)

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And yes, some time ago they promissed Divix support. Where is it???

I admit I made a rookie mistake with this FroYo update - If it aint broken, don't fix it! So is there any way I can revert my phone to the good old 2.1?

Best regards!
[Desire General] mikelalala:
And if you look carefully, these colors are different (for example, green for the button is not the same green for the line) ;)
[Desire General] mikelalala:
+1 Would like to revert back to 2.1 too. Personally, I really can't live with that "rookie" UI flaws. Just see these lame borders, lines etc. and become hating the UI.
[Desire General] chichoko:
There are far more important issues than missing borders and green lines people.. lets wait till htc fixes the important bugs before we ask for those..

as for the lines in general..i prefer it more this way.. and the caller frame is a nice touch.. instead of being a simple square with a pic in it.. it resembles to a framed picture (as much as that can be anyway..)

But those kind of comments are expected overall.. as for the battery life.. i had my desire for like a week and i really dont remember how it was on 2.1 and now on 2.2 in order to compare them.. maybe a more detailed observation can shed some light on wether battery life is improved or not..

As for the browser.. its lagging just because it has native flash support.. but seriously..it isnt that bad.. but it would be nice if we could change the settings even for individual sites.. (i want native flash for onn.com and no flash on youtube except the ext app and such..)
[Desire General] seedar:
Bluetooth still drops to headset when:

connecting to a new WiFi hotspot. this was a problem in 2.1 and still is a problem. If WiFi is turned off Bluetooth does not drop connection.

I upgraded over the air, Euro Desire, unbranded.
[Desire General] bedeabc:
No major issues. More improvements have been made than faults have appeared.

However, I'm not convinced by this new radio. I've been making lots of calls from a certain room in the house with poor signal. I've dropped maybe a couple of calls but since doing the update (with root) yesterday i've dropped 5.

Battery drain is worse than 2.1, phone is drained in just over 24hrs moderate use. Also, it shut down with 13% battery remaining! Please update original post...
[Desire General] Dr Doom:
Can't see it mentioned here but Google Listen no longer works which is seriously annoying as it was one of my most used apps
[Desire General] al89nut:
Listen works fine for me.
[Desire General] Tomaco:
i dont know why , but my phone has restarted twice in past 30 minutes.. i just installed Onion news and engadget apps... WTF?
[Desire General] auswill2:
Just factory reset the phone and start from scratch.....

You'll have less problems.
[Desire General] :
is the reply I got when i sent them an email regarding laggy browser, gps failing to find satellites (or taking ages) and issues with the compass.
[Desire General] ToWaRR:
I have problems with wifi, problems watching videos on internet, gps,......

i think 2.2 came too fast they need to put one or two updates (fixes)
[Desire General] andycted:
WiFi sleep problem

EDIT: the problem is only related to the wifi n patch, not the OTA upgrade.

Hi, as reported in other threads, the WiFi connection doesn't keep the phone from sleeping when not plugged in. For example while streaming from xiialive in 3G there are no problem, but if you use WiFi and you are not plugged in the AC, the connection dies after a couple of minutes. This happens with any player or program that needs WiFi connection. Since it actually only happens when it's not plugged in, it should be related to sleep state, I guess.

As for the other problems reported I really can't say I've noticed them:

General Issues:

- Battery Drain - actually the opposite

- dropping wifi connections after time - yup

- random crashs when adjusting camcorder settings - nope

- status bar gsm icon doesn't change to H in hsdpa areas, if coming from gprs area - nope

- headphones aren't recognised if device is rebooted with them plugged in - didn't try it

...

- inoperative camera (not everyone) - nope

- wifi-tethering glitch (doesn't save settings) - nope

- massive heat while charging - nope, it's actually cooler

- partly incomplete localization - nope

- some issues with syncing to gmail (please more details!) - nope

Browser:

- laggy panning in browser - nope -> try to make flash plugin ondemand

- browser launchs to last page visited instead of homepage - nope

Apps:

- the coverflow of the htc music player doesn't load all 5 visible covers (always at least one missing) - nope

- some apps simply shut down, even if they worked fine on 2.1 - nope

- paid apps disappearing from market - just one, came back after a while

- video thumbnails pixelated - nope

- music playback doesn't resume after spoken intructions by navigator - don't know

- gps localization seems to be much slower now - nope, maybe faster actually
[Desire General] mnaeh:
To everyone:

I am saying this knowing that most of you don't even remotely consider this "solution" but... please try a HARD reset without using some third party app for backup/restore. Of course backup contacts manually (export to SD) and some other important stuff you have.

It helped me with some issues, including those widgets issues I had (described in my earlier post). Everything is smoother than before (really, no placebo) and before reset I had 25MB free storage memory, now after reset I have 85MB!! (installed the same set of apps).

Can't really blame HTC. Have you ever installed a new version of Windows over an existing one with satisfying results? :)

Great news! Can't wait... I also would like to see those cosmetic fixes (borders and stuff) cause they ruin an overall impression. You now: "Hey look at my new 500eu device. Oh, I ordered those buttons' borders but and they haven't arrive yet" :)

Cheers!
[Desire General] reaperSKD:
I debranded and upgraded to froyo, but i'm having the browser and battery issues so i'd like to flash back. Tried the official T-Mob RUU rom but when I run it, it says I have the wrong HBoot version and cannot flash back. I have a goldcard inserted aswell. Any ideas?
[Desire General] foxmeister:
Have you amended your WiFi sleep policy to "Never"?

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] th3:
This maybe not a bug. As in 2.1, on some sites, to scroll up or down you must tap on the outer edge of the compose box in the direction you want to scroll? So for up, tap the top edge of the compose area. It will scroll. Try it.

I have both of these issues and yes, they're problematic. The picture quality is now like an upscaled 2MP phone shot. It's grainy, washed out, false colours and overexposed. I'm talking daylight shots here. You zoom in slightly and detail is just not there. Absolutely nothing like 2.1. Ironically, in the same environment, the camcorder capture doesn't feature these problems.

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[Desire General] bob dylan:
i would urge those with problems to do a hard reset and then reboot, this will clear out any caches in the phone and give you a completely clean install. then enable forced apps to sd using the guide below, then re-install all your apps( makimg usre not to put apps with widgets you use on the sd card-this inlcudes keyboard mods too)

i and many other people did an OTA FRoyo update to an unbranded and unlocked desire and after a hard reset and reboot have none of these issues.

try it and see for yourself!

as regards getting the apps to SD to work you can force this feature, regardless of whether the app developer has enabled it using this very simple guide:

http://thegreencodeblog.com/2010/06/12/how-to-force-apps-to-move-to-the-sd-card-on-froyo/

overall i have found the Froyo update to be fantastic-although i think i liked the old HTC settings widgets( blue aint really my colour!)
[Desire General] th3:
I think I've witnessed the bug these fellas are referring to when composing replies and the box just shoots you down and you can't scroll back up any way. It's very persistent and not just through the browser alone. Just now typing here I've experienced it and it looks like this: http://bit.ly/9uqj0D

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[Desire General] andycted:
Yes, we just found out that it's the wifi n patch that it's causing a slowdown. Somebody knows a way to remove it without flashing ?
[Desire General] stu-k:
zero bugs with mine, all good and faster
[Desire General] al89nut:
Are you using the Extended Controls app? Found I could not get a GPS lock at all until I uninstalled it, then was super-fast.
[Desire General] erniechua:
Just curious if anyone else have the same bug as me. Some of my Facebook contact's birthdays are displayed on the incorrect date on the HTC Calendar. When I check out the birthdays in Facebook, I realize that it is displayed on the day before the actual date. Am I the only one who has this bug? Thanks!
[Desire General] :
Nope, I was doing that straight after the reset. Now I get the GPS but it takes longer much longer then before (it used to take max 15 sec)
[Desire General] elek_it:
Has anyone experienced problems with the YouTube app ? It often says that there's a problem with that video but after some tries it works...
[Desire General] Narco77:
have some trouble with youtube too :

"an error has occured, please try again later." appears almost everytime.

Dailymotion, where videos played flawlessly in 2.1, are not accessible anymore "content not supported by your terminal"
[Desire General] maxupp:
THE ISSUES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HTC!

I'm waiting for an answer now, i'll keep you posted.
[Desire General] kriz0r:
Not exactly the same but possibly related: Facebook events show up with the wrong time in my calendar (off by + one hour) - maybe a timezone / DST problem?
[Desire General] madd0g:
I've noticed, that the QuickContact (dont know how its called properly) doesnt display Gtalk anymore or Twitter, when you click on a contact picture.

You can try it out going to Messages, then click on a contacts picture, then a popup turns up. If the person is online in Google Talk, it doesnt display that, but there are 2 dialer icons. Clicking on the right dialer shows up some kind of Action selector, but no Gtalk there.

[edit] I did a factory reset also, m8 who didnt has the same issue, so i guess its OTA based.
[Desire General] kapitanogor:
Camera problem

My camera is not working after upgrade when pressing the button something blink for a second and nothing happens ;( how I can fix that...

I will try to reset the phone...

Ok resetting solve camera problem I will play today with the phone and see what's still wrong
[Desire General] Enzo.Claveau:
After the update to Froyo my camcorder doesn't work anymore.

I have factory reset my phone twice, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Anyone?
[Desire General] mtbsoft.:
Just to add my $0.02, I've noticed two problem with the "official" Froyo release (I've tried a number of different ROMs).

1. The compass problem previously discussed (which is a pain). I have the Compass app loaded and any time I want to use something with a compass, I start than app and use it to calibrate then leave it in the background while opening the other app.

2. Headphones are not detected if plugged in when the device is powered on, it is necessary to unplug and plug them in again in order for them to be detected.

Can any one confirm this headphone (supplied ones) behaviour, please?

Two issues which seem to have been cured since the leaked version. The FM Radio icon would disappear after a while and attempting to control the radio would then lock it up, requiring a reboot. The alarm clock dialogs (Snooze/Cancel) would not appear. These were both apparent in the leaked ROM, though I only tried two.
[Desire General] qery:
videos recorded as 720p cannot be uploaded via 'share' to youtube - 'You cannot upload video larger than 1GB' - even if its smaller (200MB)
[Desire General] serialkillazzs:
could some one make points for flaws.instead of trawling threw endless pages
[Desire General] mnaeh:
Widgets problem - temporary "solution"

Even after hard reset (which I recommended in my previous post) I managed to replicate problem with HTC widgets. The problem is: When I connect my phone to PC via USB widgets' data on home screens disappear and after disconnect they reload. During this reload a full-screen weather widget usually dies.

How does the problem occur and how to fix it

: after hard reset everything worked fine until I transfered one app to SD. I later tried with few different apps, all support moving to SD, and problem reoccurs every time. The "fix": move all apps back to phone, connect to PC and delete .android_secure folder and disconnect it. After that you can soft reset it, just to be on the safe side.

So I would like to know did any of you experience these issues with transferring apps to SD card before I contact HTC support. I really would like to transfer some of the apps to my SD card because that supposed to be one of the FroYo's advantages.
[Desire General] b-george:
My chrome to phone doesn't work always.

I don't get gmail push, some times after hours. (I only have one gmail account)

And yes i hate that, any help?

Edit: I have cleared the gmail, gtalk caches and rebooted but no luck.
[Desire General] lyleuk:
Gallery now shows blurry photos when in fullscreen mode.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742457
[Desire General] th3:
^I don't have the blurry photos problem. They're just like in 2.1 (same photos on the drive).

* Still a shortcoming from 2.1:

GMail is never in the recent apps list so you can not get back to it this way.

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[Desire General] lyleuk:
There are 5 or so other confirmed people with this problem.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742457.

Are you absolutely sure you don't have it? It's not very obvious, you have to zoom into a photo and then zoom out in stages to notice it suddenly go blurry.
[Desire General] Opalid:
My keyboard went crazy after the 2.2 update!

Sometimes, randomly, I press backspace and it's like I'm not pressing anything at all, the phone doesn't react; after that, the entire keyboard stops registering anything I type and I need to retract it and then pull it back again and it will work just fine.

Today, it got worse: after the backspace thingie happened again just like i discribed the entire keyboard started writing random characters when I hit backspace, instead of not registering key strokes.

I wonder if this a 2.2 bug or if it has something to do with me trying a few replacement keyboards a while back.

By coincidence I tried a few different keyboards right after updating and now I have no idea what's causing this.

Any thoughts?
[Desire General] th3:
Actually, I've just taken some macros with decent detail, seen them on laptop and then upon checking on the phone, you guys are 100% correct. It is not conspicuous at first but I take my earlier response back. After loading these images in the HTC Gallery app fullscreen (Galley3D is even worse), they become blurred. So it is definitely a problem from my perspective too.

Another problem, and a major one at that is the 720p vids recorded hardly play back without massive stalls and stuttering from the SD card. The bottleneck is obviously the SD flash read rate but it is very limiting. Basically, you have to watch them on the laptop or PC.

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[Desire General] th3:
Yep, I get it with every 3-4th vid I tap to play.

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[Desire General] HighSnobility:
I have two wireless routers in my house, one at each end and it seems that the automatic wireless switching doesn't occur any more. If I turn off wireless when I am connected to one router, and walk to the other router and turn wireless back on, it will try and connect to the router that I was first connected to even though it has worse reception or near to none at all.

Pretty frustrating to have to go into wireless settings and connect to the router with better reception every time..
[Desire General] Daanlt:
General Issues:

- Battery Drain - no, now battery a lot better

- dropping wifi connections after time - no

- random crashs when adjusting camcorder settings - no

- status bar gsm icon doesn't change to H in hsdpa areas, if coming from gprs area - no

- headphones aren't recognised if device is rebooted with them plugged in - no

- bug with russian keyboard in portait mode ("!" typed instead of Space and "э" instead of Enter) - dont know

- inoperative camera (not everyone) - no

- wifi-tethering glitch (doesn't save settings) - no

- massive heat while charging - no (yes if my cat sleeps on phone)

- partly incomplete localization - ?

- some issues with syncing to gmail (please more details!) - ?

Browser:

- laggy panning in browser - no, its faster

- browser launchs to last page visited instead of homepage - no

Apps:

- the coverflow of the htc music player doesn't load all 5 visible covers (always at least one missing) - dont know

- some apps simply shut down, even if they worked fine on 2.1 - no

- paid apps disappearing from market - no

- video thumbnails pixelated - no

- music playback doesn't resume after spoken intructions by navigator - dont know

- gps localization seems to be much slower now - no
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
gallery images are blurred slightly until you zoom in. 2.1 was sharp once you stopped on a picture. with 2.2 you need to pinch and zoom a small bit to sharpen it up.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742457
[Desire General] digitallysane:
The Gmail sync is a huge issue, making the phone mostly useless for me (well, except for making calls).

I have 3 mail accounts, one normal Gmail and two Google apps, and the Apps ones are not syncing properly. And the same happens for all the calendars associated with them.

I was very happy that in FroYo you could add and sync how many calendars you want for the secondary accounts, but what's the use if the feature doesn't work.

Using the Sync All widget doesn't help, only by manually doing Sync Now in Settings > Accounts & sync I can make them sync.

Dragos
[Desire General] coolaudio:
WiFi notification only displays on top bar first time after reboot then disappears..not sure if its still connecting after this. Widget still highlighted.

Also wireless hotbot no longer displays notification.

Battery worse. Fully charged 8am dead by lunch. Moderate use.

Sluggish browser.

Fingers crossed for an update.
[Desire General] mnaeh:
HTC definitely paid the attention to our cries :) I have one more non-updated Desire (OS version 2.1) and now there is no more update ready when I check for updates. Now we just have to be patient and wait for a new updated update :)

Thanks HTC!