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[Desire General] kevano22:
Hi,

Does anyone know why I cant press the "Menu" button to unlock the screen now? I preferred this method when driving, and now nothing happens when I press it, I have to swipe down?!
[Desire General] martintzvetomirov:
And flash is now supported within the web browser :)
[Desire General] kmetek:
I vote for sticky this?!
[Desire General] monsterfly:
Was that even possible on 2.1 without modification?
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
Just noticed that the HTC Hidgets have changed, and no look oh so nasty in my opinion.
[Desire General] MilkyJoe7:
Bluetooth Voice Dialing

Bluetooth Voice Dialing was supposed to be a feature of Froyo.... where is it?? :mad:
[Desire General] kilohercas:
every body says is 4-5x faster that before.

I notice that than i had android 2.1 minimum CPU clock frequency was ~250MHz, but now it is always up to 600MHz.

I don't know is it good or not, because average is around 750MHz

I killed all apps (except system) and still CPU clock frequency is very high, and it can dry out battery .

Any body experiencing same problem ? (well, i don't know or it's good or not, but higher frequency equals more power)
[Desire General] pjfriend:
Activesync with enforced security poilcy

If you are forced to use a security policy with ActiveSync you can choose between using a passwordor a pin. If you used numbers before you had to select the number keyboard on the locks-screen. This makes it much less of a pain. Also the number unlock screen is way less fiddly to use.

Plus; if you turn the screen off you don't need to use then pin to unlock it straight away. Think it must be time dependant but not experimented enough yet.

Big improvements.
[Desire General] jaymit:
After over 12 hours of battery testing - system idle battery usage is essentially gone, radio uses far less battery - before cell and wifi would use 15+% each, phone idle would use more than the android system. now cell and wifi use 2% each, phone idle is also 2% and android system uses 94%.

Battery life - phone was charged to 90% immediately after the update.

Since everything is set to update as normal except weather updates every hour, twitter every half hour, newsrob collects approximately 800 articles per 24hour period and updates every other hour. Approximately 10 minutes of web browsing, on wifi all the time with google talk connected. Appoximately 1 hour of messaging on google talk. Emails received - 52, sent - 33. SMS received - 31, sent - 28. One phone call for 10 minutes

Up time - 16:38

Awake time - 3:22

Battery 50%

Conclusion - battery seems to be much improved (40% battery drop compared to about 60% - battery drop for me is high after the first 90% that is why this looks like a big drop) from 2 primary area - better radio, better resource management

note: no battery enhancing apps / task killers installing. phone not rooted and no mods that affect battery in any way have been installed
[Desire General] jaymit:
Places is not a new HTC app - we have had it for a few days as an update to google maps.
[Desire General] andrew2106:
Street View in UK navigation

Hadn't noticed this before (although it may have been part of the latest navigation update), but you can now use street view within UK navigation (was previously restricted to US version).
[Desire General] jaymit:
been available for a long time buddy
[Desire General] madsere:
Didn't see this mentioned before:

Press+hold home button now shows 8 last apps (used to be 6 last in 2.1).
[Desire General] FOZZER:
That's

That's strange I don't know if its just me but mine seems worse for battery usage
[Desire General] martintzvetomirov:
They increased the sensitivity for auto search (which is an option in the FM radio driver) and improved the RDS capabilities (now you can see dynamic RDS in the FM radio widget).
[Desire General] julien.me:
Me too ... but I think it may be due to the fact that I can't stop touching it :p
[Desire General] madsere:
Just realized the update deleted all my APN settings :(
[Desire General] thpoul:
*With the H.264, H.263 codecs for video recording you can use zoom in/out
[Desire General] jaymit:
default APNs have been rewritten to include more data providers and improve integration with old providers
[Desire General] lureon:
Already there in 2.1
[Desire General] Riel:
http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/downloads/list

For anyone interested.

I find this the most awesome feature :)
[Desire General] rr3636:
Can you describe how you did that? link/description?

I did it on a rooted 2.1, but it was a long procedure and complicated...
[Desire General] DimL:
Downloads history is now categorized (e.g. today, tomorrow, last month)
[Desire General] psycho.ro:
you can add send vCard as SMS, previously was only with MMS.

also, shutdown is a lot faster now.
[Desire General] kekkle:
It converts the message to a MMS when adding a vCard.
[Desire General] mongo56:
Anyone found a solution to unlocking the slide-down screen by pressing menu?

I got very used to unlocking the phone with a quick menu double tap.
[Desire General] bugmenever:
H.264-recording was NOT in 2.1. I remember I was disappointed when I discovered it was missing.

Does not work for me. Unsupported file type.
[Desire General] open-collar:
Exchange support has been improved. You can now connect to newer ActiveSync servers that require on-device encryption and remote reset.
[Desire General] ix9:
Oh another one....

You can now stream mp3 over HTTP simply by clicking the hyperlink in the browser :)
[Desire General] jaymit:
...new flash and java features
[Desire General] at10ti0n:
Send vCard via SMS is new and working (tested by sending to a HD2 phone). I haven't tested receiving vCard via sms. Can someone test this? :)
[Desire General] snark_be:
"Did you mean" alternative suggestions when doing a search in the Android Market, in case you made a typo :)
[Desire General] hongkongtom:
dear lucky folks who've already got Official Froyo on broad, does the Desire now have Wireless N? or does Desire ever have Wireless N? I hope it does, cause its brother N1 has it.
[Desire General] snark_be:
Not by default, I think, but some ROMs have the Wifi N driver included, like this one for instance.
[Desire General] Sintel:
[MESSAGING] When deleting a message in a long thread, you now stay at the same spot instead of jumping back to the last received message. Major improvement imho.
[Desire General] well0549:
Move ANY app (exept for the one part of the OS) to an SD card.

With a very simple adb command you can do this an frees op a lot of space.

See thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742379
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
Another change in the lock patteren, When you have use visual pattern off it shows you nothing, it used to highlight in green where you had been but not the order, Or possible when you messed it up, Not 100 percent, someone confirm with 2.1?
[Desire General] kekkle:
You turned it off yourself in the security settings. By default it's on.
[Desire General] flashflash:
Apologies if someone has already posted this but the look screen now requires you to move the bar fully to the bottom before unlocking. 2.1 for me unlocked with only a small downward movement and unlock sometimes in the pocket. I can't get the phone to unlock now in the pocket even with lots of shuffling!
[Desire General] Philosoma:
Something has changed with the display/colours. Seems a lot less vivid now. I play Pocket Empires Online which has bright colours, seems a bit washed out now. Probably is better, but takes a little getting used to.
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
Yes shutdown took a few seconds! I was so suprised! And happy! No more waiting minutes!!
[Desire General] iKarampa:
Boot sound

The annoying sound at boot is now quieter :) I wish they got rid off it...
[Desire General] vitii:
I just cannot understand something in connection with the new update. I've successfully installed it and everything is fine its noticeable faster than 2.1 and I also ran benchmarks and i got 3-4 times better results even betters than galaxy s users. Amazing. But I tried some of my games like NOVA and it is faster than on 2.1 but it still lags sometimes... How can it be possible that I get better result on benchmarks but the gaming is still a bit worse than on galaxy s devices? Thanks for your replies in advance.
[Desire General] snark_be:
Is the bightness of your screen the same as before?
[Desire General] andQlimax:
@kekkle

Can you put the date/hours to the latest features that u will go to add? So i dont have to re read all :D
[Desire General] jaymit:
The screen lock feature was always there - its in settings to enable / disable visual and tactile feedback

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] kekkle:
You mean a changelog of what was just added?
[Desire General] juicetin:
is it only me or does it occurs to others that the mobile operator name will not be display on the unlocking drag-down bar? previously my operator name would be displayed but after the upgrade, there isn't anymore.. any replies would be greatly appreciated.. thank you!
[Desire General] psycho.ro:
Lockscreen:

Screen lock sound - plays a sound on lock/unlock screen
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Yes..could be good..or at least a changelog for the new features that you will add :)
[Desire General] jstegeman:
Mine is displayed - right above the clock
[Desire General] Eugene120:
Noticed that in portrait mode and Russian layout not only "space" is broken and results in "!". The "enter" key also gives wrong reaction: it types an "э".
[Desire General] bluethunder2k:
My desire will not sleep after the 2.2 upgrade causing the battery to die in around 4 hours, anyone experiencing this or have a fix?
[Desire General] lf_iron:
Now, we can send contact information by SMS.

Two curved colored lines (green and dark red) appear when someone calls you.

If you declined call, a red bar appears on top of the screen
[Desire General] skanj:
What's the super caller id thing all about?
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
you sure? I copied on an xvid avi file and it was not being detected by the phone.
[Desire General] aindow:
Grey is now grey without a pink tint!
[Desire General] steve228uk:
Really?! I'm still getting the pink when I'm looking at the HTC site in comparison to my computer :(
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
just confirmed xvid divx avi files do NOT play. Copied 2 different .avi xvid encoded files to the phone. They do not appear in videos application or in gallery after an SD card rescan. No avi file playing on this update.
[Desire General] shartack:
Widgets

Hey,

Are we 100% sure about the new Calculator and FM Radio widgets as I have not got them?:( Do they need to installed separately?

After saying that the 2.2 upgrade is pretty cool :cool: I am looking forward to any additions to the rooted 2.2 applications. I have not rooted my phone yet and was wondering which ones you recommend?

Cheers guys
[Desire General] Cwiiis:
Just noticed a new feature in the calendar. Previously, when you looked at the agenda view, you'd get two entries at the top and bottom that you could tap to display more events.

Now you only get a link at the top and it automatically loads more events as you scroll downwards :)

Little disappointed that they didn't add native retweeting to Peep, but not that bothered - still way better than most Android twitter clients and the widget is great :)
[Desire General] steve228uk:
I've DEFINITELY got these. The radio widget has proven to be pretty handy today.
[Desire General] zen123:
Is Thai language supprted natively? Thanks
[Desire General] roomkokos:
Of aaall the good stuff you all found, i found two things:

-this, not even sure if its new, but before when i went to settings and About phone, i had to scroll up and down a bit, now its fixed and all the options (7 of them) are now fixed. Could move up and down a bit before. Not sure if its missing something or just smaller font :)

- second thing i am a bit unfortunately annoyed with is that when u write an SMS, you could have the messages "below" the typing area and you could scroll it up and down, to reply to sms by reading it and typing at the same time. NOW the typing area is FIXED to the bottom of the msg and when u want to see some info from previous msgs you scroll up to read it, but when u tap back in the window to type - it jumps back on the bottom. And u have to go back up again to see that info again. Thats rather annoying :)

Hope i made any sense - before you could scroll sms txt and the text you were writing-replying at the SAME time, NOW you can only scroll them individualy as the replying area is somehow attached to the bottom of the last msg in the thread. So you cant view previous msgs and reply reading that sms at the same time.

Any way to fix this?
[Desire General] than33:
YES! And there is no pink phenomena now! Probably they just calibrated colours. This is the most important feature, just after jit, for me. Very good work HTC! ROM is very stable and fast if you wipe.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] shartack:
Why is it that most for most of my applications I the move to SD button is greyed out?:(
[Desire General] steve228uk:
I've been getting annoyed at the messages redesign too. I'm always hopping up to previous messages to grab some info and it was great when it was fixed.
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
I noticed this too. WIFI signal ismuch improved. I'm using it from the same apartment and my signal is now full, where it used to be half or 2/3 full before update :)
[Desire General] shartack:
Camera flash

Is anyone else having a problem with the flash. When I take a picture the brightness seems too much and makes the picture green!:mad:

Is there a way of turning the flash down?
[Desire General] chichoko:
Its just a gimmick.. it shows you the facebook status of the contact calling/being called.. nothing useful..

Anyone found a way to backup settings on the sd card now that the privacy tab is gone?? :s
[Desire General] roomkokos:
Try this:

go to settings in camera and disable auto whitebalance and set it to daylight
[Desire General] zen123:
Can you explain how to do it thanx
[Desire General] jontokyo:
Kinda stinks FM Radio in Japan is now lost :-<
[Desire General] steve228uk:
It doesn't bother me too much. Perhaps it detects automatically or this will be in the Asia release? Has anyone tried the FM Radio in Japan?
[Desire General] shartack:
Thanks roomkokos, it's not 100% but it is much better. Cheers
[Desire General] ArtieQ:
The stock browser seems slower and much more sluggish, do anyone agree?
[Desire General] chichoko:
I didnt notice any sluggishness unless i was loading a heavy flash-based web page. The only thing i need is that its faster than Safari.. so im happy with it until that changes :P
[Desire General] kekkle:
Was already in 2.1 my friend.
[Desire General] 3722:
There is a new "Wifi information" option in the *#*#4636#*#* menu.
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
As mentioned before the HTC widgets in Widgets > Settings have all got new icons and I belive that there are two three new widgtes

Profile

Ringtone

Hotspot

Also the HTC Sync widget has had a updated look to it now to

They are no longer white.grey on black but now and tend to be blue, HTC Sync is green, and as mentioned the others are new,

You get the idea!

Basicaly: Updated settings widgets plus three new ones.
[Desire General] jaymit:
All of the settings widgets have new icons. Also the profile and ringtone widget were available before under the 'more htc widgets' section but have now been moved to default as profile customisation has been improved. Hotspot is a new widget to correspond with the new tethering capability
[Desire General] kargeor:
For FM radio:

- You can now use shazam to find songs (in 2.1 it muted the radio while using shazam and the song was not picked up)

- You still can't record the radio using the voice recorder (since shazam can do it though you should be able to use a third party app)

- Radio seems to have problems when put in background however it works fine when the screen is off

Youtube:

- Minor problems introduced (when seeking to a point, it starts playing for less than a second, then stops and immediately starts playing correctly - lag problem)
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
The last time I looked in the more widgets section there was the stick notepad thing and something else, No profile widget, Perhaps where I was, was another section has they had to be downloaded in the section I was in.

They youtube app, Rather than saying Your Subscribtions in white on plain black, It now says it on bars that look like the black bar at the top :)

Nice tie in, But not that nice looking, Feels out of place to me.
[Desire General] mkhoa0806:
Sry for my noob but since i live in Asian, i could not update my desire into official Froyo yet.

Can we now install all apps and games into SD card or that depends on the updated version of the apps and games?

I really want to know this since I'm kind of frustrated with the internal memory of the phone :(
[Desire General] well0549:
Froyo (Not desire specific) has an option to 'Enable' all greyed out 'Move to SD' card buttons.

So you can move everything to the SD card. It is a system setting that you can set with ADB. No root required.

The trick is explained here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=742379
[Desire General] mkhoa0806:
@ well0549: wow, thks a lot, now the only thing is waiting for the update, hope it will be soon :D
[Desire General] Ouestce:
Care to share where it's hidden maybe ?
[Desire General] roomkokos:
I dont know what u mean by sluggish, because colors are better now no pink instead of grey anymore.

However i did as well notice the bit of lag and slowliness in the loading times of the stock browser, thought the V8 engine would skyrocket things up but not really impressed.

I did noticed the heavily improved wifi signal strength! :) Great job on that one!

Well maybe all stuff is a bit laggy now because the roms are quickly set one upon another, need a week or two, for one to make a good rom with all the goodies and smoothness.

Btw, does anyone get a lil lag whenu scroll fast in the main menu set in a grid, not a list ? It scrolls smooth to me in the middle section, but it then lags at the bottom. That "slowing" down part isnt that smooth :)

Nokia had a great solution about this case, having a "bounce" effect like u scroll to much and it goes over the view field than bounces back and then stops.

Anyways gotta love froyo! :) only big issue for me is what i mentioned before, the sms (probably email as well? didnt try) problem about having the reply field fixed at the bottom, kinda annoying indeed. Hope someone could fix this or transfer it back from 2.1

BTW, whats with the marketfix problem? Didnt have any problems with market whatsoever so far. Only "problem" i found was that i cant seem to download Homerun Battle 3D anymore, i can only DL the chinese version not the english anymore :S Anyone gotta tip on this one?
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
Im going to go with the fact that although both processors ate 1Ghz, The nexus/desire calculations speed? is different.

* Nexus One: Qualcomm QSD8×50 with Adreno 200 = 22 million triangles/sec

* Samsung Galaxy S: S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 = 90 million triangles/sec
[Desire General] Anarka:
If I go to facebook via the browser it tells me to dl the client for my droidx, it used to say just android.
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
That has to be a facebook issue, It used to tell me Nexus One, then it told me generic, This was before the update to 2.2, Im sure it also said DroidX before the update

Perhaps they jsut stick in the most newest Android phone of the time, I mean the app works across current android phones on sale correct?
[Desire General] jordanxp:
i still have a battery issue... it charges to 100% /but when I check in *#*#4636#*#* it's not 4.201V it's less/ and it drops to 86% for 3 - 4 minutes. And I'm not even touching it :confused: im having this since the last update, when i bought the phone everything was fine
[Desire General] loizoskounios:
The contact pictures now have rounded edges and a light stroke when you make/receive a phone call. I'm not absolutely certain, but I do believe that there was no stroke and they were square in 2.1
[Desire General] jaymit:
Have you just done an update directly on the phone? Perhaps try factory resetting it as they may be a compatibility issue with some app which is using the battery
[Desire General] jordanxp:
I've done a reset before 2.2 it did not help, I will do one now but I doubt it will help :(
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
A LED Light application was playing havock with my camera and battery, After removal battery drain was back to what I can only assume is normal, I've been using it more since the update and there for killing the battery more, Only time shall tell on how well 2.2 is on the battery.
[Desire General] jordanxp:
i removed this app also and now the camera app starts :) Yep time will show...
[Desire General] irishdroid:
Not sure if everyone is aware of this, but I thought I'd just throw it out there.

The Mobile Hotspot app isn't merely an official implementation of the wifi-tether app, it actually does infrastructure mode too, making it a 'real' hotspot. I've just played a game of The Conduit on Wii online using my phone's data connection. Worked a treat too!
[Desire General] jaymit:
Cool well perhaps we should put this in the 1st post just incase anyone else has the same problem(s)
[Desire General] glyjanna:
Hidden Car Dock short cut

Try and add 'SETTINGS' as a short cut to one of the Screens. When you chose it, it opens up a range of options including 'CAR DOCK'
[Desire General] beckett1:
when in a call drag down the status bar and there in a picture next to the person you are calling
[Desire General] acuk74:
You can download silent boot from the market. It's free and works perfectly.
[Desire General] doggie123:
2 more changes for the web browser!

1. Searching for text in a web page works much better, it marks all occurrences with a thin green rectangle and with < and > you can jump between them.

2. If the screen is locked while browsing in landscape mode, after unlocking -> the screen now remains landscape. Maybe this occurs in all apps - but definitely in the browser.
[Desire General] ruspa1978:
Menu -> Settings -> Search -> Searchable items and activate the item Find in settings.

Go Home hold the search type write "privacy", select on the left where you see the G of google the icon Setting. Click on privacy e voilà.excuse me for my very low english
[Desire General] supasye:
Samsung galaxy s live wallpapers all work smoothly on froyo.
[Desire General] supasye:
To make a flash video full screen on the internet u no longer double click it. U hold it down and an option comes on the top left of the flash video.
[Desire General] snark_be:
I agree, I could not replicate the issue explained here: http://www.metalev.org/2010/03/generating-false-color-images-on-nexus.html
[Desire General] th3:
* One of the all black HTC Sync All widget (like the search bar) has been given greeny arrows.

* Many, many... over a dozen more options and test apps underneath. For instance, I use Bar Control to set critical tools in the notification area (which can access these apps) and 'Battery' which I usually use now has a new WiFi page that looks like this:

http://bit.ly/9US4ti

http://bit.ly/asQieS

* The zoom-out overview of homescreen has wider previews. Same with thumbnail previews when uploading an image.

* Vid recording definitely has auto stabilization that it didn't before.

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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
[Desire General] Aitese:
That doesn't do anything.
[Desire General] kazgor:
it worked fine for me... just make sure you first click on the G, and menu will appear under the search box, click on SETTINGS, now when you type PRIVACY you will see the screen you were after.
[Desire General] jaymit:
More features!

Plenty more settings shortcuts
[Desire General] Aitese:
Nope...this ROM must be completely bust. Not sure what the chef did to it but several things seem to be missing despite him claiming he didn't do anything to it but root it.

Ah well...my search for a suitable ROM starts again.