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[Desire General] hamdir:
I didn't have "places" on previous Froyo OTA now i do.

i shot and played back a 720p video, seems smoother then before. I found a hint about a change in video playback, i had videos on my SD made to play on ps3 H264 encoded at 15MB bitrate, used to play normal but stutter bad now after the OTA they show black or artifacts at playback.

the image blur bug in the gallery is gone, it used to happen when u rotate the screen, sharpness was lost. However weird random thumbnails artifacts bug is still there.

new speaker icon on keyboard is blurred doesn't look screen native.

mnaeh all the bugs u mentioned are still there even the privacy menu still missing.

i appreciate updating peep, maps and quickoffice and certainly love the new speaker button. but not updating flash in this OTA is kinda of stupid.

I love HTC and my desire much more then my old iphone, but damn these tiny yet persistent bugs makes their products feel unpolished. I wish HTC stops releasing hundreds of different branded and network exclusives and instead focus on polishing their awesome products. example the stupid unable to edit notes widget.
[Desire General] cr1960:
What does Places do? I'm guessing it's something like Footprints??
[Desire General] chichoko:
I just cant seem to notice the battery improvement.. today i unplugged the phone and had it drop at 80% after about 10 minutes.. ill troubleshoot it a bit more these daya and report back.. fingers crossed..
[Desire General] copex:
atm i get no updates available, when trying to update.

im still on 2.2 (2.09.405.8) on a sim free handset and i have places app so it was there before this update.

maybe it was added when updating google maps, though it could have been there from the 2.2 update.
[Desire General] masi0:
I have false icons in widgets on 2.10 - can others confirm this?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Get something that gives a notification!! I can also confirm this, you get a small green number on the icon
[Desire General] hamdir:
the new speaker button is definitely low resolution....lets hope they pulled the update for a good reason
[Desire General] spritable:
yeah, it's ugly compared to other buttons. But it's ok, cause now you don't have to install 3th party keyboards just to have that.

All those 3 issues are still there.
[Desire General] spritable:
double post....
[Desire General] patasenko:
Places did exist before, as it was installed with google maps update, it might be also possible that it was region locked like navigation was exclusive to us then spread around. That is why uk, nl and so already had places but other countries didnt
[Desire General] th3:
Can you check if they corrected false (too low) percentage used by the display?

I mean is their battery stats page displaying Display as taking 10-30%, 30-50% or 50-90%?

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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
[Desire General] Ronok:
Any more experiences confirming this? I didn't use video capture enough to be able to compare it. I can imagine HTC would have mentioned this tweak in their official changelog because it was a disappointing flaw in the previous OTA update (Froyo).

Edit: I also think "places" was there before. Since 2.2 update or latest google maps update, I don't know.
[Desire General] FreudsCAT:
The "Places" icon was first introduced with the Google Maps 4.4 market update. SO it is unrelated to this update.

Check h t t p://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/07/even-better-way-to-find-places-nearby.html
[Desire General] andQlimax:
I can confirm notification count number in notification bar..example while im chatting with someone..

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] aindow:
I did a quick test with video capture and it definitely seems smoother in HD than before the update. I'm not at home and have a poor signal here so unfortunately cannot upload any videos but I would recommend checking out the camera for yourself.
[Desire General] spritable:
The display is eating 4% battery. The brightness is set to auto.
[Desire General] spritable:
You are kinda right, but since this update comes with Google Maps 4.4, so the update brought Places.

PS. is it possible to delete a post. I double posted again, not on purpose. Sorry guys...
[Desire General] Sir_Oliver:
Screen lock sounds in Settings - Sound :)
[Desire General] mnaeh:
I am extremely disappointed since these cosmetic things are fixable in less than 5 minutes while on the other hand they give the overall impression of a sloppy finish, and generally unfinished product. I don't blame the designer since the poor guy probably doesn't sleep more than 3 hours, but the quality manager (or whatever that useless prick likes to be called) who approved the release without trying to make a call. It's a god damn phone, use it like one! :)

And regarding transferring apps to SD, since this is one of the Froyo's highlights, for us non-rooted users, all I can say is… Actually this so bad that I don’t know what to say. How are you guys dealing with it??

@spritable: I see users report that bug in gallery is fixed. You shhould add that to the fors post, if it's confirmed.

Also, can you save any attachment from Gmail app (like .zip, .apk, .xyz) or just documents?
[Desire General] mnaeh:
It was there before.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
So you're blaming Google for app developers not writing in A2SD support??
[Desire General] hd2biker:
Is any one else having problems in updating. I'm still on 2.09 froyo and it says no update available. I have a generic untouched phone.
[Desire General] spritable:
Can you point me to that bug, cause I do not remember reading for a such. Thanks..

Haven't tried that, only with documents.

There are other people also having your problem. Maybe the OTA update is temporally down or something. Sorry, can't help you much...
[Desire General] EddyOS:
If you look in the other OTA thread you'll see that HTC said on Twitter that it's been taken down
[Desire General] mnaeh:
???

You obviously misunderstood something. I've never mentioned Google nor developers. I blame HTC for the bug that I described and it involves moving apps to SD. Don't you have this bug (if you are using Sense, of course)?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
So what did this statement mean? Seems to me you're blaming HTC for A2SD not working? If that's the case then you're wrong as it's a FroYo 'feature' - which is from Google - and it works IF the app developer has enabled it. If not, you can't move the app

Nothing to do with HTC
[Desire General] mnaeh:
Hamdir wrote it in post #18.

Bug was that when you rotate screen to landscape in strip view last image was allways blurred.

Please do and send us a report.

According to HTC's tweet OTA update is down.
[Desire General] mnaeh:
A2SD is working perfectly and I was really looking forward to it (thumbs up Google), and more and more apps can be moved normally (thumbs up developers), but HTC's implementation is problematic.

Problem with HTC Sense widgets and transferring apps to SD:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=744581

Or post #16 in this thread.
[Desire General] lupanare:
Microfone button only in English keyboard....
[Desire General] EddyOS:
No widgets can be moved to SD, even in stock Android...if you then mount the SD card on the PC the widgets stop working and crash. Again, this isn't an HTC issue but a Google one
[Desire General] heavyhms:
On HTC Italy official page the temporary suspension of the update is listed as

due to server problems.
[Desire General] Baz8755:
The date format in Messages now appears to follow the settings from the rest of the phone. In 2.2 it was always USA format
[Desire General] kekkle:
The music player cover 'bug', where it would only show 4 covers at one time has been fixed. Previously it would show 4 covers and one would always have a misuc note.
[Desire General] copex:
me two :-)
[Desire General] hija31:
After the update I was able to download Flash Player v 10.1.92.10

directly from the market.
[Desire General] snudel:
Update manually then. It's desribed somewhere in the forum here
[Desire General] D4rKr0W:
Noob question incoming

Sorry to bother you guys, but i wanted to know if there's some kind of procedure to force the update. I woke up a couple of days ago, saw the update popup on my desire, but accidentally clicked "no" since i was still half asleep. I haven't been able to get the update popup showing up since, i tried both the "check-in" code and the "check for updates" in the system settings, but none worked.

Is there any way i can download the OTA update and flash it through usb or something similar? Do i need a rooted phone? I'm running the stock froyo rom.

Appreciate any kind of information on how to get this update :)
[Desire General] spritable:
As far as I know the OTA update was pulled out since friday. This is all I know about this issue.

@mnaeh - I've tried with a zip and a pdf files as attachments and there was no option to save those. But since I have ASTRO file manager installed, it offered me to save the zip.
[Desire General] D4rKr0W:
Yeah, silly me, i didn't see what was going on the previous posts. HTC Italy's twitter account does indeed say the update has been pulled out for "server issues". Meh, i guess i'll just wait.
[Desire General] mnaeh:
Thanx for the answer. As soon as they put the update back on line I will try it.

I guess it is silly question but just for the fun of it: is there DivX support? (I know, I know... if it were, HTC would probably sing songs about it :)

Just kidding. I think despite a few flaws the update is always quite welcome.
[Desire General] spritable:
DivX - that would be nice, but I'm afraid that the avi extension is unknown still. The only way is rockplayer.
[Desire General] monsterfly:
You can manually download OTA 2.10.405.2 (updates version 2.09.405.8) from

here

.

How to update:

1. download OTA, rename it to update.zip and put it on SD card

2. put into HBOOT, select recovery and when you see red triangle hold volume up and press power up and finally select Apply SD:update.zip

You don't need root for this update.

But you will lose root if you have it.

That's it :)
[Desire General] dexteral:
I think this update now allows Urdu messages but not sure as this was the first time I received Urdu sms. for those who celebrate and even those who don't Eid Mubarak
[Desire General] spud_work:
I think the radio has also been updated as my signal quality is now stuck on G whereas I always used to get a H signal here :(
[Desire General] spritable:
If somebody else confirms this also, I will add it to the changelog, because it's kinda hard for me to test this feature.

I was not thinking to mention this, but since you've brought the radio up, I will. I think that there is something changed to the radio, but in my case it is for good - I have more signal bars than before. I think the signal bars algorithm is changed, like they did for the iPhone during the antennagate.
[Desire General] aindow:
Mine just shows greyed out signal bars a lot of the time when i am at my girlfriends house but yet the phone still works to send and receive messages, make calls, and browse the internet. However it doesn't like the internet when 3g is shown, but works fine with G or H. Weird.
[Desire General] fblasot:
For me the bug "image blur" in gallery it is not completely solved, I still have it...and not only when I turn the phone, also when the image is vertical and the phone is in vertical position; then I zoom in, zoom out and it's ok, also for the next times...

Try to make a photo in vertical position and then go to see it again in vertical position...
[Desire General] telnet05:
Why i can't get this update??? I still have the previous.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Seems either HTC have pulled the update OR the OTA server is on the blink
[Desire General] ShugM:
I think the server is offline.

I downloaded it twice yesterday, and both times it stopped at 90% with "corrupt file"

I did it manually in the end. Much quicker.
[Desire General] telnet05:
Where can i download it manually????
[Desire General] mornixuur:
Pretty happy with the update. A facebook contact mentioned better battery life. So i did the update - when it was still available - and was suprised to see what must be like 1,5 to 2 times better battery life with my usage (1-2 hours music listening, 30 min web on wifi, some messaging/phone calls, some gaming). Usually i had to charge at the end of the day or early next day. After the update the battery lasts two days. The signal strenght indicator seems to behave weird sometimes do
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Battery has been no better than first 2.2 update for me, if anything slightly worse. Might need to try the (dubious) battery calibrate as it goes from 100% to 89% in less than a hour with no use...
[Desire General] ddic:
Also my battery life seems to be improved after this last update. Quite happy!:)
[Desire General] kryptic_:
I can confirm this when I get the update. For now it shows that phone is up to date.

Can anybody confirm that whether HTC has fixed timezone for Pakistan (Islamabad Karachi) to +5 GMT or not. In 2.09.405.8 it shows Pakistan summer time as +6 GMT but there is no more DST implementation is Pakistan so it should be GMT +5.
[Desire General] spud_work:
Is the thick red bar that appears when you reject a call new? as I can't remember seeing that before
[Desire General] imranbashir_uk:
Urdu works in both software version so it is not an update for this specific version.
[Desire General] dexteral:
it is still +6 GMT :(
[Desire General] Daras79:
Hello, can you confirm that now I can upgrade still my phone ? In Poland Europe I don't have any info about update. I heard that Ota is now offline cause some problem in HTC with server...
[Desire General] maddler:
Any informations about wi-fi issues? I read about that on Android Forums but wasn't able to find any confirmation.

Bye

Will
[Desire General] spritable:
It was there before.
[Desire General] iLHaNroID:
Couldn't upgrade yet (still with original 2.2) and the case is exactly same here...
[Desire General] mornixuur:
That is weird. I charged last night and took the phone from te charger in the morning. By coincidence i didn't use my phone a lot. it is now 2.19 next morning and phone is only down to 86%. So only 14% down in about 18 hours.
[Desire General] ZaPP187:
Only people with debranded Desire phone have wifi issues! All users with a "normal" unbranded Desire have no problems at all with the update.
[Desire General] darkpain:
""There's now a black background as an option on the phone without having to download one. Have a look in the wallpapers menu. ""

I havent update it yet and i have the black wallpaper!!
[Desire General] kevinf1990:
that is true but if you have a gold card inserted then you won't have wifi issues even on "debranded" phones
[Desire General] Firelightaut:
Found some new HTC-Backgrounds..

(<-- No Wifi-Bug with my Desire :) )
[Desire General] widemouth31:
So to clear it up, on a phone that has been debranded, can you:

Insert Gold Card

Run Update

Remove Gold Card

Re-Add original SD Card.

Is that correct??
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
yes but even better

remove storage card, put it in a micros sd card reader, remove data from it, format it in windows/linux/macos as fat 32

put it in phone, use goldcard tool to make it a gold card using a new image (each MSD has its own unique cid)

copy and paste data back on it

this means your original data card is also a gold card and you wont have to worry about killing your wifi etc. it also means you have a backup gold card
[Desire General] maddler:
Oh, sounds good.

Thank you

Will
[Desire General] macdat:
Problem with Manual Update

Desire is unlocked Telstra with stock HTC WWE 2.2 ROM v2.09.405.8

Trying to manually update fails with :

E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip

(Status 2)

Installation aborted

I have tried with and withouth Gold Card.

Does anyone know what 'Status 2' means ?

thanks
[Desire General] thewilldone:
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[Desire General] Lothaen:
Just wanted to mention...

Google Maps 4.5 is available on the market place on s/w 2.09

Peep 2.0 is already installed on 2.09 and working.

This vers of Flash Player is available on the market place on s/w 2.09 too
[Desire General] hamdir:
Google maps 4.4.0 comes pre-installed in the new firmware updated from an older version

About Peep, maybe it was 2.0 before, but its now using the OAuth method which wasn't the case before

The flash player couldn't be seen in the Google market before (the Desire was filtered out)
[Desire General] spritable:
I can confirm that.

And for Google maps 4.4.0, I remember searching for version 4.4.0 in the market couple of days before the OTA update and I'm 100% sure it could not be found. At least in my country. I remember this because right after I installed Google Maps brut.
[Desire General] neuerkunde:
Video recording seems to be a bit smoother indeed.

Audio during Video Recording is as crappy as before:

Codec info:

Audio

ID : 2

Format : AMR

Format/Info : Adaptive Multi-Rate

Format profile : Narrow band

Codec ID : samr

Duration : 52s 980ms

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 12.8 Kbps

Channel(s) : 1 channel

Sampling rate : 8 000 Hz

Bit depth : 13 bits

Stream size : 82.8 KiB (0%)

Writing library : pvmm
[Desire General] :
Noticed a couple of things after the update. Not sure if they are due to the update, or that I've just noticed them cos I'm looking for them. Apologies if certain things were in 2.2 and I've only just noticed!

1. Smoother animations between home screens and menus.

2. Beautiful Widgets weather animations also improved. Used to stutter across my screen. Now they flow smoothly.

3. Turn off dialer touch tones in Sounds menu! Finally!

4. Battery percentage does seem to be back to dropping 10% in 10 minutes. Tut.

5. This might just be me but...I'm sure the vibration alert has gotten more intense?

6. Screen Lock and Unlock sounds.

7. Adding the .nomedia file into folders now SUCCESSFULLY hides the folders image content from the Gallery. (Never worked for me until update.)

8. Improved signal? Not sure if this is actually an improvement, but sat in my office I would normally only get two bars on GPRS. Now I get a full strength EDGE signal, with occasional blips to HSDPA.

More good than bad from my point of view. Use the Swype keyboard instead of the stock ones so not really fussed about reports of low res on the newly added mic button.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
The lock and unlock sounds were there in 2.2 froyo update werent they?

Maybe it was disabled as default?

Google maps update to 4.5 came out the other day ( http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/walk-this-way.html )

In fact on the same day as this update! but I only got the updated to 2.10 on tonight after updating manually :(

Also the flash update I installed yesterday (think it came out then on the market place?), and uninstalled because it was 12mb of internal storage, and needed the space to run the 2.10 update :)
[Desire General] :
I dont see any improvements in gmail app, apart from same specific file type attachments.

2.Enhanced multi inbox Gmail support - where is that?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
2. It's not Beautiful Widgets - BW was the copy for non-Sense ROMs that's since been removed from the Market. BW was based on the HTC clock and BW doesn't have animations

3. Has been like this since 2.1 (I've always turned off dialing key tones on all phones, Desire was no different)
[Desire General] paprkut:
cant save any attachments in the gmail app at all
[Desire General] hija31:
You'r right ,it was on the market but you couldn't download or install it.;)

And now you can.
[Desire General] lohpsch:
Working for me without update.

Just, as usual, the gallery takes some time to recognize this.
[Desire General] aindow:
Where can I get this .nomedia file?
[Desire General] pablo_max:
Funny, I am on 2.2 and I don't have the option to disable the tones.

Let's see after I install this update when I get home.
[Desire General] madd0g:
Just create a empty text file and name it .nomedia
[Desire General] aindow:
Oh right, simple enough. Thanks.

Rik.
[Desire General] Joshhudsy:
so do i have to make a new goldcard to update OTA apposed to using the one that i used to debrand from 2.1?
[Desire General] @MARK:
Does anybody know if there was a new radio rom with this update?

I can see they haven't fixed the WMA fault introduced with 2.2 but is there any hope for the radio?
[Desire General] darkpain:
First at all i want to say that iam having htc desire with the new update just now without root or custom rom!!And here is the changelog:

1. New version of Google Maps 4.4.0 with places

2. New microphone button in the keyboard (only in english keyboard)

3. Save attachments from GMail app

4. New version of Quickoffice 3.2.60

5. Peep 2.0 fixed authentication with twitter

6. Better video quality while capturing video and

sound

7. New/improved notifications of unsent messages, tweets, Facebook alerts, etc.

8. Flash Player v 10.1.92.10 can be downloaded from the market,

it was in the market before but we couldnt download it(appbrain),we had 10.1.72.7 with 2.2 locked.

i havent check the rest of changes....
[Desire General] darkpain:
I forgot to mention that i dont have wifi problem or signal problem plus that only 200-300kb was freed after the update!!
[Desire General] rahadza:
yes the radio was updated from 32.43.00.32 to 32.44.00.32. No idea what the change log is though.
[Desire General] spritable:
Can somebody else confirm that the volume of the speaker phone during a call is a bit louder. Before I can barely hear the other party when I'm talking in my car with speaker phone on. Now it is a bit louder. The quality is bad, but it is louder.

I'm not putting this in the changelog until somebody else confirms that.

PS. I'm pretty sure that the low volume before of the speaker phone was a software issue, because when I was using navigation system (MOTONAV) the volume was loud and clear enough.
[Desire General] digitallysane:
What is the version number of the GMail app in the update?
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Same as before, no changes to it
[Desire General] well0549:
Is it just me or am I not alone...

The browsing on the web seems to go smoothier... the stutter (while scrolling) on some pages seems a little bit less.....
[Desire General] hd2biker:
I've noticed its a lot smoother all round.

When I first got froyo I was some what dismayed but now my faith is back.

I luv my desire, never been so happy with a phone and I have 3 a year LOL
[Desire General] adibadi:
Here are the fixes that I've noticed:

- Multiple gmail accounts are now properly synchronizing

- When clicking on an email notification, the screen used to go into landscape mode right after clicking, then I had to click on the notification again. It hasn't been doing this since the update.
[Desire General] tifosi256:
Not a new feature in this firmware, but a bug:

Something is wrong with Bluetooth connection. The phone no longer connects to my car's BT system. It can detect the car, pair with it, but connection never finishes and you get a pop-up message saying "headset disconnected" or something, but the phone still says "trying to connect".

My g/f who is on the previous firmware has no problem. Don't know any other details other than that though.
[Desire General] L0dger:
Please excuse the noobish question, but I'm running LeeDroid 2.0a (Froyo) on my rooted (with UnrEVOked) Desire (O2 UK) and I received the OTA update notification this morning.

Will I lose root?

Will it update my HBOOT (currently 0.80)?

Should I apply this update or just turn off auto-update checking and forget about it?

-L
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Updates can't be applied to custom FW so ignore it
[Desire General] L0dger:
Spot on, thank you :)
[Desire General] darkpain:
Actually i realize that when i updated to froyo(2.2),now i can see any improvement with the update
[Desire General] EddyOS:
For people complaining of the low res mic icon - if you're not using any other languages turn off all other languages and the mic button is then just a mic and looks fine...
[Desire General] hamdir:
neat, although when it pops up its still lo res unlike the other icons
[Desire General] spritable:
Thanks man, nice one. The button now has good quality.