[Legend Android Development] RaverWild:
Hi,

New to Legend, HTC, Android and smartphones as a whole. Purchased one Legend for me and my wife liked it so much that she got one as well. So two independant brand new Legends at home with the same problem. By the way posted this at the official Legend HTC forum - noone replied yet. Meanwhile I have found a workaround so this is not an issue now, but guess might be issue again, so would be nice to be resolved. Already searched the forum, looks noone yet posted. So here it is:

As new phone users, our first task was to import our contacts from our old phones. So:

I had to import contacts from my old Sony-Ericsson K750i to my Legend, my wife had to import contact from her Nokia 6230i to her Legend. Result of both operations on both Legends is the same so for me this is an Android bug.

First I tried to send all contacts at once from my K750i to my Legend. The Legend refused to recognize the file. Actually there was some error message, don't remember it. Something about the storage which is funny, because my Legend initially had 2gb brand new blank SD card. And later I put it 8gb card and it gave me same error! I gave up and started to send contacts one by one still via bluetooth. I happily discovered that contacts get imported, so patiently started sending one by one. On around the 10th contacts the Legend refused to import anymore. It gave error message, which I don't remember, but was about storage (remember I had 8gb empty SD card). I did everything that came to mind to me - restarting the Legend, the K750i - nothing helped, so I gave up.

Same thing with the Nokia 6230i - it cannot send all contacts at once, so wife started sending one by one - same result on about the 10th contact. She gave up as well.

Finally I've found a workaround after a bit of thinking - sent all contacts from my K750i to my laptop via bluetooth - it's one single vcf file. Then copied the file directly to the Legend SD card and imported via Legend's built-in utility - everything was fine.

As for my wife, she remembered she did a backup with Nokia PC Suite (something I avoid to install) a month ago. It appeared the file was a csv. Since It was UTF-16 encoded, I used a text editor to convert to iso-8859-1, then I wrote myself a perl script to convert it to same vcf, as my SE K750i used to create, copied the result on her SD card and imported it the same way as I did.

Result is - all contacts were imported on both phones. So no issue by now.

Question is - WTF is this complaining by Android about free space?? I suggested a cache issue maybe. Don't know anythinng about Android, except it's some kind of Linux derivative (for which I thought there should be no issues, but looks I'm wrong). Since then we haven't tried to send contacts via bluetooth (just no need yet), but I was thinking about this issue -

Does anyone else experienced it and how it's solved?

If anyone at all have some idea what's this about and how to clean the bluetooth cache or whatever it is - please tell.

Both phones are brand new, just unlocked, nothing else is changed - original roms, not rooted (currently don't have need to root).

So - any help?

Thanks.