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[Desire HD General] fubofo:
Another quick update:

84% battery as of now. Im seriously gobsmacked with this new device!
[Desire HD General] mickgeorge:
I ordered mine on Sept 28th. Email response from Clove today as to when I can expect delivery....

"Hello Michael, HTC have delayed the shipment to the UK from the factories by a few days - we understand any frustration, we certainly feel it ourselves. Your order should be going out either at the end of this week or the start of next depending on when the units get to the UK and through distribution to us"
[Desire HD General] MrGarak:
Great news fubofo!

I'm on day two now, I charged the battery to full last night and unplugged, it was dead by this morning! I got a call and a text so l think maybe the screen stayed on or something.

Love this device though!
[Desire HD General] panyan:
although it is really bad for consumers looking for the best price, it wouldnt make very good business sense to ship the first batches to online distributors who are cheaper and keep the rich people waiting ;)

it is infuriating yes, but the waiting just makes us want it more :p
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
I suppose so, but I actually stood in the shop and could see them all just lying there in boxes. Hundreds of them, literally. All the shops have loads but they want an extra 100 euros!! Vodafone also wont sell without a contract. They can FO
[Desire HD General] NBB823151:
Well they(vodafone UK) have not got them here. I am still waiting for my pre order one with no date given at the moment except should be 5-10 days.....er thats the second time they have said that.....great
[Desire HD General] emreeken:
User manuals in other languages:

http://www.htc.com/asia/userguide.aspx?p_id=324
[Desire HD General] crypticc:
Snowstorm is best weather widget app IMO
[Desire HD General] MrGarak:
Battery stayed at the level it was on overnight last night, relieved! Onto day three now.
[Desire HD General] matthiasdeblaiser:
If she's going to the Netherlands, I think you're better of buying it at www.pdashop.nl (or www.smartphoneshop.nl, same thing)

you can order, and pick up at Groningen, Rotterdam or Eindhoven. If she's close to Belgium she can also go pick it up at Antwerp, but then you have to order from the Belgian site (www.pdashop.be) I got mine there for 569 but in the Netherlands, it's cheaper (19% VAT and not 21% like Belgium)
[Desire HD General] Kkozi:
Wow, there are alot of good news about battery life...coool. We have DHDs in the Czech republic almost everywhere in stock. Computer shops,htc official shop,vodafone...

btw. it's annoying to browse all that pages full of information where to get the phone. As somebody wrote here in discussion :-(
[Desire HD General] matheuspedrosa:
Ok, she's going to Amsterdan tomorrow.

Any street shops where she can buy it?

thanks again guys!
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
Wow, you have got plenty of stocks then, nice for you. May I ask how much does it cost for an unlocked version in Czech Republic?
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
Just wanna say a huge thanks to Xmoo for helping me get my DHD ... TODAY!!!

After some bad news yesterday (online shop telling me it will be another couple of weeks), I cancelled the order and looked elsewhere.

Xmoo helped me get it on the high street straight away.

Price??? I payed 399.33 euros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (after discounts, getting VAT back through my company etc). Hahaha. Shops are selling it for 606 euros (phone house). I'm well chuffed.

THANKS XMOO!!!!
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
BTW, i can't download about 50% of things from the market. For example Tunewiki wouldn't download. Just says "Downloading" and nothing happens. I have to go to the website to download it. Same thing happens with the XDA application, it just hangs.

Anyone know why? Surely everything should download fine???
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
I would say clear the cache, this has been known to work but seeing as you phone is new ..mmmm...strange

EDIT...You haven't got GTalk downloaded onto your phone by any chance have you?
[Desire HD General] m7svk:
htc desire hd from vodafone online or store is sim free and come with 8 gb memory card - class 2, i charded mine last night , unpluged around 7.00 am , now is on 15% , but I use gps around 30 minutes, playded angry birds 40 minutes, 35 minutes calls, few mails, and text.., not too bad for first day, but still I would like to ask : Is any good task killer for froyo or not, or is just better go to running apps and switch them off. Thanks..
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
It maybe something to do with email...sounds daft but it looks very common....one guy says ....

FINALLY!!! After a week of getting frustrated with not being able to update/download apps from the Market, it turns out to be something as simple as the recent change to my email address i.e. googlemail.com to gmail.com! My phone (G1) has just gone in to update overload within seconds of reverting back to googlemail.com! Google has now put up a message on their FAQ site confirming the issues regarding email changes in the UK.
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
How do I clear the cache? And I've not got anything except the standard stuff really, plus vplayer and bbc news. Oh and XDA now, it managed to install after hours of waiting to download.

This is interesting - do you have a link?
[Desire HD General] Kkozi:
It costs around 560 EUR, not so cheap. Better to take the phone with Vodafone contract for me.

In the official HTC shop in Prague, the DHD costs 580 EUR.

I had to take HTC wildfire now because of some blacklist problem in Vodafone. So I might make a contract just in the shop, but there were no DHDs in stock so I had to take wildfire as my first android device and now still desire for DHD:-) But as I'm trying the touchscreen keyboard I'm afraid that hardware keyboard is better option for me. Maybe after couple days I will be able to write faster and more precise:-) Maybe I will wait for desire Z, test it somewhere in shop and after I will decide what device I purchase:-)
[Desire HD General] Kkozi:
Some people sent here some links to articles about killing the apps. All the articles say that it's not good to use a task killer application. Try to find it here..it's a few tens pages ago..
[Desire HD General] fubofo:
The main battery drain that I have so far noticed is the 3G and constant updating of apps.

I have set:

- Background data: ON

- Auto-sync: ON

- Network Mode: GSM only (I use quick settings to switch to 3G when I REALLY need it)

- Exchange mail: update every 30mins (while in office) / update every 15mins (while out of office)

- Hotmail and Gmail: update every hour

- Weather: update every 6 hours (no need as I can look out window and see the weather lol)

- Facebook: update every 2 hours

Today, using these settings, I unplugged at 09:30 and now at 12:15 I have 95% battery !

One thing I did notice yesterday was that I used Barcode Scanner app and noticed my battery drained quickly. Last night it was really low and, using Watchtower app, I seen that Barcode Scanner app was using 32% CPU (even when I only used it once in the afternoon!).

Oh and DO NOT use task killing apps as they will empty your battery. Simply use something like Watchtower app or SystemPanel Lite app to manually keep an eye on your device (and force kill apps/services when you notice a problem).
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
Glad to hear your battery life has improved this much! I can also recommend using an app like SeePU to check your CPU usage in your notification bar.

This you will see very quickly if an app is using your CPU when it shouldn't!

Although itself uses a little bit of CPU.
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
fubofo,

cool updates buddy, thanks a lot.
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
Bit of a daft question but how do you change all these settings??
[Desire HD General] funnyclub:
I have switched my network to GSM only and installed the quick settings app however it doesnt allow me to switch the 3g on through quick settings.
[Desire HD General] gongoscho:
That's right. The experiences I have already made

Exactly, I have my HD for a week now and guess from taskkiller.

grEEtZ,

gongoscho
[Desire HD General] combat goofwing:
switch mobile network changes mine from G to 3g/HSDPA
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
Stupid music player

I'm really disappointed with the music player. It's basically a bag of s**t unless ALL your MP3s have the exact correct tags (album, artist, etc).

Most of my MP3s have "Unknown" or "Disk 1" as the album. So the music player puts all these into the same "folder".

Does anyone know how I can get the music player to navigate the SD Card correctly and just play a friggin folder??

I'm getting really frustrated with it!

Thanks
[Desire HD General] buck_rogers70:
@GemeenAapje:

Either use mediamonkey to tag your mp3s (on a pc). That´s a mostly automated process. Or use a third party player like Mortplayer. This one does a decent job in playing your music "folderwise".

Buck
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
Thanks Buck. A lot of my music doesn't have an album name though, like songs me and my friends make. Or disks that DJ friends make. White label stuff etc.
[Desire HD General] onesolo:
Mortplayer!!! and also download Mortplayer widget...
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
How do you get to the sound enhancer when using Mortplayer, its not in menu, if I cant excess it when Im using headphones to change the settings then what is the point of using it...any ideas???
[Desire HD General] GemeenAapje:
+1 Also want to know this
[Desire HD General] LtdEdFred:
You can still add a picture to your self produced music with the help of an ID3-tag program. I believe Winamp will do the trick on Windows. For "weird" music that I can't find cover art for I just choose a random picture that I like (you can eg. use a photo of yourself or your friends) since I hate having the default image showing. Cover art makes it look so much more beautiful.
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
I think my answer to my own question is you cant..uninstalled app.
[Desire HD General] fubofo:
Yeah I don't think any media player actually makees use of the 'enhancements'. I have found the HTC Music app (with SRS and Dolby) to be very buggy and p*ss poor with music. At times it has blanked my screen out, completely muted all audio (restart needed), audio enhancements are sketchy at best lol. I actually use the Car Tunes app to listen to my music both in car and out - and the audio actually seems better for my in-car setup.

Anyway, on to the real update:

It finally happened.........I got the sensor issue :( .

I'm totally convinced it's a hardware issue as (like I previously mentioned) this 2nd device has a gap at top of screen and power button sits lower down (seems as though the internals of the device are mis-aligned in the aluminium housing). In certain light I can actually see a small gold/brass circle in top right behind the screen. Blowing did fix the issue temporarily. I will continue to mintor this and post a video of it (including blowing lol) when it happens again.

I will also put a small strip of cellotape across the gap for a few days to confirm/deny the debris affecting sensor theory.

On a side note, the battery is now great. Actually had 1.5days out of it with 13% battery left before i charged again. It really does seem to be 3G and any sort of app updates, combined with gaming/videos, etc that kill it. Such a bad thing as that's what this device is marketed around.....multimedia and social networking!! laughable since you can do neither for any extended period of time unless you're near a charger (which becomes pointless because then you could just use a pc/laptop).
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
PowerAmp is a solid music player that just hit the Market. It's in beta though, but it has an equalizer and looks really solid all round.

http://www.androidcentral.com/andro...ampaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
Hey Supreme..going to check this out right now...sounds good...Ill report back...Thanks mate..
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
YES...Now this is what Ive been looking for...OMG...plugged my headphones in and turned up bass and treble....haha neally blew my head off....its even got a phone speaker setting that makes it louder...wish i could use this for my ringtone....

Fully Recommended !!!....again thanks Supreme wicked fine....well happy now...even sorts through folders properly !!

EDIT ...had a bit more of a play with it....AWESOME is the word...Warning with a good set of headphones it will blow your head off hahaha
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
haha great to hear! i'll be loading this app first thing as soon as my phone arrives.

about that phone speaker setting, are you talking about the loud speaker or through the headphones?
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
No through the loud speaker !...A word of warning Id use this setting and leave it at that setting through the loud speaker, you can turn it up more and it distorts the speaker, Id imagine you could blow the speaker after time so just use the preset setting...its louder than the standard player anyway..great !

EDIT- looks like its a 2 week trail and then you have to pay for it, Ill be buying it..
[Desire HD General] michi491:
can't find the setting for the loud speaker ...?
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
open player, press PRE (bottom left next to EQU).....You'll find PHONE SPEAKER (LOUD) preset option
[Desire HD General] Pottrell:
anyone finding HTC HUB via htcsense.com now works? :O
[Desire HD General] seba84_2005:
Finally, what is the display of Desire HD: LCD or SLCD? :confused:
[Desire HD General] bobbyphoenix:
Too many post about this. Did you search? Nobody know, but it is awesome. That's all that matters.
[Desire HD General] seba84_2005:
Up@ sorry about that ;)
[Desire HD General] Zantos64:
HTC Sense Problems

What am I doing wrong? I'm sure I have managed to make my phone ring from HTC Sense in the past but now it just says it can't connect to my phone. Also says I haven't enabled the location option (which I have) and doesn't show any SMS messages I have sent and received.

How does HTC Sense know these things? What sort of connection does it rely on? Any help appreciated (I have entered my phone number as "+44" and dropped the first zero).:(
[Desire HD General] Black1982:
It's just really buggy right now. Don't think there is much you can do. Complain to HTC. They should fix it!
[Desire HD General] Zantos64:
Seems to have gone completely crazy now - either tells me I enter wrong username/password or doesn't let me log in. Asking for password then decides it sometimes can't retrieve my personal question or if it does gets an error on verifying it. Any ideas on how to complain?
[Desire HD General] mark wild:
!!!

WHAAAAAAAAAT???

I Want one TO!!! :( GET ME ONE, I PAY YOU... JESUS THAT IS CHEAP!!
[Desire HD General] fubofo:
3rd device arrived today (next day delivery from VF, apparently they got stock in yesterday). Has better power button alignemnt and covers are fine. Still has screen gap and camera lense misalignment.

Will check for proximity sensor issue and take some shots of misaligned parts later.
[Desire HD General] webego:
Sounds almost exactly like my third handset from VF too. Power button better, SIM cover better (although still a tiny gap) but still slightly misaligned camera and gap above the screen. I have tested the camera and there is no obstruction and seems to work fine. The gap above the screen is more worrying, especially if this does turn out to have something to do with the proximity sensor issues (which is likely). However I have told VF about this but also agreed to accept this handset on the condition I can still replace it at any time throughout my contract if I have any of these issues. I also rcd some compo to the tune of one month line rental credited to my account.
[Desire HD General] fubofo:
here you go guys, some shots of misalgnment. More coming

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8996414#post8996414
[Desire HD General] m7svk:
NEW UPDATE for Desire HD

Hi everyone, just want let you know there is another new update : 1.32.405.6 !!!
[Desire HD General] fubofo:
Images showing screen gap included now:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=828034

Just uploaded video to youtube where you can just about see the connections behind the screen (if you look carefully lol), Just being approved then will upload to my thread
[Desire HD General] bteljuice:
Please, Advise, how did you get it for 400 Euros?
[Desire HD General] BAD4SSg3Ek:
****!

what the hell.. after reading your message and looking at the pics you've posted i've only just realised i have the same issues! the power button is way too flat (almost as if i have to push into the cellphone) the camera is not aligned correctly and also there is a veryyyyyyyyyyyyy tiny gap above the screen!

i'm not sure what to do.. i ordered my phone online through phones4u.. :confused:

any help will be appreciated
[Desire HD General] xdafun4all:
if no proximity issue so no problem it is to tiny so nothing to be annoyed

just be proud to have such nice android phone :)
[Desire HD General] planetboe:
User Manual

Hi everyone,

if you're looking for a full user manual you'll probably not going to find it on the European or even the UK site. But you should take a look at the Austrian support site for the Desire HD.

Because I'm new to this forum I'm not allowed to post a direct link to the site (right now). You have to change the location on the HTC site by yourself and than select "Österreich".

Cheers!
[Desire HD General] webego:
The manual should be on your SD card. ;)
[Desire HD General] than33:
I made Quadrant Today and got 2089! You must always run Quadrant TWICE. Second score is always much better then first.

HTC Desire (not HD) had something about 1450.
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
I took some photos in medium-to-low light with my DHD (the Audi), and also compared the screen to iPhone4's screen. Check it out!

http://www.mediafire.com/?z9qemq9dlef5oog

And here is some internet browser ass-kicking :D Sorry for the quality, I had a long line behind me waiting to get their filthy hands on the iPhone, so I had to test the browsers' speeds quick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMdtmePYV4
[Desire HD General] Igor 3:
this some kind of lines on desire hd screen up close, is it really like that in real life or is it just because of the camera?
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
The camera makes them, not visible at all in real world. Try taking a photo of your computer screen :)
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
i think it's because of the camera. you get the same effect when taking pics of computer or tv screens.

as for the pics you snapped jkoljo, they look really nice! I really think the DHD's photo taking capabilities are under-appreciated on this forum. Some look really stunning!
[Desire HD General] jkoljo:
Yeah, and remember, that photo of the Audi TT was taken in low light inside a fair centre! I doubt my 10.1 MPix Casio Exilim could take much better picture than that.

E: And here is some indoor 720p material, the thing I videoed might be interesting to see, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lccdv-kdBU
[Desire HD General] noobdeagle:
can you adjust the ISO settings with the Desire hd camera ? or is it locked to an auto setting ?
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
No you can adjust them from 100 to 800 or set it to auto..

Just on another note guys, we have had a bit of a breakthrough with the lag - /INIT process, turning on USB debugging fixes the problem..
[Desire HD General] onesolo:
Can anyone tell me what is that all about, the /Init process? Any thread about the this problem»?
[Desire HD General] LeviathanPT:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=826507
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
Please read my thread...link in the above post
[Desire HD General] lazex:
Test of videorecording of my device - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI73JGmYvwA

Very not bad!

Besides, today there was very much a sunny day and I have checked up behaviour of the screen on a sunlight. Too it is very quite good!
[Desire HD General] fubofo:
Pet Shop Boys ftw ! lol
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
that video is very good, but im worried about the amount of dust at the top of your screen. it looks like you have that gap where dust is collecting.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
forgot about that.. But 3gp? Isn't MPEG4 higher quality?
[Desire HD General] Clock1932:
Fixed.

http://shadowservices.biz/pics/
[Desire HD General] cukych:
broken zip-container :(
[Desire HD General] Clock1932:
Nenamark1 gives a score of 33,6 FPS. It don't give scores from other phones, so I don't know if it's a good score or not.
[Desire HD General] Overloaded:
Thanks, quality looks pretty good. But from the video's i've seen on Youtube it looks kinda bad.
[Desire HD General] dazultra2000:
Some videos I see look great, and then some don't. This one ain't so great :(

It's weirdly inconsistent. Beats the hell out of my TP2 though, so I can't complain I guess.
[Desire HD General] Vidar Almsten:
Video-quality is so-so.. but beside that this phone looks better and better! :)
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
yep still broke :(

opps scrap that
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
Holy cow! that's really good!!! the galaxy s gets around 17 i think. And the nexus one gets a 10!

edit: actually im wrong, galaxy s gets in the 40s.
[Desire HD General] jords12:
Rename it to .3gp, or just download from my server at http://shadowservices.biz/pics
[Desire HD General] craigspc:
PM to Clock1932

Dear Clock1932

I've sent you a PM with some account login details if you need disk space/bandwidth. Feel free to make use of it if you want.

Craig.
[Desire HD General] dazultra2000:
I just saw a vid on youtube of the Galaxy Tab (remember, it's not even out yet) getting 34.3...and a comment says the Galaxy S gets 46-48...
[Desire HD General] DarrenT:
only one question left to answer then. When will MPD send me mine!
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
yeah i just edited my original post as you posted this. I was confusing this benchmark for another. sorry :D
[Desire HD General] dyl666:
The video is actually not half bad, seeing as tho it looks like it was cloudy outside and its in 3gp and 480p which means that 720p mp4 should be even better, and of course the lighting can influence these videos alot.
[Desire HD General] bratfink:
Nenamark1

Anything above 30 in the nenamark test it very good. The galaxy has good raw gpu power but executes it very poorly due to low cpu optimizations. i can assure that the the DHD should perform very similar if not better during gaming than the SGS. So its all good news for us :D
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
I agree, we need to see a 720p mp4 video, of course many thanks for the 3gp one as it gives us a good idea.
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
can the DHD record in .mp4? I thought it was only .3gp.
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
opps yes it can only record in 3gp :eek:, sorry my mistake, would converting the file make a difference, man Ive confussed myself now
[Desire HD General] Clock1932:
Just found it. So busy with the questions I hardly can play with the phone ;)

On it's way!
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
I will have to say that the video wasn't as good as my galaxy s I used to have, I dont think anything can touch it for video yet.
[Desire HD General] jords12:
Ok, it's 6am here so I'm going to bed, I'll mirror anything new when I wake up can use craigs's space also :)

Thanks again for the info, I'm extremely excited to get my DHD and finally leave dumbphones behind

EDIT: I'll wait a little longer for the new video actually :)
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
Clock this is so nice of you, you get a new phone and spend all your time answering questions instead of enjoying it, not many people would do that so thanks again.
[Desire HD General] Clock1932:
On it's way, just a few minutes.

Not a problem :) I still can play the whole evening with it! ;)

This is the last I will do for now. I'm going to the cinema with my girlfriend. When i'm back (4h) I'll take a quick look!
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
You must love your girlfriend, I would have to spend time with my phone but then again I have been married 8 years :D