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[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rossysaurus:
the camera is terrible but if you turn the sharpening level down a bit its not so bad. oh and you have to manually select the white balance, its NEVER right. just scroll through them until the preview looks right. and never use the flash unless you are within 2 metres of their face because led flashes are crap.

updates can fix all that though.

the desires camera is even worse though.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobbyphoenix:
Default Android Music Player

My first time with the android music player. WOW! I didn't try the HTC one yet, but the stock one is great. My N1 had the same one, but no special effects. DHD has SRS and Dolby. Both make such a huge improvement. It even has a built in equalizer. Very nice additions. I was going to try some players from the Market, but no need now. Bye Bye ipod.

EDIT - And of course I mean I just tried it with headphones. I was doing a loud speaker test, and it was good, but with headphones, WOW!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
The only thing that really annoys me about today phone is the weak external speaker.

I'm sure my Nexus One is quite a bit louder.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ethania:
I get what you mean.

Still - you say if speaker are bad call quality are bad. Seams you have missed one thing there. The earphone isn't bad. It's the loudspeaker that seam low.

Wouldn't be an issue for a normal user like me.

More so for the older users - the ones who grew up with boom-boxes on their shoulders. The Disco-generation and street dancers.

I hardly ever uses the loudspeaker since most of my calls are private. Don't wont to bather everyone else with my conversations.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobbyelliott:
Well, I am happier now than I was when I first got it, 8 days ago. My first impressions were very poor... too large to fit in my hand, awful battery life, terrible sound (poor external speakers and too quiet) and I missed the physical buttons on my standard Desire. But since then things have improved. The battery improves pretty dramatically after a few charge/discharge cycles (it goes from awful to so-so), the sound is still way too quiet, I have got used to the size and now prefer it to the standard Desire, and I have even got used to the soft buttons. The screen is fantastic. And its fast with masses of memory. You can install hundreds of apps on this thing (unlike the original Desire). The build quality typifies this phone. It's simultaneously superb (the main phone body and the glass) and tacky (the SIM cover).

So, I wouldn'y go back to my original Desire. That's not to say that HTC hasn't messed up a few things with this phone but, once you get used to it, it grows on you. Just be prepared to be disappointed in some things (battery, sound) and happily surprised by others (screen, speed, memory). For all it's faults, it just may be the best smartphone currently available.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PapaDocta:
thanks man... because i compared the n1 with the evo and the evo's sound quality is way better and i can actually hear the evo ringing when it's in my pocket whereas the n1 99% don't hear the ringer..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WM_Rizzo:
And unfortunately the standard practice of HTC. Had two of them, TyTn and Touch HD, both had crap instead of a proper camera and a loudspeaker. Still can't understand why there isn't a proper multimedia beast on Android, something like N8.

I'm seriously thinking about buying SGS: It just seems better, even though it's fugly.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Try them both inshore see which one you like best. Always try before you buy when you can.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stihl:
I have an answer to your first point;

Go to contacts > press menu > Show ..in this screen you can set which contacts you want to show. Just the SIM contacts, or just the phone contacts, just facebook, whats app etc etc etc.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafkatamura:
Not a happy customer

Not happy because I sold my SGS for DHD

I dont know why people not mentioning the biggest issue with this phone is the speaker. And I am pretty sure it is hardware issue.

Bad bad speaker. 100% times you wont hear the phone ringing while outside. Then you have to call back those missed calls. Grrrr

You need a headphone even to listen to youtube.

Camera is bad. Not sure if it is Hardware or software issue.

But still images are very very compressed and videos dont seem like HD and pixelated. Yes it is set up to 720P.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafkatamura:
Can not agree with one thing.

Colors are better and deep in SGS. No Contest.

And yes awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwfulllll pathetic speaker.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafkatamura:
I completely agree.

I sold my SGS and got DHD. Now when I see the quality of DHD images I feel like screaming.

And yes I have to say this hundred times worse speaker i have ever seen my entire life in a premium phone. Even 50$ phone sounds 100 times better than DHD
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
I have had my dhd for around a week now and i have to say overall i love the phone, its big it's heavy (which i like because my arm's are not made of goo) the screen although not super amoled is very vibrant and the hd looks amazing on it. The overall performance on the phone is so solid you would be forgiven for thinking you were on a mini tab.

The good:

Huge screen

Great performance

solid operating system

cool intergration to htc sense hub

games rock with full multi touch

Fantastic camera

I love the torch app it's so cool

people with other phones always trying to put you down and faaaaaailing every time.

The bad

Lower sound than i would have liked

no hdmi output

no camera button on the side

hate the touch sensitive buttons instead of solid ones

track ball / optical missing?

Out of 10 i would give this phone a solid 9

Edit: Just read some of your posts? about the camera? the camera on this phone is sublime what are you talking about? turn down the exposure a little bit and take a picture using the flash in pitch black, with an iphone and with a galaxy s and then with the desire HD, there is only one clear winner here and it isn't the galaxy or the iphone.

The galaxy was my second choice but due to the awful build quality and numerous reports of the gps and other software problems i opted out, i'm glad i did, the iphone is not even in the sgs or dhd's league so i won't go there.

Also, the speaker on the phone i have already said i don't like, but it's hardly a deal breaker.

The ear piece is fine, no problems at all.

As for htc sense' facebook intergration, i have no duplicate entries, I set my phone up by the numbers and there are no deficiencies whatsoever, maybe you should break out the manual before you try to slate a great phone because of your lack of knowledge?

As for the camera, (lol how can you think that it's a bad camera) I recorded a 720 hd of my dog walking in the park and watched it on my tv, the picture quality was completely perfect, no glitches, superb sound and some of the most vibrant colours i've ever seen. As with any phone you need to tweak your settings, the camera is not a part of the phone which you should skip over here, tweak your phones properly and then come back and i'll have some humble pie waiting for you. : )
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phunkycow:
In other words, you haven't been following the forums at all. This has been mentioned a sh*tload of times... For the camera try to set your ISO setting to 100 or 200 and exposure to manual.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
+1 here, completely just said that and i agree lol.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haim10:
cut the bull****!!! *** the best smartphone for this time *** :)

cut the bull****!!! *** the best smartphone *** :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafkatamura:
LOl yes true.

I just finished reading all the comments.

again..bad bad speaker.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobbyphoenix:
I must have one of the only ones with a good speaker. I can put it up to max, and hear it without distortion. Also at max it's way too loud. I also left it on the ground, and walked about 20 feet away, and was still able to hear it well. No straining of ears. I guess I'm lucky. :-)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukesky:
if you've read the comments before buying, then you wouldn't have to sell your SGS for the DHD and the DHD could be sold to someone else who appreciated it more, then everyone's happy!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafkatamura:
I should have come here before.

T0 be honest I saw quite a few YouTube videos before i got it.

None of them mentioned the sound issues. Even some did but they ignored as its no issue.

But anyway ...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafkatamura:
This is very weird. Is HTC using different breed of acceessories in different bacth. Who knows! There are way too many design faults with this phone.

Looks the Chinese workers were really pissed while they are assembling DHD :cool:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clintyboy12:
Viewing only contacts you need...

Currently loving my DHD, in every aspect except for the speaker & bluetooth connectivity it's better than my last phone...

Last phone was a Nokia 5800 so not really a stretch but there ya go ;-)

Have to say that there are a LOT of settings to be tweaked and I can sometimes get a bit lost trying to find something. By the time I've found it I've usually forgotten why I was looking for it :-o
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idartalis:
Got mine couple of days ago from T-mobile and I'm loving it already. Definitely blows my Motorola Milestone away, I don't really miss the hardware keyboard, the bigger screen on DHD makes on-screen typing bearable and easy.

Battery life on it is kinda meh but then, I browse the web and play games on it far too much :P

Definitely the best phone I've ever owned.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FatherD:
I think peolple's opinion of the DHD will depend on which phone you come from! I sold my Desire to get mine, the DHD is inferior in several niggling areas; mainly build quality, screen contrast and battery life. If I had that dagger from the Prince of Persia I would not have bought it, I would have bagged an Archos 70 and tetherd it to my Desire .. sweet!

Several reviews place it firmly behind the Desire and the iPhone 4
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baggyb:
underwhelmed by my upgrade to the DHD.

I recently traded up (or sideways) from a Desire.

Personally I think I made a mistake.

I'm diggin' the new screen real estate, the slight improvement on the 720p fps and the DLNA support.

However I'm not thoroughly convinced about the speed of the device. There are inconsistencies. It will be extremely responsive one moment and the non responsive in the next.

Even when the device is performing in a snappy fashion, the animations and the transitions are not smooth.

Im guessing a lot of this is more down to the OS not supporting hardware acceleration.

I find this quite alarming when you consider the lower spec'd devices like the iPhone and the HD7 running like butter on the osx and Windows phone 7 respectively.

With all that said my colleagues who have this device don't share any of my concerns coming from old Nokias on symbian and Windows moby 6.1 to 6.5.

It all depends on what device you have come from and what you expect to get. From Desire to DHD you don't get much more.

Do any of you believe we will see later Android versions on this device with hardware acceleration?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
off course we will see hardware acceleration in the future. In fact some speculate it will be included in Gingerbread (i really hope so!). But don't worry too much about lag and non responsiveness. Root is near, and custom roms are close. I don't know if you're the type of person to root and load custom roms, but it will improve performance and efficiency.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quarintus:
Did you read the sticky with "/INIT" in it's name. If not, try putting USB debugging on, and see if your device still has lag :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baggyb:
Yeah I've been keeping an eye on the the latest android developments. From what I've read though its pretty unclear as to what will be released with android 2.3/ gingerbread as Honeycomb or 3.0 seems to be touted the big one.

The other issue is with all this sense integration it will take a while for it to be delivered to the Desire range.

I did try rooting my old desire and had mixed results with that. Do you think the only way the DHD will get later versions is through root? I mean HTC are big on Sense and if Android 3 has unified UI Sense would be an issue?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baggyb:
Ok.. I did start reading that thread a couple days ago but i wasnt really getting any answers from it. Posters were just airing the issues.

I'll take another butchers at that thread though. Can I ask how enabling USB debugging is supposed to resolve the issue?

-----------------------------------------

So it seem's whilst I was moaning on here the lag issue had been resolved.

Cheers for pointing it out!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gig11gs:
2 weeks into using it...

best phone I ever had!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SupremeBeaver:
i think HTC will bring android 2.3 to the DHD, but it really could take a while. Im not too big on sense though, i'll probably put a vanilla gingerbread rom on.

I don't think sense is going to go anywhere though. That whole rumor about gingerbread (or honeycomb?) removing the need to manufacturer UIs got debunked by google a while ago.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baggyb:
I have had been with the sense UI since the hero and although its the best UI to overlay android. I too would prefer a vanilla 2.3 +. It's just that HTC are investing and developing the new sense and that sense.com stuff which will surely make it more complex to update.

Didn't realise the manufacturer UI's wasn't going to happen. It's a shame for the development of android as I think it would help sort the problem of fragmentation.

If a stable vanilla 2.3 appears for the DHD i'll be all over it!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnjfitzy:
Everything is fine except my speaker when I am talking to someone has a crackle and a buzz noise as well. Anyone else had that problem ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigMango:
Nope, the sound is fine on mine.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnjfitzy:
I might have to send it back. It's really irritating when talking to someone and you can hardly understand them
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adeel2cool:
after reading the tread i am getting confuse should i buy DHD or go DELL Streak specially its getting new UI with 2.2 because there is lots of issues wit DHD so please advice which one to go for?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nmyseteroious:
I don't know much about the Dell Streak..but regarding the issues with DHD, I think most of the issues that I know of are fixed. (except the low volume external speaker)

I wish someone would make a topic to summarize all the issues that DHD used to have and whether or not they are fixed. This would be a lot of help to people who are new to the forum.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnjfitzy:
There is nothing wrong with mine other then the speaker issue which is just a slight hardware problem.

The phone is great. Nothing wrong with the Software side of it other then the audio being a little to quiet. I recommend getting one its awesome.

Maybe when/if it gets gingerbread on it will fix the audio hopefully..
[Venue Pro General] Se4nH4x:
Hey guys,

Looking at pre-ordering the unlocked version of the DVP from Clove but I'm not sure whether it is going to work in Canada =/.

I've looked at all the Canadian cell phone providers (Telus, Fido, Bell, Rogers) and it doesn't seem like they are compatible with the 3G band on the Dell Venue Pro (900/2100).

Canadian providers seem to require 850/1900 or 1700.

So uh...is it worth buying the phone? Anyone think it will work?

Does the phone need to be 3G compatible to work? (Telus seems to say that your phone NEEDS to be 3G+ compatible).

Thanks,

-Sean
[Venue Pro General] ajftl:
NOP.. it wont work.. it works but no 3g u would pick EDGE.. UK are 900/2100
[Venue Pro General] Se4nH4x:
is 3G necessary for smartphones?

I've never had a smartphone before. right now I'm just using an old flip phone.

Would the phone need to have 3G in order for me to bring it to a carrier and add a sim card + plan?
[Venue Pro General] the_scotsman:
Yea, 3G would be pretty much a necessity, as the next best available connection you would get is edge, which is much slower.
[Venue Pro General] pistol44:
For $989 this site claims to have a Telstra NextG compatible version up for grabs:

http://www.mobicity.com.au/dell-venue-pro.html

I have been using a Telstra HD2 on Telus which gives me 3G+ for a while so I would assume this one would also work. But then again I could be wrong as the bands don't look right..
[Venue Pro General] leepenguin:
So it does work if i only use for 2G cell phone service with Fido (no internet), right?

I can use WIFI only.
[Venue Pro General] Se4nH4x:
That phone has 900/1900/2100 3G bands which is not supported in Canada.

You need 850 or 1700 for it to work in Canada >.>
[Venue Pro General] jul644:
no your wroung,

you need 850/1900 UMTS/HSPA if you want to use rogers, fido, bell, telus, virgin, koodo, on 3g

you need 850/1900 GSM if you want to use rogers/fido with no 3g

if you want to use wind mobile you need 1700/2100 UMTS/HSPA (same as t-mobile)
[Venue Pro General] Se4nH4x:
well my point was that it has no supported 3G bands.

I want to take full advantage of 3G.
[Venue Pro General] Se4nH4x:
Finally!

Got official info!

http://www.dell.com/us/p/mobile-venue-pro/pd

Bands

UMTS 900/1700/2100

GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

HSDPA 7.2Mbps/HSUPA 5.76 Mbps

There's that 1700/2100 that I need!

Yay!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Spike_M:
As you know, in galaxy s when we install 4-5 page programs , lags is appear

The touchwiz launcher is lagy too and when we Turn pages the lags is apear

I decompile touchwiz.apk and i explore folders and in res folder i saw few folders that named xxxx-xxxx-1024x600 and i guess this names means 1024x600 pixel like galaxy tab and samsung create a touchwiz that could be use in galaxy s and galaxy tab!

I decided to deleted that folders had a 1024x600 in the last of name and i compile apk and push it to galaxy and i see that is work lagless and very fast and smooth

I made an update.zip of this modified touchwiz and upload in attachment

Guys you can test it and leave Comments on this topic

I forget something

I change the homescreen_menu_shortcut_bg.png with glass one and you can see in pic :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] lokhor:
What firmware versions does this work on?

Does it overwrite the default TouchWiz?

Is it compatible with any Lagfixes?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Spike_M:
this launcher is last version of touchwiz that used in jpm/jp6 roms and must work on any version of roms

yes , this launcher is compatible with any lagfixes
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] xxgg:
I am sorry, what has been changed from default?

Lowered the resolution or something?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mike.sw:
i think you should work with the guy that did the TW mod script:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=792817

together you can hack tw and make it work better ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] barracoo:
Just flashed it via CWM on Voodoo-Doctor-Edition-JP6 and seems to be lagless flipping between pages. G8 job!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] AliasDVP:
Amazing!!!!!!!!

It works!!!!!! Great Work!!!! This launcher is more fast, even using various widgets and an animated desktop. Thanks!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] BronzedDroid:
No, based on what he wrote, he deleted icons and textures for use on Galaxy Tab. I wonder if it really does make it faster, though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Cotw:
No effect here. Still laggy as hell.

EDIT: maybe it's because I'm using a lagfix? I have 5 pages of apps. Not that much if you ask me :S
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Bec07:
Can you guys still uninstall apps from the drawer?

Last time I replaced TWlauncher I had lost this ability.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] pele78:
interesting.....
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Fr4gg0r:
I recommend editing the LauncherConfig.java class to enable the fly in effect when opening the app menu, pretty nice. :)

My attachement contains a classes.dex which has the ability to uninstall (non system) apps from homescreen + fly in effect.

Remove .apk and .odex first, then push this to system. I always switch to an other launcher before doing that..

@Spike_M

When I delete all folders with 1024*600 in the name, apktool gives some errors..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Jumba:
On reboot touchwiz doesn't load - it gives me a fc error: The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. :(

How do I go back to the original touchwiz?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Fr4gg0r:
Do you have adb enabled? Otherwise you have a problem..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Jumba:
I have adb installed, but my pc won't detect the phone when plugged in via usb.

It seems like the only solution is to flash another update.zip via recovery. An update.zip of the original touchwiz should work, if someone would be kind enough to put one together. I wouldn't know where to start...

Edit: or is there a way to install an apk via the recovery menu? Long shot, I know. I was thinking installing LauncherPro would bypass the fubar'd tw.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Spike_M:
i use modified launcher and its work like a charm

for those guys want to get back original touchwiz

1- download update.zip in attachment and copy it to your internal memory

2- instal it from recovery 2e or cwm recovery
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Jumba:
Thanks but I can't access the internal memory of my phone. Now what?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] xan:
Tw launcher is definately faster now. Try pinch to zoom and see! It even made me consider reverting from launcher pro.. Great fix, thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] azuresystem:
its not 100% perfect but youre as close as ive ever seen anyone come so far!

damn nice fix!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] titooo7:
I think I noticed an small improvement with that fix: 55apps installed (6 pages in app drawer), but there is still some lag... :(

By the way I'm really glad that there is people trying to improve the performance of TW. I really like TW but the app drawer is laggy I'm still using froyo stock launcher... :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Cotw:
It is possible.

Damn, most people seem to experience a fix while I'm stuck with the same laggy TW :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Spike_M:
maybe you should install an official rom like jp6 and root it then install this tw launcher and ...

i never Say i use apktool
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] andreas_k:
Hi,

I install it, it faster, but I lost a polish texts (home, applications and all when I press menu button on home screen)...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Jumba:
Whew, okay I managed to install Launcher Pro, so now at least I have a launcher. I did try to install the original apk linked on page 2 but it errors out saying "There is a problem parsing the package."

Is the archive okay? Or is there some other thing I'm missing?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Fr4gg0r:
Navigate to /system/app/ and delete TouchWiz30Launcher.apk /.odex

Then push the downloaded launcher to /system/app/
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tonyjansen:
I got "not enough space available for library" when trying to run MP3 player after installing on Dutch JP6. Restored original TW and the error was gone.

*Not all good this is*