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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b_allert:
i bought swarm thinking it was something else opps i know, but now im really frustrated and would like to know the easiest way to watch my movies on my phone and how to. please and thank you.
[Vibrant General] fileboy22:
Anyone know if its possible to resize icons? I have the option on LauncherPro but are there any other alternatives? Or other apps in the market?
[Vibrant General] chichu_9:
Yes there are other options in android

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.reeyees.moreiconsfreewidget
[Vibrant General] henreeg:
you can try Desktop Visualizer.

Find it on the market.
[Vibrant General] biigreen:
As another option, there is the Multicon Widget.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/multicon-widget/com.h9kdroid.multicon
[Desire HD General] orchid666:
Hey all. Just got my desire hd today from carphone warehouse. I love this handset! Best phone I've ever had by a country mile! Only problem is its got something trapped inbetween the screen and digitizer. Looks like dust or a small shard of metal. Really disappointed. I know the desire had this problem but just wanted to know if anyone else has this problem with their hd. It's really annoying as I can't take my eyes of it when using the phone, especially when the screen is on a white background. What do you think peeps, should I return it? , after all I've got it for 2 years. :-)
[Desire HD General] Doktaphex:
definitely take it back and get a fresh one, if they don't have any in stock I guess you'll have to be patient, but you can't accept faulty goods.
[Desire HD General] orchid666:
Yeah, that was my thoughts too. Just don't want to come across ocd! :-). Love the phone but build quality on these things should be better considering the price of them. Used a hero for the last 18 months and never had any screen issues.
[Desire HD General] xazac:
Is it possible to see some pics of that dust under the glass?

Thanks!
[Desire HD General] M_T_M:
BUMP...... :)
[Desire HD General] orchid666:
Hey guys. Seems most of the posts were deleted during the "clean up". I contacted the mod to get this thread back but it appears half of it is missing. Anyway got my replacement today and It's perfect. Apart from all the known issues! :-)
[Desire HD General] joshoon:
I got this issue either, and I can't keep my eyes off it!

I propably going back to the shop with it to get a new one, because I just got it a day.

But i'm afraid that they won't see it, because my mother can't see it either.

So maybe I need to ignore it, but will be hard for me :P
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
One of the biggest failures of the original Desire in my opinion was the dust that got in under the screen. For an example of the one I sent back with this problem have a look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTF0fFN5Y60

Now I would HOPE that HTC have learned from this and rectified the problem but I have just been looking at the ads on eBay and noticed this in one of the item descriptions:

"The unit i have at the moment has 1 speck of dust under the screen and i am receiving a replacement unit this week, so the one you will be buying will be brand new"

Seems with this and the experiences of users here that HTC have not resolved this problem after all. A HUGE disappointment as there is no way I could put up with this once I know the dust is there even if it's only visible in certain lighting conditions!
[Desire HD General] chrisn0123:
I got one small black dot of dust under my glass. Thought it was a dead pixel at first, but its too high for that upon examination.

May take it back since I paid a lot of money for it.
[Desire HD General] lawrence750:
same i also have just 1 speck at the top right corner, not sure if ill bother replacing, but i do also have a dead pixel at the bottom right corner so its defintely tempting..
[Desire HD General] rumpleforeskin:
I have had many HTC devices over the years and a few have had problems with dust ingress. especially my topaz and c500 where very bad.

The problem was bad sealing around the volume rocker, is this the same problem? or maybe dust has been induced during manufacture of phone?
[Desire HD General] dan ashcroft:
well mine had dust under the screen from straight out of the box and it wasn't anywhere near the volume rocker
[Desire HD General] xspyda:
presume it was swapped out without any hassle?
[Desire HD General] orouborus:
i had the same experience. bought a desire z and after a few weeks a lot of dust has accumulated on the top part of the scree. so i sold it and got a desire hd, im not sure if there were two speck of dusts on top of the screen but now there are. im trying to stop being an oc and fidgeting about these things :p but i am quite disappointed. had 5 htc phones and this is the first time i experienced this. hopefully it wont get worse. :D
[Desire HD General] bobbyphoenix:
I'm the same way. I have the smallest piece of dust you could ever see (like half of a pixel). It's actually opposite the volume buttons, and right on the edge where if it was one pixel over to the right more, it would be off the visible screen. You can't even notice it unless you have a pure white background, but I know it's there, and it annoys me. Also after three months with my DHD I just noticed when the screen is on, and I look at the black boarder around the screen (I have to sort of angle it in the light), the right side seems to be off just a bit (there is more screen boarder in between the right side of the screen and the outer black boarder than there is on the left). Like the alignment of the under screen is tilted a bit, but when I have horizontal or vertical lines on the screen, they all line up perfect, and none are cut off like what my eyes would think they would be, so it seems like an optical illusion. Just me and my OCD. :cool:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slickware:
I have searched and haven't found an answer to this yet.

I hate the "Search" hardware button in the lower right of the Vibrant. I never use it, and I keep bumping it when I grab the phone, bringing up an annoying screen I have to close.

Is there a way to disable it, or at least rebind it to something useful (like Vlingo) ?

I'm running the stock OS from t-mobile, rooted.

Thanks in advance,

~A
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slickware:
Nobody knows how to do this??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willsnews:
I wouldn't mind making it my camera

Constantly drinking
[Desire HD General] Basil3:
Rather than clogging up other threads with my battery experiences, I thought I'd summarise where I'm at, and see how other people are doing with their battery life.

So I started yesterday on a full charge, and by 2ish the phone was dead. I used it fairly heavily, but wifi was off. I don't think I made any phone calls, and didn't use gps. It was mainly messaging and using the xda app. I had changed my screen brightness to auto the night before, so thought this might have reduced the battery life.

I then left the phone off, and charged through till just before 5pm. At this stage, the phone was up to between 90-100% charge. My intention was to see if I could get through to this afternoon on this charge. Last night I made a phone call for about half an hour, and used gps for about 10 mins driving in the car. Other than that it was a bit of messaging and browsing, but not heavy use by any stretch of the imagination. I had wifi off, facebook sync every 4 hours, and screen brightness set to about 50%.

This morning I woke to less than 10% charge on the battery, so have left the phone at home charging, and I'm back to my hero...at least for the morning.

I must admit, I'm starting to get concerned, because I really don't think I'm using this phone more than my Hero, and I could easily get a day out of it (unless I was going for a long run using some kind of gps app).

What are other people's experiences? I'm surprised I'm not hearing more about this, and I'm hoping mine is just a one off!

**UPDATE**

Today, 12 hours after taking my phone off charge, I have just under 20% charge remaining. The phone is now on it's fourth cycle, and although I haven't used the phone quite as heavily as yesterday, I have still used it quite a bit and have had WiFi on the whole time. This is still not amazing battery life, but it is still much improved. It definitely illustrates that the battery may take a few charge cycles before it optimises itself.
[Desire HD General] dazultra2000:
My first full day was yesterday.

WiFi on all the time. Screen brightness set to automatic. Twitter and facebook refreshing every hour. Weather every 4 hours.

Unplugged the phone at 7am, 100% charge.

During the morning I flashed the phone twice (due to the proximity sensor issue) so it probably recieved an extra 10 mins of charge.

Following the flashing, WiFi went straight back on so I could download all the apps again, and resync sense and all the contacts. There was some playing of games, some use of Google Goggles (so camera use there) and some web browsing.

By 13:00 I was down to 90% battery - which was pretty good I thought.

Through the afternoon I didn't get to use the phone much apart from a couple of short gaming sessions.

By 17:00 I was down to 80%. I got home from work and played around on the phone until my wife got home and we went out for a meal. The pub we were in had no signal, and I didn't really play around with the phone.

By the time I got home and went to bed, the phone was probably around 65% full.

So not a heavy day of use, but not far off a standard day for me - so not too bad as far as I'm concerned. Certainly about 30% better than my Touch Pro2 was!
[Desire HD General] gogol:
I think we need to define a consistent way to measure battery life for Android.

Something like ACID test for web ... Quadrant for benchmark ...

I don't know, maybe we can agreed on something how to measure it. Or build an app to simulate phone usage which user should run it continuosly and then at the end got the result: Your battery life is rated 4 hours, 10 minutes straight using this test.

Probably not the best measurement, but it should give us a "number" to compare with other devices.

I can only suggest (I am not a developer), but I believe there are a lot of talented coders here in XDA which should be able to build this kind of "standard" app battery measurement pretty easily.
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
Somebody is recommending 3-4 full charges cycles for battery optimization. Do you think it will really help?

Battery is really deal breaking issue for me.
[Desire HD General] jiidaineko:
very helpful thread.

as mentioned few post earlier, there really should be a battery benchmark tool.

so was your wifi and/or 3g turned on the whole day?
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
My friends also lasted over a day with pretty good use, there seems to be better results with the brightness on auto...from what I have picked up on the forum...maybe a test is need to see how much difference there is between full brightness on one battery charge and auto on the other.
[Desire HD General] gogol:
Yupe, the battery benchmark should not be so complicated.

Start the app with 100% Battery life

Some options in the app (for features that might NOT be in an Android phone or might not be available at the time?):

[ ] Turn on Wifi

[ ] Turn on GPS

[ ] Turn on Bluetooth

Set the app to WAKE all the time, display turned ON all the time of the test

Set Keyguard to OFF (device will not be locked)

Set Brightness to AUTO

Set all speakers to SILENT

Set vibration to OFF

Then loop until battery down to 5%, perform the below tasks in sequence:

* Play movie for 15 minutes [speaker muted]

* Browse to website??? be careful not to overload the website :P

* Doing arithmatic

* Doing 3D

* Play MP3 [speaker muted of course]

As soon as the battery down to 5%, app stop and display result ...

And of course restore all the settings.

The app should use generic API that is supported by Android, not some hacky wacky if you know what I meant.

Please if someone can code this, that would be very nice! Standard XDA Battery Measurement app for Android!
[Desire HD General] override182:
the app should log the result too.. since some phone is dead by time 5% due to calibration..
[Desire HD General] Basil3:
@Dazultra2000: I would almost trade the proximity sensor problem for the battery life you're getting!

In any case, I'm gonna leave my phone charging till half an hour after the green light comes on, then I'm gonna try another day of normal usage. I'm going to turn wifi back on, as I usually would, and set screen brightness to auto.

With my Hero I used to go for runs using a GPS app to log the route, I'm not going to bother trying that with this phone until I'm sure I can survive a day.
[Desire HD General] Smigit:
I don't know when you wake up but that could be like 14 - 15 hours that you mentioned which possibly isn't all that bad (plus the extra 10% you had remaining). Personally I want to see what it's like when you unplug it at 8am, not at 5pm the night before since I can't see any good reason not to leave the phone charging over night anyway.

If you then manage to get about 10 to 12 hours or so then there probably isn't much issue. Granted you weren't using it while asleep so the battery shouldn't drain overly quick but I wouldn't want to use your test as an example of a days use.

Thanks for the info but. If I was you I'd just have a car charger too if you like to use GPS...I can't see any reason not to.
[Desire HD General] Basil3:
Yeah, I would normally charge overnight, but since I had given a charge through to 5pm I wanted to see how it lasted....see if I could get through 24 hours. I wake up at 5am, so that was around 12 hours, with only 5-6 of those hours being time when I would've actually been using the phone. This is also bearing in mind that I had started yesterday on a full charge and the phone was dead by 2pm.

The GPS thing in the car was only to do a quick test, literally 10 mins. I need to buy a new car charger with micro USB, but I just made a note that I had done this because I knew it would affect the battery.

Anyway, we'll see what today brings.
[Desire HD General] Smigit:
Looking forward to it.

And yeah, for me personally a "days" charge really only needs to equate to about 12 - 14 hours. Thats probably the longest I'll go without having a charge anyway unless I'm camping or something in which case I'll likely fall back to a Nokia anyway.
[Desire HD General] Spaky:
Hi, just to add my experience with a complete different phone e.g. iPhone 3GS (developing apps on it, now switching to Android :D):

Charge at night till 8 a.m. so 100% then usually in a day:

- Go to office, read/write emails, surf a bit on forums, blogs and so on

- Make call up to 30-60 minutes per day

- Play some games, test our application/games on it (so connect and receive some extra charge)

- Use WiFi at office

- Use Google Maps up to 15 minutes per day

- Back at home at 8 p.m.

- Use again emails and surf on web for 30 minutes

Around 11-12 p.m. it has less than 25% of battery, so 14-15 hours of usage drain battery up to finish it, not to mention that I'm forced to switch off push notification because they drain my battery in 5 hours!!!!

So just to say that, no one is perfect, and this devices today really do a lot of stuff, I think as Smigit suggest 12-14 hours are acceptable.

Have also tested/used iPhone 4, I don't seen any big improvements on that side.

Just my two cents...
[Desire HD General] GeoMil:
praying for decent battery, please please please!

My HTC legend is pretty poor really, but I can live with it. If DHD is worse I don't think I can pull the trigger.

There is a thread in th Legend section about 1800mh HTC batteries (from another phone) that fit the Legend. Maybe there will be an option to do something similar with DHD.

I would pay £50 more for a 1500mh battery - why did they put the smallest battery in the largest screen?
[Desire HD General] eozen81:
LOL, that's why everyone wonders :p
[Desire HD General] override182:
can anyone confirm that the 1800mAh for Droid Incredible (that fits HTC Legend) fits desire HD too???
[Desire HD General] gcd:
maybe a photo or model no(if any) of battery can help us?
[Desire HD General] override182:
maybe no.. cuz its slided up.. ive just noticed while watching the vid.. hurm.. good luck for us waiting for a 1800mAh then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il1NBIJdx5M

http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...d-battery-for-htc-legend-bb00100-1800mah.html
[Desire HD General] apsis:
No the battery doesnt fit with the Desire HD, if you watch some pictures of your 1800mah battery and than go and take a closer look at the DHD's battery, you will recognize that the pins of the DHD-battery are on its side. the pins from the Incredible Battery are on the bottom.
[Desire HD General] xmoo:
In 2 hours 30 min heavy heavy heavy use, the battery dropped 20%.

Will do a full day test 2 morrow.
[Android General] sonwon:
Hi peeps,

I had an idea on the airplane today. I am sitting there wishing my headset would cancel the noise instead of deaden the noise. When I realized that my Android's microphone could listen to the noise and send negative sound waves to the earphones resulting in noise cancellation. Can someone build this application?

There should be a range control to control what type of noise i canceled and a control that would allow more or less cancellation. And of course the volume to the headset should still work. Would be nice if movies and audio files could also be played.

Also, don't attempt to make money on this idea because I am claiming this idea for the open source community. ;)
[Android General] Gahh Its Lee:
I was actually thinking about this the other day. I cant really see much of a reason the normal mic couldnt be used to cancel ambient noise
[Android General] mercianary:
Great idea, can't imagine the mic being high enough quality for this to be effective.

I think using the handsfree mic would be a better option as the phone spends most of its time in your pocket.
[Android General] Gahh Its Lee:
Im not sure about others but my phone is basically always in my hand. I text like crazy and rarely have time to put it away
[Android General] sonwon:
Not sure about the mic quality until someone tries.

My earphones don't have a mic and it wouldn't be to much trouble to leave it out of the pocket when using the noise canceling feature. Could also be done so the phone mic only cancels the noise it hears to and the boom mic would still work normally. So the person on the other end would hear less noise.

I need someone to write the program?
[Android General] sonwon:
No developers wanna try? I'll be a tester.
[Android General] NeoAcheron:
Noise cancelling wouldn't be that easy, the delay of capturing, processing and creating the cancellation sound stream would make the sound cancelling ineffective. Have a look on wikipedia for "Active Noise Control".

Such a feature would be damn amazing though. I hope someone might be able to prove me wrong.
[Android General] sonwon:
I would think the delay would be very small and not noticeable, but maybe I am wrong?
[Android General] bivio:
Instead of active noise cancelling for all sounds, some sounds are predictable once sampled. The hum of an airplane for example doesn't really change that much. Woulnt someone be able to sample a ~5 second clip and then process that, and repeat it?

Sent from a touch tone tele-phone.
[Android General] sageDieu:
Yeah maybe you could have a noise canceling app or something that you run and it listens with the mic and makes a sample to use while you play your music or whatever, then just listens for changes, loud noises, etc to actively cancel rather than constantly listening and using everything.
[Android General] bivio:
Maybe that could be the difference between a paid and free app.

Free = just cancels out bacground noise

Paid = cancels out background noise and "impact sounds"

Sent from a touch tone tele-phone.
[Android General] Meltus:
As previously stated, i doubt active noise cancelling would really be that effective due to many reasons, mic quality, latency issues, etc.

As for pre-recorded noise cancelling, there's probably a reason it hasn't been done yet. It's probably either incredibly hard to do, or incredibly ineffective.

...although, i'd love to be proven wrong :D
[Android General] Gene Poole:
Yeah, this is just too precise a task to do with anything but real-time electronics. A typical noise cancelling setup uses an inverting op-amp that sends an inverted signal at the exact time that it is generated. Any latency at all (anything above a few nanoseconds) would cause an echo effect that would be worse than the noise. There's just no way a microprocessor could sample the sound, analyse it, and generate an inverted signal in software that would be anywhere near fast enough.

As for eliminating random noise based on some pre-sampled or randomly generated noise (white, pink, etc.), we have that already. It's called treble.
[Android General] sonwon:
I don't think you need to analyse anything just invert the signal and feed back out. But I do understand your point. These processors are doing millions of operations a second so I would hope just maybe it is possible? Maybe the sound processing chip has a built-in invert function? This is just my humble opinion and if you are in fact a person that does this for a living I submit to your wisdom.
[Android General] xd4d3v:
there is an app called sound canceller that does this.

however, it seems not to work very well supposedly because of the API having a delay to playback
[Android General] E:V:A:
There seem to be some serious misconception about Noise Cancelling here. So listen to Gene Pool, he knows what he's talking about. Please read up on your wave physics and NC details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_cancelling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-cancelling_headphones

I almost agree, apart from that your measure is about 6 orders of magnitude (10^6) off! At 1000 Hz, it should be enough with a delay that is slightly less than double that frequency for a 180 degree phase shift. I.e. ~1 ms (millisecond).

That's right, and this make the electronics very simple, so yeah, it's probably easier to just buy yourself a pair of noise cancelling head/ear phones. (Why not ALL head/ear-phones doesn't already have built in NC, is beyond me. But I guess its a big difference between "descent" and "good" NC...)

Like I said above, you just need to make sure your App is running with higher priority than everything else, to minimize the latency. I suppose putting the phone in "Airplane Mode" would help... But ANYTHING running on your phone would create latency, as anyone running MIDI keyboard software on a PC know all about, where a latency of 40 ms is already annoying and very noticeable. While it is nearly impossible to obtain latencies less than 10 ms on a normal operational PC without special low latency HW.

Here are some interesting sound apps:

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.liberty.android.noisecanceller

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.idroidbot.acousticsfilter

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.idroidbot.ispectral

(I have not tried any of these, so I can't really recommend them.)

On the last note. Most phones already have built in NC HW, so if you can figure out how to use that, you would probably have something very interesting going. For example see my post on the noise-cancellation problem on the Samsung Galaxy S2.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1384756
[Android General] polobunny:
That, and NC is only "decent" at most anyway. It's good to listen to music and such in public transports but absolute crap to use when you're in a quiet room at home. I wouldn't want NC technology to be implemented on "audiophile grade" headphones (audiophile jokes apart).
[Android General] ardy:
Has anyone tried any of the apps that E:V:A listed? If so, how did they work?