OFFICIAL HTC Desire Thread

[ravage]

Just got my Desire from Vodacom today woohoo, currently charging it! Mine also came with a 4GB sd card

 

[lanman]

Could be a simple question but is it necessary to charge my phone 16hours while off before i start using it?

 

[alt146]

Could be a simple question but is it necessary to charge my phone 16hours while off before i start using it?

I read on a couple of forums that you should charge it for three hours before you use it for the first time. Apparently it takes a week or two to get up to full strength. Lemme see if I can find a linky.

Seems the official HTC site say 8 hours

Technically Lithium-ion batteries arent supposed to have memories, but a lot of places that I read said the life of the phone got better after it had been charged a couple of times.

If I wait the full eight hours I probably wont get to play with mine tonight, so it will have to make do with the four or five hours it's gotten so far, although I'll leave it plugged in while I set it up and then let it charge through the night.

 

[Stefan!]

Could be a simple question but is it necessary to charge my phone 16hours while off before i start using it?

It says 8 hours on the htc website

http://www.htc.com/www/faqs.aspx?p_id=312&cat=80&id=127114

 

[lanman]

Also just read on a few sites that one of the advantages of lithium-ion is the fact that it has no memory as previously stated, so ill just plug it in and leave it in for 8hours while I explore. BTW just got mine a hour ago. AWESOME phone

 

[SlowInternet]

Mine also came with 4gb card.

 

[Mr Feesh]

For your first question. I wouldn't recommend going to http://forum.mobilism.org/, coz you know, piracy is wrong and all. Still looking for the answer to your second question. Apparently there's an app that converts to .mp4 and a mp4 player.. but I'd prefer to have an avi player.

is it just me or is this site ridiculously slow

 

[lanman]

Can anyone maybe post there internet and mms settings. My settings was not pre-installed on the phone. Doesn't matter which network, will figure out what goes where.
Thanks

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Hey dudes

So I got my Desire last friday, and I'm loving it! I just need to get the MTN data settings, you know, 3G, etc etc. Any ideas?

 

[Tsponge]

When I bought mine it came with 4GB card.

If anyone needs settings for MMS/3G I can help.
Mine is all working well on MTN
Just tell me where to go menu wise and I will post them
I see from the useful link posted Kuga that for Ndrive you phone needs to be routed... Mine is not yet.
And the Co-pilot links are mostly Broken
Maybe I should just buy one...
Loving the phone...
Useful apps:
Shazam - Identify Songs. Like Track ID on SE phones
CallTrack - Logs all calls to google calender. I created a seperate calender for my calls and is pretty useful
Evernote - notes that sync with online account
Dropbox - Sync files between devices,PC's
FlashApp - Flashlight without Camera
Gameboid - Gameboy emulator
Google Goggles - Do searches based on pictures
ES File Manager - Browse Files on Phone, SD card, Wifi Network Shares
ES Task Manager - Task manager...

All are on Android market if I remember correctly

 

[Fudzy]

It's a pity Google Maps Navigation isn't available here.

 

[cyb3rt]

Anybody know why I can't get the Android Market working? Want to download widgets but it just loads for a while and says "Unable to download widgets. Tap to try again."

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Interesting issue. I haven't had that problem. How are you connecting? 3G or Wi-Fi?

 

[rorz0r]

Market worked out of the box for me...

 

[Ecco]

Just got my HTC Desire yesterday.

Very impressed with the phone. However below are some of the issues I would like to try resolve. Maybe you guys can assist.

1. Data usage. How do you guys manage how much data this phone is going to pull. I really don't need it updating facebook, the weather app, friendster etc on a regular basis. I have wifi at home and would prefer to just let any updates for the above apps to kick in at home like maybe at 06h00 every morning at the most. I see on some of these apps you can set it to update once a day only, but it doesnt let you specify a time or network.
2. Following from the above, can anybody reccomend an app to track data usage?

3. People. Its gone and pulled a lot of contacts from facebook. Some of these i really dont want to be in my list of contacts, simply because they are overseas and i dont actually call them. How do i remove these?

Have a few more queries, but cant remember them right away.

 

[lanman]

"Just tell me where to go menu wise and I will post them"
Im not positive but as far as i know its under settings- wirelles and networks-mobile networks(the second one)-access points names. There you will find the different access points like myMTN ect. If someone can maybe post vodacom settings aswell, would be nice. Im on virgin mobile so have to figure out by using mtn and vc settings as reference.

 

[cyb3rt]

Interesting issue. I haven't had that problem. How are you connecting? 3G or Wi-Fi?

I was on 3G first and it did this, and this morning I connected to the wifi at work, still does the same..

 

[rorz0r]

I installed netcounter. Works great for 3G and tracks per day/week/month etc. It doesn't seem to pick up my wifi traffic at all though. (doesn't really matter).

I added a widget called power control to the home screen. Easily lets you toggle wifi/bt/screen/sync/gps. (Uses 4 "blocks" on the screen and provides 5 toggle switches so better than the individual ones). Unfortunately when you turn off sync then it doesn't do gmail either. Installed another widget called "sync all" so when I get home I turn on wifi then hit sync all and let it go wild.

Biggest problem at the moment is the screen locking all the time. If I don't touch the phone for a minute then I have to
1: press power button to turn on screen
2: swipe downwards to unlock
It's quite awkward, is there an easier way? Generally if I press the power button I want it unlocked, not to see the time.

Tried enabling the "security pattern" thing hoping it would lock to that, then to unlock just do the pattern. However this means doing step 1, 2 and then the pattern as well...

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

1. Data usage. How do you guys manage how much data this phone is going to pull. I really don't need it updating facebook, the weather app, friendster etc on a regular basis. I have wifi at home and would prefer to just let any updates for the above apps to kick in at home like maybe at 06h00 every morning at the most. I see on some of these apps you can set it to update once a day only, but it doesnt let you specify a time or network.

Well, the native facebook app fails, so you should just disable it completely. That'll solve the facebook syncing issue. You can tell twitter not to Sync automatically. Nobody actually READS the weather updates their phone gives them, so disable that too

2. Following from the above, can anybody reccomend an app to track data usage?

Yeah. 3G Watchdog. It's got a widget as well

3. People. Its gone and pulled a lot of contacts from facebook. Some of these i really dont want to be in my list of contacts, simply because they are overseas and i dont actually call them. How do i remove these?

Yep.

People > Menu > View > Uncheck facebook.

 

[biometrics]

Just played with a Desire .... it's got working Flash support. Screen is awesome and it's fast. Bye bye iPhone!