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My Mogul List

I've owned my HTC Mogul for 5 days and have been keeping a list of questions or issues I have about the device. Sadly it has grown and grown. I've only owned it for 5 days, so it's possible that there's a setting I missed, but I have been through the menus many times.
I have done soft resets and hard resets (two soft keys plus reset key together). No third party software.
OUTLOOK EMAIL
activesync set to "as items arrive" for peak and off peak, direct push enabled but doesn't push new
messages to the phone. I'm using an activesync server with dp.
push doesn't work even when outlook is open, have to click send/rcv to get new msg.
closest I have come is once I got notified with alarm 10 minutes after email was sent. I have sound notify enabled for new emails. Don't know why it worked this one time and not the other 99%.
no setting to "send and receive at startup", even as an option?
Oultook email has locked up twice, had to do soft reset
INTERNET EXPLORER
IE has locked up twice, had to do soft reset
SOUNDS
no option to choose which email account to enable a sound notification for? So I have to get notified for all or none (not that notification works anyway, see above)
alarms don't go off if device in sleep mode, which is most of the time?
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MISC.
blue/yellow light flash constantly, what purpose? Is the phone also an aircraft? why so bright?
Volume on the phone is too loud, even when turned all the way down (not the speakerphone volume). I guess that's better than the reverse, but why not let it be turned down to 0?
The whole point of a volume control is so people can adjust to the volume they want. Yesterday I was on the phone with Sprint (again), I had one of those foam earplugs in my left ear, then the included headphone bud on top of that and it was _still_ to loud. I work around fans all day, a room with huge computer systems and I'm probably half deaf from it.
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PHONE
no setting to set # of rings before it goes to VM
can't use data and voice at the same time
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PICTURE
no way to delete a pic while viewing? as in touch and hold for a menu to pop up (like IE) or even a delete option on the menu (while the pic is open) You have to "OK" out of the pic, then remember the file name to delete from the list.
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PROGRAMS
progs. don't actually close when you X out, they stay running in the background. Have to go through 5 taps, then manually close them. No way to change this even as an option?
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Keyboard backlight works 10% of the time. I have unchecked the "autosensor" box. Happens in a pitch black room also.
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EVDO
I get ~450kbps in a speed test to dslreports.com. I know that's technically in sprint's advertised window for Rev0 "400-700 Kbps" but I'm squarely in the EVDO coverage area, not on a fringe or in the boonies.
Sprint is sending me a new phone because I know the backlight issue is a defect. But some of these things are just bad design.

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PHONE
no setting to set # of rings before it goes to VM
can't use data and voice at the same time
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PICTURE
no way to delete a pic while viewing? as in touch and hold for a menu to pop up (like IE) or even a delete option on the menu (while the pic is open) You have to "OK" out of the pic, then remember the file name to delete from the list.
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PROGRAMS
progs. don't actually close when you X out, they stay running in the background. Have to go through 5 taps, then manually close them. No way to change this even as an option?
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Rings before going to voice mail....that is a setting in your voice mail box... I don't know of ANY Sprint phone that has an "in phone" setting for that....
Closing programs, search the forum for HTC X-BUTTON 2.0.
Delete a picture while viewing in the default viewer, click and hold, then select DELETE......

Anthony thanks for your response. I just dialed vm and I did not find any option in any of the menus to set # of rings before calls go to vm.
When I tap/hold the screen while viewing a pic with default viewer, nothing happens.
I know there are third party apps so thanks for the info on x-button, but I'm going to wait for my 2nd Mogul to arrive before taking time to research and install them.

# of rings to voice mail
that is a service from your provider.... for me it's *93"#"
"#" is the number or rings.... i think it's 9... call your provider and ask them

pbucc said:
that is a service from your provider.... for me it's *93"#"
"#" is the number or rings.... i think it's 9... call your provider and ask them
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so, your first post is bumping something 5 months old?

'Search Phone' Performance with Mega Contacts Database

HD2 with ROM version 1.48.831.0 *71294) WWE. I've just gotten off the phone with HTC support and confirmed that, for Hong Kong English with Chinese functionality, this is the very latest version ROM available.
I have a contact list of ~370 entries. For me the standard 'Search Contacts' functionality works for >90% of my searches.
An acquaintance asked if I would help him by loading his contacts to my HD2 to see if this phone could take the place of his Treo. He has 8,867 (yes, eight thousand eight hundred sixty-seven) contacts....
I'm providing full details to support my issue below. I will include the questions here so not everyone has to read my ramblings.
1. Are there any tweaks that may help to improve the performance of Search Phone vis-a-vis Contacts?
2. Any indexing that could be performed on the phone to improve these search?
3. Any known issues at HTC regarding this function?
4. Any alternative programs that would be better suited to handling this volume of contacts compared to Outlook? The end-user is non-technical so a GUI is required.
Steps taken:
I backed up my own data (Sprite Backup) and then performed a hard reset.
The initial Outlook to Phone sync took 1-hour and three minutes. The Outlook PST contains only 8,867 contacts - there are no calendar, tasks or note entries. No Mobile Favorites or Files are being synced.
The sync is reported as Successful. I power off the phone and back on. I wait at least 60 seconds before attempting to do anything. The default backlight off setting is 60 seconds so I have to wake the phone by touching the hang-up button. Slide button to the right to unlock (no password defined).
I touch the Contacts Home Screen Tab. I have 3x3 blank tabs. I click the All People link at the bottom left. It takes 10-seconds before I see the first six contacts (New + Me + 6). I click the 'Z' index at the bottom right and see that I do have contacts that begin with the letter Z. I assume I really do have the 8,867 contacts in the phone.
This acquaintance has built up his contacts over the length of his professional left. He is accustomed to using his Treo to search the data in all contact records fields, not just the contact name or company name fields.
I select one of his contacts at random (letter M index, first record) and note that it includes the word 'middle' in an address field. This will be my Phone Search keyword.
From the Phone Search program....
Search for: middle
Type: Contacts
I click the Search link at the bottom left.
The first time I followed the steps above, I did receive results, but only partial - contacts from A to C. The M contact that I extrated the keyword from was not included. At that point I figured I better check to make sure I had the latest ROM, see what tweaks might be available here or see if I should consider a different contact management program.
Having spent a fair bit of time searching these forums I have not found anything that seems to be related to this issue.
In preparing this message I have repeated the steps above after a soft reset. From the time I clicked the Search link to now it has been more than 13 minutes. Noting has been displayed in the Results window (except 'Searching...'). Each time the backlight has dimmed I have touched a single time in the results window to keep the phone from going to sleep.
My questions:
1. Are there any tweaks that may help to improve the performance of Phone Search vis-a-vis Contacts?
2. Any indexing that could be performed on the phone to improve search functions?
3. Any known issues at HTC regarding this function?
4. Any alternative programs that would be better suited to handling this volume of contacts compared to Outlook? The end-user is non-technical so a GUI is required.
Hey wait - I just received a complete set of results - after a delay of 20-minutes. The results include contacts from A thru Z. I had continued to touch the screen after each dimming while preparing this message. Could hardly believe my eyes when results were returned. FWIW searching contacts in Outlook for 'middle' takes less than 60-seconds to return 84 records.
My list of questions remain as above.
TIA for reading this far and for all suggestions!
Rob

Setting different ringtone on people.

How is this possible on the tab ? I am trying to find out myself for quite some time now and i cant seem to find it.
I am on JM6

Go to file manager open any mp3 file via the default music player, click the menu key, it gives two options share and set as, when you go to set as it gives option to set as video call, voice call, specific user, etc etc.
sedde said:
How is this possible on the tab ? I am trying to find out myself for quite some time now and i cant seem to find it.
I am on JM6
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gseth said:
Go to file manager open any mp3 file via the default music player, click the menu key, it gives two options share and set as, when you go to set as it gives option to set as video call, voice call, specific user, etc etc.
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On mine that doesn't work, as the contact list showing after chosing "set as" is totally empty, thus search don't give any results (despite my samsung app contact list have 200+ entries sync with google contacts).
Is there a way to access the default contact list to ad phone numbers to show there? I wonder why the default contact list and the samsung app one aren't linked...

Just open it fromhe the music player it self dont run the music just from the music library long press then set as or download ring extender from the market

Nope. There is a bug on the tab about this. All my contacts were synchronized/imported from google contacts and facebook. They appear on the contact list. But none of them show on the last selection operation trying to assign a ringtone/mp3 to, search function does not help, empty list.
I added a test contact manually on the phone. This one shows up.
Contacts are not imported each time i boot the GT, but they are not stored on the phone list.
Am i missing something? Any way copying all contacts to phone?
I may try the app you mentioned to see if it works.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

App didnt work.
Found that on the contact list you can modify a contact entered manually and set a ringtone direcly there.
But on sync contacts (all of mine...) when i tap "modify" i get a "impossible to modify
SNS contacts on this phone"
annoying as i use a bt headset and different ringtones would have helped me to guess whos calling before picking up without taking the phone out.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Can't even add ppl to groups...

Course, the preferred way this /should/ work is you set the mp3 YOU want as your theme tune, then when you call people, they hear your theme tune playing.
One of the voip apps should enable this! (with an option to turn it off of course when it's abused!).

solved
OK, just to let you know that after several attempts I finally found two solutions on my own.
First one consists in a light app, meant to "cut" quite precisely mp3 wavefiles located on your device to produce rigngtones: its name is "Ringdroid" from Ringdroifd team. The second one is the well known "Zedge", a pick & share ringtones app. Both allow setting a ringtone to every contact, even if it's a synchronized one thus not showing in the default phone adress book when trying to assign through basic music apps.
I tried and it worked.
These two apps are the only ones I fond working in purpose at the moment.
Shame this wasn't on stock feature.
Enjoy your tab

COMPLETE, detailed DL09 change log

In case anyone needs its, this is the complete, detailed changelog put forth by Verizon:
Edit: This is the DI01 to DL09 change log, as DJ05 was a build that failed Verizon testing
Changes a message that some users were seeing in exchange email from "unable to connect to server" to "connecting to server" which is the correct message
Enhancements to the "nuance" Voice command application to improve response time
The bottom buttons (Menu, home, back and search) will now light up, per the back light setting
Addressed an issue were the Pattern lock was appearing during calls some times
An enhancement was made to reduce echoing in some cases
The device will now remain locked when placed in the desk dock or car dock
Added a GPS icon in the status bar on the top of the screen
Added updated versions of the preloaded applications VOD, City ID, VZ Navigator and Amazon Kindle
Added support to update the software using FOTA when connected to Wi Fi. The device will now go over to CDMA to process the upgrade
Enhancements were made in the software to improve the accuracy of the signal strength that is displayed
You can now change the reminder time and alert tone for calendar events
Enhancements were made to improve the update consistency of the feed and widgets
Improvements were made to the contact merge capabilities so that the same number from two sources will not be saved in a signal contact twice
Addressed an issue that was causing a "Force Close" when accessing the Gallery in some cases
A software change was made to address an issue with Bluetooth and connecting with the Mercedes Benz AMG C63, 2009 model were in some cases it would get stuck in a "Connect - Ready" loop which required the user to have to power cycle the device to correct
A UI change was made to the Visual Voicemail long press menu to move delete to the 2nd position
A UI change was made to the Visual Voicemail display to remove the date for messages displayed as today
If you unplug a wired headset or turning off a Bluetooth headset while playing music the music will now pause
The Visual Voicemail login screen now uses the full qwerty keypad
Improvements were made to the standalone GPS performance
The device warning message that is displayed when setting up the device the first time will now tell customer the device will reboot after the OTA activation
A UI change was made to the lock screen alignment when the EAS security is invoked
The setting under applications called "Unknown Sources" has been change to off by default
The power on password has been changed to require 8 digits with 1 number and 1 symbol
A UI change was made to the "Share" menu when in portrait mode so that the screen can be scrollable in order to see the top row of selections
A UI change was made so that the "Save" and "Cancel" buttons are viewable when entering in a new password for the 3G mobile Hotspot feature.
Added support to hide the 3G Mobile Hotspot password while typing it in for security
You can now sync corporate contacts with the 2010 Toyota Prius Bluetooth car kit
You can now open PDF attachments sent in an e-mail. Previously you could only save them and then open them up outside of email
You can now use special characters for your Corporate email passwords
The backlight for the bottom 4 buttons (menu, home, back ,search) will now follow the device display timer setting
Addressed an issue were widgets were not always refreshing based on the defined refresh time interval
A software change was made so that when doing a factory reset that MDN, MIN and SID information is properly cleared
Addressed an issue seen in some cases when on a active data call that the data call is suspended causing the user to have to restart the data call to reconnect again
Addressed an issue were you could in some cases get a "Force Close" message if you hit the "Call" button on the Buddies now widget

Nice to have this in one spot - THANKS

thanks man, but this is d101 to dl09 right? not dj05 to dl09

kenesis said:
thanks man, but this is d101 to dl09 right? not dj05 to dl09
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Yes, DI01 to DL09. DJ05 was never released, it failed to fix some of these bugs squashed here or created more than it fixed to begin with....

Contacts/Phone app

Hi guys, I've just moved over from iphone so still finding my feet with android.
For the most part android is far superior but the contact side of things is still bugging me. This is what I want to be able to do:
1. Have my call log as calls only, not texts. I know you can change this to view calls received, dialled etc, but it soons defaults back and shows everything. I just want my log to have dialled and received and nothing else? I'm sure i've read somewhere on the net that this was possible on the SGS through a hack??
2. I want to set up a favourites list of say best mate, gf, work etc and just be able to press their name and it dials there number, not opens another window that shows history, text option, dial option video call option, i.e. just direct dial. I also would like this to be the first screen that opens when I press my phone icon on the dock??
I've set my gf up on my desktop as a direct dial shortcut, but I don't want to be doing that for everyone. I've got a load of contacts but maybe only dial 10 at most on a regular basis.
are there any hacks or thrid party dialers that do this??
Cheers
Lee

landerson07 said:
Hi guys, I've just moved over from iphone so still finding my feet with android.
For the most part android is far superior but the contact side of things is still bugging me. This is what I want to be able to do:
1. Have my call log as calls only, not texts. I know you can change this to view calls received, dialled etc, but it soons defaults back and shows everything. I just want my log to have dialled and received and nothing else? I'm sure i've read somewhere on the net that this was possible on the SGS through a hack??
2. I want to set up a favourites list of say best mate, gf, work etc and just be able to press their name and it dials there number, not opens another window that shows history, text option, dial option video call option, i.e. just direct dial. I also would like this to be the first screen that opens when I press my phone icon on the dock??
I've set my gf up on my desktop as a direct dial shortcut, but I don't want to be doing that for everyone. I've got a load of contacts but maybe only dial 10 at most on a regular basis.
are there any hacks or thrid party dialers that do this??
Cheers
Lee
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I can help you with #2. Just swipe right on your favorite and you call that favorite immediately. Swipe left to immediately send a message.

landerson07 said:
Hi guys, I've just moved over from iphone so still finding my feet with android.
For the most part android is far superior but the contact side of things is still bugging me. This is what I want to be able to do:
1. Have my call log as calls only, not texts. I know you can change this to view calls received, dialled etc, but it soons defaults back and shows everything. I just want my log to have dialled and received and nothing else? I'm sure i've read somewhere on the net that this was possible on the SGS through a hack??
2. I want to set up a favourites list of say best mate, gf, work etc and just be able to press their name and it dials there number, not opens another window that shows history, text option, dial option video call option, i.e. just direct dial. I also would like this to be the first screen that opens when I press my phone icon on the dock??
I've set my gf up on my desktop as a direct dial shortcut, but I don't want to be doing that for everyone. I've got a load of contacts but maybe only dial 10 at most on a regular basis.
are there any hacks or thrid party dialers that do this??
Cheers
Lee
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hmmm, can't say i can see a way around No.1, other than using a new dialer/contacts app such as Go Contacts or Dialer One etc..
must say, i actually quite like the comprehensive log, coming from Sense and Stock roms with calls only, i like having it all in one place...
Dialer One would be my choice, but only as i used it on CM7 on my Hero for its smart dial feature... can't comment on Go Contacts
hope this helps
Dickie

I use loads off texts a day so within 10 mins of dialling someone their details are long gone
I'll check out Go Contacts and Dialer One though, thanks for the recommendations

This is a Samsung thing, regular android does not put texts with the call log. I don't think I'd like them to be combined like that.

it is the right thing to do
RogerPodacter said:
This is a Samsung thing, regular android does not put texts with the call log. I don't think I'd like them to be combined like that.
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I like them combined. There again, there could be an option to control it.

Go Contacts is just the ticket
Thanks guys, much better now