There's a lot of threads about issues after the 2.1 update, but not too many solutions... Thought I'd start a thread and collate all the solutions as a quick reference.
DO NOT POST PROBLEMS OR QUESTIONS HERE, JUST SOLUTIONS TO COMMON PROBLEMS IF YOU KNOW THEM
Example (and please use the exact same format if you want me to collate them into the start of this thread)
PROBLEM: Brief Title for Problem
DESCRIPTION: A more detailed description of what exactly the issue is
SOLUTION: Simple solution on how to solve the issue - include steps where required
AND NOW THEM ALL TOGETHER
PROBLEM: 'Wrong' Contact Pictures
DESCRIPTION:The 'social' phonebook means all my contact pics are facebook pics instead of the ones I want.
SOLUTION: When you edit a contact, you'll have a number of headers for where the information is taken (Gmail, Facebook, etc.) - if you tap the Gmail picture, you can (a) select whatever pic you want, and (b) select 'set as contact picture'
PROBLEM: Facebook Contacts in Phonebook
DESCRIPTION: Instead of just proper contacts in my phonebook, I've now got 400 facebook contacts in there too.
SOLUTION: Tap the 'contact groups' icon up in the top left of the phonebook (image of 3 heads) - now, under display contacts, tap the Facebook groups and unselect 'all contacts'
PROBLEM: Can't restore contacts
DESCRIPTION: I've tried a number of time to restore my contacts, but there's nothing in my phonebook... strangely my missed calls and messages show contact names.
SOLUTION: Not sure if this is and actual solution, but try tapping the 'contact groups' icon up in the top left of the phonebook (image of 3 heads) - now, under display contacts, tap the Gmail group and select 'all contacts'
Edit - you might still find that not all of your contacts are showing up - strangely I checked again, and the option changed from 'all contacts' to a large list of different groups under google contacts - just tick all the boxes
PROBLEM: Duplicated details in contact
DESCRIPTION: After restoring my backup, all my contacts have their phone numbers, etc. duplicated - e.g. 2 x their mobile, 2 x their email, etc.
SOLUTION: This is the result of multiple attempts to restore your contacts (per above) - delete all your contacts, restore ONCE, then if they're not showing up, tap the 'contact groups' icon up in the top left of the phonebook (image of 3 heads) - now, under display contacts, tap the Gmail group and select 'all contacts'
PROBLEM: Low Resolution Contact Pictures
DESCRIPTION: After restoring my contacts, all the pictures are low resolution
SOLUTION: Backup seems to only backup the a low res image - you'll need to re-do your contact pics. Open up and edit your contact - you'll have a number of headers for where the information is taken (Gmail, Facebook, etc.) - if you tap the Gmail picture, you can (a) select whatever pic you want, and (b) select 'set as contact picture'
Edit: Full screen image (like when someone calls you) doesn't seem to display quite as good images as in 1.6, but this method certainly improves them (especially on the contact details screen) - I'll update if I find more info
Edit - apparently, there's no real solution: http://phandroid.com/2010/04/13/images-look-blurry-on-android-2-1-theres-a-reason-for-that/ - you can use facebook contact, which will give you a better image, but it might not be the one you want, and it also doesn't seem to connect to 3rd party apps either
PROBLEM: No Auto Brightness
DESCRIPTION: I can't set Auto Brightness anymore - only fixed levels of brightness
SOLUTION: Auto Brightness seems to have moved to the Power Control widget - there is a brightness setting which has 3 modes - Low, Auto, Bright - toggle through, and leave it on the one after Low - that's Auto. Note, it doesn't seem to be as good as it used to be in 1.6, but at least it's still there... The plus here is that Auto never went as bright or as dark as you might have liked, so now really, you have more control...
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helpful, thanks.
Absolutely Brilliant!
k1sr said:
PROBLEM: Low Resolution Contact Pictures
DESCRIPTION: After restoring my contacts, all the pictures are low resolution
SOLUTION: Backup seems to only backup the a low res image - you'll need to re-do your contact pics. Open up and edit your contact - you'll have a number of headers for where the information is taken (Gmail, Facebook, etc.) - if you tap the Gmail picture, you can (a) select whatever pic you want, and (b) select 'set as contact picture'
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This doesn't work because as soon as you call someone the image that appears is still in very low resolution, it's just a bunch of pixels, however you can "fix" this by using Facebook picture instead, but sometimes some facebook pictures can be a tree, a car o a bottle of beer , and it's not nice to phone a beer...
Thanks for that had the same issues
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This doesn't work because as soon as you call someone the image that appears is still in very low resolution, it's just a bunch of pixels, however you can "fix" this by using Facebook picture instead, but sometimes some facebook pictures can be a tree, a car o a bottle of beer , and it's not nice to phone a beer...
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Yeah, I noticed that just earlier... The pictures aren't as good as in 1.6, but whatever you restore is going to be twice as bad - I guess it's more of a partial solution...
Thanks, very helpfully!
PROBLEM: Low Resolution Contact Pictures
DESCRIPTION: After restoring my contacts, all the pictures are low resolution
SOLUTION: Backup seems to only backup the a low res image - you'll need to re-do your contact pics. Open up and edit your contact - you'll have a number of headers for where the information is taken (Gmail, Facebook, etc.) - if you tap the Gmail picture, you can (a) select whatever pic you want, and (b) select 'set as contact picture'
Edit: Full screen image (like when someone calls you) doesn't seem to display quite as good images as in 1.6, but this method certainly improves them (especially on the contact details screen) - I'll update if I find more info
u call this solution? u might kidding
piece of crap this SE, android sync method...how can we get so bad proggrammings in 21centauri..eh
Thanks for trying to help with some solutions. Regarding the low-res contact photos, I think it is a disgrace that SE let this software out with such a low-quality 'feature' as this. It is such a backward step from 1.6, and I cannot see why they would have done it. Some people have said that it was to speed up the calling functions, but I find that the slight lag with incoming/outgoing calls is still there, and no different from 1.6. I don't find the lag a problem, and would far rather have decent quality (not even high quality, just not the ridiculous circa mid-90s) image we have now.
Thats no SE Problem thats a Google Problem and this Problem is in Android 2.2 too. Google it you will find alot Posts from Users with Samsung,HTC,Motorola and all.
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I know how to send a text to multiple recipients, but it seems a long winded way of doing it. like selecting one recipient then going back into the contact list and doign it again.
On my Nokia E65 I could just go into my contacts list and put a check next to each name, very handy when sending a text to 30 or so people.
Is there a way to do this on Touch HD?
I face the same prob too... its kinda tiring if we have so many receipients to send to... one by one... even a low end phone can allow user to tick as many contacts at one go.. hope someone have a shortcut for this prob..
yep its a bit of a nightmare having to add contacts one by one.
what you need is something that will "Group" into your SMS composition menu.
something like this....
you can create new groups and add contacts as you see fit. then when it comes to composing the mail, just add the group you want. works really well.
i organise my 5-a-side games using this. dead handy.
This really annoyed me at first but I then found it a lot easier to just begin typing contact names into the To: field, and then using the auto list to select them rather than using the contact list if that helps.
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This really annoyed me at first but I then found it a lot easier to just begin typing contact names into the To: field, and then using the auto list to select them rather than using the contact list if that helps.
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Saves a little time, but if im sending to loads of people i might not remember their name unless i see them on the list first.
Show me the check boxes......
Try MassMessage (just check a box before each name, and send it to everyone you choose in the list) and SMSDRFIX (choose to see the number, the name, both)
can i assigne this mass message to the touchflo interdface so that launches when i click messages as opposed to the standard WM messafing centre.
I can only see it in in the start menu buttons.
matthoy said:
yep its a bit of a nightmare having to add contacts one by one.
what you need is something that will "Group" into your SMS composition menu.
something like this....
you can create new groups and add contacts as you see fit. then when it comes to composing the mail, just add the group you want. works really well.
i organise my 5-a-side games using this. dead handy.
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In this prog you can only use groups for SMS. I have several categories (subfolders) in Outlook of my employees' e-mails. I'd like to send email to a group, not only SMS.
The other thing that bothers me is that the groups (categories) this program shows do not have complete database. For example, group "employees" has 20 entries, but only 12 show with this prog. Also if I choose "all contacts" it merely shows 10% of all I have. Any fixes? I'm using v1.4.8.
as a happy HD2 owner, i have the following questions, if possible to be done:
1. Is it possible to link a Facebook Profile to a contact with full finctionality Except Contact PHOTOs! i have good photos of people in address book that i dont want them to be replaced with Facebook photos.
2. is it possible to open a TAB IN BACKGROUND in Opera!! [like opera PC]
3. My Lock screen does not show 3 locks [i.e as in the manual] when there is a message or a notification! it has only one sliding lock showing numbers of notifications. i.e. no direct unlock that goes to messages or so...
4. is there a good SMALL software that can TURN on/off Airplane mode automatically at scheduled times?
thanks in advance....
hazem77 said:
as a happy HD2 owner, i have the following questions, if possible to be done:
1. Is it possible to link a Facebook Profile to a contact with full finctionality Except Contact PHOTOs! i have good photos of people in address book that i dont want them to be replaced with Facebook photos.
2. is it possible to open a TAB IN BACKGROUND in Opera!! [like opera PC]
3. My Lock screen does not show 3 locks [i.e as in the manual] when there is a message or a notification! it has only one sliding lock showing numbers of notifications. i.e. no direct unlock that goes to messages or so...
4. is there a good SMALL software that can TURN on/off Airplane mode automatically at scheduled times?
thanks in advance....
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1. Yes, in the contacts option you can choose whether it uses Facebook, Outlook or another photo for the contact.
2. Not that I know of
3. You click on the main lock when you have unread messages/emails/missed calls and more slidey dudes come up that you can slide to go to the appropriate tab.
4. Probably... can't help there.
thanks alot. as for slides to unlock, nope, they dont come up.
one more question though
5. i cant find a way to "SEND / Recieve " all email accounts at once! each has to be done separately!!!
Sync email send/receive
4. The send key if held, takes you to a menu where you can choose to turn off phone(airplane). It is definitely possible to do it on a schedule. I saw it once but wasn't interested due my concern about power management gremlins.
5. There is an app called email scheduler by Gundensoft, see the website.
You can set scheduling for each account, and turn them on and of when you want.
I know you want a way to do them all at once manually, but I can only offer this suggestion to do it automatically.
hazem77 said:
thanks alot. as for slides to unlock, nope, they dont come up.
one more question though
5. i cant find a way to "SEND / Recieve " all email accounts at once! each has to be done separately!!!
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fredskis said:
1. Yes, in the contacts option you can choose whether it uses Facebook, Outlook or another photo for the contact.
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Where is That!!! :|
Xaddict said:
4. The send key if held, takes you to a menu where you can choose to turn off phone(airplane). It is definitely possible to do it on a schedule. I saw it once but wasn't interested due my concern about power management gremlins.
5. There is an app called email scheduler by Gundensoft, see the website.
You can set scheduling for each account, and turn them on and of when you want.
I know you want a way to do them all at once manually, but I can only offer this suggestion to do it automatically.
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Thanks appreciate your response... i will check Gundensoft..
hazem77 said:
Where is That!!! :|
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When you edit a contact if you click on the area their picture is in the top right corner it will come up with a menu on where to upload the new photo. Hope that helps.
hazem77 said:
as a happy HD2 owner, i have the following questions, if possible to be done:
1. Is it possible to link a Facebook Profile to a contact with full finctionality Except Contact PHOTOs! i have good photos of people in address book that i dont want them to be replaced with Facebook photos.
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please see this post for an excerpt from the user manual about this.
Hi all,
I'm experiencing some issues with my HD2, and so far they haven't been solved by HTC. I doesn't seem to find a "known issue list" per ROM, but may be I'm overlooking somehow. please let me know if there are answers to the following problems/ questions:
1. I cannot influence on the default display order of first name/last name when I sync my contacts with outlook. it always saves the "wrong way around"
2. when sending "long SMS" (text over 2 messages) the second one rarely arrives at the recipient.
3. the SMS forwarding option from the SENSE UI does not work properly: it suggests to forward the last message from the conversation modus, although I selected another one to forward. when I press "ok" from the status menu and try again, it works fine.
4. the SMS conversation modus of the SENSE only shows me the last 25 messages. when I delete some of these I get the older ones back one by one, filling up till 25 each time. I don't want to be cut after 25. Is there a setting?
5. The twitter peep app. refuses to pop a sound when a new tweet arrives, although this is setup in the sounds settings
6. Where can I set that I don't want to keep all the old tweets until the end of times? I would like to drop history older than let's say 1 week.
7. What happened to the "post time" of the tweets older than one day in the peep app? I want to keep seeing those!!
8. When I use the Google search bar from the SENSE UI, I get a nice results list. When I click these results, I go to an internal Google page that holds the main text of the internet page. at the bottom of that page I can click to go to the actual page. How can I set it up to go immediately from the results page to the actual internet page?
9. On my device it seems to be impossible to connect a bluetooth car kit headset to my device. It recognizes 20 phones that are in cars next to me but not my headsets (only tested with nokia devices).
responses much appreciated. other issues: more than welcome, but please check your ROM first.
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On point 9. Go to the settings tab and then click "menu" and "All Settings".
Now go to the bluetooth icon and make sure your phone is discoverable.
I had this same issue trying to pair my phone with my GPS to use the hands free functionallity.
Make sure you turn off discoverable mode once the devices are paired.
Good luck.
1 - download contact fix availble from the forums
8 - you need to go into the settings of google and change it to desktop not mobile view
Richy99 said:
1 - download contact fix availble from the forums
8 - you need to go into the settings of google and change it to desktop not mobile view
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hi for point 8 - is it only applicable to that session only ? Or is there anyway i can set permanently ? I noticed once i close and open browser again, same thing happens again. thanks
verzindrs1 said:
Hi all,
I'm experiencing some issues with my HD2, and so far they haven't been solved by HTC. I doesn't seem to find a "known issue list" per ROM, but may be I'm overlooking somehow. please let me know if there are answers to the following problems/ questions:
1. I cannot influence on the default display order of first name/last name when I sync my contacts with outlook. it always saves the "wrong way around"
2. when sending "long SMS" (text over 2 messages) the second one rarely arrives at the recipient.
3. the SMS forwarding option from the SENSE UI does not work properly: it suggests to forward the last message from the conversation modus, although I selected another one to forward. when I press "ok" from the status menu and try again, it works fine.
4. the SMS conversation modus of the SENSE only shows me the last 25 messages. when I delete some of these I get the older ones back one by one, filling up till 25 each time. I don't want to be cut after 25. Is there a setting?
5. The twitter peep app. refuses to pop a sound when a new tweet arrives, although this is setup in the sounds settings
6. Where can I set that I don't want to keep all the old tweets until the end of times? I would like to drop history older than let's say 1 week.
7. What happened to the "post time" of the tweets older than one day in the peep app? I want to keep seeing those!!
8. When I use the Google search bar from the SENSE UI, I get a nice results list. When I click these results, I go to an internal Google page that holds the main text of the internet page. at the bottom of that page I can click to go to the actual page. How can I set it up to go immediately from the results page to the actual internet page?
9. On my device it seems to be impossible to connect a bluetooth car kit headset to my device. It recognizes 20 phones that are in cars next to me but not my headsets (only tested with nokia devices).
responses much appreciated. other issues: more than welcome, but please check your ROM first.
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2, I agree totally but i dont think there is a fix for it
6, i know the only option is to manually empty the twitter cache folder.. but that will delete everything. but it will give you a fresh start...
7, didnt know there was but agree.. to fix 6 en 7 i use the app Motweets but that doesnt have intergration with sense
pool7979 said:
hi for point 8 - is it only applicable to that session only ? Or is there anyway i can set permanently ? I noticed once i close and open browser again, same thing happens again. thanks
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i dont use the internet tab i just start opera from a quicklink but once changed it should stay
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You have to save each contact as firstname and then surname. This you do when opened a contact, edit, then scroll all the way down to the bottom. Press the big button "MORE". Here you can "Save as" and choose first name, then surname.
Yes, from what I know, you must do this with every contact individually. When it's done, you should be able to sync and they should stay that way. At least this is what I've done, and it works for me.
1. There's a cheap app in the Marketplace called Contact Changer that will display all your contacts how you'd like.
5. Yep that's annoying. It makes the alert noise when it updates but not when you get a new tweet. Odd.
8. There's a permanent setting in Google settings to change this.
is there any fix for No. 4?
snappyfool said:
1. There's a cheap app in the Marketplace called Contact Changer that will display all your contacts how you'd like.
5. Yep that's annoying. It makes the alert noise when it updates but not when you get a new tweet. Odd.
8. There's a permanent setting in Google settings to change this.
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8. Where are the settings for that? I have the Mobile View unthicked in Settings but still, facing the same issue.
Hi - does anyone know how to edit or remove favourites on the contacts screen? None of the menu options has it (or it's not obvious). I've set up some contacts with the "wrong" default contact method and I want to change it.
Thanks.
PS unlocked Desire from Clove - arrived Wednesday 14th April.
Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
soledue said:
Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
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Thanks Soledue. Typical - I sort of discovered the method not long after I posted and it's how you describe. The people widget can show any group - Favorites is just one of them! Cheers.
Am I being really dumb, because I'm having a problem with this too and your solution doesn't seem to solve it!?
All I want to do is remove some people from the "Favorites" group.
I have selected that contact, chosen "Edit", opened the groups list and unchecked the box. The list on the contact's screen still shows "Favorites" and they still appear on the widget. Go back in to edit the contact and the box is still unchecked.
If I open People and then open the groups screen, select the group and long press the contact I have the following menu items: "Call Mobile", "Edit Contact", "Delete Contact", and "Send contact as vCard". Delete contact does exactly that, delete's them completely from the phone.
So how can I get these people out of the Favorites group???
It's prob cause it's still on the Google sync'd contact...had some issues with it myself
EddyOS said:
It's prob cause it's still on the Google sync'd contact...had some issues with it myself
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My feeling was the same, especially since I have been able to get the contacts removed from the group and widget only to have them reappear minutes later. I assumed this was the result of the phone sync'ing. But I can't quite figure it out... if I view the contact in gmail they aren't a member of the "Starred" group and there is no "Favorite" group, so I think that group must be local to the device.
I am getting the same also, if you view the details they are not in any group, yet show on the widget and in the favourites group itself. Even went to google and removed the notes that, I think, related to the group entry???
Same problem here!
I've added a contact to the Favorites Tab and now I can't delete it from the Group. I've tried all the methods from above posts but none works.
Does anyone know how to fix this, because it's quite frustrating!
The only prob I have , i that every group has " voice mail " in it .. at the top!!...
cant get rid of it .. and it's not part of grp settings
any ideas?
i would like to know that how can i remove the Voicemail number from the contact list widget? tried doing it many times but it keeps on showing no matter what. i dont have a voicemail number and if i had it, it will never be my fave number ever. please help
deepakoffline said:
i would like to know that how can i remove the Voicemail number from the contact list widget? tried doing it many times but it keeps on showing no matter what. i dont have a voicemail number and if i had it, it will never be my fave number ever. please help
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i only hope that someone will help me
soledue said:
Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
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I have spent all day trying to remove one contact that was stuck in the favourites and your idea worked instantly.
I could remove and add other users just not this particular people.
Thank you
I have had a similar issue to all mentioned in this thread, and there is a way to resolve it.
I beleive the problem is caused by multiple entries per contact. These entries are from your contact, sim contact, google contacts etc.
This is how I fixed the issue;
>Click on the people app
>Select the contact you want to fix (unfortunately it has to be done individually)
>on the top right of the screen there will be something call "Linked", tap on this
>this now shows you what this contact is linked to. If it shows multiple phone, facebook, google etc unlink them all
>make sure you only 1 phone contact, in this set the Group to favourite (or whatever you want), now either link the google/hotmail etc ones to it, or copy the details to the contact and delete all duplicate details
I have condensed mine to phone contact and facebook (plus a few with google).
The desire links all different contact details from various form together. when it does this it picks its own default one, hence you have favourites that aren't, or vice versa.
It took me about 2 to 3 hours to go through my entire contacts list sort it out, pain-staking, but well worth it
soledue said:
Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
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THANK YOU!
I'd been at the groups menu and looked at my favorite contacts, but it never occurred to me to remove them from the group directly! Spent several hours editing this one contact I was dying to remove from favorites, only to find it stuck as a favorite. Went through my Google Contacts settings over and over, synchronizing manually every minute after un-starring it, but this was what I was looking for!
I registered only to thank you ^^
Im rather confussed
I have just got my ideos..
what widget r u talking about? I have no contact app.
Im wanting to deleted the people out of the "favroites" in the phone book area...
Please explain to me what to do???
thanks
Hello All, I have the HTC Messaging Client v1.5.20162424.00, along with Message_Enhancement_1_2_20163924_00_huashan_0.90, and have the following issue, even when switching throughout different client versions... I believe its a registry entry I incorrectly set...
The issue is: Something is preventing me from Saving my MMS, and wont let the menu pop up that lets me to select to save.
Whenever I get an MMS, it comes through crystal clear, however the viewing screen is glitched; it allows me to drag the picture up and down and leaves a pixel trail as seen in the picture below, and where normally I would be able to click the picture and get the pop up menu to Save, Share, etc, it just pulls up the Slideshow Timer...
Does anyone know what may cause this? I have been trying for hours to find the registry entry.........
Image of glitch is attached to this post.