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Known issues on the X10

After reading the forums and experimenting myself, I've come to the conclusion that there are a few possible improvements. And I'd like to maintain a thread here to keep track of them. I will keep this topic updated and will include links from the concerning topics.
It will take a little time to get this topic up to date... (please bear with me)
Custom ringtones
Solution available
Timescape integration with GMail
Partial solution available
Excluding music/sounds from MediaScape
Battery issues
Work in progress
Hyves/Facebook/Twitter updates are unreliable

Timescape
Timescape integration with GMail
Partial solution available
Hi, What does it mean exactly? I have a problem namely that the new E-mail doesn't appear in the Timescape, even if the mails have been downloaded manually (because the automatic E-mail sync also doesn't work many times). Also many times doesn't refresh the Timescape widget on the main screen.
Can I do anything with it?

podani said:
Timescape integration with GMail
Partial solution available
Hi, What does it mean exactly? I have a problem namely that the new E-mail doesn't appear in the Timescape, even if the mails have been downloaded manually (because the automatic E-mail sync also doesn't work many times). Also many times doesn't refresh the Timescape widget on the main screen.
Can I do anything with it?
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I also configured an IMAP account for Gmail, those messages do show up in timescape. I hope they do full gmail and calendar integration for Timescape 2.1. :/

[Q] Calendar dead

Please can someone tell me how to remove Facebook birthdays from the calendar? It's added hundreds and now my calendar is dead, wont work at all.
Thanks
Matt

Done this today to try and find out why Calendar is eating so much power... Open the calendar, Menu, More, Calendars and then uncheck the Facebook one.
Still uses a very high% of battery...

I'm new to Android so I have a few noob questions, my HD is on pre order and I need to clear this up first before I get the phone. When you sync it for the first time with Facebook does it let you choose what you want to sync or does it automarically sync your Facebook friends into your contacts and calendar etc. ? Basically I just want the Facebook app on my phone but I don't want it to integrate into my contacts, calendar etc.

clear your calender cache and files in. options --> applications --> all installed applications --> calender.

Holy crap, now my calendar is using 60% of my battery!!! What a pile of junk! That's AFTER removing all the facebook stuff.
No way should I have to wipe all my calendar entries cos of this crap. I had to clear my news app cos that broke last week.
This phone is getting worse and worse, simple things that should work without trouble are constantly being a pain in the arse.

Calm down man. Check your sync settings with Gmail/HTCSense. If they are too frequent (or push) lower the frequency. If they are normal try reading a little bit on the subject. It's called a smartphone because sometimes it thinks on itself and that means doing things u don't want/like. U just need to be smarter than it
Some people complained of the hungry Calendar as well and for many the issue was that they had more than one widget using calendar on the homescreens. If u got let's say Agendas, Calendar and Friendstream as widgets try removing one or two
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Thanks. For my homescreens I have...
News / Calendar / Blank (shortcuts) / Clock and shortcuts / Email / Friendstream / Bookmarks.
All my syncing is like 2-4 hours.
The calendar running at 60% explains why I've been getting occasional days with bad battery usage (which is normally ok for a few days after restarting the phone).
I've now wiped the calendar, uninstalled the Facebook one (or rather just didn't reinstall it). Restarted the phone and I'm gonna see what happens today now.

Friend stream problem.

Friend stream widget isn't updating facebook for me...
It updates twitter just fine and facebook on the friend stream app but on the widget on the homescreens it updates twitter but not facebook...I tried logging out of twitter and only left facebook on...and facebook doesnt update in the widget.
I've checked account & sync, facebook does sync and update and when i go onto the friend stream app, it's updated but in the widget it doesn't update...
I've tried clearing the cache. clearing data...removed account and relogined and even desperate enough to try a factory reset....I did all of it and facebook still doesn't update in the widget.
I would be grateful for any help.
Thank you.

I've got exactly the same problem... I tried all you can imagine : clear cache, clear data, remove all accounts linked to friendstream and re add it.
Nothing worked : the widget do not update facebook posts although the app is updated. I do not understand why it suddenly fails (worked perfectly during 4 months).
I'm very disappointed : how HTC can sell phones with so buggy apps ? Very frustrating to have a nice widget that can't be used...

The same here: FriendStream didn't update anymore. I guess this problem started the day I changed my Facebook password. I removed the Facebook for HTC Sense account and re-added it. No change.
Update: I've just removed HTC Sense account again, tried to log-in with a wrong facebook password (unsuccessfullly, of course). Then I entered the right password and everything seems to be just fine now!

[Q] Samsung Feeds & Updates hasn't been working since Saturday

Running DK28 on my Epic 4G, not rooted, haven't made any changes to facebook/twitter or anything on my phone. For some reason the Feeds & Updates widget hasn't updated in a couple days though, I tried to manually make it update and it says network not available (everything else works fine though).
Facebook and Twitter apps are both the latest version and the linked contacts in my contact list are still up to date.
Any ideas guys?

I read that Facebook had an update recently. I was on the Epic's stock version of Facebook; right after the update was offered in the market, I noticed the SNS sync process kept prompting me to log in. The prompt occurred with each sync interval because the sync failed to connect.
The constant prompts and lack of synchronization basically forced me upgrade to this latest update. So far things seem stable, but I'm keeping an eye on my battery consumption. The complaints on this update are lengthy.
Twitter: I dunno. I don't have an account for that service.
As for the actual Samsung widgets, Facebook could have changed something on the back-end that broke the widget for now. Who knows, but this wouldn't explain your Twitter account not displaying feeds.

At first I thought it was due to the recent facebook update, but it started before I downloaded it. I also had a newer version of the app than the stock one with the phone (I think I had 1.5.0, and the update was 1.5.1 - I was using whichever one was the second most recent and first added fb chat).
All other facebook related stuff is working fine apart from facebook contact photos only being shown on the contacts list and not on calls/messages. Twitter works fine too outside of the Samsung widget,

nemt said:
All other facebook related stuff is working fine apart from facebook contact photos only being shown on the contacts list and not on calls/messages. Twitter works fine too outside of the Samsung widget,
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This happened to me this morning. I had to manually sync all my Google Contacts to their respective FB account. When I let FB do it automatically, it did not carry over to SMS.
Answer:
1. Go to settings > Accounts and sync
2. Delete all the accounts(Well, you don't have to delete twitter or google, but the facebook ones)
3. Reboot your phone. [Edit by nikon120: Used to say "Reset", but that is misleading.]
4. Go back into settings > Accounts and sync.
5. Add the facebook account(Under Integrated, not More).
6. To test if this worked, sync a contact to facebook(Long pressing their name, click "Link account", find the account and link them) Their picture should come up.
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hm
the feeds & updates widget sync'd earlier today, but now it's busted again
EDIT: Also my contacts are just phone contacts, I don't have them on my google contact list (except for one). It's phone + fb, and one or two twitters.

It's up for a day, down for a day - now it's saying "no feeds to display."
Man... sod Samsung.

nemt said:
It's up for a day, down for a day - now it's saying "no feeds to display."
Man... sod Samsung.
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update soon? /teaser

SNS Feeds Suddenly Not Working

My Facebook and Twitter SNS feeds have suddenly stopped working. When I go to Setting > Accounts & sync and click on my Facebook or Twitter account under 'Manage account' the SNS Service is unclicked. When I try to click them to reactivate it, it fails giving me an error saying, "Activation failed, tap to reactivate." I discovered this problem because I received a notification from both Facebook and Twitter in my Notification Pane at the top of the screen saying, "Facebook/Twitter registration error. Register manually."
These feeds were working wonderfully before last night. I was receiving updates via the ticker every half hour or so. Has this happened to anyone lately? It started for me last night sometime.
For troubleshooting purposes, I have done nothing to my phone lately. I have not installed apps or messed with any settings. All I have done is used my phone for normal things like making/receiving calls and sending/receiving text messages along with accessing my Facebook/Twitter via the app installed on my phone. My phone is completely stock and is not rooted. I updated to DL17 around 1 week ago. Again, the problem did not rear its head until last night.

Please refer to this thread for assistance:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931904

Weudel said:
Please refer to this thread for assistance:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931904
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I didn't place my post under that thread because I'm not having RSS feed issues. I'm having SNS feed issues.
As a follow up to my original post, today I did a factory reset on the phone and am still receiving the same errors for my SNS feeds as listed above. One observation I have made however is that while I'm trying to active my SNS feeds via Setting > Accounts & sync, I will receive Facebook/Twitter ticker updates. However, I do not receive updates via the ticker once the attempted activation of my SNS feeds has failed.
To me this sounds like a Samsung software bug. I called Verizon yesterday and they had no record of this problem reported elsewhere. They advised me to notify Samsung via their device forums.

The SNS feeds started magically working again after about a week. Here is a list of things I attempted to correct the problem:
1. Delete all my SNS accounts and recreate them.
2. Active and deactivate my SNS accounts countless times.
3. Turn off the ticker sleep function.
I'm not sure which one fixed the problem but my guess is the ticker sleep function. I saw at one point my ticker sleep function was continuing past the time I had set which was really odd. Keep in mind too that the problem did not correct itself immediately after any of my attempts. After doing all the listed above it just started working days later.
Maybe this will be of some use to someone experiencing the same problem.