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List of changes after gingerbread update.

Is there an official list of what has changed, been fixed and improved?
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- added an "auto enhance" feature to the camera. not sure what it does yet, looks like it boosts the contrast and saturation a tiny bit.
- added a quick settings menu to the drop down bar.
- added a "tell HTC" error reporting feature. looks much like windows error reporting. can be disabled in the settings>about phone menu.
- changed the way the app menu scrolls. now scrolls a page at a time instead of smooth. RSI inducing when you scroll fast, but easier to find stuff.
- screen looks better to me, not sure why though.
- camera quicker to focus in low light.
- gallery is faster

Im seeing a difference in camera quality for the worse.
Auto enhance seems like its a fith wheel as you can acheive the same or better quality through adjusting some of the settings.

Has the text message app been fixed?
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Text message app seems to be working fine now.
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also added:
new power control widgets. they look awesome! go to widgets> all htc widgets and scroll to about 50 out of 77.

I have also noticed the sound quality has improved on the video camera.. i can now actually hear things when playing back a video.. before i just got an awful low muffed sound. Anyone else noticed the improvement?.
The new scolling is a bit of a pain if you have alot of apps installed but if you change the view to list mode you can scroll down the list as before without the stopping and starting.
The speaker also seems a bit louder.
My texting has been fixed (was stuck on the buggy 1.74 for months!!)
My wifi is fine (although alot of people are reporting theirs has either got worse or no wifi connection at all)
Weather app now has sound on it
The phone seems alot more smoother too.
I'm running my HD on the stock rom and radio (unbranded on vodafone) with official update (2.36.405.8)
Not tested the GPS yet.. been raining here so i'LL wait till it clears up before giving it a whirl.
Battery on mine seems slightly better.
Improved the application management menus, seems to stop the running apps alot quicker than before.
Personally i'm loving this phone again.

In previous stock ROMs, pressing the search button on the home screen brought up the HTC Search application. Now, Google Search is used.

Not sure if this change was introduced with GB, or it was made earlier and I didn't notice, but... Gmail app now has copy/paste
However, still not possible to save attachments

Sound effects on weather widget, also clock and Facebook widget.
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I noticed all the above plus better battery stats graph, and better manage apps menu. Also as stated about the Facebook widget/app they finally fixed it from before when you would load the app, click on something, and then back out, it used to make the thumbnail pictures disappear to a white box, but now they stay.

Can now enter title and middle name in People app....
And can paste number into the dialer - this is a particularly helpful addition for me.
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When click on the find button on desire HD, u were able to search everything on ur phone, but now it goes too Google search? Why?
how can we search the phone now?
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One other change that I'm NOT liking, is the unread count dissapears from the sms and HTC Mail widget once you have gone into the app, even if you don't read anything and come out anything. No longer displays any count.

Fame123 said:
When click on the find button on desire HD, u were able to search everything on ur phone, but now it goes too Google search? Why?
how can we search the phone now?
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Google Search is used to search your phone. Just go into Menu->Search Settings->Searchable items.

Fame123 said:
When click on the find button on desire HD, u were able to search everything on ur phone, but now it goes too Google search? Why?
how can we search the phone now?
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Press the Seach button
Press Menu
Press Search Settings
Press Seachable Items

Found also that with the HTC mail app, when I get Outlook meeting invites now I can see the proposed time and date etc before accepting. Sooooo needed was that as I had no idea if I could actually attend or not when clicking ok.
Can also see my Gmail IMAP account in the HTC mail app listed in accounts now whereas before the only way to get to its settings was through the mail app itself.
Don't use GMail itself due to the horrible interface. Never gotten on with it.
Found that if you want to move an icon too on a full screen you can - drag it over another icon and they swap places. Unsure if that's a new one but I remember on my Desire you had to remove an icon first to make room then re-add. Even Nokia had that one covered with crummy Symbian.
Compared to 1.72 also it doesn't crash, at all. The older version used to just reboot itself all the time, in my pocket, on the table - properly got on my t1ts. Made me regret going from 1.32 to that horrible ROM.
I've also found that videos I could not play before that I'd recorded now play. God knows what was going on there but the update seems to have sorted that.
App management is faster - gives you a list of what's installed almost straight away, icons and all whereas before it would sit there calculating for ages.
The volume is noticably louder too on ringtones and notifications. Again was much needed as it was so quiet before.
All in all I'm pleased - the only thing I've found is when the phone is fighting for signal it EATS the battery with dialer jumping right up in the usage stakes. I think it's a mobile data thing - turn that off or switch to GSM only and it's happy.

While recording the video you can zoom in or zoom out even during recording. Earlier this was not possible and you could only focus while recording.
Also after restarting the phone, the duration of being run on battery, in the Battery use does not reset, while earlier it used to reset with each phone switch off.

here are some highlights
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html

Fame123 said:
When click on the find button on desire HD, u were able to search everything on ur phone, but now it goes too Google search? Why?
how can we search the phone now?
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Thats always been like that has it not? A little tip though, if you are search for an app then open the app drawer and then hit the search button so it specifically searches through your apps only.
So if you know whatever your looking for is only going to be in a certain area hit the search button after you get there. I don't know if that's new or not but i just found it and it is very helpful rather then searching the whole phone.

Your Views about XXLPS ?

Your Views about XXLPS ? what is improved and what you didn't like

nothing?
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no good, too much bugs
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Feels like LPQ. LOL.

Been good here. No issues.

Feels better than previous versions, smoother. Imho.

I am loosing cell network very often with it on Rogers in Canada.
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I would suggest flashing a different modem.
elena11 said:
I am loosing cell network very often with it on Rogers in Canada.
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Since the first day i have been having this issue where i lose the 3G connection and i have to restart the phone in order to recover the connection.
Disabling and re-enabling the data connection using the MIUI toggles does not work for this either: Just rebooting does the trick..... testing different modems is the way to go in order to find the one that works better?

1.phone-not having inbuilt contacts
2.logs-even after selecting only missed or only received or any choice,it reverts back to all calls
3.logs-call logs are not grouped together as in GB
4.balance notification-there is no way out to disable vibration while getting the balance notication after sending sms or ending call
5.market-most of the time apps are not downloading-COULDNT BE DOWNLOADED DUE TO ERROR 927
6.market-apps which are suppoed to be put on SD CARD cant be downloaded
7.apps-numerous force close
8.lockscreen-while waking the phone,homescreen appears for a fraction of second then lockscreen comes into action
9.tw launcher-numerous fcs
10.wifi-sometimes it requires 2 clicks for opening wifi via notification pull down
11.screen sensitivity-V V V V HEAVYYYYY
12.transferring data-files more than 20 mb cant pe pasted from phone to pc and vice versa
13.battery-life is vvvv poor
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and so on........
PLEASE ADD ON FROM UR EXPERIENCE......

Nothing like yours....! Suggest you do a full wipe and try again.

I.m going to be crazy ics is so a batterij drain i think i stick with gb
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Push notifications don't work on third party apps unlike gb which worked perfectly plus scrolling is far to fast imo
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LPS seems to have the same duplicate SMS issue as LPQ when using some third party SMS apps (like SMS Scheduler)

ghost.bhoot2k said:
1.phone-not having inbuilt contacts
2.logs-even after selecting only missed or only received or any choice,it reverts back to all calls
3.logs-call logs are not grouped together as in GB
4.balance notification-there is no way out to disable vibration while getting the balance notication after sending sms or ending call
5.market-most of the time apps are not downloading-COULDNT BE DOWNLOADED DUE TO ERROR 927
6.market-apps which are suppoed to be put on SD CARD cant be downloaded
7.apps-numerous force close
8.lockscreen-while waking the phone,homescreen appears for a fraction of second then lockscreen comes into action
9.tw launcher-numerous fcs
10.wifi-sometimes it requires 2 clicks for opening wifi via notification pull down
11.screen sensitivity-V V V V HEAVYYYYY
12.transferring data-files more than 20 mb cant pe pasted from phone to pc and vice versa
13.battery-life is vvvv poor
14.
15.
and so on........
PLEASE ADD ON FROM UR EXPERIENCE......
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Dude your phone is messed up from all the old installations. No such problems here. Suggest you wipe and do a clean installation.
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There is not much difference between LPQ and LP7. Only the scrolling is utterly contradictory to each other. LPQ- Elastic scrolling. LP3/LPS- Continuous scrolling. I think Samsung is deliberately doing it, to see which one users like and accept most, the former or later one. And, NO, neither of them have any serious bugs or issues, they are more or less finished and complete ROM's. Some improvements are needed, but that's how always it has been. So anyone saying either LPQ or LPS buggy, laggy are probably like to see their post count higher or making fun lying deliberately.
I, for me, loves the Elastic scrolling. Really hated that continuous scrolling of LPS/3. Different people, different choice and opinion.

My main issue with the samsung ROMs are the fact you cant access contacts fom the phone.
You have to literally go on the contacts app. Pain. Major pain

superleeds27 said:
My main issue with the samsung ROMs are the fact you cant access contacts fom the phone.
You have to literally go on the contacts app. Pain. Major pain
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If you press the left soft button from Phone app the first tab appearing is Contacts.
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superleeds27 said:
My main issue with the samsung ROMs are the fact you cant access contacts fom the phone.
You have to literally go on the contacts app. Pain. Major pain
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Install exdialer from market.

superleeds27 said:
My main issue with the samsung ROMs are the fact you cant access contacts fom the phone.
You have to literally go on the contacts app. Pain. Major pain
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As puiradu2009 said above you have a contacts button on your screen, besides that you can call directly from your contacts by swiping right, or swiping left to text.
No need to take the extra step of going into your dialer first then to contacts to call.

[Q] SMS Count Wrong

The stock text messaging app always shows 1 unread message on its icon. It's very annoying and I can't find a way to make it go away. Go SMS makes you buy the premium app to sync facebook photos and Handcent is ugly as sin and doesn't seem to handle FB pics either. Only the stack app does this right, so I want to use it. but I can't get the unread count to go away. Has anyone else had this problem?

powerdoesntrun said:
The stock text messaging app always shows 1 unread message on its icon. It's very annoying and I can't find a way to make it go away. Go SMS makes you buy the premium app to sync facebook photos and Handcent is ugly as sin and doesn't seem to handle FB pics either. Only the stack app does this right, so I want to use it. but I can't get the unread count to go away. Has anyone else had this problem?
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I've seen reports of this problem on other forums. Solution there was a factory reset unfortunately.
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I saw that somewhere, too. Every time I see that as the solution, I just shake my head.
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No problems here. Instead if going straight to factory resets you can try force stopping it and restarting it in app settings
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melo563 said:
No problems here. Instead if going straight to factory resets you can try force stopping it and restarting it in app settings
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Good idea he could also try clearing cache and deleting settings for the messaging app.
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Unfortunately, I already tried those things and no dice. Well done, Motorola :-/
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checking in... same issue.
My issue is not so persistent but still noticeable. I considered it an annoyance but becoming more and more disheartening.. I haven't pain close enough attention as of yet but will begin to. That being said, grain of salt here.. seems to be happening mostly when a text comes in while plugged into my pc via usb. The missed messages indicator seems to go away after viewing (of course) then letting ten or so minutes pass..
As stated tho, i haven't been paying enough attention to it to say these are solid observations.

Even though you'd have to redo your home screens, this is better than a factory reset - but clearing the data on the stock launcher should get rid of that.

[Q] Contact photo on incoming call

Hello,
I am using JB 4.2.2 stock Unrooted.
When I receive a call, photo of the contact comes in the Half screen only. Is there any way to make it full? I dont want to root my phone and don't want to use 3rd party crap Full Screen Caller like app.
Is there any mods available?
Thank you.

Thanks for asking... I'm looking for a hack too...
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same problem

Half Screen Picture issue
I am trying to find out the same issue...please let us know if anyone knows about this....

I've been using Facebook Sync Hack since like ICS, let's you choose size of contact pic and resolution works awesome, some names don't sync automatically depending how you have them in your contacts vs what their FB name is though, but you manually link them once and its done forever.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
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same problem
I'm also looking for a solution to this.

[L5-II E450] Small but anoyng issue with new FB Layout

Hello friends, as you know facebook is rolling a new Layout for they'r official APP.
I hear it is server side, so as long you have Android 4.x, you can roll back older instalation, uninstall and download the older FB APP APK, you can do all that and the new Layout still will be present.
The Layout is fine exept for one small but big issue.
At the buttons on top (Feed, Notifications, Friends Request) it dont display the Messages button.
I dont use FB chat, it is aways off and now exept for the push notifications i cant see if i have new messages on the APP, i need to check then via the options menu.
That is very anoyng for my use and a very deal breaker.
I tryed 3rd party APPs but none seens nice too.
Is there a way (as it seen to be server side) to roll back for the older layout, or add the stupid messages button??
Thanks for all, here what i mean:

It is not an issue for this device... We are not developers, so maybe you could ask for an explanation in the comments of the Facebook app in Google play..
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sonrics1993 said:
It is not an issue for this device... We are not developers, so maybe you could ask for an explanation in the comments of the Facebook app in Google play..
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Thanks Pall as i seen a picture with the message icon i thot it was the device due to lower resolution.
Thanks for the reply.