I recently updated my Desire S to Sense 3.0 via OTA. It arrived down here in Thailand rather late. I almost gave up waiting for it because it has been months since it first rolled out in Europe. OTA went fine. I am very pleased with Sense 3.0. New lock screens are so great I go awwww the first time I unlock my phone. The ability to capture screenshot using power + home button is my most anticipated feature. I have not encountered the issue of power button not bringing up the phone off/airplane/restart menu as reported in other threads. And while on the previous firmware I usually get a complete signal drop about once a day or two which has to be fixed by turning airplane mode on and off again, in this firmware I have not seen that happening so far. But now I'm having some problems which I hadn't have before on Sense 2.1. Here are the things that really keep bugging me:
- People app keep force closing every time when viewing Photo tab of an individual contact that has been linked to facebook. i.e, I can see the contact fine, facebook updates and all. But when sliding the bottom bar to check out the contact's facebook photo albums, People app immediately force close.
- Wallpapers which have been downloaded from HTC Hub keep disappearing after each reboot. They are not sticking. Check in the sdcard\downloads\wallpapers and they are all gone, except the .nomedia file.
- The last one is not really the problem, but it is still bugging me nonetheless. The Blue Sky and Burgundy skins have color inconsistency. After applying either of them, the big Phone button at the bottom of home screen does not change to the appropriate color. i.e, when pressed, they just stay green like the default skin. But while pressing the left (app) and right (personalize) buttons, they do change their colors to go with the skin. When previously on 2.1, the Slate skin (gosh, how I really miss that skin) also act the same way sometimes. But it eventually changed the pressed Phone button color from default green to light blue after the reboot. Tried rebooting but no luck on Sense 3.0.
I'm just curious to know if anyone else are facing these problems. If it's only me I will run factory reset on my phone. If it's common then I will just have to live with it.
Please share other problems you found and I will respond if they are present on my phone or not.
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I don't know if I just never noticed this since I just got the phone on Friday but every time I slide out the keyboard, it'll show the landscape home screen for a few seconds and then open up the phone and I have to hit home to get back. Same when I slide the keyboard back in. I have changed a couple things like the clock, icons, slider, landscape icons, and so that the portrait left softkey opens contacts instead of phone. Any ideas? Thanks!
im actually having the same problem, everytime i open up the phone say to respond to a text message or something the phone screen (dialer screen) pops up and i have to close it and then go back to my text message inbox.
anyone know whats causing this?
This is a known problem that HTC needs to do something about. Some of the custom ROM's tend to do this with less frequency.
Same problem here! Have had the phone for around 3 weeks, just started happening yesterday.
Any solutions?
Thread isn't getting much attention.
I flashed NATF's latest Raphael RoOM (4.1) around a week ago, and I haven't had the problem again.
Similar (unsolved) thread can be found @
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468890
I believe theres a reg edit for this, but you must re enable it after a while.
Hi i had thesame problem, is something to do with animated taskbar icons, uninstal them and see whats hapened
I am listing the known issues with Haykuro's magnificent magic port here as the original threads are getting too large for people to find stuff.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS FOR FAULT REPORTING ONLY - NOT QUESTIONS, NOT PRAISE FOR HAYKURO (THOUGH HE DESERVES IT) NOT INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO INSTALL. JUST FAULT REPORTING
OK shouting over, on with the list.
I will add any reported problems to the master list in the next post.
ok on the current build (the zip file known as real-signed.zip)
Missing
Android Market
Google Talk
Google Maps
G-Mail App (although G-mail available in Mail App).
YouTube App
Pdf Reader
Also backgrounds and ringtones have been removed by Haykuro to get the build size down.
Japanese support (may have been removed to get build size down).
Not working
Bluetooth
Wifi
autorotate and hardware keyboard closure support.
headphone port does not shut off speaker or play through headphones when they are plugged in.
Buggy
Video and camera are inverted and also colour on mine seems scrambled as if Red, Green & Blue values are switched.
(i have added a couple of pics below to show this - please note I rotated the camera pic for ease of vewing.
Some ALT keyboard combinations do not produce the correct on screen results. (Does someone want to do a definative list?)
Music Widget
As far as I'm aware, autorotate just doesn't work (ie: It's disabled).
also:
Headphones don't work.
Music widget is buggy
Chinese settings are still there (is it difficult to remove all traces, more an aesthetic thing really)
Hardware keyboard has wrong alt settings (Should be an easy fix, probably just a file needs replacing)
YouTube player missing
Closing the keyboard doesn't rotate screen back
Thanks guys - added.
PDFReader is missing as well
Asking for an update every 20 minutes (which doesn't do anything to my phone, and it still asks for an update)
Obsidiandesire said:
Asking for an update every 20 minutes (which doesn't do anything to my phone, and it still asks for an update)
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sorry can you clarify that, I ussume you are talking about the bootloader upgrade. You have tried this and it makes no changes and you still get the update notification.
Do i have that right. As i have been turning it down all day.
On the G1, connecting an auxiliary cable through a mini usb would allow you to play music in the car. Now, connecting the cable does nothing and music continues to play through the phone.
- random restarts / reboots
- long lag on boot screen / htc splash x2 for it to load home screen
- contact icons not showing up on favorite tabs
and this is random but really really COOL
when your calling a friend as it rings and rings, your phone VIBRATES when the other person picks up which i thought was cool lol.
if i find any other bugs i'll report good job guys
Bad news folks. So far Hello AIM, Hello IM and Paringo won't install
i dont know if this is a new change but when you hit the volume key the lowest it goes to vibrate, no way to put on silent unless you hold the red button. it isn't that big of a deal but thought i might mention.
Meebo works fine though
Shazam does not work...the website does not recognize the phone. I have not tried pushing it though will try later on and see. wifi tether installs just fine..of course wifi does not work as of now so cannot try it out.
Some applications that worked on 1.1 no longer work on 1.5.
e.g. fastbright, dxtop
Others won't install
e.g. moviefinder
The OS is very finicky now.
A few things I was able to find:
1.)Music Player widget sometimes will not update, and must be removed and readded.
2.)If you play music and sign into Gmail through the new mail program, and hit 'refresh' it sometimes crashes the phone sending it into a constant reboot loop.
3.)Reboot loop still present if phone crashes.
4.)Cannot install google apps using apkinstaller etc.
5.)Probably one of the most important for me personally... JAPANESE TEXT not included like it was in JF/T-Mo brews. Just shows the squares.
6.)As everyone knows, no WiFi/Bluetooth.
A couple of more things I've found:
1. browser bold font is fuzzy and not crisp, unlike rc33.
2. browser scrolling and panning is overall faster than rc33, but some sites like google reader actually scroll slower than rc33. So the browser seems to be still quite buggy.
Maybe add a part to this thread for the 4.5 release?
blakestimac said:
Maybe add a part to this thread for the 4.5 release?
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And 4.9.
4.5 no mms
I've encountered a problems/bugs with the main Sense Home Screen Clock:
1)
Very occasionally when I resume/power on the phone, the clock does not correctly roll over to the actual time, it still shows the last time that the phone was at when the phone was previously powered on, simply moving from one home screen to another or pressing the power button a couple of times resolves this.
This has happened twice now, that I've noticed....in the last fortnight, since I've had the phone, as I don't wear a watch this is extremely annoying, and the reason why I've happened to notice this.
Fortunately I've not yet missed a plane/train/bus or engagement! But surely its only a matter of time (no pun intended!)
Has anyone else noticed this? this must be a Sense software problem and therefore hopefully fixable.
2)
The second is not so much a bug but a cosmetic annoyance, its the way that it the clock always rolls over hours and minutes to the actual time, rather than simply saving the animation and showing the real time to start with, I know on my Diamond2 with Sense in WM6.5 I applied a fix to stop it doing this which simply removed the animation, any ideas if this is possible on DesireS with Android.
As someone without a watch I don't want to wait for animation to complete each time, I want to know what the time is straight away
Thanks
Perhaps you may want to try Beautiful Widget.
It almost had the same clock as the HTC Sense, minus the animation.
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Has anyone had issues with native android widgets on the sensation? My Youtube Widget, News and Extended Control Widgets have a line running across it and sometimes they look distorted. Once i remove the widget from the screen the line disappears. This issue doesnt occur if i have the HTC Widgets on the screen.
Yeah I have this issue ... I think its the resolution of the screen is to high for native widgets I don't use them much anyway
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Me too....sigh!!!!!
I just tried it on mine and I don't have any of those problems
I just tried YouTube and News widgets on my Sensation, no lines on it. Maybe 1.35 fixed it?
I noticed the same problem on my sensation, as well as my brothers. Although, it is not limited to Youtube. Today I learned that it affects the facebook widget, pulse widget, wikitube widget, and even brightness app launcher. Fortunately, the lines/digital noise go away when you remove the widget and put it back. Or, you restart your phone.
sid0101 said:
I noticed the same problem on my sensation, as well as my brothers. Although, it is not limited to Youtube. Today I learned that it affects the facebook widget, pulse widget, wikitube widget, and even brightness app launcher. Fortunately, the lines/digital noise go away when you remove the widget and put it back. Or, you restart your phone.
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I also noticed when you remove the widget and put it back or restart your phone it goes away as well.
whew, thanks for the info. I've just got the phone less than a week ago and noticed the problem and was worried whether it's just a software issue or a hardware memory fault or something.
Hello,
Same here with many widgets including calendar and battery widgets.
Using carrier modified ROM.
Hope HTC fixes this soon and carrier also releases the update...
Here is the response from HTC
1. Remove the battery, wait for a few seconds, and then reinsert the battery.
2. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button.
3. Wait for the screen with the three Android images to appear, and then release the VOLUME DOWN button.
4. Press VOLUME DOWN to select FACTORY RESET, and then press the POWER button.
Note: - In the restore factory settings all your data will be lost . So before performing the hard reset please take the backup of your device.
trying right now, hope it will work from now one
I get the same "noise" on widgets from Pandora and ESPN. Possible Driver issue? Rebooting, changing the Skin, and removal - replacement of the widget clears the noise.
GOt em here too on Pandora, Google search and +. Reboot takes it away for a while but it creeps back. Damn really htc? the resolution is "too good" gotta get this stuff ironed out before releasing a device. Good thing there's root and backup capability!
Hello everyone,
I have my Nexus 5 since january. It`s been a really great experience.
I love to customize my N5. I am always changing icons, wallpapers and lockscreen looks.
For that, I keep looking for new apps in foruns like this, or Mycolorscreen, or Deviantart and etc.
One of this days, I found these lockscreen apps:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lockscreen.galaxy
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lockscreen.optimus
and
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lockscreen.sony
All of them are from the same developer. They are really beautiful, well designed and I was very happy with the look and experience that those apps gave me.
But soon I notice something strange when I first boot my phone in the morning: the N5 kept the home screen lit... It did not matter how many times I pushed the main button, trying to turn the scrren off and get the lockscreen working. I also noticed that the apps that usually open in the first boot were not getting started. Their notifications were not showing up. The screen kept ligthen up in my homescreen...
I was suspecting that these apps that were working properly before the installation of the three lockscreen apps above, were "fighting" with the new apps (the lockscreen apps). As the lcokscreen apps are from the same developer, I figured that they were the problem. So I unsitalled them. The apps that have always been working fine before the lockscreen apps have been installed are:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.rgruet.android.g3watchdog
and
http://www.amazon.com.br/MacroPinch-Bateria-Pro/dp/B0085YOD1A/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1399848399&sr=8-3&keywords=bateria
I have been using the stock lockscreen since then...
Today (May 11th), I found the following lockscreen app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qiigame.flocker.global
and decided to give it a try. And I loved it. It is a very beautiful lockscreen.
But after trying it for some time, learning how to use it... I reeboted my N5...
Unfortunally, the issue I (tried to) describe above happened again. After reeboting, the screen got lightened all the time. I push the main button and the scrren did not turn off. 3G watchdog, Battery and Lighfolw don`t show the notifications of starting up.
So, I am back in Nexus 5 sotck lockscreen!
I would love to use these lockscreen apps. But I don`t know what is going on. Can someone pelas help me???
I am sorry if this thread is confused. It is not easy to try to explain it in english. lol
I think this is just a case of buggy apps. I read through reviews for these apps from nexus 5 users, others are experiencing the same problems. The author of the last lock screen app you are using said to try going into the apps setting and choose "home button settings" and follow the three steps there, whatever those are, to solve your problem.