The little things...(2.2 Update addons/changes)

[nickreich]

I never used the stock music before 2.2, but were you able to pause or skip the song from the unlock screen before?

 

[plim]

i use the htc clock widget (the small one 1x2). i'm 99% sure that the time used to be centered. now it's right justified. so it looks a little hokey in the single-digit hours.

 

[DenverRalphy]

The browser's Bookmark Sorting method is now saved between sessions.

I prefer the bookmarks sorted by 'Most Used' but before it wouldn't hold that setting. Now it will.

 

[jayochs]

battery heat:

my battery gets super hot real quick lately. will go from idle like 29 degrees C, and after 5-10 min of use, shoots up to 39 and is very warm. never happened with 2.1. only new app is chrome to phone. all the bloatware keeps loading, so im wondering if that garbage loading on there is using the batt so much that its making it warm before i can task kill it


also, my HTZC weather app isn't showing my town, it's saying "current location" when it ALWAYS showed the town. any thoughts?

 

[jlange]

A couple of things I've noticed (that haven't been mentioned).

The HTC Calendar app no longer includes the local "MyCalendar" calendar. I had a couple of apps that synched data to that calendar. They now synch to the PC Sync calendar instead.

Changing wallpapers now works. Previously, If I changed to a non-HTC static wallpaper, it would switch to the default wallpaper. I would need to reboot for the wallpaper to take effect. This seems to work now after the update (so far).

Jim Lange
Woodinville, WA

 

[jwinstonc]

Changing wallpapers now works. Previously, If I changed to a non-HTC static wallpaper, it would switch to the default wallpaper. I would need to reboot for the wallpaper to take effect. This seems to work now after the update (so far).

^This. I switch up the look of the wallpaper on occasion and it was always really annoying to have to reboot for it to take effect. Glad that was worked out.

 

[pucrepeap]

A couple of things I've noticed (that haven't been mentioned).

The HTC Calendar app no longer includes the local "MyCalendar" calendar. I had a couple of apps that synched data to that calendar. They now synch to the PC Sync calendar instead.

Changing wallpapers now works. Previously, If I changed to a non-HTC static wallpaper, it would switch to the default wallpaper. I would need to reboot for the wallpaper to take effect. This seems to work now after the update (so far).

Jim Lange
Woodinville, WA

sorry, wrong number.

 

[pucrepeap]

battery heat:

my battery gets super hot real quick lately. will go from idle like 29 degrees C, and after 5-10 min of use, shoots up to 39 and is very warm. never happened with 2.1. only new app is chrome to phone. all the bloatware keeps loading, so im wondering if that garbage loading on there is using the batt so much that its making it warm before i can task kill it


also, my HTZC weather app isn't showing my town, it's saying "current location" when it ALWAYS showed the town. any thoughts?

I meant to reply to this one...


It's commonly advised that you avoid task killers as they don't really help much and ends up being a waste of time and sometimes your battery.

I stopped using task killers while on 2.1 and it improved my battery. Instead I used System Panel to monitor everything.

BUT

I do have something to add to your complaint though. Even though I don't use a task killer, every once in a while (very rare) I do kill a task that I know is sucking up juice...or needs to be closed down due to bugs. Just for kicks I tried to kill the bloat ware, My Verizon, City ID, VZNav... What I noticed was that not 20 seconds after I kill it, it pops right back up in my active list. I know that they are not running and using up resources, but I found it odd that it popped up so quickly after ending the task. Makes me think that it may be constantly performing some kind of action. I don't know, at this point I'm just back to my old ways and ignoring "active" apps and let the phone kill off what it needs to when it needs to on its own.

 

[gamul1]

I meant to reply to this one...
It's commonly advised that you avoid task killers as they don't really help much and ends up being a waste of time and sometimes your battery.

Yes - I have heard and read that many time. And yet - if I ignore them I find my battery gets sucked down in a matter of hours. If I kill them, my battery lasts 2 days with normal use. So - I'll stick with killing apps.

What I have done is idendtify the small handful of apps that I want to let run (or I have figured out must not be killed) and let them run, killing everything else. Seems like a nice balance right now.

I do have something to add to your complaint though. Even though I don't use a task killer, every once in a while (very rare) I do kill a task that I know is sucking up juice...or needs to be closed down due to bugs. Just for kicks I tried to kill the bloat ware, My Verizon, City ID, VZNav... What I noticed was that not 20 seconds after I kill it, it pops right back up in my active list. I know that they are not running and using up resources, but I found it odd that it popped up so quickly after ending the task. Makes me think that it may be constantly performing some kind of action. I don't know, at this point I'm just back to my old ways and ignoring "active" apps and let the phone kill off what it needs to when it needs to on its own.

Yes! I saw this too. If anyone discovers a way to set these apps to not auto start - please post it here.

 

[jayochs]

i think the only way is to root guys.....ugh.

absolutely ridiculous; i think this is why my awake time is so damn high. i have my ATK set to auto kill every 30 minutes now. my awake time is so high due to skype mobile (i deleted it off 2.1 because i realized it was giving me 100% awake time, and now they FORCE it on us? wow)

 

[Droid21]

does anybody else have force closes using the droid x's keyboard on 2.2?

 

[emmur0]

does anybody else have force closes using the droid x's keyboard on 2.2?

Nothing yet. I'll repot back if anything changes

 

[ctc]

I didn't have time to read all the posts here so if this is a dup then forgive me.

The 2.2 update appears to fix the screen grounding flaw!!!! Not that it was a major issue but I'm surprised a software fix worked.

 

[Android&Dom]

IIdis anyone else having trouble with flashplayer 10.1? For whatever reason I'm being told that I don't have it installed, but its obviously installed and can be found in my application list under settings. Is there something i need to do to activate it? I just updated manually...

 

[bryn987]

how do you turn off Launcher Pro? I want to see what Sense looks like with the new update

 

[schap]

Received 2.2 OTA this morning, now everytime I open my Gmail it automatically opens the first message in the list, this didn't happen on 2.1 and I don't see a setting for this. Anyone else notice this or know how to make Gmail open to my list of emails instead of opening the first email in the list?

 

[pucrepeap]

how do you turn off Launcher Pro? I want to see what Sense looks like with the new update

Sense is stock, so it's what you should have had on there before you reinstalled Launcher Pro.

I use the home switcher app to go between the two.

 

[jayjay1122]

***All****

There seems to be some concern/dispute over what is different between the NonRoot-RUU method vs. the Official OTA/Update.Zip method with regard to GMAIL.

Any enterprising Incredible users out there with either version of the update care to post screen shots of GMAIL?

If anyone needs to know how to do this, I will post up instructions, but they can also be found here:

http://androidforums.com/656594-post1.html

 

[incredible x4]

i use the htc clock widget (the small one 1x2). i'm 99% sure that the time used to be centered. now it's right justified. so it looks a little hokey in the single-digit hours.

I use that same widget. Just checked and its left justified. I still haven't gotten the update, still on 2.1 (not going to root). Never noticed it wasn't centered till you just said that.

 

[TKB]

Chrome 2 Phone is awesome!

Also Chrome 6 for your computer is a must. It can sync to your google account. So you can be on any computer, log into chrome and you have all your bookmarks, extensions etc.

 

[Eris DeWitt]

I too noticed that there were more than a few apps such as skype, stocks, swype, and several background apps that were never running in 2.1 System Panel. Other than that 2.2 has totally lived up to the hype. Flash 10.1 is amazing. Can't wait to get home and see if the video out feature quality has improved. I haven't made any calls, but that was never an issue for me. All my 3rd party apps seem to get along with froyo. I went to South Park central web page and was able to stream a full episode. Market apps dowloaded and installed at easily 2x the speed of 2.1. Even the large one's such as Speedx 3D were very fast. All I need now is Root, and this phone will be more Incredible than its' name..lol

 

[lizm]

I never used the stock music before 2.2, but were you able to pause or skip the song from the unlock screen before?

I wasn't, and now I can. Sweet

 

[radtechy]

I never used the stock music before 2.2, but were you able to pause or skip the song from the unlock screen before?

yes you can on 2.1. i love that for when i stream audio in the car cause i dont have to unlock it

 

[ravenzero]

hmmm my HTC Peep (twitter) isnt working, not letting me sign on. Odd

 

[blacknsb]

Does anyone know if they change the contacts menu? So when you are making a phone call you don't have to go through like four menus to get to a regular list of contacts.