Have you done the *228 using option 1? That worked for me last night. I was having all kinds of problems. Couldnt even connect to the network. Used option 1, and I've been good to go.
I had to call on this issue, I can tell you they had me do a *228 option 0
worst case call, they fixed my daughters with no questions asked and less then 5 mins on phone.....
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Anyone experiencing issues with the new navigator in 2.1? When i'm using the navigation and if i receive a phone call my phone acts up and i can't answer the call and of course the back button doesn't work so i'm unable to exit the navigation unless i press the home button
I keep getting unwanted contact list whenever I sync up with the facebook.
The people who post their numbers on facebook (I really don't know why) filled up my contact list. I managed to remove them by unchecking facebook contact list on view contacts, but I still have to navigate through all the unnecessary names when I try to compose a new text msg on chomp sms. Is there any way to remove all the unnecessary contacts without cutting my sync with facebook? I don't understand why contact list became so ******ed.
Finally got the lack-of-sound-on-phone-call bug just now. It happened when I hung up on one call and immediately tried to place another. No sound. Tried hanging up and calling again with no luck. Tried turning on WiFi (in case it needed data connection open for something in background). No luck. Had to power cycle in order to place call successfully.
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Yea, I haven't figured out a way to keep custom pics on contacts without unlinking them from facebook... That was not a problem in 1.5 and I do find it pretty annoying...
Also, with the stock messaging app, no matter if I've linked my contact to facebook or not it always shows their picture as the one from facebook. Anybody know how to fix that?! I mean if I took the time to get a custom picture for someone I obviously want that used everywhere...
has anyone found a fix for this? its bothering the hell out of me.
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I keep getting unwanted contact list whenever I sync up with the facebook.
The people who post their numbers on facebook (I really don't know why) filled up my contact list. I managed to remove them by unchecking facebook contact list on view contacts, but I still have to navigate through all the unnecessary names when I try to compose a new text msg on chomp sms. Is there any way to remove all the unnecessary contacts without cutting my sync with facebook? I don't understand why contact list became so ******ed.
try checking on gmail if they are in your contacts in there also. You should be able to remove everyone on gmail and then sync up with your new list.
It may be. While he/she is mostly talking about the data connection, in theory it could apply to the actual phone connection too. I just see it as the fact that other than a restart, airplane mode is the only way to actually turn off and on the phones radio.
I had to restart earlier today and my 50% came back. I put the phone in airplane mode on the charger and let the phone go to sleep. I woke it back up and turned airplane mode off and everything was right as rain. So I guess it doesn't really need to be that long, but I think letting the phone sleep for a few seconds helps kick the switch over.
So, a few things about this.
1. I tried the airplane mode solution. It seems to show some difference but I can't tell if it's placebo affect for me. Occasionally I will have 3 or 4 bars and be really happy and then it goes back to 1 or 2. Or 0.
2. when the phone is plugged in and then unplugged, it resets the "Time without a signal" and other "Battery use" catergories because the only thing it is listing is Time "since unplugged." This is why the time without a signal goes away or drops significantly. It is not a fix. (Though it may, somehow or another, have an impact on cell signal).
3. I am getting better (not good, maybe good for the eris) battery life although the phone is still reporting low signal strength. It is hard to tell if i actually have low signal strength or not. Most calls have been good. A couple have been really bad.
4. Someone (can't remember who) had mentioned that the "Time without a signal" when at 50% was very closely related to the amount of time the phone was off the charger. I can't remember exactly which numbers were compared but I checked earlier today and the numbers matched. In my opinion, the 50% is a simple glitch that is miscalculated from either the Up time, Awake time, and/or Time on values.
I don't know how much any of this helps. Where I am right now is basically, battery life is a little better, I think I'm getting a signal but I really wish I knew what was causing it to report such a horribly low signal, and "Time without a signal" seems pretty much arbitrary to me for now.
I keep getting unwanted contact list whenever I sync up with the facebook.
I hope others agree with me but I think this integration with FB is going overboard. I use FB so I'm not anti-FB, but make these things (more easily) optional.
1. I tried the airplane mode solution. It seems to show some difference but I can't tell if it's placebo affect for me. Occasionally I will have 3 or 4 bars and be really happy and then it goes back to 1 or 2. Or 0.
2. when the phone is plugged in and then unplugged, it resets the "Time without a signal" and other "Battery use" catergories because the only thing it is listing is Time "since unplugged." This is why the time without a signal goes away or drops significantly. It is not a fix. (Though it may, somehow or another, have an impact on cell signal).
3. I am getting better (not good, maybe good for the eris) battery life although the phone is still reporting low signal strength. It is hard to tell if i actually have low signal strength or not. Most calls have been good. A couple have been really bad.
4. Someone (can't remember who) had mentioned that the "Time without a signal" when at 50% was very closely related to the amount of time the phone was off the charger. I can't remember exactly which numbers were compared but I checked earlier today and the numbers matched. In my opinion, the 50% is a simple glitch that is miscalculated from either the Up time, Awake time, and/or Time on values.
I don't know how much any of this helps. Where I am right now is basically, battery life is a little better, I think I'm getting a signal but I really wish I knew what was causing it to report such a horribly low signal, and "Time without a signal" seems pretty much arbitrary to me for now.
Thoughts?
ryan
You may be right on all accounts. As I said before, I was getting the 50% time with out signal, but it really had nothing to do with my time off the charger. I would take my phone off the charger at the beginning of the day and wouldn't put it back on until the mid afternoon. My phone showed 50% time with out signal the second I took it off the charger in the morning, even after a restart. The only thing I ever figured that airplane mode actually did for this was to turn off the connection to the network and, once turned back on, allowed it to establish a reasonably solid connection again. Like I said before, I experienced better battery life (lasting a whole day again), I have more bars (3 now where I only had one just before I made the post you quoted) and I no longer have the 50% without signal issue. Of course that all goes away if the phone has to be restarted.
I don't think I ever really had a problem with the actual signal, more of a problem with the way the phone was reporting it. I haven't hit a single problem with 3G so far. My battery was getting sucked down pretty quick though and I do think that the % without signal may have been causing that.
If it helps someone it helps them, if it doesn't it doesn't. Either way, I don't think trying it is going to actually hurt anything.
When clicking the search button ONLY IN THE INTERNET, there's no space bar.
Unless I'm missing something...
I ran into that too but thought I hit a wrong button or something. But nope, just confirmed. You get the "internet address" keyboard, i.e. with the ".com" key, the "/" key, and so on.
What the synopsis of this battery / cell standby / airplane mode issue ? Mine's been plugged in in the car quite a few bit recently so I don't see battery drain a lot but have noticed it dropping pretty quick when it's not on a charger (I have a battery widget with %).
I've noticed that some core apps have forced closed, have to do a restart for them to work again. Browser, Camera, BT-Music, sound. These simple services seem to just hang from time to time. Very weird.
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What the synopsis of this battery / cell standby / airplane mode issue ? Mine's been plugged in in the car quite a few bit recently so I don't see battery drain a lot but have noticed it dropping pretty quick when it's not on a charger (I have a battery widget with %).
Basically when you go to the battery use information and select cell standby there should be a Time on reading (mine is 31m 33s right now). If that is all you have then you don't have an issue. However, if you see anything that says time without signal (typically 50% when shown) then this may be helping to drain your battery. Doing the whole plug in phone, put phone in airplane mode, let sleep for a minute, take out of airplane mode and unplug seems to get rid of the 50% time with out signal. This also seems to have a positive effect on battery life and the number of bars you are showing.
Last edited by OfTheDamned; March 9th, 2010 at 06:36 PM.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that you were. I missed the word "button" in your post.
I know, it's fine.
I did find a work around, for those curious, when on the internet and clicking search, click on the 12# button to bring up numbers, and for some reason, that keyboard has a spacebar, the initial one does not.
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OK update, without the calendar widget on 2.1 I'm at 17 hours with less than 2 hours "awake" time. This includes about 30 texts, a few mms and some mile surfing and market shopping. I also noticed that while on the phone it does not seem to add to the "awake" time?? I was at 57 minutes at one point, talked to the wife for half an hour. Hung up checked a couple emails and was just slightly over an hour?
So....I guess the calender has issues for some folks. Removing the agenda widget seemed to work for me. No idea why, don't know if its the synching of multiple calendars or what but if you have horrific battery life with 2.1 its worth a shot. Im still waaaay in the green after a decent days use, including the texts (probably more just a conserative estimate) and about an hour af talking.
Ok I was wrong, awake time spiked again no clue why now? has to be something trying to sync? Gettin pretty silly if ya ask me.
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I've noticed that on the stock messaging app, if I have it set to vibrate AND ring, it will ONLY ring. For whatever reason, I cannot for the life of me get the vibrate setting to work. Kind of annoying given that when my phone is in my pocket I often don't hear the tone and rely on the vibrating crotch sensation to let me know I have a pending message.
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I've noticed that on the stock messaging app, if I have it set to vibrate AND ring, it will ONLY ring. For whatever reason, I cannot for the life of me get the vibrate setting to work. Kind of annoying given that when my phone is in my pocket I often don't hear the tone and rely on the vibrating crotch sensation to let me know I have a pending message.
Umm? Wasn't there a way to calibrate the compass in settings during good ole 1.5? Can't find it anymore? When using GPS Status popup comes and says need to calibrate compass, If I use COMPASS there's an option to calibrate by doin the figure 8. but when i go back to GPS Status it still says to calibrate.
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OK so now the calender has been on for the last hour and a half non stop keeping the phone awake? any ideas?????? PLEASE!
I got rid of a couple calenders but I really have no clue....spare parts says its the calendar wtf could cause that? Any help appreciated, I was loving 2.1 until this, now just pissed.
OK so now the calender has been on for the last hour and a half non stop keeping the phone awake? any ideas?????? PLEASE!
I got rid of a couple calenders but I really have no clue....spare parts says its the calendar wtf could cause that? Any help appreciated, I was loving 2.1 until this, now just pissed.
I have a thought about this. I noticed in the "running processes" settings screen, sometimes an app has an icon and title that don't really explain the whole app. For instance, the Google Talk process actually pushes gmail. Perhaps what claims to be your HTC calendar is really doing something else HTC related.
OK so now the calender has been on for the last hour and a half non stop keeping the phone awake? any ideas?????? PLEASE!
I got rid of a couple calenders but I really have no clue....spare parts says its the calendar wtf could cause that? Any help appreciated, I was loving 2.1 until this, now just pissed.
It sounds like it is stuck in sync. Have you tried turning off the sync for your calendar?
After my factory reset and reinstall, though... almost none of these newly reported problems, and my battery life is comparable if not better than 1.5, which is to say pretty good for the stock 1300mAh battery...
That was the idea! Why just post about a possible 2.1 issue OR make a vibrator joke if you can do both at the same time!
No but seriously, I need some vibrating in my pants from my phone. When I get massages... er... MESSAGES. All joking aside: Seriously an issue for me. Seriously annoyed.
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It sounds like it is stuck in sync. Have you tried turning off the sync for your calendar?
I unchecked all the calendars. How do I stop it completly?
edit: Cleared calendar data in manage applications and the phone would sleep, re synced and its still sleeping...for now. If this don't work I might wipe it and start over...hopefully since this isnt widespread i just had something whacky in there from one of my sports calendars or something. I deleted those so we shall see
Last edited by gruss; March 10th, 2010 at 10:58 AM.
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Ok so I reflashed my phone with the "other" 2.1 leak. All my problems are gone. Google stays logged in. facebook synced with out a headache. My contact card works. Sms popup finally went away.
I unchecked all the calendars. How do I stop it completly?
edit: Cleared calendar data in manage applications and the phone would sleep, re synced and its still sleeping...for now. If this don't work I might wipe it and start over...hopefully since this isnt widespread i just had something whacky in there from one of my sports calendars or something. I deleted those so we shall see
If it does start acting up again try going into Settings > Accounts & Sync > Google (for the email your calendar is linked to) and uncheck Sync Calendar. This will shut off the sync all together. Then you can wipe the calendar again and start adding them back one by one to see if you can find the problem child. I currently sync about 14 different calendars to mine and haven't run into any problems. All of mine are just regular google calendars though. I don't have any iCal stuff.
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Ok so I reflashed my phone with the "other" 2.1 leak. All my problems are gone. Google stays logged in. facebook synced with out a headache. My contact card works. Sms popup finally went away.
"other" 2.1 leak? What did I miss? I suffer from the Google sign out and "Google voice doesn't dial from google voice" issues.
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lol duh i saw that yesturday
Ok so I reflashed my phone with the "other" 2.1 leak. All my problems are gone. Google stays logged in. facebook synced with out a headache. My contact card works. Sms popup finally went away.
I think someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed...
I'm pretty on top of this forum and am a little confused as well... Is the "other" leak the one Caddy posted? Or is there another?
They are all the same file really. The one that came from xda is patched, but not really any different and the one that Caddy posted was never patched. Still the same file though. I have had both on my phone and they function the exact same way.
They are all the same file really. The one that came from xda is patched, but not really any different and the one that Caddy posted was never patched. Still the same file though. I have had both on my phone and they function the exact same way.
There is no NEW leaked version.
what she said......
maybe the 4th time is a charm deal... this is my 4th time reflashing it. but all is well again. cept craigsphone still doesn't connect.
i put other in "" cuz its really not any different. but i just used the one caddy posted this time thats the only difference
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instead of a retort.
