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HTC Gingerbread update.

Just upgraded. Unbranded Orange in UK. Lost most of my apps and had a major panic when the backup software wouldn't restore.

All seems ok now.

Only real difference I've noticed so far is the larger predictive text words and slightly louder notifications.

UPDATE - Quite disappointed that they haven't fixed the "broken shortcut icons in a folder" issue and the larger words can be a bit distracting. But, oh well.
 
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screen is definitely brighter now. Am on lowest setting and is well bright for indoors. If you turn it right up it looks like it should be much better when out in the sun. Agreed with the sound...hellova difference. Like the new quick settings tab in the notification area too. My mate reckons his signal has improved drastically now getting much better 3G. He is in Leeds though I am out in the sticks in Lincolnshire mud hut country and still only got GPRS....never mind!!! Remains to be seen about the claimed battery performance improvement, any takers?
 
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Well I am loving the new features, feels like a new phone. Weather app now has sounds, settings-applications now has a different layout that looks way better, the phone seems to manage memory far better now have over 300mb of ram free all the time no matter what I am doing, phone is way faster and responsive, freind stream now when you select a tweet with a link in it it opens the link below the tweet, people widget has a different look. menu now has all apps frequent and downloads, apps scroll in sections, status bar now has quick settings option as well, and this is just what I have found so far.
 
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I can connect to my wifi network, I can even use GMote to connect to my pc and control the mouse, but it won't let me connect to the internet. My PC is connecting fine, as are my other devices. I've deleted the device from my router and rescanned, I've disabled the router firewall, everything. Whats going on?!
Sorry mate i dunno what happened, i have no problem at all, i tried rescanning/ rebooting router and disconecting modem but one all plugged in i still connect.
 
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In the App Drawer when you press the widget of the 4 squares with one outlined in green it flashes that same widget onto the main screen with the app drawer still visible in shadow behind it. Any idea if you are supposed to be able to do anything with this widget? (I know if you long press it you can change the order of the 3 widgets)
 
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