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HTC Hero Sprint(2.1) couple of issues

Chinkee

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Hello all. New to this thread but not to forums in general. I'm am usually watching the HTC forums but I have been having problems making an account so I'll just start one here.

So I just upgraded my Hero to 2.1 and there a couple of problems that I can't find answers to.

The first one is Lock Screen wallpaper. I can't seem to change it to anything other than the default it started out with when I updated, I even tried using the preinstalled onces but it never seems to change. Anyone have/had this problem and has a fix to it?

Next is apps disappearing on my homepage. Especially the google search function. I used it once and it just disappeared. But it has to still be there because I can't set anything in it's place. I can't even remove it as well. Maybe a restart will help but I don't know right now.

And last is the Facebook contact syncing. With 1.5 I could find any friend on facebook and sync their name to their number by just searching for their name. Now it only will find friends who have input their number on Facebook physically. So I can't search for a friend who doesn't have their number on facebook and sync it to their matching contact through my phone. Get what I'm saying?

If anyone has any fixes to these problems then please feel free to throw solutions at me.

Thanks
Chinkee
 
Eh, not really. Like the only problems with 1.5 was the constant slowing down and and freezing which caused frequent reboots. Im not having those problems now(not the freezing at least) but there are still some times where it likes to just lag for a couple of seconds. I am kinda mad that they would take so long to release an update just for it to still have problems. I don't get that part of the story.
 
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Hello all. New to this thread but not to forums in general. I'm am usually watching the HTC forums but I have been having problems making an account so I'll just start one here.

So I just upgraded my Hero to 2.1 and there a couple of problems that I can't find answers to.

The first one is Lock Screen wallpaper. I can't seem to change it to anything other than the default it started out with when I updated, I even tried using the preinstalled onces but it never seems to change. Anyone have/had this problem and has a fix to it?

Next is apps disappearing on my homepage. Especially the google search function. I used it once and it just disappeared. But it has to still be there because I can't set anything in it's place. I can't even remove it as well. Maybe a restart will help but I don't know right now.

And last is the Facebook contact syncing. With 1.5 I could find any friend on facebook and sync their name to their number by just searching for their name. Now it only will find friends who have input their number on Facebook physically. So I can't search for a friend who doesn't have their number on facebook and sync it to their matching contact through my phone. Get what I'm saying?

If anyone has any fixes to these problems then please feel free to throw solutions at me.

Thanks
Chinkee

I could be wrong, but the contacts should just sync on their own based on names. Do you have your facebook from htc auto updating? If so, maybe try deleting the facebook account and signing in again, with auto update on. Sometimes it takes a while to sync, but I'm pretty sure it should sync with names.

As for the other problems, I am not too sure. I haven't used the official sprint 2.1 so I haven't experienced any of these problems. You might try a factory reset on the phone, assuming all your contacts are synced and all. Maybe someone else experiencing these problems will chime in
 
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As far as the lockscreen goes...are you going to settings-personalize-lock screen wallpaper? That should work.

I have used every possible way of choosing what picture I want for my lock screen wallpaper. But every time I hit save and go check, it remains the same blurry bubble picture. I might just try doing a factory reset.

Also, my phone has started to get really sluggish. I'm am getting disappointed with this update more and more.
 
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I upgrade to 2.1 and i recommend it,my only issue is the phone vibrates when making a call and i can't turn off the vibrate on the dialer. this seem to be one of the problem everyone is having.

It seems I'm the only person who actually likes the vibrate-when-connect feature. It's just an easy way to know when the call is starting, because sometimes there's network issues (either Sprint or the other network you're calling) - and things get silent for a while and you don't know what is going on. So - this is a good way to know the call is going through.

BUT - you should certainly be able to turn it off. That's just odd. Like how you couldn't turn the vibrate off in the Dialpad in 1.5.
 
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I think I will stay with android 1.5 for a while..or at least until these android updates are ironed out. My phone works just fine with 1.5....the little glitches on it are tolerable. They are nothing compared to the issues reported by others. I feel for you guys that updated your phone. My advice would be not to update till sprint and htc figure this thing out.
 
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I think I will stay with android 1.5 for a while..or at least until these android updates are ironed out. My phone works just fine with 1.5....the little glitches on it are tolerable. They are nothing compared to the issues reported by others. I feel for you guys that updated your phone. My advice would be not to update till sprint and htc figure this thing out.


I agree as well. I'm still on 1.5 and not ready to move "up" when the biggest issue seem to be with the most basic of functions - calls.
 
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