Help 2.1 Problems - Issues - Quirks

I'm actually getting much better battery life than before. I have three batteries, ( I bought two extra a few months ago.) And I was changing batteries about once a day, (under very heavy usage). Now, I'm changing batteries once every 2 days, (under very heavy usage), if that.

sampo said:

Anybody else getting worse battery life with 2.1 than with 1.5? I set all my settings exactly as they were when I was running 1.5, however, battery life is significantly less impressive.....

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I had the same problem after upgrading and found that my phone wasn't sleeping. The folks over at the HTC Incredible forum figured out that, at least for a few of us, Facebook for HTC Sense was keeping the phone awake 100% of the time. Signed out of Facebook for HTC Sense under Accounts & Sync and my phone is once again sleeping and the battery life is much improved.

Hope this helps.

-B

Ha! I don't even have a Facebook!!! I'll give it a shot though, who knows?!?

Does it stand to reason that the wicked cool weather animations also drain the battery, its one of the coolest features (IMHO) on 2.1 but I'm willing to live without it to get my battery back up to par...

Is anyone else annoyed by the new look of the folder icon? A little nit-picky no doubt, but the flat, 2D look is a step down from before (not that the old look was great, but better imo). Better/AnyCut here I come!

Here is what pisses me off the most. I used to type ALL of my text input using the Landscape mode. Now, that ****ing mode is laggy as all hell, and it really pisses me off. Why would landscape mode be laggier in the updated 2.1?!?!?


WTF SPRINT/HTC!?!?!

I just want my damn phone to be damn phone again!! Missing incoming calls is a real pain in the ass. Maybe it is time to contact sprint or htc to see what they say. I really doubt i will get any answers.

eyebeam said:

You can. I think before you had to set it in the edit screen. Now, open the contact you want to assign a ringtone to and scroll down a little to the information area.

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yeah i see that but now when i set a ringtone to someone it rings as the default is it just me?

LadyTazz said:

yeah i see that but now when i set a ringtone to someone it rings as the default is it just me?

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Is that right? I didn't actually test it...

eyebeam said:

Is that right? I didn't actually test it...

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yup i had a friend of mind let me borrow her phone and was tring to figure out why it work i hate it cause i have ringtones set for alot of people in my phone.

AzPhotoMan said:

I just want my damn phone to be damn phone again!! Missing incoming calls is a real pain in the ass. Maybe it is time to contact sprint or htc to see what they say. I really doubt i will get any answers.

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I actually emailed both of them earlier today & haven't gotten a response yet from either. Shocking, I know! Somewhere in this discussion I put a copy of the email I sent. I'll update if/when I hear something.

I just want to cry... i love my hero... why wont it be my hero AGAIN!

LadyTazz said:

yup i had a friend of mind let me borrow her phone and was tring to figure out why it work i hate it cause i have ringtones set for alot of people in my phone.

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Hrmm... I just tested mine and a single contact custom ringtone worked fine. Sorry, I don't have any answers for why it's not working for you.

eyebeam said:

Hrmm... I just tested mine and a single contact custom ringtone worked fine. Sorry, I don't have any answers for why it's not working for you.

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eh i shall keep trying then.. thanks

Not to be a downer, but it seems like nobody likes 2.1 around here.... Everybody wanted 2.1, then we got it and it doesn't work the way it should.... My rooted 2.1 is and has been great from moment one. Why can't sprint/htc fix all this crap?

330D said:

Not to be a downer, but it seems like nobody likes 2.1 around here.... Everybody wanted 2.1, then we got it and it doesn't work the way it should.... My rooted 2.1 is and has been great from moment one. Why can't sprint/htc fix all this crap?

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Hard to sell new phones if everyone was happy with the one they had, isn't it?

Ooops, sorry, was that too cynical?

I like 2.1, all in all. It's not perfect, but then I never expected it to be. The problem came from the expectations, I think. I noticed it running up to the release. For some reason, a lot of people got it into their heads that 2.1 was going to fix every problem that they had with 1.5 and/or their phone.

But, 2.1 was a new OS release, not a patch or a bug fix. It was as much about new features, OS capbilities, enhancements, if not more, as much as it was about fixing any problems. 2.1 was never intended to fix the problems people were having with their Hero's. It was to lay the foundation of support for the next go round of phones, the EVOs and the Incredibles.

But people got expectations, and those expectations weren't realized. People who had problems still have problems. People who were happy with 1.5, but were excited about new "features" were disappointed that things weren't spectacular. So, basically, it's business as usual.

I think it's always going to be like this. New releases are for new phones, and there will always be something better, since by the time the new release comes out, the phone you have won't be new anymore. The only way to be happy is to lower your expectations. I know that sounds worse than it is, but I'm happy with the Hero & 2.1. It does more than any other phone I've ever had, and the technology is freaking amazing.

Seriously, if someone had told you in 2005 that you'd be holding something like the Hero in your hand in 5 years, and that you could afford to buy it, you'd have called them crazy. And yet, here we are now complaining about it.

Maybe it's an old guy thing, but seriously, this phone is amazing. It's just that our expectations are so high, and new sh*t comes out so fast, we're bound to be disappointed. That's too bad, really.

@dsavage I completely agree with your thinking but I think most of the complaints aren't so much about the lack of fixes for old problems but the large number of new problems. Things that worked fine before the update are no longer working. Even the most basic cell phone features aren't working properly. It's extremely frustrating to be moving backwards when we're supposed to be moving forward!

I guess my take is just Android is still very new. I understood that when I got my phone so really have NO expectations. I love it for what it is and what I expect it will become. But I don't expect to be free of issues for still quite some time.

if I wanted "easy", I would have gotten an iPhone. But I am not willing to lock myself into what Steve Jobs considers the "right" way. So I expect the growing pains and minor (and not so minor) hassles that come with using Android. But the Android community just rocks, some folks just doing amazing things with it, and know that, eventually, most problems will be fixed. Fixes may not even come from Google, HTC, or Sprint. THAT is why I have Android.

EXPECTATIONS that was a good choice of word. Android is too new to be perfect. People shouldn't expect it to be. I agree sprint dropped the ball here, but come on folks, it is just a phone.... A really cool phone, but a phone nonetheless...

Three issues, two minor and one kinda major. I'll try my best to explain:

1. I can't seem to figure out how to choose two different notification sounds for when receiving texts and email. They both have the same notification sound, and it's annoying. For texts I usually check my phone right away, but for emails I tend to ignore them till I get a chance to look at them.

2. I can't find the option to turn off vibration while typing.

3. Contacts. When I click on 'People', all I see is Me. So I played around with the options, and got my old list back (this is after restoring), however, the only way to view my old contacts is to hit Menu > View > and check Google (& Show auto Gmail contacts), not Phone. I think I'd rather have my Gmail contacts and Phone contacts seperate, but checking "Only contacts with phone number" will do for now. Also, lets say I do have Phone checked from the View menu, and I try to add a contact, it gets added to the Gmail list, not the Phone list. Glitch?

Another issue with my contacts is linking them to their Facebook profiles. When I did that on 1.5, it was pretty awesome. If a person whom I didn't have a pic for calls me, their Facebook profile picture shows up. Now, lets say I have a friend, John, and his phone number is 123-456-7890. However, on Facebook, John has his number as 1-800-JOHN-IS-A-PLAYA as a joke, guess what happens when you link his Facebook profile to the contact? His number on MY PHONE changes from the legitimate 123-456-7890 to 1-800-JOHN-IS-A-PLAYA. Yup, that's right, I do get his Facebook profile picture, but I also get his fake number too. And what's worse is if a person doesn't have their number on Facebook, and I link them to my contacts, it removes their phone number.

Is there a way to link them without the FACEBOOK NUMBER replacing the phone number I already have on the phone?

Sorry if any of these questions have been asked, just didn't want to read 4 pages worth of posts. Thanks in advance for your help!

I have that problem with mine, albeit running 1.5. I saved the custom ringtone, then immediately went in and set it again, then it would work. Don't know if that will help on 2.1, but it's worth a shot.

LadyTazz said:

yeah i see that but now when i set a ringtone to someone it rings as the default is it just me?

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Maybe there's a way to revert back to 1.5 ?
New to all this. All I know is that I keep getting notifications about my Insurance bill every 30 minutes? WTF? I don't even have my personal ISP email on this phone.
I do not even check my personal ISP email from this phone. All I have is a gmail account for this phone.
How the heck did Google/Sprint/HTC figure that crap out?
Snooping huh?
Give me back control of my phone........... POinTX

My phone has a problem with performing it's most basic function...being a phone.

1. When I call my mom using my contacts I always have to hang up and call her back because it sounds like Darth Vader has taken over my phone (and I'm the only person she has that problem with).

2. When I select "Call" the phone takes me immediately back to the home screen and a minute later it might finally call that person. Sometimes if it takes too long I will go back and try to call that person again and it will connect...however in the middle of my call it will put the person on hold and then call them again.

3. If I'm on the internet when my phone rings the lights will start flashing and it will not show me who is calling.

4. My peeling "End" button will not end the phone call if I press it once...I have to press it multiple times for the call to actually end (after all it is pretty unsafe to look down to unlock the screen and then select "End Call" if I'm driving down the interstate).

5. I'm really tired of the phone ringing 1x on my end before going to voicemail - because the person calling me has already sat through several rings.

While I hate having everyone's facebook contact info show up in my call log I know that lots of other phones have that feature so I will suck it up and deal with it.

Mine, I can't "link" my contacts with my facebook account anymore... for some reason when I click Link, and select Facebook, it won't find any of my friends...