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    Cheerio and Thank you all!

    Hi all, Thanks a lot for the help over the past 17 months or so, but all good things do come to and end. Today I phoned Orange and paid
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    Help Wifi capped at 3meg

    When connecting to a network via wifi I seem to be capped at 3600ish kbps. If I run a test on speedtest.net at home (via ethernet) I get 38meg. At work (again ethernet) I get 28meg. If I use wifi on my desire at how or at work I get 3.7-3.8 meg. As this is happening on both networks I cant...
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    Root restoring a nandroid back up

    I downloaded the orange rom as posted on XDA devs - I need to return my phone due to it always crashing (requiring a battery pull) when I make phone calls. I went into clockwork recovery and restored the backup (after playing with the MD5 sums to make them match) and it restored correctly...
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    Help Phone crashes and makes buzzing noise

    Normally this happens during a phone call. Suddenly the call gets disconnected, there is a loud buzzing noise coming from my speaker and the phone is unresponsive. I need to remove the battery and switch it back on. Is this the commonly reported motherboard issue? I have rooted and flashed...
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    Help new gmail account

    so I have gmail already, use the gmail app and use the market (paid apps too) also. I have recently changed my email address for a variety of reasons, and am wondering how my paid apps will be supported through this transition? Can i just remove the old gmail account from and add the new one...
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    Help new SD card, wont boot past white HTC screen

    as the title. ive been using an 8gig card for a while, but in order to watch a few movies over the weekend (going to my parents) I stuck a few .mtk files on the 4 gig card that came with the phone, the object being to transfer to the laptop once I got to my parents. unfortunately the phone...
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    Contact Widget

    Hi all, here is a picture (girlfriends face covered ofcourse) of one of my home screens on my desire. The smaller picture is a shortcut I added to a person using Launcher pro, the larger one is a Picture Frame widget. Is there any way to have the functionality of the smaller one on a...
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    4 apps 1 question! (PSX4Droid)

    Disregard, issue fixed
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    Potential buyer here - few questions

    Hello all! I am a proud owner of a HTC Desire, I really love it. My father is due an upgrade shortly and I have been tasked with finding him a free device at around
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    Potential buyer here - few questions

    IGNORE: Meant to post in the Wildfire Forums!
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    Help Potential buyer here - few questions

    Hello all! I am a proud owner of a HTC Desire, I really love it. My father is due an upgrade shortly and I have been tasked with finding him a free device at around
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    Signal Indicator widget?

    So Im using LauncherPro on my Desire, and I really like the look of it, especially after choosing to hide the notification bar at the top. The one thing I am missing is the signal strength indicator. Are there any widgets out there that would display this? The more customisable the better of...
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    Help Video Calls?

    I currently have a HTC Desire, and a family member was asking for advice about a new phone. She was thinking of the iphone 4, and I almost had her convinced to get a Desire until she mentioned she needs video calls. I explained about the iPhone 4s limited video calling which put her right off...
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    Root Why different software depending on bootloader etc?

    so all guides have the wording "If you have a bootloader version 0.75.xxxx or below AND a current ROM of 1.15.xxx.x or below download XXXX if you have a bootloader version 0.80.xxxx or below AND a current ROM of 1.21.xxx.x or below download ZZZZ" Maybe I'm missing something, but surely...
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    Changing Wallpaper

    How exactly do I use my own pictures? I downloaded an image from commons on my phone. I then hit settings->personalize->home wallpaper->Photos and then select the image when it appears. I get the confirmation popup "the picture has been set as your wallpaper" but when I hit the home key...
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    clock widget vs time along top

    Is there any benefit to having botha click widget and having the time displayed on the right hand side of the notification bar? After viewing other peoples screens I've decided to put more thought into how my phone looks, and having the time displayed twice is starting to annoy me, is it...
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    Back up SMS

    Hi, is it possible to have all SMS (text messages) automatically stored to the SD card? I recently had to reflash my ROM and as such have lost all the messages I had stored - about 800 or so from my partner and a few semi-important ones from both work and my basketball coach. I can get by...
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    2 new Icons after unlock

    So I just unlocked my desire (allowing me to use the new phone on o2 for the last few days of my contract) but 2 new icons have appears in the top left corner. The first is a "general alert" according to the user guide, a trianle with an "!" along the horizontal line. The 2nd is a circle...
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    Syncing Contacts from outlook 2010?

    I'm trying to run HTC Sync to share my contacts from outlook 2010 (beta) to the phone, yet HTC Sync tells me there are no contacts there. Is there any way to sync between the 2, or do I need to manually add them?