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    Help Rapid battery drain

    Since the last OTA update from telstra to 5.0.1, my batter has been awful! Even hardly using the phone, the battery is going at around 10% an hour minimum, where I used to get 5-6% Annoying thing is, it seems to be the OS that's draining it? Just in the time it has taken to post this (2 mins)...
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    Help VERY poor battery life after update.

    Hey all, last week I installed the ota update for 4.2.2 and sense 5 from telstra. Few minor annoyances, but one major one being the battery life. I normally leave home at 630am and get home around 4pm, during which time my battery would be at 70-75%. Since the update, it has been CONSIDERABLEY...
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    Root [International Tegra 3] How to tell what phone I have?

    I'm pretty sure that I own a one XL, but it could just be an x... I want to root it but the international guide claims to be for an x, and the XL guide is for at&t... From Australia I'm obviously international, but I don't think it is just a plain one x... How can I tell?
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    Car mode

    Got the 4.2.2 and sense 5 update last night, still unsure about if I like it (but that's another story), all day today when I have put my phone in my car dock, the screen neither rotates nor does car mode start (yes it is set to start in both the app itself and as the default action for...
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    Help Can not install on usb storage or sd card

    Hey guys, I seem to be getting the above message every time I try to install an app that automatically installs on the sd. I have tried to find the file that is mentioned around the net in the android_sercure folder, but I can not seem to find it. Is there any other way around this problem?
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    Im after an app, kinda like a note taking app but not...

    As it says, im after a note taking app, but i dont want it to take notes as such. On my old phone (im talking 10 years ago) it had a little section called 'notes' where i could put any info i needed to get to quickly, so i would have my Tax File Number, Bank transfer details, Membership...
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    Root Just rooted, now cant put any apps on SD...?

    Hey all, I just rooted my desire (2.2) and used mybackup pro to back up all my apps etc before hand and now after restoring my apps they will not move to the SD card... Not a single one. Using either the standard applications manager, app 2 sd, or android assistant to try and move them, but...
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    Help Contacts Storage - just gets bigger and bigger...

    Hey all, Desire has crap internal memory, we all know that. the problem is that the contacts storage keeps on taking up huge amounts of it! just 5 mins ago i cleared all my contacts storage data, taking it from 10.5MB to 0KB. for some reason i still had nearly 100 contacts on my phone, but...
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    Root Failing at rooting 2.2

    hey all, i had 2.1 rooted and now since having gotten 2.2 i decided i would root that also. however, i seem to be having problems with it. im using unrevoked, and i even downloaded the newest version of it, but it keeps failing to push the image... it worked fine with 2.1, had the whole thing...
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    Root OTA update, now no longer rooted?

    hey all. i rooted my desire about a month ago, and only used root access for backups. last week i got the OTA update to 2.2 and installed it, but now i think i no longer have root access. i was doing something (i forget what now) and it told me i need root access to do the task. i still have...
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    Help Problem with sending SMS

    Since getting the phone a month ago, it has downright refused to send an SMS to one of my contacts. it is someone that i could send txts to with my old phone, and i can call and receive calls and txts from them on this one, but it simply refuses to send a txt! each time it gives me an error...
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    Help UltimateJuice - User guide?

    OK, so i have installed ultimatejuice, and i am slowly getting the hang of it. however, its not exactly self explanitery in use at times... i am sure i read somewhere (no idea where though, i just remember seeing it and deciding i wanted that app!), that someone had set it up so that when the...
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    Howdy!

    Hey all, names Macca, im from Tasmania, Australia. Had a Desire for about a month now, just starting to get a chance to really play with it. im liking what i see ;) Cheers Macca