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    Missed call auto reply....

    I see alot of android phones have a great ability to send a text when a call is missed. So for example, you get a shower and cant answer the call... but the phone sends a text back to the person with a pre-defined message of "in the shower will call you back". But... What happens when...
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    Help Xperia M2 - compass?

    I currently have an HTC Wildfire S and am thinking of upgrading. As I do alot of outdoors walking navigation I need a compass that works the same as the one in my Wildfire S. Now the Wildfire S is advertided as having a 'digital compass' but I am not sure if there is a difference between a...
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    Help What type of compass in MOTO G 4G?

    I currently have an HTC Wildfire S and am thinking of upgrading. As I do alot of outdoors walking navigation I need a compass that works the same as the one in my Wildfire S. Now the Wildfire S is advertided as having a 'digital compass' but I am not sure if there is a difference between a...
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    Help Power Button Is Faulty - Can I Fix It...?

    Hi All, My Wildfire S power button is only working every so often and usually only when I press quite hard. Was wondering if anyone has used a t5 screwdriver to get to the power button and fix it. If you have - I would much appreciate some advice as I'm thinking of taking the back plate...
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    CatLog - Devs asking for phone logs. Is it safe?

    Having a problem with an app and the developer has asked me to install CatLog for android which is an app that writes everything that happens to a log file. The developer has said I can email it to him and he may be able to find the problem that is arising with the app by looking at my log. My...
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    Help Headphones Cut Out When Phones Wakes.

    Hi all. found and incredibly annoying problem today when listening to music via headphones. When the phone is asleep, I press the wake/power button to wake it up and the audio instantly switched to the speaker of the phone and the headphones cut out. Then is sometimes reverts back to the...
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    Rubbish Battery Life & Extended Battery Opinions...

    Hi All. HTC Wildwire S unroot and no special ROMs or anything. Mobile Network=off Bluetooth=off WiFi=off etc etc etc From a full charge the battery only lasted 5 hours. In those 5 hours the phone was idle for an hour, then for 4 hours following that GPS was logging for 4 full hours, camera...
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    Help Anyone Figured Out The Search Button?

    Long pressing on the search button brings up a superb voice search option. Great I thought... I went into settings and unchecked all the boxes except for music search. Yet everything I search for brings up web addresses. When I single press the seach button I see that the 'music' search icon...
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    Help Won't Go Into Sleep Mode With WiFi On?

    Hi All, Just got rid of my LG GT540 for a HTC Wildfire S One problem I am having though... if I have WiFi connected - the phone won't go into sleep mode. On my LG I used to leave it connected to the WiFi and if the timeout was reached for sleep (ie 1 minute) then the WiFi would disengage and...
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    GO Launcher EX - Icons wont resize properly...

    I am using an app called circle lancher which places 1 icon on yur screen and when clicked will open it up into various app. It all saves space. Had it all working great for months but had to format my phone (LG GT540) and when I am putting everything back on, the icons for the circle launcher...
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    Root Questions About CyanogenMod 7

    Have rooted and am really close to trying the cyanogenMod 7 ROM but have a few questions first. 1.The AWESOME dudeman1996 has posted links to all files to download - is the version I should get calle swiftdroid 2.0? 2.I've read the battery life is very poor with this ROM. Is it really that...
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    Root Root Speeded Up My GT540

    ok, I know this will sound daft and I read somewhere about this and the general gist of the replies was that it couldnt possibly be so... but... I rooted my GT540 (2.1) with z4root yesterday and it HAS improved myphone. I have done nothing else whatsoever but my phone is deffinately about 25%...
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    Root Can I Use Clockworkmod version 4?

    Hi, Right,I have edited my orignal post from a few horus ago as I have managed to sort a few things out but do have some questions please. I have rooted and all seems ok. Now... To get fastbooting apparently I need to flash a new KDZ file to my phone - is that correct? If so - does flashing...
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    Help Help Please! MMS just refuse to send!

    This problem has appeared over the past week for me. I make an MMS message and it just sits there and doesnt send. I click to retry sending but nothing happens. The 'H' is show on my notification bar so I know I have data connected fine. MMS come through to me, so do SMS but any MMS I make...
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    Where's My Droid - unable to get street address..?

    Seems like a great app and so I have been testing it out today. All works well although in each test locate for a lost phone - the app never reports back an address. The Lat and long co-ordinates work just fine and so does the link to maps - but it would be great for the nearest address to be...
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    Which uses more battery - BT or GPS?

    I have an LG Optimus GT540 on android 2.1 I use the inbuilt GPS for navigation but also have a superb standalone GPS module which can connect to any device via Bluetooth. Was just wondering which uses up more battery on an android phone... 1 hour of GPS naviagtion with inbuilt GPS on and...
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    Help Phone Shutting Down... Why?

    Not rooted or messed with in any way whatsoever, but for some reason my 6 month old GT540 has shut down twice today without me knowing. I have not changed anything, except update the apps, NOLED and ALARMDROID. What are the chances a newer version of an app can affect the phone like this as I...
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    Trek Buddy Wont Run In The Background?

    Hi all. Trek Buddy is an AMAZING bit of software and I have been using it for years. Just realised though that if I start or use another app while TB is running - it closes. For some reason I cannot press the home key and do something simple like read an SMS as when I go back to TB (by...
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    Help Do you keep WiFi on at home?

    Question: When you are at home in your wifi network zone do you keep wifi enabled or do you only switch it on in the GT540 when you need it? Have you tried leaving it on and turning it only on when you need it? If so - did you notice much battery difference and was it connecting a bit of a...
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    Help Help - not receiving all MMS

    Not rooted, no battery savers running - only got NoLED turned on. Yet various people send me MMS but it is just a complete lottery whether they get through to me or not. Is this just a HUGE probelm with Android phones? Has anyone experienced this with their GT540 as I am getting VERY fed up...
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    What Is This USB? Does Anyone Know...?

    Does anyone know the name of this USB connector which fits into my FM transmitter for the car? It looks similar to a 4pin firewire plug but from looking at it I dont think it is. Its smaller than USB mini and seems smaller than USB micro. The picture on top left if the connector and the right...
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    Help Android EXTREMELY Unstable

    Ok, I have been very VERY pleased with my android phone in the last 3 months of owning it, but all of sudden it cannot be trusted and is a ocmplete letdown. Last Saturday the phone rebooted itself while using Google Ny Tracks, this detroying my logged GPS track. A fair few niggles in the last...
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    Turning Screen Off In Google Navigation....?

    I am sure I pressed something once that caused the screen to go off so I could drive simply by the voice commands. Anyone know how to do it please as currently the screen does not time out (which is fine normally) but if I dont need to look at the map and just want the voice then it is a waste...
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    Help! Calling GPS Experts - My Tracks Is Logging Wrong...!

    I have used a free program called TrekBuddy on various phones for years and it has always been accurate, but I have been using My Tracks for weeks now quite happily until today! My mates iPhone correctly said we have walked 3.52 miles but when I checked my Android LG GT540 Optimus, My Tracks...
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    Help Problem with SMS - cant delete or forward...

    Hi, Can anyone help me please. I have about 150 messages in each thread for a contact but find that out of the roughly 150 messages - only some are selectable to delete or forward. Some are selectable and others are not. If I come out of the stock messaging app and then go back in -...
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