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Title: HTC Desire
Post by: woolster on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 20:39:51
got one today,i want to add my own music as ringtone from sd card, cant seem to be able to do it, anyone help :headhurts:


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: tans on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 20:57:42
No sorry.

Ive got an htc sensation and fucking hate it.

Absolute shite, should never got rid of my iphone



Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: woolster on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 21:04:06
No sorry.

Ive got an htc sensation and fucking hate it.

Absolute shite, should never got rid of my iphone


had this an hour tans, i to fucking hate it :cry:


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jutty274 on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 21:13:50
Press menu on the phone, choose ringtones then choose new ringtones & it should take you to your music files and you add that song to your ringtone list.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: woolster on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 21:21:03
Press menu on the phone, choose ringtones then choose new ringtones & it should take you to your music files and you add that song to your ringtone list.
i dont get an option to choose new one, just the list of shit ones that come with the phone :(


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Samdy Gray on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 21:31:00
Open music player > find track > press menu > set as ringtone


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: woolster on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 21:40:39
Open music player > find track > press menu > set as ringtone
topman samdy, what about text  :girlgiggle:


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Simon Pieman on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 22:05:29
i dont get an option to choose new one, just the list of shit ones that come with the phone :(

If you press menu again within ringtones the option is there


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: slinky on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 23:02:56
Take it back and get an iPhone.  :nod:


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jutty274 on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 23:34:45
i dont get an option to choose new one, just the list of shit ones that come with the phone :(
It should be at the top of the list above all of the others.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Simon Pieman on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 23:40:57
It should be at the top of the list above all of the others.

So it is


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Chubbs on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 08:20:43
Take it back and get an iPhone.  :nod:
THIS!

I was so dead against iphones until i actually had a go with one, iphone is the way forward, though i am interested to see which direction they go now post Jobs.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Samdy Gray on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 08:36:48
Just for some balance, I love my HTC Sensation and before that I loved my HTC Desire.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Chubbs on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 08:49:20
Just for some balance, I love my HTC Sensation and before that I loved my HTC Desire.

That said, I am planning on getting an android based tablet when in NYC, so that will be my balance :-)
I dont see the point of owning an iphone and an ipad.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jimmy_onions on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 09:25:48
No sorry.

Ive got an htc sensation and fucking hate it.

Absolute shite, should never got rid of my iphone



Interesting...I have an iphone personally but was always led to believe the htcs were the bollocks...whats the problem then? Give me a couple of reasons...


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: tans on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 09:59:37
Battery shit.

Apps keep failing

Sometimes it freezes


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jutty274 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 13:19:23
I have a desire hd & touch wood i haven't had any problems with mine. The battery is ok lasts about a day, but my bosses i phone lasts about 14 hours. The little touches like turning the phone over to silence it & the phone rings louder when it is your pocket.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: woolster on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 16:23:45
I have a desire hd & touch wood i haven't had any problems with mine. The battery is ok lasts about a day, but my bosses i phone lasts about 14 hours. The little touches like turning the phone over to silence it & the phone rings louder when it is your pocket.
yes but you need binoculars to read text messages, cant make the fonts bigger, this is according to many forums, if anyone can prove me wrong and make them bigger i will gladly pay for for there alcohol consumption (a few pints) before the game on sat :pint: :hmmm:


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: 4D on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 16:49:37
yes but you need binoculars to read text messages, cant make the fonts bigger, this is according to many forums, if anyone can prove me wrong and make them bigger i will gladly pay for for there alcohol consumption (a few pints) before the game on sat :pint: :hmmm:

Download the "go keyboard " app , you can change font size.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Dozno9 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 16:54:41
My Desire S was a dream but in the last week its gone dog shit.

The location settings went and refered me as United Kingdom location which is technically right but no good for weather or directions.

The calendar now has location as "ID Studio Room" on every appointment whatever that means.

The calendar shows appointments for tomorrow PM but has seemingly forgotten to remind me of a meeting in the morning which is in the calendar.

The calendar will only let me view my gmail account and not my Exchange account unless I choose to select all calendars.

The touch screen is no longer very sensitive and I have to press quite hard to select anything.

I've done a factory reset, cleared the calendars but still no good.

Up until this morning it used to answer every call on loudspeaker which made me deaf but seems ok since I took out the battery and put it back in.



Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jutty274 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 16:57:47
yes but you need binoculars to read text messages, cant make the fonts bigger, this is according to many forums, if anyone can prove me wrong and make them bigger i will gladly pay for for there alcohol consumption (a few pints) before the game on sat :pint: :hmmm:
Download chomp sms it is then like the i phone text messages.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: london_red on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 16:59:15
I've got the old Desire and in a year and a half had no problems with the handset itself, been very good.

Only issue I've got is with Android. All the latest update for apps seem to be geared for newer handsets and take up a ridiculous amount of room. The Desire's actual phone storage where the apps get installed is so small if I updated all my apps I could only fit about three on there. Google Maps, Flash and the Kindle app are particular offenders.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jimmy_onions on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:01:30
I've got the old Desire and in a year and a half had no problems with the handset itself, been very good.

Only issue I've got is with Android. All the latest update for apps seem to be geared for newer handsets and take up a ridiculous amount of room. The Desire's actual phone storage where the apps get installed is so small if I updated all my apps I could only fit about three on there. Google Maps, Flash and the Kindle app are particular offenders.

"All the latest update for apps seem to be geared for newer handsets and...."

This problem isnt limited to android, same also applies to iphone, however, at least with htcs you have the option of rolling back to a previous version, I believe.
Cant do that with iphones..
MAny of my apps simply do not working anymore after installing the latest and greatest updates..
Thats progress for you.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: woolster on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:36:45
Download the "go keyboard " app , you can change font size.
cheers 4D have d/loaded the chomp app, its telling me to i need to turn off native notifacations in the settings page of the messaging page :-[any chance you could PM me how i do this, found the app but cannot find anything regarding notifacations, thanks


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Batch on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:38:52
Only issue I've got is with Android. All the latest update for apps seem to be geared for newer handsets and take up a ridiculous amount of room. The Desire's actual phone storage where the apps get installed is so small if I updated all my apps I could only fit about three on there. Google Maps, Flash and the Kindle app are particular offenders.

Tis very annoying. The age old embedded programming constraints of limited time, space and power seems ignored to a point. Bloody yoof programmers of today.

That said, later Android OS (Gingerbread) make it much easier to allow apps to be moved to the SD card.



Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jonny72 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:40:59
"All the latest update for apps seem to be geared for newer handsets and...."

This problem isnt limited to android, same also applies to iphone, however, at least with htcs you have the option of rolling back to a previous version, I believe.
Cant do that with iphones..
MAny of my apps simply do not working anymore after installing the latest and greatest updates..
Thats progress for you.

None of that applies to the iPhone. You can't download let alone install an app that isn't compatible, though if for some reason you do need to roll back previous versions of apps are retained by iTunes in a separate folder.

App compatibility with the iPhone depends on the version iOS you're running rather than the phone itself, except for where there are hardware differences (mainly the camera's that are missing on some older models, occasionally the cpu/ram). Even the 3GS can run iOS 5 so it's not really an issue.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: london_red on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:48:50
That said, later Android OS (Gingerbread) make it much easier to allow apps to be moved to the SD card.

Yeah I've heard that. But unfortunately in the same vein of not supporting old hard/software, unless i root my phone I'm stuck with the old OS (Froyo?) and its associated shortcomings.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jimmy_onions on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:51:13
I'm not talking about compatibilty, I am talking about bugs. I could name you half a dozen apps which at best slowed down, at worst stopped working after updates.
Same applies to the oP system, on my old Phone 3.2.1 worked best, gone downhill since then.

Didn't realise you could roll back apps via iTunes...will check that out.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: stfcinbmth on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 17:56:47
i will gladly pay for for there alcohol consumption (a few pints) before the game on sat :pint: :hmmm:

Steady now, don't want you spending all your dosh ;)

My Desire has been great, can't fault it apart from perhaps battery life

Using the iPhone 3G at mo and it's pretty slow compared to Desire. Two things I have found that are better on the iPhone are the keyboard(I can type a lot faster on it without too many mistakes) and battery life. Swiftkey on the Desire does improve things tho, and it's the only app I've paid for


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Batch on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 18:00:51
Yeah I've heard that. But unfortunately in the same vein of not supporting old hard/software, unless i root my phone I'm stuck with the old OS (Froyo?) and its associated shortcomings.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/app-2-sd-%28move-app-to-sd%29/com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd

Not sure if this is free or not, might be worth checking out. Says froyo (2.2) compatible.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: london_red on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 18:09:52
http://www.appbrain.com/app/app-2-sd-%28move-app-to-sd%29/com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd

Not sure if this is free or not, might be worth checking out. Says froyo (2.2) compatible.

Cheers Batch looks like that could help.


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: jonny72 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 18:13:30
I could name you half a dozen apps which at best slowed down, at worst stopped working after updates.

Didn't realise you could roll back apps via iTunes...will check that out.

There was a problem with iOS 4 which caused things to run really slow on older iPhones, they fixed that pretty quickly. Other than that I've not had nor heard of any issues related to iOS updates - they are pretty stable and have normally been out in beta for many months before hand.

I've never rolled back an app via iTunes so don't know how to do it but I presume you delete the latest version and import the older one. There will be a folder in your iTunes library called "previous mobile applications".


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: Simon Pieman on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 19:05:04
If you go to settings then applications you should be able to move apps to the SD card


Title: Re: HTC Desire
Post by: stfcinbmth on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 19:23:43
If you go to settings then applications you should be able to move apps to the SD card

Very handy, cheers Batch

Handcent SMS looks to be what woolster wants, adjustable font size, have sent him pm on how to set it up