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2.1 OTA Beginning 5/11/2010

D_Sweet said:
Did you go into the App drawer and select the app called "Desk Clock" ? You must initiate the app for the clock to show up.
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It did that before I put the screen on "stay awake". The wording posted on that makes people think that as soon as it's plugged in it goes to desk clock mode, which it doesn't.
 
tonyb81 said:
I like to think that because it's vanilla android is why, when companies have their own UI on top of Android (Sense, Motoblur) it is handled differently.
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So Moto Droids don't have any special overlay over stock Android? They are just straight Android?
 
EricB said:
It did that before I put the screen on "stay awake". The wording posted on that makes people think that as soon as it's plugged in it goes to desk clock mode, which it doesn't.
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Uh, no it didn't, your screen would still time out & turn off at the selected interval unless you had "Never" selected as your time out interval, even if you had the desk clock app running. And if you reread my post I specifically stated that you need to "go into the app drawer and select the desk clock app" for the clock to show up. BTW this was for people that didnt know how to do it, if it was already working for you why chime in?
 
D_Sweet said:
Uh, no it didn't, your screen would still time out & turn off at the selected interval unless you had "Never" selected as your time out interval, even if you had the desk clock app running. And if you reread my post I specifically stated that you need to "go into the app drawer and select the desk clock app" for the clock to show up. BTW this was for people that didnt know how to do it, if it was already working for you why chime in?
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Not your wording, but Verizon's: "Desk Clock intelligently dims your screen and displays the current
time while charging."

The wording of that tells me that you don't have to start the clock, and that it should start automatically when plugged in, which of course it doesn't. It doesn't say on there that you have to start the clock. That's the only point I was trying to get across, nothing against you.
 
Once the .zip of the OTA is released to install it on our phones, is it done the same way that we installed the leaked versions?
 
EricB said:
Not your wording, but Verizon's: "Desk Clock intelligently dims your screen and displays the current
time while charging."

The wording of that tells me that you don't have to start the clock, and that it should start automatically when plugged in, which of course it doesn't. It doesn't say on there that you have to start the clock. That's the only point I was trying to get across, nothing against you.
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It says "while charging" not "when plugged in"...
 
D_Sweet said:
Ok, this feature is included in 2.1.3 as well as I am sure in the OTA although I have not received it yet. You need to connect your phone to a PC with the USB cable, then select sync. Up in the nitification bar it should give a triangle with ! inside, if you drag down the notification bar it will say USB debugging connected, tap this and you should get 3 options USB Debugging, Stay Awake & Allow Mock Locations. Check the box next to Stay Awake. Then unmount the phone but keep plugged into the USB or wall charger. Go into Apps drawer select Desk Clock and your done, you will see the desk clock on the screen & will notice it intelligently dimming. As long as you are plugged into a power source the phone will stay awake & dim.
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If you have to go through all this, it isn't a "new feature"... it's a hack. :p

You can manually click on "Desk Clock" on the app menu and it will show a dim clock while you charge, but it's definitely not doing anything automatically. (I don't know why I care... I don't even need this "feature").

Definitely no Google Maps pinchy on v3, and definitely no Yahoo! mail integrated either. So if anyone who by chance got this legendary OTA update could confirm either of these............. ;)
 
homerpez said:
Definitely no Google Maps pinchy on v3, and definitely no Yahoo! mail integrated either. So if anyone who by chance got this legendary OTA update could confirm either of these............. ;)
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The OTA does not have Google Maps pinch either. When the OTA came out everyone who was on 2.1 got a Google Maps update and it did not enable pinch, so either on OTA or the leaked 2.1 you do not have pinch on Google maps.
 
Actually, to start "Desk Clock" the easy way, tap the HTC Time Widget, and tap the Day or Night Dewsk Clock icon. No need to be plugged into anything
 
EricB said:
Not your wording, but Verizon's: "Desk Clock intelligently dims your screen and displays the current
time while charging."

The wording of that tells me that you don't have to start the clock, and that it should start automatically when plugged in, which of course it doesn't. It doesn't say on there that you have to start the clock. That's the only point I was trying to get across, nothing against you.
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Clearly (and I thought almost everyone should have realized this by now), Verizon's document is misleading in some areas, plain wrong in others. Just a complete farce all the way around.
 
jlrosell said:
Clearly (and I thought almost everyone should have realized this by now), Verizon's document is misleading in some areas, plain wrong in others. Just a complete farce all the way around.
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Yes it is, and I wonder how many times it was revised before we even seen it?
 
Just to quickly clear up my posts, I realize that the desk clock displays once the app is initiated wether it is charging or not, however my suggestion was to put the phone in "Stay Awake" while charging to keep the screen from timing out & shutting off at the user selected interval, thus killing the desk clock. Once in "Stay Awake" the desk Clock does exactly as stated by verizon, it dims but stays on while charging.
 
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