Recent content by madmonk

I was impressed with the battery life on the S compared to the straightforward Desire, but in the last week I've noticed significant deterioration. My type of use hasn't changed. I've not downloaded any apps recently. It normally shows about 50% at the end of a day, giving me about 5 hrs...

Unfortunately dropped my Desire this afternoon, screen on left shattered, held in place (just) by screen protector. I've been very happy with it, despite all the grumblings from everyone about battery life. It was never an issue. I turned everything off that didnt need to be on, and that was...

Everytime I reboot I get an SMS presumably from Orange, which consists of strange "Wing Dings" font type characters. Whats that all about?

When I got this wonderful gadget 9 months ago I think I uploaded my contacts from the SIM. Not sure. However all 400 + contacts are stored on phone not under the gmail setting. I only realised the potential problem (re backup, factory reset emergency etc ) when I checked my gmail account on...

If it does that might explain why battery has dramatically improved since i stopped using case 3 weeks ago. Its either that or I finished Angry Birds. ;) Just thought I'd throw the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons. seriously - battery life much improved. Coincidence?

There must be a way of checking data usage on the phone without recourse to an app; the app gets its data from somewhere on phone and presumably repackages it so its all user friendly and easy to see etc. I could dispense with the 3G watchdog altogether (just cutting widgets down) if I knew...

Realised recently that none of my phone contacts were listed under contacts in my gmail account. Checked the phone, this is because all 500+ contacts are stored to my phone, not to the gmail account. Therefore everytime I sync, i'm not syncing any contacts. Good job I found this out before...

OK, so I waited for froyo on HTC desire locked to Orange, and got me a flashlight. Great. What advantage OTHER than being able to move apps from internal memory to the SD card, does a rooted phone offer please. I thought Froyo would do this, but it clearly only does it with a small number of...

Updated last night, noticed today that when try to open Market it says "an error has occurred please try later", under title Terms and Service. I've now got a phone, the point of which is to use to download apps that can't download apps! The desire is not rooted. The phone is locked to...

Just curious, when checking the Spare Parts tool *#4636 etc, and noting partial wake useage since last unplugged, I am using in order; Android System - which i figure is normal (the clock?) Dialer Calendar (?? or is this the clock?) Messages (obviously receiving messages when phone asleep)...

I've dispensed with task killers, as advised on the forum, except for ASTRO which seems very useful from a number of points of view. I find Running Services widget very useful from a battery saving point of view, however the only service i dont seem to be able to turn off is the Connectivity...

Just tested data receiving on both, a 57 second clip (of King Crimson!) used only 0.6 mb on the YouTube app, the same clip used 2.3mb on the flash, that's nearly 4 times as much. what reason is there for using the flash player at all? not running 2.2, locked to Orange network.

I thought I would have a go at uploading a video to my youtube account. However the phone stated it was looking for a wifi connection, then said that at 3MB the video was too big, or something (it was only a 20 second test clip). I cancelled the upload but there is now a notification icon at the...

Sorry I know this has been covered before but the suggestions in the previous threads are not working for me. I have checked the USB debugging (to on, presumably). Downloaded HTC Sync on PC as the PC is not recognising the phone at all. It simply says when trying to open in My Computer as...

I know Android is owned by the Google Corporation but is there really any need to have to register your email address, or create a new google one if you dont already have one, with your phone network?? I have absolutely no reason or desire to allow Google to be able to access the content of my...