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    Help Music/Soundcloud/Youtube conflict on Desire Z

    Hello, I bought my desire Z 8 or 9 months ago. I never had any problem with it, but a month ago, the Music player, soundcloud and youtube started acting really weird. When I start listening to a song/track or whatever on the Music app, soundcloud starts playing sounds too, my phone calls the...
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    Help Desire Z won't boot, power-cycles, HBOOT/FastBoot doesn't seem to work

    Alright, so I'm not the greatest with phone tech, however normal computer tech is my thing so I can sorta get the idea of all this. But anyway... So for ages I've had apps waiting to install updates, but I never get round to doing it. Today, at work, I was bored & decided to go through &...
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    Help In call volume Is terrible.

    I recently installed cyanogen 7.2 on my desire z (bell). My main reason for doing this was to increase the in call volume on the phone. I have searched the forums and the Internet and have not found a way to increase the maximum volume. I know the placement of the phone on your ear makes a...
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    Help my messaging app wont load a thread at all,it just stuck at loading?

    well,im running ics sense 4a rom now..i have a problem which i have a sms thread around 4900 of msgs,when i try to open it.It just stuck at loading...and it wont load..i have tried taking out the battery and rebooting and also clear data and cache from messaging app..still no luck.. any idea...
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    Root I Messed Up my HTC Desire Z with S-off

    Help, I think I messed up my phone (HTC Desire Z). I tried 2 root my phone. But after I s-off my phone I tried to reboot it and... It woudn't work :c. Can anyone help me? I searched for it but I Didn't find anything what can bring my phone back up. Please Help me someone.
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    Root My buddy has the HTC G2/Vision/Desire Z - could you possibly help me root this?

    My buddy has the HTC G2/Vision/Desire Z - could you possibly help me root this? Here's what he's running: Any help is appreciated.
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    Help GPS shuts off 3G

    I use a HTC Desire Z phone. When I turn on an application that requires use of GPS (waze for instance) my phone shuts off the 3G comunication and I have to restart it in order to regain 3G. Naturally I can not use any aplication without 3G so my GPS is usless. How can I fix the problem
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    No Google play ........?

    Hi, Am I missing an update or is the desire-z just not compatable? Thanks -Howard
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    Root Semi Brick (hopefully) on Desire Z after attempted S-Off

    Hi, hopefully someone can help! i tried to root my Desire Z using the VISONary+ method in theunlockr.com. i downgraded fine (sort of, took a bit of wrestling), got temp root with VISONary+ fine. The got to the "insmod /sdcard/wpthis-OTA.ko" stage (theunlockr says wpthis.ko, but my phone...
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    Root Weird problem rooting htc desire z

    Hi all. I have a weird problem look at the screen shot i made. Can somone help me,or give me some usful tips. Android versie 2.3.3 HTC Sense versie 2.1 Smalbandversie 12.56.60.25u_26.10.04.03_M Kernel versie 2.6.35.10-g53a84f9 htc Kernel@and18-2#1 tue mar 20 20:51:53 cst...
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    Help HTC Desire Z wont connect to pc.

    Hey guys..I got a HTC Desire Z and it wont connect to pc.Everytime i try to connect it,charging starts but i dont get the pop-up menu for connect to pc options and also when i go to settings and try to connect manually it still doesnt work.So guys pls help me to troubleshoot this annoying...
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    Help Headset mic button stopped working

    Not sure when this started but it may be related to a 2.2 update I ran about a month ago (although I also updated some other apps at the same time that could be responsible?). Since then my headset button stopped working along with the mic. I can still use the headset to listen to music but the...
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    Desire Z - problems, when starting the phone

    Up to earlier today, my phone worked fine. I was updating some android market apps, when it just froze. And then all of sudden the screen was black with that "phone icon" with triangle and red exclamation mark in it. then I tried to restart it ... first the icon of phone with the "green circle...
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    Help cant get past white/green htc screen

    I dropped the phone in water and dried it out and all was working fine for about 3 months. First started to turn off on its own and now it wont go past the white and green htc screen. I've gone into Hboot and tried a factory reset and nothing happens it just stays on the hboot screen, and if i...
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    Help Desire V import

    Hi, Can someone pls open a HTC Desire V thread? Also, how do I import from a .xls or .csv file or google mail? I can only see outlook as a sync option. Frustrating.:confused:
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    Help HTC Desire Z, touch screen ignores certain spots in certain cases (not a hardware problem)

    Starting yesterday I noticed a weird thing: 1. In Opera Mobile I'm not able to set focus to the address bar or to the search bar by tapping them. Nothing happens. When I set focus on either one by the trackball or by a keyboard shortcut, then the phone does recognize me tapping on the text...
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    Help Alarm app: Alarm won't go off; all alarms on, sound on, no app-killer

    The alarm app has been one of my favourite things about owning this phone, particularly as other alarm apps on phones that I have had have been highly restricting and this one does everything I could ever want from an alarm. Well, did. [the problem] The alarm app is on; I have no task...
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    Help HTC DESIRE Z : Black Screen issue

    My deaise Z having black screen prob.. But my phone is Starting up,Boot into FASTBOOT n even into CWM without display. Please help me out.. Thanks in advance!!
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    Help HTC Desire Z shutting off when tapped on a certain corner.

    Hello, This has randomly started happening today to my phone: I noticed first that it was randomly shutting off for the first time ever; I've had it for about a year and a half. I thought the problem was overheating since it's been a super hot day, because it was doing it randomly while being...
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    Root Need some help with my Z

    I am not new to opening stuff up and modifying it, usually hardware wise. Software is a whole different thing to me. I had a Dell PDA back in the day and it bricked as I tried updating it from WinMo 5 to WinMo 6 so please accept my hesitation in this upgrade. I have the Z for over a year now...
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    Root need rom

    i need rom for my htc desire z. rom clock about 1.4 ghz plz give me links and instructions i have s off and root
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    problem with bh-503 bluetooth headset

    I just got a bh-503 bluetooth headset, and I have a problem with it... I can listen to music just fine, but can't make or answer any calls. the bluetooth bottom doesn't work while in a call.... plzzzz help :(
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    Help Reciveing the twitter feed from random twitter account

    Lately I have been getting texts from an unknown number containing everything directed to their twitter feed and if I text back it becomes a twitter post by them. I really want to find out whats going on. thanks for any help you guys have.
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    Help Unable to add photos of my friends to my contacts

    Hi I've been trying to add photos of my friends to their contacts on my Desire Z, but my phone won't allow me to do it. What happens when I find the photo I want, I crop it and then when I press SAVE the screen goes white and nothing happens. It doesn't matter whether I'm creating a new...
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    a beginner's perplexities

    Hi everyone, I'm new here :) I just bought a HTC Desire Z and this is my very first smartphone. I'm still getting used to it and while most things are intuitive and self-explanatory, others are a complete mystery to me. For example there are some tasks that were very simple to perform on my old...