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Eris 2.1 leak Bug's and Fixes

More bugs I have found:

Vibrates when phone rings from only certain users even though its disabled

When I delete an email from Gmail on the phone it doesnt delete it from the inbox when I look online

When I call someone, it vibrates when it starts ringing.
 
hookedMD said:
This is happening to me too. Seems to happen after I miss a call and then I have no audible sounds from the phone including the volume rocker. Can anyone confirm this is also happening to them? It seems to be a combination of your problem and badfrogs.
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VERY Strange, I downloaded GDE and the Nexus One theme from the market and all my phone issue is now gone!!!

Settings -> Sound & Display -> Phone Vibrate (unchecked), It NOW stays unchecked.

Never knew a phone could be schizophrenic!!
 
The virbrate happens when the phone connects to the call, maybe a type of warning/indicator to let you know? I personally enjoy it because I can hold the phone away from my head until i feel it vibrate meaning its ringing.
 
andrizoid said:
So of course there all the bugs with the HTC more widgets link-problem I have personally noticed
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This is fixed if you clear the cache.

Click menu/settings/Applications/Manage applications/HTC Widget Download Manager

Clear Data and Clear Cache. I just had the options to clear cache but it worked after doing that. This has been working for most users. Hope it helps.
 
Yea its a feature I had the HTC ozone and it had it on there as well as the boot animation with the vibrate. I haven't found how to turn it off though.
 
vr6dubbin said:
How many are having the issue with facebook contacts not syncing?
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I'm still having this problem. It's accompanied by a force close of the process com.htc.bg. Not sure what that even is. I did a factory reset yesterday, and the force close persists. I'm at a loss. I'm just hoping that when the "official" ota comes out, my problem will go away. Until then, no facebook sync.
 
jayjay1122 said:
VERY Strange, I downloaded GDE and the Nexus One theme from the market and all my phone issue is now gone!!!

Settings -> Sound & Display -> Phone Vibrate (unchecked), It NOW stays unchecked.

Never knew a phone could be schizophrenic!!
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As with just about all of the issues we're seeing posted around the forum, it could be that there are compatibility issues with themes, apps and various settings, being as how the leaks are incomplete versions of a yet to be released operating system.

Those are likely the things that developers spend most their time ironing out.
 
The folks putting the leaks out there for us to decide whether or not to try them out make it clear straight up that it's unfinished versions of a work in progress.

Again, it is not rocket science: you'll likely experience a few more (or a lot more) bugs with incomplete software than we will when the completed OTA comes around.

Of course, there are users out there who can install a perfectly solid OS and find ways to mess it up and then complain about it, and the opposite as well: there are those who can deal expertly with buggy stuff and make it run as good as the intended finished product; it's a big community of varied geekiness with the Eris, isn't it. ;)
 
badfrog said:
I had a friend call me who I had set a custom ringtone for, phone used my default. I checked the settings after call and his details did have the ringtone I had selected.

edit:
I just created a new google contact using my home phone, set a custom ringtone, and it still used the default ring, tried again creating the contact as an actual phone contact, same thing, uses the default ring.

also noticed, that once you miss a call, after that it doesn't ring anymore till you clear the missed call notifications? anyway to change that behavior?

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I thought maybe the problem might be because I was using a ringtone I had uploaded to the phone, so I tried one of the default droid ring tones, still uses the default ringer.

and I still can't find any setting to make it ring on successive missed calls.
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has anyone else tried this yet to verify this? would love to know if my results are typical of the build, or if maybe it is due to some app Installed.
 
Frisco said:
The folks putting the leaks out there for us to decide whether or not to try them out make it clear straight up that it's unfinished versions of a work in progress.

Again, it is not rocket science: you'll likely experience a few more (or a lot more) bugs with incomplete software than we will when the completed OTA comes around.

Of course, there are users out there who can install a perfectly solid OS and find ways to mess it up and then complain about it, and the opposite as well: there are those who can deal expertly with buggy stuff and make it run as good as the intended finished product; it's a big community of varied geekiness with the Eris, isn't it. ;)
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It is, indeed. :)

The thing that made me chuckle is the recent use of the word "incomplete," which of course is very different from "unfinished" ... makes it sound like chunks of the OS are actually missing, which isn't the case.

And of course, at some level every piece of halfway-complex software is "unfinished" ... like 1.5, for example. It's got more lag than 2.1, so the optimization is clearly unfinished, and they never bothered to finish video playback.

But if you mean "unfinished" in terms of "deemed ready for release by someone at Verizon" -- well, we don't know that for sure, either. Verizon is clearly having problems with its OTA distribution system, so for all we know the current 2.1 version is just sitting in an upgrade queue, waiting for them to get the distribution issue figured out and the Droid upgraded to 2.1.

As for the problems a few folks are having, those are going to be repeated in spades when the software is officially distributed. This is a major upgrade, and people are inevitably going to have issues ... and more and more app-related problems are going to surface, since most app developers have probably never tested their work on a 2.1 Eris.
 
Pitamakan said:
It is, indeed. :)

The thing that made me chuckle is the recent use of the word "incomplete," which of course is very different from "unfinished" ... makes it sound like chunks of the OS are actually missing, which isn't the case.

And of course, at some level every piece of halfway-complex software is "unfinished" ... like 1.5, for example. It's got more lag than 2.1, so the optimization is clearly unfinished, and they never bothered to finish video playback.

But if you mean "unfinished" in terms of "deemed ready for release by someone at Verizon" -- well, we don't know that for sure, either. Verizon is clearly having problems with its OTA distribution system, so for all we know the current 2.1 version is just sitting in an upgrade queue, waiting for them to get the distribution issue figured out and the Droid upgraded to 2.1.

As for the problems a few folks are having, those are going to be repeated in spades when the software is officially distributed. This is a major upgrade, and people are inevitably going to have issues ... and more and more app-related problems are going to surface, since most app developers have probably never tested their work on a 2.1 Eris.
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Good post. I wish there was a bit more discussion around here from knowledeable people on the problems with getting the updates from the developers to the carriers to our phones.

I am not even sure if that is the correct chain of activity; I envision it as HTC > Verizon > my Eris, as far as the coming OTA goes.

Is it a problem with the size of the packages being sent out? The style of the packages (some compatibility issue)? etc..
 
Yeah, it would definitely be interesting to know more about what's going on with the OTA issue. Based on how long they've apparently been trying to figure out how to update the Droid, the problems must be significant ... and that doesn't bode well for the Eris, since a 1.5-to-2.1 upgrade has got to be more challenging that doing 2.0-to-2.1.

I'm just guessing, but I imagine the big problem is figuring out how to preserve user data, settings, and apps. Would they move that stuff over to the SD card while the phone is being upgraded? Would it make sense at this point to just abandon the OTA thing, and offer the upgrade via PC download, or at the stores?

Who knows. Hopefully, though, we'll find out eventually ...
 
I purchased my Eris in January. Wasn't there an upgrade last year that brought it up to 1.5?

If so, it will seem troubling that they cannot move us from 1.5 to 2.x.

But let's remember: Q1 is not yet ended. ;)

Plus, today is my birthday, and this is the day that I predicted we'd start seeing the OTA. It's only about 10 am in my time zone.. I'm keeping the faith until a second after midnight. :o :D
 
Frisco said:
I purchased my Eris in January. Wasn't there an upgrade last year that brought it up to 1.5?
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It was always on Android 1.5. The previous two OTA updates (MR1 and MR2) were maintenance releases. They upgraded the software from an older build to a newer build, but it was still the same version of Android. Similar to the difference between the "old leak" and "new leak" for 2.1.
 
Frisco said:
I purchased my Eris in January. Wasn't there an upgrade last year that brought it up to 1.5?

If so, it will seem troubling that they cannot move us from 1.5 to 2.x.

But let's remember: Q1 is not yet ended. ;)

Plus, today is my birthday, and this is the day that I predicted we'd start seeing the OTA. It's only about 10 am in my time zone.. I'm keeping the faith until a second after midnight. :o :D
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Well ... happy birthday, kid! Hope you'll be doing something more fun than hanging out here. :)

(As for the Eris, I'm pretty sure it was originally released with 1.5.)
 
thenestor said:
It was always on Android 1.5. The previous two OTA updates (MR1 and MR2) were maintenance releases. They upgraded the software from an older build to a newer build, but it was still the same version of Android. Similar to the difference between the "old leak" and "new leak" for 2.1.
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Thanks for that bit of clarity, thenestor.
 
Pitamakan said:
Well ... happy birthday, kid! Hope you'll be doing something more fun than hanging out here. :)

(As for the Eris, I'm pretty sure it was originally released with 1.5.)
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Thanks for the happy birthday wish. Friday I was taken out by my oldest kid, this evening my wife is taking me out.
 
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