Help Newbie looking for advice!

[chuckles1066]

Evening everyone,

My first post so please be gentle!

My wife is now the proud owner of an HTC Desire S; I've downloaded the 204 page pdf manual but any out of the box advice you experts can give a newbie is gratefully received.

I guess my first concern is how to stop any apps my wife downloads from constantly bleeding data back to HQ.

Secondly, MarketPlace - can we use our existing wifi connection here to reduce the amount of data she downloads? I'm sure I read somewhere that we can but the initial connection needs to be from the phone?

On that subject, my wife was sent an email address and password as part of the sim update procedure when she first powered up the phone......except there's no @domain part, just what seems to be a username?!

Would this be a google account or something and is it needed?

Thanks for reading.

 

[notebook]

What kind of data are you concerned about?

When browsing through apps on Android Market you'll be faced with the Permissions that each needs to work on your phone. Many of these access information about your phone and your use of it. It'll be up to you to decide whether you're happy to install an app based on what Permissions it needs.

You can limit the way your phone connects to the internet by turning off its wi-fi and mobile data connection. Of course, each time you want or need to use either or both of these then you will have to turn them on again.

You can also stop your phone from sending data in Menu > Settings > Accounts & sync and turning off all the options on that screen. However, that too will severely limit how and when you can use your smart phone, unless you want to keep turning on and off these settings.

It's best to use wi-fi whenever and wherever you can with your phone - it'll be faster and cheaper. (In fact, wi-fi is given priority, so when you have the mobile data connection on and move to a wi-fi zone, as long as you can access it, the phone will switch over to the the wi-fi connection.)

You won't be required to use your data connection with many apps - usually it's just your network provider that requests this on the initial set-up of its particular apps. But you can look elsewhere for alternatives; you don't have to use what your network provider gives you, unless you want to.

I've no idea about the 'SIM update' procedure you mention. Sounds like something peculiar to your network provider and not HTC or Google. Can you be more specific?

 

[chuckles1066]

I've no idea about the 'SIM update' procedure you mention. Sounds like something peculiar to your network provider and not HTC or Google. Can you be more specific?

Thanks for the reply.

I'm in the UK if that makes a difference - here, whenever you put a new sim into a new phone, you'll get any number of SMS messages from the network that are usually referred to as sim updates.

The message in question simply said "your email address is xxxxx and your password is xxxxx. Please write these down and delete this message".

When my wife showed me this, it threw me because there was no @ domain a la conventional email address!

I assume (but would appreciate confirmation) that an email address is required to access MarketPlace and this was it?

 

[notebook]

I'm with Orange and have never received anything in the way of a designated email address and password.

It's highly unlikely they've designated a Gmail account for you as this is a) something you may already have, b) something you should be able to create yourself with your own choice of name, etc, and c) is probably against Google's ToU. I doubt Google would let Gmail be used by another company in that way - there are obvious privacy and confidentiality issues to consider.

It may relate to your account with your network provider. If so, it'll be something you use when you log in from their website to see your account information, usage, bills, etc, and will have nothing to do with Android, Google, or HTC. I would call your network provider and ask what it's about, especially as you haven't seen any clear indication as to what it's in relation to.

 

[marvin123]

Evening everyone,

My first post so please be gentle!

My wife is now the proud owner of an HTC Desire S; I've downloaded the 204 page pdf manual but any out of the box advice you experts can give a newbie is gratefully received.

I guess my first concern is how to stop any apps my wife downloads from constantly bleeding data back to HQ.

Secondly, MarketPlace - can we use our existing wifi connection here to reduce the amount of data she downloads? I'm sure I read somewhere that we can but the initial connection needs to be from the phone?

On that subject, my wife was sent an email address and password as part of the sim update procedure when she first powered up the phone......except there's no @domain part, just what seems to be a username?!

Would this be a google account or something and is it needed?

Thanks for reading.

Mistake No.1. The Pdf manual is already on the Desire S or was at least on mine. I clicked on the Adobe pdf app. and it was there in addtion to the same one I'd downloaded.