General Android-ness

[Inspector Sands]

I'm now left wondering how quickly the amusement of watching raindrops trickling down the homescreen will wear off.

Am I the only one who's kinda looking forward to it snowing, just to see what my Desire's screen does?

[Inspector Sands]

Cant' see to get the "Friends Stream" thing working. Is that a widget or an app? How might I un-install it and reinstall it?

It's has both an application and a widget according to the applications menu, although neither have an option to un-install

[Sput]

I'm now left wondering how quickly the amusement of watching raindrops trickling down the homescreen will wear off.

Am I the only one who's kinda looking forward to it snowing, just to see what my Desire's screen does?

You could always set your location to something like siberia

[marksi]

I'm now left wondering how quickly the amusement of watching raindrops trickling down the homescreen will wear off.

Am I the only one who's kinda looking forward to it snowing, just to see what my Desire's screen does?

No.. But there is a demo mode. Don't think it shows everything though.

[Inspector Sands]

Am I the only one who's kinda looking forward to it snowing, just to see what my Desire's screen does?

No.. But there is a demo mode. Don't think it shows everything though.

Yeah it only has sunny with snow and that doesn't animate unfortunately

You could always set your location to something like siberia

I can't think of anywhere where it's snowing... and it doesn't change the home page location/weather though does it?

[Gavin Scott]

Cant' see to get the "Friends Stream" thing working. Is that a widget or an app? How might I un-install it and reinstall it?

It's has both an application and a widget according to the applications menu, although neither have an option to un-install

Fixed, by deleting my Facebook for HTC Sense account, adding it back, then restarting the app from the program menu. The stream came back to life. I found the answer on the android forums.

A trickier problem I have came from importing my contacts from a Nokia 6220.

I downloaded an app from Nokia to allow me to export my phone book as a CSV file, otherwise be stuck bluetoothing 400 numbers.

Anyway, I had a hell of a time getting it into the Desire. Can't remember now how I did it, but it might have involved importing the CSV into googlemail contacts, and syncing that to the phone.

I'm left with tons of duplicate entries for some people; and nightmarishly, it appears that random contacts don't have a telephone number. This week it caught me out with unrecognised numbers texting me (in the familiar), and when I went to ring a pal to go for a drink.

I've still got my old phone, so unless anyone has a suggestion to automate the process, I'm going to have to check every contact and fix the problem manually.

[Sput]

Had the same problem! It's just a massive shortcoming of Android as far as I can tell. No idea why they haven't come up with something to solve it

[Inspector Sands]

Transferring contacts from my Nokia 6300 was a doddle. I stumbled across these instructions: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bi ... opic=15015
uploaded all my contacts over the air to my (then mostly unused) Google contacts and then synced them into my phone.

This thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/G ... ea62&hl=en seems to suggest there's a similar method for the 6220



I do have lots of duplicate numbers but only when making a phone call - I get the Google contacts and those on my SIM card. And where I had several numbers per person on my old phone, which therefore got copied onto my SIM, I get multiple entries on the Desire.

Therefore I get: Fred Google/Facebook, Fred SIM work, Fred SIM home' etc. It seems that even though you can link contacts - Facebook, Google, SIM into names to remove multiple entries per person (which works really well) and remove various sources from view (i.e. not show any SIM or facebook contacts) it only works for in the 'contacts' section itself and text messaging, but not phone calls.

I'm gradually going through and deleting my SIM contacts.... I've never used them as the phone memory on the Nokias was always more useful (and bigger)

[Sput]

Am I the only one who's kinda looking forward to it snowing, just to see what my Desire's screen does?

No.. But there is a demo mode. Don't think it shows everything though.

Yeah it only has sunny with snow and that doesn't animate unfortunately

You could always set your location to something like siberia

I can't think of anywhere where it's snowing... and it doesn't change the home page location/weather though does it?

Add a world clock city somewhere in the southern hemisphere, remove the weather/clock widget from the home screen, add it again, choose the city, make sure full screen animation is checked.

Apple would have made this easier

[Inspector Sands]

Techradar have done a review of a Desire running 2.2
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... iew-709912

Anyone know how the upgrade is done (once it's available) - is it something that's done over the air or can it be done via Wifi/USB?

[m-in-m]

Techradar have done a review of a Desire running 2.2
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... iew-709912

Anyone know how the upgrade is done (once it's available) - is it something that's done over the air or can it be done via Wifi/USB?

From a video I saw posted by a member of the BBC Click team the update is automatically pushed over the air to phones.