Android and other phone gossip

[Gavin Scott]

Does size matter gav?

How on earth are you due an upgrade already?

You know, I say it doesn't, but it really does.

Don't know how I got that upgrade doo dah so quickly, but that's what my account online says.

[Gavin Scott]

NOOOOOOO!

Its says 2012.

Well that's just shit.

[Sput]

That's more fair! Now I can post
100 minutes
100 texts
3GB data
Free, changeable add-on: Unlimited texts or 60 mins of international calls are but two that I've used
£120 for the Phone

£10/month, 24 months.

== £15/month.

[Pete]

So yes, I have my new desire and it's blimmin lovely.

Aside from the fact it has the Orange version of the firmware on although most parts of that are just minor irritations and a few useless gmae demos you can't delete. Urgh.

Does it mong up your warantee if you reflash it with the HTC generic firmware? Dunno if I cba yet but still.

Just the two questions so far:

First of all, the university's godawful email system requires secure password authentication over TLS. I cannot seem to find an option to turn on SPA. Any ideas where its hidden?

Why does gmail live in its own little bubble rather than integrating with the rest of the mail thing?

[Gavin Scott]

Gah. My phone revealed a new icon today - one which says, "phone memory is running out".

Now, I recently got the "backup to gmail" app - and backed up my texts, picture messages and call logs.

There's a scary 1600 SMS messages. That's probably taking up some space, no?

I'd like to wipe most of them, and keep the backed up ones. But wont they be deleted the next time I sync to gmail?

[Inspector Sands]

Gah. My phone revealed a new icon today - one which says, "phone memory is running out".

Now, I recently got the "backup to gmail" app - and backed up my texts, picture messages and call logs.

There's a scary 1600 SMS messages. That's probably taking up some space, no?

I'd like to wipe most of them, and keep the backed up ones. But wont they be deleted the next time I sync to gmail?

That message appears when you've 90% of the phone memory left. You're lucky if you haven't had it yet! I get it fairly regularly, managing the phone memory is a massive hassle even now you can install to SD

I've probably got half the number of texts as you and cleaning them out does help clear phone memory, especially the picture messages (I delete my picture messages straight away as they take up too much space and the originals are on the SD card anyway).

I'm not sure how the 'backup to gmail' app works but surely if you sync your gmail then they'll be saved on your account and you can just leave them there or save them locally on your PC

[marksi]

I do wonder how 250 contacts seems to be taking up 17.5MB.

It was 19.5MB before I removed the links to Twitter. I assume it's a the Facebook data links that are doing it, but even so, 17.5MB seems rather excessive.

[Pete]

If you buy a new SD card to replace the one you get with it how od you go about moving your apps and what not over? Is it just a case of a straight copy / paste in Windows and it'll work or is it more of a clart? I don't want to go and download a billion apps if I find I can't move them easily.

How does everyone else have their homescreens set up btw? Not sure if I find that friend stream gizmo useful tbh

[Gavin Scott]

If you buy a new SD card to replace the one you get with it how od you go about moving your apps and what not over? Is it just a case of a straight copy / paste in Windows and it'll work or is it more of a clart? I don't want to go and download a billion apps if I find I can't move them easily.

How does everyone else have their homescreens set up btw? Not sure if I find that friend stream gizmo useful tbh

You can move the apps to the phone (provided you've not filled up the phone memory) and then on to another SD card. When I had a problem with my card I copied it wholsesale to my PC, formatted the card, and then wrote everything back to the SD card. Seemed to work ok. I made a point of turning off my phone and leaving it off for the duration though - in case an incoming text or similar screwed the whole thing.

I have a customised home page with my calendar app, some icons of well used things, an agenda to the left and the friendstream off to the right.

Friendstream is ok for a cursory glance when I nip out for a ciggie at work - but I'd rather use the facebook app for a proper browse. I'm not into having twitter jumbled up with facebook - and try as I might I'm just not going to get into twitter. Its all too "me me me" - and doesn't encourage me to participate. Just not my bag.

And frankly, no one is that interesting.

[Inspector Sands]

I do wonder how 250 contacts seems to be taking up 17.5MB.

It was 19.5MB before I removed the links to Twitter. I assume it's a the Facebook data links that are doing it, but even so, 17.5MB seems rather excessive.

I've seen reports of people with 60MB of Contacts Storage. Apparently it does seem to run away with itself and take up more and more space. I did see a way to reduce it online yesterday but it basically involved backing everything up and then clearing the data and resyncing everything, can't find the link now though.

Mine is only 9MB so not too bad, but what did you do to remove Twitter? I've turned off syncing of Twitter friends but they're still there as contacts. I've very few Twitter contacts who are actual friends so I'd like to remove them if possible

[Gavin Scott]

I'm not sure how the 'backup to gmail' app works but surely if you sync your gmail then they'll be saved on your account and you can just leave them there or save them locally on your PC

Yes, but wouldn't they disappear if the next time I backup to gmail and they're not on the phone?

I thought that was the point in "syncing"?