HTC Desire HD (Ace)

Russinating · 1 Dec 2010 at 15:09

DJMK4 said:
Has anyone got a guide on the best way to tweak this phone out of the box to get best performance out of this phone including battery performance?

Turning off internet when you don't need it is the biggest battery-saver for me. That and set the brightness to auto and reduce sync times (Facebook 4 hours instead of push etc).

DarkShadow · 1 Dec 2010 at 15:31

I'm currently on the market for a new phone, are there any deals knocking around?

Mahnsikir · 1 Dec 2010 at 16:14

no phone today, stupid snow...

rogueblade · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:20

ummmm, how do you open the mico sd card flap?? lol

Robbo · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:22

rogueblade said:
ummmm, how do you open the mico sd card flap?? lol

Pull it downwards and it'll come off. Look at the damn manual man!

Broken Hope · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:35

I found that one easy, it was the freaking battery cover I had problems with

TheOtherOption · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:54

Yea, i'm dreading taking it off again!

But will hopefully grab me a bigger capacity battery eventually so will have to change it.

Glad to hear that you FINALLY got a DHD rogueblade!

Robbo · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:57

I've got the hang of the battery cover, I took it off and on about 10 or so times when fiddling

MeAnBoY · 1 Dec 2010 at 19:02

rogueblade said:
Well folks, the world can rest in peace now, I got my Desire HD

It took me 98 posts to get it
Picked it up from the royal mail depot this morning. Now it's gonna sit in it's shiny box next to me for the next eight hours before I can take it home and play.

Can I pop the sim in and use it right away or do I need to charge her first?

WHAY! I literally just popped into this thread to ask whether you had got yours yet, lucky I read your post first

Hope you fingers hurt from playing with it all day

(Why no christmas hat on this smiley?)

Broken Hope · 1 Dec 2010 at 19:23

Just done a Quadrant bench on my phone, is it normal for the FPS and Frame counter to be cut off the bottom of the screen?

rogueblade · 1 Dec 2010 at 20:54

holy cow this phone is awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee theres so much to do!

I spent about half an hour trying to get the battery cover off. I finally put a kitchen knife to it and put so much pressure on it the cap flew off and hit the ceiling. I thought i'd broken it but its ok. You can see the blade damage on the tiny slit where you put your finger nail to get it open. I will never open that again.

I saw countless posts of people who syncd with their google/facebook and ended up with an address book of 1000+ phone numbers; just happened to me....Guess it's time to rake the thread for the solution.

So much more to come!

edit: Oh and thanks all for congratulating me on finally getting my phone

Kanpai · 1 Dec 2010 at 23:46

*sigh* As much as I love it when it snows, I'd rather it snowed on a day that I'm not expecting my HTC DHD =(

ch0ke · 2 Dec 2010 at 02:21

facebook problem, if i click the phone button on the bottom all my facebook phone book numbers are listed but they are not contacts in the "People" area, i dont want them on the phone is there anyway to get rid of them i have facebook contacts turned off in the "View" but they still show on the phone ?

Broken Hope · 2 Dec 2010 at 07:25

ch0ke said:
facebook problem, if i click the phone button on the bottom all my facebook phone book numbers are listed but they are not contacts in the "People" area, i dont want them on the phone is there anyway to get rid of them i have facebook contacts turned off in the "View" but they still show on the phone ?

I think it's a bug personally, I have sim contacts disabled in "View" but they show when I press the phone button, I'm almost 100% sure it wasn't like that on my Hero.

ch0ke · 2 Dec 2010 at 08:25

i have a hero sat here too they show in the "phone" section but not in the "people" phone book thing..so same thing on hero wonder if they will ever fix this might have to stop syncing facebook altogether

DJMK4 · 2 Dec 2010 at 08:34

Broken Hope said:
I think it's a bug personally, I have sim contacts disabled in "View" but they show when I press the phone button, I'm almost 100% sure it wasn't like that on my Hero.

I managed to get rid of them, go in to settings, then sync settings, remove the facebook account, then load facebook, it will ask you to log in to facebook, when you log in, turn off facebook syncing then bam, no more facebook contacts in your phone contact list.

DJMK4 · 2 Dec 2010 at 08:49

I read a guide on how to stop news, stocks syncing etc, it tells you to go in to settings>account and syncing, you can then see news, weather, stocks etc, however going on these, there is no option to remove or stop these from syncing??

Any ideas?

Also, can anyone reccomend anymore tweaking guides? I read the one that was posted a few pages back but I wanted to see if there is more I can do, im finding this phone quite sluggish I am sorry to say

it does tend to be guide awkward when browsing through menu's, freezes when loading stuff.

I have also turned off WiFi and Mobile data via the settings menu, unless I need them, I have then added a WiFi Shortcut to my home screen, is there anyway to put a mobile data shortcut on my home screen so I can easily turn on mobile data?

Jumblejug · 2 Dec 2010 at 09:14

I use SwitchPro, you can put shortcuts to quite a few things to turn them on or off. It cost $0.99 though

DJMK4 · 2 Dec 2010 at 09:19

Cool ta

DJMK4 · 2 Dec 2010 at 09:36

Another bug I may have found, I have turned off vibrate when I press items on the screen, as A) Its annoying, and B) it wastes the battery, but it still happens when I am typing SMS messages even though its turned off in the menu (Settings>Sound>Vibrate Feedback)