HTC the most annoying phones ever?

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Had this Wildfire S for about 2 months now, when I first got it, gradually managed to customise it to how I want, at one point I had it so I had 4 different email accounts all syncing properly, all my contacts updated etc. and nothing annoying going on.

Then it started to not receive emails properly, don't know what was the matter with it, just one account went and then the others followed pretty quickly.

Anyway looked up the problem for a while and one place said factory reset it, so I did that, I assumed my contacts were on the SIM, they weren't so I lost like 10 years worth of contacts. Now fair enough that's my fault and I've got no one to blame for that but what's more annoying is after the factory reset, it appears as if everything except my contacts the phone remembered, it put almost all the apps back on by itself, remembered the dictionary, some other settings, what's the point of that if it's not gonna delete everything?

Anyway, finally got it back going again, most of my contacts I need put back on etc. put the email accounts back on and I can't seem to get my live account to sync properly at all, it either won't mark the emails as read, either on the phone or on the server, or it marks them as read on the phone until the next check for new emails in which case it marks them all unread again and beeps and vibrates.

Anyone else have a problem like this? Spent ages looking it up and the only piece of advice I can find is either to factory reset again or untick a box which says "delete mail on server", I'm sure that I unticked that box the first time round but now that is nowhere on my phone, can't find it anywhere.

So now my phone beeps new email, open the email, read it, put it down and before my hand has left it it beeps again with the same email.

Does anyone know what to do? Or wanna buy a wildfire s?
 
It's hard to pinpoint the issue but I would say it's more of an Android problem than a HTC problem.

You should definitely back your contacts up to Gmail, then you won't have to worry about losing them ever again.
 
yeah you might be right, either way though it's the most frustrating thing in the world, you'd think Google would at least be able to manage how you handle email, it's hardly like I'm complaining I can't 3d model a jet liner on my phone.
 
I use 5 different email address's on my Android, but only have a single one actually setup. I use Gmail to manage all my other email accounts (Gmail, Hotmail and a couple of POP3's) and can recieve and send as those accounts from within my main Gmail.
 
I use 5 different email address's on my Android, but only have a single one actually setup. I use Gmail to manage all my other email accounts (Gmail, Hotmail and a couple of POP3's) and can recieve and send as those accounts from within my main Gmail.

This.

It's worth doing irrespective of phone/computer OS :)
 
yeah you might be right, either way though it's the most frustrating thing in the world, you'd think Google would at least be able to manage how you handle email, it's hardly like I'm complaining I can't 3d model a jet liner on my phone.


Google does. By default Android backs up everything to the cloud. 'Sense' by default stores everything locally. You can change this behaviour, but you were right in the first place. It's a HTC, not Google issue.
 
I have everything possible backed up to Google just in case. Contacts, calendar, photos, SMS. I also keep a local mirror on my lappy of my SD Card which includes the weekly Titanium backup I do for the phone.
 
put the email accounts back on and I can't seem to get my live account to sync properly at all, it either won't mark the emails as read, either on the phone or on the server, or it marks them as read on the phone until the next check for new emails in which case it marks them all unread again and beeps and vibrates.

Is this not because Hotmail is useless and doesn't support IMAP? I don't know how you had it set up before, but the symptoms you list sound like it's using POP3.

MS allowed Exchange support last year, so try setting it up that way and seeing if it works. There's a guide of sorts here.
 
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