The battle of the Droids??!

[tomato]

Originally Posted by PK198105

you did if you are the type of person that just clicks away indiscriminately without reading (not that YOU Tomato are like that). People need to stop being lazy (not that you are again) and expect technology to do their work for them and be over reliant on the said technology. Just remember everyone garbage IN garbage OUT

I hear ya. Just remember, though, when they launched BUZZ, they connected everybody in your GMAIL address book by default one day you woke up, and realized you were following other people or they followed you by default, without your knowledge.

The problem is that your email account isn't your buddy list. People promptly started to complain (ex-spouse "seeing" new spouse's info, etc.) and Google changed the default settings after that, but I find it shocking that they wouldn't foresee something like that... oh well.

Yeah, you have to be careful - as much as possible.

PS. don't get me wrong, I still love Google, and most of the stuff they do but they fcked up with BUZZ IMO.

[eTiMaGo]

tomato, also keep in mind HTC's Sense adds its own layer of Facebook integration, though I'm not sure to what extent on the Evo.

[tomato]

^ Yeah, OK, I see what you're saying. There is indeed an extra layer of sense doing it's own thing. One FB app was preloaded and I don't use it. I use the FB app I downloaded myself off the market but there may still be some hidden settings in there.

Sense has some cool stuff but I might just revert back to straight android. I don't use most widgets anyway.
There is a bunch of stuff on my phone I don't want (don't need Sprint Navigation since I have Google Maps) taking up valuable space.

Looks like I have my work cut out to try figure that stuff out.

[tomato]

I don't know if I should post this in the bitch /rant section or in here, but here goes.

Ever since my FroYo update, my gmail accounts no longer sync to the EVO. Only the primary account syncs but that's it. The other one(s) has (have) to be refreshed manually which is kind of a pain.

I thought something was screwy with my unit so I called HTC to see if they have any suggestions. They initially asked me what I did to cause the problem (uh? gee thanks, guys!) checked the settings with me and found everything in order, then blamed 3rd party apps on the problems, and then eventually told me to reset the phone to factory default and call them back if the problem persists.

hmmm...

Reset to factory default is kind of a last resort thing I think, so I decided to poke around and see if anyone else is having the issues... sure enough, bam

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/...yo-gmail-sync/

Grrrrr

At least now I know, it isn't sopmething I did (or didn't do) [sure blame the user, always blame the user ]

I blame Sense myself, rather than 3rd party apps, but OK . Grrrr...

Factory reset probably won't hurt but what a fn pain *sigh*

[tomato]

Google is aware of the problem

http://www.google.vu/support/forum/p...520ef09b&hl=en

says they're working with HTC now

only phones affected (apparently) are HTC evo and HTC desire (since the Froyo update)

[tomato]

@kioshi I believe I have the answer you were looking for. Yes there is a place in the setting where you can have more than 1 KB available for texting and you can switch forth and back at will. As to what Asian language you can use exactly, I just don't know because I can make out the characters, but you could if you looked at them. So, head out to a store near you and go play with the demo unit. You'll find your answer. This is on HTC Sense with Froyo 2.2

Tomato

[Kioshi]

^ thanks for digging through your phones sub-menus.
i cant wait to take my jet-lagged face into stores tomorrow morning :)

[eTiMaGo]

at least you won't have to root the device and manually copy over fonts like we have to do for Thai

[Kioshi]

^ seriously? you'd think they would have all that prepackaged for the region right?

[eTiMaGo]

well if you buy the phones officially from the local distributor, yes. But if you bought the phone (cheaper) from overseas, then you gotta do that.

[Kioshi]

there's always a catch to these "cheaper" things, isn't there ;)

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by tomato

@kioshi I believe I have the answer you were looking for. Yes there is a place in the setting where you can have more than 1 KB available for texting and you can switch forth and back at will. As to what Asian language you can use exactly, I just don't know because I can make out the characters, but you could if you looked at them. So, head out to a store near you and go play with the demo unit. You'll find your answer. This is on HTC Sense with Froyo 2.2

Tomato

oh that stuff?

under text/locale (on mytouch) all i need to do is activate any kb I upload to the device....
then when I want to use it, longpress on the text box and it will say input method and select that then it will bring up list of Keyboards available...

[tomato]

for those who are still following ...

Received the Froyo update OTA from Sprint 2 weeks ago. For a while, there were problems, such as my gmail accounts weren't pushing mail properly / were not syncing (BTW sorry if I seemed to be logged in but did not respond to PM's, I really wasn't getting any msgs); also, unable to change screen passwords, other little things. Looked like we got a defective version of Froyo or something.

Peeps in Android forums and on Google board reported the exact same problem so although HTC told me to wipe my handset clean, I decided to sit tight and wait based on a Google's employee's post in response to our reporting the problem (saying they were gonna push a "fix" but it was up to the carriers to send it through). Sure enough, a few days later, things are back to normal, only with Froyo, your device is indeed a little faster. Can't tell if it saves much battery, however.

Now if only Sprint hadn't disabled the free tethering option

At the moment, there is no way to root the EVO on Froyo (that I know of) so I'm still stock, running pretty generic apps and pretty happy with both the device and the network coverage with Sprint. Still no 4G lit up in my area yet, but that's OK, 3G is plenty fast for basic tasks.

[tomato]

Now before (on Eclair) I was able to turn Sense OFF. Not sure EVO on Froyo will let me do that. Gotta investigate.

[Kioshi]

HTC Sense does suck....i tried it and it linked my contacts list w/ facebook....every info was on there. I turned it off and deleted it. Much better~

Are us Incredible users the only ones in the shadow for the Froyo update? Reading rumors of receiving the update in Sept.
Although I'm still getting use to this new OS...
And i did get Japanese support on here...a bit different than in the native land, but getting use to it slowly.
Thanks everyone!

[eTiMaGo]

So I've got my hands on a Samsung Galaxy S, belongs to a friend who just can't get used to Android... gonna use for a while, mostly because it has different baseband frequencies and I could actually use 3G, which I cannot on my Motorola (2100MHz is not available for 3G here yet, so phones and providers must either support 800MHz or 900MHz, it's a real mess...)

[Kioshi]

how are you liking the Samsung Galaxy S?

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

HTC Sense does suck....i tried it and it liked my contacts list w/ facebook....every info was on there. I turned it off and deleted it. Much better~

Are us Incredible users the only ones in the shadow for the Froyo update? Reading rumors of receiving the update in Sept.
Although I'm still getting use to this new OS...
And i did get Japanese support on here...a bit different than in the native land, but getting use to it slowly.
Thanks everyone!

lol shadow? try getting put in the spotlight then having to wait...and wait and wait......

Mytouch 3g.....Tmobile put in their quarterly mag for mytouch users that we will def get the froyo but no eta.... at all...except for "by the end of the year"