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[Q] Are you bored of your HTC Desire?

Hello
After flashing, re flashing and re re flashing so many times.... now atleast i have gone bored of the HTC Desire. This is mainly because there are not many good quality apps specially games. I am no Apple fanboy but the app store is something that android doesnt looks like achieving pretty soon.
The main things i like in HTC Desire are as following:-
1) Wifi Hotspot. WOW! thats so cool
2) being able to customize it as u want it to with widgets.
3) FRIENDSTREAM WIDGET its simply awesome
4) weather animations
Thats all.
The major things i dont like are:-
1) Camera. its just ok, not that good.
2) battery.... it drains battery as if its hungry all the time
3) no good games/apps
So what do you have to say? Are you still happy with the Desire or are you planning to go with something else?
As far as i am concerned i have decided to sell it very soon.... but wifi hotspot feature is what i love the most.

If you want to play games get a DS
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Angry Birds, Doodle Jump, Abducted, Alchemy... they are the best games I've installed on my phone
Kept me busy for a good while!
On top of that there's all the emulators - now they aren't so hot for action (but probably better with wiimote add in) games, but for some others they work just fine!
I love my Desire - before that I had the WM HTC Touch HD, now that has a serious lack of games... the best I found was solitaire or ScummVM...

I have to agree, there are not so many really good games in the market right now. But I'm sure this will change. Many surveys etc. suggest more and more developers of mobile application and games are considering developing for android, and seeing as the number of android phones rises continually I think the growing market will attract more and more developers. So I guess you just have to hang in there untill then

Yes I agree there are few game the ones u listed. But they completed and then what after that? Same boring things. When will we have more stuff. Android platform is awesome but.....
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sparkyxda said:
If you want to play games get a DS
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We take a multimedia phone so that we have everything in it. Isn't it?
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deepakoffline said:
We take a multimedia phone so that we have everything in it. Isn't it?
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good point, but as you said its a multimedia phone, emphasis being on a phone, you say there are no good games but what are you comparing this too? a ds? a psp? these are dedicated gaming machines and therefore will always have the upper hand, as other mobile platforms go the games on android are quite good, just check out the gameloft HD series and others like NFS Shift

Rooting and installing a custom ROM is the answer, that is what makes the desires one of the best PDA's on the market nowadays even better than the iPhone I would say.
I have been an iPhone user for the last 2 years I just love how many more things I can do with my desire.

And if the battery issue is a problem try custom kernels, they work great

have tried custom roms... almost all good ones. but the battery problem still persists. actually by reading at various sites like engadget i came to know that the battery drain problem is actually of android os itself. hmmmm....

I was happy until the random reboots started and I cannot send it to service so I am stuck at using it as rare as possible since every time I use it to much it reboots and then gets stuck at the white HTC screen and I have to reinstall the ROM to be able to boot again.
I like(d) it alot, and am thinking of getting another Desire. Or getting a completely different company device. Still confused

Battery drain is not a problem at all. Just compare to other os and you'll see that the situation is better on Android os due to custom kernels and cpu dynamic speed adjusting.

I agree with the battery drain issue, and the touch feeling of screen is not better than IP4

lots of nice games on android you just need to know how to hunt them
with froyo the touch responsiveness is equal to the iphone 4, SLCD desire is pretty close to IP4 screen quality too, a little less density but better colors, the IP4 screen is also much closer to the surface which is nice but ours is a little bigger
my fav game is asphalt 5 but i keep loosing my save game due to messing with my rom
another very impressive game i'm hooked at is panzer panic
also minisquadron, hyperjump, meteor blitz, heavy gunner, backbreaker, need for speed shift and hero of sparta all very impressive

deepakoffline said:
have tried custom roms... almost all good ones. but the battery problem still persists. actually by reading at various sites like engadget i came to know that the battery drain problem is actually of android os itself. hmmmm....
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I am atm using Deforst with 1113 HAVS kernel and setin SetCpu to 1113 MHZ and I can tell you my battery life is much much better than when running stock froyo

one more thing i'm taking great pictures with the default camera app, you just need to know how to handle it's settings, for example i set sharpness to -2 which removes all the digital treatment ie over sharpness, also set colors and brightness + 1 and of course choosing correcting ISO at night
people are often just blindly impressed by the iphone 4 pics but compare them side by side and you will notice horrible performance at night from the iphone 4 and horrible of noise even at indoor daylight, even the colors produced by the iphone 4 camera are unreal
only two wins for the iphone 4 cam for me, the flawless 720p and HDR

If you really want them in a phone buy and iPhone 4 and jailbreak it for the WiFi hotspot?
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ste1164 said:
If you really want them in a phone buy and iPhone 4 and jailbreak it for the WiFi hotspot?
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did i read it for real or am i dreaming!!! wifi hotspot can be achieved in the iphone!! thats cool does it works with 3gs too?
ahhhh but then there is no bluetooth. iBluetooth... i used it when i had 3g... but thats no good at all.
desire is still good. but just now had a look at winphone 7 devices. awesomeness redefined

i am a fairly heavy user and get 2 days worth of battery out of mine, if i dont use wifi i am on 3 days. The iphone4 is just as hungry when it comes to battery

A|ex said:
i am a fairly heavy user and get 2 days worth of battery out of mine, if i dont use wifi i am on 3 days. The iphone4 is just as hungry when it comes to battery
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oh REALLY!!!! i dont get more than 1 day... even i have to charge 2-3 times a day. well... very soon, maybe, i will get a new phone. maybe windows phone 7. but it has lots of limitations just like iphone....
lets see.... what happens

Gaming on HTC One V

HTC One V can run casual games like Angry Birds,Temple Run etc smoothly,but what about HD Games? I've just played Dead Space on my HTC One V.What about other games like Shadowgun,GTA III?
anyone else tried these games??

Ofc its htc one ! Its htc 1. I also want diz cell but dad wont allw
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In my case GTA III freezes phone then reset. MW3 isn't even in market... I have sgs2 and I have to admit that 4.3" display is too small for gta/mw... imho ofc
>7" tablets are better

Shadowgun runs great on mine. The SOC is a good one for gaming. MC3 is oddly incompatible, probably an error on the part of Gameloft. I own GTA 3 but I haven't played it yet, when I give it a whirl I'll share my thoughts on its performance.
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I am facing slight lag issues while playing Temple Run on my HTC One V. Sometimes the game will lag and when you die the end screen just displays the score on a black background and no replay or menu button (though if you touch in the area where replay button should be it will take input). Once you encounter this issue where the end screen starts displaying score on a black screen, it will reoccur every time until you restart the device (Killing running apps using Task Manager does not help)

I've no problem with temple run but tap tap revenge 4 is killing me with the wrong res...

TanmayP said:
HTC One V can run casual games like Angry Birds,Temple Run etc smoothly,but what about HD Games? I've just played Dead Space on my HTC One V.What about other games like Shadowgun,GTA III?
anyone else tried these games??
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Shadowgun runs smoothly in One v. But GTA III doesn't go that well!
Check out the video.
youtube.com/watch?v=QtvcMxtVW7s

TanmayP said:
HTC One V can run casual games like Angry Birds,Temple Run etc smoothly,but what about HD Games? I've just played Dead Space on my HTC One V.What about other games like Shadowgun,GTA III?
anyone else tried these games??
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yup gta 3 doesnt run but u can run games like mc3, shadow gun , dead trigger asphalt 7, mw 2012etc hd games run kinda smooth on one v:fingers-crossed:

Hyp3rion said:
I am facing slight lag issues while playing Temple Run on my HTC One V. Sometimes the game will lag and when you die the end screen just displays the score on a black background and no replay or menu button (though if you touch in the area where replay button should be it will take input). Once you encounter this issue where the end screen starts displaying score on a black screen, it will reoccur every time until you restart the device (Killing running apps using Task Manager does not help)
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dude even i am facing the same problem.

Hyp3rion said:
I am facing slight lag issues while playing Temple Run on my HTC One V. Sometimes the game will lag and when you die the end screen just displays the score on a black background and no replay or menu button (though if you touch in the area where replay button should be it will take input). Once you encounter this issue where the end screen starts displaying score on a black screen, it will reoccur every time until you restart the device (Killing running apps using Task Manager does not help)
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Sometimes I get this problem too....
But I desensed the rom and it seems not to have this problem now.
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GTA lll,GTA vice city,Shadowgun,Need for speed most wanted,Deadtriger work great on mine
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Solution for some games
For gta iii you need to set the screen sleep timer to maximum (30 min in my case but I run costum rom) point is, when the game downloads the extra files it needs it's very important that the phone won't go into sleep mode. If it downloads only a part of the files it will, strangely, still run, but crash after a while
Hope that helps
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Overclock your phone and it helps with frames. Especially when using oblndemand or Lionheart governer. I reccomend 1.2ghz - 1.5ghz. Just be sure not to overheat it might run a little warm you just have to know when too hot is bad.
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list of games
guys i'm planning to buy this phone but the single core 1ghz is bugging me. is it able to run asphalt 6,7 and real racing etc smoothly?
with out over clocking because im not soo in to that due to fear of bricking. and over all is this phone better than sola as sola has a poor battery life? plz help me

hellbornA.J said:
guys i'm planning to buy this phone but the single core 1ghz is bugging me. is it able to run asphalt 6,7 and real racing etc smoothly?
with out over clocking because im not soo in to that due to fear of bricking. and over all is this phone better than sola as sola has a poor battery life? plz help me
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if you root it u can almost play any game....but if u want to play safe then i suggest u buy the sola....its a good phone with dual core proccessor capable of playing any game
BTW asphalt 6 runs gr8 on the one v but i suggest buying the sola for more heavy performance games
In the end, its up to you

Almost all game are smooth but when I was choosing this fone I loved the screen DPI. I have used sola as well to but overall I say this fone is gr8 in screen battery backup and also sound quality in which sola sucks and Samsung also. And sola comes with 2.3.7 one v comes with 4.0 ics .
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Check on you tube shadow gun smooth but not sure about GTA and if you are going to buy it for games only you are not making a good choice I must say go for PSP dude!.
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Please reply!!
Can Gangsta Rio be supported on HTC One V?

I have a problem with games "pausing" by themselves intermittently on certain games (Candy Crush Saga, Temple Run Oz, etc.) does any body know why?

Gta Vice city,MC2,MC3,Asphalt 5-6-7,Batman,Spider man,Mass Effect and many more awesome game works well on my htc onev.Oww It's a awesome device.

anyone have dl link for real racing? cant find it on the play store.
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[Q] [advice needed] desire c

hi,
A friend of mine wanna buy a droid and asked me for advice.I recommended hTc desire c.
I have got few doubts about the phone
1.Camera quality(5 mp fixed focus camera,a little bit worried about this)
2.600 MHz CPU
3.Battery life
If anyone here used this phone plz post ur personal review here! Thanks in Advance

I bought this phone two days ago and am very disappointed. Let alone the camera, the 600 MHz CPU is so slow. The screen is no way like the HTC phones as you have to press an icon multiple times. I havent been able to find any files to flash this phone. (there is one on Shipped roms, but its a Verizon one). The battery is OK
Basically, its a HTC Wildfire in a different shell.. I am gonna sell this phone either today or tomorrow as its a heavy let down !

deepakskht1 said:
hi,
A friend of mine wanna buy a droid and asked me for advice.I recommended hTc desire c.
I have got few doubts about the phone
1.Camera quality(5 mp fixed focus camera,a little bit worried about this)
2.600 MHz CPU
3.Battery life
If anyone here used this phone plz post ur personal review here! Thanks in Advance
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Have you tried asking in the Desire C forums?

Camera isnt too bad,although fixed focus can be annoying at night, but I seem to get average quality pictures from it. CPU is slow at times but not horribly slow, good amount of memory to. Although I'm going to carry on using my desire for now. Battery life is also quite decent to though, get through a day easily maybe two.
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Is Sony cheating us??

Hi to all Sony xperia users. I was playing with my wife's micromax canvas hd phone and surprised to see its total ram exactly about 1 gb with the same screen resolution as of ours xperia s whereas in xperia s it's very low around 700 mb. Against claimed 1gb by Sony. Anyone have a explanation or their views about this?
Screen shots below.
Sony xperia s
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Amount of free ram depends on the chipset the device uses.
None of Micromax devices use snapdragon chipsets.
While our Xperia S uses snapdragon s3 chipset and it requires that 300 MB reserved for GPU.
So you get around 700 MB for apps.
Newer chipset has reduced memory requirement for GPU like the one in Xperia Z which requires less than 200 MB.
One more example,
My laptop has 4 GB of RAM but out of that 1 GB is reserved for system and i only get 3GB Ram as usable memory.

~300mb of ram are used by system or something like that

the more the system ram,less the phone lags.check samsung phones(eg galaxy s2,it has same 1gb but 900 mb free).lags like hell.so dont complaint.all apps work fine,no problem multitasking and its fluid

franklin93 said:
the more the system ram,less the phone lags.check samsung phones(eg galaxy s2,it has same 1gb but 900 mb free).lags like hell.so dont complaint.all apps work fine,no problem multitasking and its fluid
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Heh, I wish that XS wouldn't lag

yUlekk said:
Heh, I wish that XS wouldn't lag
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It never lags for me in jb.it never lagged or even slowed down for me.just as fast as quad core,believe me.ics was good but I felt a lil slow,jb is amazing

franklin93 said:
It never lags for me in jb.it never lagged or even slowed down for me.just as fast as quad core,believe me.ics was good but I felt a lil slow,jb is amazing
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As a matter of fact, our device had the best ICS ROM than any other during the time.. Except for Nexus devices..

sudhindrakv said:
As a matter of fact, our device had the best ICS ROM than any other during the time.. Except for Nexus devices..
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I know but never experienced because I got it during android 4.2 times.my phone is only few months old.I saw many ics review videos and they say it was one of the finest looking interface back then,well polished.I still agree it was good but felt performance was a lil slow to my taste.jb is just perfect as per speed

franklin93 said:
I know but never experienced because I got it during android 4.2 times.my phone is only few months old.I saw many ics review videos and they say it was one of the finest looking interface back then,well polished.I still agree it was good but felt performance was a lil slow to my taste.jb is just perfect as per speed
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Ours was flagship device know, so we had the best ROM like Z1 has now..

sudhindrakv said:
Ours was flagship device know, so we had the best ROM like Z1 has now..
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So sony did give it a royal treatment before killing it.thats glad to hear its really a flagship even now,for me.never slowed down.awesome phone

Are you guys using the same phone as me? lol. My phone lags like hell sometimes. It takes 2-3 minutes to open phonebook :laugh: I was blown away by note3's smoothness today. Cant wait till i get my hands on it :victory:

mithab said:
Are you guys using the same phone as me? lol. My phone lags like hell sometimes. It takes 2-3 minutes to open phonebook :laugh: I was blown away by note3's smoothness today. Cant wait till i get my hands on it :victory:
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U have some serious problems on your phone boy.. My contacts or phonebook only takes around 2 seconds max to open..

sudhindrakv said:
U have some serious problems on your phone boy.. My contacts or phonebook only takes around 2 seconds max to open..
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cool, you are using Existence?

Dodofant said:
cool, you are using Existence?
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Stock was smooth, but eXistenZ is way too fast..

sudhindrakv said:
U have some serious problems on your phone boy.. My contacts or phonebook only takes around 2 seconds max to open..
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Maybe i have too many contacts lol. :cyclops: I didn't see anyone with this problem so I guess, its on me. What governors and scheduler are you using if I might ask.

mithab said:
Maybe i have too many contacts lol. :cyclops: I didn't see anyone with this problem so I guess, its on me. What governors and scheduler are you using if I might ask.
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Ondemand and Conservative will do.. It gave me good battery and decent performance.. for good performance, u can use performance governors itself..

[Q] phone getting too much hot?

My phone is getting very hot though i m using it the same way i used it before..
It gets very hot near camera lens at backside of phone..
I am having this issue from last week?
What could be the reason?? and is it ok? Or i need to do something for it?

exactly same problem... was fine before... problem occurring from few days...

Done some testing, seems to be the screen brightness for me

Did you using m dual??
Maybe,,,???
-Your phone it's always lookin' a great signal in your're area,,
-Tryng to set brightness in low,,
My phone get in hot if i playin' hard games like a real racing 3 or asphalt 8,, after that,,full normally,,
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echo juned said:
Did you using m dual??
Maybe,,,???
-Your phone it's always lookin' a great signal in your're area,,
-Tryng to set brightness in low,,
My phone get in hot if i playin' hard games like a real racing 3 or asphalt 8,, after that,,full normally,,
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Brightness is set to auto, but it's mostly at low.
And yes i play asphalt 8 but i was playing NFS most wanted from long time but it doesn't make my phone hot i guess...

Krishna_MDual said:
My phone is getting very hot though i m using it the same way i used it before..
It gets very hot near camera lens at backside of phone..
I am having this issue from last week?
What could be the reason?? and is it ok? Or i need to do something for it?
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i have same issue in my M Dual, but i just installed advanced task killer and auto sync turned off, now my phone heating problem is solved