Got Myself a HTC Desire, advice?

[Jules86]

Had 2 friends try and be different and get a HTC.........they had an iphone after one week with it 

[cmdrfire]

Had 2 friends try and be different and get a HTC.........they had an iphone after one week with it 

They get HTCs with WinMo or Android?

[Jules86]

No idea mate. They sent them back within two weeks though.

They only got them as they read they were better than the iphone and wanted to trump me 

[billy2shots]

I got a Desire yesterday. Does anyone notice the signal changing so much. When its in my pocket i have no signal then when i take it out i have 4 bars wtf. Then with it on the table the bars change up and down. Seems very sensitive to position change.

[cmdrfire]

Got no problems here with signal...

[keith]

I still haven't got to grips with the battery, its not lasting a whole day
Other than that i likes it

[billy2shots]

I still haven't got to grips with the battery, its not lasting a whole day
Other than that i likes it

Battery life does seem very poor, i read somewhere that you need to charge for 8 hours then turn on then charge for another hour or some random routine.


Has everyone updated to 2.2?

[markfive]

Battery life is OK for me, easily lasts a day and thats with two email accounts (one Exchange and one Gmail) and a fair few calls as well plus bog browsing and music to/from work.

[billy2shots]

Battery life is OK for me, easily lasts a day and thats with two email accounts (one Exchange and one Gmail) and a fair few calls as well plus bog browsing and music to/from work.

Surely a day is not acceptable or is it for these new "smart phones"?

[markfive]

TBH it depends on what you use the phone for - it's easy enough to drain the battery of any smartphone in a few hours.

[cmdrfire]

I still haven't got to grips with the battery, its not lasting a whole day
Other than that i likes it

I get about 30 hours of battery out of my Desire; that's with phone calls, three emails (work, uni, gmail), twitter, etc., but wifi is off most of the time. Wifi is a big battery killer as is bluetooth, so turn those off if you're not using them.

Also, the 2.2 official update includes a new radio software which improves battery life significantly. Get the official 2.2 update from HTC, or if you've got the skills root and flash the latest radio onto whatever ROM you're running.

[billy2shots]

I have turned wifi off now as i thought that may be a power drain Cant turn Bluetooth off though otherwise i will have to adjust it everytime i get in or out my car for the Bluetooth phone kit. On my old phone i had 3 options, BT on, off or hidden. Once paired up to the car i put it on hidden and it was great always connected to the car but stopped nobs down the pub trying to send stuff to peoples phones. With the desire i can only see "on" or "off" am i missing something?

[cmdrfire]

If you go to Menu > Wireless & Networks > Bluetooth Settings there are options to set device name, Make Device Discoverable (which is what you want I think - make sure this is set to off after you've paired), and then some more advanced settings.

Alternatively there's the HTC widget to turn Bluetooth on/off or you can get something like the Switchpro widget.

[john_o]

if you spend a reasonable amount of time at home, its worth getting it to auto use wireless (your home router) when in range.
uses less power than 3G 
theres also a GSM PRL tweak for scanning cell tower data 2G<>3G for the NexusOne but Im not sure if it works on the Desire

[rdfcpete]

^ True that Johno.

That feature does seem to drink my battery though on my Wildfire though. A guy at work who has the Desire says its not affected his battery life.