Sprint HTC Touch - Bugs, complaints, etc.

[chanceray]

sometimes when i get incoming calls most of the name of the contact is cut out and just shows the very bottom of the name,
is anyone experiencing this problem, and does anyone know how to fix it?

[Pibe38]

Originally Posted by chanceray

sometimes when i get incoming calls most of the name of the contact is cut out and just shows the very bottom of the name,
is anyone experiencing this problem, and does anyone know how to fix it?

No fix for noe as far as I know, a soft reset will temporarily get rid of the behavior though.

[Reprobus]

I'm not with Sprint, but with Telus in Canada (Touch model 3050 rolled out here recently).

I'm also having the issue with no ringing/notifications while in standby. I only noticed it today using my work phone to call the Touch. Manually putting the phone in standby (aka turning the screen off with a tap of the power button) means zero calls getting through. Upon wakeup, I'll get the VM notification, but geez, this is frustrating. (Ironically, i was only testing it to see how loud the ringer was in its pouch, since I missed several calls while the phone was holstered on Friday.)

I've had mine less than a week, and haven't installed much (TCPMP, Midlet Manager/OperaMini, and GoogleEarth) and tweaked a bit (just basic settings, no regedit or anything). No apps are running, all progs/ringtones are in onboard memory (issue happens in vibrate mode too), and I've had BlueTooth off since day 1. I haven't required a soft reset due to phone freeze as some others have mentioned, it just won't wake up automatically from the call.

My workaround has been to turn off the powersave standby, and set the backlight to turn off after a minute. This sucks for the battery, but at least calls come through.

I'm going to try again in the morning (no landline at home). As per advice on here and other forums, other settings I've changed are:

- setting Key Lock to "Do Not Lock Buttons"
- turned off "Today timeout" (don't even know what this means)
- will try ensure Data connection is terminated before letting the phone standby (which would be a real pita since it often seems to reconnect on it's own, with no prog running)
- some have suggested turning off the Home screen, custom or not, but I really hope not to for sheer style's sake.

I don't know if this is an HTC or WM6 issue, but man I hope one of them addresses it soon, as it seems like a pretty major bug. I checked out the HTC phone updates page. Wow, nice bit o' BLANK there. Very reassuring!

Will post if I have any luck.

[roheer]

for the former ppc-6700 users here:
- how would you compare the two?
- is it worth trying to trade for a failing ppc-6700 / buy new on ebay express?

[OMJ]

Originally Posted by roheer

for the former ppc-6700 users here:
- how would you compare the two?
- is it worth trying to trade for a failing ppc-6700 / buy new on ebay express?

There's no comparison......as long as you can deal w/ a software keyboard & no wifi, definitely go w/ the Touch. I'm using the TouchPal kb, probably type alittle faster w/ prediction.

[Too Hot]

i simply hate the touch screen and trying to use the keyboard

[H2447INTX]

well i was trying to sync my touch to my pc today and i put the cd in and loaded all that crap and had the touch conected via usb and well the pc said id could not find it, no i have change the id name on my phone could that be it? should i return the name back to factory first?

i tryed over and over but it said i could not find it , that my phone was not connected!

sorry but when i would connect and disconect i could hear the computer prompt like it was connecting?
any ideas?

[H2447INTX]

nevermind it was how it was set up in the phone got it

sorry

[mithodge]

Originally Posted by kenlewisesq

My Touch always returns to the Home screen whenever it is turned on. Is anyone else having this problem? Anyone know what I can do to turn this "feature" off? I unchecked the "Today timeout" in Settings so I know that's not the cause. I really hope someone can help as this is driving me nuts.

Originally Posted by rijc99

If you turn off the lock/password function in the personal menu it will no longer default to home screen.

Richard

I am having this issue too when I turn the phone on when there is a PIN in use. When I turn off the screen during a call to prevent unintentional button pressing, I cannot turn it back on during the same call and have the start menu work. I have to end the call, and then hit the power button to turn the phone off and back on. The start menu then works.

Does anyone know how to disable the "home screen on power up" even if there is a PIN lock? I don't want to give up the security for this to work right. THANKS!

[Serrao21]

Hey i accidently synced my msn contacts to appear in my mobile phone contacts and i do not want them there anymore.. i tried unchecking the box that says this but it is grayed out. if anyone can walk me through how to get it to just display phone contacts that would be great because this is my first ppc and im new to this. thank you in advanced!