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Hello all,
It's great to have found this forum, I was getting a bit desperate from the lack of customer support on the HTC website...
I stumbled into some issues with my HTC Touch Diamond, and I hope some of you will know the answer to some of them
Let me number them for convenience in replying:
1) Battery charging while the phone is off results in the battery status only going up till about 80% in a few hours, and then staying there. No matter how long I charge my phone, it doesn't go higher than 80%. After a reset, the battery does indicate 100%. How can I fix this without having to reset every time after a charge? Why doesn't the phone "see" the battery is full while it's on? How long should it normally take to charge to 100%?
2) Old SMS messages that I transfered from my SIM card don't show up with the sender's name, but show the sender's number instead. This happens in the Touchflo 3D messages overview, but also in the "all messages" section. New messages from the same sender do show up well. How can I make the old messages also display the senders name?
3) Can I disable threaded SMS messages if I want to somehow?
4) Can I disable the "you are roaming" warning in the weather section? The network I use is *always* in "roaming mode", because my provider uses another provider's network. This cannot be fixed by using a different SIM card. Can I turn off these warnings? They are quite annoying.
5) Another thing that bugged me, is that the screen went off so quickly while in a call. FIXED WITH: \HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\EnableFastDormantDisplayDuringCall
6) There are some "music" files (ring, beep, bt_beep, callend) which show up in my music overview. Why? Where are they? I can't find them, but I want to get rid of them...
7) No snooze function for the alarm.....? Such a basic function, why doesn't this exist? Is it possible to "get" it somehow (while still keeping the alarm option in the Home/Today screen)?
8) When in threaded SMS messaging, it is impossible to select a message. When you click it, the sender screen opens, and only after canceling that screen, you end up with the message being selected. Only then you can delete it. Is it possible to just select the message without opening the sender screen?
9) Manage folders for SMS/MMS is greyed out. Why?
10) Birthday's from contacts don't show up on the "today" screen/calendar?
That's it for now, I already installed the advanced config tool, which of course adds great flexibility!
Thanks in advance for any replies!
see this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=372263
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\OEM\SMSInbo xThreadingDisabled=1
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\SMSNoSentMs g=0
and I also want to add my problem, when I use headphone to listen music, it will have a sound drop every 3-4 mins, but no problem when using BT handsfree or the internal speaker, any idea?
6) You've included the ring tones in your WMP library I think.
7) Yes you can snooze. When your alarm goes off, get the notification to the foreground and there'll be menu options to snooze.
8) Use the Up/Down hardware keys. (Default cursor position when you're in threaded mode is a new message in a text input box, but if you press the Up hardware key, it'll go to the last sent/received message in the thread).
Thanks!
About 6) though, I don't think it's the ringtones. There are many more ringtones on the phone than just these 4 files. Also, they don't appear in the ringtone selection screen. Any idea how i can search the phone to find those files? Windows (XP) search doesn't really want to search in my mobile device..
About 7) Ok, didn't see that. When I just wake up, I am too sleepy to think. Can't the snooze functionality be mapped standard to some button or another?
Ildefonse said:
Hello all,
It's great to have found this forum, I was getting a bit desperate from the lack of customer support on the HTC website...
I stumbled into some issues with my HTC Touch Diamond, and I hope some of you will know the answer to some of them
Let me number them for convenience in replying:
1) Battery charging while the phone is off results in the battery status only going up till about 80% in a few hours, and then staying there. No matter how long I charge my phone, it doesn't go higher than 80%. After a reset, the battery does indicate 100%. How can I fix this without having to reset every time after a charge? Why doesn't the phone "see" the battery is full while it's on? How long should it normally take to charge to 100%?
2) Old SMS messages that I transfered from my SIM card don't show up with the sender's name, but show the sender's number instead. This happens in the Touchflo 3D messages overview, but also in the "all messages" section. New messages from the same sender do show up well. How can I make the old messages also display the senders name?
3) Can I disable threaded SMS messages if I want to somehow?
4) Can I disable the "you are roaming" warning in the weather section? The network I use is *always* in "roaming mode", because my provider uses another provider's network. This cannot be fixed by using a different SIM card. Can I turn off these warnings? They are quite annoying.
5) Another thing that bugged me, is that the screen went off so quickly while in a call. FIXED WITH: \HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\EnableFastDormantDisplayDuringCall
6) There are some "music" files (ring, beep, bt_beep, callend) which show up in my music overview. Why? Where are they? I can't find them, but I want to get rid of them...
7) No snooze function for the alarm.....? Such a basic function, why doesn't this exist? Is it possible to "get" it somehow (while still keeping the alarm option in the Home/Today screen)?
8) When in threaded SMS messaging, it is impossible to select a message. When you click it, the sender screen opens, and only after canceling that screen, you end up with the message being selected. Only then you can delete it. Is it possible to just select the message without opening the sender screen?
9) Manage folders for SMS/MMS is greyed out. Why?
10) Birthday's from contacts don't show up on the "today" screen/calendar?
That's it for now, I already installed the advanced config tool, which of course adds great flexibility!
Thanks in advance for any replies!
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Hello,
It seems to me I keep seeing my identical twin right before my very eyes. Almost every complaint or everything that people are saying or having about this phone is a direct page out of my own book. All the problems and lack of support and no fix for any of this. My question is there even a fix to any of this so far I have found none. According to HTC just to do a hard factory reset (which really will not fix anything, accept to restore it to factory settings and succeed in wiping anything not factory installed off your phone). I at my wits end this is a $700 + (piece of crap) phone and supposed to be a top of the line and it barely functions.
How come they do not have even a flicker of an indication that the phone is charging while it is off, Such as a light on the phone itself not the charger? Also, why doesn't the batter last longer all together, and have a much needed better battery life?
My SMS (text) message question is why should we have to go into the all message area/section to see the entire message? Why can we not just be able to scroll up in the main message screen to reveal the rest of the message if it is longer than the screen?
Screen turning off during calls
About the screeen going off during a call is a problem with the phone. Believe me you are not the only one with this problem. Besides myself I have heard many complaints. I have also heard that the fix that you have listed should take care of the problem. However, someone said they tried it and it did not work. As for me I am still trying to get someone to explain how to use it. I am not sure where I am supposed to go in order to or how to use it. Please if you can I would greatly appreaciate any help at all you can offer me on this.
ALARM
There is a snooze function in the alarm. It can be set to 5 min, 15 min and some other settings. I believe (and if I am correct) it comes up after the alarm goes off with the different snooze times offered and you then select the one you would like. Hope this helps.
What I find annoying rather than too serious is that if you go back into a section where there is input the keboard will return to where you left it (like the number pad, rather than the initial main keyboard) instead of returning to the main keyboard.
I have these plus more issues with the phone.
One of my current and quite aggravating problems is that all settings do not remain as they have been changed to. Enevitabely they undoubtedly revert back to whatever their default settings were. For example the backligt while on battery setting. I keep changing it from its default of 10 sec to 2 min and it eventually at some random unknown point will automatically revert back to is default setting. Another one that does this is the calander I set it to open in month view however even though it keeps showing it is set to open at month view it never does.
Also I don't know about you. However, the phone is often sluggish, slow, and freezing up. While it is sluggish if I want to navigate somewhere I have to navigate in the opposite direction you normally navigate to get where you are trying to go.
3G does not work in the US. Which means Video calling will and does not work (on non US vers).
finding and downloading apps for the phone is difficult. I usually get messges saying the program is not a pocket pc enabled program (or something along those lines) and will not work.
when trying to view photos in the file explorer (because naturally that is the only place you can beam them from and not the main photo album screen) they are supposed to show up as icons so you can see which is which and send the ones you want, they always do not.
The Voice commander program takes forever to work if it even bothers to work at all (it almost never recognizes the command you are saying).
Scrolling/touch flow presents somewhat of a problem to me. Often it does not do what I am trying to do (such as scroll or navigate) instead it will be as act as if I have clicked on or selected an item/program/ contact or whatever instead of another function such as scrolling. For example if I am scrolling, and need to stop it the only way I know how is to lightly tap the screen. However, this not always but often or usually results in an item being activated as though it had been clicked on (such as a phone call being initated). That I find a bit comical or ironic because often I have difficulty making or placing a call when I am trying to.
These next few items are just personal notes or observations rather than problems. However, battery life is awful, and what in the world possessed them (HTC) not to have an external memory card slot? Whatever gave them the idea that 4GB is anywhere near even close to enough storage, pics, music, games, video. . . .NO WAY! Also, in my opinion the scroll menue bar on the bottom of the screen is too close toe the man screen above it. So, inevetibly if I am trying to scroll or navigate something in onre of the menues such as pics, music, or different cities weather I usually end up hitting the scroll menue bare and it navigates me away from what I am doing (which is typical with the touch flow feature, it usually gives me difficulty). In my opinion they just should have not had any of the jard buttons on the phone made the screen larger (the complete size/length of the phone) and had all of buttons/commands activated by/on the screen itself. Another annoying thing is that there is only one connection to the phone. So, if you want to listen to music via the headset witch undoubtedly suck the life out of the battery howe are u supposed to charge the phone?
Well, those are just SOME of my thoughts, problems, frustrations, complaints, advice, ect. . . There is pleanty more where they came from.
I would eternally be greateful if you or anyone else could offer anything at all regarding my problems with the phone or any other information, any developments, or anything at all in relation to the Diamond piece of crap.
Please feel free to let me know if I can return the favor and help you in anyway. I am happy to help. Good luck with your phone.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
There is a snooze function in the alarm. It can be set to 5 min, 15 min and some other settings. I believe (and if I am correct) it comes up after the alarm goes off with the different snooze times offered and you then select the one you would like.
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what about a specific program like travel alarm. it's cheap and have very big buttons for the snooze. you don't have to look for options (5,10,15 min) you just preset the snooze and you keep pressing the "snooze" button till you''ll be late (happened to me)..hehehe
How come they do not have even a flicker of an indication that the phone is charging while it is off, Such as a light on the phone itself not the charger? Also, why doesn't the batter last longer all together, and have a much needed better battery life?
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during the charging there is a very nice soft light going around (spinning) the action button. believe me, i am looking at it right now. maybe it's the htc trying to hypnotize it's happy customers...lol. when the charging is finished the light stop spinning
My SMS (text) message question is why should we have to go into the all message area/section to see the entire message? Why can we not just be able to scroll up in the main message screen to reveal the rest of the message if it is longer than the screen?
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it's a step forward. before htc flow you had to go to messages and look for yr message. now you see the beginning of the message on the main screen (aha, that's the one!) and with a push of thumb (it better be not a big one) you go straight to yr important SMS. not bad, i think.
One of my current and quite aggravating problems is that all settings do not remain as they have been changed to. Enevitabely they undoubtedly revert back to whatever their default settings were. For example the backligt while on battery setting. I keep changing it from its default of 10 sec to 2 min and it eventually at some random unknown point will automatically revert back to is default setting. Another one that does this is the calander I set it to open in month view however even though it keeps showing it is set to open at month view it never does.
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did you uncheck the "auto adjust backlight" option? it might work.
So, inevetibly if I am trying to scroll or navigate something in onre of the menues such as pics, music, or different cities weather I usually end up hitting the scroll menue bare and it navigates me away from what I am doing (which is typical with the touch flow feature, it usually gives me difficulty).
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try sliding on the main screen you don't have to use the menu bar. you also can use the upper strip where the name of the menu is written.
as a conclusion and a friendly advice, be patient,try and get used to the new gadget. it's not so bad...i have my hopes in the rom that soon (i hope) we'll have from the pros that are doing it here just for fun. i was also taken by surprise in the first 24 hours. i did expected for this price to get a gadget that will make my coffee in the morning and voice guided me to the bathroom..lol! it isn't so. we had the courage (and the $) to buy the first batch. improvements are still to come.
Screen turning off during calls
this *feature* seems to be resolved see this post for details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2304445&postcount=94
Dear Jennifer and others,
I am glad I am not alone. Yes, today I also discovered that after changing the 10 second backlight off on battery mode to 30 seconds, it jumps back automagically to 10 seconds. This happens without the option "auto adjust" being turned on.
This is extremely frustrating to say the least... Especially when in a light environment, and you can't see the screen without the backlight.
I'm going to try the offered solution for the screen turning off during a call, because the original solution didn't work for me either, I discovered today.
The battery life is starting to get to me, with the phone going dead on me after one night (idle of course) + one day (maybe 1 min calling, some texting, some google maps) of use. This is ridiculous...
Anyone found a solution for one of the other issues mentioned?
I would also like to point out, that I think the setting "disable startup animation" in the advanced config tool does not seem to work for the diamond.
I set this, but it still shows the HTC animation. However, the sound is gone
Ildefonse said:
Dear Jennifer and others,
I am glad I am not alone. Yes, today I also discovered that after changing the 10 second backlight off on battery mode to 30 seconds, it jumps back automagically to 10 seconds. This happens without the option "auto adjust" being turned on.
This is extremely frustrating to say the least... Especially when in a light environment, and you can't see the screen without the backlight.
I'm going to try the offered solution for the screen turning off during a call, because the original solution didn't work for me either, I discovered today.
The battery life is starting to get to me, with the phone going dead on me after one night (idle of course) + one day (maybe 1 min calling, some texting, some google maps) of use. This is ridiculous...
Anyone found a solution for one of the other issues mentioned?
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Thank you for your help I really appreaciate it. However, unfortunately I have that setting unchecked and it is still continuning to do that. I just went in there to check and it was of course back to 10 sec. I don't know how to fix it. The odd thing though is that it only does it with the setting for turning off the backlight while running on battery not while plugged in. I am not sure why but it is extremely aggravating. I am begining to think I am going to try and exchange it for the Cruise. It sounds like a much better phone. Though, I am waiting to see about the Diamond US ver. I am not sure what to do. I want to try the sollution for the backlight while on a call problem. However, I am clueless about how to do it. Apparently from what I understand I need to get a program in order to make the changes and I am not exactly sure how to get the program and install it then how to do it once I have the program. I would love some help with that. Thanks again.
Jennifer
The way I did it is as follows:
1) install active sync / your mobile device on your pc/laptop, using the cd's that came with the phone.
2) download and use this software to enable RAPI: http://www.breaksoft.com/Download/MRE/EnableRAPI.zip
(read about it on http://www.breaksoft.com/Blog/Posts/2005/8/Mobile_Registry_Editor_FAQ.aspx)
3) download mobile registry editor: http://www.breaksoft.com/Blog/Utilities/2005/1/Mobile_Registry_Editor.aspx
4) run it, browse to the settings as mentioned, double click them and change their values:
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\BatteryTimeoutInCall set from 5 to 0
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\BatterySuspendTimeoutInCa ll from 5 to 0
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\EnableFastDormandDisplayD uringCall from 1 to 0
(where HKLM stands for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
5) soft reset your phone and it should work...?
Good luck, let me know if it works.
What bugs me most is the following:
If i turn off the screen of my phone by pressing the on/off switch and i recieve a SMS the SMS-tone won't sound.
When i press the on/off button again to use my phone the tone will sound, butt i recieved the message half an hour ago :S.
The only way to avoid this is to lock the phone and not turn off the screen, which results in a stand-by time of only 8-10 hours (not sufficient for my use).
Are there any fixxes for this problem?
>> If i turn off the screen of my phone by pressing the on/off switch and i recieve a SMS the SMS-tone won't sound.
HKLM\drivers\builtin\RIL:
DisableSMSWakeUpEvent : set this value to "0
MSSH said:
What bugs me most is the following:
If i turn off the screen of my phone by pressing the on/off switch and i recieve a SMS the SMS-tone won't sound.
When i press the on/off button again to use my phone the tone will sound, butt i recieved the message half an hour ago :S.
The only way to avoid this is to lock the phone and not turn off the screen, which results in a stand-by time of only 8-10 hours (not sufficient for my use).
Are there any fixxes for this problem?
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i thought i had the same problem.
then i had my collegue send my an sms. i got an audibile message while my phone was in standby (screen - off)
if you enable wake up from sms, does it completely wake up your phone?
sandervanzijl said:
i thought i had the same problem.
then i had my collegue send my an sms. i got an audibile message while my phone was in standby (screen - off)
if you enable wake up from sms, does it completely wake up your phone?
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Ok, typical because i sometimes got a message, but 9 outta 10 times i didn't.
Changing the registry setting fixes my problem and completely awakes my phone. Exactly what i want.
Outstanding issues
Alright, so as for me, the following issues are still not resolved:
1) Battery charging while the phone is off results in the battery status only going up till about 80% in a few hours, and then staying there. No matter how long I charge my phone, it doesn't go higher than 80%. After a reset, the battery does indicate 100%. How can I fix this without having to reset every time after a charge? Why doesn't the phone "see" the battery is full while it's on? How long should it normally take to charge to 100%?
2) Old SMS messages that I transfered from my SIM card don't show up with the sender's name, but show the sender's number instead. This happens in the Touchflo 3D messages overview, but also in the "all messages" section. New messages from the same sender do show up well. How can I make the old messages also display the senders name?
3) Can I disable the "you are roaming" warning in the weather section? The network I use is *always* in "roaming mode", because my provider uses another provider's network. This cannot be fixed by using a different SIM card. Can I turn off these warnings? They are quite annoying.
4) There are some "music" files (ring, beep, bt_beep, callend) which show up in my music overview. Why? Where are they? I can't find them, but I want to get rid of them... They are not the ringtones of the phone.
5) Manage folders for SMS/MMS is greyed out. Why?
6) Birthday's from contacts don't show up on the "today" screen/calendar?
7) after changing the 10 second backlight off on battery mode to 30 seconds, it jumps back automagically to 10 seconds. This happens without the option "auto adjust" being turned on.
8) The setting "disable startup animation" in the advanced config tool does not seem to work for the diamond. I set this, but it still shows the HTC animation. However, the sound accompanying the animation is gone.
If anyone has a solution to any of the above, I will be eternally grateful
I think alot of these niggles will be solved by a new rom update...now when HTC get their fingers out of their asses and provide the owners of the Diamond one is entirely another question.
Other than reg editing i dont think theres much you can do unless someone here develops a new better rom to solve alot of these issues you guys seem to be having.
How dangerous is it to "work" in the registry settings?
JP
JEPEDEWE said:
How dangerous is it to "work" in the registry settings?
JP
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I dont really know to be honest as this is my very first foray into Windows Mobile...but if its anything like WinXp or Vista reg editing then i suppose if you start messing around with values...you might find that you no longer have a phone that works properly but as i said i really dont know what sort of damage you could do with the phone via reg editing/hacking etc.
Personally for me, when i get my Diamond ill only make the changes that have been proven to work ie the Diamond tweaking thread. Other than that i dont think ill be mucking around with the registry too much.
Ildefonse said:
Alright, so as for me, the following issues are still not resolved:
2) Old SMS messages that I transfered from my SIM card don't show up with the sender's name, but show the sender's number instead. This happens in the Touchflo 3D messages overview, but also in the "all messages" section. New messages from the same sender do show up well. How can I make the old messages also display the senders name?
4) There are some "music" files (ring, beep, bt_beep, callend) which show up in my music overview. Why? Where are they? I can't find them, but I want to get rid of them... They are not the ringtones of the phone.
5) Manage folders for SMS/MMS is greyed out. Why?
6) Birthday's from contacts don't show up on the "today" screen/calendar?
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The problems above are not Diamond specific. They exists in all WM devices.
2) Once transfered to SIM card, the format of the phone number might changed (compared to the one in your contacts). This might be the cause of the problem.
4) These files are located in \Windows folder. Don't have Diamond, so don't know how to solve this problem for you. Normally most players I used so far has a way to exclude some folders.
5) You are not able to create any folders for SMS/MMS. That is why it is greyed out. This is always true since I use WM2003SE to WM6.1
6) If you create contacts using any WM devices, the Birthday appointment is not automatically created. If you sync your contacts to your PC (with Outlook installed), Outlook will created the appointments for you and they will be copied over to your device. Or, if you installed 3rd party PIM (ex, Pocket Informant), normally 3rd party PIM will automatically created the birthday appointments for you.
Hello there
I am using ViperOne 1.2.1 and loving it so far. I am aware that when the device goes to sleep, Mobile Data goes to sleep as well (or is turned off, w.e you want to call it). When I wake the device up, I immediately go to Google Chrome to test if Data reconnected and it works fine. I then go to WhatsApp and unfortunately it's basically disconnected - I test by going to any chat and waiting for the "Last seen today @.." message on top; it also takes a long time to reconnect.. well, truthfully, it's not very long but it's about 1 - 2 minutes, it's just frustrating because I know my Mobile Data is working fine.
I have two questions:
1) I Googled and I came across an article saying that WhatsApp automatically tries to connect every five minutes, so is it possible to change that interval to something less? I couldn't find anything under settings.
2) Is there any chance that I keep Mobile Data connected even when the devices goes to sleep? I tried looking under settings and developer options but I couldn't find anything.
Thank you!
Have just ROMed my XZ and having a few little issues. I have 11-20140704-NIGHTLY-yuga
1. Brightness reset - After reboot, the brightness is reset to a lower point and I have to open the by brightness option and slide it back up after each reboot. AUTO is off.
2. Lock screen lockup - Sometimes the lock screen will not unlock the phone. I can slide to any icon, but the screen just freezes. I can press and hold power, the power menu comes up but it freezes to and i cannot select anything. Power toggles screen off and back on, to a clean lock screen but same result each time when I try to unlock or reboot. After a hard reset, all us OK again.
3. SMS Restore. Messages not storing - I have backed up my call and SMS logs with SMS Backup+. It appears to be downloading the messages and logs, and when I go into Messages, the messages appear as they are being downloaded. If I close messages and open again, I see the new messages momentarily before they disappear. The new messages appear as more are downloaded. Same again if I close/return and open again. If I stop and restart the 'Restore' in SMS Backup+, it will recognise that there are no messages on the phone and start again. This program has worked well for me on stock and ROMed S2 and my stock XZ. Only a problem now. I can log into my Google account on a PC and see the logs and messages are all in tact.
4. GPS no info - This is probably a kit Kat issue but I liked to know that the GPS was locked. The new GPS icon no longer tells me if it's trying to connect or is connected. It's either on or off, so if it's on, I have to guess as to whether it is actually locked, based on response of the program I am using.
Update
Update... The brightness issue is not limited to boots. I came back to it an hour or so later and it was down at around 30%. I can find no other setting activated that would affect this and the battery is over 80%.
Its maybe cyanogen mod bugs
Xperia™ Z (C6602) with XDA app!
How do I report these bugs?
Hagar76 said:
How do I report these bugs?
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They are nightly builds and not stable. So bugs are common.
So do they not want to hear about them?
Hagar76 said:
So do they not want to hear about them?
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These nightlys aren't suitable for daily use. So we have to wait.
Moved on to another ROM. Tried CM11 and Pacman, Having too many issues with CM...
Lock screen not unlocking and losing calls.
Google MAPS crashing. 3 times in a row today. I threw the phone across vehicle!
Beanstalk with Nova shell loaded. Shall see what that does for me.
EDIT: Doing a factory reset will solve many of the issues mentioned, specially the battery drain, I suggest you to do a factory reset and do the initial setup, then leave the watch on charge overnight, the next day restart both your phone and your watch (don't take the watch of the charger yet), wait 20 minutes and then unplug the watch from the wall and just use it as usual, you should see a huge battery improvement. I did.
Bugs I noticed so far, please check if you can reproduce these yourself and let us know yours so we make a list. This is a thread I started on Asus forums and it might help ppl here to to iron some of these out.
1- After a call (accepted or not) the blue MIC image stays on the watch even after the call has ended (this happened on AW 1.5 already) - Multiple reports
2 - Watch vibrates non-stop during a call, even if you picked the call allready on the phone, the watch will start vibrating with no reason. - Multiple reports - SUPER ANNOYING!!!
3 - Battery drains much faster, with same usage I end a day with 30% on AW 2.0 instead of 65 to 70% on AW 1.5 - Multiple reports
4 - When not trough Wifi the "ok Google" command gives an error saying Google is out of reach, restarting phone fixes it, but if connection of phone and watch is broken, the "OK Google" voice command (or long-pressing the main button) won't work again, nor will other apps like the App store - Multiple reports
5 - if I pick one phone number with the "text message' icon, the watch does not go into listening mode to get the text content. Instead it keep on loading with the loading icon and no message can be sent out. However if I use "OK Google" command instead of go thru the Contact app I can send text messages - One report
6 - Turning theater mode on seems to break the alarm. Thankfully the alarm will still go off, but the screen becomes unresponsive. Clicking dismiss or snooze won't work. Restart of watch is needed. Only happens when the watch is in theater mode. - One report
7 - Huge delay when phone receives a call to when watch shoes that call. - Multiple reports.
8 - Dowload speed on watch is most of the times terrible slow - Multiple reports
9 - "Ok Google" actions takes much longer to activate than on previous version - Multiple reports
10 - WhatsApp-ing someone is impossible it keeps asking "to whom?" indefinitely. - One report
11 - Pairing seems to be having problems - One report
12 - UI losing frames - One report
13 - Keyboard missing some symbols - Multiple reports
1. This occurred to me on 1.5 but hasn't reproduced it for me on 2.0
3. Battery draining around 4% per hour. Seems very similar to 1.5
9. Seems about the same to me.
Clean cache!
None of them, except for keyboard symbols.
All the same issues until I clean the cache.
1. Turn off the watch
2. Press the main and bottom button about 15 seconds "asus logo and reboot bootloader message apears" then a green android with a "!" symbol appears.
3. swipe on the screen
4. a bootloader menu appears, then swipe up or down until "Clear cache" is selected, then swipe right.
5. after is done swipe to select "reboot to sytem" swipe right and you're done.
Many problems fixed even the google assistant lag.
1. Works good, no issue
2. Works good, no issue
3. Battery almost same as 1.5
The rest i do not use or no problems with.
Annoying : swipe left change to change watchface. I do not like it this way
I received my watch off of Amazon two days ago, let it go through it's initial updates and then took the 2.0 update. It seemed to be working okay, but I did an FDR as I often do after major updates and it completely screwed the watch up. It reboots every five minutes now.
I unlocked the bootloader, downgraded back to 1.5 and tried the process over again to no avail. Not sure if it was the upgrade or just a dud watch, but I'm glad I'm still within my return policy deadline.
mkengel said:
None of them, except for keyboard symbols.
All the same issues until I clean the cache.
1. Turn off the watch
2. Press the main and bottom button about 15 seconds "asus logo and reboot bootloader message apears" then a green android with a "!" symbol appears.
3. swipe on the screen
4. a bootloader menu appears, then swipe up or down until "Clear cache" is selected, then swipe right.
5. after is done swipe to select "reboot to sytem" swipe right and you're done.
Many problems fixed even the google assistant lag.
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I did this now, if it fixes the bugs listed, well, fantastic.
mkengel said:
None of them, except for keyboard symbols.
All the same issues until I clean the cache.
1. Turn off the watch
2. Press the main and bottom button about 15 seconds "asus logo and reboot bootloader message apears" then a green android with a "!" symbol appears.
3. swipe on the screen
4. a bootloader menu appears, then swipe up or down until "Clear cache" is selected, then swipe right.
5. after is done swipe to select "reboot to sytem" swipe right and you're done.
Many problems fixed even the google assistant lag.
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I did this too. Helped with a lot of the lag issues
I've tried this and still having terrible battery after wear 2.0 upgrade. I can barely make it through a day.
c_86 said:
I did this too. Helped with a lot of the lag issues
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I recommend doing what @artur777 explains bellow, it fixed some of the issues for me, to the point where I'll no longer go back to AW1.5, even so, some bugs persist and won't be solved by the factory reset.
Hi Everyone,
I highly recommend doing a factory reset (see my post from 2017/07/24). It solved many problems for me and the watch OS works now like brand new! Give it a try and maybe it will do the trick for some of you too. It will definitely not make things worse, I think.
You can restore your watch OS to the factory settings either on your watch or on your phone through the Android Wear app:
On the watch:
Settings -> System -> Disconnect & reset
On the Android Wear app (phone):
Settings -> tap ASUS ZenWatch 3 under Device settings -> UNPAIR WATCH (at the bottom of the screen)
The process of resetting your watch will take a while until your watch is ready to be paired with your phone again. In my case it took about 15 minutes, so don't panic if it takes too long.
Mind that unpairing your watch from your phone will reset it to the factory settings and delete all the apps and settings you had configured on your watch. The fatory reset will NOT roll your watch OS back to AW1.5 though, but it will flash the AW2.0 to it's original state as if it were freshly installed on a brand new device.
Once the watch OS has been successfully restored (you should see this on the screen) you will need to pair your watch with your phone again through the Android Wear app and re-install all the apps and set the settings up to your liking and preference.
Good luck to everyone!
When i press the do not disturb option the phone does not turn silent where in 1.5 it used to make it silent...any suggestion?
One more Bug
Reminders notification, marked as complet, causing not to be seen in watch or phone. In some exceptions when there is a bad comunication with phone the reminder stay a few seconds.
Google is aware of this bug, and they are working on it with a promise to fix it soon with an update to their google app. (Working right in wear 1.5).
By the way many bugs listed, happen to me, but were fixed with a factory reset in watch, unpair and erase (forget any bluetooth reference) and clear dalvik cache in phone.
Some things doesnt improve immediately like google now or battery.
But I have to say that I own a zenwatch 2 too. Recently updated to wear 2.0 and it works better maybe in every task by example google now, speed downloading apps and battery so far (today from 8:15 to 22:05 65 % available, screen always on brightness level 3, 21 notifications and 1 hour monitoring google fit activities, 3 apps updated (13 MB))
So I think Asus need to put attention on whats going on.
I will make a comparison video in 2 days. Zenwatch 2 vs. Zenwatch 3 both android wear 2.0
Have a good time
My watch is not updating the day and date on the watchface unless I change watchfaces or reset the watch. I.E: It's saturday and it shows Friday. It will keep showing Friday for days unless I change watchfaces or reset.
Does anyone else have this problem as well?
battery drain formost!
my battery drains very fast. Faster than aw 1.5
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battery drain totally unacceptable in AW 2.0
MK24ever said:
Bugs I noticed so far, please check if you can reproduce these yourself and let us know yours so we make a list. This is a thread I started on Asus forums and it might help ppl here to to iron some of these out.
1- After a call (accepted or not) the blue MIC image stays on the watch even after the call has ended (this happened on AW 1.5 already) - Multiple reports
2 - Watch vibrates non-stop during a call, even if you picked the call allready on the phone, the watch will start vibrating with no reason. - Multiple reports - SUPER ANNOYING!!!
3 - Battery drains much faster, with same usage I end a day with 30% on AW 2.0 instead of 65 to 70% on AW 1.5 - Multiple reports
4 - When not trough Wifi the "ok Google" command gives an error saying Google is out of reach, restarting phone fixes it, but if connection of phone and watch is broken, the "OK Google" voice command (or long-pressing the main button) won't work again, nor will other apps like the App store - Multiple reports
5 - if I pick one phone number with the "text message' icon, the watch does not go into listening mode to get the text content. Instead it keep on loading with the loading icon and no message can be sent out. However if I use "OK Google" command instead of go thru the Contact app I can send text messages - One report
6 - Turning theater mode on seems to break the alarm. Thankfully the alarm will still go off, but the screen becomes unresponsive. Clicking dismiss or snooze won't work. Restart of watch is needed. Only happens when the watch is in theater mode. - One report
7 - Huge delay when phone receives a call to when watch shoes that call. - Multiple reports.
8 - Dowload speed on watch is most of the times terrible slow - Multiple reports
9 - "Ok Google" actions takes much longer to activate than on previous version - Multiple reports
10 - WhatsApp-ing someone is impossible it keeps asking "to whom?" indefinitely. - One report
11 - Pairing seems to be having problems - One report
12 - UI losing frames - One report
13 - Keyboard missing some symbols - Multiple reports
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Doing a factory reset will solve many of the issues mentioned, specially the battery drain, I suggest you to do a factory reset and do the initial setup, then leave the watch on charge overnight, the next day restart both your phone and your watch (don't take the watch of the charger yet), wait 20 minutes and then unplug the watch from the wall and just use it as usual, you should see a huge battery improvement. I did.
I have seen some of these issues on my watch running AW 2.0.
The delay with the calls is the most annoying one. Also if u have wrist gestures on and u turn your wrist when the Call Ui is up, the gestures removes the notifcation and u have to answer call on phone.
I experience another bug. I have a pattern password set on my watch and I placed watch in Eco mode. After the watch is locked in Eco mode, the screen is unresponsive to enter the pattern and none of the buttons work. A restart is neccesary.
Also. I have disabled Smart replies, yet whenever i go in whatsapp chats there are atleast 5 smart reply otions.
hi all, just got this watch, so far so good. only problem is that my watch does NOT notify me when I have an incoming call - except if I set the watch to play voice on incoming call. I'd rather not do this, just the straight up notification. does anyone know how I can adjust this? thanks!
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jco23 said:
hi all, just got this watch, so far so good. only problem is that my watch does NOT notify me when I have an incoming call - except if I set the watch to play voice on incoming call. I'd rather not do this, just the straight up notification. does anyone know how I can adjust this? thanks!
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Disregard, it works now.
I had to give full permission to Android Wear.
Sent from my DROID Turbo using XDA-Developers Legacy app
Hello friends!!
Someone has been able to resolve incoming call delay
MK24ever said:
Doing a factory reset will solve many of the issues mentioned, specially the battery drain, I suggest you to do a factory reset and do the initial setup, then leave the watch on charge overnight, the next day restart both your phone and your watch (don't take the watch of the charger yet), wait 20 minutes and then unplug the watch from the wall and just use it as usual, you should see a huge battery improvement. I did.
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What do you recommend to do factory restoration ?; only "clear data" or "Factory reset", help me pls
Davis26 said:
What do you recommend to do factory restoration ?; only "clear data" or "Factory reset", help me pls
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You can restore your watch OS to the factory settings either on your watch or on your phone through the Android Wear app:
On the watch:
Settings -> System -> Disconnect & reset
On the Android Wear app (phone):
Settings -> tap ASUS ZenWatch 3 under Device settings -> UNPAIR WATCH (at the bottom of the screen)
The process of resetting your watch will take a while until your watch is ready to be paired with your phone again. In my case it took about 15 minutes, so don't panic if it takes too long.
Mind that unpairing your watch from your phone will reset it to the factory settings and delete all the apps and settings you had configured on your watch. The fatory reset will NOT roll your watch OS back to AW1.5 though, but it will flash the AW2.0 to it's original state as if it were freshly installed on a brand new device.
Once the watch OS has been successfully restored (you should see this on the screen) you will need to pair your watch with your phone again through the Android Wear app and re-install all the apps and set the settings up to your liking and preference.
MK24ever said:
You can restore your watch OS to the factory settings either on your watch or on your phone through the Android Wear app:
On the watch:
Settings -> System -> Disconnect & reset
On the Android Wear app (phone):
Settings -> tap ASUS ZenWatch 3 under Device settings -> UNPAIR WATCH (at the bottom of the screen)
The process of resetting your watch will take a while until your watch is ready to be paired with your phone again. In my case it took about 15 minutes, so don't panic if it takes too long.
Mind that unpairing your watch from your phone will reset it to the factory settings and delete all the apps and settings you had configured on your watch. The fatory reset will NOT roll your watch OS back to AW1.5 though, but it will flash the AW2.0 to it's original state as if it were freshly installed on a brand new device.
Once the watch OS has been successfully restored (you should see this on the screen) you will need to pair your watch with your phone again through the Android Wear app and re-install all the apps and set the settings up to your liking and preference.
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I appreciate your help, do not recommend doing it from the boot loader?
Again thank you
Cuz mine sucks big time!
It is the worst android experience I have ever had. It's so bad that is ruining my MI11 overall experience.
Few more days untill unlock and I will wait for Global rom because I had Redmi K20 and EU rom was a bit bugy. Also important to know is that it must be flashed over original Chinese rom. If you flash EU rom on Chinese and than Global rom on EU from my experience it will make some bugs and wont work properly.
So needed to stick with this disaster really bad Chinese blocking controlling rom...
Examples: Viber rings , I look at my phone I hear it rings I am looking at it but theres nothing on display.
Whatever settings I adjust it just keep getting back some of his settings.
I use gboard so whenever I switch phone on , or restart device I need to select gboard again. It just bring back his Chinese Sogou keyboard...
Also some weird bug with messenger when chat head is on home screen, when I open conversation it devides display in 2 and bottom part is see trough with home screen...
Also with all the settings like autostart on , battery saver - no restrictions, and lock app in recents I dont get messeges through sometimes. And thats for messenger, WhatsApp, Viber and so on..
Youtube vanced ... It took me 3 days to find proper version that will work without bugs. Its 15.43.32 version and not the black, black one have bugs , and if I update that version start having some weird bugs and all the other yt vanced are just worse..
There's more
My ringtone is some melody that I downloaded and chosed in sound settings, but it rings with MI melody ...
I have 2 networks in my home and it keeps conecting to other network even with forget network chosed and auto connect off...
This morning is the first morning that device stayed on after night. I sleep with airplane mode and every morning till this one the device was swiched off when I wake up and I left it on airplane mode.
Some weird bugs also with display switching off during use of some apps when tilt device or move it somehow...
Theres more but can't remember now so please write your experience.
I am on newest update 12.0.22.
It's really bad.
7h SOT with 60Hz FHD+, Lag after taking a picture in whatsapp, whatsapp notifications appearing multiple times, whatsapp showing numbers / forgetting contact assigns, Permissions get reset, Google Pay is not starting if I try to pay, several notification issues on other apps, not everything is translated to enlgish.
I wanted to go back to my Mate 20 Pro so bad but already sold it on ebay =(
Super bad !!
Also when I listen music over Bluetooth in the car with SoundCloud app it just stop the playback after few minutes , .. killer annoying software !
Its gonna be hard to wait for the global rom
Also, always on display switches off about 10 minutes after it stays in idle even when set to say always on !
Auto britnes not working so good. I have to adjust it all the time ..
hexacetat said:
It's really bad.
7h SOT with 60Hz FHD+, Lag after taking a picture in whatsapp, whatsapp notifications appearing multiple times, whatsapp showing numbers / forgetting contact assigns, Permissions get reset, Google Pay is not starting if I try to pay, several notification issues on other apps, not everything is translated to enlgish.
I wanted to go back to my Mate 20 Pro so bad but already sold it on ebay =(
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Open Setting - apps - menage apps - whatsapp - permission - Read your contact - always allow ..done
Yesterday uper speaker started switching off. After first restart it worked. Than again stoped. Than after second restart id didn't worked and I made a call and that triggered it to wotk. So it must be a software bug....
Yes the CN rom is bad. EU rom is so much better. With EU I haven't had to tweak every app permission as notifications are working properly. Also get the Google feed on the left and everything works - no bugs after 2 weeks of using it.
I was so happy with the EU rom that I donated to the project.
Because there is a wall in China, the Chinese version of the rom is only optimized for Chinese users, not necessarily suitable for foreign