Couple of things about Froyo pissing me off.

mkennedy

Hi.
I updated to Froyo recently on my Desire to sort out a few problems with eclair (namely poor battery, dysfunctional fm radio app and inability to put apps on sd card).
Froyo has, in fairness to it, solved these issues but it has thrown up its own problems (which i think are flash related).

When i bring up the software keyboard to type in a text box i get this prick of a black band across the screen that totally obscures the text. So i've no idea what i just typed until i remove the keyboard.

The other problem is that scrolling in the native browser can slow to a crawl unless i disable the flash plugin in the settings (not ideal).

Any solutions- to the first problem especially.
Thanks.

jimmycrackcorm

Swap the keyboard for another one such as ShapeWriter

chinchin

mkennedy wrote: »

The other problem is that scrolling in the native browser can slow to a crawl unless i disable the flash plugin in the settings (not ideal).

Noticed that too on a few sites, didn't realise what was causing it until now, thanks for the tip.

MC_G

Where did you get the update?

The black band could be a corrupted/badly patched .9png.

I'd try downloading and reinstalling the update. No ideas about the flash/browser plugin slowness though.

shadowninty

get Gingerbread! (sorry )

mkennedy

MC_G wrote: »

Where did you get the update?

The black band could be a corrupted/badly patched .9png.

I'd try downloading and reinstalling the update. No ideas about the flash/browser plugin slowness though.

OTA.
All updates.

mkennedy

shadowninty wrote: »

get Gingerbread! (sorry )

Any drawbacks.

shadowninty

mkennedy wrote: »

Any drawbacks.

you have to Custom ROM because HTC are profiteering and holding back the GB update

mkennedy

shadowninty wrote: »

you have to Cutom ROM because HTC are profiteering and holding back the GB update

Right.
TBH i'm conservative when it comes to modding/updating (i'm generally happy with android and my motto tends to be if it's not broke don't fix it).
I did have a custom modaco rom (eclair based) on it but just unrooted and then updated to stock froyo and intended not to root again.
But what stable gingerbread custom roms would you recommend?

srsly78

Modaco is bollox, install cyanogen 7 (gingerbread). Then come back here and poast in caps about how awesome it is.

shadowninty

mkennedy wrote: »

Right.
TBH i'm conservative when it comes to modding/updating (i'm generally happy with android and my motto tends to be if it's not broke don't fix it).
I did have a custom modaco rom (eclair based) on it but just unrooted and then updated to stock froyo and intended not to root again.
But what stable gingerbread custom roms would you recommend?

regarding ROMs; I love CM7, but you lose Sesne


I was actually only joking , easier solution would be to go into settings>apps>manage apps and clear keyboard data

Browser is improved in GB tho (I'm not sure tho, never used it on Froyo TBH)

mkennedy

srsly78 wrote: »

Modaco is bollox, install cyanogen 7 (gingerbread). Then come back here and poast in caps about how awesome it is.

I tried one of the Cyanogenmod roms.
I like having sense so wasn't mad about it tbh.

srsly78

Sense is only good for wasting battery in my opinion, but each to their own. Most sense features can be replaced by various widgets etc, but some people really like the facebook integration etc.

Surely there is a way to completely replace Sense these days? Admittedly I haven't gone around looking for it because I don't care But I'm sure it's out there. For me the main thing was the big clock widget, and Beautiful Widgets provides an even better one. Also, ADW launcher allows widget rescaling, so my pretty clock takes up the whole screen rather than 4x2.