Hot answers tagged htc-wildfire
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If you go to the Market Account settings part of the Android Market webpage at https://market.android.com/account and click on the Settings tab, you should see a list of the devices registered on that Market account, clicking the Edit button lets you hide that old phone from the web interface. That's what you'd normally use to remove an old device from ...
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Shut off sync (Settings -> Accounts and sync -> Auto-sync). You should also click on the actual account (in the same settings menu) and uncheck the various things that can be synced. Alternatively, you could create a second Google account and keep it free of an extraneous information.
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I'm afraid that if the official Skype app does not work then you are probably out of luck. Skype do not let third party applications use their service, so you are unlikely to find anything that works.
I suspect the issue is down to the CPU speed of the HTC Wildfire, which is only 528mhz. It's likely that the processor simply can't keep up with the demands ...
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Are you entering an actual password, or an unlock-pattern?
Lock-patterns have the option to display/not-display the path entered, so it's a lot more difficult to "shoulder-surf"
Use visible pattern This is selected by default. Clear this if you
do not want the screen unlock pattern
to display as you enter it.
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No, performing a factory reset won't affect your HBoot version.
You should, however, be able to follow this guide instead (which uses Revolutionary). There's another page with instructions here which describes in a bit more detail what Revolutionary does and where to go from there. The standard disclaimers with regards to possibly bricking your device ...
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Two questions:
Are you sure the SIM contacts were really imported or only displayed.
Is the option to show phone contacts checked after you changed the SIM.
If you go to Contacts, press Menu -> Import/Export -> Import from SIM card.
The SIM contacts should be imported into the phone and remain there. It is then just a matter of getting phone contacts ...
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I've had experience before on the Nexus One, this sort order is the last modified.
If you access your SD card from your PC this can sometimes scan your images folder and 'touch' the images with the last modified date then being updated.
That's how I've had random sort orders in the past!
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Don't install any random Skype APK that you find on the web as it will charge for calls. You MUST install the APK from the Three website to not be charged.
AS an aside, who told you that Three do not support the Wildfire? They have massive sales of Wildfires on Three and they ARE officially supported by the network.
It is completely legal to install an ...
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I expect the same way as any other update.
Menu | Settings | About phone | System updates
If it tells you that "Your system is currently up to date" then your carrier hasn't released the update for your phone yet. (They usually do staggered rollouts so as not to overload anything.)
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In your phone dialer enter the following sequence:
*#*#7594#*#*
will show you Shutdown App configuration - you can choose to have the device power off directly instead of showing the menu for Airplane Mode / Power Off etc. when you long-press the power button. There's also an option for keeping the LCD on during the duration of a call.
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What you're looking for is Screebl - a background service that monitors the phone's orientation, and based on that orientation decides when to allow the phone's power-saving features to operate.
There's a PRO version too that allows for integration with Locale amidst other extra features.
Also check out Shake Awake from Maplekey (in the market) - it allows ...
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On the Home Screen, tap Menu > Personalize Home Screen Tabs.
To move a tab, tap and hold the icon before the tab name, and then drag it up or down the tabs list.
To hide a tab, clear the check box at the right of the tab name.
Tap Done.
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Credit to Matt H's comment for pointing me the right way.
If you follow through to the System Requirements page on their wiki, the HTC Wildfire is specifically called out as an unsupported device as it has an ARMv6 based processor; Firefox Mobile currently requires an ARMv7 compatible processor.
They do have an experimental build for ARMv6 based devices, ...
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Follow these steps:
Open Contacts. You can reach this from the contacts shortcut in your app drawer or home screen, or via the contacts tab in your phone dialer.
Press the Menu button.
Select Import/Export.
Select Export from SIM.
Click Select All, or manually tick each contact you wish to copy to the phone.
You may be asked where to copy the contacts to; ...
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I believe it is the CPU speed. The HTC Wildfire has a CPU speed of 528 MHz. The Skype app is only supported on devices with a CPU clock speed of 600MHz or greater. See the section on 'What do I need to run Skype on my Android phone?' https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10653/How-can-I-get-Skype-on-my-Android-phone
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The built-in Gingerbread keyboard should support multiple languages, they can be selected from the Settings -> Locale and Text -> Gingerbread keyboard -> Input Languages menu. After this, you'll see the current language on the space bar and can roll through the languages by swiping left or right on the space bar.
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It's not recommended to even attempt to do syncing Windows. Android have a very different design than, say, an iPhone; Android is designed to sync over the air with cloud services like Google Contact, Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. In Android, you shouldn't need to tie your device with a computer. What you need is a Wifi or 3G connection, and you don't need to ...
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ok. here is the thing. The space is there, the problem is that it is not accesible for applications.
Android systems have several partitions as explained here. Doing an df on my device I get:
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 156.5M 32.0K 156.4M 0% /dev
tmpfs ...
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I think your HBoot needs to be upgraded, and it sounds like perhaps you didn't run the RUU to do so. The HTCdev site notes that phones with an asterisk (*) next to them in the list must run an RUU before unlocking because the bootloader on the device did not originally ship with unlocking capabilities. So first you need to make sure your firmware is up to ...
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Change your password then revoke it's access.
Also, start using application specific passwords and 2-step verification if you aren't already.
This makes it easier to control what gets access where.
This should prompt who ever is using the phone to reauthorize your account (via password or 2-step), which they won't be able to.
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I solved the problem myself. I had a game installed on SD card named, Hambo, I shifted it to phone and all apps, came back to their place, what else change I did earlier was to remove updates of Android market app. So google play was removed and then I did the only change of moving one app. from SD card to phone and my problem was solved. I don't know actual ...
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Whenever I have problems with installing an Android device's drivers, I install PDANet.
PDANet is a desktop tethering app, but that isn't why I install it. PDANet comes bundled with phone drivers for all of the major phone manufacturers. Once you have installed the drivers, you can then uninstall PDANet (and it will keep the drivers).
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You can produce videos in the vp8 format. This is Google's answer to HTML5 video and is supported by most of their phones.
You have the option of embedding the video using HTML5 and <video> tags, or uploading the mobile friendly version to YouTube and embedding the link in an iFrame like previously suggested.
vp8 is much like H.264 in that they both ...
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For USB teathering i know only two options that (in my experience) works well:
AziLink - The hard but free way
EasyTeather - The easy but non-free way
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a little late for this.
Wildfire is now rootable. I did it on mine a couple of days ago. I have cyanogenmod running.
I followed the instructions in this site
you basically first use alpharev to unlock the S-off mode and then you install clockwork recovery to backup and then unrevocked to root.
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From the list of when phones will get 2.3:
HTC Wildfire (buzz)
OTA: never (source: official mail from HTC support; cause: doesn't meet the min. requirements, eg. 1GHz)
Unofficial:
2/15/2011 (CyanogenMod)
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If you want to sync media files, I suggest you to connect your device in Storage mode or use Dropbox. If you mean that you want to sync contacts, appointments and this kind of stuff, just migrate all that information to Google Contacts, Calendar and others using iCal and Contacts on your Mac.
If you really want something like HTC Sync you have two options:
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For data not including contacts, email, etc since they're already synced for you thru Gmail... you could try Dropbox or some other cloud service. Dropbox would appear as a folder on your computer (Mac or Windows), and Dropbox would run as an app on your phone. So, whatever files/data you have in the folder on your computer would be accessible from your ...
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I think that AppBrain lists all apps irrespective of the phone you are using to browse it, whereas the market seems to filter apps to show only ones that are supported by your phone or version of Android (not sure which, but seems most likely version of Android). Since Wildfire is still on 2.1 I guess the apps you are trying to install are 2.2+. As far as ...
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I think you'll find that is normal. I wondered about it at first too.. If you lock your phone by pressing the power button, your phone is LOCKED, but not SECURE. Because you have only just been using your phone, if you unlock it immediately by re-pressing the power button and pulling down the clock, you won't have to enter your pincode or pattern, because ...
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