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Device: HTC Desire

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Apr 20	comment	How do I change the number identification format (to associate with a contact's number)? Just for curiosity: Which operator in what country do you talk about?
Feb 24	comment	Is it reasonably safe to use PIN code for encryption? The phone has to be on and on-line some time after you have issued the remote wipe command. If the phone has been switched off (and stays off) the wipe command is useless.
Feb 23	comment	Is it reasonably safe to use PIN code for encryption? The problem is that a short PIN can only secure the device when it is on. Therefore switching a stolen device off prevents the device from being wiped and additionally the PIN can be broken in an offline brute-force attack. Hence a short PIN doesn't help you in this situation.
Jan 27	comment	Locking SDHC Memory card on Samsung Galaxy 2 Encryption is the only appropriate solution in this case. Everything else can simply be bypassed by just stealing the sd-card.
Dec 21	comment	Terminal emulator's ssh trying to read /data/.ssh instead of $HOME/.ssh That is a question you should ask the author of the terminal emulator app.
Dec 21	comment	How can I securely store my private key I use for logging into my home PC Which app uses the private key? Is your device rooted?
Dec 19	comment	Can I download Android apps to a computer and then transfer to my phone If your device has Gogle Market installed you could try share an internet connection of your PC via USB (Reverse USB Tethering)
Dec 18	comment	I have a HTC Desire hd and I work in a noisy environment as well as ride a motor bike I often don't hear or feel the vibrations IMHO the simplest solution would be using a Bluetooth headset. Right in the ear you should hear the ringtone.
Dec 2	comment	SD card unmounted when HTC Desire is being charged (even with a “wall charger”) @Dmitry: Is it the original HTC charger or a third party one?
Nov 14	comment	How to monitor tethering bandwidth @mahemoff: Do you have to use a special tethering app? Because usually a mobile network operator can not distinguish between traffic caused by the smartphone and a thethered computer. I only know special data plans for computers using a second SIM card (and own UMTS modem) on the same contract - but that has nothing to do with tethering
Nov 13	comment	Is there a way to create virtual memory? @James Litewski: That is a partition used by the system for storing memory sections that have been long time not used which disburdens the main memory. It is the Linux equivalent of the Windows file pagefile.sys - if you know what that is.
Nov 9	comment	What info does Google backup? When I used the app restoring feature the last time I observed that some of the App downloads failed as they sometimes do in the Market. The problem is that the Market does not retry to download those Apps. Therefore after a restore you have to carefully check the notifications for failed downloads and retry them manually.
Nov 7	comment	How To Protect Mobile Internet Access? Then you should use the flight mode and disable the mobile network completely. The SIM PIN is a good protection.
Nov 6	comment	How To Protect Mobile Internet Access? @Boris_yo: Of course you can not set a password. Apps managing APNs simply automate what is available in the settings dialog - which is accessible by everyone. Therefore a password does not much sense.
Nov 4	comment	How to Securely Delete Data from Phone and Card I don't think that you need "physical internal access". Android is basically a linux system and on rooted phones you can have access to everything, even the partitions on a level below the file-system. Additionally using a recovery-ROM and tools like nandroid it should be possible to extract the data stored on the partitions.
Oct 29	comment	How can I explore my android from my computer For which operating system?
Oct 25	comment	Getting the features of HTC Sense in vanilla Android? For testing a Stock Android you can use the Android Emulator that is part of the Android SDK. Then you will see and feel the massive difference.
Oct 24	comment	Getting the features of HTC Sense in vanilla Android? What Sense feature sin detail do you like most? Add them to your question and we will see if there is an non-HTC alternative...
Oct 19	comment	How reliable is ICS face unlock? There must be a fall back mechanism - just imagine you are in a dark room... Front cameras usually don't have a LED flash and without the camera doesn't see anything.
Oct 17	comment	Why SIM toolkit does not work with most custom ROM-s? I would name the new tag (if I could) "sim-toolkit" - this one is used at Stackoverflow. BTW: On my Desire (InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.2) STK seems to work.