Yesterday I blogged about the Open Letter that I have send to HTC. Well, I received a response from them but as they say, it is not worth the paper it is written on. Here is the response I received. Dear Marius Bock, Dear Mr Marius Thank you for contacting HTC. Please kindly accept […]
Open Letter to HTC. I want to lay an official complaint about your (HTC) agent, LEAF in South Africa. The Android 2.2 upgrade for HTC Desire is available for users around the world for a couple of months already. However here in South Africa we are still waiting. Everytime that Leaf get contacted for an […]
I just got fed-up with the time Leaf (HTC agent in South Africa) take to roll-out the upgrade to Android 2.2 in South Africa. So I have take the plunge and decided to go the manual way. First step was to root my phone. And this was so easy. Download Unrevoked 3.2.1 for my […]
Earlier this week I started to work at a new company and like most companies these day they have secure WIFI and runs their internal network through a proxy server to connect to the internet. One have to authenticate with the proxy server to access the internet. This is normal procedure for about 99% of […]
As you know, my HTC Desire looses the ability to write to the SD Card from time to time. For the past 3 days or so this has not happened (touch wood) and I was wondering what was different over the past couple of days than before. Note that I have not upgraded to Android […]
Here is an update on my earlier post. Leaf, the distributors of HTC phones in South Africa has clarified the situation regarding Android updates in South Africa. I quote from a article that appeared on MyBroadband: To make zero-rated firmware OTA (FOTA) possible the operators need to agree to it and the required infrastructure needs […]
Coming week HTC will start to roll out Froyo (Android 2.2) to some users in Europe. Just to give you an idea what is new in Froyo: 720p video recording iTunes syncing via HTC’s Sync software — this is for all you Windows guys/gals out there The “AppShare” widget that came on the Wildfire Smart CallerID In […]
I have a desktop running Ubuntu 10.4 and the latest version of XBMC as my Media Centre. It is used for all my Media requirements whether it is to watch Movies or some Series, looking at photographs or listening to my music collection. Up until today I had to control it either via a mouse […]
I have blogged about my problems with my HTC Desire SD Card here and here before. I have managed to get another 4GB Sandisk SDHC card but the problem still persist. I have tried the following: Use the card as it was formatted when I received it .. just copied the data across from my […]