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HTC Desire S Owner’s Guide – V1.02 | wnp_79 

 

 

7. New to HTC Gingerbread is a handy battery usage graph that shows how quickly 
your battery is being used and which aspects of the phone are using it. You shouldn’t 
have any troubles with it though as this ROM is pretty well made. There is the odd 
partial-wake lock over night, but nothing major. Still trying to track the cause of that 
one.  

 

8. Build up a good collection of chargers. Have one at home, one at work and 
definitely one for your car. Make sure the car one is a genuine HTC one as cheap 
ones are not able to charge the phone at the required current rating. They usually fail 
to short the two data pins so your phone thinks it’s still plugged into a PC and will 
limit its own charging current. It won’t be enough to keep the phone going whilst 
using Google GPS Navigation. It is possible to frig a USB cable to get around this, 
but better to stick with HTC stuff.  

 

9. Mains wall chargers will charge your battery 

twice

 as fast as charging from USB.  

 

10. Cheaper non-HTC batteries may claim better capacity, but they rarely last longer 
and do not live as long before you have to throw them out. If you want a spare 
battery, pay a little more and get a genuine HTC one. It’s worth it.  

 

11. For some reason, your phone will come out the box with a crazy option enabled 
called “Always On Mobile Data.” This will permanently keep your phones 3G data 
connection live when not on WiFi. It hammers the battery. Go to Settings> Wireless 
& Networks> Mobile Networks>  un-tick the ‘Enable always-on mobile data’. Now 
when not on wifi, your phone will only use 3G when it needs to. Much better.  

 

12. Another new idea from HTC is called ‘Pocket Mode’. Turn this off! All it offers is 
the phone will ring 

slightly

 louder when in a pocket or bag. It does this by constantly 

pinging away the light-sensor, proximity sensor, and accelerometer to determine if 
it’s in a pocket or bag. It hammers battery life for a very small advantage. Menu> 
Settings> Sound> Un-tick Pocket Mode.

  

 

13. New to Sense 2.1 is its own ‘Power Saver’ mode. I used to have Tasker do this 
on my old Desire, but no you can quickly set this up with HTC Sense. It will turn 
certain things off when you reach a certain low battery level to keep your phone alive 
that little bit longer. Go to Menu> Settings> Power> Enable Power Saver, select 
whether you want it coming on at 25%, 20%, 15% or 10%. Recommend 15% as my 
phone shuts down at about 8% battery. You can choose to turn off Background data, 
WiFi, Bluetooth, Backlight set to specified level, animations...You 

can’t

 turn off 3G 

though, so Tasker still has something to do!   

 

14. Watch out for a new feature also in the ‘Power’ menu called ‘Fast Boot’. It’s 
enabled by default, and means that when you shut your phone off it’s not properly 
shutting down, but going into hibernation. The benefit is your phone will then “boot 
up” in about 5 seconds. I recommend turning this off unless you think you just can’t 
wait 25 seconds for it to boot normally! Plus I like to know that when I turn my phone 
off, it really is off and not slowly using battery power to save me a few measly 
seconds later. There have also been reports of people removing their battery when 
they 

think

 the phone is off, and causing SIM card errors. Off should mean Off! 

Summary of Contents for Desire S

Page 1: ...ot work like Microsoft s Windows or Nokia s Symbian Apps that are not running in the foreground are not using any processing power and should Android need the RAM it will automatically close any backg...

Page 2: ...o there s not much they could do HTC also have extra security on their system partition S On to prevent it from being changed in any way It s a pain in the ass for people wanting S Off and custom ROMS...

Page 3: ...ve browser the stock one is very good though for when you have a weak signal and hence poor bandwidth Opera compresses filters web pages by 90 so your phone is downloading much less data and pages wil...

Page 4: ...t most androids is vague at best This small and basic app adds a simple battery percentage to your notification bar Beware of the many alternatives that look very fancy but ironically cause more batte...

Page 5: ...is for my morning runs no that s not a bowel problem Tracks your route set alarms for your routine mine is at 6am so handy set yourself targets calorie count uploads all your stats to your google acco...

Page 6: ...iser Make all sorts of switching widgets and clock widgets Free 36 Added 08 03 11 Timeriffic If you don t want to use Tasker this is a much much simpler automation app Sets various phone features wifi...

Page 7: ...WP requires access to your SMS Why Nothing dodgy here The LWP has the ability to behave differently if you have an unread SMS The Blue Skies LWP sends a floating balloon up for each unread SMS if you...

Page 8: ...ours simply by setting Tasker to shut all radios off i e Airplane Mode between midnight and 6am It even texts my missus when I m half way home so my dinner is ready when I get in 4 4 Don t leave the p...

Page 9: ...ays on mobile data Now when not on wifi your phone will only use 3G when it needs to Much better 12 Another new idea from HTC is called Pocket Mode Turn this off All it offers is the phone will ring s...

Page 10: ...tab Find your culprit in this list select it then press the Stop button Then either uninstall it if you don t trust it or wait to see if it tries to re start itself to confirm its status as a Pain In...

Page 11: ...s also a setting called Wi Fi sleep policy This determines how your Wi Fi connection behaves when your screen is off Again against what you d guess it uses much less power if you set the sleep policy...

Page 12: ...ouse is When I get close to home it automatically turns Wi Fi on turns my ring volume up to max changes my ringtone back to something childish and backs my screen brightness off When I leave the house...

Page 13: ...hat I use and how to set them up are as follows Profile 1 Night Mode 1 Press New to create a new Profile 2 Name it Night Mode or whatever you want and press OK 3 It will ask you for a Profile context...

Page 14: ...ure to tell when I am home To explain Tasker has several ways of determining where you are Obviously GPS is the most accurate but any profile with GPS context in it will mean Tasker periodically turns...

Page 15: ...ghtness don t require an exit task and will automatically revert to their previous setting If you ever find something not reverting after a profile has stopped simply add an exit task for it Now the r...

Page 16: ...th a clean cloth When the cover now flexes when gripped the friction between the case and the body of the phone has been reduced and there is no creaking noise Silicone Grease is even water repellent...

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