Comments on: Rant: Getting annoyed with a changing icon

By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:41:41 +0000

You just need to launch the default Messaging application, open the Menu and choose Settings, then scroll down to notification and disable them. Then you can reinstall your 3rd party SMS app and it will control the notifications.

By: molrak

molrak — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:41:55 +0000

I was having issues with this problem and with apps reverting to old versions, but it looks like the update released today fixed most of those issues (so far).

By: Durhamite

Durhamite — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:07:12 +0000

I was having a problem with the Where and Movies apps but after I rooted and flashed the Modaco ROM that issue seemed to have gone away.

By: TheologyGeek

TheologyGeek — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:04 +0000

Not having any problems in my G1. Was having some bugs earlier. Uninsalled Weather Bug and that helped with some. Cupcake fixed the rest. While I wish the handset was faster (jealous of the iPhone's speed) I will take a sightly slow processor and a physical keyboard with no bugs over a faster buggy phone any day. Love my G1!!!! Hey HTC – Take the G1 and add a faster processor, more RAM, and make it a bit sleeker and you could have the top Android phone.

By: SnadBoy

SnadBoy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:58:26 +0000

Just download an OTA firmware update for HTC Hero from Sprint. This is a maint release(v 1.56.651.2), not Android 2.0.

By: Bo

Bo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:36:22 +0000

There is an easy fix for this bug if you have a rooted HERO, but it is only temporary until the next time you update that app. But it's rather simple.

Jump over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=... Most the good direction is on page 4 and 5.

By: robertnelson

robertnelson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:19:11 +0000

That actually happened also, just on a different app. Notice the Google Voice app on the bottom right.

By: merddyn2002

merddyn2002 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:17:12 +0000

also, anyone know what the deal is with a lack of "free" sms? You can now send and receive free sms messages via the google talk interface (at last in Gmail you can if you have google talk turned on). This is available for the computer interface but not the mobile interface? I'd love to use my data package to send/recieve SMS messages through the data portion of my carrier package (and thus not be charged for it). There are a few apps out on the market that claim to this this but they either don't work on the droid or require both the sender and receiver to have the same app installed (holla, for instance).

By: merddyn2002

merddyn2002 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:11:45 +0000

haven't experienced this on my droid phone as of yet, but I had an odd issue with volume being stuck VERY low that forced me to reboot the phone the 2nd day i had it and crazy sluggishness that forced another reboot last night. The inability to fully turn off the integrated messenger is also a problem. I was trying to run a 3rd party sms app from the marketplace and both apps kept fighting over who was going to handle the message. I ended up getting tired of 2 beeps for every sms so I uninstalled the 3rd party app. (Handscent was the app). Not sure if that's an issue with the app or the OS. I tend to think it's OS since it was the inability to change/uninstall the packaged app that was the root problem.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:55:01 +0000

It is a known bug for the Sprint Hero. I can did up a thread on the Google developers mailing list for you.