My HTC Desire S is working fine when I don't put my micro SD card in it (this card was free with the phone). But the phone keeps restarting every few minutes if I keep the memory card in it. By that, I could say that the phone is fine, but the issue can be either with the memory card or the phone not supporting memory card anymore. The phone and memory card worked completely fine for 8 months. The thing is, if the same memory card is inserted in any other mobile, be it an Android or any other smartphone, that phone will not restart and the data is completely readable too. So, the memory card is fine. When I insert some other memory card on my phone, then my phone does not restart too. So that means the issue is with *my phone & that particular memory card* combo. I am ready to uninstall each and every app from my phone, but will that solve my problem? Should I perform the factory reset? Will it solve my issue? What will I lose if will do the factory reset? Like: contacts, SMS, call logs, APN settings, etc. Any free software to backup all these? But maybe I am going in the wrong direction. Maybe there is some easy way to get the phone and memory card working.

HTC Desire S seems to have very scarce WiFi settings. I'm trying to debug a Wifi connectivity issue and looks like it might be a DNS problem . I Googled and looks like many Android devices have some "advanced" settings including DNS server addresses. I can't find anything like that in Desire S. What am I doing wrong? How do I change DNS and IP settings in Desire S?

Just put music on SD card, started up phone after re-inserting SD card, but it came on in 'safe mode'. Any ideas on how to switch safe mode off?

Every time I plug in my earphones into my HTC Desire S, it starts calling the last dialed number automatically and starts the music after short interval. Does anyone know about this problem?

I have an HTC Desire S, which my cousin bought for me from China. Android version: 4.0.4; HTC Sense version: 3.6; Software number: 1.0.0.S510e The MicroSD card no longer works. Whenever I reinsert it, I get the message, after a few seconds, "SD card safe to remove". I've tried reformatting it and have run fsck on it. I think the card used to mount read-only before, as it used to unmount whenever I took a picture; this started happening after the most recent update. I kept trying to take pictures and reinserting the card would fix it but it seems now it won't mount. How can I fix the MicroSD card so it'll mount?

The HTC Desire S RUU for Android 4.0 is now available in the HTCdev website (htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads ). Unfortunately (or is it?), region is set to (WWE - World Wide English) My region is "038 - HTC India" Will the WWE be compatible with my device or do I have to wait for a separate release for my region ? I read somewhere that > WWE - World Wide English, this tells us it is meant for devices all > over the world and is a generic update. Is this true?

I have installed lots of apps on my phone. For the last couple of weeks i am facing one issue. Even when i am not using internet infact even when i am not using my phone at all, a window pops up and says you have just downloaded ??mb of data!!! and because of this my battery is draining very fast. I have to charge it twice a day. I don't even know which app is accessing net, I suspected the pulse feed reader and google+ for this. Uninstalled pulse reader but still there is problem. If i could got to know which app is that then i will just uninstall that. Phone: HTC Desire S OS: Android 2.3.3

I am Running AOKP on my HTC Desire S and it has a weird issue with sound - If I reboot the device with headphones plugged in, the sound (specifically the bass) is OK but if I remove the headphones and if any kind of sound is played through the Phone's speaker (a touch, a keystroke, a song, a notification anything) and then try to plug in the headphones again, the bass cracks. Of course, I have reported the issue to original developer who has ported the build, but for now if I could just restart the sound engine, I may be able to solve it temporarily. Is there any such service that runs or is there any way to do so? AOKP 4.1 milestone 1 **EDIT**: This is not an answer to my original question (so not putting as an answer) but this kind of solved my problem. Well when you lose bass, just plug the headphones in, call a number (I always call my customer care which is toll free and not human :P) wait for the ring, cut the call and Whoila! The bass is back! :D I know it sounds crazy, but it works!

Here's the scenario: what I often find happening is that I receive a call on my Android phone (HTC Desire S), and as I'm rushing to get it out of my pocket I'm accidentally managing to swipe the screen, which rejects or accepts the call, when I didn't want to. What's the best way to avoid this, given that I want to keep my phone in my pocket? I'd kind of like the screen to remain disabled when a call is being received until I press the power button at which point it becomes sensitive. Is there a way to do this or something which would avoid this accidental accept/reject of calls?

How can I make RUU 4.0 update on HTC Desire S? After downloading the zip file, I don't know which are the next steps in to the update process. Please give me detailed instructions. Thanks!

I was trying to flash a new ROM, but can't get it to boot. Usually, I would have just booted into my recovery and restored my last backup. But I can't do that now as my power button is broken and it is impossible to select the "backup and recover" option after booting into the recovery.

OK, I know there's stuff out there on this - but tbh I can't understand it. I have a UK HTC Desire S on T-mobile. I used the official HTC download to upgrade to ICS last year (it was not OTA but on their website). However, when I came to unlock the phone recently (to allow my daughter to use it on another network) I cannot get it to prompt me for the unlock code. I've performed a "factory reset" but that didn't help, and the best advice I can find online seems to indicate I should restore the original OS. But I've not the faintest idea how to do this. I'm not sure what other info to give - it is currently running 4.0.4 and Sense 3.6. IF there's a dummies guide to this somewhere, I'm happy to be pointed - but I can't find it.

The RUU of the HTCdev cannot install to my Htc desire S. It always says that I need the correct RUU version and my region is SEA_WWE. Is there any way to install the RUU without changing my region? or how do I change the region to make my phone compatible?

When I used my previous phone, when I am calling someone, I used to get a notification if the party that I am calling is in another call and I am waiting. I usually don't like to disturb people when they are in another call so I promptly hang up. But I've noticed that my **HTC Desire S** does not tell me that information. Is it by design ? Is there anyway I can enable this feature? An app perhaps? Or are all the phones running Android have this feature turned off ? Just to clarify, I am **NOT** looking for activating call waiting on my phone so I get an alert when another person is calling me. I want to know when a call *I* initiated is in call-waiting on the other end.

Is there any way to clear search history in ebook reader App on Desire S? (It is the default reader App for ebook on HTC desire S). Thanks.

I should be getting a HTC Desire S android phone in the next few days. It is listed on the HTC website at http://www.htc.com/uk/product/desires/overview.html , but doesn't appear on the HTC support site at http://www.htc.com/uk/support.aspx . Does anyone know why this this is, or how I can get to the support page for this phone? I'd like to have a look at the Users Guide before the phone arrives.

I have an **Aliph Jawbone** (original) which worked fine with Sony Ericsson dumb-phones (K750, K810) but on my **HTC Desire S** (Gingerbread, 2.3.3) I can't figure out how to use it for voice dialing. The phone can find the headset, pair with it and connect to it. If I double tap on the Jawbone's call button, it triggers the phone's last number redial and calls a contact; but a single press (which should invoke voice dialing on the phone somehow), has no effect. With dumb-phones, I would just press the headset button, hear a low-pitched beep, then a higher pitched beep a second later when the phone responds, prompting me to speak. Then the phone would receive the noise I make, and go and do its thing. With this Android phone, I don't hear that 2nd beep, so apparently the phone isn't responding to the Jawbone. Am I going about this in the wrong way? Should I be using the Car Panel's Voice Dialer instead? *** Update *** I've tried the **Voice Dialer**, and it *almost* does what I need, but to use it I need the phone out and visible, with the screen on, and I have to tap on the screen to trigger the dialer. I didn't have to do this with phones from five years ago. **Note** I am looking for a *hands-free* solution, so any advice that involves unlocking the phone, staring at it, and stabbing at the screen simply isn't an answer. It would also be illegal under English driving law. I *am* considering buying Cyberon's Voice Speed Dial , because that seems to work the way I'd like it to (without needing a data connection to an online speech-to-text service); but I want to check that I'm not missing some daft configuration setting.

I connected my phone as a disk drive and put some files ( .png ,.jpg ,.swf ) in the sdcard. I am unable to open those files on the phone. I am unable to find those files in the gallery of the device, either. When I checked details from Astro file manager it is showing the extension .cp$ on all the file, as in filename.png.cp$ I am not getting what is the problem??

I have a HTC Desire S. I have firmware updates but when i try to update the same. I rebooted in the updating process and the phone hangs there for hour (i waited for 4 hrs once). I tried to factory reset the mobile, still facing the same issue. Note: The phone is rooted. Do I need to visit HTC Service center or is there anything that I can do?

I'm using the standard full QWERTY on-screen keyboard on my HTC Desire S, and when typing in to any app it seems that I cannot type it's without manually inserting the ', which is relatively slow and cumbersome, especially considering many other abbreviations work fine (eg, c, a, n, t -> can't). If I type i, t, s then the default word that is presented is its, but in the word selection list I am presented with It's as a second choice; *always* capitalised. it's is not presented as a choice anywhere in the list of suggestions. The phone seems to only capitalise anything else following a full stop or new line, and gets many other abbreviations correct, so why the misbehaviour for it's? And how do I fix it? I've already tried adding it's to the dictionary (and checked that It's isn't there), but that didn't work.