HTC Desire S Owner's Manual

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HTC Desire S Owners Guide

Since buying my first Android

phone (the excellent HTC Desire)

back in April 2010 I have been on

a mission to turn as many of my

friends towards these fantastic

phones as possible. Although I

am not a developer and couldn't

write a line of code to save my

life, I am still considered the

"Geek" of the group and people

have listened. In that time I have

been dishing out help and advice

to all my friends when they followed my advice and went Android. It got to the

stage where I was just forwarding previously sent e-mails and referring people

to XDA thread links after searching my 'Sent Items' folder for the relevant

advice. So I decided to save time sifting through my sent items each time

someone bought a phone on my say-so, and I created this. I have compiled all

the e-mails into this noob-friendly guide specifically for people new to HTC

and Android. Please bear in mind this is not a guide aimed at long-time

Android users, developers, or custom ROM flashers, as you will have figured

all of this out by now anyway. It has evolved and grown over many months so

may repeat itself in certain areas, and I have now tweaked it for the Desire S.

DO NOT INSTALL OR USE TASK KILLERS!!!!!!

Android does not 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 background apps not being

used to free up the memory it needs to work. This will all happen automatically and

you'll not even notice it. Android 2.3 (aka Gingerbread) comes with its own way of

force-closing any rouge apps should you need to. 3rd party Task Killers stick their

nose into all this, have to run in the foreground all the time, and as a result slow the

phone up, drain the battery, and always cause more problems than they solve. Don't

worry if your free RAM is reported as being low. Free RAM is wasted RAM. One

exception to this is when you have what's called a Memory Leak. It simply means

that RAM is not being freed up properly when an app is closed. It happens over time

when your phone has been on for a couple of weeks without a restart. I recommend

restarting the phone if it starts to get sluggish. A vast majority of the time this solves

any lag issues.

Make sure an app has plenty of prior downloads and read the reviews before

installing it, and always do so via the Google marketplace (unless I send it you). That

way you are protected by Google from dodgy apps. Google even have the ability to

hit a "panic button" and remotely uninstall suspect apps from everyone's phones

should a dodgy one make it past the checks and onto the marketplace. Apps from

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