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HTC Desire packed with 5 Megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. In theory, the camera should has capability to capture decent pictures and videos. But for those who don’t know yet..

The desire’s backcover has a camera lens protector made by very cheap plastic, that scratches very easily. When this happens, the pictures will have a “glowing”, blurry, unsharp look.

To improve the camera quality, all you need is to remove the piece of transparent plastic “lens protector” on the backcover and then used a small piece of screen protector and sticked it on the lenses. Even without it the chances you actually scratch the lens is virtually none. So now I have a hole in my back cover, but I dramatically improved my picture and video quality.

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I just found a cool apps that lets you sync any file from your computer onto your phone without having to log into any account or use any wires! Awesome Drop, just like the name, it’s an awesome freeware for HTC Desire and other Android phones.

With Awesome Drop, you can drag and drop to sync files to your phone from a web browser, drag files into the dropbox on the web and they sync to your phone. No account required!
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With so many applications available on the market,  You may ran out of internal storage just one day after bought your Android phone. Good news that the Android 2.2 Froyo feature that most people have been looking forward to is likely official support for installing apps to the SD card. Unfortunately, the Froyo system installs all new applications on your device’s internal memory by default. To make your HTC Desire / Android 2.2 phone put apps on the SD card by default, you need to follow this tips :

1. First you have to enable USB debugging on your Android device from Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging.
2. Now you need to download and install the Android SDK on your computer from http://developer.android.com/sdk/. Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the package to the folder of your choice, run SDK Setup.exe and click on Available Packages to the left. If you get an error message at this point, enable “Force https://…” in the Settings. From the list of available packages, select “Usb Driver package”, click on the Install Selected button in the bottom right corner and follow the prompts.
3. Connect your phone to your computer with a USB-cable. Your OS will prompt you to install new drivers. Choose to install them from the android-sdk/usb_driver folder. Do not mount your device; you only need to plug-in the cable. If you are running Windows 7, UNPLUG your phone from PC, d/l the Android SDK kit but entirely skip the part with installing USB driver, instead just go to HTC page ( http://www.htc.com -> Support and find your product ) and d/l HTC Sync application, install it. Plug in the phone now, set connection type to synchronize and check if HTC Sync recognizes the phone, if yes, you are set (HTC Sync installs the needed ADB drivers under Win 7).  All you need to do now is to enable the USB Debugging in your phone and set connection type to “Charge only” (tho it worked also with sync setting) and follow up rest of the tutorial.
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Many Android users facing problems with Album Art on their device. Here some simple tips to solve the problem. The problem is the phone is looking for the album art within the track itself. So, we need to embed it, because having a .jpg file in the folder will not do. The phone does not look for the album art there, so it’s not going to find it!

This tips was tested on the HTC Desire, but it should work for all other models and most likely all other Android phones. The process was identical for my old Sony Ericsson C905 and my girlfriends SE W580i.

1. First you need to download a freeware program called mp3tag. Install it and run the program. You may donate to mp3tag if you like the software.

2. Secondly, drag and drop all the music that does not have album art stored within the file. Highlight a number of tracks, best to do this an album at a time. Now you can either right click in the empty album art box like the image below and find the album art on your computer.

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We know that Android phones have many top features. And it requires more power. In result, the Android contributes to a phone short battery life. Some users are good to go with this issue as they need to recharge their device every time, but some people are frustrated by it.

We found some ways to disable some of Android features to save battery life. Some might argue that this method makes Android crippled but some might also find this helpful.

Here they are 14 tips to save your Android device’s battery (We are using HTC Desire as sample)

1.Disable Always-On Mobile Data
This always-on option is default, but you can do disable it from Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Enable-disable always-on mobile data as it will decrease the battery use.

2.Turn off Wireless Network Positioning
You can change this option from Settings > Location > Use wireless networks. Using GPS surely will drain your battery; use it only when you need it badly instead you use Assisted GPS.

3.Always Keep Bluetooth off When Not in Use
You can disable it from Settings > Wireless & networks > Bluetooth. Bluetooth is obviously draining your battery if you keep it on all the time.

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Do you have a trouble to have same fun with HTC Legend? There is a tips about how to optimize then have fun with this smartphone from HTC.

Today, i want to help you to play with a couple of feature from HTC Legend. These features are Footprints and Google Maps. Actually those features won’t be too difficult to run if your GPS is on. Just go to the home screen then tap the MENU, tap the settings, then select your location and select Use GPS satellites.

However, there may be some trouble is occurred during the process. If you had a trouble connecting to a GPS satellite, follow the directions below:

1. Make sure that Use Wireless Networks is checked in the settings menu located at MENU > Settings > Location > Use GPS satellites.

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