HTC Sense (Windows Mobile) quirks
I’m on Singtel, and my HTC HD2 gets preconfigured with four data networks: SingTel Streaming, SingTel MMS, SingTel WAP and SingTel Internet. If you go to “Settings” > “All Settings” > “Connections” > “Connections” > “Advanced” > “Select Networks”, you can see the list under the heading “Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using:”.
One of the neat features of HTC Sense is the integration with Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. From the HTC Albums, you can easily upload photos to Facebook. If it works. Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t get that feature to work. Instead, I was prompted to login. After typing in my e-mail and password, I got the following “Login error”: “There has been a connection error while attempting to login”. I never figured this problem out until recently. Apparently this is an obscure problem. I came across a forum posting that mentioned trying to change the default data network, so I tried that. To my surprise, I hit the jackpot with “SingTel Streaming”. Once I selected that and tried to login, it worked! I changed the setting back to “SingTel Internet” (the default network), and was able to upload photos from HTC Albums!
I don’t really know the difference between the different Singtel data network settings, and it is quite strange that even though “SingTel Internet” (aka “IDEAS Internet”) is the default connection, HTC Sense is not able to login. This issue was also encountered on a HTC HD mini.
By the way, to manage your accounts in HTC Sense, go to “Settings” > “All Settings” > “Connections” > “Account Manager”, and you will see the login status of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Not particularly intuitive.
A side effect of changing the data network was that all of a sudden, my Opera browser could not surf the Internet. Internet Explorer and other applications were fine. Just Opera. Loading any page would immediately display the network error page.
Thanks to a thread from Mobinauts, I found that the solution is to change the following registry key from ’0′ to ’1′:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Opera\Prefs\Network Conn Mgr Auto Detect Network = 1
Apparently Opera is configured to connect only through “SingTel WAP”. Unfortunately, something I did caused the connection to fail. By changing the registry, Opera will use an available data network setting, in this case, “SingTel Internet”.
Perhaps these are more accurately telco (Singtel) quirks, rather than HTC Sense?