I’ve found myself working around several annoying Android (or possibly HTC Sense) bugs recently. In the hopes of saving someone else a lot of frustrating Googling, here’s a list of recent issues I’ve suffered and steps to solve them. I’ll update this post if and when I come across any more.I’m not sure how it works, but I think it might just start over from 1 and look for the first available filename, so it ends up filling in the gaps if you

I have an original HTC Desire (Bravo) with HTC’s stock Android 2.2 (Froyo).

Gmail reply is constantly “sending”

Sometimes when I send a reply in the Gmail app whilst offline, when I subsequently connect the e-mail will never get sent.

Workaround (can’t remember source):

1. Connect to the Internet
2. Open the conversation with the unsent replywork arouwork around themnd them
3. Start a new reply to the original message and save it as a draft
4. Go to your “drafts” label/folder and open the draftwork around them
5. Mysteriously, your unsent reply will open for editing
6. Send it
7. You can delete your dummy reply after this

Calendar won’t display all remote calendars

My calendar wouldn’t load the US Holidays calendar from Google. It had worked previously but, for some reason, after a few refreshes it disappeared from my calendars list and wouldn’t reappear. I tried removing and re-adding it in the Google Calendar web interface to no avail.

Workaround (source):

1. Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Calendar Storage
2. Clear data
3. Resync your calendar

Facebook birthday calendar disappears after calendar reset

After a reset of calendar data, e.g. in the previous workaround, the special calendar of Facebook friends’ birthdays will be missing from the Android calendars list. No amount of syncing/refreshing the calendar and Facebook has any effect.

Workaround (source):

1. Go to Settings > Accounts & sync > Facebook for HTC Sense
2. Remove account
3. Re-add your Facebook for HTC Sense account
4. Sync it

Camera takes a long time to save photos

Twice in the past few months, the stock camera app started being very slow to save photos. I’d press the shutter button, the autofocus square would turn green, and the picture would take, but then I wouldn’t be able to take another picture for quite a while. The display would keep working, but the focus square would not reappear, nor the GPS status, nor would the menu work. If I pressed the shutter button again whilst waiting, a picture would unexpectedly be taken later, when the camera started responding once more. Eventually, the camera would be come responsive again, however the video mode would continue to not work in the same way. A force stop of the camera could make the photo mode work again, but the next shot would cause the same problem. I’d been taking a lot of photos, sometimes several quite rapidly, sometimes quickly switching back and forth between photo and video mode, and sometimes taking a fast photo and locking the screen again straight away. It’s seemed to be in some of these instances that the problem has arisen.

Workaround:

1. Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Media Storage
2. Clear data

Note that this will reset your camera settings but will NOT delete your photos off the SD card. Initially your old photos will disappear from the gallery app, but will eventually reappear. In addition, the file numbering of the next photos you take may not follow the ones you’ve already taken, but they won’t overwrite existing photos.