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dienamic said:
It might be over a year old, but I'm fairly certain it's a 2 year warranty on them
From HTC UK website - This Limited Warranty shall last for twenty-four (24) months from the
date of original purchase for mobile devices, and twelve (12) months
for accessories (whether included in the mobile device sales package
or sold separately) other than the media on which any software is
provided, CD-ROM, memory card (“Warranty Period”).
Pretty sure you can drop the phone at a Carphone Warehouse that has a repair workshop and they will resolve for you.
I'm going to pull the trigger on a One today and Ebay my old One X.
CatJ said:
One thing I have noticed is that I no longer have mass storage as an option for copying music across to the phone, that means that double twist is no defunct for me.
I've noticed this too, now my phone doesn't work with the in car head unit. Constantly trying to go into Debug mode. Is there a way that i can go back to the mass storage option?
buzzsaw said:
_Deano said:
I've noticed this too, now my phone doesn't work with the in car head unit. Constantly trying to go into Debug mode.
Is there a way that i can go back to the mass storage option?
I think this is a Jellybean 'improvement'. No idea why they would have done this.Is there a way that i can go back to the mass storage option?
The phone no longer shows as 'Mass Storage' but as 'Portable Media Player'. There are benefits to this:
- The phone does NOT need to unmount the internal storage for it to be viewed on the PC
- There is lower (almost no) chance of corruption of the memory due to the USB connection being pulled whilst a transfer is in progress
- Storage remains accessible on the phone whilst connected to the PC
That said, I use a program called JRiver for my music and video playback (it's not free, but it is exceptionally good - the audio quality is in another league compared with things like Winamp, Foobar et al) and it works beautifully with my One X. I have all my music stored as FLAC on my PC and I don't want to have to save it as MP3 just for the phone; with a drag-and-drop action, JRiver will transcode the FLAC to .ogg (my choice, it's better than MP3 and pretty much the same file size - it will convert to anything you want), adds the local artwork and then copies it to the Music folder on my phone. Each album takes about 45-60 seconds to do including transcode and transfer.
It also works with video although I don't tend to have much video on the phone other than perhaps a few episodes of some TV shows if I'm away from home for any length of time, and even then I tend to leave them as .AVI or .MKV as the phone plays these natively anyway and the transcode time would be longer than it's worth waiting for - the only downside is increased file size for the MKVs (but awesome 720p quality though).
THere's also an app for JRiver in the Market which allows you to remotely control JRiver either over the network or the internet, including streaming video/music to the phone (again, it transcodes this for you on-the-fly). It's a really neat piece of software, and one I couldn't be without now. If anyone's interested, you can download a trial here:
http://www.jriver.com/download.html
Despite the fact the change from Mass Storage model to Portable Media Player has broken doubleTwist (and others I'd imagine), it's actually a really good move for Android imo.
hmm so I picked one of these up on a great tescomobile deal, piggybacking the 02 network.
So far... fast as anything, screen is amazing, battery is fairly poor but expected.
I am struggling though - htc sync manager is faff and doesn't seem to download the latest version. When I plug my phone into my windows 7 laptop via usb it says "device not recognised" - doesn't matter what option I selecvted (tethering/disk drive etc) it won't recognise it. I should point out my phone is running 4.0 and hasn't yet got the update to 4.1 (maybe that will come on wifi tonight? It isn't showing any updates when I search at work today).
If anyone has any tips it would be appreciated as I have 20gb of music I want to move onto the phone!
So far... fast as anything, screen is amazing, battery is fairly poor but expected.
I am struggling though - htc sync manager is faff and doesn't seem to download the latest version. When I plug my phone into my windows 7 laptop via usb it says "device not recognised" - doesn't matter what option I selecvted (tethering/disk drive etc) it won't recognise it. I should point out my phone is running 4.0 and hasn't yet got the update to 4.1 (maybe that will come on wifi tonight? It isn't showing any updates when I search at work today).
If anyone has any tips it would be appreciated as I have 20gb of music I want to move onto the phone!
jodypress said:
carparkno1, just plug in the phone and he you swipe from the top of the phone down you should see settings and choose to mount as a drive. Then just copy from pc to phone. I've never used HTC sync as it's a bit pants.
it doesn't give me that option sadly 
not sure what is going on. I just get the pc message that the device isn't recognised, and on the phone if I go into settings, it doesn't matter what option I choose, it won't recognise it.What happened to the days of drop n go? Do you have a method outside of HTC Sync?
carparkno1 said:
it doesn't give me that option sadly not sure what is going on. I just get the pc message that the device isn't recognised, and on the phone if I go into settings, it doesn't matter what option I choose, it won't recognise it.
What happened to the days of drop n go? Do you have a method outside of HTC Sync?
Sadly I've had the same thing with the replacement One X that 3 sent me. not sure what is going on. I just get the pc message that the device isn't recognised, and on the phone if I go into settings, it doesn't matter what option I choose, it won't recognise it.What happened to the days of drop n go? Do you have a method outside of HTC Sync?
Guys, the 'device not recognised' issue is more likely to be pc-related. The phone no longer mounts as storage, it shows as a Portable Media Player as outlined earlier in the thread (and this is much, much better imo). I've had USB devices such as pen drives and portable hard drives fail to recognise and it can often be sorted by removing and reinstalling USB device drivers in Device Manager or by using a different port. It's also possible your lead is duff.
You could also try one of the many ways of accessing the phone via WiFi, negating the USB issue completely.
You could also try one of the many ways of accessing the phone via WiFi, negating the USB issue completely.
Dakkon said:
Last week I had downloaded the latest OS upgrade and now when out of home wifi the phone is constantly trying to sync, battery is getting very hot and now only lasting a few hours
Phone was absolutely fine before the software update.
Back it up to Google account/PC etc and factory reset.Phone was absolutely fine before the software update.
I know battery life has always been questionable but has anyone noticed a fall off recently? I got my One X in April last year so it is over a year old now but life is hopeless now. Today I took it off charge at around 10am and by 5pm got the low battery warning at 14% - I had only made a couple of calls and taken 4 photos (without flash). Checking usage 10% was for Facebook which I haven't even looked at today (I presume the recent update has changed the usage so might bin the app anyway) but there is nothing else standing out. Any suggestions?
andyps said:
I know battery life has always been questionable but has anyone noticed a fall off recently? I got my One X in April last year so it is over a year old now but life is hopeless now. Today I took it off charge at around 10am and by 5pm got the low battery warning at 14% - I had only made a couple of calls and taken 4 photos (without flash). Checking usage 10% was for Facebook which I haven't even looked at today (I presume the recent update has changed the usage so might bin the app anyway) but there is nothing else standing out. Any suggestions?
Yes certainly with the 2nd phone that 3 replaced a month ago with a new unit. I'm not that impressed with the new one either. I probably this summer will sell it to Gadget Panda and buy something different. In all fairness though, it's rare for me to have run a handset for 12 months, so it's obviously impressed me. andyps said:
I know battery life has always been questionable but has anyone noticed a fall off recently? I got my One X in April last year so it is over a year old now but life is hopeless now. Today I took it off charge at around 10am and by 5pm got the low battery warning at 14% - I had only made a couple of calls and taken 4 photos (without flash). Checking usage 10% was for Facebook which I haven't even looked at today (I presume the recent update has changed the usage so might bin the app anyway) but there is nothing else standing out. Any suggestions?
It's usually the fault of an app or two. Uninstall and reinstall until you find the culprit.It would be worth checking that you have screen brightness on Auto too.
The Jolly Todger said:
It's usually the fault of an app or two. Uninstall and reinstall until you find the culprit.
It would be worth checking that you have screen brightness on Auto too.
Make sure auto screen brightness is off as that can sap some power and install gsam to see what is killing the battery https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....It would be worth checking that you have screen brightness on Auto too.
stevoknevo said:
Make sure auto screen brightness is off as that can sap some power
It depends if you trust it (as I do) to pick the lowest brightness suitable for the ambient light.I always leave it on and find it works very well. The reason I mentioned it is that a couple of times I have accidentally left it on max brightness rather than auto, and when you do it will go through the battery a lot more quickly than when set to auto.
Obviously auto will use more power than leaving it on a low setting at all times but I think that this is outweighed by actually being able to read the screen when outdoors.
I don't think this is the OPs problem either way and that app you suggested could well help him track down the real problem.
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