The 'All New HTC One" (aka the M8)
Discussion
I'm due an upgrade in April. Only got my One X in January, and once again have splashed out on an official car dock for it. Wonder if it's worth getting an M8, or going SIM only for a while, or take upgrade and sell it on, or sell my One X......
Decisions decisions. I am running Viper Rom Mr Funk because I really like the tweaks, you should check it out, they have come on so much, and you can even theme your phone by directly downloading themes to it. Those guys at xda are very clever.
Has anyone done any Roms for the M8 yet ?
Decisions decisions. I am running Viper Rom Mr Funk because I really like the tweaks, you should check it out, they have come on so much, and you can even theme your phone by directly downloading themes to it. Those guys at xda are very clever.
Has anyone done any Roms for the M8 yet ?
http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/03/27/xperia-z2-in-...
Interesting shootout between the big 3 smartphones being released, doesn't seem to be a huge amount in it if I'm honest. I think the Z2 just nudges it ahead of the M8 as the pictures look a bit more natural, think they're both ahead of the S5 which looks it's usual over-exposed self. All 3 seem to have pretty decent snappers on them to be fair.
Think I'd still have the Z2 after how good my original Z has been, not much in it though.
Interesting shootout between the big 3 smartphones being released, doesn't seem to be a huge amount in it if I'm honest. I think the Z2 just nudges it ahead of the M8 as the pictures look a bit more natural, think they're both ahead of the S5 which looks it's usual over-exposed self. All 3 seem to have pretty decent snappers on them to be fair.
Think I'd still have the Z2 after how good my original Z has been, not much in it though.
d though, now I'm back to being split between the Z2 and new HTC One 
Sonys have always had very good cameras (the Oppo Find 7 uses Sony's Exmor sensor so should turn in a good performance too). I swore I'd not buy anything from Sony again after their débâcle with PSN, the implementation of Cinavia and the deliberate crippling of the USB ports on the PS3 which meant you can't use large memory sticks. When my PS3 got stolen last year, I didn't replace it. It's a personal choice I guess.
If I'm honest, the Oppo was the only one that made me think hardest about the One M8. Samsung didn't get a look-in and the LG G2 just didn't really compare with the One M8. Whilst I don't dispute that the camera on other phones might be a bit better, the One M8 counters in other areas which are more important to me.
Interesting quirk though; the 64Gb card arrived today and went into the phone. It's seen as a 'second external' (the internal partition for the data is already treated as 'sdcard0' so the second card became 'sdcard1' effectively. Not a problem at all with the exception of ³, my music player of choice.
It only sees 'Internal' and 'External'. The Android music app sees the 'internal external' as 'internal' and the 'external external' as 'external' if that makes sense?
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Music app:
I've tweeted the creator of ³ to see what he says. It's an app issue rather than a phone issue. I'll just use the inbuilt music app for now.
Edit: Sorry, HUUUUUUGE pics!
By the way, the finish of this phone is something else. It's stunning. As all my pics are huge we may as well take advantage:
If I'm honest, the Oppo was the only one that made me think hardest about the One M8. Samsung didn't get a look-in and the LG G2 just didn't really compare with the One M8. Whilst I don't dispute that the camera on other phones might be a bit better, the One M8 counters in other areas which are more important to me.
Interesting quirk though; the 64Gb card arrived today and went into the phone. It's seen as a 'second external' (the internal partition for the data is already treated as 'sdcard0' so the second card became 'sdcard1' effectively. Not a problem at all with the exception of ³, my music player of choice.
It only sees 'Internal' and 'External'. The Android music app sees the 'internal external' as 'internal' and the 'external external' as 'external' if that makes sense?
³:
Music app:
I've tweeted the creator of ³ to see what he says. It's an app issue rather than a phone issue. I'll just use the inbuilt music app for now.
Edit: Sorry, HUUUUUUGE pics!
By the way, the finish of this phone is something else. It's stunning. As all my pics are huge we may as well take advantage:
Edited by Funk on Friday 28th March 13:33
Tycho said:
Looks very nice IMO, will be interesting to see how it stands up to everyday use with the machined case. IIRC the external SD card splitting is part of KitKat and how there is a secure program partition on it. You can still use the main part for media etc though.
Aluminimium tends to stand up well to daily usage - at least it has done with my old N8.clonmult said:
Tycho said:
Looks very nice IMO, will be interesting to see how it stands up to everyday use with the machined case. IIRC the external SD card splitting is part of KitKat and how there is a secure program partition on it. You can still use the main part for media etc though.
Aluminimium tends to stand up well to daily usage - at least it has done with my old N8.clonmult said:
Tycho said:
Looks very nice IMO, will be interesting to see how it stands up to everyday use with the machined case. IIRC the external SD card splitting is part of KitKat and how there is a secure program partition on it. You can still use the main part for media etc though.
Aluminimium tends to stand up well to daily usage - at least it has done with my old N8.
excellent, isn't the iPhone aluminium as well? Thought that had all kinds of scuffing issues.Its absolutely beautiful. I always thought my one (in silver ) was a great phone but fell out of love with the silver and white, the new Gray brushed finish is gorgeous and feels great in the hand. Was a bit dissapointed in the RHS Lock button on the top, but the swipe/tap to unlock has made this a non issue.
Really love it, just need to order a bigger SD card to put music on now.
I got my 4g upgrade on my old one this morning before I received the new phone, f##k me that's fast. I recorded 12mb download so not even top speed but what a revelation!
Really love it, just need to order a bigger SD card to put music on now.
I got my 4g upgrade on my old one this morning before I received the new phone, f##k me that's fast. I recorded 12mb download so not even top speed but what a revelation!
Funk, a version of ARHD is already available for the M8. I'm sure you're aware of this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2...
I'm tempted to change to the M7 version because I think the Viper ROM might be a bit delayed. They haven't released their M8 version and I'm sure thats what they are working on at the moment.
I'm tempted to change to the M7 version because I think the Viper ROM might be a bit delayed. They haven't released their M8 version and I'm sure thats what they are working on at the moment.
Interesting. Been looking into the sdcard issue. It seems that for security reasons, Google have locked down 3rd party app ability to write to that storage. The reason being that FAT32 doesn't support permissions, meaning any app with write access could, in theory, mangle other apps' data or clutter the storage with junk wherever it wants to (I've seen that happen). Only approved apps (read 'manufacturer's' and 'Google's'..) can do what they want on sdcard storage which is why the native app works. 3rd party apps can only write on the internal storage where Google can control the permissions.
Ultimately the reasons are right but it would be better to enforce exFAT format which, I believe, supports the appropriate permissions. This would be better than crippling the apps. It can be worked around if you have root access (you can revoke the security lockdown with root which solves things) and I can see mine being rooted pretty quickly...
Ultimately the reasons are right but it would be better to enforce exFAT format which, I believe, supports the appropriate permissions. This would be better than crippling the apps. It can be worked around if you have root access (you can revoke the security lockdown with root which solves things) and I can see mine being rooted pretty quickly...
Funk said:
Interesting quirk though; the 64Gb card arrived today and went into the phone. It's seen as a 'second external' (the internal partition for the data is already treated as 'sdcard0' so the second card became 'sdcard1' effectively. Not a problem at all with the exception of ³, my music player of choice.
It only sees 'Internal' and 'External'. The Android music app sees the 'internal external' as 'internal' and the 'external external' as 'external' if that makes sense?
³
I've tweeted the creator of ³ to see what he says. It's an app issue rather than a phone issue. I'll just use the inbuilt music app for now.
I've not heard of this music app, I've tried to locate it without any luck - could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!It only sees 'Internal' and 'External'. The Android music app sees the 'internal external' as 'internal' and the 'external external' as 'external' if that makes sense?
³
I've tweeted the creator of ³ to see what he says. It's an app issue rather than a phone issue. I'll just use the inbuilt music app for now.
JulianHJ said:
Funk said:
Interesting quirk though; the 64Gb card arrived today and went into the phone. It's seen as a 'second external' (the internal partition for the data is already treated as 'sdcard0' so the second card became 'sdcard1' effectively. Not a problem at all with the exception of ³, my music player of choice.
It only sees 'Internal' and 'External'. The Android music app sees the 'internal external' as 'internal' and the 'external external' as 'external' if that makes sense?
³
I've tweeted the creator of ³ to see what he says. It's an app issue rather than a phone issue. I'll just use the inbuilt music app for now.
I've not heard of this music app, I've tried to locate it without any luck - could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!It only sees 'Internal' and 'External'. The Android music app sees the 'internal external' as 'internal' and the 'external external' as 'external' if that makes sense?
³
I've tweeted the creator of ³ to see what he says. It's an app issue rather than a phone issue. I'll just use the inbuilt music app for now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org....
Thanks for the write up funk.
Been looking for a phone to replace my HTC Desire HD (3 1/2 years old I think!) so have been looking forward to this launch for ages. My concern is that it's just too damn big, my brother has the ONE and I think that's at or even over the size limit for a phone. I'm disappointed it still has the black bar with the HTC logo on it. I assumed when they said they were putting the buttons on the screen that part would disappear and the phone would be the same size as the ONE...I need to see one in real life but I just think it's too long, the screen and the speakers are just too much. And to think I thought my Desire HD was huge when I got it!
I wonder what the new ONE M8 mini will be like...
Been looking for a phone to replace my HTC Desire HD (3 1/2 years old I think!) so have been looking forward to this launch for ages. My concern is that it's just too damn big, my brother has the ONE and I think that's at or even over the size limit for a phone. I'm disappointed it still has the black bar with the HTC logo on it. I assumed when they said they were putting the buttons on the screen that part would disappear and the phone would be the same size as the ONE...I need to see one in real life but I just think it's too long, the screen and the speakers are just too much. And to think I thought my Desire HD was huge when I got it!
I wonder what the new ONE M8 mini will be like...
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