The 'All New HTC One" (aka the M8)

Saturday 28th February 2015

Medic-one said:

Bloody phone is doing my head in since the update so thinking of rooting it and putting some custom firmware on.
Done that years ago with one of my first HTC's (?desire) and that worked fine.

Anyone here rooted it and can recommend a custom Rom?

I'm quite happy with Android Revolution. No problems at all and very good battery life.

NateWM

1,684 posts

179 months

Saturday 28th February 2015

Strange, I've had my M8 since release and I've not had a single issue with it at all.

Funk

Original Poster

26,266 posts

209 months

Saturday 28th February 2015

Mine's been great on 5.0 as well, sorry to hear some are having issues though.

VEA

4,785 posts

201 months

Sunday 1st March 2015

My battery life has dropped significantly. In the past on a normal day at bed time I would probably have between 40 and 50% left, I'm now getting down to low teens.

AJB88

12,385 posts

171 months

Monday 9th March 2015

Mines been good since Lollipop, Battery is about the same and no major issues (Now Barclays have updated their app).

16,287 posts

197 months

Monday 9th March 2015

I still have the wifi dropping problem which is mostly noticable when I play games that need a constant connection (like clash of clans) - to the point where I will turn off wifi before I start playing.

I wonder if there's a contention issue between the router and the phone...

Funk

Original Poster

26,266 posts

209 months

Monday 9th March 2015

I can't say I noticed any issues with WiFi on mine but with the recent arrival of decent 4g in my manor it's faster to stay on data...

Scott W

571 posts

243 months

Monday 9th March 2015

james_tigerwoods said:

I still have the wifi dropping problem which is mostly noticable when I play games that need a constant connection (like clash of clans) - to the point where I will turn off wifi before I start playing.

I wonder if there's a contention issue between the router and the phone...

I've been noticing this myself recently. Originally I thought it was my home setup but the same happens whilst using the work Wi-Fi. It does get a bit frustrating!

VEA

4,785 posts

201 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2015

Question time...

Anyone know how to remove/disable Kid Mode? Preferably without rooting.\

The last few days I've noticed a bit of battery drop, Had a look just now and it appears that Kid mode has used 6% of battery today...

DoctorX

7,268 posts

167 months

Wednesday 22nd April 2015

VEA said:

Question time...

Anyone know how to remove/disable Kid Mode? Preferably without rooting.\

The last few days I've noticed a bit of battery drop, Had a look just now and it appears that Kid mode has used 6% of battery today...

You've probably found it but there's a kid mode option under security in the settings. Might be something in there.

16,287 posts

197 months

Thursday 23rd April 2015

My replaced HTC One has a real dust problem - The amount of dust under the front lens is now so bad that I can no longer use the front lens.

Am I alone in this?

VEA

4,785 posts

201 months

Thursday 23rd April 2015

james_tigerwoods said:

My replaced HTC One has a real dust problem - The amount of dust under the front lens is now so bad that I can no longer use the front lens.

Am I alone in this?

The smaller of the back lenses appears to be pretty bad. No issues on the front though.

Managed to disable kid mode in apps. But I want f

king rid of it. Think it's coming to root time...

16,287 posts

197 months

Thursday 23rd April 2015

Back lenses on this one are pretty good so far. the front lens has lasted two whole months....

O2 have agreed a next day swap out.

This will be phone number 4....

16,287 posts

197 months

Friday 24th April 2015

This is the amount of dust that's built up in only two months...

Funk

Original Poster

26,266 posts

209 months

Friday 24th April 2015

Yeah, definitely something not right there. Mine's still completely clear and it's just over a year old now.

16,287 posts

197 months

Friday 24th April 2015

Funk said:

Yeah, definitely something not right there. Mine's still completely clear and it's just over a year old now.

The new one has arrived so I'm doing the "phone reset" dance - Turn on, set up, install update 1 (144mb), install Android 5.01 (850 odd Mb), factory reset, full restore.

I reckon it'll take an hour from start to finish.

Rachie

8,824 posts

216 months