The 'All New HTC One" (aka the M8)
Discussion
hornetrider said:
Ah that's interesting as both times have been when I pulled it out of my pocket. Obviously my chunky thighs are mashing the buttons... at least it's nothing more serious. No buttons are sticking anyway.
Is a bit scary is so easy to trigger. I'd be pissed if it SIM locked out factory reset on me.
It isn't easy to trigger though; mine's never done it and you have to hold both buttons for around 10 seconds...Is a bit scary is so easy to trigger. I'd be pissed if it SIM locked out factory reset on me.
NordicCrankShaft said:
I've had my M8 about a year now and I'm not as hooked on it as I have previous HTC's.
The predictive text constantly forgets entries that I've entered manually.
It's quite sluggish when opening apps, my biggest gripe is with opening the camera. Most of the time when I take a picture it's normally in a situation when i need to snap a picture quickly but by the time it actually opens the moment has gone.
The keyboard is laggy.
yet some how the screen is super sensitive, sometimes I feel like I'm not evn touching the screen yet I still manage to open an app.
This phone is one of the biggest I've ever owned yet I seem to get more spelling errors and have to go back and change them than I can ever remember because I've touched the wrong letter.
Another keyboard issue is when I'm trying to type a word thats not in the internal dictionary it wants to insert the first word that is.
I really hope the M10 when it is unveiled is something vastly different and a much needed overhaul. I love HTC my last 5 phones have all been HTC but I'm starting to get a bit bored and now Samsung seem to sorted their s
t out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.
The predictive text constantly forgets entries that I've entered manually.
It's quite sluggish when opening apps, my biggest gripe is with opening the camera. Most of the time when I take a picture it's normally in a situation when i need to snap a picture quickly but by the time it actually opens the moment has gone.
The keyboard is laggy.
yet some how the screen is super sensitive, sometimes I feel like I'm not evn touching the screen yet I still manage to open an app.
This phone is one of the biggest I've ever owned yet I seem to get more spelling errors and have to go back and change them than I can ever remember because I've touched the wrong letter.
Another keyboard issue is when I'm trying to type a word thats not in the internal dictionary it wants to insert the first word that is.
I really hope the M10 when it is unveiled is something vastly different and a much needed overhaul. I love HTC my last 5 phones have all been HTC but I'm starting to get a bit bored and now Samsung seem to sorted their s
t out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.Turn on developer options and adjust the animation settings that made mine flow a lot nicer.
NordicCrankShaft said:
I've had my M8 about a year now and I'm not as hooked on it as I have previous HTC's.
The predictive text constantly forgets entries that I've entered manually.
It's quite sluggish when opening apps, my biggest gripe is with opening the camera. Most of the time when I take a picture it's normally in a situation when i need to snap a picture quickly but by the time it actually opens the moment has gone.
The keyboard is laggy.
yet some how the screen is super sensitive, sometimes I feel like I'm not evn touching the screen yet I still manage to open an app.
This phone is one of the biggest I've ever owned yet I seem to get more spelling errors and have to go back and change them than I can ever remember because I've touched the wrong letter.
Another keyboard issue is when I'm trying to type a word thats not in the internal dictionary it wants to insert the first word that is.
I really hope the M10 when it is unveiled is something vastly different and a much needed overhaul. I love HTC my last 5 phones have all been HTC but I'm starting to get a bit bored and now Samsung seem to sorted their st out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.
Oh yes the camera app. Glad I don't rely on it for, well, anything really. Its only a 4MP sensor and the images aren't great but the start up time is absolutely abysmal and it seems to set the whole phone off into a sluggish stupor when trying to get out of it again. The camera app has recently been updated and I am sure its slower now that it ever was!The predictive text constantly forgets entries that I've entered manually.
It's quite sluggish when opening apps, my biggest gripe is with opening the camera. Most of the time when I take a picture it's normally in a situation when i need to snap a picture quickly but by the time it actually opens the moment has gone.
The keyboard is laggy.
yet some how the screen is super sensitive, sometimes I feel like I'm not evn touching the screen yet I still manage to open an app.
This phone is one of the biggest I've ever owned yet I seem to get more spelling errors and have to go back and change them than I can ever remember because I've touched the wrong letter.
Another keyboard issue is when I'm trying to type a word thats not in the internal dictionary it wants to insert the first word that is.
I really hope the M10 when it is unveiled is something vastly different and a much needed overhaul. I love HTC my last 5 phones have all been HTC but I'm starting to get a bit bored and now Samsung seem to sorted their s
t out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.I use the google keyboard btw, its probably the best one there is. Always responsive and pretty accurate. SwiftKey seemed to be chuggy and I don't like HTC's keyboard.
NordicCrankShaft said:
Samsung seem to sorted their st out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.
They have to a degree although I'm still not sold on TouchWiz.t out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.Really not sure what my next phone move will be now but I'm underwhelmed by the M9. Might look to one of the newer crowd such as One Plus One or similar and see what's about...
Funk said:
NordicCrankShaft said:
Samsung seem to sorted their st out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.
They have to a degree although I'm still not sold on TouchWiz.t out and stopped making their premium phones from plastic I might be tempted to switch over.Really not sure what my next phone move will be now but I'm underwhelmed by the M9. Might look to one of the newer crowd such as One Plus One or similar and see what's about...
Like Otispunk, I use the google keyboard, the HTC one is rubbish.
Hi All, my M8 seems to be playing up in that swiping down from the top does not open the notification panel (or whatever it's called) anymore.
Strangely if I rotate the phone to landscape, it does work as normal.
It's a stock phone, tried a restart. Anyone experienced this before please?
Strangely if I rotate the phone to landscape, it does work as normal.
It's a stock phone, tried a restart. Anyone experienced this before please?
TheGreatSoprendo said:
Has anyone else had any issues with the physical buttons on their M8? I'm getting intermittent problems on both the power button and volume button. In the case of the power button it refuses to work at all and the volume button gets stuck on volume down. As you can imagine, it's starting to drive me up the wall!
You might recall I was having problems with the power button and volume button on my M8? Well, I took it into the Vodafone shop and they send it away for repair. When I went back to collect it, they said they couldn't fix it so they were giving me a new M8, which fixed the button problems of course! 
I drove up to Harrogate earlier this week, which was the first time I needed to use the sat nav (via Google Maps) and it didn't go well! Driving up the M1, it was able to tell me (accurately as far as I could tell) the distance from my destination and my ETA but, weirdly, the map was showing I was in the middle of a field in France!
Having exited and re-entered my destination, it then managed to place me in the vague vicinity of the M1, but in the fields to the side of it, rather than on the road itself. I also noticed it wasn't tracking me smoothly as I drove, but was updating my position only every 4-5 mins, then wildly lurching across the map from where I was 5 mins ago to where I was now, only to stay fixed for another 5 minutes before doing the same again. Once I got into town, it became completely unusable, as knowing where you were 5 mins ago is no use at all when trying to navigate city streets!
The nav always worked perfectly on the old phone and having been through the various phone settings and the options in the Maps app, I'm at a loss as to what the issue is!
- GPS in on (and the GPS symbol shows in the status bar when Maps is running)
- GPS is set in high accuracy mode
- All power saving settings are off
- When I select "Location accuracy tips" in the Maps settings, it tells me "your location setting is already optimised"
- The maps app doesn't have any updated pending
TheGreatSoprendo said:
You might recall I was having problems with the power button and volume button on my M8? Well, I took it into the Vodafone shop and they send it away for repair. When I went back to collect it, they said they couldn't fix it so they were giving me a new M8, which fixed the button problems of course!
I drove up to Harrogate earlier this week, which was the first time I needed to use the sat nav (via Google Maps) and it didn't go well! Driving up the M1, it was able to tell me (accurately as far as I could tell) the distance from my destination and my ETA but, weirdly, the map was showing I was in the middle of a field in France!
Having exited and re-entered my destination, it then managed to place me in the vague vicinity of the M1, but in the fields to the side of it, rather than on the road itself. I also noticed it wasn't tracking me smoothly as I drove, but was updating my position only every 4-5 mins, then wildly lurching across the map from where I was 5 mins ago to where I was now, only to stay fixed for another 5 minutes before doing the same again. Once I got into town, it became completely unusable, as knowing where you were 5 mins ago is no use at all when trying to navigate city streets!
The nav always worked perfectly on the old phone and having been through the various phone settings and the options in the Maps app, I'm at a loss as to what the issue is!
I've seen problems with Sat-Navs in cars with heated windscreens, could this be the issue?I drove up to Harrogate earlier this week, which was the first time I needed to use the sat nav (via Google Maps) and it didn't go well! Driving up the M1, it was able to tell me (accurately as far as I could tell) the distance from my destination and my ETA but, weirdly, the map was showing I was in the middle of a field in France!
Having exited and re-entered my destination, it then managed to place me in the vague vicinity of the M1, but in the fields to the side of it, rather than on the road itself. I also noticed it wasn't tracking me smoothly as I drove, but was updating my position only every 4-5 mins, then wildly lurching across the map from where I was 5 mins ago to where I was now, only to stay fixed for another 5 minutes before doing the same again. Once I got into town, it became completely unusable, as knowing where you were 5 mins ago is no use at all when trying to navigate city streets!
The nav always worked perfectly on the old phone and having been through the various phone settings and the options in the Maps app, I'm at a loss as to what the issue is!
- GPS in on (and the GPS symbol shows in the status bar when Maps is running)
- GPS is set in high accuracy mode
- All power saving settings are off
- When I select "Location accuracy tips" in the Maps settings, it tells me "your location setting is already optimised"
- The maps app doesn't have any updated pending
If not it sounds like the GPS part of the phone could be duff or your version of Google maps is duff.
You can download GPS spoofing apps that might enable you to prove that Maps is working correctly and that it is the GPS sensor at fault.
ManFromDelmonte said:
I've seen problems with Sat-Navs in cars with heated windscreens, could this be the issue?
Pretty sure the car doesn't have a heated windscreen, besides which the GPS worked fine on my previous M8 in the same car.I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling Maps, though. Thanks...
james_tigerwoods said:
One thing I have noticed though is erratic behaviour and/or responses to screen presses when I am trying to use the phone when it's connected to a charger...
I had this once but it was only when using a non-genuine and probably pretty poor quality charger. I would definitely try a couple of other charging cables and see if that sorts it.ManFromDelmonte said:
james_tigerwoods said:
One thing I have noticed though is erratic behaviour and/or responses to screen presses when I am trying to use the phone when it's connected to a charger...
I had this once but it was only when using a non-genuine and probably pretty poor quality charger. I would definitely try a couple of other charging cables and see if that sorts it.wjwren said:
may have been mentioned before but where/how can i change this to the google play edition. Ive seen some info on the net regarding doing this on the old m8. Mine is the latest one. I find the HTC crap makes it feel slow.
It's not straightforward because GPE has different partition sizes to the HTC Sense ROM, and I think you'll need to be S-Off to resize partitions.I run Android Revolution 43 and there's no lag at all.
You just need to be unlocked and rooted to change ROMs; no need for S-Off.
I had an M8 and put GPE on it, it was a bit of a mare from what I remember, and I had to pay for a tool that would give me the S-OFF that was essential for the process. And then I ended up going back anyway because the HTC Camera app was the only thing capable of rescuing the god-awful camera, it was even worse than standard.
One thing I've never had a complaint about was the speed of the thing even with the Sense ROM on it.
One thing I've never had a complaint about was the speed of the thing even with the Sense ROM on it.
wjwren said:
Had it 30 days. Taking it back tomorrow. GPS is absolute cack. Tried 4 different journeys. On 2 it didnt work at all an only came to life when id arrived at the desitnation. Also the HTC bloat-ware makes it slower than the nexus 5 it replaced. Wish id kept the Nexus now.
Convert it to GPE! trust me the HTC hardware with GPE on it is top! I came from a nexus 5! never liked the HTC software... converted to GPE and never looked back. this is the longest I have kept a "smartphone"Was considering changing for a 6P but think I wont bother now if GPE is getting 6.0 very soon.
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