Hold down until "app info" appears then click it. Then click force stop and it will remove until the next time you reboot the phone.
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The new HTC ONE (M7)
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Hold down until "app info" appears then click it. Then click force stop and it will remove until the next time you reboot the phone.
Very unimpressed with the camera so far. A LOT of noise in shots...
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Thank you, kindly, sir. Don't know how anyone was supposed to figure that out on their own...!
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The display is really really gorgeous. I mean really.
The home button is really hard to hit. The touch points are ridiculously small. Either that or the capacitive buttons just aren't very responsive. This becomes a much bigger deal when you have to double tap for the app switcher. If it doesn't register the first try, you're tapping 4 times to get it. FOUR TIMES. Think about that. Another knock against the wacky home configuration? You betcha.
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Thank you, kindly, sir. Don't know how anyone was supposed to figure that out on their own...!
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The display is really really gorgeous. I mean really.
The home button is really hard to hit. The touch points are ridiculously small. Either that or the capacitive buttons just aren't very responsive. This becomes a much bigger deal when you have to double tap for the app switcher. If it doesn't register the first try, you're tapping 4 times to get it. FOUR TIMES. Think about that. Another knock against the wacky home configuration? You betcha.
When are you going to start the thread with you review? I keep looking for it.
My god. I cannot express how good it feels to be back on Android. It's like waking up from a nightmare. A nightmare that was iOS.
Boom Speakers are phenomenal. Truly breathtakingly good.
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Going to give it a few days to be more fair. Try to let Sense grow on me.
It's hard not to fall in love with the device. Don't worry. I'll have plenty to "nitpick".
For now, just gonna throw my initial impressions out.
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I freaking love the Sense gallery. Everything moves. It's so animated and alive! Very cool. Very Harry Potter-esque almost.
Boom Speakers are phenomenal. Truly breathtakingly good.
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Going to give it a few days to be more fair. Try to let Sense grow on me.
It's hard not to fall in love with the device. Don't worry. I'll have plenty to "nitpick".
For now, just gonna throw my initial impressions out.
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I freaking love the Sense gallery. Everything moves. It's so animated and alive! Very cool. Very Harry Potter-esque almost.
Just fondled one of these in the ATT store. Extremely nice to fondle, very solid and well made and on par with the iphone 5. But HTC made some off design decisions, I was hoping the bezel would be smaller, the weird arrangement of capacitive buttons, the power button being on the top left, well really things I could get used to but just felt weird at first look. It's also got 4.1.2 which so group messaging still sucks, too bad they couldn't have squeezed 4.2 in there.
I'm thinking of buying one off contract, it does feel and look very nice. I'll have to see some reviews on how people like it.
I'm thinking of buying one off contract, it does feel and look very nice. I'll have to see some reviews on how people like it.
You have been in a bad dream you were using iOS. Try using it for 4 1/2 months. Stock android is still my favorite, but waiting to see how you feel about the One and sense
The wallpaper doesn't scroll like stock Android? That makes me sad 
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So here's something that's driving me NUTS about Sense.
If you launch something from the App Drawer (example picture from Google):
Then hit the Home button... where is it supposed to take you? Any takers? Yes, it should take you to the HOME screen like the one below, right? (another example picture):
Guess what?
It doesn't. It takes you right back to the app drawer. If you want to go to the real home screen, you have to tap home again.
For an operating system called Sense... this makes none.
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So here's something that's driving me NUTS about Sense.
If you launch something from the App Drawer (example picture from Google):
Then hit the Home button... where is it supposed to take you? Any takers? Yes, it should take you to the HOME screen like the one below, right? (another example picture):
Guess what?
It doesn't. It takes you right back to the app drawer. If you want to go to the real home screen, you have to tap home again.
For an operating system called Sense... this makes none.
The wallpaper doesn't scroll like stock Android? That makes me sad
I guess you could use a different launcher
Having to drag an app icon from the App Drawer up to "Shortcut" then back down to place it on your home screen is absolutely redundant, unnecessary, and flat out stupid.
Sense... you're losing...
Sense... you're losing...
I have multiple Google accounts. How do I add more? I seem to only be able to add one...
EDIT: Never mind. I see the Plus button on top now.
EDIT: Never mind. I see the Plus button on top now.
"HTC" as the home button would have been so perfect.
It would have been symbolic, too. HTC is home.
Foolish move, HTC. But what else is new.
It would have been symbolic, too. HTC is home.
Foolish move, HTC. But what else is new.
I've had no issues with the notification bar (other than the annoying Power saver). I have my share of issues but they are generally on the software side. It's been said ad nauseum but it really is a beautifully designed device using great materials.
- The build quality of my unit seems terrific upon my initial review.
- Count me in the minority but I actually like the location of the power button and also like the nearly flush volume rocker because that's exactly where my thumb is most of the time--used to accidentally turn off my Note 2 all the time.
- Biggest issues about the design is not using the HTC logo as a capacitive button and the offset micro USB port on the bottom. I'm sure it has to do with layout of hardware inside but having the port offset from center is stupid--will make any generic micro USB docking ports useless and very nearly did the same thing with my car mount as it's exactly where one of the prongs on the bottom holder is so I have to have it askew to the far left--not very stable feeling.
- Another minor grip is no customization of the notification LED. Love it's placement behind the speaker but it's either red when you're charging or green for anything else.
While I prefer the aesthetics of Sense (more reserved and simple) vs. the cartoonish nature of TouchWiz, its design and functionality leave much to be desired.
- App drawer defaulting to a 3x3 grid is simply stupid. The home screen has a dock with 5 icons across and the app grid is 4x5--why not at least carry this over everywhere? Yes, you can change it to 4x5 but why stop there? There's plenty of room for 5x6. And the Clock/Weather widget in the app drawer is unnecessary, a waste of space and cannot be removed (as far as I can tell).
- Already mentioned but the 3 dot menu bar is another tremendous waste of space. And in the same vane, please HTC, add some functionality to your logo, at least make it a Menu button or better yet, give us a few options. Miss the menu button on my Note 2. Don't really care what side the home/back buttons are on, just let us use that third button.
- Stripped down battery usage info--i.e. does show any on screen on time or percentage
- Really like the various lockscreen options--don't like how you can't change the app shortcuts at the bottom, even though HTC even states in the description of the first lockscreen option, 'See your wallpaper and open your favorite shortcuts without unlocking.' Those are my favorites HTC, those are yours.
- Blinkfeed is fine, just needs more content. Not being able to turn it off is a bit of a pain--I'm now using NOVA (in case you couldn't tell I'm not enamored with Sense
) and in NOVA settings it always as the Previous launcher warning, presumably because you fully shut off Sense, courtesy of Blinkfeed.So, as mentioned, because it is still Android, I'm able to use my preferred launcher, NOVA and am enjoying the One significantly more because of it. One problem I've experienced is that scrolling wallpaper is not working--doesn't give you the specific custom crop (looks like a rectangle with wings), just the standard portrait box and wallpaper doesn't move, no matter what type of scrolling you select. Not a huge deal but slightly frustrating none-the-less and I'm suspecting Sense has something to do with it.
Also, FWIW, I tried out HTC Sync Manager on my Mac and other than being a little on the slow side for transferring my settings, messages, etc, it worked just fine, no crashes. Don't think I'll need to use it again as drag and drop via AFT worked much easier for music and I don't keep any of my photo library on my phone (use the iPad for that).
I also tried out the camera today on my young son's field trip to a local Dinosaur park and while I haven't examined the shots closely yet, the camera app is very full featured and very snappy. Zoe captures are pretty cool but are imported in iPhoto as a series of individual shots--essentially turns into a rapid fire sequence of stills and should help improve the odds of gettings a good shot of my little ones (considering how they don't keep still) but will give me some work to keep the photo library manageable.
Far too early to tell if I'm going to keep the One but will keep at it for at least another week and a half before I have to decide if it's going back.
After testing out the camera some more, the verdict is looking pretty bad.
I seriously think HTC made a big mistake -- bigger than anything else, bigger than the power button placement, bigger than the home configuration -- going with 4 megapixels. The camera is just really bad.
How do I tell if I got the camera software patch yet or not?
Says software number: 1.29.1540.3.
Or do I tell a different way?
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Yes.
My question is, what if people like Sense but don't want to use BlinkFeed? They're left in the dust.
I would've respected HTC much more if they had made BlinkFeed optional.
Also, ditto your feelings about the "HTC" logo not being a home button. I really can't fathom why they didn't do this, especially since it's been proving it's a functioning button.
It would have been symbolic, too. HTC is home. Really really silly to not enable it.
I seriously think HTC made a big mistake -- bigger than anything else, bigger than the power button placement, bigger than the home configuration -- going with 4 megapixels. The camera is just really bad.
How do I tell if I got the camera software patch yet or not?
Says software number: 1.29.1540.3.
Or do I tell a different way?
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Yes.
My question is, what if people like Sense but don't want to use BlinkFeed? They're left in the dust.
I would've respected HTC much more if they had made BlinkFeed optional.
Also, ditto your feelings about the "HTC" logo not being a home button. I really can't fathom why they didn't do this, especially since it's been proving it's a functioning button.
It would have been symbolic, too. HTC is home. Really really silly to not enable it.
Yeah, don't even care what function it specifically serves, just a waste to not use it for something. Ideally, one would have some customization options (single tap, double tap, long hold)--that alone would give someone nine options for just those 3 capacitive buttons. Add gestures and you have even more options.
Another nitpick--the multi-task switcher has no option to close all apps.
After watching this review. I'm don't think I would like sense at all. The recent/open apps is in a whole separate screen instead of an small overlay. That's sucks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbFIChk4KkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbFIChk4KkY
I've learned that I do have the latest camera software update. My god... it's bad.
Also, while the gallery is really cool, some things about it are utterly stupid. In order to see the full gallery, you have to tap into the big "BlinkFeed like" portion, which goes straight to the picture your'e on, then hit the top left "Camera shots" buttons to see a full gallery of it.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but if I'm not, this is utterly stupid of Sense.
EDIT: Okay, this is only true with the Camera Shots gallery. Your picture gallery will go to the album if you select it from the pull down. Still overly complicated overall.
Why is HTC making Android harder to use than normal?
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And it only allows nine apps. If you slide one away, you'd think your 10th opened app would slide into place. Nope. Just shows 8 out of 9 with one blank. Wipe more, you get more blanks.
Sense.
Also, while the gallery is really cool, some things about it are utterly stupid. In order to see the full gallery, you have to tap into the big "BlinkFeed like" portion, which goes straight to the picture your'e on, then hit the top left "Camera shots" buttons to see a full gallery of it.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but if I'm not, this is utterly stupid of Sense.
EDIT: Okay, this is only true with the Camera Shots gallery. Your picture gallery will go to the album if you select it from the pull down. Still overly complicated overall.
Why is HTC making Android harder to use than normal?
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And it only allows nine apps. If you slide one away, you'd think your 10th opened app would slide into place. Nope. Just shows 8 out of 9 with one blank. Wipe more, you get more blanks.
Sense.
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after reading all of your posts about the One.....do yourself a favor and return it......doesn't sound like a good fit for you.....I don't think you will be happy with it.
Edit: get rid of Sense and load a launcher like Nova. I did and it makes all the difference.
S4 is calling your name
Here's the thing... there's SO MUCH to like about this phone. You know me, I care to discuss shortcomings more than I care to discuss likes. The shortcomings are far more important for people to know about, I feel.
Sorry to go back to the camera, but guys, the camera is horrendous. The pictures I'm taking are coming up really bad. All on stock and default settings. The colors are dreadfully grainy. What gives?
I never ruled out the S4, but I am going to give the One a solid week's try.
And yes, I sense Nova will soon be replacing Sense(less!).
Camera is make or break for me, I can't have a phone that takes terrible pictures, I use it almost on a daily basis. Especially on our weekend hikes.
The samples I saw were fairly good from the HTC One and the S4 though so not sure what the problem would be
Here is a side by side comparison of the cameras. The G4 and the One and the Xperia Z.
http://android.pandaapp.com/news/04062013/who_has_the_best_camera_htc_one_vs_galaxy_s_vs_xperia_z.shtml#.UXdHgCuY5e4
Does anyone else have an app on their One called Kids Mode: Free Games + Lock? Is this an HTC app? It's here in the Play Store and on my device. I can't uninstall it. I can only "Update" it.
What is it? And why is it on my device?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoodles.kidmode&hl=en
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HTC really needs to get their socks together with the on-screen menu bar. Look at this. Power Toggles already has the dedicated screen menu bar (top right) but the HTC on-screen menu bar still persists.
What is it? And why is it on my device?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoodles.kidmode&hl=en
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HTC really needs to get their socks together with the on-screen menu bar. Look at this. Power Toggles already has the dedicated screen menu bar (top right) but the HTC on-screen menu bar still persists.