Source goes to htc website.
flip to silence: silence your phone by flipping it over.
Map with compass: Phone follows so the map is showing what is ahead of you
Preview the drive: View whats coming up in navigation
Zero map wait: Can scroll around the map without any wait time
Catch all calls: rings louder when in a bag, and gets quieter when you take it out
Never miss a turn: Map isn't interrupted by a phone call. It gives you a choice to answer it right at the bottem of the map, and keeps navigating while on the phone.
Flip to silence was a feature in the original Sense, it just didn't make sense (no pun intended) to use in the Evo since with no chin, it would get scratched.
These are not new features but general features of Sense...
Even my classic Desire had some of these, not to mention the Desire HD...
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Are there any ROMS or PATCHES that remove the standard "arc" lockscreen on an incoming call?
I've tried almose all of the ROMS and also jcase's nexux lockscreen patch, witch all fix the standard lockscreen, but as soon as I get a call, I see that dumb arch. I end up answering al ot of calls when I don't want to.
Thanks.
Lock 2.0 can make it so you just hit 'Accept' or 'Decline'.
But that might 'accidentally answer' even easier than the lock screen.
Put your phone in your pocket top-side down. You'll never accidentally slide to unlock. I still don't understand why people put it in there right side up. Phone calls accidentally answer (with tight pants) and the screen accidentally unlocks.
Upside down is better anyway. You reach in the pocket, you put your phone up toward your face to see it. It's a better system.
That's what I do. 0% accidental answer/unlock, EVER, when putting my phone in my pocket top down.
Thanks for the tip. I've got so used to rotating my phone in my hand when I pull it out of my pocket that it will take a little getting used to. It's a good idea, though.
I still hate the way it looks.
Yeah, lock 2.0 is a good alternative. I have never had a problem with the stock one, but installed lock 2.0 just for a change. I have the one like the iPhone lock, slides left to right. Give it a try
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Just curious, does Lock 2.0 change the way you answer the phone?
Right now I have the Nexus One lock screen but it doesn't affect the incoming call screen.
any updates on this, i hate the pull down arc for the call answer
I use a rotary lockscreen, I don't know how it work with calls lol I don't pay attention.
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I use a rotary lockscreen, I don't know how it work with calls lol I don't pay attention.
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Lol...yeah...we have default lockscreen on the rom we're using..
So..if you're using damagerom...you'll get the invisible slide to answer bar, no rotary unlock...
I was always wondering if there was a way to change that on any custom rom...
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I installed Lock 2.0 on my EE3, but every time I reboot my phone it goes back to the sense lockscreen. How do I make Lock 2.0 the default?
If you use an AOSP ROM like Eris Lightning Bolt or KaosFroyo or CyanogenEris, you will not have the arc lockscreen to answer.
You also won't have, however, the beautiful SenseUI Home, the SenseUI widgets, the ordinary goodies that come with the Sense lockscreen, and a lot of the basic system features you come to expect in Sense that (some of which are enabled via CyanogenMod or otherwise) aren't all there.
It also is slow to ring, just like with Sense. But it is a completely different approach.
I also put my phone in my pockets upside down (since when I grab it and put it to my face, it's right side up anyway) and I've
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accidentally answered my phone when putting it in my pocket that way. Top down. It's the way to go. 100%.
Plus it's easy to hit 'end' or 'call' right from your pocket when you need to hit it really fast.
Coming from WM6, I find it odd that there's no manual screen rotation options in Android. Odder still, that there's no 180-degree rotation mode.
I have a universal Car Mount from my old phone that I like, mostly because it attaches to the air vents. I find this positioning is better than a conventional windshield mount on my car, and avoids the typical issues with suction cups continuously falling off (or melting into place).
The problem is that the dock blocks the USB charging ports on the corner of the Atrix. I can get around this issue by putting the phone in upside down, however to do so I need to 'flip' the display.
The Motorola Auto-Rotate feature does not support the 180-degree position out of the box. I've found several posts asking about this feature, but no answers except a vague reference to Cyanogen Mod, implying that this will take more than a standard app/widget can do.
So, is it possible to do this on the Atrix now that we have root and deodexing options available? This is my first Android phone, so I'm not yet familiar with its innards.
Alternatively, is it possible to flip the display on a given application, specifically Nav or one of the offline GPS programs?
Ideally, what I'd like to see is:
A Widget or shortcut to manually set and/or toggle screen rotation like what was standard on WM6. Outside of the car dock, this is also useful when using the phone on a desk or bed at odd angles.
Script/Shortcut/Icon that sets a specific rotation and then launches the car dock (or GPS app).
Use Launcher Pro.
Gives you full 360 screen rotation.
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No, unless I'm missing something, it does not.
LauncherPro does allow the home screen to be rotated (which is not what I care about right now), but it does not support rotating it 180-degrees (upside down).
Ahh you're right.
The dock will flip to 180, but the screen stops at 90.
Any ideas?
I don't mind playing with Androids internals (time permitting) if this is possible , but as I said my experience with Android so far is minimal (particularly compared to the xda experts).
According to http://developer.motorola.com/docst...at_runtime__Allow_the_user_to_set_preferences, the only options for application preferences are landscape or portrait. Not sure if this is applicable though.
I've found an old related thread for the G1 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=449688&page=2 added screen rotation to that device. It does note though that not all rotations are implemented, and is probably also talking in the context of 2.1.
Another related thread at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...e-rotations-by-90-but-enable-rotations-by-180 seems to imply that the 180-degree rotation won't work until we get the Android 2.3 update.
The android docs includes a ROTATION_180 definition for the Surface object with a setOrientation method on http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Surface.html
It appears that CyanogenMod 7 adds this capability: http://nightly.posterous.com/rotate-180
Clearly we're not going to see CM on the Atrix for a while, but is there anyway we can backport this feature into the Atrix, or will this have to wait for the fabled 2.3 update?
Hello.
Love everything about this phone after switching from HTC One X, except for the camera app.
Do you think we could ever get the same functionality as on HTC One X when there are two buttons on screen at all times for video and photos?
Right now we have to switch between the modes, and only if you don't change any settings you have ability snap photos while recording videos. This is so cripple and not user friendly.
Any chances we ever get anything close to HTC One X's camera app? Or is it hardware limitation that would not allow such functionality?
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What's very annoying to me about SGS3 camera is that every toggle setting require two taps because of useless dropdown menus instead of checkboxes or such...
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Hello.
Love everything about this phone after switching from HTC One X, except for the camera app.
Do you think we could ever get the same functionality as on HTC One X when there are two buttons on screen at all times for video and photos?
Right now we have to switch between the modes, and only if you don't change any settings you have ability snap photos while recording videos. This is so cripple and not user friendly.
Any chances we ever get anything close to HTC One X's camera app? Or is it hardware limitation that would not allow such functionality?
P.S.
What's very annoying to me about SGS3 camera is that every toggle setting require two taps because of useless dropdown menus instead of checkboxes or such...
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Coming from an og htc incredible and I also had an incredible 4g for about a week before I exchanged for the S3.
I actually much prefer the one button against the two. I find that when you ask others to take a photo of yourself and some friends, there's a lot less confusion when someone else is using your phone. I really find that to be the hugest plus.
Well, apparently your main concern is what others think about YOUR phone, not how it's useful/efficient for you (no offense)
From my experience, 99% people asking what to press when I ask them to take a picture, regardless if there are one button or two...
Right now the camera remembers which mode was last used, which might not only confuse, but also can take a few extra seconds before you be able snap a pic.
I would say the first step is to post in the HTC phone's section, and ask someone to post up the camera apk file, and then see if it can be renamed, then placed in /data/app and launched.
If it launches and works, request solved, if it doesn't, you know that additional files will need ported, and it will probably not be as easy a thing to do.
The one thing that annoys me about the stock camers app is this:
When you open the camera app, you can change the 4 shortcuts on the left side of the screen to other options which is awesome. The problem is that the shortcuts always reset to the default everytime you shut down & reopen the app.
I've tried that, it would FC after a second or two.
It probably would be easier build from scratch rather then try port anything HTC...
I just can't believe what my eyes have seen. I was in Messages app and when I tapped the text field to write a new message the keyboard appeared with an awesome fade in while getting upwards effect.
I tapped the back key and it went away with a fade out effect. I could play with it a little tapping, then tapping back, to experience the effect but now it isn't doing it anymore.
How can I make this to keep working? I'm using everything stock 4.0.3.
This made me want to comment about something... I have seen on subway a person using a Samsung that had a nice effect (by nice I mean smooth) of the messages in a conversation being brought via a slide in from lef to right effect when being opened in the messages app, I don't know if this is a third-party app thing, but definitely it wasn't one of Samsung's most powerful devices (perhaps it was a S2). My EVO 3D suddenly seems laggy despite the capacity of the device compared to this thing I saw. It'll aways display a loading wheel when I open my threads and it doesn't open nicely. How do I fix it?
Check out how many messages you have on your phone. The more messages the leggier it will feel. I limit my conversations to 100 messages to keep it trimmed down. No lag here at all
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Humm...
I discovered that checking the Force GPU rendering option on the developer settings had to do with the effect on Messages app, and observed Facebook app aways has this fade in/out effects regardless of the setting... So it may be only that the stock Messages app doesn't use the newer Hobeycomb/ICS APIs for hardware acceleration (or even the keyboard?).
It's true the threads with very few messages open fast but it isn't fluid, (still blink the screen with the loading... + wheel) do you get it?
I kinda think you're over analyzing this... And someone correct me if I'm wrong here. But I think the messages are internally sorted by timestamp then threaded for display purposes. So if you have 300 messages versus 3000 it has to sort a lot less messages. The only time ive ever had lag was when my messaged numbered in the thousands. I keep them trimmed and have no lag at all whatsoever. Then again I'm oc'd to 1.5 as well
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They're displayed organized by time so I don't think that's an excuse...
Also, it doesn't make sense to think all the messages of a conversation are loaded at once when you acess the conversation. I think it loads the most recent ones only and load progressively the older ones as you scroll up.
But it isn't the lag... It's the transitions effects I'm talking about. In this phone I saw "in the wild" the conversation rolled into the screen, HTC Messages app simply "blinks" and displays "Loading..." on the screen instead of implementing a nice effect (even if it'd be a simple fade out/in).
So I decided to write this little review to try talk about/point out/explain certain things that I thought other major reviewers (Engadget, The Verge, etc) didn't mention or didn't explain well enough, as well as things I do and don't like about the phone. (Don't let the Great Wall of Text scare you) Here goes!
The first thing I have to point out is how well this phone feels in your hand. I never want to put it down. Ever. That cold aluminum body feels amazing when you pick up the One and really drives home the flagship status of this phone. While this is great, I am terrified of dropping this phone. It feels like it would scratch very easily on a rough surface (I have yet to see a scratch, but I have been babying it until my case arrives). The aluminum feels very similar to the Macbook Pro case. While a lot of people are complaining about the false "zero gap" manufacturing, it virtually is zero gap. I have the slightest of space between the top aluminum strip on the front and the white band circumventing the phone. I would be hard pressed to fit even an eyelash in this gap, however. So far all intents and purposes, I think we can call it zero gap Anything larger than this, and I would consider returning it or waiting a few weeks for HTC to iron out the issue. Just ask to see the phone they give you before buying it and you can avoid this problem all together.
Sense 5 is a welcome upgrade and I don't miss CM 10.1 as much as I thought I would. My most missed feature is quick reply from the notification shade, but I'm living without it. This software flies through animations, opening apps, responding to input, scrolling, everything. Slick as oil. And the aesthetics of Sense 5 aren't too bad either. Not everything is rosy perfect though. Adding apps from the drawer to the homescreen is annoying. You have to tap and hold the app as you normally would. But then instead of transitioning to the home screen automatically so you can place the app somewhere, you have to first drag it all the way to the top left where it says "shortcut" and then it transitions to your homescreens. Gets old when you're setting up your home screen. Also, let's say you open an app by searching for it in your app drawer (not from the home screen). If you exit that app by hitting the home button, it does not send you home. Rather it sends you back to the notification drawer with all your apps. That's annoying. Pressing the back button also does not send you out of the notification drawer and to your homescreen like it normally does. You must hit home once again to enter your homescreen.
At first, I thought blink feed was gimicky. Just some marketing technique to set HTC apart in the consumer's mind. But after playing around with it, it has grown on me. The selection of news sources is small, but hopefully that will grow or allow you to add your own custom websites. I do find myself occasionally scrolling through it when waiting in line, the drive thru, waiting for someone, etc. Which was the original purpose anyway. I have not noticed a hit on battery life from this feature.
An annoying feature of the gallery is that in throws in all your Facebook Friend's photo albums into your gallery. Yes you read correctly. Jimmy Bob's recent Everglades field trip WILL show up in your gallery as well as other friend's albums. So far I have not figured out a way to remove this besides unlinking my phone from my facebook account (aka logging out of the app). While your photos have their own area/folder apart from these Facebook albums, it's still annoying to see the faces of people I never talk to in my own gallery.
Now onto the camera. There is definitely some truth behind the "UltraPixel" marketing. Compared to an iPhone 5 and Note 2, the One most definitely takes better pictures in low light settings. Even in extremely dark settings (night time with some light filtering in through closed blinds), the One is able to make out rough pictures, something the iPhone and Note 2 could not do at all. While the One is able to take pictures in very low light, this does not mean the pictures come out amazing or noiseless. Don't expect to just run out into the pitch black night and be able to photograph anything. In very low light settings, the pictures are still grainy and sometimes crappy. But most definitely better than the two phones mentioned already. All these comparisons were done with the flash off. Even with the flash on, the One still managed better photos in my opinion. They looked more natural and less like the came from a camera phone. Slightly lower than ideal lighting is where the One is able to shine. The other phone's flashes sometimes washed out or harshly lit up the scene while the One didn't even use the flash and took a great photo. Can't wait to use it more.
Zoes are pretty cool, another feature I initially thought was gimicky. The short clips appear as normal photos in your gallery, but then begin to randomly play like the photos in a Harry Potter movie. Looks pretty cool in person. A feature I haven't been able to try out is the "Event" categorizing of my photos. Basically the phone looks at the time and location where you took pictures, and tries to group them into "events". Think of these as different albums in your gallery. When you open an event, at the top there will be a highlights reel: basically a slideshow of your photos, zoes and perhaps videos (not 100% sure about the videos). It adds music, transitions, Instagram-esque filters and automatically starts playing. Watching your whole photo gallery come to life is pretty cool.
Other tid bits: there's a permanent power saver notification in your notification dropdown. Always there no matter what. There's an app that lets you remove it if you're rooted however (the app is somewhere in these forums). The front facing camera is a big upgrade from the HOXL one. Did I mention how amazing this phone feels? Finally, 32GB on an HTC flagship. 24.4GB available to you. Although the camera lens is slightly slightly slightly recessed, I still feel it can get scratched.
In the end, this is definitely the best Android phone I have handled and used (yes, including the S4 yes I said it). And I used to work in Best Buy Mobile until very recently, so I have handled my fair share of smartphones. I would highly recommend this phone to anyone and everyone.
Well this turned out a lot longer than I anticipated. Hope this shines some light on the One from the perspective of an everyday owner. Let me know if you have any questions!
TL;DR. Read it! This took [email protected]#$ing forever to type.
Congrats on getting away from Best Buy!
are we going to have one of these at 15 days 30 days etc etc ?
Great review! I would like to point out though that you can get rid of the power saver notification by long pressing it, going to app info, and force stopping it. It reappears when your battery gets low since it automatically turns on, but you can avoid looking at it most of the day!
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Excellent review. I've had it 4 days and I guess I haven't opened my gallery since linking my Facebook account, cause that annoyance was new to me... Thanks for pointing it out!
One other thing that I feel isn't getting the attention it deserves is the addition of IR. I haven't had IR in a smartphone since my Treo, and I missed it. The first thing I did when I got my One was setup all my TV's/Receivers to be controlled by my phone.
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Great review! I would like to point out though that you can get rid of the power saver notification by long pressing it, going to app info, and force stopping it. It reappears when your battery gets low since it automatically turns on, but you can avoid looking at it most of the day!
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Thanks for this tidbit.. It would be nice if the "show notifications" option allowed you to select/deselect...
The chassis is zero gap. the speaker covers are add-ons to the chassis.
To add apps, widgets and shortcuts to your screens long press any blank area for your home screens and the popup will allow you to select said icons to which ever screen you want by highlighting it with a tap 1st. It will put the icon in the first available space starting from the top left but you can then move it.
I haven't setup Facebook yet but I have read there is a setting in the gallery to un-check this option. *Edit* My bad. The only way to stop pic syncing from Facebook is by not allowing Facebook to sync in the 1st place. Not an ideal solution but all there is atm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197998
Lastly, with pics/camera. Set sharpness to -1 and there will be much less post processing. (Credit hamdir) I think you'll like the pics even more!
Hope this helps.
Thanks!! it was helpful.
Yeah I haven't had a chance to test out the IR but I've heard its pretty cool. But it may not work on cases that cover the button and I wish they allowed you to hit "hide notifications" it almost looks like they went our of their way to block that setting lol
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If you long press on the 'Power Saver' notification and go to App Info, you can force close that app. Then the notification will no longer be there. Each time the phone reboots, you'll see it and need to do it again, but I did it once and haven't had to reboot for any reason. Notification Gone!