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rottonj said:
Finally got mine, stumbling thru best as I can. I'm on Sprint. I don't even see its possible to delete Facebook or Twitter which I don't use. Is this carrier specific or am I just missing something? With my music and the apps I've downloaded already I have about 6 gigs left. I will use OTG for movies but want to get rid of anything possible to save space. Thanks in advance.
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If you really want to slim down you need to root the phone and use a rom/kernel that has system read/write enabled. theirs lots of information in the everything root section above.

And just look how lucky we are The 16gig SGS4 has less than 2 gig's free space right out of the box ...lol
 
clsA said:
If you really want to slim down you need to root the phone and use a rom/kernel that has system read/write enabled. theirs lots of information in the everything root section above.

And just look how lucky we are The 16gig SGS4 has less than 2 gig's free space right out of the box ...lol
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Thanks, but I'm new to android and have no plans to ever root. The SG4 was in the mix for me too, it just didn't feel great in hand. It shouldn't have mattered because all my phones go right into an Otterbox, but it felt cheap. I could use my 64gb micro sd in that though, I just felt this was better and a lot cheaper(Newegg 129.99 plus a $20.00 gift card). My teenager is helping me thru it, she has an LG Optimus G. I installed Nova already and I am in the process of trying to organize my apps. One day at a time. Cheers
 
rottonj said:
Finally got mine, stumbling thru best as I can. I'm on Sprint. I don't even see its possible to delete Facebook or Twitter which I don't use. Is this carrier specific or am I just missing something? With my music and the apps I've downloaded already I have about 6 gigs left. I will use OTG for movies but want to get rid of anything possible to save space. Thanks in advance.
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You must have a lot of apps and music!!

I eliminated Twitter.
 
I am new to the forum and to the Android world. I just "upgraded" to an HTC One from an Apple iPhone. I did this with full knowledge that the transition would be tough. I am thrilled with the phone overall, but today my phone started flickering in a very noticeable way. Very annoying and distracting. It is a definite issue, despite turning off auto brightness, increasing brightness, etc., the issue is still there. This will not work for me at all. I am really crushed. I have searched the web, but the info out there is limited, but it is clear that others have the issue. I am taking the phone back tomorrow and I will try one more. My SO has the same phone and it does not appear to have the issue, although his battery life is miserable. Any others out there with experience with this very troubling issue?
 
I was messing with disabling apps last night to try and conserve power.

It seems I may have disabled the wrong thing as now, when I try and unlock my phone with my PIN, I do not get a keypad, I just get the speak icon and it expects me to speak my pin.

Try as I may, I cannot get in. Whether it is not recognising my voice (I have never used voice recognition on this phone) or it is simply broke, I do not know.

When I get it to 4 numbers it just goes to sleep eventually.

I guess what I am asking is, is there any way to get into this damn phone.

Failing everything else, I am more than happy to do a factory reset, but I cannot even get it to do that.

I press volume down then the power button, but all it does is restart.

Is there anything I can do at all or do I have to take the phone back to the shop?

Any help much appreciated, I have the shakes without my phone :(
 
Hey there-

While the device is turned off, press and hold the Power and Volume Down keys.

Then release the Power and Volume Down keys when the bootloader screen appears.

Press the Volume Down key twice to highlight FACTORY RESET.

Press the power key and wait!


Hope that helps!
 
I just upgraded my HTC Inspire to the new One yesterday, and I'm in the process of customizing it. I'm trying to add either a live wallpaper or one of the regular wallpapers; however, the only screen on which the background changes is the lock screen. All other screen backgrounds remain black. Is this expected behavior, or am I doing something wrong? I followed exactly the same procedure that I did with the Inspire.:confused:
 
Just_Kris said:
I just upgraded my HTC Inspire to the new One yesterday, and I'm in the process of customizing it. I'm trying to add either a live wallpaper or one of the regular wallpapers; however, the only screen on which the background changes is the lock screen. All other screen backgrounds remain black. Is this expected behavior, or am I doing something wrong? I followed exactly the same procedure that I did with the Inspire.:confused:
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That doesn't sound right.

Settings > Personalize > Wallpaper, is all it takes.
 
That's exactly the procedure I was following. I have tried live wallpapers and static ones. The background never changes from black on any of the screens except the lock screen.
 
what carrier?

are you rooted?

have you attempted a soft reset?

if you simply backed up your phone from your old inspire, you could have installed other apps that may be trying to take control of the wallpaper settings.
 
I figured out the problem. The screens are black when that blink feed mode is toggled off. Once I toggled that on and swept sideways instead of up and down, the wallpaper behaved as expected. Now if only I could figure out why I have more icons when blink feed is toggled off compared to when its on ...
 
This has been happening to me too on my Galxy Note 2. When some says they hear a "beep" I look at the screen the number pad is showing that my cheek has been touching numbers. So my touch screen is not locking during th calls. I also don't hear the beeps but the person I talk to does. I will answer MARCTRONixx questions

what is "keyboard tone"? "BEEP" SOUND

do you mean the alphabet keyboard like swype or the "qwerty" keyboard or do you mean the phone dial pad? phone dial pad PHONE DIAL PAD

does this happen to other callers or just one caller? MORE THAN ONE CALLER

is your screen ON when this happens? does your screen turn on and off when you move away/to it? (the sensor makes this happen) IT MUST BE ON, I never paid attention before

do you use a screen protector? I RECENTLY TOOK THE SCREEN PROTECTOR OFF, HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE
is it in a case? YES

maybe I nee to put a screen protector back on? Will that make the sensor work better?
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HTC One software version 1.29.651.10 Android 4.1.2 Sense 5.0 un-rooted Nova launcher

I have tasker and secure settings plug in installed and given device administration privileges. I want the lock screen off when connected to my home wifi. THe profile shows green that it is active in tasker. wifi connected->lock off-keygaurd set to off. end task 1. wait 30 seconds 2. keygaurd-set on. It will work some times but if i pull down the status bar and click on some thing I am taken to the lock screen and have to unlock and enter my pin code. After that tasker will still report that my porfile is active but it will not be working, the only way to get it to work again is to restart the phone. I tried to use the secure setting plug in to disable the keygaurd but I have the same problem. I have a profile to turn on wifi when near cell tower and that profile works fine. Any ideas?
Thanks

summary-tasker working fine until I press some thing in the status bar then the lock screen off profile no longer works.
 
Mine shut down on its own last night, 1st time I had seen it act erratically.

The battery was low (less than 5%,but,plugged in). I was playing a game & then simultaneously a static popping sound/solid (unblinking) RED LED followed by the phone shutting down, akin to a battery pull on such equipped phones.

Took about ten minutes before the phone would turn back on.

On start-up, LOOKOUT had scanned an update to GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES, w/o any kind of prompt. Anyone have an idea to the nature of this update?

My GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES app is currently at version 3.1.59 (736673-30).

I'm on T-MOBILE (US) not sure if the version of this app is carrier/model specific, or, universal.

Anyone have anything different?
 
KOLIO said:
Mine shut down on its own last night, 1st time I had seen it act erratically.

The battery was low (less than 5%,but,plugged in). I was playing a game & then simultaneously a static popping sound/solid (unblinking) RED LED followed by the phone shutting down, akin to a battery pull on such equipped phones.

Took about ten minutes before the phone would turn back on.

On start-up, LOOKOUT had scanned an update to GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES, w/o any kind of prompt. Anyone have an idea to the nature of this update?

My GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES app is currently at version 3.1.59 (736673-30).

I'm on T-MOBILE (US) not sure if the version of this app is carrier/model specific, or, universal.

Anyone have anything different?
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I'm also a T Mobile user but I have yet to have any issue like that happen. Then static popping sound strikes me as extremely concerning. Are you using the stock charger?

When I was working stage crew and we came across this kind of issue with the speakers it meant something electrical was shorting out and letting too much electricity run through the speaker cone.
 
@KOLIO what sort of game? Phones always run off battery, and the charger is just charging the battery, so if you are loading the phone heavily enough it may well be possible to flatten the battery while on charge, especially if you have got very low (and the shutdown may occur before 0% is displayed). Could be nothing more than that.
 
busted bones said:
I'm also a T Mobile user but I have yet to have any issue like that happen. Then static popping sound strikes me as extremely concerning. Are you using the stock charger?
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SAMSUNG GN2 (OEM) Charger.The popping sound is the same one I hear every time I make & connect a phone call.(Currently have an active ticket w/HTC on a somewhat related call/BLUETOOTH issue).Been on-going for 2+ months now w/no resolution,may return the unit to BEST BUY if any ill effects are noted from this incident &/or no resolution w/the upcoming 4.2.2 update.

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@KOLIO what sort of game? Phones always run off battery, and the charger is just charging the battery, so if you are loading the phone heavily enough it may well be possible to flatten the battery while on charge, especially if you have got very low (and the shutdown may occur before 0% is displayed). Could be nothing more than that.
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BEJEWELED2 @ the time.I usually don't have a problem w/the charging catching up,even while playing a game.I don't make a habit of it,but,before this incident,never had a cause for alarm,as I usually use my tablet when the phone is charging.

Also,I noticed that a couple of G-Mails were being pushed through when the phone shut down,along w/the GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES app update after the phone powered back on.

As you stated,battery indicating isn't the most accurate when @ either extreme,best to just charge the phone to around 15%+ before using it extensively,to avoid a 0% situation,which is reportd to be hard/potentially damaging to LI-PO batteries.I'm not terribly concerned w/this happening once,but,I'll kep an eye on battery life to note any drop-off from this one-time incident.
 
Everything seems to be OK,phone is holding a charge/discharging normally as before all of this.

I'm just chalking this episode up to a "PERFECT STORM" of events:Multiple syncing events+PLAYSTORE SERVICES UPDATE+GAMING+LOW BATTERY=TEMPORARY MELTDOWN/TIME-OUT.

Was actually originally interested in which version of GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES is everyone on ATM & was wondering if this update was of the "silent" variety,being pushed through,as a security update to fix the latest ANDROID vunerability recently discovered?

I found out later that the patch was not fixed w/this update & you can check for the security patch youself w/this app:

Scan Your Device for the Android Vunerability
 
I'm on the same Google Play Services version with an unbranded international LTE handset, so it's not carrier-dependent. You won't be surprised to hear that the bluebox scanner gave the same result for mine.
 
I cannot get the voice to text function in this telephone to capitalize the beginning of the next sentence. this is what happens when I speak. I say a sentence, I say the punctuation, and then I end with the word period. the next letter is not capitalized. there are no apparent settings to change this. what's with that? :confused: suggestions?
 
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