[Q] Lockscreen orientation on Serendipity - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Currently Using Serendipity 5.5 and I realized after mounting the phone in my car that the lockscreen stays portrait no matter what. I distinctly remember either the stock rom or Paragon (the only two other roms I've used) had a rotatable lockscreen. Is this not available in Serendipity or is there some config I'm missing? Thanks!

This isn't supposed to be some sort of snide comment, but I'm not sure I get the idea of a rotatable "lock" screen. Lock disables the touch interface, and shuts down the display. Mounted in a car, you don't have to disable the touch interface, and if your display is off, there's no point to rotating it.
To move on to what I think you want, Serendipity (with Go Launcher EX for me) does allow rotation of the home screen. You can set the display to be always on when plugged in. So you can just display the home screen of your choice. You can have a lot of home screens with Go Launcher, so you can create one of your choice with car-type apps.
On the other hand, the "clock" app that comes with Serendipity is what the Samsung Home Dock was supposed to be (with the possible exception of having no choice of folder for the slideshow, not that I intend to use it). It also rotates. And the setting is for the display to be on at all times.
I found it by accident. In case any of you haven't seen the clock app yet... The last image is with the dim option (pressing the "sun" in the upper right).

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Ok, for real... I don't know the answer to your question because I drive a 91 BMW that does not even have an AUX port... So I suck, but... I would like to take this time to announce my brotherhood in the 10+ poster club!!! Here it is, time to celebrate!!!

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[Q] Touch wiz home screen

Question. I seem to have lost my home screen on touchwiz.now when I double click home it slides to the last page of however many pages I've set up no matter if I then shuffle them around each other. Additionally, in edit mode none of my home screen pages show a house icon, specifying home screen, ie the one touch wiz defaults to with home screen double click. anyone know how to restore a touchwiz home page?
There's no way to restore any screens once they get deleted on touchwiz . Sorry
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just to be clear i'm not trying to restore a home screen that i've organized widgets and links with.. i'm just trying to reset one of the homescreens to the home one with a home icon. If you edit your homescreens you'll find that one of your screens has a house icon on it and thats the one touchwiz will swing to when you double click the home button.
Anyone?
you found one of the odities of the Touchwiz home screens. If you have less then 5 ( i think) the one on the end becomes your home and you can't change it. If you have 5 or more you can move them around to make the middle one home.
TouchWiz uses pane 4, or the highest number to it as Home. I've never found a way to change this. (aka 3 if you have 3...)
I too had this problem. The only way I found was to leave it on the 7 screen configuration, and just leave the end screens blank.
Hmmm. I seem to have stumbled into this as well. I didn't think it would be possible, but I deleted an empty page and now don't seem to be able to create a new one (now that I have more crap I want to load on one).
yes thats one of the bugs in touchwiz I think. Unless you have 7 screens; the rightmost screen becomes your Home screen. I tried looking for a solution for long time and no go yet. Lets wait for froyo update and may be a new touchwiz! btw you can always install launcher pro or ADWLauncher. But I think touchWiz is more sophisticated that those two.
There is a free app in the market, called SGS Screen Changer that let's you set the default screen when you use the Home Button (needs root and Busybox to work).
Good luck!

360° rotation

I'm running cognition 2.4.1, it has a rotation on the home screen! The actual home screen will rotate when the screen it turned landscape. The other cogs dont do this, even the newest one(11/18/10). I asking if we can get a full 360 degree rotation for the screen, like the jailbroken iPhone. That's just cool! Useful as well when using it in the car on landscape.
Check Settings=>Display and see if auto rotate screen is checked.
You can also use LauncherPro to achieve the same.
or you can simply pull down the task bar, and hit the auto rotate button
I actually like the home screen rotating. I'm just wondering if there is a way to do full 360° rotation. With the plug on the top, I could turn the phone upside down when in the car. I love it.
It's launcher dependant. Pull the launcher .apk from whatever ROM and plug it into another.
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I hated my nexus and what I did to it

At first I hated(maybe that hated word is causing all the troll hate response, I just didn't really like it although I am fine with it) pretty much everything about the nexus, the onscreen softkey, the google now spot(even when search bar is remove), power button, lockscreen, the stock 4.2 software. It was missing feature that I would like such as different wallpaper on lockscreen, vibrate setting, led, etc. I did not want the phone at all. But I am stuck with it for the next 2 month. I decide to change all the stuff I could. Reason I got a nexus was because my bro order it and have to go out of country before the nexus arrive. I gave my s3 for him to use.
First was the power button, it was not parallel to the volume up button. I had to adjust my hand everytime to turn on the screen and readjust it to unlock my phone. I remapped the power button to the volume up button, I also map the back key to the volume down and the home key to the power. I use GMD gesture app to adjust the volume.
The lockscreen also suck, you can't change wallpaper, etc. There's also the black navbar on the bottom which have no use. Now some will say it's for the google now. Even if you don't use the google now and disable it. The bar is still there. So what the heck. Android is no different then ios. In stock they are both limited to what they want you to change. Just that Android have some more feature. I use widgetlocker to remedy to lockscreen issue.
Next is the softkey or navigation bar. It was bigger then I like and taking up the screen. The actual usable screen was shrunk. It was only a bit taller then the iphone 5. One reason I don't like iphone is because of the screen size. I use hidebar app to disable both the navbar and the status bar. I use GMD gesture to map the home button as a swipe up motion from the middle bottom screen. Back at the bottom left.
And the homescreen, there was no unread dot on the message or phone application. Only on the status bar does it tell you. The home screen also have the stupid google now bar. Even when remove, the space is still there. You can't put icon or widget there. Which is stupid. I had to use apex launcher to fix the stock android home screen and give me my unread dot back.
See how limited stock android is. They made have the feature but not the option for those feature. For example if they have a feature for vibrate, then I want option to change the vibration. Feature to display subtitle on video, I want option to adjust subtitle size. Led notification feature, I want option to adjust it. Feels like apple to me except you can mod it which is why I like Android.
Other issue I have is the slow Led notification. I use lightflow to fix the slowness of it. One thing the hidebar does is prevent the screen when someone call to appear. What I did was use video caller id. It's better and it works perfectly, you can use 1080p music video as your ringtone. I crop up the video to portrait and the video shows fullscreen unstretch HD quality.
After all that, I'm really liking the nexus now. More then the s3, I just didn't like that I have to do all that to make me like it the nexus unlike my galaxy s3 which is basically stock.
Just go back to iPhone
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Just go back to iPhone
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You mean the S3, I loved that phone.
We hate what you did to the general section in the Nexus 4 forums
Tenji7 said:
I did not plan to get the nexus. My brother had order the nexus but it did not arrive on time since he was going out of country on Thursday of that week. So I gave him my unlocked galaxy s3 and to use his nexus 4 when it arrive. When I got it, I hated pretty much everything about the nexus, the onscreen softkey, the google now spot(even when search bar is remove), power button, lockscreen, the stock 4.2 software. It was missing feature that I would like such as different wallpaper on lockscreen, vibrate setting, led, etc. I did not want the phone at all. But I am stuck with it for the next 2 month. I decide to fix all the stuff I could. I came from a iPhone 4(limited, no feature) to a S3(plenty of feature with some option) to a nexus 4(some feature with no option)
First was the freaking power button, it was not parallel to the volume up button. I had to adjust my hand everytime I turn on the screen and readjust it to unlock my phone. What I did to fix that was mod the mapping of the power button to the volume up button, Now I can turn on the screen and unlock my phone without adjusting my hand. I also map the back key to the volume down and the home key to the power. I use GMD gesture app to adjust the volume.
The lockscreen also suck, you can't change wallpaper, remove the clock and leave the lockscreen blank. There's also the black navbar on the bottom which have no use. Now some will say it's for the google now. Even if you don't use the google now and disable it. The bar is still there. So what the heck. Android is no different then ios. In stock they are both limited to what they want you to change. Just that Android have some more feature. I use widgetlocker to remedy to lockscreen issue.
Next is the softkey or navigation bar. It was too big or taking up the screen. The actual usable screen was shrunk. It was only a bit taller then the iphone 5. One reason I don't like iphone is because of the screen size. I use hidebar app to disable both the navbar and the status bar. I also don't care for the status bar. Now what do I do without the softkey. I use the hardware button I mapped explain above. But that would require moving my thumb too much and far. So I use GMD gesture to map the home button as a swipe up motion from the middle bottom screen. Back at the bottom left. This makes it easy to use the phone, you can use tap or hold gesture too. You might ask what about hitting the keyboard space or other stuff on screen while you do slide up gesture. The GMD have feature to fix that. Nothing will be press when you do your gesture. So I can press the space bar on the keyboard if I wanted to and still swipe my thumb up to go to home without pressing the keyboard space bar.
And the homescreen, there was no unread dot on the message or phone application. Only on the status bar does it tell you. The home screen also have the stupid google now bar. Even when remove, the space is still there. You can't put icon or widget there. Which is stupid. See how limited stock android is. They made have the feature but not the option for those feature. For example you have a feature for vibrate, I want option to change the vibration. Feature to display subtitle on video, I want option to adjust subtitle size. Led notification feature, I want option to adjust it. Feels like apple to me. I had to use apex launcher to fix the stock android home screen and give me my unread dot back. Now with the status bar hidden, I have a clock widget that will be useful since it's the only clock on the home screen without the clock on the status bar. I also have a nice looking signal widget so I know if I am getting edge or 4g, and also a simple battery widget.
Other issue I have is the slow and dim Led notification. I use lightflow to fix the slowness of it, but it's still kinda dim. One thing the hidebar does is prevent the screen when someone call to appear. So when someone call, the screen don't come on so you can't answer. What I did was use video caller id. It's better and it works perfectly, you can use 1080p music video as your ringtone. I crop up the video to portrait and the video shows fullscreen unstretch HD quality.
After all that, I'm liking the nexus. I just hate that I have to do all that to make me like it unlike my galaxy s3 which is basically stock. With the s3 I did not mod anything, or install bunch of app to correct it. If anyone have the same issue and don't like the stock nexus, you try what I did.
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Dude most people buying this phone, I'd say 99.999%, know that the N4 is stock android and doesn't have all that S3 TouchWiz crap installed. Thats why we are buying it.
Is this for real? Lol
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Nice try troll.
kzoodroid said:
Dude most people buying this phone, I'd say 99.999%, know that the N4 is stock android and doesn't have all that S3 TouchWiz crap installed. Thats why we are buying it.
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This is exactly why Samsung and other OEMs won't go with stock Android. This dude will probably go back because he got used to all that crap.
This is probably a troll anyway.
Compare the Nexus series to a street drag car. You don't take the fully loaded leather model with every feature to make it, you take the barebones most powerful model and start from there. You don't waste the resources removing or compensating for those extras you don't care about or need and have only what you want,... Thats what the Nexus series is. Top notch power running minimal resources providing mod ability and fastest performance at a price that can't be beat.
TL;DR. Nexus is the best, yup.
Thanks for highlighting the power and customization of Android. Everyone wants different features in a phone and you showed that you were able to tweak everything you needed and get the phone working just how you wanted, a true testament to the versatility of Android.
Please sell the NEXUS 4 immediately, buy a used SGS3/iPhone and just go away.
We'll all be happier for it. Jesus...
Sent from my Nexus 4
And no ****s were given that day
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i think you will feel the difference when you go back to Touchwiz.
Tenji7 said:
I did not plan to get the nexus. My brother had order the nexus but it did not arrive on time since he was going out of country on Thursday of that week. So I gave him my unlocked galaxy s3 and to use his nexus 4 when it arrive. When I got it, I hated pretty much everything about the nexus, the onscreen softkey, the google now spot(even when search bar is remove), power button, lockscreen, the stock 4.2 software. It was missing feature that I would like such as different wallpaper on lockscreen, vibrate setting, led, etc. I did not want the phone at all. But I am stuck with it for the next 2 month. I decide to fix all the stuff I could. I came from a iPhone 4(limited, no feature) to a S3(plenty of feature with some option) to a nexus 4(some feature with no option)
First was the freaking power button, it was not parallel to the volume up button. I had to adjust my hand everytime I turn on the screen and readjust it to unlock my phone. What I did to fix that was mod the mapping of the power button to the volume up button, Now I can turn on the screen and unlock my phone without adjusting my hand. I also map the back key to the volume down and the home key to the power. I use GMD gesture app to adjust the volume.
The lockscreen also suck, you can't change wallpaper, remove the clock and leave the lockscreen blank. There's also the black navbar on the bottom which have no use. Now some will say it's for the google now. Even if you don't use the google now and disable it. The bar is still there. So what the heck. Android is no different then ios. In stock they are both limited to what they want you to change. Just that Android have some more feature. I use widgetlocker to remedy to lockscreen issue.
Next is the softkey or navigation bar. It was too big or taking up the screen. The actual usable screen was shrunk. It was only a bit taller then the iphone 5. One reason I don't like iphone is because of the screen size. I use hidebar app to disable both the navbar and the status bar. I also don't care for the status bar. Now what do I do without the softkey. I use the hardware button I mapped explain above. But that would require moving my thumb too much and far. So I use GMD gesture to map the home button as a swipe up motion from the middle bottom screen. Back at the bottom left. This makes it easy to use the phone, you can use tap or hold gesture too. You might ask what about hitting the keyboard space or other stuff on screen while you do slide up gesture. The GMD have feature to fix that. Nothing will be press when you do your gesture. So I can press the space bar on the keyboard if I wanted to and still swipe my thumb up to go to home without pressing the keyboard space bar.
And the homescreen, there was no unread dot on the message or phone application. Only on the status bar does it tell you. The home screen also have the stupid google now bar. Even when remove, the space is still there. You can't put icon or widget there. Which is stupid. See how limited stock android is. They made have the feature but not the option for those feature. For example you have a feature for vibrate, I want option to change the vibration. Feature to display subtitle on video, I want option to adjust subtitle size. Led notification feature, I want option to adjust it. Feels like apple to me. I had to use apex launcher to fix the stock android home screen and give me my unread dot back. Now with the status bar hidden, I have a clock widget that will be useful since it's the only clock on the home screen without the clock on the status bar. I also have a nice looking signal widget so I know if I am getting edge or 4g, and also a simple battery widget.
Other issue I have is the slow and dim Led notification. I use lightflow to fix the slowness of it, but it's still kinda dim. One thing the hidebar does is prevent the screen when someone call to appear. So when someone call, the screen don't come on so you can't answer. What I did was use video caller id. It's better and it works perfectly, you can use 1080p music video as your ringtone. I crop up the video to portrait and the video shows fullscreen unstretch HD quality.
After all that, I'm liking the nexus. I just hate that I have to do all that to make me like it unlike my galaxy s3 which is basically stock. With the s3 I did not mod anything, or install bunch of app to correct it. If anyone have the same issue and don't like the stock nexus, you try what I did.
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Man... I don't know what the F**k you just said, Little Kid, but you're special man, you reached out, and you touch a brother's heart.
FallN said:
Please sell the NEXUS 4 immediately, buy a used SGS3/iPhone and just go away.
We'll all be happier for it. Jesus...
Sent from my Nexus 4
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If you finish reading what I posted, you'll see that I liked my nexus now. I would not give it up. I don't plan on returning the nexus to my bro when he comes back. Plus I did not like the galaxy s3 back button, it's should have been where the menu button was. And regarding the iPhone, you have to kill me to return to that piece of ****.
What a joke of a post, it's not even as interesting as an iphone troll post.
Some poster here sound a lot like the apple user "don't like what iphone have, go get a android" now I see this "Just go back to iPhone"
PS. I like my nexus now after what I did.
Cool story bro
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35 HTC One tips and tricks

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Introduction
The HTC One is the most desirable new phone in the world right now. Metal-bodied, great-looking and a seriously powerful gadget, this is the mobile that could turn things around for HTC.
We've spent weeks fiddling with the phone, and here are best tips, tricks and hidden features we've found.
Interface
How to change keyboards
One of the few software criticisms we made about the HTC One was that its keyboard isn’t exactly the slickest in town.
However, one of the neatest bits of Android is that you can swap-out things like keyboards.
The first thing to do is to head to the Play Store to find your perfect Android keyboard.
The most popular third-party one is Swiftkey.
Once you’ve downloaded your keyboard, you need to select it to act as your main keyboard within the Settings menu, from the Language & Keyboard submenu.
However, many third-party keyboard apps have their own setup wizards anyway.
Enabling Swype-style input on the keyboard
There are ways to customise the standard HTC keyboard too, though.
The most important is gesture-based input, which we find speeds-up typing no end.
Instead of tapping away on keys, you draw a line between the characters and the HTC One calculates which word you want.
It works a charm too. To turn this mode on, go to the HTC Sense Input menu within Settings > Language & Keyboard and tick the Trace Keyboard checkbox.
How to customise the apps menu
The HTC One lets you fiddle with the look of the apps menu a little.
You can choose how icons are organised, and how many appear in each row.
As standard, it displays just three in each row for a chilled, spread out look. To bump this up to four, drag the apps “scroll” down to reveal the app menu’s Settings bar.
Tap the 3-pip icon and you’ll see an option for Grid Size.
The organisation options are found in the drop-down menu to the left of the 3-pip button.
How to change icons in the HTC Sense dock
The easiest-to-access app shortcuts of all are those in the shortcut dock, which stays on-screen in both the apps menu and your home screens.
You can choose what’s in this dock on the apps screen.
Just hold a finger down on an icon, whether in the dock or not, until the screen zooms out a little then drag it on, or off, the bar.
You can add app folders to the Sense dock
Folder functionality lets you keep boxes of apps on the apps menu – just like those of the iPhone iOS software.
These folders can sit in the main shortcut dock just like a single app shortcut.
They’re added in the same way too.
How to take a screen grab
Unlike most older Android phones, the HTC makes it dead simple to take a picture of whatever’s on-screen.
It’s the perfect way to capture an amazing score in a game that doesn’t have some of form of brag function as standard.
To take a grab, press the power button and the Home soft key at the same time.
The pic will be then saved to the phone’s gallery.
Installing a custom UI
Do you outright hate the Sense UI? Do not fret as you can swap it out for another one.
Whenever you press the Home button, it’s actually directing you to a home screen “app”.
Install another and you’ll get the option to be directed to one other than HTC’s.
Top candidates include Nova Launcher and ADW.Launcher.
To find a bunch, just search for “Launcher” in the Play Store.
Adding widgets to a home screen
Here’s a nice basic one that most of you probably know already.
To add a widget to a home screen, just find a bit of empty space on a screen and hold a finger down on it.
This will bring up the widget control panel.
Two-thirds of the screen will be made up of a box of widgets, with the other bit left for teeny versions of your homes screens, onto which you can drag widgets.
How to customise the lock screen
The HTC One lets you control what your phone’s lock screen looks like, but you don’t do this from the lock screen itself.
Instead, dive into the Personlize menu within Settings.
Here you’ll find options for home screens that incorporate music players, your calendar or photo album.
You can even turn off the lock screen entirely.
Modifying LED notifications
A neat little hardware feature that barely gets any attention is the HTC One’s LED notification light, which sits behind the top speaker grille.
You can control which types of notifications earn the notification LED flash within Settings > Display, Gestures & Buttons > Notification Flash.
You can’t control its colour though, sadly.
BlinkFeed
How to get rid of Blinkfeed
You can’t get rid of Blinkfeed entirely on the HTC One.
HTC is clearly that bit too proud of it.
However, you can hide it from view.
To do this, you need to create another home screen to use as the face of your phone.
HTC veterans may want to include the classic HTC clock, which you’ll find in the HTC One’s treasure trove of widgets.
Next we need to set this screen as the default home screen.
Hold a finger down on an empty bit of home screen, waiting until the widget drop screen pops up.
At the top of this screen you’ll see teeny versions of your home screens.
Hold a finger down on one of these and a Set as Home Screen option will appear.
Tap it and Blinkfeed will be gone.
Well, more or less.
Adding sources to Blinkfeed
Like Blinkfeed?
It works best if you customise it with the sorts of info you want – whether that’s tweets, Facebook updates or articles from the internet.
To do this, head to your Blinkfeed home page and drag down on its panels to reveal the settings bar.
The triple dot button here takes you to an area where you can add Blinkfeed sources, while the drop-down bar to the left lets you pick between types of active source.
Camera
The filter button
The HTC One’s camera filters selection is so up-front that it’s actually pretty easy to miss.
The filters button is the icon that looks a bit like a colour venn diagram, sitting below the camera/video select buttons within the camera app.
HTC offers a bunch of filters, including creative ones like a distorting warp and customisable vignetting.
How to turn on Zoe Mode
Zoe mode is one of the key features of the HTC One.
It takes a short video clip that can also be sliced up into twenty still images.
One of the neatest parts of Zoe mode is that once it’s shared through HTC Share, a short URL is produced that makes sharing the video with friends dead simple.
It also allows re-touching, including removing objects from the video.
We’ve had trouble getting this to work properly, but you can find the feature by inspecting a Zoe vid in the gallery, tapping Edit and then Retouch.
You’ll find Object Removal in this menu.
Best settings for general use
To get photos with the most detail, we recommend at least trying out using HDR as your go-to photo mode.
HDR stands of High Dynamic range, and it combines three exposures to eke out as much detail as possible.
As the HTC One is so powerful, the processing only takes a second or two – it doesn’t slow you down too much.
Unfortunately, we can’t see any way to get the HTC One to save both standard and HDR shots at the same time, as you can with an iPhone.
How to auto upload photos to Flickr
If you’re a big photo sharer, you can set the HTC One to automatically upload your songs to the ‘net.
You’ll find this option right down the bottom of the camera app’s Settings menu.
As standard, the only option is to upload to Flickr for HTC Sense.
Wireless camera shutter
A neat hidden feature of the HTC One is that you can use a Bluetooth headset to take photos you’re when within the camera app.
Hold down the central button on your remote and the camera will take a shot.
Audio
When to use Beats Audio
Beats Audio is a signal processing mode that’s used in a fistful of HTC phones.
It’s designed to mimic the style of the Beats by Dre headphones – that means a lot of bass for that booming club sound.
It works wonders on the internal speakers of the phone, cutting out the harsh mids, but with a decent pair of headphones you’re best off without it unless you have a craving for more bass.
How to turn off Beats Audio
Don’t like the sound of Beats Audio?
You can switch it off – as standard I’ll turn on automatically when you play music.
You’ll find the switch for the feature on the top layer of the settings menu, under the Phone subhead.
Quick music navigation
If you have a big music collection on your HTC One, flicking through all your tracks or albums can be laborious.
To make it quicker, use a two-fingered scroll.
This cycles through letters of the alphabet rather than entry-by-entry.
Video
How to play any video on the HTC One
The integrated video player of the HTC One offers much less than flawless video codec support.
If you have a library of videos downloaded from the net, many of them probably won’t play.
To fill the gaps you’ll need a third-party app, preferably one with its own hardware acceleration.
Our go-to pick is MX Player.
How to transmit video to a TV
The HTC One does not have a dedicated video output socket.
However, there are a few different ways to get your videos over from the phone to your TV.
The neatest of the lot requires a special accessory, the HTC Media Link, a box that connects to your TV.
This lets you swipe any content over to your TV using a three-fingered swipe.
Alternatively, the microUSB socket on the phone is MHL compliant, letting you use it as an HDMI port with the right connector.
You'll find these online.
Hardware
How to reset the accelerometer/gyroscope
This is one most of you shouldn’t really need, but is useful if you find accelerometer games are way out of whack.
You can re-calibrate the accelerometer and gyroscope manually – these sensors can tell what angle the HTC One is being held at.
The calibration works much like a spirit level, and is the G-Sensor Calibration option within Settings > Display, Gestures & Buttons.
You’ll find it right down at the bottom of the menu.
One way to diagnose touchscreen issues
If your HTC One’s touchscreen has gone a bit dodgy, you can try to diagnose the problem using the phone’s Developer Mode.
This is a set of options you’ll find in the Developer Options menu within Settings.
The one we’re after is called Show Touches, which shows little circles where the screen is sensing points of touch.
Hard-soft reset
Software misbehaviour can often be cured with a simple reset.
You can turn the phone on and off again, but getting the good old “pull the battery out” effect requires an HTC special move.
You could rip off the back, but it’s not something we’d recommend. Instead, hold the power button down for ten seconds to simulate the cutting of power.
A prompt should pop-up warning you that the hard-soft reset is about to happen.
Battery
Sleep mode is key
The HTC One has a battery saving mode that’s crucial if you want to have a phone that’s able to last more than 24 hours.
Sleep Mode, an option found in the Power sub-menu of Settings is one of the most important to switch on, as it turns of 3G when it’s not needed.
3G is a real power-sucker.
You can also select how intensive the Power Saving mode is in other respects.
Turn Power Saver mode off in the Power menu, then tap the Power Saver menu option (not the slider) to select which parts of the phone are throttled by the mode – CPU, display, vibration feedback and the data connection.
Apps and Games
Enable non-Google Play apps downloads
Unlike iPhones, Android phones can install apps other than those downloaded from the official app store.
However, this feature is disabled as standard – mainly because some (well, many) apps from the net will be infected with malware.
To turn off this security measure, tick the Unknown Sources box in the Settings > Security menu. Android apps online are shipped as APK installer files.
To install them, transfer them to the internal memory then find and run them using a file browser app like ES File Explorer.
Enabling offline speech recognition
Virtually all top-end phones offer pretty serious voice recognition these days, but you generally need to have internet connectivity for it to work.
The HTC One lets you download a pack of offline voice recognition data to let you use it when you have no Wi-Fi or mobile internet reception.
You’ll find the option to download the pack in Settings > Language & Keyboard > Voice Search.
How to stop the phone auto-creating app icons
The HTC One automatically creates home screen app icons and widgets for downloaded apps.
It’s a way to stop you having to curate your own home screens, but some of you may not like the clutter.
To stop the HTC One from doing this, go to Google Play, head to its Settings menu (accessed through the 3-pip button at the top-right of the screen.
Here you’ll find a tick box for auto-add.
If screen brightness goes down while you’re playing a game…
One curious thing we’ve noticed while playing games on the HTC One is that the screen brightness can unexpectedly dip.
The reason why is simple – the placement of the ambient light sensor means it’s easy to cover the thing up, or shade it, with a hand when the phone’s held in landscape orientation.
To avoid this, try turning your phone around.
Simples.
Security
Backing up to the cloud
The HTC One comes with an allocation of HTC online cloud storage.
You can set the HTC One to automatically back up your data to this storage, or you can use Google’s cloud servers.
You’ll find this option in Settings > Backup & Reset.
You can also make the phone auto-upload pictures taken to Flickr.
You’ll find the auto upload function in the Settings section within the camera app.
Lock screen security
A lock screen security layer is hardly the height of security sophistication, but it’s the best way to stop being stitched up on Facebook if you’re in the habit of leaving your phone lying about when with friends.
We’ve all been there.
Within the Screen lock menu of Settings > Security you’ll find options to use a Pattern unlock, a password, a PIN number or Face Unlock.
Our top tip is not to use Face Unlock as it’s pretty useless as security measures go.
And it makes you look silly.
Browsing
Get straight to Google
The quickest way to get to a web search on the HTC One is using a clever Google shortcut.
Hold a finger down on the phone’s Home soft key and you’ll be taken directly to the Google search page.
Using Google Now
Google Now is a recently-introduced Google service that’s designed to pre-empt what you’re going to look for.
It does this using info cards that appear on the Google Search page.
If you’ve been searching for places in a certain location, Google Now might offer up directions as to how to get to that place.
How to go full screen in the stock browser
If you want to make the full use of the HTC One’s 4.7-inch screen when browsing the web, you need to enable full screen browsing.
This hides the address bar, giving you that extra bit space for web sites.
To find the setting, pull down the address bar and tap the three-pip button to bring up the menu.
Scroll down to Settings, tap General and select the Fullscreen tick box.
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Help, got myself in trouble trying to mess with the Sense Dock!
Palla71 said:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/htc-one-tips-and-tricks
How to change icons in the HTC Sense dock
The easiest-to-access app shortcuts of all are those in the shortcut dock, which stays on-screen in both the apps menu and your home screens.
You can choose what’s in this dock on the apps screen.
Just hold a finger down on an icon, whether in the dock or not, until the screen zooms out a little then drag it on, or off, the bar.
You can add app folders to the Sense dock
Folder functionality lets you keep boxes of apps on the apps menu – just like those of the iPhone iOS software.
These folders can sit in the main shortcut dock just like a single app shortcut.
They’re added in the same way too.
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I seem to have gotten myself in trouble with this. When I tried to drag an item off the dock and onto the home screen, it made a copy on the home screen but kept it on the dock. So I tried dragging a new item to the dock, and ended up with a folder containing both the old and new items. Now, I can't find any way to get rid of that folder which is stuck on the dock! Anyone know how to do that?
Edit: Never mind, I found the answer here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235130
Is there any way to get Google Now to respond to the "Google" voice prompt like it does on other devices (including the HOX)? Kind of a pain to hit the mic icon at the top of the screen when using the One one-handed.
Has anyone tried "light flow" for the notification light to see if the colors are able to be changed?
And has anyone installed swype/swype beta? I'm sure it also works with the H1, just curious.
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dirtyhamster73 said:
Has anyone tried "light flow" for the notification light to see if the colors are able to be changed?
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HTC phones don't have tri colored LEDs like Samsung phones so Lightflow won't work.
Tikerz said:
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HTC phones don't have tri colored LEDs like Samsung phones so Lightflow won't work.
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The only phone from Samsung that has a led is the gnote 2 and sgs3, I can't think of any recent (within the last few yrs) Samsung phones with led. I do know my HTC g1 back in the day was able to have different colored led. Hhmm...interesting. Can't say I've ever heard this about HTC. Thanks.
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dirtyhamster73 said:
The only phone from Samsung that has a led is the gnote 2 and sgs3, I can't think of any recent (within the last few yrs) Samsung phones with led. I do know my HTC g1 back in the back was able to have different colored led. Hhmm...interesting. Can't say I've ever heard this about HTC. Thanks.
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Samsung did manage to put a RGB LED in the Nexus 10, surely at Google's behest.
Not to take away the credits, I appreciate your time and efforts.
Seems to be like squeezed out manual rather than tips.
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Palla71 said:
How to change icons in the HTC Sense dock
The easiest-to-access app shortcuts of all are those in the shortcut dock, which stays on-screen in both the apps menu and your home screens.
You can choose what’s in this dock on the apps screen.
Just hold a finger down on an icon, whether in the dock or not, until the screen zooms out a little then drag it on, or off, the bar. .
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This isn't working for me. When I select an icon in the dock and drag it to the top of the screen on top of the 'uninstall' nothing happens, and when I drop it onto the 'desktop', it simply replaces itself with another one in the dock. Trying to add different icons doesn't work, either. Any help appreciated. I don't use text messaging and would far prefer to have my Email and Firefox icons in there instead.
Croak said:
Is there any way to get Google Now to respond to the "Google" voice prompt like it does on other devices (including the HOX)? Kind of a pain to hit the mic icon at the top of the screen when using the One one-handed.
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I haven't found a way yet to have the button launch voice search, but if you say "google" it will launch the voice search
BillTheCat said:
This isn't working for me. When I select an icon in the dock and drag it to the top of the screen on top of the 'uninstall' nothing happens, and when I drop it onto the 'desktop', it simply replaces itself with another one in the dock. Trying to add different icons doesn't work, either. Any help appreciated. I don't use text messaging and would far prefer to have my Email and Firefox icons in there instead.
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You have to be in the app drawer to change the dock icons or you'll keep getting duplicates.
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jsho31 said:
You have to be in the app drawer to change the dock icons or you'll keep getting duplicates.
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Took me an hour to figure this out....I swear the programmers were high when designing some of the software for sense 5..
bugsy said:
I haven't found a way yet to have the button launch voice search, but if you say "google" it will launch the voice search
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Saying "Google" totally doesn't work for me, I have to hit the mic icon to voice search in Google Now.
Palla71 said:
How to take a screen grab
To take a grab, press the power button and the Home soft key at the same time.
The pic will be then saved to the phone’s gallery.
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Actually it's Power button + volume down.
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How to turn on Zoe Mode
Zoe mode is one of the key features of the HTC One.
It takes a short video clip that can also be sliced up into twenty still images.
One of the neatest parts of Zoe mode is that once it’s shared through HTC Share, a short URL is produced that makes sharing the video with friends dead simple.
It also allows re-touching, including removing objects from the video.
We’ve had trouble getting this to work properly, but you can find the feature by inspecting a Zoe vid in the gallery, tapping Edit and then Retouch.
You’ll find Object Removal in this menu.
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Well this didn't tell people how to turn on HTC Zoe so, for those who aren't aware, go into Camera and at the top of the screen in the middle you'll see a small camera icon. Click it and it'll turn blue and will also display another camera icon near the bottom of the screen which says "Zoe" next to it.
Also, the best way to get the Zoe features working isn't actually by capturing a Zoe. When you're in normal camera mode, hold the bottom capture button and it will take a shutter shot. This will produce lots of pictures which were captured during the time you held the shutter button.
Once you've captured what you desired, go to edit the photo and use the editing options available to you.
Why is this easier than snapping a Zoe?
The answer's simple. Zoe shots only give you a limited amount of time and can be awkward to use some of the editing features. Using the shutter button, this isn't a problem.
Palla71 said:
How to turn off Beats Audio
Don’t like the sound of Beats Audio?
You can switch it off – as standard I’ll turn on automatically when you play music.
You’ll find the switch for the feature on the top layer of the settings menu, under the Phone subhead.
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It's important to note that if you turn off Beats Audio, the speaker playback quality is actually quite bad. Maybe it seems worse because I'd gotten used to the effect of Beats but it definitely has a big drop in quality.
I haven't tested this through the headphones, however.
BillTheCat said:
This isn't working for me. When I select an icon in the dock and drag it to the top of the screen on top of the 'uninstall' nothing happens, and when I drop it onto the 'desktop', it simply replaces itself with another one in the dock. Trying to add different icons doesn't work, either. Any help appreciated. I don't use text messaging and would far prefer to have my Email and Firefox icons in there instead.
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It only works from the app drawer. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235130
(I had the same issue last night, until I found the above link).
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Croak said:
Is there any way to get Google Now to respond to the "Google" voice prompt like it does on other devices (including the HOX)? Kind of a pain to hit the mic icon at the top of the screen when using the One one-handed.
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Ok, figured out what the problem is. Google Now disables "hotword detection" for English(Canadian), which is the default system language on my Telus One.
Switched to English (US) and it works fine now.
How to fast forward or rewind Video in stock player
Swipe 2 fingers forward (right) to fast forward. Swipe again for faster forward. Tap play to resume normal play.
Swipe 2 fingers back (left) to rewind. Swipe again for faster rewind. Tap play to resume normal play.
You forgot tap to top like on a iPhone
jaythenut said:
You forgot tap to top like on a iPhone
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Would you please explain it?
omar302 said:
Would you please explain it?
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If you're in BlinkFeed or contacts and so on touch the top of the screen in the middle where the clock is

Home screen did not rotate

Is it possible to set the home screen to rotate? I use the original rom and with "rotate screen" - ON , but the home screen did not rotate.
Currently on stock firmware there isnt a function to make the the home interface rotate. A dev could possibly make a mod, but development is slow. one other thing you can try is try another home launcher.
It does rotate when using the docking station though, so the functionality is already there. Just the lockscreen does not rotate.
Thanks for the replies. I have the phone for one day and still learning what to do and to setup.
OfficerTux said:
It does rotate when using the docking station though, so the functionality is already there. Just the lockscreen does not rotate.
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I think also the lockscreen will be easily able to rotate, with the pincode turned and screen locked try to take a picture, the press manual mode, it will ask for the pin, for ~2s the lockscreen is perfectly aligned in horizontal then it rotates.
I don't get why Sony should prevent homescreen and lockscreen to rotate when seems they are both built to do that.
try "Screen Rotation Steuerung" App -> set to auto -> voila you have rotation Homescreen! (Damn not ootb)

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