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In truth I don't have a Hero. I use a Moment most of the time. I am a retailer and I am embarrassed to say that I have a question about the hero. When I have activated them in the past I have tried to help customers customize the home screen but when I long hold on an icon to move it, it opens the program rather than allowing me to drag it around. I know it can be done and I'm just missing something. Please go easy on me. I know it's a super basic question.
Are you letting everything load while you bs with the customer? I have never heard of that problem. Try doing different ones, and you need to long press for a few seconds. Don't let go until it find the rest of the screen and gives you the trash can.
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Yes it's fully loaded. The progaram opens while I'm still holding down the icon. It has happened on almost evey hero I've sold. I think it may have to do with the "scenes" in sense.
I am able to do anything I want with my hero when it is stock... I don't understand why you would have the same issue on multiple devices... sorry I could not help man, I used to do the same thing when I worked at the shack so I know how it is to need a helping hand with something goofy like this.
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Do they have a screen protector? Also - stock seems to be pretty sensitive, so I find using my index finger instead of thumb works better as I seem to be more still
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Yes it's fully loaded. The progaram opens while I'm still holding down the icon. It has happened on almost evey hero I've sold. I think it may have to do with the "scenes" in sense.
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I had that problem frequently with adding different app widgets AND prior to the 2.1 update on my hero. I used to reboot and after it was done loading completely it would work fine.
The dev has released more updates, currently on version 0.6. Check it out, the app got a whole lot cooler, and is in pretty active development now!
There's a dev in the I9000 forums working on using the AMOLED screen to display notifications. Currently it's displayed as a red dot in the top left corner of the screen. It's in an early stage, but it works on my Captivate.
Read the thread here for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
The dev is apparently going on vacation soon, and won't be working on it for a while, so any potential developers here that know how to implement something like this, take note!
Edit: I don't take responsibility for the work on this app at all; just posting here because it works on the Captivate and is an awesome idea.
Sweet this is something exactly what I was looking for!
Hope he can make use of the bottom 4 buttons or something.
Edit: I just read there are no API's to light up the capacitive buttons
But the project so far looks amazing. I'll have to give it a run when I get off of work.
works! sideloaded this thing right into my Captivate easier than rooting (and that was possibly the easiest thing I've done customizing a phone in the past!)
thanks! was definitely missing my notification LED from my last two WinMo phones....
I have got to find out how to side load apps.
Install the Android sdk, add the tools directory to the system PATH, install Samsung drivers to your computer if its 64 bit Windows you need 64 bit drivers, open a command prompt, type "adb install blahblah.apk"... that's pretty much it... obviously your current working directory needs to be the same as the apk file.
For those who don't want to get real dirty
http://www.androidcentral.com/sideload-android-apps-all-you-want-sideload-wonder-machine
tysj said:
For those who don't want to get real dirty
fantastic!!! Thank you tysj
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For those who don't want to get real dirty
http://www.androidcentral.com/sideload-android-apps-all-you-want-sideload-wonder-machine
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yeah, that's what I used alright..... WAY too simple to use, I mean, it isn't drag and drop to a CAB folder like WinMo, but this thing installs the program for you, making it just that much easier to use!
Wow I'm going to have to try that way installer thing since I'm not rooted
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Works for my on my captivate. Thanks for the great work OP!
how does this app affect battery life?
the developer said that since it doesn't use any timers within the cpu, it is very VERY minimal on battery.
It worked for me with an SMS, (I use Handcent) but it didn't work for an email. (K9-mail)
I had to remove it because it wasn't letting me go to my screen our unlock my phone
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madjsp said:
I had to remove it because it wasn't letting me go to my screen our unlock my phone
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The screen is already on so you have to press the Home button.
it was not working correctly every time. It would render the touch screen useless until I locked and unlocked it a few times.
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madjsp said:
it was not working correctly every time. It would render the touch screen useless until I locked and unlocked it a few times.
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Well, it's still better than nothing. The app is still very much a work-in-progress, and hopefully the dev makes some good progress on it soon.
I've been trying to learn how to write Android apps, since the dev won't be around for a while to work on it, but all I've accomplished is realizing how incompetent I am in Java, heh.
When i first saw this app the word pixel burnout came to mind. But the dev says the red square moves around on the screen to prevent that so it might just end up being useful. I think samsung and google need to give us an api to use the menu keys since they didn't provide us with a notification light.
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Well, it's still better than nothing. The app is still very much a work-in-progress, and hopefully the dev makes some good progress on it soon.
I've been trying to learn how to write Android apps, since the dev won't be around for a while to work on it, but all I've accomplished is realizing how incompetent I am in Java, heh.
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Oh I agree, it is a work in progress. It was an awesome idea, but I was close to some battery pulls because I couldn't get the touch screen to work.
I wonder about all the complaints regarding a notification LED, since Samsung gave us 384,000 LEDs to play with.
Google dropped the ball on this one. First, no gps button. Second, the buttons that do exist only take you to a menu (ie, the wifi menu) from where you can actually turn things on or off. Also, apparently no ability to customize whats in the quick settings.
With all the great implementations of quick settings available in both custom roms and widgets, google had a lot of great ideas from which it could have modeled its own quick settings, but somehow it managed to put out this worthless piece of garbage. I think most people will have to keep using widgetsoid or notification toggle and google's quick setting will almost never be used. What a disgrace.
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Add it to the other thread. ib4tl
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BennyJr said:
Add it to the other thread. ib4tl
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Another thread on how bad quick settings sucks? Link? If so my bad.
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The kind of people who want to badly customize it, is also the kind of people who do not need settings to do it.
I'm fine with it, if anything it'll probably only take the CM team a few minutes to change the functionality of it.
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The kind of people who want to badly customize it, is also the kind of people who do not need settings to do it.
I'm fine with it, if anything it'll probably only take the CM team a few minutes to change the functionality of it.
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I agree. If anything, it gives a new platform/base for CM or other developers to build upon and a pretty spiffy one at that. I think it's a great first release for a feature. Just because you can see the future of it in current roms or inherently tell where it's going doesn't mean it shouldn't be a welcomed improvement. Could they have made it better? Of course, but that's not a reason to overreact and call it a "disgrace".
Yeah, I don't know what they're thinking. The buttons should obviously be toggles for quickly turning things on and off, not shortcuts to various settings menus. That's what the regular settings button in the notification shade is for. I was really excited when I first heard about this feature, since I expected Google to do the logical thing and put a bunch of useful toggles in there, but what they've ended up doing seems pretty pointless to me.
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I agree. If anything, it gives a new platform/base for CM or other developers to build upon and a pretty spiffy one at that. I think it's a great first release for a feature. Just because you can see the future of it in current roms or inherently tell where it's going doesn't mean it shouldn't be a welcomed improvement. Could they have made it better? Of course, but that's not a reason to overreact and call it a "disgrace".
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A great first release? I think it's a horrid first release. It takes as many clicks to turn wifi on or off in this implementation as it does under the current ics or jelly bean 4.1 without the so-called quick settings. Moreover, this is hardly a new feature. It has been around in roms and widgets literally for years. People want one-touch access to the most commonly used settings, and this so-called quick settings fails to provide that. And who the heck made the decision not to put gps in there?
Even as a first release, Google should have surveyed what is currently out there and tried to make its implementation at least as useful. I think it utterly failed. If you don't, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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Yeah, I don't know what they're thinking. The buttons should obviously be toggles for quickly turning things on and off, not shortcuts to various settings menus. That's what the regular settings button in the notification shade is for. I was really excited when I first heard about this feature, since I expected Google to do the logical thing and put a bunch of useful toggles in there, but what they've ended up doing seems pretty pointless to me.
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Thank you... I am not sure how anyone could disagree. Yeah, the two fingers to swipe down is cool, and maybe people think it looks nifty, but functionality is nearly nonexistent. And isn't functionality what android users demand first and foremost? If I want a beautiful but useless user interface, I'll look to apple.
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Do like me, ignore them and hope CM will keep what they are doing best...
I liked the idea of swiping twice to bring a second notification shade down. But yeah, them just linking to settings pages sucks a little. The ideal setting is to tap to toggle or hold to dive in and change settings in detail.
Ever since I found about about most settings just directing you to the appropriate settings menu, I was also disappointed.
The only proper toggle I think there is brightness, it brings up a little popup in the middle of the screen with a slider.
google's probably going to update it soon
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Google ******* fails again...
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As many people have noticed, the home/back capacitive/virtual buttons often do not work.
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/04/...-issues-with-capacitive-hardware-buttons.html
http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-one-capacitive-button-problems-198220/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40538985
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231832
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2243961
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40574171#post40574171
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248951
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvxi6KUR-WA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zKpBSluKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v5Oc5-7rbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkwyyvOkZ8
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/270508-home-button-shorting-out.html
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24147320
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/270811-back-button.html
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/271243-button-issue-htc-one.html
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/569148
Personally, I find it to be *incredibly* annoying and pretty much ruins the experience of using this otherwise good phone. I have already been to the Sprint store to possibly exchange it, but their demo unit had the exact same problem (and the employee I was talking to had also noticed the problem). I have also ran "getevent -lt /dev/input/event6" from adb shell (/dev/input/event6 seems to be the raw output of the touchscreen, some people said it is event5 on theirs rather than event6). This shows you raw data every time you touch the screen. However I noticed that when my touches of the home button go undetected, nothing is read from /dev/input/event6...so I am afraid it may be a hardware problem. I have 11 more days before my 14 day Sprint satisfaction period ends, so I'm on the fence on whether or not I should return it and wait for a better phone, or exchange it and probably get another with the same problem, or...wait for HTC to try to fix it with software.
Some have said a recent update to the Taiwan version of the One solved the problem...:
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doing a bit translation from Taiwan version if you guys can't wait. not sure if I used the correct words though, hope you don't mind.
1.29.709.12(214.04MB)
1. virtual button sensitivity adjusted
2. slow motion video quality improved under low lit
3. better Beats Audio experience
4. better background noise when using headphone
5. better bluetooth device matching
some said back button issue fixed after upgrading.
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Further evidence that a software patch fixed the home button:
http://translate.google.com/transla...a=X&ei=fy91Ua_5HYaQqgHi_ICwCA&ved=0CGgQ7gEwAw
Poor Google Translate translation:
Did not receive update notifications
Through Settings> About> Software Update> Check Now
We can immediately receive an update notification
After the update the virtual keys become normal
There is a need to go faster
PS: Please note that this is the official update, Brush, may not be updated automatically through the official update to brush back the official
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Here is the response I got from HTC:
Thank you for retrieving the information for me, [xxxxxx]. I did some research and there will be an MR update to fix this issue with the virtual keys. We do not have any information as to the date the update will be released since it will be released via Sprint your network provider, and it is currently being worked on.
I realize that not having the specific details such as the date is annoying, but we do appreciate your patience. I want to thank you again for sending me that information because that really helps us out a lot. Let me know if you have any other questions I may be able to address with you at this time.
Sincerely,
Casey
HTC
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I don't have this issue. I'll pay more attention to it, maybe I'm missing it.
~Sent in beast mode using my HTC One~
I've noticed that the area to hit is small. You have to hit it exactly.
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fernando sor said:
I've noticed that the area to hit is small. You have to hit it exactly.
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Most likely what you are actually noticing is that not all presses are registered and you are rationalizing it by assuming that you just missed the target. In reality, there is a problem with the home/back buttons that HTC needs to fix, soon.
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I don't have this issue. I'll pay more attention to it, maybe I'm missing it.
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Be thankful you don't. It is an issue. There are videos on you tube from here in the states about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v5Oc5-7rbA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I have this issue as well. Seems like you have to hit the button in almost the perfect spot to get it to register.
After watching that I'm very thankful. Mine has always registered my touches. I'm very very thankful. I would be one mad mofo.
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Be thankful you don't. It is an issue. There are videos on you tube from here in the states about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v5Oc5-7rbA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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~Sent in beast mode using my HTC One~
chogardjr said:
After watching that I'm very thankful. Mine has always registered my touches. I'm very very thankful. I would be one mad mofo.
~Sent in beast mode using my HTC One~
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Hey chogard. Waaazz up? Where's your Rom if you have the one. Wheres that odexed beauty?
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Lots more confirmations that OTA 1.29.709.12 solved the problem for the Taiwan variant HTC One. WHEN WILL SPRINT/HTC GIVE US AMERICANS THIS FIX?
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Here's some information about 1.29.709.12 upgrade (Taiwan version), and some responses I read from other forum.
And... sorry guys, I really don't know when will your updates come. and i don't have the phone yet . I envy you!
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1.29.709.12(214.04MB)
1. virtual key sensitivity adjusted
Lots confirmed the home/back key issue fixed, looks solid.
2. slow motion video quality recording improved under low lit
Didn't see anyone post about it
3. better Beats Audio experience
Some said the left / right sound are better balanced.
4. reduce background noise when using headphone
a few guys said noise is "significantly" reduced.
5. better bluetooth device matching
a few guys confirmed bluetooth device matched faster.
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For anyone interested, the Taiwan OTA firmware is available here:
http://www.androidrevolution.nl/downloader/download.php?file=1.29.709.12.zip
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Same here. I've found that pressing the button with the pad of my finger vs a tap with the fingertip seems to work more reliably - if only because it covers more of the screen that happens to include the tiny area that registers a button press...
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Same here. I've found that pressing the button with the pad of my finger vs a tap with the fingertip seems to work more reliably - if only because it covers more of the screen that happens to include the tiny area that registers a button press...
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I prefer to tap with my fingertip and this is rarely detected by the home/back buttons, which is SOOOO annoying. I'm debating trying to swap it out for a new one. From what I can tell the problem seems to affect EVRYONE, although many people might not notice or be annoyed by it. So the question is, is it truly a pure software fault, or is it a hardware fault that software (ie, an OTA) can mask or at least partially correct.
That's my preference as well - it has been an adjustment and one that I'm not terribly pleased with. I'm surprised the issue didn't show up in pre-release testing but I have to imagine it's something that software can fix with a remap of the area the system recognizes as buttons.
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I've noticed that the area to hit is small. You have to hit it exactly.
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Where's the Rom Fernando?
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It's really not an issue with the "area", as I can touch the dead center of the home button and it still won't work. Seems to me that it is either not sensitive enough, or some other problem.
Regardless, word is that an OTA fixed this problem on the Taiwan HTC One 2 days ago, so now I guess we just need to complain loud enough that HTC/Sprint pump out the fix to us ASAP before we all return our phones.
Mines like this as well, you can hit the back button dead on and no response. Hopefully they issue a fix somewhat quickly.
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Having this problem as well. My device was built April 9th 2013. I can sit there and tap on the home button for 30 seconds or more in every way possible and have no registration of the contact.
This might just be wishful thinking but for some reason clicking the app drawer icon seems to fix the issue right away making me think this is software.
Other than this the build quality and everything else seems perfect.
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HTC needs to admit they have a problem here and advise us whether we should be returning these or waiting for an OTA patch which will be coming VERY soon.
I saw some people talking about this and didn't know what they were referring to.. I got my phone on launch day and have no issues with it, that looks super annoying
Someone posted this over in the international forum. I haven't tried it, as I haven't noticed a problem with my button sensitivity, but there are others who say it works. Worth a shot if you're experiencing problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231832
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Someone posted this over in the international forum. I haven't tried it, as I haven't noticed a problem with my button sensitivity, but there are others who say it works. Worth a shot if you're experiencing problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231832
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Calibration does not resolve the issue.
this may sound like a weird question, but help would be appreciated. i just got the turbo. i upgraded from a droid RAZR Maxx and not the new one the one from 2011 XT912 so the latest non rooted OS i had was JB i think. i rooted my phone and was using CM11 and it was awesome. but now i am using unrooted 4.4.4 and it is not awesome. first why is it a non stock thing to not be able to change quick setting tiles. that just is dumb. and why cant i add fonts? anyways i digress. the real question i have is when i hold down the home button a half circle thing pops up with a magnifying glass in the center. is there a way to add to this quick action bar items or is it strictly a search button when you hold down home.
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this may sound like a weird question, but help would be appreciated. i just got the turbo. i upgraded from a droid RAZR Maxx and not the new one the one from 2011 XT912 so the latest non rooted OS i had was JB i think. i rooted my phone and was using CM11 and it was awesome. but now i am using unrooted 4.4.4 and it is not awesome. first why is it a non stock thing to not be able to change quick setting tiles. that just is dumb. and why cant i add fonts? anyways i digress. the real question i have is when i hold down the home button a half circle thing pops up with a magnifying glass in the center. is there a way to add to this quick action bar items or is it strictly a search button when you hold down home.
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I'm coming from CM11 on XT912 also. I miss a lot of the features from CM, hotspot in particular. Praying for root to help us out. But no, there's no way to change that with stock rom from what i know.
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... first why is it a non stock thing to not be able to change quick setting tiles. that just is dumb...
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Check out Power Toggles from Play Store. Super customizable, only downside is it needs a notification icon to remain pinned to top of pull down.
Thanks i am using power toggles. mine was more of a question to learn exactly what i can and cannot do with locked down phone. some stuff just confuses me like this. they put what could be awesome things in the OS then for some reason lock it down so we cannot use. it is like here, you see this cheesecake, don't eat it.