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Got to say its refreshing to get a device out of the box and within a few minutes I'm all set up and running a nearly stock device. The device build quality feels great and the screen looks really good. The speaker is surprisingly loud and decent from my quick testing.
I know everyone keeps calling this thing midrange but I have been dieing for a nearly stock device with a 720p 4.3" screen and LTE. I also am enjoying the fact that its an AT&T branded device with a bootloader I can unlock on day 1. Thats a good start.
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fungflex said:
Got to say its refreshing to get a device out of the box and within a few minutes I'm all set up and running a nearly stock device. The device build quality feels great and the screen looks really good. The speaker is surprisingly loud and decent from my quick testing.
I know everyone keeps calling this thing midrange but I have been dieing for a nearly stock device with a 720p 4.3" screen and LTE. I also am enjoying the fact that its an AT&T branded device with a bootloader I can unlock on day 1. Thats a good start.
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How did you unlock the bootloader?
I agree, this is just what I was looking for, a small device that with just a few min I could get to be as stock as possible. I am really glad that HTC did not put Sense under the Facebook Home thing, I was really happy to see stock Android under there.
For me the form factor is just right, I am not a big fan of the push to 5"+ screen sizes and this is just what I wanted for a for a light LTE phone.
You can unlock the boot loader by visiting htcdev.com and using their developer flow. I did that before I even signed into the Google or Facebook accounts, because note, it will wipe your entire device when you unlock the boot loader.
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lordlittlebrooks said:
How did you unlock the bootloader?
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htcdev.com normal workflow works fine, when you get to the device selection just pick the bottom, "Other supported devices" option.
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You can unlock the boot loader by visiting htcdev.com and using their developer flow. I did that before I even signed into the Google or Facebook accounts, because note, it will wipe your entire device when you unlock the boot loader.
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Worked like a champ, also turning off Facebook home (which is what I did since I don't even have a facebook account was incredibly simple.
This is stock
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fungflex said:
htcdev.com normal workflow works fine, when you get to the device selection just pick the bottom, "Other supported devices" option.
Worked like a champ, also turning off Facebook home (which is what I did since I don't even have a facebook account was incredibly simple.
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Should I go ahead and unlock it? Any chance that it would interfere with a possible root method?
Considering that you'll likely need to unlock the boot loader to flash a recovery and/or custom ROM, and unlocking the boot loader will wipe your phone, better to get it out of the way now than wait until you have more and more data that you'll need to backup when you do... That's why I did it the moment I unboxed my phone at least.
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Should I go ahead and unlock it? Any chance that it would interfere with a possible root method?
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If you ever plan to put custom roms or really any recovery it will be required. It will only make getting root easier, not harder.
Just adding mine on as well. Mirroring your results.
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It worked.
Thanks fungflex and nuclear_eclipse! HTC First bootloader successfully unlocked. Nice to see that out-of-the-box.
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Just adding mine on as well. Mirroring your results.
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thanks
Can someone please share experience with battery standby time (especially in LTE reception areas)? Can it make it thru a couple of days or still needs to be charged nightly?
-albertr
albert.r said:
Can someone please share experience with battery standby time (especially in LTE reception areas)? Can it make it thru a couple of days or still needs to be charged nightly?
-albertr
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Too early for me to make a judgement call. I've only had a sim in it for about 12 hours. I'll keep an eye on things over the next week.
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Can someone please share experience with battery standby time (especially in LTE reception areas)? Can it make it thru a couple of days or still needs to be charged nightly?
-albertr
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If you're not using it too much, it should definitely make it through two days if you stay in areas with good reception. I've used it quite extensively the past few days, between reading, browsing, and music/podcasts, and I still usually have about half of the battery left when I go to bed.
I don't think I could make it longer than a full day. I use my phone quite a bit during the day with 3 push email accounts, podcasts, and plenty of twitter.
For me I am 13 hours into a very heavy usage day in and out of areas with spotty service and I've got 27% left.
In my eyes that's great, but I always neurotically charge my phones overnight.
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Thank you all for the feedback! If anyone else would like to chime in on battery life, please feel free to share your experience.
-albertr
This device is the first Android device I've had that kept up with the iPhone. I'd say this is on par with my iPhone 5 which the Nexus 4 I had previously couldn't dream of reaching. The battery level is very comfortable.
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This device is the first Android device I've had that kept up with the iPhone. I'd say this is on par with my iPhone 5 which the Nexus 4 I had previously couldn't dream of reaching. The battery level is very comfortable.
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I agree. I think I've tried every phone on ATT (minus the HTC One and SGS IV) and this little guy definitely can get through an entire day without needing a charge. It's not on the same level as the iPhone, which I give a 10 out of 10 for it's relatively low mAH capacity versus performance, but it's been the best so far that I've tried on ATT.
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This device is the first Android device I've had that kept up with the iPhone. I'd say this is on par with my iPhone 5 which the Nexus 4 I had previously couldn't dream of reaching. The battery level is very comfortable.
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I agree. I think I've tried every phone on ATT (minus the HTC One and SGS IV) and this little guy definitely can get through an entire day without needing a charge. It's not on the same level as the iPhone, which I give a 10 out of 10 for it's relatively low mAH capacity versus performance, but it's been the best so far that I've tried on ATT.
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Loloolololololol...cant tell if you guys are joking about the iPhone part hahahahahahah...unless you guys are only comparing battery life?
ANYWAYS...thinking of geting this for my mom as she is very bad with tech and from what ive been reading this phone is very easy to use...and seeing as there is a vanilla android underneath that supports that...anybody have any input?
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Hi everybody,
I was (am?) running CM 10.1 for a couple days just to see how it was, and it was nice. I was going to make it my daily driver until I got a call while the phone was in my pocket and suddenly, the ringing stopped. I took the phone out of my pocket and tried to unlock it. No cigar. It must have powered off. Pressed and held. Nothing. Bootloader? Nope. Try under the halogen work lamp. Nope. No charging light, no splash screen, nothing. Just a brick.
How is it possible for the phone to just brick itself like that? I remember setting the max clocking speed at 1.5ghz and the governor to "conservative" but that's really it. Plus I had rebooted a couple of times between then and now. I ddon't have many apps, let alone many that have root access. So what's up?
Please help me. I give my battery 15 maybe 24 hours before it dies and I can't boot.
Oh yeah. I don't have S-off, I got my version of CM from get.cm, no custom kernel, or any mod of any sort. The phone was not actively doing anything, except for sitting in my pocket. I held the power button and the power + volume for a good 20-30 seconds.
EDIT: Is my only option to play dumb and ask for warranty? D': I don't want to do that because the rep who traded in my GS2 noticed that it was rooted. I'll probably get denied.
Seriously, anybody? What are my options? What caused this? Is it my fault?
I wish I had some insight on why that happened to you or how to fix it. What I can say is that I was thinking about flashing my first AOSP rom in the near future but was iffy on it. Now I'm super iffy.
I suppose there is a possibility that it was not software related. Maybe the phone is just a clunker? Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than myself can comment.
try posting this in the CM 10.1 forums and you will get a result. sorry.
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I suppose there is a possibility that it was not software related. Maybe the phone is just a clunker?
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That's a possibility, and what I'm thinking too. Surely someone would have noticed if their phones blew up when they received a call right? The phone wasn't doing anything I hadn't done before (i.e. receiving calls).
You think Sprint will replace it? It's pretty much mint other than the software.
And there is no HTC One Cyanogenmod forum yet.
EDIT: So is it safe for me to go to the store and tell them it crapped out on me? Will they be able to tell that I rooted it?
Have you tried using the HTC charger that came with the phone and letting it charge for for an hour? If the phone got completely discharged it may take up to 10 minutes just to lite up/
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Have you tried using the HTC charger that came with the phone and letting it charge for for an hour? If the phone got completely discharged it may take up to 10 minutes just to lite up/
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First off, Lithium ion batteries do not completely discharge, ever. If they do, they are ruined. Your phone will turn off before it lets the battery drain.
Second, I had at least 80% charge left when it bricked this morning. But what the heck, might as well.
EDIT: Wow. I googled hard bricks and pretty much every case is some kind of update or flash gone wrong. Nobody was just walking around when their phone bricked. This is weird. Considering how rare hard bricks are and the fact that the only apps with root access I had were Ti, File Manager, Spirit and Nova, I'm inclined to believe this is a hardware issue. But I can't be sure.
Bumping. I only have a little while before my charge runs out.
Hmmm, do you know, or have an idea what the battery life was when the incident occurred?
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EDIT: Oh I see...
I unplugged it about 3 maybe 4 hours before it bricked. It had maybe an hour of screen time then. I'm assuming I had around 80% when it bricked. I have no idea how much power the device is currently consuming. But if it's truly bricked, prolly not much, so it'll last for a while.
If it isn't truly bricked, then probably not that long...
Guys, I'm desperate. I'll try absolutely anything.
All right, it seems like I'm done. This device is toast. Even though it seems like I didn't make any mistakes. I know that almost for sure because my phone was ringing when it bricked at 12:36 P.M. today.
Based on what I've said, does anybody think I am COMPLETELY to blame for this? I don't want my conscience to eat me alive when I take this is for warranty and play dumb. I truly believe this has nothing to do with rooting/custom ROM. I really believe this is a defective phone. Am I wrong?
Did u try the bright light trick
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Try the bright light trick...
You can't even get into the boatloader? Or does anything show up when you plug it into the computer?
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sauprankul said:
Hi everybody,
I was (am?) running CM 10.1 for a couple days just to see how it was, and it was nice. I was going to make it my daily driver until I got a call while the phone was in my pocket and suddenly, the ringing stopped. I took the phone out of my pocket and tried to unlock it. No cigar. It must have powered off. Pressed and held. Nothing. Bootloader? Nope. Try under the halogen work lamp. Nope. No charging light, no splash screen, nothing. Just a brick.
How is it possible for the phone to just brick itself like that? I remember setting the max clocking speed at 1.5ghz and the governor to "conservative" but that's really it. Plus I had rebooted a couple of times between then and now. I ddon't have many apps, let alone many that have root access. So what's up?
Please help me. I give my battery 15 maybe 24 hours before it dies and I can't boot.
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i knew there was something going on here, between cm10.1 and the sprint htc one ? sure makes me wonder, i've been on my replacement for nearly 2 weeks now running stock rooted with s-off. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2310750
Ok I just read your thread and was wondering. did you get your 150 back?
Either you and I are incredibly unlucky or the m7spr cm 10.1 is suicidal.
Just a question. in general, what setting were you using? Anything similar to mine? I had also set notification light to "long". how about you?
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Ok I just read your thread and was wondering. did you get your 150 back?
Either you and I are incredibly unlucky or the m7spr cm 10.1 is suicidal.
Just a question. in general, what setting were you using? Anything similar to mine? I had also set notification light to "long". how about you?
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I was told I would be refunded on my next bill so i'm waiting it out to see before I send back the bricked one. no i was stock-cm and what I mean by that is i installed cm10.1 added my apps, set up my home screens and used it like that until it died. i changed nor tweaked any of the settings from cm defaults
The same thing happened to my room mates HTC One yesteray. I first installed CM, and it was getting extremely hot, so I decided to try rootbox, similar issue, and the device was discharging far too fast. He turned the phone off to wait for me to get home so I could try to fix it. I got home, and there was no sign of life, it was charged fully before he turned it off. It wouldn't turn on at all. I had him take it to sprint and do warranty, they said they needed to open it(LAWL). He went back an hour later, they couldn't open it of course. They handed him a new phone.
Have you tried plugging it into a pc to see if it recognizes anything in device manager? Checked adb devices and fastboot devices?
I have. And nothing. No charge no power no recognizing
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The screen acts as if someone is pressing random buttons and swiping etc. It does it for seemingly no reason at random times and sometimes only lasts a few seconds and other times lasts for 10 minutes or so. It is very annoying and makes using the phone impossible whilst it is happening.
I am rooted, S-OFF and running a 4.4 GPE Rom.
My actual carrier is EE so it wasn't originally a GPE if that makes a difference!
Thanks,
Joe
It could be a small pieces of dust under the glass. Probably factory defect.
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It could be a small pieces of dust under the glass. Probably factory defect.
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It's only a recent thing. I have had the phone for about 8 months now and it's only recently started happening in the last 2 months or so which makes me think it isn't a factory defect.
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It's only a recent thing. I have had the phone for about 8 months now and it's only recently started happening in the last 2 months or so.
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i had the same problem and i only had the phone for 7 months
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i had the same problem and i only had the phone for 7 months
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What did you do about it? I was hoping it was something to do with ROM and I could just restore it.
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What did you do about it? I was hoping it was something to do with ROM and I could just restore it.
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i had a warranty so they give me a new one
smartiejoe said:
The screen acts as if someone is pressing random buttons and swiping etc. It does it for seemingly no reason at random times and sometimes only lasts a few seconds and other times lasts for 10 minutes or so. It is very annoying and makes using the phone impossible whilst it is happening.
I am rooted, S-OFF and running a 4.4 GPE Rom.
My actual carrier is EE so it wasn't originally a GPE if that makes a difference!
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Joe
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Its hardware issue, i'hv had this issue before you have to send in for warrenty, the more you leave it alone the worst it gets.
i used to have the same problem on My Desire X, nothing on Htc One but as soon as i deleted the Super User app & Unrooted it, it started working fine....
Hi.
I have the weirdest issue: My screen flashes when I try to turn it on, but refuses to give me any picture. Here's the weird part: It only happens when the phone is cold (approx under 22c, 72f). Now to be clear, the screen works at any temperature I've attempted to use it in. It just won't START in those "low" temperatures. When it's running it'll keep running with zero problems.
The touch works when I attempt to turn on the screen, regardless of if it actually turns on or not.
I've tried complete factory wipe, and even downgraded the OS via the huawei program on PC. Only difference was that sometimes when it would have flashed it gets stuck on a green glitchy pattern.
I'm fairly proficient in electronics, but I can't think of any reason why it would act this way.
It's clear I'll have to send the phone for repairs, but I'm out of warranty so I'd rather find a fix I can do myself (even if it's complicated, I've got access to microscope and fine soldering equipment), and MOST IMPORTANTLY I want to figure out WHY this is happening.
Tell me if any specific information could help figuring out what is wrong.
Send to service... replace screen in warranty...
my p20 pro also did it... i walk to service, replace screen in warranty within 3hours...
I'm sorry..... 22 Celsius.... Cold? Damn not jealous at all. Still 5 degrees here [emoji23]
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I'm sorry..... 22 Celsius.... Cold? Damn not jealous at all. Still 5 degrees here [emoji23]
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Well I should have used quote make around cold.
Here it's around freezing atm.
Update
So, interesting update:
I dropped my phone, and it slammed into the floor quite hard. It seemed to have fixed the problem. Now I REALLY want to figure out what was the cause of the problem to start with!
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I REALLY want to figure out what was the cause of the problem to start with!
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Looks very much like an unstable contact that was "slapped" back by the fall. If you really want to know what was the issue you should open up your phone and tell us all.
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Looks very much like an unstable contact that was "slapped" back by the fall. If you really want to know what was the issue you should open up your phone and tell us all.
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How would temperature effect an unstable contact?
I would open my phone but I don't have a heat gun.
Thermal expansion, maybe?
I think mine does the same thing. Only ever notice it outside, where I have to keep trying to open my screen, while it keeps flashing, and when I wake up in the morning and usually have to fully restart my phone to use it.
I've been looking at the phones for a while now to replace my Redmi note 4x which is starting to be on its end.
Well everyone seems to agree on the specs, a very solid mid-range. Personally, what I'm looking for is a bestseller, because they are super well followed by the Dev's (thanks to them).
I'm still adamant about the jack port, the microSD.
Here what I'm most interested in is the screen and the battery.
Amoled+732G+5020mAH should be a good mix for an excellent autonomy, right?
I remember how hard it was to unlock the bootloader of my redmi note 4x. Is it still the same system at Xiaomi?
I remember hearing that Xiaomi could refuse to unlock the bootloader, legend or reality?
I find it super frustrating not to have update anymore.
Can we expect a long term follow up on this model?
While I can't speak about if it's still the same system as back in 2017, I can say that the bootloader unlock process is quite tedious. When I unlocked my Xiaomi Mi 9T pro back in 2019, I had a 168 hour (7 day) waiting period after using Mi Unlock tool and had to actively use my phone during that period. After that, it was pretty easy: just flash the newest TWRP and grab a ROM.
The Redmi Note 10 pro looks like an awesome phone for the money. I actually just bought two for my family, it really seems that good.
No, you don't have to actively use the phone while waiting! Just start the waiting period and play with your old phone. It's not that difficult to unlock.
difficult no but annoying yes
Is it possible to unlock using adb unlock?
My phone just arrived and I pretente to flash an AOSP rom as soon as possibe
juanizzo said:
Is it possible to unlock using adb unlock?
My phone just arrived and I pretente to flash an AOSP rom as soon as possibe
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Unfortunately not. As far as I know, the only way to unlock is through Mi Unlock tool (and to go through the annoying unlock process).
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Unfortunately not. As far as I know, the only way to unlock is through Mi Unlock tool (and to go through the annoying unlock process).
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Uf... Fortunately, I am not planing on using it till weekend, so I will try by unlock tool. Thanks!