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now i have htc hd2 and i want to buy a new phone, and now the two handset doubt one x and nexus 4. If you help me?
Compare them on internet, go to a phone store and put them next to eachother. Decide which fits you the most.
This is a personal opinion. Nobody can decide what phone you should buy.
You can add HTC one in that list as well.
If you want fast updates and good custom ROM support, go for the N4.
HTC is not particularly good with those two areas.
This is not a personal opinion, it's a fact.
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I used to use a HTC HD2 from 2009 Nov, still have my hd2 in good working condition. Upgraded to HTC OneX in 2012 April.. no regrets yet.
I'm not sure about N4, pardon my ignorance.. but I do have friends with latest android devices from samsung/ motorola etc. I always do get the most awesome roms/tweaks/themes thanks to the wonderful community at XDA.
I personally love Sense and HTC One X lets you run the latest Sense with its full glory without any lags, if you ask me having an option to run Sense is itself worth selecting HOX over N4, you can always switch back to AOSP if you ever dislike it.
Additionally the image sense chip on HOX is awesome.. I can always vouch that I get the best pic with my slim mobile
Only the single issue with HOX is it doesn't have S-Off yet, that means once you unlock, no way of going back to a state where you can proof that you haven't unlocked your phone. That might be the only reason, why my next device might not be a HTC. But honestly, I'll miss sense.
no htc again ,slow updates no customer service
vasilisxxx said:
no htc again ,slow updates no customer service
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Same here.
Samsung/Sony next for me...
Really want one of the new xperia's !! TAKE IT IN THE BATH !!!
Apart from nexus devices, most carrier upgrades leave a lot to be desired timescale-wise. Wouldn't recommend sony for quick upgrades, or customer service(talking from experience...).
It's fairly straightforward though. There are no high-end phones from 2012/13 that will disappoint performance wise so try them out and see which you prefer.
samsung has maybe faster updates, problem is they are so bad that instead of that i wait some weeks more for htc updates and get best out of the phones htc is still the best in all
As a nexus owner I can say that nexus experience is unparalleled. It represents absolute customizability and control over how you want your device to be. Then again HTC and Sammy has better cameras, possibly better displays. You can calibrate nexus 4 display and make it look as good or better than one x or s3.
Ultimately like the previous comments I'd suggest try before you buy.
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akbisw said:
As a nexus owner I can say that nexus experience is unparalleled. It represents absolute customizability and control over how you want your device to be. Then again HTC and Sammy has better cameras, possibly better displays. You can calibrate nexus 4 display and make it look as good or better than one x or s3.
Ultimately like the previous comments I'd suggest try before you buy.
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one x display is the best which was know where seen before...also the n4 can't be better as the one x screen...and s3 screen is bad like sh*t from a dog with unlocked bootloader we can also customize our phones like we want...but only if we knew what we are doing like for the n4
I am using One X now and will upgrade to another HTC phone because the company is in a bad condition financially and I want to support the it. If HTC hoes bankrupt where else would you get skins as good as sense I don't wanna live with crapwiz stock android is good and fast but it gets boring pretty quickly sense is fast too and beautiful.
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flame10 said:
Only the single issue with HOX is it doesn't have S-Off yet, that means once you unlock, no way of going back to a state where you can proof that you haven't unlocked your phone. That might be the only reason, why my next device might not be a HTC. But honestly, I'll miss sense.
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I have returned my one x twice under warranty with just flashing a nandroid of stock and relocking the bootloader. Device shown the security alert but no questions asked. First for the WiFi squeeze issue for which they fixed and replaced the back case. Looked brand new. Then I just fastbooted the unlock token and rooted again. Second return for signal / no imei number for which I got a new motherboard. Both jobs took 5 days - send and return. Very pleased with customer service of HTC. I'm in UK if that makes any difference.
AW: buy a new smart phone
What you like to pay for a One X? Getting a replacement in 2 days Form Vodafone and like to sell it.
Greetz
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and AOKP flowed Sensation.
go for the nexus 4 or wait there is a rummor that there will be a 32 gb nexus 4 version
Nexus 4ever ! All updates,better design,better performance.I want to change my HOX,when I use it for 10 minutes,the battery reach 45°.Sh*t overheating .
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HOX is good you can run sense and AOSP with custom roms bla bla bla then we're all gonna cry when Key Lime Pie drops and start bashing HTC and say never gonna get HTC device again and it will start over with HTC One its good can run sense and AOSP with custom roms and when a new Android version drops they again are gonna cry like little *****es my point is get the Nexus
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get the new htc one
I would buy a the Nexus
Hello, i bougt the OneX one year ago and there ate not many things to say against it, but today i would buy the Nexus 4. Just because i love the stock Android.
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i ditched my n4 for the one..been using htc devices since the tytn II and to be honest the only thing i miss in nexus 4 is its flawless animation but then..thats something that could be added later
just sold my HOX, and i just cant decide what to get One or Max or wait for One 2?
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just sold my HOX, and i just cant decide what to get One or Max or wait for One 2?
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Don't go with HTC.. you will have to work hard when not s-off with custom roms and so on.. samsung just unlocks everything and you can just download packages from your phone and flash without needing a computer to do "fastboot flash boot boot.img" ..
Plus, you see how quick the development died on the HOX, thats HTC's fault.. Stay with LG, Samsung or something third..
That being said, HTC one is a good looking phone, and Samsung Galaxy S5 should be here in january or february as far as i know, and the G5 should be of a aluminium body aswell as HTC One
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Don't go with HTC.. you will have to work hard when not s-off with custom roms and so on.. samsung just unlocks everything and you can just download packages from your phone and flash without needing a computer to do "fastboot flash boot boot.img" ..
Plus, you see how quick the development died on the HOX, thats HTC's fault.. Stay with LG, Samsung or something third..
That being said, HTC one is a good looking phone, and Samsung Galaxy S5 should be here in january or february as far as i know, and the G5 should be of a aluminium body aswell as HTC One
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all htc phones except of those with tegra got s-off...so because the newer will be with qualcomm it will be easy to s-off...so hm he should choose himself...you see the htc one development? it's maybe after the hd2 one of the best development for an htc device...so he should choose and decide himself...
You may also go with the Nexus 5 if don't mind the inferior battery life.
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One-X-master said:
all htc phones except of those with tegra got s-off...so because the newer will be with qualcomm it will be easy to s-off...so hm he should choose himself...you see the htc one development? it's maybe after the hd2 one of the best development for an htc device...so he should choose and decide himself...
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Yea well , even the HTC One has s-on, and you have to follow this very long guide to get s-off.. s-on and s-off is something that only applies to HTC..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2488772
Can be tiresome having to s-off, i remember having to do a lot of work back in the day with my HTC Magic which was in all seriousness a VERY great device and held 2 years before i sold it.. Even had to magic-SdCard that to get it S-off..
But my recommendation is to go with something else than HTC, but yea, ofcause it's his own choice ..
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Yea well , even the HTC One has s-on, and you have to follow this very long guide to get s-off.. s-on and s-off is something that only applies to HTC..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2488772
Can be tiresome having to s-off, i remember having to do a lot of work back in the day with my HTC Magic which was in all seriousness a VERY great device and held 2 years before i sold it.. Even had to magic-SdCard that to get it S-off..
But my recommendation is to go with something else than HTC, but yea, ofcause it's his own choice ..
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It's not that extremely long ...have seen some longer xD if you read on pc it's not that much ..... But the best is that he look and decides himself what the best for him could be...because with htc one htc is changing there update policy and so other newer phones will be better updated etc
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wote im thinking will the htc one and the one max be abit the same as the htc one x and the one x +,,,as the dosent seem to be as much happening with the one x + because everyone focussed on the one x which was released first
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wote im thinking will the htc one and the one max be abit the same as the htc one x and the one x +,,,as the dosent seem to be as much happening with the one x + because everyone focussed on the one x which was released first
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Wait.....so many great phones coming in 2014......don't consider either of the HTC phones as they don't support customers who are still tied into 2 year contracts !
im not looking for any thing else but HTC. Samsung blah LG not worse it Sony maybe good but like HTC. so as i asked One or One Max, well after watching alot of reviews and articles and comparisons. i found out that One have a better chance than HOX and One Max when it comes to development and support
The HTC one has MUCH better development even now...its soo much better...and that development. Will be there for a long time...for a really long time
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The development on the One forum will continue for quite a while, it's a good phone and really popular. The M8 should show up on February, so HTC will start concentrating on that, but the One won't end up like the HOX. I still went for a nexus 5 though...
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I still cant make up my mind. Just not sure the M9 will be worth it over keeping the M8. I live by Pittsburgh pa, so meeting @dottat and do the javacard would not be an issue. The problem I have is that the with slight upgrade compared to the M8 and if we cant achieve root(sunshine) the support isn't going to be there with kernels, firmware, and devs. Im sure ViperRom will do its best to keep verizon support but as we all know verizon tends to be on the backburnner. With every device being more and more locked up and verizon to refuse htcdev, plus since it seams GPE's are dead I am thinking the way to go would be is to switch to the new nexus phone if I dont get the M9 but who knows if verizon will decide to do nexus again so jump ship to att or tmobile. If I get the Verizon M9, I will be stuck with big red for 75% of the cost of the phone(unless I pay off early). All that being said I love HTC's started with the HTC Sensation that I still use from time to time then (got the S3 hated it and put sense5 on it lol) M7 and M8 and sense is the best. I would like your input, so should I get the M9 and chance the support or hold out and wait for exploit. Thank you for your time!
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I still cant make up my mind. Just not sure the M9 will be worth it over keeping the M8. I live by Pittsburgh pa, so meeting @dottat and do the javacard would not be an issue. The problem I have is that the with slight upgrade compared to the M8 and if we cant achieve root(sunshine) the support isn't going to be there with kernels, firmware, and devs. Im sure ViperRom will do its best to keep verizon support but as we all know verizon tends to be on the backburnner. With every device being more and more locked up and verizon to refuse htcdev, plus since it seams GPE's are dead I am thinking the way to go would be is to switch to the new nexus phone if I dont get the M9 but who knows if verizon will decide to do nexus again so jump ship to att or tmobile. If I get the Verizon M9, I will be stuck with big red for 75% of the cost of the phone(unless I pay off early). All that being said I love HTC's started with the HTC Sensation that I still use from time to time then (got the S3 hated it and put sense5 on it lol) M7 and M8 and sense is the best. I would like your input, so should I get the M9 and chance the support or hold out and wait for exploit. Thank you for your time!
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If you like sense like I do....there's only one answer. I love how this thing feels compared to the m8 now. Quite a few devs already have s-off so the support should be here.
Lots of new phones coming soon, including a couple of fancy Motorola and HTC devices. Sit right, hang on, then pounce on something.
My M9 is a great phone other than the Camera. I'm going to trade it in for the G4. I miss the larger screen size of the N6.
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My M9 is a great phone other than the Camera. I'm going to trade it in for the G4. I miss the larger screen size of the N6.
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Camera gets some love in 5.1.
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We will see
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I think the M9 is going to prove to be the better phone, besides the new Nexus but that won't be til Christmas. HTC Sense is a force to be reckoned with! Lol. I know the camera is going to get better and for me, the call quality on this device is amazing. I think the "Edge" and the fingerprint reader are not worth ditching Sense and no external sdcard is a bummer for the wannabe iphone. With HTC Sense we do not need a whole lot of dev support, most of it is fine the way it is. But the support we do get from our great dev's turn the HTC into beasts. I know how great the HTC community is and the HTC phones so for me I am very happy with this beast. Now I cannot wait for the M10!
If my m8 didn't start giving me problems even after taking such great care of it, I would not have gotten the m9. M8 runs cooler with better battery life. I like the look and feel of the metal grey on the m8 better too. Oh well, root helps enough with heat and battery life to get me by until whatever HTC comes up with next ( if it's any good )
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Just bought an M9, will see what it looks like. Been a HTC One since the start for years now. Don't want to bail if I don't have to. I'm a VZW customer currently, in that for a long time, so will see. Was hoping for a better camera and some better S-Off support without sending it to someone.
With the HTC stock price and beating they are taking...I guessing they might be coming up with something entirely new by the end of the year/early next year maybe?!?!?!
It is time for a platform/name/design change...and not like Samsung which is a direct Rip of iPhone and a poorer OS...haha..
Seems like the M9 is really dragging with support, and guys are jumping to the S6, but believe they are in the same boat. Plus, I really like Sense.
Guess we just need root/SU and a custom recovery anyway, and we got Viper and the likes and can move from there. S6 is still higher priced now if you buy cash like me, and there is even less support for that.
Just hoping for better camera support and VZW love DEV etc...
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Just bought an M9, will see what it looks like. Been a HTC One since the start for years now. Don't want to bail if I don't have to. I'm a VZW customer currently, in that for a long time, so will see. Was hoping for a better camera and some better S-Off support without sending it to someone.
With the HTC stock price and beating they are taking...I guessing they might be coming up with something entirely new by the end of the year/early next year maybe?!?!?!
It is time for a platform/name/design change...and not like Samsung which is a direct Rip of iPhone and a poorer OS...haha..
Seems like the M9 is really dragging with support, and guys are jumping to the S6, but believe they are in the same boat. Plus, I really like Sense.
Guess we just need root/SU and a custom recovery anyway, and we got Viper and the likes and can move from there. S6 is still higher priced now if you buy cash like me, and there is even less support for that.
Just hoping for better camera support and VZW love DEV etc...
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It's getting there.
With 5.1 I find the M9 to be better.
If I was to of answered this whilst on 5.0.2, I would have said I liked M8 batter.
5.1 for the M9 brings much better support for camera, heat and battery which were my main issues with the M9 when I first got it.
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It's getting there.
With 5.1 I find the M9 to be better.
If I was to of answered this whilst on 5.0.2, I would have said I liked M8 batter.
5.1 for the M9 brings much better support for camera, heat and battery which were my main issues with the M9 when I first got it.
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Are you running stock/OTA? Or a custom ROM.
I've always s-off, guess VZW still doesn't have that support..but unlock/root and been running Viper for a long time on the M7/M8 variants.
Thanks
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Are you running stock/OTA? Or a custom ROM.
I've always s-off, guess VZW still doesn't have that support..but unlock/root and been running Viper for a long time on the M7/M8 variants.
Thanks
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I am S-OFF thanks to @dottat, and running my Fluent ROM
andybones said:
It's getting there.
With 5.1 I find the M9 to be better.
If I was to of answered this whilst on 5.0.2, I would have said I liked M8 batter.
5.1 for the M9 brings much better support for camera, heat and battery which were my main issues with the M9 when I first got it.
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Ditto, 5.0.2 and the camera drove me crazy, 5.1 with the camera and thermal management is alot better. From what I hear @hgoldner the next 5.1 build will be better still camera wise.
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I am S-OFF thanks to @dottat, and running my Fluent ROM
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Ditto, 5.0.2 and the camera drove me crazy, 5.1 with the camera and thermal management is alot better. From what I hear @hgoldner the next 5.1 build will be better still camera wise.
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Thanks guys...guess I will stick with the M9 that is on the way and get it s-off, then do the normal stuff, custom Rom since feedback on the latest update has improved the camera. Really my only complaint with the HTC One M7/M8 was the horrible camera...glad to hear it is improving.
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Thanks guys...guess I will stick with the M9 that is on the way and get it s-off, then do the normal stuff, custom Rom since feedback on the latest update has improved the camera. Really my only complaint with the HTC One M7/M8 was the horrible camera...glad to hear it is improving.
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Yea man. Take a good look over the phone when you get it and then waste no time getting s-off lol
Hi everyone, iam looking forward to buying the m9 soon, it is going to be the AT&T version. Usually in the ATT forums on xda there are many different threads almost everyday, but in the case of the htc one m9 there are hardly any new threads. Mostly the development threads are empty. So my question is, is there something i should know, like everyone converting to an unlocked m9 and discussing threads in this specific m9 forum? if no one is converting and there are no ATT threads then it would be rather pointless to get the ATT m9, i might as well buy the galaxy s6
I'm selling my unlocked M9 on swappa if interested!
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This post is irrelevant to the question
95% of the activity is in the main M9 forum. Everything over here is usable on the AT&T M9. I got my M9 from AT&T and have been running WWE stuff on it from the beginning with no issues.
if you dont have an m8 then go for m9....
if ypu have something else like the m8 then go for m10 when released....
if you have money enough and dont care.....buy the m9 now and 6 months later m10...i will do this ;D
Thank you for clearing that up, but are the regular roms flashable on AT&T or do i need to change my cid
I just got my M9 and I'm loving it!
Actually I ordered both M9 and Galaxy S6 but decided to return the Samsung after trying out both in a couple of stores.
M9 is soooo much more refined to use both physically and in software.
I would buy this again in an eyeblink!
Changing to supercid is not necessary, but does make life easier if you want to update your firmware. Has nothing to do with the roms.
did the exact same thing. S6 was just ****ty touchwiz and made the entire phone lagged no matter what I did. HTC's software is just more polished and better, and with cm12.1 almost fully functional this phone will be awesome.
I'm loving the update to Santod's GPE+ rom. My phone is snappy again! Thank you, Santod.
I wanted to ask about what phones people are moving to after the M7. VZW has a $100 discount and so I was ready to pull the trigger on the M9 for a great deal. Before buying, I decided to check out the VZW M9 XDA forum and find it is a ghost town. A short search later, I found the VZW M9 is too difficult to s-off (you have to send it to a guy).
I mostly want to follow Santod's development but want to upgrade my device. Any recommendations? Santod, what's your next device? I've been with you from TB, DNA, now M7 and have an overdue donation to make.
Buy a used M8?
Wait for M10 later in the year?
Move to HTC's new A9 phone?
I feel very loyal to HTC and want to remain with VZW.
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I'm loving the update to Santod's GPE+ rom. My phone is snappy again! Thank you, Santod.
I wanted to ask about what phones people are moving to after the M7. VZW has a $100 discount and so I was ready to pull the trigger on the M9 for a great deal. Before buying, I decided to check out the VZW M9 XDA forum and find it is a ghost town. A short search later, I found the VZW M9 is too difficult to s-off (you have to send it to a guy).
I mostly want to follow Santod's development but want to upgrade my device. Any recommendations? Santod, what's your next device? I've been with you from TB, DNA, now M7 and have an overdue donation to make.
Buy a used M8?
Wait for M10 later in the year?
Move to HTC's new A9 phone?
I feel very loyal to HTC and want to remain with VZW.
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Did you look to see if there's someone local for you to get s-off or are you sure you'd have to ship it?
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Did you look to see if there's someone local for you to get s-off or are you sure you'd have to ship it?
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I didn't look too in depth at this point for alternative methods for s-off on the VZW M9. I'm always willing to pay for Sunshine, but that's about the extent to which I'll go.
I hope there is not a similar situation if I opt to wait for the M10. Seems like HTC is more liberal with providing unlocked bootloaders (A9) but VZW isn't there yet (they don't sell the A9).
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I didn't look too in depth at this point for alternative methods for s-off on the VZW M9. I'm always willing to pay for Sunshine, but that's about the extent to which I'll go.
I hope there is not a similar situation of I opt to wait for the M10. Seems like HTC is more liberal with providing unlocked bootloaders (A9) but VZW isn't there yet (they don't sell the A9).
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You likely will have the same problem with the m10. Since we aren't allowed to unlock bootloaders and our software version is always different from everyone else you will need a temp root solution + s-off solution. No publicly available temp root solution was ever made for public consumption on the m9 hence the need to get s-off elsewhere.
I've been considering getting my next phone directly from HTC. supposedly all new unlocked phones are compatible with Verizon's network, and I am getting tired of Verizon's device restrictions. Even AT&T allowed the HTC phones to have their bootloaders unlocked (but not their Samsungs). The thought of sitting around with an unrooted phone waiting for some hacker genius to figure out a security flaw to break it-- which gets harder and harder all the time-- does not appeal to me.
My device still works great, though, aside from the pink camera. My main motivation for wanting something new at this point is that developer support for our device is rapidly fading. Kinda sad...