I just got a free upgrade from my insurance company from the m7 to the m8. I'm pretty pumped because I've watched a TON of reviews and comparisons for this phone and, besides battery life, I quite enjoyed my m7 for the time I had it.
I am just curious what are your opinions on your M8's. What do you like? What don't you like? What problems have you noticed and then found a fix for? Which rom do you prefer using? (I was using Venom)
And anything else you think a new M8 user should know.
Thanks
So you make duplicate threads that are actually kinda useless. It's all about what you think of the phone .....
Mr Hofs said:
So you make duplicate threads that are actually kinda useless. It's all about what you think of the phone .....
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First off, I didn't know all of my questions were already in a thread. So there's that.
Secondly, I know it's what I think of a phone, but before I buy a car, I'd be stupid not to ask someone who has owned one for a few months and has toyed around with it.
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First off, I didn't know all of my questions were already in a thread.
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I believe he thought you made 2 threads asking the same question (duplicate posts, or cross posting), but it looked like your thread was actually moved here from the "General" section, as I'm pretty sure I saw it there earlier. Although similar content (opinions on the phone) can likely be found in several other threads.
The M8 is a wonderful phone. I can't personally speak of comparisons with the M7, since I basically "skipped" a generation and came from the One X (EVITA). But I've seen folks mention that the M7 had issues with blue or purple tint to photos, which is not an issue on the M8.
I love the front facing speakers, and overall build quality. Nice display, and responsiveness is very smooth and snappy. Not really anything I don't like about the phone.
Some folks complain about the camera (MP), but I think many of them are obssessed with meaningless spec numbers as opposed to looking at the actual quality of the pics that are taken. If you look at the picture threads, they basically speak for themselves in terms of what can be done on this camera. The dual camera is a kinda cool, if a little gimmicky.
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So, for some reason i was just lurking around the Desire forums... they're seriously hurting, they are way behind in terms of development, compared to the Nexus One. Does anybody know why this might be? Since they're basically the same phone, why isn't the Desire (so to speak) neck and neck with the Nexi?
I know that the Nexus One is like the biggest badass of all the phones, and quite frankly i don't know why i'm even asking this, but i'm curious.
Because we have Cyanogen, Kmobs and many other amazing devs
It was the same if you compared the hero with the G1 and Mytouch. I think it's because of the framework of HTC and the HTC phones aren't that open as the nexus. this is why i like my Nexus
I owned a Hero and damn the development on the OS was pathetic the only one who really worked on Hero was Paul (modaco) the others did there best to. but it was nothing i even couldn't put CM on Hero. When the 2.1 came out it was ported to G1 but the hero had to wait, wait for a long time. there where some 2.1 releases for the hero but never worked 100%.
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So, for some reason i was just lurking around the Desire forums... they're seriously hurting, they are way behind in terms of development, compared to the Nexus One. Does anybody know why this might be? Since they're basically the same phone, why isn't the Desire (so to speak) neck and neck with the Nexi?
I know that the Nexus One is like the biggest badass of all the phones, and quite frankly i don't know why i'm even asking this, but i'm curious.
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Nexarse one is a half decent phone, wouldn't say it was neck and neck with the superior desire but its ok considering they are similar. The problem is htc. I suspect a deal has been struck between google and htc giving the google phone a slight priority in terms of software release. Either way it don't matter massivley, because if people want froyo on there desire, they can get it. The same as all those nexus one users who wanted sense on there handsets,(but obviously on a lesser phone
By the way, hows that trackball holding out?
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Nexarse one is a half decent phone, wouldn't say it was neck and neck with the superior desire but its ok considering they are similar.
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What are you, five? "Nexarse" is sure the height of witticism, just like "windoze" and "micro$oft." Sorry, boy, but the two phones are nearly identical except yours doesn't have a noise-canceling mic. Your fanboyism is wasted; it's like stamping your foot and whining that the HTC Hero is better than the Eris when the two are actually the same phone, with identical internals.
The same as all those nexus one users who wanted sense on there handsets,(but obviously on a lesser phone
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An ex-Apple fan by any chance? Your attitude's similar. And I've yet to hear of anyone's trackball falling out, ahaha. "Lesser"? Paul O'Brien recommends a Nexus over a Desire--he's got both--and I'll take his (much more knowledgeable) opinion over an immature fantard's any time.
I personally don't think development is going that badly, you have to remember the nexus one has 4 months over the release of the desire and it not being a world wide release doesn't help, hopefully things will pick up more when it gets official releases in the USA
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So... five?
Btw, the OP didn't mean it as sarcasm because this thread was originally posted to the Nexus One forums. Durrrrr.
Thread cleaned, show respect to other members rules are there to be followed.
Back on topic.
Easy, the nexus one isn't as locked down as the desire. And because a lot more people have a nexus one.
Sendt with Swype via tapatalk on my Desire.
I would have bought the nexus if it had been available because of the reasons above.
But it wasn't in Holland until now, I really do like Sense and all the fluff it adds, i'm not particularly bothered about banging a Rom onto a new device as far as i can tell it's not broken.
So only my posts get deleted, ok.
Let me try again in a more respectful and polite manner.
My initial response was to what I ASSUMED was abit of a tongue in cheek question. It got a tongue in cheek response together with my answer. It was simple sarcasm. It appears however the op posted this on the nexus forum and it was moved by moderators. The op probably did not even realize it would end up here. My response was wrong to the Equally disrespectful response that I got and apologize to anyone who saw it.
i dont know why dunbad is in trouble here for posting something that was intended to be funny
since when is it that if you post a joke you get some pompous person sitting in front of his computer with a thesaurus, dictating some sort of speech against the inhumanity of a sense of humour?
geez some people really need to lighten up
nexus one and htc desire, pretty much identical hardware wise, the nexus one has a noise cancelling mic, the htc desire has a bit more ram
nexus one runs stock android meaning its highly customizable
htc desire has htc sense which works really well, and is soon to get froyo like the nexus one
the development in the nexus one forums is SO great because youre all trying to get sense on your phones, lets face it it just takes one look at your development section to see that, what does the htc desire ACTUALLY need developed? its already got root, we CAN put whatever we want on, most people dont because it works perfect already. Froyo's readily available from the devs here, IF we want, and anyway we're getting it officially in a few days, so in all honestly, software and development wise, the htc desire wins hands down
easy as that
The nexi is great but I've noticed an issue with the "nexi." That doesn't seem to effect the desire. If you post a thread on xda nexi forum, the post somehow disappears, somehow reappears elsewhere and a little one liner appears in the subject field that says "MOVED". Its really odd. It happens loads. Go check out there general forums. Software maybe? Hardware? A bug perhaps? Don't know but either way the desire doesn't seem anywhere near as badly "effected."
People are saying this or that's better about either phone, but at the end of the day I wish I'd had got a nexi, in these difficult financial times I could have saved some money.
But anyway, I thank cgrec, but I don't see froyo coming to the desire officially anytime soon. I hope I'm wrong. But I'm convinced that this has everything to do with handshakes in smoke filled backrooms between google and htc, froyo will be a few months away yet.i hope I'm wrong.
hi all was looking for a cheap android pad for christmas and came across
these htc desire clones ........and lots of other close looking stuff
chinagrabber.com/c-tone-t01-gps-android-2-2-smart-phone---3-5-capacitive-multi-touch-wifi-mobile-phone.aspx[/url]
it makes interesting reading and was wondering how many people would take a chance of buying what seem to be the real thing but most definitively is not
Who cares if something looks like something else. Its about quality and functionality and a knock -off is never that.
What benefit is having a piece of technical equipment that looks like another, but doesn't function the same? Its not like a fake watch or handbag, which I dont understand either, but this is even less understandable.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Hi,
I do know that's more or less an old topic but well...I have a big dilemma so maybe you should help me out.
I'm owning a SGS3 int. and well I'm more or less fine with it; I choosed it over HOX mainly because of chance to change battery and winner cpu/ram benchmark (with 15/20% more in every damn test) and a bigger screen (not much but better then nothing).
The dilemma started 1 week ago when a friend of mine bought the HOX and well...the screen seems really so much better in HOX.
At the same time, despite few games lag on HOX, the Tegra has some optimized game for it giving some cool effect.
I mainly use the phone to watch movie and play videogames so, in some way, HOX win for me (at least just watching it) so I was thinking to chance my SGS3 for an HOX but I wanted to ear your opinion, hoping that will not start flame or fan boy reply.
I am really interested in opnions of who maybe tried both or who maybe changed his SGS3 for the HOX (like I'll probably do asap).
Thanks,
Max
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Hi,
I do know that's more or less an old topic but well...I have a big dilemma so maybe you should help me out.
I'm owning a SGS3 int. and well I'm more or less fine with it; I choosed it over HOX mainly because of chance to change battery and winner cpu/ram benchmark (with 15/20% more in every damn test) and a bigger screen (not much but better then nothing).
The dilemma started 1 week ago when a friend of mine bought the HOX and well...the screen seems really so much better in HOX.
At the same time, despite few games lag on HOX, the Tegra has some optimized game for it giving some cool effect.
I mainly use the phone to watch movie and play videogames so, in some way, HOX win for me (at least just watching it) so I was thinking to chance my SGS3 for an HOX but I wanted to ear your opinion, hoping that will not start flame or fan boy reply.
I am really interested in opnions of who maybe tried both or who maybe changed his SGS3 for the HOX (like I'll probably do asap).
Thanks,
Max
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There have already been similar threads like this one you should really go searching for them. Cause frankly everyone on this forum is sick of it.
tons of info in the One X mega information thread
and shadehh is right please enough with these comparison threads, they are against XDA rules
few moments now and this thread will be flooded by fools
to mods: we need a sticky please saying comparison threads are not allowed
You have a SGS3 so you already know its strengths and weaknesses. Your friend has a One X so you can figure out what its strengths and weaknesses are specific to the way you'll use it. Like others just said, there are tons of threads discussing the two phones. That should be more than enough for you to make an informed decision. Personally, I don't get "what should I buy?" threads. Everyone uses their phones differently and has different needs and criteria. Do some research and buy what you think is best. That seems more logical than making a decision based on the advice of total strangers.
well i had an amoled screen before and i got to tell u that i prefer the LCD. i am more with ur opinion but that wouldnt make me change the s3 is the battery .it is something that some times u want to have more than anything else.thats the only minus in hox the battery everything else i think are the same with s3
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Actually we need some good discussion thread with protagonists antagonists for each phone where every one can say what it is they like about their phone (or disliked on the other).
Anyway I bought the HOX before the SGS3 came out but before the SGS3 came out I already knew Samsung would blow HTC away with its hardware specs but I own a SGS2 and a Desire so I know a bit about the difference in user experience and the whole time I used the SGS2 I was disappointed because i missed all those little Sense touches. Sense just is the best mobile user experience period, nothing comes close in software polishedness (not "even" ios), everything just works and everything is integrated into each other; eg. open the gallery app and see the galleries from your friends there, or browse contacts and go directly to their galleries, the htc keyboard is pretty damn good; I bought swiftkey x when using the sgs2 but I am using just the default keyboard; duplicate contacts are automatically merged in sense; and there is so, so much more; really there is only one touchwiz feature I miss in Sense and that's the smart alarm function....
If your thing is showing of quadrant scores though don't get the hox
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The rules sticky already says that. It's just that no-one ever reads it.
SGS3 Sucks . If you are not a fanboy sell it and get HOX . I have used both.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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Actually we need some good discussion thread with protagonists antagonists for each phone where every one can say what it is they like about their phone (or disliked on the other).
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But hasn't this been done? To death? It's all just opinion and there's rarely agreement amongst owners better yet any type of common ground that would hold up in a comparison. Name one feature of the SGS3 or One X that doesn't already have commentary running on it. I don't know whether I'm a protagonist or antagonist (maybe I'm both?) but I'm tired of the circular debates that lead nowhere, don’t change anyone's opinion, and consistently end with the thread being locked. Yesterday's One X vs. SGS3 comparison thread covered race and sexual orientation. Do you really want to go there again?
There’s already a 160 page SGS3 vs. One X comparison thread in the i9300 forum. Why doesn’t everyone use that as the “official” comparison thread? I guarantee you anything anyone wants to discuss has been covered at least a dozen times there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652250
because for each and everyone it's a different discussion, everyone has their own things they think are important and their own things they think are less important
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Comparison thread are finish.
Which of the two do you prefer and why? I'd like to hear especially from those who have used both phones. I've used the M8 and was quite impressed, but haven't used the S5 yet.
Link to poll on S5 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698010
In this forum you won't find Samsung lovers LoL
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In this forum you won't find Samsung lovers LoL
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Indeed. I'm going to post the same poll over on the S5 forum and see what the results look like. I'm curious to see if the forum section causes that much bias
S5 has KNOX. That is a non-starter.
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Which of the two do you prefer and why? I'd like to hear especially from those who have used both phones. I've used the M8 and was quite impressed, but haven't used the S5 yet.
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I can't tell if you are joking or not by putting this poll in the HTC M8 forum, where HTC fans will be...
Just another troll?
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I can't tell if you are joking or not by putting this poll in the HTC M8 forum, where HTC fans will be...
Just another troll?
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I am fairly brand unbiased, and am back and forth between the S5 and M8 forums. I figure there will be others doing the same. I have put the same poll in each forum, and there are more advocating for the M8 in both. Not trying to troll
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I am fairly brand unbiased, and am back and forth between the S5 and M8 forums. I figure there will be others doing the same. I have put the same poll in each forum, and there are more advocating for the M8 in both. Not trying to troll
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Please link the poll on the S5 forum but these results will all be tainted either way. Honestly all you can do is wait to see actual people’s reactions to the good and the bad that both phones will enviably have and choose the lesser of the two evils.
I currently have my M8 and really like it although there are something’s I don't like (lack of "Okay, Google" except in the Google now program, can't put DashClock as the main widget, and actually I met with my parents for lunch today who are both on old ass phones and they had better speed tests than me.... I tried updating the PRL but I had zero service when they had weak LTE/3g for Sprint.
How much free storage space in 16GB model for both phones?
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How much free storage space in 16GB model for both phones?
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about 10 gig
I added the link for the S5 forum in the M8 poll and vise versa. 2 votes M8 there and 1 S5 as of now... M8 forum is actually much more active
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Hello chaps,
Just wanted to reach out to see if anyone or any groups have thought about or are developing CM or AOSP based roms for the HTC 10? It's a hell of a device and i think it would be a great match up.
Personally i'm a big fan of Sense but i'm just curious as i've not seen any development or talks of development with CM.
PS: As well as CM, what happened to MIUI? I'm not a great fan of the launcher but the settings, lock screen and some components of those roms look so slick, just haven't seen a great deal of MIUI roms on any of my previous devices going back to perhaps the S3 ?
Edit: Wanted to not be such a massive jerk here, so editing this post. OP was right, I was pretty rude in my approach.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/testing-cyanogenmod-13-unoficial-t3395877
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It's already being worked on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/testing-cyanogenmod-13-unoficial-t3395877
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Yes I overlooked that there was a thread already, There were two questions in my thread and you've answered one.
Cheers
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dladz said:
Haha, that was not my intention at all.
Perhaps you should think before you post yourself, please don't reply in this thread again unless you have something constructive to say.
Yes I overlooked that there was a thread already, There were two questions in my thread and you've answered one of them to a degree.
For that i thank you.
Lastly, if you feel that talking to someone in the way you've just spoken to me is inline with how XDA operates then you have a lot to learn, the effort you put in to shoot me down could have better been spent actually just answering me.
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You're welcome for the partial answer. And I apologize for coming off rude. Honestly, I was trying to be very blunt and matter-of-fact, but re-reading it, you're right, I just came off like a jerk. To be honest, I'm a bit hungover this morning, and XDA over the past 3 or so years has just become generally tiring with the sense of entitlement from end-users. That's not directed at you; just a general observation. Honestly, I've done the same thing where I'll post something only to realize there's already a thread.
As far as MIUI, I honestly couldn't tell you. They seem to have kind of slowly faded and fallen from favor, at least in most of the forums I frequent. They wound up bringing some great features to the table, but I couldn't stand that UI, personally. I think the last thing I ran that on was a Droid X? I wouldn't be surprised to see MIUI 8 pop up on the HTC 10, though. Once the devs have the device trees all sussed out, I think the 10 will be about perfect. (Honestly, I'd really like a Nexus 6P in a Nexus 5X sized package, but the rest of the world seem to be a bunch of screen size-queens.)
We good? I really didn't wake up this morning just wanting to start crap, I promise lol
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You're welcome for the partial answer. And I apologize for coming off rude. Honestly, I was trying to be very blunt and matter-of-fact, but re-reading it, you're right, I just came off like a jerk. To be honest, I'm a bit hungover this morning, and XDA over the past 3 or so years has just become generally tiring with the sense of entitlement from end-users. That's not directed at you; just a general observation. Honestly, I've done the same thing where I'll post something only to realize there's already a thread.
As far as MIUI, I honestly couldn't tell you. They seem to have kind of slowly faded and fallen from favor, at least in most of the forums I frequent. They wound up bringing some great features to the table, but I couldn't stand that UI, personally. I think the last thing I ran that on was a Droid X? I wouldn't be surprised to see MIUI 8 pop up on the HTC 10, though. Once the devs have the device trees all sussed out, I think the 10 will be about perfect. (Honestly, I'd really like a Nexus 6P in a Nexus 5X sized package, but the rest of the world seem to be a bunch of screen size-queens.)
We good? I really didn't wake up this morning just wanting to start crap, I promise lol
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Now that is a great post mate. [emoji106] life's hard enough without arguing when you don't have to, I appreciate your manner.
And thank you for your answers, two likes coming your way
Also we've all had a hangover or two, no hard feelings fella [emoji6]
I am also awaiting some news or even better a release of such roms
Sense is great but I feel we still aren't reaching the maximum potential of our devices. Even these sense based custom roms aren't able to do justice in comparison. What are your thoughts?
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I am also awaiting some news or even better a release of such roms
Sense is great but I feel we still aren't reaching the maximum potential of our devices. Even these sense based custom roms aren't able to do justice in comparison. What are your thoughts?
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It's odd mate, we have phone, the design, the dev's, just no CM ?
Although this is a device that could last for years.