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There's plenty of silica grit around, especially on flat surfaces like tabletops. Two flat surfaces will create a high point load with a grain of dirt trapped in-between, and then you tend to slide the phone to pick it up. Bad idea tbh. Get a back cover with a camera recess.
 
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Bossk128 said:
Question about DropBox: it doesn't work as I expected, i.e. working as a service in the background syncing your DropBox folder like it does in a desktop OS. It seems to rely on Android app integration (i.e. 'send to Dropbox', share via 'Dropbox', 'open...from Dropbox').

So a weird question: can you give me examples of what you use Dropbox on your HOX for and why it is great?? At the moment all I see me using it for is automatic backup of photos (and videos) from the camera.
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Think about what you're asking it to do here. Thank god it doesn't work like that, I have 47gig of space on DropBox. If it downloaded all that on to my phone, what do you think would happen?

So, some examples of why DropBox is awesome -

- I download a kernel from XDA, save it into my DropBox/Android/Kernels folder on my PC. Within seconds in the Android App I go to that folder and export it to my ROM folder. Boot into recovery and flash it.

- Because of the above, I can access almost all of my kernals and ROM's, not matter where I am, without having to make sure I keep them all on my phone.

- Photo sync means every photo I take is instantly (as good as) on my PC as a jpg.

- I have two or three shared folders, one for my family for example. My brother asks 'where do I get the Google Music apk from?' I stick it in the shared folder and he installs it direct through DropBox.

Those are the main points, the final big one is just all that cloud space so you don't have to carry all these files around with you, taking up space on your device.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Think about what you're asking it to do here. Thank god it doesn't work like that, I have 47gig of space on DropBox. If it downloaded all that on to my phone, what do you think would happen?

So, some examples of why DropBox is awesome -

- I download a kernel from XDA, save it into my DropBox/Android/Kernels folder on my PC. Within seconds in the Android App I go to that folder and export it to my ROM folder. Boot into recovery and flash it.

- Because of the above, I can access almost all of my kernals and ROM's, not matter where I am, without having to make sure I keep them all on my phone.

- Photo sync means every photo I take is instantly (as good as) on my PC as a jpg.

- I have two or three shared folders, one for my family for example. My brother asks 'where do I get the Google Music apk from?' I stick it in the shared folder and he installs it direct through DropBox.

Those are the main points, the final big one is just all that cloud space so you don't have to carry all these files around with you, taking up space on your device.
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I know what I'd ask it to do: keep a folder specifically for this phone up to date, not the whole Dropbox! I think that's better functionality than manually drawing down files one at a time. I think I'm just annoyed that anything on my phone I want to keep I have to send it to Dropbox implicitly. I could already do that by emailing it to myself!.

Good point about the ROMs. Do any of the recovery distributions support Dropbox?
 
Is anyone finding that SMS messages fail quite often first time on this phone? (voda contract)
 
Bossk128 said:
I know what I'd ask it to do: keep a folder specifically for this phone up to date, not the whole Dropbox! I think that's better functionality than manually drawing down files one at a time. I think I'm just annoyed that anything on my phone I want to keep I have to send it to Dropbox implicitly. I could already do that by emailing it to myself!.
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Myself, I disagree. That would make quite a mess of my files (I try and stay organised :) ). I'm happier to say, okay I need this and it's a 'XYZ' so I'll put it in my 'XYZ' folder.
 
Putting the phone face down on any surface is asking for trouble!

Gorilla glass and dre beats are two peas in the same pod; strong brand image but do the products really stand up their marketing claims?

I've got a few light surface scuffs already.
 
Begbie said:
How do you change your launcher?

/andriodnoob
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Download Go launcher (or similar) from Google Play & install, it will ask you when you push your home button which one you want to keep as your default.

you will need to download some stuff to go with it though (as I remember anyway), I think the HTC clock etc. is gone with launchers.
 
Yup all HTC widgets can't be used with 3rd party launchers but can be replaced with alternatives, which in some cases are better. Android pro widgets is great along with fancy widgets, snowstorm weather, palmary weather, pure grid calendar etc.

Apex and GO ex are the best, go has more features overall and its own widgets, which are excellent IMO but apex has the stock ICS feel and some nifty little features as well.

Also if you want to switch between launchers but have set one as default, go to settings>apps> the launcher that you chose as default and click on it then click on "clear defaults" This will give you the choice as to what launcher to use when the home button is pressed.
 
Finally picked up one of these the other day and very happy with it so far, it's my first Android phone.

Do have one problem though, when I get texts it only shows up the number and not the persons name on the home screen. My contacts folder and messages folder displays as normal. Annoying as I don't know who's text me at a glance.
 
Has anyone else noticed that you can't get the wifi to stay on even if the setting is set to 'Always On', seems to be quite a widespread issue affecting all handsets. It's not a huge problem but if you're on wifi most of the time, it will probably give you better battery life.

It's fine if the device is plugged in though.

Hopefully it's fixed in the next OTA. XDA thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590884

On the topic of the next OTA, it should be due in a few days to fix the messaging bug and with other general improvements as well. This is only affecting a few phones, and mine is fine.

Lastly, Flipboard is finally available for Android, it's a news app and is quite interesting, you should all try it at least: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/9/3009124/flipboard-android-leak-xda-developers

Tombles said:
Finally picked up one of these the other day and very happy with it so far, it's my first Android phone.

Do have one problem though, when I get texts it only shows up the number and not the persons name on the home screen. My contacts folder and messages folder displays as normal. Annoying as I don't know who's text me at a glance.
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You've probably got 2 contacts linked and it's showing you the number for some reason, I had this as I have a few duplicate contacts with different information on. Just fiddle with the link settings for them and tidy them up a bit and that should fix it.
 
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