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I was chatting to a someone who works at CPW and he confirmed that they have newer stock of the HTC One S and they haven't had any returns yet in relation to the chipping issue.
@Nexus18 Sorry Mate I was knackered and fell asleep! Will reply to you shortly. Let the wall of words commence! LOL!
@Nexus18 Sorry Mate I was knackered and fell asleep! Will reply to you shortly. Let the wall of words commence! LOL!
@Sarge
Pretty sure you guys will get the true beast
Haven't seen anyone at all mention that they have got got that "new" version yet.....
@stoosh
Good news that! Kona and sarge should be safe then!
Lol, no worries
I look forward to it!
Although might be a bit slower at posting replys for the next few hours 
Pretty sure you guys will get the true beast
Haven't seen anyone at all mention that they have got got that "new" version yet.....@stoosh
Good news that! Kona and sarge should be safe then!
Lol, no worries
I look forward to it!
Although might be a bit slower at posting replys for the next few hours @sarge
Pretty sure you guys will get the true beast
@stoosh
Good news that! Kona and sarge should be safe then!
Lol, no worries
I look forward to it!
@Kona and Sarge, check out the side of your HTC One S box if it's SH24T or later you have the newer HTC One S model.
@Nexus18, Same here....there's a certain game of footy on soon which may well distract me!
cheers - will let you guys know what version I receive.
Some more shots of battery life (these will definitely be the last ones, I promise! Unless I manage to get some ridiculous on screen time or something ), this time I adjusted brightness via qbright when necessary so brightness was set to either 0% (at night and first thing in the morning, so probably about 30 minutes in total for each day then), 30% brightness (during the day indoors, so most of the day) and then 50 or 70% when outdoors (about 15-20 minutes each day, maybe).
Usage was much of the same (good bit of browsing, phone calls, texts, whatsapp, a lot of messing around with apps, youtube as well as the usual syncing for weather apps etc.) except this time a fair amount of files/photos/1080P videos transfer via estrongs and wifi transfer with wifi max performance enabled during these transfers and quite a lot of speedtests via wifi along with a bit of GPS usage in google maps and whilst in the speedtest app. Had H connection for a bit when browsing and camera (photos plus 1080P recording) usage as well as about 30 minutes in total of TV catchup etc.
Unless I manage to get some ridiculous on screen time or something ), this time I adjusted brightness via qbright when necessary so brightness was set to either 0% (at night and first thing in the morning, so probably about 30 minutes in total for each day then), 30% brightness (during the day indoors, so most of the day) and then 50 or 70% when outdoors (about 15-20 minutes each day, maybe).Usage was much of the same (good bit of browsing, phone calls, texts, whatsapp, a lot of messing around with apps, youtube as well as the usual syncing for weather apps etc.) except this time a fair amount of files/photos/1080P videos transfer via estrongs and wifi transfer with wifi max performance enabled during these transfers and quite a lot of speedtests via wifi along with a bit of GPS usage in google maps and whilst in the speedtest app. Had H connection for a bit when browsing and camera (photos plus 1080P recording) usage as well as about 30 minutes in total of TV catchup etc.
@Nexus18 Sorry for the late reply Mate, got caught up watching the football. The other game's kind of cack so I've taken the chance to reply back to you
I like ICS that you can disable certain apps which you wouldn't normally use. Unfortunately with Sense HTC haven't let the user disable the apps that you mentioned and you would have to go root the One S to gain total control and change the phone to your liking. I don't know about you but I'm pretty much happy with the One S and will only root if there's something radical that needs changing.
I can't believe this chap is getting 8 hours screen time, the most I've ever got is around 4hours and 40 mins and that's with brightness set at 15%!! I've got into a habit since the early days of Android to switch auto brightness off and keep the brightness low as Android used to go through battery power like there was no tomorrow!
Speaking of the Nexus phones do you recall the hoo-haa owners of the Nexus S had when the first update of ICS went out. Apparently it was really buggy and had to be recalled and it took Google approx a month to sort it out. I haven't kept up with the Nexus scene but in my mind having a Nexus phone isn't a ground breaking as it used to be as updates haven't been a frequent as Google promised, which is what you stated earlier...Will this continue with the next Android iteration? Who knows? Yes pure Android has it's advantages in terms of updates but the likes of HTC and Samsung have added a lot of functionality to their ROMS that users would no doubt miss if they went from a HTC / Samsung phone to a pure Google phone. I remember getting frustrated sometimes when using the Galaxy Nexus that didn't have certain functions that the S2 had and I was quick to get rid of the Nexus and go back to the S2.
You're right Samsung will do exactly the same and pimp the hardware down a little however if the rumour that Google will allow each of the manufacturers to produce a Nexus phone to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Android proves to be true, imagine a Nexus phone with the S4 pro chip running it! I for one would jump at the chance of getting it even though im not that much into pure Android.
Touchwiz has been a revelation on the S3, however I like the look of pure ICS , that's why I changed the launcher to Nova Launcher as it retains the look of pure ICS but you get the added features of Touchwiz. TBH it's too close to call this time round Samsung have done such a good job with Touchwiz that they have certainly closed the difference between Sense 4. Smart stay is awesome, it's such a helpful tool, whoever invented it at Samsung is a genius.
All Android phones should have this feature
I must be the only one who doesn't mind the 3 button feature on the One S, ive read plenty of complaints on XDA and HTC did kinda address the problem in the recent update by deleting it on certain apps. Maybe they might get rid of it completely with the next update which is due because the One X has had four updates and the One S has only had one (two if you count T Mob in USA) which is again what you mentioned earlier!!!
I haven't experienced the Gmail issue that you mention, which is extremely strange, why are some users experiencing a delay and other users not? I wonder what could be causing the delay then?
It makes me laugh that when you look at the different manufacturers pages on GSMarena Samsung have released loads of phones and you literally have to go back three pages just to find the S2 which is saying a lot!!
HTC did say that they're going to concentrate on the One series phones, I'd like to believe it but if the S3 train becomes a run away success I do believe that HTC will have to counter with something great otherwise they might as well just give up and play second fiddle to Samsung.
I have to say that the S3 is nothing short of amazing had my first proper day using it and it's easily the fastest Android phone that I've used. It breezes through everything and the battery has been good, low - mid usage today 12 hours on an its at 68% which isn't bad after a first charge.
One thing that HTC has an advantage over Samsung is the frequency of updates, they seem to look after consumers better. The sim free S2 ICS update was a massive fiasco with all the UK carriers getting ICS and sim free owners getting ICS last. Even i vowed never to buy a Samsung phone again because I was p'd off with the way Samsung was treating consumers who paid a great deal of money to buy the S2 outright. The allure of the S3 was too much for me in the end and I went back on my word
Your new battery stats are nothing short of amazing and you seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of the One S in terms of battery power. Being attached to a wall socket or even carrying a usb battery seems to be a thing of the past with the One S. HTC did state that they've concentrated on giving the consumer better battery consumption on the One Series and they've certainly delivered!!
I like ICS that you can disable certain apps which you wouldn't normally use. Unfortunately with Sense HTC haven't let the user disable the apps that you mentioned and you would have to go root the One S to gain total control and change the phone to your liking. I don't know about you but I'm pretty much happy with the One S and will only root if there's something radical that needs changing.
I can't believe this chap is getting 8 hours screen time, the most I've ever got is around 4hours and 40 mins and that's with brightness set at 15%!! I've got into a habit since the early days of Android to switch auto brightness off and keep the brightness low as Android used to go through battery power like there was no tomorrow!
Speaking of the Nexus phones do you recall the hoo-haa owners of the Nexus S had when the first update of ICS went out. Apparently it was really buggy and had to be recalled and it took Google approx a month to sort it out. I haven't kept up with the Nexus scene but in my mind having a Nexus phone isn't a ground breaking as it used to be as updates haven't been a frequent as Google promised, which is what you stated earlier...Will this continue with the next Android iteration? Who knows? Yes pure Android has it's advantages in terms of updates but the likes of HTC and Samsung have added a lot of functionality to their ROMS that users would no doubt miss if they went from a HTC / Samsung phone to a pure Google phone. I remember getting frustrated sometimes when using the Galaxy Nexus that didn't have certain functions that the S2 had and I was quick to get rid of the Nexus and go back to the S2.
You're right Samsung will do exactly the same and pimp the hardware down a little however if the rumour that Google will allow each of the manufacturers to produce a Nexus phone to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Android proves to be true, imagine a Nexus phone with the S4 pro chip running it! I for one would jump at the chance of getting it even though im not that much into pure Android.
Touchwiz has been a revelation on the S3, however I like the look of pure ICS , that's why I changed the launcher to Nova Launcher as it retains the look of pure ICS but you get the added features of Touchwiz. TBH it's too close to call this time round Samsung have done such a good job with Touchwiz that they have certainly closed the difference between Sense 4. Smart stay is awesome, it's such a helpful tool, whoever invented it at Samsung is a genius.
All Android phones should have this feature
I must be the only one who doesn't mind the 3 button feature on the One S, ive read plenty of complaints on XDA and HTC did kinda address the problem in the recent update by deleting it on certain apps. Maybe they might get rid of it completely with the next update which is due because the One X has had four updates and the One S has only had one (two if you count T Mob in USA) which is again what you mentioned earlier!!!
I haven't experienced the Gmail issue that you mention, which is extremely strange, why are some users experiencing a delay and other users not? I wonder what could be causing the delay then?
It makes me laugh that when you look at the different manufacturers pages on GSMarena Samsung have released loads of phones and you literally have to go back three pages just to find the S2 which is saying a lot!!
HTC did say that they're going to concentrate on the One series phones, I'd like to believe it but if the S3 train becomes a run away success I do believe that HTC will have to counter with something great otherwise they might as well just give up and play second fiddle to Samsung.
I have to say that the S3 is nothing short of amazing had my first proper day using it and it's easily the fastest Android phone that I've used. It breezes through everything and the battery has been good, low - mid usage today 12 hours on an its at 68% which isn't bad after a first charge.
One thing that HTC has an advantage over Samsung is the frequency of updates, they seem to look after consumers better. The sim free S2 ICS update was a massive fiasco with all the UK carriers getting ICS and sim free owners getting ICS last. Even i vowed never to buy a Samsung phone again because I was p'd off with the way Samsung was treating consumers who paid a great deal of money to buy the S2 outright. The allure of the S3 was too much for me in the end and I went back on my word
Your new battery stats are nothing short of amazing and you seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of the One S in terms of battery power. Being attached to a wall socket or even carrying a usb battery seems to be a thing of the past with the One S. HTC did state that they've concentrated on giving the consumer better battery consumption on the One Series and they've certainly delivered!!
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Nice I need to see what mine can do when i don't use it much but i'm still at the messing around stage heh
Nice
I need to see what mine can do when i don't use it much but i'm still at the messing around stage hehMy thoughts are scattered amongst this thread but basically it's ****ing awesome. Considering this was my previous phone i'm sure you can imagine
I was choosing between the S2 and OneS and after recommendations from here i was expecting to get the OneS just due to how i was likely to use it but in the end i just thought it looked so much nicer, very little difference in usability when i played around in the shop.
First impressions were fast, smooth, screen that will actually be big enough for more than awkward texting, etc etc
So yeah i'm loving it, bar replacing my first one after a week because of chippping and this one having a few marks, but i'm not too bothered as it's not getting any worse. I seem to be getting pretty awesome battery life, 5 hours screen time with 24 hours use and 4h 56 with 4h 59 use (i was pushing it
Whoa that's some considerable leap from an LG to the One S
Just how did you cope with the LG for so long? You must've patience of a Saint! It's a shame about the chipping issue, you are aware that HTC stated that they would replace handsets that have experienced the chipping problem and there are new One S's in circulation so maybe you should contact HTC and swap your One S if your concerned.
You're getting awesome screen times with the battery percentage brightness are you running your screen?
The camera is amazing, infact it's better than the One X for some reason as is the music playback. In lowlight conditions the One S is superb!
I'm glad that you're enjoying the One S!
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Hah yeah, well i had a 2 year contract which ended last july then i just never had the money to consider an upgrade, or one that would be worthwhile anyway, so stayed on PAYG. Plus i wasn't using my phone much at uni as i was at my PC almost all the time.
Yeah i reckon i can get it swapped if i need to but if this one doesn't get any worse i'm not too fussed. It only has 3 or 4 little marks on the top edge that appeared on like the day after i got it but it's been a few weeks now and no worse.
Brightness is generally around 33%, sometimes a bit lower if i'm in bed. I did give auto brightness a whirl but it was always way higher than it needed to be. No good for my eyes never mind battery life
I look forward to really putting the camera through its paces. I might be moving to wales soon in which case i'll be scaling mountains and strolling along the beach so should have plenty of opportunities
It really is a fantastic bit of kit.
Yeah i reckon i can get it swapped if i need to but if this one doesn't get any worse i'm not too fussed. It only has 3 or 4 little marks on the top edge that appeared on like the day after i got it but it's been a few weeks now and no worse.
Brightness is generally around 33%, sometimes a bit lower if i'm in bed. I did give auto brightness a whirl but it was always way higher than it needed to be. No good for my eyes never mind battery life
I look forward to really putting the camera through its paces. I might be moving to wales soon in which case i'll be scaling mountains and strolling along the beach so should have plenty of opportunities
It really is a fantastic bit of kit.
Yodel... how the hell are those muppets still in business?
HTC changed stance and now say they prioritise thinness/design over battery life. Something like the Razr HD will double One S battery life, it should get a real 8 hours+ screen on time.
HTC did state that they've concentrated on giving the consumer better battery consumption on the One Series and they've certainly delivered!!
HTC changed stance and now say they prioritise thinness/design over battery life. Something like the Razr HD will double One S battery life, it should get a real 8 hours+ screen on time.
Hah yeah, well i had a 2 year contract which ended last july then i just never had the money to consider an upgrade, or one that would be worthwhile anyway, so stayed on PAYG. Plus i wasn't using my phone much at uni as i was at my PC almost all the time.
Yeah i reckon i can get it swapped if i need to but if this one doesn't get any worse i'm not too fussed. It only has 3 or 4 little marks on the top edge that appeared on like the day after i got it but it's been a few weeks now and no worse.
Brightness is generally around 33%, sometimes a bit lower if i'm in bed. I did give auto brightness a whirl but it was always way higher than it needed to be. No good for my eyes never mind battery life
I look forward to really putting the camera through its paces. I might be moving to wales soon in which case i'll be scaling mountains and strolling along the beach so should have plenty of opportunities
It really is a fantastic bit of kit.
That's good to hear that the chipping effect isn't getting worse. It's crazy that it's happening in the first place. The first HOS that I bought, quite literally I took it out of the box, checked for defects and placed it on a table. I came back to it 10 mins later and a small chip appeared at the top of the phone, I was not impressed!
At least you have the option to change the phone if you want to
33% is a decent level to keep the brightness, I've never got on with auto brightness myself, with the amoled screen it's bright enough indoors at it is anything about 45% and things start to get crazy!
You'll have plenty of opportunities to take pictures in Wales, it's a beautiful place to live and visit. The camera will be tested to the limit! You'll have to post your pics on the forum!
Yodel... how the hell are those muppets still in business?
HTC changed stance and now say they prioritise thinness/design over battery life. Something like the Razr HD will double One S battery life, it should get a real 8 hours+ screen on time.
That's not good, HTC can't make up their mind! A good example there with the Razr HD, Moto certainly have both design/thinness and battery life covered with one phone! Shame their Android updates are pretty lame otherwise the Razr HD would've been a nice option.
Bloody Yodel...they scare the living **** out of me...Did anyone see the horror stories that were shown on Watchdog about a month ago? It didn't exactly instil confidence in the company!
Ah, let the walls of text commence. Again!
Haha no worries!
Yeah I love that feature and am so glad google implemented it, however, they should be more strict with the other companies in that if they are going to use android on their phones, they then have to allow the user to at least disable all apps and not only a few Although those are the only 2 that I really want to disable which I can't anyway.
I am very happy with my S, can't fault it at all really apart from the notification LED and gmail issue.
The only reason I would root and may do so in the end is to remove the ads (they plague every app virtually and are all over web pages, plus iirc I remember reading an article that stated that ads actually consume more battery life than the apps themselves.......) and to solve the 3 dot menu button if HTC don't do something soon......
I might end up putting a custom ROM on but a slimmed down version of sense as I don't want to loose the great camera features along with the gallery etc. and a black/ICS theme instead. But this won't be for a long time!
Likewise, although I suppose it could be true as the full sense version is known to hog resources and drain battery quicker than the stock version etc. however, I think he may be keeping his screen set to 20% or lower constantly as well. Plus as you may have seen, mrk is getting very good battery usage (about the same as the S whereas every battery report I have seen so far on just pure stock hasn't been anywhere as good as his, overall doesn't seem a whole lot better than the X but it doesn't help when people just post one screen showing on screen time and not the main info, again
) with his gs 3 as he has frozen a few apps etc. so I imagine that the S should get even better battery life then due to the more efficient chip and lower res screen.
Yup I most certainly do!
Was a complete joke the whole situation for the NS and then to top it all of, not bothering with the nexus one......... I fully expect the same situation to happen with the GN and NS as well as iirc what happened with the NS and ICS also happened with the nexus one and 2.3 and the nexus S had plenty of issues in the beginning to with 2.3
Google phones were always first on my list not for the hardware but for stock android and for it being a google phone therefore no need to worry about updates and getting them quickly, however, that is no longer the case and won't be until I see these problems being solved with future versions.
Maybe the next google phones and google support for the GN and NS regarding jellybean will change my mind again..........
Plus the skins/custom android versions are all pretty good nowadays anyway and always add something new that is good/useful on top of android and makes having a stock android phone not as appealing IMO.
Oh god, that would be good!
I shall remain with my S for a good while yet (1+year at least), no reason for me to change at all and it will be a while till there is a phone that can truly beat it overall by a huge amount both software and hardware.
As you probably know I am not the biggest fan of touchwiz either
They certainly have come along way with touchwiz on the GS 2 (although the ICS build seems very buggy, even after factory resets, people still seem to be having problems) and GS 3 though, great tweaks and handy features, but the colour scheme and their modded apps I don't like at all personally.
Not familiar with this smart stay feature, what is it?
You are the first person I have seen to not have a problem with the 3 dot menu button!!!!
It just wastes screen space, which is my biggest and the only issue obviously, after all you have a 4.3" screen and therefore want to see the apps etc. using it all, and not not having a black bar using about half a cm of the screen
I don't think the next update will remove it from any more apps as the last update to remove it from apps for the X was the same one we had, which was for youtube app. I hope I am wrong though
No idea unfortunately!
Tried factory reset, tried clearing cache/data for gmail and still the same, not a huge problem as I get them eventually but it is an annoying niggle just like the notification LED
Indeed! It kind of puts me of Samsung when you look at that, don't want to see a company releasing tons of phones just for the sake of it and then not supporting half of them like the spica (my old phone) etc.
Really can't see them doing anything flagship style tbh, unless they release something around the iphone 5 release along with possibly Samsung?
Good to hear!
You will have to post some screens for battery life as so far only mrks have really impressed me and nearly every other person who does post about battery life posts screens when they still have like 60+% left, no screen brightness info etc.
It is hard to say as both HTC and Samsung seem to be very good for their flagship devices, however, Samsung don't really bother with their other phones at all where as HTC does (just not at the same rate as their flagship though). Also Samsung appear to release a lot more updates within a short period of time where as HTC take their time but cram a lot more into an update and seem to be less buggier I think.
Although Samsung seem to be the type that as soon as the device gets old and a new flagship is out, they quickly abandon the support or do a shoddy job like with last years flagship e.g. the GS got an extremely buggy version of 2.3 whilst the GS 2 was perfect on 2.3 and had plenty of updates and looks like the same is happening again with the GS 2 and GS 3, GS 2 is buggy on stock ICS/touchwiz
So i expect it to be the same next year with the GS 3 and GS 4 and android 6 or whatever it will be
Plus my experience with the Samsung galaxy spica (i5700) was awful because of Samsung, the phone had multi-touch but they didn't bother to enable it, the phone had more RAM than stated, but they didn't allow it to be used, the phone had an FM radio chip but they had it disabled and then the drivers for GPU etc. were awful according to a true developer who has/is completely rewriting the code from scratch due to how bad they are.
They didn't release the kernel source or any info at all, all the info. had to be found by taking the mobile apart and looking at the hardware to figure out the chipset etc. or whatever it was that they needed to know....
In the end, I then read around forums and it wasn't just my device that this happened to, but many devices of theirs.
Tomq3/leshak/criminal etc. have gotten 2.2, 2.3 and 4.0 to work pretty much fully just from there own work modding and rewriting code etc. and they have done a damn fine job with the spica. It only had official support for 2.1 and that was it.
As sarge said, they changed their minds and wanted thinner phones instead and that they were making this a priority instead of battery life, which I think is stupid, honestly don't know anyone who wants a thin phone but **** battery life?
I would rather sacrifice some thinness for a bigger battery.
Yup and 4 hours on screen time too in that time, EPIC!
haha I am still at the messing around stage to and I have had the phone since the 19th of April lol
I actually think the X camera is slightly better lol. It seems to give sharper photos where as the video recording on the S seems to be slightly better in terms of smoothness and light metering.......no idea why though as in theory they should be exactly the same essentially!
The quality of photos is absolutely superb, but I am most impressed with the features of the sense V4 camera, just jam packed with effects and features and the way things are done i.e. just holding the camera button to get burst mode to work as opposed to the GS 3, having to select burst mode first then take the photos, it is the wee things like that, which really impress me the most
Yeah according to gsmarena the audio is better than the X as well.
Indeed!
They are the worst courier ever!
My brother ordered a hard drive from a competitor and the hard drive was sitting in their warehouse for like 4 days or something lol, so he sent them emails but they didn't respond and he then rang them and they left him on hold or something like that irrc, so he contacted the etailer and they sorted it out for him in the end, however, the box came with a big gash in it and being a mechanical hard drive, this was pretty worrying lol, thankfully it all worked fine and there was no signs of damage
So needless to say if the only option is yodel then it is a no buy from me!
@Nexus18 Sorry for the late reply Mate, got caught up watching the football. The other game's kind of cack so I've taken the chance to reply back to you
Haha no worries!
Yeah I love that feature and am so glad google implemented it, however, they should be more strict with the other companies in that if they are going to use android on their phones, they then have to allow the user to at least disable all apps and not only a few
Although those are the only 2 that I really want to disable which I can't anyway.I am very happy with my S, can't fault it at all really apart from the notification LED and gmail issue.
The only reason I would root and may do so in the end is to remove the ads (they plague every app virtually and are all over web pages
, plus iirc I remember reading an article that stated that ads actually consume more battery life than the apps themselves.......) and to solve the 3 dot menu button if HTC don't do something soon......I might end up putting a custom ROM on but a slimmed down version of sense as I don't want to loose the great camera features along with the gallery etc. and a black/ICS theme instead. But this won't be for a long time!
Likewise, although I suppose it could be true as the full sense version is known to hog resources and drain battery quicker than the stock version etc. however, I think he may be keeping his screen set to 20% or lower constantly as well. Plus as you may have seen, mrk is getting very good battery usage (about the same as the S whereas every battery report I have seen so far on just pure stock hasn't been anywhere as good as his, overall doesn't seem a whole lot better than the X but it doesn't help when people just post one screen showing on screen time and not the main info, again
) with his gs 3 as he has frozen a few apps etc. so I imagine that the S should get even better battery life then due to the more efficient chip and lower res screen.Yup I most certainly do!
Was a complete joke the whole situation for the NS and then to top it all of, not bothering with the nexus one......... I fully expect the same situation to happen with the GN and NS as well as iirc what happened with the NS and ICS also happened with the nexus one and 2.3 and the nexus S had plenty of issues in the beginning to with 2.3
Google phones were always first on my list not for the hardware but for stock android and for it being a google phone therefore no need to worry about updates and getting them quickly, however, that is no longer the case and won't be until I see these problems being solved with future versions.
Maybe the next google phones and google support for the GN and NS regarding jellybean will change my mind again..........
Plus the skins/custom android versions are all pretty good nowadays anyway and always add something new that is good/useful on top of android and makes having a stock android phone not as appealing IMO.
Oh god, that would be good!
I shall remain with my S for a good while yet (1+year at least), no reason for me to change at all and it will be a while till there is a phone that can truly beat it overall by a huge amount both software and hardware.
Touchwiz has been a revelation on the S3, however I like the look of pure ICS , that's why I changed the launcher to Nova Launcher as it retains the look of pure ICS but you get the added features of Touchwiz. TBH it's too close to call this time round Samsung have done such a good job with Touchwiz that they have certainly closed the difference between Sense 4. Smart stay is awesome, it's such a helpful tool, whoever invented it at Samsung is a genius.
All Android phones should have this feature
As you probably know I am not the biggest fan of touchwiz either
They certainly have come along way with touchwiz on the GS 2 (although the ICS build seems very buggy, even after factory resets, people still seem to be having problems) and GS 3 though, great tweaks and handy features, but the colour scheme and their modded apps I don't like at all personally.
Not familiar with this smart stay feature, what is it?
I must be the only one who doesn't mind the 3 button feature on the One S, ive read plenty of complaints on XDA and HTC did kinda address the problem in the recent update by deleting it on certain apps. Maybe they might get rid of it completely with the next update which is due because the One X has had four updates and the One S has only had one (two if you count T Mob in USA) which is again what you mentioned earlier!!!
You are the first person I have seen to not have a problem with the 3 dot menu button!!!!
It just wastes screen space, which is my biggest and the only issue obviously, after all you have a 4.3" screen and therefore want to see the apps etc. using it all, and not not having a black bar using about half a cm of the screen
I don't think the next update will remove it from any more apps as the last update to remove it from apps for the X was the same one we had, which was for youtube app. I hope I am wrong though
I haven't experienced the Gmail issue that you mention, which is extremely strange, why are some users experiencing a delay and other users not? I wonder what could be causing the delay then?
No idea unfortunately!
Tried factory reset, tried clearing cache/data for gmail and still the same, not a huge problem as I get them eventually
but it is an annoying niggle just like the notification LED Indeed! It kind of puts me of Samsung when you look at that, don't want to see a company releasing tons of phones just for the sake of it and then not supporting half of them like the spica (my old phone) etc.
Really can't see them doing anything flagship style tbh, unless they release something around the iphone 5 release along with possibly Samsung?
Good to hear!
You will have to post some screens for battery life as so far only mrks have really impressed me and nearly every other person who does post about battery life posts screens when they still have like 60+% left, no screen brightness info etc.
One thing that HTC has an advantage over Samsung is the frequency of updates, they seem to look after consumers better. The sim free S2 ICS update was a massive fiasco with all the UK carriers getting ICS and sim free owners getting ICS last. Even i vowed never to buy a Samsung phone again because I was p'd off with the way Samsung was treating consumers who paid a great deal of money to buy the S2 outright. The allure of the S3 was too much for me in the end and I went back on my word
It is hard to say as both HTC and Samsung seem to be very good for their flagship devices, however, Samsung don't really bother with their other phones at all where as HTC does (just not at the same rate as their flagship though
). Also Samsung appear to release a lot more updates within a short period of time where as HTC take their time but cram a lot more into an update and seem to be less buggier I think.Although Samsung seem to be the type that as soon as the device gets old and a new flagship is out, they quickly abandon the support or do a shoddy job like with last years flagship e.g. the GS got an extremely buggy version of 2.3 whilst the GS 2 was perfect on 2.3 and had plenty of updates and looks like the same is happening again with the GS 2 and GS 3, GS 2 is buggy on stock ICS/touchwiz
So i expect it to be the same next year with the GS 3 and GS 4 and android 6 or whatever it will be
Plus my experience with the Samsung galaxy spica (i5700) was awful because of Samsung, the phone had multi-touch but they didn't bother to enable it, the phone had more RAM than stated, but they didn't allow it to be used, the phone had an FM radio chip but they had it disabled and then the drivers for GPU etc. were awful according to a true developer who has/is completely rewriting the code from scratch due to how bad they are.
They didn't release the kernel source or any info at all, all the info. had to be found by taking the mobile apart and looking at the hardware to figure out the chipset etc. or whatever it was that they needed to know....
In the end, I then read around forums and it wasn't just my device that this happened to, but many devices of theirs.
Tomq3/leshak/criminal etc. have gotten 2.2, 2.3 and 4.0 to work pretty much fully just from there own work modding and rewriting code etc. and they have done a damn fine job with the spica. It only had official support for 2.1 and that was it.
Your new battery stats are nothing short of amazing and you seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of the One S in terms of battery power. Being attached to a wall socket or even carrying a usb battery seems to be a thing of the past with the One S. HTC did state that they've concentrated on giving the consumer better battery consumption on the One Series and they've certainly delivered!!
As sarge said, they changed their minds and wanted thinner phones instead and that they were making this a priority instead of battery life
, which I think is stupid, honestly don't know anyone who wants a thin phone but **** battery life?I would rather sacrifice some thinness for a bigger battery.
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Nice
Yup and 4 hours on screen time too in that time, EPIC!
haha I am still at the messing around stage to and I have had the phone since the 19th of April lol
I actually think the X camera is slightly better lol. It seems to give sharper photos where as the video recording on the S seems to be slightly better in terms of smoothness and light metering.......no idea why though as in theory they should be exactly the same essentially!
The quality of photos is absolutely superb, but I am most impressed with the features of the sense V4 camera, just jam packed with effects and features and the way things are done i.e. just holding the camera button to get burst mode to work as opposed to the GS 3, having to select burst mode first then take the photos, it is the wee things like that, which really impress me the most
Yeah according to gsmarena the audio is better than the X as well.
Yodel... how the hell are those muppets still in business?
Indeed!
They are the worst courier ever!
My brother ordered a hard drive from a competitor and the hard drive was sitting in their warehouse for like 4 days or something lol, so he sent them emails but they didn't respond and he then rang them and they left him on hold or something like that irrc, so he contacted the etailer and they sorted it out for him in the end, however, the box came with a big gash in it and being a mechanical hard drive, this was pretty worrying lol, thankfully it all worked fine and there was no signs of damage
So needless to say if the only option is yodel then it is a no buy from me!
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Yeah that's definitely impressive. Using almost nothing when not in use is pretty awesome.
3h17 screen time atm with this one:
I seem to be having a bit of trouble uploading to dropbox. 1 in 3/4 times i need to upload twice before it appears on my PC, and then both appear at once. Not sure why
Quite like Apex so far although i have had a couple of occasions where it's hung as i go back to home screen, only for a few seconds, but a tad annoying.
Yeah that's definitely impressive. Using almost nothing when not in use is pretty awesome.
3h17 screen time atm with this one:
I seem to be having a bit of trouble uploading to dropbox. 1 in 3/4 times i need to upload twice before it appears on my PC, and then both appear at once. Not sure why
Quite like Apex so far although i have had a couple of occasions where it's hung as i go back to home screen, only for a few seconds, but a tad annoying.
Yeah got to love ICS for virtually no battery drain when idle!
Nice battery life there as well so far
Have you gone into the apex settings and enabled keep in memory?
I don't use dropbox on my phone very much, only to dll files, so can't comment on that issue.
Nova is worth checking out as well, very similar to apex but more features.