*** The Official HTC One M8 Thread ***

So I've had mine since Monday and it's been brilliant til this afternoon. Since about 5 hours ago it has restarted a couple of dozen times and apps are constantly crashing.

Apps tend to crash one by one until the phone freezes then shortly afterwards the phone restarts immediately showing the O2 screen followed by the HTC screen.

I've done a factory reset and it seemed to cure the issue but it's done another couple of 'unexpected' reboots since then. Not happy really. I've noticed the phone is getting quite hot too and the battery life has dropped massively (I assume due to the constant rebooting using large chunks of battery).

Not sure if I'll wait it out or just get a replacement - Nevertheless, I'm not very happy.
 
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BuToNz said:
So I've had mine since Monday and it's been brilliant til this afternoon. Since about 5 hours ago it has restarted a couple of dozen times and apps are constantly crashing.

Apps tend to crash one by one until the phone freezes then shortly afterwards the phone restarts immediately showing the O2 screen followed by the HTC screen.

I've done a factory reset and it seemed to cure the issue but it's done another couple of 'unexpected' reboots since then. Not happy really. I've noticed the phone is getting quite hot too and the battery life has dropped massively (I assume due to the constant rebooting using large chunks of battery).

Not sure if I'll wait it out or just get a replacement - Nevertheless, I'm not very happy.
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Go through the apps you have installed and see if any of them are doing overtime. (Use GSam to check usage)

If you rule that out, then definitely swap it if possible. Do it within 14 days and they will switch it out for another one without hassle. (For another M8) ...think its 7 days to be shot of it.

I've not experienced anything like this, so it isn't anything to do with the model of phone as such.
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
Go through the apps you have installed and see if any of them are doing overtime. (Use GSam to check usage)

If you rule that out, then definitely swap it if possible. Do it within 14 days and they will switch it out for another one without hassle. (For another M8) ...think its 7 days to be shot of it.

I've not experienced anything like this, so it isn't anything to do with the model of phone as such.
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Thanks for the advice buddy, I've gone and reset it again and will run it several days without installing any additional apps. I'll see how it goes then, if it's all ok I'll install apps one by one and keep an eye on the activity.

I don't think for one minute that it's something wrong with the model of phone more to do with my specific one. It's just frustrating given the premium (I would expect nothing but flawless).

Don't get me wrong though, I love the phone (Camera could still see improvement) and can't think of anything I'd rather have. But given it's a phone primarily it HAS to be stable above everything else.
 
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anyone find the black button bar annoying in web browser, it disappears when in portrait but when in landscape it doesn't go away
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Got mine yesterday and switched to EE 4G Extra, very impressed with the 4G speeds and the phone is lightning fast compared to my old S3!
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I went from 3G to 4G with this contract upgrade and im getting full signal now where I used to get none. that coupled with this phone for me is win win
 
BuToNz said:
Thanks for the advice buddy, I've gone and reset it again and will run it several days without installing any additional apps. I'll see how it goes then, if it's all ok I'll install apps one by one and keep an eye on the activity.

I don't think for one minute that it's something wrong with the model of phone more to do with my specific one. It's just frustrating given the premium (I would expect nothing but flawless).

Don't get me wrong though, I love the phone (Camera could still see improvement) and can't think of anything I'd rather have. But given it's a phone primarily it HAS to be stable above everything else.
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If you can get to a shop, won't harm to swap it out. Can always do the Google back up thing first.
 
Fallen god said:
I would wait a few week to confirm but it seems like it should be done without an issues. If there is a GPe versions I hope it keeps the knock to wake feature, reaching that power button will be annoying.
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A hands-on is out, and the knock to wake feature is present: http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-one-m8-google-play-edition-unboxing-and-hands

HTC's Motion Launch feature is on board, sort of. This is the one that lets you double-tap a sleeping M8 to wake it. On the proper HTC model, you also can swipe on the darkened screen in different directions to wake the phone to, say, BlinkFeed, or directly to the app drawer, or to launch HTC's voice calling. On the Google Play edition, a swipe in any direction simply wakes the phone. That's it. Better than nothing, but not as good as it is on the proper M8.
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Thats great news :D, power button would be a pain, it seems to be the LG G2 version and not HTC's which is better, since you don't have to move your device to wake it with a double tap.
 
So still having problems with my phone, I've returned it to factory default and didn't even setup my Google account. Left it bare bones as possible.

Went to the O2 shop this morning and they basically told me they can't do anything because it wasn't purchased from the shop but online. Asked them to give O2 a phone to sort it out, eventually they agreed to a direct swap (Delivery of new phone and collection of old on the same day) but I now need to wait until Monday.

Not very pleased to be honest that the O2 shop can't do anything about it, thankfully the chap there was pretty helpful and gave me a Nano to Micro sim adapter so I can go back to my iPhone at least.

Fun times indeed, I now sit here watching my phone restart over and over. When I turn it off it turns back on again and repeats. I can't keep it off - so it's constantly making the HTC sound on full volume.

Welcome to Android.
 
Not really phone related but I activated the 50GB free of Google Drive storage as the 50GB of Dropbox that I had with my S3 will end.

I basically want my photos and videos to upload to Google Drive rather than Google Photo automatically, is there a way of doing it?
 
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