Soldato
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Any sim free deals on this phone like vodaphone did a few months back? My note 3 starting to fail and would like one of these.
*** The Official HTC One M8 Thread ***
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Soldato
I'll give that a try when I'm back from holiday. I took my One S + 1100D in the end as well as my One M8 as the camera on it is so terrible at the mo!
Soldato
apparently voda are selling them again from tomorrow for £289
Worth bumping for this, they are doing this again, and for the S5 as well if you like plastic
Man of Honour
Just called my local Vodafone store, they told me its £290 for the phone and £10 top up, so £300 in total? And deal is still on tomorrow 
Soldato
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Just called my local Vodafone store, they told me its £290 for the phone and £10 top up, so £300 in total? And deal is still on tomorrow
That's psychologically more expensive than £289.
My s3 is dying (flickering screen, battery drain and network drops) so looking around for deals.
Man of Honour
I thought it was £290 all in?
Soldato
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Breif read on the hotukdeals page it depends on the salesman, some seem to be selling it at 289 including the tenner topup, others can buy just the phone at 289, while the last collective you can only purchase for the 289 and a further £10 for the top up, so the £300 total.
Doesnt feel great when a store can't agree on a standard deal national.
Bleurgh, my GPE-converted M8 is now suffering from high Android OS and Google Services battery drain. Have uninstalled a load of apps and tried to turn a fair few things off but it's still doing it. Very annoying... may have to do a factory reset.
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Try clearing the data from the Google Play Services app and reboot the phone, should cure the issue.
I did this on my old Nexus 5 and a customer came in with a LG G Flex with a similar thing and they later told me it was fine.
Soldato
Go into recovery and clear the cache partition, that usually sorts it.
I must say after having converted to GPE lollipop I'm not that impressed, it's snappy and all but I miss the vanilla HTC browser, and Google hangouts and Google calendar is utter rubbish.
I'm tempted to go back to a custom version of HTC sense.
I'm tempted to go back to a custom version of HTC sense.
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Soldato
Hmm Double post oopppssss.
Soldato
I was the same. And I did go back.
Soldato
I have to say the battery on the M8 is amazing! Having come from a Nexus 5 where I was routinely down to sub-30% at the end of a day, now I'm rarely under 70% at the end of the day! 
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So I'm thinking about picking one of these (or the M7) up. Is it still a good phone?
I have to say the battery on the M8 is amazing! Having come from a Nexus 5 where I was routinely down to sub-30% at the end of a day, now I'm rarely under 70% at the end of the day!
This is the reason I have ordered one from Vodafone to try to switch from my Nexus 5. They have a 14 day returns period so I will see if it's worth it.
Most phones these days do the job tbh, but it's still HTC's flagship phone for a couple more months