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

mattyfez said:
I'm tempted to do this, I'd be interested to hear how you get on, and if your able to get OTA sense updates after changing back but keeping root and S-off.
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OK, well last night I gave it a go and am pleased to report that it seems to have worked. Although I don't know whether it'll accept OTA updates, I am running Sense 6.0 with Lollipop.

I followed the instructions here and flashed the Sense firmware package: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523

I then tried to reboot, as per instructions, but the phone would not boot. It just sat there on the HTC screen and then rebooted. Had to hold power + volume up to hard reboot, and then volume up to enter HBOOT. Couldn't work out what I was supposed to do next as the instructions were not clear. I eventually realised that switching from HBOOT to FASTBOOT whilst USB was connected would reboot the phone, but if I removed the cable and switched to FASTBOOT, then put the cable back the PC would recognise the phone. That meant I could run FASTBOOT commands. I tried flashing TWRP as per the thread but the phone wouldn't load it. I thought this might be because my firmware was too old, so flashed an earlier version of TWRP but no dice.

Then I thought - why don't I just load RUU mode and use the Lollipop RUU from here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/general/guide-update-to-official-developer-t3002003 I was rather confused and didn't know whether I could or not, but it worked perfectly and now I am up and running with Lollipop.

So there we go, not 100% sure what I did was correct but it does seem to work. Will report back with any findings. As for Lollipop/Sense 6.0 it really is more like they ported Lollipop to Sense, rather than the other way round. It runs well but the visual changes are few so don't do it expecting lots of big changes. Still, I have Lollipop Sense and that is good :) I expect Sense 7.0 will be out in the next couple of months.
 
Tried Google Play Edition for few weeks but was just as boring & restrictive as Kitkat. Over the weekend i put 5.0.1 + Sense 6.0, which is 10x better than stock.

Google are still years behind custom ROMS and even basic GUI tweaks in Sense and such like. Just waiting for Venom ROM based on Lollipop!!!
 
Mine is downloading too (unbranded but on Three) - bit unsure as I wasn't impressed when my Nexus 5 went to Lollipop - thought it looked a bit basic and there were a few compatibility issues!

I assume this will be a HTC-skinned version of Lollipop?
 
Hmmm, not overly happy with the update so far!

I can't seem to a) get rid of the icons at the foot of my lock screen and b) bypass the lock screen all together - my phone used to go straight to the pattern unlock screen!

Anyone know how I can get round this??
 
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well my first impressions are,

  • Seemed very laggy for a while but that seems to have settled down now so I'll see how that goes.
  • I seem to have lost the ability to close all apps with a single tap?
  • I really don't like the 2-stage pull down menu. Why show me a narrow bar saying 'no notifications', why not go straight to the toggles?

Oh and I'm fairly sure I've lost around an extra 1gb of phone storage to 'other'
 
Yeah, I remember it being an issue on the N5 that for some weird reason they got rid of the function to clear the app's with a single press!

Was hoping the HTC lollipop would have ironed out the annoying features!
 
mame said:
well my first impressions are,
I really don't like the 2-stage pull down menu. Why show me a narrow bar saying 'no notifications', why not go straight to the toggle
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Yeh, what's up with that, I'm on GPE lollipop and, just why?

Battery seems fine to me tbh.

StevieP said:
bypass the lock screen all together - my phone used to go straight to the pattern unlock screen!
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That's another annoyance, I use a pin, but still, double tap to wake, then I have to swipe to reveal the pin screen, wwhyyyyyy!!!!!!
 
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mattyfez said:
That's another annoyance, I use a pin, but still, double tap to wake, then I have to swipe to reveal the pin screen, wwhyyyyyy!!!!!!
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If the screen's off and you swipe up rather than double tab, does it go straight to the pin screen? Works for me (though I use a pattern.)

If not check the Motion Gesture settings if you want to use the swipe method.
 
mame said:
I seem to have lost the ability to close all apps with a single tap?

Oh and I'm fairly sure I've lost around an extra 1gb of phone storage to 'other'
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And is it just me or does the "X" in the corner not appear for a second or so? So if you go in to close stuff, you have to wait for that to appear. Why not just show it straight away???

Is the lost space just the update file sitting in the downloads folder maybe?
 
CF93 said:
If the screen's off and you swipe up rather than double tab, does it go straight to the pin screen? Works for me (though I use a pattern.)
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Works for me which sort of gets around the problem I guess - will just take me a while to get used to it!

CF93 said:
And is it just me or does the "X" in the corner not appear for a second or so? So if you go in to close stuff, you have to wait for that to appear. Why not just show it straight away???
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It's not the swiping away that bothers me, it's the single press for killing all that I miss!

Note for Google - If it ain't broke don't ******* fix it!!!! :mad:
 
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