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[HTC One S] Untouchab1e:
To be honest, I think you would be doing us all a great favor if you sent it in. If the repair center can document the issue, that could make HTC acknowledge the problem and start thinking about how they are going to resolve it. But obviously I totally understand that you might be hesitant to take the risk. Sucks to be without a phone :)
[HTC One S] Teddy ruxpin:
7 Days without a phone? are they taking the proverbial!!

Give it 48 hours and one their Facebook page is hammered with complaints and more and more articles come out, they will have to sort it out sharpish otherwise it will be a PR disaster.
[HTC One S] rboekee:
Perhaps they'll do an apple and offer us all free crappy cases!
[HTC One S] Dam4rusxp:
Does this mean that we can root / S-OFF our devices without losing warranty for this problem with the faulty unibody?

Also: Is there already a method to S-ON the device again like with the Sensation? I'm already getting pretty annoyed from all the ads :D
[HTC One S] thekitkatshuffler:
Just got mine delivered. I'm going to open it only as much as to see if it's the black version (T Mobile UK don't specify on their site) and if it is then I'm posting it straight back until this issue is resolved. Will get a One X instead if needs be as I'm damned if I'm ending up with a £400 phone looking like this after a few days normal use...

:eek:
[HTC One S] ILoveAndroid77:
For the german speaking guys, got this answer Form HTC regarding the chipping...

Vielen Dank für Ihre Anfrage bezüglich Ihres HTC One

Aus Ihrer Email geht hervor, dass Sie gegenwärtig folgende Probleme haben. Es tut mir sehr leid, dass Sie Schwierigkeiten mit Ihrem HTC Gerät haben und wir können uns nur dafür entschuldigen und für die Komplikationen.

Momentan liegen uns noch keinen genauren Information vor wie das problem geloesst wird. Sie muessen nochmal abwaten leider. Wir bitten Sie daher noch um ein wenig Geduld und wir sind zuversichtlich dass bald neue Informationen zur Verfügung stehen und hoffen, Sie haben hierfür Verständnis.

Um Ihnen bestmöglichst weiterhelfen zu können, ich werde das Eintragen und dementsprechend weiterleiten an unsere Entwicklungsabteilung. HTC ist ein vorausdenkendes Unternehmen und schätzt jedes Feedback, welches wir von unseren Kunden erhalten. Ich werde Ihre Kommentare notieren an die zuständige Abteilung zur Überprüfung weiterleiten. das is momentan die einzige was ich auch dafuer tun kann damit das in Zukunft keine Probleme macht.

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[HTC One S] thekitkatshuffler:
For the English speaking guys, here's a quick Google Translation...

Thank you for your inquiry regarding your HTC One

From your e-mail stating that you currently have the following problems. I'm very sorry you are having difficulty with your HTC device and we can only apologize for this and the complications.

Is the moment we have not yet been solved genauren information as before the problem. You must abwaten again unfortunately. We therefore ask you still confident for your patience and we are soon to be new information and hope you will understand this.

To further help you the best possible way, I will pass on the Register and accordingly to our development department. HTC is a forward thinking company and appreciates any feedback we receive from our customers. I will note your comments to the appropriate department for review forward. which is currently the only thing I can do this in the future so that's no problem.

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[HTC One S] SFP:
Sort of off-topic, but perhaps not so much if people are considering changing their orders.

I don't think the harsh glare of shoplighting does the grey (gradient metal) much justice - under more subtle, natural light I love the way the different shades appear as you move the phone.
[HTC One S] MemphisLeak:
I was really looking forward to purchasing the black one s, now I'm doubting I will buy one at all. Grey one just isn't that great looking to justify the 10gb memory, non removable battery and inferior screen. One x on the other hand has poor battery life, questionable build quality and less performance power. HTC you dissapoint.
[HTC One S] mardon85:
Did a google translate on that and it didn't make much sense.
[HTC One S] Geegeeoh:
Mine is fine... so far.

Got it from Amazon.uk (in Italy the price is +100€, no idea why).

S/N: SH23.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
If I have any marks on my device best believe I'm sueing HTC.
[HTC One S] unclespoon:
I bet T-Mobile's pretty happy they're getting the grey anodized version first in the states!
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I'm getting mine from T-Mobile hope it's fine.
[HTC One S] jaywhy13:
Yeah... they'd best make a new black one with 32 gb or SD card slot (wishful thinking) and FAST.
[HTC One S] MemphisLeak:
that would actually be the perfect phone for me.

I don't think anything will be solved in this thread because people are too passive about the whole issue. Electronics manufacturers care very little about these "non-issues" until there is a ****storm of recalls, complaints, bad press. Maybe the best route of action is to inform gadget bloggers and media outlets about this problem. They do love a good story.
[HTC One S] psych0t1c:
Well, I do believe the truth is somewhere in the middle.

BTW, has anyone taken note of his packaging?

So far there are SH23 and HT23 starting S/N out. When I got mine I had the vendor open it to check completeness and that one had an adhesive sticker on the back and the regular display protection sheet on the front. On that device I noticed that the SIM card cover was misaligned with the rest of the unibody ever so slightly and asked to see another one. That one was OK but packed differently, it only had a loose plastic foil on which the phone was lieing.

Is this an indication of two manufacturing sites? Or just different packing lines? Are the SH23 and HT23 a sign of different manufacturing sites? Mine is a HT23 and I even when looking sharp I cannot find anything wrong with it after handling it totally normally (i.e. not extremely careful) and carrying it in my jeans. It would be interesting to hear those with issues mention their initial packaging, maybe there is a trend there...

And my intention was not to discredit users in general for being noobish or careless, nor is it an attempt in washing the (presumed) guilt of off HTC liability, what I am interested in is maybe figuring out a trend.

Cause those who have emailed HTC now and gotten the "return to vendor as DOA" or "ship it to our engineers so we can check it out" text blocks will probably have a VERY HARD time arguing or proving that it was NOT caused by careless behavior and is indeed a manufacturing defect. I mean they market the phone as scratch-resistant not scratch-proof so that is kind of a wobble there. What norm to apply to define "resistant"? If we were able to peg it down to a certain manufacturing site or packing site or whatever those users would have a better argument when returning their devices.
[HTC One S] Teddy ruxpin:
I think you might find they have...

Cnet, Ubergizmo, HTC Facebook page, Intomobile..
[HTC One S] psych0t1c:
Honestly, even to germans, the german version appears weird. Wrong grammatics, weird syntax and quite a few spelling mistakes. Aside from being boilerplate textblocks, it could actually be a online translation from something else to german as well.
[HTC One S] punyategar:
Maybe someone should start a thread on an unscratch black unibody one s.

I dont own the unit nor do i plan to. Just trying to see the other side of the case.
[HTC One S] Untouchab1e:
SH23 and HT23 are simply an indication of where and when it was assembled. 2012, March (3). I believe HT is Taiwan and SH is China. This was mentioned earlier in the thread.

Interesting note about the packaging though..
[HTC One S] netrowdy:
SZ = Shenzhen, China

SH = Shanghai, China

HT = Hsinchu, Taiwan

CH = Wuhan, China
[HTC One S] kolyan:
HTC always disappoints. pretty much just like many other brands. i just dont understand why its hard to make 100% functioning device. its not like they made it 1-2 months ago....
[HTC One S] jaywhy13:
Maybe HTC used Google Translate too.

Anyways... now that I think about it... this whole coat stripping thing is pretty upsetting.. it'll add to the list of things you're STUCK with for this phone and the multiple single points of failure for this device.

Battery is non-removable, you can't just buy a new housing, stuck with 9 gigs... etc.. etc...

I'm having second thoughts about the One S.
[HTC One S] ILoveAndroid77:
As the one who received the text: the sender name was a name which is not common for Germany. Looks like Benelux / mainly Nederlands.

I think the support is centralised somewhere and there are german speaking employees, which don't speak german as native language.

But it was not translated from another language, for sure.
[HTC One S] mardon85:
^^Good post psch0t1c^^

I'm not sure about sending it back to HTC in case they do try and say I have damaged it which I KNOW I haven't. I'm inclined to wait a few more days and see if the problem becomes more widespread and HTC become more aware of the problem.

I think we should ether do a new thread or add a poll to the OP so we can gauge how many people are affected thus far.
[HTC One S] OldЕr:
Good idea. And it will be good to note the S/N letters in the poll options, something like these:

1. [SH23 / HT23] Issued

2. [SH23 / HT23] Not issued

3. [Other] Issued

4. [Other] Not Issued

And maybe "Issued / Not issued" options for the grey one model.

P.S Waiting for the black One S model from the UK...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sniper8752:
I noticed that with my asus keyboard, there is no speech to text setting? also, what is this "world-looking" symbol in the lower left corner of the keyboard? i thought it would have to do with the internet or something, but does not seem to do anything...

p.s. why can't we post questions in the "Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps" section?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tweaked:
http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...358-tip-list-shortcut-keys-keyboard-dock.html

Learn to search.....

You can't post questions in theme and apps because its for talking about themes and apps and we have a question forum.....alltho, Google is your friend.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sniper8752:
i don't have the keyboard dock though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Goatshocker:
I dont understand why anyone would want to use the ASUS stock keyboard as their on-screen keyboard. That keyboard is just awful.

Get a better keyboard! Like Hackers keyboard. Its awesome and does have the speech-to-text button.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
There have been posts about this here and there, but most of them are just asking for advice on how to do it. I plan to follow through and document the solutions I find.

Why, you ask? I don't like Google having so much data on me. I used to not care but in today's environment with SOPA and new NSA data centers and whatnot, well... maybe I'm paranoid but I don't necessarily want anyone to so easily have such a complete profile of all my searches, contacts, location history, etc. Anyway, if you think it's dumb, ok, got it, move along please.

So if I don't like Google then why use Android? Well, a couple of reasons. First of all, Google is not Android. Android is maintained by the Android Open Source Project, which in turn is made up of members of the Open Handset Alliance. Yes, Google is the lead member of the Open Handset Alliance, and yes most of the developers working on the Android Open Source Project are Google employees. But I've been following Android for long enough now to know that Google and Android are for all practical purposes separate entities.

The second reason is because Android is simply the best mobile operating system on the planet right now, and it is free open-source software. I use Ubuntu on my laptop, and I'm not interested in switching to Windows or Mac, so that pretty much rules out iPhone or Windows Phone right there.

But isn't Android really Google's OS? Yes and No. As I mentioned, Google does pretty much run the AOSP, along with device manufacturers. But AOSP is very "provider agnostic." Much of what you see on your phone is not from AOSP. The Galaxy Nexus is a GOOGLE device, not an AOSP device. Gmail, Maps, Market, Location Tracking, etc are all GOOGLE ADDITIONS and are NOT a part of AOSP! When you build AOSP from source (or Cyanogenmod), you end up with an agnostic, neutral device that has practically no mention of anything Google whatsoever.

But what about what you DONT have in AOSP? No Market??? No Gmail??? How can you possibly use Android without these things? Well that is exactly what I intend to find out.

Please feel free to contribute to the discussion with ideas and questions. Hopefully this thread can eventually be helpful for someone else who comes along and wants to do something similar.

More posts to follow as I progress....

EDIT: I should add, I also will try to avoid other "free" services like Yahoo! and Hotmail-- basically anyone who wants to run bots through your mail to sell you ads or sell your data to others who want to sell you ads, etc. I will be trying to use open-source or for-pay services where possible (if it's "free" then YOU'RE the product!).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonnythan:
I commend your ambition, but this is nothing new. There are already non-Google Android handsets an tablets on the market. The Kindle Fire, for example, is non-Google.

You can do the same with a GNex. Just don't add a Google account or use a ROM without the gapps. Install the Amazon App Store, change your default search, and away you go.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] subxero123:
please...stay safe
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Colemak:
Personally the only Google apps I use are Gmail and the Play store, with an occasional use of maps and goggles.

Having a market is really just for convenience, you could install with APKs like on Windows you have to install from EXEs or MSIs. And if you're that against google you could just use the Amazon marketplace for stuff, though I've heard they take longer to receive updates.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
In all honesty I don't know what to suggest except flashing 100% and not signing into Google services in any way or form. What you are asking is not possible unless you use apks from non market source and using Hotmail or something.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus expect possible typos.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sashavegas:
If somebody figure out how to use Calendar, without creating google account for at least one time, or tell me the alternative calendar (not just widget) that will not sync with google, it would be nice. For example Smasung TW Launcher has it's own calendar, that you can choose, without google, but pure ICS does not have.

I have tryed many alternative, such as Jorte, Pocket Informant, etc, but they are far away from stock ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tx2stepn:
I use:

1mobile.net

4shared.com (You also get 15gb cloud space free)

appbrain.com (get app from 4shared)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] case0:
I absolutely love Google and all of their services. You're crazy! Good luck with it though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nutsonfire:
Somebody needs to come out with a tinfoil hat edition ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
THIS is the point of the thread. Replacing Android Market with Amazon App Stores is completely simple and obvious. Getting contacts and calendar syncing, things like that are not so obvious. Mainly because I am not only going to avoid Google, but other services like Yahoo! or Hotmail, etc (anything that's "free" so they can monetize your data).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChongoDroid:
Stay off the grid bro

Sent from my francoPhone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Exactly! Lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AndroidNeophyte:
Once you're connected to the internet, you're pretty much open to everyone... You can go offline if you don't want any of these... It's not only google... There's ways you can go anonymous like using proxy.... Using search engine that don't track search data... Google has an option for you to opt-in or opt out... Just like the previous responses, you can use amazon but don't think amazon doesn't track you also... How would they know what to recommend you... Google don't force users to stick only to them... And that's why I like google for this reason only...

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with Beats Audio
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AndroidNeophyte:
There should be some third party app that will do these things, well you use linux, you should know that there's a lot of alternatives... Try if the software you use in ubuntu are available for android

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with Beats Audio
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AndroidNeophyte:
Try this one, if you use thunderbird. Seems decent...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callicia.birdiesync

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with Beats Audio
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
The point isn't really to be 100% anonymous. That would require a dumbphone with prepaid sim or VPN/Proxy setups etc, and that's not what I'm look at. The point is to make an experiment and see how "non-Google" AOSP really is and how useful it is as a mobile OS on its own, without Google proprietary add-ons. Many people say you "have to have a Gmail account to use Android," or "you have to sync your contacts through Gmail" etc and I want to show people how they can do it without Google if they so choose.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Yes, I saw that one and I plan to try it out. I do use Thunderbird, thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crachel:
AOSP + open source Exchange alternative for syncing Calendar/Email/Contacts hosted on your own server (ie Zimbra)

Sideload all apps

Voila!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonnythan:
XDA monetizes your data. Every website does; that's how they pay for hosting and bandwidth.

Use a different calendar app and sync your contacts to Outlook, or just back them up somewhere.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OniV2:
Alright, but you should really start off removing the antenna from your smartphone. Then compile AOSP, don't flash GApps, sideload all APK files.

There, now you're off the grid. Enjoy boredom and next to no convenient functionality.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hp13:
makes no sense. go to Apple
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] syfang:
Online privacy is a myth, most apps and sites log your data and chances are you've been much more exposed than you are imagining now.

You replace playstore with some other store, you use another contact manager, you search with a different engine, you are still screwed. It burns down to who you feel most comfortably with being screwed (pardon the grammar). So if Gapps-screw hurts, turn to another that hurts less.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
I mentioned in the OP, Apple is not really an option for me, because of too many incompatibilities with Ubuntu.

Some people don't want to be forced to use Google services for everything. There isn't much good info about alternatives to Google services for Android. End of story. If you aren't interested then fine.

That's pretty much what I've settled on after an evening of research. I found a really awesome hosted personal cloud service called memotoo.com, with support for dozens of cloud sync services, including two services specifically, Zimbra and Funambol, that have allowed me to sync over-the-air my Contacts, and Calendar.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flyerwire:
i think its funny people don't think Amazon monetizes your data...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Like I said the point is not to becoe completely annonymous online. They point is to find alternatives to Google services that work with Android. Just because Mary Jane Jones buys a Droid doesn't mean she should HAVE to start using Gmail and giving Google access to all her personal data.

Of course someone will always be in your business online but the point is to spread it out instead of enabling Google to have a full and complete profile of every thing about your entire existence. It's one thing for Amazon to know what Apps you use. It's a whole other level for Google to know all your apps, devices, full location history, every search, every click, every site, every video, every email, every contact you have ever emailed or friended on facebook, every event of your life on your calendar, every purchase with your credit card, and on and on.

Besides this thread is only informational and to demonstrate the best solutions for those who might seek them, because as I have found there is not much info on this out there and it is either vague or hard to find. So this will turn into a guide of sorts, and if you don't want to use it, then don't.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Nobody said that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mainmast2:
I rooted and did not initialize Gmail. Side loaded my apps with titanium backup. Froze play store and framework. Also used auto starts to stop unecessary apps from starting. GMaps still functions but I mainly use MapQuest. Orbot is a free Vpn service, not as good as strongvpn which is $7/mo.

Don't forget that the new tos also ties in your Flickr/YouTube accts and Flickr/picasa/Facebook face scan your photos. I use lbe privacy protector, it's pretty good at finding apps tracking your location like the Flickr app does even when you didn't start it.

Privacy is not a thing to be taken for granted. Its a small world. It is known to be a common question for your Facebook password at a job interview. There is legislation working its way thru to stop this type of thing but what's next?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Well I have everything set up now Google-free. But the biggest loss is definitely Android Market. So many apps just aren't available on Amazon. Yeah, I can side load them, but I have to manually try to keep track up updates, what a pain. We'll see how it goes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kwurky:
Android phones sold in many non-Western countries especially Asia already remove Google from the equation. For instance on the stock ROM I have on this Huawei phone provided by one of the national telcos, there is no option to add a Google account for synchronization. The phone can only sync to a Exchange account. There is no Market/Play Store, but one built in third-party app store tailored to the local region and an app store controlled by the telco. Of course apps can still be sideloaded by apk.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
You have to chose the service you perceive as the least evil. I personally chose Google because it is in their best interest to not screw around with their users personal privacy. As soon as they do that the public can and will leave Google in droves. So Google's very existence hinges on their privacy policies with their users. Plus they have the fed on their back.

Its definitely a good experiment though to see what's feasible just for a contingency plan.