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[HTC One X] kokusho:
the Galaxy S3 is EVERY-fu**-WHERE. On every wall of every city of the whole univers, in every store that sell stuff !

The iPhone is everywhere else.

The One X ? Where is it ? it's on the internet and some carrier. Sometimes.

Of course it won't sell as much.
[HTC One X] stezo2k:
The S3 is everywhere where I live, just as popular as the iPhone

Sadly not many One X's around, most of them are ones I have sold xD
[HTC One X] vua777:
HTC's TV ads are sh.t, Who care about a man falling from the sky with a phone
[HTC One X] zkytmilad:
dunno what HTC's values and biggest customer groups are.

They kinda try to reach out to everybody., but that's too simple.
[HTC One X] nikzDHD:
Branding is really important, Samsung GT-i9300 does not sound as good as Samsung Galaxy SIII, Or HTC S720e, hardly anyone goes around saying "oh look a my S720e, or Oh look at my GT-i9300". They'd much rather say "Look at my HTC One X or my Samsung Galaxy S3". So branding does play a part and Samsung with their previous 2 S line series had a launchpad for the 3rd device and branding is galore everywhere.

In London we have buses covered in fully white with S3 branding, also being an Olympic sponsor has helped them a lot with this regards. Everywhere you go you are bound to see Samsung branding some form or the other.

HTC do need to do better but I doubt they have the budget as Samsung do. Samsung is a massive company with ££££s all over the place and HTC don't compare!
[HTC One X] LakshayX:
+1 ..the advertising is just crap..they should have shown the performace of quad core, the mighty screen, camera n NFC n stuff..

N people get your facts right..its called HTC One because its a collaboration between HTC and ONE & Co. Of USA..

One & Co. are the designers of One series and we all know that they did a brilliant job..so I dont mind their name being attached here :thumbup:

Sent from my Stunning White HTC One X
[HTC One X] shadehh:
Ever since i'm on my HoX on version 2.15 i forgive them all their faults as well as not having a battery as long lasting as the SGS 3. Smooth sense on this beautiful screen feels really GREAT i tell you. GREAT! Just a few weeks ago i was *****ing cause it was my first time experience with htc and it was not the best impact on a new customer IMO.

Anyways, back to what OP is saying. Actually you my friend seem to be very right when it comes to the Desire branding. The only android phone i've owned before my HOX was the samsung galaxy s device, not really ever giving a rat's ass about any other devices out there. The one device that i did often hear about every once in a while (despite not even really paying much attention to other devices or keeping up with news) was the "Desire", "Desire HD" & didn't Htc also have a desire Z? And s? Either way, whenever i heard of those phones i knew people were talking about a worthy device despite not having read a lot about it. Customers seemed to also have mainly positive feedback about it(?)

Would have been cool if they named the HoX , Htc Desire X(?) - either way.. i hope they do manage to score in future cause after having this HoX it really feels premium compared to the SGS 3 in my opinion. Compared them in the shop again a week ago... god is the sgs dull and the look ugly compared to the HoX. Don't get me started on touchwiz. We have a devices here that's really capable of a lot, but marketing has us thinking SGS 3 is inferior. And yes.. it is inferior.. when it comes to the way it's being marketed ;)
[HTC One X] a704e:
The whole point of rebranding is to show a different product, which is what HTC wanted to do.

One X to rule them all.
[HTC One X] TheBrilliantMistake:
HTC did well for 3 - 4 years starting with the Diamond - which was the first truly 'show me off' phone. Of course they had lots o other devices before then, but none which where truly innovative in the same way as the Diamond. 'Sense' was sexy back in the day.

After 4 years, they've struggled to add more eye candy in a way that didn't his the phone on performance,and often it added little to the functionality either.

The hardware had been pretty cutting edge for their flagship phones, but they've failed to capitalise on that, and other manufacturers (Samsung in particular, but to some extent Sony / SonyEricsson as was) have comparable devices.

HTC are also giving out all the wrong PR messages with promises of 'upgrades' then renaging on those promises and giving implausible reasons for their change of heart. Truth is, they are being hit hard by the competition and are cutting back their costs - to some extent at the expense of us, the consumer.

One of the prime reasons for my HTC loyalty over the years has been the wide availability of custom ROMS, sleek hardware design, and performance. My One-X will be my last HTC purchase, and I'll most likely have to change to Samsung, or even Apple (yes Apple).

The entire Android ecosystem is a mess. I worked for Symbian for some time, and Android is exhibiting many of the same traits that killed off Symbian - fragmented and confused platform, a lack of consistent and professionally presented applications (yes, there are many great apps, but they are dwarfed by the masses of mediocre offerings), and a distinct lack of accessories. There are so many philosophical arguments in favour or Android (as there was for Symbian over Windows Mobile), but in the end, the market makes or breaks things.

Don't get me wrong, Android is great. Android phones are great. But when I want top quality apps, or accessories, Android isn't delivering. When I upgrade OS from Gingerbread to ICS, I expect my leading apps to work - many break. When I chance from ICS to JB, the same crap happens.

How many times do we see 'Not working on SG3' for leading apps? We put up with it because we are techy nerds on a forum. The market isn't putting up with it.

I bought my One-X second hand - from a place where literally hundreds of folks are ditching Android phones to go back to iPhone.

Such a shame, but that's the reality of Android's poor UI (which is getting better, but still needs work), the lack of quaility control in the Market (oops 'Play' store) and the fragmented nature of the hardware platforms. Couple that with Google's tendency to start talking 'big' ideas before developing a proper strategy (then discover their mistakes), and you're left with a mess.
[HTC One X] scotty2012:
Quietly brilliant. Enough said.
[HTC One X] i900frenchaddict:
I can't completly agree with OP, even if he's not wrong to (Galaxy s2=>s3 is a good example)

But in HTC's history, you mustn't forget the HD2. Of course there's the desire, that became HD, but the HD2 is for me THE evice that boosted HTC's reputation: it was the very first "non-apple" multitouch (well dual touch) device, and more, with Snapdragon 1 and WVGA, what a beast at that time!

Many geeks chose HTC because of the HD2, it was so technically superior! Then we all started to expect the "HTC HD3" as the next flagship, a phone that would kill everything!

But HTC decided it would be HD7, because of Windows Phone 7. For me, keeping this "HTC HD" brand for the HD7 was a mistake, because the HD7 was not an extreme flagship, not the real successor of the HD2. Now the "HD" brand has been abandonned, we'll never see the sooooo expected "next HD2"

So changing name can be bad, or sometimes good, the most important is not to disappoint customers, and many were kinda disappointed with the Sensation, jealous from the GS2, and decided to go for the GS3 instead of the HOX not because the HOX is not as good as the GS3, but because HTC went wrong in 2011, disappointing geeks and devs with S-ON stuff, narrow screens, and more factory defects than before (cracking screens, wifi deathgrip, scrapped cases......the HD2 and Desire HD were almost all the same and all almost perfect in build quality!)
[HTC One X] maniacaus:
It doesn't matter what it's called in my opinion. What matters is the influence the "expert" in the phone store has on the customer. If you don't know much about android, you don't really care as long as some smart guy says that it's the best.

I think this is true for perhaps 70% of smartphone sale decisions.
[HTC One X] neovalkyr:
The HTC EVO seems to be a brand name I remember hearing about it before I really knew anything about android phones.
[HTC One X] crsnwby:
Come on girls, lets not forget its a phone, not a life, for christ sake I dont care if its called a "HTC rent boy". Im dont give a fuk what its called as long as it works... barely.

Just becuse you have a desire "bag of ****"... doesnt mean HTC want to tarnish their name with a desire X just because your a tard and want people to think you are some sort of hero for buying a phone..

Shot answer is... fuk off and stop whining you nonce.
[HTC One X] Gambler_3:
They have lord google to fall back on now. :cool:
[HTC One X] Gambler_3:
lol you mad bro I dont even have a desire phone....:rolleyes:
[HTC One X] NEUR0M4NCER:
Thank you!

I couldn't have said it better myself.
[HTC One X] psinno:
Since this is wrong I'm going to have to ignore the rest of your comment.
[HTC One X] 24inchsub:
agreed terrible adverts and too many crappy phones in their past have finally caught up with them .. i have a sneaky feeling facebook may just buy them
[HTC One X] muamers:
Its realy funny this topic lol i mean how can someone compare HTC (just cellphones), APPLE (cellphone, conputer, tablets) and SAMSUNG (everything!!!) ... Samsung and Apple are one of the biggest companys out there and they CAN spend billions (x100) for marketing and research ... HTC is a smal company that can win some customers just with inovations, quality and design other then Samsung that makes such a ugly phone and sells it better than HTC. And whys that? One word: "brainwash" ... Apple has stupid customers that are willing topay them 800$ just for the brand.

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC One X] Gambler_3:
It's not as simple as you make it sound. 2 years ago nobody even cared about samsung in the smartphone industry. A company has to recover all the money spent on advertising through sales if you cant then they wont advertise no matter how much money they have. Samsung doesnt spend millions advertising their less popular product lines because they know the money wont be recovered.

I think the sensation is really what led to the downfall. The galaxy S wasnt completely overpowering the desire HD but the S2 really killed the sensation.
[HTC One X] celticking:
Someone clearly doesn't understand branding. The idea of the One brand is to build a global brand. One phone, one name. One product. One that is differentiated. HTC previously threw out a million names. They are seeking to correct that and create a recognizable brand. Once the name and recognition takes off, they capitalize by forcing carriers worldwide to accept the name, building a recognizable brand. Apple has iPhone, Samsung has Galaxy, HTC has One. One X, One S, it doesn't matter. They are part of a ideally soon to be recognized brand. Desire? Awful brand, regardless of how it was received. You're telling mw, in the future, "Desire" can compete with the likes of Galaxy and iPhone? It's a childish name. "One" is more sophisticated and ideally, recognizable in the future. HTC paid the price for offering countless models with different names. They are correcting the branding issue with that.

Believe me, as someone who works in the advertising world, brand is more.important than product. HTC is seeking to build a brand of sophistication and "desire" is nowhere near those plans. The "One" branding is to compete with Apple and Samsung.

Sent from my EVO
[HTC One X] TheBrilliantMistake:
Apple have been in a terrible state in the past, it's only their iPod and subsequent iPhone and iPad success that's made them huge. Their computer sales were never particularly impressive until folks started liking their phones, and liked the idea of OSX.

Samsung (like Sony) have a finger in many pies, but for a long time they were nowhere in the phone market, then rapidly emerged to 5th position about 5 years ago. LG did the same, only LG's success was short lived, and Samsung have gone from strength to strength. BUT none of this is particularly important when it comes to a company making the right design choices and treating their customer base well (or certainly not promising what they can't deliver).

HTC DID manage to make some incredible design decisions with the Diamond / Sense, but they stretched out that initial success too far, to the point where 5 years on, Sense hasn't really moved on (certainly not 5 years worth of progress), and the very high end flagship devices haven't been able to assert their authority in any significant manner. I have a 2 year old Desire HD that pretty much handles everything my One X does. For all the One X's superior fire power, for day to day use, it offers nothing. Voice recognition's not better, camera quality is no great improvement (although the burst mode is a very welcome feature). The highly questionable placement of USB and headphone sockets is arguably a step backwards. Sense itself is being stripped back, and STILL has lag issues from time to time.

HTC took their foot off the gas, whilst the competition stepped on it. Rather than focus on a few fantastic phones, HTC thought they could spin off lots of variants and make more money that way. What they ended up with was a lot of 'good' devices, and no truly great ones. The One X's window of almost greatness was about 2 months, thanks to SG3 which has had a wider consumer appeal.

HTC have also chosen not to acknowledge that SOME of their success was the 'hackability' of their devices. If you wanted a custom ROM, then HTC was your safest bet, thanks to the wide base of developers working on their products - even back in the old XDA days. Now, they are slowly closing off sections of that community, and thus making a HTC purchase less attractive for many of us geeks. That means we stop recommended HTC to friends and family too (who only got into HTC because we guided them in that direction, and steered them from iPhone etc).

I do like my One X, but there's no real WOW factor there. It's simply more of the same from HTC, with a bit more processing power and lot more restriction..
[HTC One X] Arsaw:
HTC thought that Galaxy brand success is because of Galaxy Nexus. HTC also have Nexus One. So they decided to use "One" as their branding this year hopefully to emulate Samsung success. Turn out HTC is wrong again. Too bad.
[HTC One X] TheBrilliantMistake:
Brand is NEVER more important than product. Brand only serves to emphasise and draw attention to an identity which hopes to create a stronger impression at the point of sale.

In the end, bad products are bad products and they can ruin a brand.

The world's most successful brands weren't formulated to BE brands - Ford, GM, Coca Cola, McDonald's etc. They evolved as highly recognisable brands.

'One' will last about 18 months, and isn't HTC's world beating brand identity anymore than Motorola's Razr, or Nokia Lumia's are.

If 'One' IS their grand plan, then the sales figures show it's a flawed one. When companies start believing brand is more important than product, all is lost. The two go hand in hand, and neither can function fully without the other. But above all, a product CAN succeed without brand, but brand can never succeed without product.

HTC are scrambling around with a confused message - 'One' isn't one product is it? There were already three distinct variants of it at launch! Whilst iPhone also has variants, they are readily understood by the consumer - since it's typically Black / White / 32gig / 64gig etc. HTC's One is far from that.

Further more, the 'Beats' fiasco isn't helping. They bought into the Beats brand and made a mess of that (failing to actually honour their contract) - which now means the Beats brand isn't controlled by HTC anymore.

HTC, Quietly Brilliant, Beats, One = confused consumer message, poor market segmentation of product range, and indicative of a company scrambling for a magical fix to mediocre products (resulting in mediocre sales).

You can't argue with the market, and the market is telling HTC to get its act together, or it'll go down the same road as Motorola and SonyEricsson.
[HTC One X] averygagaanroid:
Marketing does affect sales but what kills them is not their branding or marketing. Their products are just not as competitive as Samsung or Apple, and neither is their pricing. And the former customers who bought the faulty handets and went through the horrendous customer service help to spread the words around too. The One X got a lot of advertising in Sydney at launch too but a lot of people just did not want to buy one because "HTC is bad. My friend/ brother/ sister etc. has used them." Honestly I went from being obsessed w the One X and even dreaming about it, to not even getting one if it's sold for more for $200, knowing that I'll probably get some issues w it.
[HTC One X] Gambler_3:
Nexus has never really been a best seller. Even the name "galaxy" couldnt make the galaxy nexus compete with S2 in sales. Indeed marketing plays a HUGE role you almost never see ads for nexus phones because I think it's google which has to spend on it's advertising not samsung.
[HTC One X] Gambler_3:
Indeed you have 4 versions now not 3 the one X, XL, S and V. Also the AT&T one X is actually the one XL how ridiculous is that.

And whats up with HTC gimping the one S and XL with 16GB memory only? Do they want to give an "edge" to the one X with something as essential as storage memory? Does HTC think somebody who doesnt like the one S because of lower memory will buy one X? Oh no HTC you fail to realise how many other options the consumer has it's not just the one X and S that exist. :rolleyes:
[HTC One X] zerhoe:
Sensation was trash, one line has too many variants, it has to be explained which is the best etc. Whereas when you buy a galaxy s you know its the best Samsung has to offer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gsxr1kmatt:
I went for a run yesterday with my phone and it got a little damp. Really only a little. I'm really surprised I'm having issues as it has gotten more wet than this in the past.

When I got back I need to charge the phone but when I plugged it in it wouldn't start charging. I've had that issue before so I pulled the battery, put it back in plugged in the charger to charge while powered off. Needed it to charge fast. Anyway, Tried to boot it again, (running CM9, 0522 nightly) and it was hanging on the boot animation indefinitely.. Tried clearing cache, davlik, battery stats, everything and it wouldn't work. I tried a nandroid backup and it took forever and gave an error while backing up data. I tried again and it threw an error instantly while backing up the bootloader.

I gave up and did a full wipe and tried to reinstall CM9. No luck.

I wiped it again and luckily had a copy of HDRevolution still on the phone so I installed that after running the "super wipe" app for it. It booted to that just fine.

Tried CM9 again and it didn't boot. Freakin frustrating.

Any ideas on what to do here?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sublimaze:
If you booted to a useable state, then you don't need to worry about water damage. Download cm9 again and reinstall
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltsfan4life:
I installed the AOSP JELLY BEAN 4.1.1_r1 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1765288) the other day and it was working fine. The problem is, I used it too much and the battery died on me. Fine. So I plugged it in to my pc via usb to charge it up. The Kindle fire boots to the TWRP triangle and then instantly shuts off. Well I thought maybe the battery is just really drained so I left it plugged in and went to work. Got home and it was still doing the same thing; boots to the TWRP triangle and then instantly shoots off and repeats. I unplugged the usb and tried using the outlet charger; same thing. Disconnected and tried to turn it on and nothing happens.

Figured I maybe bricked it somehow (even though i didnt update, delete, wipe anything). So I tried using the unbrick command lines...nothing. Tried the KFU cant find my device since it shuts off every 2secs.

I cannot figure out whats going on. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veeman:
Plug it into the charger and hold down the power button until it shuts off. Then wait for a 2-4 and check back on it.

Once it boots back normally make sure to update FFF and TWRP.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltsfan4life:
That didn't work. I plugged it in with the ac adapter and it wouldn't allow me to turn it off (i plugged it in then tried to turn it off). I let it sit for 8hrs and still boots up to the TWRP logo and instantly turns off and wont even turn on without it being plugged in. Thanks
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
Hold the power button down for 1 min it should shut off
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marek.dvk:
it still does not work

Please post here some detailed instructions to turn on this device.

I'm tired of holding on and buttons in different combinations.

Sorry for bad English
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
If you have fff 1.4 a there really is no magic combination just simply power it off and plug it in via usb to your computer. If you do not have fff 1.4a then look here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kishorev:
Did u leave it to charge overnight.. cos i also had the same problem, which i primarily due to low battery charge..

Connect it to the charger and let it charge if possible overnight.. then try switching it on.. it shd definitely work

Read the below link.. u will get an idea as to why it is happening

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Farabomb:
Looked around and I seem to be the only one with this issue. Beans R6 with Jellybomb and LG1 radio. It started a week or two ago when I'd be upstairs and I'd loose wireless, chrome would FC and it would come right back. Could it be becasue I'm very much on a fringe area? I'd wake up to the roaming warning every once and a while but. I didn't have this issue with my charge and it's not the router becasue it's now happening when I'm sitting with the router 2 feet away. The woman's charge is having no issue with roaming or connecting.

I have paranoid and CM10 nandroids so I'm going to try CM10 tonight to see if it still does it. Any suggestions are welcome.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] seittit:
Use Wifi Analyzer from the market place and report you signal strength
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Farabomb:
Already have it installed. I will post back when I get home.

Well it isn't the ROM, as soon as I got home it did it twice on CM10.

Wireless is reading -45 with wifi analyzer. Pretty sure it's not the router. The router is a netgear N600 if that helps any. Seems I loose cell signal and it freaks out the wifi causing it to reconnect. Quite annoying.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Farabomb:
Bump for added info.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bygdogg:
I have the Team Sonic- FreeGS3 v0.0.8.1 Rom and I do not like the sonic boot animation. Is there a way to change it? I love Clark's work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
Yes... Use the UpdateMe app....
[XPERIA X8 General] impster:
Ok, just installed the latest (non test/beta) V6 Supercharger. It seems to have changed a lot of settings as it was 'doing it's thing', but, do I need to do anything else? Or does V6 Supercharger find a balance of improved settings when it installs itself?

There's a menu with a load of options. Which would be best for a rooted x8, ALFs kernel, odexed, on GDX028b?

Options 2-4 are '256HP' (MB?)

Options 5-7 are '512HB'

Options 8-9 are '768+HP'.

Which is best - I don't do gaming, phone is used as a phone, sms, camera, email and browsing.

Many thanks

Impster
[XPERIA X8 General] ngoralph:
find lukneda's post about supercharger setting :)
[XPERIA X8 General] cascabel:
+1. And are you on stock kernel? If you are, better use v8.

Sent from my rooted tomato
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
I am using v6,will play with v8 later.. thank for tip cascabel;)

You sure cant use any settings for 512mb if ram coz our x8 dosent have enough.