[One (M7) General] wakers:
Just thought I would start a thread that could be useful about things you didn't know about your HTC one

I only found out tonight that if you swipe down your notification bar with 2 fingers it takes you straight to the shortcut tabs

That made me realise there are probably loads of features and gestures I don't know about?

Here is a list compiled from the thread...

1 : Swipe down with 2 fingers on notification bar takes you straight to shortcuts (Android 4.2 version only)

2 : If you scroll with 2 fingers in contacts, gallery, music, and many other apps, it scrolls much faster (using it in the contacts list goes through the alphabet, using it in the text converstaion list goes through dates of conversations)

3 : You can pinch zoom text-messages

4 : Double tap your Bluetooth button with camera active to remotely take a snap

5 : In camera, from the top swipe down and it'll switch from back to front camera and viceversa

6 : Tapping on the statusbar while in the app drawer or blinkfeed, music, people, and message app brings you straight up

7 : You don't have to pull up the lock or the time on the lock screen - swipe up anywhere to unlock your phone. Same goes for answering a call

8 : You can increase the volume on your tv via the volume rocker on your phone instead of the on screen buttons

9 : Quickly double tapping the home button brings up the recent apps list

10 : Three finger swipe from left to right on the homescreen brings you to share files menu

11 : You can adjust the brightness of the torch/flashlight with the volume rocker

12 : Hold down the power button and tap the home key to take a screenshot

13 : Holding the back button in the browser brings you to history

14 : In the photo gallery's edit>effects screen (under the magic wand icon), you can customise every preset by tapping and holding its thumbnail and dragging it to the "customise" bar that appears on the right. You can even start applying custom effects from scratch by doing this with the "no effects" thumbnail. You can then save the created preset

Also on that screen, pressing the 'A' button provides options go change the white balance of the picture (as you would normally pre-select in the camera app). A = 'as shot' but you can change it to cloudy, fluorescent, etc and also a couple of options the camera app doesn't have - shady and tungsten.

15 : If you have the camera app open and turn off the phone, the lockscreen will be inactive, meaning when you press the power button again you go straight back to the camera app, no need to unlock

16 : Select "Show Magnifier" in the Accessibility menu and you get a magnifying lens that pops up when you are editing text

17 : Long press home for google now (depending on setup sometimes home and up also takes you to google now)

18 : In Google play if you are listening to a song and have the album artwork up (the screen where you have your pause/play, next/previous track)

You can swipe right to left to skip the track it left to right to go to the previous track. There's a cool sliding in/out animation too.

The coolest feature though, is that you don't have to press back to get back to your library or playlist. You can swipe down from the songbtitle and your library of songs is waiting behind it.

19 : In the Stock Browser go to Menu>Settings>Labs to switch on "Quick Controls". Slide thumb from left or right edge to open quick controls and hide app and URL bars.

Also swipe across the keyboard to easily switch to the numbers and symbols pages!

20 : You can access HTC's hidden Self diagnostic tool by following steps:

Go to dialer,

Dial *#*#3424#*#*

You will enter HTC's self diagnostic tool

You can check if all the parts and sensors on your device is working.

21 : If you're watching tv and have the tv remote enabled and you're getting a call it automatically mutes the tv.

22 : There's a visualizer and karaoke player embedded in the HTC music app. Just click the musical note icon when playing a popular song that's on Gracenote. The app will automatically download lyrics and sync them to the song.

By default, this only works on Wi-Fi. This can be changed in Music settings.

23 : You can also set a different wallpaper for the lockscreen than for the homescreen by going to settings -> personalize -> lockscreen and then settings for the wallpaper lockscreen.

24 : Rotating your calculator to landscape provides scientific functions like sin cos and tan.

25 : if you leave the TV app open to your remote and you lock your phone...it unlocks right back Into the TV remote. I've also noticed it just turning itself on when I pick it up!

26 : There's a cool trick in the camera app.

If you touch to focus, and hold your finger there for about a second, it will activate Focus and Exposure lock, until you tap on another spot, which will turn it off again. It's a handy feature, especially when you want to recompose. (android 4.2 version only)