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[HTC Rezound] zac41189:
Absolutely man any questions you might have feel free to shoot. I'm the same way, 6'4 and hands to match so the SGS4 fits VERY nicely in them. I picked up my Rezound earlier and it felt tiny. And as far as a change of scenery this phone does it. I actually really like touchwiz compared to sense. Features are great and smoothness is phenomenal. Plus I have a feeling SGS4 will be periodically updated with the latest and greatest which is more than I can say for HTC. Rezound was always behind the curve on that one.
[HTC Rezound] sdsubball23:
How is the reception for data and calling compared to the rezound?

Also does the phone lag at all?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jafferkhan:
i've partitioned the card and stuff, am S-Off and on mildwild, i wanted to ask that does removing the battery corrupt apps? i was running vj's 4.1.2 rom and when i removed the battery and reinsterted it, it caused all the apps to malfunction, they were kinda greyed out, what's the theory of this? :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
Hard to know the exact 'theory', also depends on what you were doing when you removed the battery. Things just get corrupted sometimes, was it all your user apps?

On your previous thread you stated you used gparted to partition the sd card, so this shouldnt have caused any issues as long it was just a FAT32 and ext4 partition, no swap.

Anyway, try not to remove the battery unless there's no other option..;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack4L_:
Probably wrong installation caused a misunderstanding between the phisical memory and mounting point for the OS. Another possibility is that the OS change, by a fail, the name of the SD card.

Try to no retire the battery unless it's completely necessary

KR

Enviado desde mi HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jafferkhan:
thank you guys, yes, i partitioned using 4ext this time, and i had to remove the battery to change my sim card, it corrupted all the apps, the ones which i installed myself like outlook, whatsapp and stuff, the ones in the phone's system were ok
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
As in you pulled the battery while the phone was on, just to change SIM?:eek:

Next time power off the phone properly before you do this (hold down power, select power off). If you did that probably wouldn't have caused any issues..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jafferkhan:
Thanks for replying dude...I did turn off the phone before removing the sim card. I think it's just a faulty rom... can you suggest me a stable, fast daily driver ics rom? Tired of being on gingerbread now... need a fast and smooth ics rom that is stable, ics everything working and can be used as a daily driver
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
Not sure you can conclude it was definitely the ROM unless lots of other people have the same issue on reboot, but still does sound strange.

Never used an ICS ROM myself, though I don't think it ever reached fully 'stable' as development shifted more towards JB. People still swear by whichever ROM they settle on to be honest: what is "fast, stable, smooth, daily driver" requirements differ between people.

I'm still on GB ROM personally. Don't think all JB ROMs will have the same problem as you, and like I said may not have been due to your ROM. Read a few of the threads and try a few, is always the best way to find out yourself. Sorry can't give actual experience.
[One (M7) General] VictorC:
Ok, so I got my 4.3 and Sense 5.5 update and, altough there a re a lot of improvements, I'm more pissed off because of some stuff they removed or... ahem... added...

- Why did they remove the lock screens? I know the lock screen widgets are accessible through a right to left swipe in the lock screen, but why remove them altogether? For example, I just want to be able to have a different wallpaper for my lock screen than my home screen...

- Why did they remove the old video highlights themes?I very much welcome the added new settings and permissions for the highlights... Honestly, they're a very big deal. But, for the love of God, why remove the old themes? My favorite (and judging from what I've seen on the internet - youtube, Facebook or HTC Share - "Islandia" is gone... Why? :(

- Why is the NFC logo pinned in the status bar? Why do I have to see that? I have NFC turned on all the time... ::mad:

These are the few things that got me upset about the new Sense 5.5 update. I know that the update has a lot of good new features (and I welcome them all)... But why remove other good features that have been on Sense since I can remember?

Are there other features that have been removed/altered in a bad way?

Please share...

And an UPDATE: I know that they've added a s*it load of new emoticons in the stock SMS app, BUT they made it so that the we cannot see the old ones.

For example, when someone sends me an SMS with an emoticon from HTC One X with Sense 5.0, I just see it as text and they cannot see the new emoticons that I send them... Great thinking HTC ;) (_|_)
[One (M7) General] swiftgs:
Yes. Why the he'll did they removed the medialink hd api?

No more movies on the tv and browsing on the phone at the same time. Really makes the hd medialink useless.
[One (M7) General] mohsinraza:
I wonder how long HTC will take to actually understand how things work.

They removed all weather animations in sense 5. And what they provided in that version is now removed in the latest version.

Are they confused?

Sent From My HTC One
[One (M7) General] Evilus:
You got that working before? For me when I pressed home the clip stopped too. Even on Sense 5. I have not tested on sense 5.5 yet.
[One (M7) General] uronfire:
same here it just closed and didnt do anythig, is there any way of getting this to work
[One (M7) General] Wullie32:
Can't get my head around removing the old themes. I suppose now that there's custom music available you can use the old music easily enough I would imagine but you can't get the old visual effects back. I love Islandia.

Ridiculous decision, I only went to 4.2.2 and got the six new themes in July, three months and they've removed them?!
[One (M7) General] kargy:
It's indeed annoying. I "fixed" this issues with changing NFC on and off via notification toggles or EQS. Thats not a perfect solution but it just takes 2 sec to de-/activate...
[One (M7) General] Corduroy-21:
Custom music is cool but try to upload your video and have all these warning about copyrighted music etc.

The new themes aren't good or aren't there any themes anymore?

Also, did I read that now the duration of the clip is changeable or am I wrong?
[One (M7) General] housewave:
The duration of the clip is variabile, but cannot exceed 30 seconds. Maybe on HTC One Max you can make videos longer than 30 seconds.
[One (M7) General] shishir95:
That's because the old emoticons were just three-character strings that the messaging app interpreted as a smiley. For example (-: turned into :). This caused tons of problems if you were trying to send a more technical text message with tons of parentheses and colons. Now, in Sense 5.5, the emoticons are standard Unicode emoji glyphs that are supposed to be universally compatible with every phone supporting the updated unicode standard. For example, in Android 4.3 (and probably 4.2.2) emojis are partially-implemented. The latest iPhones have a full implementation, as does Google Hangouts (one of the reasons to be excited about Hangouts SMS integration IMO), and now Sense 5.5 has a full implementation of emojis.

The reason your old phone cannot see your new emoticons is because it's either not running a recent enough version of Android or HTC's software on the One X simply does not render the emojis right. Some messaging apps also can strip excess unicode information -- older phones are notorious for this. A simple fix would be to use an alternative SMS/MMS app on the One X, one that fully supports emoji input such as Sliding Messaging Pro, or Textra (don't know if Textra supports ALL of the emoji glyphs, but it has some functionality).

One more note, CM10.x's MMS app also has support for this built-in, so it isn't just some fad that little girls and iPhone users are aware of, it is legitimately an evolving communication standard.
[One (M7) General] fanbogo:
all what you need to do is wait, wait for viper tweaks.
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
Oh yes, I want to disable the lock screen appearing everytime I turn off the screen, so annoying
[One (M7) General] yyl:
The removal of old video themes may be a deal breaker for me. I love some of them absolutely.
[One (M7) General] Montago:
Islandia was one of the only reasons i bought this phone... **** !

please tell me if you find a way to either downgrade or restore the themes :mad:
[One (M7) General] Anonymoos:
Also really miss the the ability to disable lockscreens natively. This https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jraf.android.nolock&hl=en is somewhat of a workaround for those of you in the same boat, doesn't always work perfectly but I haven't found a better solution yet.
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
Yep, will have to wait for ViperOne team to do their magic. I'm sure they'll have an option to disable the lockscreen whilst retaining pin lock
[One (M7) General] ranova:
are you talking about video highlights? I can make videos as long as I want depending on how I clip the song I choose. using ARHD 31.0
[One (M7) General] housewave:
You are right, I was choosing a song that had 26 seconds in my tests and I wasn't paying attention that I cut that song a few months ago to use it as a ringtone. Now I have chosen a song that was 4 minutes and didn't encounter any restrictions.
[One (M7) General] gokberks:
I don't like new Gallery and Music apps. Before update i can change track with swiping albumcover left or right. With this update i can not.
[One (M7) General] MrFEr:
Did you notice that the zoom bar disappeared from the camera interface?
[One (M7) General] tkipcic:
Zoom bar has disappeared so you have to pinch to zoom now but as soon as you do it it reappears .
[One (M7) General] MohamadKarbi:
I want too to have the option of disabling lock screen again.

One more thing, they finally allowed disabling flickr, stocks, notes & tasks apps. But come on, the links for flickr & tasks are still in some other apps even they are disabled. The same thing could be said for Kids Mode app.

Other than that, I'm happy with the new update.
[One (M7) General] phsetaknev:
Saving the video themes

Did anyone figure out how to save the old video highlight themes. I think it might be possible if we make S-OFF and access the root system and save the themes [If im correct at the least]. But can we S-ON again if we do S-off i dont know yet. It would be great if anyone try to find a way to save the old themes before updating. I love them a lot
[One (M7) General] Theshawty:
So a few days ago I sent a tweet to HTC UK regarding the lock screen options being removed in Sense 5.5. They replied this:

https://twitter.com/HTC_UK/status/394864786410045440
[One (M7) General] Namit1994:
It seems like the browser no longer has Reader mode. Can someone else confirm this?
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
Can't find it either o_O
[One (M7) General] VictorC:
So, here is something that I have accidentally stumbled upon: A way to sort off disable the lockscreen and enter the phone just by pressing the power button :laugh:

I installed Windows 8 Lock Screen app from Play Store, I checked it to be the default locker, but after that, after I played around with it, I decide not to keep it active and I unchecked the "Default Locker option". After this, apparently, I have no lock screen whatsoever :D Just press the power button and the phone is unlocked :) Funny
[One (M7) General] mettleh3d:
They removed that video highlights what?!
[One (M7) General] steelmaggot:
use pinch to zoom

sent from my s-off 801n M7_UL
[One (M7) General] kibmikey1:
Confirmed. Other than the initial lockscreen during startup, this seems to have disabled it coming up every time my phone goes dark. Someone needs to isolate this exploit and either turn it into an app or an xposed module for 5.5!

Edit: I also have locking disabled via the no lock app. However, that by itself was not doing it.
[One (M7) General] Evynnstarr:
I really miss the lock screen styles and being able to choose different wallpapers for the homescreens and the lockscreen.
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
I tried this but the lock screen came back after a while. Maybe it's because I have a pin lock
[One (M7) General] veritasxe:
It really says something about HTC that someone there thought removing the No lock screen option was a good idea. I mean seriously, why is it even necessary to use a lock screen? It's literally useless unless you want to enter a pin or pattern...
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
Must have some missing brain cells to think of removing choice
[One (M7) General] Namit1994:
Found a way to enable it!! Open all tnt files in /system/customize/ACC and change

To
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
Why would they disable it to begin with? silly
[One (M7) General] evilmastr:
T9 keyboard layout is gone. One reason why I chose HTC, I like that keyboard! Can't type with the full keyboard at all...

HTC basically said "deal with it" when I e-mailed them about it.

T9'd from the darkest M7.
[One (M7) General] EddyOS:
Having a level of security, no matter how small, is better than no security at all. IMO, HTC have been responsible as no doubt if you lost your phone you'd complain that HTC made it easy for the thief to get to your information...
[One (M7) General] hamdir:
yes exactly so perplexing why did they remove the awesome themes!

---------- Post added at 02:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:17 PM ----------

yes i think to stop people from actually zooming on a 4mp camera, good idea in my opinion to hide it under pinch to zoom
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
I would not complain at all. As I said in a previous comment, I dont want to have to swipe to unlock EVERYTIME I turn on the screen. I used to have pin lock set to turn on after 10 minutes that way when im constantly texting i just press power button and im right where i left off. by removing the lock screen options i have no choice but to go through the lock screen over and over again.
[One (M7) General] Trekest:
For anyone who wants to disable the useless NFC icon (requires root):

Enable System RW permission (if on stock install this in addition to changing the permission in the file manager.

Open /system/customize/ACC/default.xml

Look for nfc_show_icon and change the value from 1 to 0.

Do mind I haven't got the update yet so I couldn't test it myself yet.

Credit goes to [MENTION=2389354]homeslice976[/MENTION]

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46788287&postcount=3151
[One (M7) General] skr_xd:
No print option in Polaris office. It was really useful for me to print email attachments. Sigh
[One (M7) General] VictorC:
So why couldn't they leave the old ones there too? Ok, the new ones are customizable etc etc, but they could've just let the old ones there and make those non-customizable... So If I want Islandia, I'll go with that but won't be able to change it and if I want a personalized theme, then I choose one of the new ones...

The problem is that these new ones are OK, but the older ones - Islandia, Vega, Gotham, Boardwalk or Lilyton - were far better... Since the 4.3 update I've actually stopped making highlights because of this... If I don't like the new themes and I don't want to use them, then I won't be wasting too much time to make a custom one unless it's a really really important event or something...

It's just too bad :rolleyes:
[One (M7) General] Wullie32:
Have you tried using the old mp3 files so you've got the music back? Obviously you won't have those great Islandia visuals but can you put the old music on a new theme?
[One (M7) General] Goozy:
Oh no! I just found out about the change! That sucks. The only reasons I was sticking with Sense ROM was the video highlight themes.I guess I'll have to stay on Sense v 5.0.

I didn't even appreciate it that much until I tried to find an app on the market that could replicate this for my sister's android tablet. It turns out this is a pretty unique feature and the only remotely similar thing I could find was Magisto. Except it was slow, themes were not as good, relied on server side processing and cost like $1 per video.

Does anyone know if is possible to just take the Camera (gallary) app from v5 and use it on v5.5? Or is it more complicated than that?
[One (M7) General] stevegee111:
Actually - In a previous build of sense 5 the old themes were customizable. You were able to add your own music.

So to delete all those themes in sense 5.5 is ridiculous. HTC really dropping the ball on this one because the new themes suck. Bet they just lost the rights to the old themes - a business decision
[One (M7) General] Wullie32:
The old music files are here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/phjqw6mnkcembmz/CaQCPB-YLc

Does it work using them as custom soundtracks?
[One (M7) General] edwinedwin1990:
Sense 5.5 zoe video highlight

+1, I agreed!

Not much choice now for editing video highlights. Feel really bad.

I wish someone could port Sense 5 zoe video highlight to Sense 5.5 :crying:
[One (M7) General] YoungAceAtlanta:
Because Chromecast happen... and is 10x better than HTC Medialink.. minus the personal videos being able to stream to your TV
[One (M7) General] kibmikey1:
Would you agree though, that there should at least be an option, (for those of us, and there are many, that find having to simply swipe, with no pin lock or anything else, which would be useless against a thief, as you used in your example) to have no lock screen at all. Not all of us need that, and should have the option to disable it if we want. HTC could put a little disclaimer on it, like they do with the high volume, that you do it at your own risk...
[One (M7) General] wictor1992:
I'm really missing the option to set separated wallpepers for Lock- and Homescreen.

The only workaround I found so far is "Multipicture live wallpaper" from Play store. Unfortunately it doesn't work as well as the Sense solution before.

Do you guys know any other apps for this?
[One (M7) General] gtoovey:
Yep, I agree, in my four years with android I've hardly ever used a lock on my lock screen.
[One (M7) General] VariableJu:
Damn it. I was really surprised and frustrated realising the missing themes (especially Islandia) after the update :crying:

I hope there is some possibility to get them back.
[One (M7) General] Montago:
The only solution right now is to put the music tracks (listed above) onto the phone and then use some of the current themes.

sadly .. NONE of them looks / works like the old Islandia theme :eek:

I've written to HTC, asking them to re-introduce Islandia and other old themes.. you should do that too! The more people who ask for them, the more likely it is that they do so.
[One (M7) General] adamkimber:
Is there a way to remove them? I hate them. They are the most useless pile of steaming rubbish I have ever seen in an update. Virtually all my friends just get stupid squares now instead of smilies and to make matters worse my 160character texts are reduced to 70 with these stupid useless emogi things. Arggh. HTC you fail.
[One (M7) General] wictor1992:
Use an alternative keyboard.. Swype
[One (M7) General] adamkimber:
You know that was my first thought, followed by lets try to install the old one from my ROM backup. Looks like I need root. Oh well. Swype it is! :D
[One (M7) General] wictor1992:
Actually the HTC keyboard is based on Swype, but Swype gets updates and has a lot of themes, size customizations etc. You shouldn't miss anything when switching to it.
[One (M7) General] kartnite:
They also removed the Wikipedia app. :( Is there a way to get it back?

Or is it the same as the one available in the Play Store? Never realised there was one. #eek! Of course... The one thing I badly miss from older Sense versions is the HTC Mail widget. x(

On another note - Sorry if I sound uber silly, but... Not sure I see any difference in the keyboard? I've barely tweaked any keyboard setting (be it Sense 5 or Sense 5.5). T9 missing?
[One (M7) General] ankeetgem:
i want the old video highlight themes back!!!!

y did they remove the old highlight themes???!!!......they were so much better than the 5.5 ones........im so disappointed :( ....hope they somehow bring them back
[One (M7) General] jdgreat4:
Ok, everyone they removed the highlight themes so unless you've found a fix for it I'd suggest you quit whining about it every few pages. This is not productive at all.
[One (M7) General] Montago:
Forget about HTC

If you haven't already found out about alternatives...

then please download the Google Plus App !!

Google has introduced a ton of themed highlights that works just like HTC One ZOE's ...

You can customize them in great detail, choose music yourself or pick from 50-100 songs and 10+ themes !!

the performance is great, and just as fast at 'compiling' as HTC One built in ZOE maker.
[One (M7) General] klotzek:
emojis

Hi,

do you know, in which apk the new emojis are located? I'd like to change some of them to the old ones (shown below).

Best regards,

Jürgen
[One (M7) General] scipianus:
What do I have to do to be able to see the old emoticons? (example : to see a smile when it's written " :) " )
[One (M7) General] ANASS_RHAMMAR:
Emojis are in many places. Some in framework, some in htc resources i think. And even single apps contain their own emoji icons
[One (M7) General] Falcon_cg:
Hey !

I would like to know too, how we can change the default : ": - )" could be the same as before.

And is there a way to change tracks, in the HTC music player, like 5.0 because it was really easy to switch tracks before. Especially when I am in my car. ^^
[One (M7) General] twerg:
I've only noticed 2 changes that bug me a bit.

Wallpaper can not be changed for lock screen, not really important but would be nice to change, guess alternate ock screens would fix this.

More annoying is that they removed the Phone Pad keyboard, qwerty is fine but no where near as fast or easy. Again there's alternative ones but it was a nice feature.. oh well
[One (M7) General] solsearch:
Okay, yes, you could add your own music in 4.3 but unfortunately as a feature it kinda sucked since the music and scene changes were not synced at all. With the new one when you use your own music it actually looks good, great in fact if the mix turns out how you wish (great thing about only pressing the randomize button). Also if I´m not mistaken when you added your own track it just took the first thirty seconds of it, now you can choose any snippet from the song and have it be as long as you want (even use the whole song if you wish).

But that being said I DO miss the old themes. They were great and pretty, the new ones aren't anywhere as good, but thanks to someone providing the music tracks I can get a bit closer to them without losing the ability to add my own music (and having it be as long as I want).

I don't care too much about emoji's. I liked the old ones a lot more but honestly I almost never use them and though I liked the old ones it's not as if my friends receiving my texts saw what I saw anyways.

What I do hate is that when using the trace function on the keyboard and then long-pressing "k" to get a question mark it will erase the last two letters of the word half the time. I don't find it too difficult to compensate for auto-correct but this throws me off as I don't always notice it as the predicted word was right.
[One (M7) General] stevegee111:
The new themes are so shoddy compared to the previous ones. HTC seems to be making lots of mistakes - this "update" is really a downgrade.
[One (M7) General] foobar2605:
I don't like the new wallpapers. Want the old ones back. Had to search the net to get them back on the device.

In addition (but that's not an HTC issue) i dislike most that Google removed the scrolling wallpaper. Thanks god there are some apps out there which serve as a workaround.