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[One (M7) General] gtg465x:
Without ART enabled, performance is about the same as it was in 4.3. If you tried GPE 4.3 and didn't like it, you probably still won't like it with 4.4, unless you plan to use ART, which is kind of exciting and will make everything a little faster and more buttery.

My favorite features of 4.4 are the new dialer with built in Google search and caller ID, the full screen music or podcast art on the lockscreen, and the UI changes from blue to white (just makes everything look a bit more polished and professional). If none of those things sound interesting, pass. Oh, and the ability to pay for things via NFC is nice to have now too.

Pretty sure I will go back to Sense when it jumps to 4.4.
[One (M7) General] gtg465x:
Finally someone agrees with me. I found GEL to be particularly stuttery at times. With the stock (old style) launcher and ART enabled it's pretty smooth. Still, it's clear HTC didn't put much effort into optimizing it. Nexus 4s and Nexus 7s on 4.4 run smoother than the One GPE. Guess if you want a phone that is fully optimized for stock Android you have to go for a Moto X or Nexus. To be honest though, most people aren't as nit-picky as I and probably wouldn't be able to tell a difference between this and a Nexus.
[One (M7) General] Sindroid:
The new dialer on the GPE looks nice but pretty much SUCKS on being user friendly. You pretty much have everything on one screen. Logs + suggestions and favorites.

My 2 cents..
[One (M7) General] Perry977:
Now lets see what sense version of 4.4 has to give. Labtoofer has already started teasing us with screenshots and says it ready, but not just releasing it yet..
[One (M7) General] monkeypaws:
In think he pretty much has to wait until HTC one 4.4 is out.

sent from my gpe HTC one
[One (M7) General] Perry977:
well thats a bummer. Thats not fair at all, if the leak and the official version comes out together, thats BS
[One (M7) General] funcrusher:
Getting slight speaker crackle at the very beginning of a notification and ring. Anyone else? Seemed to start last night right after I upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4.
[One (M7) General] artiemon:
+1 on speaker crackle at beginning of notification.

I liked ART runtime, but I went back to Dalvik until Xposed frameworks supports ART. I got used to all the customizations and couldn't live without.
[One (M7) General] g33mt4z:
Might be a long wait as a lot of xposed has to be re-written to work with art, probably won't happen until a lot of devices support art. I did try art and did notice a difference (no micro jitters/lags etc) but not worth Sacrificing my mods IMO. Still love the changes in 4.4 to warrant using as a daily driver :D
[One (M7) General] Mikey:
This is true about site like ours.......doesnt mean the users on here wont ***** about it, even though Google specifically mentioned it lol
[One (M7) General] funcrusher:
I disabled beats audio and I haven't noticed any crackle since. Might be a temp fix.
[One (M7) General] artiemon:
I tried deselecting it in settings, but still got the crackle. Did you disable it another way?
[One (M7) General] funcrusher:
I disabled it the same way. Let me observe tonight to make sure it's no longer doing it.
[One (M7) General] exebreez:
Disabled it, too. It worked for me.

Kitkat wasnt a huge update, but its ok for a flashaholic to be always on the top of Android OS Versions
[One (M7) General] godutch:
Kitkat is one of the hugest android updates since ics but most changes are under the hood and not all were deemed ready for prime time like ART.
[One (M7) General] eradicator006:
I've been running 4.4 for a couple of days now. Here are the pros and cons I have so far:

Pro:

BT Audio quality is much better than 4.3.

I am able to mount /system RW without a special kernel.

Battery life seems to be better. I would usually be down to 30% by the end of the day. With 4.4 I was only down to 60%. My phone habits are fairly consistent.

New launcher is kind of cool....after you sideload it.

New settings; can select 2g, 3g, or lte in the settings menu. Can chose default sms and home screen from settings now.

Con:

New launcher not available by default.

I don't like the new dialer. When I press the phone button I want the keypad to come up automatically.
[One (M7) General] pieceofplastic:
I noticed that the crackling goes away after a few reboots, it was the same on 4.3

edit: sometimes after rebooting it comes back, and sometimes it goes away when I disable beats audio

or I'm probably just crazy
[One (M7) General] Xeperu:
Ever since I upgraded my bluetooth sharing in my car (VW) keeps crashing and reconnecting.

This is, to say the least, quite annoying when listening to music or making calls.

Anyone else experience something similar?

For the rest.

I like google voice commands. Even though I'm in Holland it works well enough.

I do not like GEL. I will stick to Nova Prime.

For the rest, battery is better, on ART the system is faster.
[One (M7) General] pokosik:
Battery is better than on sense roms?
[One (M7) General] BenPope:
Most people seem to think so, I very strongly suspect ART helps.
[One (M7) General] Xeperu:
For me 4.4 stock is better than ARHD 31 on 4.3.
[One (M7) General] mih3y:
I am having issues installing apk with ART, i always get application not installed. It's mostly games.

If you pull status bar down, it lags a bit,never happend on 4.3. And really,overall it doesn't feel faster that 4.3. ART is currently disabled thou.

I do like lockscreen when music playing. I do like new theme. But it seems to be running a lot faster on N5, i do know it's S800 there, but i do believe the difference should not be that huge!

it's not google to blame,more likely htc for not optimizing this for the one. sad! i like stock android
[One (M7) General] pokosik:
I am using ARHD 31 now. But what is wrong with that OTA update? I read that there are some problems and you can't update even if you fully converted to gpe and not even rooted? Someone can confirm it?
[One (M7) General] JoeM01:
Definitely getting worse radio performance (both cellular and wifi on the 4.4 GPe radio). Flashed the AT&T 4.3 file and everything went back to normal. Otherwise everything is running great on 4.4.
[One (M7) General] eradicator006:
I wouldn't know. I only ran sense for maybe an hour when I first got my phone.
[One (M7) General] parsa5:
YMMV but I definitely get better battery on sense ROMs. I'm currently running KitKat gpe which provides significantly better battery then KitKat aosp but is definitely not as good as sense based Rom.
[One (M7) General] rs70:
The conversion to GPE is actually incredibly simple. I just followed this guide and it took me just like half an hour: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2341395

But you need to change CID (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317536), which is really simple as well.

However, I feel like the update to stock 4.4 is in fact a downgrade.. Although the device is super fast (even faster than with Sense) and nearly as smooth as iOS or WP, I feel like there's nothing new. Or at least nothing incremental..

I don't know whether it's just me, but Android is getting simper, or more-user friendly as Google's marketing department would say, with less UI tweaks out of the box than in last versions. Maybe it's not true, since before One I was using custom roms and never really had the opportunity to try vanilla android, but I just like 4.3 with Sense 5.5 waaay more. I'm not saying Sense is flawless or more beautiful than 4.4, but it's closer to my ideal Android..

So the latest and greatest is not always an upgrade. Anyone with similar thoughts?
[One (M7) General] sl8125:
ARHD GE + BULLETPROOF = AWESOMENESS

Been using this combo. Flawless. No reboots, no force close. Very smooth. Get it to flash the room was pain. Had to revert to older ROM and redo all bootloader, recovery and finally got the s-off but worth it.
[One (M7) General] GodDon:
Interesting setup.
[One (M7) General] aydc:
I've been using 4.4 sometime and so far I haven't seen a single improvement over 4.3 other than getting rid of that boring blue ICS color and making everything white.

I hope Google are done with under the hood improvements and start giving us something we can see starting with the next version.
[One (M7) General] Acill:
I've been on 4.4 since the first day the OTA went out. My phone is a full conversion GE with an unlocked boot loader, s-off and unrooted. I prefer the stock experience. So far I love it. With the new Google launcher the phone runs fantastic. I have no lag, no errors from Blue tooth or Wifi at all. ART is pointless to run right now so I'm not using it. I'd highly recommend anyone wanting a perfect working phone and wants stock android to just convert over. It's easy and it's nice getting updated faster via OTA.
[One (M7) General] ANASS_RHAMMAR:
Under the hood improvements are essential! It doesnt matter how it all looks if the internals dont perform well. I will take performance and stability over glittery sparkling visuals any day. You could also learn to make themes, and make it look exactly how you wan.

BTW 4.4 has made my phone incredibly great to use.
[One (M7) General] GodDon:
Bulletproof kernel?
[One (M7) General] sl8125:
ARHD is one of the best Roms made for the HTC one. With the bulletproof kernel double tap to wake works flawless, three dot menu gone and awesome battery life. I think they are one of the best combo.
[One (M7) General] GodDon:
cheers, already have ARHD, will look into bulletproof more.
[One (M7) General] osximjr:
I like it, it sucks how we didn't get some features, but now I can't write to my flash drive with otg.
[One (M7) General] mgymnop:
Agree my radio signal on AT&T sucks with 4.4. Signal reception is super weak.
[One (M7) General] godutch:
According to [MENTION=1186202]baadnewz[/MENTION] your reception isn't weaker with the non att radio, it's the same but the bars are calculated differently for att to make them look better than they are in reality.
[One (M7) General] JoeM01:
I was monitoring my actual signal measurement. Not the bars.
[One (M7) General] riotman:
This new updates make me wonder whether they are worth it. The first update made this phone less loud. Now the stock browser looses flash compatibility.

I don't like features being removed with each update.
[One (M7) General] regP:
I'm enjoying the update. Having previously been using a nexus 4 it was a bit annoying having to use logo2menu because it would often become unresponsive and I would have to reboot in order to get it working again. Was this close to getting a nexus 5 but the 4.4 update seems to have fixed the problem. Havent had the capacitive buttons go unresponsive since updating.
[One (M7) General] Prophet16:
I honestly don't understand why everyone likes the new GEL so much. The animations seem so much laggier than other launchers. I just use the new Action Launcher Pro and it's the best in my opinion. Also the new 4.4 update is butchering my battery life. No matter what I try, maye it be bump charging, or anything else, the phone barely makes it past 9 hours. It's all because of Android System and Google Play Services. Done so much research on it but I just can't find a solution that works for me. But honestly I like 4.4 enough that the battery life is just a price I'm willing to pay. I just wish I didn't have to.
[One (M7) General] HtcOneJon:
I agree. 4.4 is buggier as well. Can;t say Android has really improved since 4.2.2.
[One (M7) General] tfouto:
That's how Android is becoming. Closer and closer...
[One (M7) General] Galactus:
GE Launcher sucks, that is all
[One (M7) General] MrExcess:
I Love The New Interface And Layout They Have Created
[One (M7) General] deathdealerxx:
Thoughts on 4.4

I like 4.4 IMO it feels snappier and plus the fact I can actually use my tap to pay!

I have flashed my stock att htc one to a GPE to stock att then to a Developer Edition after that I went to a stock att. Now I am on CM11 and other than the battery life I couldn't be happier..

BTW the battery life isn't that bad. But on the developer editon with Android 4.4 with sense 5.5 I could about 2 days of use. While on CM11 that has been shortened to 1 and half days.
[One (M7) General] mettleh3d:
4.4 is a goddamn battery suck. Only improvement is immersion mode.

Zzz
[One (M7) General] deathdealerxx:
Battery Life

Yah I can say that the battery life is nothing like stock sense. But I am waiting for an update to my current rom which I will flash as soon as it is released if the battery life is still the same I will most likely flash back to stock att sense on android 4.3
[One (M7) General] mgymnop:
Battery life on 4.3 GPE is great. 4.4 is awful. Hope they will fix it with 4.4.2.
[One (M7) General] dodgebizkit:
The 4.4.2 update made my camera slow as hell to open , even from multitasking :(

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Sent from my obsolete Teletubby. I want a new model with no external antenna and a touch screen in 16:9.
[One (M7) General] hack14u:
Wow, another person seconds what I have been posting in other threads, yet no one seems to believe me. It was worse on both the 4.4 GPE, and the 4.4 Dev Edition. Tried them both, I had 2 Ones, then I went back to the 4.3 Dev Edition, and all was good again. I could put the 4.3 and the 4.4 side by side and the 4.4 had terrible reception and highly degraded speeds right next to a 4.3 that was slammin'. Everyone says, oh check the db's and such, which is all fine and great, but if I can't get online or make a call, everything is moot. Don't know what they did, changed the radio maybe, but why screw with something that was working very well, and now not so much. Hence, back on 4.3 not even thinking about updating until this gets worked out.

---------- Post added at 09:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:03 PM ----------

So not true, as I said above, 4.3 and 4.4 side by side.
[One (M7) General] Arjen_Arg:
I find my GPE 4.4 batery life much better when I don't use the phone and a bit worse when I do. On days I stay home and check the phone now and then, at the end of the day I have more battery than I did with 4.3, but when I spend the day in the street I have less than I used to with 4.3
[One (M7) General] scottstoked:
Went back to 4.3

Tried the ARHD 5.2 Google Edition ROM. Man, the battery suck was just too annoying. Not only that, my phone would occasionally stop charging altogether. Back on Android 4.3 and everything works properly again.
[One (M7) General] sl8125:
ARHD 5.2 + Bulletproof = 36 hours of battery life. However you got to find a good radio that works for your area.
[One (M7) General] UnleashedGT:
Device encryption on KitKat is broken (stock or custom ROM - doesn't matter). If you need to encrypt for exchange policy or some other reason, avoid going to KitKat! I went back to 4.3 for this reason and don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
[One (M7) General] xxquicksh0txx:
I've always had slower data speeds on Google Edition or Aosp/cyanogen based Roms. Network and wifi.
[One (M7) General] galaxyjeff:
I think the Google Edition 4.4 is an alpha rom. I don't think they put much work into it. It lacks features of the Nexus 5 and it eats through the battery way too fast from 'google services'. Once it gets a few updates it might be ok but by then HTC will be pushing out 4.4 with sense 5.5 on it which will still be better imo. I just reconverted my AT&T model back to stock AT&T 4.3. Someone actually wants to buy it. I'll miss it. It's such fun to tinker with or just use as stock. :(
[One (M7) General] godutch:
Ehm Google services, is Google's business not HTC' . I haven't tried the gpe but the nexus 5 has some exclusive features, some hardware dependent, which will never come to other devices, others software which even other nexus devices don't have yet
[One (M7) General] :
Dialer

IMO the new dialer (in GPE) is too tricky. It shows last converations instead of dialing numbers. And how to add new contact from last conversation?
[One (M7) General] syllogyking:
omnirom + xposed..and now never looking back
[One (M7) General] galaxyjeff:
I wouldn't buy a nexus either. Also the stock android Google edition 4.4 rom lacks beats audio though it says it's in the settings it by far is not as good sounding as the stock HTC sense rom. It's just a junk rom for this particular phone.
[One (M7) General] vrda08:
yes i agree with you...
[One (M7) General] HtcOneJon:
I made the mistake in the past of buying Nexus devices and never again. On the HTC One, the simple act of installing GPE or AOSP / Google Rom, Kitkat or other degrades the HTC One.

The data and wifi speeds are slower on GE and the sound and the camera are all worse as well.

Personally I find each new iteration of Android to be a beta which is improved with later patches.
[One (M7) General] FC1032:
Would have like HTC/Google to have some option to change the button layout option like sense (swipe up for google now on home).

Or better yet have left the Navbar enable-able some how.
[One (M7) General] hack14u:
Hasn't Android pretty much been in beta since its inception though? New version, bug fixes, bug fixes, more bug fixes, new version, bug fixes, etc... It is a fun OS, but it's never fully polished, something always plagues someone.
[One (M7) General] ericiidx:
I enjoyed 4.4 as much as I enjoyed 4.3, which is to say, quite a bit. I found the new ART runtime (Android RunTime... runtime) pleasing, as it did indeed improve fluidity in scrolling and transition animations, although there are still slight improvements to be made if compared to iOS.

I was still quite disappointed in the camera app, which simply carried over from 4.3. I've been using Android-based phones since 2.3 (Gingerbread I believe,) and this is the worst rendition of the Android camera app by far.

I didn't run into a single bug until I decided to try GEL (Google Experience Launcher). Font alignment issues, on-again-off-again Google Now voice recognition, Google-specific apps crashing, and even a really strange one where my launcher background was overwritten by the last drawn menu screen I was on, and required a reboot to fix. Removing GEL removed all of these bugs.

I just RUU'd my phone back to Sense 5.0 the other night, since I'll be sending it in for warranty service very soon (purple camera.) I already miss the Google Play edition flavor of this phone, but Sense is hardly a downgrade -- just different. It'll be tough to choose between the two on my replacement device, especially since 4.4/Sense 5.5 will be right around the corner. There are a number of trade-offs, for example; Google Play edition gets "free" wifi tethering, better battery life, and a clean, bloat-free feel, but Sense gets the far superior camera app, and proprietary features such as the integrated TV/IR blaster app and Zoe.
[One (M7) General] clsA:
I went the developer edition OTA Update route to 4.4 and all the same crap I hated about the older Developer edition remained in the update... mainly the LTE signal bar stuck at one bar and crappy Radio and WiFi service inside buildings. After 3 days I couldn't take it anymore and went back to AT&T 3.17.502.3_Firmware and InsertCoin 6.0.5. I guess lesson learned if it aint broke don't fix it :)
[One (M7) General] altimax98:
Wow I'm loving these posts about Android being a Beta OS, BUT I especially appreciate this one. Tell me please, how many versions of iOS did it take for iOS7 to be free of MAJOR security bugs? 4 is that right? 7.0.4? And all that was AFTER a beta period of almost 6 months.

Tell me how many major patches to Windows, Ubuntu, OSX it takes to make a new version "stable".....

Also tell me why The Verge, a well known Apple siding site, rates KitKat higher then iOS7 if its still in beta.

I find it funny how you (various posters) complain about how Sense is better then stock Android (it isn't, it has a few better features or side applications, but is not a better OS) and will then complain about the fragmentation of Android when their version of Sense isn't the newest because HTC has to update their stuff. FWIW Sense on 4.4 is a hobbled together version that only shoehorns Sense 5.5 onto KitKat while killing some of its best features. If you call that an improvement then so be it.

And to the poster that complained about Beats being a deal breaker on GPE...... I have nothing to say to you.
[One (M7) General] xcesivemastub8ah:
Started of strong.... Before completely going off the deep end.

Sense is a skin not an OS and your opinion isn't fact just like the opinion of people who prefer sense isn't fact. To each their own. Same goes for those that prefer beats. Both sense and beats give you some trade offs that are nothing more than personal preference. Way to try to push your own as facts though while complaining about others doing the same.
[One (M7) General] tiny4579:
This is true. The best Android skin/UI comes down to personal preference.

I think the reason Sense on Android 4.4 feels tacked on is that the developer edition pushed earlier is not the same as what the final version released to the masses will be. The carrier and unlocked versions coming out in about a month will be 4.4.2 or later and I think will be a more polished released (I don't think they'll leave the final version with the random 3 dot menus around for example).
[One (M7) General] crixley:
You could insert any os and make the exact same statement.....

Imo this diatribe is useless
[One (M7) General] domineus:
change to the sense firmware the most recent firmware. Much MUCH better
[One (M7) General] clsA:
3.17.502.3_Firmware is the most recent from AT&T
[One (M7) General] VR1:
Anyone else never recieve 4.4.2?
[One (M7) General] CraigP17:
I got the 4.4.2 ota on my original GPe. Notification bar is now transparent on lock screen as well. Overall nothing changed from 4.4.

I use the GEL with zero issues. Runs perfect. No font or alignment problems. OK Google works great. Nothing crashes.
[One (M7) General] FC1032:
I just got the notification this morning on a gpe converted one.

Haven't updated though since I don't have stock recovery.
[One (M7) General] lista94:
Personally, I like the HTC One layout. It has a classy look in my opinion. I like all the other perks that came with Kit Kat. I can feel the difference in speed and smoothness of animations when doing certain things with the phone.
[One (M7) General] shrek81:
Can I downgrade from cm11 back to 4.3? I want to get arhd back or viper rom
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] james300:
Hi im using stock ,install whatsapp from google play store ,sign in whatsapp when u finish , now u can switch to art ,and boom no problem after upgrade to art with whatsapp anymore , dont forget to hit thanks
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] olus:
for what should we thank you? for the info, that we should enable art after installing whatsapp?? lol.. i think 90% of the guys tried it that way..
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] james300:
Hi im using stock ,install whatsapp from google play store ,sign in whatsapp when u finish , now u can switch to art ,and boom no problem after upgrade to art with whatsapp anymore , dont forget to hit thanks
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] SeaFractor:
So, are you saying that this will install ART on the Nexus 10?

I suspect you are saying that whatsapp now works with ART, in which case I and any other Nexus 10 user says....

Where's our ART so that we can experience the joy of this Whatsapp fix, when there is no ART anyway on the N10.
[Nexus 10 Themes and Apps] abdel12345:
Lol whatsapp doesn't work either unless you go through the trouble of tricking it so this us useless lol. Maybe he meant to put it in the nexus 5 forums.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.alawi:
Hi hope anyone can inlightin me with an answer ?

Does restoring your backup for a rom will restore the kernel that you backed up before flashing new kernel?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donjuanal:
Depends if the boot.img is part of the backup
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ktan188:
Depends on where you are restoring from. If from nandroid backup then yes, all else no.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poondog:
A standard "backup" in both TWRP and CWM will include the kernel yes