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[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BUBBA DUB'S:
I think this phone is beast mode, granted I'm coming from the EVOLTE, but I picked HTC for sound and it's GPU power which is better than its competition. Only thing that upsets me is consumer reviews and the fact that this device got bashed because of the m9+ released in the foreign market and users thinking it was so much better because of a slightly bigger screen and finger print scanner. I just hope this "hero" device they are talking about releasing doesn't deter development on the m9. Just my opinion :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Curtis_HTC:
Is anyone working on a S6 port for the T-mobile Note 3 variant. I have been using a Chinese S6 edge port and it's buggy, it would be great if so. I'm not a Dev but would definitely donate if someone can make this happen. .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] lemonloaf:
Hello,

I noticed today that I could not read (or detect) RFID cards, through the use of NFC TagInfo. At first I thought I was using a defective card, but after trying out every card that I could detect before (and not getting any kind of response), I thought it might have been the phone. The thing is, I don't see why it would have stopped working.

By testing, I mean enabling NFC and opening NFC TagInfo (or another RFID reading app) and holding the phone against the card (which would previously bring up some kind of detection at least). Instead, the app displays "Scan a tag..." continuously and seems to expect a tag. (similar behavior with other apps - I don't think it's software related) Previously when using transit card, at least NFC TagInfo would tell me it found a card but couldn't read it's content (I'm okay with that). I'm thinking it's a hardware issue - I tried removing and reinserting the battery thinking it might have been the contacts but alas. Is there any other contacts used for NFC on the S4?

Note: I don't want to read RFID cards or edit them. I just want to verify if 1) NFC works on the phone and 2) if my cards in my wallet still works _with their intended reader_ (I'm just checking if the antenna inside the card isn't broken and I have no other means other than this phone).

Relevant info:

- Stock battery (thus with an antenna; proven to work in the past). Previously used replica batteries (with no antenna) but switched back to the stock

- DualTek case with original back cover (tested without case and/or without cover)

- 4.4.2

- Stock rom

- Rooted

- TWRP loader (I think?)

- I have opened and fixed the phone twice so far (removed, cleaned and replaced the USB board)

- Titanium backup with only S Voice frozen; everything else left untouched.

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Reason for thread: Other threads dealing with NFC-related problems only seemed to be about software issues or inability to connect to a particular phone (S Beam/Android Beam) or read a particular tag. Couldn't find info on the NFC hardware and testing it's functionality.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ChemicalBro:
I have the same issue. I337m, rooted stock 5.0.1, twrp. Nfc just never detects anything even though it turns on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] misterbobdobalina:
NFC on my S4 also doesn't work. I have new battery, original supposedly, and it looks like it has an antenna in it. Nothing happens. At all. Is there a way to detect if the antenna i faulty? Any logs I can look into or such?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanagawaben:
Just wondering what launchers people are using on their zenfones? Do you stick with zen, use google now, or one of the other launchers? I like Zen well enough, and it's nice to have double tap sleep functionality in any space across the home screen, but on the other hand Zen is kind of wasteful of space, which negates the effect of having a large screen.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iainmann:
I'm using Google Now Launcher and I use Gravity Screen to turn screen on and off. Works well and doesn't seem to drain battery badly.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CptAwesomeTT:
Out of the box launcher in use here and it's the smoothest launcher I've ever used... and I've used quite a lot. This device is truly a pleasurable one to use.

Sent from ASUS ZenFone 2
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alose:
The zen launcher is OK, but I keep going back to ADW.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james_bombed:
NOVA Launcher

I use Nova Launcher. It's the best. It's pretty light as well.

the double tap to sleep and double tap to wake works well with this launcher as well.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vincexda:
Nova Launcher here too!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whynottoday:
nova launcher
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harpreet.s:
Hi , How you enable double tap functionality in Nova launcher?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whynottoday:
Use soft lock screen
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rony1234:
Nova launcher prime here....
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reviewers:
The Google Now launcher is pretty good, so is Nova launcher.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantify:
I am still a fan of the ZenUI launcher. Very smooth, lots of features.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Litoven:
Google now, double tap still works on the lock screen, haven't rooted it yet but got used to do the greenify+lock thing.

Edit: Just found by mistake that double tap to lock still works on the status bar, no matter what are you running in the foreground.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryu000:
crack HTC Blinkfeed (sense launcher) working very well... :p
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azesss:
TSF Launcher 3D Shell works fine
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5ifty1:
Dodol Launcher or Smart Launcher 3

I used to always use SL and when I got this phone I started running SL3 on it. Works great if you like the way SL changes how your phone's basic functions work. I was looking for something a little more simple and since then, I installed Dodol Launcher. I run it with status bar and dock both hidden, and instead just use gestures to open app drawer, launcher menu and notifications. For me, it feels really nice running it like this.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanagawaben:
Have been using the stock Zen launcher in the new single layer mode for a couple of days now. Really like it - simple, clean and very fluid, with an economy of swipes and taps needed to do stuff. It's like iOS (and therefore appeals to my ocd need for neatness and the symetry of a nice grid :) ) but is better because you still have all the Android/ASUS UI customisability if you want it.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan8541:
I use action Launcher 3
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aziz07:
+1 For Nova Launcher Prime, most tweakable, very light 25-35Mb RAM and very fast. :good:

I was using SlimLauncher (Lightest I have tested other than my poor man's MTK 5Mb Launcher LoL) from slimroms with another phone and for ~5Mb more RAM you get all these with Stock ROM since SlimLauncher does barely has any customization or a settings app. Never looked back again for over a year since using Nova.

Asus Launcher is not bad. It necessitate an option to reduce all these visual effects and decrease the heavy RAM usage versus Nova Launcher Prime.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlewisnj:
Same here, I was using Nova Launcher but I like the simplicity of Action Launcher 3
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aziz07:
Double tap sleep only works in lockscreen for me. I couldn't find this function in double tap choice. Any idea :confused:
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanagawaben:
If you use a launcher other than the stock ASUS one, you still have double tap sleep functionality, but only on the status bar. If you have xposed and GravityboxLP, I recommend setting long press of the back button as sleep - very useful because double tap on status bar is hit and miss, sometimes just pulls down notifications.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android lover 2000:
I m using action launcher 3 premium version with gestures to double tap to sleep .... It works most of the time and action launcher is amazing as usual
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aziz07:
Thanks to remind me of that. Double-tap sleep works anywhere on the lockscreen though which is weird.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanagawaben:
Not so weird - remember, once you are in the lockscreen, you are in ASUS territory rather than the third party launcher app.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] james_bombed:
u need to double tap on the status bar at the top of the screen to make the phone go to sleep. if u double tap anywhere else on the screen, phone won't go to sleep.

hope it clarifies.!!:)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pato2015:
Zenfone 2 is fast and fluid.thats why im using htc sense 7 launcher from xda... the widget type screen of htc blinkfeed.is awesome..:)....
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devhux:
For those who want the double-tap functionality on other launchers, this app works well:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock

(Configure Double Tap in your launcher of choice to open this app. The first time you'll get a prompt to enable it, then it'll work just fine afterwards
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aethervagrant:
always Smart Launcher, on every phone. automatic categorization is great and it has one of the lowest memory footprints...plus a great pipboy theme. you can also make icons from images so with a few fallout screencaps and asset grabs everything can be themed fallouty
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blazzer12:
Using stock launcher. Very smooth and easy on the eye. I really like the app lock feature.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pato2015:
Are your home screen icons...does it not get easily deleted? Wish therez way to lock it or secure it to place.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gustapo:
Does using a nova or other launcher instead of stock free up more RAM? Will it also help in battery saving?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blazzer12:
I use icons on home screen but not a lot. Not once did they get deleted accidentally. :angel:

But yes, a lock homescreen option would be great. :good:
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siddk007:
Nova Launcher + Greenify(for double tap to sleep)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AaronICK:
Agree with this!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaza98:
Ah, this is what I was looking for! Now I can double-tap anywhere on my screen to sleep instead of the top! Thanks
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malatama:
hi can u please explain how does nova + greenify enable double tap to sleep? do i need to be using nova prime to do this?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lollyjay:
I use Nova plus LMT. Great combination.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapre64:
100% agree ... best combo.

I like the LMT long press home-key == power-off ;)

tapatalked
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skoolkaholic:
[IMG="nova"]http://i.imgur.com/YadNtnm.jpg?1[/IMG]

swipe up + app search that make my nova rules, it feels like mac's spotlight. i hardly use drawer anymore :good:

do u mean LMT launcher ? how could 2 launcher running at the same time ?

or another app ?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapre64:
LMT == PIE-control

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330150

tapatalked
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lollyjay:
LMT isn't a true launcher for me. I use it for instant access to important apps or functions from any app that's on the screen.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notamoosen:
I've found the Yahoo Aviate Launcher pleasantly surprising. The auto grouping of apps works decent enough, and requires minimal tweaking.

My primary issue is, with only one "traditional" style home screen, it doesn't leave a lot of room for widgets; and any additional widgets have to be accessed via the context menu on the search bar. This doesn't really affect me, and I would definitely recommend it to any non widget heavy user.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bishnuprasad14:
Double tap to sleep is not working in my zenfone 2 when I am using other launcher except the stock one
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
Now that the Windows 10 Insider Preview supports the one M8 I'm going to give it a shot. Will report back how it all works out etc.

First since the Windows Phone Recovery Tool (2.0.3) now supports it as well. I will take this chance to do a restore on the phone.

Since no RUU are available for T-Mobile M8 and the tool has a firmware package available I'm going to let it flash over the device. If i can locate the downloaded firmware if its in any usable .nbh file that would help everybody else. I like to believe many bugs can be caused by a bad flash and since there's no RUU you can't necessarily rule some out.

Issues that are not on articles that I've read.

A lot of UI inconsistencies. App images on the start screen and the apps list are blurry depending on the app. Wasted space, a lot of the UI isn't scaled properly.

The start sceen has the option to go with the old school layour. Two Regular Square tiles across or Three across. Well it stays at three across no matter which one you pick. I tried removing all tiles just to see if they would reset a cache or registry somewhere and allow the two across layout. That caused me to loose the start screen entirely. Power the device off or on i will only see the all Apps list and the start button takes you to the list.

The Store Beta app appears to be just a link in the start start screen if unpinned you will lose it. While the regular App store in the apps list takes you to the WP8.1 app store.

To get my Google account synced up I have to do it via the Peoples app or Outlook Mail. There is no option to add a Google account or anything of that nature in the Settings app.

The nav bar is ALWAYS there. Some UI elements will remain under it similar to the same bug on WP8.1

All the bing apps are just links to the install page in the Beta Store. The Music Preview, Video Preview apps are also just links to the Beta store. Once you install them the link becomes the actual app, but you lose that path to the Beta store if you unpinned it from the start screen.

If copying something to/from the device. If the display times out and transfer is interrupted.

The brightness slider if you simply tap to jump around the level the actual brightness will not change. You'll have to slide it. I've always found WP levels to be too high. So i had to slide it from 100 and progress slowly for the changes to take affect.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
So download an HTC 8X RUU and removed the RUU_SIGNED and UEFI_signed 8X files and replacing them with the M8 files that the Windows Phone recovery Tool downloaded. The RUU.exe was able to recognize my device and the new files. The phone is currently being reflashed with those .nbh files.

Update: The RUU.exe from the 8X RUU worked. Similar flash like the Windows Phone Recovery Tool.

Used the Windows Insider app to enable W10 updates. Waiting for the updates to appear.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
I was prompted for a WP8.1 update, then was presented with this after the install.

Edit* Got prompted for W10 update. Screen shot included
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
On windows 10. First thing, the proportions on everything seems off. I'm all for smaller text since first things i do on android is lower the dpi. It just doesn't look right.

Going to do a factory reset, just to erase any lingering user data that might cause issues.

Couldn't take screen shots.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
What I did to get up to this point.

Using the Windows Phone Recovery Tool (and tested the RUU I uploaded) I made sure no stock updates came through.

Installed the Windows Insider app, which then got prompted for an update.

Once the first update was installed I ran the Windows Insider App again, The phone was automatically rebooted

Windows 10 update came up and installed.

Now performing a factory reset to have a clean Windows 10 to work with.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] krminix:
Keep up the good work! did the factory reset fix your DPI issues? Im an android m8 user, but if it were ever possible, I would install windows 10... always willing to try new stuff out :)
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
OP updated. Will spend the night out and see how it all goes down. It'll also give me a chance to test out how GPS and the new Maps app perform as well as Bluetooth.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] rumblpak:
Hope you're having luck with Windows 10. I just downgraded mine because I couldn't stand the amount of crashes that were consistently happening. You'd think the first thing they'd look into would be making sure the people app and contact related software worked before involving people in a beta test. I could understand bugs but I literally couldn't open the people app, and if I tried to search for a contact, the search would close. Its not even close to being a daily driver OS yet.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Tachi91:
People app works fine on this end. I made sure to do a factory reset after the upgrade to W10 was done. Granted it is still technically an OS in beta there are an outstanding amount of issues for a build of 10080. What I've seen they have only just merged the underlying code from the Desktop branch. The universal apps have been touched up around the corners to make them work on smartphones, but user end of the experience is still a mess.

Some of the other things i've noticed.

Some apps continue to use a white or black colored font even when I change the theme. The Music Preview app for example. The text color remains white even after you switch to the light theme. So youre literally looking at a white screen playing music unless you switch back to the dark theme.

When attaching anything to a message if you chose to browse for your picture/video from the "This Device" or "Removal Disk D (sdcard)". When you go to actually select the picture nothing will happen. The picture wont get selected. Youll have to use the Photos option to use the separate app which most people will do anyways.

Text a contact whose number isn't in your Outlook contacts will remain as just a number even after syncing Google contacts which has the same saved. Threads where kept separate from each other with the Google Contact details in one thread and the other just the number. Only after saving the number to my Outlook account and linking both contacts (Google & Outlook) where the threads combined.

Maps turn by turn navigation will blend into any music you have playing. Compared to Google Maps which it would lower any audio being played and loudly tell you directions. The Maps app however will just keep all outgoing audio the same volume.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] TheXev:
I had my fun on Windows 10 for over a week (closer to two weeks really). So much stuff messed up in day-to-day usage that I had to dial back to 8.1 for now.

I am on Verizon, the restore tool DOES NOT WORK on the Verizon version of the phone (Package not found error)! You must use ACDU and flash the rom yourself to go back to Windows 8.1!

On the bright side, even backups on Windows 10 are restoring on Windows 8.1.

The issues I experienced (almost all I believe to have have reported to Microsoft):

DPI issues and the option to change it being nonfunctional. (mentioned above because you'd have to be blind not to notice it right off the bat lol)

Dot View case is completely non-functional, although app still appears in Settings.

Changing theme from black to white and back again sometimes results in theme staying white on settings screen, but turning back to black on rest of setup.

Alarms do not migrate over to new alarm app in Windows 8.1, but old alarms will still go off(randomly)!

Emails notifications that were listed in the Action Center before migration do not disappear from Action Center after migration, they listed as a random registry value and must be cleared.

Count down timer will crash randomly when changing the hour

NBCNews app crashes on startup

Outlook will not migrate multiple Google accounts correctly. I had to remove both of my Google accounts (one for personal, one for work) and then readd them to get both of them to function. Also, Outlook cannot setup multiple accounts with different notification icons.

Adding accounts to Outlook is a pain in the ass (mentioned above)

Phone icon appears twice in apps list.

Phone randomly locks up after alarm, toast notification, or even incoming call goes off. You must eject the sim card to get the phone to reboot to access the phone again because the touch sensor will stop responding.

When trying to open attachments from Outlook, Project Spartan will open and give and error instead (with PDFs and Excel files anyway).

When browsing with Internet Explorer, if you try to use built in Bing, it will switch to Project Spartan.

Rendering issue with IE's address bar.

Project Spartan has so many issues, I won't even bother to list them all. Lots of issues with tabs and using the back button. Rendering is a huge improvement over IE, but the UI is a huge step back IMO.

When going back to the Start Screen after an extended length of time, the Start Screen must thaw. This phone has 2GBs of ram for Pete's sake! I don't expect it to behave like my Lumia 635!

Wi-fi switch in Wifi menu doesn't appear to have a red outline around it, only a switch.

Cortana no longer shows local news (I really liked that feature!)

Probably other issues, but I think I remembered most of them! I don't recommend trying this current build at all for ANYONE with an M8!

*edit* For anyone who wants to flash the Verizon rom on, the link to the rom is here. I have additional info on the process here along with a video.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Surgeon.live:
Error 0xFFFFFE70

Hi. I bought HTC One M8 for Windows mobile (T-Mobile US version) running WP 8.1 OS few days ago. Whenever I try to log into Microsoft account I get error code 0xFFFFFE70 saying 'We weren't able to activate your phone' with an advice to contact Microsoft support regarding error.

I have searched on-line for this error and have tried everything advised including correcting system date/time settings, soft/hard reset of phone, even reformatting the stock firmware with WDRT (Windows Device Recovery Tool) and also HTC custom tool. Nothing seems to resolve this error so far. Due to this I am unable to use windows store to download apps or log into my one drive on phone etc as each one of these requires Microsoft account login.

I was thinking maybe you can help me by providing me with latest windows 10 preview RUU for HTC M8 (T-Mobile). If you installed it on your M8 via WDRT (Windows Device Recovery Tool) then you can copy it from C:\ProgramData\HTC\Packages\Products (default directory for WDRT). Maybe Windows 10 preview would solve my problem.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Ainz_Ooal_Gown:
how can i do this on the AT&T one?
[HTC One M8 for Windows] Luis_D1:
Interested in upgrading to w10 with my Verizon One... Does it work right? I'm more concerned about going back to w8.1 in case I does not.
[HTC One M8 for Windows] nate0:
My experience with Windows 10 Mobile on the M8, prior to build .420 was more or less unpleasant. Battery drain was more than 8.1 (I even waited atleast 5 charge cycles to see if it changed), the bug after the upgrade caused if you have a passcode lock was still there (which means you have to reboot after the upgrade to be able to login), messaging would crash/hang sometimes, call quality for me was not so great, and sometimes I would get app freezes or other lockups where touch would not respond. I own the AT&T variant and I simply used the Windows Device Recovery tool to reset it back to Windows 8.1.

There is a way though using the interop tools found here on XDA to upgrade to the Redstone build. I have tested it on my Samsung ATIV SE without a sim card and so far so good for 1 day now, and I plan to update my M8 as well. If folks want I could report back how the Redstone build works with the M8?