[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] silegeek:
I do not mean any negativity in my title for this thread. It is merely a ramble about my experience with the HTC 10.

Which for the past two years, is what I've had.

It was a good phone. Nice screen, nice design, great sound, speedy and so on.

The reason I got the HTC 10 was because I was so impressed with the HTC One M8 I'd had before it, although it had a few of the same issues to a lesser extent. The reason I went with the M8 was because after my Desire HD, I switched to Samsung. And I'd had seemingly endless issues with those. I had an S2 which was great, but crashed almost constantly. Then an S3, which was great but broke really easily, then about two or three S3 Minis in which all of them suffered the same fate: the micro USB port stopped working properly. I switched back to HTC, whom I'd never had a problem with.

From day one, I always had issues with the 10s camera (indeed there are posts around here I believe). It would never behave. The laser auto focus was iffy at best, and if a surface was even slightly reflective, you got this purple blotch in the picture.

Close up shots were nigh on impossible unless you were using Pro mode to control the focus. Beyond that, it took many great pictures and videos, and the slow motion was good too.

The other thing was wifi/mobile signal. Since having upgraded to my S9+, I've noticed that it just stays connected. It doesn't throw hissy fits at even slightly weak connections and even has better reception in places where the HTC had none. This was something that plagued the phone the entire time I had it. If a WiFi connection was even slightly weak, the HTC just would not connect at all. It wouldn't even try. It can see the network, knows its there, but when you try and connect it just refuses to play ball.

That aside, I loved it. It was a great phone, it was built like a tank and it helped capture some wonderful moments of my life. My wedding, the birth of my child, holidays etc. It re-ignited my desire to custom ROM and so on. I do not regret getting it and having it for two years, despite some frustrations.

But it has come to an end. My current mobile contract provider does not seem to provide any HTC phone anymore due in large part, I think, to thier seeming lack of popularity. As I understand it, it wasn't even too long after I got my HTC 10 that many networks dropped it from their roster.

But whilst I had the HTC 10, I was still opposed to Samsung. Which in the same phones lifetime has gone from the S7/S7 Edge to the S9/S9+. HTC have/had the Ultra, U11, U12 (I've probably gotten one of those wrong) but I just found myself ... not really caring.

I'd started to get curious about the newer Samsung phones since the s8/s8+, and looked up some information about them but I was going to miss them anyway. My upgrade was still a year away when they came out. And when that time rolled around, I went with the S9+.

So thank you HTC. Thank you LeeDroid for the ROMs. And thank you to everyone in the HTC 10 XDA forums who was helpful and posted so much useful information.

HTC phones have been a huge part of my Android experience (Wildfire, the original one with the huge chin and track pad was my first ever Android phone way back when).

I doubt I will do anything to modify the S9+. The only thing I've found that SHOULD be changeable is the Bixby button. By default it isn't. It's just on or off. But there is an app that allows it (with some kerfuffle) to be customised.