Blurry pics when sent to phone - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I got 2 different pics from 2 different people sent to my phone & both of them were Blurry. At first I thought my friend phone sucked but i got sent another picture by someone else and its Blurry too. I never had this problem before. I'm not sure if it's a 2.1 thing or a bug with the newest firmware, because I usually don't get pics sent to my phone & before those 2 I haven't had one sent since 1.6 and it worked fine since. I'm running the newest pre-rooted firmware by the way. I'll have more pics sent to my phone to see what happens.
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mark28 said:
I got 2 different pics from 2 different people sent to my phone & both of them were Blurry. At first I thought my friend phone sucked but i got sent another picture by someone else and its Blurry too. I never had this problem before. I'm not sure if it's a 2.1 thing or a bug with the newest firmware, because I usually don't get pics sent to my phone & before those 2 I haven't had one sent since 1.6 and it worked fine since. I'm running the newest pre-rooted firmware by the way. I'll have more pics sent to my phone to see what happens.
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When you say 'send', do you mean via mms? bluetooth? some other 3rd party app?
I haven't had any such problems..on either 1.6 or 2.1

I meant via MMS
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mark28 said:
I got 2 different pics from 2 different people sent to my phone & both of them were Blurry. At first I thought my friend phone sucked but i got sent another picture by someone else and its Blurry too. I never had this problem before. I'm not sure if it's a 2.1 thing or a bug with the newest firmware, because I usually don't get pics sent to my phone & before those 2 I haven't had one sent since 1.6 and it worked fine since. I'm running the newest pre-rooted firmware by the way. I'll have more pics sent to my phone to see what happens.
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I think it's a 2.1 problem with MMS, both my friend's and my own X10 has the same problem. The picture looks seriously compressed and blurry. Didn't have this problem on 1.6.

You're on T-mobile-USA, right?
It's T-mobile's fault. I saw this all the time when I used unbranded Nokias. If T-mobile doesn't recognize the phone, it sends the photos at a max default of 160x120... it's so that any phone can display it.
It probably used to work on T-mobile because they probably added the info for the X10 1.6 when they were testing it (since it was rumored that it was going to arrive for tmo-usa).
I know cyanogenmod has an option to set the phone to identify as a default android to the network - it receives full size pics then. I'm not sure if there's a program that can do this for the X10. Other option is to get Tmobile to add the phone's info to the network. I think someone did it with the e71 and they were receiving full sized pics. If enough people contact tmo (I doubt their entry level customer service can do anything, will probably need to be escalated), they will do it.

not sure if it's their fault, I notice this with one pic a friend sent me from his K800 or smth like that
when seeing it with mediascape it looks blurry

Yeah I do have t-mobile USA. Sigh well it's not a big deal I guess, just sucks. I'm hoping its a problem with 2.1 tho.
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It's not a behavior exclusive to TMO-US. Here's an interesting forum post. Hopefully it can answer any questions I can't.
Interesting quote from it:
"If your carrier does not recognize the User-Agent as one it has seen before, and they are using a well behaved MMSC, the MMSC will go fetch the UaProf xml file. More often than not however you'll encounter an MMSC that simply degrades to the lowest quality when a phone it doesn't know is encountered, or worse, it will simply drop the connection."
The picture looks blurry/compressed because it's a 160x120 images blown up to an 854x480 screen
and now i'm off to see if there's an apk or something as easy so that we can modify this ourselves for our X10s... lol
edit: we may be able to hex edit a file to do it... if nothing comes up by wednesday (work is a little too much right now), i'll give it a shot.

Thanks, it would be really great & helpful if you can do that
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I had a little time today but had a problem. I used root explorer to browse the system/apps folder and I couldn't find mms.apk. Maybe because the only other time i looked for mms.apk was on a phone with cyanogenmod, but is there a setting I need to enable to see it? Or do I need to adb into the phone?
I'll see if I get farther than step 1, haha. If it does work I'll start a thread in the Android Development forum.

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Getting really sick of my atrix switching back to my N1 until something better comes.

ok i dont even know where to start... I dont usuallypost that many threads *****ing and complaining about my phone.. but enough is enough...
I haven't rooted...(well I did a while ago BUT)... I took part in that beta testing update crap so it unrooted me.. but these problems I have been having are since the LAST "update" which was well over two months ago now (I THINK)...
1st problem I am having is randomly I cannot input text into ANY thing on the phone... I am using smart keyboard pro.. but even when i change input methods it still does not register anything i am typing... in fact when i switch the phone to landscape mode the text box goes dark grey...
2nd also when this happens... nothing will happen when i attempt to make a phone call... i click the name .. nothing happens.. i go into dialer... i cant input the number i try other methods of dialing out nothing happens....
those are the two biggest problems I have as I need to communicate with my clients all day long i cannot have this type of inconsistency.
ohh and also the finger print scanner just plain doesn't work when i go through the process of setting it up.. it wont even register the "test" swipes... its like its broken all together.... any one else having ANY of these problems?? please help me
I've never had any of those problems ever and I've had my atrix since launch date. Maybe you have a deffective device call and see if your provider will do anything about.
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Have you tried flashing a fresh sbf?
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Tyro.Eh said:
I've never had any of those problems ever and I've had my atrix since launch date. Maybe you have a deffective device call and see if your provider will do anything about.
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Problem is I bought the phone back in march from at&t unlocked it using it on Rogers the phone hasn't always done this only with In the last month and a half or do but it has gotten progressively worse to the point where it is so unreliable Ive had to switch back to my n1 which even though is only first Gen snapdragon technology running cm7... is making my this dual core look pretty ****ty right now...
krad54 said:
Have you tried flashing a fresh sbf?
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to be honest... and i know it sounds pretty stupid.. but... i really dont know how to flash the sbf... i know what it is followed the thread on it when it first came out... but never put the effort into figuring out how to actually do it... and right now i just don't have the time to sit down and do that.... (lazy.. it is what it is) but that could very well fix my problem i guess right... ugghh
ok
good luck sell me ur atrix I need a second one for testing purposes
If you feel adventurous enough, try disassembling the device and reseating the LCD/digitizer cable.
I had an issue with a Samsung galaxy s vibrant about a month ago that would register touch inputs when it was just sitting on the table. I did what I suggested above and the problem was solved.
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So you cant input any text and you cant make any phone calls. You know what sbf is youve seen the thread and realize that it could fix the problem but your admitedly too lazy to do it. Okay, thanks for sharing!
robwscott83 said:
Ive had to switch back to my n1 which even though is only first Gen snapdragon technology running cm7... is making my this dual core look pretty ****ty right now...
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LOL! I mean, why don't u just go back to it and making useless comparisons?
If you took some time to read, your problem would already be solved.
1. Your digitalizer may not be working well. Guarantee will cover this.
2. SBF from scratch to discard a software issue.
None of the issues you are experiencing is related to the phone being a dual-core mobile or not.
I've been able to solve some problems by reading and taking the advice from the forums.
If your Atrix looks ****ty, it's not on it. Mine shines!
Waste of forum space!
Warranty!
Bye!
Don't let the door hit you....
Err... you have a broken phone, bro. There are lots of bugs with the Atrix but yours is simply a broken phone.
Hell if you want to complain about a phone, give me it. Ill put the work into fixing it and love it. >.< this phone sucks.
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Contact your motorola service center dummy
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come on ill buy it off you Mine is great ill fix that s*it and give it to my girl.I'll give you 50 bucks cash lol.
That's what you get for buying motorola.
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C'mon man, flashing an SBF is simple! The instructions on XDA are very detailed. I am a lifelong Mac user, and even I figured out how to flash an SBF via Windows. It would not take more than a couple hours to download all the stuff you need, and re-flash an SBF. What's your build number now?
unsivil_audio said:
That's what you get for buying motorola.
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What are you even doing in this forum? My Aria is sitting in the box on the floor.
Swifted from my Atrix.
I've come across the keyboard input bug with alternate keyboards before.
SBF your phone, there's plenty of guides available how to do this, or you can download the moto update tool from their website.
Well as they say on WOW and other MMORPG...
Can I have your stuff??

[Q] Fuzzy Contact Pics in Dialer?

Does anyone get fuzzy or low res contact pics? I use hi-res pics for my contacts and they look like crap when someone calls me. I am on alien rom but if I remember correctly it did this on my factory rom before I even rooted or unlocked my phone. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
I've got the same issue with the stock ROM. They look good in the contact book, but once you call they look like crap. Interestingly, some of low quality photos look better.
my2cents said:
I've got the same issue with the stock ROM. They look good in the contact book, but once you call they look like crap. Interestingly, some of low quality photos look better.
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I guess you and I are the only two people that own Photons and have this problem. Oh wait maybe everyone is on that stupid Photon vs SGSII thread. This forum really sucks. I might just get the SGS II simply because you get ten times the activity on the forums than you will here!
I think it's an Android problem and not a Photon problem. I had the same issue with my Evo 4G.
car_lost said:
I think it's an Android problem and not a Photon problem. I had the same issue with my Evo 4G.
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I came here to say this ^
.: sent from Planet Photon:.
car_lost said:
I think it's an Android problem and not a Photon problem. I had the same issue with my Evo 4G.
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I just sold my Evo and I have never ever had this problem. I honestly can't remember if the Evo did this when I got it with the factory setup but every single ROM I flashed after I rooted and unlocked the phone the contact pictures looked fine.
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I came here to say this ^
.: sent from Planet Photon:.
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What's up buddy! Hope your liking your new phone
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I have not noticed this issue on my photon. I do have a screen saver on my phone that is ant-glare and anti-finger print, so it is not clear.
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smoothone said:
I just sold my Evo and I have never ever had this problem. I honestly can't remember if the Evo did this when I got it with the factory setup but every single ROM I flashed after I rooted and unlocked the phone the contact pictures looked fine.
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Was it running gingerbread 2.3.3? Maybe it is a gingerbread 2.3.4 problem? Only speculation on my part.
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I think it's an Android problem and not a Photon problem. I had the same issue with my Evo 4G.
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It is a little bit of both. IIRC, it has something to do with the contacts app and/or google reducing the size of the image when it saves it as your contact's image. When it uses the image for a phone call it tries to enlarge the image which results in its poor quality.
The Photon does have a limitation that doesn't let you follow a work around that the EVO has. With the Evo you could choose the contact type as 'phone' or 'gmail'. The contacts that were saved as gmail were blurry but the ones saved locally on the phone looked normal. It was a slight pain, but you could create a contact with the same name and save it locally on the phone and link back to the original. From then on, it would pull the pic from the version saved on the phone and not gmail.
I have not been able to find a way to make the Photon do this or something similar.
HYDE1000 said:
It is a little bit of both. IIRC, it has something to do with the contacts app and/or google reducing the size of the image when it saves it as your contact's image. When it uses the image for a phone call it tries to enlarge the image which results in its poor quality.
The Photon does have a limitation that doesn't let you follow a work around that the EVO has. With the Evo you could choose the contact type as 'phone' or 'gmail'. The contacts that were saved as gmail were blurry but the ones saved locally on the phone looked normal. It was a slight pain, but you could create a contact with the same name and save it locally on the phone and link back to the original. From then on, it would pull the pic from the version saved on the phone and not gmail.
I have not been able to find a way to make the Photon do this or something similar.
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This makes sense but then I can go into my contact and edit it and change the contact picture. Pick a picture from my gallery which would bypass any google saved contact pic. But then even the saved local picture is still blurry?
Contact pics do look horrible in the dialer. I recall EVO 4G looking just as bad.

Amazing ... bugs?

I bought mine for christmas , I found a dead pixel and rotation stopped working..
I sent it back for replacement, it was such a hassle cuz i dont live in usa.
Finally i got the new one, for 2 weeks now , is stock and I havent download any app just to make sure that was not the issue on the first one..
well yesterday guess what........... rotation and auto zoom stopped working on this one
I dont even know what to think now, I think Amaze is a great phone thats what i bought it .. but im having too many issues with this phone.
I set up MMS in my phone and is only receiving it no matter what , Is there a problem with amaze and MMS messages ?
Well I wonder, if I unlock it and load a rom, will it fix my problems ?
thanks in advance
Wow man I haven't had any of these issues, but my phone was rooted almost instantly, sooo...... Dead pixel is a hardware issue, so a new ROM wouldn't help that, sounds like u just got really unlucky. The other issues may be fixed by a different ROM, but would it be worth it when you have HW issues? Sheesh... Sorry
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Yea, your just very unlucky. as was i, i sent mine back because of my missing notification bar, got the new one and now when i go to install apps from my sd, my install button becomes unresponsive until i reboot it and i have roughly a 45 sec window till it becomes unresponsive again. new roms dont hurt and worth a try. fixed my problem.
Is there a problem with MMS messages, I cant send em, but I can receive it just fine.
You know all started when I took my phone to the phone company, they restarted the phone like 3 or 4 times cause mms was not sending .. On my way home I noticed the issues, I been restarting my phone since then waiting for a miracle ...
Today in the morning , I restarted my phone again with big hopes.. And is working again.. yeyyy
But is weird that auto focus and rotation are linked ..
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Is there a problem with MMS messages, I cant send em, but I can receive it just fine.
You know all started when I took my phone to the phone company, they restarted the phone like 3 or 4 times cause mms was not sending .. On my way home I noticed the issues, I been restarting my phone since then waiting for a miracle ...
Today in the morning , I restarted my phone again with big hopes.. And is working again.. yeyyy
But is weird that auto focus and rotation are linked ..
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HTC's Quality Assurance / Quality Control was sleeping when your device went down the conveyor belt during assembly
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glacierguy said:
HTC's Quality Assurance / Quality Control was sleeping when your device went down the conveyor belt during assembly
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yes sir, on both
The hardware and the OS are both terrible. I'm so disappointed in this phone
prueba01 said:
I bought mine for christmas , I found a dead pixel and rotation stopped working..
I sent it back for replacement, it was such a hassle cuz i dont live in usa.
Finally i got the new one, for 2 weeks now , is stock and I havent download any app just to make sure that was not the issue on the first one..
well yesterday guess what........... rotation and auto zoom stopped working on this one
I dont even know what to think now, I think Amaze is a great phone thats what i bought it .. but im having too many issues with this phone.
I set up MMS in my phone and is only receiving it no matter what , Is there a problem with amaze and MMS messages ?
Well I wonder, if I unlock it and load a rom, will it fix my problems ?
thanks in advance
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they sent you back the same phone
You are probably just missing right apn settings. I suggest check apn settings on another android phone which is on the same carrier as yours and has mms working.
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Preaak said:
they sent you back the same phone
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No, I was very careful on that, I wrote down the battery number, Imei , etc
to compare it
chem.manish said:
You are probably just missing right apn settings. I suggest check apn settings on another android phone which is on the same carrier as yours and has mms working.
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Actually I took it to the phone company.. they tried over and over.. and the phone never sent it.. but it did receive em
no matter what, I know they tried different configurations, but on 3.5 platform

Possible issue with better face feature

I seen the commercial and watching reviews about taking pictures with a better face feature. You should be able to put the camera into the better face feature mode and when it takes a series of 6 pictures in a row you should be able to go back and select the best of the 6 faces for each person in the picture. When I do this on my phone the review process where you select the best face for each individual from the series of the bust shot pics it took. I never get a chance to select a different face other than the one it some how choose out of the series...I'd this an issue since I'm on a rooted phone... I've only tried this with two faces in the pic at the same time any suggestions tips or tricks?
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You need too click/press on the face of each person and it will show you the faces to choose from.
When I do that or only comes up with the one choice or already picked I do not get a choice of faves to choose from...
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Weird, I'm not sure why it isn't working. I'm rooted and ran a quick test last night and it worked fine for me. Have you tried restarting your phone? Sorry I'm not much help beyond this.
jsadler09 said:
Weird, I'm not sure why it isn't working. I'm rooted and ran a quick test last night and it worked fine for me. Have you tried restarting your phone? Sorry I'm not much help beyond this.
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Yes, I've been rooted for a week or so now and have restarted my phone a few times since (but not as often as i use to have to with all my previously less capible phones )
I can get this feature to work with one person (but why does iot matter when only one person is in the shot, i can pick the best of 6 from the burst feature anyway). When i have 2 subjects in the photo is where it seems to go wrong.
Well I feel like an ass I just tried it and made sure I didn't shale the phone so much and the subjects stood still and it worked like a charm.
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Local purchase - camera issue - will Tmo/HTC honor warranty?

Bought an HTC One today. The camera appears to be defective. It has trouble focusing and is always blurry on the top right-hand side quadrant of the photo.
Since I'm pre-paid and bought from an individual, should I go to T-Mobile for a warranty replacement or direct to HTC? Obviously it's under warranty since it hasn't been out for over a year.
I know AT&T were jerks about warranty claims if you didn't purchase direct from them but don't know about T-Mobile.
Thanks.
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ericshmerick said:
Bought an HTC One today. The camera appears to be defective. It has trouble focusing and is always blurry on the top right-hand side quadrant of the photo.
Since I'm pre-paid and bought from an individual, should I go to T-Mobile for a warranty replacement or direct to HTC? Obviously it's under warranty since it hasn't been out for over a year.
I know AT&T were jerks about warranty claims if you didn't purchase direct from them but don't know about T-Mobile.
Thanks.
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as long as there is no damage you should have 14 days for an exchange
I believe you will have to go to HTC. T-Mobile will only honor it within the 14 day window for the original owner
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The phone is definitely outside the 14 day window and I'm not the original owner. Guess I'll go to HTC and play that game.
The physical hardware is clearly under warranty, so hopefully they don't give me the runaround.
Before returning try changing the video resolution from super hd to hd and see if that fixes it. Then you should be able to switch it back and it should work fine. It doesn't just fix the video camera but the still camera as well.
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Devi0124 said:
Before returning try changing the video resolution from super hd to hd and see if that fixes it. Then you should be able to switch it back and it should work fine. It doesn't just fix the video camera but the still camera as well.
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Now you tell me. I boxed it up and shipped back today.
Here is what the average photo looked like. Just terrible. Tried a hard reset, reset the camera settings, etc. Nothing worked. I think it's just plain defective.
Night photos are grain city too. Nothing good about it at all. FYI, I had and sold an HTC One (regretted it, bought another) and the photos were fantastic. This one is just a dud (hence why the seller only asked $450 cash - now I see why).
HTC support asked me if I wiped the lens with a lint free cloth. WTF do you think, lol?
Tap to focus just didn't work. In fact, nothing worked. Every photo is terrible. I really hope HTC support doesn't give me the run around.
(my backyard - yes we have two dogs and yes their pee kills the grass, but they are worth it)
Yeah that's about what mine looked like before. I had just written HTC to find out what I needed to do the replace it. This was literally just last night. I was up late about to flash the 1.29 Rom to see if that fixed it. I looked through the settings to see if there was a way to change the auto focus settings which there only is for video. I changed the resolution setting just to see if it might help and it completely fixed it. Not sure why but it seems like it was "stuck". It may or may not have been the same as your issue but sounds like it was. Whatever though, you get a new one so it all works out.
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Anyone know how fast HTC repairs/replaces and ships back? They will receive the phone today and I'm hopeful to receive it back by this weekend. Realistic?
Well, just got the phone back. Slow ground shipping!
Aaaand HTC did absolutely nothing to the phone. The pictures are all still blurry. Infuriated right now. Two weeks and they did absolutely nothing, just shipped it right back to me with no notes, no repair, nothing.
Called up HTC. Of course they have "no notes" as to what was done to the phone. Here's a tip: nothing was done.
The "escalations team" was closed so they told me to call back tomorrow.
Just so I'm not crazy, is this considered a normal "ultrapixel" photo from this phone? I just took it. Basically, the tap to focus does absolutely nothing. I'm about to unload this junk to someone else and make it their problem. I can't go a full month without a working phone as my only option is to send it in again and have the HTC techs go "yep, looks good from here" and send it right back to me again. Just replace your defective hardware guys. Not hard.
It would'nt hurt to try
The worst they would say is no. Ive heard story's of people getting replacements from t mobile in your situation, if it was a manufacturers defect. I would just go into a store and be totally polite friendly with the rep and show that your completely bummed out about your new phone not working the way it should. From my experience, kindness can go a long ways with t mobile.
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Well, just got the phone back. Slow ground shipping!
Aaaand HTC did absolutely nothing to the phone. The pictures are all still blurry. Infuriated right now. Two weeks and they did absolutely nothing, just shipped it right back to me with no notes, no repair, nothing.
Called up HTC. Of course they have "no notes" as to what was done to the phone. Here's a tip: nothing was done.
The "escalations team" was closed so they told me to call back tomorrow.
Just so I'm not crazy, is this considered a normal "ultrapixel" photo from this phone? I just took it. Basically, the tap to focus does absolutely nothing. I'm about to unload this junk to someone else and make it their problem. I can't go a full month without a working phone as my only option is to send it in again and have the HTC techs go "yep, looks good from here" and send it right back to me again. Just replace your defective hardware guys. Not hard.
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Not to press the depressing issue any more..but is that pic actually a focused zoomed in shot ..meaning your actually farther away then where the picture makes it look.
Was thinking that maybe your just to zoomed in with the shot... No photo ever looks any good fully zoomed ..I usually walk up closer less zoom =clearer picture.
But its just a idea I know your mad as hell .. And I agree the photo is horrific .
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abcdefg1234567 said:
Not to press the depressing issue any more..but is that pic actually a focused zoomed in shot ..meaning your actually farther away then where the picture makes it look.
Was thinking that maybe your just to zoomed in with the shot... No photo ever looks any good fully zoomed ..I usually walk up closer less zoom =clearer picture.
But its just a idea I know your mad as hell .. And I agree the photo is horrific .
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I am not using the zoom at all. Here's another one. They are all like this and HTC apparently thinks this is just fine.
Went to T-Mobile. The effectively told me to take a hike the instant they heard "I bought it from Craigslist."
Back to HTC I guess. Hey, no phone for a month. Fun.
Tmo will honor it by yeah unfortunately not if you did not but if from them
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Devi0124 said:
Tmo will honor it by yeah unfortunately not if you did not but if from them
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No **** cpt obvious.
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Is it obvious? Then don't ask stupid questions and you won't get obvious answers.
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No **** cpt obvious.
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