So I saw the story this morning about someone being cheated out of the Smoked by Windows Phone challenge and what not... First time I heard about this marketing campaign actually so I looked at Microsoft's page for it which is lined with YouTube videos showing how it's faster than any other phone...
The first 2 videos (all i've looked at so far) are "let's see who can take a picture and upload it to facebook the fastest." Of course WP7 wins every time, but what I'm shocked at is their balls to make a dedicated camera button the selling point as if it's a new thing. "If I hold this dedicated camera button on the side, it opens the camera..." Yeah, I can do that too. Then he points out 1 button upload to Fb - swipe left to right on camera to show preview, tap to upload. Yeah, for us, tap preview, tap image to open share option. And everyone seems to be mesmerized by this crap they don't realize they already have! (ok, not everyone has the dedicated camera button)
You could argue that most people don't know how to use Android. Well... same could be said for any new device... They're just picking on those that don't know.
If you want to see for yourself...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/cmpn/smoked-by-windows-phone.aspx
Last time I checked my camera button doesn't do anything unless I'm already in the camera app. Yep, just tried it.
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msimindlessmsi2 said:
Last time I checked my camera button doesn't do anything unless I'm already in the camera app. Yep, just tried it.
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From the homescreen click it it takes u straight to the camera
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MS gave in and gave the dude thlaptop and a phone
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msimindlessmsi2 said:
Last time I checked my camera button doesn't do anything unless I'm already in the camera app. Yep, just tried it.
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Try holding it down -- phone should give you some haptic feedback and then open the camera.
Of course, on the 3D, you can just drag the camera icon into your unlock ring and achieve the same thing.
I just tried myself. Pressed the power button, dragged the camera icon into the unlock ring, snapped a pic, pressed the "Share" icon that appears during the short after-shot preview, and had I wanted to, I could've hit the Facebook option (I didn't ... who wants to see a pic of my monitor??). It took roughly 4 or 5 seconds, less if I were younger and could move faster
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MS gave in and gave the dude thlaptop and a phone
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I did see that. I didn't wanna turn it into a discussion about that whole thing. I was amazed at how they're trying to spin their whole camera thing. Watching some more, yeah... there are some other things they're more efficient with. But it's still an ugly and uninteresting OS.
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You could argue that most people don't know how to use Android. Well... same could be said for any new device... They're just picking on those that don't know.
If you want to see for yourself...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/cmpn/smoked-by-windows-phone.aspx
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Apll has been doin this .....and there called sheeple
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This is just typical marketing, nothing new.
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This is just typical marketing, nothing new.
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This. It happens in every single industry.
Well let's see if they can add widgets.or do they have any customization at all?my old feature phone had more customization than windowsphone
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Well let's see if they can add widgets.or do they have any customization at all?my old feature phone had more customization than windowsphone
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Microsoft is about productivity, not customization.
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Microsoft is about productivity, not customization.
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well thats crap anyway.is there anything you can do on WP that you cant with android?
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well thats crap anyway.is there anything you can do on WP that you cant with android?
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Xbox live and Microsoft office
how about tons of stuff you can do with android and not WP?
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I was wondering if there are any actual 3d apps out yet. Something that actually utilizes 3d technology for our EVO3ds. It is impossible to search for them because so many have 3d graphics.
Thanks guys!
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There is lots of 3D games by gameloft. If you meant apps then yeah I haven't seen any.
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Ya I got some games, I'm just waiting for some apps.
Thanks.
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What sort of app did you have in mind?
Not likely gonna happen unless it is an app that only runs in landscape. I don't think most developers want that kind of limit unless there is a benefit to 3D. The only benefit I can see is in movies and gaming.
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Not likely gonna happen unless it is an app that only runs in landscape. I don't think most developers want that kind of limit unless there is a benefit to 3D. The only benefit I can see is in movies and gaming.
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Good point, but I'm thinking of maybe a neon drawing app. Love 3d maestro LOL.
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do you mind linking to gameloft? I cannot seem to find any 3 d games on their site
There should be a shortcut in your app drawer.
http://wapshop.gameloft.com
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yes there should be a shortcut in your app drawer that says 3d games???
out of curoisty,does an app lets say running on my evo4g be tweeked differently to run on a dual core device??
The phone displays 3d in both landscape and portrait modes. Just look in the gallery and change between them
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It'd be neat to have a 3d homescreen.
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The phone displays 3d in both landscape and portrait modes. Just look in the gallery and change between them
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It does, but I don't think it's optimized to use it like that... like the way it splits the image...
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It'd be neat to have a 3d homescreen.
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I got to experience that last night. I was playing the spider man game and it froze up on me. I was able to get out of the game and the home screen was in 3d. Looked really bad IMO.
I would love to see a 3D launcher, I wounder if 3D works in full screen portrait mode. From what i read i dont think so. would be sweet tho.
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It'd be neat to have a 3d homescreen.
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Look at the 3d home screen from 22 to 24 seconds....my evo 3d doesn't do that
WTF
It would be neat but not practical imo. Unless it was docked.which I would try out. I really love the dock layout but ummm...need a dock LOL.
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Look at the 3d home screen from 22 to 24 seconds....my evo 3d doesn't do that
WTF
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I saw this in the commercial yesterday... i am upset they falsly advertise with that CGI. I don't mind, but there are people (average consumer) who are now going to be under the impression the entire OS is 3D, they are in for a surpirse
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I saw this in the commercial yesterday... i am upset they falsly advertise with that CGI. I don't mind, but there are people (average consumer) who are now going to be under the impression the entire OS is 3D, they are in for a surpirse
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Totally False advertisement
I was one of the consumers that thought the entire os was in 3d but oh well
I can still return it..time will tell
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Totally False advertisement
I was one of the consumers that thought the entire os was in 3d but oh well
I can still return it..time will tell
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To tell u the truth, the entire OS in 3D would prolly make me go permanently cross eyed or atleast mildly cockeyed
Not to mention bottles after bottles of Excedrin
but I hope devs find a way to tweak the system for more 3D just as a novelty tho, a type of "just cuz we can" feature. I'm sure our batteries would drain in like 3 hours max.
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I have seen a video on YouTube for siri for android,but apparently it only comes with Samsung Galaxy,iv tried Eva,omega,iris,etc but the galaxy version can be used without touching the Mic,it has a magic word,as soon as the words "Hi Galaxy" are said the app starts working, does anyone know any other apps that have a magic word to activate,insted of pressing the Mic on screen.
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That seems weird, since it means the mic would have to be on 100% of the time, and software would have to monitor what you say. Seems like epic battery drain to me.
I agree with above comment, also I really don't understand why people want siri on Android, Cant you guys just be happy with the one pre-installed? Yea It don't do all that cool stuff but hey it works..
Update,here is the video link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK0HNN4qLYc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I'm going put the link up for you, Nokia used to have a magic word years ago,so its nothing new ,I'm just amazed we still have to touch the screen,in todays technology, ill put the clip up so you can see what I mean.
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The mic was active once the app opens. He'd have to use a touch interface to open the app though. If he closes that app, saying, "Hi Galaxy" won't do anything.
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The mic was active once the app opens. He'd have to use a touch interface to open the app though. If he closes that app, saying, "Hi Galaxy" won't do anything.
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Well, that clears it up for me. I can't see any app wanting the mic & software to be running 100% of the time. That'd seriously drain your battery. At that rate, rather than launch the app, I'll just long press the search button to open voice search. Same amount of touches, same result.
I thought with cIQ the mic is active? oh wait maybe that was their next update. LOL
How often would you really use Siri is my question.
Support TrevE! Fah Q CIQ!!
I know some people who use Siri a lot. I imagine it's like how texting was when it first came out. All you have to do is get used to it.
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Ok, does anyone know which voice application will do the same as this galaxy version,with the "Hi Galaxy" part, can we port it?
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download vlingo put it in car mode and say hey vlingo it will say what would u like me to do...same as siri make sure auto listen is enabled in settings for car mode
Thankyou, can that be done without car mode?
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Hmmm will siri talk dirty to me?
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Well, that clears it up for me. I can't see any app wanting the mic & software to be running 100% of the time. That'd seriously drain your battery. At that rate, rather than launch the app, I'll just long press the search button to open voice search. Same amount of touches, same result.
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Not the same result! You won't sound like a retard having a 2-way conversation with your phone like all those apple tards
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Not the same result! You won't sound like a retard having a 2-way conversation with your phone like all those apple tards
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haha its always worth a good laugh seein them shout at their phones
Lookup Jeannie on the market. You can shake the phone to wake the app, then speak. Also very witty and intuitive like siri.
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On my EVO 4G and EVO 3D while browsing if I saw a pic I wanted to share via text,fb etc Id long press the pic and a menu would come up with all the programs on the phone. Now with the ICS browser your forced to save it go in the gallery and share from there. Its a pain in the rear
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On my EVO 4G and EVO 3D while browsing if I saw a pic I wanted to share via text,fb etc Id long press the pic and a menu would come up with all the programs on the phone. Now with the ICS browser your forced to save it go in the gallery and share from there. Its a pain in the rear
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Its cuz of apples patent dispute
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Yep. F***ing Apple.
I thought it was the patent thing to, until I checked my transformer prime and I don't have that option there either.
I tried opera on the evo as well, just the save option. Thinking it may be more an ICS thing though and not having to do with the HTC/crApple stuff.
Maybe someone can figure out how to get this back. My Prime doesnt have it either its an ICS thing
Yep its pretty weak.... I'm sure the devs will figure out how to get it back.
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On my EVO 4G and EVO 3D while browsing if I saw a pic I wanted to share via text,fb etc Id long press the pic and a menu would come up with all the programs on the phone. Now with the ICS browser your forced to save it go in the gallery and share from there. Its a pain in the rear
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Are you talking about browsing while in the camera app? If you are then while browsing through them you just touch the pic (not long press) and you have options, one of them being share.
Check out the htclinkifydispatcher.apk mod in the development section and see if that helps. U must be rooted (not unlocked) to do so though. I just did the mod and when I click and hold a random pic on the net a list of options appear and if you select share link you can post it on fb and etc. It also enables links and urls to become active in the stock email app....
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Check out the htclinkifydispatcher.apk mod in the development section and see if that helps. U must be rooted (not unlocked) to do so though. I just did the mod and when I click and hold a random pic on the net a list of options appear and if you select share link you can post it on fb and etc. It also enables links and urls to become active in the stock email app....
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I did this. I dont want to share the link. I want to share the pic itself. If you owned a EVO 4G or 3D you have to know what Im talking about
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I did this. I dont want to share the link. I want to share the pic itself. If you owned a EVO 4G or 3D you have to know what Im talking about
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Yeah actually I owned both I guess I just never really used that feature lol. It would be cool to be able to do that though...
I can do it on my tf101. Long press pic and it brings up menu-one of the choices are "share link". Tap that and it brings up
All the programs on your tablet. But LTE, no go, and I have done the htclinkifyer mod within the build.prop.
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so i had an htc hero for 2.5 years, and made the decision to finally upgrade.
this is just my 2 cents so far (quick review)
i like the phone. there are a few things about it that just seem funky though, and i know some of you are working on fixes.
i dislike:
-the on-screen menu button. should be re-mapped to the recent apps button, and long pressing the recent apps button should open up the app switcher. the app switcher itself is annoying. i don't like scrolling through cards. i miss a bunch of icons popping up and me picking which app i was using that way.
-the multi-tasking issues (gr)
Wait upgraded... From.... Hero.... Congrats .. And Idk why everyone wants buttons re mapped I guess some features are used more my some people then myself. I n the multi tasking I'd annoying we all agree with that lol.
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Some people are just more conservative when it comes to changing old habits. I personally like the new three button standard. Then again I am just a college kid
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Damn you had a hero for two and a half years? Geeze..
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Damn you had a hero for two and a half years? Geeze..
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Lol that was my thought as well.
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i know right? i was used to it and it worked for me. i even develop themes lol. but i used a droid2 to test them on. i liked the hero.
to be honest, i miss the trackball. SO MUCH easier to edit text with. like, seriously.
I think it is great you got much use out of the Hero. I am glad to see that when other people use/try out every new phone that comes out. Not throwing stones but not me. Takes me too long to learn all the ins and outs of a new phone.
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so i had an htc hero for 2.5 years, and made the decision to finally upgrade.
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WTH?! The Hero + 2.5yrs... that's like a decade in gadget years!
Man, we need to throw you a party. Right after I pick my jaw up from the floor.
Welcome.
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WTH?! The Hero + 2.5yrs... that's like a decade in gadget years!
Man, we need to throw you a party. Right after I pick my jaw up from the floor.
Welcome.
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I agree, and I was one of those. I spent two days with the new evo from the OG EVO, and I almost forgot about the things that I was so used to. There are so many pluses to ICS. Maybe it's the beautiful screen that distracted me like a swinging pendulum hypnosis, or the FAST camera. Huge step up from EVO 4G. If I was coming from the Hero, I would have jizzed!
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Some people are just more conservative when it comes to changing old habits. I personally like the new three button standard. Then again I am just a college kid
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I meant to include thus quote in my previous post, oops.
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skanndelus said:
so i had an htc hero for 2.5 years, and made the decision to finally upgrade.
this is just my 2 cents so far (quick review)
i like the phone. there are a few things about it that just seem funky though, and i know some of you are working on fixes.
i dislike:
-the on-screen menu button. should be re-mapped to the recent apps button, and long pressing the recent apps button should open up the app switcher. the app switcher itself is annoying. i don't like scrolling through cards. i miss a bunch of icons popping up and me picking which app i was using that way.
-the multi-tasking issues (gr)
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Well...... Welcome to the EVO 4g LTE
As for the stuff you dislike, you can flash a rom to get rid of the on screen menu button and make one of the capacitive buttons the menu button. I think you can get an app to make the multitasking look different... I remember something like this when using gingerbread.
I don't have any multitasking issued but I do have a bit of lag when switching tasks or just lag in general.... If that is what you meant.
pkmn rom is the heavy weight champ. unlike most, I like the multitasking button but i hated the three dot menu. The pkmn rom let's u remap buttons with long press options so I have menu set up for long press home and toggle off the three dot menu - it's perfect. You can also change the multitasking to the stock Android look. it's the perfect rom - yall should check it out
where can I find said ROM? I didn't see it in the dev section. I'll google it
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where can I find said ROM? I didn't see it in the dev section. I'll google it
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oops. it's the chameleon rom
Bad azz
well first off im a user of the,,,,,,, htc hero,,,,,,,htc evo 4g,,,,,htc evo 4g lte,,, I'M in aw with phone,,it's bad ass!!! love how they did away with search button and menu,,and love the recent app,,picture taking is fast!!! everything about this phone is top notch,,the new kick stand is sweet,,picture disply is clear as ****!! Ha!!!!!........
apparently the one x on att is getting update to android 4.0.4 which also has a fix in it to remove the bottom menu bar, the way rom developers have been doing. wounder if the evo will get the same thing.
http://www.androidcentral.com/htcs-fix-menu-button-issue-welcome-not-very-elegant
More importantly..........IT FIXES MULTITASKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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More importantly..........IT FIXES MULTITASKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think you are confused about what is broken in multi tasking.
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Their fix for buttons is like what's on roms so my question is how many hrs do they spend surfing the net and how do I get that job
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Their fix for buttons is like what's on roms so my question is how many hrs do they spend surfing the net and how do I get that job
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Should of been like that in the first place but hopefully it comes to the evo lte soon.
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What else is funny, is how long did it take runandhide05, to make that mod?
We had that mod within the first couple of weeks didn't we?
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What else is funny, is how long did it take runandhide05, to make that mod?
We had that mod within the first couple of weeks didn't we?
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Yeah, if even that long. The funny thing is that the change is so simple (go find runandhides thread, he shows how he did it) that anyone that knows how to decompile/recompile an all can do it. Let alone HTC, it shouldn't have taken them this long.
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HTC is on a roll with the updates this week
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like the old windows phone commercials we are all just beta testers lol
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I think you are confused about what is broken in multi tasking.
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Try again. I think you may be confused. Read moar
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Try again. I think you may be confused. Read moar
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No I must agree. You may be mistaken about what is broken with multitasking on our phones. The One X fix removes the black menu bar at bottom of screen in some apps & moves recent apps to a long press of the button. Our multitasking problem is Sense not storing the state of apps once we switch from one to another so that when we do switch or multitask back to original opened app it has to completely restart. This fix does nothing to help that and I don't see HTC releasing one anytime soon seeing as that is how they intended it to work, so from their pov it is working properly.
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No I must agree. You may be mistaken about what is broken with multitasking on our phones. The One X fix removes the black menu bar at bottom of screen in some apps & moves recent apps to a long press of the button. Our multitasking problem is Sense not storing the state of apps once we switch from one to another so that when we do switch or multitask back to original opened app it has to completely restart. This fix does nothing to help that and I don't see HTC releasing one anytime soon seeing as that is how they intended it to work, so from their pov it is working properly.
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Thanks for that..What I was going to reply to him with would have been way to Katty and troll like... :good:
Have you guys even read the HTC ONE X update thread or did you just read the post the OP posted and see what it contained?
Go read the XDA thread please
I know it has nothing to do with the menu button. Its a RAM issue, and its being reported as being fixed by multiple users.. Go read the thread.
Being "Katty" gets "Katty" responses. Don't make assumptions about others' knowledge
Nothing in that android central article says anything about multitasking being fixed by this update..Now if you want to find those threads where people are reporting improvements then I will gladly read them.
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Nothing in that android central article says anything about multitasking being fixed by this update..Now if you want to find those threads where people are reporting improvements then I will gladly read them.
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I agree, nothing in the android central article says anything about it. I didnt reference that article. I referenced threads right here on the XDA website.
The discussion regarding multitasking is HTC's "memory optimization". That means the HOX boots with more ram available, not multitasking being what it should be - multitasking.
I really like this phone. I can deal with a moderate task killer. I don't use the phone like I do a computer. All I ask for is a level of multitasking where I can browse the web, change an album or two, send a message, and return to browsing the web - seamlessly. There is clearly enough ram, let us use it.
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Unfortunately HTC's current next generation smart phone's have been a big flop. I'm sure this update will make the current user base happy, but it will definitely not attract new users. HTC has been to slow with its updates to fix current problems and unfortunately it took me to install CM10 to finally use multitasking the way it was meant to be. Htc better fix their problems quickly or they'll be the next Nokia.
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The discussion regarding multitasking is HTC's "memory optimization". That means the HOX boots with more ram available, not multitasking being what it should be - multitasking.
I really like this phone. I can deal with a moderate task killer. I don't use the phone like I do a computer. All I ask for is a level of multitasking where I can browse the web, change an album or two, send a message, and return to browsing the web - seamlessly. There is clearly enough ram, let us use it.
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I knew I wasn't going crazy. My ram percentage was always under 25 percent. Something was very off about that. That's the same percentage my Evo 4g gave off with the same apps installed. Sometimes my Evo 4g was better. Smh. Multitasking won't be updated by HTC until October I bet
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About multitasking from what I just saw over there they are getting more free ram avail from get go but HTC still did not make it so apps won't reload but that was one persons account...someone on AP said it was completely fixed...so its hard to say so many people seem confused...
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