I was all set to get the HTC One when it comes to Verizon. But now I am having second thoughts since I read somewhere at some tech site , about HTC One automatically syncs all the pictures From your contact list in Facebook. It puts all these pictures into an album in your picture gallery.
I don't want my so-called friends pictures. This would fill up all my storage space. I have all kinds of institutions , police departments , florist shops etc etc on friends list plus all those people who I don't even know. I surely don't want all this put on my phone taking up my valuable storage space. Loading up my phone with this crap. What in the world was HTC thinking ? I don't want to have to install any thing to prevent this. I assume that as soon as you get your phone turned on , that it begins this automatic sync. So I do not want this to even begin. I guess I will need to wait until something else turns up.
Perhaps some one with an HTC One could please tell me about this ?
It doesn't store anything on your device....
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My wife has a stock AT&T 2.1 Aria, which she says she's repeatedly lost phone numbers. Sometimes when rebooting or the phone reboots (not often), the other day she says she had JUST put in someones phone number that day and we rebooted the phone and it was gone.
I don't get it, don't the numbers sync up to Google? Or is Sense doing something silly and storing it locally? She's really frustrated with this, and I've never heard of any such thing.
Maybe she needs to show me how she's putting in phone numbers, or there's some setting somewhere. I asked her to make sure she's not looking at data from Facebook as I know this can vary as it's dynamic from the app (as I understand it anyway) but she says this happens on numbers she puts in on the phone manually herself.
Any suggestions (besides upgrade the ROM, unless it's a KNOWN fix for this issue) would be appreciated.
First thing I'd look at is where she saved them sim or Google it'll go to either. then look and see what she has her phone set to show, either or both.when I first got mine I thought I'd lost numbers but I'd saved them to my sim and had the phone set to show Google contacts.now I only save to Google contacts much easier.
Actually I think stock also has a "phone" destination too.
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mtnlion said:
First thing I'd look at is where she saved them sim or Google it'll go to either. then look and see what she has her phone set to show, either or both.when I first got mine I thought I'd lost numbers but I'd saved them to my sim and had the phone set to show Google contacts.now I only save to Google contacts much easier.
Actually I think stock also has a "phone" destination too.
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That's what I was afraid of, multiple places to store phone numbers instead of just Google. I'll look around and see if there's a sim vs Google setting somewhere, and have her input a sample number and see what she picks or is default.
Does anyone know how to change the default location for saving new contacts? At the moment, when I go to add a new contact it will save it to the phone by default and I have to manually select Google contacts every time I save someone new. It'd be nice to be able to skip that extra step each time. I tried searching some of the other forums, I know there may be fixes for other HTC phones but I can't get them to work on my AT&T HOX+.
Thanks and happy new year to everyone!
Same thing drives me nuts, but I haven't found a fix I don't understand why HTC wants us to save to the phone and not the cloud
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Andrew149 said:
Same thing drives me nuts, but I haven't found a fix I don't understand why HTC wants us to save to the phone and not the cloud
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Weird.. my HOX+ picks the last used account when I want to save a new contact (Hotmail /Exchange Activesync)...
...but I do have this very annoying extra step you mentioned when I make a new calendar item. It always defaults to my Google account instead of the Exchange account, even though Google Calendar sync is turned off and is hidden in the Calendar app..
Also to mention that the stock HTC contacts app limits emails to 3 per contact when saved to the phone and doesn't have custom labels for emails/numbers. So annoying!!
So I've had to switch to the Google cloud for contacts which doesn't have those restrictions.
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.android.contacts
There's also a paid version, have everything that is missing from htc people app.
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Does anyone know how to change the default location for saving new contacts? At the moment, when I go to add a new contact it will save it to the phone by default and I have to manually select Google contacts every time I save someone new. It'd be nice to be able to skip that extra step each time. I tried searching some of the other forums, I know there may be fixes for other HTC phones but I can't get them to work on my AT&T HOX+.
Thanks and happy new year to everyone!
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This started happening when i got my OG HOX, very annoying. Other android devices i've owned (EVO, Sensation, Nexus) worked properly. I've lost 10-15 numbers because of the way this is now. A couple very important ones... If i add a contact to my Google account it should seem easy enough to remember that and save the next contact there too. But nooo always wants to save to phone, even when phone is unchecked as viewable contacts... And its been almost a year and its still not fixed.. Thanks Android, HTC, ATT or whoever is responsible.....
Just quick update to this thread:
I have been using Viper Rom for the last week or so on my AT&T One X+ and last night I noticed when adding a new contact it DID default to Google contacts. Not sure how or why this change occurred, whether it was something I did or something cooked into the ROM. In fact, I noticed that under "Phone" in my contacts list there are zero entries. Maybe my phone contacts got disabled somehow? Either way, it's working great now. I never use "phone" for storing contacts anyway.
As a side note: I wish there was a way of combining the best bits of every ROM. Viper seems to have this contacts thing fixed and has some great UI tweaks but is very laggy; Elegancia is smooth, quick and has great battery life and also has the bluetooth distortion fixed; Blackout ROM has their custom kernel.
Hello, my Girlfriend has an admirer which started out as a good friend. He confessioned his love for her some time ago and started to become more and more aggressive while being rejected. He recently started to show some stalker like behavior and started to appear near her flat at late nighttime.
He also hinted, that he always knew when she was chatting with my through Whatsapp. I'm therefore afraid that he might have installed some Spysoftware on her Android-Phone (HTC One X+)
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Is there a way to identifyWhatsapp Spysoftware and to remove it?
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Hello, my Girlfriend has an admirer which started out as a good friend. He confessioned his love for her some time ago and started to become more and more aggressive while being rejected. He recently started to show some stalker like behavior and started to appear near her flat at late nighttime.
He also hinted, that he always knew when she was chatting with my through Whatsapp. I'm therefore afraid that he might have installed some Spysoftware on her Android-Phone (HTC One X+)
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Is there a way to identifyWhatsapp Spysoftware and to remove it?
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i doubht theres any such thing but if u feel that freaked out just backup contacts and other stuff to google and do a factory reset lol.
if your serious apps arent important.
Unmensch said:
Hello, my Girlfriend has an admirer which started out as a good friend. He confessioned his love for her some time ago and started to become more and more aggressive while being rejected. He recently started to show some stalker like behavior and started to appear near her flat at late nighttime.
He also hinted, that he always knew when she was chatting with my through Whatsapp. I'm therefore afraid that he might have installed some Spysoftware on her Android-Phone (HTC One X+)
TL;DR
Is there a way to identifyWhatsapp Spysoftware and to remove it?
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There is a messaging app called whatsapp, I've never used it so I don't know how she could remove him as a contact on there or just get rid of the app.
Personally I use lookout mobile security for virus/spyware. But a scanning app may not flag messaging apps as spyware, no matter how flexible it may be with its users info.
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While this can be done. I doubt he has the know how on how to pull it off and is just making noise. Worst case would be to catch him doing it and call the cops.
She would have to remove him in her contacts list for the app
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do a factory reset. just to be safe.
Also format sdcard for make sure.
Run ruu. Burn phone. Buy new one. All good answers
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try this
about whatsappp it's indded simple to know when sbody is chatting, on every messaging window just under the contact name there is the last contact log, if in chat says online, even if chatting with another one... so maybe no spyware on her phone, just a smart stalker, but she can freeze him simply long press on stalker name in whatsapp contact list and block, also in android contact add him and from menù choose "send all call to voice box" or similar after choose a fake number as phonebox, doing this her phone is virtually not reachable from the stalker
plus add his number in a black list, you can find a lot of call blocker app in the market
and last but not least call the cops
I never loved Sense but I have learned to like it but I have 2 issues:
The main issue is the HTC gallery. I think is junk compared to stock. I have a lot of galleries on Picasa and Drop box. All of my Motorola and Samsung phones that have the stock gallery must store the thumbnails locally where as HTC download them each time. It takes forever to find a picture I am looking for. Also you have no ability to text or email a picture from one of those sources. It only sends a link that does not work unless I give my login and password. I have instead try to open it myself from the browser and then download it and send.
The 2nd is the htc text message app. Every software revision I have tried does it. 1, On the text notification from the lock screen, if someone texts you as part of a group message and you drag it down to directly go to it, it brings you to the single thread you have with that contact, not the recent message. The 2nd issue is many times I open I thread, it starts at the top of the thread. This could be months or weeks back and that scroll bar is a pain in the ass to grab to keep pulling it to the bottom.
Please let me know if anyone knows of a ROM or Mod I can try to fix this. Every Senseless ROM I have tried still maintains the HTC messenger and gallery.
Thanks,
Dave
I know on sense 5 the messaging problems are fixed, but not the gallery issues you listed.
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So is there no rom that removes the HTC gallery?
odonda8 said:
So is there no rom that removes the HTC gallery?
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You can install a different gallary, like the stock(4.2) one.
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odonda8 said:
I never loved Sense but I have learned to like it but I have 2 issues:
The main issue is the HTC gallery. I think is junk compared to stock. I have a lot of galleries on Picasa and Drop box. All of my Motorola and Samsung phones that have the stock gallery must store the thumbnails locally where as HTC download them each time. It takes forever to find a picture I am looking for. Also you have no ability to text or email a picture from one of those sources. It only sends a link that does not work unless I give my login and password. I have instead try to open it myself from the browser and then download it and send.
The 2nd is the htc text message app. Every software revision I have tried does it. 1, On the text notification from the lock screen, if someone texts you as part of a group message and you drag it down to directly go to it, it brings you to the single thread you have with that contact, not the recent message. The 2nd issue is many times I open I thread, it starts at the top of the thread. This could be months or weeks back and that scroll bar is a pain in the ass to grab to keep pulling it to the bottom.
Please let me know if anyone knows of a ROM or Mod I can try to fix this. Every Senseless ROM I have tried still maintains the HTC messenger and gallery.
Thanks,
Dave
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It might be a good thing that the DNA gallery has to download the pics from cloud services each time. I have a Note 2 and it caches Facebook and Dropbox photos and it was filling up my phone memory (you can't switch it to SD card) and the gallery was STILL super slow.
With only 11 gigs of usable space on the DNA, we don't really want it caching all of those photos.
I've been told that the Moto One can only store photos to Google photos/cloud. Is there an option to store photos taken to local storage ?
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I've been told that the Moto One can only store photos to Google photos/cloud. Is there an option to store photos taken to local storage ?
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Thats not true. The're stored in either internal or external memory. Whatever suits you best. Although you can back up to google photos with unlimited storage at the price of it only being saved in "high quality" compared to "original" where you have to use your limited google drive space instead.
High quality:
Unlimited free storage
Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16 MP, it will be resized to 16 MP.
Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high-definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original.
Original quality:
Limited free storage (15GB)
All photos and videos are stored in the same resolution that you took them.
Recommended for photos that have more than 16MP and videos with more than 1080p.
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Thats not true. The're stored in either internal or external memory. Whatever suits you best. Although you can back up to google photos with unlimited storage at the price of it only being saved in "high quality" compared to "original" where you have to use your limited google drive space instead.
High quality:
Unlimited free storage
Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16 MP, it will be resized to 16 MP.
Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high-definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original.
Original quality:
Limited free storage (15GB)
All photos and videos are stored in the same resolution that you took them.
Recommended for photos that have more than 16MP and videos with more than 1080p.
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Thanks. I'm aware how Google photos works. But I don't see an option to save photos locally on the Moto One phone.
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Thanks. I'm aware how Google photos works. But I don't see an option to save photos locally on the Moto One phone.
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it's in camera settings, but I cant find any setting to not save them locally. They're saved locally, and when they're backed up to photos you can free up space on device if you wish, through photos app. You can also see device folders containing pics in the photos app menu.
I have the same question as Limey, i recently purchased the Moto One phone and i couldn't find anything other than Google gallery. and google calendar. My issue being i want to save things locally on the phone or sd card . I have preiously been locked out of my google account despite having purchased apps from the play store using a credit card that was linked to my name and address., even though i provided this on Google forum they said they couldn't unlock my account as i could not prove the account belonged to me,
You also don't seem to be able to get rid of the Google search bar .or even change its position on the home screen. which you only get one of, I have had to install a launcher over the top
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I have the same question as Limey, i recently purchased the Moto One phone and i couldn't find anything other than Google gallery. and google calendar. My issue being i want to save things locally on the phone or sd card . I have preiously been locked out of my google account despite having purchased apps from the play store using a credit card that was linked to my name and address., even though i provided this on Google forum they said they couldn't unlock my account as i could not prove the account belonged to me,
You also don't seem to be able to get rid of the Google search bar .or even change its position on the home screen. which you only get one of, I have had to install a launcher over the top
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As I said, the files are being saved locally. You can check it either in files app, or photos app by chosing device folders in menu and there you'll find it. Or just install a gallery app if you prefer that.
Regarding calendar and launcher you'll have to remember that this is an Android One device which basicly means that it's running pure android with a few OEM implementationes from Moto that is approved by Google, and that Motorola and Google worked together both hardware wise and software wise to put this together, much like the old Nexus series.
How did you get locked out from your own account if I may ask?
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As I said, the files are being saved locally. You can check it either in files app, or photos app by chosing device folders in menu and there you'll find it. Or just install a gallery app if you prefer that.
Regarding calendar and launcher you'll have to remember that this is an Android One device which basicly means that it's running pure android with a few OEM implementationes from Moto that is approved by Google, and that Motorola and Google worked together both hardware wise and software wise to put this together, much like the old Nexus series.
How did you get locked out from your own account if I may ask?
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Thanks for the info, There are a few things that are annoying me after days with the phone perhaps you or Limey could advise/direct me to some solutions;
No Notification Led . According to the Moto forum, the led on the front of the phone will only work to tell the user that the battery is low
Battery percentage is so tiny that it is impossible to read. I have to pull down from the top to find out what my level is
Speed dial, press and hold a number on the keypad to call a designated contact. Its a function i must have been using since the late 90s
I went for the phone because of the promise of updates and patches for 24 months plus the fact that batteries are no longer user replaceable which irritates me no end. So i refuse to spend big money on a handset. The ecological impact of manufacturers who bring out a new phone every year is not sustainable for the planet. One way to help is to go back to being able to replace the battery when needed
I got locked out of my Google account due to over reliance on 2FA
I wake up one morning and my phone fails to respond, screen off .. After various forms of cpr i decide to put my simcard in an older phone which i kept as a backup, i have to use a sim adapter though which ends up jamming the sim slot in the backup phone.
Now i don't have a phone or simcard working. I go to shop buy a new phone and temporary sim. I cant get to my network providers shop so they say it will take 5-7 working days to post me a replacement sim
I want to download my contacts from my google account onto my new phone so i try and log in except it wants to send me a code to my registered number which i can no longer access . Option 2 google sends a email to my backup email address which i haven't used for some time. After 3 attempts i am then locked out my backup email account.
Eventually my replacement sim arrives and i try and log in to my account expecting it to send a code to my phone .. It doesn't and want me to go thru the account recovery process which i do only to to told by the screen that "Google will now send a password reset to your backup email address " .. Now im really stuck
Apparently after some research, Gmail forum moderators can possibly take your case up and help gain access to your inbox.
I do as requested .. Attempt to login via device that i have previously used Answer as many questions as i can, such as when the account was created ..verification code to the phone number associated with the account. I explain on the forum that i cant access the backup account but i do have a email which is from the playstore for an app i purchased using my credit card, which is linked to my home address and obviously my name.
Apparently is was not enough to unlock my account but i am told to try again in a week or so
During this time i am telling my friend all about this problem who lives in the US. He tries to help me but without doing his research.. just goes through the recovery process not knowing that its best to do this via a previously used device.
Some time passes and i try to recover my account again only to be told that multiple locations in the world have tried to log in to the account which makes it even less likely i will be able to recover the account .
Lost pictures and some contacts but most annoying of all is that i am no longer able to use twitter, and other apps where i used my Google login.... each time i try and setup a new account it says this phone number is already associated with another account why not try and recover the account info. When i raise a ticket all i get is automated response and get sent on a loop of steps which i have already tried.
That was partly why i wanted a phone with 2 sim slots
Google services are free but after something like this happens it makes you hesitant to go further into the google eco system. Hence i didn't want my pictures or calendar to be saved only on the cloud. When i can provide documentation that proves my id yet i am still locked out because "computer said no" it does make you think of 2001 the movie "I'm sorry Dave I cant do that"
As i said at the start,..over reliance on 2FA, prior to enabling it i never forgot my password
Uuh, that sounds like a really bad situation. I guess I'll never gonna enable 2 step verification lol.
I totally agree on the battery percentage. It's way too small and that makes it totally useless. And yes, the led is not used for notifications. I've changed it's behaviour to blinking while it's charging and solid when it's fully charged just to get it somehow usefull, but it requires root to do so.
For the speed dial you could assign contacts as favorites to have them shown when you open the dialer.
I kind of liked those times when you could actually change both battery and screen by yourself, but these days everyone wants a water'/dust proof phone which requires everything to be glued together, making it hard for end user to to do "diy" stuff without a lot of special tools.
Now you'll have to send it to service just to get the battery replaced.
Anyway, I really hope you get this google thing sorted out. Must be a pain to be locked out like that , losing data, and having troubles to log in/make new account on other services as well.
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Uuh, that sounds like a really bad situation. I guess I'll never gonna enable 2 step verification lol.
I totally agree on the battery percentage. It's way too small and that makes it totally useless. And yes, the led is not used for notifications. I've changed it's behaviour to blinking while it's charging and solid when it's fully charged just to get it somehow usefull, but it requires root to do so.
For the speed dial you could assign contacts as favorites to have them shown when you open the dialer.
I kind of liked those times when you could actually change both battery and screen by yourself, but these days everyone wants a water'/dust proof phone which requires everything to be glued together, making it hard for end user to to do "diy" stuff without a lot of special tools.
Now you'll have to send it to service just to get the battery replaced.
Anyway, I really hope you get this google thing sorted out. Must be a pain to be locked out like that , losing data, and having troubles to log in/make new account on other services as well.
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Thank you