matfantastic
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Agreed.All i can say: So far this is the BEST Phone I've ever had!
Agreed.All i can say: So far this is the BEST Phone I've ever had!
I'm guessing you've never tried a Blackberry before then. Worst phone I've ever had by a long long way....horrible phone...just saying
Nope. Its been flawless. And I do mean flawless. Its odd to say the least that this could happen twice with a new device to the same person...
So you all are telling me no one has had any of the problems im having?
8. When hooking up phone to my Windows 7 computer it shows in the device manager that there are no drivers found for HTC6995LVW 2 times even throw I have the Windows Phone app for desktop installed and I can view the files in Windows Explorer.
First off, I loved my BlackBerry devices... The Pearl was awesome, the Storm, not so much... lol
That said, looking at these in order... It appears that almost all of them are based on the proximity sensor, or your use of it. From everything you are saying, it sounds like you are physically touching the screen while you are on the phone. If you are touching the screen then have the proximity sensor 'turn off' all sorts of crazy can happen quickly. If you hold the phone about 1/4-1/2" away from your ear and cheek, do the same things happen?
Thanks for the reply waazzupppp and sorry I have mot replied sooner. Been busy with work. If I pull the phone away from my check 1/4-1/2" from my cheek some times the screen lights up and some times it stays black.
1) This is probably due to your cheek activating a second call...
very possible but when its up to my ear the screen should always be black, correct?
2) Either a dirty proximity sensor from touching the dirt/grease on your face/ear or a defective sensor - or that screen protector.
I doubt that it is this because it happened right after I left the Verizon store when I got my New replacement. I also tried using the phone with no screen protector, with the thin film kind and the Tempered Glass Screen Protector and it still does it.
3} The last screen bug is a known issue that HTC is working on. They are well aware of the issue and are troubleshooting it.
I hope they put out the update soon
4) The quick vibrate is the connection notification. If you are connecting (ringing) before you get it to your ear, you should still feel it, but not as much as if it buzzes in your ear.
I must be fast them :wink: Can it be turned off?
5) That one I have never heard of, but again, if she pulled the phone away from her ear and deactivated the prox sensor, that would lead to weird things happening. I haven't had that issue at all, but I can imagine that would be terribly frustrating.
She was not pulling the phone away from her ear. She was walking towards me and the phone was on her ear the hole time.
6) This is one issue that I just can't imagine. The M8's that I've seen have had the most aggressive vibration settings of any phone I've ever used! Not sure what would cause a weak vibration, but I guess that one is a matter of opinion.
It does vibrate good but when its in the holster I just cant feel it. It most likely me.
7) Do you have the pocket ring feature turned on? If so, what's the volume level set at for your ringer? Also, did you program your own ringers or are you using the supplied tones?
Yes I do have pocket ring feature turned on and the volume level is set to 10 (the highest). I am using the default sound settings.
8) The Windows Phone App would have nothing to do with the drivers for your device. You would need to download the correct drivers from HTC. That said, Microsoft has said multiple times that in order to get the 'real Windows Phone 8 experience' users would have to be on Windows 8. You should still have MTP access no matter what version of Windows you are running.
I contacted HTC and they said they do not have drivers for the phone. I have to get them from windows. sounds like they have no clue.
Again, it seems like 90% of your frustrations with the M8 are based off the way that the proximity sensor is behaving. I haven't had any issues with mine, but I also use a Dot View case, which if you talk on the phone a ton, I would highly recommend getting. You don't even need to 'swipe' to answer, you simply pick up the phone and start talking. It's pretty sweet.
Hopefully you can get things sorted out with your phone. I love my M8, but a defective phone is absolutely the worst to have to deal with. Good Luck!
I cant its past the 14 days.Take your phone back already. No one keeps a phone they are having this many problems that no one else has unless they are selling an idea... Not buying.. I have the new Apple Plus w/64. I had a long road trip yesterday with a friend. Other then Google maps just smoking "Here Drive" I played with my HTC One almost the whole time. Of course I'm not over on Apple's forum bashing their new phone. Why if I prefer the HTC One for Windows? It's a very nice phone. I just find the One a bit more eloquent and perfect sized for my hand. The guy I was with freaked out on how well Cortana handled text messages without messing up even his words when he was driving. We were texting back and forth with another group of guys as we met at different hunt sites looking for old coins.
I will try that thx.I had the same problem with my phone, it turned out it was my SD card that was giving me errors, try to connect your phone without the SD card if you have one and see if that helps
I finaly got a chance to try this and still not good. When I look in device manager I get "Other Device " HTC6995LVW twice.I had the same problem with my phone, it turned out it was my SD card that was giving me errors, try to connect your phone without the SD card if you have one and see if that helps
Here maps is ok IMO, but count me as another who just prefers Google maps. I've used both throughout the southwest and pacific northwest in my travels and I think Google has the edge over Here. One feature of Google I really like is the guidance tells you what side of the road you need to be on for your address. Really helps in a strange place when traffic is busy and roads are crowded. It's the only thing(app) I really miss coming over from android a year ago.Can I ask where you are from and why you say google maps smokes HERE maps? I have the exact opposite experience, cause I am forced to use google at work, and when it doesn't work I pull out HERE on my phone it works flawless. I also here very few people complaining of garmin gps which also uses HERE maps as database, unless your just talking features. Did you make sure you downloaded updated maps for your phone? It doesn't do that automatically its something you have to peridiocally go and update. I pull google maps right off their website so its all up to date and it consistently sends me to the wrong place or doesn't have info for newer addresses all the time but HERE maps will beat it on most the time on pure data.
Here maps is ok IMO, but count me as another who just prefers Google maps. I've used both throughout the southwest and pacific northwest in my travels and I think Google has the edge over Here. One feature of Google I really like is the guidance tells you what side of the road you need to be on for your address. Really helps in a strange place when traffic is busy and roads are crowded. It's the only thing(app) I really miss coming over from android a year ago.
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Can I ask where you are from and why you say google maps smokes HERE maps? I have the exact opposite experience, cause I am forced to use google at work, and when it doesn't work I pull out HERE on my phone it works flawless. I also here very few people complaining of garmin gps which also uses HERE maps as database, unless your just talking features. Did you make sure you downloaded updated maps for your phone? It doesn't do that automatically its something you have to peridiocally go and update. I pull google maps right off their website so its all up to date and it consistently sends me to the wrong place or doesn't have info for newer addresses all the time but HERE maps will beat it on most the time on pure data.
Well for one thing I can just move my finger on the map to offer an alternative route and it goes to it. I cannot move a route to save my soul on "Here Drive".
I'm from the Midwestern U. S. also to answer that question.
I have a pretty good bit of information from GM that they are also responsible for my crappy Navigation in my new Chevrolet truck. It appears they wrote the software. It's awful. Can't get an ETA for anything. Never close.
If I'm just missing the boat on using "Here" maybe you can send me to a site with instructions. There's sure nothing intuitive about it.
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Well like garmin and the one in your truck they don't get updated unless you manually do it and for cars it can be a huge pain or sometimes you can do it at all they all differ. Sometimes garmin adds in their own stuff. But as far as raw street data like having streets in there that may not be in other gps data HERE pretty much beats everything. I don't really know how intuitive it is compared to google maps, I just use the google website at work and it doesn't have navigation its just maps and compared to the maps on my phone it gets beat constantly. I'm pretty sure HERE drive has options like that though most people wouldn't complain about it at all, but some people get HERE maps and HERE drive confused maps is just that it just brings up map and traffic data, but DRIVE is the navigation, It might be missing a couple features but considered one of the best and then has better data than everyone so I prefer to have the most data and streets over some possible nice features that aren't really needed. But I don't use drive enough to say it has all that usually it picks very good routes compared to other phones that ive compared it to. Supposedly has some of the best most up to date traffic info too compared to others but I believe google does pretty well in both these areas. I just mean I don't think google completely beats it if at all, if anything its a close race on all accounts. But HERE wins out in the offline stuff so if you ever traveled big areas with no cell signal for miles it beats everything.