HTC One M8 Bug-Find List

Device SOMETIMES rotates to all 4 direction even though auto rotate is disabled

pettigrew95 said:

Hey guys...I haven't seen a thread started for this yet and since I've been toying around with my M8 all day I figured I'd share 2 bugs I seem to have found and if you guys have found any feel free to contribute. Any edits I make will be for resolutions and updates to the bugs found. So far what I've found:

- I seem to have difficulty deleting files off of the external SD card. I have my pictures saving by default to it and I noticed if I delete one it disappears then pops back up. This happens through ES File Explorer.
--Issue lies with Kit Kat version not the phone itself

- When I manually set my brightness and then open up the camera it auto increases the brightness (which I don't think is a bug) the bug however, when you exit the camera app the brightness remains the same and doesn't revert back to your manual setting.
--If you exit the camera and then shut the screen, when you turn the screen on again you have your manually set brightness back.

- the buttons like to reappear over the top in immersive mode, they appear on the side if rotation is disabled

- the task switcher has options at the top, task manager and close all that get covered by the notification bar at the top

- blinkfeed looks odd with the 4 menu buttons still appearing

- Possible static on other end when using speakerphone

- Cannot take pictures of front and back of a check with the Bank of America app check deposit feature

- Snapchat filters will cause the screen to flicker.

- When authorising Sense's access to Facebook the Facebook app will take you to your newsfeed, meaning you cant authroise until you get to the homescreen. It's somewhat confusing, if you already have a HTC phone you won't see this issue.

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Hi,

I got my m8 a few weeks ago, and in the past few days I noticed an annoying bug. Sometimes, without any notice, the device will start to rotate into all 4 directions. Even the home page rotates and that app doesn't even support landscape! It even allows me to hold the phone completely up side down. I do not use auto rotate at all, it is disabled at all times, and when that issue happens, I can verify that the auto rotate is disabled. When it happens, it affects the home screen and all running apps. Even apps that I told to be only portrait are rotating to all 4 directions.

I have a video of this bug happening, but I haven't posted it yet anywhere.

I tried talking to htc support chat service, but they just told me to clear the cache. Unsurprisingly, it didn't solve the problem. They insist that some app does this and it's not a phone bug.

I did some Android dev back at the time and I'm definately not an expert, but as I see it, there's no way an app can override the auto rotation setting of the phone without changing it, and there's no way an app can make the home page be in landscape but when I just do regular auto rotate (when the problem does not occur) and it doesn't rotate to landscape. Sounds like a definite phone ROM issue to me.

I currently have version 1.54.707.7 installed and I'm nervous about upgrading to 2.22.707.3. I'm afraid that they created more bugs than resolved, like it happened to me with my previous phone, Samsung S3.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Tal

UPDATE:

I switched to latest ARHD rom that can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2694917

and it's awesome. All problems were solved, and I retained my sense UI look and feel.

Note that I updated to latest OTA before installing ARHD. Apparently it's something you need to do in order to update the firmware to latest.

DELETE ME

Ryanmo5 said:

I have the T-Mobile version, running stock, and never get sounds or notifications In the top bar when I get text messages. Have to open messenger app to see if I have any or not.

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Didn't you use sms backup app to transfer your messages to the phone? I did it and I also didn't get notifications. To fix this you have to change default sms app to standard one under settings>more>default sms app
I hope it will help

I've found that there's a small population of M8's that after some time, lost stereo capability. When a headset jack is plugged in it will only play out of one side. I've tested this with the same pair of headphones between my computer and my M8, and also tested it between my car's head unit and my M8. Everything validates this hardware issue. Anybody else experience this?

droidxprophet7 said:

I've found that there's a small population of M8's that after some time, lost stereo capability. When a headset jack is plugged in it will only play out of one side. I've tested this with the same pair of headphones between my computer and my M8, and also tested it between my car's head unit and my M8. Everything validates this hardware issue. Anybody else experience this?

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Furthermore, there is a gps problem. M8 used to detected correctly my current location(a district) but it shows me a city. The current htc clock and weather widget show my city instead of a district. Google map is displaying a correct location.

letmein713 said:

Furthermore, there is a gps problem. M8 used to detected correctly my current location(a district) but it shows me a city. The current htc clock and weather widget show my city instead of a district. Google map is displaying a correct location.

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I have noticed a gps issue since the so called gps performance update, it takes a lot longer to lock on now, even with modded gps.conf

boe323 said:

I have noticed a gps issue since the so called gps performance update, it takes a lot longer to lock on now, even with modded gps.conf

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Htc default weather and clock widget slowly detects and displays my current location too. So much for gps improvement!

Same here, problem with GPS
Fix time from 10 sec to 40+ on the same spot.

Also clock widget is showing whether from place which is 400 km away from my location.
Clear data has no effect.

HTC ONE M8

Also very slow GPS Fix here. It often takes about 30-40 seconds until it fixed....

there seems to be some problem while using the equaliser apps in M8, I have downloaded almost every equaliser app , but nothing seems to work, it works for the current song, but with next song, it's goes back to normal, not even music player apps are doing right, even their equaliser doesn't work

Freak*96 said:

Also very slow GPS Fix here. It often takes about 30-40 seconds until it fixed....

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I usually connected within 5-10 seconds ..maybe just close to sats at the right time

HTC M8 Verizon Texting App Cut/Paste bug

I've had an M8 for a few months now from Verizon.

Generally very happy with except for two things. I wasn't really sure where to post this; I do not frequent this site, but I wanted to put it some where it *might* be useful, and help to get fixed someday...

The first issue, and not the one I am really writing about, which has happened since day one, is that when I tap on a number to call someone (doesn't seem to matter much where I tap from, but usually Contacts)... about 70% of the time it just stalls. You think (for the first several times anyway) that you must not have made contact, but you did. It just stalls about 10-20 seconds and then finally comes up and starts to make the call.

This is highly annoying, but had been the only complaint I'd had until recently.

Typing this now set off the light bulb in my head -I had not connected prior- that there was very recently an auto-software update from Verizon. And it seems that's approximately when this started:

I use Verizon messaging app, and much of the time now if I have typed/spoken some text, and I "Highlight all" then tap "cut", it does not cut. If I "paste" it is not there. Pretty sure "copy" not working either. Only seems to be on Verizon messaging app, so really should be reporting this to them, but god knows how to get to the info to the right people at Verizon.

Restarted the phone last night (for other reasons) and when I tried it this morning, it didn't work. But then I shut down and powered back on and cut/copy/paste was working again.

Just wanted to post FWIW.

(Possibly) Relevant phone info:

Andorid: 4.4.3
Software number: 2.21.605.2
HTC SKD API level: 6.25
PRI: 2.64_002
PRL: 15342
ERI: 5
Kernal 3.4.0-g620712e
Baseband version: 1.09.20.0702
Build number: 2.21.605.2 CL362279 release-keys

I don't know what several of those latter ones are, but figured TMI better than TLI.

how did you resolve those issues? im havin headache with a 128 gig mem card seems only me and you have them. i load it up on pc to 80gig no proble put in my phone it goes straight down to 4

Enabling hot spot disables mobile data??

Hi,

I'm using ARHD 10.2 on my international HTC M8 and I simply LOVE THEM (the phone and the ROM). It's perfect other than the weird issue I'm having in the last couple of weeks.

When I enable mobile hot spot, the 3g data is being disabled! I can connect devices to the phone, but they can't surf the web, and the phone can't surf also while the mobile hot spot is on!

I'm not sure if it's ROM related, network related, or app related, but I was hoping that someone would know.. I haven't found any information on this issue anywhere on XDA or the web.

Thanks in advance,

Tal

(This is a friends phone)
When I call someone (or get called) , I can't hear the other end. When I activate the Loudspeaker, its the other way around and the called one can't hear me but I can hear him.
With a wired or bluetooth headset it works both ways.
I tried resetting the Dialer App without success. I since upgraded to 5.0 but nothing changed.
Everything worked in the beginning. Then I think it only worked on the loudspeaker and now it doesn't work at all (only with a headset).
Any ideas besides resetting the entire phone?

can't disable lock screen

For quite a while now I have had this problem while trying to disable lock screen, would someone possibly know how to fix this? Thanks, photo attached!

eoinnn1 said:

For quite a while now I have had this problem while trying to disable lock screen, would someone possibly know how to fix this? Thanks, photo attached!

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disable vpn

eoinnn1 said:

For quite a while now I have had this problem while trying to disable lock screen, would someone possibly know how to fix this? Thanks, photo attached!

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Also try to clear credentials in Settings>Security>Credential Storage.