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Sensation not as quick as EVO 3D on Homescreens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMioPBv4PbI&feature=player_embedded
Interesting. It's nothing too noticeable, but I really hope it gets addressed in an OTA update. This and the unresponsive screen/quick swiping issue need to get addressed fast.

only thing that comes to mind is the RAM difference compared to the EVO
1024 > 768

I think the sensation is far from a final device..IMO it is a beta device and I hate htc for that

nirvana2506 said:
I think the sensation is far from a final device..IMO it is a beta device and I hate htc for that
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Well I have had zero issues thus far. Am I lucky or you unlucky?

Dunno about I but my Sensation has less lag than that, though it does take about 3 swipes to get my homescreens spinning. Also, I saw noticeable lag there on the EVO 3D especially towards the end of the Video.
The culprit is sense but the EVO 3D looks slightly more smoothe than on my phone.
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I've played with both devices in hand (I work for Sprint and we've got our demo unit in) and so far I haven't noticed a big difference.
There is a hell of a lot more bloatware on the Sensation then on the Evo 3D, so I'm hoping once we get root we can remove all the crap.
I only have about 110MB of RAM free on a fresh boot with nothing installed yet (so there is defiantly a lot of garbage installed).

Are you checking your free RAM from that stock "task" manager? If so it's very unreliable. You should manually from the Manage Apps screen.
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The spinning effect is just a pointless gimmick anyway. And honestly it looks like it spins way to easily on the Evo.

Sprint SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nirvana2506 said:
I think the sensation is far from a final device..IMO it is a beta device and I hate htc for that
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If they give u a final device this mean they are going to close the company and set drinking tea and coffee at their house This A,B business they will never make final device. this is just how it is.

I think this is totally a software issue. The only way it would be RAM is if the RAM was already maxed out and we know this happens even with 200 free.

karnovaran said:
I think this is totally a software issue. The only way it would be RAM is if the RAM was already maxed out and we know this happens even with 200 free.
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Yeah I don't think its the ram either, people have said sense3.0 runs smoother on the MT4G which has the same ammount of ram. Even the PS3 only has 256mb RAM and its a beast for graphics. (yes even the seperate GPU is only 256mb)

BonesRed said:
Are you checking your free RAM from that stock "task" manager? If so it's very unreliable. You should manually from the Manage Apps screen.
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Both spots show right around the same amount of memory free in the RAM.

nccu_eagles said:
Sprint SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And why do you think I work for Sprint and carry a T-Mobile phone...
Because I agree.

Squeaky369 said:
Both spots show right around the same amount of memory free in the RAM.
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that's odd. mine always show 2 different.
task manager always show way less.
setting>app I get around 300mb free.
anyway, I dont' think it's a ram issue. perhaps it's because of bloatware on the phone?
I also think that Evo goes into the carousel mode too easily. it would drive me nuts if every time I wanted to change pages and I flick a little too hard and it goes into a carousel...

It also seems to me that the Evo screen is more vibrant.
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i think it's just brightness setting, and evo have the widget clock sun shine effect on...

I'm sorry
I don't see ' unresponsive' or lagged in the video. It's just very slightly different.
Mine can take one swipe to spin it .. if I swipe quickly enough .. in fairness I can't imagine needing it to spin anyway.
Right I'm off to try and find something wrong with it..
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Its sense, I wouldn't be surprised if the difference of ram really mattered. I use launcher pro and my nexus one had absolutely 0 lag. The sensation has no lag on a fresh boot but 10 sexongs later has lag on the expose style feature. I can't wait to root this thing. All I want is vanilla android with the HTC unlock screen
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laggy sensation :S

more and more posts and threads about laggy sense or laggy screen ...... etc
i think it is not god te see every day a complaint in such a device which should be the fastest and most powerful device that htc produced
the last video published on youtube was this
verry laggy in that game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GPHlKdEZ0
what r htc planning ???
is it a ram "hardware" issue ??? or a software issue that can be repaired later by an update ???
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it

Mine runs great, even in games. No problems whatsoever.
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Put ADW on it and call it a day. Sense sucks anyway. With ADW its faster than anything I've used including my G2X.
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jrwingate6 said:
Put ADW on it and call it a day. Sense sucks anyway. With ADW its faster than anything I've used including my G2X.
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I put ADW on it and I get extreme lag in app drawer. LP is better, but Go Launcher is the smoothest.
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I don't play games anyway but I tested and u have no lag
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xdafun4all said:
more and more posts and threads about laggy sense or laggy screen ...... etc
i think it is not god te see every day a complaint in such a device which should be the fastest and most powerful device that htc produced
the last video published on youtube was this
verry laggy in that game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GPHlKdEZ0
what r htc planning ???
is it a ram "hardware" issue ??? or a software issue that can be repaired later by an update ???
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
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It's software, definitely. There is no reason why a dual-core couldn't handle a game like this. It's just incredibly laggy Sense and bull**** bloatware. Can't wait for S-Off.
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idavid_ said:
I put ADW on it and I get extreme lag in app drawer. LP is better, but Go Launcher is the smoothest.
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Dave, you must turn off the annimation in ADW where the icons fly in and out.
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yeah, that person found a particular game -.- btw thanks, the newest 3D games just running fine farm story man ...
xdafun4all said:
more and more posts and threads about laggy sense or laggy screen ...... etc
i think it is not god te see every day a complaint in such a device which should be the fastest and most powerful device that htc produced
the last video published on youtube was this
verry laggy in that game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GPHlKdEZ0
what r htc planning ???
is it a ram "hardware" issue ??? or a software issue that can be repaired later by an update ???
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
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but what about the non responsive screen and lock screen ring issues ??
htc need to introduce an update to solve all these problems ..... as the update recently released lead to more laggy device and less smooth performance
as mentioned by users who installed the update

xdafun4all said:
but what about the non responsive screen and lock screen ring issues ??
htc need to introduce an update to solve all these problems ..... as the update recently released lead to more laggy device and less smooth performance
as mentioned by users who installed the update
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Do you have a sensation ,or are u just a troll,sensation is not even close to laggy, I had some issues called in for replacement and the phone I had seemed like it fixed itself , the replacement is smooth as babys bottom and I'm sorry but sense Is ten times better than any other launcher ....and I had them all

install new OTA update and TADA sense is very fast!
OP happened to find game which clearly isnt made properly for adreno or new cpu's.
try dungeon defenders for example.. it runs VERY smooth even though its probably one of the most advanced and heavy load games.

i can speak aboin mine and my friends unbranded : none of these problems. probably a simple cry issue above. do u even own a sensation ?
xdafun4all said:
but what about the non responsive screen and lock screen ring issues ??
htc need to introduce an update to solve all these problems ..... as the update recently released lead to more laggy device and less smooth performance
as mentioned by users who installed the update
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These problems that mentioned above are real. I mean how don't you see related threads by now?
Unresponsiveness which includes lockscreen issue appears after sometime. This my second unit and it semms to appear again. Being your not having right now doesn't mean there isn't.

xdafun4all said:
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
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i think this is obvious .... i dont have the device but the forum here is full of people posting every day their experience about lagging and lock screen and many bugs in the device
my thred is to confirm that all these bugs and lagging issues are going to be solved or it is a hardware related issues

Figure_desire said:
These problems that mentioned above are real. I mean how don't you see related threads by now?
Unresponsiveness which includes lockscreen issue appears after sometime. This my second unit and it semms to appear again. Being your not having right now doesn't mean there isn't.
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Agree entirely. Those who haven't witnessed these bugs yet are just downright lucky.
My phone freezes all the time - to the extent that it sometimes takes me more than 30 seconds to hang up a call (since the screen locks and then you can't unlock it... and then it's this whole embarrassing ordeal of power on power off).
Every single time I press home ( which is pretty much the only way to go back - since the back button is pretty much completely unresponsive) - I get the HTC white screen & then loading for 30 seconds.
This phone is slower than my Nexus One. I really feel like I have gone down a notch instead of up.

Sorry to hear of all the troubles with the Sensation. I had to go thru 3 other units before I found one that worked well. I am on my 4th Sensation 4G now. This one seems to be free from the issues mentioned. The 1st one had the lockscreen not responsive issue and also the build quality of the case to the phone was squeaky after 2 weeks of use. The 2nd one had a poor screen. The widgets would have static lines running horizontally thru it. The 3rd one had an overly recessed power button and loose volume button. The 4th was the good one. Thus far its worked well with no major issues. There have been a couple times of quick HTC reboots, but that's bout it. I can live with mild reboots due to low memories.
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Sense 3.0 Launch bar

I'm talking about the bottom launch bar, the curvy one with "phone" in the middle, why is the upper edge so pixelated and not as smooth as the one in the older sense, it feels out of place specially on a qHD screen, I know this isn't important and I've already forgotten about it but another thread reminded me of it and I thought I'd ask what you guys think?

reckoner_85 said:
I'm talking about the bottom launch bar, the curvy one with "phone" in the middle, why is the upper edge so pixelated and not as smooth as the one in the older sense, it feels out of place specially on a qHD screen, I know this isn't important and I've already forgotten about it but another thread reminded me of it and I thought I'd ask what you guys think?
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Have noticed it myself but not really bothered
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I really wish they would changed that and make it smooth.

that was actually the first thing i noticed when i got me my phone. but after a while it does not really bother me as much, you stop noticing it

hm lol I just noticed. Dudu's at HTC forgot to turn on antialiasing
Well anyway, I want to get rid of that damn thing asap when root will be avail.

lol yeah something like that, it doesn't bother me at all as well, but I have to say it looks quite stupid, it looks like a badly made Sense copy theme from the market

Yep, Hope to make it disappear asap when we get S-Off!

Bring on S-off and CM7!!
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PyroIce Tips, Tricks, and Help Guide. -Please Post Your Own Too :D-

I've made PyroIce my new Daily, and we all know it has some bugs. So I thought I'd start a thread to help Unclutter the fourm.
Here's the first thing I've found out.
- Wi-Fi Networks that are WEP/PSK locked can be connected to without having to Manualy put the name in.

Nova Launcher is a Great ICS Replacement Launcher. It can be downloaded from the Market. Or found on XDA as a flashable Zip. That makes it a system app, and allows widgets to be accessed from the launcher.
It has homescreen effects, drawer effects. Custom Grid Sizes, and all widgets are resizeable. Its the ADW of ICS, and is better than CM9's Launcher for 4.0.1.
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you can go to his thread and flash the fixs
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Litesorrows said:
Nova Launcher is a Great ICS Replacement Launcher. It can be downloaded from the Market. Or found on XDA as a flashable Zip. That makes it a system app, and allows widgets to be accessed from the launcher.
It has homescreen effects, drawer effects. Custom Grid Sizes, and all widgets are resizeable. Its the ADW of ICS, and is better than CM9's Launcher for 4.0.1.
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Just saying that Nova Launcher is alreaddy included in the flashable rom

Is it buggy?
I want to install this on my wife's phone, but she has no appreciation for the great work being done here. I would rather not put something on her phone that is going to cause me grief.
Also, is the user interface the same?

qwerty3656 said:
I want to install this on my wife's phone, but she has no appreciation for the great work being done here. I would rather not put something on her phone that is going to cause me grief.
Also, is the user interface the same?
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to be honest, its a great rom. for people that know how to deal with beta roms. if your lookin for a grief free rom, id use another one. i use this but i dont mind the small issues and can deal with them. the user interface is ICS, so the same as ICS yeah? same and gingerbread.. no, lil different. more user friendly i think.

New release is wifey friendly... I think mine could handle it and she has to gripe for a couple months b4 she asks me to root her phone....
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rom the truth is a spectacular friend and has some little problems sierto but you can live with them apart is one of the few developers for our phone and that is to applaud and thank you

Etrick said:
New release is wifey friendly... I think mine could handle it and she has to gripe for a couple months b4 she asks me to root her phone....
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Good, the only reason I won't root my girls phone is cause I don't wanna fix it.
Does anyone know if you can unlink the notification volume and ringer volume in ICS?
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first off, i think this rom is simply great, considering that ics is on very few devices right now, and that our phone is a bit slow in general with development (nothing against all the devs on this phone, cuz what they have made are all really good)
two questions:
does anyone know why the camcorder app is limited to 720p recording? it's definitely not a big issue, but this camera is considered to be one of the best, seems like a shame to waste it.
also, any way to fix the htc dialer showing up in the call and to answer a call you have to unlock first?
how's everyone's battery life doing? mine's much better than when i had cm7 on it

I was looking at 1080p but for some strange reason libstagefright camerasource detects that 1080p is not available. Coudlnt binary hack that, and no idea why that happens.
You can use fullscreen caller id to let you receive calls without unlocking, or can use widgetlocker from market with security set off.
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is it just me or are some things off screen? like the button to remove a widget, or when you add a pattern to your lockscreen the bottom row of circles is like half way off the screen, also I tried playing shadowgun and the controls were completely wacked whick never happened on any roms ive use before...i asked already on rootzwiki but i figured it be a better idea to ask here too any tips or tricks to help me out?

DeadlyAnGeL91792 said:
is it just me or are some things off screen? like the button to remove a widget, or when you add a pattern to your lockscreen the bottom row of circles is like half way off the screen, also I tried playing shadowgun and the controls were completely wacked whick never happened on any roms ive use before...i asked already on rootzwiki but i figured it be a better idea to ask here too any tips or tricks to help me out?
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The pyroice sense one needs more resize in a lot of areas.
Pyroice ics (desensed) is aosp apps/gapps, normal and good
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tbalden said:
The pyroice sense one needs more resize in a lot of areas.
Pyroice ics (desensed) is aosp apps/gapps, normal and good
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gotcha ill switch over to the non sense version now, thanks for the quick reply.

Posting here because I'm still a "New" user and cant post in dev form.
I'm running PyroIce Sense and I cant view any flash websites. Anyone else having this problem? I've tried re-installing Flash, Dolphin (wont work on stock browser as well), and reflashed the rom.
Any ideas?

Nick.M.51988 said:
Posting here because I'm still a "New" user and cant post in dev form.
I'm running PyroIce Sense and I cant view any flash websites. Anyone else having this problem? I've tried re-installing Flash, Dolphin (wont work on stock browser as well), and reflashed the rom.
Any ideas?
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Ill look at this. Seemed to work,but recheckin.
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Works if I zoom on it enough. Otherwise glitched if not zoomed enough. But works. Youtube at least.
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Try opera mobile - proper flash support is one of their selling points. Unsure if it'll help, but worth a shot - mobile, not mini.
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tbalden said:
Ill look at this. Seemed to work,but recheckin.
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Works if I zoom on it enough. Otherwise glitched if not zoomed enough. But works. Youtube at least.
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If i enter full screen browser hangs. if i zoom in, it will play, but it's very choppy with elements of my wallpaper mixed in, sometimes it's the notifications bar that draws itself into the flash. It's very odd.
thanks for the help! (loving this rom BTW)

Nick.M.51988 said:
If i enter full screen browser hangs. if i zoom in, it will play, but it's very choppy with elements of my wallpaper mixed in, sometimes it's the notifications bar that draws itself into the flash. It's very odd.
thanks for the help! (loving this rom BTW)
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i see you saw the fix stuff on the rom thread... no idea if it will help too much, but slightly seemed better with youtube...

Will flash later today, thanks!
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Still having problems with flash, But it's not too big of a deal. I have a tab to watch YouTube.
Patch 3 did seem to greatly speed up the browser.
Again, Thanks for the awesome ROM!

Favorite HOX features.

This is a thread to list some cool things you like about the phone. Maybe point out a few things that other people didn't know yet.
For me I would have to say that the keyboard is awesome. Also the fact that it already has a printer option built in. Voice recognition on this phone is awesome. And of course face recognition is great too.
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I've been a Swype user since the Nexus One, but I have to say that the Trace feature on the HTC keyboard is impressive. It's noticeably quicker to render words after swyping/tracing. Only downside I've noticed is you can't place the cursor on previous words and choose alternate suggestions. Unless I'm missing an option for this.

Ha. And I though it was an improved swype this whole time
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Interesting comment about the keyboard. I'll be receiving my HOX today but most reviews say the HTC keyboard is ****. Seeing the entire row of arrows on the bottom leads me to agree (but then again, I haven't used it yet). How does it compare to the stock ICS keyboard? I don't like Swype so I'm sure I won't ever use that feature.

tae_254 said:
...And of course face recognition is great too.
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..

mesko402 said:
About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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Well that sucks ass. And I tested with everyone in my house and it only worked for me..
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My favorite feature is definitely the screen! I can't keep my eyes off of it. I do not like the HTC Sense keyboard and for those of you that also do not like it you can go to the Play Store and download the stock ICS keyboard and it works great on the One X. It is much more similar to the iPhone keyboard that I am used to and is spaced further apart than stock sense keyboard. Also, you get more screen room for viewing while texting or writing messages if you use the stock ICS keyboard.

mesko402 said:
About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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It works for pictures of you as well... It can't distinguish depth.

Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.

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Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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Haven't heard about this I think It will be great
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-before-it-grants-access-to-the-phone_id28559
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I rather enjoy the was the app drawer is done on this phone. Now that said this is both my first HTC and my first ICS phone, so this may be nothing special

Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.

ricktat said:
Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
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That's not really a new feature. I've had that on every HTC phone i've used. Windows mobile, windows phone.

ricktat said:
The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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I personally hate this feature. A dedicated button? I liked long press home. Now I don't have a quick way to search plus I haven't found a way to assign a long press action to any of them.
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Once we have root it should be long press home button for recent apps, multitask button as menu button, and long press multitask for search. I miss voice search lol it was easier on an inspire
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The battery life left it alone overnight, awesome, especially vs atrix and LG nitro hd.
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The headphone out sound quality. It's clean and detailed. Does anyone know what DAC the LTE version has in it?

ricktat said:
The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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From what I can tell, by swiping the recent application does not close the application. I have opened several apps and then hit the home button then the recent applications button and swiped them... then opened up the apps again and they are right back where I left them. I think it only deletes the recent app bookmark and not closes the app itself.