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The best part of waking up...is a smartphone in your hand?

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The best part of waking up...is a smartphone in your hand? Check out this article I found.
A new survey from telecom equipment maker Ericsson (PDF) finds that some smartphone users are very, very attached to their devices, finding that fully 35 percent of iPhone and Android users in the United States admit to using non-voice applications before they even get out of bed in the morning.
The best part of waking up...is a smartphone in your hand? According to an Ericsson survey, that's true for over one third of Android and iPhone owners.
Check out this article I found.
A new survey from telecom equipment maker Ericsson (PDF) finds that some smartphone users are very, very attached to their devices, finding that fully 35 percent of iPhone and Android users in the United States admit to using non-voice applications before they even get out of bed in the morning.
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alarm clock anyone? lol.

smartphones are like my crack! >.<

my gf sleeps with hers in her hand. She's a heavy sleeper so having the phone close to her helps her wake up... that or she's looking at p0rn at 4am.
Probably just porn.
I don't grab mine until the alarm goes off. Then i keep it in my hand while I snooze.

I admit waking up in the middle of the night and surfing a little.
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player911 said:
my gf sleeps with hers in her hand. She's a heavy sleeper so having the phone close to her helps her wake up... that or she's looking at p0rn at 4am.
Probably just porn.
I don't grab mine until the alarm goes off. Then i keep it in my hand while I snooze.
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Ha, Both are funny.
My alarm clock does not wake me up but my phone does.

I 'am always on my phone first thing I do before I get out of bed is check my notification bar. while performing my morning deuce I surf the android market.

First thing I do is check my usual websites in the morning when I wake up.
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I've developed this strange habit of polishing my phone on my shirt LOL. It's like a nervous tick, I don't even realize I'm doing it..

I read the RSS updates in the morning using FEEDR - one of the best android apps imo

First thing I'll do is turn off Gentle Alarm and Screen Filter, check the Amazon app for free app and then sync my Pulse news.

hahaha GUILTY!!
morning bathroom sitter. facebook, news, pandora.= ZEN

ickster said:
I've developed this strange habit of polishing my phone on my shirt LOL. It's like a nervous tick, I don't even realize I'm doing it..
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LOL +1
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K.wayne_m3 said:
I 'am always on my phone first thing I do before I get out of bed is check my notification bar. while performing my morning deuce I surf the android market.
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Amen brother!
Within the first few seconds of waking up my fiance picks up her blackberry and checks her notifications, and admittedly I do the same.

Yeah, me, too. First thing is to check the daily Amazon freebie, then check Gmail for stuff that arrived overnight, followed by the dictionary.com daily info. After all that, I'm generally awake enough to get out of bed.

Hitting de snooze or off on alarm with my nose de my morning podcast start playing n I to try to focus my eye on my phone so I can send command to reduce volume or delay it
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[Q] hourly forecast widget?

Anyone know of a weather app with an HOURLY forecast widget? I've tried AIX weather, and the widget is ugly, and in graph form. I'd just like something that has the hour and what the weather is like during that hour, or chance of rain, something like that.
I want to see what the weather is at 10am 11am 12am 1pm 2 pm 3pm etc. Like I want to see the CURRENT DAY forecast in a widget. I DONT want to see monday tues wednes thursdsay.
Any help would be appreciated.

Fancy Widgets?

absolutelygrim said:
Fancy Widgets?
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From what I've just played around with they don't have an HOURLY weather widget

You can set the update frequency to Hourly, Manual, 2 hours, etc.

absolutelygrim said:
You can set the update frequency to Hourly, Manual, 2 hours, etc.
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I guess my initial post wasn't clear. I dont care how often a weather widget updates the current weather. I want to see what the weather is at 10am 11am 12am 1pm 2 pm 3pm etc. Like I want to see the CURRENT DAY forecast in a widget. I DONT want to see monday tues wednes thursdsay.

style2burn said:
I guess my initial post wasn't clear. I dont care how often a weather widget updates the current weather. I want to see what the weather is at 10am 11am 12am 1pm 2 pm 3pm etc. Like I want to see the CURRENT DAY forecast in a widget. I DONT want to see monday tues wednes thursdsay.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hourlyweather&hl=en

absolutelygrim said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hourlyweather&hl=en
I suggest correcting your attitude around here
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Attitude? Did I say, "you're stupid you didn't understand my post"? No, I said my original post wasn't clear, meaning it was my mistake. Check your attitude.

style2burn said:
Attitude? Did I say, "you're stupid you didn't understand my post"? No, I said my original post wasn't clear, meaning it was my mistake. Check your attitude.
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that app should be good if you dont mind paying $0.99

I believe eWeather has an hourly weather widget as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Elecont.WeatherClock

thanks for suggestions. will try it out.

Alarm clock doesn't always go off

As the title says, I have been having trouble with my alarm clock on my m8. I always use my phone as my alarm clock and one day it didn't go off. So I bought a 3rd party app thinking this would fix it and it did for 2 days, but then again on the 3rd day it didn't go off.
I have it set to repeat every day except for my days off. I have vibrate turned off. I also checked to make sure it wasn't on my task manager's white list. I am on viperone, but not sure what in the ROM would allow it to work every so often. I mean 2 to 3 times out of my work week it will go off. So I'm not sure why it doesn't sometimes.
I have been so paranoid that it won't go off that I have kept my old s4 as a back up. Which I would like to sell, but I want to make sure I can get up in the morning. I have ask my wife to set her phone alarm for me, but she gets really upset because I wake up at 4:30 am every day. Please any ideas would be much appreciated.
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Same thing happened to me the other day.
I would suggest selling your S4 and using $15 of the proceeds to buy an alarm clock. Win win.
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1ManWolfePack said:
Same thing happened to me the other day.
I would suggest selling your S4 and using $15 of the proceeds to buy an alarm clock. Win win.
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I agree I could just get an alarm clock... I may even still have one from back in the day. My only problem is my wife. The alarm I have on my phone is quiet and gets louder as it goes off (when it works). For some reason my wife can sleep through that. Lol. You know the saying happy wife, happy life.
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armyranger172 said:
I agree I could just get an alarm clock... I may even still have one from back in the day. My only problem is my wife. The alarm I have on my phone is quiet and gets louder as it goes off (when it works). For some reason my wife can sleep through that. Lol. You know the saying happy wife, happy life.
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any task killing going on? thats usually the main cause for alarms not going off ive found.

armyranger172 said:
I agree I could just get an alarm clock... I may even still have one from back in the day. My only problem is my wife. The alarm I have on my phone is quiet and gets louder as it goes off (when it works). For some reason my wife can sleep through that. Lol. You know the saying happy wife, happy life.
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Use the rest of the proceeds from the S4 and buy a new wife. Shipping might run a little extra, but now we've killed two birds with one stone.
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did you check alarm volume :silly:

Karl said:
did you check alarm volume :silly:
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Yes, I googled the problem and task manager, vibrate, and volume were the only answers people had. That's why I came here hoping to find some smarter people. Lol
Semper Primus

1ManWolfePack said:
Same thing happened to me the other day.
I would suggest selling your S4 and using $15 of the proceeds to buy an alarm clock. Win win.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW
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Hey I was wondering what ROM you are running. I don't know if it is because I'm on viperone, but if you were running that also then I might try my luck in that thread.
Semper Primus

System Time Incorrect

Hi, all! This is going to be the beginning of a string of dumb questions and I apologize in advance! I just opened the X2 702L I got from Hong Kong. To my amazement I found Google Play Store and the whole Google suite already installed! Niiiice! One less thing for me to worry about! I am setting up the tablet on wifi (haven't installed the sim card, yet). The System Time (located in the status bar upper right) WILL NOT CHANGE. I have gone into Settings and even tried to manually change it. It's running EXACTLY 5 hours ahead of my actual time. I installed a weather widget which shows the time. I set it to my city and that widget time changed immediately to the correct time. What am I doing wrong? Does a sim card have to be installed for the System Time to be correct? I am treating this as a wifi tablet until I get everything else set up and a tablet would show the correct time, right? Hopefully, this is an easy fix?
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No question too outrageous. My time Update is automatic via network.
Under the clock app, settings did you set the time zone?
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One good part of the 702 is that it is for the non Chinese market so Playstore and Sync close to Android stock. I use Nova as a launcher but the Huawei skin is not bad. I do have issues with clock and widget updates for things like transparent weather so I use the stock widgets.

VillaRegina said:
Hi, all! This is going to be the beginning of a string of dumb questions and I apologize in advance! I just opened the X2 702L I got from Hong Kong. To my amazement I found Google Play Store and the whole Google suite already installed! Niiiice! One less thing for me to worry about! I am setting up the tablet on wifi (haven't installed the sim card, yet). The System Time (located in the status bar upper right) WILL NOT CHANGE. I have gone into Settings and even tried to manually change it. It's running EXACTLY 5 hours ahead of my actual time. I installed a weather widget which shows the time. I set it to my city and that widget time changed immediately to the correct time. What am I doing wrong? Does a sim card have to be installed for the System Time to be correct? I am treating this as a wifi tablet until I get everything else set up and a tablet would show the correct time, right? Hopefully, this is an easy fix?
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Holy smokes! You actually got it! LOL. When I got my first X2 before I even stuck a SIM card in it I had the same problem and had to set the time manually in settings. When I put my SIM card in the phone and set it back to Automatic I never had that problem again. Make sure you don't double post the same thing in two different threads. XDA moderators don't like that as it clutters them up with duplicates. Just post them in Q&A.

ajsmsg78 said:
Holy smokes! You actually got it! LOL. When I got my first X2 before I even stuck a SIM card in it I had the same problem and had to set the time manually in settings. When I put my SIM card in the phone and set it back to Automatic I never had that problem again. Make sure you don't double post the same thing in two different threads. XDA moderators don't like that as it clutters them up with duplicates. Just post them in Q&A.
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Thanks, aj. I had to leave that up in the air to go to a 3 hour meeting last night... I was itching to get back to it. I FINALLY figured it out. I sent an eBay message to the seller with the question. They answered right away with "send a video". But that makes me feel good about them... I also got their phone number and a separate email address from eBay. I am LOVING this phone so far... No light bleed or spots on the screen. No dead pixels or whatever. The only thing driving me crazy so far is that I cannot at least alphabetize my apps! Lol! But this phone came with the Google Play Store and suite installed (AWESOME) and there really are not any bloatware apps that really bother me... Not like on my T-Mobile Note 3... But, of course, now I just read another post that Huawei is only going to support the 703L with updates... Say it ain't so!!! Fingers crossed. Also, for some reason I thought it came with a flip case... I always buy a case so I will have one as soon as I take a phone out of the box. Now I have to scramble to get a case because I am OCDing and am afraid to touch it! Lol! I also haven't completely set it up as a phone. That will happen tomorrow... I am dreading it because I am not sure what I am doing with that Twitch! Contacts app... But mainly I just don't want to deal with the horrible T-Mobile service on my beloved new phone! Everyone keep your fingers crossed that I "get" the rest of this process!*
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Rudolpht said:
No question too outrageous. My time Update is automatic via network.
Under the clock app, settings did you set the time zone?
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One good part of the 702 is that it is for the non Chinese market so Playstore and Sync close to Android stock. I use Nova as a launcher but the Huawei skin is not bad. I do have issues with clock and widget updates for things like transparent weather so I use the stock widgets.
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I never realized that about the 702L. I am sure happy about it! I figured out the problem. You'll read more in my aj response. Thanks for your support!
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VillaRegina said:
I never realized that about the 702L. I am sure happy about it! I figured out the problem. You'll read more in my aj response. Thanks for your support!
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Was it setting the time zone?
Look in the MediaPad X2 Accessories sub forum for the cases thread. I posted mine there

Anyone recieve their order

plz post if you ordered and recieved your shippment and post which country it was delivered to

Dude the phone hasn't started shipping
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Not until June 27 in U.S. Not sure about other countries.
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Amazon.de schedules shipping for June 18, Amazon.com for June 21.

kickyoace said:
plz post if you ordered and recieved your shippment and post which country it was delivered to
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There's already a pre order thread started.

droidrev71 said:
There's already a pre order thread started.
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this isnt a preorder thread this is a if you recieved your device thread which isnt the same if you preorder its to see around what date a country should recieve your order but all these people saying dates that they say they heard is just a guess and wont mean anything untill the device arrives so i want to know when they will get the device and what region they are from like what means something to me would be like (date when arrived,country you are from) and thats it, no speculation what so ever

kickyoace said:
plz post if you ordered and recieved your shippment and post which country it was delivered to
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kickyoace said:
this isnt a preorder thread this is a if you recieved your device thread which isnt the same if you preorder its to see around what date a country should recieve your order but all these people saying dates that they say they heard is just a guess and wont mean anything untill the device arrives so i want to know when they will get the device and what region they are from like what means something to me would be like (date when arrived,country you are from) and thats it, no speculation what so ever
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Normally pre order threads will have what your asking in your thread. Phones aren't shipping yet so...

droidrev71 said:
Normally pre order threads will have what your asking in your thread. Phones aren't shipping yet so...
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and yet that thread doesnt ask for users to ask the info i would like to know so please stop posting unless you recieved the device please, thank you

kickyoace said:
and yet that thread doesnt ask for users to ask the info i would like to know so please stop posting unless you recieved the device please, thank you
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It does cover what you're thread is asking.. guess you've never been through a pre order thread before.. some people aren't getting their devices for a month yet.. enjoy your thread.
I'll be sending a couple links from the pre order thread that will prove what I'm saying is correct ?

Well, I have my Translucent Blue 64GB U12+ already but I bought it on the spot during the HTC U event last Wednesday in NYC. I'm using it since last Thursday as my primary phone and so far I think it's an outstanding phone.
Just so you don't think I'm making it up, see attachments.

szlevi said:
Well, I have my Translucent Blue 64GB U12+ already but I bought it on the spot during the HTC U event last Wednesday in NYC. I'm using it since last Thursday as my primary phone and so far I think it's an outstanding phone.
Just so you don't think I'm making it up, see attachments.
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I went to the event also, but I didn't bought one because I wanted the 128GB model, and they did not have that one available....

szlevi said:
Well, I have my Translucent Blue 64GB U12+ already but I bought it on the spot during the HTC U event last Wednesday in NYC. I'm using it since last Thursday as my primary phone and so far I think it's an outstanding phone.
Just so you don't think I'm making it up, see attachments.
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Hey would you mind uploading some pictures of the phone when you have a chance? I'm looking to get the phone through Amazon on June 21st.
Thank you
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daniel4653 said:
Hey would you mind uploading some pictures of the phone when you have a chance? I'm looking to get the phone through Amazon on June 21st.
Thank you
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No prob - what do you want to see? External pics or screenshots of apps? I work 9-6 so high quality external pics have to wait until the weekend (when I have time to grab my Olympus before sunset.)

szlevi said:
No prob - what do you want to see? External pics or screenshots of apps? I work 9-6 so high quality external pics have to wait until the weekend (when I have time to grab my Olympus before sunset.)
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Sorry I should have specified. External Pics of the phone please. All the review videos seem to be with studio lighting so I would like to see what the blue model looks like under "normal lighting". If that makes sense. lol

How is battery life on the phone?

1901madison said:
How is battery life on the phone?
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on wifi stellar, on LTE average.

1901madison said:
How is battery life on the phone?
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So far it's outstanding but I am mostly on wifi, even when riding subway to work or home.
Seeing your post I actually decided to try to stretch it a bit: fully charged it last night *before* going to bed (very late, like 3AM, still read few articles on the phone) then left it on the nightstand in silent mode (wifi on, screen off, no charger.) Took off in the morning, streamed music during the subway via LTE (~30 mins), now it's 10:20AM and still 82% (not bad since ~1AM) - I'm curious to see how we end up by, say, 8PM. It's on wifi w/ wifi calls enabled here, at work, this should help.

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Sorry I should have specified. External Pics of the phone please. All the review videos seem to be with studio lighting so I would like to see what the blue model looks like under "normal lighting". If that makes sense. lol
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Sure, I'll do it on Sunday.
In the meantime here's a completely "auto" pic, I was testing HDR speed - it is quick, instant, like non-HDR pics (my older phones always took an extra half second to assemble HDR pics):

szlevi said:
So far it's outstanding but I am mostly on wifi, even when riding subway to work or home.
Seeing your post I actually decided to try to stretch it a bit: fully charged it last night *before* going to bed (very late, like 3AM, still read few articles on the phone) then left it on the nightstand in silent mode (wifi on, screen off, no charger.) Took off in the morning, streamed music during the subway via LTE (~30 mins), now it's 10:20AM and still 82% (not bad since ~1AM) - I'm curious to see how we end up by, say, 8PM. It's on wifi w/ wifi calls enabled here, at work, this should help.
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Leaving work @6:15PM w/ 65% battery - only used it few times for banking and read few articles during my lunch (~20 mins) - now comes subway home with music streamed over LTE...

szlevi said:
Leaving work @6:15PM w/ 65% battery - only used it few times for banking and read few articles during my lunch (~20 mins) - now comes subway home with music streamed over LTE...
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do you have a friend or family with AT&T sim card you can borrow for couple of minutes? It would be really nice to see if you can check if VoLTE works on AT&T I can tell you how to tell if it is working or not if you need help to identify, also another question does the dialer has smart search (are you able to search for phone numbers of places near you within the dialer without having them as a contact) ? or is it the same dialer found on U11?