OK, I've given up and gone back to my iPhone. Android's foibles just kept catching in my craw. Ugh.
A typical one: Apparently there is no way to turn off the HTC One! Normally when you hold down the sleep button, Off is an option. But no, the only one is restart. And nowhere in the limited settings HTC has on this thing did I find any way to turn it off.
In the past year or two, some Android and PC laptop makers have caught up with Apple in making beautiful hardware. It's probably harder to make usable software, so I'm not holding my breath.
Update: Thanks to Craniac:
I got it to work now, shutting it down. The difference was I hadn't unlocked the screen! (I'm not sure why you can reboot it, but not shut it down, without unlocking it.)
On other devices I have, it's very clear when the screen is locked, on the HTC One, it's just a small lock icon in the bottom row along with the other icons there.
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I don't have an HTC One but the first result of googling for "htc one turn off" provides the answer. Doesn't seem that hard.
Show me that one. The only ones I found were for a phone called "HTC One X", which *does* have Turn Off in the menu.
Funny: I was in buying an[other] iPhone at our local Sprint store. The District Manager, who covers 3 stores, swore - up and down - re: how much he LOVED his HTC *so* much better than an iPhone and proceeded to, literally, throw it across the room!! Then, he took a pair of SCISSORS to the SCREEN and just about made me have a fricken heart attack!! He was "scribbling" circles around, on the screen, and not leaving a scratch!! Had me convinced that I had signed up for the wrong phone, with another team member, a few weeks back!! :-/ So far, however, I am pretty happy w/the iPhone...and I did have a Samsung Intercept (Android Smartphone), on a data plan, in the past. It did "alright" but...the touch response on the iPhone is a LOT more responsive and I'm just happy as a lark to use it...except as you say, Eo; it would be nice as ever to have a larger screen. I bet it'll come...in due time...
Oh and, yeah; what a battery hog! Jiminey, if that could be fixed, that would be just marvelous!!!!!
Try and look up the battery life. There are tips.
One good one is to double-click the home button, and then hold on an icon at the bottom row til they wiggle, and then close all those you're not using.
And turn off bluetooth, and turn down the screen, if it's set high.
That page I mentioned is here.
Aha, thanks.
I got it to work now. The difference was I hadn't unlocked the screen!
On other devices I have, it's very clear when the screen is locked, on the HTC One, it's just a small lock icon in the bottom row along with the other icons there.
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