topic Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7 in Android

Lollipop on HTC One M7

Chris_K — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:49:19 GMT

Hiya, M7 users!

So, good news - Lollipop is coming and it's heading your way soon! We're hopeful to have the latest update approved and sent back to HTC over the next few days and if everything goes smoothly, we hope you'll start seeing the OTA update roll out towards the end of next week.

I'll give everyone a heads up when it starts pushing out but if it happens to go out early, please do let us know how you get on and what changes or improvements you've noticed since going from KitKat to Lollipop.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

jonsie — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:58:50 GMT

Good news for the HTC customers. I look forward to their thoughts and first impressions when they start using it.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M8

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:31:12 GMT

Hey Chris. I posted a week or so ago that I had the notification for lollipop on my M8 but didnt want to download it. Well.. now I have and all my fears were unfounded I am glad to say. Thank goodness everything works really well. So for anyone else with an M8 phone who like me had read about problems with lollipop, I can say with confidence no such problems have occurred. Can only thank HTC and 02 I guess for ensuring that the OS would work well with the phone. What a relief!

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M8

Chris_K — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:54:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Hey Chris. I posted a week or so ago that I had the notification for lollipop on my M8 but didnt want to download it. Well.. now I have and all my fears were unfounded I am glad to say. Thank goodness everything works really well. So for anyone else with an M8 phone who like me had read about problems with lollipop, I can say with confidence no such problems have occurred. Can only thank HTC and 02 I guess for ensuring that the OS would work well with the phone. What a relief!

Great to hear you're getting on well with the update on your M8, Kimbub 🙂 With our testing, we always do all we can to ensure that customers only get updates that work well and without any issues, and we'll always work with the software vendor to fix any bugs or issues we do find during testing.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Chris_K — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:49:19 GMT

Just an update that this has now been approved and we're hoping for a streamlined release from HTC for this week, hopefully as soon as Wednesday! 😉

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:41:46 GMT

Got the update about an hour ago! Just finished optimising apps. Will let you know of any problems I have! Hopefully none

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:31:21 GMT

HTC One M7.

Lollipop installed last night. Took a while, & i thought it'd frozen on the first reboot / on bright HTC One screen. It hadnt though, it was just taking it's time.

All good so far. Dolphin browser was initially a bit laggy, but I cleared it's cache and it seems fine now.

I'll let you know if there are any issues.

There is no "clear all apps" button on the background apps. On reading up, looks like it's something we shouldn't be doing anyway. Hard habit to break, but closing one app at a time is too much (unnecessary) hassle.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:54:04 GMT

Has this update taken away the ability to hit the status bar in order to scroll quickly back to the top of whatever page we are on. For example, to quickly jump from the bottom of Blinkfeed to the top. Hitting the status bar will now only start to bring notifications down.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:00:12 GMT

Boothy, by background apps do you mean the recent apps that is opened by double tapping the home button? If so, when you open those up,then hit the three dots then choose settings, and change the view to old-style grid view, the kill all button is still there

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:51:37 GMT

Pretty disappointing how many of the little useful features have been removed as part of this update.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:13:05 GMT

Thanks PTR999
Much appreciated. It's the little things like that, that get missed. I like the slightly altered old grid view. Card view takes too much sliding to see what's there.
Cheers !

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:20:20 GMT

In Blinkfeed,...tapping the phone's "Home" button scrolls back to the top 🙂

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:34:14 GMT

Cheers boothy for the blinkfeed tip - i had forgot about that. And only if only there was something like that which worked for all apps across the board.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 23:04:45 GMT

I have tried 3 times to download lollipop and apply the upgrade today , each time it gets as far trying to upgrade progress screen where the icon goes from green to a red triangle and exclaimation point in the middle of the triangle.

It stays stuck at this point until you force a reset and it reboots back to 4.4.3

Any suggestions?

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 06:32:36 GMT

Has the phone been rooted or modified in any way? Apparently Lollipop won't update if the phone has been altered, & gets stuck at the screen you mentioned.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 06:38:06 GMT

Thanks for reponding, no it hasn't been rooted, the only modification to the phone was a repair to replace the battery. The was done by a local company. Is there a way to reset the phone to factory defaults?

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 12:15:18 GMT

I'm not saying a hard reset will solve the problem. You will lose your settings & data, but if that's not an issue......
Performing a factory reset from settings

Go to Settings, and then tap Backup & reset.
Tap Reset phone.
To also delete media and other data from your storage card, select Erase SD card.

Tap OK.
.....taken from....

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 12:15:29 GMT

http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/howto/465049.html

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 12:16:47 GMT

Might want to nip into an O2 shop first, before resetting.

Re: Lollipop on HTC One M7

MI5 — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:02:37 GMT

I think a reset is your only option.