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Re: Why has my HTC ONE stopped syncing its "People" list with google's "Contacts" list? Well, it shows up in my phone's listing. I have no idea what "the local Phone account" might mean. It doesn't show up in the Google "Contacts" list like it used to, but I don't know what "saved to your...

Why has my HTC ONE stopped syncing its "People" list with google's "Contacts" list? For the first couple of years, the HTC ONE would sync the People list in the phone app with the gmail Contacts list. It worked "out of the box". As of a week or two ago, it no long works, and doesn't give any...

Hey, it's there now! That was the first place I looked, and I didn't see the "log in" thing then. It's all ver puzzling. Well, maybe I can advance to why I came here. My HTC ONE has suddenly stopped syncing its "People" list with google's "Contacts" list. It worked for the first year, but...

Since google gobbled up youtube and a few other sites I had an account on, and merged the login stuff, I've been trying to make sense of it and make various apps work again. One I can't make sense of is one of the two "mail" apps that the HTC ONE came with, the one with simple checkboxes at the...

I also have a HTC ONE M8, and the power usage list shows "Kid Mode" using 16% of the CPU. I've been trying to find how to turn it off (or better, uninstall it to free its space), but I haven't found a way to do that. Anyone have a link to a good howto for this?

I'm pretty sure I saw PDFs displayed on my HTC ONE M8 after I first got it, but for some time now I've been unable to view any PDFs. When I click on a link to one, I get a popup asking me which browser I want to view it with. When I pick one (any one), there's a brief pause, and I'm back at...

Well, I'd ignored Dolphin so far on my new HTC ONE, but decided to try it because this is a big problem on other browsers. So I installed Dolphin, fired it up, visited some of my own web pages that I know don't contain any size= or other window-size forcing attributes. It totally failed to do...

I think we have a winner! As I remarked in an earlier message, the top hypothesis on my list is "broken". I thought that it was for showing direction of travel, probably because on my old HTC G1 (R.I.P.;-), that's what it did. But on this HTC ONE (or perhaps on recent "upgrades" of google...

Nah; it doesn't do that. A couple of days ago, I was the "navigator" in our car while my wife drove. For several hours, we were mostly driving NE or E, and the little arrowhead on my HTC ONE almost always pointed backward to the direction we were going. It showed us moving along the road...

Google maps on my android gadget (HTC ONE) shows a little blue circle for "you are here", and it has a little arrowhead pointing off in what seems a random direction. I've been trying to discover what it means, and/or how to make it useful, but haven't succeeded. The weirdest part, which...

I got a new HTC One a few weeks ago, and it apparently came with HTC Sync Manager installed, since its window pops up when I plug the phone into my Macbook Pro. But this is a bit weird, because how did it get installed on the Macbook? Did the HTC One somehow reach out and tell the Mac to...

Well, yes and no. There's a "Google" icon that brings up a 4x3 array of icons, 5 of which have names like "Play Music", Play Movies & TV", etc, but none of them lead to a page whose search widget recognizes "Terminal" as a valid search term. When I spotted "play.google.com" in several replies...

That URL seems to have done the job. Actually, I just typed "play.google.com" to one of the browsers that I've installed, and its search widget accepted "terminal emulator" and showed me a list of them. I did a quick check with a couple of the "Play ..." apps that came installed, and they...

Heh, yeah; that's the first thing I tried. I just tried again, and got lots of hits implying that such a thing exists. But they all seem to be comments to run such-and-such in a terminal emulator, or sometimes suggestions to install a terminal emulator. Such things aren't too useful unless...

Just replaced my dying HTC G1 with a new HTC ONE M8, found the settings that make me a "developer" (whatever that might mean ;-), but I've had problems finding one important thing that the G1 had: A normal "terminal" app that lets me use it as on ordinary unix/linux box, type "cd", "ls", "vi"...