Recent content by tryatt

I'm seeing a similar issue.. always redirected by rgshark.com .. Tried resetting all settings, but no joy.. It seems deeper than just a minor reset, I'm suspecting its embedded in an app somewhere.. So far I suspect showbox!

I didn't really remove too much, and as most of of the boards are covered, I couldn't really see anything obvious at first glance. Its strange though, that turning the motor just a few degrees makes it work for a bit? My knowledge of motors is both rusty and basic, but don't you need to...

Even if you run a test from the hardware testing menu, the results are the same.. Basically, I believe the vibration function stopped working after I dropped my phone., however, if you tap the phone hard enough it works... So I bought a new motor, replaced it and it behaves the same. It...

My vibrator motor stopped working, and as my device is soon coming up to 24months (around the time where batteries begin to fail) I thought I might as well replace the battery at the same time as the motor whilst the device is open. Any idea where I can get a genuine replacements (if they they...

Yep, some of the reviews are funny. People expecting lenses that work at the extremes of optics (fish eye / macro) to be SLR quality on their phone for just a few £/$ !! They are great fun, and thats about it. As for the spacer/magnetic attachment, its not a great fit on the M8 (and...

Its quite funny how non-smart phones had irda ports, then they were dropped, then suddenly IR came back, and now its gone again! Either way, No IR (no biggy), No duo cam (no biggy), No wireless charging (still?!), No front facing boom sound speakers (step backward!). Time to move away from...

The salt will have corroded a lot of the circuitry that might have managed to survive being short circuited. The ideal scenario would have been to disconnect the battery straight away (not really possible on the M8), and then wash the internals thoroughly in de-ionised water. Time to buy a...

Were you able to access the quick-settings menu from the lock screen in Android L? It seems you can now (or maybe you could before and I never realised). Which is a pain as someone can mess with settings if you leave the phone unattended.. and another additional worry is that they can toggle the...

So the SD card is solely treated as the 'internal' memory? That actually sounds much better than having two internal memories/partitions. When I had my HTC OneX, I had 32GB of memory, and it was much nicer to have everything in one place. No apps/photos/videos/downloads being spread across the...

The storage seems a little confusing? I now see App storage, SD card, emulated storage and emulated 0 - or something like that. Doze is automatic. As long as the phone is unused/not moved/no sensors are being activated it will switch apps into doze mode. I've excluded a few apps (whatsapp and...

To be fair, the only thing I wanted it for was being able to set permissions per app individually.. ie. remove access to location for apps like Facebook, or remove microphone access to games(!). Doze seems to be doing its job, my battery life seems pretty decent so far. And I've even turned...

Got it.. So far so good. Would have been better if you could use the 4th nav button to LOCK the nav to stop it from hide at all.

I did a manual check earlier and nothing.. Did a check just now and had 3 'small' updates pending.. less than around 3mb in total. Maybe pre-reqs? Installing now.. maybe a bad idea as i'm about to leave the office and head home!

Ah yes, true! But its main requirement is the OTG part! :) Fast way of transferring movies from my phone to tablet etc.. I think you are right about repairing it though. I believe the casing is a solid piece of metal, and then electronics are 'fed' in from the USB3.0 side and must be bonded...

Shame to throw away something over such a minor thing though. Theres always a way :cool: But I think I'll wait till it gets worse before I attempt to 'fix' it!