How to Reboot HTC One(m7) | freezes and becomes unresponsive

Sometimes your One just freezes and becomes unresponsive. As HTC one has non-removable battery, you cannot just pull it out and restart your phone like old days. Lot of users come across this situation while installing custom ROM on their phone.No, it's not bricked but you cannot thing as the phone is totally unresponsive. So you will have to wait till the battery drains completely. We have found a way to force a restart if your phone is not restarting. The default way is to hold power button for at least 10 seconds but there is solution if it still doesn't shut down.

Restart - Reboot HTC One

Seems like HTC has added security feature in your phone to avoid accidental reboot. To boot your one, you need to do following steps.

1. Put your phone under a bright light source. I know this sounds stupid but just do it.
2. Press and hold Power button for long.
3. The lights will blink.
4. Phone will shut off.

HTC One has an ambient sensor and when you put your One under the bright light, it overwhelms the ambient light sensor. This seems to be some kind of safety feature HTC built into the the smartphone to prevent you from accidentally restarting your phone. The ambient light sensor is checked before the reboot will take place, hence the recommendation of rebooting with a light pointed at the sensor or at least in a brightly lit room.

How to open Google Now on HTC One M7

Wondering how to launch the Google Now on you all new HTC One M7 ? Well, its pretty simple. Being an android, HTC one has lot of shortcuts to open Google services. Google Now is one of the latest offering from google which keeps your updated. Let's see how to open Google Now on HTC One M7 ?

Launch Google Now on HTC One

HTC One has a home button on it's right. Just hold the home button and it will open the google now.'Long press' home is the key to open the google now. If you don't use google now, then you can go to settings and change the application which will get launched on long home press.

HTC One M7 Factory Reset (Hard Reset) - Erase all the data

Smartphone of the present era are one of smartest gadgets out there and HTC One M7 is not an exception. Phone has unique combination of hardware and software makes it best in its class. But you might come across situation like software malfunction for which you will have to erase the data and format your phone. Such problem arise when you are trying to root or flash your device. Here's the simple trick to format your HTC One M7. Factory reset wipes out your entire data so make sure you back up all the files as they will be erased.

Factory Reset (Hard Reset) for HTC One

They are 2 ways to factory reset your phone. First way is  through settings and second one is using. hard buttons present on your phone.

1. When your One is working and you can access the settings, just slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap the   button.
2. Click 'backup and reset'.
3. Click 'Reset Phone'.
4. If you want to erase all the data, tap 'Erase all data'.
5. Tap Reset phone, and then tap OK.

Hard keys to factory reset your HTC One

1. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN key , and then press and hold the POWER key.
2. Wait for few seconds and wait for  Android images to appear on screen, and then release the POWER and VOLUME DOWN buttons.
3. Press VOLUME DOWN to select FACTORY RESET, and then press the POWER button.

It's done you have successfully complete a factor or hard reset. This reset also sets all the setting to default.

Hard restart - reboot for HTC One M7 : Non removable battery

HTC One M7 is one of the best phones in the world but still there is always a possibility that anything can  go wrong and your should know how to deal with it. Sometimes your phone just freezes, shuts down itself and you cannot get it start. HTC M7 has non removable battery and so you cannot just pull of the battery and start your phone.

Hard restart for HTC One M7 

If your HTC One suffers hanging and  freezing then to get out of the situation, we need one quick reboot.. Try to turn off your cell phone by holding power button.+

If your One is off, hold  'power' and 'volume down key' for 5 seconds. Make sure your press both the buttons simultaneously. Pressing both keys together takes some time to get used to it. When you will do it properly, your One M7 will vibrate and you can see a black screen.

This feature is called hard reboot and specially designed for smart phones which have battery which cannot be removed normally.

HTC One M7 Serial Codes : Find Manufacturing Info

Have you ever wondered about where your HTC One M7 was manufactured ? well, there's no big hassle to find out this information. Like old Nokia phones, you can find manufacturing date, manufacturing  place. That sounds cool, isn't it?

HTC One Serial Codes : Find Manufacturing Info

Navigate to your HTC One settings >>Info  >> device identity. You can find your batch serial in that section. Usually batches are helpful in identifying any specific defect or problem  with the whole batch devices.

For example your code can be HT32WWxxxxx
the format is like   HT[year][month][day].

HT - Hsinchu, Taiwan where the HTC One is manufactured.
3 - 2013 (year)
2 - February (2nd month)
W -  28 ( as W is the 28 the character- refer following list and Z is the 31st day)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z

that means the phone was manufactured on 28th February,2013 in Hsinchu of Taiwan.

HTC One M7 - Poor signal reception problem

One of our readers- Matt who own T Mobile HTC One has reported some problems regarding poor signal reception. The user had hard time in getting signal for his devices at various public places like - cafeteria, Metro station and basement. After some research, we found that some HTC one users have reported similar issues in the beginning- few days after its launch.

Weak Signal reception problem - Solution

Though the problem is very intermittent and only few users could experience this issue. there's a simple solution for this problem and before you try this solution make sure that you have properly change the Wi-Fi calling settings.

Go to the Wi-Fi settings and make sure that the priority for wifi calling was NOT set to wifi only when available rather than whichever is better. So when it has strong wifi singnal and weak network signal, it switches to wifi signal and drops the network completely.

After the small check, follow the procedure to solve your signal reception problem.

• First restart the HTC One
• Go to  settings >> open mobile data >> verify that network mode is set to all types
• from mobile data menu >> select network operators automatically.

this should probably solve any problem related to the network and weak signal reception.

HTC M7 Problem - Unresponsive home & back keys

Are you having issues with your HTC One  home / back key ? HTC One M7 users have been talking about  the home button of the device which is unresponsiveness. The home key or the back key doesn't respond sometimes and such issue has been observed in some previous android devices too. Issue persists in almost every HTC One But it's certainly not as bad as the Sony Xperia S which has been criticized a lot for it's touch keys.

Hate your home key ?

Unresponsive home & back keys -solution 

There is a simple solution for this problem. For those who are experiencing Unresponsive back/home buttons you could try the following solution.

1. Go to HTC One >> settings.
2. Choose 'language & keyboard'.
3. Then go for HTC sense input.
4. Inside that click advanced and then calibration tool.

While you are going to calibrate the keyboard, press the keys / buttons very lightly. Once you're done you should experience better back/home key response.  What we are going do here is to calibrate settings to response to the slight touches.

This can help you upto some extent but it's not the final solution. You will have to learn how exactly you need  to use the keys. Let us know your opinion about this problem.

How to Close Recent Apps in HTC One

Did you have problem in closing recent applications in your HTC one ? lot of users faced problems in finding a way to remove the recently used or recently opened application. From Android ICS (ice cream sandwich) OS update, every android device follows a unique way of showing the recently used apps.

Just press and hold the home button and you will see a list of recently used apps. Just drag the application which you want to close to either left or right and it will be removed from cache memory. HTC one has a quite different way to access and remove recently used applications.

Just double tap the home button and same interface with recently used apps will be shown. To close them just slide the box up and it closes the app. Rather than following native android methods, this is kind of new experiment from HTC and double tapping home key is quite simple and easy to understand.

Hope this helped you in clearing recently used apps from your One.

How to Capture a screenshot on HTC One / HTC M7

Screenshot is something comes very handy while sharing your screen with others. In computer's there is dedicated key assigned - Print screen to do the work. But in smartphones, every phone has a combination of 2 keys which can be used to grab a screen shot. Taking a screenshot in HTC One M7 is pretty easy. Fron 4.0 ICS, Android has started some universal key combinations to take a print screen and HTC follows the same.

How to grab a screen shot ?

There are 2 ways to print your mobile screen. First method we are going to see is the default android method which is now common for all the leading android phones. HTC ONE is not an exception and follows the same method.

1. Press Power and volume down key together
2. Hold both the keys for few seconds.
3. The animation will appear and phone will prompt you to store the image

It's a native Android method to capture a screen of your mobile. Another method which is explicitly available for HTC is as follows.

1. Press Power and home key together
2. Hold both the keys for few seconds.

Hope this helps you in taking a screenshot.