In today’s smartphone world, the HTC One X is probably one of the most powerful smartphones currently available in the market. In fact, it is the first handset in the world to have a quad-core processor under the hood. Despite the power that the handset packs in its internals, it is not impervious to issues that could hamper its performance.
In the past, it was reported that the handset was plagued by a message notification bug that prevented the display of new messages in its notification area. No badges are also coming up on its messaging app to show that there new messages were received. This issue however has long been taken care of when HTC released a software update in the past to get this issue resolved. In short, these types of issues can easily be fixed by a software update.
However, a hardware problem causing issues on the phone is another story and this is also the case in the HTC One X. Looking back, it was also reported that the handset had issues with its Wi-Fi connectivity wherein its connection was very intermittent and got dropped every so often. Although the root cause of this problem hasn’t been nailed yet, a group of HTC One X users over at XDA-developers managed to isolate the problem in the hardware of the handset. What they found out is that the antennas used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are loosely connected to the radio of the HTC One X which lead to the said Wi-Fi issues on the handset.
If you happen to rock an HTC One X for your mobile weapon of choice and are interested in finding out if your smartphone suffers from this issue, you may want to give your handset a squeeze at its back edge near the volume rocker while connected to a Wi-Fi spot. When you squeeze on the said location, you basically push the antenna connector to its proper place and if you get an increase in the signal strength of your Wi-Fi connection, then your handset sad to say is afflicted with this issue.
Several brave and adventurous HTC One X users have already come up with do it yourself fixes for this particular issue but most of them involve disassembly of the handset and none of these DIYs are for the faint of heart. HTC has confirmed that it is already aware of the problem and said that it has a couple of reps monitoring the situation in the XDA threads dedicated for this issue. Unfortunately, the manufacturer hasn’t announced any plans yet of how they are going to rectify the situation.
Hopefully, and we join all the HTC One X users out there in crossing their fingers, that HTC gets to have this issue with the handset sorted out as soon as possible because it is such a waste to see a handset as powerful as the HTC One X get plagued with an issue as lousy as this. Select online retailers are offering the HTC One X starting at $119.
