Which do you think is better?
/droid3
If you have to have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the D3 is better. If you have to have 4G, the Bionic is better.
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Honestly, aside from the amount of RAM. The Droid 3 is the Bionic without 4G and a hardware keyboard and vice versa. They even look the same, with the camera being in a different spot.
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in all honesty i dont think phones will ever need more than 512mb to run efficiently.
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That extra 512mb may help the phone from laggin down... I had my D3 bogg down a few times already to the point i had to pull the battery no clue why ..
Yes, but if you really consider normal usage for regular people (lol, were rebels), they only make phone calls, text, check their email and web browse. 512 is more than sufficient. Heck, 256 is enough.
But from a power users standpoint, its a little different.
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Honestly, aside from the amount of RAM. The Droid 3 is the Bionic without 4G and a hardware keyboard and vice versa. They even look the same, with the camera being in a different spot.
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I'm pretty sure that half of the bionics ram is set aside for the webtop, thus both the d3 and bionic have the same amount of ram for android to use.
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Comparing these 2 are like comparing the droid x and droid 2 last year. Droid X had HDMI and a bit higher pixel density (854x480) as well as a larger screen, but Droid 2 had a Keyboard.
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D3 and Bionic are the exact same thing. 512mb of the 1024mb of the Bionic's ram is exclusively for webtop. D3 has the keyboard, and Bionic has the lte. It all comes down to if your area has lte or not and if you want a keyboard.
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I went for the Droid 3 because I wanted a physical keyboard. I wouldn't want a screen any larger than what I have now. About the only thing I wish the D3 had is 1GB of RAM instead of just 512MB. No 4G isn't a deal breaker for me because I live in a rural area that probably won't get 4G for a few years.
I agree. No matter what, physical keyboards will always be more accurate then touch screens
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kshen1 said:
in all honesty i dont think phones will ever need more than 512mb to run efficiently.
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Wrong.
The amount of free memory can easily go down to around 50MB when browsing webs and performing other mildly intensive tasks on the D3.
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I agree. No matter what, physical keyboards will always be more accurate then touch screens
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Did you try swype input method. (I don't)
I have a strong feeling that it's faster than physical keyboard.
Anyone please talk about your feelings?
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Wrong.
The amount of free memory can easily go down to around 50MB when browsing webs and performing other mildly intensive tasks on the D3.
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You're wrong. We literally make up 1% of the Android world. People in everyday life don't know what a redraw is. Heck, they don't even know what RAM is.
So what if there's only 50mb left? Most of the world doesnt even know that.
If you think you represent the whole Android community then you're wrong. PISS off.
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Did you try swype input method. (I don't)
I have a strong feeling that it's faster than physical keyboard.
Anyone please talk about your feelings?
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Did you even read my post?
I said accurate. Not faster.
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Simply stated, if you need a physical kb, d3. Lte, bionic.
I type faster on my hardware keyboard then the soft one. I send a lot of emails with it at work.
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I type faster on my hardware keyboard then the soft one. I send a lot of emails with it at work.
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Using the Droid X in landscape I was pretty fast and accurate on the standard keyboard. The problem for me is I use my phone to take notes at job sites & meetings. With the phone turned in landscape you can only see 1-3 lines of text and navigating around the text is nearly impossible. So, I'm back to a hard keyboard with the D3.
I like the D3 but I'm starting to get frustrated about the problems like the battery and the update is taking longer than expected. After seeing a friends Bionic, that is really a nice phone and has better accessories.
Related
Thinking bout getting the d3 and coming from the Inc I'm used to a big dev community so I'm wondering if the d3 will get one too once it has root
/Dinc
Definitely
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Definitely
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Well I got it and so far I'm happy just hope the community gets half as big as the Inc's was
/droid3
Many of the OG Droid owners are nearing phone renewal time so hopefully many of them pick the Droid 3. Of course there is a lot more out there now for android phones so some of them may leave for other phones. I'm someone who likes having the option of a physical keyboard so the Droid 3 was for me.
I think our major players are starting to emerge. But yes, a lot of D1 and D2 owners are coming up for renewal, and we are deathly loyal to our droids.
That, and being one of the few dual core phones, a world phone, and a physical keyboard give it MAJOR appeal.
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I think our major players are starting to emerge. But yes, a lot of D1 and D2 owners are coming up for renewal, and we are deathly loyal to our droids.
That, and being one of the few dual core phones, a world phone, and a physical keyboard give it MAJOR appeal.
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I seriously hope so this phone has so much potential!
/droid3
im hoping so too
I'm sure it will it just depends on on what they can do to the phone. And definitely if moto unlocks the bootloader. Then we have pretty much much have a overcharged 3g dominating phone. Especially if ChevyNo1 and peter Alfonso jumps aboard sorry for any misspellings in the dev names
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Hmm well at the very least, I for one am getting this device tomorrow to start experimenting with it which will mean camera image and video enhancements.
First thing I will do once rooted will be to tweak the bitrate values for images, video/audio and fix the white balance tolerance/default colour matrix.
Then including smaller resolution values as menu options, strange why they only added 8mp and 6mp options, I need 3mp for some situations.
I think the phone will be perfect with only a few modifications as i'm a fan of stock firmware.
-smc
I am planning on working on the Droid 3, I have tried to root, and am still trying, but all attempts have been unsuccessful as you can tell. I do not doubt root will be found for the Droid 3 at all though.
It seems like alot of good people are working on it so I don't doubt that we'll get it soon
/droid3
My faith lies within the community. I know well get this achieved!
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Beings that the bionic and almost every other phone has built in soft keys including the vigor which will be out soon, does anyone think any current phones will be getting an ICS update. ICS has the softkeys built into the screen like honeycomb. It would look a little funny with 2 sets of menu keys. Just seeing if anyone had any input on this issue
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I fully expect the Bionic to get ICS. In fact I'd be willing to bet it's one of the first non-nexus phones to recieve it. Being under the google umbrella is a good thing, which Motorola now is. As far as the buttons go, that's a software modification and I don't expect that to be much of a road block. Button remapping takes place all the time in custom kernels so the guys at Moto and or Google should be able to sort that out simple enough.
I was hoping so. It just seems one of the main ics features is no menu keys. I was just hoping it wouldn't have both
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ICS is being hailed as bringing tablets and phones together, so something as simple as disabling some on-screen menu buttons doesn't sound like something they would overlook.
Even if we ended up with some ****ed up version of ICS that made our phones have two rows of menu buttons, it wouldn't take longer than a day for the hackers here on XDA to figure out how to hide them.
Seems to me that our softkeys would work just fine w/ ICS... all the screengrabs I see have home, back, and multitasking buttons. Remap the menu key to be for multitasking, and you're set, with a bonus search key that duplicates whatever search function is integrated w/ ICS elsewhere.
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I think it kinda sucks that Samsung and Google are waiting on officially releasing ICS due to the passing of steve jobs. Yeah it can be respectful but that didnt stop apple from making money.
I doubt the Google acquisition will affect products in the pre-merger pipeline for a year. Short of layoffs, I've never seen a change in engineers assigned priorities right off the bat.
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I think it kinda sucks that Samsung and Google are waiting on officially releasing ICS due to the passing of steve jobs. Yeah it can be respectful but that didnt stop apple from making money.
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The release isn't pushed back, just the announcement.
And it was extremely classy in my opinion.
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mistawolfe said:
The release isn't pushed back, just the announcement.
And it was extremely classy in my opinion.
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Pretty sure no one gives two cents about your opinion
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Areghas quit trolling or get the hell out of here. All I have seen you do is try to start sh*t with droidth3ory or mistawolfe.
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Pretty sure no one gives two cents about your opinion
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Pretty sure your wrong.
We do not tolerate trolling here. Quit it or leave.
Last warning.
Back on topic please folks
I'm sure they have the ability to use the four keys just like 2.3.7 and below. I believe that they also said that it was the manufacturers choice when building phones and tablets which method they use back when they were first touring honeycomb on the XOOM. I'm sure that they won't give us two sets of keys and take up screen realestate.
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Thank you for all your responses.
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Nexus S will be the first phone to receive the update as far as previously sold phones without ICS. My Nexus S 4G has builtin soft keys as well. There's your answer
I have owned many, android devices across AT&T and Verizon, starting from the htc magic, samsung captivate, htc inspire, htc DROID incredible, samsung fascinate, htc tbolt, DROID 1, DROID 2, and lastly the Bionic before this DROID 3. I hold absolutely no candle when it comes to developing the android os, but when it comes to experience with hardware that's where the experience is. The droid 3 just seems to blow the bionic out of the water with absolutely no lag in screen transitions, app drawer, browser loading time, etc. Im having a hard time with this, and am wondering if Im alone here or is it a placebo type thing being that im using maverick 3.0?
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Do you buy all these phones at full retail?
Try golauncher or adw-ex, makes your phone feel so much faster
As far as the full retail goes, no. Only one I paid full price for was the inspire which I returned 3 days later.
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I have owned many, android devices across AT&T and Verizon, starting from the htc magic, samsung captivate, htc inspire, htc DROID incredible, samsung fascinate, htc tbolt, DROID 1, DROID 2, and lastly the Bionic before this DROID 3. I hold absolutely no candle when it comes to developing the android os, but when it comes to experience with hardware that's where the experience is. The droid 3 just seems to blow the bionic out of the water with absolutely no lag in screen transitions, app drawer, browser loading time, etc. Im having a hard time with this, and am wondering if Im alone here or is it a placebo type thing being that im using maverick 3.0?
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..so wait..let me get this right lol you're having a hard time cause your d3 is so good?
/Droid3
Trying to understand why the droid 3 with the same os version for the most part with practically the same hardware and a little older feels faster then the bionic
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..so wait..let me get this right lol you're having a hard time cause your d3 is so good?
/Droid3
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Yeah that's how I interpreted it lol. maveric is a damn good ROM, tho the stock experience is also really good IMO if a little jumpy.
-smc
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I have owned many, android devices across AT&T and Verizon, starting from the htc magic, samsung captivate, htc inspire, htc DROID incredible, samsung fascinate, htc tbolt, DROID 1, DROID 2, and lastly the Bionic before this DROID 3. I hold absolutely no candle when it comes to developing the android os, but when it comes to experience with hardware that's where the experience is. The droid 3 just seems to blow the bionic out of the water with absolutely no lag in screen transitions, app drawer, browser loading time, etc. Im having a hard time with this, and am wondering if Im alone here or is it a placebo type thing being that im using maverick 3.0?
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This part confused me big time
What's confusing?
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This part confused me big time
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it means that he feels weird or difficult to believe that the dorid 3 seems faster than a Bionic, being the bionic a better hardware...
@davwman
do you have the bionic too?
does it have roms as well?
???
Had the Bionic. It has a few roms, just didn't see the need to move to the Bionic after 3 days of use with it.
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Really? I have a Droid 3 and 3 others in my family have Bionics. All my Bionics are far better than Droid 3 for speed and performance. What all have you done to the Droid 3? The Bionics have double the RAM that Droid 3 has and that is a big deal actually. I am still a physical keyboard guy and I wanted an international phone as I do travel internationally once in a while. For those reasons I still like the Droid 3 but my Bionics are faster.
Technically speaking yes, the Bionic should be faster on paper. But as the saying goes the DROID 3 has that "seat of the pants" feeling of being overall alot smoother. Im not saying thus is the case for everyone, but in mine, the DROID 3 feels better.
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Hey guys, pretty straight forward.
Just to let you know, I really don't want an HTC one x, or any other phone with poor battery life.
Things that matter:
Screen size: 4in+
Processor
Camera quality
HARDWARE in general
Overall feel of the phone in your hand
I would prefer the least amount of plastic on the phone as possible.
Thanks guys
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HTC sensation or galaxy s 2
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Plastic is a nice thing....
Do you have a carrier preference? Are you wanting to stay with VZW?
HTC EVO 4G LTE.
Outstanding battery life.
16GB internal storage and a micro sd slot.
Blazing fast processor.
It feels solid as a rock.
It has the best screen of any phone I have ever used, 4.7 inch.
The camera on this phone is phenomenal. Here is a thread with pics from it.
All in all this is the best phone I have ever owned.
The evo 4G is very intriguing.
As far as carrier, I don't care at all.
So far the phones in the race are:
Sony xperia ion
HTC evo 4g
Samsung galaxy s3
These are just so far. Feel free to offer any handset as a suggestion. I'll put up a poll when I get into the preliminaries.
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Wait for the HTC phone that's coming to Verizon
It has a 1080 p screen so everything would be awesome
It also has an adreno 320 cup
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Wait for the HTC phone that's coming to Verizon
It has a 1080 p screen so everything would be awesome
It also has an adreno 320 cup
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What phone is that if which you speak?
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As far as carrier, I don't care at all.
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I'm jelly of ya'll that have more than one carrier with service in your area.
Does the Nexus not even get a honorable mention simply because it gets the newest Android versions before any other phones? I agree that there is better hardware on the market, but I love showing off all the new features before anyone else gets them. My buddy just posted on fb how he got ICS on his RAZR, I replied "It can't do a barrel roll." Its fun to be smug about firmware lol.
I got my hands on a SGSIII and I liked it allot, big good looking screen, felt good in my hand, fast and smooth. I rooted it and gave it back to my buddy. Plus the Galaxy S phones have good development so you wont be waiting too much longer than Nexus for custom ROMs and such..
The nexus was in the running, but the camera threw it out for me.
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If you want to be certain you'll get 1st party updates without waiting them definitely Galaxy Nexus. The camera, however, isn't too good.
Personal suggestion is S2. I haven't found one con from this phone, it's fast,I like its screen,a lot of development here, camera is excellent. It also packs a 1 6GB flash memory and a micro SD slot.
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Whatever phone that stops you from OPing threads like this before searching. There are stickies for this in other sections.
Sent from your phone you lost the game.
boborone said:
Whatever phone that stops you from OPing threads like this before searching. There are stickies for this in other sections.
Sent from your phone you lost the game.
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Yes, but this was specifically for more recent phones, and I'm gonna add a poll soon for fun.
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Galaxy s3
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Galaxy s3
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You understand that post is useless because you don't provide any info about why you recommend that one...
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What phone is that if which you speak?
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its rumored
HTC is crap. Go Samsung GSIII. Its nice overall hardware and software!
Droid Syndicate
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Gs3 is too big... I I think I've decided on the ion... I I don't hate htc... But i do hate Microsoft lol
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Agreed! HTC is good with designs and Sense 4.0 is good...its the hardware that lags
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I'd pick HTC over any phone. Not to keen on the Incredible 4G for Verizon though. Its nothing like what the other carriers got. I'll be sticking to my Droid Incredible 2 so long as Dev's continue to support it.
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Who's still here? I know we have had a mass exodus from this device, but I'm curious how many stragglers we have left? If you're still here, are you leaving soon?
I have around 6 months left but I don't know if I will change at that time. I wish we could get ics on here. It would make things more tolerable.
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I have around 6 months left but I don't know if I will change at that time. I wish we could get ics on here. It would make things more tolerable.
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I'm sitting on the fence. I would settle for the phone being stable, regardless of what OS it runs on (which is what I'm working on). I've got my TF300 for Android play.
I'm considering whether it's worth trying to go through the hassle of packaging something, or just giving this thing the boot and buying a phone outright.
I won't be renewing my contract with Verizon EVER as I never want to lose my unlimited plan.
I have two. Might go to one soon......
Still have mine. My contract is up on Jan. 26th. which is 5 months early. I am guessing they are trying to get me off unlimited data early. I got news for them... Here at work we are part of Microsoft's Customer Assurance program. We test out software and devices for them in a live enterprise environment and report back any issues. Kind of like a closed beta tester. They give us phones for various carriers. We got iPhones, android, and windows phones to test their software on. We put in for WP8 if we get confirmation then we will get Lumia 822. I will just issue myself one of those to use till I tire of it. That way I can keep my unlimited data. Fran schammo can kiss my ass that greedy corporate douche.
That last post made me laugh. Not sure a "thanks" is appropriate, but it's as close as we have to a "rep" on this forum. Lol
But yeah, I've still got my Revo. I bought a Droid 4 on Ebay so as to not lose my unlimited data. I then discovered that the Revo was still usable for everything but cellular service, so I'm still using it a bit.
It's an easy way of getting Netflix in the living room for one thing.
I'm still here too. Been trying to work on a rom but between working 6 days a week, school, getting married 2 months ago, and now a pregnant wife things have been a little crazy...
I am stuck with this phone until October. Have gotten it to run fairly stable though, VOD about once a month and a couple screen freezes a week. If I can ever finish what I'm doing I will get it posted up here.
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Well, I'm here. I renewed last Christmas so I'm here for a while. Bout to drop a theme in a day or two (BrokenIC) and hopefully after that one I'll have MiBrokenIC. Also working on a kernel. Just dealing with it crapping out on me when building the Wi-Fi drivers.
So, let's all enjoy this ride. Shall we?
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I.M.famous XMAN said:
So, let's all enjoy this ride. Shall we?
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I'm hoping all goes well with this thing. What kind of stuff are you implementing in your kernel? Might be a good addition to my rom eventually.
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I'm on my 2nd Revo. Now know all the tricks (RAM is precious!). Have *all* the accessories (two car docks, home dock, regular and extended spare batteries and back, wireless charging pad, and back).
I'm having trouble finding another phone I want, once I accepted the limitations:
a. must limit widgets/running apps/total apps/certain apps, in order to keep free RAM at about 80-150MB.
b. ignore aesthetics (looks, bulk, screen). This is easy for me, and I actually like the Revo.
1. RAZR Maxx HD:
- both mostly at 4.3" screen (except RAZR Maxx HD is at 4.7" when viewing videos).
- battery life similar with extended battery (but Revo can swap batteries).
- Revo has wireless charging and dedicated car and home docks, and micro SD slot.
- RAZR Maxx HD has apt-X bluetooth codec, for great music fidelity with matching apt-X headphones.
- priced at ~ $500 used.
2. Galaxy S III:
- GS III has bigger screen at price of bigger phone.
- GS III feels less robust/more prone to screen cracks due to torquing.
- GS III has apt-X codec.
- priced at ~ $500 used.
3. LG Spectrum 2:
- see GS III above, but Spectrum 2 has no apt-X, and less accessories (no LG extended battery, even).
- comes with wireless charging back.
- priced at ~$350 used.
4. RAZR M:
- M has nice, smaller form factor, but with on-screen buttons, has only 4.0" screen most of the time.
- limited storage with no micro SD slot, limited internal storage.
- non-replaceable battery.
- has apt-X codec.
- priced at ~ $350 used.
I don't want to spend ~$350 to $500 for the privilege of giving up the capabilities of wireless charging, extended battery, home dock with separate battery charger, and car dock that starts up Revo's Car Home app when Revo is inserted.
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I'm hoping all goes well with this thing. What kind of stuff are you implementing in your kernel? Might be a good addition to my rom eventually.
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Mainly I'm trying to keep it as stock as possible. Just adding a few new governors. But the main thing is to keep voltages at stock levels. I think that might be the cause of the vod. And I'm adding swap.
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Sounds good. Voltage seems to be the issue that I have narrowed it down to as well. This thing can be extremely picky
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I'm still here I've got around 5 months left
Since the world didn't end today, I have a couple months left, three max (I forget). Just in time for the GS4 to drop. My priority is keeping the unlimited plan, even though I don't use that much data.
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I'm still using Revolt 2.0 and love it. Is there anything better for the LG revolution?
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I think bo is outstanding after flashing the stock kernel and throwing beats audio on it.
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I flashed the stock kernel over BO earlier last week and I must agree, it is been very smooth.
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BO? Body Odor? Lol
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kx2250 said:
BO? Body Odor? Lol
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Broken Out and I'm here for hopefully another 2 days (Christmas)
Still here. Broken out. Keeping unlimited. Might buy something used
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