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Just wondering if anyone knows if the battery for the Droid 3 is the same as the one for the OG Droid / Droid 2. I have a few of the extended batteries from my original Droid and thought it'd be cool if I could use them in a D3 if I bought one.
Thanks!
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Rick#2 said:
Just wondering if anyone knows if the battery for the Droid 3 is the same as the one for the OG Droid / Droid 2. I have a few of the extended batteries from my original Droid and thought it'd be cool if I could use them in a D3 if I bought one.
Thanks!
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You're from Coquitlam? Do you know Matthew Sweet?
Nope i thought as well
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rynosaur said:
You're from Coquitlam? Do you know Matthew Sweet?
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Ahh, sorry I don't. I live in Victoria now anyways, I ought to update that.
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Sorry, I meant Matthew Good .. . . Matthew Sweet is American
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Definitely not the same. Was a little cranky about that at first. Had an extra battery and standalone battery charger for my OG Droid. Gave them to my sister along with the phone. lol
Its not the same. THe Droid 3 battery is slimmer and taller.
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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davwman said:
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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beard0 said:
..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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mtva24 said:
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 Verizon needs to replace my Thunderbolt and after so many replacements they offered me a bionic. Would it be a good choice over my Bolt? We have S-off and Unlocked bootloader.
Pros of bionic:
Dual core 1.0ghz
1gb ram
Lots of great devs
Cons:
Stock has blur
Locked bootloader
And it's moto so probably no stock ics for about a year
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another PRO for Bionic is killer long battery life since the .901 update, .902 is killer battery life also.
I uses to have the thunderbolt. The bionic is a much better phone.
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smokedkill said:
I uses to have the thunderbolt. The bionic is a much better phone.
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Yeah this one's a no brainer. Get the bionic.
Regarding the above cons:
• Hexec workaround was recently posted allowing for custom kernels. This was really the last issue caused by the locked bootloader. In less than a month it will be old news
• There are CM9, AOKP, AOSP, and MIUI variants of ICS available now and improving daily. Who needs stock ICS?
My buddy has a tbolt and there's no comparison in the speed, responsiveness and battery life.
Bionic is on it's way with free extended battery
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nativi said:
Bionic is on it's way with free extended battery
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Free extended battery? How'd you manage that? #slickmoves
tuckmobile said:
Free extended battery? How'd you manage that? #slickmoves
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#slickmoves fo sho!!!
Well I told her I use the extended battery on my thunderbolt and told her that 4G phones have poor battery life. So she said ok free extended battery.
And now I'm getting $40 from a coworker for the thunderbolts extended battery and the verizon case I had. :thumbup:
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DUDE! Win Win WIN!
Well played, Sir.
Hopefully I will be getting mine..... I hate HTC.....
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I love HTC special how developer friendly they are.
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nativi said:
I love HTC special how developer friendly they are.
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I think the skilled developers are on Motorola though. Look at what these guys are doing with a locked bootloader. We got a handful of ice cream with a locked bootloader. How much more can they do if it was unlocked.
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im part of a concession line and we get upgrades every year. best buy mobile has been treating me so well that i just ended up buying the bionic. i got a tbolt for free and it was a great phone but when bionic came out like 2 months later i bought the bionic. i got it for 230 at cowboom.com. thats were we send all our phones that we get returned or serviced. its EXTREMELY cheap. spread it. i love my bionic and i plan on selling it tho. im using my tbolt because i got the infected rom on it with beats. i like it but i kind of miss my bionic. either way rezound here i come!!
Why would you NOT trade your garbage 3G tBolt for a bionic? Even if you had the data issues with the bionic, it's 100x better.
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Verizon is exchanging my Droid charge for the bionic, any thoughts on that? Which would you choose?
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cbrown245 said:
Verizon is exchanging my Droid charge for the bionic, any thoughts on that? Which would you choose?
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Well so far I like it. Battery life is better then my bolt. I would get the bionic for sure. Also, just a hint tell them you saw online that to transfer data from your phone to the PC you need to Motorola USB cable just a heads up
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coldhardtruth said:
Why would you NOT trade your garbage 3G tBolt for a bionic? Even if you had the data issues with the bionic, it's 100x better.
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The tbolt is 4g. Although I do agree i would rather get the bionic.
dirtyfingers said:
The tbolt is 4g. Although I do agree i would rather get the bionic.
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I Kno, i call it a 3G phone compared to a bionic. Sooooo slow. worst radio software ever.
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Actually now that I've had it I would have taken a bolt again is so weird all this stuff you have to do to flash anything. And it seems lime the only roms out are ics which are ok but still too many things broken for me. And there are no stock like roms with alot of features like on sense. But I like the phone. I just had more options on the bolt being I'm a themer I want something solid I can theme. But the bolt was the best phone for everything. And my data connection and speed is the same on both phones.
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One thing though is the bionic screen and colors in it suck big time
And the rom selection on the bolt was crazy huge.
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Just made the jump to the Bionic from the Thunderbolt. Just did a flat trade locally for it. Awesome device.
Will be rooting soon. Anything I should know on the front end?
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Follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455888
Yeah. I'll probably do that this morning.
Thanks for the help. What ROM do you prefer? I'm leaning towards the Gummy ROM but I'm undecided. Lol
MOTOBLUR isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Lol
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If you want a fully functional ROM, go with eclipse or kinetx. ALL of the ICS roms are still BETAs and updates LAG immensely. Jus so you know.
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Wow! U made out like a bandit on that trade
Congrats
urphonesux said:
Wow! U made out like a bandit on that trade
Congrats
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I had a lot of accessories with it. Mainly a Trident case and two extended batteries.
But I definitely think so.
Guy already had a Razr Maxx so I'm not sure what he was gonna use mine for.
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If you want a fully functional ROM, go with eclipse or kinetx. ALL of the ICS roms are still BETAs and updates LAG immensely. Jus so you know.
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Oh ok. I'll check out Eclipse. So the ICS roms here are actually ICS? They're not GB with a theme on it? Lol
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CanesDrew said:
I had a lot of accessories with it. Mainly a Trident case and two extended batteries.
But I definitely think so.
Guy already had a Razr Maxx so I'm not sure what he was gonna use mine for.
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I would like to get the Razr MAXX... But good trade I have the Tbolt too but use my Bionic mostly better device for the most part.
Just wish the camera was as good as the TBolts.
Went with Eclipse 2.2 with Titanium theme. Solid so far.
Now, the true test: battery life!
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yep the ics roms are actually ics. they have no hardware acceleration yet though so flash doesn't work. also depending on what area your in ppl have problems with data drops. when it drops you gotta reboot to get it back. we need to get an official moto update with a better kernel and ics drivers to get it really solid.
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I would be willing to donate 100$ for a tablet honeycomb or a tablet ui ics port for my bionic
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Im not much of a well known Dev. But I know my way around programming and Android. Ill look into this and reply back with what I've found, and if its possible.it should be seeing as they did this to the nexus roms. But I'll check back when I investigate more.
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brandonnichols360 said:
I would be willing to donate 100$ for a tablet honeycomb or a tablet ui ics port for my bionic
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It is really easy to turn an ICS build into tablet mode. If you pick one of the ICS builds out for the bionic that you want to run I will show you how to do it all for the low cost of a thanks.
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I like this ics rom. http://www.mediafire.com/?v16w74zbwrx480x thank you so much
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This is rather simple to accomplish. The biggest thing you have to do for this to happen is change the screen density. Since the tablet ics ui is fused in with phone roms now.
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I set it to 155 and it didn't do anything except make everything small. What else do I do?
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