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Droid Bionic from costco!

Just picked up my BIONIC from costco! Came out to 306.24 with the accessories bundle!
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What accessories does Costco include in the bundle?

No docks or anything good
Looks like it's a case, vehicle charger, and screen protector. None of the cool stuff.

Don't forget about car dock, desk dock, extra battery with a standalone charger..
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oh really? I was looking at it on Costco's website and it didn't look like any of that was included.

BiffaloBuff said:
oh really? I was looking at it on Costco's website and it didn't look like any of that was included.
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I got mine from the store. They only had 6 in stock
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Just got mine today from Costco as well. Switched from the EVO on Sprint. The Costco deal is awesome! They give you so much extra stuff.

darksidejunkie said:
Just got mine today from Costco as well. Switched from the EVO on Sprint. The Costco deal is awesome! They give you so much extra stuff.
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What extra stuff did you get with it?

Just bought mine upgraded from a droid eris. My mom got a state discount which saved me 50$ so it came to 270.00 with new york tax. I can't wait to hopefully see great development for this phone.

Got mine 10:30 this morning from Costco. Here is a photo courtesy of the Bionic of everything that came with it. Pretty nice bundle for $300!
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Coming from the Tbolt things have changed a bit. The phone is extremely light compared to the HTC, which is a plus in my opinion. Asides from that the only thing I really care about is battery life, which I will report back later about. So far so good though. I'm a pretty heavy user, and no matter what I tried with the Tbolt I could kill it in 3 hours. 10-12 hours being idle would near kill it. It's nice to take it off the charger and not see a 10% drop for no reason at all. True reading or not that drove a lot of folks bonkers.
I'll report back here in 6 hours with some details on battery life. That will be 7 hours off charge with some decent use. New phone use if you know what I mean

Dxun said:
Got mine 10:30 this morning from Costco. Here is a photo courtesy of the Bionic of everything that came with it. Pretty nice bundle for $300!
Coming from the Tbolt things have changed a bit. The phone is extremely light compared to the HTC, which is a plus in my opinion. Asides from that the only thing I really care about is battery life, which I will report back later about. So far so good though. I'm a pretty heavy user, and no matter what I tried with the Tbolt I could kill it in 3 hours. 10-12 hours being idle would near kill it. It's nice to take it off the charger and not see a 10% drop for no reason at all. True reading or not that drove a lot of folks bonkers.
I'll report back here in 6 hours with some details on battery life. That will be 7 hours off charge with some decent use. New phone use if you know what I mean
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I must say, Bionic feels pretty darn good in the hands.....
Did you buy it off contract? How much did you end up paying for it (Walk out)?

TauntingBull said:
I must say, Bionic feels pretty darn good in the hands.....
Did you buy it off contract? How much did you end up paying for it (Walk out)?
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It was 280 plus tax. Had some other stuff on my Bill so not sure of exact.
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Massive Battery Drain on Reboot

Recently, I've been having massive battery drain on reboots. Is this a calibration issue? I'm currently on the 4/15 build of CM10, but was previously on Slimbean 4.1 2/25 build. It was happeneing on that build as well. It just dropped from 55% to 12% after the reboot...Also, my battery is slightly bloated, it can't really be seen visually, but you can feel it. Are these two correlated? Should I get a new battery?
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Your battery is fried, time for a new one, whenever you have swelling, its the number one sign that your battery is dead. Soon you won't be able to use your phone without it being connected to a charger.
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I too have had this issue with the SlimBean, I believe it to be from the "Fast USB Charge" function.
Since it has to be replaced anyways, any suggestions for Extended Batteries?

DJ_SpaRky said:
I too have had this issue with the SlimBean, I believe it to be from the "Fast USB Charge" function.
Since it has to be replaced anyways, any suggestions for Extended Batteries?
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I got this one and its pretty nice:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009PGTUFQ
It's 2050mah so not too much more than stock but still good. I bought it because it doesn't require a special battery cover. Lasts me all day with decent (sometimes excessive) use. And it looks cool in red haha.
Sent from my Galaxy Exhibit 4G

BrandonCormier said:
I got this one and its pretty nice:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009PGTUFQ
It's 2050mah so not too much more than stock but still good. I bought it because it doesn't require a special battery cover. Lasts me all day with decent (sometimes excessive) use. And it looks cool in red haha.
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Already bought another stock battery, but if I had known about this, maybe would have bought this instead. Oh well, the new battery is working much better than my old already.

BrandonCormier said:
I got this one and its pretty nice:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009PGTUFQ
It's 2050mah so not too much more than stock but still good. I bought it because it doesn't require a special battery cover. Lasts me all day with decent (sometimes excessive) use. And it looks cool in red haha.
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Thanks for the info, I've seen that one, but I think that I'm going to go with this one: EZO Power since I'm never very far from a charger. (battery troubles will cause you to carry one or keep them everywhere. LOL)

i have 3 at home, one in the car and 2 at work

Ive just started running AOIP, and I have experienced the massive drain on reboot. so the consensus is its a battery issue?

When ever you have battery issues like that it is you battery. Soon you will notice random reboot accompanied by massive battery drain. Then you will have to have your phone plugged in just to use it, you will also start to notice swelling. I recommend you get another before it gets this bad. Trust me having to have your phone plugged in 24/7 is not fun
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I am familiar with the battery swell, my previous samsung flip phone (RIP) had some massive battery swell. I was scared it was going to explode in my face.:good:

Note 2 Extended battery Review. 7600mah

Hello guys and gals,
I have received the extended battery that i have ordered on last friday and has been using it for the past 3 days.
The model i have ordered is 7600mah extended battery with NFC and back battery cover.
I can't confirm the battery capacity is 7600mah or not but it sure have increased my standby time by double.
The back battery cover has a very tight and good fitting as good as the original and it looks good too.
The battery does add weight and bulk to note 2 but it is worth the standby time.
I am not here to promote this item but just to share out my findings.
The link for the battery is :
http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/27127178...eName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
and i have only ordered this case yesterday and i hope it will fit perfectly....
http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/18109665...eName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
Below are some photos for your views....
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Thank you.

That battery might be a dud. I get way over 24hrs of use and over 6hrs of screen time on my standard original battery. And that's on the 4.3 rom. I used to get closer to 9-10 hrs screen time on the original 4.1.1 rom when I first got the phone.

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That battery might be a dud. I get way over 24hrs of use and over 6hrs of screen time on my standard original battery. And that's on the 4.3 rom. I used to get closer to 9-10 hrs screen time on the original 4.1.1 rom when I first got the phone.
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depends on your usage bro, for my stqndard battery, usually i need to charge after 7 to 8 hours after i unplug from my charger after a full charge while this extended battery i use now doubles the time.
different people have different kinds of apps on their phone so the result may varies and very subjective.
i also can get over 24 hours of stanby time if i only have very basic apps installed on my note 2.
Cheers.

Same for me, 10h on 4.1.2 and only 6 on 4.3.
I will try slimbean this week to see if its better.
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I'll just leave this here.
Original OEM battery. Android 4.3.1, baseband I605VRALL4
LiquidSmooth Liquid-JB v2.37.

Means nothing, what the screen use time ?
The screen use 80% of the battery, i can upload a picture with 1 weeks of battery time...
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falkon114 said:
I'll just leave this here.
Original OEM battery. Android 4.3.1, baseband I605VRALL4
LiquidSmooth Liquid-JB v2.37.
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Useless post without screen on time....I mean come on it looks like u did not do anything but respond to messages....I am willing to bet your screen on time is not even 2 hours
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Fair enough, I'll get a full charge under and do it again. I'm estimating it was About 4-5 hours there.

falkon114 said:
Fair enough, I'll get a full charge under and do it again. I'm estimating it was About 4-5 hours there.
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I think I know why the reactions were a bit too emotional - a screenshot of the screen up time would help to prove your point. And you don't have to estimate, just when viewing the battery graph page, click on the Screen entry, the precise time is there.

[Q] feel like returning after battery life ?

Anyone felt like returning this phones after a week cause of battery life?
Im not cause its not that bad and maybe a custom ROM may be able to work on that just looking for other people's experience and what they think thanks!

It's useable with a few temp.. tweaks .
The bottom line is this all occurs with lollipop in general S5 was great on kitkat ...until 5.0
It's not the phone it's features and O.S
People are disabling Volte and WiFi calling it helps a lot
I wouldn't return it over battery life yet the camera is way to good
Give it time We get roms soon and mods it's I take back everything +I said
Samsung needs to take back every s6 and Rethink there whole O.S
For a 750$ flag ship release its so buggy it's hopeless .
Camera is only worthwhile feature
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Do one factory reset and set up phone again and disable VOLTE FOR NOW under Phone /More .
Cycle the battery meaning charge filly and let it fully drain as far as you can before recharging again .Another words don't fully charge it when it hits 40%
This is true the battery's learn a drain span
I'f you recharge anything above 10% it isn't gonna learn it's max capacity Takes like a week.
The main fix is Volte disable and WiFi calling
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i turned off volte i dont really see the need for it i mean its a phone call why do you need such high speeds lol my phone is at 2 percent waiting for it to die lol thanks

If it wasn't for the rapid quick charge I probably would have
returned it but the fact that I can top off in a half an hour it's really not a problem getting through the day.

I think it has something to do that the phone is not going to deep sleep, i rooted mine and flashed a custom kernel, now it does deep sleep and battery is ok now

While battery life isn't as good as some phones I've used recently I still got 5hrs SOT yesterday. Not bad at all.

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dc82 said:
While battery life isn't as good as some phones I've used recently I still got 5hrs SOT yesterday. Not bad at all.
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That is pretty good for this phone ....
Has anyone tried going into Developer Options }Limit Back
Ground Processes to 4 ?
I wonder if this barely slows the Phone for most things but might give an additional ( wild guess 10% to 25%) Battery Life.
I don't have one but if this works....be easier for me to decide.
I may put this idea in a separate Thread.

robertkoa said:
That is pretty good for this phone ....
Has anyone tried going into Developer Options }Limit Back
Ground Processes to 4 ?
I wonder if this barely slows the Phone for most things but might give an additional ( wild guess 10% to 25%) Battery Life.
I don't have one but if this works....be easier for me to decide.
I may put this idea in a separate Thread.
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Yea I can't complain about battery life. The screen is so ridiculous I end up using the phone for no reason, so my usage at least for now since it's new, isn't my normal usage.
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Should I get one?

Hello dear XDA friends, Although I don't post a lot I still love you all .
Anyway, I am really tempted to get a Mate S ($/€319) after my LG G3's screen basically broke in half, the battery exploded and the touchscreen only working 10%, it's basically useless right now and I need a phone to replace it for a while until I decide what's going to be my ''real'' phone (I hate Apple but the 7+ Camera is amazing but then again maybe note 7 refurbs will be cheap.) So yeah I need to bridge the gap and I want to gift it to a relative when I'm done with it.
So is it worth it for 300 bucks?

Hi,
I have the phone since 3 months now (rooted and latest rom version) and it is in overall very good but the battery. Screen is very great but although there are a good device manager, it doesn't stand a full day without reloading.
Also you can see from the different posts that this phone is not very popular among Android's cooks. So not a lot of answers and not a lot of tricks and tweaks. I regret the time I had a Nexus 4 where community was very active. Anyway, as I am really focused on battery life, this is the real flaw of this phone for me. But I guess there are not many phones that could do better.

dai75 said:
Hi,
I have the phone since 3 months now (rooted and latest rom version) and it is in overall very good but the battery. Screen is very great but although there are a good device manager, it doesn't stand a full day without reloading.
Also you can see from the different posts that this phone is not very popular among Android's cooks. So not a lot of answers and not a lot of tricks and tweaks. I regret the time I had a Nexus 4 where community was very active. Anyway, as I am really focused on battery life, this is the real flaw of this phone for me. But I guess there are not many phones that could do better.
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What's the longest screen on time you got?

It actually depends what you gonna do with this phone.
I own it for last 8 months never really felt need for better battery during normal usage.
My typical usage with all the time brightness at auto and slider at max ( which on huawei even when inside usually means 80-90% brightness ) and outside always even when is dim day is 100% or boosted screen mode ends up with average 4:30-5h SOT with around 18-20hrs on battery. This is with about 60% wifi 40% 3g.
This includes bunch of social apps, youtube , music, calls, sms, light gaming of around 1hr per day.
The great thing about this phone is its soc and screen, the to S-amoled it never gets hot thus for it doesn't drain battery life fast like snapdragon devices.
Biggest fall of this soc is its GPU it isn't as good for heavy games like s810 devices for example.
If you're not a gamer I highly suggest this phone. If you have more money I suggest p9+, its a beast in all regards.
Here my current battery life stats
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Xdekker said:
What's the longest screen on time you got?
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As you can see, I charged my phone and unplugged at 00.14. Wi-Fi off and no mobile data, no screen on. No apps running apart from home launcher and myProfile. All others are greenified. So in around 8h sleep it decreased by 20%.
I tried many tricks and I consider myself skilful for this (my LG G2 could last 3 days) but cannot do better with this one. The ROM is not good enough yet and update frequency is not good.

Got the LG G4 so this one can be closed