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[Q] Is it worth selling my Nexus?

I was very interested in selling my nexus and before I did I wanted go get my fellow nexus one user's opinion. Why should I keep this phone? I was looking into the evo by sprint. The screen size amazes me. If I was to sell my nexus one how much would I be able to sell it for? What are some good reasons to keeping my nexus one? I love this phone but I have it stuck in my head that there is something better out there. Please convince me not to sell it.

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If you want to switch carriers that's one thing. But on GSM carriers there really is no worthy upgrade till the G2, but even then... A stock 4" phone is needed, the Galaxy S is is more of a side-grade IMO.
The dev level upgrades are one thing that would make me keep this phone for at least mid way through the next year. I like the fact that Google will upgrade this phones' software for a while at least and we don't have to wait for hacked roms or carrier OTA's.

Hold onto it until the Dell Thunder! I am.

Amritttt said:
wait for desire HD
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What carrier will have it? Please tell me T-Mobile

x986123 said:
Hold onto it until the Dell Thunder! I am.
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Looks nice. But I think ill stick with HTC. No hard feelings

evilkorn said:
If you want to switch carriers that's one thing. But on GSM carriers there really is no worthy upgrade till the G2, but even then... A stock 4" phone is needed, the Galaxy S is is more of a side-grade IMO.
The dev level upgrades are one thing that would make me keep this phone for at least mid way through the next year. I like the fact that Google will upgrade this phones' software for a while at least and we don't have to wait for hacked roms or carrier OTA's.
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Did you see pictures of the G2? I'm not all that crazy about it.

RussianSolja said:
What carrier will have it? Please tell me T-Mobile
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i have no idea what carrier it will have sorry
www.engadget.com/2010/08/13/htc-schedules-september-15-event-leaves-us-guessing-as-to-what/

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i have no idea what carrier it will have sorry
www.engadget.com/2010/08/13/htc-schedules-september-15-event-leaves-us-guessing-as-to-what/
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Looks the same as the evo.

Keeping my nexus, its a collector phone for sure.

RogerPodacter said:
Keeping my nexus, its a collector phone for sure.
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This...won't be easy getting the n1 later on

trojanz said:
This...won't be easy getting the n1 later on
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Especially if you have the ATT version. You know ATT nexus is selling for 1500 bucks on ebay right now for sealed brand new ATT nexus one. Wish I bought a few when I had the chance.

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Especially if you have the ATT version. You know ATT nexus is selling for 1500 bucks on ebay right now for sealed brand new ATT nexus one. Wish I bought a few when I had the chance.
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$1500??!? No way. I just checked, its $460-530.

x986123 said:
$1500??!? No way. I just checked, its $460-530.
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On Ebay Canada, used Nexus ones (ATT) are going for $500-1100,

Looking to sell mine for $450, is that a good price?

Definately keeping mine forever. It's more than just a phone.
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There´s n better phone out there (for me )...just bigger screen phones, probably better screen, better multitouch...but that´s all just too little to convince me!
After my Nexus One, it has to be a step forward, like having 1.5 or 2 Ghz

A few points I'd like to share with you.
First, the Nexus One being what it is is reason enough not to get rid of it. It is a classic, it is the only HTC device available with vanilla Android and high end hardware, and everything else has some flavor of garbage depending on the manufacturer. It really is the modern day Google phone, their baby, and the device that gets all the updates before everything else.
I typically sell my old phones to pay for most of the cost of my new ones, but with the Nexus One, I'm pretty sure I'm going to use it until it dies and still keep it to remember how great it was after that.
As for switching to Sprint for the Evo, I would also wait until something truly worthy of replacing your Nexus One comes along (and on a better network). The added features of the Evo aren't worth the poor battery life and slower general operation when using it.
For my next upgrade, I'm going to wait for something with a higher-than-WVGA resolution screen, xenon flash, and something that can truly live up to the Nexus One's legacy.

^ Agree...Won't be selling my classic N1 for some time! And will never go to Sprint

if i buy a phone which is from att or tmobile will i be able to use it i m dubai (u.a.e)

does anyone regret getting this phone?

I do a bit, it's not a bad phone. Just not many custom roms. I should of researched it before, but I know now lol. I should of spent the extra 100 and get the one X at the time. I will probably keep the phone and use it for 1 more year as my main phone, what about everyone else?
also thanks to homeslice for sense4 and the all the other devs that have supported this phone.:good:

I regret it a little as well becasue of the low amount of devolpment for the phone but Homeslice's Sense 4.1 rom makes it alright. Hope that there will be a 4.2 rom for it.

Yeah I regret it a little too. I remember standing in the store debating between the vivid or the skyrocket. I kind of wish I got the skyrocket....
But I only have another month and I can get a new phone...what to get???
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lil bit. i also wish i had bought the one x at the time i got mine. but im happy with what we have. even if its not much. big thanks to the devs. :good:

Yep, very much so.
I got it on launch day, but I was deciding between the regular SGS2 and the Raider. Going off of the presence of LTE, a friend's opinion of the DHD, and how solidly built that phone was, I decided to give HTC my business. A huge mistake. The build isn't holding up as well as the DHD's is (I have since bought my friend's DHD, as he upgraded to a SGS3, and use it as my DD), as I have noticeable bronzing of the volume and power buttons, along with the clear coat chipping off the plastic near said buttons. This is only after about 8 months (and no drops) of active DD use, not even the two years (and four drops) that the DHD has endured. Sense 3.x is also nowhere nearly as nice as Sense 2.1. Another huge issue is that the DHD can easily make a full day with moderate to heavy usage; my Raider's battery lasts 8 hours maximum, regardless of usage.

Yes I do. There was a decent development community before the dev wars and then they all went their separate ways leaving the Vivid to die. Some devs have their own sites but the reason I bought this phone was because of the hype behind it. First we had a locked bootloader, then s-off took months to achieve, then dev wars. I'll be MUCH more selective with what phone I will buy from now on as a result. Not buying right away and certainly not buying from ATT will be on my checklist from here on out. Homeslice and WC have done an excellent job keeping this device alive throughout the crisis. I love Sense but cannot justify buying HTC with all of the hoops you have to jump through to use the device the way you want to. Here's to hoping the next phone I buy will be friendlier.
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Got the phone, no I don't regret it mostly because of the LTE capability. At the time I was looking at the Raider, Atrix 2 and the Vivid. All things considered (like HTC/ATT's upgrade software once and forget you policy) I probably should have gone with the Atrix, but I was an HTC lover at the time (having had the original Tilt and Tilt 2).
Next phone however will not be an HTC. I don't like the HTC One XL (no SD storage) and being able to get the ability to flash a custom Rom is increasingly becoming a pain in the ass with HTC. Just my 2 cents.

Yeah I regret it even now. I've replaced both me and my wife's vivids with nexus 4s but we're still under contract for the things till next year. I wanted the one x, but got sick of waiting on an announcement for it so I was considering just a regular non lte gs2. A friend of mine said lte was awesome, so I looked at the skyrocket instead and it was $199, the vivid was $99 and had damn near identical specs so I went for it. Loved it initially but after about 2 or 3 months of terrible battery life I decided I was going to buy whatever nexus phone came out Christmas time.
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No I don't regret it.
I came from Garminfone where there's ZERO developer community to the Raider/Vivid. Whatever there is here is more than I had
LTE: I don't have a data plan anymore as of this morning. I did have unlimited LTE with Bell in Canada for 6 months, but did not use it enough to warrant $60/month for the data plan after the free 6th month. WiFi will have to suffice for the 2 years left in my contract.
The phone has been fun to play with, but feature wise, I've grown bored with it.

I don't regret getting this phone at all. There may have been phones at the time that had "better" hardware (the stock rom on the GS2 is super smooth) but the coders who work, or have worked, on the Vivid have done an absolutely amazing job.
Remember back when CM was just a pipe dream? Now it's functional (with a few kinks, but I'm confident the devs can figure that stuff out.)
I haven't tried many roms, but from what I've experienced they beat the stock rom by a nearly infinite amount.
HTC made a great phone with the Vivid. If you don't believe me, stop by xda in a few months and compare the current state of development with what you are witnessing. Eyes wide open, jaw dropped I'd imagine.

Let me share my experience that so far I have got with this phone.
My last phone was the HTCOX, and I believe the camera resolution was way more better than this one.
Unless I'm applying wrong settings, I don't see to get good pix. They are coming too pixelated.
What do you think?
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I don't regret getting the phone, it being my first android phone and all, I've loved using the phone. Sure there's not enough development going on for it but the developers that are actually doing things for this phone are doing great jobs. It is strongly built, the only body flaw is the bronzing of the volume keys and lock button. The hardware is still up to standard. All in all a decent phone
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I am very glad I got this phone. It has been solid, reliable and has done everything I've ever asked it to do. I was fortunate to fall in with WC early on as a vivid beta tester. I am currently running a beta ROM (might not be publicly released) from WC and it is incredible. Fast, stable and outstanding battery life.
I foresee this phone carrying me through for another two years at least.
This fall I will ditch my overpriced AT&T service plan and hook into either the T-Mo $30 plan or the Straight Talk $45 plan. The money I save will go toward a new unlocked phone down the road.

I really don't hate htc anymore. And that's why I regret that phone. Didn't look into the fine details, I seriously believed it to be HTCs flagship device on at&t. Nope, it was the budget friendly lte phone. It didn't make a big splash nor was it intended too, just a phone with a $99 price tag intended to sway holiday shoppers.
For every galaxy s that comes out, Samsung releases 200 crap models, and as for htc? The sensation was the flagship, the vivid was your Samsung Galaxy ace. Nuff said.
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That's exactly what happend to me. Best buy had this for for 0 dollars and on 3 year contract and plus and 100 gift card so I immediately bought it without much thought since it was my first android phone.
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The thing is that this was the flagship phone and was marketed as such. In SF there were billboards everywhere with this phone along with lte branding everywhere. It was being sold for 200 on contract for 3 weeks and because it didn't sell well they dropped the price to move more units. 3 months later the one X dropped and this phone faded into the sunset. I even wrote to HTC wondering why our phone was booted to the legacy section after 3 months and they gave me the runaround. The HTC M4 will likely release in another couple of months. And will be for a larger audience because of its smaller size. HTC never changed. They won't be wasting my time or getting my money any longer.
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I don't think it means much that it was on a billboard, I mean at&t is marketing the hell out of the HTC first right now, I wouldn't consider it a flagship by any means.
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Cor-master said:
I don't think it means much that it was on a billboard, I mean at&t is marketing the hell out of the HTC first right now, I wouldn't consider it a flagship by any means.
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It was all over the city and they had TV commercials all over the bay area for it as well. At the time, Verizon was the only carrier with an active LTE network and ATT needed this flagship phone, the first LTE phone, to get in the consumers hands. They handled the support for this phone poorly plain and simple.
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Yeah but wasn't the skyrocket released along side it? The lg nitro was right around the same time too. The nitro was the same price when I bought it but I wasn't sure I trusted LG. Go figure, now I'm using an LG, and love it.
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Yeah they both came out at about the same time. Looking forward to the next Nexus regardless though. LG has done well with their handsets
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Farewell Guys

Well i got the galaxy s4 yesterday so i will no longer be using the vivid. im gonna miss its horrible battery life, shoddy sense 3.6 ui, etc. but im gonna mis you guys. farewell.:crying:

XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Well i got the galaxy s4 yesterday so i will no longer be using the vivid. im gonna miss its horrible battery life, shoddy sense 3.6 ui, etc. but im gonna mis you guys. farewell.:crying:
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See ya around man, you'll be happier trust me, I really don't miss my vivid much at all!
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Cor-master said:
See ya around man, you'll be happier trust me, I really don't miss my vivid much at all!
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How is the Nexus 4 on AT&T? do you get HSPA? or is it strictly 2g/EDGE?

Yeah I get hspa+, usually 6-12mb, it's not bad at all. Just make sure they don't mess with your plan and put the apn in from your vivid, otherwise you'll get stuck on the regular 3G plan. At&t did that to my wife.
Actually it was a big mess. I got mine in January, and I needed a micro sim. I went to the store, and the manager ended up taking care of me, and she gave me a micro sim, didn't mess with my account, and I was on my way. Well when my wife got hers in march, same thing went in there for a micro sim, but got a regular employee this time. When we got back her data wouldn't work at all! So I checked the account, and for whatever reason the idiot deleted her data plan all together! So I call at&t and get it back but they put her on the regular 3G plan for smartphones and the Vivid apn wouldn't even connect! Finally I talked to an employee on live chat the next day and got them to put her back on the lte plan!
So make sure they don't tamper with your account! Either that or get a sim cutter and try it out!
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I've been thinking about getting either the Nexus 4 or the LG optimus G. Basically the same phone, I have another year on my contract but the Vivid is quickly dying out. After that I will probably jump to Tmobile as it will be cheaper than AT&T even with my corporate discount.

Yeah the nexus 4 was a no brainer for me, I was sick of my vivid, and I am under contract until march 2014, so it was the cheapest option. It's a nice phone especially for the price. But its not perfect either, I will warn you. Camera is a downgrade from the vivid, it doesn't suck, and in well lit rooms the camera is just as nice. But in low light, the vivid owns it. Also build quality doesn't suck but it's not built as nice as the vivid. It seems well built out of the box, but there are gaps between the screen and bezel that tend to get dust stuck in them and over time the back glass develops a slight creaking sound to it. Also the chrome around the outside edges gets scuffed, poor design choice imo, should of used a flat silver instead.
Figured I'd lay it to you straight. It's an excellent phone but it's not perfect. And make sure you get a case if you get one, back glass is very slick and the phone tends to make suicide dives on its own when you just sit it down. Happened to me twice, luckily, no damage.
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Cor-master said:
Yeah the nexus 4 was a no brainer for me, I was sick of my vivid, and I am under contract until march 2014, so it was the cheapest option. It's a nice phone especially for the price. But its not perfect either, I will warn you. Camera is a downgrade from the vivid, it doesn't suck, and in well lit rooms the camera is just as nice. But in low light, the vivid owns it. Also build quality doesn't suck but it's not built as nice as the vivid. It seems well built out of the box, but there are gaps between the screen and bezel that tend to get dust stuck in them and over time the back glass develops a slight creaking sound to it. Also the chrome around the outside edges gets scuffed, poor design choice imo, should of used a flat silver instead.
Figured I'd lay it to you straight. It's an excellent phone but it's not perfect. And make sure you get a case if you get one, back glass is very slick and the phone tends to make suicide dives on its own when you just sit it down. Happened to me twice, luckily, no damage.
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Thanks! I actually dropped my vivid yesterday from about waist high, luckily I always have a case on my phone. NO damage.

I know what you mean.
XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Well i got the galaxy s4 yesterday so i will no longer be using the vivid. im gonna miss its horrible battery life, shoddy sense 3.6 ui, etc. but im gonna mis you guys. farewell.:crying:
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When my wife's Galaxy 2 Skyrocket got its SECOND upgrade (originally Gingerbread, upgraded to ICS, then upgraded to Jellybean) and when HTC said that the Vivid would NOT get an upgrade to Jellybean, that was what made my mind up that this was the last HTC phone that I would own. I've had three, but I am done with HTC. That S4 looks sooooo good!

My dad and one of my friends have an Optimus G. Its a nice phone.
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When my wife's Galaxy 2 Skyrocket got its SECOND upgrade (originally Gingerbread, upgraded to ICS, then upgraded to Jellybean) and when HTC said that the Vivid would NOT get an upgrade to Jellybean, that was what made my mind up that this was the last HTC phone that I would own. I've had three, but I am done with HTC. That S4 looks sooooo good!
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I thought the same thing this is the last htc i will buy.

My Optimus G arrives Friday, looks like just in time as the forum is dying again (the 2nd time since I have had my Vivid.)

Yeah the phone is getting old and people are getting their early upgrades now. If cyanogenmod would of came last summer, development might still be going but now, too little too late.
Lesson learned for me, if it's not a popular device, don't upgrade to it. Yeah at first I was happy but a couple months in, the honeymoon was over and the bugs of sense 3.6 that were never address, terrible battery life, and no actual roms outside of modified stock roms had me plotting a plan to get a galaxy nexus... But by the time I had the money, the nexus 4 was out, and well that's a no brainer
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The HTC vivid is the best phone i have used.great camera.music player is good but could.have been better ,16gb internal storage.plus two or three more.plus memory card slot up 32gb.yeah the Samsung galaxy phones are good but for someone like me
I don't have the money to upgrade to a new phone nor do I have the credit to get a contract plan,I also have the HTC EVO 4g I use it to flash Rome and.listen to.music I do have a question I have asked this twice and no response, I want to flash Rom on the vivid,but will flashing Roms relock my carrier unlocked phone back to att,thanks

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The HTC vivid is the best phone i have used.great camera.music player is good but could.have been better ,16gb internal storage.plus two or three more.plus memory card slot up 32gb.yeah the Samsung galaxy phones are good but for someone like me
I don't have the money to upgrade to a new phone nor do I have the credit to get a contract plan,I also have the HTC EVO 4g I use it to flash Rome and.listen to.music I do have a question I have asked this twice and no response, I want to flash Rom on the vivid,but will flashing Roms relock my carrier unlocked phone back to att,thanks
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I believe it should stay unlocked

pspfreek3691 said:
The HTC vivid is the best phone i have used.great camera.music player is good but could.have been better ,16gb internal storage.plus two or three more.plus memory card slot up 32gb.yeah the Samsung galaxy phones are good but for someone like me
I don't have the money to upgrade to a new phone nor do I have the credit to get a contract plan,I also have the HTC EVO 4g I use it to flash Rome and.listen to.music I do have a question I have asked this twice and no response, I want to flash Rom on the vivid,but will flashing Roms relock my carrier unlocked phone back to att,thanks
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It will stay unlocked...
I unlocked mine and flash all the time
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Well it is sad to say this but I have officially retired my HTC Velocity 4G. I said before that this phone will be my last HTC but the HTC One was just to cool to ignore.
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thanks to all
Thank you all very much: as soon as get back home in the morning I may just do a Flash I do have one Rom downloaded for the vivid its. Alled Blitz
I can't remember who made it but from the pics it looks like a very nice rom

Crazy bad signal compared to S4 - bad phone?

So long story short, my roommate got my S4 and I got what was supposed to be his One. I was in love with the S4. Great LTE speeds, battery life, screen, etc.
Well now that I'm on the One, I'm finding a HUGE disparity in signal... Without a case, his signal is 10-12dB better than me consistently and his LTE speeds are double mine.
Is it par for the course that the One has a bad signal? I've flashed other radios (surprisingly even the international radios have 1700 band support even though the international models don't support that band) with marginal differences but I'm not impressed... And I've lost phone calls because of it.
Have any of you compared the signal side by side with another device and noticed such a large disparity? With my case on, I get no LTE signal at all. His S4 had a case on the entire time.
This whole thing has been a nightmare but I'm going to be really upset if I have to do a warranty exchange (and thus get a refurb) on a phone we've had since the 11th. :/

Well I have just decided to use WiFi at home and I turned off LTE... Not what I want to spend 579 dollars on but when I'm out of the house, LTE picks up. Sad though. For such a lauded device it certainly gets a terrible signal...
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Sounds like you got a bad radio chip. I have no trouble getting full LTE speeds, and neither do most people.

I was afraid you were going to say that. I'll call the store tomorrow and have him confirm. If he confirms that an S4 and One are about on par in signal I'm sending this One back under buyer's remorse and getting a new one in a month or so.
The the question becomes - can I even return a phone after using HTC Dev? I know how to restore everything but I wonder if I can do that. I've returned phones I did all kinds of things with before but I've never used HTC Dev
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I was afraid you were going to say that. I'll call the store tomorrow and have him confirm. If he confirms that an S4 and One are about on par in signal I'm sending this One back under buyer's remorse and getting a new one in a month or so.
The the question becomes - can I even return a phone after using HTC Dev? I know how to restore everything but I wonder if I can do that. I've returned phones I did all kinds of things with before but I've never used HTC Dev
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Who did you get it from? I can't speak to T-Mo or Sprint, but AT&T is very lenient about warranty exchanges. From what I've seen, as long as you're inside the one year, they don't seem to care if you unlocked.

I don't know how it is with international variants but here in the UK my One has much better signal than my S4 (I9505). At work I have terrible signal so it really shows up bad radios. If I use an iPhone 5 for example it constantly drops to NO SERVICE. The S4 is marginally better but the HTC One, whilst still displaying a low signal strength, is rock solid and never drops to EDGE and/or shows the dreaded circle with a line running through it like the S4.
I can only assume you have a faulty phone.

iElvis said:
Who did you get it from? I can't speak to T-Mo or Sprint, but AT&T is very lenient about warranty exchanges. From what I've seen, as long as you're inside the one year, they don't seem to care if you unlocked.
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I'm with T-Mobile and it would be a return. I just got the phone on the 11th and long story short, didn't start using it until yesterday. I am in the buyer's remorse period until the 25th or do you think I should just warranty exchange it?
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This really has not been my month... Figures I would get a bad phone. Lol
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EtherealRemnant said:
I'm with T-Mobile and it would be a return. I just got the phone on the 11th and long story short, didn't start using it until yesterday. I am in the buyer's remorse period until the 25th or do you think I should just warranty exchange it?
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I have no experience with T-Mo, so I can't say which would be better. But it seems like if it's defective, get an exchange. Make sure they give you a new one from the store stock, though.

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I have no experience with T-Mo, so I can't say which would be better. But it seems like if it's defective, get an exchange. Make sure they give you a new one from the store stock, though.
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They're going to overnight me a brand new in box S4 and we are going to send them the One back tomorrow and they're going to credit us 10 dollars for the shipping the defective device back. I have had to refurb every HTC device I've ever had in my sig in my list at least twice and I never wanted the One in the first place, I wanted the S4 and my roommate wanted the One - he hated it and its been an absolute nightmare ever since. Getting a broken phone out of the box and all the issues I've seen on this forum and the issues I've had already, its not worth getting another One.

Yeah bro my lte strong as ever even with two bars I get 20 + dl and ul that's a rarity like outskirts of town constant 4 or 3 bars anywhere I go in the city do you and your friend have the same provider ?
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ac3kill said:
Yeah bro my lte strong as ever even with two bars I get 20 + dl and ul that's a rarity like outskirts of town constant 4 or 3 bars anywhere I go in the city do you and your friend have the same provider ?
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Yes, we live in the same house and are on the same account actually.
I confirmed that its a bad radio. Now I need to figure out how to downgrade my firmware, return everything to stock, S-ON, etc so I can I return it. I'm a bit concerned about not being able to get it to stock HBOOT and off the engineering HBOOT :/

[Q] Honestly, is the Vivid a "good" phone?

So here is the deal... I have been a Verizon customer for years, and I am just sick and tired of them jerking me around and upping their rates, taking away unlimited data, taking away early upgrades, etc. So I am thinking of jumping ship and going to Net10. I have also been a big HTC fan for a long time, currently using the HTC Rezound which seems to be roughly a slightly improved CDMA/LTE version of the Vivid. I can get a new, sealed in the box, unlocked HTC Vivid for about $200 on eBay.
So where I am going with this, knowing HTC has had quality models and, well, lets just say questionable models, how is the Vivid? Is it solid and relatively problem free? easy to unlock, S-OFF, root, ROM, return to stock, etc. Has anyone used this on Net10/StraightTalk?
So basically I am just looking for people's opinion of the phone in general, from a heavy phone users perspective... My other alternative's at this time are the Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket which I can get new for about $210, or just suck it up and grab a Nexus 4 from Google, although the $350+tax and shipping for the 16GB model would hurt, a lot, right now.
Thoughts?

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So here is the deal... I have been a Verizon customer for years, and I am just sick and tired of them jerking me around and upping their rates, taking away unlimited data, taking away early upgrades, etc. So I am thinking of jumping ship and going to Net10. I have also been a big HTC fan for a long time, currently using the HTC Rezound which seems to be roughly a slightly improved CDMA/LTE version of the Vivid. I can get a new, sealed in the box, unlocked HTC Vivid for about $200 on eBay.
So where I am going with this, knowing HTC has had quality models and, well, lets just say questionable models, how is the Vivid? Is it solid and relatively problem free? easy to unlock, S-OFF, root, ROM, return to stock, etc. Has anyone used this on Net10/StraightTalk?
So basically I am just looking for people's opinion of the phone in general, from a heavy phone users perspective... My other alternative's at this time are the Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket which I can get new for about $210, or just suck it up and grab a Nexus 4 from Google, although the $350+tax and shipping for the 16GB model would hurt, a lot, right now.
Thoughts?
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Go with the GS2 SkyRocket

TheROMGuy said:
Go with the GS2 SkyRocket
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Yeah, after a bunch of research and poking around the forums, that's what I did... Should have it by the end of the week.

acejavelin said:
Yeah, after a bunch of research and poking around the forums, that's what I did... Should have it by the end of the week.
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Its not that its a bad phone because its not its actually really good but its just not the easiest to work with.

I would have gone with the nexus 4 as I am sick of htc's BS but to each his own.

TheROMGuy said:
Its not that its a bad phone because its not its actually really good but its just not the easiest to work with.
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Yeah, I am very familiar with the uniqueness of HTC products... I've owned more than one (Inc2, Aria, Rezound) and once you figure it out they are all really similar. I chose the SGS2 Skyrocket not because the Vivid was bad, but for me the SGS2 was just a better choice this time, same money, slight faster, better battery life, lighter, thinner, and more developer support. I don't think I would have been unhappy with the Vivid, just think I will be happier with the Sammy.
Thanks for responding.
Sent from my Infected Rezound

acejavelin said:
So here is the deal... I have been a Verizon customer for years, and I am just sick and tired of them jerking me around and upping their rates, taking away unlimited data, taking away early upgrades, etc. So I am thinking of jumping ship and going to Net10. I have also been a big HTC fan for a long time, currently using the HTC Rezound which seems to be roughly a slightly improved CDMA/LTE version of the Vivid. I can get a new, sealed in the box, unlocked HTC Vivid for about $200 on eBay.
So where I am going with this, knowing HTC has had quality models and, well, lets just say questionable models, how is the Vivid? Is it solid and relatively problem free? easy to unlock, S-OFF, root, ROM, return to stock, etc. Has anyone used this on Net10/StraightTalk?
So basically I am just looking for people's opinion of the phone in general, from a heavy phone users perspective... My other alternative's at this time are the Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket which I can get new for about $210, or just suck it up and grab a Nexus 4 from Google, although the $350+tax and shipping for the 16GB model would hurt, a lot, right now.
Thoughts?
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TBH its a ok phone I like mine but its a pain to work with I just this past week got it able to do a custom rom(im new to flashing). so all in all i would say get something else.

swordmastr54 said:
TBH its a ok phone I like mine but its a pain to work with I just this past week got it able to do a custom rom(im new to flashing). so all in all i would say get something else.
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Little late there yo xP