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Thinking about purchasing a Vivid, need your opinion

Hey guys, long time android owner (since the G1,) and my previous phone was the OG Atrix (may he rest in piece, part of the screen stopped working, I think I just fried it from too many flashes haha), I am thinking of getting a Vivid as my next phone, and I was wondering if there is anything I should know about it? How does Qualcomm's processor stack up to the Tegra 2? I am assuming the camera is better (Vivid has a higher megapixel camera), and how easy is the rootability of this phone and how is ROM development coming along?? I have heard that the battery is kind of on the bad side, but there are ways around that. Anyway, if you guys could pitch in your 2 cents I'd appreciate that!

Well...there isn't much Rom development to be honest...but what few devs are left are making incredible roms! So if your a flashaholic...might not be the device for you...but if you just like a good stable Rom then this phone might suit you
Rooting isn't to hard, it can be done with the vivid tool kit which is stickies in the dev section...it walks you through the process (unlock bootloader, flash recovery, flash root package or Rom), you also have the option to s-off or leave it s-on...if your s-off everything can be flashed from recovery...if your s-on everything except radios and kernels can be flashed through recovery...if your s on you have to flash kernels using a computer, command prompt and USB cable...(fastboot flash boot boot.img)
Battery is alright depending on Rom/kernel...on elegancia blitz with stockish kernel this is ky battery life:
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That's with brightness at auto and WiFi and data on all day
Calling it a day...with 30% left after 15 hours and 50 minutes...not bad
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i would spend the 100$ and get a One X vivid it great but bad battery life as seen above (if you want to go out at night buy an extra battery) im going to buy an extra battery because i have resorted to staying on ginger bread to maintain the 24 hours of battery that i need in a phone (ovbiously light usage) to put it in perspective 30 min of watching ted talks at full brightness drained my battery 40% today. (mind you on ginger bread the phone uses basically 0 battery when the screen is off) also 3g talk time is only like 5 hours so talking on the phone kills battery life

I actually came from an atrix as well. Battery hasn't been too big of an issue but its only been with light use but heavy tethering
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Right now, it would probably be better to fork out $80/$100 for the One X(ATM Amazon has it for $79.99). The Vivid isn't bad, but development is somewhat slow over here and the One X is technically a better phone with more active development. That's just my two cents, though.

altanimi said:
Right now, it would probably be better to fork out $80/$100 for the One X(ATM Amazon has it for $79.99). The Vivid isn't bad, but development is somewhat slow over here and the One X is technically a better phone with more active development. That's just my two cents, though.
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Unless, of course, you want a removable battery and a place to put an SD-Card. The One X doesn't have that (iPhone clone). The Vivid is a good, solid phone for my purposes. Battery life is OK, I get maybe a day and a half usually with light use. Comes with Gingerbread, but there is an Over-The-Air upgrade that should pop up almost as soon as you activate. The on-screen keyboard has swyping capability, I have been trying it out and like it just as much as official Swype.
Probably a good idea to browse this forum, lots of good information here.

I like mine but wouldn't have gotten it if I had to do it again. Sense 3.6 ruins the ics experience and battery life is in between bad and terrible. Developers are struggling with aosp roms due to ril issues imposed by att, and you nearly have to void your warranty to put custom roms on. It's a great phone if you just leave it on stock and can deal with Sense 3.6. It's fast and has an awesome camera, but you still have to deal with the battery life and htc never made an official extended battery which imo seems odd as they usually do. There are third party extended batteries but good luck finding a case. And finally, I think it's one and done when it comes to android updates.
If you want a good every day phone and can deal with the poor battery life than go for it. If you want a phone with good development keep looking as it's simply not a developers phone.
I don't regret the purchase and I still like it but I wouldn't do it again if that makes sense (no pun intended lol). Personally if you want a carrier phone and don't feel like paying big bucks for a GS3 or One X, or dealing with the BS that comes with either one, Get a regular Galaxy S2, otherwise buy a Galaxy Nexus. That's my personal reccomendation, others may disagree, but I was in the market for a GS2, non lte, when a friend of mine said LTE was worth it, so with the skyrocket being $200 at the time, I went for the Vivid. IMO LTE is just unnecessary, HSPA+ is plenty fast, and LTE drains the battery too much, and with a 2-3 gig cap, what's the point of 50mb/s download speed anyway?
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just wanted to chime in, as I was considering buying a Raider used. I too am coming from an Atrix 4G, and the wait for ICS with proper Tegra 2 drivers has been annoying.
Here's what I know. Almost all of HTC's 2010/2011 phones (Sensation, Desire HD and Incredible S) have been plagued with bad battery life. I can attest to that as I had the Desire HD and incredible S and no amount of ROM, radio and kernel flashing to get the battery life to be significantly better than what it was. I've considered the Sensation, but I've heard bad things about battery life too.
I can honestly say that the Atrix has considerably better life, partially because of it's bigger battery (1930 mAH) and that it has a smaller, lower quality screen. HTC's battery life did not hold a candle to it at all. Keep that in mind. You might need an extended battery or something to match the performance.

This phone has a ridiculously small battery for such a large phone with an lte modem. 1650mah...and no extended option which I don't get. Htc usually is pretty good about extended battery options but they forgot about the vivid
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I got Vivid and One X. Actually I don't like one X for some reasons:
-Internal Memory: 32GB, but you only have 1.7GB for Apps compare to 3.7GB Vivid.
-The Storage on One X about 24GB, but the copy speed is slow ~8-10MB/s. My Vivid with class 10 sdcard is about 14-18Mb/s
-The menu button on One X was replaced by the Recent apps button. For what, show off Sense 4.0 functions? There is a way to fix it, and AT&T is making a patch for this.
-One X has a bigger and nice screen but light weight, I dropped it about 4-5 times because of the weight. When I'm using Vivid, It feel solid and tough in my hand.
I would stick with Vivid for a long time , the design is very good unlike other HTC phones.

The Most Honest and Unbiased Review of the Nexus 4

I've had a chance to play around with the Nexus 4 for about a week now and I'm ready to give my full review on it.
Display:
The Nexus 4 has one of, if not the most, beautiful displays on any device I have every used. I know the word "retina" is thrown around a lot, but seriously this display is absolutely gorgeous, especially on full brightness. The viewing angles are the highest of any device i have ever used. Text is crisp on any app you use and I have still not seen any pixels. I have read that the One X's display is better, but since I have never used it, I cannot say if it is or not. But anyway, this screen is so bright and vivid and the colors really do pop. I wish the navigation bar buttons did not take up so much room or if the entire bezel was used for the screen, because, in my opinion, they take up too much space.
Design:
I believe this phone has the best design out of any phone in existence, The front is very flush and when the screen is off, you cannot even tell where it ends and where the screen begins. The rubber like band around the phone makes it very grippy and does not slip out of the hand. The back is absolutely gorgeous with the flush glass and the pixelated design really is beautiful. It is one of those things you have to see in person. Although there is a plastic banding in front of the rubber banding that is prone to nicks and scratches, like the T-Mobile Galaxy S II I had previously. There are reports of peoples phones getting very hot, the screen turning yellow, some rattlings from the camera housing, and some other problems with the hardware. This is expected for first round devices. My phones only problem is I too hear the rattling if I shake my phone, but I only hear it if I try to hear it. Another problem is the phone SLIDES OFF OF EVERYTHING. Seriously I bet my of the people that break this thing will be because it slid off of something. A case prevents this though.
Performance:
Stock Android 4.2 Jelly Bean has one of the smoothest UI's of any device. It even tops my iPad 3. There is absolutely no lag in the OS whatsoever. This is because "Project Butter." When you touch the screen, the CPU gets fired up and is ready to go instantly. You can see this if you go into SetCpu and watch how the amount of CPU speed increases the exact moment you tap the screen. All of the stock apps run perfectly. (Except theres no December in the Peoples app ) The app switcher is just amazing and fast. It is so much better than any other app switcher available and it is great to have a dedicated button for it. The Nexus 4 is great at running graphics and performance intensive games like dead trigger, cod zombies, shadow gun, mini motor racing etc. all of these games have no lag whatsoever, because of the 1.5ghz quad core processor and 2 gigs of ram this thing is packing. Also, Google Now is amazing and completely integrated into your life. You will fall in love with all of its features like weather, traffic updates, sports, flights, translations, appointments, and regular search. But all of this amazing performance and features come at a price...
Battery Life...
I wish I could say this 2100mAh battery keeps this thing alive all day but alas, it does not. If you are a heavy user, which I am guessing most XDA users are, it will not last you throughout the day. On low brightness, sync off, and location services off, I find myself having to fully charge it again before the day is over. Now if you are a moderate user, you will not experience this as much. But let me give you an example of what happened today: I was at a restaurant with family for Thanksgiving. I left the house at 5:50 PM with 95% battery. At dinner I used the phone for a little over an hour and a half just browsing the web like looking at laptops on tiger direct, reading gizmodo, endgadget, cracked, etc, and when I got home at around 8:30 I had 46% battery left. I s**t you not. So heavy users beware. I hate using cases, especially for a phone this beautiful, but I might have to find a battery case to get myself through the day.
Storage:
This phone not having an SD Card slot like most android phones is a real killer, especially because it only has 8gb and 16gb. I unfortunately got the 8gb. I knew I was not gonna get the full 8gb, on my iPod touch 8gb I had roughly 7gb of usable space, but on the Nexus 4 you get barely over 5gb of usable space, and that just sucks for most people. Using the cloud to save pictures and music does help, but you can not get as many high graphics games because of this low storage. Which sucks because the Nexus 4 is great when playing high performance games. Again, I would highly recommend getting the 16gb. It is only $50 more. Im most likely gonna sell my Nexus for as much as I can and pay the difference for the 16gb when more are in stock. Hopefully Google does what they did with the Nexus 7 and makes the 16gb the same price as the 8gb and makes a 32gb model.
Camera:
This phone has a great camera. When you are outside, it takes some of the best pictures for a phone. Even the front camera does. And little things like how you tap the screen to access the many camera settings and the new photospehre, you will just fall in love with them. All of my photosphere pictures stitched perfectly. This device is not very good in low light situations, though. This is helped with the devices on board flash though. You can also easily edit your photos through the stock gallery app, and there are plenty of editing options for all of you instagrammers out there. They are mostly all very nice and work well. There is one problem I did have with the camera though. The HDR setting did take better photos, but I could rarely get them to focus, even when I focused manually. Maybe a software problem? Hopefully this is fixed in future updates.
Mobile Stuff/Miscellaneous:
Call quality on this phone is great and I have not got any dropped calls or any complaints from people on the other end. Text messages and picture messages send quickly. The new keyboard with its swype like feature is very good and accurate. I get great speeds on HSPA+. I am in Chicago and can get 25mbps download and 5mbps upload, which is great. You can also get it to connect to LTE if your network uses band 4 for it, like T-Mobile's will later this year, which is great for us Nexus 4 users on T-Mobile. The voice to text is absolutely amazing and almost always gets what you say. I have used Siri and voice dictation on iOS and it just does not even compare. I love how it types what you say as you say it.
Conclusion :
The Nexus 4 right now, in my opinion, is the best android phone out there. And maybe the best phone overall. It is a great phone at a great starting price. This thing has an amazing screen and has no lag in whatever you are doing. Really the only thing that kills it is the storage. If this had a micro SD slot is would just be so much better than it already is. The camera is great when outdoors and when you have sufficient light, flash helps a lot in low light, and the many camera and gallery features are great. The battery life is sub par, but when you're at home or work, you can almost always give it a quick charge when you need it, but you can not just add more storage when you need it. (Except if you use OTG devices.) I would highly recommend this phone to anyone out there looking for a great device. It is not complicated at all and it very noob friendly.
If you have any questions or want me to add anything please just comment or PM me and I will try to help as much as I can! I will add more to this thread if I have more to say later on.

great review!

tuffballa said:
great review!
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Thanks!

Yeah pretty good review. I find battery life to be very good on the N4 believe it or not. I reach almost 5 hours on screen time with 15 hours off charge. Thats with heavy use. My brightness is on auto, i browse the web switching from cellular to wifi depending on where im at, sync is off and i turn it on during the day to check my emails, stuff like that. Do a lot of tapatalk, few calls, lots of texting and little youtubing. I use it normally, not to fool myself and try to reach 2 days just to be satisfied. Oh yeah lol, since last night im using a custom kernel.

Great, unbiased review! This review made me want the Nexus 4 even more! Hopefully I can get one soon. :fingers-crossed:

barondebxl said:
Yeah pretty good review. I find battery life to be very good on the N4 believe it or not. I reach almost 5 hours on screen time with 15 hours off charge. Thats with heavy use. My brightness is on auto, i browse the web switching from cellular to wifi depending on where im at, sync is off and i turn it on during the day to check my emails, stuff like that. Do a lot of tapatalk, few calls, lots of texting and little youtubing. I use it normally, not to fool myself and try to reach 2 days just to be satisfied. Oh yeah lol, since last night im using a custom kernel.
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Please share with us the custom kernel you are using. Thx.
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Out with the family for thanksgiving for 2ish hours and using the phone for 1 and a half of those... The true spirit of thanksgiving!
Nice review though
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llustig said:
Please share with us the custom kernel you are using. Thx.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34480134
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cyberkid2002 said:
Out with the family for thanksgiving for 2ish hours and using the phone for 1 and a half of those... The true spirit of thanksgiving!
Nice review though
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Yeah I knew that was gonna look bad but I had to say it. Anyway my family can be dull at times
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barondebxl said:
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That's impressive :good:

ctowne said:
That's impressive :good:
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I saw you post it before which is great, but I cannot go through the day with service sync off. To me that just defeats the whole point of the phone. Perhaps with an incremental update battery life will get better. Seems maybe too much stuff is syncing in the background and is keeping the CPU from sleeping. 5 hours is good though... I'd like more but that's really all I need.

ctowne said:
That's impressive :good:
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And I was using it heavy, like there was no tomorrow
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Jayrod1980 said:
I saw you post it before which is great, but I cannot go through the day with service sync off. To me that just defeats the whole point of the phone. Perhaps with an incremental update battery life will get better. Seems maybe too much stuff is syncing in the background and is keeping the CPU from sleeping. 5 hours is good though... I'd like more but that's really all I need.
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I turn on sync every hour or so. Just don't need it on all the time unless I'm expecting an important email or something. But people should use their phones as they normally do, not just to reach a certain amount of screen time cause that's just ridiculous. So yeah, if you need sync on then just leave it on, personally I don't need it on all the time.
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Why isn't your phone awake when the screen is on? I can't really remember but I think that on every Android i've had, when the screen is on, the phone is Awake

Picked up my N4 today and have been getting to grips with it, initial impressions are. It's fast though have had slow down. Gets very hot during anything using GPS or when playing games. Camera is average and when using the flash images are washed out. It's a bit early to say much about the battery life but after 1hr38mins, its down to 73%. build quality seems good. I thought it would be a bigger leap up from my old phone but am a little disappointed currently. I will continue but if it doesn't impress further it will go back. Do love jelly bean!
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raul90 said:
Why isn't your phone awake when the screen is on? I can't really remember but I think that on every Android i've had, when the screen is on, the phone is Awake
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Good question, I have no clue. I just checked my current stats as I'm writing this comment, I'm 9 hours off charge with 2h 15 min on screen time and no awake time
I checked my battery stats when I had the note 2 and the line is all blue when the screen is on. I don't know....
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you used your phone for an hour and a half at family thanksgiving dinner??

I think I regret buying the Nexus 4

I had the HTC One S before, but wanted the Google Nexus experience (vanilla Android, latest updates (and on this phone compared to the One S quad core, 2GB RAM, etc..) and the price was too good to pass up. I mean, the value for money with this phone is amazing, I don't think I have ever seen, or will ever see better, but...
Coming from the One S, it seems like a huge step down. The phone seems a lot bigger in comparison (mainly width and especially depth), yet when taking into consideration the on screen back/home buttons, the screen is pretty much the same size, but a little wider (maybe 5mm)
Also, when doing a Quadrant test, the One S looks much smoother on the video parts, and the overall score is miles better (score of 6452 vs 4798) on everything
One S v Nexus 4
CPU: 9211 v 10402
RAM: 12383 v 7020
I/O: 7408 v 4149
2D: 1014 v 247
3D: 2245 v 2173
The One S also has HTC Sense which I like (but can live without)
Maybe I will get used to this phone, or just appreciate it more when the next update comes out, but in the mean time I don't really see a huge improvement in speed/responsiveness or the screen over the One S
I can imagine it being a huge improvement over plenty of other phones however, but I think the One S is unbelievably underrated and actually more powerful than I thought it was before. I feel like the Nexus 4 is a downgrade for me right now. I understand the Nexus is thicker because of the wireless charging plate? Well, this is something I would give up for a slimmer phone, especially considering the phone doesn't come with a wireless charging unit.
I don't wanna sound like I'm just bashing the phone, is there anything I should try out on the Nexus 4 that I would be missing on other phones (already tried Photosphere which is great btw)

There is already a nexus 4 vs any other phone thread present as a sticky in which this should have been posted. Didn't need a whole new thread dedicated to this
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Honestly, noone cares...

I think I regret reading your thread

ingenious247 said:
I think I regret reading your thread
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Awe man you beat me to it:good:

Eh, if anything, I'm sure you could probably trade back for a One S.
Both are great phones, but at least you can say you gave the Nexus 4 a try.

I don't get why people care so much about the quadrant score. Nexus 4 runs very smooth; no lag at all. Does it makes you feel special when u see a higher number? Most of the stuff OP mentioned could been avoided if he/she done a little research before purchasing N4. It all comes down each user likeness. Now days just Google any phone vs any phone and you will see a very great comparison of every spec.
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badboy47 said:
I don't get why people care so much about the quadrant score. Nexus 4 runs very smooth; no lag at all. Does it makes you feel special when u see a higher number? Most of the stuff OP mentioned could been avoided if he/she done a little research before purchasing N4. It all comes down each user likeness. Now days just Google any phone vs any phone and you will see a very great comparison of every spec.
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This. Quadrant is a random number generator at best.

naripsta said:
Eh, if anything, I'm sure you could probably trade back for a One S.
Both are great phones, but at least you can say you gave the Nexus 4 a try.
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I like the Nexus 4, but I really like the One S too
In fact one thing I just noticed (found in another Google search) is if you put them side by side on a table they're the same depth (of course the One S is slimmer in the middle)
Maybe I need to get used to the feel of it...
I'm gonna use the Nexus 4 for one full week instead of the One S and see how it goes
Anything you recommend me trying out on the N4?
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I don't get why people care so much about the quadrant score. Nexus 4 runs very smooth; no lag at all. Does it makes you feel special when u see a higher number? Most of the stuff OP mentioned could been avoided if he/she done a little research before purchasing N4. It all comes down each user likeness. Now days just Google any phone vs any phone and you will see a very great comparison of every spec.
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Nah I don't care about the Quadrant score, but the scores just really surprised me. I think the RAM comes down to LPDDR2 (low power DDR2 instead of DDR2) and I don't know about the I/O (thought it was all flash storage)
The GPU results surprised me though (the video looks smoother) as I thought the N4 had a dedicated GPU chip?
One of the problems I think is everybody compares phones to the One X, nobody has really done any great One S v Nexus 4 comparisons

The nexus 4 runs fast, is a great phone to use, has sufficient battery life for me, and cost half of the HTC phone you mentioned.
I really don't see the point in running benchmarks all day and not worrying about real usage and real cost. If you want to be a benchmark jockey you will always be running after the latest and greatest phone and lusting after every new phone ever 2 months.
The nexus 4 is a great phone and a solid purchase. If you regret buying it, sell it and get something else. But if your nexus 4 isn't defective in some way realize that the problem is with you and your inability to be happy with anything, and not with the phone that is a great performer and great value. I can already see that you're the kind of guy who will never be happy with anything, as you owned an HTC One S and then bought a phone that came out 6 months later. You won't be happy with anything as long as you see something shinier. You are the perfect customer.

Quadrant gets weird scores on Nexus 4, no one really 100% sure why.
Try Antutu, with a bionic optimised rom (most roms have this now) you get 21000+ scores; Antutu had to be updated when Nexus 4 (with 4.2.1) came out because of weird low scores, quadrant was never updated.
Also get your full screen by removing the nav bar and using something else like pie controls from LMT.
edit.. also '3dmark' test will show you the adreno320 in the nexus4 blowing everything else away.

You're incredibly stupid to base your phone choice over some benchmarks.

meangreenie said:
Quadrant gets weird scores on Nexus 4, no one really 100% sure why.
Try Antutu, with a bionic optimised rom (most roms have this now) you get 21000+ scores; Antutu had to be updated when Nexus 4 (with 4.2.1) came out because of weird low scores, quadrant was never updated.
Also get your full screen by removing the nav bar and using something else like pie controls from LMT.
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Yeah, I have seen some people posting Quadrant scores of like 7500+ on the Nexus 4
I'm still running stock everything (unrooted) - maybe I need to just root it and try some different ROMs, etc..
Pie Control looks sweet too, will check it out

bsaidmalta said:
You're incredibly stupid to base your phone choice over some benchmarks.
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leave it out

Quadrant doesnt like 4.2. Antutu and 3Dmark are better guages of performance.

LooieENG said:
Anything you recommend me trying out on the N4?
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Hmm, not sure really. The Nexus 4 is pretty much that, a Nexus device with pure Android. I can see why it may (not saying that it does for you) be boring or not as flashy. But there's not much to try out for the Nexus 4. Everything is pretty basic and minimalistic, and that's why some go for the Nexus I suppose.
With the N4, you get a decent device that can run with the best of them. If you're into flashing ROMs, pretty much almost every ROM posted here will work with very very minimal bugs, if any bugs at that. Although the One S isn't a bad device at all, so it's really up to you. :good:

My Nexus 4 absolutely fly's.. it speeds through everything.
It's all well and good having a number on a screen but I owned a HTC ONE briefly and many apps on that lagged yet run fine on my Nexus 4?

Oh great another one of these threads. IB4L
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Can you please give your phone to me? I will pay you 50 $ because its so not good and you can go back to your wonderfull htc one s... :banghead:
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LooieENG said:
Yeah, I have seen some people posting Quadrant scores of like 7500+ on the Nexus 4
I'm still running stock everything (unrooted) - maybe I need to just root it and try some different ROMs, etc..
Pie Control looks sweet too, will check it out
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yea, if you are running your device at 1.8ghz+ and have other things optimized(custom rom/custom kernel), itll score high. at stock speeds and the stock rom/kernel it will never get close.
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battery life discussion

Hi guys, if you use nexus 4, I think you will be probably disappointed by the battery life of nexus 4. Things seems to changed this year.
Here's what Google says about nexus 5's battery life
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It seems pretty good compare with nexus 4, based on the way how Google test the device and the result.
I can't wait to receive my new nexus 5 :laugh:
How you guys think? Are you satisfy with the battery life?
update:
according http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/ said, the nexus 5 maudio playback can up to 60 hrs, witch is really incredible!!!

did you notice by any chance that battery test has been don on airplane/no sim with wifi on?
Any cellural reception has significant impact on battery life therefore it is most likley goi9ng to be the same or worse due to size of the screen vs battery capacity

MattSkeet said:
did you notice by any chance that battery test has been don on airplane/no sim with wifi on?
Any cellural reception has significant impact on battery life therefore it is most likley goi9ng to be the same or worse due to size of the screen vs battery capacity
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Yes I do notice, but for the LTE internet browsing 7 hrs are pretty awesome, and they are using the default settings with wifi on

jasonlu1992 said:
Hi guys, if you use nexus 4, I think you will be probably disappointed by the battery life of nexus 4. Things seems to changed this year.
Here's what Google says about nexus 5's battery life
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It seems pretty good compare with nexus 4, based on the way how Google test the device and the result.
I can't wait to receive my new nexus 5 :laugh:
How you guys think? Are you satisfy with the battery life?
update:
according http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/ said, the nexus 5 maudio playback can up to 60 hrs, witch is really incredible!!!
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audio playback

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Damn.... After going from bad to worse in my last devices (from SGS, to SGS2, to Gnex), it looks like I'm finally gonna be satisfied with the battery life of my phone.

Molitro said:
Damn.... After going from bad to worse in my last devices (from SGS, to SGS2, to Gnex), it looks like I'm finally gonna be satisfied with the battery life of my phone.
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The same here. the specs even look better than iphone, lol

I think it might have something to do with the optimized OS. The phone can run the OS with a minimum of 512mb of the RAM. I was pretty disappointed with the Nexus 4 battery life but it was better than the Galaxy Nexus for sure.
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Anyone know if the Nexus 5 also has G-RAM that's in the LG G2? supposedly helps improve battery life of display by about 20% if it's displaying static pages.

Hey guys, just joining the discussion for the upcoming news about the battery from all of you.
Personally, I am going to wait for a while until the typical problems of a "newborn phone" get solved.... IF THERE IS FOUND ANY, which I hope not. :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

I hope the battery life isn't too bad. I decided to skip getting the LG G2 and instead ordered the N5.

How do you think the battery life compares to the GS4?
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Let's hope
Battery life shouldn't be that bad at all i suppose. From years now we are used to charge our phones one per day at least...this won't change for the n5. That said, i think this is a big failure of modern smartphones. Lg is tring to make a change, and it's a point to his favour i think.

Alfonso87 said:
Battery life shouldn't be that bad at all i suppose. From years now we are used to charge our phones one per day at least...this won't change for the n5. That said, i think this is a big failure of modern smartphones. Lg is tring to make a change, and it's a point to his favour i think.
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Failure of a smartphone? What makes you say that? The software that is debuting with the phone is a huge push forward in mobile communications, that's at least a little win.

The thing that will probably greatly help the N5's battery life is that it's the Snapdragon 800... which has the same "bonus core" that the G2, Moto X, and other devices have that allows very little battery usage while the phone is asleep, while still being able to do stuff like play music.

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Failure of a smartphone? What makes you say that? The software that is debuting with the phone is a huge push forward in mobile communications, that's at least a little win.
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You've misread him.
He was saying that the battery life is a failing of all current smartphones. Not that the N5 is a failure of a phone

Dan1909 said:
You've misread him.
He was saying that the battery life is a failing of all current smartphones. Not that the N5 is a failure of a phone
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whoops! My derp there. In that case yea, I'll agree. Google should have but in a bigger battery, but alas I think they're really trying to stick with the philosophy of it being a developer's phone and less of a general consumer's phone.
That said the battery thing is the only thing stopping me from placing my order this very second...

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Failure of a smartphone? What makes you say that? The software that is debuting with the phone is a huge push forward in mobile communications, that's at least a little win.
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I mean a failure of a generation of phones. Before the advent of smartphones the recharge of a phone came, how much a week? Three times? Even twice on some phones. That said, we had a great progression on software and hardware, with a clear loss in term of duration per single charge.
The advancement in hardware and software were not matched by the advancement in battery tecnology.
Someone said that you can build the best car at all, but you will need good wheels to make it run faster..Or in our case, to make it "run" xD

Got to admit, I'm a little dissapointed they didn't throw a USB 3.0 port on this beast for multi-charge bonuses :/

drew_grant said:
I think it might have something to do with the optimized OS. The phone can run the OS with a minimum of 512mb of the RAM. I was pretty disappointed with the Nexus 4 battery life but it was better than the Galaxy Nexus for sure.
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Amazing Google designed 4.4 to run on devices with as low as 512mb of Ram but they are not updating the Galaxy Nexus to 4.4.

[email protected] said:
Amazing Google designed 4.4 to run on devices with as low as 512mb of Ram but they are not updating the Galaxy Nexus to 4.4.
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It's not because of the RAM, it's because of the processor. The manufacturer stopped supporting it.

Overall love

Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the HTC 10, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the HTC 10 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Nice
nice.

I wouldn't mind if it were a tad larger (I loved the One max and my Moto X Pure) but I do consider this phone to be near perfection.

Trooper Thorn said:
I wouldn't mind if it were a tad larger (I loved the One max and my Moto X Pure) but I do consider this phone to be near perfection.
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I don't know how to explain it, I don't necessarily want it to be larger per se, but I maybe they way HTC designed the phone around the screen. My Nextbit Robin is said to have a 5.2" screen as well, but it's easier to type on my Nextbit Robin than my HTC 10. I think I like the look of the HTC 10 curved/chamfered edges, but I feel like the curviness of the phone makes it harder to type. I don't know if that makes sense, but yeah... Something about it makes it harder or not feel as great in hand to type and what not.
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I think overall I love the HTC 10 though. I love the HTC Boom Sound and Dolby Audio, USB-C, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 (though I see many phones with this technology get and claim 0-50% in 30 minutes than 0-80% in 35 minutes like Qualcomm originally promised, which honestly is slower than Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 which I think claimed 0-60% in 30 minutes), the camera, clean and simple user-experience, micro sd card slot (w/ Adoptable storage), and Wi-Fi calling directly out-the-box.

PryvateiDz said:
I don't know how to explain it, I don't necessarily want it to be larger per se, but I maybe they way HTC designed the phone around the screen. My Nextbit Robin is said to have a 5.2" screen as well, but it's easier to type on my Nextbit Robin than my HTC 10. I think I like the look of the HTC 10 curved/chamfered edges, but I feel like the curviness of the phone makes it harder to type. I don't know if that makes sense, but yeah... Something about it makes it harder or not feel as great in hand to type and what not.
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I think overall I love the HTC 10 though. I love the HTC Boom Sound and Dolby Audio, USB-C, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 (though I see many phones with this technology get and claim 0-50% in 30 minutes than 0-80% in 35 minutes like Qualcomm originally promised, which honestly is slower than Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 which I think claimed 0-60% in 30 minutes), the camera, clean and simple user-experience, micro sd card slot (w/ Adoptable storage), and Wi-Fi calling directly out-the-box.
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I find that my 10 charges faster than my QC 2.0 phones with a smaller battery. Have you tried comparing yourself?
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Trooper Thorn said:
I wouldn't mind if it were a tad larger (I loved the One max and my Moto X Pure) but I do consider this phone to be near perfection.
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I find that my 10 charges faster than my QC 2.0 phones with a smaller battery. Have you tried comparing yourself?
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Yes, and no. I charge my Nextbit Robin & HTC 10 everyday, but haven't necessarily paid attention to which one is faster. But from what I can gather, it's not any faster. But I'd have to test it out.
However, I have paid attention to the speeds from 0% on up, and the HTC 10 does 0-30% in 35 minutes. Though that is what HTC claimed, I was looking forward to Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 and Qualcomm's claim of 0-80% in 35 minutes. So to me, it just defeated the whole purpose. @richii0207

I am extremely happy with the phone. Got it June 30th and still learning. I have been able to get some great pictures and videos of my new puppy. A GSD/Husky. I use it almost every day for texting. Didn't do much before, but reasons did not present themselves. Now it is mostly with my dog walking partners. I am totally amazed at how long the battery lasts -and- how quick it charges. This is only my 2nd Smartphone so all I have to compare it to is my almost 5 yr old ReZound.

HTC 10? More like HTC 10/10)

PryvateiDz said:
Yes, and no. I charge my Nextbit Robin & HTC 10 everyday, but haven't necessarily paid attention to which one is faster. But from what I can gather, it's not any faster. But I'd have to test it out.
However, I have paid attention to the speeds from 0% on up, and the HTC 10 does 0-30% in 35 minutes. Though that is what HTC claimed, I was looking forward to Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 and Qualcomm's claim of 0-80% in 35 minutes. So to me, it just defeated the whole purpose. @richii0207
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Qualcomm never said that the 10 charged that fast, or any phone in particular for that matter. As you can imagine, a phone with 3000mah charges significantly faster than a phone with 5000 mah and a phone that is streaming while charging will charge slower than an idle phone. As Qualcomm and HTCs word for the 10, it charges up to 50% in just 30 minutes.
Here is the source: www.htc.com
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Best HTC device ever

just switched from iphone to htc!

In my opinion the HTC 10 is one of the best phone HTC has produced since the One M7, i skipped the One M9, which was terrible, im using HTC phones since the G1(or HTC Dream), i always loved HTC phones, they are just different, something special, like me haha.
I love my HTC 10, especially in that black color, its just perfect. I wouldn't mind if the screen was a tad bigger, like 5.5inch, but its OK as it is.
So i think that the 10 is really underrated, i think it's because HTC gain a bad reputation since the disappointing M9, and steep prices of their phones, which is true in my opinion, as you can get a flagship phone like OnePlus 3, in half the price.
HTC 10 is the best, love it. :good:

I'd write a long reviews but when I hit submit, the lovely xda forum say that need to be logged to submit a reviews, and reset the form. I love you random programmer guy!
Anyway, long story short, I love my htc, I resisted a lot of drops, and is working like the first day. I just miss the sony flashtool from my z2, being able to install updates without wipe (since my phones are rooted and android 6 wont install updates on modified system partition's phones).

I won't be going back to Samsung any time soon. For me the 10 is the perfect size and the build quality is excellent. I paid cash up front for a US unlocked directly from HTC US. It came with no bloatware and was easy to root and install a custom rom. Best phone I have ever had.
I ran custom roms on Samsung devices for years, but there always seemed to be something that didn't work. I would get a phone call and the screen would go black, or WiFi would keep dropping, it was always something. I haven't had any of those problems with the 10 on Sense-based custom roms.

HTC 10 deserves 10 out of 10. I got mine straight from HTC (unlocked) and converted to work on Verizon ( we have some really good devs like Santod, LeeDroid and MANY other who make this a dream device for a flashaholic like me). Camera is good, battery life is very good ( I get about 5 hours of screen on time) sound is very good for sure I can't recall a thing I don't like about this phone to be honest.
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Screen could have been better as well as internal storage could have been 64Gb default.

HTC's own apps ruin this phone. They substituted their good apps (Gallery and Music) with Google's and left the obscure garbage apps.

Thrillingly beautiful, breathtaking performance!! I wouldn't mind buying another HTC 10 if i needed it.

The speakers are fantastic, it charges really quickly and it looks amazing. Only slight complaint would be the camera, it's not bad but coming from a Note 7 the difference is noticeable. Overall 9.5/10.

It's a great phone and am happy to be back to owning an HTC phone.