I was skeptical, and in fact wasn't going to upgrade. My Evo 4G started going flaky though so I decided to upgrade. My humble $0.02:
- ultralight and rigid. exudes quality construction
- phone has a nice feel to all the surfaces
- Beats Audio - I thought this was pure marketing nonsense, then tried with the same quality headphones on this and my old Evo and there's a clear difference. Same thing when I plug in from the headphone jack to my truck stereo. Very surprised.
- speed - can't bog this thing down with anything I've thrown at it
- Battery - still not perfect but I think it's a bit more efficient than my old Evo. At work where I get very little signal it still sucks the battery dry trying to reconnect voice all day. I may just put it in airplane mode when at work. Frigging army construction regulations.
Any dissenters? I'd recommend this phone more strongly than any other phone I've had at the time.
In this forum i dont think anyone will disagree, yes it is a great phone. Have some fun,go over to the s3 forums and brag it up
This phone is extremely solid compared to the Evo 3D, which I passionately hate and wish I had never owned. Unfortunately, a bad signal is always a deathtrap for a phone's battery, but it seems the rest of it is working out for you.
tomplatz said:
I was skeptical, and in fact wasn't going to upgrade. My Evo 4G started going flaky though so I decided to upgrade. My humble $0.02:
- ultralight and rigid. exudes quality construction
- phone has a nice feel to all the surfaces
- Beats Audio - I thought this was pure marketing nonsense, then tried with the same quality headphones on this and my old Evo and there's a clear difference. Same thing when I plug in from the headphone jack to my truck stereo. Very surprised.
- speed - can't bog this thing down with anything I've thrown at it
- Battery - still not perfect but I think it's a bit more efficient than my old Evo. At work where I get very little signal it still sucks the battery dry trying to reconnect voice all day. I may just put it in airplane mode when at work. Frigging army construction regulations.
Any dissenters? I'd recommend this phone more strongly than any other phone I've had at the time.
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Do any other cell phone providers have good service at your work? I use an app called roam control. In my gym the free-weights are on a lower level with terrible signal. With the force roam on the app I'm able to get constant solid data, so I can listen to the tune in radio app. Just a thought.
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Do any other cell phone providers have good service at your work? I use an app called roam control. In my gym the free-weights are on a lower level with terrible signal. With the force roam on the app I'm able to get constant solid data, so I can listen to the tune in radio app. Just a thought.
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I tried finding the force roam app in the play store. Could it possibly be called something else? I can never get a data signal in a certain area, which frustrates me to no end.
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Cyrene said:
I tried finding the force roam app in the play store. Could it possibly be called something else? I can never get a data signal in a certain area, which frustrates me to no end.
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If u search "roam control" on playstore there will be an app called "no roam control" or something like that. Anyways it is the first one on the list. It is by the same developer and there's a link to their website. U can buy a license and download it straight from there. Only thing that sucks is u will probably have to buy a new license for every new phone.
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LiquidSolstice said:
This phone is extremely solid compared to the Evo 3D, which I passionately hate and wish I had never owned. Unfortunately, a bad signal is always a deathtrap for a phone's battery, but it seems the rest of it is working out for you.
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Yep. I'm disappointed in myself for using my upgrade on the Evo 3D after Christmas time and not just saving it. I didn't like the 3D much at all.
Also i know meanrom has roam only built in. Great rom too.
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the only thing that sucks its that flash player dont work wtf! does flash player work on the sg3?
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COCODRILO45 said:
the only thing that sucks its that flash player dont work wtf! does flash player work on the sg3?
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Flash player will not work on any Android version above 4.0
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Flash player will not work on any Android version above 4.0
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That's not quite true. Adobe isn't allowing it to be downloaded through the market, but sideloading it works just fine, and forms the Market link which allows it to receive updates.
just found out flash player works on cleanrom yea! now my htc lte kicks ass
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COCODRILO45 said:
just found out flash player works on cleanrom yea! now my htc lte kicks ass
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??
It's going to work on every stock-based ROM you find in the dev section.
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Current sprint user here using the photon 4g. Not a bad phone by any means but Sprint coverage sucks. I'm not interested in the galaxy nexus as every Samsung phone I've ever owned has had major issues. I see the threads in the nexus forum. And see the nexus still suffers from poor GPS and android is bugs.
The only other phone Verizon has I'd consider is the razr Mainly because I have the photon and they are somewhat similar software and hardware wise. But I listen to music a lot on my phone and the resound just seems like a good choice.
Few questions, hows the GPS? Hows the performance? Any lag on sense? Speakerpbone loud?? I had a EVO 3d aand returned it the day the photon came out. It had a horrible camera, GPS was spotty, speaker phone wasn't loud at all and sense just lagged from time to time.
I have had great success from HTC in the past except for the EVO 3d....
So help me make the jump.lol
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Razr is a POS, lol.
On a serious note, the Rezound is a solid choice if you are coming to Verizon. No one has stated any issues with GPS accept the device has gotten hot for some users. Performance is on par for best device w/o perm root. The speakerphone is decently loud. It is as loud as my X2 was at least.
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Agreed ... I have done my fair share of reading these forums and GPS lock and Speaker Volume are not on the complaint list. Heat if you get a bad unit and possible dead pixels (which would the same for every phone) are the common complaints.
Razr screen.. OMFG HORRIBLE Pentile!!
If you go to a Verizon Store to get the Rezound make sure you stay there if you can and test it out... Like that if any of the common issues show up your right there for a replacement.
Sense runs perfectly no lag (that've noticed)
I don't use the camera but other Rezound users love it
GPS locks in pretty fast
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Agreed ... I have done my fair share of reading these forums and GPS lock and Speaker Volume are not on the complaint list. Heat if you get a bad unit and possible dead pixels (which would the same for every phone) are the common complaints.
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And pink LEDs but someone said he found how to fix them. Just not sure how cuz mine are like that to and I want red not pink
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I'm loving mine. It's everything I could want in a phone. GPS locks on faster than my droid charge. I do wish the speakerphone speaker was a little louder. Other than that I really like the phone.
I've never had a sence phone, always had touch wiz, so I'm actually enjoying my lag free sence.
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I might get it from Costco if I do get one. Heard they had a 90 day window and its only $199
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You'll be welcomed with open arms here, provided you start by spelling the name of the phone correctly...
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You'll be welcomed with open arms here, provided you start by spelling the name of the phone correctly...
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Lmao!! I just saw that. Auto correct is good when it works like u want it to lol
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So is the over heating issue a hardware problem? My photon can get up to 110 degrees under normal usage
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Anyone know of any good deals going on to get this phone?
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phyba said:
So is the over heating issue a hardware problem? My photon can get up to 110 degrees under normal usage
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I listen to music constantly. I have the Beats Tour ear buds. Anyone wanna share their audio setup? I would love to get the sound that we have on the Sense roms on AOSP.
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Ive only been running AOSP for a couple days so I wont be of any help. But ive read that if you install Beast Audio Installer from the play store, this is supposed to give the same beats sound. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Ive only been running AOSP for a couple days so I wont be of any help. But ive read that if you install Beast Audio Installer from the play store, this is supposed to give the same beats sound. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Its "beats installer." I tried it just now. Thank you soooooo much. Its much better. Not quite like sense roms but ill take it.
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Power amp is all I can say. 10 frequency eq and every other setting you could want.
Once you get it dialed in for the majority of your music, you are good to go.
yeah i bought power amp for the nexus... it's good but I like the sense player and widget a lot better. power amp widget sucks and is ugly. you'd think they'd offer up something better by now.
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I notices the beats installer takes a lot of life because it runs in the background. Remember to kill it after you're done listening to music; restart the phone to enable it again
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I notices the beats installer takes a lot of life because it runs in the background. Remember to kill it after you're done listening to music; restart the phone to enable it again
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after fiddling with that or musicfx I noticed nothing different so I froze them both to keep them away from foreground running and just used the 10 band equalizer within poweramp
Is there anything like supercurio's Voodoo Sound? Doesnt this phone have an amazing DAC like that of the galaxy s(fascinate) Im currently in the process of getting a rezound and im trying to learn as much as possible. From what I know beats really isnt that good correct? Isnt it just a glorified EQ?
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Is there anything like supercurio's Voodoo Sound? Doesnt this phone have an amazing DAC like that of the galaxy s(fascinate) Im currently in the process of getting a rezound and im trying to learn as much as possible. From what I know beats really isnt that good correct? Isnt it just a glorified EQ?
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Unfortunately not. That's the only thing I miss about my Charge. Supercurio only owns Samsung, and won't let anyone port his work to anything he doesn't own because he wants to be able to support it properly if it has his brand on it. It might be possible to emulate, but no one has done it yet.
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Power amp is all I can say. 10 frequency eq and every other setting you could want.
Once you get it dialed in for the majority of your music, you are good to go.
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THIS^
jayochs said:
yeah i bought power amp for the nexus... it's good but I like the sense player and widget a lot better. power amp widget sucks and is ugly. you'd think they'd offer up something better by now.
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I would agree with you but since The 2.0 update it allows for skins. I use kovledevs ICS power amp skin and Its much better looking. It also skins the player and Widgets fyi. The beats actually makes a pretty good difference. But sense roms just have such better sound. For me for some unknown reason my audio is really messed up and seems like it's only playing in mono instead of stereo. And it's only a problem on AOSP rooms. As soon as I go to sense its fine. So I may go back
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Is there anything like supercurio's Voodoo Sound? Doesnt this phone have an amazing DAC like that of the galaxy s(fascinate) Im currently in the process of getting a rezound and im trying to learn as much as possible. From what I know beats really isnt that good correct? Isnt it just a glorified EQ?
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Your making a good switch. Now that source is out were close to working aosp stuff. Beats actually makes a difference. The sound is pretty good on this phone.
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Thanks! I'm really surprised by this phone it seems like the underdog for some reason. The prices for these phones are really cheap compared to a razr or nexus. The quality of this phone is definitely better than most and the screen is really superb. I'm not sure why more people dont like it. Good for us though! As a side note I realized that even replacing the lcd and digitizer is quite cheap and easy.
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Thanks! I'm really surprised by this phone it seems like the underdog for some reason. The prices for these phones are really cheap compared to a razr or nexus. The quality of this phone is definitely better than most and the screen is really superb. I'm not sure why more people dont like it. Good for us though! As a side note I realized that even replacing the lcd and digitizer is quite cheap and easy.
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You see what we saw in this when we bought it. Even when full price at 300 seemed much better than both Razr and Nexus. Camera, screen, sound, great radios, removable battery(Razr), and free beats made this really hard to beat.
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You see what we saw in this when we bought it. Even when full price at 300 seemed much better than both Razr and Nexus. Camera, screen, sound, great radios, removable battery(Razr), and free beats made this really hard to beat.
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And I honesty still wouldn't trade it for any Verizon phone unless a new HTC with better specs come out. Not the galaxy s3 or iPhone5 even. I'm really hoping for that 1080p HTC phone supposedly coming out
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And I honesty still wouldn't trade it for any Verizon phone unless a new HTC with better specs come out. Not the galaxy s3 or iPhone5 even. I'm really hoping for that 1080p HTC phone supposedly coming out
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I would go back to a flip phone before trading in for a iphone5
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Leta get back on topic.
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Leta get back on topic.
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nah.
PowerAmp FTMFW
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I use Volume+ 1.9.0.5 with Poweramp.
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evilstewie23 said:
And I honesty still wouldn't trade it for any Verizon phone unless a new HTC with better specs come out. Not the galaxy s3 or iPhone5 even. I'm really hoping for that 1080p HTC phone supposedly coming out
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Why not the S3? I tend to think that is a good phone overall. Althoughm when you take apart these phones you see there is no metal shielding around the components like htc or motorola has. This is why the signal is always so good on these devices.
Getting back on topic how does poweramp stack up to the beats player? Isnt beats restricted to only the integrated htc player? I thought I saw a script somewhere to access the beats audio for use on any player. What player or script brings a purer sound from the DAC?
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Power amp is all I can say. 10 frequency eq and every other setting you could want.
Once you get it dialed in for the majority of your music, you are good to go.
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Power amp is totally cool. I notice my I beats get better sound than my tour buds though
Thanks for all the cool ideas
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My evo's screen is crapping out and the store offered me a new evo replacement for free or switch to the galaxy for 50.00. the reception is terrible on the evo not sure a bout the galaxy. I use my phone for tethering with foxfi... disconnects from laptop A LOT and to listen t music at work which is great, ....opinions?
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Have any local friends who use the s3? Best way to gauge differences for your location.
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neoshi said:
Have any local friends who use the s3? Best way to gauge differences for your location.
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no... i wish I live in really rural area not may folks around at all with smartphones anyway.
I was dismayed to see HTC's lackadaisical approach to update though I'm not sure how Samsung's track record matches up.
I'd hate to switch just for the lure of something different only to find it was a step backward.
Oh I see. The thing that bugs me the most on this phone is the lack of proper multitasking. That's about my only issue and it is big enough that I would consider switching. Before you decide, try using touchwiz on a floor model first because it can be rather clunky to use after using touch. I use a Samsung phone for work and an HTC for personal and still have to remind myself that each phone does things differently everyday.
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Ulock soff. Install Cm10 flash komodo 18 kernel. Profit...
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I finally got around to buying a bluetooth for my LTE. Got it in the mail and could not figure out how to pair the stupid thing. After spending 30 minutes on Plantronics web site, HTC and youtube I finally tried pairing it with my wife and moms phone. Worked perfect. MY LTE however will not see ANY bluetooth conection. The bluetooth radio is completely dead! I guess it has been this way from day 1 just no way of knowing without having a BT headset. Guess it is time to back things up and take back to Best Buy for my 3rd LTE!
I still have people complain about the microphone cutting out and sounding like I am talking in a tin can every once in a while then it comes back to normal. Very frustrating qaulity control issues with the LTE!
Are you rooted and running a ROM?
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Are you rooted and running a ROM?
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No, All factory
Take er back and demand a brand new one and a bj!!!
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No known issues with BT.
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Took it back and confirmed BT is dead, no send or discover. Replacement on the way.
Fingers crossed on the 3rd try!
Had no issues pairing one of our LTE's to a Bluetooth device. It was all stock, too. Hope your new one works.
Got new phone back 1 day later (actually refurbished) works better than the other two so far. Mic is picking up good and BT is working. Very impressed with speed of Best Buy Black Tie protection, not crazy about getting a loaner phone but it was only 1 day.
So I have had bluetooth problems with this phone sine day one.. On all my roms and even after getting a replacement phone. I also have used 3 different bluetooth headsets on it.. Is this just me or a wide spread problem?
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So I have had bluetooth problems with this phone sine day one.. On all my roms and even after getting a replacement phone. I also have used 3 different bluetooth headsets on it.. Is this just me or a wide spread problem?
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I did have some problems before and most of the time it was fixed by increasing the max frequency while screen was off ( I was using viper rom or meanbean), I don't know what rom you are having trouble with and also Bluetooth is really sensitive to interference specially in open spaces, I work outside and I've noticed that if I wave my hand right next to my handset while on a phone call, I get the static and crackling noise you might be referring to, but if I'm in my house I dont get the same result... What rom are you using? Kernel? Scheduler? Or app to set your frequencies? I'm on cm 10.1 and this is my second replacement which doesn't like over clock without the kernel stabilizer made by Viperboy and I'm currently using Komodo rls 30, I don't have that static anymore... :good:
Hatkalte 1.3.2... But it happens on all roms. Also it crackles and then disconnects and then reconnects.. And then cycles again.. It's so annoying.
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Hatkalte 1.3.2... But it happens on all roms. Also it crackles and then disconnects and then reconnects.. And then cycles again.. It's so annoying.
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Ok, my bluetooth died at the end and would not be recognized nor recognize any device that I had previously paired with my phone so I had to use VipeRuu and got it replaced, this is my second replacement after that bluetooth failure... Good luck, you might have a hardware issue like mine was, I won't be surprised if in a couple days it dies completely just like my original evo lte, have you tried stock rom?
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I've had issues as well. The best performance I had was on an aosp rom. I was able to walk a crossed 8 bays and through a door and still pick up my music playing. I've noticed sometimes while doing yard work that the music would be very choppy. My buddy has an lte and the same LG tone headset and has the same problems. Hopefully when I get my new s4 my problems will be solved. I'll report back when I verify if it is the phone or the headset or just bluetooth in general.
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