How are you liking your new device so far? What device did you com from, and what are your likes and dislikes?
So far I have played with the phone, at the Verizon store. Its pretty amazing considering its pretty much an galaxy s6 edge, with a bigger screen, pretty much yeah. Pretty much sums it up for me. Yeah. Pretty much.
Coming from LG g3 and I am loving it. Call quality is great. Excellent battery. Zero lag. I don't have any complaints yet.
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Two screen of deaths and broken wireless charging here. Gonna have to return it.
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Two screen of deaths and broken wireless charging here. Gonna have to return it.
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Agreed lol
Phones is awesome.
Have a slight bug that comes and goes where sometimes I wake the screen, I don't have a background image but I have the edge contact/app tab on a black dimlit screen. If I hit the home key once more I get my unlock screen.
If I swipe it I get the menu's and if I choose a contact or an app i am prompted to unlock then and the screen lights up fully.
Happened a few times over the weekend but once today and it's not a big deal.
Came from S6. Loving the edges and size. Lightning fast and battery life is solid.
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I find that i keep misspelling words. It doesn't matter which keyboard i use. Touchscreen maybe?
Came from the m8 and im loving this phone. Ive always been an htc fanboy but i decided to try sammy and im very pleased with my choice.
Ended up exchanging ours for a Note 5. Night and day difference in stability. Much better off now. The Edge is sex but ours was riddled with bugs. It was so bad my wife wanted her HTC One M8 back....
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I find that i keep misspelling words. It doesn't matter which keyboard i use. Touchscreen maybe?
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I'm a big fan of SwiftKey. It will actually learn how you type and what words you use as you use it. It has a heat map that it uses to more reliably figure out what words you are attempting to spell. It's very good. You just use the predictive words if you aren't sure how to spell a word. As you type it gives you the three most likely solutions so you don't have to type out the words.
Just got mine today and LOVE it. I've always been a nexus & opo person due to price and their dev community, but as soon as I played with this bad boy at Verizon I knew I had to get it. I always loathed TouchWiz, but I actually like what they have done with it now.
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FML what do you know, i read this thread then try to log in, what do you know mine freezes LOL and reboots, but so far it's been better than the foul tastes the galaxy s3 left with me since i had to put stock android on that, it was a must for that phone.
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Came from the m8 and im loving this phone. Ive always been an htc fanboy but i decided to try sammy and im very pleased with my choice.
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Same here, although I briefly had an S4 (for 2 days) when I first came to Verizon before they released the M7 for Verizon. I came from the M9 to this phone.
I've only read bits and pieces, but I take it these phones are locked down tighter than Fort Knox?
Leaving my note 4 developer edition was very hard but im handling the no SDcard and no root well. Ive never not had root so this is a new experience for me, so far the speed of charging and stability of things im really happy.
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Leaving my note 4 developer edition was very hard but im handling the no SDcard and no root well. Ive never not had root so this is a new experience for me, so far the speed of charging and stability of things im really happy.
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Same here, but i want some partial battery improvment, such as why make it thin and leave a big ass humping camera, fill the rest of dat space with a bigger BOOOOTERY. Also the rectangular fingerprint seems less accurate than the iphone, however looks faster. But overall, it's a flashy phone lol
So....I'm recently divorced and I get a little drunk around the apartment.
Sunday night dropped the phone in the toilet while taking a whiz and texting. I got it out in about 2 seconds and it seemed OK, worked for another hour until I fell asleep around 10 and had set alarms on my edge+ and my work iPhone to wake me up at 2:00am to kick off some work task...iPhone went off, edge+ didn't.
Screen was dead, speaker was in and out...phone fully functioned otherwise.
I didn't have any rice so I got the bright idea of putting the toaster oven on warm and putting the phone over a few towels...after 8 mins or so my screen came alive for about 20 seconds then died again.
I bought rice early the next morning and left the phone in my car in a paper bag of rice out of the sun. There was still no sign of life even after I got back home from work that evening. I gave up, called asurion who had me fill some form out before sending me an exchange because I made a claim on my previous note 3 before trading up for this one.
My phone sat until last night, my alarms going off and connecting to my wireless headset I was desperately trying to pair with y work iPhone.
In a drunken rage I plunked my already broken edge+ into a bowl of water determined to kill it forever and ensure it got no new life as a refurb. after 5 mins submerged the condition of my phone did not change, my notification light blinked along and my back lights continued to respond to the touches of my dead dark screen.
Today I come home to make lunch and my phone was laying on my desk, I hit the home button and the screen lights up with the battery dead indicator.
I plug my phone in and the fast charging screen comes to life! I power it on and have startup music, my fingerprint scanner unlocked the device, I connected to WiFi, mobile network and Bluetooth and the phone has ran strong for the remainder of the day so far.
I got my replacement today and haven't even opened it. If the edge+ runs strong through the weekend i'll send it back for a refund. I'll also buy Samsung 4eva.
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So....I'm recently divorced and I get a little drunk around the apartment.
Sunday night dropped the phone in the toilet while taking a whiz and texting. I got it out in about 2 seconds and it seemed OK, worked for another hour until I fell asleep around 10 and had set alarms on my edge+ and my work iPhone to wake me up at 2:00am to kick off some work task...iPhone went off, edge+ didn't.
Screen was dead, speaker was in and out...phone fully functioned otherwise.
I didn't have any rice so I got the bright idea of putting the toaster oven on warm and putting the phone over a few towels...after 8 mins or so my screen came alive for about 20 seconds then died again.
I bought rice early the next morning and left the phone in my car in a paper bag of rice out of the sun. There was still no sign of life even after I got back home from work that evening. I gave up, called asurion who had me fill some form out before sending me an exchange because I made a claim on my previous note 3 before trading up for this one.
My phone sat until last night, my alarms going off and connecting to my wireless headset I was desperately trying to pair with y work iPhone.
In a drunken rage I plunked my already broken edge+ into a bowl of water determined to kill it forever and ensure it got no new life as a refurb. after 5 mins submerged the condition of my phone did not change, my notification light blinked along and my back lights continued to respond to the touches of my dead dark screen.
Today I come home to make lunch and my phone was laying on my desk, I hit the home button and the screen lights up with the battery dead indicator.
I plug my phone in and the fast charging screen comes to life! I power it on and have startup music, my fingerprint scanner unlocked the device, I connected to WiFi, mobile network and Bluetooth and the phone has ran strong for the remainder of the day so far.
I got my replacement today and haven't even opened it. If the edge+ runs strong through the weekend i'll send it back for a refund. I'll also buy Samsung 4eva.
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Sounds like a hate/love story LOL
Honestly, if you just want the short of it, buy a Note 5.
The screen is really nice. I don't like the curved edges. I do not use any of the edge functionality at all.
The battery life is OK, and my S5 lasted eons. I never touched lollipop with the S5 and just tweaked the stock OS and removed some junk.
The speed is quite nice. It is snappier than my aging S5. But it should be.
The camera seems to be better. The S5 wasn't bad, the Note 4 wasn't bad. But this seems slightly better.
Wireless charging isn't very convenient. It was absolutely not worth losing SD card support, or a replaceable battery. I loaded my music and literally nothing else.
The flip case hasn't stopped my screen from acquiring small scratches. I haven't dropped it. I know when I do it will break. I haven't yet. I'm terrified. I miss the safety of my tempered glass screen protector.
No root means none of my stuff can be restored the way I have done for the last 5 years. Which means I lost some of my streaming apps that have closed access to new users.
This new non-root thing is difficult.
If I could root it, I'd be fine. It's a good phone. But the pen would have brought real functionality and a flat screen that was easier to protect with a case and a screen protector. Even if I didn't really care about the pen. I think it's a more practical choice over the long haul because it will easier to keep alive.
My S5 looks unused after all this time. I will be hard pressed to do the same with this one. I'm not ragging on it, but that's my honest take. If you're coming from a phone that didn't spin your whole world without fail or so much as a peep. You'll love it. But my S5 did. Big shoes to fill, and lots of sacrifices not just related to the phone itself complicating my opinion.
The whole no root thing is killing me with Verizon. The phone's display is stunning it's quick and responsive. Just hare no development.
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My 2yr old daughter dropped the mobile from a height of around 2 feet yesterday.
Initially everything seemed to work fine.I thanked the back case for saving it but After a few minutes,there was a strong pink spot near the top of the display, And then slowly it turned into blue and it spread towards the entire display. Now currenly mobile is completely black..
I can see that its turned on but i could not see anything.
So changing the display is the only way out?
I had a lot of phones before,right from N70 to 5800.All these phones took lot of abuse and still working fine. The hype about Gorilla glass made me assume that it would be much much stronger than any other phones i had used so far.But completely disappointed.
My brother recently replaced his SGS1's display after it fell from a 3ft table.Gorilla glass broke.I could not believe it.
Gorilla glass has nothing to do with anything. The display has obviously been damaged. You'll need to either return it to Samsung or have a go at replacing the screen yourself (plenty of how to's online).
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My 2yr old daughter dropped the mobile from a height of around 2 feet yesterday.
Initially everything seemed to work fine.I thanked the back case for saving it but After a few minutes,there was a strong pink spot near the top of the display, And then slowly it turned into blue and it spread towards the entire display. Now currenly mobile is completely black..
I can see that its turned on but i could not see anything.
So changing the display is the only way out?
I had a lot of phones before,right from N70 to 5800.All these phones took lot of abuse and still working fine. The hype about Gorilla glass made me assume that it would be much much stronger than any other phones i had used so far.But completely disappointed.
My brother recently replaced his SGS1's display after it fell from a 3ft table.Gorilla glass broke.I could not believe it.
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Gorilla glass is scratch-resistant. It's not scratch-proof, uncrackable or unbreakable.
Still surprises me that people are surprised that bad things can happen to a phone when you drop it.. If I dropped you horizontally from a height of 3 feet, you'd feel it - worse if it was head first
Easier said than done, but keep your little girl away from your S2. I gave my boy an old Nokia with stickers and glitter all over it - can't get him off it now
Damn, you got pretty unlucky and got one of those ****ty units, it happens more often than we can think.. :/
My first SGS2 didn't even last a night : when I got it and got home, I plugged it into the mains after having almost completely discharged the 40% or so that was left in the stock battery provided with it, turned off the display so it wouldn't take the whole night to charge (I wanted to toy around with it some more, what else ? ) and when I checked back on it I couldn't even touch it, it was so damn hot that it burned my fingertips and I had to drop it back down on the desk..
I quickly unplugged it, got my infrared thermometer, and in the 5-10 minutes it took me to find this thermometer it had gotten back down to a mere (!) 86°C (measure taken on the camera lens, that's the spot that gets the hottest usually. It has not taken me more than an hour after first unpacking it to notice how hot this unit can get at times, and soon noticed that the camera lens was the weak spot. Not hard to figure out that the CPU was very near to it, and the service manual confirmed that when I got ahold of it), so it had to be at least 100°C when I unplugged it.. :/
And of course when it had cooled back down enough I tried it, but it wouldn't power up, ever again... Luckily, Orange replaced it for free and under 24hrs -but it was some luck that it was completely and irreparably fried (at this time I didn't yet have a jig), because otherwise they'd have seen that I had already rooted it -in the few hours that I had it I had found the time to do this, at the office when I was bored...
The replacement unit I got instead never overheated that much (though it too can get pretty hot at times, but that's usually a sign of something going on inside the system, and tells me to check the logcat asap to see what's going on), even though it's a chinese-made unit like the first one, but in the 5 months I've owned it it got its fair share of unvoluntary drop-downs (on a hard tiling floor and usually from 2.5-3ft high, the height of my desk). So far it has survived at least a good 10 falls 'and it's probably closer to 15-20 actually) but it's holding fast, no trouble to mention (except those that I myself cause.. lol Can't count the times I've had to reflash a ROM anymore, just because I fiddled with the wrong setting in root mode And of course, Murphy's law helping, that always happens at 2-5AM when I'm fiddling with it before going to sleep, and I have to get downstairs again to get my jig and my flashing gear hooked to the computer and find a suitable stock ROM to start over, sometimes even having to repartition the whole damn contraption, and wasting away the precious few hours of sleep I could've had if I had given up earlier... But "****up and error" has always been my usual way of learning )...
I'll try to make this brief. I bought my phone back in early December. I've had overheating and battery issues from day 1.
Overheating: My phone will constantly get to the "overheat" status through normal usage (not on charger) when I'm on the phone or just browsing the Internet. It gets hot.
Battery life: I understand that smartphones don't have great battery life. I've owned a lot of them. I sometimes unplug at 6:30 AM and end up in the red zone at 3-4 PM. It just sits on my desk. Sometimes I don't even use the phone for anything. This is unacceptable standby time.
I went through the troubleshooting process with Verizon (new battery and charger) and now they are sending me out a replacement phone.
1: I want a new phone, not a replacement. What am I doing wrong? Why won't they give me this?
2: I also asked for a different model phone (Nexus for example, but anything really) and they won't work with me on that either.
Advice?
1. What do you mean, a new phone? They don't send out "new" phones, ever. They send out CLNRs.
2. They won't give you a Nexus. Period. They'll give you something else, but only if you've been through a lot of phones.
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1. What do you mean, a new phone? They don't send out "new" phones, ever. They send out CLNRs.
2. They won't give you a Nexus. Period. They'll give you something else, but only if you've been through a lot of phones.
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Thanks. That answers all my questions actually. I would of expected more from them since I bought the phone brand new recently and switched from Sprint just to get the phone, but whatever. Anyone else have different advice?
FWIW: I just had to get a Certified Like-New Device....
It is hands down better than my original... and I thought my original was good! this ones got the really red soft keys... no dead pixels...
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Thanks. That answers all my questions actually. I would of expected more from them since I bought the phone brand new recently and switched from Sprint just to get the phone, but whatever. Anyone else have different advice?
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The only time you can return a new phone for a different new phone is during the initial trial period (which is I believe 14 days now) and when you do that you will have to pay a restocking fee. After that period you will only get Certified Like New Refurbished phones. Welcome to the world of Verizon. LOL
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FWIW: I just had to get a Certified Like-New Device....
It is hands down better than my original... and I thought my original was good! this ones got the really red soft keys... no dead pixels...
you could get lucky too..
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If you ever get charged for turning in a unlocked (out of warranty) device under warranty PLEASE let us know.
thatsricci said:
FWIW: I just had to get a Certified Like-New Device....
It is hands down better than my original... and I thought my original was good! this ones got the really red soft keys... no dead pixels...
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Thanks. That gives me hope. This phone sucks.
Yeah no new phones outside of 14 days. My best Inc2 was a CLNR because the rest had bad speakers or the ugly circle soft keys. CLNRs now a days are actually not as bad as they used to be. New shells and no look of damage. When I worked for AT&T they gave out phones lightly refurbished but still had small dings.
I went through 4 Rezounds within the 14 day period and finally have one that doesn't have pink keys or over heating issues. They were all brand new out of the box. They tried 3 in store and all had pink keys so I didn't even count those.
My keys have always looked a little pink in the right light. But in daytime, or for most of the time, they're pretty red. That's the color of the plastic that covers the LED. It's just not a solid red. They're all like that.
4g and other wireless activity overheats the phone (on your hands) because the cover is the antenna (something that gets really hot during this time).
If you download a 400mb file on 4g (at a high speed), the phone will overheat. Not just so it's 'hot'. But so hot that you can't touch it.
Un-ventilated phones are not yet ready for 4g. Either new, very cool battery and SoC technology needs to come around, or these phones need ventilation. Not going to happen any time soon, for either case.
If your phone flashes red/green alternating for the status light, it's really overheating. If it's just 'hot' to hold, it's not overheating.
Hot for a person is NOT hot for a phone, necessarily.
and to save battery (if you're really not touching it all day), turn off Internet (Mobile Network). Just make a widget, and turn it off on your homescreen. You can still call and text.
My phone will last 6-8 hours (since I have 3 email accounts, facebook, twitter, and everything else syncing at least periodically) with internet on.
With internet off, if I have very few texts and calls, 2 days is not a problem. The phone loses Between 1 and 2 % per hour, roughly, of battery.
Try turning internet off.
I also (at this point) got the extended 2750 battery ($45ish on amazon.com). The phone still fits in my HTC desk cradle (HTC planned ahead, it fits great) and is even more ergonomic in my hand. And the case doesn't 'creek' as much as the original.
70% more battery life = all day. Give it a shot.
Yes, green and orange alternating lights is what I got. And. Yes my lights are dark red. I've had 7 total phones, mixture of pink, light pink, fuschia, white/light pink, I've had a mixture of pink and a couple dark.. It's not as cut and dry as you think. Overheating and turning off is legitimate. I'm not saying "owie its warm in my fingers!"
i recently had a bionic. kept having issues with data dropping & weird clicking sound during calls. they confirmed the data drop was a known issue and replaced it twice. the 3rd time they tried sending me a thunderbolt and i got so pissed & threatened to cancel service. they then offered the rezound and even included the extended battery.
no headphones though(but i didnt like them anyway the 1st time i had them)
Nice. Saw the light and and came over. Love this phone it feels solid. Too bad it'll only be used for three months
This weekend, in my drunken stupor I somehow managed to lose my battery for my Note 2. I don't really know how it happened since the next morning I had my phone with my case on it but no battery. I tried plugging my phone into the charger to see if it could turn on without a battery source as power but it wouldn't boot at all. So i'm wondering does this phone have to have a battery in it to turn on or is my phone broken in that even if I buy a new battery it probably won't turn on? Can someone please remove their battery then plug their phone into the charger to see if they can turn it on without the battery installed? If so then hopefully all I have to do is get a new battery. I've never had electronics before that can't start while plugged into the wall so I'm worried about my phone being broken.
Just tried it and no it does not turn on without the battery.... But i did get a small red flicker of a light from the proximity sensor when I plugged it in. Not sure if that's even relevant.
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Just tried it and no it does not turn on without the battery.... But i did get a small red flicker of a light from the proximity sensor when I plugged it in. Not sure if that's even relevant.
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Thanks a lot, I think i'm gonna go ahead and order the new battery!
It can't like stated above. Use the 50%off code at Samsung if you have time to burn. Check accessories section
I'm going to go ahead and give you an awesome award for accomplishing this. Sounds like it was a great night
Lol I love those drunken nights where random stuff happens that can never be explained.:beer:
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It can't like stated above. Use the 50%off code at Samsung if you have time to burn. Check accessories section
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Thanks for the coupon! Much appreciated
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I'm going to go ahead and give you an awesome award for accomplishing this. Sounds like it was a great night
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Lol I love those drunken nights where random stuff happens that can never be explained.:beer:
Haha the real story is much longer but I figure i'll tell it since I've got the time. I'm a senior at University right now and my school's located almost in the middle of nowhere. I was drinking with some friends Thursday night and we decided to walk to another friend's house about a mile and a half away because he was having a party. After many drinking games and activities my friends decided it was time to leave but I wanted to stay a bit longer so I did. For some reason or another, when I drink, I try to invent new short cuts home that end up taking me in the opposite direction of where I intend to go. So that night I decided it'd be quicker getting home if I took a detour through the woods. At this point in the night I was black out drunk and don't exactly remember much of this but have pieced together information from things I've heard from various people. I ended up leaving the party and going through the woods and I don't remember how or where I went but somehow I got lost. I regained my memory shortly after and discovered myself in a dark forest near a small road with what I thought was a dead cell phone. (actually the battery was missing :silly I then spent the next 4 hours stumbling around in the woods trying to find my way home. I ended up falling down a lot because my school is in the mountains and the terrain is quite hilly and the thorns everywhere ended up cutting me up to the point where I looked like I had lost a fight with Wolverine. At one point while I was wondering I heard howling in the distance and started to quicken my pace. Then about 30 minutes later I heard more howling only the sound was no more than 200 yards away. Luckily I didn't encounter any wolves or coyotes and I somehow made it back to my place at 5:00 in the morning. Overall I would agree it was a good night other than me discovering my battery was missing in the morning....:laugh:
tl;dr I got very drunk, wandered into the woods for 4 hours and somehow lost my Note 2's battery in the process...
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Well my awesome sauce with the note 2 seems to be doing downhill... I LOVE my phone... then all of a sudden yesterday I had it sitting on the arm rest of my recliner.... I accidentally knocked it off on to the hardwood floor and it must have hit just right as it cracked the screen. The phone still functioned fine, but the screen was cracked. I took it to a local cell phone repair shop to have the screen replaced. When they put it back together it wouldn't boot... well then after replacing a button, it booted and they thought that was it. Well after it booted I made a call, and as I set the phone down, I noticed it turned off. So after a couple of more boots and confirmations that tapping it at the top of the device did this, I got a charger. Well with the charger plugged in it does the same thing, which tells me it's not a battery connection as google searching would lead me to believe. Please tell me someone knows something to try and fix this? Should I just cut my losses and buy a used device? I see beans has his on swappa and it's making me consider coming up with the money to do that. Thanks for any input/advice!!!!
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Damn! They're supposed to test it out after they replace the screen and give it back to you. These screen replacements are very sensitive and you have to really use caution when messing with them. I've never heard of this but do you have a case on it or around it at the moment? sorry man. Have you discovered anything else?
Well after he spent some time with my phone last night, he said he thinks he found a loose cable. I picked it up today and it hasn't shut off yet. The screen looks beautiful by the way. Back to playing around with Trents Rom!
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Well after he spent some time with my phone last night, he said he thinks he found a loose cable. I picked it up today and it hasn't shut off yet. The screen looks beautiful by the way. Back to playing around with Trents Rom!
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Glad the store solved that out. I've had a similar thing if I tap my phone on a table around the camera area it just shuts off as well. Only solution I've found is using the massive case from the 9300mah zero Lemon battery. Adds a sought bit of bulk
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This is why a ZAGG and good case are worth every penny
I want to take advantage of being able to upgrade my DNA at no cost to me, so I need to do that by the end of this year. The company is switching to employee purchase of phones starting next year. I'm on Verizon. Looking for recommendations from those that have switched, or are contemplating a switch soon. I've primarily been looking at the Turbo, LG G3, and One M8. I've been on HTC devices, so am comfortable/familiar with Sense, and currently running a One based ROM on my DNA. I'm also fond of the wireless charging options, but don't know if a lack of it is enough to rule a particular phone out. Being able to root is a plus. Also leaning to a replaceable battery being a plus as well. Wife recently picked up a Note 4. I'll look at it some more, but that seems almost too big.
Is anyone aware of any new devices due out this month? If not, what is your favorite option today and why?
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I just got the Note 4 and love it!!
Also came from the DNA and I can tell you, you'll be very pleased with the battery life!!
I was also considering the new Nexus device but since it isn't on VZW yet and I didn't want to wait with my DNA screen shattered I went with the Note 4 and I'm definitely not disappointed.
The Droid Turbo was released not too long ago, and I'm really leaning towards it for my contract upgrade in a couple of weeks. It's still an internal battery unfortunately, but what caught my attention was it having nearly twice the capacity of the DNA. Since I have to charge my DNA halfway through the day, I'd be more than satisfied with the Turbo's battery life. Plus, it has some beefy specs as well. Camera has been reported to have some trouble with delay, but that might be corrected in a software update.
I did a little more reading last night and am starting to lean towards the LG G3. A little smaller than the Note 4 which is a good thing. Replaceable battery, rootable, and with a $10 hack can be changed to Qi wireless charging. I need to go spend some hands on time with it in the store. I've considered the Turbo as well, but with the reported camera issues, and some reporting earpiece volume issues, I just find myself questioning Motorola's product testing if they send these issues out with a hope to fix them later in a software update.
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I just got the Note 4 and love it!!
Also came from the DNA and I can tell you, you'll be very pleased with the battery life!!
I was also considering the new Nexus device but since it isn't on VZW yet and I didn't want to wait with my DNA screen shattered I went with the Note 4 and I'm definitely not disappointed.
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Hmm, I'm now thinking about the Note 4 as well due to its camera features and the S-pen. So, when you say pleased with the battery life...how pleased are we talking? I guess getting through the day wouldn't be nearly as much a problem as it is sometimes with the DNA?
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Hmm, I'm now thinking about the Note 4 as well due to its camera features and the S-pen. So, when you say pleased with the battery life...how pleased are we talking? I guess getting through the day wouldn't be nearly as much a problem as it is sometimes with the DNA?
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I don't know about you but toward the end of my 2 years on the DNA I'd have to plug my phone in after about 5-6hrs of moderate use or it was flat dead!
So far with the Note 4 I've actually managed 2 full days on one charge a couple times.. Keeping in mind it's a new phone so I'm playing on it a lot!
Also the fast charge is awesome! I have had it go from 50% to a full charge in about 15 minutes on the charger! (that's only using the included "adaptive fast charger" from Samsung)
The S-pen is cool! I felt like it might be one of those things that lost its "cool factor" once I played with it enough but I keep finding new useful reasons pull it out.. Easily screenshoting and cropping an Instagram post using the Screen Write function for example.
Or more obvious things like quickly jotting down a number or reminder. Which are a lot more useful and easy than I had though they would be.
The chances of getting a fully functional ROOT seem far out if it ever happens.. So that's a bit of a downside. But I can say this is the first phone I've had that I wasn't just dying to root. I honestly have very little reason to root it other than getting Lollipop before VZW and Samsung get it on the update manager.
The phone is big! I will say that.. Probably one of the only things I've had issues with is one handed typing. But I'm getting use to it. It can be very difficult stretching that thumb up to reach things with one hand but I guess that's the price we pay for a large screen. Which is a beautiful display by the way... Both cameras rock too! It's packed with fx, filters and neat camera features that are a lot of fun.
Anyway I hope you are happy with whatever you get! I did talk to a guy over the weekend who has LG G3 and he told me he "hates it" although he couldn't really tell me why.. Haha I haven't played with one but they seem pretty comparable
By the way I thought I'd share that when I got home and started typing this my battery was at 56% (after a full day of pretty heavy use) and in the time it's taken me to type this up (on the phone via tapatalk) while plugged into the fast charger I'm up to 72%
Just thought I'd share an update, in case the op might be still deciding.
I opted for the Note 4. Got it in the mail yesterday, and so far I'm very impressed! It's not as hard to handle as I thought it'd be due to its size. I have yet to give the battery a good test, gotta break it in and actually do a near full run-down, since I had it plugged in most of the day yesterday. But this display is absolutely gorgeous! Don't think I'll be using the s-pen much, but who knows, maybe I'll find more use for it further down the road. I also enjoy using the finger print scanner; I find it quicker to unlock. At times it's frustrating that it doesn't work, but that's because I'm not being precise enough.
Thought I'd share my first impressions. Thanks for the input starscream!
Guess I should've come back to update this. I wound up getting the LG G3 a week ago. Already rooted and installed Skydragon ROM and love it. I also purchased the sticker for the battery door that changes it from NFC only to NFC plus wireless charging. Battery life has been great, and I like the knock knock option for turning on the screen. Transition from my DNA to the G3 has been easy.
Appreciate the suggestions and feedback from everyone!