Man the Droid X2 seems like a awesome device and I'm looking to jumpship from T-Mobile. Now...why in the world does it not have 4G LTE?...makes no sense. Why release a new phone and still have it run on the slow network? Any ideas or comments from Motorola/Verizon? Besides the Bionic any hints on a refreshed Droid with 4G LTE?
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Because the Tegra chipset causes issues with the LTE antenna
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4g LTE would drain the crap out this phone battery with it being dual core. I am glad it doesn't have 4g.
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4g LTE would drain the crap out this phone battery with it being dual core. I am glad it doesn't have 4g.
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You know you sound like Steve Jobs right? Sigh... "I'm glad it doesn't have 4g"...Sure you are rofl.
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Because the Tegra chipset causes issues with the LTE antenna
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Yeah it must be something like that :S..guess thats why the Revolution has 4G but no dual core
Love my X2. Wouldn't have bought it if it had LTE. It would likely have been thicker, heavier, and would have drained my battery much faster. I was shopping for a killer 3G phone and that's what I got. ;-)
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I also love this phone. Can't wait for custom roms. In all honesty the speed of 4g is kind of overkill for a phone anyway
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Plus, the LTE radio is thick as ****. Moto wanted to keep the slim design just like the original. And like colonel said, it would've drained the battery like crazy.
Go home. Don't ask a question and then when you get people who are taking time to answer you you reply with sarcastic and rude replies. Go get a 4g phone, I don't want to see you all the time in the x2 forums.
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Everyone is right so far. its a design choice, battery issue, and hardware problem. Tegra has had issues with LTE chipsets, its been noted and is a big reason the original Bionic never made it. Also the chipsets SUCK battery and are a good bit larger, so its good for our phone size and battery life. Honestly, i love the battery life of this thing, LTE would cut it in half (where its available, and would still drain a bit extra even where its not avail.)
Maybe because MOST of us don't have 4G yet. They've had 3 or 4 outages, nationwide, so far. The battery issue was a big one for me, and based on some of the troubles they've been having with the Thunderbolt, I'm glad I made the decision I did. That's also however, becuase good choices are limited on VZW. They seem to be trailing a bit. There are some very good phones for other carriers that are already out. Everyone is holding out for the beloved Bionic, which isn't really going to smoke the competition like it could have 6 months ago. VZW could get some respect back by releasing a Dev phone. Now a Bionic with an inlocked bootloader and vanilla android?.....that would be nice.
dual core phone and 4G drain battery
tech has to improve before i make the jump to 4G
Well, I got a few more years of school so I ain't going anywhere, but I do plan to move afterward and the area I'm moving to has 4G LTE. My current area isn't going to get it until 2013, and I can just get a 4G phone, then. But in reality, I really don't even know how I would use 4G LTE bandwidth when I have it.
Anywho, the point is, for some of us 4G LTE isn't an option for quite some time, and by the time it is, we'll be able to get new phones at the upgrade price. In our cases, this phone makes A LOT of sense and is a great buy.
There are a *A LOT* of people stuck in 3G. Furthermore, other than the better download speeds, I don't really see 4G phones fully utilizing the 4G network. The tablets, sure maybe, but since the majority of people are still on 3G, most everything out there is going to cater to it. It's kinda like when broadband came out and virtually all websites were still 56K friendly.
And I'm not saying there aren't benefits to 4G, I'm just saying for the typical user, there's really not a whole lot out there capitalizing on it.
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You know you sound like Steve Jobs right? Sigh... "I'm glad it doesn't have 4g"...Sure you are rofl.
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I'll second that. 3g is plenty fast for surfing the web and downloading apps, emails, etc. I actually went into the store ready to buy a thunderbolt and the salesman was having a field day with it until we started talking battery life. Fortunately, he was more interested in having a happy customer than selling a thunderbolt.
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Go home. Don't ask a question and then when you get people who are taking time to answer you you reply with sarcastic and rude replies. Go get a 4g phone, I don't want to see you all the time in the x2 forums.
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Ah, A little sarcastic maybe, but he wasn't THAT rude. He's just misinformed about the virtues of NOT having an LTE receiver in your phone. Who would want a big, clunky, batterey chewing Thunderbolt, when they could have a Droid X2 instead? It's a no-brainer.
....or maybe he's just throwing out an inocent flame or two, just to see who catches 'em.
It does not have "4g" but the sbf file says the platform is 4g tegra... Computer also detects a 4g modem on certain states... Take from that what you will.
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It does not have "4g" but the sbf file says the platform is 4g tegra... Computer also detects a 4g modem on certain states... Take from that what you will.
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I saw some lte stuff commented out in build.prop. Interesting.
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According to some it's just recycled code. But to me I wonder why the computer detects 4G hardware when it's "not there"... does not make much sense to me. Now granted if it had 4G you would have expected that to be advertised and that it would have already been activated and running.
The wife and I both had thunderbolts at first. Those were the biggest pieces of crap. You name the issue folks were having (spontaneous reboots, crap battery life) and we were having it. HTC shoehorned an LTE radio into a desire HD and cheaped out on the screen etc to offset the costs. Swapped for the droid x2 and haven't looked back. Nowhere near 4g in my area and won't be. The LTE radios sucked batteries even though we weren't in an LTE service area. I laugh at the folks that even compare these 4g phones with a phone like this one...when the same technology in phones like the thunderbolt could have been purchased nearly 2 years ago (minus LTE). Kinda like 50Meg broadband on a celeron e-machine =)
The biggest reason I wouldn't buy a 4g phone right now is simply due to the fact this is the first generation of phones with LTE radios and it's going to take a while to get all these issues worked out. I figure when I'm eligible to upgrade in a year and a half from now perhaps they'll have decent dual-core LTE capable phones that are reliable and more efficient on battery by that time.
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Itching for a new phone soon, and not happy with Sprint lately, their billing can be whacky, I get a different priced bill every month, even though I am on unlimited, and I have to call Sprint every month to straighten it out.
Plus I am worried that with the recent phone they just showcased yesterday, it is a total turd, and afraid what direction Sprint is even heading ? Will there be an EVO2, no real strong rumors on that yet, just worried the future of Sprint.
Would love to see "Myn's" ROM from the EVO or something close to it come out for the Thunderbolt too. And what about battery life on the Thunderbolt, will be it just as bad as the EVO, due to having both 3G + 4G Radios ? And lastly will LTE be good in Chicago area, better speeds than 4G on Sprint ?
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It kind of is as LTE is suppose to be a bit faster than WiMax, plus the lower spectrum is uses, means it can work indoor, and between buildings better.
The processor is also faster due to being 2nd gen. If its like the g2 it will overclockable to up to 2ghz
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Thanks for replies, I will wait a bit.
#1 see if Sprint gives a good indication of an EVO-2 this Summer, should know in March with the big phone show, if it leaks out there. Would hate to ditch the EVO, for the Thunderbolt, then few months later an even better phones comes out in the EVO 2.
#2, By the end of March, the Thunderbolt will be rooted and hopefully have a nice ROM available.
EVO 2 is far from a rumor, though the summer release may not happen. The Dual Core processor + WiMax chipset is giving them help right now. Now to answer your question, the Thunderbolt is definitely an upgrade from the EVO in every way, but it's a battery hog as well. I wouldn't recommend using LTE, if you don't really have to, unless it's for a quick download.
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EVO 2 is far from a rumor, though the summer release may not happen. The Dual Core processor + WiMax chipset is giving them help right now. Now to answer your question, the Thunderbolt is definitely an upgrade from the EVO in every way, but it's a battery hog as well. I wouldn't recommend using LTE, if you don't really have to, unless it's for a quick download.
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I'm not sure how it's going to work yet, but I didn't think we had a choice whether it would be in 3g mode or 4g?
Yeah, same way with the EVO. You'll notice a little lag, when you're switching from lte to wifi, and vice versa.
Yeah I don't think LTE will function like WiMAX at all. Aside from the marketing label "4G" they have pretty much nothing in common.
LTE and wimax aren't even remotely similar. LTE stacks up impressively.
LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, so it will continue to get better with age.
LTE also sports a robust core, and has typically no loss of packets and 20ms latency when switching towers. The network utilizes advanced versions of Node B devices, which are just more capable modules than there predecessors (there are two per tower for LTE standard, and have greater bandwidth handling, as well as continuing support for legacy devices and 3g). LTE doesn't need line of sight, and tolerates MIMO antenna technology on clients.
Unlike Wimax, LTE is true 4G.
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LTE and wimax aren't even remotely similar. LTE stacks up impressively.
LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, so it will continue to get better with age.
LTE also sports a robust core, and has typically no loss of packets and 20ms latency when switching towers. The network utilizes advanced versions of Node B devices, which are just more capable modules than there predecessors (there are two per tower for LTE standard, and have greater bandwidth handling, as well as continuing support for legacy devices and 3g). LTE doesn't need line of sight, and tolerates MIMO antenna technology on clients.
Unlike Wimax, LTE is true 4G.
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So you're saying it is better then WiMax?
Thank you for the explanation...
Much better than WImax
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So you're saying it is better then WiMax?
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its WAY better apparently
and also The TB is capable of SVDO which means it wont switch to 1X every time you text and Talking and data at the same time as well
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its WAY better apparently
and also The TB is capable of SVDO which means it wont switch to 1X every time you text and Talking and data at the same time as well
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Yea can't wait to try out the talking and data at the same time, not that I have ever really found a need for it, but hey if you got it...
I have heard that the voice quality will suffer some when using data at the same time which is why VZW isn't promoting it. Don't know how much the quality will degrade or if I will even be able to tell, I'm not much of an audio hound so I don't usually hear drops in quality that much.
Besides them both having a 4.3" screen and kickstand they are completely different devices. It is honestly annoying to constantly hear people compare them due to the aesthetic design similarities.
The ThunderBolt has a unibody aluminum design and great build quality. As others have stated, the ThunderBolt also uses the newest generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs. This 1GHz CPU is not the same as the older generation used in the EVO, it is an entirely different beast. The latest Snapdragons are more efficient and the clock speed being the same means nothing.
The TB also has more RAM than the EVO, Verizon 4G LTE (not WiMAX), and Dolby Audio onboard behind the kickstand. Finally, the TB includes a 32GB microSD card preinstalled.
Any other comparisons simply boil down to looks and similar design style. The devices themselves are not the same.
Let's not forget DLNA. I think it's a great feature that will future-proof the Tbolt for awhile.
ahh...so glad I didn't know about this phone sooner, as I'd have been dying while waiting...I just started checkin the phone forums a week or so ago for the first time since last fall due to finding out about a surprise upgrade on our account due the end of january..this week or 2 wait sucks, I cant imagine finding out about this months ago...
There's a video comparison of the TB and Evo on Wirefly.com. The TB is roughly 2x faster than the Evo.
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Let's not forget DLNA. I think it's a great feature that will future-proof the Tbolt for awhile.
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DLNA is on the DroidX also.
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The ThunderBolt has a unibody aluminum design
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I have heard this stated here and on other forums. I heard it in one of the video reviews (maybe the unboxing one). However, I have seen no substantiation of this. There are 3 reasons why I doubt is it actually unibody. 1 From the limited views inside the device it does not appear to be. 2. It clearly has a thin plastic back cover. 3. It would be a fairly radical design and manufacturing departure for HTC. It certainly would be a cool Apple-ish feature. I'm keen for some further evidence of this. Let us know if you have anything.
It's not an evo, why can't people get that throw their heads. Just because it has a 4.3in screen, froyo, and and made by htc people think it's an Evo. If using want to compare it to something compare it to the Desire HD maybe. Evo was not even the first 4.3in htc phone that was the hd2. The Evo a great piece of hardware and still is but the htc thunderbolt is something fresh in my opinion. The tb only shares 3 things with the evo screen size, os, and manufacture. I personally loved the evo it, for its size, speed, and functionality. I have my htc thunderbolt pre ordered.
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Can anyone provide any helpful tips for it, or have any gotcha's to avoid?
Thanks
Honestly, I think the best advice is to read up on the razr/maxx in the xda forums and elsewhere online (droidrazr.com comes to mind).
I just activated my Maxx today. I choose it after doing a fair bit of research and reading the forums I've already mentioned. There's no shortcut to becoming well informed on a topic.
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Honestly, I think the best advice is to read up on the razr/maxx in the xda forums and elsewhere online (droidrazr.com comes to mind).
I just activated my Maxx today. I choose it after doing a fair bit of research and reading the forums I've already mentioned. There's no shortcut to becoming well informed on a topic.
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I have had the Maxx 2 weeks now, love the phone....as of today, I hate the freakin' Verizon LTE network as it died this morning and screwed me all up!
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I hate the freakin' Verizon LTE network as it died this morning and screwed me all up!
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The network has been funky here around Nashville too. Totally pisses me off when that happens!
I'm loving the MAXX though, AWESOME battery life!
The Verizon 4G network isnt all its cracked up to be with IMO. They say its great and all but have read several different things. All of course Im sure have something else to say. I was told or read whichever that if you keep your phone in 4g/3g mode and not in a 4g area that helps to drain the battery as its always looking for a 4g tower. Since not all areas have 4g its best to turn it off unless you are in an area. I have had several outages just like everyone else. My wife travels the country and has on more than one occasion were it says it has a 4g signal but nope.
On a side note I just but the Maxx and am loving it.
Just curious what the 3G speeds are like, so if you disable 4G due to being in a fringe area, is 3G still decently fast or does it really suck?
I did a speed test on 3g earlier today and, got 1mb down & 0.90mb up.
RAZR MAXXimum
Vzw 3g is waaay faster than sprint ever was for me on 3g.
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Ok so I am not confused on how to SBF but never noticed that when you look at the file properties of the SBF file it says Platform 4G Tegra....Thought it was only 3G and we have 4G in our area but no 4G love on this phone much less anything else.
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Ok so I am not confused on how to SBF but never noticed that when you look at the file properties of the SBF file it says Platform 4G Tegra....Thought it was only 3G and we have 4G in our area but no 4G love on this phone much less anything else.
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I believe that may be referring to it being a 4th generation Tegra device, though I couldn't say for sure. You don't even want to know what I would do for 4G on the X2 :/
Also, at the risk of sounding rude, this kind of thread really belongs in the Q&A subforum, but no worries. <3
No rudeness detected, I didn't even look but that sounds more logical to be a generation of the tegra vs Awesome internet speeds.
Well in searching the inter nets I came across a statement from NVIDIA that states they were a bit pissed that rumors the Tegra 2 doesn't play nice on Verizon's LTE network.
Tegra has no compatibility issues with LTE at all. The Tegra-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE tablet runs on Verizon’s LTE network and is a perfect example of Tegra working fine w/ 4G LTE. Tegra 2 interfaces with many types of modems via standard interfaces, including LTE. There is nothing inherently unique about LTE as far as Tegra 2 is concerned.
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So if this is the same Tegra, which I am sure is, we are getting doubly screwed. No ICS and 4G love, Pffft Verizon is loosing points with me staying.
Ill stay with the big v. But go on to HTC. I cannot take this. It is a well known fact that our phone could handle 4G, (see references above. This phone is effed by nvidia not releasing source code, locked down by moto, and abandoned by Verizon...
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Just getting old second phone I got screwed on since being with the big vag sucks. Droid Eris now an flipping dual core phone that gets shafted with 512 of RAM really......OK between the kids screaming and this i had to [email protected]#$# [email protected]$%#%
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I just sold my HTC Rezound and got my Razr Maxx from someone locally only about 5 days ago. In short, I miss my Rezound.
Before anyone jumps down my throat, let me explain. I am basing this solely off my experience at work where I spend 40+ hours of my week. Other than that, I really like this phone and want it to work out for me.
In my office here at work, I have always had bad reception with Verizon, regardless of the phone. It's just the way that this building is and the fact that there isn't a Verizon tower close enough to get good reception. Supposedly they are going to install a Verizon tower in our parking lot, but who knows when or if that will really happen.
With that being said, my Rezound held 4G for most of the day, albeit barely. But it did for most of my day and when it dropped 4G, the transition to 3G was pretty seamless.
With my Maxx, I am having major problems holding 4G or connectivity at all several times throughout my work day. If I open the Play Store or apps like Facebook, it will say no connection even when the 4G icon is visible. Then it will turn white at times too.
To its credit, I get good reception outside of work and at home which is true for every Verizon phone that I have owned (Incredible, Thunderbolt, Charge, Rezound).
So what gives? Without going back to a Rezound, what are my other options? The Nexus is much worse in this department correct?
Any advice would help, thanks!
Nexus is horrible in reception department. I know exactly what you mean with the white 4G no connection issue. I get it all the time too...even with 4G showing full bars. Also when I open the browser its just white and froze.
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Nexus is horrible in reception department. I know exactly what you mean with the white 4G no connection issue. I get it all the time too...even with 4G showing full bars. Also when I open the browser its just white and froze.
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So, it's not just me? LOL
It's getting pretty ridiculous. Today I can barely do anything with it at work, it's not holding much of anything.
Is this a known network issue? Because if not, I will have to dump this phone unfortunately.
Yeah I don't know if it's the battery or what but 4G reception seems hit or miss on my Razr Maxx, it usually works great but in fringe areas it's shakier than I'd like.
That said, I use my office's wifi (where 4G reception sucks) and keep my phone on 3G unless I need to download things. So it isn't a huge issue.
I can't go back to a smaller battery, though.
Just as an update, the reception is embarrassingly bad today. I can't connect to anything data related. Connection keeps going in and out.
My Rezound would connect to everything daily. Only problem is that I don't want another Rezound lol.
Decisions, decisions....
the nexus has horrible signal issues, don't get one. as far as the maxx and signal/4g i get 10x better signal strength than i had with my rezound or nexus. if you want, install the .209 ics leak. it gave me much better 4g reception and speeds.
could also be you just do not have good verizon service where you are and no phone will fix that.
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the nexus has horrible signal issues, don't get one. as far as the maxx and signal/4g i get 10x better signal strength than i had with my rezound or nexus. if you want, install the .209 ics leak. it gave me much better 4g reception and speeds.
could also be you just do not have good verizon service where you are and no phone will fix that.
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I definitely don't have good Verizon service where my office is located as I said in the OP. But, even with that said, my Rezound always held a data connection, and mostly 4G at that.
I have no idea why this phone with supposed better radios can't match that. It's very, very disheartening.
I will try the ICS leak. Is the .209 one the one where you can't go back to stock if you wanted to? That might be an issue for me.
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I definitely don't have good Verizon service where my office is located as I said in the OP. But, even with that said, my Rezound always held a data connection, and mostly 4G at that.
I have no idea why this phone with supposed better radios can't match that. It's very, very disheartening.
I will try the ICS leak. Is the .209 one the one where you can't go back to stock if you wanted to? That might be an issue for me.
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no going back to gingerbread once you install. i dunno maybe your phone is defective? i have no data issues and hand off's are great.
Possible that Verizon is having an outage around you?
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My razr on rogers does the no connection thing in the play store at times also. That is running ics on 3g
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Possible that Verizon is having an outage around you?
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There is none that they know of. I went into a Verizon store tonight and they installed a new sim for me.
I have had strong signal since then, but I'm not at work and I usually get good signal at home.
If I don't have good signal tomorrow at work I will just have to face the sad reality that this phone won't play nice at work. Then I will have to make a decision from there.
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Have you tried simply turning 4G off? Basically, go to the network settings and turn it to CDMA only, instead of CDMA+LTE. 2-3 bars of 3G is better than 0-1 bars of 4G. At least while you're at work.
Are you sure it's not a defective unit?
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It happen on my atrix 2 too.
Before i was using htc hero and it held 3g in my office even it only 1 or 2 bar,but with my atrix 2 it stay on edge and sometimes no connectivity. I guess motorola has bad antenna and i'm planning to get htc rezound.
Sorry for my bad english.
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It happen on my atrix 2 too.
Before i was using htc hero and it held 3g in my office even it only 1 or 2 bar,but with my atrix 2 it stay on edge and sometimes no connectivity. I guess motorola has bad antenna and i'm planning to get htc rezound.
Sorry for my bad english.
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That's the thing, Motorola is top notch with antennas, HTC is next best, as I have the Rezound, signal is great but I'm still leading towards defective unit.
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Have you tried this? Should do the trick.
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Have you tried this? Should do the trick.
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I put 3 on my back cover,but no luck.
I keep awaiting for bootloader unlock for razr and atrix 2,maybe custom kernel will do some trick on signal to keep hold on 3g although it's only 1 or 2 bar. Because from my experience,motorola will get no connectivity when it drop to 2 or 1 bar of 3g.
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I put 3 on my back cover,but no luck.
I keep awaiting for bootloader unlock for razr and atrix 2,maybe custom kernel will do some trick on signal to keep hold on 3g although it's only 1 or 2 bar. Because from my experience,motorola will get no connectivity when it drop to 2 or 1 bar of 3g.
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LoL. I was joking. Tell me you really didn't try that.
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LoL. I was joking. Tell me you really didn't try that.
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Do what? Put that sticker on my back cover? Actually i really did it,i even add a piece of aluminium foil to get more signal. LOL
Let's laugh together
That's is the stupid idea that i did to get the phone hold on 3g,and if you read our atrix2 forum,most of us got a bad data connectivity.
I'll wait until ics comes out,if it still have a lock bootloader or connection issue,then maybe i'll jump to another boat (no more moto,this is the last)
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Are you sure it's not a defective unit?
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It might possibly be, but I'm not leaning towards that as I'm getting good reception and connection at home.
It's only happening at work where nobody gets good Verizon signal to begin with. Only problem is my rezound was holding enough signal and not dropping but this phone is dropping.
My conclusion so far is that the rezound holds weak signals better and the MAXX just drops them.
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I've got a Inc2 on PagePlus. I love the phone but it gets TERRIBLE reception. I live in a rural area, and am sick of dropping calls... so I'm thinking of stepping up to a Rezound. But being I have to buy my phone outright (used) I wanted to know if anyone had owned both and could let me know if the Rez is better or same as Inc2.
Thanks!!
I think it is the same or slightly worse. Of course there have been a few radio updates for the rezound that may have improved it since i used the incredible 2. Remember there are some areas that have poor cdma reception but solid lte, in which case you'd be better of with the rezound foot data.
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Thanks, Bacon. To use the Rez on PagePlus, I have to flash it. So that means 1RTT max data, so no LTE.
The rezound has better signal reception than the thunderbolt. Many has said the incredible 2 is basically a smaller version of the bolt minus 4g and a few other things. I don't think you could go wrong with the rezound. Just a comparison my bolt I was lucky to get 2 bars where I live compared to the rezound I get 4. Good luck on your choices.
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I've got a Inc2 on PagePlus. I love the phone but it gets TERRIBLE reception. I live in a rural area, and am sick of dropping calls... so I'm thinking of stepping up to a Rezound. But being I have to buy my phone outright (used) I wanted to know if anyone had owned both and could let me know if the Rez is better or same as Inc2.
Thanks!!
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Rumblur I don't know about Inc2 but i had to return Samsung Galaxy Nexus because it drop calls and got Rez and all's well. Maybe the antenna in the case back better location.
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Thanks all. I'm waivering.... I can get an Inc1 for $50 or a Rezound for $150, around here (used). I figure my Inc2 will pull $100 so it's not a huge issue financially... but what I really need is someone much smarter than I, to figure out how to get it on PagePlus with 3g! Then I'd be one happy camper
I know I know... I live in a dream world where Verizon doesn't cripple every phone in some way or another
The Rezound gets great reception vs other comparable smartphones.
i am on rezoundand my mom uses inc2. have to say rezound's display is brilliant and cpu is clearly faster than inc2. but... inc2 outweigh much more as for battery life.
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i am on rezoundand my mom uses inc2. have to say rezound's display is brilliant and cpu is clearly faster than inc2. but... inc2 outweigh much more as for battery life.
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Hope it would on battery life as that phone only has 3g
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The trick for me is, the Rezound would be great... but I'm on Page Plus, and they can't do 4G/LTE phones yet. So I'd have to get it flashed so it could be activated. The trouble with THAT is according to everything I've read, is the data is limited to 1RTT, no 3G. Sooooo.... what to do? My Dinc2 is a great phone, but the reception is killing me. I'm sick of having to be a contortionist or walk around in hopes of getting a good signal.