Droid Incredible Upgrade to Thunderbolt? - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hopefully this isn't something that's against the rules.
So I have a Droid Incredible and I really like it. I have the extended battery (3500) so I've never had any problems with battery life. A friend at work has a Thunderbolt that he was looking to offload and asked if I'd be interested.
I don't really know anybody who has one, so I'm asking for some opinions here.
Would it be worth the move from an Incredible to a Thunderbolt?
How's the battery life?
Is the extended battery worth getting?
How's the call quality?

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The call quality sucks, battery life can be increased to a reasonable level with 4g off and the right roms and kernels. I can't give any info on an extended battery because I don't use them because they are to bulky.

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Call quality for me isn't too shabby. Battery life is about the same, maybe a little less. As for the extended battery, my friends wife has it & claims it almost doubled the battery life. Only drawback: bulky as hell. 2 big differences is screen size & 4G capability.
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Battery life, running LTE full time, has proven to be nearly twice that of my dinc. Contrary to popular opinion, the hardware on the Tbolt is a significant upgrade to the Incredible. Not only is the revised core about 25% faster, but the GPU is 400% faster and the RAM is 50% bigger. This equals speed you WILL notice even at stock speeds. That said, overclocking these is far easier, too. Where eeking out 1.19 GHz on an Incredible was an accomplishment, many Tbolts will OC to 1.41GHz easily with some remaining stable at 1.92GHz. Of course some don't do so well, but that's more the exception than the rule. I have mine overclocked to 1.6GHz, running a full Sense 3.0 3D ROM, and getting 14 hours of battery life isn't at all uncommon.
Aside from the obvious size and addition of LTE, the Tbolt is also the only Verizon device that will do both CDMA and LTE data in a call. The Tbolt is already a meaty phone and extended battery make it simply massive. The Incredible was so bad on it's battery it was useless to me without an extended battery. I'd be happier if the Tbolt had more juice, but it's not nearly the battery hog the Incredible was. I can survive a day or more with this device if I had to. The Incredible couldn't do that sitting untouched on a table.

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loonatik78 said:
Battery life, running LTE full time, has proven to be nearly twice that of my dinc. Contrary to popular opinion, the hardware on the Tbolt is a significant upgrade to the Incredible. Not only is the revised core about 25% faster, but the GPU is 400% faster and the RAM is 50% bigger. This equals speed you WILL notice even at stock speeds. That said, overclocking these is far easier, too. Where eeking out 1.19 GHz on an Incredible was an accomplishment, many Tbolts will OC to 1.41GHz easily with some remaining stable at 1.92GHz. Of course some don't do so well, but that's more the exception than the rule. I have mine overclocked to 1.6GHz, running a full Sense 3.0 3D ROM, and getting 14 hours of battery life isn't at all uncommon.
Aside from the obvious size and addition of LTE, the Tbolt is also the only Verizon device that will do both CDMA and LTE data in a call. The Tbolt is already a meaty phone and extended battery make it simply massive. The Incredible was so bad on it's battery it was useless to me without an extended battery. I'd be happier if the Tbolt had more juice, but it's not nearly the battery hog the Incredible was. I can survive a day or more with this device if I had to. The Incredible couldn't do that sitting untouched on a table.
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Out of curiosity, what kernel do you use? OC to 1.92 GHz stable?
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I was getting anywhere from 4-10 of heavy-medium use, lite use I get about 14-18 hours and 24-26 hours of almost no use, this is at 1 ghz with LTE always off with BAMF stripped roms and adopt roms (although asop always had more bugs than I care for) all sense based roms I've run I get a couple hours less than that. Out of my 6 t bolts 2 were stable at 1.4, 2 at 1.2, 1 at 1 ghz, and 1 wasn't even stable at 1 ghz, I had to underclock it to 800 music.
You can increase the battery life some but there are things I'm not willing to give up, like email push, that's why I got a smartphone.

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ghstrdr1985 said:
Out of curiosity, what kernel do you use? OC to 1.92 GHz stable?
I'm using Imoseyon's 3.8.0 kernel, I think. The one with the smartassV2 governor. I don't run it that fast though. Phone won't support it. I wouldn't even if I could because beyond 1.41GHz your returns start dropping off sharply relative to power being consumed. I run mine at 1.6GHz.
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I was getting anywhere from 4-10 of heavy-medium use, lite use I get about 14-18 hours and 24-26 hours of almost no use, this is at 1 ghz with LTE always off with BAMF stripped roms and adopt roms (although asop always had more bugs than I care for) all sense based roms I've run I get a couple hours less than that. Out of my 6 t bolts 2 were stable at 1.4, 2 at 1.2, 1 at 1 ghz, and 1 wasn't even stable at 1 ghz, I had to underclock it to 800 music.
You can increase the battery life some but there are things I'm not willing to give up, like email push, that's why I got a smartphone.
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We've gone back and forth. Our experiences are VERY different. I can unplug my phone from the charger before I got to sleep and wake up 10 hours later and have 80-85% battery remaining. That's with LTE on, all updating activity on, OC'd to 1.6GHz with the kernel mentioned above. This thing would go days on standby, but I can kill it in 3 or 4 hours pretty easy if I'm messing with it literally non-stop.

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Thanks for all the information fellas. Much appreciated.
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if you live in a 4G area go for the thunderbolt.
I came from the dinc and really the only two significant factors is 4G and a bigger screen.
My only gripes with the dinc was (in my experience) the call quality was atrocious. The thunderbolt is a step up in call quality for me.
Battery life is the same for me (I used the evo battery in my inc) but since you are using a bigger battery on the dinc you will see a significant hit.
The thunderbolt is an all around better built phone but I could have totally kept with the dinc if I lived in a 3G area.
If it's free.. do it. if not, save your money and look toward the new line of android phones coming out for the holiday season.

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PhillyCheez said:
if you live in a 4G area go for the thunderbolt.
I came from the dinc and really the only two significant factors is 4G and a bigger screen.
My only gripes with the dinc was (in my experience) the call quality was atrocious. The thunderbolt is a step up in call quality for me.
Battery life is the same for me (I used the evo battery in my inc) but since you are using a bigger battery on the dinc you will see a significant hit.
The thunderbolt is an all around better built phone but I could have totally kept with the dinc if I lived in a 3G area.
If it's free.. do it. if not, save your money and look toward the new line of android phones coming out for the holiday season.
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I get an upgrade in March, so I'm tempted to just hold off and wait till then. But, I REALLY love new toys. It won't be free, but if the price is reasonable, I may give it a shot.