kickstand complaint - Motorola Photon 4G

After having my Photon for four days I have been loving it, but have one complaint regarding the kickstand.
If you have the kickstand employed, you can not plug in a charger. I was trying to watch a movie during my lunch break yesterday and the battery was dying, but I could not plug it in.

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murrun said:
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mind....blowing

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duh
Now I feel dumb.

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dtaylorr said:
Now I feel dumb.
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I do too. Technology always has some obscenely simple answer to the issue's that torment us the most.

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Lmfao
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actually its a good thing its main kickstand side is on that side cause no buttons can be accisentally pressed(ive been charging and using the kickstand like so, was resting my hand ontop the phone reading and it hit the camera button exiting my window) so maybe in the future theyll come out with some alround better design for a kickstand and plugin/button placement
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Ports on bottom of phone?
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Maybe two centered kickstands that can rest and be locked either way. With a slant we could also do this vertically.

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bradleymaustin said:
Ports on bottom of phone?
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My favorite thing about the OG Evo right there.. bottom usb port.. made life so easy

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Actually the port placement is terrible for the Photon/Electrify. Consider the car. You're driving, and you have your phone in a holster within reach of the driver. In America, where this phone is primarily sold, the driver sits in the left seat, so the phone is to his/her right, probably on the left side of the instrument panel. Probably, the 12V outlet is somewhere to the right of that, so the charging cable has to reach around. Mine isn't quite long enough, so it threatens to pull the phone out of its holster. This is unsafe for driving. With the port on the bottom, it would be convenient for drivers on both sides (e.g. UK for the right) as long as your holster has an open bottom (mine does).
Actually, my Electrify does the Hero S (Evo Design 4G, for you Sprint folks), which I had for 6 days, one better. Hero S also had it on the left, but right where the holster grabs the phone. So using the holster was impossible with that phone. Just one of the reasons I traded up to Electrify.
Back to topic: Reverse kickstand is cool, but it depends on the spring action being intact. I'm not sure if it can go out on you, but that would kill reverse kickstand if true. As it is, having the charger cable coming out the "top" can pull it back if the cable doesn't have enough slack.
If you want normal kickstand, I recommend rigging a stand, like a poor man's HD dock. Put a hole where the USB port goes, and if you really wanna be fancy, fix it in there permanently. But if you were gonna be fancy, you'd give it a backing (with a space for the speaker, of course) but all that implies you're better at woodworking than most people. I'd like to think with the right hardware I could do alright, but I know my zero woodworking experience means I would utterly fail to produce anything approaching reasonable quality.