I am currently using a gnex and I love the development on this phone. However it's really getting under my skin with all the dropped calls and constantly reboot. Should I get the dna with the free promo?
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Yes its worth it. YOu can try it for 15 days. Just go for it!
Yes, but be aware that at this p pint in time there is not a software solution for rooting, you have to send it off to get jtagged.
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The DNA is worlds beyond the gnex man. The screen is gorgeous! And the battery will last a full day no charging! So glad when I put my gnex down for the dna. When u get it send it to be jtagged before you even turn it on.
No way. I wish I could go back to the Nexus, but the S4 comes out next week. Not having a replaceable battery or SD expansion is awful when you can only get a 16GB phone. Plus, it's impossible to replace the screen of this phone if it cracks, which is terrible. I won't even get into the absolute lack of development.
Suggestion: wait for the S4 next week.
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No way. I wish I could go back to the Nexus, but the S4 comes out next week. Not having a replaceable battery or SD expansion is awful when you can only get a 16GB phone. Plus, it's impossible to replace the screen of this phone if it cracks, which is terrible. I won't even get into the absolute lack of development.
Suggestion: wait for the S4 next week.
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Not finding a different exploit to unlock the bootloader doesn't equal lack of development. There is quite a bit of development here.
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No way. I wish I could go back to the Nexus, but the S4 comes out next week. Not having a replaceable battery or SD expansion is awful when you can only get a 16GB phone. Plus, it's impossible to replace the screen of this phone if it cracks, which is terrible. I won't even get into the absolute lack of development.
Suggestion: wait for the S4 next week.
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Wow. I had my screen replaced just fine.
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Phaded said:
Not finding a different exploit to unlock the bootloader doesn't equal lack of development. There is quite a bit of development here.
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Compared to the Nexus, there might as well not be any development. I'm not impressed with the 5 or so Sense ROMs that are almost never updated and the partially working CM.
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trickster2369 said:
Wow. I had my screen replaced just fine.
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Did you do it yourself?
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Compared to the Nexus, there might as well not be any development. I'm not impressed with the 5 or so Sense ROMs that are almost never updated and the partially working CM.
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Yea, your right. It would be so much better if we had 100 iterations of the same ROM like the gnex.
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Yea, your right. It would be so much better if we had 100 iterations of the same ROM like the gnex.
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Instead we have 5 iterations of the same ROM, and they never get updated. We're so spoiled!
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Compared to the Nexus, there might as well not be any development. I'm not impressed with the 5 or so Sense ROMs that are almost never updated and the partially working CM.
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Did you do it yourself?
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What's the difference? Still not "impossible", as you so matter of factly stated.
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trickster2369 said:
What's the difference? Still not "impossible", as you so matter of factly stated.
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It's pretty much impossible to do yourself. There's a massive difference.
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It's pretty much impossible to do yourself. There's a massive difference.
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Really. When did you do it? Or is that just what you've heard?
I had mine done by a local shop because it broke, and I had to leave town. They had the screen/digitizer together, in stock, so they got my money. 4 hours later, I had my phone back.
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Compared to the Nexus, there might as well not be any development. I'm not impressed with the 5 or so Sense ROMs that are almost never updated and the partially working CM.
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CM is pretty much fully functional now, and we've had at least three ROMs pop up in the past day or two. Expect more with CM up and running.
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I'm pretty happy with the development here... This is coming from a crackflasher with 5 or 6 roms plus Ubuntu on my nexus 7. It's picking up very quickly. Also, I think it's fair to say that the ROMs that haven't been updated recently don't really need updates.
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Really. When did you do it? Or is that just what you've heard?
I had mine done by a local shop because it broke, and I had to leave town. They had the screen/digitizer together, in stock, so they got my money. 4 hours later, I had my phone back.
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Watch any disassembly video of the phone. You have to fully disassemble it just to change the screen.
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Meh, I could careless how the screen comes off. A person like me who takes stuff apart and puts it back together wouldn't mind either. Besides, its not like we are taking apart something that has a million wires inside of it. Most phones that I have had, required to be fully disassembled to get the screen out. This phone is most definitely not the first, or the last. Luckily, I have only had to replace one screen out of my collection of phones.
However, given the price of phones, I would think that people would want to take better care of their phones. Sure accidents happen, but I've seen people break screen, after screen, after screen. Like really? If you are worried about disassembling an entire phone to get the screen out, my advice is don't do anything that would crack your phone screen.
I don't buy phones based on screen durability and screen removal. I buy phones based on what it can do for me.
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Good for you. I'm not buying another phone that screws you in the off chance it does break and doesn't even let you replace the battery. I felt like I was using a damn iPhone the whole time I have had the DNA, and I am eagerly flocking back to Samsung with my 64GB MicroSD and spare battery in hand.
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OP sent you a PM. This thread is about as useless as it gets, I apologize for that.
We generally are a great community as a whole, except for the general section sometimes.
I'll throw my 3ยข in.
Whether it's worth it is up to you. The development of the gnex is awesome BUT it's an almost 2 year old phone running software which didn't exist when it was thought up. No amount of devs are going to be able to make it just that some second faster.
The DNA has that split second. Even unrooted with sense, which is a learning curve it's a great device.
There's some Sense stuff that's annoying but it's a good upgrade for the most part. I'm surprised I'm enjoying it actually.
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I've had quite a few Android devices, including the Galaxy Nexus and Droid RAZR, but this one is by far my favorite. I took a Trophy plus some expensive headphones a while back for my RAZR, and finally emerged from the wilderness of WP7 back into Android. This phone is very smooth, and has a wider range of apps and games available than any others that I've owned, besides the OG Droid. It always frustrated me that I couldn't play some of my old favorite GL games on my newer device, but now I can. I do have a class 10 card so that may make a difference too.
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Personally, I think aokp reinvented this 2 year old phone. Hoping to replace it soon with a gs3 from Verizon if we are lucky.
I tell people there isn't much this phone can't do.
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Personally, I think aokp reinvented this 2 year old phone. Hoping to replace it soon with a gs3 from Verizon if we are lucky.
I tell people there isn't much this phone can't do.
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Yeah I'm running AOKP right now and it is very smooth. Very comparable to the GNexus in most tasks. I've owned one, so trust me, I know.
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Yeah I'm running AOKP right now and it is very smooth. Very comparable to the GNexus in most tasks. I've owned one, so trust me, I know.
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i came from a DX2 and honestly i absolutely love this phone more, this phone is for one much more enjoyable than my dx2 because of the open source, true open source, no locked bootloaders to overcome, and no waiting.
the development for this 2 year old phone is quite awesome! a phone designed to run GB is running AOSP ICS and its running amazingly,i believe & feel that the development for this phone will continue, maybe not for forever, but for a loooooooooooooooong time at least
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i came from a DX2 and honestly i absolutely love this phone more, this phone is for one much more enjoyable than my dx2 because of the open source, true open source, no locked bootloaders to overcome, and no waiting.
the development for this 2 year old phone is quite awesome! a phone designed to run GB is running AOSP ICS and its running amazingly,i believe & feel that the development for this phone will continue, maybe not for forever, but for a loooooooooooooooong time at least
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Yeah I had X2 for a few months, and it was horrible. One true dev, and another few off and on. The software really crippled that phone.
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Yeah I had X2 for a few months, and it was horrible. One true dev, and another few off and on. The software really crippled that phone.
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it wasnt the software that crippled it, it was the way Motorola handled the software by locking down their damned phones. thats the worst of it all
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it wasnt the software that crippled it, it was the way Motorola handled the software by locking down their damned phones. thats the worst of it all
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Yeah that's what I meant. You couldn't remove all the Moto software. Same thing with the RAZR, it bottle-necked like crazy, and you couldn't fix it. All Moto dual-cores seem to do that. It's that jumpy lag that pops up every now and again.
I think it's a good phone overall, but avoid it if you're a heavy GPS user. Now that I've upgraded to a LG Spectrum my Fascinate is freed up to play with. I came from a Droid Eris to the Fascinate and found the Samsung style of android daunting with Odin, PIT files, MTD vs non MTD, Voodoo, multiple versions of CWM. It will make your head spin. My Eris once rooted, all I had to do was throw zips on the SD card and flash them, I didn't have to think about can I go from ROM A to ROM B without soft-bricking the phone etc. One of the best things about the Fascinate was they show up on Cowboom.com from time to time for about $70 with no contract.
My spectrum has a very good screen, but still doesn't have the richness of a Samsung display. One thing I could always hold over the "IClones" that are everywhere when they go on and on about their precious retina display was, ok you have a high pixel density, but you also have a smaller screen, and the colors feel washed out.
My screen is bigger and has colors that POP!
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Yeah that's what I meant. You couldn't remove all the Moto software. Same thing with the RAZR, it bottle-necked like crazy, and you couldn't fix it. All Moto dual-cores seem to do that. It's that jumpy lag that pops up every now and again.
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True, if Motorola would give us the key to unlock the phones then the phone might blow the fascinate out of the water with numerous kernels and everything, but being locked down the Motorola Droid X2 running GB 2.3.5 compared to a stock Fascinate running the same OS the fascinate seems to blow the Droid X2 outta the water IMO. I think blur is a total waste of space on the phone and the kernel being locked is even worse, but this has been said on every human known forum for development on the internet.
I wish Motorola would do what Samsung is doing and providing the phone's being unlocked at the get go, but now that I have Samsung, I'm never going back!
sorry for the long winded rant that kept going back to the fact that Motorola needs to provide an unlock tool without having to buy a new phone without a warranty.
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True, if Motorola would give us the key to unlock the phones then the phone might blow the fascinate out of the water with numerous kernels and everything, but being locked down the Motorola Droid X2 running GB 2.3.5 compared to a stock Fascinate running the same OS the fascinate seems to blow the Droid X2 outta the water IMO. I think blur is a total waste of space on the phone and the kernel being locked is even worse, but this has been said on every human known forum for development on the internet.
I wish Motorola would do what Samsung is doing and providing the phone's being unlocked at the get go, but now that I have Samsung, I'm never going back!
sorry for the long winded rant that kept going back to the fact that Motorola needs to provide an unlock tool without having to buy a new phone without a warranty.
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Its fine, I completely agree.
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the development for this 2 year old phone is quite awesome! a phone designed to run GB is running AOSP ICS
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This phone was designed to run 2.1 eclair when it was released 2 years ago. Which is even more impressive.
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Its fine, I completely agree.
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haha i figured since you've had two up-to-date Motorola phones. If I may ask, why'd you switch from the nexus to (possibly) the fascinate? or even better question, why aren't you using the nexus over the fascinate?
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This phone was designed to run 2.1 eclair when it was released 2 years ago. Which is even more impressive.
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yes sir, that definitely is impressive. I forgot it was designed and released with Eclair 2.1. I just bought the phone and I believe it was on froyo, but then I odin'd it to GB and went straight to ICS.
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haha i figured since you've had two up-to-date Motorola phones. If I may ask, why'd you switch from the nexus to (possibly) the fascinate? or even better question, why aren't you using the nexus over the fascinate?
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yes sir, that definitely is impressive. I forgot it was designed and released with Eclair 2.1. I just bought the phone and I believe it was on froyo, but then I odin'd it to GB and went straight to ICS.
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What I really miss is the Rezound. I traded my Nexus for a RAZR because I thought surely Motorola had improved since the X2. I was wrong, clearly. I ended up trading my RAZR for a Trophy plus some nice headphones then the Trophy for the Fascinate. I'd love a Rezound though lol.
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What I really miss is the Rezound. I traded my Nexus for a RAZR because I thought surely Motorola had improved since the X2. I was wrong, clearly. I ended up trading my RAZR for a Trophy plus some nice headphones then the Trophy for the Fascinate. I'd love a Rezound though lol.
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so you had 4g devices and then traded them for a 3g device? idk if I could do that if I had 4g, I don't know if I'd like a HTC device anymore, I honestly think i'm going to stick with Samsung.
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so you had 4g devices and then traded them for a 3g device? idk if I could do that if I had 4g, I don't know if I'd like a HTC device anymore, I honestly think i'm going to stick with Samsung.
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Don't have 4G coverage in my area so it didn't matter.
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Don't have 4G coverage in my area so it didn't matter.
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that's how I feel, that's why I went with the Fascinate instead of the Nexus or anything 4g.
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that's how I feel, that's why I went with the Fascinate instead of the Nexus or anything 4g.
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May buy another Rezound though, because they just put 4G in my area.
I agree i'm loving the fascinate its a great phone. I have had several other phones, including blackberry witch was a disaster. Fascinate is defiantly one of the best phones i have had.
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Probably on Launch Day.
Nope. The screen will KILL battery life like butter.
Via my Google Galaxy S3 running sweet sweet Jelly Bean
Depends on the off contract price... expecting it to be around 7-8 hundred so probably not.
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Is this thread really necessary?
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Is this thread really necessary?
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I agree we already have the same phone in 2 other threads. Although I sound a bit like a hippocrit since I made a thread on the Japanese version when they had the dlx thread out.
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Nope. The rezound is my last HTC device. They make decent quality stuff, but they refuse to support it. (see tablets) After buying two tabs and getting the shaft, I have made a vow to not buy another HTC product. Not to mention the hoops they make us jump through just to root and rom our phones. They might aswell be dead to me.
/rant off
Delete it then fine by me. I only saw the butterfly thread and was just trying to provide some information.
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1454 said:
Nope. The rezound is my last HTC device. They make decent quality stuff, but they refuse to support it. (see tablets) After buying two tabs and getting the shaft, I have made a vow to not buy another HTC product. Not to mention the hoops they make us jump through just to root and rom our phones. They might aswell be dead to me.
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Ok go get a samsung or moto and have fun with all the locked bootloaders
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Ok go get a samsung or moto and have fun with all the locked bootloaders
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Samsungs is easily bypassable. Which is where I plan on going. And it's not like "htc's unlockable" BL does all that much good. If it did we wouldn't need to s-off.
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Samsungs is easily bypassable. Which is where I plan on going. And it's not like "htc's unlockable" BL does all that much good. If it did we wouldn't need to s-off.
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true about samsung. moto i think has garbage hardware... can i ask what trouble you had with the htc tablets? sounds like a pretty bad experience for you to leave the company
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true about samsung. moto i think has garbage hardware... can i ask what trouble you had with the htc tablets? sounds like a pretty bad experience for you to leave the company
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Well, it started with the many replacements of the tbolt, then HTC's hard stance against updating their tablets kinda pushed me over the edge, then they updated the flyer/view to broken software and they wont even fix it. Now the Rezound is having touchscreen issues. So I'm just tired of dealing with the problems and the lack of OEM support after purchase. I appreciate the Dev community for the zound, but sammy seems to be stronger in that dept. So I think I am going to give them a shot. I won't touch Moto with a ten foot pole. It may be a bad move, but I'm willing to take that risk after all the issues I have had recently with HTC. So for me, from here on out, it's going to be Nexus, or Samsung.
Samsung is worse.
I love my Rez and I still think of it as probably one of the, if not the most undervalued android phone released to date, but I don't see myself going for yet another carrier exclusive device after this. Of course, reviews might be so great for the DNA that I could change my mind but so far I am not that impressed.
Having said that however, the lack of a LTE capable Nexus 4 kinda limits the options for those looking to upgrade atm and I really cant see myself with a Galaxy S device. Wish Sony would be given a chance at penetrating the US market, they seem to strike a fair balance between corporate dev support, hardware and software quality.
I'll be getting this. The hardware and build quality will be top notch, it can be unlocked through HTCs dev website and be able to load cm. It was between this and the note but son, I am dissapoint at it having the older gen exynos and 720p screen on a 5.5 inch screen.
no, my next phone will be honor 2 or note 2
battery is important factor to me now
i dont think i will ever came back to htc
even im sense-boy
Nah, samsung isn't worse.
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Its looking like ill most likely be getting it. I'm thinking ill be getting the DNA and one other new gen phone probably a GSM phone since I have two contracts, one with ATT and one with Verizon.
But I will be more careful than usual with this purchase. I'm currently so broke I can't afford the down payment on a grilled cheese sandwich. But this phone is a priority, and I owe it to the BAMF community. So I've been saving my pennies and will be selling some stuff to raise some funds.
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I cam say that I'll be getting one as well, I'm always into the latest HTC has to offer..
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Nah, samsung isn't worse.
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samsungs radios and signal are 10x worse.
in my house, my gs3 gets about 6kbps download on 3g.
my rezound, when its not pulling 4g in my house (which the nexus and GS3 CAN'T), pulls atleast half a meg to a meg per second. doing anything on the gs3 on 3g is terrible, and ridiculously slow. fb app won't even load. rezound loads it no problem. hell, i even tethered 3 tablets to my rezound last night and while we were all browsing at the same time, ti was STILl faster than my gs3
i don't think i'd buy antoher samsung phone ever again, and i really want the DNA...dunno if i wanna fork out 600 bones for it tohugh
So coming from a nexus 4.... Love the nexus but work is buying me a phone so I figured I wouldn't complain. anyway. Anyone one what the development is going to be like on this phone if we can't achieve S-Off? I was debating between the note and this. Just hoping I didn't make the wrong decision in mod ability.. Since this phone had the nicer specs..
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The Note 2 is more hacker-friendly, it is available on more carriers and will see more dev support.
To be blatantly honest, you made the wrong choice!
I think about it every morning I pick up my DNA, but I knew that's how it would be when I paid for it...
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The Note 2 is more hacker-friendly, it is available on more carriers and will see more dev support.
To be blatantly honest, you made the wrong choice!
I think about it every morning I pick up my DNA, but I knew that's how it would be when I paid for it...
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Dev support should be coming soon. I mean the DNA has only been out for a month or so and the Note 2 has been out for over two months. The dev support might be huge for the note 2 but how many people will actually buy the phone? that big huge phablet i laugh at my dad with it every time i see him on the phone. The phone is not attractive to everyone and will sure not be as big of a hit as the SIII.
Stick with the DNA and enjoy the phone for what it is. I am sure that we will get some dev support sooner or later.
Good phones always do!
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Dev support should be coming soon. I mean the DNA has only been out for a month or so and the Note 2 has been out for over two months. The dev support might be huge for the note 2 but how many people will actually buy the phone? that big huge phablet i laugh at my dad with it every time i see him on the phone. The phone is not attractive to everyone and will sure not be as big of a hit as the SIII.
Stick with the DNA and enjoy the phone for what it is. I am sure that we will get some dev support sooner or later.
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If you have not had a chance, get your hands on a note then mess around with the DNA.
That made up my mind in 1 min with both. I wanted the note 2 sooo badly but the DNA won me over with the awesome screen and the quality of materials. The note2 felt like a cheap toy with a grainy screen. That being said, I would get a note two if I could get one for less than 300$. What I feel it is worth it for me.
Will S-OFF be coming via a kernel though or is that something we will most likely not be able to do. Would really love some AOSP on this phone. nice phone overall... just prefer more of a stock experience.
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Will S-OFF be coming via a kernel though or is that something we will most likely not be able to do. Would really love some AOSP on this phone. nice phone overall... just prefer more of a stock experience.
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You don't get s off from a kernel, you run an exploit, similar to rooting.
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There is a method already. They have achieved soff but it hasnt been released. Still buggy and dangerous. I was told first or sec week of january there will be a full root soff method that htc unlock will not be affected. Ive owned 3 evos all have soff. Ive never even been to the site were you unlock the bootloader. Give it time its being done as we speak. Xmas slows it down.
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There ya go. They discuss on mikmik in the dna section general dev sub section. I knew i read about it somewhere also.
So I had my GS3 for about 3 months before it experienced a 2 foot drop shattering not just the digitizer but the LCD as well. The phone was a good phone, I originally had an Incredible, moved up to the Rezound (which I loved) and then the GS3. What I have learned about Samsung is that the build quality isn't as solid as HTC's (from my experiences). I was thinking about going back to HTC with the DNA.
I just wanted some input from people who own the phone and what their thoughts are about it. Practicality, Functionality, BATTERY LIFE (very important to me) and etc.
Any comments, concerns or suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance
996
For all intensive purposes the battery life is the same, if not slightly better than the s3.
And functionality and practicality is determined by you, we can't answer it for you.
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Battery life, for me, is leaps and bounds above my s3. I NEVER got 5 hours of screen time on the s3.
Please don't touch my "Thanks" button, it doesn't like you...
Hmm. I am surprised to hear that about the battery life. I haven't read too much about the development of the DNA, is there the whole S-On or S-Off thing that the Rez had? haha
Do you guys notice a difference with the Quad core setup? GS3's dual was very quick and responsive.
Our phone is s on for the time being unless you want to send it to someone and have it opened up. But it really doesn't matter. Only things it changes is that we can't change the splash screen and radios and we have to use an app to flash kernels, besides that it is fine.
And it isn't any smoother per say, but i have seen the s3 get laggy every once in a while, that doesn't happen on the DNA. And apps definitely open faster on the DNA. And very intensive games run better.
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Hmm. I am surprised to hear that about the battery life. I haven't read too much about the development of the DNA, is there the whole S-On or S-Off thing that the Rez had? haha
Do you guys notice a difference with the Quad core setup? GS3's dual was very quick and responsive.
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I have the S3 and DNA and the battery life is virtually identical for me. Get about 4 hours screen time on both and about 15 hours with a full charge. I have the quad core S3 (international version) and the difference in performance is noticeable. On my S3 (which has 1gb of Ram) I would get lots of redraws on the home screen. Sure custom Rom's/kernels helped but did not totally resolve them. On the DNA I see no redraws or lag. Overall I enjoy the experience of the DNA more than I do my S3 so unless I am going on a long trip, my S3 stays in my desk drawer.
thank you guys for the replies. My main concern is S-Off, I know on the rezzy it made a huge difference (way easier to flash kernels/roms and etc.) Hopefully it isn't as complicated here with S-On. And I'm glad to hear about the battery life. I will most probably be purchasing one soon.
Definitely going to invest in good case.
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only thing I am concerned about is not having an SD card slot. -__-
With s on you flash roms like any other phone, and kernels you use an app called flash image gui to flash the boot.img then you just flash the modules in recovery.
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996 said:
thank you guys for the replies. My main concern is S-Off, I know on the rezzy it made a huge difference (way easier to flash kernels/roms and etc.) Hopefully it isn't as complicated here with S-On. And I'm glad to hear about the battery life. I will most probably be purchasing one soon.
Definitely going to invest in good case.
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only thing I am concerned about is not having an SD card slot. -__-
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I was concerned about not having an sd slot. But then I tried Google music and haven't looked back sense.
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So I had my GS3 for about 3 months before it experienced a 2 foot drop shattering not just the digitizer but the LCD as well. The phone was a good phone, I originally had an Incredible, moved up to the Rezound (which I loved) and then the GS3. What I have learned about Samsung is that the build quality isn't as solid as HTC's (from my experiences). I was thinking about going back to HTC with the DNA.
I just wanted some input from people who own the phone and what their thoughts are about it. Practicality, Functionality, BATTERY LIFE (very important to me) and etc.
Any comments, concerns or suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance
996
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Lol if battery life is a concern you are definitely looking at the wrong phone. If anyone tells you different they are in denial. Htc, along with every reviewer on the net about the Dna have all acknowledged the poor performance of the battery.
If you are looking for the best phone out, the note 2 absolutely destroys the DNA. The only thing the dna has over the note 2 is screen resolution.... on paper lol. The note 2 screen is amazing. Honestly just grab one and take a look. Add in the amazing software ( split screen, pop up browser, pop up note and pop up movie player that can all be on the screen at the same time), spen, redonkulous battery life, sd card slot, ability to replace battery and amazing support and you have greatest phone on the market. Hope this helps!
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Lol if battery life is a concern you are definitely looking at the wrong phone. If anyone tells you different they are in denial. Htc, along with every reviewer on the net about the Dna have all acknowledged the poor performance of the battery.
If you are looking for the best phone out, the note 2 absolutely destroys the DNA. The only thing the dna has over the note 2 is screen resolution.... on paper lol. The note 2 screen is amazing. Honestly just grab one and take a look. Add in the amazing software ( split screen, pop up browser, pop up note and pop up movie player that can all be on the screen at the same time), spen, redonkulous battery life, sd card slot, ability to replace battery and amazing support and you have greatest phone on the market. Hope this helps!
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Oh god here we go again...
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The battery life on this phone is great. I had a Galaxy Nexus originally and then switched from the Note 2 to this.
If you want to carry that thing around in your pocket all day be my guest but I am much happier with the DNA compared to the Note.
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Our phone is s on for the time being unless you want to send it to someone and have it opened up. But it really doesn't matter. Only things it changes is that we can't change the splash screen and radios and we have to use an app to flash kernels, besides that it is fine.
And it isn't any smoother per say, but i have seen the s3 get laggy every once in a while, that doesn't happen on the DNA. And apps definitely open faster on the DNA. And very intensive games run better.
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ummm and the fact that we only have garbage sense roms, like all 5 of them in total, which are basically just the same thing.
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ummm and the fact that we only have garbage sense roms, like all 5 of them in total, which are basically just the same thing.
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And that is your opinion. Most people consider sense the nicest looking manufacture skin our there.
And show me something like viper tweaks on a touchwiz Rom, oh wait, you can't.
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And that is your opinion. Most people consider sense the nicest looking manufacture skin our there.
And show me something like viper tweaks on a touchwiz Rom, oh wait, you can't.
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This is why I will never buy another HTC phone, the people who buy HTC phones on here do so for the crap sense rom, and will argue with everyone that its the greatest piece of software out there. I buy my phone because of the hardware, and want AOSP as my rom, not this sense crap.
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The battery life on this phone is great. I had a Galaxy Nexus originally and then switched from the Note 2 to this.
If you want to carry that thing around in your pocket all day be my guest but I am much happier with the DNA compared to the Note.
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Lol its funny that your phone seems to be the anomaly. Everyone, including HTC THEMSELVES, have acknowledged the poor battery performance. Just look at the size of your battery vs. The amount of pixels the dna is pushing. Do the math man there is reason everyone ( except for a few in denial dna owners) has pointed to the battery peeformance. Living in denial my friend. If you like your dna, kudos to you. Enjoy carrying that phone charger around all day.
If the only bad thing you can say about the note 2 is the size thats a personal thing. Im 5 11 and this phone fits in my hand and pocket beautifully. My girlfriend is 5 5 and she has no problem what so ever with the note. That speaks dividends to how great the note is if the only bad thing you can say about it is the size. Note 2 ftw
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This is why I will never buy another HTC phone, the people who buy HTC phones on here do so for the crap sense rom, and will argue with everyone that its the greatest piece of software out there. I buy my phone because of the hardware, and want AOSP as my rom, not this sense crap.
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Than go buy a nexus.
You should never buy a phone that you don't like stock, because for all you know it may never have aosp. If you don't like sense than don't buy HTC phones, same goes for touchwiz, or any other phone with a skin. Its simple as that.
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Than go buy a nexus.
You should never buy a phone that you don't like stock, because for all you know it may never have aosp. If you don't like sense than don't buy HTC phones, same goes for touchwiz, or any other phone with a skin. Its simple as that.
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trust me, if Verizon had the nexus4 I would have bought it in a heartbeat.
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And that is your opinion. Most people consider sense the nicest looking manufacture skin our there.
And show me something like viper tweaks on a touchwiz Rom, oh wait, you can't.
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Umm....no. are you serious? Look at the polls around net of touchwiz vs. Sense vs. stock. Most people prefer stock, then touchwiz and lastly sense. One of the biggest drawbacks of sense is the recent app drawer. Its beyond puzzling. Why would take up entire screen to see recent apps, including cutting away the app drawer, pull down menu and home screen? Very inefficient.
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Umm....no. are you serious? Look at the polls around net of touchwiz vs. Sense vs. stock. Most people prefer stock, then touchwiz and lastly sense. One of the biggest drawbacks of sense is the recent app drawer. Its beyond puzzling. Why would take up entire screen to see recent apps, including cutting away the app drawer, pull down menu and home screen? Very inefficient.
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Oh really, this is the first link that came up when I searched for a poll, and most others echo its results.
http://www.phonedog.com/2012/07/25/which-android-skin-is-your-favorite-poll/
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Just curious if anyone came from a Galaxy S III (AT&T) to the Optimus G (AT&T). Thoughts, regrets, etc. I know development is much more active on the S3, but if given the choice, would it be worth trading up/across from the S3 to the OG?
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I did. My S3 and the sidewalk got in a fight. Sidewalk won.
So I sold the S3, got the OG, and love it. Yeah, I wish development was better but even on ICS, this phone runs smoother than my S3 ever did. And deveopment is getting there so just gotta wait I guess.
Not to mention, battery life is a million times better on the OG. God I hated my S3 in that regard....
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I did. No regrets.
Not directly but I can tell you I wouldn't trade my LGOG for an S3.
I ha've an S3 on sprint for work and although battery life is better (no LTE) I would never get the att. Version over the lgog. It's a trade up. Screen is better and it performs faster even in eco mode.
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erwaso said:
I ha've an S3 on sprint for work and although battery life is better (no LTE) I would never get the att. Version over the lgog. It's a trade up. Screen is better and it performs faster even in eco mode.
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Dual core to quad core. Can't match the performance lol.
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I did and I don't have anything bad to say about the s3, still have it, not that its in the same league but still was a great phone. I have 3 lines, seems I'm due for another upgrade now on one so decisions... Don't know if I'll go to the pro, s4 or something else but no rush with the og being as nice as it is.
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HTC one is the way to go
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HTC one is the way to go
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If you can get one. HTC has fallen so far that they have major supply chain problems.
And if you want to pay through the nose for a lot of storage, since it doesn't have an sd card...
And if you want to put up with HTC's BS in terms of unlocking bootloaders/s-off...
Tough call in my opinion.
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Thanks for all the feedback so far.
I have an upgrade available this year, but I may have the opportunity to swap my S3 for the OG without using my upgrade, hence my question.
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Thanks for all the feedback so far.
I have an upgrade available this year, but I may have the opportunity to swap my S3 for the OG without using my upgrade, hence my question.
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would I burn an upgrade on this phone today? No. Would I swap hell yes.
With the S4 and the One on the horizon especially.
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And if you want to pay through the nose for a lot of storage, since it doesn't have an sd card...
And if you want to put up with HTC's BS in terms of unlocking bootloaders/s-off...
Tough call in my opinion.
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$650 for unlocked LTE 64 GB storage isn't through the nose though...
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$650 for unlocked LTE 64 GB storage isn't through the nose though...
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Yeah, that isn't as high as I would have guessed. Cool.
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I came from a s3 and iPhone 5 to a Optimus G and My old Motorola Atrix ..Samsung Bloatware is too much and became boring
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came from a tmobile note 2
Well I'm new here and came from a note 2. yeah, the note 2 was pretty cool but this phone is definitely more powerful. much faster, more fluid, better screen. Oh my gosh, the screen on this thing is amazing. I can see clearly in direct sun light now. this thing has amazing viewing angles and color reproduction. it makes AMOLED look like crap. I sold the note 2 because of dust getting under the lens. I read some more about people even getting dust under the screen. i decided to sell it and buy some cool stuff. Got the LGOG, a roku box, an android tablet, and a router with the money I got from that thing. Best deal ever. Why is this phone's price so low on ebay? This phone is seriously underrated. With this price development should be booming. It's better than the nexus 4 if you ask me (sd card) plus the ability to convert it to a nexus 4 if you really want to. I can't believe i didn't sell the note 2 the day I walked out of the tmobile store knowing this beast was out.
S3 was a great phone but comparison on pure CPU speed the lgog has raw power! I think my switch from S3 to LGOG was worth the gamble being not an LG fanboy. I always said I will only get Samsung or HTC devices... Well I guess LG is on the list now! Lol
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S3 was a great phone but comparison on pure CPU speed the lgog has raw power! I think my switch from S3 to LGOG was worth the gamble being not an LG fanboy. I always said I will only get Samsung or HTC devices... Well I guess LG is on the list now! Lol
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A quad core for $99, uh yeah, I jumped fence. I have had two Samsung Galaxy phones (Captivate I897 & SG2 I777) and between having to constantly kill the tethering app, the eEMC bricking problems, the crappy firmware updates that caused more problems on top of the ones the phone already had.......sharpened my baby teeth learning about Android on Samsung. With the LG I actually have a phone that works without having to mess with it all the time. What a concept, a phone that makes calls, has a battery that doesn't drain like crazy, doesn't have random SOD, etc.
The only thing that REALLY bugs me on the LG is the quality of the sound, well actually lack of sound, when listening to music. Music is flat and lacks depth. I just use my SG2 as glorified mp3 player.
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would I burn an upgrade on this phone today? No. Would I swap hell yes.
With the S4 and the One on the horizon especially.
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$650 for unlocked LTE 64 GB storage isn't through the nose though...
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The Atrix HD is in a similar situation. Locked down but has a developer edition out. Yet no one is doing anything for it. While you may be able to buy an unlocked one, you run the risk of being the only person doing anything for it with no help. Even then, if you lack the skills to make something for it, you'd be stuck hoping for a decent dev to join the scene. By the time someone even gets around to starting something for it, newer and better devices will probably be released and leave the HTC One without anything. Locked devices + the option to spend extra on an unlocked one is pointless IMHO.
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Neroga said:
The Atrix HD is in a similar situation. Locked down but has a developer edition out. Yet no one is doing anything for it. While you may be able to buy an unlocked one, you run the risk of being the only person doing anything for it with no help. Even then, if you lack the skills to make something for it, you'd be stuck hoping for a decent dev to join the scene. By the time someone even gets around to starting something for it, newer and better devices will probably be released and leave the HTC One without anything. Locked devices + the option to spend extra on an unlocked one is pointless IMHO.
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The One is identical hardware internationally as far as I know, so an unlocked dev edition would be ok. I could be wrong, but I see your point.
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The One is identical hardware internationally as far as I know, so an unlocked dev edition would be ok. I could be wrong, but I see your point.
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Same thing with the AHD. Yet it's still dead there lol.
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