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Hello,
As a former HTC EVO3D Owner from the "First to Buy" opportunity in June before Sprint sold their soul to get the iPhone and before that an EVO 4G, I gotta say I absolutely am blown away by the Photon. I was quite intrigued by it when it was released, but Sprint staggered the release so that it was past 30 Days between when the 2 Phones were released.
I had so many issues with my 3D that I literally had 4 Replacement Handsets sent. I was finally so fed up that I told them either give me a Photon or I am cancelling.
The one thing I did not want to do is give up my last Annual Upgrade which they offered to move up if I paid $55 due to LTE coming and actually having a real chance of Nationwide availability.
Back to the Photon, while it took about 45 minutes to get used to the UI, I am really liking this phone more and more each day. And the Speaker is absurdly better than the one in the 3D. As in I can finally hear Netflix and all the Music on my Phone.
While I hope there is an official ICS Release, there are obviously ways around it. Moreover, with the vastly better Call Quality, Speaker, and just how much better it works in low signal strength areas, I am pretty much positive I will be getting whatever Motorola LTE device that comes out around June. Hopefully, it will be similar to the Razr.
It is weird, I have been with Sprint since 1999 and one of my all time favorite Phones was the StarTac I had around a decade ago. Unfortunately, my ex GF's Dog took it and digged a hole in the Yard. (found years later) Since then, there have been very few Motorola Handsets. I can only hope Sprint maintains at least cordial relations with Moto.
Cheers,
JJ
Welcome dude! You think its fast now, try unlocking and running CM7/CM9(ics) it will blow your mind. I'm pretty sure it's getting an official ICS update but the ics build we have now is phenomenal even at alpha stage.
kennypow3rs said:
Welcome dude! You think its fast now, try unlocking and running CM7/CM9(ics) it will blow your mind. I'm pretty sure it's getting an official ICS update but the ics build we have now is phenomenal even at alpha stage.
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Hello,
Thanx for the welcome. I am planning on Rooting and running CM7 this Weekend.
Cheers,
JJ
Jungle Jack said:
Hello,
Thanx for the welcome. I am planning on Rooting and running CM7 this Weekend.
Cheers,
JJ
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Ive been switching between CM7 and CM9 back and forth but CM7 is my daily driver. ICS is coming along nicely I must say. Don't forget you lose 4G when you unlock your device
kennypow3rs said:
Ive been switching between CM7 and CM9 back and forth but CM7 is my daily driver. ICS is coming along nicely I must say. Don't forget you lose 4G when you unlock your device
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Welcome! Hang out! I'm rooted, but not unlocked. Funny Kenny, I had my Evo for a year, I got Photon August 2nd 2011. I have used 4G EXACTLY 3 times!!!
Hello,
My most sincerest thanks again for the warm welcome. I have been with Sprint since 1999 and must say this is my favorite Handset by a Country Mile. Next comes Rooting and all that fun stuff.
I also love that when using ADW EX that the Motorola Widgets are available whereas the HTC Sense Widgets are not. And the difference with 4G staying connected is amazing. I was in Tampa/St. Pete today and the Photon never dropped Wimax whereas the 3D constantly did.
Cheers,
J
I am also coming from the evo 3d, I've had the photon for about a week now and it is really a great phone there are only a few things o don't like but can deal with it
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NewYorkChic said:
I am also coming from the evo 3d, I've had the photon for about a week now and it is really a great phone there are only a few things o don't like but can deal with it
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Out of curiosity, what don't you like about it?
Not to hijack but I'm totally opposite OP. Coming from Evo4g I think the Photon is a POS...I've had 3 replacements (reboot issues) and the 3rd still has trouble...mind you, all my issues are in heavy roam/no signal areas which I believe to be the factor but these probs didn't exist for my evo.
However, I recently flashed jokers cm9/ics and can vouch for Kenny's claims...this rom is sick as hell and so far my phone feels like a new unit. No crashes or issues yet in my roaming state, I can only cross my fingers at this point.
I'll likely jump ship if the Nexus hits anytime soon.
@cclarck, nothing personal, but do you think maybe it's you? you stated you flashed it, maybe your area does not like your radio? You also stated roaming?
Just saying. I have been reading for @ week on the Nexus, not impressed at all. (and if you have problems with Photon, good luck with the Samsung!)
Me specifically? No I don't believe so...now my photon in relation to my area...yes most likely. As you can see I'm a lurker but I have quite a bit of experience trying new roms/kernels on all my phones but the Photon has been nothing but frustrations to this point. That being said, it's not like there was a disclaimer on the Photon when I upgraded saying that it's radio would be complete sh!t compared to my evo while roaming, all while causing shutdowns requiring a battery pull/plugin.
I'd like to reinforce that cm9/ics so far is phenomenal, but 2 days soak is hardly extensive testing yet...
edit: Oh and I am certainly very scared to go to a Sammy, I think their build quality is the worst and I hate the plastic feel. My main reason for jumping aside from my photon history is wanting that huge screen; and I like the nex over the touch. Sprint needs more phones =(
If you want a huge screen skip the galaxy nexus and wait for the galaxy note. Sprint's definitely getting and that screen is even bigger. If you don't know what the galaxy note is check this out....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfMmMrUwRnI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
kennypow3rs said:
If you want a huge screen skip the galaxy nexus and wait for the galaxy note. Sprint's definitely getting and that screen is even bigger. If you don't know what the galaxy note is check this out....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfMmMrUwRnI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I'm not a fan of Samsung, but that will make this brother walk the plank and see ya!!
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I'm not a fan of Samsung, but that will make this brother walk the plank and see ya!!
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Yeah I don't like sammy either but this phone looks cool. I'm not going to get it as my contract expires this Feb. I may move my 2 lines somewhere else don't know yet. Sprints future looks promising with lte and all the hot devices launching but I simply can't wait till 2013 lol. I want to go back to gsm so I can swap sim cards as I please lol. God I hate cdma! I'm thinking att, definitely not t-mobile I worked there previously for almost 4 years. (I hate those bastards)
I've had att and never ever again, I've been through every carrier and they were the most frustrating with dropped calls and such. Unfortunately, my area is predominately Verizon but I missed the grandfathered data so no thanks to that too.
I dunno, every phone has it's fan base that disses on other brands and what-not so I get it. I haven't had Sammy experience since the Incredibad so maybe their build quality is better than I give credit...I def see a love/hate for every brand though, not just sammy.
I was in love with my photon when I first had it, even ignoring all the launch issues and replacements but it all eventually wore me down to never wanting a moto again =(
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Yeah I don't like sammy either but this phone looks cool. I'm not going to get it as my contract expires this Feb. I may move my 2 lines somewhere else don't know yet. Sprints future looks promising with lte and all the hot devices launching but I simply can't wait till 2013 lol. I want to go back to gsm so I can swap sim cards as I please lol. God I hate cdma! I'm thinking att, definitely not t-mobile I worked there previously for almost 4 years. (I hate those bastards)
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Oh I'm gonna get it, day one, full price!!! I just hope they drop it before summer!! And it may be GSM/CDMA, who knows. @ the poster before me, yes all phones have their good and bad and you have individuals that talk negative about other phones, but each phone I look up, EVERYONE has a negative comment on Sammy's radios!! EVERYONE!!
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I've had att and never ever again, I've been through every carrier and they were the most frustrating with dropped calls and such. Unfortunately, my area is predominately Verizon but I missed the grandfathered data so no thanks to that too.
I dunno, every phone has it's fan base that disses on other brands and what-not so I get it. I haven't had Sammy experience since the Incredibad so maybe their build quality is better than I give credit...I def see a love/hate for every brand though, not just sammy.
I was in love with my photon when I first had it, even ignoring all the launch issues and replacements but it all eventually wore me down to never wanting a moto again =(
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Perhaps you may want to look into this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211157
It's a bit of a pain to set up at first but once you do it's worth it. My calls drop all the time in my apartment with Sprint, but not at all using a Verizon PRL.
There's a danger of roaming too much and getting noticed by Sprint, but for most people it seems to take 3+ months for Sprint to notice, and even then you'll more than likely receive a warning letter first.
I've been using this over over 6 months and I've gotten 1 warning letter but when I inquired about it with a Sprint chat rep, he said I was not in danger of being cut.
So YMVM, but it'd help at least short-term.
Hello,
For some reason, I cannot stand Samsung. This extends to their TV's and other Home Theater Components. I am a Moderator on a Moderator on a AV Forum with close to 100,000 Members and find it hard to recommend them.
For whatever reason, I lump them in with Hyundai (I must say they have made huge strides over the past years since the $3,999 Hyundai Excel) Regardless, I tend to prefer the Japanese and American Companies. I know everything is manufactured in China or Malaysia.
Cheers,
JJ
I am ALSO Rooted but NOT Unlocked. My area is Saturated with 4G and I use it ALOT. I have Unlimited Mobile Hotspot (GrandFathered in since I have been a customer since 1997) and use it on my Samsung Galaxy Player5.0 and HTC EVO View 4G (while out and about). I only use WiFi on the HTC EVO View (Did Not want ANOTHER Data Contract) and just Tether to my Photon.
Hey guys
I wanted to pick up an iPhone clone running android, pretty much just to mess with people and customers. I saw online a few that were running 2.2 and 2.3 but was wondering if anyone had any experience upgrading them to ICS or if there was a specific iClone I should be looking for that can be flashed with an ICS rom. There are videos and articles out there showing it running but none have specifics on which clone it is. Any help would be appreciated. I'll probably pick up on next week so if there is anything I need to pull from the system I can do that as well.
Thanks
Found one! I plan on picking this up in the next couple weeks. I'll update when I receive it and can get to fooling around with it. Should be funny.
If anyone else is interested in messing around with one
http://www.ahappydeal.com/product-84072.html
They also have a bunch of other android knockoff devices that could be cool to mess around with
Haha, that is awesome!
I've been looking to do the exact same. Please keep us updated.
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Thread bump for success. Bought a hero h2000+ on Amazon for 200 to mess around with. I've been surprisingly happy with it considering its cost and components. Sure I could get a nexus 4 for not much more but I wouldn't be able to make fun of my ifan friends with it. I'll update soon with pics and some performance stats
Well this is it for me and the Rezound guys. I just bought a used Galaxy Nexus off Swappa. I needed something more stable that has official Jelly Bean support and this was my only answer. I plan to leave Verizon in May when my contract is finally up and switch to T-Mo like all the cool kids are doing these days. It's been a hell of a ride with this device and I have never regretted it since the day I bought the Rez I knew it was a better device, but its quirks and its growing instability with JB has made it a tough move for me. I am beyond impressed with the community here (I've been over to the Galaxy forums and man are they all over the place). However I will deal with that for now. I want to thank every single dev that ever did any work on this phone it has made the experience much more incredible than I though it would have been. To the community thanks again this has been my home for almost two years daily checking roms, reading posts and interacting with you guys has been great and I thank you all for that as well. I guess I will see what I missed on the Nexus front and what I didn't as well. Sincerely guys thanks and to all the devs still here keep up your work I may not be using it from here on but so many of us have counted on you guys to bring a real up to date experience for the REZ. Take care REZ community.:good:
Do you think it's because the phone is expensive? I know devs don't go towards cheap phones, but what is more popular. Strange to see that sites like phonedog have a voting system in the highest rated phones, and the n3 is at the top, yet we at sprint n3, have minimal activity in the development section. I'm guessing it's more because the phone is expensive than because it's not been on the market very long. No, I'm not trolling, I'm asking a honest question AND trying to get more conversation going in this section.
Too bad Calkulin went to att. Sprint performance in his country, finally got to him and he went to HTC the last I heard. His roms were my favorite. I still am thankful there are people out there hacking away for the sprint variant of this phone.
Looks like in the sprint s4 section, they are just starting to remove Knox out of the boot loader... I hope we get there.
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Too bad Calkulin went to att. Sprint performance in his country, finally got to him and he went to HTC the last I heard. His roms were my favorite. I still am thankful there are people out there hacking away for the sprint variant of this phone.
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A lot of activity on the international side for the N3. Some will hope fully spill over.
I'm hoping it's only because they are still trying to get the OTA and Knox all figured out...
I think it's because the high end phones are coming out too often for everyone to keep up. Unless you have the money to spend on a phone out of contract you have to wait until you are up for a new upgrade. There is only once instance where I saw that a DEV had a bounty thread made for him so he can get the phone and port AOSP/CM.
Someone will step up sooner or later. It may take a little while but we will get some old talent or new talent to start banging out some roms. Besideds, if you've seen on TW rom you've pretty much seen them all. They all have the same mods pretty much so it just comes down to the Theme which you can sort of do yourself with things like Xposed.
I'm cool on stock based TW for now...you know that when AOSP drops there will be the usual issues....GPS, LTE, MMS/SMS...blah blah
This is how the S4 forums were when that phone came out... The devs are just figuring out knox
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When did the n3 come out? I've only had mine a week.
The first week of October. So it's been out a little over a month now. I got my s4 about a month and a half to two months after release. Answered my own question.
Hey guys, I am not sure if many over here know me, or if those that knew me are still around. But it'd be cool to see a few familiar faces again. I am back, after a long time. Not saying I will be checking in regularly, as I got busy IRL, but it'd be nice to see some familiar names there...
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Hey guys, I am not sure if many over here know me, or if those that knew me are still around. But it'd be cool to see a few familiar faces again. I am back, after a long time. Not saying I will be checking in regularly, as I got busy IRL, but it'd be nice to see some familiar names there...
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Well, howdy, LT! It's been a while. How's it going? You can't see my face, but if you look to the left, you can see my avatar
Are you still using the Dinc4g? I'm still quite content with mine. Nothing out there has me in the least bit excited to go to anything else. A co-worker has the new M8. Nice specs, but that sucker's HUGE.
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Well, howdy, LT! It's been a while. How's it going? You can't see my face, but if you look to the left, you can see my avatar
Are you still using the Dinc4g? I'm still quite content with mine. Nothing out there has me in the least bit excited to go to anything else. A co-worker has the new M8. Nice specs, but that sucker's HUGE.
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Yup! I am still with the Dinc4G alright. It is sweet, and running latest CM 11, 4.4.2 KitKat. This is definitely the best phone I have had so far. Sure not the best out there, but pretty good. And the only phone (of the 3 I had so far) that can run CM almost bug free (apart from rare reboots). So I am quite content.
But later this year, when the new Nexus is out, I will be jumping ship to AT&T and get on the Nexus train!
Btw, I may actually go to AT&T before getting the nexus. Will the Dinc4G work with AT&T? It is a world phone, so it has all the bands right? I used it once in India with the local (Airtel) network and it worked... I dunno
Wow... It has been over 1.5 years since I had this phone, and I hardly noticed! That is a sign of a good phone folks! No needs to gets the latest and greatest y'all! I am very happy with this phone, so happy that I stopped bothering updating CM for a long time, since last July/August and only recently updated to 4.3 (April) and then updated to 4.4.2 yesterday! Call me lazy but CM 10.2.1 with Jellybean 4.2 was quite good!
I added you on G+
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I added you on G+
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Thanks, I added you back. But alas I do not use G+. I just use FB. No matter how hard Google tries none of my friends are using G+ too much, and one of them even works for Google! LOL! :laugh:
SO sad... these forums feel like a ghost town! No one messing with this phone anymore or what?
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SO sad... these forums feel like a ghost town! No one messing with this phone anymore or what?
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Yeah. It's pretty quiet. My guess is that those of us who still use it have settled in nicely with their ROM of choice and are happy as can be. Based on your post above, I'm tempted to try the CM with KitKat, but I'm still quite happy with ViperLTE... Hmm. Maybe tomorrow
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Yeah. It's pretty quiet. My guess is that those of us who still use it have settled in nicely with their ROM of choice and are happy as can be. Based on your post above, I'm tempted to try the CM with KitKat, but I'm still quite happy with ViperLTE... Hmm. Maybe tomorrow
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I personally don't use this phone anymore, but I passed mine to my daughter and I keep it updated with the latest cm11 even nightlies still... Old habits lol
It's really smooth and makes me miss this device
Just letting you know, it's been rumored that the nexus line is dead now. I don't know if they will continue with the GPE devices. The GPE devices are just as good as the nexus in my opinion. Just a different name. The HTC One M8 has a GPE on their site.
apart from that ... fireball isn't completely dead (with regards to dev'ing) yet ... just the most recent dev work (kernel & rom) updates are still "behind the scenes" in coding and testing => before another release
cheers
Yay! People woke up and responded to this thread. :victory: I doubt the nexus line is dead, as it is quite a popular device, slowly gaining more traction and often sold out online. My brother told me the next Nexus device is rumored to be 5.5 inches big so I dunno. It seems odd that it will be killed off, although it is just as strange that they have not released an upgraded model for the Nexus 10. It is soo difficult to tell with Google as they are so fickle, quick with axing services and products. Hope the nexus lineup continues or at least Google Play Editions continue, it makes little sense to kill it off as it is one of Google's answer to fragmentation.
I am soon jumping ship to AT&T so that I can finally pick Google Play edition/Nexus phones! But I believe this rock solid phone being a global phone can work on AT&T? At least get 3G? What is the catch there?
litetaker said:
I am soon jumping ship to AT&T so that I can finally pick Google Play edition/Nexus phones! But I believe this rock solid phone being a global phone can work on AT&T? At least get 3G? What is the catch there?
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using it on another carrier _should_ be no prob, just set-up your APNs accordingly. but as for the radio:
* 4G LTE is (unfortunately) 700MHz _only_! (even if the chip itself is 4G multiband capable) = so NO worldwide usable 4G LTE >.<
* 3.5G / HSPA modes are rather instable so that it usually falls-back to regular 3G from my experience
* but those regular 3G as well as all 2.5G etc modes (GPRS / EDGE) are really stable and good for whatever usage.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/0...e-for-new-android-silver-program-says-report/ may or may not be true, aside from that Kimba99 is doing a good job on Sense Roms. He's been working on it nearly everyday! Good job bud!