I finally gave up on this phone and couldn't feel better about it. Got it under a 2-year contract via Amazon less than a year ago, and now trading it back into Amazon and buying a Nexus 6 (which is discounted by $400 right now). In the end, I'll be out about $100. But it's worth it in my view to get an actually stable, functional, and supported device.
I won't have to worry about constant overheating, unstable (but dang good looking) picture taking, and terrible battery life issues (4 hours chews through 60% of my charge) any more.
I should have gotten rid of it months ago, when Sony took 59 days to do an in-warranty repair (for constant over heating and poor battery life). Even then, they only sent me a new phone (not a refurb, but a new unit, which surprised me) after I threatened to take them to local court to get my phone back. The new one is starting to have the same issues as the old, and I don't want to go another 2 months of paying for a cell plan while waiting for Sony to make empty promises about 'eventually' repairing my phone.
Speaking of empty promises, I am so looking forward to having a phone that actually receives some semblance of support from the manufacturer. I might lose on this, but I'd make a bet that Lollipop is never coming via OTA update to the Z3v, and I'm sick of waiting. I hope I'm wrong, but I won't have to worry about it in the end. I'll miss the waterproofing, and the 20MP+ camera, but I'll exchange that for a functional, supported, multi-carrier, device.
See you all on the forums, and good luck!
I feel u. I've been waiting on OTA update and they never released it. Same reason y I'm rooted on ? 509. Build. They prob never release it for z3v but I'm just waiting on any new info on roms. ??
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I finally gave up on this phone and couldn't feel better about it. Got it under a 2-year contract via Amazon less than a year ago, and now trading it back into Amazon and buying a Nexus 6 (which is discounted by $400 right now). In the end, I'll be out about $100. But it's worth it in my view to get an actually stable, functional, and supported device.
I won't have to worry about constant overheating, unstable (but dang good looking) picture taking, and terrible battery life issues (4 hours chews through 60% of my charge) any more.
I should have gotten rid of it months ago, when Sony took 59 days to do an in-warranty repair (for constant over heating and poor battery life). Even then, they only sent me a new phone (not a refurb, but a new unit, which surprised me) after I threatened to take them to local court to get my phone back. The new one is starting to have the same issues as the old, and I don't want to go another 2 months of paying for a cell plan while waiting for Sony to make empty promises about 'eventually' repairing my phone.
Speaking of empty promises, I am so looking forward to having a phone that actually receives some semblance of support from the manufacturer. I might lose on this, but I'd make a bet that Lollipop is never coming via OTA update to the Z3v, and I'm sick of waiting. I hope I'm wrong, but I won't have to worry about it in the end. I'll miss the waterproofing, and the 20MP+ camera, but I'll exchange that for a functional, supported, multi-carrier, device.
See you all on the forums, and good luck!
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enjoy your new phone.. Im sorry about sony if they had my phone for 59 days man thats so bad..I have had my camera say it was hot once when I was running a custom macro mode for like 5 mins that's it. this phone does not have overheating problems I'm sorry you got a crappy one. My Phone has Been on for 10 hours today with maybe 90 mins on screen time I have 90% battery left so..
Wow, what a bad experience you had. It's amazing the drastic differences in experience users can have with the same device. I'm sorry your experience was so terrible. I got my Z3v at launch in October of 2014. While I am beyond frustration (hatred really) for Verizon and the way they screwed us over and lied about this phone to us, it is really the best device I've ever owned. Unbelievable battery life, OS stability, camera etc. Never had a single issue. I really wish everyone who had this phone had the same good luck as I have had. I keep looking at getting a new or different phone, but really this phone does 95% of what I need it to do 100% of the time. It's reliable. It's hard to imagine I could do better in this regard. My brother and nephew have the same phone and they have the same experience as I do. Wish you did too.
I would probably feel just as you do under the same circumstances, so far my Z3v has been a good phone...that is my second one has been. The first one had a on/off button failure after about 6 months and I got a replacement.
I read once that the phone manufacturers are under enough pressure to produce the phones while at the same time getting ready for the next generation of phones that quality control is almost a thing of the past. It's similar to a story told to me by my ex-wife's sister. She worked in Quality Control at Gateway Computers during their peak times. They got so busy that the QC workers only had time enough to boot a system but not take it through any quality checks before shipping. They called themselves the "Boot and Scoot Department".
I had the Z3v and cracked it somehow, so I replaced it with the Nexus 6p. 3 updates already on the 6p in 2 months and only 1 minor update on the Z3v in 1 year - smh.
Most of the blame goes to Big Head Red. I blame Sony a little bit for allowing Big Head Red to control their phones. Apple, Sammie, LG and Moto won't allow Big Head Red that much control.
If something happened to my Z3v, I'd immediately get the Nexus 6P. I will never buy a phone from Verizon again.
Have to agree these phones are buggy, little things that make you want to get rid of them i.e. USB door rubber seal wearing out, camera getting hot, no updates, bootloader locked, volume button and on/off button flaws.
But that said, if the Z5 would work on VZW I would dump this one and grab a Z5.
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Im new to this forum but I thought I would get everybodys opinion. Im on my 3rd Prime and by far the best sample out of 3 that I have had. My return window closes on Wednesday. My first two were unacceptable with several dead pixels and light bleed. This 3rd one has almost no light bleed, no dead pixels, and works great besides the software hiccups with all of them. But my almost the whole bottom half maybe a 3rd of the way up has a slight yellow tinge to it. Its not noticable unless you are really comparing top to bottom but once you do notice its apparent. Does anybody know if this is a adhesive drying issue? If not should I deal with it and keep or save my $500 for something better down the road?
It really up to you, can you live with it? Or is it one of those things that since youve noticed it, its the only thing you see? And how confident and patient are you with the software hiccups?
For me I went throught 3 primes... actually almost 4 but I canceled the last shipment to get my money back. I didnt want to kick myself in the ass if I settled for a tablet with so many issues. I really expected to buy a tablet that I dont have to worry about. The TF201 looked very good on the prerelease, but when made available to the public it had so many ranges in performance (The good, the bad, and the ugly). You may have a decent working tablet but with the firmware upgrades you dont know if its gonna help or do nothing or even make it worse. Then we have 2 other primes coming out (TF300 and TF700) and probably other brands with comparable specs. I chose to saving my 500 for something I can be satisfied with. I tasted the TF201 and I think I can wait for to spend my money on a diff. tablet.
I'd say go for another exchange. I wouldn't accept a yellow tint to bottom half of screen. Even if everything else works fine. By the way, what's the first 3 numbers of the serial? To see if this is from the newer batch or older ones. They are good ones out there, like mines which I got way back 12/22 from an early batch.
I kind of feel the same why. I love the thing but we have an iPad 2 i can't help but to compare it to. I'm an android guy and my wife is Apple but in the tablet case android is looking to be a hard sell. What do you think about the gaming? That's my biggest worry, i feel like the next gen tegras will be out before they come out with more than a handful of games.
I have a bco serial number. This is the third one and it was from a fresh shipment on Jan 30th to best buy. Also the only bad thing about an exchange is once again they are out of stock everywhere and if i got one that was in the last bit inferior to the one I have I think that would be the last straw for me.
We have an ipad2 that my 2 yr old daughter uses. I think the tegra 3 is great for the gaming aspect, I gonna stick with android but I am gonna wait till other tegra 3 tablets come out with less problems.
Keep trying. It took me 4 tries and finally found one with ZERO issues. Your more then likely to get the newest batch now. Received mine 2 days ago. imo its worth it. It's a hassle but thats what we get for being early adopters.
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You don't think any of the future tablets would be worth waiting a couple of months
Just wait.. you have the ipad2 to keep you occupied for the meantime.
Well the only bad thing is my wife hogs the iPad and I've gotten used to having my own tablet lol
Hey mxracer327, can you tell me if your gps works? I have a bco serial number too. My wifi seems to be on par with my phone (motorola atrix) however my gps gets 0 satalites inside (havnt tested outside however my phone gets about 5-6 from the same area of the house.
Return it. Whatever returns the original place you bought it from receives they ship it back to Asus as defective. We can't just sit back and accept the imperfections they've been sending these tf201's out with. Send Asus a message that they really need to up their quality control if they are going to keep us as consumers!
Lhoki i tried gps indoors or doesn't seem to pick up any sattelites but i do nothave a need for a gps on my tablet but that doesn't mean it still shouldn't work. Caaz, im thinking I will probably return it and give up on the prime
i feel the same mxracer, i have no use for gps but yeah it should still work as iv paid full price for a product, its not that id ever use gps, and if i did id just use my phone instead, its more the principal
I got my Prime for Christmas and I absolutely love it. I didn't have any problems with the screen or wifi (I don't know about the GPS, I don't plan on ever using it so I never tested it). However, I noticed that the battery was behaving weirdly. I didn't really think much of it until a couple of weeks later when it started claiming it was docked even though it wasn't (I don't even own the dock). I decided to look up the battery behavior when docked and it's exactly how my battery had been behaving the entire time. I called up Asus and they have me do a factory reset. It didn't fix the problem, but I knew the ICS update was coming soon so I decided to wait to RMA it. After the ICS update it was still having the same problem so I called them up and sent it in. That was almost a month ago. They received my tablet a little over three weeks ago and the day they got it the status said it was being repaired. Ever since then it's been waiting ("Waiting-[WB5] Wait for Repair\Test\Aging" to be exact). I've called them several times and finally managed to get it escalated but the status is still the same. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm starting to get really annoyed because the 10-14 days they originally said it would take has long since passed and they won't give me any sort of estimate of how much longer it'll be.
Don't sweat it...its going to come back. I'd call customer service just to check ln it and remind them that you need it back working properly asap.
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I'm awaiting getting my own prime this Friday and I have had issues previously with certain other devices which had to be sent back to the manufacturer (htc and samsung) the HTC phone i sent in took three weeks for repair but they had promised a similar 10-14 day window and as that time came and went i was forced to call them for status updates. once it had made it to 19 days i called back and specifically asked for one of their tier three service men (similar to a manager) and i told him they had more than enough time to have completed the repairs and had gone 50% longer than i was told would take.
when i gave him the option to either fix it or send it back within 48 hours so i could seek a third party for repairs and have the company be reported to the better business bureau, it was amazing how fast they were able to replace the touch-screen and processor unless they just cloned the ESN into a brand new device and shipped it out to me express delivery.
i'm praying that i dont end up with one of these little guys that's going to have some issues, but if so, please let it be the GPS because i'm never going to be using that anyway. keep in mind the power of the better business bureau, it's a great bargaining tool for getting your promises fulfilled.
"Don't sweat it" boy that easy for some people to say when it's not them waiting for something you have over $500.00 invested in. I too are waiting for mine to return due to it dropping Wi-Fi connections and the screen not responding when touched. I love Asus products but a large company like Asus needs to protect their name and satisfy their customers at all reasonable cost. If there are long delays they should replace the item. They can always sell the return as a re manufactured item, save a customer and get free advertising when the customer tells 10 other people what great company Asus is.
Good news, I just checked the status and it's now ready for shipping! It looks like they're sending me a new one as the serial number changed. Now let's see how long it takes to get back to me.
But yeah, this experience makes me quite reluctant to buy another Asus product of recommend Asus products to anyone. Sure I absolutely love my prime, it's an amazing piece of hardware, but a repair shouldn't take a month.
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Good news, I just checked the status and it's now ready for shipping! It looks like they're sending me a new one as the serial number changed. Now let's see how long it takes to get back to me.
But yeah, this experience makes me quite reluctant to buy another Asus product of recommend Asus products to anyone. Sure I absolutely love my prime, it's an amazing piece of hardware, but a repair shouldn't take a month.
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It's kind of your fault for not being on them like white on rice should have called every day after the first week......no offense
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It's kind of your fault for not being on them like white on rice should have called every day after the first week......no offense
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That is ridiculous. No one should have to push the manufacturer to get it done faster. I have dealt with plenty of repair places that did exactly what they said they would do and were very open about why I wouldn't be getting the product in a timely manner if their where any delays.
What do you guys think? Should I get the G2 now or wait until a new phone comes out such as the S5? I know if I keep waiting newer and better devices will keep appearing, but I want to get the best of the best for a 2 year contract and don't want to be disappointed with a phone that has any big flaws.
As far as I know, the G2 has a few flaws I might be bothered with such as games not playing with good fps, the phone getting hot while playing games, video recording quality issues, lag issues in the web browser, and also unsure if LG will be supporting this phone with timely updates. All of these issues I've heard on this forum.
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Well if the S5 is coming in Feb/March/Aprilish like people are saying, thats already 4-6 months into your contract, if it even really comes out. Maybe they will wait until June like previous models, then you are at like 8 months into your contract. Will it have issues? Probably- basically all phones have issues. Are the G2 issues big enough for you to not be happy? Maybe try the phone for 14 days? I have noticed some lag in browsing with chrome. I need to test other browsers to see if there is a better one. I hope LG updates their phone as it's been very well received for the most part.
Phones are outdated so fast these days. I would recommend picking up a G2 for the trial period and see how you like it. There is no harm in that and it may surprise you. If it doesn't, return the phone and keep your upgrade. :good:
Really depends on how bad your current phone is. Current top phones that are in market are LG G2, Note 3, Nexus 5 (not in any particular order). Newer phones that are rumored are S5 and HTC M8, and probably a release date around March or April. If you can wait that long then wait. I jumped from Galaxy Nexus (Vzw), in September to LG G2, simply because it was great looking phone with specs and got for $140 on 2 year contract and I am glad I made that decision, this phone is awesome. Two things I wanted in new phone battery life and speed and this phone does just that.
Yea. I agree with posts above. The newest and best phones are constantly being released so it won't be long for an even better phone to come out. Even if you wait until the s5 comes out an even better phone will be released shortly after. I personally think that the lg g2 is a great phone and I could not be happier with it. This is my first android phone and there is definitely a lot to like about android and the lg g2
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Some of the issues may be big enough for me, unless there are solutions to them such as software updates from LG. Mainly lag and gaming fps/heat issues. But I understand no phone is perfect. I can't get the nexus 5 because I'm on Verizon and I don't know if I want to switch because of the service and plan I have with them.
If I do a 14 day trial do I get a full refund of my money if I don't like it or do I have to pat anything? I remember one time one of my family members got a phone with Verizon and soon after returned and we had to pay for the use of service or something.
Also I currently have an HTC Rezound.
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I think at this point in the year all of the carriers/manufacturers have their respective big guns out for the holiday shoppers. I really don't expect any other" must haves" to come until sometime first quarter of 2014, so wysiwyg for now.
For me, the time was now, in fact it's been exactly 2yrs; got the og razr the first day, 11/11/11, and moved up to the g2 yesterday (after a lot of research). What did it for me was the Verizon promo that ended yesterday. Got the phone for free and kept my unlimited data? win:win.
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What do you guys think? Should I get the G2 now or wait until a new phone comes out such as the S5? I know if I keep waiting newer and better devices will keep appearing, but I want to get the best of the best for a 2 year contract and don't want to be disappointed with a phone that has any big flaws.
As far as I know, the G2 has a few flaws I might be bothered with such as games not playing with good fps, the phone getting hot while playing games, video recording quality issues, lag issues in the web browser, and also unsure if LG will be supporting this phone with timely updates. All of these issues I've heard on this forum.
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Go now and start enjoying. Better phones will always come out. That said I find it hard to believe (phablets aside) any phone in the near future will offer the performance to battery life of the G2. Sure a faster CPU may come out next year, or a phone may have a nicer build/body (HTC), but all around I doubt the Galaxy S5 or new HTC will offer anything of real significance over the G2.
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Go now and start enjoying. Better phones will always come out. That said I find it hard to believe (phablets aside) any phone in the near future will offer the performance to battery life of the G2. Sure a faster CPU may come out next year, or a phone may have a nicer build/body (HTC), but all around I doubt the Galaxy S5 or new HTC will offer anything of real significance over the G2.
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The whole heat issue I think many people misunderstand especially if coming from a lower power phone.
These SoC chips have better GPU than average laptop integrated graphics, high clockspeeds and no room for a heatsink.
It is pushing 2 million pixels to the screen, per rendered frame. Of course its gonna heat up.....as long as it is within SoC thermal limits it is of no concern
I have the G2 and notice none of this game lag or heat issue at all i dunno where you heard this?
I can assure you no phone has better integrated gpu than a laptop.
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If I do a 14 day trial do I get a full refund of my money if I don't like it or do I have to pat anything? I remember one time one of my family members got a phone with Verizon and soon after returned and we had to pay for the use of service or something.
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I don't know how it works on Verizon, but with Sprint any phone you purchase has a period of 14 days where you can return it for a full refund. Sometimes companies may charge an activation fee of like 20-35 bucks. All carriers have a sort of "trial period" where you can return the phone, but they may each bit a little different. You could try calling your nearest Verizon store and ask them, or maybe try chatting with support online, or just calling Verizon's customer service number online.
The gaming lag may be isolated to a specific model, or maybe a user made certain tweaks, etc. Also could be app related and require the app developer to make a tweak for a phone, etc. There are so many factors its hard to say, but personal hands on experience is always best.
Totes go for the G2
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What do you guys think? Should I get the G2 now or wait until a new phone comes out such as the S5? I know if I keep waiting newer and better devices will keep appearing, but I want to get the best of the best for a 2 year contract and don't want to be disappointed with a phone that has any big flaws.
As far as I know, the G2 has a few flaws I might be bothered with such as games not playing with good fps, the phone getting hot while playing games, video recording quality issues, lag issues in the web browser, and also unsure if LG will be supporting this phone with timely updates. All of these issues I've heard on this forum.
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Take the plunge!! It's a future proofed phone man. I buy and sell phones where I am on craigslist and so have used about 80 different kinds this year. My favourites up till the G2 were the HTC One, Moto X and Optimus G. However upon using the G2 i experienced a fluidity and power I've yet to see matched. I mean sure every phone has is caveats but if theres one thing I know its that galaxy devices are known for there fair share of Lag. You can fix the G2's problems with some tweaks/roms/ settings changes. I've yet to have an overheating device when i play dead trigger 2 and nova 3 but not all devices are the same right, theres a ton of disimilarities even within the same model. If you got the cash go for it or the Nexus 5
I say now. What else do you need in a smartphone? The screen is fantastic, the battery is better than any standard device, the processor will handle anything for a very long time, and the camera is in the top tier.
What else do we need?
Since you are on Verizon, did you see the deal few days ago on G2? It was Free with 2 year contract.
The G2 is bleeding edge right now. There will always be another device "down the road" so you might as well have the best while you can.
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Some of the issues may be big enough for me, unless there are solutions to them such as software updates from LG. Mainly lag and gaming fps/heat issues. But I understand no phone is perfect. I can't get the nexus 5 because I'm on Verizon and I don't know if I want to switch because of the service and plan I have with them.
If I do a 14 day trial do I get a full refund of my money if I don't like it or do I have to pat anything? I remember one time one of my family members got a phone with Verizon and soon after returned and we had to pay for the use of service or something.
Also I currently have an HTC Rezound.
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I have had not a single problem with my G2 when gaming in fact it is the best phone I've used for gaming by far. As for heat issues there is none. For some people they say it's get so hot that it burns them but for 99% of people it is barely hot to the touch. I guess it depends on your heat tolerance.
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I say now. What else do you need in a smartphone? The screen is fantastic, the battery is better than any standard device, the processor will handle anything for a very long time, and the camera is in the top tier.
What else do we need?
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Exactly. I don't need a high end phone but I decided to go with the LG G2 because I think it's a very capable well-rounded device. Since I am also locked into a 2 year contract, I'd expect my phone to last at least for the next 2 years and I think it won't be a problem with the LG G2. Some of the mid-range phones I got previously felt dated 6 months later.
There will always be another phone on the horizon. But the G2 and other newer phones will likely have the same 800 processor as the upcoming ones and none of the "big three" out right now would ever be classified as bad phones. Get one now if you need it, or get one later if you want to wait.
I was in the same boat. I was thinking about waiting for the S5 as well, I had been due for an upgrade since June of 2012. I really had an itch to get a new phone so I took the plunge and got the G2. Some places say the S5 will come out in January, what if it comes out in the summer? It's a roll of the dice. One thing that made the decision easier was that this device has the latest hardware. ..
I'm happy with it so far, love the knock on feature, battery and customization.
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Thanks for the advice guys. I'm still indecisive and the other issue I'm struggling with is that I don't really need another smartphone cuz the rezound I have has been working good for me. It's just I'd rather have a faster and smoother phone with better battery life and the latest specs. My rezound lags and the battery is terrible, but it's a great phone.
I was aware of the Verizon deal, but didn't go for the deal. One problem for me money-wise is that even if the phone were to be free, I'd have to pay tax on the full price of the phone because I live in California.
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For anyone wondering if they should get a phone, or wait, just buy the phone you want, not because it's the fastest or newest. There will always be new phones announced, and there will always be rumors. If you keep waiting, you'll never upgrade until you have to. That's what happened to me. I was a long time Motorola user, since the first Droid, but I waited and waited, and waited for the first Moto/Google phone, and was severely disappointed. The only good thing that happened because of all the waiting was I got a G2. Glad I pulled the trigger, and I won't be looking back.
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I think at this point in the year all of the carriers/manufacturers have their respective big guns out for the holiday shoppers. I really don't expect any other" must haves" to come until sometime first quarter of 2014, so wysiwyg for now.
For me, the time was now, in fact it's been exactly 2yrs; got the og razr the first day, 11/11/11, and moved up to the g2 yesterday (after a lot of research). What did it for me was the Verizon promo that ended yesterday. Got the phone for free and kept my unlimited data? win:win.
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How the hell did you keep your unlimited data? My wife wants a G2 now that shes used mine, but can't upgrade because we're grandfathered in. I had to buy mine off ebay for close to full price.
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I don't know how it works on Verizon, but with Sprint any phone you purchase has a period of 14 days where you can return it for a full refund. Sometimes companies may charge an activation fee of like 20-35 bucks. All carriers have a sort of "trial period" where you can return the phone, but they may each bit a little different. You could try calling your nearest Verizon store and ask them, or maybe try chatting with support online, or just calling Verizon's customer service number online.
The gaming lag may be isolated to a specific model, or maybe a user made certain tweaks, etc. Also could be app related and require the app developer to make a tweak for a phone, etc. There are so many factors its hard to say, but personal hands on experience is always best.
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I believe Verizon charges a restocking fee of like $35, but that might be just the 3rd party stores, because I went through Verizon when I exchanged and they didn't charge me an activation fee or a restocking fee. This was through online and over the phone btw.
I got a new rezound 2 years ago and after a month it stopped working. I got 3 replacements, all did not work. Got a Galaxy Nexus instead. . Just got the HTC One M8 on my new contract. I was afraid to get another HTC, but it's been great!
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I got a new rezound 2 years ago and after a month it stopped working. I got 3 replacements, all did not work. Got a Galaxy Nexus instead. . Just got the HTC One M8 on my new contract. I was afraid to get another HTC, but it's been great!
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I got the Rezound shortly after it came out and used the hell out of it for nearly 3 years until a partition got corrupted and it ceased charging, at which point I ante'd up for an M8. The M8 is far and away the best phone I've ever owned, but the Rezound faithfully held it's own all the way up through Android 4.4.4. The Rezound was my third HTC after the original Incredible and the Thunderbolt. The
Rezound was better than both of those by a wide margin. The Incredible simply devoured it's battery to the point I broke down and bought a massive extended battery. The Thunderbolt really did need that, too, but given that the Thunderbolt was a beast in every regard, I didn't think it needed to be even more heavy and unwieldy to haul about. After those two devices, the Rezound struck me as the phone HTC had been trying to build for years. That said, the M8 is truly a different kind of beast. Aside from being a physically gorgeous phone, it's extremely capable, too. It makes an SGS5 feel cheap and flimsy, and it's faster, too. Let me say that again.... The M8 is FASTER than an SGS5, bone stock device compared to bone stock device. Think about that for a second. A phone running HTC's 600 pound gorilla of a user interface called Sense 6.0 is actually faster than an SGS5. That is nothing short of amazing. I love the M8 because it runs Sense faster and smoother than the Rezound ran CM11 while overclocked to 1.72 GHz. If you would have said HTC would make a phone like that 3 or 4 years ago people would have laughed in your face.
I got my very first cell phone last Thanksgiving, a cheapy mediatek. Within a few weeks of having it, I stumbled across an article about rooting somewhere. To make a long story shorter, a week after that and ty to finding this forum + Kingo I had that cheapy China phone rooted lol(and it still sucked). A month after that I got nokia lumina 525, on x-mas, which was a notch better, but yet worse haha. I quickly learned that MS's play store just sucks. -.-
TYG soon after that a friend gave me their old phone. A very well taken care of, almost pristine mint Rezzie. I had greatly abused and put it thru hell while I learned what I can do to it + fell in love with it at the sametime. When my Rezzie isn't happy, believe me, it makes damn sure I realize it isn't. The past few months I believed it has been happy for the most part. Now finally and very belatedly I have begun to realize it never was happy since the day I got it till just the other day ROFL.
I found a new interesting app to try on it, \play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=artur.m3rv.myszka.speedupswap and 1 nano second later and ever since I swear my poor 5+yr old rezzie is now as fast or even faster + smoother than all my friend's great new phones are.
Plus the history here on this very forum + the story behind the making of them is in the least is interesting if not downright engrossing.
ATM, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my otw eBay order... a dead Rezzie lol. Seller said it won't do nothing, no boot, but it's LCD light lites when charged. It's been in a box since 2012/13 supposedly after 6ish months of light use. :drooling: As I'm typing this on my non-OCed S-on rezzie.
Yea you can call me a belated fan of them I suppose. I wish I could turn back time and was given a chance to change your bad experience. -sigh-
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I didn't notice initially how old this thread was till after I posted the above...ooops
Anyways to follow up on my post above...
I received that "dead Rezzie" that I had ordered off of eBay.
Within 5minutes of opening it, I not only had it booting up just fine as can be.
It's almost foreign to me Sense interface was eagerly asking me to draw a pattern.
With in my 3rd to fourth try....the phone unlocked! Rofl
Seriously it just flew open and it was the same as it was on the very last day it's owner had last used it.
ummmm....it was still checking all her email accts and fb acct, play for updates, etc u get the picture. It's previous owner is a professional dog trainer who I believe has recently moved out of the country. I understand from reading a few of the texts on it, etc. Anyways she has tons of stuff on it, pictures, texts + accounts which the phone can still access.
I ran it's MEID and it comes up clean as a bell.
I thanked the seller via eBay's feedback A+++'ed him and said it worxs great tyvm! loool
I also sent an eMail to it's previous owner, telling her this very story on how I ended up with it.
I asked her if she would like any of the stuff thats on it before I reset it.
I literally have the last 3yrs of this unknown girl's life in the palm of my hand.
Now re-read that last sentence 5 more times.
Her emails, her text and she texted very often...must be thousands of them sheeze. I know she has 2 dogs and even that they have their own bedroom upstairs somewhere and each their own bed, which they are "tucked" nightly into with their daily laundered fleece blankets. (gawd i envy them) I know that she likes to drink "bubblely" after work on most days + when she is working out.....
Oh yea I can probably even go on a eBay shopping spree on her dime now + on other major online sites too. :tempting:
:angel: nah , I'm not like that though :angel:
She still hasn't replied to my email and it's been about a week.
I think maybe what had happened was she had taken her rezzie in for a trade-in on a new phone. Either she couldn't get it to boot either or just wanted a new one.
Then the place she traded it in at inspected it and couldn't get it going, then tried selling it on eBay to part buyers. Then I came along via eBay looking for a new battery for my Rezzie and Bam it came up along with the batteries in my search.
I spotted it and remember thinking well it's not much more $$'s then a battery and it comes with one....
If I can get it going I'll have an extra Rezzie to play around with or to keep has an extra or to re-sell right back on eBay for 4-5x's more then what I paid for it easily. In the least I would have another battery and an extra phone for parts if I couldn't get it working. Sooo lol I bought that instead of a battery. Hoping it wouldn't be as tedious as fixing a broken screen is to fix.
You see, I began to notice in my own Rezzie sometimes after a bad crash, usually a real niice bad one, like a niice bad one from my must-have + fav, chrome browser, it boots differently.
Lol that eBay Rezzie just needed someone who understood how to boot it is all.
:laugh: and that was what I was hoping for to begin with on it :laugh: There was nothing ever wrong with it actually
Yep, i love these things
Moral of my story: BE extremely CareFul of what you do with your old "dead" phones...it may just end up on eBay and get a buyer that is not as honest as I am.
I'm sure there are those out there, that earn a living off of the info they get from such phones.
Hugz
That's a good warning to users, you should share a shorter version of it on the social media sites... The warning is probably not as relevant here as most of our users have slightly above average knowledge, but the "normal" user has no idea about this stuff.
Thanks for your story.
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That's a great idea!
Lol, I've been warning people I know on an individual basis.
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lol.. this was not a bad phone at all. Only thing I hated was the battery life. It came with a very poor 1600mah battery and you couldnt get much more than 2 1/2 hours of screen on time. I never did buy a better battery, it was already a bit old by the time I thought of it. The ICS update made everything about Sense twice as slow. It SUCKED! I went from a fast ohone to one that lagged everywhere from Sense to the choppy scrolling in the browsers. Firefox was the only fast browser that didnt lag. Eventually.. I had broken the screen (lol dont ask how) .. and after I put in a new digitizer, it worked for awhile then slowly started messing up because the digitizer/lcd assy kept pushing up a tiny bit due to the lcd ribbon cable not pushing back far enough behind it. Now.. the touchscreen is hit or miss where it actually will touch. And the soft keys stopped working completely. (Yay ) id still like to restore it. My S4 has been good, but the screen is NO WHERE near as bright as the Rezound is.
I ended up trading that eBay Rezzie in at Verizon. Verizon gave me $300 for it, on this past Christmas.
The owner never did reply to my emails.
I still have my original Rezzie. It's still running like a champ while being chocked full of apps that are beyond it's time.
I will keep it forever, being the foolishly sentimental person that I am.
Now-a-daze when I pick up my old Rezzie(still on my nightstand + charged), I smile and I wonder at how much it had taught me + I realize how much older it now suddenly seems to be to me x.x
....just a month ago it was the bestest phone I ever had had.
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HAPPY!!. I have to say the Z3v has been the most solid phone I have owned out of all the ones I have had and that goes all the way back to that turd the Eris. I really dont see anything in the market thats worth switching to. I gave up on rooting my stuff a couple years ago so Im still without the ability to make calls and surf internet at the same time but that is the ONLY drawback to this phone. Very happy I left samsung for this phone.
Bobby Buggs said:
HAPPY!!. I have to say the Z3v has been the most solid phone I have owned out of all the ones I have had and that goes all the way back to that turd the Eris. I really dont see anything in the market thats worth switching to. I gave up on rooting my stuff a couple years ago so Im still without the ability to make calls and surf internet at the same time but that is the ONLY drawback to this phone. Very happy I left samsung for this phone.
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You don't need to root to get advanced calling. Flash the latest ftf (.509) and you'll be on 5.0.2 There is a workaround that should get advanced calling working.
One of the reasons I dropped Rooting and Roms was it always had some bug or tick that showed up in reliability or I would get busy and be so behind my Ronm was out of date and there was n more support.
Is This .509 going to put me right back there again cause I love the way this phone never fuggs up.
Over a year in and I'm just livid at "Big Head Red" smh!! No support on this phone whatsoever and a broken promise on Lollipop... remember these words... Lollipop update in Early 2015?!?
Granted, I know the update promise was from Sony. FWIW - I heard the update has been available for some time now, but "Big Head Red" doesn't care to act upon it.
Lesson learned - I will never buy a carrier phone again! A Nexus 6p has been ordered and very soon, waiting for software updates will be a thing of the past. Shame on Big Head Red because the Z3v is a really good phone.
Agreed!!!
Traded mine In over the weekend. Had the phone a year and just got pissed and couldn't stand it.
Had to pay 40 dollars to hit 75% on my z3v then they ate the 150 I had left.
Got a note 5 and it is a tremendous upgrade. Nearly the same size with .5 inch more screen. Battery life is consistent where my z3v would get 7 hrs sot then sometimes 2.
krenogin said:
Traded mine In over the weekend. Had the phone a year and just got pissed and couldn't stand it.
Had to pay 40 dollars to hit 75% on my z3v then they ate the 150 I had left.
Got a note 5 and it is a tremendous upgrade. Nearly the same size with .5 inch more screen. Battery life is consistent where my z3v would get 7 hrs sot then sometimes 2.
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What were you pissed about? Lollipop is available and so is VoLTE. What else are you expecting?
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What were you pissed about? Lollipop is available and so is VoLTE. What else are you expecting?
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Voice over Wi-Fi, it just got released on vzw advanced calling 2..0 but only for Samsung S6. Sony Z3/compact has marshmallow already,we don't even have an official lollipop release.
1linuxfreak said:
Voice over Wi-Fi, it just got released on vzw advanced calling 2..0 but only for Samsung S6. Sony Z3/compact has marshmallow already,we don't even have an official lollipop release.
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Voice over WiFi has been out much much longer from T-Mobile. You should be able to tell that Samsung had Verizon up to their necks with bags of cash to have priority on their flagship phones.
Sony's Z3 series having marshmallow is a test run, and of course I understand there still isn't an official Lollipop release for the Z3v. Regardless really, blaming Verizon is what we've been doing and we're still on it, so why bother to stop complaining now?