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[Verizon Droid Charge] Goronok:
Funny, my experience with both devices is exactly the opposite. My Thunderbolt (recently sold) was horrific with data drops, often refusing to hold any data connection whatsoever. 3 days with the Charge and I can already tell data connectivity is much improved.
[Verizon Droid Charge] burningembers:
Agreed. I didn't have the TB, but I had the Fascinate and I would drop data at my house all the time. I've got about a 10pt better db signal with the Charge and haven't had as many drops (if any) now.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ZeppelinJ0:
Had the Thunderbolt and hated it. That little douchebag of a phone would drop my LTE constantly and make tears appear on my face and try to drown me.

Sure Charge isn't rooted or ROM'd yet but so far it's better in every possible way. The battery life is way better which is huge for me since I need to be in touch with my hookers constantly and can't always be near a charger.

Also the screen kicks golden beans
[Verizon Droid Charge] aliensquale:
hahah funny description...

what's the cheapest place to get the Charge from right now? I have a $50 verizon new every two credit to use too.. I don't think Amazon or best buy honors that right?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Kronia:
Best Buy will match the price that you would get at Verizon, so you should still get it for $250
[Verizon Droid Charge] 632627:
costco has it for 250 as well, which my best buy price matched without even verifying. the main benefit of shopping at costco i believe is a 90 day return policy on the phone, so if the bionic, galaxy 2, or something else comes out in the next 3 months and you want to trade phones you are able to do so.

a verizon store is the last place i'd buy the phone as they charge a $35 restocking fee if you happen to return it, and you only have 14 days to do so
[Verizon Droid Charge] eagle17:
I had the tbolt twice... I bought it day one ... and within 5 days it was returned due to horrible battery life.

in the DC area i have had GREAT lte reception, however in the phoenix area the LTE is horrible. so i think much depends on your location.

I bought the tbolt again when there were a decent amount of roms and plenty of people saying they had better battery life... the only way I could use the phone for more than 4 hours was to turn off all the radios ... that made the phone useless to me...

i now have the charge and it runs with all my apps and my level of use for a full day... i don't have to charge every 2- 3 hours anymore... so i am very happy with the charge even though it is not rooted... (I was too quick with the update).

again even with the charge and my lg lte modem I found the area around scottsdale and tempe to have either no or horrible lte coverage. i think that verizon should work on better coverage in cities before saying they have lte in them...

I too would like to have skype working with video ... it would just make sense but there are other apps that work well such as oovoo.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Black-Falcon:
I'd have to agree on the spotty coverage in Tempe/Scottsdale/Mesa. Sitting in my office right now in Tempe I have no LTE coverage. If I walk outside it will pick it up; this is usually the case no matter where I go (in the cities listed). I have not tested it in any other city.
[Verizon Droid Charge] aliensquale:
thanks for the Costco note.. I am going to buy from them for $250 and they give you an accessory pack for free.. plus the 90 day swap window which is very nice to have!
[Verizon Droid Charge] chino0131:
I would recommend testing both if you can. I got the thunderbolt on release and love it. I got the Charge on release and love it as well, but prefer sense over touchwiz. Thats just my personal preference. Id keep the Thunderbolt over the Charge if I had to choose, but I dont.

I dont see how some that complain about their LTE dropping when they had their Tunderbolt do not take into consideration the national LTE outage....their wasnt a second LTE phone at the time to compare whether their LTE dropping was due to the phone or the service...yet they blame the phone. For all you know, your data dropping at that particular time could have been service related, not phone related. You had nothing to compare it to. So far, my Thunderbolt consistently has better LTE speeds, while my Charge had better 3G speeds. Both drop LTE and revert back to 3g in the same area at the same time. Only speeds differ. Im in a 4G area FWIW.

Both are great phones and just like any phone, it depends on your needs. I would advise you to play with both, and if you dont mind the re-stocking fee buy one and return it for the other if your not happy. In my experience, if youre crafty you can get out of the restocking fee and talk your sales rep into allowing you to buy one phone and return it if youre not happy.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Z51:
I need the voice/data to work at the same time. But I still want this beast cuz of tthe beautiful screen ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] johnnyv5:
Your posting in the Samsung Charge forum, of course people are going to say the Charge. I promised I would never buy another Samsung product after the upgrade problems I've had with my fascinate and am going to stick with that. My wife has the Thunderbolt and that is going to be my next phone. Battery doesn't seem to be as bad and I already have the options to apply an undervolted kernel to save battery life. My wife's nephew has the phone also and he doesn't have issues with the battery. YMMV, IMHO, TIFWIW....

jv
[Verizon Droid Charge] aliensquale:
how much battery life savings can you get with the undervolted kernal? if you do the undervolted kernal.. doesn't that slow down the processor in the phone thus make the overall use of the phone slower?
[Verizon Droid Charge] johnnyv5:
Well I undervolted my Fascinate and had terrific battery life and did not suffer any performance. It helped me a heck of alot as without an undervolted kernel I would loose about 3% an hour without even touching the phone to about 1 to max 2% standby......

jv
[Verizon Droid Charge] SuperFly03:
For the life of me I can't get my TBolt to survive a charge. I literally burn through the battery 2-3 times a day. I constantly have it plugged in. I make calls with the darn thing on the charger all the time. It's annoying. If I spend the night somewhere besides my house... 9/10 I'll wake up with a dead phone.

I'm getting tired of it. I have my corporate email synced (Push), FB (update 1/day), Gmail (push) and that's it. Display just chews battery compared to the AMOLED.

I even turn off data sync when I'm in the office because I don't need email if I'm at my computer. I'm about to call CS and say either give me a charge (I'll pay the price difference 249 vs. 299) or I'll cancel and take my number elsewhere because let's face it... $350 ETF covered by the sale of a TBolt on fleabay is better than $570 full price for a phone.

Hell, the ETF is more than the discount on the phone you get.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Legacystar:
I know you don't want to hear this, but turn 4g off and you'll go a day on aa charge. I do this and since we have an svdo modem on the TB we can still do simultaneous voice and data on 3g.

Also HTC borked the **** out of auto brightness. Even in a completely dark room, it never ggoes below 50% brightness. Try setting to 25% and see how much longer ot lasts
[Verizon Droid Charge] SuperFly03:
I've turned 4G off before, didn't make a significant difference. I've reactivated my DINC for now, I want to wait a week or two and see what people are getting on the Charge before I drop $600 bones on one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Legacystar:
Then you have a rogue process eating your battery. Download spare parts and under battery history look at partial wake lock
[Verizon Droid Charge] MisterDonut:
LOL.. I Came from a Blackberry Bold as well. The thing is... I got the Bold over 2 years ago, and it was the very first 3g Blackberry. Let me tell you the battery life on that mother was a *****, way way worse then my tbolt 4g stock.

And one more thing.. After a while i realize my bold wasn't very smart, all it could do was to communicate very effectively, via email, and bbm.. In fact it made me look dumb that i had a smart phone

Now my tbolt, this thing is way smarter then me.. Hands down
[Verizon Droid Charge] ZeppelinJ0:
I loved the thunderbolt it was ****ing amazing but the battery life absolutely shot any chance of it being a usable phone. Even undervolted with debloated roms and stuff it was unbearable. Being a savvy businessman in the sex solicitattion business I need to be in constant touch with my hooker employees. About an hour of Shanee yapping my ear off my phone would be practically dead. With this phone Shanee can yammer all she wants while I pretend to listen and my phone will be fine.

Anyways the charge is awesome it just needs some dev love... not expecting cm7 which would rock but just some lean kernels and debloat roms

Anyway I have to go try and translate what this pink alpaca is trying to say to me. Peeaccee
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
You won't double your usage time by undervolting, but you can probably get an extra hour or two, maybe more depending on use. It won't slow the phone down as long as you don't undervolt to much, and from all I've done with my Fascinate, it doesn't seem to affect stability either.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ALATAM:
@ Alien: Costco for $250
[Verizon Droid Charge] gregh530:
So far the Charge has just pissed me off. Charge data drops constantly (with hotspot tethering) memory is f'd up.. If the internet drops you can 'clear memory' in the task manager which seems to fix the dropped connection..

Fascinate had a great display in direct sunlight (before cracked screen), and the Charge doesn't.
[Verizon Droid Charge] -Pagan-:
I just came from the Thunderbolt.

My Thunderbolt has been a nightmare since day 1. Battery issues, multiple reset issues, no data found issues. don't get me started on the Thunderbolt. The only thing I like more about the Thunderbolt is the solid build. However, the Thunderbolt software is ten times more flawed than the Droid Charge. Very happy I ditched the Thunderbolt in time to do a straight exchange for the Charge. No reception issues and random rebooting like I was experiencing with the T-bolt. I am also very happy with the weight of the Charge vs. the Thunderbolt. Overall the Charge is a much better phone imo.
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] eSu.Matix:
Has anyone tryed this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1390mAh-BP6X-Ba...696755?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3f027d29b3

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-BATTERY-MOT...222935?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item230e90c0d7

This one says XT720 ---> http://cgi.ebay.com/BATTERY-MOTOROL...481967?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item45f9c9986f

or this charger

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Battery-Cha...312177?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2561f628b1

The sellers have over 90% positive feedbacks so I'm thinking about buying 3-4 of'em. But are they gonna work on XT720 and do you think they are original or they will damage my phone? Can someone share experiance/oppinion?
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] GrifKiller360:
I was thinking about buying this

item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=230520180662&index=3&nav=SEARCH&nid=32177069293

But these ones are cheeper and look like they might work.

I'll buy one or two next payday (21/5) and let you know how it goes

Edit: just bought this one cgi.ebay.com/BATTERY-MOTOROLA-BP6X-Milestone-2-XT720-Droid-A957-/300543481967?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item45f9c9986f

should take about a week and a half to get to me
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] GrifKiller360:
Just got it and it seems to work fine looks excactly like the original that came with the phone and doesnt seem to be running out quicker
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] Mioze7Ae:
This was posted recently on #milestone-modding and I found it interesting:

http://android.doshaska.net/battery
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] eSu.Matix:
So it's like 3 times ineffician? *sad*

Thanks Mioz.

But the more important question is: "Are they gonna be able to damage my phone?". So I did some reserch and I found out that if you charge'em with 3rd part charger there is no possibility your phone to be damaged, as well as, if you do charge'em true phone there is posibility your phone to set on fire literally, if there over-charge microchip is missing or not working properly.
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] Mioze7Ae:
Woah. That sounds scary. I hadn't thought about that.
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] boiski:
GOLD 2430mAH BP-6X BATTERY

What do you think about batteries with more capacity than factory? Could be dangerous for the phone?

Look at that one on Ebay: "GOLD 2430mAH BP-6X BATTERY FOR MOTOROLA XT701 XT702 XT720 Moto DEXT CLIQ MB200"
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] Inge2000:
What do you think about that:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/3-7V-2300mAh...909?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item48410f7f05

or

http://www.amazon.de/Akku-für-Motor...SE/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1337029743&sr=8-26

(it`s the same)
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] mchlbenner:
Don't trust

I have tryed extended life battery none were worth a dam.
[Milestone XT720 Accessories] plamenk:
I have tryed Li-ion battery 1600 mAh powered by Feipusi. It did not destroy my phone. But it did not work as well as the original one. The original battery works two days, the other one works 1-1,5 days. So I use Feipusi as spare.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
MOD EDIT: links removed

VIBRALERT - CM-STYLE VIBRATIONS FOR ANY DEVICE

A simple app that vibrates your phone when a call's status changes.

Vibration type can be customized for each alert.

NEEDS ROOT

The demo works for 12 hours but can be restarted with a reboot.

Features:

Currently the following alerts are supported:

- In-call timer alert

- Outgoing call answered

- Incoming call answered

- Outgoing call failed

- Active call ended

If you have more ideas, or something isn't working, please write to us before leaving a review!

Screens:

Market links:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
1.0.3

New in-call timer

Fixes for some UI bugs
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ocalito:
Good Work ^^ **
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Thanks, please leave a nice comment on the market!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tomncruiz:
Cool......Keep going!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
New icon, much easier on the eyes.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fafrehugen:
Excellent! Keep up the good work!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ThuongTin:
Cool! Thank you.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Let me know if you have any suggestions on improving the app!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
A new daemon is coming tonight! Should fix outstanding issues!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Outstanding issues have been fixed. Please update and let me know if your issues are solved. Its important we get some feedback guys!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nziaad:
working great
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] GuilhermeXOT:
Hey, what about custom led light colors too?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
I do believe this app is called 'Vibralert'...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Any issues with the latest build?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fafrehugen:
Works well for me!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
But still not too many people interested?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pixle:
Great tool but it has vibra for incoming SMS during call?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
No - but i will add it if you need it. I thought most roms already did this?

Anyway, if you like the app, please oh please leave a comment on the market!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fafrehugen:
My phone just beeps if im on a call! So the sms vibrate might actually be useful!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fafrehugen:
Any news on that?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
The daemon will be updated to rcb 166 standard next week.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Everything ok with the latest release?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
App is going strong! Any suggestions for the next build?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ankanb:
Is this confirmed working on ICS? I tried to enable the service - it asked me to reboot to activate SIM (?) and after the reboot the service still showed disabled.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Its your port of ICS thats the problem, just press back to cancel the sim change alert.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ankanb:
Did that, the service activated but I didn't get any vibrations for Amy of the set actions.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Its working fine for me. Maybe the demo has timed out? Or youre using a stolen copy?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ankanb:
Well, then so it is - the demo timed out on installing and I never got it to work (without any kind of notification). Thanks for making the app.

P.S.: Please keep accusations on customers to a minimum - it helps your already lost cause of being rude to customers. You are quite famous for that.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Lost cause? We make best in class apps.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ankanb:
What doesn't run sure can be the best in its class.

Found an open source program that does its job. Live long and prosper.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
See, i would believe your complaint - its just that we havent seen a single log (Write to us in the apps settings) for a month.

Also, we have like 10 test devices, including the NS and GN, on which it runs fine. So i just assume its not working either because you are using a stolen copy, or because the demo timed out.

In any case, i hate preachy noobs on this forum (its xda DEVELOPERS after all). Which is why i dont care for you:

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ankanb:
That's where you went wrong, get yourself onto a developers only forum which XDA isn't.

If you did your homework on stolen copies being a proper dev, you'd quickly realize no one bothered to steal the app...it isn't worth it yet for the stealing community.

The app working on like 10 test devices isn't the proper answer being an Android dev - each device is different, be more open to this.

My initial query here was to help you and me out and get a resolution, the last 2 market reviews do mention the app didn't work for them too...but yup, this went well. Probably they chose the wiser option of not sending you a log or contacting you by leaving a 1star review.

And once again, leave out flames especially since you don't care about your 'noob' customers.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] firsthtc:
hi,

i tried your app and i have one issue witch is big for me: the size of app. version 1.4.2. is eating around 6 mb of RAM memory: it's too much for an app that is only making the phone to vibrate...

I tried also Callvibrate 1.1 witch have only 25 kb (20 times less that Vibralert) and doesn't start a new service. Unfortunately doesn't work when u r in 3G, i don't know why.

do you think u can shrink ur app to be slimmer?

thanks a lot
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Maybe, in the future. But its not something critical...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] firsthtc:
Yeah, of course not critical. But is much appreciated to have a small small thing for vibration settings and the rest of the active memory free for real app...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] vielikiy:
mediafire link Vibralert.Pro.v1.4.2.apk plz
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Sure - check any of these: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=smegger

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ftgg99:
Guys have a look at our new app META WIDGET:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26094380
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrike1201:
Hi all, first time poster here.

I need some help with my phone. I was trying to update my phone from build 347 which it came with, to build 351. I went with the method where you go into fastboot and flash the 351 recovery image onto the phone and then download and rename the update.pkg onto my sd card.

So now I start the phone up in recovery mode and choose the option to update via sd card. It goes through the whole process of verifying and installing. The phone restarts and asks if I would like to restore/recover my phone to 351, not sure if this is what's supposed to happen. I go ahead and it does it's thing. The phone reboots and now it hangs on the Dell logo so I pull the battery and restart. It tells me it's going to "start emergency recovery copy..." and I guess it tries to recover back to 347 because that's what it says.

I've gone through that about three times now. I try to go into fastboot and flash the 351 recovery.img again but now when I type the command, it gives me the error Remote: partition not found.

How do I get my phone up and running again?? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

edit: went and did a factory reset and now am able to flash recover via fastboot again. Still no luck starting the phone back up.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eSZee:
I was in the same situation. Had to install streakdroid to get my phone back.

Posted with StreakZilla, using XDA App.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrike1201:
Thanks, that's what I'm trying right now....
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jcase:
Due to potentially dangerous problems with the Gingerbread leak radios, I have pulled my download links and suggest you go back to froyo.

As many know, I don't do real custom roms, just repacks of stock/leaks for users. Due to the bugs in the leak this is based on, I am unable to stay stock. I will do my best, and will list any modifications I use.

Wanna report a bug?

Did you do a data/cache wipe before installing? If no, please don't report.

Can you provide logs if it is a crash? If no, please don't report.

Did you do any modifications? New kernel? If yes, please don't report.

Otherwise please PM me details, with a log if available.

Community attributed fixes:

imoseyon kernel v2.5.3GBtest2 - Fixes Camera

PSCII.apk (chingy) - fixes usb mounting with custom kernels

HTCSetupWizard.apk (aiccucs) - No more activation of death

(if I missed you, please let me know)

To revert to MR1 Froyo (stock +ota) see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1082114

Stock Kernel

For those wanting to undo the Camera Fix kernel

http://www.cl.ly/6r8T

Fixed:

Usb Mounting

Camera

Activation Hang

Missing Market Apps

Bluetooth issues - Should be fixed, please report back.

Broke: (thanks arcanexvi)

Alarm Clock (for some) UPDATE Fix coming on next update

Wifi Tether ??? - Need details + logs before I look into it

Data loss after callls ??? - Need details + logs before I look into it

Extremely Slow charge - [COLOR="DarkOrange""]Need details[/COLOR] + logs before I look into it

Slow 4G performance - Disputed, no LTE where I live, need massive details

Unable to download new HTC widgets - NOT BROKE, server side issue, like in 2.1 leak for Eris.

Uninstalling an application causes it to "freak" - Need details + logs before I look into it

Gingerbread leak is alpha software, it is buggy. All roms based off it will be buggy. If this bricks your phone, it is your fault not mine. If it causes any harm, your fault not mine.

DOWNLOAD LINK REMOVED

Radio flash is not needed if you are upgrading from another Gingerbread Sense rom. Data/cache wipe is recommended.

Installation Instructions:

Download both the ROM and the radio.

Rename PG05IMG_gingerradio.zip to PG05IMG.zip and drop it onto the root of your SD Card.

Put mecha_gingerjane_1_3.zip onto the root of your SD Card

Boot into recovery

Do a Nandroid Backup!

Perform a factory reset

Flash mecha_gingerjane.zip, DO NOT REBOOT

Using ADB, reboot to bootloader

adb shell

reboot bootloader

If in fastboot mode, switch to bootloader mode and allow the updated radios to flash.

Enjoy!

Since everyone wants screenshots, here it is. It looks ...like...stock.