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[Verizon Droid Charge] chromiumcloud:
Well, I'm an N1 customer on AT&T (so a good network in most of hick America but overcongested in civilization do to the iSheeple). I agree 100% with you, EXCEPT if you remember back when the N1 first came out, it too was kinda slow and laggy with crap battery life. My battery life running SuperASOP on the N1 has almost doubled from when I originally purchased it (and this is on a year and half old battery!). The phone runs so smooth and fast, I too have had a hard time justifying moving to anything else like you. I do recommend Gummy charged for the Droid Charge...it'll get you closer to an N1 experience, but will significantly shorten your battery life (a tick for tack, LOL). Overall, I ended up returning the Charge, and will wait for something better hopefully. However, if I had to keep the Charge, I would not be too disappointed. The Roms and Kernels WILL get better over time and eventually this will be a decent phone, like the N1 is now...it's just going to take some time.

Regarding the iPhone: I am in a love/hate with Apple in general. I love their computer OSes but hate the iOSes. Why go out of your way to make sure the Apple computers can run Windows and old software, but then turn around and lock up the phone OS to prevent cross platform utilization or even utilization of Flash, etc. ? Google is not much better, however, and the choice really is: Do I want to become an iCitizen or an Android Clone, LOL!!

I haven't been able to use the NS yet because of the T-Mo and Sprint restrictions, but probably agree with your statements. In general, however, I have not been impressed by Samsung phones or anything else Samsung for that matter. Regarding the N1, I have never had a problem with the touch screen (and would have recommended the $45 digitizer replacement if you were having issues). I actually find the N1 touchscreen better than the Charge's, where I find myself having to press things twice to get it to register. Being able to see the screen of the Charge outdoors is a nice treat. The one thing that bothers me about the charge is that the slowness of the phone really prevents you from utilizing the 4G to its full potential...and that feeling of having a Ferrari but not being able to go past 2nd gear gets under your skin and bothers you. Sigh. Hopefully something better will come out soon...it's got to, as the T-Mo and Sprint phones are running laps around the Verizon offerings.
[Verizon Droid Charge] distortedloop:
Not even sure which phone D1 and D2 are, so many shortnames/acronyms out there? Is that the Desire? Wasn't the Desire 1 essentially a Nexus 1 (same hardware) running HTC Sense? If so, I'd argue it had the same warts as the N1 (wonky touchscreen, bad color saturation, unusable outdoors). YMMV and definition of warts as being different than mine accepted.

Yep, TMo gets the best phones in general, but the service just isn't up to par, by even a long shot, with Verizon, or even ATT.
[Verizon Droid Charge] r00t beer:
Droid 1 & Droid 2 (motorola)
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I really have no idea what all of this lag is that some of you are running into, modded or stock.

Also, stop comparing a brand new phone to phones that have been out for ages!
[Verizon Droid Charge] s44:
If you were a Nexus owner, you should be comfortable customizing the phone for performance.

Basically, you need a full dose of Voodoo for the lag. As far as battery, it sounds like you have a runaway process. Are you running a task killer or something? (You shouldn't.) Charging shouldn't be particularly slow either, unless you're using old chargers that the phone isn't detecting as AC (and not USB).
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I don't think the phone's hardware is the problem. It's probably something with the game itself, actually. If it is the phone, I highly doubt it's the hardware.
[Verizon Droid Charge] distortedloop:
Right! Because we should expect that our new phones have worse performance than 1-2 year old models. LOL

Yes, yes, no custom ROMs yet, etc...but you'd think the manufacturers would get it right by now, even if it was just by kanging cyanogen and others. ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
No, they won't. I wouldn't expect a manufacturer to ever get things right. Have they with PCs? No. Laptops? Lol. Netbooks? Let's not even start.

Any new laptop or PC may and probably will be filled with bloatware. My 3-4 year old self-built PC (3ghz dual core AMD, 4GB DDR3, no pimp SSD hard drive, semi up to date GPU Radeon 5570) can still perform better than some brand new PCs. Other than the GPU, there really isn't much holding the thing back.

The same goes for smartphones. Bloatware might only get worse.
[Verizon Droid Charge] superslow:
Just wanted to throw in my experience. The phone was definitely much more laggy than my old nexus one and the battery life is definitely worse than the N1 and also my wife's old iphone 3gs.

I just recently rooted both of our phones to gummy charge, (mine is 1.5, hers is still 1.0) added all the really clean GO Apps(https://market.android.com/developer?pub=GO+Launcher+Dev+Team") and the phone is super responsive, visually more appealing than stock and the battery life is a bit better than stock.

Sadly, the battery is still nowhere near our old devices. However, I'm still not using this phone like I did my old N1. Since I had ATT and their crappy service in manhattan, I would almost never have enough bandwidth to even listen to pandora at work. With Verizon's service I'm pretty much constantly on 4g and enjoying the luxuries that come with it, which also means it's eating more battery life.

However, I did do some manual tweaks to enhance performance. I have my pop mailers, facebook and twitter only checking once ever hour. Everything else is pretty much push.

I definitely recommend rooting before you give up on it. I am a bit disappointed in the stock roms, but so long as there is the choice and ability to tune those things, I'm content.

Cheers!
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
Did you change any of the options or did you just install it and keep everything set to default?
[Verizon Droid Charge] bash_array:
Love it after ee4.

Running gummy 1.5 with pbj kernel

This phone is the best single core processor phone out yet.

I will put my current rig against any phone not oc'ed. Im getting 1800 on quadrant on my current setup. This phone is a beast if you know exactly which mods to use
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
Sweet! I'm at 1673 with the same setup except EE4 debloated rom. Dying to try gummy, but I need exchange to work! won't be long I'm sure.
[Verizon Droid Charge] PeterDLai:
Nice write-up skuzz. Do you have any experience with the LG Revolution? How does that phone compare to the Charge?

I keep wondering if the LG Revolution's LTE chip is less finicky than the Charge's Samsung chip or the ThunderBolt's Qualcomm chip. My Charge always mysteriously stops receiving data on 4G at some point where I have to play around with toggling to CDMA mode and back to LTE automatic to get things working again. FWIW I am in a borderline fringe area (4G vs. 4G Extended on coverage map) but it seems peculiar to me that it works perfectly for a while until the sudden drop, especially because when this happens the 4G icon is still there, data just stops transmitting.
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
This is precisely what the EE4 update is supposed to fix. Have you updated yet?
[Verizon Droid Charge] sarends:
FYI - I did the update to EE4 last night

But to answer your question, I do have two GMAIL accounts doing automatic updating. But, this is my livelihood. I gwt leads via email and I need to see emails immediately. That was one thing that drove me nutty about the iPhone 4 - I had to click on the email app to check for email. And, since emails are so important to me, I was clicking on the darn email button checking email WAY too much.

Recent example of how quickly the Charge loses Charge. We just went to a dance recital. I was not making phone calls. The was at 66% when I went into the auditorium at 1:00pm. I left data updating on (like I said, I am addicted to watching my email for business leads). GPS, bluetooth and wireless was off. By 6:30pm the phone shutoff - the battery had expired. 66% to shutoff in 5 1/2 hours and I didn't make one phone call. I wonder what is going on - this seems like way way too much drain doesn't it?
[Verizon Droid Charge] chromiumcloud:
That was my impression as well. I don't get it why the battery drains that fast. It must be something related to powering the 4G antenna, and makes me wonder if any LTE phone is going to have good battery life in the near future.
[Verizon Droid Charge] PeterDLai:
Yeah I am already on EE4, issue still exists for me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Tornlogic:
Default all the way through. Keep in mind, it won't bump benchie scores, but makes games more playable.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Stolz25:
I kinda wonder if the battery guage is right. I've noticed mine will sit at 100% for quite a while and then when it starts moving it drops pretty fast, especially once it is under 50%. I haven't tested this though, just seems that way.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ShotgunSam:
Didn't ask about mail, that won't drain your battery. I assume you leave your screen off when its not being used, correct?

Facebook and Twitter and anything else like those will drain your battery pretty quickly if you have them set to auto-update and in a ridiculous short amount of time every 15 - 30 minutes.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Racer447:
Just FYI from my short experience with the Charge:

For everyone having battery drain issues, the one single thing that helps the most for me was shutting off Wifi when not in use. This made a huge difference in battery life for me (IE about 2%/hour drain as opposed to close to 10%/hour drain).

Oddly, if the wifi is on and CONNECTED, the battery drain is more modest.
[Verizon Droid Charge] :
That's the most honest review I've seen yet from someone who actually knows what the hell they are talking about AND put in time with the Mobile. Left you a thanks. I'm also happy to hear what you have to say going forward with the Charge.
[Verizon Droid Charge] distortedloop:
I don't know about all that...I personally believe Apple got it right with their "PCs". Same with their laptops.

It sounds like some of the phone manufacturers are coming around as well. HTC not going to lock bootloaders any more, Sony not going to, Motorola maybe not, Samsung hasn't yet on any of their devices I'm familiar with.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chromiumcloud:
Virgin Mobile just released a phone on stock android.

I wish the carriers would just release stock; it would also make our lives comparing the phones a lot easier.
[Verizon Droid Charge] offroadr35:
If anyone wants to buy a Thunderbolt with a couple extra batteries, let me know.

I'm keeping the Charge.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stanaka1:
I wonder if there is something wrong with your phone? I'm on stock rooted EE4 with LTE, GPS, data sync, and bluetooth on. After 4 hours, I'm at 66% battery. I have my news and social widgets/programs set to manual update. I also made 1 short call, installed the market and sd card fix, ran a couple of speed tests and browsed for a few minutes.

I came from the LG Revo and that would discharge at 10% per hour just sitting there. The LTE speeds were ~5-10mbs slower and would lose 4g randomly. Although that was the most responsive phone I've ever owned (D1 & DX) and the screen was really nice and bright.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bwhxeon:
Can you clarify anymore? Rom version or stock? Kernel being used ect. From what I've read this phone has decent battery life to start with, if your using a debloated rom and undervolted kernel the only other thing I can think of is you have a app/process running in the background not allowing the phone to go into deep sleep. Also since the charge doesn't need to be restarted to change to force 3g you might as well set that before you put it down.

Also something to keep in mind is the Oled screens used on these phones tend to use up more juice when displaying more vibrant colors red white yelow ect. Try using a black background image for the home screen.
[Verizon Droid Charge] :
As far as I understood the black thing only works with the first gen Amoled screens, like the GS series of mobiles and the Nexus S. Since the Charge is an Amoled + it won't help.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Cruiserdude:
How so? Its still an AMOLED screen, which means every black pixel is actually turned off, there is no separate backlight being blacked out, as with an LCD. Darker shades keep the pixels turned down, and black is turned off, so how would it not save battery life? AFAIK the + simply means the sub-pixels were boosted from 8 to 12 so the pentile arrangement was no longer necessary, and some of the colors were tweaked so as to look more natural.

Regardless, I definitely notice the best battery life and performance using a simple black background with a smallish basic image on it compared to anything else.
[Verizon Droid Charge] :
Then I happily defer to you. All of our batteries win!
[Verizon Droid Charge] TomXP411:
My problem is a lot more fundamental. I just got the phone last night, and after spending an hour trying to activate it, I got really frustrated using it.

1. I CAN'T STAND the orange backgrounds on notifications and dialog boxes. Who thought that was a good idea?

2. My phone played the notification sound in the middle of the night, waking me up at 3 AM, to let me know the battery was charged. Why, Samsung, WHY? I don't need an audio notification that the battery is charged! I certainly don't need you to nag me to unplug the charger!

Anyway, this thing is going back to Amazon, and I'm waiting on the Motorola BIONIC... although I may be tempted to grab the Photon on Sprint...
[Verizon Droid Charge] s14tat:
If this thing is anything like a Fascinate you can turn off that notification by going into settings and development.
[Verizon Droid Charge] sarends:
Liking the Charge after Rooting

OK gentlemen, I had my son help me install GummyCharged 1.7.5 with penutbuttajellytime kernel and I am really liking things so far!

My issues were (in order of importance)

1) Laginess

2) Length of time to recharge

3) Battery life

So far, the responsiveness of the phone after the upgrade is remarkable! Deeply in debt to the wonderful developers!

I apologize now (a little) for criticizing the "in stock form charge" as much as I did in this thread ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] JaZen:
I have been generally unhappy with Verizon's LTE offerings, there always was a compromise from my ultimate goal of a SuperAMOLED Plus (or NOVA) display, qHD resolution, Physical Keyboard, Dual Core cpu, DLNA, etc...I could go on.

Inm an attempt to get locked in on unlimited LTE data, I decided on the DC because it seemed to have the amount of compromises for my needs.

After some wheeling and dealing with Vzw customer service, I was able to get a Charge for me and my wife for $149 each (w/taxes it came out to $170/ea).

I've had the phone for 8 days, it is an an outstanding upgrade from my Blackberry Tour. Two days ago, I rooted and voodoo lag-fixed it, and last night I wiped the ROM clean and installed GC 1.75 custom Gingerbread.

The ONLY qualm I have is the lack of Netflix, but I feel like that will get resolved one way or another.

I have absolutely no reservations reccomending this phone to anyone, I absolutely love it! (And no, I am not an Vzw employee in disguise!)
[Verizon Droid Charge] jpog:
So how do you do all this rooting..with gummy charge and Pbj..is it easy? Sorry guys I am a newbie
[Verizon Droid Charge] JaZen:
All things considered, it is pretty easy. The difficult part is finding clear directions when you don't know what you are doing (like I was).

Give this link a try to acquire root w/PBJ:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122657

Read

all

of the directions, they aren't perfect, but they are the best one's I have found.

Once you are done, install Titanium and back-up everything that you care about.

Gummy Charge is here:

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?124-ROM-EE4-GummyCHARGED-1.7.5-06-16-11&p=1114#post1114

Good luck jpog!
[Verizon Droid Charge] kgbeezr1:
Another vote for that link. I had pretty much resigned myself to not rooting or flashing until I found that set on instructions. I had successfully flashed ROM's and radio's to an HTC inspire which is supposed to be one of the harder ones, but this phone seemed over the top in terms of difficulty. The directions from Chadness had me up and running in about 30 minutes. With those rom/kernel suggestions i'm getting better battery life in addition to better performance (and headphone sound quality with the Voodoo app from the market). It's worth doing...
[Verizon Droid Charge] sarends:
I followed the directions at Android Central 100% and the upgrade was flawless.

The thread is called, "HOW-TO] Get a rooted version of EE4"

Link is here

Some advice - when you read through the instructions, and test the links where you find all the files needed, write down on a piece of paper the names of the files and their latest versions. You may find a couple versions of certain files - you need to double check the files you are downloading to make sure you have the right ones before you start your update.

BTW, I love my phone after the update whereas I hated it before the update.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Haloman800:
I have the same freaking burn/ watermark, the guy in the verizon store just said "I don't see anything"

What did you do to get them to send you a replacement?

Btw my watermark is a circle on the bottom right, is that where yours is?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panflute:
TI Backup is showing I have 456 apps installed which includes everything that came with the phone. I hear there is no limit (my old windows 6.5 phone was limited to 50 apps...after that all of the apps disappeared from the deinstall menu and you had to manually delete something to see them all again). Everything is installed to the internal card, nothing installed on the external SD card. I still have almost 9 gigs of free space so it is conceivable that 1500 apps is possible, though the phone may start to slow down at some point. With TI backup eating space along with the phone's built in android backup turned on I don't know how much of the free space will be eaten up.

So anyone over the 450 number?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko!:
There is a smaller area of the SD card put aside for apps..

sent from my rooted,

and chillin, canadian Motorola Atrix
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
I was on 448 but just downloaded another 3 to break 450. TiBu reporting 451 now. LOL

Beamed in from WinBorg 4G via XDA Premium app
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MdX MaxX:
I don't see why you can't have as many apps as will fit on the internal storage...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panflute:
Is there a way to increase the size?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dillfever:
Tibu says I only have 204....best start downloading so app's....lol
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panflute:
space for apps

If there is a finite amout of space available for apps then there is definitely an upper limit to how many apps can be installed. i may be close to the limit since i tried installing a large app from amazon and received a message saying there was insufficient space. After I deinstalled Angry Birds Rio the nessage went away and the app installed. So to increase the amount of available space for apps you either have to increase the amount of allocated space for apps (whereever that directory is), delete other optional files like pics and music, or perhaps reformat.....I remember seeing soem sort of reformat option somewhere...maybe this post belongs in the dev forum since they are savvy with the system.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WiredPirate:
Sounds like you need Apps2sd.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panflute:
Yes. I just got apps to SD. I didn't know any apps were on the SD card, I am still curious exactly.how much space is available on the phone. I'll have to copy over the apps to my 2nd SD card.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jeffrsho:
Is there any way to globally adjust the eq? I would like to tweak Pandora's output but can't. I saw a mod for the Droid, I think it was called milestone eq or something. If anyone has ideas or maybe something can be added to one of the upcoming rom's...

Thanks....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] gtg465x:
This shouldn't be in the development section, but I may include Voodoo sound in my next kernel. Then you'll be able to adjust a lot of settings.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jeffrsho:
Thx, I wasn't sure where to put it....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
if it is a question put it in general untill we have a q&a section, it is safer there. maybe if the qiestions are development related (like you are in the middle of a project and need input and plan to post the project later in the same thread) you might get away with it.

to answer the question there is an eq widget in the market but i didnt care for the quality and there is an app called galaxy tuner (also in the market) for the i9000 and other phones with similar hardware that works on the infuse. dont use it on the external speaker(bug results in lost ringtones) but it works great for headphones. it also has a "3d sound" option that works pretty nice, better than any other audio enhancement i have seen on an andriod phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jeffrsho:
The problem with the marketplace apps is that they only work for music played in a music player, not streamed through services like Pandora. I'll check out the ones you mentioned though...
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
galaxy tuner claims to be a hardware eq, it is at minimum a global eg, it is not a music player but an app that sets many hardware and kernel setting that you otherwise dont have access to. it works! the eq widget (dont remember the name) also works but i never got a good balance out of it.
[Nexus S General] shubu000:
Hi guys

Just want to know which radio are you guys using. I'm using KD1. Anyone done any testing to see whether this is the best for Australia or a previous version such as kb3.

I know for my x10 there are regional updates for basebands. Is this the case for the nexus S
[Nexus S General] icejagans:
I too would like to know more info about radios. I'm currently on kb3 and it seems sufficient. I get GPS lock in 10 seconds so reasonably happy.
[Nexus S General] window7:
Tested with Kb3 and Kd1, both same, not much difference as Vodafone network is still upgrade in progress. I guess, KD1 is mre effective for UK :p
[Nexus S General] shubu000:
I'm on optus and just want to check is it my plan / location

My hsdpais pretty much non existant for the last month or 2
[Nexus S General] icejagans:
Stock rom doesn't show the H sign. Only custom roms do that. Maybe it's a carrier issue?
[Nexus S General] window7:
I think mostly in AUstralia, we get less "H", I not sure why, gotta ask them :P
[Nexus S General] shubu000:
Oh I'm using superaosp.. best rom... so that's not because of stock rom that I don't see h

Funny when I first got the planing on now I see h very often
[Nexus S General] LuvinN1:
I'm also with vodafail. Using speedtest, I get better download with the new radio KD1 and upload speed was relatively the same in comparison with KB3
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lyylim:
Hi there,

I still new to use arc and android, just would like to check with all experts, I am trying to use the tethering feature and connect my arc with pc companion, but once I enable the tethering feature and the connection between arc and computer is disconnected.

Is it really like this? normal?

use tethering for internet connection since I have no broadband at home. Think of connect both to update software from original SE website....

Kindly advice.