[HD2 General] karlmueller:
I'm about to get rid of my HD2 in favor of an iPhone 4 too.

I never thought that I would ever do that because I've always been anti-Apple and anti-iPhone because of all the restrictions and for the fact that Apple gives things like style priority over technical aspects like an user replaceable battery or a SD slot.

But after using different HTC Windows Mobile based phones since 2008 and having massive problems with ALL of them I really just want a phone that finally works.

In 2008 I got the Trinity with my Vodafone Germany voice plan which was never really usable for browsing the Internet because it only had 64 MB of RAM with half of that being used by Windows Mobile itself straight after powering the phone on.

Due to of the lack of RAM I couldn't run any background programs like weather updates on it either and when I used Twitter it it drained the battery like crazy.

So basically the Trinity was just a "regular" phone for calling and texting and a music player with crappy sound quality. In fact I even used Twitter with it but with the Twitter program updating every 30 minutes it consumed at least 2 batteries a day which wasn't really that usable either :(

So I sold it and got the Mega.

The Mega (Touch 2) (not from Vodafone) was the crappiest phone I ever had. I think the store replaced it 2-3x and I tried lots of different ROMs but I always had stuttering audio when playing music. So I ended up selling it.

Then I upgraded to the Topaz (Touch Diamond 2) through Vodafone.

I had so many issues with that phone that I got it replaced 3 times (so a total of 4 different Topazes!!!!!) within not even one year lol

One Topaz always "forgot" the date and time after powering it of and removing the battery for some time, another one completely froze at the lock screen when I powered it up for the first time right after unboxing it and I don't even know exactly what other issues I had with the two other Topazes.

But I know that browsing the web never really worked on any of my Topazes. After powering the phone on I could always browse a view minutes (depending on how much different websites I viewed and I guess of how complex/big those websites were) really nicely. But then it always started to take forever for new websites to load or it didn't load parts of a website at all. And often it got that far that the phone couldn't load new websites I was trying to browse at all. I just got that infamous "Couldn't locate remote server" error then. After soft resetting I always had the same thing all over again - worked fine for a few minutes and then again got super slow or didn't load websites at all anymore.

I had this issues with various different ROMs and browsers (stock Opera 9, Opera 10 and Internet Explorer) on all of my first 3 Topazes. And it didn't made any difference whether I was browsing over 3G or WiFi.

After getting my 4th Topaz (the one that froze right after unboxing) I went to the Vodafone shop I got it from and they offered me to return the Topaz and let me pick a entirely different phone.

I thought that maybe my previous phones were just too "cheap" and therefore not fast enough to work nicely for browsing the web and stuff like that and so I picked the Leo. Since the Leo is much more expensive I had to upgrade my voice plan to a bigger one in order to get it for a reasonable price. That was back in March.

Since then I tried 2 different ROMs on my Leo

RUU_Leo_S_hTC_Asia_WWE_3.14.707.3_Radio_15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14_LEO_S_Ship.exe

RUU_Leo_1_5_TMOUS_3.14.531.1_Radio_Signed_15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14_2_Ship.exe

and the phone didn't work like it's supposed to with neither of them.

When I woke up about a week ago my Leo told me that it's battery is only at 30% although it was connected to the charger all night. After soft-resetting it the battery indicator suddenly showed 100% but the phone didn't recognize the SD card anymore. After another soft-reset the SD card worked again.

But actually what annoys me the most about the Leo is that I have exactly the same issues when browsing the web like I had with my Topazes before.

It works perfectly for some time and then again browsing becomes super slow or it won't load new websites at all anymore.

It really is the Topaz browsing problem all over again :(

First I thought that this might be a HSPL related issue and so I bought Revskills and re-flashed my Leo using a Goldcard without HSPL to the TMOUS ROM but that didn't resolve the issues either.

So now I had 5 different HTC Windows Mobile based phones (4 Topazes and 1 Leo) within not even one year and not a single one even remotely worked like it should have.

Right now the call time of my Leo is not even at 20 hours but I spent at least twice that time flashing it and reinstalling / setting up all the programs every time after re flashing it.

My brother has an iPhone 4 and in the same time I had tons of issues with 5 different HTC phones which all had to be swapped by Vodafone (and subsequently had to be re-flashed and completely reinstalled) he only had a few very minor issues with his iPhone which were all fixed by Apple within a few days by a few small updates which were installed automatically.

I used to laugh at him for paying so much money for such a restrictive crappy phone but now I have to admit the in fact I was the fool for picking the Leo back in March after all the issues I already had with all the other HTC phones I had before.

If I would have picked the iPhone 4 back in March right now I would have a phone that would actually work. Sure the iPhone only runs apps signed by Apple and it can't play all the different media formats a Windows Mobile based phone can, you can't teak the registry and all that stuff. But right now I would prefer that over my Leo on which I have spent more time flashing it then actually using it while it's still not working :(

So right know I go through hoops to convince Vodafone to take my Leo back and give me the iPhone 4 instead. Because selling the Leo is not really an option for me because the Leo is not worth more than 250-300 Euro on eBay while the iPhone 4 32 GB costs at least 500-600 Euro and I really don't want to loose that much money just cause I made that terrible mistake of picking the Leo in March.

Please don't get me wrong I really appreciate this community and especially all the hard works of the devs and cooks and I wish that I would have more luck with my HTC devices because if my Leo would actually work I would love to keep it for some years to come.

But with all the problems I had (idk either I was majorly out of luck with my HTC devices or I always did sthg wrong while flashing - but if so idk what) I just hope that Vodafone takes my Leo back and that I can get an iPhone 4 ASAP so that I can finally spend my time using my phone instead of trying to fix it.

So again please don't get me wrong I'm really great full for this community and all the help I got here during my past 3 years of struggling with different HTC phones but I hope you understand why I'm sick of HTC phones now.