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[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
BTW, people who are complaining about the Pentile screen:

There's a reason Moto used the screen, it's not because they are "cheaping out."

Pentile LCD panels use a very noticable lower amount of energy to power than say, the LCD on the Thunderbolt. Another advantage is that Pentile LCDs are BRIGHTER with less energy.

I believe both of those reasons seem like a decent trade off for the mild "screendoor effect" we're seeing. I'd rather have a power efficient LCD than a power hog.

I can't find any data on whether Pentile is as efficient as OLED or atleast under equal footing.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rancidcrab:
Love it. So fast!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] JoshRH:
Anything OLED will be the most energy efficient as it's the only mobile display witbout a constant backlight
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 7olycon7:
Update the Busybox Binary (the one that initially roots the phone is old) :)

Phone hums after update. Also, the latest Busybox version 1.19 from jrummy is fly on this phone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 7olycon7:
Definitely a keeper. This phone blazes once rooted!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Brad003:
Keeping it...well, unless the S2 comes out in 12 days for Verizon! :)

Very fast when considering I upgraded from the original Droid!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
Keeping mine unless, something breaks in 14 days.

Yes I agree that it appears the screen is not the greatest quality, and can even seem pixelated at times. I am not sure if this is a driver issue, refresh delay, or simply an OS update would fix. I think it could also be a motoblur thing. I replaced my home screen with ADW and have not had or saw the "refresh screen" issue. It almost like when you change the screen it takes half a second to complete the image, like with rapid scrolling.

This big major is that I can keep it on the lowest setting, actually below the factory lowest and the screen is still readable in daylight outside !!! WOW You will never be able to do that with and AMOLED screen. They say super AMOLED is better, but this is great visiblity during the day. Lower brightness, better battery, and better outdoor visibiilty cannot complain!!! There is always going to be something in a phone we dont like!.

My Incredible was PERFECT. Only issue, small screen. Music, quality processor everything was great.

Also Verizon had the extended batteries 50% off for 4g phones!!!! $27 for Bionic Extended battery!!!! Pete's One Click root was easy fast and perfect, done the first time!!!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Diversion:
It's none of those things.. it's a Pentile RGB LCD. It has a mild screendoor effect - but you gain a lot more efficiency over the SLCD HTC uses in their phones.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] arcade16:
Very happy here. Great battery life for a 4G phone and no random restarts like I was getting with my X2.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sLpFhaWK:
The Tbolt runs alot better on battery after a custom cm7 rom tho, my buddy has one running cm7 its hugely improved he said.

I don't know about any of you but i've been having a few problems with the phone and im not sure if its software related, or actual hardware. i'll be typing a post say in FB and all of a sudden it seems to freeze and the kb doesn't respond at all but if i hit one of the buttons on the bottom it will respond and either go back a page, or home etc. its done that during texts, in fb and even on the xda app.

I am rooted using the one click solution and that was easy enough. has anyone else experienced my issue?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PhilDX:
well rooting was about as easy as it gets (using Pete's Root Tools), but the only thing i actually did was freeze the updater to make sure Verizon didn't push any updates without me knowing it.

i have had a few instances of being unable to wake the phone using the power button. both times the phone was hot and completely unresponsive to the power button, had to pull the batt to restart it. i un-rooted (also easy) and did a factory reset after the second time (yesterday morning), now i'm waiting to see if it returns...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] slush:
Keeper for sure, well, compared to my Samsung Epic I'd be happy with a moto star-tac again.

Love the phone, and service. Never again will I buy anything with sprint service.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mx5er:
So far I love this phone.

I came from a Droid X and now I feel spoiled because of this lag free machine. I've only had to battery pull once because I downloaded and installed groups of apps while syncing my gmail contacts, and notes while texting and surfing the web as a full desktop client.

Only thing I don't like is how extremely hot it can get and I can't Bluetooth tether to my iPad 2 like how I could with my Droid X.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] inkdrink:
I assume the people getting poor battery life are actually using the 4G? I'm in an area with only 3G coverage and the extra oomph that the battery came with in assuming it would be put towards 4G is giving me hours and hours of screen on time, the likes of which I haven't had with other phones. I'm rather impressed.

That said, the screen is pretty piss poor. Even from a reasonable distance, the pixelation and diagonal lines are very evident. Colors on the Bionic also appear extremely washed out compared to the Fascinate. This will most likely become the girlfriend's phone when the Prime comes out. Until then, it's not a terrible device. If I could get Motorola's build quality with a Samsung screen, I could die happy.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] C@rn@ge:
I miss sense. But what the hell, I'll probably get used to it right? Right? :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rafarataneneces:
What about Samsung Galaxy S II on Sprint?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eakrish:
The phone getting hot and unresponsive has happened to me twice. Had to pull the battery and restart the phone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cdf3:
Only had mine a day. So far I like it. Most likely a keeper.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zodder:
I came from a Tbolt and so far I'm digging it. I do miss the custom roms, though. I really liked my DX, so the form factor of this phone is like having an old friend back. But just like Steve Austin, it's better, faster, stronger. :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tmc896:
loving life living the bionic dream
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sLpFhaWK:
I'm still on the fence about keeping or returning. I haven't had my phone get hot and unresponsive like some of you have commented, but im really impaitent and i want custom roms.

Decisions decisions!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Cellvoice:
+1
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mngdew:
I think I can live the display, but the whole sdcard thing is a total deal breaker for me. I hope Vigor or Prime will come out within next 3 months so that I can exchange.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ratledge:
ummm... What are you using to display it? Obviously the software you've got is hard-wired to display only units of 10 on Motorola-based devices, because I get everything displayed in increments of 1%. :rolleyes:

Using Battery Indicator Pro from the Android Market...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] frenetic:
Came from a Droid X, I definitely like the feel of this. It's not drastically different, and 4G is faster than I could hope for.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] scottb75:
Came from iPhone 4 (Nexus S and Nexus One before that) and I'm liking the Droid Bionic so far.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tbgreen89:
Im using the widgets from an app called Elixir. Maybe ill try another battery widget.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eps3:
Not Happy.

1) The screen is noticeably inferior to my Incredible. When the same high quality photo is viewed side by side on the Incredible and Bionic there is absolutely no comparison. Even the Verizon rep admitted that there is a shocking difference. The "screen door" pentile effects were tolerable, but the poor display of colors was quite disappointing.

2) the high pitched whine/hum when outputting audio via the 3.5mm jack(headphones and aux input in car) was the deal-killer for me. my Incredible has no such issues at all.

3) bottom line: compared to my Incredible there is significant degradation in both display and audio quality.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eakrish:
This is semi how I feel about coming from the iPhone. You gonna keep it or return it?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Turb0wned:
I went to Verizon the day it came out to take a look at it. I currently have the Droid Charge and Samsung Fascinate (have had all Iphones also). I was thinking about buying it till the prime came out since I leave to training (Air Force) for 2 months in November and I wont be able to get the prime till January when I get back anyways. I didn't end up walking out with it. This is the way I see it, you had 9 months to improve everything on the phone and Motorola decided to put the worst screen they could on it. This to me is the biggest deal breaker.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eps3:
I returned it. To be disappointed with audio and display quality of a brand new $300 top of the line phone was just too much. No 4G in my area yet so my Incredible is still *quite* competitive. Actually, I appreciate my Incredible even more now that I see how well it holds its own against the newer phones.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eakrish:
I would have done the same thing except I have 4g in my area.... im holding on to it until Monday or maybe even Friday. I want to see how it holds up when im working.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jonno95:
I agree. I will also add that I can't talk and use data. (that's kind of a killer right there) also, I lose data way to often and won't come back until I reboot.

Also, on cdma only, when I connect to wifi, verizon data stays connected until I switch to lte, which I do not have.

O, the screen bugs me. But if I worked outside then I'm sure I would love it.

I'm leaning toward going back to my Thunderbolt or even my incredible, I hate losing data so often, and I love tweaking everything on the other htc devices.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] manolith2011:
I am happy with the bionic. I only had it for two days. I did however had trouble with my screen mainly because I am used to the screen of my galaxy tab 10.1 and my droid 1. but this screen is really good during the day. The phone is as fast as my galaxy tab and flash performance is actually better than with my galaxy for some reason. I think is a keeper.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] gio2005:
I want to thank all of you for helping me attempt to make my mind up about this phone. I have an Incredible and a DX prior to that. I noticed a few issues with the device in store (screen quality) but the 4G as compared to my 3G gave me new toy syndrome.

Prior to this week I wanted to wait for the Droid/Nexus Prime, this phone tempted me, but with the screen quality/locked bootloader and what appears to be the same quality camera as my old DX I think I will continue to wait. Again thanks to all for helping me out.

On a side note, my son is chomping at the bit for my incredible when I upgrade. I've thought about getting the bionic and then taking his upgrade in May.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 86shelby:
It definitely is. All task killers on android do is cause problems & kill the battery.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sycoares:
I really like mine so far with the exception of a couple of little issues I've had that I'm hoping can be resolved. Of course, I came from a first gen BB Storm so I probably wasn't terribly hard to impress.

The two issues are that it plays small mp4 files just fine but not large ones and it appears to have shut off twice on it's own so far and I had to pull the battery to get it to restart. I'm hoping I can find resolutions for these or they get fixed if they turn out to be a common issue and then I'll be very happy.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ratledge:
Sorry, my bad. Motorola phone = 10% increments, I've got a Bionic in one hand and my old HTC Incredible in the other... :confused:

Actually, I _KNEW_ I had seen something different: the Bionic displays 5% and 15%, which is stranger still, because it doesn't update at any other 5% increments. hmmm...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] papi92:
Obviously happy
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dixonba:
but papi, click display and report your "display on" time...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sLpFhaWK:
I think i've posted in this thread before but I will chime in again..

To those unaware I am coming from an Iphone 4 on AT&T.

Me personally I haven't really noticed a huge problem w/ the screen like many of you are complaining about. Its obviously not AS sharp as the ip4 screen but I can deal with that.

The Verizon service is the main reason why I got the Bionic. Lately i've been having issues w/ my phone and im not sure if its the network or the phone. So when I update/restore the ip4 and have apple test it I will know if it needs to be replaced or not.

So far my Droid experience has been real good, i've been so used to the iphone that learning the newer droids menus, widgets hasn't been TOO tough but now that I have some cool features i am enjoying the phone much more.

Battery life is less than superb tho. I can go 2 days w/ moderate use on my iphone and I can barley get 10 hrs of use on the Bionic. Now granted I am new and i haven't frozen any of the bloatware stuff yet and im sure that has an impact on performance but i just wish out the box it was better.

I'm thinking about keeping it, and im also on the fence about returning it for the Tbolt. Now I know a stock out the box tbolt has worse battery life than the bionic but in 30 mins i can have a custom rom installed and get better battery life on the tbolt..

So I don't know. I've had the phone since thursday, i'll give it till Friday and see what I am gonna do.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lkhafra:
I think the Bionic is a beast. I thought people complained about the screen just because they here bad things about it but when I got my Bionic I definitely noticed the difference. I tried to force myself to keep it but couldnt especially with phones coming out in a month or 2 that should have way better screens. My Thunderbolt with CM7 is good enough untill Oct Nov. To be honest i could use my fascinate untill Oct Nov.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] reznuh:
totally happy & keeping it... although it's really only my second smartphone, and i'm coming from an iPhone 3G, but being in IT i've used & configured many of them. i don't understand the complaints about the screen, it looks great to me (although i have yet to holds an S2) - the stock battery and everything else so far is a huge upgrade from what i was using before though. right now my goal is to find a good 4G toggle widget, but i really have no complaints. already rooted which was mindless and quick, and i'm probably going to freeze a lot of the bloatware. i'm very happy with the phone though. i should look into getting one of the extended batteries too, i didn't realize they were so cheap until i read this thread.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dixonba:
Coming from a Dinc so I'm used to the battery issues. I guess I'm bummed about the battery life...that is until I load a webpage or open an app...then its like "ohhhhh yeaaaaah"
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ratledge:
Same here, I dropped the Dinc on the wife (and drug her into the 21st century over the weekend - kicking and screaming, but...). :p

Never-the-less, the Bionic kicks butt on normal processing tasks, and when we see people program for the dual-core Droids, we'll really see it pick up even more, WAY too many things are single-threaded. :eek:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] knitpurlgurl:
There are a few bugs, but I LOVE it and will not be returning it. I came from an HTC Droid Eris - so this seems near perfect to me.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] iphonedefector:
Just Got it

OK I broke down and switched one of my lines over to Verizon from AT&T , I have not used it much yet. So far though I am impressed at the response and fluidity of the phone.

I have rooted it , now I need to really start messing with it. I would say so far 3 hours in its a good product.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leechy:
For the past couple days, my phone has been sporadically connecting to Google (white/green signal bars). Seems fine when I'm on wifi, but when using Sprint, the problem seems to be coming up fairly often. I checked all setting, all looks good. Is this a Google/Sprint issue or something with my phone?

Thanks!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xdaoscar996:
Me too man... Sometimes when I try too load the browser it just shows white bars and the 3g icon Is white too.

Evo
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leechy:
Well at least I know it's not just me :P Guess it's a Sprint issue...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
Same here
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crzdcole:
had this same issue, and now i'm not even getting 3g. cant even update my profile or prl now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baldwin69:
i have the same problem. it seems to happen almost ever 10 minutes. if i'm sending a text or in an app that requires internet, i'll get errors like "not sent" "disconnected" or "no active internet connections" and that's even when I'm ON wi-fi. i don't understand it. i figured if it was a sprint issue, i would get the "x" over the signal bars and not a color change. i assumed it was a radio problem? but i don't know enough about this stuff. lol
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Esteway.619:
That's weird. I have the white bars and 3g icon and I can still get on emails market mms and on xda as I'm typing this now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NYYFan325:
I've noticed this as well over the past week, maybe 2.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
You still have data with the white bars. The green bars just indicate you are actively connected with Google services like gmail, talk, etc.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
if your not getting the green connectivity to google, check how much internal app storage space you have left. not the sd storage. ive noticed that every time that i go below 100mb app storage, i lose connectivity to googles servers. and i dont get it back, turn green, until i either uninstall a few apps or move them to the sd storage.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
I have 638mb available :( So I doubt it is a storage problem.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crzdcole:
i second this, i have around 600mb free and still have white bars.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leechy:
phone is back to normal this morning (so far)...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manifest3r:
This has been happening to me as well for the past 2 weeks. I've tried a hard reset, but the issue is still persistent.

I have 614MB free.

Did you do anything in particular to fix this?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
Seems to be fixed today.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leechy:
Nope, I'm thinking this was more of an issue w Google and/or Sprint.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xdaoscar996:
This still happens to me. When I'm in 3g takes about 3 seconds for it to react
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
Has been rock solid for 2 days straight now.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
Something tells me you are using a task manager that is turning data off when the screen is off.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xdaoscar996:
No. I just turn it off with the notification bar cm7. But when its on and I surf the web sometimes it happens. And not right away but after searching a few sites
[General Questions and Answers] PorkoSvinc:
Hi.

I've got a chinese android device called Alpha Trident (h_t_t_p_:_/_/_w_w_w_.chinavasion.com/android-tablets-phones/alpha-trident-android-22-froyo-smartphone-with-35-inch-touchscreen-dual-sim-wifi/). It has a small telescopic analog antenna (PAL/NTSC).

The phone comes with a cool program called Mobile TV. It looks like this:

youtu.be/wo9y0WluN_0?t=1s

youtu.be/TO7sw3Vtpq8?t=2m35s

..these are just some random videos found on youtube. I get quite a poor signal (from other coutries), cause we dont have analog tv here.

Is there any way to receive the digital signal with this antenna? I mean... if you have a roof-top analog antenna you can just get a digital converter box and the digital signal should work. (at least i think so..)
[General Questions and Answers] WiredPirate:
This is not my understanding. You have to have a digital antenna to pick up the signal, then the converter box changes the digital signal to analog for the tv that only accepts analog signals. Analog antennas will NOT pick up a digital signal.
[General Questions and Answers] PorkoSvinc:
are you sure of that? cause im using an analog antenna to receive the digital signal when i am in italy. when they changed the analog signal in digital i just had to purchase a digital converter, keeping the same antenna.

(from _w_w_w_.computing.net/answers/digitalhome/digital-signal-antenna-vs-analog/319.html, _w_w_w_.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html#faq12)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baraahilal:
First of all I'm a beginner in android world .

Kernal: 2.6.32.9

root@se-s606 #1

The problem is:

I was trying to root my Galaxy S I9000 following the steps of [GUIDE] And then there was ROOT !

Everything was great until this step:

- Press "Start". ODIN you should now be flashing the kernel, and the device should reboot.

Odin gave me a red flag with " Failed " and I got this message:

<ID:0/009> Added!!

<ID:0/009> Odin v.3 engine (ID:9)..

<ID:0/009> File analysis..

<ID:0/009> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/009> Initialzation..

<ID:0/009> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/009> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/009> zImage

<ID:0/009> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/009>

<ID:0/009> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I unpulged my device and turned it off, when I turned it on a device-!- computer screen appered, after many tries I took off the battery and put it then I pressed the three combo button, finally I managed to get to download mode.

Now:

-My computer recognizes the device but Kies doesn't ( although it's the latest version and I tried to reinstall the drivers.)

-Odin keeps giving me the same error, and sometimes it stay stop at <ID:0/009> SetupConnection.. ( I tried XWKDD_insecure.tar & KE2_original.zip )

-I'm stuck in download mode.

Please help me get my phone to work (I prefer to return to the same firmware if it's possible).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4rm45:
https://www.wuala.com/Samsung Galax...and Odin/Original Firmwares/?key=AfzUZSU4SpKU

Download your original firmware from here and flash it in odin.

E: Btw are you using latest odin?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ali_khalid5518:
I got same problem when i m newb so calm down first go to www.samfirware.com and select ur phone download latest europen rom it is JVR and then flash them via odin by putting file respectively
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Moppi8:
Hi all,

mine social hub premium is not working for hotmail anymore for some reason. keeps on saying wrong user name / password but its not. was working about 2 hrs ago.

tried adding it again but dont work at all. normal one works not the premium wanted it for push email and managing it from my phone.

anyone got the same problem or can provide help.

problem is now solved for some reason didnt even do anything
[HTC Inspire 4G] slantastic:
I once saw a little plastic accessory you could add onto the back of the iphone 3gs. It had two mirrors that allowed the camera to see in front of the screen functionally making it a front facing camera. Does anyone know of something like this for the inspire/desire?

My gf just moved to Rome and portable facetime would rock :)

Thanks!
[HTC Inspire 4G] jpcdeux:
Hahahahaha. Sorry to laugh but mirrors? That's awesome
[HTC Inspire 4G] jsm7483:
Check out the accessory. I had to Google it after seeing this post. It's called the iseeu.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rmcknight:
foud them on eBay

This looks like them: http://www.ebay.com/itm/160632237999?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm570.l2736%26_nkw%3D160632237999%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1
[HTC Inspire 4G] homeslice976:
I have never heard of such an accessory but now I want one too!!

onemoreface

http://www.ciccaresedesign.com/?page_id=46

buy the project and manufacture it!

or vainworks

http://www.vainworks.com/