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[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
It's not the megapixels, it's the quality of the sensor that matters. 5MP is plenty if it's got the latest bells and whistles! I'd have a great 5MP over good 8MP any day.
[HTC Sensation] Nekromantik:
why seem to forget that S2 WILL be faster as it uses Touchwiz which aint a huge overhaul of the UI. Sense 3.0 is heavy so will slow the phone down and as its the first dual core HTC and first Sense 3 phone it will have bugs.

My contract is due for a upgrade next week and Im wanting the Sensation XE but might wait until 19th to see if Samsung/Google announce a release date for Nexus Prime. My only downside of that will be I will miss Sense :(
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
this. i loved nokia n82's 5mp camera.
[HTC Sensation] corona10:
No, I dont regret it at all. I've played with the Amaze and the Gs2 and while they have updated and more optimized os they're not blowing my S4 out of the water nor doing anything I cant currently do. I did like the speed of the GS2 but I wasnt that sold on Samoled+ as I thought I would be. It is a thing of beauty though and feels solid and much more durable than I thought it would be. However, I really dont like touchwiz. To me it feels unfinished somehow or like its missing something. I probably just need to get used to it but it just doesnt seem as nice. Its definitely faster than Sense. The camera on the GS2 seemed like it took better pictures than the Amaze did even with the advanced camera tech on the Amaze. I loved the new upgrades, on it though, its like it anticipates what you want and its so fast. But I liked the GS2 pics better and took perfect indoor pics without needing to adjust any settings which i did have to do with the Amaze. Not a biggie, but I thought the Amaze was supposed be superior camera tech and it turns out it just has more options.Both are great devices and wont disappoint. I like the Amaze's design better and love that they kept the Sensation's pseudo unibody type design. But the Amaze feels like the Sensations bigger more sucessful sister with boob implants. Its also heavier and thicker due to the physical camera and video buttons. I like both devices and would be hard pressed to make a decision. But being a lover of Sense and HTC devices I would probably go with the Amaze. But the GS2 will probably win me over next year when its the GS3. Samsung has really distinguished themselves from the other manufacturers with the GS2 in my opinion and they seem to be taking the lead.
[HTC Sensation] suicide monkey:
I'm coming from an hd2 and i regret it, only the CPU/gpu and the colurs/resolution are better. All other things were better on the hd2.

Maybe i buy a nexus prime when its out, but i would miss sense :-)

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
i've had a hd2 also. what other better things are you talking about?
[HTC Sensation] KAwAtA:
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[HTC Sensation] Rhiannon224:
I don't regret buying my Sensation at all, every phone has it's share of problems. The Amaze has screen bleeding and no wifi calling. After owning a 1st generation Galaxy S device and its cheap plastic casing and crappy gps left me never wanting another Samsung phone.
[HTC Sensation] tohfhu:
I've been in you position. But the looks and the feel of sensation made me buy it instead of the GS2. Right now im very happy with my sensation, could have waited for the XE, but this standard one is all good.

Every phone out there has its ups and downs, and of course you can learn to live with it.

Im not yet rooting and installing other roms though. I'll wait for 6 monts or when I get tired of this thing.
[HTC Sensation] s10shane:
my sensation 4g was free from tmobile. i used my upgrade to get the g2x when it finally came back on the market and the phone ran great and really fast for a phone out the box but after a month came the rebooting. got 2 replacement phones one had really bad screen bleeding u can tell on the notification bar since it was black then the rebooting was even worst. 2nd one had major screen bleeding and a dead pixel then rebooting. finally tmobile said we have an option to give u a sensation 4g free of charge. they told me to only send the g2x without the battery and battery door so i did. i ended up getting the sensation 4g without the box and it came with blackberry headphones and a 2gb sd card which was a joke but i couldnt complain cause tmobile gave it to me free plus i got a 16gb sd card anyways and nice headphones that came from the galaxy s 4g. but even better i sold all my g2x accessories for 90 bucks out the door so it was a win win for me lmao.. this is why i wont leave tmobile cause there customer service kicks ass lol

I Only Got 4 Cons - the speaker (it really sucks on this phone. i can barley hear the damn phone ring with its turned up all the way.)

lack of 1gb ram - (only because most high end phones got 1gb and for some reason we didnt get it lol.)

no dedicated camera button - (which i miss from my old mt4g)

optical track pad - (miss it from my old mt4g as well.. made it easier to unlock and lock my old phone)
[HTC Sensation] ak29:
I don't regret buying the sensation. I had a desire before this and I tried the galaxy s2 before this for 2 days. I just didn't like the galaxy s2 enough to keep it. It was a nice phone I wouldnt mind it as my backup phone.

The sensation does have its issues but the pros out weigh the cons.

Issues with the sensation in my opinion:

Creaky battery door, bad battery life, not enough ram (should have 1gb like evo 3d), only comes with 8gb memory card (not big enough for a high end flag ship phone), 1gb of internal memory (not enough for apps in the long run needs 2gb).

Most of these issues can be fixed or have a work around. I still think the sensation is the best android on the market right now except Ofcourse the galaxy s2. It's just matter of preference between the two.
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
I don't regret it one bit.

I come from the G2x as well and while that phone is pretty awesome the glitches it had annoyed me beyond what I could bare. I got three replacements and then they said they could send me a Sensation instead and I have been very happy with it. Since I am an Android enthusiasts I went to tmobile the other day and played a little with the Amaze but I was not impressed.

I am planning to keep this phone for a while.
[HTC Sensation] jotha:
I regret it for one reason nobody else mentioned: The usb/charger-plug on the side of the phone. That's the most stupid thing I ever saw. Unfortunately I didn't see that in the store or I'd never have purchased it 3 months ago. Didn't look for that cause I couldn't even imagine someone would do smth like that. Can't use a decent car- or desktop-holder/charger. The only reason I have not switched it for a SGS2 is that I wait for the nexus prime. If that one has the charger at the bottom, it's a deal in 5 minutes.

The rest of the phone is OK, the looks are great, but the plug is a show-stopper for me.
[HTC Sensation] thebigham:
I think the build quality is really bad compared to my motorola droid. That thing is soild as rock. And for the sensation, they advertised it as an unibody build. That's a complete lie. The back case is not part of the body. It feels like cheap plastic. The gap between the screen and casing is so large that I could fit my nails in. And it's also the major cause for dust getting into the screen. Two years of using my motorola droid, and not a single speck of dust got into the screen. The screen is huge and beautiful, but why is the white color, purple and not white?

I find Sense to be very beautiful and elegant, but it's fat and slow . Sense is so slow that you have to over clock the phone for it to run slowly. I am running Miui now. It's like day and night. Sensation finally feels like a dual core phone now.
[HTC Sensation] Gillion:
1. The major construction of the back cover isn't plastic... it is actually metal alloy of some sort. I checked it with an ohm meter just to be sure :P

2. I think the official SENSE 3.0 ROM is plagued by their damn spyware slowing down the system... if HTC wasn't so busy snooping around in my phone, their ROM would actually work... but some tie wearing bean counter decided to "statistically analyze" my usage and screwed the pooch.

Stop collecting data on me and fix the damn ROM

On the other note... the phone is build well (save for a weak antenna)

I partially regret it... only because of the antenna... every other flaw is livable and fixable... just the antenna sucks .
[HTC Sensation] :
When I bought it, first thing in my head was: "I made a big mistake". But then I discovered root. And about 2 weeks ago, I discovered ARHD and P3D. I don't regret buying Sensation anymore. But still, it could be better
[HTC Sensation] pete777:
Sadly there was no alternative when I was buying this phone... LCD is crap. Low viewing angles, ghosting when scrolling text..my old desire has better screen. Also unibody construction is pure lie. This phone is NOT unibody. Build materials are good but build quality is not. Waiting for Galaxy Nexus or Droid Razr...
[HTC Sensation] suicide monkey:
The construction is crap,it makes sounds when i push on the corners, when i hold the phone in landscape my wifi is nearly zero,i liked the design of hd2 more,the hardware buttons,the poweron button is on the top and bad to reach,the 3,5 audio is on the top which is bad,there can be problems with the grounding of the screen because of pin at the back,there is a problem with dust under the screen reported by some users,my battery seems to be damaged since i bought it, i can see the single pixels on some screen or when i watch a video.

So tell me what is better on the sensation, except the speed and "real" drivers.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] dunbar28205:
I love my sensation.no problems with it what so ever.My screen is beautiful not washed out no matter what angle I'm holding it at!
[HTC Sensation] gamikzone:
i had actually owned a galaxy S for a year i recently got the sensation, i dropped my galaxy many times and i had no damage to it even though the phone falls on the ground so hard :p in my opinion samsung is good in build quality just bad with keeping up which is why i said goodbye to that phone and moved on
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
the screen resolution is a huge plus, camera is better, it is a newer phone with more support, ics is hopefully coming to our phone, etc. i don't have any of the problems you're describing, except for the wi-fi death grip. i can live with that, since i'm not going to constantly block the antenna location :) sensation was practically a free upgrade for me, and i don't regret it at all.
[HTC Sensation] septix:
I really love it, just like al the other HTC phones I've had.

Sure, like any other phone, you are never completly satisfied.

But over all, i ****ing love it.
[HTC Sensation] UKseagull:
I'm finding it incredibly difficult to decide between the Sensation and the GSII! :eek: I love the Sense UI but I'm quite concerned about the possibility of antenna weakness and possible loss of phone signal here at home.

Has anyone had phone signal problems, i.e going from a couple of bars to nothing?
[HTC Sensation] rawrfische:
I partially regret it, but only because SGS2 finally made it here to the US. Then again, the US doesn't get the i9100 Exynos version that kicked Pyramid's behind all over Europe, so who knows? :p

But back to the Sensation, I'm generally pretty happy with it. The antenna does seem a little weak, but I don't have random drops in signal like what you asked about. The antenna contacts between the phone and back cover are tiny. Why HTC decided to go with a two-piece antenna over a solid one, I'll never understand.

WiFi deathgrip is very real and it sucks, but I've adapted.

No dust under my screen because my case keeps the volume buttons all covered up.

Lag and random reboots were fixed by going custom kernel and ROM. although I did ditch Sense for Go Launcher EX. Feels less clunky and the bottom launcher buttons are actually useful for a change.

All in all I like my Sensation, but it could be better. We'll see what's out there when it's time to upgrade. :)
[HTC Sensation] krazy_about_technology:
I also, like others partially regret it. First, the battery life is almost below average, with heavy use, it cant go on for more than 6 hours, although standby mode battery life is good (But who needs that, if you have this phone, you wanna play, right!).

Second, LCD quality is inferior when compared to my previous phone, the Galaxy SL i9003. It also had SLCD but with great viewing angles and no distortion of text while scrolling.

Third, it doesn't support Video calls natively over UMTS network (Not data calls). Data charges are still high in my country and video calls are cheap comparatively. THis is a major let down for me personally. I stay away from home and use to call my family using video call from office. I cannot use wifi calls there as it is not allowed.

Other than these three, i am very much satisfied with my choice. Samsung is a bad company when it comes to supporting their products. I never have seen a service center or customer service response so pathetic. In fact, HTC customer care is quiet helping atleast in my country. Otherwise, I would have gone for Galaxy S2. I dont have issues with its build quality, but i cannot put my hard earned money in hands of a careless company with no customer focus.
[HTC Sensation] suicide monkey:
Dont get me wrong the inside of the sensation is way better but its build like crap. I wish a hd2 with the sensation hardware but HTC is getting worser, and things like the spyware logging **** and the fake 1.2 CPU which is the same as the 1.5 sensation XE CPU don't let me like HTC anymore. But other manufacturer are not better, i hope the nexus prime will be a good phone.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
yeah, i loved the hd2's build quality. i'll probably buy one for $50 on cragslist just to have it as a back up phone :)
[HTC Sensation] Ariozo:
Had the Sensation when it hit the market where i live and did like it even back then, but till now i have use my Gs2. But today i got my new Sensation Xe that some told is the same as sensation with some diffrent colors and uppgraded hardware, but as i just love the "Black" i could not say no to buy one... And so far i have try the problem even i had on sensation on the Wifi signal and on my new Xe i cant lose it like i did on the first sensation and overall it just feel more "snappy".
[HTC Sensation] johnpushon:
not a single day, just loving the phone :)
[HTC Sensation] stylus1828:
YES! SGS 2 was way better. Never had a dust probleme with it. I can't say this about HTC Sendustation.
[HTC Sensation] jafazec:
Nope,enjoying the phone more and more as I'm a new Android user,so interesting things just keep poping out :) Could have gotten the SGSII but somehow I don't like phones with sharp edges like IP4&4s&SGSII..They just don't feel good in my hand..
[HTC Sensation] hev88:
Ill answer the question once we get ICS update whenever that is then we will se whats really up with the sensation... til then i aint sayin nothin
[HTC Sensation] kwiggington:
Yes
[HTC Sensation] superman63:
the only thing i regret is the fact of buying my sen 4g and then seeing the xe and xl coming out after i used my upgrade. i love my phone adn developement has kept it up to par but it is discouraging to buy a phone and see upgrades afew months later still the best phone i have owned none the less
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
how are any of those phone an upgrade? xe has the same proc clocked at its native speed. xl has larger screen with lower res and a single core proc.
[HTC Sensation] LinuxLeafFan:
I love this phone. My only regret is that after using the 1.2GHz dual core monster, I've realized that it's completely unnecessary since all I use a phone for is texting, email and angry birds...
[HTC Sensation] Cr vibe:
No I wouldn't. Customer service is great but the device is lacking .

I'm using my vibrant with miui and it out does the sensation in many ways

at this point I am trying to be happy with what I have and work out the bug as fixes come out
[HTC Sensation] UKseagull:
Thanks again for all your responses.
[HTC Sensation] Jork15xa:
Not really, it just the best phone i ever had :)
[HTC Sensation] TheStigx:
Kinda, what really makes me regret it, that not even 3 weeks after buying this phone the sensation XE came, then XL, and then another HTC phone that is even better. I am sure you guys know that felling. I wanted the Sensation, because I've always loved HTC, but now I see it as a slow and rubish company. They spit out phones like crazy. HTC sensation got the problem with sound when you are recording, it is awful! And yet the HTC amaze 4G have that phone, one of the newest phones on the market, and not to forget the power button issue which HTC haven't fixed yet. They are really slow moving. I get that HTC doesn't really care about it's costumer's only the fame and money, but they can't seem to fix any of there phones. And you you are properly thinking, what about the security fix they did? Well almost every developer in here, can do a fix. I am really surprised in a bad way.

Oh and the phone well, beside the power button issue .. Well.... In some cases you wanted it to be a bit faster, and HTC sense and all that uses ALOT of ram, and I only got well 178 MB ram left, of what 580 MB? That is not what i payed for.

The simple answer is : Kinda.
[HTC Sensation] Alipk52:
No...I don't regret too...besides the poor speaker performance, and wifi drops, when you put your hands across camera in landscape mod, I haven't faced any issue with it, absolute beauty, I guess speaker problem will be solved when htc release improved kernel with audio drivers.
[HTC Sensation] FnH84:
Dude.. That's every damn company nowdays. You buy a phone, think it's the best phone there is and a week later the same company announces an upgraded model. NEVER buy a phone for latest technology and speed, as it won't last for longer than a few months. Buy a phone that YOU want and like. XE is no better than Sensation btw.

I've come to the conclusion that the more expensive your phone is, the more you'll regret buying it after a while.
[HTC Sensation] UKseagull:
Wise words I think :)
[HTC Sensation] evilbeaver:
Very true. I dont regret buying mine one bit...
[HTC Sensation] brusko1972:
I did not regret buying the Sensation at all. If I was shopping for a phone right now, I would still buy a sensation but probably the XE. I am not digging the red accents though but I like the increase in processor speed. I like to stay stock that is why I like the increase speed of the XE.
[HTC Sensation] heygrl:
I don't mind it at all, but I'm glad I upgraded to the Galaxy S II. It's just a better execution.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OstrichSak:
I'm running an Evo 4G and have found a few files that I have tried flashing from Recovery and the end result is I have incoming video & audio along with my PIP video as it should and the person I'm talking to has audio but no video. I'm running CM 7.1.0 RC1 (NOT the final release CM7.1 that is now out) and while I realize I can flash the official CM7.1 and have it I'm stuck not being able to flash another ROM for the time being and want to get the video working. Does anyone have a known working (as in video chat) GTalk for CM 7.1.0 that I can flash? I also found an app in the Market called 'Talk 1.3 Installer' which supposedly allows you to load different versions but the reviews aren't real good so I have my doubts.

Does anyone have a link to a working version I can download or does anyone have first hand experience with that app from the Market for rooted phones and can tell me if it worked or not and if so what option did you select?

Thanks for the help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
Wrong section but in the new cm7 stable thread I saw a gapps specifically for video chat. I can't tell of this is exactly what you're looking for because the thread is a little confusing. Let me know if that fixes the problem

Having trouble with AOSP? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OstrichSak:
I already saw your thread before starting this one and it doesn't have my answer. If you're talking about the newly released CM7.1 I would have to flash a new ROM to use that and, like I said, I'm not looking to flash a new ROM at this time. If I was I would just flash the newly released CM7.1 and be done because I already know it works first hand as I tested it on another Evo 4G. I thought I explained pretty clearly what I was looking for in the OP so I'm not sure how it's confusing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XsMagical:
Flash this

[APP] GTalk w/Video & Voice for 2.3.x roms CONFIRMED WORKING!! 06-25-2011
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
That I get. There's a seperate talk file you can flash in the thread. You don't need the latedt cm7 to flash it. I'm sure itll work with what you have right now

Having trouble with AOSP? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OstrichSak:
Thanks! Hopefully this isn't the same file I've tried already but the thread is new to me so I'm hopeful this one will work where the others failed. I'll report back....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OstrichSak:
I'm not even sure what thread you're talking about unless it's your thread because I didn't see a separate Talk file in there. If you're talking about another thread a link would have been helpful to know which thread you were talking about. I'm going to try XsMagical's link so no need now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crossrocker:
Same thread as before. The new cm7 stable thread

Having trouble with AOSP? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OstrichSak:
Like I said... I have NO idea where this thread you speak of is so a link would have been helpful. Never mind. If this doesn't work I'll look harder for it when I'm on a PC because it didn't come up in any of my searches. I appreciate you offering some help but when I help people I usually post links directly to what I'm talking about to save time.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OstrichSak:
Update: I installed the app I was talking about in the OP since I wasn't getting solid answers (prior to XsMagical's post) and ran it and was just able to test it and it worked fine for me. Seems others had problems so I'm not sure that will be the solution for everyone but for me it seemed to work as advertised. If that didn't work or if I have issues come up I will be sure to flash the file that XsMagical linked to a few posts back. If that happens I will also post back my findings with that but I'm not going to try it now since I appear to have a working solution at this time and don't feel like tempting fate. Just wanted to return to this thread in case someone else has the same issue and finds this in a search. So many of the threads I found in searches went unresolved so I like to post back findings when I have success in case it can help anyone else.

Thanks for those that offered help and the rest can go fornicate themselves.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thizzlemania91:
He did offer a link. And the gapps files are in the thread. Look threw it. You'll find them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwhitersxs:
cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed.zip

This is right in the cm7.1 thread. Please do your best in the future to post in the right forum. Hope the gtalk above works for you.