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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lucas155:
I'm not sure if this problem is only me, or if others are experiencing it so I wanted to put this out there.

Today on the way to work, I was playing with the GPS/Navigation and it started to read HTML to me. It sounded like this:

"ex em ess equals aych tee tee pee colon slash slash double-you double-you..."

Eventually it would tell me to take the turn, but the reading of HTML was really annoying. Have any of the rest of you experienced this bug? If so, post here and let me know how you fixed it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
which GPS software were you using?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dungtran88:
Samsung TTS has bugs. You need to change the default TTS to Pico or download Loquendo.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
nice catch

please report all bugs to samsung directly

link is on the sticky
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
About the RAZR being offical annouced so shortly after the "king of machines" was released. I know there are other better phones being thrown out in the open, but I'm talking about the moto realm strictly. Makes you wonder since the Bionic was so delayed already, why not beef up the specs even more? Not trying to start a flame/troll war, just want to see other people's opinions. Thanks :cool:.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] aramos87:
Well my opinion on this is simple.... there will always be something better coming out... regardless of what specs a certain phone has.. the next one will have something more... personally I love my Bionic... and I would like to see an ota or two out before I get another phone... but the Razr is something I think is being released to compete with the nexus prime or galaxy nexus or whatever its going to be called... its all marketing IMO. I just hope that the Bionic isn't forgotten or written off just because all these other devices are coming out.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
Yeah I understand their need to "compete" with the nexus prime it is a beast of a phone. I mean they could of just bumped the Bionic up a bit more since it wa s already so delayed. I'm sure the Bionic could of handled the extra 200 mhz base and the superamoled vs pentile. Regarldess I still think the Bionic is nice, but it feels like another "place holder" phone for moto. Feels like they just did it to do it, and get over with.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] phullofphil:
There probabily is a reason such as an example is the targa version went into production a long time ago there were problems with somthing maybe hardware maybe softare but than you start to develope the razer but have a bunch invested in the bionic and a lot made. I just mean the bionic was meant to probably just be the first lte duel core. I teally think they did not mean to do that but couldnt delay the razer because tech gets old fast. And compitition is fearce. I think right now as soon as they can come up with the nitch phone with the best specs and put it together it goes to market. Htc is worse at it. Motorola is jyst evolving the droid x seris. What is missing is the droid with keyboard series. There my faverite phone for battery life nut like back to the bionic and razer i am thinking the razer is going to have battery drain issues worse than the bionic. I think the nexus prime is gona be worse on battery. With the htc being the worst battery hog as usuall
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
Yeah Bionic was meant to just be the first dual core/LTE phone. The market is evolving too fast to the point where "offical" shelf life is like 6 months now. Wonder what it will be in a few years. They probably could of bumped the core speed of the processor to 1.2 for the Bionic before release. Oh well it is what it is I suppose.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] CC Lemon:
For anyone that has purchased one for full contract/upgrade pricing ($200), I feel kind of bad. Sure there's always something new coming, but if it's being announced in a week and likely to come out in the next few weeks, the wait is probably worth it. At the very least, there's a chance to get the same phone (bionic) for cheaper, once the newest phone is released. That said, I'm getting my bionic tomorrow and I picked it up with the amazon deal for $0.01. If I had waited, I basically would have needed to pay $200 more (at least) for the razr or any of the other upcoming devices, so I don't really feel bad about my purchase. It was absolutely the best deal I think I'll see for a while.

If the production device looks like the pictures, I do envy the look and casing. It's definitely a beautiful device... very sleek and the fact that it's slightly thinner does have a bit of an appeal. In terms of actual specs and features? It's slightly better, but I wouldn't have paid an additional $200 for it. ICS would be the biggest appeal for me, and there's a decent chance that might make it to the bionic anyways. For those with a bionic already, it's probably not worth it. Once it comes out, depending on the pricing, the bionic will probably still be the better value and have more appeal for those that are value-oriented while the razr will be close enough in price to appeal to those that need the latest and greatest.

The one thing I'm curious about will be the pricing... it seems quick for them to be dropping the price on the bionic, but not impossible. Will the razr be slightly more expensive? Or will the razr cause a nice price drop on the bionic?

I think these few devices coming up are only being pushed out so soon to compete with the new iphone, especially with the holiday sales coming up. Phones like the bionic and galaxy S2 are kind of considered "on par" with the iphone, so the slight improvements to these phones will create more of an appeal. The release does seem to be very close to the bionic, so I'd guess they intended the bionic to be released quite a bit earlier.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
I got the Bionic through a fluke got some e-mail saying that I was eligible to upgrade. Called in vzw they had no records, rep asked me to forward (since they didn't see the offer in their system) so I did and they're like okay we'll honor it, but you should do it now just in case. So I did and sold my D3 for like 350 so pretty much no cost Bionic for me. Hell I paid like 100 for my x2,which got turned into a D3 (brand new not clnr)via warranty, cause of all the stupid music skipping which pissed me off. Then today I got an email which made me lol, vzw was like whoops we f'ed up you're not eligible for any type of upgrade. I was like :D too late already got my upgrade pznerd. So for "free" it's definately not bad, I do have the 14 days if I do find out one of those devices are coming out fairly soon idk if I want to go through all that hassle though. Or if I return the Bionic if my upgrade date will be reversed cause of this special circumstance.

Edit: I'm sure both devices will be $299.99. The prime is pretty damn sexy curved glass, and the Razr being thin w/ a super amoled on moto. My main concern for both of those devices would be battery life. I also do feel that the Bionic is better than the iPhone for the most part. iPhone 4s for sure, iPhone 5 no clue, but it'll be atleast another 6 months I'd think before we see the iPhone 5 launched.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] doogald:
I think that the phone manufacturers have very long product design, development and manufacturing cycles. The Bionic's delays probably screwed up what was expected to be the release difference between the Bionic and Razr, but it would be dumb on Moto's part to delay the Razr just for that reason.

But, how much could the Bionic's specs have been beefed up? Faster clock speed on the dual-core processor? I think that Bionic has pretty high-end hardware already.

We'll see later today, but there will probably be specific reasons why some people would want a Razr over a Bionic, and vice versa for other people.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
Motorola really dropped the ball with the bionic. Don't get me wrong, its an awesome phone, but with how long it took them to bring it to the market, it shouldn't have the bugs that it does have.

Also, with how long it took them to bring it out let the competition outdo them. They did announce this phone 10 months before it came out. If they could have gotten it out by May, this phone may have been a huge success for them, but since they didnt, competition had the time to outdo them. But that's the life of an android owner, something better always around the corner. Unfortunately, Motorola allowed that corner to be too close when if they released it during late spring/early summer, they would have gave themselves time before that corner came.

I will say that if your waiting for the next batch of high quality Androids to be released, that there will be something better following them so you will still feel like you should have waited. The technology is moving faster than the wallet can afford.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] MillionManMosh:
People tend to forget that the original Bionic was a Tegra-powered device with 512MB of RAM and running Froyo. It wasn't even a ground up redesign, they just slapped the Bionic name on the Targa, a phone which I suspect was originally intended to be the Droid X2.

The only thing that really impresses me about the Razr is the chassis- but I suspect the Bionic will hold up just fine. I'm more interested in the possibility of Ice Cream Sandwich, as many of the issues I have with the Bionic have been shared with every Froyo or GB device I've owned, and it would be nice to see a few of them fixed.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TempestDash:
The Motorola RAZR event just concluded and frankly I'm not seeing any differentiating factors between the Bionic and the RAZR apart from form factor. The rumored NFC wasn't announced, and nothing about ICS was mentioned. The screen is supposedly different, with Super AMOLED, but if memory serves me, that's STILL a PenTile display, just a different pixel arrangement. This may in fact end up being a non-event.

Specs:

4.3″ Super AMOLED Advanced qHD display.

Dual-core 1.2GHz processor

1GB RAM

Gorilla Glass

weighs very little

1800mAh battery
[Motorola Droid Bionic] doogald:
It's GB 2.3.5 vs. 2.3.4, for what that's worth. The battery is 1780, not 1800, to be specific - so, close to the Bionic. They apparently have some battery usage tweaks that could easily be done on the Bionic as well. It's quite a bit thinner and lighter, but it is also longer and wider. Why are these guys doing this?

It'll be interesting to see how the super AMOLED display does outdoors. That is one thing that the Bionic's display does very well.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
I just hope that Google taking over Motorola that they help clear up the mistakes Motorola has made. While the bionic is a beast, i have to say that the thunderbolt would have to be the winner up to this point with the Verizon LTE phones due to the fact it didn't have to worry about rumors of it being outdated within 2 months of being released like the bionic has. When people bought the thunderbolt, they knew it would be a while before something better would be released. I never imagined Motorola was going to release a somewhat better phone right after they released one of the most anticipated phones of the year. If Motorola would have got the bionic right, they would have buried htc, lg, and samsung already and wouldn't need to release another super phone until the spring. Unfortunately Motorola fumbled the bionic and feel they have to release another super phone to make up for their mistake. Maybe they need to stop focusing on releasing so many different phones and concentrate on a select few phones and get it right and release them across multiple networks.

I know for as long as I waited for the bionic, i shouldn't have issues with my data going out and having to reboot the phone. They had plenty of time to work the bugs out and didnt. It's not like this phone wasn't pushed back, but if its going to get pushed back, fix the bugs while your at it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] YoungSkeezy:
I dont WANT a super thin phone, I'm a tall guy in the Navy, we break things left and right! Now the water repellent, meh. Spills. Again though, NAVY. My spill is the ocean haha.

Now the Nexus prime on the other hand. We shall see... Either way however, I LOVE my liberated Bionic, and now that the kernal source code has been released (See: Android Development) Ill be happy at least for the next few months *depending on development*
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
Just saw the the info for the RAZR. Gotta admit it's one sexy ass beast as in terms of how it looks. But in the end it's still the same processor bumped up 200mhz? It probably will be pentile for the subpixel display I believe? Friend trolling saying zomg its kevlar and corning and faster makes it only a "bit better". He's pretty much stating that it blows the bionic out of the water. Oh well I have my 14 days and pre-orders for the RAZR start on the 27th. But I'm not sure if I want to try to push returning it cause of the fluke w/ the email and vzw support that gave me a free upgrade on the spot. Since the center was the one that honored that E-mail even with no records on their part derp. The world of Android outdated the minute you're out the door.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eraursls1984:
The t bolt was delayed a good but also and released with many bugs (which still haven't been fixed) the hardware of the bolt was also crap, its the reason I have a bionic now. I agree that if its going to get pushed back this much it shouldn't have many bugs, I guess I got luck cause I don't have many (far less than I did with the t bolt). As far ar I'm concerned the bolt was outdated by my old X, it ran just as good with liberty froyo as my t bolt ever did, and it had far superior call quality and build quality.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] doogald:
One more thing: I hope that Moto solved the BSOD, because good luck pulling the battery out of the Razr. (I assume it will have some sort of iPhone-ish like key combos to power it down if it hangs, though.)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Issemann:
Exactly the reason why I don't understand the decision carriers made to eliminate the "new after one" options for existing customers. I guess it makes sense to keep existing customers locked in while they entice new customers. :confused:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
Most of the bugs i had with the thunderbolt were eliminated when i installed a custom rom, other than the random reboots. I ended up trading it in within 2 weeks for the lg revolution because it had an unlocked bootloader. Big mistake. The revolution is one of the most unusual androids that i've seen (ive had 5 of them now myself, plus my girl had 2 different ones than me). It's almost as lg through a bunch of garbage files in it to throw off the development community.

Ive never owned a samsung, but the type of plastic they use is a turnoff for me.

I am intrigued by a Nexus coming to Verizon though. Didn't think i would see that happen.

Back to what I was saying earlier though. I feel that up to this point, that the thunderbolt is the biggest winner of the LTE phones on Verizon. I believe it is the only 1 that didn't get followed up by a superior product. It was followed by the revolution, which isnt as good. The revolution was followed by the charge, which was an improvement. In my opinion, the bionic is better than the charge. While the thumderbolt isn't the best 1, it is the only 1 that didn't get surpassed the very next time Verizon released a LTE phone.

While the razr looks nice, i don't regret buying the bionic at all. Unless the razr has a built in fm modulator, i don't think i ever will. Maybe add a solar panel to help with battery life would be nice also.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mufc1991:
How much faster can the Razor really be? Until either phone gets ICS we won't know how much a difference it'll make. The screen and weight are the only differences. The Bionic is already a light phone so I'm not really bothered. I did buy from Costco though so I could throw a fit over the bugs this phone has and get a different phone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] wanderfowl:
One of the big changes for me is the lack of removable battery/extended battery support. Between that and the otherwise minor tweaks, I'm happier with my Bionic right now than I thought I'd be today :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
Agree! Built in battery = yuck.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
What I don't understand is why come out with another big screen so soon after the Bionic. I think they would have been better off choosing a smaller screen as there is no LTE devices with smaller screens. Not everyone likes the huge screen and they would have had the market cornered for those who don't.

I believe the Razr is being released to compete with the iphone though. I dont believe that too many of the real android fans who have been around for a while would support a phone that you can't take the battery out. That's un-Android and too much like Apple's way. I think right now everyone is oohing and awing because the Razr is the newest but it will calm down in time.

Far as the bootloader, I don't care if its locked or unlocked. I had the LG Revolution and it's bootloader was unlocked. It also doesn't have many people developing for it. If people want to develop for a device, they're going to do it regardless if the bootloader is locked or not. These guys are geniuses. They will find a way.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mufc1991:
Wow that blows....So no external storage either?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eraursls1984:
It has an SD card slot
[Motorola Droid Bionic] doogald:
They just came out with a Pantech 4G LTE model with a 4" display. (The Breakout). There is also the 4" Samsung Stratosphere.

I think every Android phone is released to compete with the iPhone.

Look - these phones are developed on specific design, development and market cycles. Because the Bionic was delayed by a few months, its release happened to be closer to the Razr that usual.

I think that this is the point of Android - there is no "Android way". Or, at least, there shouldn't be. Manufacturers are free to develop all sorts of ideas. The fact that a phone with a sealed battery means that you can make the device thinner is something that many people may strongly prefer.

Right - in a few hours the Prime will be announced and it will make the Razr seem unexciting again. Such is the way the smartphone market is these days.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] richmelchr:
the 1.2GHZ processor upgrade is not enough to make me hate my bionic.

I really like having a huge Extended battery and im not sure how the RAZR will be able to fit a extended battery. Also the RAZR is too skinny and light for my hands, I my screen is 4.3in then i want some beef to my phone so it feels solid in my hand. the Bionic feels perfect in my hand, i never feel like im constantly about to drop it like i did with my Droid X.

Fact is, im still within my 14day return policy with Verizon on my Bionic. so if i really wanted the RAZR that bad i could get rid of my Bionic but i think the bionic has a better modding community that the RAZR will have.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] voxigenboy:
i just ordered my Bionic today & considering how much i'd been enjoying my Thunderbolt i'm sure the Bionic will be fine. the 14 day thing is nice, but i highly doubt i'll be returning it for a RAZR, even though i was set on the RAZR(at least until i found out about the non-removable battery).
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dendthoff:
I really like how thin the RAZR is but I'm not willing to give up a replacable battery to get it. When I travel I depend on having a seperate battery to swap out towards the end of the day.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zetsumeikuro:
Prime was announced HSPA version is 8.9 mm thick, wonder how thick the LTE version will be. I've never really been impressed with Samsung technology other than the screens, that is all. If the RAZR had a removable battery as opposed to built in, I might of been sold.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iphonepimp:
Google services framwork keeps force closing on my streak and I keep getting a black unresponsive screen after finishing a call.

Anyone else getting this and is there a way to fix it?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] tacotino:
For you Iphone Lovers, if you seen it sorry for repost

https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.espier.launcher

Has:

Folders

Bottom Bar

Notifications on messaging app / phone, i think gmail too...

Go right on bottom bar and it has power bar

Live wallpapers can be used

Free version is sweet

love

Tacotino
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Chubby_Skunk:
Nice! But it puts ALL of my downloaded "crap" on the home screens. I wish I could hide them in an app drawer.... but I guess a folder will do just fine..

Nice find though.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] tacotino:
Thanks, I have been looking for an iPhone launcher forever... best one so far

and it hasn't been around for too long i think improvements are coming...

the folders are the best part IMO
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Chubby_Skunk:
Yeah this is the closest to the iphone. Nothing even close to it. To add to it I wish there was a iPhone theme for CM7.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] tacotino:
Yeah that would be awesome, your on CM7?

I'm rocking Darkside but i want to go back...

I just hate how the Dev. team takes forever to update....

What do you think CM7 FTW?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Chubby_Skunk:
I've been a strong fan since I got it on my Captivate. In my own opinion I think it's the best. It has it all, for me that is.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] rob219:
if you realy like this launcher you could also just flash the new iblur rom onto you phone as it has this as the default launcher and sets your android verision to ios 5 some how. guessing thats just a devopers thing but its there. heres the link to the roms thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1305015
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Chubby_Skunk:
I think CM7 is too good to even think about thinking to go back to Blur.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] rob219:
i think cm7 isnt ready for the atrix. i blur is a new rom worth a flashing if you dont like blur try home base ive been running that and its fast and stable great launcher for a great rom. anyway im over cm7 till its out of beta or maybe even then i dont know.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Chubby_Skunk:
CM7 has the notification quick settings that can be changed and has stock 2.3.5 look. stock camera app. also it has a screen capture app built in. I can't stand the ugliness of Blur. TouchWiz, AOSP, and Sense all look a lot better.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] rob219:
it looks more like miui realy no blur to look at
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Chubby_Skunk:
It doesn't look like MIUI. At all. ADW Launcher (default) doesn't either. I use qHD Gingerbread Launcher [FREE].

I want MIUI, but CM7 beta looks like AOSP.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] andesman90:
I am running this launcher with cm7, it works fine! i just downloaded fron the market.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] tacotino:
Cool!!!!

Glad to know it works!!1

Yeah i wan't to wait a bit til its a bit faster!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] ranova:
thanks for the heads up, but the iphone UI (especially the homescreen) is the reason why I went from 4 years of iphone to android. *puke*

different strokes for different folks
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] JdgM3NT4L:
Here's my iPhone Launcher...
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] tacotino:
NP! Yeah I just wish it was faster... all in good time
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] rozzco:
lulz

10 char
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] slotstik04:
lul. but launcher is pretty neat :)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Pizzaapu:
Wow nice find ha ha
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] rog1121:
I'm modifying this launcher to support this theme www{}taptounlock{}me

(Replace the "{}" with ".")
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] Deggy:
I wish it didn't rip off the Apple icons. AOSP would've been sweet.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NguyenHuu:
lol, the whole point is to be as close as possible to the apple launcher. don't make sense to use aosp icons. launcher is not bad, one of the best implementation i've seen. i am currently using the launcher 7 though, like it more haha.