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[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
So I bought a nexus 7, which began a journey from iOS to android; I bought a galaxy nexus, which is awesome, aside from the amoled- not a fan. I'm pretty ocd about screens, and my nexus has a half green tint and color over-saturation. My girlfriend likes it however, and is willing to trade me her upgrade for it.

I'm now shopping for another android phone- it needs to be Verizon, 4g, and I'd rather avoid samoled. This brings me to the Rezound, SLCD HD, 4g, sounds good. A bit hesitant regarding no jelly bean, pre-installed bloatware, etc. Is the rezound a good choice for me? Is rooting/custom ROM a good idea (I'm fairly tech savy, but this will be my first root since original Droid) Is HTC about to launch another Verizon flagship (incredible X?)

Thanks for the advice! The rezound looks like a beast.
[HTC Rezound] d.kozzer:
I can't speak to all of your questions, but the Rezound definitely has great development right now. Rooting and S-OFF have been around for a long time. The ICS kernel source code was released in August (or so), and now we've got some awesome aosp roms, tons of great sense roms, whatever you want. The screen is amazing (i've had mine for months and still marvel at it), and the only real downside is the supposed lack of battery life (which has improved greatly due to some fantastic kernels in the dev section) and it being a bit bulky. Other than that, it's a great device.
[HTC Rezound] Obaterista93:
I agree with everything said above. Other than the Gnex, or the GS3(both of which I turned down to get my Rez), there aren't really any phones I'd consider other than my Rezound. I love HTC hardware. I can envision JB on the rezound in the next month or two as well.
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
While I was waiting for replies, I noticed the HTC incredible 4g also has an SLCD, and an s4 processor instead of the s3. Tough call. I love the higher resolution of the rezound, but the phone is close to a year old. I'd be nervous about going with another gnex or s3 because of my apparent aversion to amoled. Anyone have any idea how much better an s4 is? Im sure the benchmarks will show an improvement, but I wonder what that would actually translate to in real life. It would take a pretty decent boost in performance to dissuade me from the larger HD screen.
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
Having a great screen is probably my top priority, and if I could get one of those aosp ROMs to remove sense and add battery life, that would be gravy.
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
That is what sold me. The screen is killer.

WAY better than even the GS3. (in my opinion)
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
Good, because this gnex display is really annoying. Great contrast of course, but the bottom 3rd of the display is noticeably green, and the rest of the colors are insanely saturated. Rezound it is. Thanks for the help!
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
Don't lock yourself into a contract though, new phones coming out every day so keep your options open. :)
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
I bought the galaxy nexus off contract, and am trading it to the gf for her upgrade, because I have unlimited data and don't want to lose it by using my subsidized upgrade. I certainly get my money out of my data plan :p
[HTC Rezound] brando56894:
The Rezound is a great phone but I would have to say the SGS3 is better (my gf has one, on at&t though so I can't attest to the VZW dev community). The Rezound is a brick like the OG Droid was and the battery life is kind of crappy, but there are good sides to it: the ibeats headphones are pretty damn good, the screen is absolutely amazing (but the downside is that it absolutely annihilates batteries when at 75% or greater brightness), it's pretty fast most of the time and the dev community has just had a recent revival due to the release of the kernel source code.

The thing with getting a brand new phone is that it's going to be locked down (unless you buy a dev edition phone) and the roms aren't going to exist for a little while until the device is hacked. I found this out the hard way with the Rezound since it was the first phone I bought that didn't already have an established community. I bought the OG Droid about 3 or 4 months into it being released and bought the Incredible about a year into it's life, I got the Rezound on launch day and it took two months for it to get unlocked and about 7 months for it to get S-Off, so there was a lot of waiting involved. But good things come to those who wait :D

As others said: it's a great phone, but do you really want to be locked into a 2 year contract when the phone is already 11 months old? If you can get it and then sell it or give it to your girl in 6-12 months then I say do it, otherwise I'd say wait to see what comes out in the next few months. You may be kicking yourself that you got a phone that was already a year old when a quadcore 2 GHz beast debuts...
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
I really like the galaxy s3, but I don't think I can take another chance on an AMOLED again. Seriously, this Galaxy Nexus is burning my eyes >_< I agree the Rezound is old... but, spec wise, I would think it would last, especially if I can get a good ROM on it. If I rule out SAMOLED, then there are only three current options: Rezound, incredible 4g, iPhone 5. and app tethering isnt available on ios, which I need. Im sure you're right though, new phones are around the corner; however my gf will use her upgrade instead of trading if I wait too long. I wish Verizon had the One X; that would be perfect. Aside from that, I still think the rezound is my best option - but I'll be sure to give the gs3 another look.
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
Just don't get an iPhone.
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
I like apple hardware, but at this point iOS is boring and restrictive. Just played with a couple of store demos at Verizon; its between the gs3 and Rezound. I wonder if they would let me check the gs3 for tinting before I buy it. But even then, supposedly amoled degrades with time, leading to more tinting. I'm pretty sure the Rezound is the way to go- maybe not the best android software out of the gate, but there's no arguing with that SLCD HD display.
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
You will be happy either way, but Rezound sounds like a better choice for you.
[HTC Rezound] blackhand1001:
No. The amount of development on the rezound is no where close to what is available on the galaxy nexus. Its not even close to what even something like the one x has. Anyone who is telling you otherwise is dreaming. There are some work in progress aosp builds but even the RAZR with its locked boot loader has more stable aosp. This combined with the poor battery on the rezound compared to the nexus makes it hard to suggest getting it now especially if you are into aosp. Aosp simply runs perfectly with no glitches on the nexus. Even on devices like the galaxy s3 aosp its not perfect like it is on a nexus.

If your coming from stock jellybean sense 3.6 simply is not going to please you. Its no where near as smooth, sucks battery at idle and just doesn't fit the of ui of ICS and holo. I am just letting you know this now. You've experienced stock android first and have seen how lite and responsive it can be. I know many people here don't want to hear this but its the reality.
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
Stock jelly bean is awesome, no doubt. I enjoy it on my nexus 7, and on my galaxy nexus. I realize ICS, particularly with sense, is going to be a downgrade. If there was any smartphone slated to get jelly bean on Verizon, and didn't used amoled, I'd be on it. Unfortunately the One X seems to be the only phone in that category, and I don't see it coming to verizon. Screen uniformity and color accuracy are my most desired traits in a display, and amoled just doesn't bring that to the table, in my experience. I think that leaves the rezound as the best choice, bloated ICS or not.
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
I won't pretend to know too much about the kernel-rom-rooting etc, but now that the ICS kernel has been released for the rezound, is there a possibility of a jelly bean ROM coming from xda?
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
Yes. We have one but it barely works.
[HTC Rezound] blackhand1001:
Download Franco kernel and flash it to your device. If your rooted you can just

Buy is app and flash it through that. His app allows you to control the colors which are already much better on his kernel than stock.

You also can just use color control on the stock kernel I believe. Amoled screens can have their white level calibrated much more than LCD because they produce their own light.
[HTC Rezound] keenraven:
I'm aware you can calibrate the screen, but as far as I know that won't fix uniformity issues. For instance, my galaxy nexus has a green tint on the bottom third of the screen, whereas the rest of the display is (comparatively) normal. Maybe the gs3 samoled is improved, which is why I'm going to check it out in person before I buy.
[Microsoft Surface] Greywolf_Ghost:
Samsung is first to offer Windows Rt

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/1613638/windows_rt_samsung_ativ_tab_up_for_preorder.html

Sending from HTC Radar
[Microsoft Surface] Sythedragon:
That's a fair chunk more than I was hoping.

This in my opinion is MS's last chance to get a slice of the mobile market with their W8 Eco system.

With their partners charging that much, I don't hold up much hope.
[Microsoft Surface] Greywolf_Ghost:
I was in hopes, RT would be a touch lower in price. Seeing this amount does take some of my excitement away!!!!!

It has me on a rethink........

Maybe my best option is to snag a used W500 tablet and upgrade the O/S to Win8. Use the money I save to buy a pocket battery extender for use on long trips.

Sent from my HTC Radar at work, on company time and WiFi =)
[Microsoft Surface] jonnypommy:
wow 550 pounds,

I look forward to see the price of the Surface
[Microsoft Surface] Merlin_AZ:
Those aren't going to sell at that price.

I saw they'll be asking $650 ($750 with keyboard without battery) for the Atom version.
[Microsoft Surface] ohgood:
holy crap you're so right!

I hope someone shoe horns Linux or Mac is onto these things, and directly after there is a fire sale ... then ill get one.

they really screwed themselves with pricing.
[Microsoft Surface] Merlin_AZ:
I'm seriously considering an Atom version right now since I don't think I'll need a Core CPU.

I haven't seen a Surface Atom version mentioned, but I hope they will exist since I think the form factor is pretty sweet.

The next few weeks should be pretty interesting, once reviews/prices/comparisons are released.
[Microsoft Surface] Chillingly Based:
Do we really need to hear you say this in every thread?
[Microsoft Surface] ohgood:
if you think the pricing isn't going to make these devices undesirable, that's a good point to argue.
[Microsoft Surface] nba1341:
No windows 8 pro for that price?

WOAH
[Microsoft Surface] ohgood:
the two posts directly above mine that you quoted also were a little surprised at the price. after a little thought, it would be a very good idea to only sell these wp8/surface devices in the Microsoft stores: customers won't be able to see the 1/4 priced droid tablets or 2/3 prices I pads ( that everyone thinks is the second coming) and limit the leaching to other platforms.
[Microsoft Surface] Chillingly Based:
I'm not questioning the price or anything of that matter.
[Microsoft Surface] ohgood:
ahhhh, ok, I see where you're going. no interest, sorry.

we'll see fairly soon how consumers feel about the pricing. the hardware is g r e a t, so I doubt that will be any reason for poor sales. pricing is sooooo cut throat in tab markets.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Izaacbrook:
Is my atrix 1 breaks and I make an insurance claim, will they send me a replacement atrix 4g or will they send me an atrix 2 or atrix HD?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Random Canadian:
for me it was a GS2 or a HTC one S
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deggy:
There's plenty of atrix 4gs laying around. I'm sure they'll send another atrix to be honest.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Izaacbrook:
Att has the one s? and I thought it would be a newer atrix becuase when my flight broke they sent me a flight 2
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deggy:
Canadian carriers are different my man.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaelanT:
Heard of a couple of people getting Atrix 2 as a replacement with AT&T.

Worst case scenario, when you "accidentally" break your phone and send it in they give you another 4G.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Random Canadian:
Which he may never be able to unlock the bootloader on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatezy:
This isn't the usual question about low memory etc etc its about the remaining memory in the task manager and in the application manager.

Why does the task manager show less remaining ram than the application manager? Which one should I believe?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedyjay:
I think application manager as it accounts for all system processes too :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatezy:
Nice one, just thought it was a bit weird for it to show different values even thought it's the same thing but worded differently :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mykenyc:
You would think I learned my lesson but im back to square one. This time however I did back up the file and did the restore. My problem is the connection is horrid very slow I tried some of the methods posted but no luck. What I'm noticing is the dBm keeps going up and down and switching from edge to HSDPA and to utms I believe it is called. Anyone with these problems?

UPDATE: For those with similar issues all i did was use to NV writer with my old qnc backup and shot it to my device, 4g working like normal. Whew.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
What file was that, exactly?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mykenyc:
I backed up the file as peoplearmy thread says to do as soon as i got the phone. Everything was fine and then i lost my imei, i so no biggie, located my backed up qcn file and restored. Afterwards i seen my 4g come up, i said cool i tried to use it the arrows would go about then signal would drop. Then when i back out of say Market app because nothing is happening the signal goes back up to full, like every time i try to download something the signal goes out, the dBm goes crazy too.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] george241312:
Try to flash a radio?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mykenyc:
Yea flashed every radio available no luck, i doubt switching sim cards will work but i'm even going to try that.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mykenyc:
bump for those who have similar issues in the future.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] threshold350:
I'm noticing slower speeds after rooting. How do I know if I lost IMEI? I see in About -> Status. I didn't. Back k it up before I rooted. No one mistake. Is it too late to fix?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] xgp0006:
Thing is i have no QNC back-up.......there is a QNC generator but it says the binaries are not finished for Tmobile....so that leaves me wondering....could i use your binaries and write my NV back up over that to get everything working again?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] massiveloop:
_______________

What about those of us that didnt backup a qnc or efs before root?

I've been searching all day for a way to get my 4g back after losing it following a permission fix in CWM. I love that the 20+ tutorials I read on how to root your phone never once mentions backing up these additional items. At this point, I would sacrifice all my contacts and apps just to get my data connection off EDGE and back on to 4g.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] juandidug13:
Well as most of you might of heard, webos has finally been released in beta to the public. I was just wandering if anyone would take on the challenge of bringing such amazing OS to a phone that i think its perfect in form factor and everything for it. And i think the sooner development starts on the One X with webos well the more accostumed developers will get and maybe with future releases from hp the One X could be one of the devices to get early builds from them. Its just a request after all though, i think it would make a lot of us hapoy to see it :D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] rohan32:
Its one of my long terms goals, over the course of the next year or so, now that things with JB have smoothed over. Though it might not even happen... may be impossible. The OS is entirely different than Android. The only thing they share is the Linux kernel (which still needs heavy modification).

No ETAs. Ever.

If you want to contribute and you can contribute to the project, let me know via PM or email.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] saketh91:
but i saw that web os is ported to htc evo 3d already.how is evo 3d different from our phone?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] usaff22:
Because this forum doesn't have the same developers as the EVO, save reason why the One S hasn't got it either.

Sent from my locked, tampered ville
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] superchilpil:
I must say isn't this statement sort of a smack in the face to our current developers?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DesirableDesire:
It kind of is but the fact is that our device isn't as popular as others in attracting developers. While the ones we do have are great, it simply can't match the number of developers for other devices which makes large projects like this more achievable.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] superchilpil:
Ehh that's sorta true but it only takes one dev, I've been around both big and small communities on xda and its usually just one big dev who comes through with the break through that paves the way for the less experienced devs
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Psionfenix:
Really not a smack in the face at all to our current devs. Our current devs may just not be interested in webOS. They're busy making better stuff for what we have now. and doing a mighty good job thus far. You can't fault them for not having the interest in webos (i personally would consider running it just to say i could, but i'd be back on CR probably within a couple hours.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Alcoholic:
As a touchpad owner i guarantee you will hate webos because of the lack of apps.

It's funny to see people request android on touchpad and people request webos on android
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ThisWasATriumph:
Have to agree there. WebOS had (has?) so much potential.... In some ways it's still superior to Android. But without apps, its pretty useless. With no OEM backing it anymore... Where's the incentive to develop?

It has crazy potential though. Back it the early Android porting days of the Touchpad, someone created an android environment that ran entirely as a WebOS page for running apps. If an OEM could pull that off, they'd have the best of both worlds.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
With all these new phones coming out it's hard to pick which one will have the best/most developer support. Back about 1-2 years ago there were many phones but only a few "great" high end ones so most of the developers were on those all at the same time. Now there are many high end phones on all networks and internationally so the developers are spread out. It wasn't a problem before, but now I won't buy a phone at launch, no matter how great, before I see what the development will be like. I made that mistake with the Galaxy Note for AT&T. The development there wasn't even close to the international version.

The One X is an incredible phone. Imagine what it would be like with the amount of development that the Nexus or even the Evo 3d has? It's kinda sad that this phone doesn't have that much popularity with more developers. It's a better phone all around than the Nexus or Evo 3d.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
Actually I can't say that I won't buy a phone again without looking at the development because I do plan on getting the Note 2 at launch. The tough part is gonna be figuring out which version to get. It's probably gonna be like the sgs3. Some of the versions have more development than the others.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] saketh91:
is this useful by any means?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/open-webos-galaxy-nexus-port-source-code-now-available/
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] PurpleFries:
Guess you didn't have the gsm 3vo then eh?

Sent from my One XL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
Lol nope. Maybe the evo 3d was a bad example.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] h8rift:
I would actually prefer looking at how to merge some WebOS features into Android, rather than port the OS over without a halfway decent app store :(.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Silellak:
True story. I wonder if we'll start to see Webdroid or AndrOS hybrid-ports in the next couple of years.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LilTechPrincess:
Hey everyone, I have seen a lot of people asking about flash, or upset that they lost it after doing the Jelly Bean OTA update from Asus. Here is a quick guide on how you can install Flash on your new JB install. Unfortunately, it does require that you have root and Busybox installed. I also make use of ADB, because frankly, it rocks. There are probably easier ways to do this which I will consider writing about later, but here it is. Execute the following commands from a command prompt, and make sure that adb is able to be found.

adb shell

su root

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system

cd /system/app

mv Browser.apk Browser.org

mv Browser.odex Browser.odex.org

busybox wget http://flipcircuit.com/android/Browser.apk

cd /data/app

busybox wget http://flipcircuit.com/android/com.adobe.flashplayer-1.apk

adb reboot

Note: This will likely work on any JB device, I simply haven't tested it on others.
[Asus Transformer TF700] macaumen:
Is that simply using ICS Browser.apk to replace JB Browser.apk?
[Asus Transformer TF700] LilTechPrincess:
Yes, its the ICS browser and flash APK's. I simply threw them on my server because wget is the most convenient way to get the file on your device. Have you tried it yet?
[Asus Transformer TF700] The-Captain:
Nice thread ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] fsured:
So having the flash app backed up from Titanium or other program, won't work after the update? I thought backing up the program this way would allow us to reinstall the app.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LilTechPrincess:
fsured, this is purely my speculation, but I would assume that the update package from Asus will overwrite the old Browser APK with the new one. I don't know if Titianium Backup will backup system apps or not? If Titanium backup did in fact backup the old Browser.apk, and the flash.apk, then you should be fine. If not, then this is a way to get it back. Hope that helps?!
[Asus Transformer TF700] fsured:
Thanks for the answer. Only one way to find out! I'll be giving it a try shortly.
[Asus Transformer TF700] SayWhat10:
would non-stock browsers like firefox/opera still retain flash though?
[Asus Transformer TF700] LilTechPrincess:
SayWhat10,

I think the biggest issue is that you can no longer download the Flash package from the Play Store, at least thats my experience. Having said that, third party browsers that support flash should still be able to support it, but you may have to side-load the flash APK. You can get that here: http://flipcircuit.com/android/install_flash_player.apk

Just copy that to your SD Card, or phone (or use ADB), and install it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] fsured:
Running the reinstall from titanium back up worked fine. Tested it out already. I actually think it didn't need to be reinstalled. It showed installed but I did it anyway to play it safe.
[Asus Transformer TF700] specmac:
Flash still works fine after the JB update. I did not have to reinstall.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LilTechPrincess:
Good, so this is likely only applicable to those bums like me who never took the time to add flash in the first place! :P
[Asus Transformer TF700] macaumen:
My JB stock browser works with flash player side-loaded. No need to load ICS browser again.